Boo Boo Records

CDs + Vinyl:

August Alisana – This Thing Called Life CD (Def Jam)

Second studio album by the New Orleans-based R&B/hip hop artist. Guests include Lil Wayne, Chris Brown, Jadakiss, and more.

Badly Drawn Boy – The Hour Of The Bewilderbeast [Reissue/2000] 2xCD (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 a disc containing 16 bonus tracks. Vinyl editions due January 22.

Art Blakey – The Complete Blue Note Collection: Part One 1954-1957 4xCD (Enlightenment)

Art Blakey – The Complete Blue Note Collection: Part Two 1957-1960 4xCD (Enlightenment)

Art Blakey – The Complete Blue Note Collection: Part Three 1960-1962 4xCD (Enlightenment)

24 albums from the jazz great, collected over three separate remastered volumes.

Bud Bronson & The Good Timers – Fantasy Machine CD (The Greater Than Collective)

Bud Bronson & The Good Timers, reigning Denver Rock City champs since 2012 release their full-length studio debut, Fantasy Machine. Exploding with stadium-sized riffs, dual-lead pyrotechnics and storytelling that splits the atom between earnestness and absurdity, Fantasy Machine tells of the struggle to maintain the wide-eyed wonder of adolescence — when a Squier strat could transform a suburban bedroom into an arena of screaming fans — during the long stretch between the twilight of childhood and the rest of your life. Vinyl due January 8^.

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CDs + Vinyl:

John Abercrombie/Richie Beirach/George Mraz/Peter Donald – The First Quartet 3xCD (ECM)

This triple-CD set with recordings from 1978 to 1980, issued in ECM’s Old & New Masters series, returns some historically-important material to the catalog, namely the albums Arcade, Abercrombie Quartet and M. The quartet with Richie Beirach, George Mraz and Peter Donald John Abercrombie’s first touring band as a leader was the group in which the guitarist defined some priorities, moving away from a jazz-rock period into a more spacious, impressionistic and original music. Abercrombie and pianist Beirach had a strong musical rapport as improvisers and wrote almost all of the band’s book between them. George Mraz and Peter Donald provided imaginative support. For this edition the recordings — made in Oslo and Ludwigsburg and produced by Manfred Eicher were remastered from original analog sources.

The Allman Brothers Band – Idlewild South [Reissue/1970] CD/2xCD/3xCD+Blu-ray (Mercury)

The Allman Brothers’ second album, Idlewild South, is a mixture of chunky grooves and sophisticated textures, and includes the hit “Midnight Rider.” This digitally remastered reissue is available in Regular, Deluxe, and Super Deluxe editions. Deluxe adds 12 tracks not included on the original release. Bonus tracks are a combination of live tracks, studio cuts and outtakes. Super Deluxe includes the entire album in 5.1 Surround Sound on the Blu-ray plus additional tracks.

Amber Asylum – Sin Eater CD/LP (Prophecy)

Equally at home in the opera house or the smoky, raucous din of an underground nightclub, Amber Asylum plumbs the crevasse between noise and beauty. On Sin Eater, Amber Asylum’s first studio effort in six years, the four ladies from San Francisco combine the ominous energy of their drum & bass-heavy albums Garden Of Love (2005) and Still Point (2007) with the lush string arrangements.

Sam Amidon – But This Chicken Proved Falsehearted [Reissue/2006] CD/LP+MP3 (Omnivore)

Before Sam Amidon’s acclaimed albums for Nonesuch Records and Bedroom Community, he’d released a few on his own. After a collection of traditional Irish instrumentals, Amidon (as Samamidon) delivered his true “debut” But This Chicken Proved Falsehearted. Recorded in 2005 with longtime collaborator Thomas Bartlett (Mumford & Sons, Sufjan Stevens, The National, David Byrne), Vermont-born Amidon re-imagines traditional songs alongside covers as diverse as Mississippi John Hurt to Tears For Fears, and rearranges them into his own unique and mesmerizing compositions. (The CD reissue has been expanded with ten bonus tracks, while the single disc vinyl edition includes a download for the bonus tracks, and is pressed on translucent blue wax.)

Babyface – Return Of The Tender Lover CD (Def Jam)

On his tenth album, Babyface serves up eight new original tracks of unapologetic R&B.

Black Watch – Highs And Lows CD (Pop Culture)

L.A.’s favorite sons return with Highs And Lows. “With its graceful honesty and lyrical elusiveness, Los Angeles’ legendary the Black Watch continues to produce highly intelligent, melodic, accessible music that possesses the slightly psychedelic tinge that fans of The Go-Betweens or The Clean may greatly welcome.”—Magnet

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CDs + Vinyl:

Abysmal Lord – Disciples Of The Inferno CD (Hell’s Headbangers)

Vinyl version due February 19.

Aucan – Stelle Fisse CD (Kowloon)

Founded on the concept of permanent crisis and continual refinement, Italian trio Aucan seams together hypnotic live rhythms and moody electronics using a precise, minimalist post-rock approach. Much evolved from their origins as a math-rock outfit, Aucan’s gear and synth collection expanded over the years informs the band’s current incarnation which is most notorious for their striking 100% hardware live shows.

John Barry – Early Soundtracks And Singles 1963-1966 3xCD (Fantastic Voyage)

Original soundtracks for Zulu and Four In The Morning and Ember Singles Plus (including early James Bond themes).

Benny Sings – Studio CD/LP (Jakarta)

Benny Sings is a Dutch vocalist and songwriter whose music embraces the sunny melodic structures of pop music from the 1960s and ’70s, while fusing them with arrangements and production influenced by hip-hip and electronic music.

Bibio – Fi [Reissue/2005] CD/LP+MP3 (Warp)

Bibio’s debut album Fi (originally released on the Mush imprint) scored instant credibility in 2005 with a ringing endorsement from Boards Of Canada’s Marcus Eoin, which summed up the record percectly: “Bibio is the antidote to the modern laptopia of pristine electronic music, curing us with majestic drones, gnarly disintegrating guitars and warbling tape loops filtered through your parent’s broken 1970’s hi-fi.”

Björk – Vulnicura Strings CD (One Little Indian)

Björk presents a strings version of her highly-acclaimed eighth studio studio album Vulnicura, officially titled Vulnicura Strings. The original version of Vulnicura layered the boom and crack of electronic beats with an intense vocal melody and incredible string arrangements by Björk which have been performed live with a fifteen chair orchestra. The new version is musically wholly comprised of strings, with new violin solos by Una Sveinbjarnardóttir and strings recorded by a Viola Organista. Björk used the only Viola Organista in the world to perform some of the arrangements; an instrument which was designed originally by Leonardo Da Vinci but not built until after his lifetime. The instrument uses a friction belt to vibrate individual strings (similar to a violin), with the strings selected by pressing keys on the keyboard (similar to an organ). The instrument was recorded in Krakow, Poland by it’s constructor Slawomir Zubrzycki and here is where the album reached completion. Vinyl version due December 11.

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