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The album was recorded over several years in London, Margate, and Gorthleck, a small hamlet in the Scottish Highlands. Mike Piggott, who played with Bert Jansch, handled the strings and played violin whilst Sam Creer lent his virtuoso cello work to the proceedings. They wanted to capture magical improvisational moments live and not do the work later on in editing. They describe the tracks collectively as \"Balearic themes including breezy soul, sun-dappled melodies, warm pianos and sweeping strings\". A gentle piano ushers in opening track \"The Gardener\" soon joined by low, bubbling drums. When the time is just right, lush guitars glisten above a Welsh language vocal that floats like silk. \"Innerspace\" is a nod to Can's aforementioned studio. Dark, heavy piano meets rolling drums before warm chords and luscious strings take over, gliding over moody grooves. \"Weilerswist\" delivers more beautifully rolling piano and guitars over thumping cellos and building drums. The full, string-enhanced version of \"Away From Me\" is Smith \u0026amp; Mudd's preferred version, only made available here on this vinyl issue. Tribal tones, piano, and cello set a melodic staccato for violin to soar over while rolling piano lines and gospel organ chords descend into a drum drop. Distant synths introduce sun-drenched guitars and uplifting strings in \"Kölner Street\", before a spacey Moog solo leads to a spellbinding, sci-fi drop. The album closes with \"Tea With Holger\". Airy vocal swells are punctuated by plucked cellos and picked guitars, all wonderfully warmed by a soulful piano. Cut by Pete Norman and pressed in the Netherlands by Record Industry. 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No Home Record was produced largely by Justin Raisen (Charli XCX, Ariel Pink, Sky Ferreira) at Sphere Ranch in Los Angeles, along with contributions from Shawn Everett (Jim James, The War on Drugs) and composer\/filmmaker Jake Meginsky (L'appel Du Vide, Milford Graves Full Mantis). Gordon's solo debut album's title is a nod to the French-Belgian director Chantal Akerman's film No Home Movie.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Matador Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":30594308145214,"sku":null,"price":19.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1575\/8523\/products\/3719893-2425479.jpg?v=1570763110"},{"product_id":"starcrawler-devour-you-lp","title":"Starcrawler - Devour You LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eVinyl LP pressing. Starcrawler's remarkable sophomore album Devour You is a record that dynamically captures the essence and aggression of their gloriously unhinged live shows. 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With it's more elaborate and nuanced yet harder-hitting sonic palette, the result is a selection of songs radiating both raw sensitivity and untamable power, and a record that the band's Arrow de Wilde says, \"encapsulates all the blood, sweat, bruised knees, and broken fingers of a Starcrawler show.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rough Trade","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":30594308243518,"sku":null,"price":20.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1575\/8523\/products\/3720064-2425418.jpg?v=1570763112"},{"product_id":"gary-numan-the-pleasure-principle-first-2lp","title":"Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle: The First Recordings 2LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eGary Numan is a pioneer, and his influence on so many artists is unmistakable and grand. Gary's style connects him with fans of multiple genres... electronic, industrial, indie-rock, metal, etc. He remains an innovator, and his fan base continues to grow. Beggars Arkive is releasing two special titles to commemorate the legendary albums Gary Numan\/Tubeway Army issued in 1979 - these editions are titled Replicas - The First Recordings, and the debut under his own name, The Pleasure Principle - The First Recordings.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beggars Banquet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":30594308374590,"sku":null,"price":24.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1575\/8523\/products\/3727801-2490754.jpg?v=1570763115"},{"product_id":"gary-numan-replicas-first-2lp","title":"Gary Numan - Replicas: The First Recordings 2LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eGary Numan is a pioneer, and his influence on so many artists is unmistakable and grand. Gary's style connects him with fans of multiple genres... electronic, industrial, indie-rock, metal, etc. He remains an innovator, and his fan base continues to grow. 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Philadelphia singer\/songwriter Kurt Vile (yes, that's his real name) delivers his spectacular MATADOR debut. \"Childish Prodigy? is a rich tapestry of rock and folk sounds, with Kurt at his most intriguing when he turns on the \"cruising the freeway? ambiance of TOM PETTY or Street Legal-era BOB DYLAN, amidst trippier hints of SPACEMEN 3 to SKIP SPENCE. 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They quickly moved from imitation to creation, writing their own songs and building original arrangements of traditional material from the ground up. They honed and tightened their harmonies. They learned when to shout and when to whisper. What you have before you is the distillation of all their hard work - the first full-length album from The Harlem Gospel Travelers. Each member of the group gets a chance to lead here, and each gets to showcase his unique and individual voice. Their styles are already fully formed at such an early age (the youngest member is 18, the oldest just 21), and they use them here to great effect. Each song has a purpose, but the goal of the album as a whole is simple: to glorify the name of God and to sing His praises. 