And now, in direct response to the flood of new releases this week, Landlocked Music Inc. presents a work of simplicity and calm... a falltime harvest haiku: Cold autumn raindrop Fiery color drains to earth Buy some hot new tunes NEW ARRIVALS for the Week of 10/23/2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------ (Exact arrival dependent on shipping delays and mishaps, sorry) Ryan Adams - Follow the Lights EP (Lost Highway) ................................................................... Follow The Lights contains 7 tracks - including 2 completely new songs specifically recorded for the ABC TV show October Road. The additional 5 tracks are re-imaginings recorded live in the studio with The Cardinals. Black Dice - Load Blown (Paw Tracks) ................................................................... The beats drip and roll, tar-pit voices sing into an oil can, and the guitars crank like a calliope. Some tunes crackle and burble like submerged television, others bump and click along like a Summer Jam concert series from another dimension. This is a work of over-stimulation, a product of frenzied media culture, a sonic sifting of the gratuitous amount of "stuff" out there. Strange and abrasive, yet somehow more familiar, accessible, and celebratory than ever.   Black Moth Super Rainbow - [reissues] (Graveface) ................................................................... Repressed / reissued / ultimate expanded edition of BMSR's long out of print first two albums, Start a People & Falling Through a Field. Includes additional tracks, remastered sound, and sexy chipboard sleeves. Castanets - In the Vines (Asthmatic Kitty) ................................................................... Ray Raposa of Castanets had almost finished this when 3 men in masks mugged him at gunpoint in front of his home. This climaxed a year of depression and nomadic, nocturnal dislocation. The album he was struggling to complete is based on a Hindu fable about being trapped in an inescapable fate, with death and the limitations of our physical lives closing in from all corners. Faust - s/t LP [reissue] (Lilith) ................................................................... Legendary German band formed in 1971 by undisputed noise pioneer Uwe Nettelbeck, Faust garnered an immediate following due to its artistically extreme experimentations with music cut-ups and other mixed sources hinging on cacophony and distortion. Don't miss their 1971 cult classic debut, now reissued with its original clear printed sleeve on clear vinyl. Dave Gahan (Depeche Mode) - Hourglass (Virgin/Mute) ................................................................... Hourglass is the 2nd solo album by David Gahan. On it, he makes a very Depeche-sounding album indeed. Where Paper Monsters (his solo debut) attempted many rootsy guitar moves, Hourglass goes all the way electro, filling the mix with bloopy-bleepy synth blips. Like Martin Gore (the Mode's principle songwriter), Gahan broods over God and humanity and the bleakness of existence. Holy Fuck - LP (Young Turks) ................................................................... Holy Fuck is an experimental dance band whose name will guarantee no love from the programming department at Fox News. They have been turning heads as the opening act for Do Make Say Think, !!!, Clinic, Wolf Parade, Cornelius, Metric, and Mouse on Mars. The sounds range from the exuberance of M83 to the instrumental machinations of Ratatat. Recommended. Jesu - Lifeline (Hydrahead) ................................................................... Lifeline contains 4 of Justin Broadrick's most refined tracks of shoegazed metallic abandon, one of which features Swans diva of doom, Jarboe. His music comes over the stereo like its own weather pattern. Arguably one of the most influential figures in extreme music over the last two decades. Of Montreal - If He Is Protecting Our Nation... [reissue] (Polyvinyl) ................................................................... Big Oil is a compilation of covers, B-sides, compilation tracks, outtakes, and unreleased material, all of which could very easily fit on any of Montreal album. Previously only available as an import. 