January 2011
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The Forecast - Week 31st January 2011
NEW RELEASE MONDAY
Monday 31st January Clinic - Bubblegum - 12” Papercuts - Do What You Will b/w “Thoughts on Hell” - 7” David Lynch - Good Day Today / I Know - CD/LP Esben And The Witch Violet Cries - CD/LP The Go! Team - Rolling Blackouts - CD John Vanderslice - White Wilderness - CD Jonny - Jonny - CD Seefeel - Seefeel - CD/LP Hercules and Love Affair - Blue Songs CD/LP Arthur’s...
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Good Day Today - Images
Here are a few snaps of the ‘David Lynch - Good Day Today / I Know’ vinyl that is out on Monday
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Good Day Today
Just arrived at the office today is the tombstone heavy (bespoke triple gatefold sleeve) David Lynch - “Good Day Today / I Know” It really is a beautiful thing, pictures to follow. The world-renowned avant-garde film director turns his hand to electronic music with this extraordinary single, you can preview a couple of the brilliant remixes below.
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BSP Beer Mats!
We were talking early this month about the beautiful promotional desktop calendar we got in the post from Domino to celebrate Villagers debut album. Our latest favorite promotional aside are the utterly brilliant British Sea Power Beer Mats we uncovered in the warehouse neatly filled away under B!! We’ll ship them out with all Sea Power albums whilst stocks last.
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Esben and The Witch - Violet Cries
ARRIVING THIS MONDAY 31st JANUARY Indie Stores Exclusive - Initial orders ship with free bonus CD. We’ve got the vinyl in already, expecting the CD early next week. Since self-releasing their demo-cum-EP, 33, in the Winter of 2009 and following it up with the limited 7” and 12” releases of ‘Lucia, At The Precipice’ and ‘Marching Song’ in 2010, the Brighton trio of Esben and the Witch have...
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The Forecast - Week 24th January 2011
NEW RELEASE MONDAY
Monday 24th January Epstein - Sealess See - LP Adele - 21 - CD/LP Gang Of Four - Content - CD/LP/Box Iron & Wine Kiss Each Other Clean - CD/LP Joan As Police Woman - The Deep Field - CD/LP The Phoenix Foundation Buffalo - CD/LP Sidi Touré - Sahel Folk - CD/LP Various Artists - Thai! Dai? - CD Cloud Nothings - Cloud Nothings - CD Thank you - Golden Worry - CD/LP Cold War Kids - Mine Is...
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Iron & Wine - Walking Far From Home
Taken from the forthcoming new album “Kiss Each Other Clean” Iron And Wine’s debut album for 4AD and first studio effort in over three years shows Sam Beam continuing to mine folk, African, rock, country, and Jamaican musical traditions for inspiration whilst also switching the focus of his studio lens to 60s and 70s pop influences. The results are astounding, serving to ...
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The Phoenix Foundation - Buffalo
ARRIVING THIS MONDAY 24th JANUARY Buffalo” is the latest album from kaleidoscopic pop group The Phoenix Foundation, whose last album “Happy Ending” (originally released on the legendary Flying Nun label), had critics hailing them as New Zealand’s best kept secret. Enjoy the taster below
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Joy Formidable - The Big Roar
ARRIVING THIS MONDAY 24th JANUARY Already one of the UK’s most vital live bands, The Joy Formidable unleash their debut album following a year that has seen them move from tipped outsiders to band most likely to.
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LCD Soundsystem - London Sessions
ARRIVING THIS MONDAY 24th JANUARY “London Sessions” is an unique John Peel / radio session style nine track encapsulation of LCD Soundsystem in perhaps their rawest and most original recordings to date. The session itself was recorded in one day at the Pool / Miloco studios in south London on June 29th 2010; the week following the band’s triumphant Glastonbury performance. ...
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Cloud Nothings
ARRIVING THIS MONDAY 24th JANUARY It’s been a crazy year for Cloud Nothings since they burst onto the music scene last winter. At the time main man Dylan Baldi was eighteen, living at home, and making lo-fi indie rock on a crappy computer in his parent’s suburban basement outside Cleveland. Since then, Cloud Nothings has released an EP and a handful of singles, and the band has put...
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The Weekly Forecast
Enjoy a quick taste of the music through the door this new release Monday. Who would be your record of the week?
NEW RELEASE MONDAY
Monday 17th January Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi - CD/LP The Decemberists - The King Is Dead - CD/LP Ensemble - Excerpts - CD Fujiya & Miyagi - Ventriloquizzing - CD/LP Pixies Best Of Pixies - Wave Of Mutilation - LP Sun Airway - Nocturne of Crystal Exploded Chandelier - CD White Lies - Ritual - CD/LP/Special 7” Box Set Tame Impala - Solitude is Bliss -12” Joy Formidable - Austere -...
