CDs + Vinyl:
A.R. & Machines – The Art Of German Psychedelic 1970 – 1974 10xCD (BMG Rights Management)
The complete collection of Achim Reichel’s innovative avant-garde project in the early 1970s. The lavishly designed ten-CD box-set includes all five studio albums and almost five hours of rare and unreleased music, a new remix-album – Virtual Journey – as well as a hardcover book with the artist’s own liner notes.
The Adicts – And It Was So! CD/LP/Cassette (Nuclear Blast)
With their Clockwork Orange Droog attire, infectious high energy, uptempo music and unforgettable performances, The Adicts are no strangers to the scene having formed in the 1975 in Ipswich, England. Over 40 years later the punk legends are still intent on raising sonic hell with their eleventh studio album.
America – Heritage: Home Recordings/Demos 1970-1973 CD (Omnivore)
A collection of rare demo recordings and unreleased songs from the band’s early formative years.
John Balke – Siwan – Nahnou Houm CD (ECM)
New album from the international collective led by Norwegian keyboardist-composer-arranger Jon Balke.
Barenaked Ladies – Fake Nudes CD (Vanguard)
Fake Nudes finds Barenaked Ladies channeling the harmonies fans have come to love, alongside a fresh electronic-driven sound and lyrics filled with wit and empathy. That wit even comes through on the album title, a play on the phrase “fake news,” which rose in popularity when President Donald Trump took office this year. “We were making the record in January at the height of the brouhaha over the term, which kind of in my mind, appeared then,” Robertson said. “It became popularized then. It’s just so absurd in my mind. It provided the opportunity for us to make the joke about our band name that everybody else has been making for 29 years. On every show, ‘They’re not nude and they’re not women. But our new act, blah blah blah.’ It just seemed like the perfect opportunity to call our own bluff there.”
Baths – Romaplasm CD/LP (Anticon)
Less outwardly grim than the darker half of the last Baths LP, Obsidian, but twice as bittersweet,
Romaplasm reimagines approachable electronic pop songs as pieces of scaffolding that can be lived in, expanded and retracted, or torn down entirely. [Limited colored vinyl pressing also available.]
Harry Bertoia – Sonambients: The Sound Sculpture Of Harry Bertoia CD+DVD (Important)
Sonambients: The Sound Sculpture of Harry Bertoia, a film by Jeffrey and Miriam Eger, was shot in 1971 and follows Harry Bertoia in performance and interview throughout his Sonambient barn deep in the Pennsylvania woods. The CD contains historic recordings made in Harry Bertoia’s Sonambient barn.
Black Sabbath – The End 2xCD/3xCD+DVD+Blu-ray/3xLP (Eagle Vision)
Black Sabbath’s final hometown concert at Birmingham’s Genting Arena on February 4th, 2017. [Limited colored vinyl pressing also available.]
Karl Blau – Out Her Space CD/2xLP (Bella Union)
Out Her Space is a gorgeous, languid and hook-infested gumbo of soul, funk, some jazzy blowing and Afro-pop, to arrive somewhere else entirely. The album testifies to Blau’s studio skills, as he captures the glimmering, humid depths of those sweltering southern influences, despite his north-western heritage. Out Her Space plays with humanitarian themes, against a backdrop of self-immolating American politics. For starters, the title was equally inspired by Blau’s, “overwhelming feeling to point out that men, in general, need to listen, to stop being so assertive and to get out of her space, let her balance again.”
The Body & Full Of Hell – Ascending A Mountain Of Heavy Light CD/LP+MP3 (Thrill Jockey)
Latest collaboration between two unique and influential forces in heavy music. Despite their obvious differences in songwriting, The Body & Full of Hell are unified by their shared aesthetic, catharsis through the manipulation of emotions transformed by visceral noise and fueled by an inescapable sense of dread.
Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox – The New Classics CD (Concord)
First ever live album from Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox, recorded in Las Vegas and airing later this year on PBS.
Jimmy Buffet – Buried Treasure: Volume One CD+DVD (Mailboat)
A collection of Buffett songs, recorded in 1969 in Mobile and Nashville, discovered hidden in a recording studio closet.