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While steering Cabaret Voltaire through the 1980's, Mallinder was already busy piecing together his first solo album entitled \"Pow Wow\", which would help define Mallinder's interest in the more leftfield electro sounds shaping England at the time. It was this diverse and abstract hybrid that helped inspire generations of artists and musicians through steeping raw machine funk within the whimsical and absurdist ideology. Since the release of \"Pow Wow\" in 1982, Mallinder continued his pioneering work with Cabaret Voltaire, as well as recording and touring with his electro projects Wrangler, Creep Show, Hey Rube, Kula, and Cobby \u0026amp; Mallinder. In addition to his non-stop schedule in electronic music, his professional life as a journalist, broadcaster, producer and now a professor of Digital Music \u0026amp; Sound Art at the University of Brighton, has lead Mallinder to a unique point in his career. Most in his position would be caught up in rosy retrospection, but Mallinder himself says, \"There's too much digital finger-licking right now; every thought and desire at the turn of a dial... well a click of the mouse. And there's a giddy, false nostalgia about the analogue past. Sorry to burst your bubble but the truth of history is more mundane: practical, pragmatic... Um Dada is about 'play' - cut and paste, lost words, twisted presets, voice collage, simple sounds - things that have been lost to technology's current determinism. Let the machines talk to each other, let them dance.. they lead, we follow.\" Um Dada opens up with the exact machine-led surrealism that Mallinder recommends in \"Working (You Are)\". A thick, stripped back dance floor groove provides the ideal foundation for Mallinder's eccentric vocal cuts. The frisky chops present an almost twisted irony, subtly bringing to mind the role we're all forced to play as just another cog in the ever grinding capitalist machine of life. Yet, somehow, the listener is left feeling optimistic. A prime example of simplicity at work. Tracks such as \"Satellite\" give a skillful illustration of Mallinder's adeptness with his musical expertise while preserving his core historical context as only simple reference. The underlying bassline and percussion, coupled with the floating melodies and airy vocal refrain disclose the vulnerabilities of love and loss without a hint of irony or nostalgia. Um Dada is mischievously idealist, however never loses touch with reality. Offering structure while simultaneously dismantling any and all preconceptions. 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These very recordings, and those captured over intervening years, define the universal sound and aural images of childhood, a theme memorialized by Hood's privately-pressed opus of 1975. Sprawling through a haze of zither, synthesizer melodies, and foraged pedestrian sound, Neighborhoods is both a score and documentary composed and directed by Hood to offer, in his words, joy in reminiscence. Hood's nostalgic impulse ran parallel to the developments of other artists, writers, and filmmakers of the 1970s who were looking back to the 1950s to convey a collective memory of childhood. Unlike some of the widely embraced work of this nature, the music of Neighborhoods eschews irony or detachment for lucidity, striving above all for a dream-like return to the details of sensory memory. Born into a musical lineage, Hood's early, promising career as a guitarist in a globe-trotting jazz outfit was cut short when he contracted polio in his late twenties. Moving from guitar to less physically-demanding stringed instruments in the late 1940s, Hood first began implementing field recordings in his jazz ensemble collaborations as early as 1956. In 1961, Hood and trumpeter Jim Smith collaborated on a local Portland television program, with their large, tight ensemble providing breakneck contemporary jazz for an action painting by famed West Coast modernist painter Louis Bunce. Hood incorporated his own field-recorded sounds of birds in the performance - an element that would resurface in Neighborhoods with great abundance among other found sounds. Whether using environmental sounds or instruments, a sense of musical narration is the central component of Neighborhoods, a strategy Hood tellingly referred to as \"musical cinematography\" in his original liner notes. Instead of using the picture frame, Hood broadcasts melodies and sounds from his beloved Portland surroundings to transport listeners to the story's scene. Remarkably, Neighborhoods never falls into the sentimentality trap. Hood's music augments it's indeterminate, \"anecdotal\" sounds with a blend of zither and synthesizer melodies reminiscent of golden age cinema soundtracks. Neighborhoods is an unusual hybrid-not quite an \"ambient\" record nor a collection of pure field recordings. The identifiable sounds (screen doors opening and closing, passing motorists, crickets chirping, children playing) feel both universal and highly specific, like a bulletin of Hood's private geography from the middle of the last century. There's something instructive - if not reparative - about time traveling into the bucolic dimension of Neighborhoods in 2019. If Hood were presenting the album today, he might invite listeners to unplug while locating that joy in reminiscence. In the end, the concerns of Neighborhoods are poetic not formal, as Hood's own summary of the album sounds a lot like Walt Whitman: \"It hardly matters in which neighborhood you sprouted. The games we played, the mocks, the terminology and the feelings we experienced as youngsters are tantalizingly familiar.\" And later, hitting a grand note, \"How familiar, how indelible the pictures are: aromas of soft velvet days, strong friendships, fears, hates, loves... If the music seems a little bittersweet, well... isn't that the taste of nostalgia?\" Freedom to Spend has restored Ernest Hood's nostalgic masterpiece with the same care with which he viewed his source material, offering a remastered version of Neighborhoods transferred from the original tapes, expanded across four vinyl sides (the original version was crammed on two). 