I think its about this time last year that I quoted Beat Happening's "Indian Summer" lyrics, and its pretty accurate again this year. Come out and bring us some apple cider and weave a tale of autumn in our ear. We have a ton of great new music for ya, so here it goes: NEW ARRIVALS for the Week of 10/09/2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------ (Exact arrival dependent on shipping delays and mishaps, sorry) Ed Askew - Little Eyes (De Stijl) ................................................................... Brilliant outsider folk from 1970. Ed Askew cut one record for ESP in 1969 and this was to be his follow-up, but the label ran out of money, making this the first release of this material. He plays an adapted lute and piano and the whole record was recorded in one take. Quality wise, it ranks right up there with the very best of Pearls Before Swine. Band of Horses - Cease to Begin (Sub Pop) ................................................................... For a lot of reasons, Cease to Begin is the perfect title for this new record. Not only do the songs themselves weave this theme through the record, but stopping and starting anew is also a reflection of the past year and a half for Band of Horses. Band members have come and gone, including Mat Brooke, who left the band to pursue other interests and his own band. The core members then moved from Seattle to Mt Pleasant, SC. Necessarily shot through with these experiences, the songs are strikingly beautiful, if less elliptical and more straightforward, with more sophisticated arrangements than the last record. Beirut - The Flying Club Cup (Ba Da Bing) ................................................................... Six months of recording has led to The Flying Club Cup, an homage to France's culture, fashion, history, and music. Two years ago, Zach Condon immersed himself in Balkan folk, absorbed sounds, scales, styles, and the sonic joys of a skeletally structured, cacophonic ensemble and moved west. Soaking up the likes of Francois Hardy, Charles Aznavour, and, most notably, Jacques Brel (a huge influence on both Scott Walker and Mark E. Smith), Condon has been articulating his conversational French. The orkestar, which has solidified into a core group of eight members, has grand plans for replicating the album live, and is now an integral part of Beirut's identity. Celebration - The Modern Tribe (4AD) ................................................................... The second record by this Baltimore-based three-piece is an album of sublime colors, rich textures, and glorious, ascending melody. Guest appearances by TV On The Radio, Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), and members of Antibalas. "Nothing sounds like The Birthday Party. Sadly, not even Nick Cave. Yet Celebration has just enough holy chaos and free-flung tribal drumming to warrant the much-hyped comparison...nothing short of brilliant" - Magnet. Catch these Bloomington favorites at the Waldron on 11/24. Enon - Grass Geysers Carbon Clouds (Touch & Go) ................................................................... Their long-awaited fifth album. Blasting through twelve tunes chock full of topics all over the map, and the band isn't stopping for border checks either. While this record is ever the rollercoaster of moods that characterize much of Enon's output, this is their most consistent and striking work. Fiery Furnaces - Widow City (Thrill Jockey) ................................................................... This brother-sister duo balance melody, originality, and a seemingly endless arsenal of instrumental ideas. Their songs often transcend categories, redefining the pop song through rapidly changing tempos and inventive sound selections. This record, their first on Thrill Jockey, features some of the finest, catchiest Furnace compositions to date. Compelling, beautiful, strange, dense, and magical, "Widow City" is musical terrain entirely of the duo's making. Vinyl is a double LP in an old style tip-on gatefold jacket, and includes a coupon for a free MP3 download of the entire album. Future of the Left - Curses (Too Pure) ................................................................... Future of the left were formed in 2005 as a direct response to market research which suggested that the perfect unsuccesful and ignored rock band could be created by melding together the remains of two largely unsuccessful and ignored rock bands from south Wales, Mclusky and Jarcrew. No pride has been spared in the fall-out. And the results are honestly quite staggerinly rock-tastic. Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala (Secretly Canadian) ................................................................... Like a modern day Chet Baker, Jens loves to sing about heartache. This is his first album in over three years, and Kortedala refers to a neighborhood in his hometown of Gothenburg, Sweden - "a depressing suburban hell". It also refers to a vague musical pop sound with hints of tropicalia that has been coming out of Gothenburg's clubs the last few years. "Night Falls Over Kortedala" features many previously unreleased live favorites and guest vocals from label-mate Frida Hyvonen and El Perro del Mar. Catch him on 10/23 @ Jake's. Melvins / Brian Walsby - Making Love Demos / Manchild 3 (Bifocal) ................................................................... Manchild 3 (Brian's 3rd book of comic art) showcases the illustrative skill and wit that have earned him a loyal following of fans since the early 80s. Many will remember Brian's work in magazines ranging from Maximum Rocknroll and Flipside all the way over to Hustler's Barely Legal while others know of Brian's classic album art for bands like 7-Seconds, Melvins, Scared Straight, and others. Brian also played drums for Polvo, Ryan Adams, Scared Straight, and currently plays for Double Negative. Manchild 3 comes packaged with the Melvins "Making Love" Demos from 1987. Manchild includes a 16 page illustrated Melvins tour diary from their 2006 tour. Scout Niblett - This Fool Can Die Now (Too Pure) ................................................................... Scout's new album features a contributions from Kristian Goddard and Chris Saligoe (from local faves Racebannon & Rapider than Horsepower), while Will Oldham contributes vocals on the album's four duets, two of which are covers. This Fool Can Die Now is a body of 14 songs that traverse a spectrum of charged emotions from yearning and grief to resignation and acceptance. Octopus Project - Hello Avalanche (Peek-A-Boo) ................................................................... You loved the split with Black Moth Super Rainbow right? With ragged, furious distorted guitars at one end of the spectrum and the pure, luminescent tones of the Theremin at the other, the members of The Octopus Project mine a staggering variety of sounds in between, filling their songs with brilliant contrasting colors and cascading waves of sonic bliss. Inhuman drum breaks three layers deep piled over the original live drum track, a heavenly four-Theremin choir from a Wizard of Oz soundtrack that never existed, guitar parts mulched into bits and reassembled into a tiny Prince army. Ohmega Watts - Watts Happening (Ubiquity) ................................................................... The follow-up to his debut is full of funky soul and razor-sharp dance floor cuts... this is hip-hop that everyone can enjoy. One of the freshest talents to have emerged out of hip-hop's left field in the last 5 years. London label-mate Shawn Lee provides some key sounds from his overstocked studio, and the album includes features from favorite Watts cohorts like the Lightheaded crew, Triple Grip, and Theory Hazit. CD includes a vocal and an instrumental disc. For fans of Pete Rock, Madlib, Common, Mr. Scruff, Quantic. Old Time Relijun - Catharsis In Crisis (K) ................................................................... As fresh as can be, OTR just slayed the crowd at Bears Place friday night. Song after song, the ferocity of lead singer Arrington De Dionyso draws listeners deeper into a world where language, rhythm and unrepentant libido collide. This music is temperamental, unwieldy and unyielding; and it cuts you to the bone. "Catharsis in Crisis" was written and recorded at Calvin Johnson's fabled Dub Narcotic Studio in Olympia, Washington in four inspired days and nights. RIYL the Contortions, hallucinatory snake handling and jaw harp. Robert Pollard - Coast to Coast Carpet of Love (Merge) Robert Pollard - Standard Gargoyle Decisions (Merge) ................................................................... Some people collect stamps or dolls or baseball cards. There are others who collect Robert Pollard songs, and it's more and more evident that amassing the ex-Guided by Voices pilot goldmine has become the most time-consuming hobby. Where its bookend Standard Gargoyle Decisions is said to side more with Pollard's glam-rock-and-roll persona, Coast to Coast is cut from the same power-pop cloth as GbV classic cuts "Shocker in Gloomtown," "Game of Pricks," and "I Am a Scientist." Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover (Jagjaguwar) ................................................................... Their third full-length features twelve songs that bleed in and out of each other, mixing portents with theatrics, confusions with conversions. Beyond writing catchy tunes and packing them with whispers, mallets, harpsichord, and patches of cheapskate drum machines, Spencer Krug's an intriguing presence. Instead of bubbling along at one level, he roller coasters and raves, mixing nonsense with sharp observations and sadness with puns. Robert Wyatt - Comicopera (Domino) ................................................................... Wyatt's career began forty years ago drumming and singing for Soft Machine, a post-psych outfit tied to the "Canterbury Scene" of the late 60s that yielded Pink Floyd and Gong, among others. On his 9th solo album, Wyatt collaborates with Brian Eno, Paul Weller, Phil Manzanera, and a small orchestra of string, woodwind, brass, and percussion players. Divided into three acts, Comicopera is an epic genre-bending allegory told through Robert's fragile tenor voice. Also Released This Week (but not necc in stock, ask us!) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Lifeline [reissue] (Verve) Extra Golden - Hera Ma Nono (Thrill Jockey) Will Hoge - Draw the Curtains (Rykodisc) Samara Lubelski - Parallel Suns (Social Registry) Cass McCombs - Dropping the Writ (Domino) Moby Grape - [reissues] (Sundazed) MV&EE with the Golden Road - Gettin' Gone (Ecstatic Peace) Parkway Drive - Horizons (Epitaph) Prints - s/t (Temporary Residence) Damien Rice - Live at Fingerprints Rollins Band - Do It (2.13.61) She Wants Revenge - This is Forever (Geffen) Sleeping People - Growing (Temporary Residence) Times New Viking - 7" XBXRX - Sounds (Important) STAFF PICKS! These are all available at Landlocked right now! Hurry! ------------------------------------------------------------------ Fifty Foot Hose - Cauldron (Limelight, 1968; Radioactive, 2004) ................................................................... Along with New York's United States of America and White Noise, San Francisco's Fifty Foot Hose were one of the first acid-rock groups to attempt marrying the psych rock of the times with more avant-garde techniques. Picking up where The Beatles' proto-everything 1966 track "Tomorrow Never Knows" left off, 1968's "Cauldron" was Fifty Foot Hose's only proper album, but is now regarded as one of the most unusual and unique records to come out of SF's psychedelic heyday. A real witches brew of heavy rock, jazzy-psych, spooky electronics, disorienting synths, tape manipulation, gentle female vocals, horrifying processed voices and a general "anything is possible" attitude in regards to composition and the possibilities of the recording studio. A total commercial failure that was way ahead of it's time. Unfortunately, it was their only album as most of the band joined the original cast of "Hair" in 1969. - Cyrus Rock*a*Teens - Sweet Bird of Youth (Merge, 2000) ................................................................... Maybe it's because of their misleading name (no, they're not a retro rockabilly act), but this band never seems to get its due. Now defunct, they were based in Atlanta, emerging from the same scene that spawned Man or Astro-Man, Shannon Wright, Kelly Hogan (an early member of the band), Cat Power, and the legendary Smoke. Another quality band on Merge that just got lost in the shuffle, they had no real gimmick - they were just a straight-forward indie rock guitar band. File them with other underrated 90s bands like Silkworm or Bedhead. This was their final album, and they're most grandiose. Lots of fuzzed out organ and swaggering, sing-a-long choruses. A secret stream of influence on todays indie rock big-shots, you can hear the Rock*a*Teen's unacknowledged sway on bands like the Hold Steady and Arcade Fire. - Jason Uvula - About What You'd Expect (Downright, 2001) ................................................................... "You are important, and under-rated / I will remember you when you're gone." Uvula was one of my favorite local bands and they released one of my favorite local albums of all time. The time was the late 90s. The sound was gorgeous male/female vocal harmonizing over top broken down "folk" - in the same way that you would call Beck's output from around the same time something similar. Chock full of great songs and a fresh sound that was odd and broken, yet compelling and poppy. It took 18 months to record and forever to be released and it was almost worth the wait except the band broke up. Chris Kupersmith now plays in Gentleman Caller and I eagerly await more of his own recorded material. I would offer a money back guarantee for this CD, but if you tried to cash it back in, its merely because you haven't listened enough times. - Heath ................................................................... NEXT WEEK - Pre-Order/Reserve one of next week's releases and guarantee you'll have it when its released!!! - info@landlockedmusic.com ................................................................... The Blakes - s/t (10/16) Vashti Bunyan - Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind (10/16) Jimmy Eat World - Chase the Light (10/16) Jesu - Lifeline (10/16) Maritime - Heresy and the Hotel Choir (10/16) The Most Serene Republic - Population (10/16) Muscles - Guns, Babes and Lemonade (10/16) Nurse with Wound - Homotopy to Marie [reissue] (10/16) Pylon - Gyrate [reissue] (10/16) R.E.M. - Live (10/16) Umphrey's McGee - Live at the Murat (10/16) Underworld - Oblivion with Bells (10/16) Venetian Snares - My Downfall (10/16) Scott Walker - And Who Shall Go to the Ball EP (10/16) Neil Young - Chrome Dreams II (10/16) ................................................................... COMING SOON (dates often subject to change, sorry) ................................................................... Ryan Adams - Follow the Lights EP (10/23) Besnard Lakes - Volume 1 (10/23) Black Dice - Load Blown (10/23) Black Moth Super Rainbow - reissues (10/23) Tom Brosseau - Cavalier (10/23) Carla Bruni - No Promises (10/23) Castanets - In the Vines (10/23) Dave Gahan - Hourglass (10/23) Ghost - Overture [Live] (10/23) Hangar 18 - Sweep the Leg (10/23) Holy Fuck - LP (10/23) Lazarus - Hawk Medicine (10/23) Orgone - The Killion Floor (10/23) Owls - Daughters and Suns (10/23) Phosphorescent - Pride (10/23) Prefuse 73 - Preparations (10/23) Randall of Nazareth - s/t (10/23) Saturday Looks Good to Me - Fill Up the Room (10/23) Tullycraft - Every Scene Needs a Center (10/23) Tunng - Comments of the Inner Chorus (10/23) Vampire Weekend - Mansard Roof 7" (10/23) Ricardo Villalobos - Fabric 36 (10/23) Warlocks - Heavy Skull Lover (10/23) Ween - La Cucaracha (10/23) White Magic - Dark Stars (10/23) Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals (10/23) Beatles - Help! DVD (10/30) Duran Duran - Red Carpet Massacre (10/30) Levon Helm - Dirt Farmer (10/30) Charlie Louvin - Live at Shake It Records (10/30) VA - Control OST (10/30) Bright Eyes - Motion Sickness (Live) (11/6) Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Assassination of Jesse James OST (11/6) Citay - Little Kingdom (11/6) Loren Connors - As Roses Bow: Collected Airs 1992-2002 (11/6) Hisato Higuchi - Butterfly Horse Street (11/6) Jeremy Jay - Airwalker (11/6) Operation Ivy - s/t [deluxe reissue] (11/6) Push-Pull - 3 (11/6) Tokyo Police Club - Smith EP (11/6) Bobb Trimble - [reissues] (11/6) Richard Youngs - Autumn Response (11/6) Sigur Ros - Hvarf/Heim (11/6) The Hives - Black and White Album (11/13) LCD Soundsystem - 45:33 (11/13) Wu-Tang Clan - The 8 Diagrams (11/13) Daft Punk - Daft Punk Alive 2007 (11/13) Grizzly Bear - Friend EP (11/20) Six Organs of Admittance - Shelter from the Ash (11/20) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Top 5 sellers at Landlocked Music for the week of 10/02 - 10/09: 1. Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog (Sub Pop) 2. PJ Harvey - White Chalk (Island) 3. Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - 100 Days 100 Nights (Daptone) 4. Bruce Springsteen - Magic (Sony) 5. Jose Gonzalez - In Our Nature (Mute) Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs, LPs and DVDs from Aceyalone, Ariel Pink, David Bowie, J.J. Cale, PJ Harvey, Richard Hawley, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, KTL, Life on Earth, Om, Chuck Prophet, Sadies, Siouxsie, Bruce Springsteen, Devendra Banhart, Richard Bishop, Cave Singers, Steve Earle, Jose Gonzalez, Heliocentrics, Iron & Wine, Bettye LaVette, Magik Markers, Mountain Home, Mum, Red Krayola, Stars, Supermayer, Tunng, Two Gallants, Working for a Nuclear Free City, Steven Wright, Damon & Naomi, Foo Fighters, Georgie James, Kites, Nellie McKay, Joni Mitchell, Matt Pond PA, Shocking Pinks, Rob Sonic, Weakerthans, Wolves in the Throne Room, Xasthur, Akron/Family, Black Francis, Crescent, Kevin Drew, Fog, His Name is Alive, Les Savy Fav, Thurston Moore, Rogue Wave, Songs of the Green Pheasant, Wooden Shjips, Mu-Ziq, Percee P, Wiley, Sixtoo, Dropkick Murphys, High on Fire, Michael Hurley and much much more! ------------------------------------------------------------------ Upcoming Bloomington shows that Landlocked Music is excited about: 10/10 - Yo La Tengo @ Buskirk-Chumley 10/11 - Gutbucket @ Uncle Festers 10/12 - Sheds / Gentleman Caller / Normanoak @ Bears Place 10/14 - Black Mountain / Cave Singers @ Bluebird 10/16 - Ween @ Bluebird 10/18 - Nickel Creek @ Bluebird 10/19 - Bob Dylan / Elvis Costello @ IU Assembly Hall 10/23 - Jens Lekman @ Jake's 10/26 - Del The Funkee Homosapien / Devin the Dude @ Bluebird 10/26 - Mt Eerie @ Art Hospital 10/27 - Matt Weston @ Art Hospital 10/30 - Melt Banana / Racebannon @ Rhino's 11/3 - Gore Gore Girls @ Rhino's 11/9 - Chicago Afrobeat Project @ Bears Place 11/13 - Ghostface Killa / Rakim / Brother Ali @ Bluebird 11/24 - Celebration / Vampire Weekend @ Waldron 12/3 - Jose Gonzalez / Cass McCombs @ Buskirk-Chumley We have tickets and further information for many of these wonderful performances. Sorry, but we can only accept cash for ticket purchases. ------------------------------------------------------------------ More information about shows and more on the horizon is available for the technologically inclined at http://www.landlockedmusic.com/ or http://myspace.com/landlockedbton or http://indiana.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2385198570 We are looking to buy/trade all your old unwanted CDs & LPs! Bring 'em in and we'll make an offer. We are also ready, willing and able to special order anything for you. Email us or drop in and we will hook you up with whatcha need. Feel free to forward this to all your lovely friends that need to know whats going on, we'd love to have them join our little party here on the newsletter. Tell us what you think, what you desire. ------------------------------------------------------------------ BFF, Jason & Heath info@landlockedmusic.com Landlocked Music 314 S. 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