VINYL FORMAT. Back on LP! "Alien Lanes" found Robert Pollard and his partners in hard pop, cleaning up their act a bit. For the most part, "Alien Lanes" isn't radically different from "Bee Thousand" ? it was primarily recorded on a four-track cassette machine (and sounds like it), and Guided By Voices was still a garage band with more in the way of inspiration than chops. But the musicians have put a bit more care and focus into their performance on this set; the playing is tighter and sharper, and the ba...   [ read more ]

LP $17.99

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VINYL FORMAT. One of the most impressive and innovative MCIAA recordings to date, the original soundtrack from Roberto Opalio's 2005-2008 film of the same name is currently getting screened as part of the Sonic Youth Etc..: Sensational Fix museum exhibition, which has so far been presented at Life (France), and is scheduled around the globe for the next couple of years. The improvised score by My Cat Is an Alien follows the minimal and surrealistic beginning of the film with sparse echoes of eerie sounds, ...   [ read more ]

LP $47.99

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VINYL FORMAT. Taking off where his last record, Hermaphrodite left off, these seven jams are steeped in modern media overload; dense, often fragmented blasts of ideas and sounds, representative of a half hour of prime-time TV (or something like that). This is overloaded, over-processed, overdosed music rooted in public sounds, but is somehow a giant leap from any fashion dominating the public mind. Limited edition vinyl-only pressing. Look for an Eric Copeland and Black Dice full-length in 2009.

12" $10.99

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