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kleiner power trio For all those who have been on top of the Mark Kleiner Musical Adventure (Jungle, Sister Lovers, etc), this album should come as no surprise. Mark has always had an uncanny knack for a hook, and his latest concoction, Love To Night, is ten pop-rock gems showcasing Mark s slick razzle dazzle songcraft with a stellar handpicked supporting cast in Pete (Flash Bastard) Mills and Kurt (New Pornographers) Dahle - arguably the first summer record of 2002! CD 12.98
3 INCHES
OF BLOOD A couple of months ago Discorder ran a nifty article on these local lads. This month they release their full length, in response to a near sold out EP of New New Wave Of British (Columbia) Heavy Metal! Things have been happening at quite a quick pace for 3 Inches of Blood. They've travelled to the center of the Minotaur's maze, avoided the Gelatinous Cube and charmed many a Gnome. You ask: "Will my life stay the same after hearing this record?" Quoth the Raven, ÒNevermore.ÓÊ CD 12.98
THE CLIENTELE
Upon the completion of my twenty-first year, I sold my sister's antique kite collection and used the funds on petrol for father's recently restored '65 Oxford Cambridge. Under cover of Northern England's darkest winter nights, I set out along my highlighted route of non-A roads towards London. I could not afford to be detected by the Bobbies, and feeling like Chaucer on a pilgrimage, I made good time towards the mecca: London's fashionable Soho high streets. There, I expected to reacquaint myself with all my nasty habits, not to mention my old mate, Rupert. The first club had a band, a three piece informed by many of my favorites: The Velvet Underground, Felt and The Feelies. They were good; I bought a pin. That plus a few dents in the Cambridge were the only reminders of my glorious Lost Weekend - now I'm spending the summer shoeing horses for the county fair pony ride. CD 14.98 |
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RADIOGRAM
All the way home we sang our patchwork of songs, weaving in a stitch of the old with a stitch of the new. All the way home falling somewhere between a serene dream and the rolled reality. All the way home lying in a burned out basement, watching the full moon cry. All the way home through the landscape wiped out, with 13 songs rambling through your head. All the way home with Radiogram by my side. CD 14.98 |
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JAPANCAKES Belmondo/Blissout CD 19.98 Take out your camera and smear a little Vaseline around the lens. Shoot into the sun and overexpose the subject. Now develop the contact sheet. While doing so, add some sand for a grainy finish. The results are the kind of haphazard magic perfectly suited to accompany the music of Japancakes. Their instrumental, reverb-heavy aesthetic makes for a sublime listen, with dreamy phrases that shift in and out of focus, and gently driving drumming that holds it all together. Excellent. Available April 9th. CD 19.98
FANTOMAS / MELVINS Millennium Monsterwork CD This release commemorates the third anniversary of Mike Patton's IPECAC record label. In this short time, we have all been blessed by new work from Fantomas, Tomahawk, and of course the only real grunge band there was, The Melvins. Well cult fans, you may now collectively say "My Prayers are Answered!" as IPECAC does the impossible - assemble and document this product of the supergroup big-band Fantomasmelvins! CD 19.98 |
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SAND A band like Giant Sand doesn't cover someone else's songs so much as inhabit them, making the songs their own while also revealing what is most true and good about the them in the first place. In any case, a covers album is not really a departure or a surprise for Giant Sand, is it? Gelb and crew have always kind of audibly paid tribute to all the music they're influenced by, however cryptic as this tribute sometimes gets. Even their flightiest moments reference the many fixtures in their eclectic library of resources - a collection of well-used quotations complicatedly fitted into a reaching, countrified psych-rock. Oh, Giant Sand, what more needs to be said? CD 19.98 LP 16.98 |
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CORNERSHOP
It has been five years since When I Was Born For the 7th Time was voted a critics fave in 1997! Quite some time for a follow up to the sublime moments of Brimful Of Asha, yet Tijinder Singh knew what he was doing and managed to keep busy with Clinton and DJ sets of rare white labels. The new Cornershop would have to come along at the exact moment when London's boogie parties were becoming dry and chapped. So here it is ... 13 songs with guests Noelly G, Rob Swift, Otis Clay and others! Handcream For A Generation - Rub some on! Available April 9th. CD 16.98 LP 16.98 |
