Boo Boo Records

CDs + Vinyl:

Abbath – Abbath CD/LP (Season Of Mist)

Debut album from Abbath, the band led by ex-Immortal frontman Olve Eikemo. Available in Regular and Deluxe editions. Deluxe fold-out box edition adds a bonus track, an exclusive patch, wristband, pin, and postcard. “Abbath is an explosive introduction to what happens when an idiosyncratic talent is compelled to redefine their own art while consolidating everything that made him great in the first place. Play it loud and watch as the heavens disintegrate and a new dark power takes to the throne.” – Metal Hammer

Agoraphobic Nosebleed – Arc CDEP/12”+MP3 (Relapse)

“Agoraphobic Nosebleed’s Arc is a masterpiece. And while your response to that news might be ‘Well yeah no duh!’ if Arc were a grind record, it’s not: the first of four separate albums, each in a different style, Arc is a doom album, its charge befittingly led by vocalist Kat Katz, who made her name fronting the slower-than-slow, heavier-than-heavy Salome. That the music on Arc is every bit as good as more ‘traditional’ ANb material is a testament to the genius of Katz and guitarist/producer Scott Hull. In other words: Arc cements Agoraphobic Nosebleed’s position as one of the best metal bands of their time.” – MetalSucks

Cyrille Aimée – Let’s Get Lost CD (Mack Avenue)

In her second Mack Avenue Records recording, the groove-spirited Let’s Get Lost, rising-star vocalist and bandleader Cyrille Aimée wonderfully displays her versatility as a sweet-sounding jazz songbird with a catchy repertoire—from new takes on old-time standards to crowd-pleasing originals and even a hip singer/songwriter tune that closes the 12-song collection.

Anchorsong – Ceremonial CD (Tru Thoughts)

Ceremonial continues the progression of 2014’s incredibly well-received Mawa EP (BBE), on which this ever-curious musician first began to blend the minimalist, catchy melodic phrasing and attention-grabbing beats of his Tru Thoughts debut LP Chapters with a newfound love for vintage African music. Influences from Orchestre Poly-Rythmo to Fela Kuti-style Afrobeat to bluesy High Life now hold sway, while Anchorsong retains the crisp production sensibility and deep, immersive arrangements that have always set his music apart.

Badly Drawn Boy – The Hour Of The Bewilderbeast [Reissue/2000] 2xCD/2xLP/3xLP (XL)

When The Hour Of Bewilderbeast was originally released in 2000, it was met with critical acclaim and won the Mercury Prize that year. The album is both ambitious and extremely entertaining and while it’s not a traditional pop album, it’s a continually beguiling trip through lo-fi postmodern folk, drawing as much from Harry Nilsson as it does Beck. This 15^th Anniversary reissue features 16 bonus tracks. ((Vinyl edition is available as a double-LP (Regular) and triple-LP (Deluxe) set.))

Lucian Ban – Songs From Afar CD (Sunnyside Communications)

Featuring saxophonist Abraham Burton, bassist John Hébert and drummer Eric McPherson with special guest violist Mat Maneri, Songs From Afar incorporates their extensive knowledge of modern jazz and creative music with the astonishing voice of Transylvanian folk singer Gavril Tarmure to create a program of music with a unique identity that spans continents and styles.

Besnard Lakes – A Coliseum Complex Museum CD/LP+MP3 (Jagjaguwar)

Unique among their furrowed brow peers, The Besnard Lakes are unafraid to marry textured, questing headphone sonics to the honeyed pleasure of radio hits past: the rapture of My Bloody Valentine entwined with the romance of Fleetwood Mac. Imagine dreamy Beach House riding Led Zeppelin dynamics, with unabashedly androgynous vocal harmonies. Channeling their obsessions with the paranormal as well as the dark arts, A Coliseum Complex Museum is populated by crypto-zoological creatures (“The Bray Road Beast,” “Golden Lion”) while also luxuriating in natural phenomena and beauty (“The Plain Moon,” “Nightingale”). These themes are sincere yet good-humored. The LP’s title jokily refers to a landmark-heavy road sign spotted on tour in Texas, the varied emotional impulses within reflected by its environmentally warped artwork.

Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath [Reissue/1970] 2xCD/2xLP (Rhino)

Black Sabbath – Paranoid [Reissue/1970] 2xCD/2xLP (Rhino)

Black Sabbath – Master Of Reality [Reissue/1971] 2xCD/2xLP (Rhino)

Black Sabbath – Past Lives [Reissue/2002] 2xCD/2xLP (Rhino)

Remastered and expanded editions of Black Sabbath’s first three albums, each featuring a bonus disc of outtakes. Past Lives was originally released in 2002, but consists of original live recordings from the band’s heyday. The double-disc set includes performances recorded between 1970 and 1975 when the band was at the height of it’s dark powers and includes live versions of “War Pigs,” “Paranoid,” “Snowblind” and “N.I.B.” (Vinyl editions are HQ-180gm.)

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Pond Scum CD/LP/Cassette (Drag City)

There are no Peel sessions anymore — that tradition was buried in the pyramids with John Peel himself upon the great man’s passing. Of the thousands left in the wake, six are ascribed to Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and of those six, three have been combined to form the deeply congruous experience of Pond Scum.

Borknagar – Winter Thrice CD/2xLP (Century Media)

New album from the Norwegian epic black metal pioneers.

Brutality – Sea Of Ignorance CD (Ceremonial)

Fourth album from the extreme death metal band.

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CDs + Vinyl:

7 Year Bitch – Live At Moe CD/LP (Moe)

Live archive release from the indie rockers. Features the bands classic lineup with original members Selene Vigil-Wilk, Elizabeth Davis-Simpson, Valerie Agnew, and Roisin Dunne. In the early ‘90s, Seattle rock band 7 Year Bitch burst onto the scene with their raw songwriting and raucous live performances. After releasing their third (and final) studio album in 1996, the band was undeniably at their peak and electrified with their intense stage shows. 

All Them Witches – Lightning At The Door [Reissue/2013] CD/LP+MP3 (New West)

Lightning At The Door is an eight-song, kick you in the teeth, swirling mixture of blues, psych, boogie and jam rock. Originally released in 2013, this reissue features two bonus tracks from the original recording sessions. “A brooding feel pervades, and some of Lightning At The Door‘s most effective moments are in its quieter, ambient reaches, beginning with the walk-into-water intro to opener ‘Funeral For A Great Drunken Bird,’ volume swells of guitar feedback shifting smoothly into warm, natural-sounding fuzz given melodic breadth by [Fender Rhodes specialist] Allan Van Cleave‘s keys.” —The Obelisk

Biscuit – Biscuit CD/LP (La Castanya)

Biscuit bid farewell to their first golden era with their rawest, rocking-est offering to date. This is (not) the end! Just the beginning of their third decade of unrelenting electric guitar-from-the-gut assault a la The Jam.

Blaze Ya Dead Homie – The Casket Factory CD/LP+MP3 (Majik Ninja)

New album the Michigan-based rapper features Twiztid, The R.O.C., Lex the Hex Master, Prozak, ABK, Kung Fu Vampire, DJ Swamp and Boondox.

