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mxmtoon – dawn/dusk LP (mxmtoon)

mxmtoon, the Oakland-raised, Brooklyn-based artist and social media personality known for singing and playing the ukulele, is back with a vinyl-only compilation of two thematically interconnected Eps: dawn and dusk. If dawn from earlier this year drew from the gentle optimism and hope found in gorgeous sunrise, dusk is a beautiful exploration of the other side of the emotional duality that is the human experience. dawn and dusk together are at once recalling of mxmtoon’s earlier work while also expanding her sonic horizons more than ever before, an exciting new direction suggesting that the sky is the truly the limit for her artistry.

Tank and The Bangas – Friend Goals 12” (Verve Forecast)

Breakout New Orleans-based funk-soul outfit Tank And The Bangas are fronted by Tarriona “Tank” Ball, a singer and poet who can wail like Patti LaBelle, scold like Millie Jackson, and soliloquize like Jill Scott. Tank and The Bangas won NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest in 2017, leading to a major-label contract with Verve and the 2019 release of Green Balloon, their second studio album. The Friend Goals EP is the Grammy-nominated group’s highly anticipated follow-up endeavor, six-tracks featuring collaborations with CHIKA, PJ Morton, and Duckwrth.

Various Artists – Southeast Of Saturn 2xLP (Third Man)

It makes sense that Detroit had a buzzy, thriving space-rock scene in the ‘90s. What American city’s denizens had a more urgent need to disengage and think outside the grim, post-industrial rustbelt realities? With space-rock (and its close sonic cousin shoegaze) being at once expansive and introspective, it naturally appealed to the young, intelligent artists who gravitated toward its vertiginous orbit. The music of Southeast Of Saturn did not arise organically from metro Detroit’s fertile soil. Locally, garage-rock, goth-rock, neo-hippie groups, and the usual preponderance of adequate bar bands dominated the landscape. Penned “Detroit Space-Rock”, the scene centered on Burnt Hair Records, Burnt Hair CEO Larry Hoffman’s Life According To Larry radio show, Zoot’s Coffeehouse and bands, such as Windy & Carl, Asha Vida, Füxa, Auburn Lull, and Majesty Crush. It was a modern movement of a more traditional “space-rock” sound, influenced less by The Stooges and MC5 and more by Spacemen 3, Loop, My Bloody Valentine and krautrock bands like Can and Neu!. Even the best-known artists on Southeast Of Saturn – Windy & Carl, Majesty Crush, Füxa – never achieved mainstream success, but within the rock underground, they inspired a cultish devotion that burns to this day.

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Aesop Rock – Spirit World Field Guide CD/2xLP (Rhymesayers)

Since his debut in the late nineties, Aesop Rock’s writing has been of the highest caliber, but one thing that has continually evolved is his near-flawless and diverse flow, now perfectly infused with his personality and a gift for visual imagery. On Spirit World Field Guide, characters, inanimate objects, and their surrounding environments vividly come to life as Aesop describes each passing moment throughout the album’s twenty-one chapters. Welcome to the Spirit World. Explore with intention. [Limited colored vinyl pressing also available.]

Boris – Absolutego [Reissue/1996] 2xLP (Third Man)

Originally released in 1996, Boris’ 60-minute 13-second debut “single” Absolutego is a trek over a staggering mountain of sound. The tension builds with wave after wave of massive feedback, drums leading into a crushing crescendo of full-band repetition and clarity before descending deeper until finally reaching a surreal dive-bomb purring drone finale. This song takes notes out of the Melvins’ playbook and pushes the sound to its absolute logical and visceral extreme. It sets a solid foundation for why Boris is considered to be one of the most important metal bands of the 21^st century.

Boris – Amplifier Worship [Reissue/1998] LP (Third Man)

First released in 1998, catalog staple Amplifier Worship is Boris’ most intense and unrelenting album to date. Not for the faint of heart, the group incorporates mythic doom-drones, up-tempo psych-sludge and even a refreshing ribbit into their signature concoction of celestial and heavy music. Amplifier Worship is a critical chapter in the Boris canon. The album is a testament to the group’s bullishness in pushing metal to its uncomfortable and unfamiliar edges. And it’s also undoubtedly one of their best.

Bob Marley – Uprising Live!: Live From Westfalenhallen 1980 3xLP (Eagle Rock)

The Uprising Tour ran in Europe from May 30^th to July 13^th, 1980 with five further dates in the US in September. It was Bob Marley’s last tour before his tragically early death in May 1981 at the age of just 36. The tour was in support of the Uprising album released in June 1980. A few days later on June 13^th, the live show from Dortmund’s Westfalenhalle was filmed/recorded for the famous German music TV series Rockpalast and is presented here on orange colored 180gm vinyl with restored audio. Bob Marley and the Wailers are on superb form and deliver a set of hit singles and classic album tracks.

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Mort Garson – Music From Patch Cord Productions CD/LP (Sacred Bones)

A collection of rare and unreleased recordings from the archives of electronic music pioneer Mort Garson, composer of Mother Earth’s Plantasia. The compilation plays like an ultimate Mort Garson playlist, and includes alternate takes of Plantasia tracks, music for never-aired radio advertisements, themes for science fiction films, erotic oddities, and much more from the prolific composer’s ’60s and ’70s synthesizer oeuvre. This deluxe edition includes art by Robert Beatty and new liner notes by Andy Beta (Pitchfork). [Limited colored vinyl pressing also available. Vinyl reissues of Didn’t You Hear?, Black Mass (under the alias Lucifer) and The Unexplained(his only release under the name Ataraxia) are also available this week.]

Holy Motors – Horse CD/LP (Wharf Cat)

At 22 years old, Eliann Tulve resembles Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval, reincarnated as an Estonian cowgirl. She is enigmatic as ever but stands more firmly alongside co-songwriter Lauri Raus, the solidification of their roles perhaps accounting for the more hopeful turn their song writing has taken of late. Holy Motors’ new album Horse finds the band acknowledging the Americana and rockabilly strands of their musical DNA without sacrificing any of the otherworldly mystique that keeps them from neatly conforming to the shoegaze and dreampop labels often applied to their music.

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Dave Brubeck – Lullabies CD/LP (Verve)

In 2010 at 91 years old, Dave Brubeck recorded peerless takes on best-known children’s songs, beloved standards, and originals as a gift to his grandchildren and as his last studio recording. His playing, ingenuity and integrity, all hallmarks of great Brubeck recordings, are abundantly apparent on Lullabies. Bookended by two versions of “Brahms Lullaby”, the five originals among the covers are “Going To Sleep”, “Lullaby For Iola”, “Koto Song”, “Softly, William, Softly” and “Briar Bush”. Further tracks include “Over The Rainbow”, “Danny Boy”, “Going To Sleep”, “There’s No Place Like Home”, “A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes” and “Sleep”. “Some of the melodies on this album are like those familiar songs,” says Brubeck. “Some are original pieces that I thought would appeal to a baby as well as an older generation. I hope the littlest ones will respond to this music, and that parents and grandparents will enjoy it as well.”

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