New Releases for March 17, 2023
M83 - Fantasy (CD/LP)
Fantasy is a full-immersion album. Gonzalez’s tracks don’t often adhere to pop-song structure, and his lyrics often verge on gibberish. (“Hello, freak! Can you see the sky ladder by the limbo café, leading to the green ray?” I sure can!) To get the full effect, you have to go along for the ride, from the tender and acoustic quasi-folk of “Ready, Far, Gone” to the gauzy dream-funk of “Deceiver.” Even at its most vaporous, Fantasy feels urgent and physical. When Gonzalez sings, he stacks vocal tracks on top of each other and chirps so hard that you can practically see the forehead veins bulge. And while Fantasy works as a classic headphones records, its best moments, like the surging dance break on the title track, sound like the work of musicians in a room together. On some level, this sounds like communal music that’ll only reach its final form when a whole bunch of people hear it in a big room together. - Stereogum
Soul Jazz Records presents Studio One Funk CD/LP/Tape
"This collection goes deep into the Brentford Road vaults and unearths a rake of previously unreleased gems alongside hard to find classics. Heavy and inspirational, totally unique and essentially timeless." - Straight No Chaser
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong LP Reissue
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart landed with a bookish and fuzzy aesthetic, the sound of ace indie pop students mimicking their heroes. Yet the band has been forthcoming in their love of crossover alternative rock, and on their second LP, Belong, Pains link up with Flood and Alan Moulder, the superproducers who manned the boards for a number of 90s titans-- Smashing Pumpkins, Nine Inch Nails, U2, Depeche Mode, and PJ Harvey just to name a few. Coming after a scrappy, low-profile debut, this is the sort of power move that used to have cred-conscious listeners crying "sell-out!" (remember that word?), but fortunately, Belong is a bigger, bolder, and brighter follow-up that adds new dimensions to the Pains' sound while nearly equaling the songwriting of their debut. - Pitchfork
AMM - Ammmusic LP
The Animals - Best of the Animals LP
Genevieve Artadi - Forever Forever LP
Chet Baker - Sings Again LP
Bardo Pond - Volume 3 LP
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Blonde CD/LP
Daddy Long Legs - Street Sermons LP
Death & Vanilla - Flicker LP
Deux Filles - Double Happiness LP
Deux Filles - Silence & Wisdom LP
DJ Black Low - Impumelelo LP
Dojo Cuts - Pieces: Best of Dojo Cuts LP
Eric Dolphy - Outward Bound LP
Drake - Honestly Nevermind CD
Dropkick Murphys - Blackout LP
Dur-Dur Band - Berlin Session LP
Julius Eastman - Two Extended Pieces for Four Pianos LP
Eater - Album LP
Eels - End Times LP
Eels - Hombre Lobo LP
Eels - Tomorrow Morning LP
El Michels Affair & Black Thought - Glorious Game/Grateful 7”
Faust - Momentaufnahme I
Faust - Momentaufnahme II
The Flaming Lips - Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell LP
The Flaming Lips - Fight Test LP
The Four Tops - Reach Out LP
Frightened Rabbit - Pedestrian Verse CD/LP
GA-20 - Live in Loveland LP
The Get Up Kids - Eudora LP
Grand River - All Above LP
Greg - Odyssey OST LP
Greenflow - I Got’cha/No Other Life Without You 7”
Herbie Hancock - Empyrean Isles LP
Hauschka / Hildur Gudnadottir - Pan Tone LP
Inspiral Carpets - Complete Singles LP
Into the Woods (2022 Broadway Cast Recording) LP
B.B. King - Completely Well LP
Takashi Kokubo & Andrea Esperti - Music for a Cosmic Garden CD/LP
Thomas Koner - Daikan LP
Andrzej Korzynski - Diabel LP
Julian Lage - Layers LP
Danny Scott Lane - Home Decor LP
M83 - Fantasy CD/LP
Malombo Jazz Makers - Malombo Jazz Makers LP
Malombo Jazz Makers - Malompo Jazz LP
Kacey Mugraves - Same Trailer Different Park LP
Muslimgauze - Souk Bou Saada CD
Mystic - Cuts for Luck and Scars for Freedom LP
Naughty By Nature - 19NaughtyIII Tape
Neanderthals - Modern Stone-Age Family LP
Neanderthals - Neanderthals in Space LP
The Offspring - Smash LP
Old Man Gloom - Seminar II: The Holy Rites Of Primitivism Regressionism LP
Old Man Gloom - Seminar III: Zozobra LP
Pauline Oliveros - The Well & The Gentle LP
Omodaka - Zentsuu: Collected Works 2001-2019 CD/LP
Orbital - Optical Delusion LP
100 Gecs - 10,000 Gecs LP
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong LP
Pierce The Veil - Flair for the Dramatic LP
Caroline Polachek - Non Voglio Mai Vedere 7”
Iggy Pop - Iggy & Ziggy LP
Martha Reeves and the Vandellas - Watch Out! LP
Sam Rivers - Fuchsia Swing Song LP
Leon Russell - Signature Songs LP
Pharoah Sanders - Great Moments With… LP
Sandrider - Enveletration LP
Lalo Schifrin - Man on a Swing LP
The Smile - Live LP
Smino - Luv 4 Rent LP
Son Lux - Brighter Wounds LP
Andy Stott - Luxury Problems LP
Ten Years After - Space In Time LP
Tractor - Tractor LP
Transllusion - Opening of the Cerebral Gate LP
U2 - Songs of Surrender CD/LP
Piero Umiliani - Tra Scienza E Fantascienza LP
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - V CD/LP/Tape
Huma Utku - Psychologist LP
Various - All I Ever Wanted: A Tribute to Depeche Mode LP
Various - Borga Revolution Ghanaian Dance Music LP
Various – Jukebox Mambo Volume IV: Afro-Latin Accents In Rhythm & Blues 1946-1962 LP
Various – Locura Tropical Vol.2 LP
Various - Some Skin: A Modern Harmonic Bongo & Percussion Party
Various - Soul Jazz Records presents: Space Energy and Light LP
Various - Soul Jazz Records presents: Studio One Funk CD/LP/Tape
Various - Stoned Cold Country LP
Vatican Shadow - Atta’s Apartment Slated for Demolition LP
Woo - Paradise in Pimlico LP
Warren Zevon - Life’ll Kill Ya LP