13 tracks. Phosphorescent - Pride (Dead Oceans) ................................................................... Matthew Houck has always made music steeped in the Southern-gothic tradition. Previously, he cemented his reputation for making albums filled with hallelujahs for both grace and tragedy with songs that swung from ramshackle and joyous to broken and pleading in the space of a prayer. Here, he channels something more mystical and haunting, offering up a dark, meditative set of songs that is all the more spiritual-sounding for its restrained tone. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand (Rounder) ................................................................... The sound of two iconic figures stepping out of their comfort zones and extending the boundaries of their respective genres. Expertly honed by producer T Bone Burnett, the album is some cosmic collision of early urban blues, spacious West Texas country, and the untapped potential of the folk-rock revolution. Supported by the unparalleled musicianship of Marc Ribot, Dennis Crouch, Mike Seeger, Jay Bellerose, Norman Blake, Greg Leisz, Patrick Warren, and Riley Baugus, Plant and Krauss - as both solo and harmony vocalists - tackle an intriguing selection of songs from such tunesmiths as Tom Waits, Gene Clark, Sam Phillips, Townes Van Zandt, the Everly Brothers, and Mel Tillis. Prefuse 73 - Preparations (Warp) ................................................................... Scott Herren was born in Miami and grew up in Atlanta. His father is Catalan and his mother is Irish/Cuban. He releases music under various aliases, most notably Prefuse 73, Savath & Savalas, A Cloud Mireya, Delarosa and Asora and Piano Overlord. The album is a well honed work which is stunning for headphone listening, like a dense musical puzzle, crossing genres but always harnessed back in by the rhythms of hip hop. Both LP and CD versions contain a bonus CD of orchestral works and arrangements. Randall of Nazareth - s/t (Drag City) ................................................................... Pearls and Brass lead guitarist delivers his finger-picking badness, keening moan and stark blue tunes into a solo acoustic realm with equally dark and dazzling results. Randy recorded, played, sang and mixed it all. Supersilent - 8 (Rune Grammafon) ................................................................... Supersilent refuse categorization, with experiments in such disparate elements as ambient, jazz, electronica, rock, techno, noise and musique concrete. From the monumental hardcore blizzard storm of 1-3, to the elegant electro-jazz of 4, and from the quiet soundscapes of 5, to the epic 6, Supersilent have yet again re-invented themselves with an album that to a certain degree explores more abstract and mysterious pathways beyond category and comparisons. Venetian Snares - My Downfall (Planet Mu) ................................................................... If there has been one Snares album that everybody has talked about, its Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett, Aaron Funk's story of falling in love among the spires of Budapest, scored by an orchestra and the Amen break. If that album was in effect a question, then this one is his answer: the unfolding of this particular Hungarian story. If anything, My Downfall is even more epic & bombastic than its predecessor, but not without those little humorous touches so beloved of Snares. Scott Walker - And Who Shall Go to the Ball EP (4AD) ................................................................... An instrumental modern dance piece in four movements commissioned for the London South Bank Arts Theatre for the dance company 'CandoCo'. Strictly limited pressing of 2000 deluxe CDs, with fantastic packaging by v23. Ween - La Cucaracha (Rounder/Universal) ................................................................... Ween has established itself as a major artistic force, combining off-the-wall musical antics with brilliantly creative songwriting. Cucaracha is an eclectic, dark, humorous, and bizarre assortment of songs. In other words, a typical Ween record. Thirteen tracks of sharp wit, clever songwriting, and brutal honesty. White Magic - Dark Stars EP (Drag City) ................................................................... Mira Billotte has managed to take the ageless sounds of yesteryore and translate them into music that speaks so richly to the children of today with exquisite construction, opulent melody and a mystery as old as the hills. Now, they've completed another little record with webs of guitars and keys spun out and glinting in the backdrop of their darkling muse. Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals (We Are Free) ................................................................... One could say they hear harmonies suggestive of CSNY - or even the prog-ness of Peter Gabriel era Genesis. Although they name both as influences, its impossible to overlook the other inspirations: Sierra Leone Refugee Allstars and Popul Vuh. These genre-spanning influences perplex and, therefore, create an odd uniqueness that allows you to thoroughly enjoy your very own dim destiny. Recommended. Neil Young - Chrome Dreams II (Reprise) ................................................................... While the original 1977 album was reportedly lost in a fire, II offers up gorgeous, plaintive laments and country-tinged numbers sung in that achy breaky, heart-on-sleeve voice of Young's, as well as ragged barn-storming rockers delivered with a growl. There's even an 18-minute dirge that excitedly mixes R&B back-up horns with searing electric guitar leads. His finest album in years, recorded on analog gear with a sound both home-grown and experimental. VA - 200 (Planet Mu) ................................................................... Planet Mu celebrates its 200th release and 10th anniversary with a 26-track compilation. It brings together many of the last year's classic vinyl-only releases with exclusives from Boxcutter, Venetian Snares, mu-Ziq, Luke Vibert, Milanese, Neil Landstrumm, Benga, and many others. VA - Skull Disco: Soundboy Punishments (Rough Trade) ................................................................... Skull Disco is a UK based label comprised & owned by 2 producers single-mindedly traveling a seldom trodden path. Shackleton, with his middle-Eastern influenced beats and dubwise sensibilities, and Appleblim with his brutal riffage and broad range of styles, make this label truly innovative. This collects their 12"s. Landlocked Reading Room ------------------------------------------------------------------ Ptolemaic Terrascope Magazine #36 (w/ CD) ................................................................... Over 100 pages, including Devendra Banhart & Andy Cabic (Vetiver) talking 60s folk music, plus interviews with British folk legends Shirley Collins, Davey Graham, Vashti Bunyan, and Michael Chapman. Also, interviews with Ron Asheton of the Stooges, electronica artist Colleen, Ben from Six Organs of Admittance, Elaine Brown of the Black Panther party, hundreds of CD, book, DVD, and LP reviews and a CD with previously unreleased or rare recordings. Wire #285 - November 2007 (Underground Resistance cover) ................................................................... Underground Resistance (The elusive Detroit Techno guerrilla cell). Flying Lotus (one-man cinematic orchestra, freak-hop rejuvenator and grand-nephew of Alice Coltrane); David Watson (improvisor brings bagpipes to NY's downtown scene); Daniel Menche (Portland electronic extremist); Juneau/Projects (Britain's woodcraft folk artists make hand carved guitars); Invisible Jukebox with Foetus' JG Thirlwell; plus Loren Connors (How Brooklyn's guitar transcendentalist spun heavenly harmonies from out of the squalor of 70s and 80s urban bohemia). Also Released This Week (but not necc in stock, ask us!) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Oren Ambarchi - In the Pendulum's Embrace (Southern Lord) Babyshambles - Shotter's Nation (Astralwerks) Besnard Lakes - Volume 1 [reissue] (Jagjaguwar) Tom Brosseau - Cavalier (Fat Cat) Cluster - 71 & Eno [LP Reissues] (4 Men With Beards) Depeche Mode - [LP Reissues Series] (Rhino) The Forms - s/t (Threespheres) Ghost - Overture: Live in Nippon Yusen Soko CD+DVD (Drag City) Jose Gonzalez - In our Nature LP (Mute) Lee Hazlewood - CD Reissue Series (Sundazed) Daniel Higgs - Metempsychotic Melodies (Holy Mountain) iLIKETRAINS - Elegies to Lessons Learnt (Beggars) J Live - Reveal the Secret EP (Coup D'etat) Shooter Jennings - The Wolf (Universal) Karate - 595 (Southern) Lazarus - Hawk Medicine (Temporary Residence) Little Brother - Getback (Abb) Charles Mingus - Stuttgart Meditations (Get Back) The Most Serene Republic - Population (Arts & Crafts) Muscles - Guns, Babes and Lemonade (Modular) Nurse with Wound - Homotopy to Marie [reissue] (Durtro/Jnana) Orthodox - Amanecer En Puerta Oscura (Southern Lord) Playgroup & Alter Ego - Kings of Electro (Rapster) Saturday Looks Good to Me - Fill Up the Room (K) Scotland Yard Gospel Choir - s/t (Bloodshot) David Shrigley / VA - Worried Noodles (Tomlab) Slow Six - Private Times in Public Places (Western Vinyl) Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Jukebox Explosion (In the Red) Subtle - Yell & Ice (Lex) Thrills - Teenager (EMI) Tunng - Comments of the Inner Chorus (Thrill Jockey) Vampire Weekend - Mansard Roof 7" (XL) Velvet Underground - VU / Another View [LP Reissues] (4 Men W/ Beards) Warlocks - Heavy Skull Lover (Tee Pee) Witchcraft - The Alchemist (Candlelight) Dwight Yoakam - Dwight Sings Buck Owens (New West) Neil Young - Live in San Francisco 1978 (Immortal) STAFF PICKS! These are all available at Landlocked right now! Hurry! ------------------------------------------------------------------ Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk at Cubist Castle (Flydaddy, 1996; Cloud, 2004) ................................................................... Along with Neutral Milk Hotel and the Apples in Stereo, the Olivia Tremor Control were co-founders of the Elephant 6 Recording Co., a group of like-minded musicians who thrived on recording amazing psych-pop records at home on analog equipment. This, their first album, is probably my favorite Elephant 6 release, representing everything great about them. Taking the studio exploration of the Beatles circa '66-'67 as a starting point, the OTC add a decidedly lo-fi twist to their avant-pop. Recorded on 4 and 8 track tape machines, this album is an analog dream, a perfect psych-pop album with the emphasis on psych. Note-perfect songs drenched in tape-saturation and all manner of cobbled-together home-studio trickery rush by, a disorienting blur of tape loops, shimmering guitars, backward tapes, ambient passages and bizarre vocal effects. Never sounding forced, excessive or too retro, this is one of the most tastefuly done, gorgeous albums of the last 20 years. - Cyrus Titan - A Raining Sun of Light and Love (Tee Pee, 2007) ................................................................... Don't let the title and opening minute fool you - this isn't a "peace and love" folky album - its a powerhouse stoned behemoth charging full steam at you, crystals in clenched fists. You really need look no further than the super-sweet gatefold artwork on the LP version, a classic 60s blacklight mushroom - Fillmore style, with wavy words emitting and growing and causing your third eye to do backflips. Then there is the music, fuzzed out wah-wah blues leads mixed with a cauldron of topographic organ and propulsive drumming. Much of this seems based on group improvisations, or jamz, man. Stoned psychedelic long-formed groove trips - RIYL Roger Dean, Comets on Fire, Hawkwind, Acid Mothers Temple, Boris, Blue Cheer. Dude, where's my pterodactyl? - Heath Jean-Claude Vannier - L'Enfant assassin des mouches (Suzelle 1972, Finder's Keepers, 2006) ................................................................... Another LP I knew I'd like before hearing a note. The cover is a naked dude seen at a distance on a deserted beach, and the title translates to "The Child Killer of Flies": it promised to be, at least, interestingly bad. Turns out, I was already unknowingly familiar with the guy's music. JCV scored a few films with the immortal Serge Gainsbourg, and will be forever be known as the genius arranger behind Gainsbourg's 1971 classic Histoire de Melody Nelson. This LP was to be his solo breakthrough. It was not to be however. And listening now, it's easy to hear why: who is this music for? Even after a few dozen listens I'm still left guessing. But that's what's great about it. Elements of jazz, slick pop, lounge, sleazy listening, circus music, even klezmer all combine for a pleasantly confusing experience. - Jason ................................................................... NEXT WEEK - Pre-Order/Reserve one of next week's releases and guarantee you'll have it when its released!!! - info@landlockedmusic.com ................................................................... Beatles - Help! DVD (10/30) Vashti Bunyan - Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind (10/30) David Byrne - The Knee Plays (10/30) The Cake - The Cream of the Cake (10/30) Charalambides - Likeness (10/30) Duran Duran - Red Carpet Massacre (10/30) Efterklang - Parades (10/30) Hangar 18 - Sweep the Leg (10/30) Levon Helm - Dirt Farmer (10/30) Charlie Louvin - Live at Shake It Records (10/30) Orgone - The Killion Floor (10/30) Saves The Day - Under The Boards (10/30) Sally Shapiro - Disco Romance (10/30) Sightings - Through The Panama (10/30) Taking Back Sunday - Notes From the Past (10/30) Thursday - Kill the House Lights (10/30) Ricardo Villalobos - Fabric 36 (10/30) VA - Control OST (10/30) ................................................................... COMING SOON (dates often subject to change, sorry) ................................................................... Bright Eyes - Motion Sickness (Live) (11/6) Burial - Untrue (11/6) Neko Case - [reissues] (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) Final Fantasy - X 7" (11/6) Lisa Gerrard - Best of (11/6) Grizzly Bear - Friend EP (11/06) Hisato Higuchi - Butterfly Horse Street (11/6) Jeremy Jay - Airwalker (11/6) Johann Johannsson - Englaborn (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) Robyn Hitchcock - I Wanna Go Backwards [box set] (11/13) The Hives - Black and White Album (11/13) The Killers - Sawdust (11/13) LCD Soundsystem - 45:33 (11/13) Wu-Tang Clan - The 8 Diagrams (11/13) Daft Punk - Alive 2007 (11/13) Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero Remixed (11/20) Opeth - The Roundhouse Tapes (11/20) Six Organs of Admittance - Shelter from the Ash (11/20) U2 - Joshua Tree [deluxe reissue] (11/20) Ghostface Killah - Big Dough Rehab (12/4) Jonathan Kane - Little Drummer Boy EP (12/4) The Libertines - Best of (12/4) Minus Story - Make the Dead Come EP (12/4) Jed Speare - Sound Works 1980-87 2CD (12/4) Tender Forever - Wider (12/4) Woelv - Tout Seul dans la Foret... (12/4) Wu Tang Clan - 8 Diagrams (12/11) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Top 5 sellers at Landlocked Music for the week of 10/16 - 10/23: 1. Beirut - The Flying Club Cup (Ba Da Bing) 2. Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala (Secretly Canadian) 3. Celebration - The Modern Tribe (4AD) 4. Octopus Project - Hello Avalanche (Peek-A-Boo) 5. Robert Wyatt - Comicopera (Domino) Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs, LPs and DVDs from The Blakes, Byla / Jarboe, Karen Dalton, Murcof, Pylon, REM, DJ Spooky, Thrice, To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie, Toxic Avenger, Underworld, Ed Askew, Band of Horses, Beirut, Celebration, Enon, Fiery Furnaces, Future of the Left, Jens Lekman, Melvins, Scout Niblett, Octopus Project, Ohmega Watts, Old Time Relijun, Robert Pollard, Sunset Rubdown, Robert Wyatt, Extra Golden, Cass McCombs, MV&EE, She Wants Revenge, Rollins Band, Parkway Drive, Samara Lubelski, XBXRX, Aceyalone, Ariel Pink, David Bowie, JJ Cale, PJ Harvey, Richard Hawley, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, 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, Mum, Red Krayola, Stars, Supermayer, Tunng, Working for a Nuclear Free City, Steven Wright and much much more! ------------------------------------------------------------------ Upcoming Bloomington shows that Landlocked Music is excited about: 10/23 - Jens Lekman @ Waldron (under 21) 10/23 - Jens Lekman @ Jake's (over 21) 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 11/4 - Mac Lethal / Grayskul @ Rhino's 11/6 - Comedians of Comedy (Patton Oswalt, Brian Posehn, etc) @ Buskirk-Chumley 11/6 - Glue / Hangar 18 @ Festers 11/9 - Chicago Afrobeat Project @ Bears Place 11/13 - Ghostface Killa / Rakim / Brother Ali @ Bluebird 11/24 - Celebration / Vampire Weekend @ Waldron 12/2 - Mustard Plug @ Rhino's 12/3 - Jose Gonzalez / Cass McCombs @ Buskirk-Chumley 12/7 - White Magic @ Art Hospital 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. Washington St. (next door to Boxcar Books) Bloomington, IN, 47401 http://www.landlockedmusic.com/ http://myspace.com/landlockedbton http://indiana.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2385198570 (812) 339 - 2574 Hours of Operation: Monday - Saturday : 11:30am - 7:30pm Sunday : Noon - 5pm