To Forget
A Whisper In The Noise
This record starts in near-silence...a worrying development since we're currently in review factory mode trying to keep on top of this week's new releases and I've got this on headphones whi…
view full details.
- Available on: Vinyl LP £13.29, CD £10.49
* Already Drowning, a song-cycle inspired by various myths & folktales about female water spirits, marks something of a departure for Aidan Baker. While still retaining his trademark sense of ambience & texture, the tracks on th…
view full details.
- Available on: Vinyl LP £15.29, CD £11.49
DELUXE PACKAGED 2LP W/ CD: "The cover of Frigid Stars sets the mood well -- a negative black and white shot of some stars, looking even more haunting as a result. As for the album, the tone isn't simply being cold or unemotion…
view full details.
- Available on: Double vinyl LP £24.39
DELUXE PACKAGED 2LP W/CD SET: " The final Codeine release, The White Birch, finds the band stretching out more beyond its usual style here and there, while still pretty much sounding like it always has. It's not quite a case o…
view full details.
- Available on: Double vinyl LP £24.39
BOXSET ONLY AVAILABLE TO INDIE STORES!!!! Seminal slowcore progenitors Sub Pop albums reissued individually as deluxe 2LP+CD or limited to 1000 boxed set. From 1990-1994, New York City’s Codeine were making somnambulant …
view full details.
- Available on: Deluxe vinyl LP box set £85.89
Compiling the best of Damon & Naomi s records over the course of four albumson the venerable Sub Pop label, The Sub Pop Years commemorates agrand chapter in the career of a band who never planned an existence in the firstplace. After More Sad Hit…
view full details.
While Dean Wareham performs the hits of Galaxie 500 at a Wetherspoons near you, the Other Two release a brand new album of slinky meanderings. The photo of them on their recent single 'Walking Backwards' disturbed, with Damon looking like a post s…
view full details.
- Available on: CD £10.29, Vinyl LP £15.79
Here's a little limited lad from those fine characters at The Great Pop supplement, and just in time for record store day too... well, almost. Damon & Naomi have been at it since the disintegration of Galaxie 500 and have produced a slew of ex…
view full details.
- Available on: 7" vinyl £5.09
In 1995, Damon & Naomi went into the studio with Galaxie 500 producer Kramer to record their debut for Sub Pop. Not everything went according to plan, however; or rather, it turned out Kramer and Damon & Naomi each had a differe…
view full details.
- Available on: Vinyl LP £18.49
A limited thing on Rural Colours now, this is a four tack job which touches down in sad, slow emotive rock fields. The closest comparison I can muster from the first couple of tracks is early Radiohead, early Doves & bizarrely, early My Mornin…
view full details.
- Available on: CD single £4.19
Low are one of those bands that very often seem to do no wrong and even when they do misfire everyone seems to be so happy to have them around that they get away with it. Following on from Robert Plant covering a couple of their tunes on his last …
view full details.
- Available on: CD £8.89, Vinyl LP £9.99, Vinyl LP £11.19
There is no such thing as a bad Low album, just good, very good and mediocre. Their last effort ‘C’mon‘ had a few killer songs but also a fair few forgettable ones. It seems since the wild experim…
view full details.
- Available on: CD £9.29, Vinyl LP £13.39
We got some copies of Mark Kozelek's 'Lost Verses - Live' CD. The Sun Kil Moon/ Redhouse Painters singer songwriter is an immensely talented artist and here we have him perform a kind of best of set on this 14 track album which collects recordings fr…
view full details.
* Two-Disc Collector’s Edition Box Set
* Extended interviews with prominent cast members, an in-depth look at Palestrina, Italy
* CD features 10 never…
view full details.
* BASED IN CHICAGO, PINEBUILDER HAVE BEEN SELECTED BY SHELLAC TO PLAY AT THEIR ATP EVENT IN DECEMBER, WHERE THEIR REPUTATION FOR EAR-SPLITTINGLY LOUD LIVE SHOWS WILL BE PUT TO THE TEST...
“…much rec…
view full details.
* Pinebender’s Working Nine To Wolf is its second release on Lovitt Records. It is the first recording made with the band’s new line-up. After the departure of Matt Clark in 2002, Stephen Howard moved from behind the drums t…
view full details.
Cult Glasgow band Smackvan have been writing and recording music for over 20 years, operating on the fringes of the Scottish independent music scene. They worked under the name Passkeepers for a period of time in the early 1990’s.…
view full details.
"Of all the melancholy slowcore bands of the mid-'90s, Spain were one of the more imaginative: a debonair, blues-tinged group from LA led by Josh Haden (son of jazz bassist Charlie Haden) that frequently sounded like Spiritualized …
view full details.
- Available on: CD £13.19, Vinyl LP £16.49
I'm not really familiar with Trespassers William but they've recently signed with Gizeh and this 'The Natural Order Of Things' 5 track CD EP sounds okay. It's really laid back and in my tired sleep deprived state it's almost sending me to the land of…
view full details.