Bloodiest – Bloodiest CD/LP+MP3 (Replapse)

“In a city saturated with innovative heavy music, Chicago’s Bloodiest offers an eclectic sonic palette that bears the stamp of its hometown on its sleeve while forging new musical terrain. The group formed in the late 2000s as an assembly of friends and scene veterans (including current and former members of Yakuza, 90 Day Men, Atombombpocketknife, and Follows) and by the release of its 2011 debut, Descent, had become a staple of the local music community and beyond for its unwieldy combination of underground rock, avant-garde, classical, neofolk, drone, and metal.” – Noisey (Music By Vice)

Brothers Osborne – Pawn Shop CD/LP (EMI Nashville)

Brothers Osborne’s rural blue-collar upbringing infiltrates the music they make as a twang-and-crunch duo that blends equal parts country and rock. “Brothers Osborne don’t take a sledgehammer to mainstream country on their full-length debut, Pawn Shop — they just do it better. The lyrical thoughtfulness, the character of the production, and the sheer quality of the playing are all exemplary, setting the bar for the genre in 2016. Take opener ‘Dirt Rich,’ a stomping ode to the modesty of down-home living that borrows some of the chorus melody from Zac Brown Band’s ‘Homegrown,’ and could’ve very easily come off like a lesser riff on that 2015 smash.” – SPIN

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CDs + Vinyl:

Joey Anderson – Invisible Switch CD/LP (Dekmantel)

“Anderson comes from the same corner of the house and techno universe that has given us artists like Levon Vincent, Anthony Parasole, and DJ Qu, a fellow dancer. Like them, he favors analog drum machines, hardware synthesizers, and what sounds, above all, like a lot of playing of keys and twisting of knobs in real time. Much contemporary electronic music is composed visually, assembled brick by brick on a computer screen, but Anderson’s snake-in-the-grass meanderings suggest live takes stacked one on top of another, thanks to the magic of multi-tracking.” – Pitchfork

Albert Ayler – Bells / Prophecy: Expanded Edition 2xCD (ESP-Disk Ltd.)

Albert Ayler’s trio with Gary Peacock and Sunny Murray is best known for the July 10, 1964, recording of Spiritual Unity, the album that made both Ayler and ESP-Disk’ famous when it was released in 1965. A decade after that, in 1975, ESP-Disk’ also released, as Prophecy, the first documentation of the group, recorded a month before Spiritual Unity by Canadian poet Paul Haines at a concert at a 91st Street club. These Cellar Café recordings are augmented here beyond the five cuts from the original Prophecy release by another six tracks from the same gig. 1965 yielded Ayler treasures as his style shifted. The transitional Bells was just under 20 minutes, originally released in 1965 as one side of a clear vinyl LP, with the other side empty of music. It was recorded at a May 1, 1965, Town Hall concert of ESP artists, displaying Ayler’s new group.

Blistered – The Poison Of Self Refinement CD/LP (6131)

“Hailing from Tampa and schooled in the storied tradition of FLHC, Blistered formed around 2012, and made themselves known abroad last spring following the release of their sophomore EP, Soul Erosion. Citing both Culture and Morning Again, as well as their northern contemporaries in Arma Angelus, Buried Alive, and All Out War as major influences, Blistered channels the grit and aggression of ‘90s metalcore to punishing effect, which they deftly demonstrated on Soul Erosion. Following a year’s worth of tour experience, Blistered have returned with their debut full-length, The Poison Of Self-Confinement. The album feels like a worthy successor to the era of metallic hardcore that influenced them in both tone and spirit, bringing a modern reinterpretation to the chugging mosh-riffs of yesteryear, and switching the past’s derisive message with accessible, personal lyrics while retaining the former’s sense of disillusionment and outrage.” – The Rainbow Hub

David Bowie – ☆ (Blackstar) CD/LP (Columbia)

Blackstar is David Bowie’s 28th studio album, and is released on his 69^th birthday. It is his first since 2013’s The Next Day. “The arty, unsettling Blackstar is Bowie’s best anti-pop masterpiece since the Seventies. Produced with longtime collaborator Tony Visconti and cut with a small combo of New York-based jazz musicians whose sound is wreathed in arctic electronics, Blackstar is a ricochet of textural eccentricity and pictorial-shrapnel writing.” – Rolling Stone

Brutus – Murwgebeukt CD (Willowtip)

Second album from the Dutch death metal band.

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