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With this album they've swum even deeper into the great underground rivers of American song and have put to tape timeless, memorable songs that sink in on first listen. Instant classic \"Wild Rose Pass\" has always been right there. \"Angeline\" and \"Don't Be Shy\" have nods to 60s rock, with deep choruses, shuffled drums, and gorgeous harmonies. \"Ballad of a Thin Place\" is a woozy dark ballad that would have been right at home on the \"Rolling Thunder Revue.\" Rf Shannon is a band that defies easy classification and bridges multiple genres, not an easy feat. At the heart of these songs is strong songwriting and musicianship. Fans of Bill Withers, Woods, Jackson C. 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After recording an initial version of the album in 2017, The Hecks started gigging with new fourth member \u0026amp; keyboardist Jeff Graupner, whose synthesized squiggles added some welcome heft \u0026amp; swagger to the band's tunes. After reworking \u0026amp; rearranging much of the new material to accommodate Graupner, the band scrapped the recordings \u0026amp; rebuilt them from the ground up, incorporating Graupner's skills at the keys. The results speak for themselves, as \"My Star\" is a gigantic leap forward for the band, absorbing everything from \"Manscape\"-era Wire to Paisley Park nu-funk to abstract new wave \u0026amp; art rock plucked straight from the Cold Storage playbook. Much of \"My Star\"s ten tracks are designed to bewilder; the production is intentionally disorienting, with the mix tipped toward the treble, alternating from sparse to confoundingly dense at times, but never at a disservice to the songs themselves. 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Tim performed onstage with the Richmond Symphony following his last release, one never knows what he will get into next.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2266023487\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/track=2565872416\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/timbarry.bandcamp.com\/album\/the-roads-to-richmond\"\u003eThe Roads to Richmond by Tim Barry\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chunksaah Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32265922543678,"sku":null,"price":15.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1575\/8523\/products\/a3531239408_16.jpg?v=1595614590"},{"product_id":"sun-city-girls-dawn-of-the-devi-lp","title":"Sun City Girls - Dawn of the Devi LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eAbduction Records reissue Dawn of the Devi, Sun City Girls' follow up album to Torch of the Mystics (ABDT 055LP). Originally released in 1991 on Majora Records, many who had discovered SCG via the preceding Torch LP were immediately alienated and blindsided by Devi and all the harshness that comes with it. Below, John Olson takes us back to 1991 when Dawn of the Devi premiered in all its glory and obscurity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Sun City Girls scan your dome for what they THINK you want but code it for the opposite. If you don't have me at my 'Napoleon \u0026amp; Josephine' then you don't get me at my 'Valentines for Matahari.' Easy to pick and choose your course thru their ridiculous and amazing path, but to fully get verbally abused by Uncle Jim you have to ingest it ALL. In order makes even less sense. Torch is like the APPLEBEES of the SCG catalog. My sister eats there, the appetizers are *good* \/ they have deals. Devi is after hours dish washing shift at the 'Bees: hurry with a joint out back with the one 'Kool' manager by the grease pit\/catch the 11:15pm bus to go home to your loser roommates watching midget porn as they forget to clean up yet again. Everyone wants a wild free ethno-screech RNR unit as their own to mentally catalogue but when it comes to plugging in and actually DOING experiments, all of a sudden everyone wants to be locked into the 'Rock n Roll High School.' The underground should be difficult and on shaky ground -- like your first kiss. What worth is following rules when you make them yourself? That said, Devi and the previously mentioned Matahari are MY SCG. That fucking BASS sound battling with Jim Hall on Walmart 3am desert speed thru ten watts of pure terror peppered with the ????? tin can ethno rhythm confusion of the great late Charlie G with all cylinders blaring in 'four dateless months in winter mode' is my THC in spades. Devi's sprawling anti-social etho-mess aside, the back photo says it all, in loud mid-range volumes: backs turned, duct taped third eyes, audience of three of which two are talking about how to the get the f outta the gig, the WORKS. A band photo can make a record and this is probably the biggest example of it. Like The Fall's Room to Live, everyone stares at their Chuck Taylor's when Dawn of the Devi is mentioned. Fuck, I'd get a tat of that fem-beast featured on the stark cover, thug-life stomach style in a show of prime period SCG pride but I'm puss when it comes to needles \u0026amp; ink son. Me and soldier Jeff Dunn circa '91 would play this sandpapered masterpiece all day and stare at that photo, placing ourselves either onstage or in the audience, fantasizing how wild the experience must have been. Can't tell you how many times I've had my grill blasted by this unholy racket. The playing is incredible and antisocial AF -- timeless but yet perf for a certain era as well beyond inspiring, musically and culturally. Of course people hated it: tuneless, raw, desperate, sprawling, LONG. It's like if SOLGER went to the ghettos of Baghdad to score black tar feedback instead of sketcher punker huts in Seattle at the dawn of HXC. Everything you need for yet another lonely night glaring into an empty closet is inside this grim long player. How it will sink into the ten second modern digital era of attention is anyone's guess but it's bound to boil and microwave one kid's brain. And I'll def be hunting said kid down to shred with. Also, the fact that I can call the two remaining GIRLS friends and jaw about Sag-nasty with em makes the cake even sweeter homeboy. 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