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Anna Calvi - "Anna Calvi"
OUT TOMORROW (Monday 17th January) The Drift Record Shop’s January Record of The Month. Brian Eno has championed her as the most visionary female artiste since Patti Smith, Nick Cave has just taken her out around Europe as special guest of Grinderman, and Rob Ellis (PJ Harvey’s right hand studio man) has produced the music. An inspired guitarist influenced by Django Reinhardt as much...
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The Decemberists - The King Is Dead
ARRIVING THIS MONDAY 17th JANUARY “The King Is Dead”, a set of ten concise, country-based songs, marks a deliberate turn towards simplicity after the band’s wildly ambitious and widely acclaimed 2009 songcycle “The Hazards Of Love”. Produced once again by Tucker Martine, “The King Is Dead” features special guest appearances by Americana luminary Gillian...
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Suuns - Zeroes QC
The one word review from the shop; Listen yourself here;
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Sofrito - "Tropical Discotheque"
Coming next week (Monday 18th) is the first release of the year on the always-awesome Strut Records. Sofrito’s Tropical Discotheque compilation on (mixed by DJ Hugo Mendez) bring together 15 dynamite tropical grooves old and new ranging from raw cumbia, heavy Congolese soukous, bassline calypso and cosmic highlife. The mix below includes;
1. Sabroso Bacalao - Adolfo Echeverria 2. Je ne...
NEW RELEASE MONDAY
Monday 10th January Suuns - “Zeroes, QC” on [CD/LP] British Sea Power - “Valhalla Dancehall” [CD/LP plus bonus disc] Tearist - “Tearist” [LP] We Are The Lilies - “We Are The Lilies” [CD] Cut Copy - “Take Me Over” [12”] Austra - “Beat And The Pulse” [12”] Fujiya & Miyagi - “Yoyo” [7”] MNDR -...
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Tearist - "Tearist"
ARRIVING THIS MONDAY 10th JANUARY Tearist are an amazing two-piece band from Los Angeles, CA. They are comprised of William and Yasmine, two kids looking to weave goth, disco, noise and rock into a slithering snake for your earhole. Might well end up being a bit popular this!
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WatchARRIVING THIS MONDAY 10th JANUARY We Are The Lilies [feat. Iggy Pop] - “Why?” taken from the band’s self-titled debut album. Shot between Paris, São Paulo and Miami during recording. The Lilies are Sergio “Os Mutantes” Dias and Tahiti Boy & the Palmtree Family
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Cut Copy - "Take Me Over"
ARRIVING THIS MONDAY 10th JANUARY Melbourne, Australia’s Cut Copy return with a new single, ‘Take Me Over’, the first single from their third album, ‘Zonoscope’. Very nice; Is it just me or does this sound quite a lot like Men At Work in places?
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British Sea Power - Living Is So Easy
ARRIVING THIS MONDAY 10th JANUARY Taken from the new album “Valhalla Dancehall”, the band’s fourth album proper following the Mercury-nominated “Do You Like Rock Music?” in 2008, the “Man Of Aran” soundtrack in 2009 and this years brilliant “Zeus EP”.
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British Sea Power talk "Valhalla Dancehall"
Yan from British Sea Power spoke to the Guardian today about his 10 favourite moments of recording the new album. www.guardian.co.uk/music Valhalla Dancehall is out this coming MONDAY 11th JANUARY on CD and LP, both of which shipping (whilst stocks last) with an exclusive indie only EP.
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Austra - "Beat and the Pulse"
ARRIVING THIS MONDAY 10th JANUARY Originally released on One Big Silence (Mike from Fucked Up’s label), “The Beat & The Pulse” heralds the arrival of an exciting new voice to the Domino label. Influenced by Nine Inch Nails, The Knife and Debussy, this single and forthcoming album form a distillation of the previous work Katie Stelmanis has done under her own name, working...
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MNDR - "Fade To Black / I Go Away"
ARRIVING THIS MONDAY 10th JANUARY Coming to the racks next week is the debut single (Limited pressing. 300 copies only) ‘Fade to Black’ form MNDR. You know MNDR, she’s the sometime Yeah Yeah Yeah’s live band keyboard player who sang / played keys on Mark Ronson’s “Bang Bang Bang” single as part of the Business Intl.
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‘Children Of The Times’ from the debut...
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Solar Bears on Pitchfork
Solar Bears debut “She Was Coloured In” (of which we were very fond this past year) is up for review on Pitchfork today. A very fair overview (little heavy on the ‘sci fi’ themes maybe) and a strong 6.9 from Pitchfork should make the band some new friends. We sure hope so! You can buy that album via the shop site here;...
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BBC's Sound of 2011 →
The BBC have released their annual “Sound Of” list this week with a couple of interesting names amongst some of the more obvious choices. NY Girl group Warpaint are listed (who’s debut album can be bought here) as are Brighton based Esben And The Witch (who’s very good ltd EP “Marching Song” can be purchased here) Lastly (of our selection) is Anna Calvi,...