Boo Boo Records

CDs + Vinyl:

6 String Drag – Roots Rock ‘N’ Roll CD/LP (The Royal Potato Family)

After 16 years in hibernation, 6 String Drag is back to remind you about real rock & roll. In the late ‘90s, the Carolina quartet stood out as pioneers of the nascent alt-country movement. The band’s Steve Earle-produced LP, High Hat, remains an undisputed classic of its era. Now battle-scarred and road-wizened, today’s 6 String Drag is the sound of four kindred souls reunited, letting their own histories as human beings mingle freely around their shared love of classic, bygone sounds.

Poppy Ackroyd – Feathers CD/LP (Denovali)

On her second album, Poppy Ackroyd further explores melodies, beats, and sounds flourishing through the limitations of using only piano and violin textures. The way it puts rhythmic intricacy and achingly beautiful melodies together, Feathers is the perfect redolence for stories of hope, love, loss, and migration.

The Adolescents – La Vendetta… E Un Piatto Che Va Servito Freddo CD/LP (Frontier)

New album from the SoCal punk icons. The Adolescents remain one of the most respected bands of the 1980s hardcore/skate punk scene. La Vendetta… E Un Piatto Che Va Servito Freddo proves that they have not mellowed one snarling, snotty bit with tracks like “A Dish Best Served Cold,” “Nothing Left To Say” and “Let It Go.

Adrenaline Mob – Dearly Departed CD (Century Media)

New nine-song EP released in conjunction with their upcoming tour with Iced Earth and Death Angel.

Andy D – Ready, Set, Bleed! CD (Aerobic Int’l)

For those who have fallen in love with the energy and spectacle of his live show, Ready, Set, Bleed! contains the energy fans have come to expect from Andy D. This album leaves the more conceptual narrative framework of WarCries behind in favor of a more free-form collection of inspirations drawing from history, politics, sex, and dancing. “Listeners who appreciate Andrew WK’s hedonistic spirit, Lady Gaga’s synth-pop game and Biz Markie’s cartoon approach to hip-hop may find Bloomington-based Andy D to be their next pop-culture obsession.” — Indianapolis Star

Jeff Austin – The Simple Truth CD/LP (Yep Roc)

Jeff Austin has been playing professionally for nearly 20 years, most of them as the vocalist/mandolinist of the game-changing bluegrass jam act Yonder Mountain String Band. Austin has long harbored urges to stretch out musically and even cast a few pop hooks of his own. He finally makes the leap on The Simple Truth, his solo debut.

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CDs + Vinyl:

All We Are – All We Are CD/LP+MP3 (Domino)

All We Are is a global gathering made up of Ireland’s Richard O’Flynn (drums, vocals), Norway’s Guro Gikling (bass, vocals) and Brazil’s Luis Santos (guitar, vocals). They met at university in Liverpool, England. Their self-titled debut was written in a cabin in the isolated Norwegian mountains, with follow-up sessions in a secluded cottage in North Wales. Then the album was finished in their studio in a disused school in Liverpool with producer Dan Carey (Bat For Lashes, M.I.A, Hot Chip). Self-described as sounding like “the Bee Gees on diazepam,” All We Are’s slow rhythmic shuffles, pop harmonies and lovelorn lyrics succinctly captures a universal quality to which everyone can relate.

Ólafur Arnalds – Broadchurch [OST] CD (Mercury)

A vital element in the success of record-breaking 2013 British drama Broadchurch was the hauntingly beautiful, BAFTA Award-winning score by young Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds.

Bahto Delo Delo – Tagoi CD (LM Dupl-Cation)

Marin “Tagoi” Sandu, bandleader of Bahto Delo Delo, is a Romani virtuoso accordion player and singer of the traditional lautari style in Romania. With guidance from his late father, Nicolae Neacsu, who was one of the founders of Taraf De Haidouks and a very respected violinist of his time, Tagoi started learning music from the age of eight. At 64, he plays and sings a large repertoire of Romani and lautari tunes. Bahto Delo Delo means “may God give you luck” in the Roma language. The songs often look back to the golden era of Romanian music-when Bucharest radio stations tuned into the sounds of Aurel and Victor Gore, Romica Puceanu, and Toni Iordache-and are performed in a virtuosic style that has all but been lost.

Lee Bannon – Caligula Theme Music [2012] CD (Chillectro)

Lee Bannon – Cope CD (Chillectro)

Caligula Theme Music and Cope are instrumental EPs that were originally released in 2012 via the bliss-hop artist’s Bandcamp site.

Blind Guardian – Beyond The Red Mirror CD/LP (Nuclear Blast)

Greatly inspired by life experience, world myths, legends, and their own fervent creativity, metal’s most epic storytellers Blind Guardian continually aspire to define themselves on a whole new level. With their orchestral tenth studio album Beyond The Red Mirror, they have successfully captured the scope of their essence with unprecedented accuracy. Available in Regular and Deluxe editions. Deluxe “mediabook” edition comes housed in a hard cover book and contains a bonus track.

Kath Bloom – Pass Through Here CD/LP (Chapter Music)

Bloom presents a distinctive new sound, uplifted by floating synthesizers and disembodied choruses, while retaining the direct simplicity and power for which she is loved.

Boduf Songs – Stench Of Exist CD/LP (The Flenser)

Stench Of Exist unfolds languorously, laced with mysterious electronic filigree. Gorgeously intimate, it transforms the minimal into maximal with layers of electro-detritus wreathed in lush guitar strums, street-side field recordings, reverberating pianos and softly crooned vocals. It is a record of rain and cities and nighttime. The collision of arabesque tonalities with electronic sound and ambience brings to mind the promise of Blade Runner-half-asleep at 4:00 A.M. and slightly medicated, with pyramids and flame-spewing cityscapes in downpour glowing against the fluttering eyelids in the almost-dreaming consciousness. A record for saturnine commuters, on headphones, after sunset.

Breakfast In Fur – Flyaway Garden CD/LP+MP3 (Bar/None)

The debut full length album from New Paltz, NY’s Breakfast In Fur is indie rock loaded with psychedelic textures, nods to ’90s electronica, ’60s pop song-craft, and ecstatic punk energy.

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