The House Guests - My Mind Set Me Free (Shake It)

A slab of Cincinnati hard funk slammers - most reissued (legally) for the first time! A magical moment of time, post JB's but pre-P-Funk outfits headed up by brothers Catfish & Bootsy Collins along with a Cincinnati who-who's of top club players who could turn it out night after night after night in places like The Psychedelic Grave or The Round Up Club that featured a caged bear in the club! Limited stock on Orange vinyl while they last. CD version in a few months.

Jay Som - Anak Ko (Polyvinyl)

Melina Duterte is a master of voice: Hers are dream pop songs that hint at a universe of her own creation. Her world of shy, swirling intimacies always contains a disarming ease, a sky-bent sparkle and a grounding indie-rock humility. When it was time to make Jay Som's second album, she relocated to LA and started writing. The result, Anak Ko, is some of Duterte's strongest work to date. Translating to "my child" in English, Anak Ko, presents an exciting glimpse into Duterte's creative process and solidifies her undeniable progression as one of 2019's strongest and gifted songwriters.

David Brown - Lets Have a Seance (Midwaste)

American Primative finger style guitar meets tape manipulation and drone. A cinematic transversal experience at the limits of acoustic guitar, reforming the sounds of 60s popular strummed psychedelia around an intuitive narrative of impending menace and release. Included is a burnt scrap of a Ouija Board used for spectral communion outside of the abandoned observatory. Midwaste does not accept any liability for metaphysical complications due to coming into possession of the aforementioned scrap. Art by Damon Carruesco.

Tropical Fukc Storm - Braindrops (Joyful Noise)

"Everything we do, we try to do it in a weird way. The whole album is full of weird beats, and just weird shit everywhere." Citing Doc at the Radar Station-era Captain Beefheart as a key sonic touchstone, Braindrops certainly shares the Captain's penchant for pounding abstract grooves. "We use lots of techno gear to make rock and roll because rock gear is boring." They describe the LP's title track as "Fela Kuti in a car crash," and talk of creating a sonic atmosphere that "sounds like chloroform smells". A recurring theme concerns the various ways the human brain can be manipulated and controlled for exploitative gain.

Ceremony - In The Spirit World Now (Relapse)

Full of layered sonic fury and anxiety, each song builds up to a point and then descending down through a militant, catchy hook. Songs like "Presaging the End" and "Calming Water" feel romantic and distressed, while "Further I Was" and "Years of Love" are driven by Ross Farrar's rebellious energy as he repeats the hook with a deadpan realness. But the true stand-out is the title track, "In the Spirit World Now", a haunting pop gem with a sticky chorus and lead synth riff that plants itself in your head as he chants the track's name over and over like a mantra.

Tyler the Creator - Igor (Columbia)

Tyler's sixth album is impressionistic and emotionally charged, the result of an auteur refining his style and baring more of his soul than ever before. IGOR sounds like the work of a perfectionist giving shape to his more radical ideas. Tyler, who proudly produced, wrote, and arranged the album, is singing more but he's not worrying whether his tracks have a traditional pop arc. Songs don't build to a crescendo, they often begin there. IGOR may be unsettled but it never feels restless. As Tyler grapples with uncertainty and unfulfillment, he delivers an album that feels like it is suspended in midair. CD and Cassette now, LP later this year!

Tanya Tucker - While I'm Livin (Fantasy)

Produced by Brandi Carlile and Shooter Jennings, While I'm Livin' is Tanya Tucker's first album of all new music in 17 years and signals the return of this country music icon. While I'm Livin' is largely comprised of songs written by Brandi Carlile, the twins Tim and Phil Hanseroth and Tanya Tucker. "This album is a musical biography of sorts narrated by the greatest country and western singer this side of Johnny Cash. When the kids heard Cash stripped down on "American Recordings" they knew where their outlaw country music came from. When they hear Tanya stripped down on "While I'm Livin'", they'll know it again." - Brandi Carlile

Redd Kross - Beyond the Door (Merge)

Redd Kross invite you to explore Beyond the Door, an album inspired by the band's "total commitment to having the best fcking time we can have while we're all still here" (what they like to call "the Party"). It's a rock and roll record and a celebration of everything brothers Jeff and Steven McDonald love, from cultures both high and low. Musically, it's guitars, bass, and drums topped with a generous portion of sweet vocal melodies often delivered with an ambiguous edge.

Also New This Week

Joanna Brouk - The Space Between (Numero)
Crobot - Motherbrain (Mascot)
Frogs - Its Only Right and Natural LP (End of all Music)
Ghost Funk Orchestra - Song for Paul (Colemine)
Noah Gundersen - Lover (Cooking)
Arlo Guthrie - Alice's Restaurant OST (50th Annv) (Omnivore)
Hide - Hell is Here (Dais)
Barbara Howard - I Don't Want Your Love 45 (Remined)
Joyero - Release the Dogs (Merge)
Lala Lala - Sleepyhead (Hardly Art)
Shannon Lay - August (Sub Pop)
Purple Pilgrims - Perfumed Earth (Flying Nun)
Robert Randolph & The Family Band - Brighter Days (Provogue)
Seratones - Power (New West)
Sheer Mag - A Distant Call (Wilsuns)
Leo Svirsky - River Without Banks (Unseen Worlds)
Lina Tullgren - Free Cell (Captured Tracks)