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MAKE SAY THINK This album could be a possible alternative soundtrack to Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi, replacing Philip Glass' beautiful but somewhat dour work. With a few years behind us, perhaps Reggio's vision of urban life - a life, Reggio suggests, out of balance Ð could be reconsidered as also a place of humanity and variety, not just a source of possible alienation and depression. While this is a lot to place on any record, and new images would be required too, there is something about Toronto's Do Make Say Think's picturesque post rock that conjures optimistic images of city life, a perspective that contrasts with the doubtful attitude of their Montreal-based compatriots, God Speed You Black Emperor. A wonderful new recording by this thoughtful and capable band, even better than their last already great work, Goodbye Enemy Airship the Landlord is Dead. CD/LP 14.98 |
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DRAWN BOY The talents of Badly Drawn Boy A.K.A Damon Gough have been hotly debated. For the disbelievers, the fact that he constantly rolls out of bed and onto the stage with his knit cap on is mildly disturbing! Pop craft (and commercial success) is not supposed to be so effortless. But why - is this not the classic signifier of pop genius? Witness Mr. Wilson and Mr. Lennon Ð brilliance requires hours of sleep. Some may argue that brilliance also requires one to look handsome in Jeans and a T-shirt. Ok, change the topic ... How many saw the film High Fidelity (a fascinating picture about record shops as nodes for the exchange of important cultural ideas and phone numbers)? It turns out Mr. Nick Hornby's latest tidy novel is also being made into a film - and this is the soundtrack! Hum in the dark, look scruffy, and boychild you'll do fine! Available April 9th. CD 16.98 LP 16.98 |
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THE HERBALISER Something Wicked This Way Comes CD/LP Finally, a new official LP release from Jake Wherry and Ollie Teeba - better known to all of you heads as The Herbaliser. Aided and abetted as per usual by a select crew of hot musicians and killer vocal stylists (MF Doom, Rakaa Iriscience of Dilated Peoples - need we go on?) this slab of wax is guaranteed to blow the roof off of any party. Straight up hip-hop, funky jazz and even some sweet soul on the title cut make this little gem something wicked indeed. CD 16.98 LP 16.98 |
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ANTIPOP
CONSORTIUM Pop the top on this verbal metropolis/the city speaks with broken beats and analogue bleeps/the futuristic black moses semantic cyber surfer schtick/saying oh shit check what that kid just did/flipped your lid with the point and click boom bip/dropped two slabs of that apoplectic hectic eclectic/rock more go-go gadgets than general electric/block rocking splenetic/and although the psuedo intellectual white music critics hated/the real heads know this joint is crazy long awaited. Available April 4th. CD 19.98 2LP 22.98 |
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SWAYZAK Boom click, boom click, boom click, boom click, boom click, boom click, boom click, boom click, boom click, boom click, boom click, boom click, boom click, boom click, boom click, boom click, boom click, boom click, boom click, boom click, boom click, boom click, boom click, boom click, boom click, boom click, boom click, boom click, boom click, boom click, boom click, boom click, boom click, boom click. A great and hypnotic two CD collection of cool leading edge minimal house sounds compiled and mixed by the increasingly popular Swayzak, featuring Herbert, Monolake, Luomo, Studio 1, Headgear and more. Nice. Available April 8th. 2CD 24.98 2LP 19.98 |
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Plus These New Releases: Pine Valley Cosmonauts- The Executioner's Last Songs CD Jon Langford returns with Steve Earle, Edith Frost, Sally Timms and others! Req- Sketchbook CD/LP- UK's legendary graffiti artist makes his WARP Records debut! Papa M- Mac CDEP Chicago Underground Duo- Axis and Alignment CD Various- Noise Pop CD- w/ Neko Case, GBV, Flaming Lips and more! Herbert- Secondhand Sounds 2CD/3LP Breeders- Off You 10" A limited vinyl only release! Alfie- A Word in Your Ear CD Delicate folk pop from the British Isles. Antibalas- Talkatif CD/LP International Noise Conspiracy- Up For Sale CDep Various- You Don't Need Darkness ... CD A comp featuring Kevin Shields (MBV), Pastels and more. Music in the afternoon: SUNDAY
april 7 @ 4PM lee hutzulak and collapsing lung SUNDAY
april 21 @ 4PM sipreano SUNDAY
april 28 @ 4PM radiogram |
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Zulu Records 1972 West 4th | 604 738 3232 | info@zulurecords.com |
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