Blevin Blectum - Rapid Cooling - 12"

Breaking a four year silence with her strongest album to date, Blevin Blectum's "Rapid Cooling" 12-inch ( a precursor to the full-length “Gular Flutter” CD) confirms her gift for making electronic music that is allergic to cliche. Blectum's new songs throb with swarms of transient surface details, but they never come off as haphazard. Asked about her title, Blevin notes that "Gular fluttering is the pulsation of the upper esophagus in some species of birds in response to heat-stress," an oblique reference from avian anatomy that stems from her recently completed training as a veterinary technician. It's a title that perfectly captures the mysteriously organic shifts that pulsate across this heavily processed music. On Sife A, "Cygnet" bursts into action, as martial drum rolls and distant horns bend and recombine around keening runs of strings in a manner that cops moves from Middle Eastern music and darkstep jungle but takes them in a wholly other direction (happily, Blevin's background as a classically trained violinist does more hovering than smothering in the midst of such delicate maneuvers). "Foyer Fire" follows, and keeps things bumping with a stomping kick and a lasertag maze of chirping synth patterns. Blevin has said that "99% of my music is about trying to keep your head above water", and that mixture of liquidity, dread and endurance is at the heart of this release. Side B contains the track "Avian Enamel", a remix of Bay Area band Ellul. Threading field recordings and conversation across a lattice of tightly edited rhythm, this tricksy, elastic assemblage provides an an emphatic finale to a work that demonstrates just how personal, brave and autonomous electronic music can still be. Some things are worth waiting for. - Drew Daniel, 2/16/2008

PWRFL Power - ST - 12"

Following the dissolution of his band Na, Kaz Nomura decided to refine his focus: constricting his work from genre-less abandon to more traditional song structures. The result is PWRFL Power: an unconventional marriage of melodically rich, Fahey-styled acoustic virtuosity and conversational, knowingly naive lyrical abandon. With the most basic of building blocks, Nomura forges a uniquely avant-informed brand of outsider folk music--one that relies as much on impish mischief as it does on considered craft and technique.

Wire Werewolves "Frigid Soil" - 7"

Some of the most brutal and epic noise-infused black metal sludge from Evan Pacewiz (Moth Drakula, Roman Torment) and Jay Howard (Circuit Wound). The city of angels has never seamed so dark. pressed on single sided red vinyl with as silk screened b-side. Limited to 300 copies.

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Old Panda Days - 7"

The first in the series, this single combines the lo-fi pop bliss of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone with the free form photography of David Horvitz.

Limited to 500 copies, only 100 available as single sales, the rest are available at stores, through the band on tour, or through subscribing to the series of 6 singles that also includes upcoming singles from Parenthetical Girls, No Age, Mika Miko, Sunset Rubdown, Abe Vigoda.

Parenthetical Girls - Picture Disc - 7"

What a better way to rejoice in the magic that is spring than to be treated to a brand new song from Portland's twisted pop angels, the Parenthetical Girls. Not only have they graced us with a remix of a track from their upcoming Entanglements album, but also with a jaw dropping cover of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's "Joan Of Arc (Maid of Orleans)". The single also includes appearances by Northwest heavy Hitters Jherek Bischoff (Dead Science) and Luke Wyland (Au).

This is part of a David Horvitz limited edition picture set that Aagoo Records is releasing, that also features releases by No Age, Mika Miko, Sunset Rubdown, Abe Vigoda.

Carbonas - Blackout - 7"

If anybody out there thought the "Frothing at the Mouth 7" was a fluke, this was the record that proved The Carbonas were the real thing. Originally pressed by Shattered Records in 2005, the "Blackout" 7" is probably not old enough to be thought of as a classic yet, but this record is an essential part of a catalogue that will soon prove to be very important. We are proud to make it available once again.

Cheap Time - Handy Man - 7"

The Cheap Time on this record is far removed from the Cheap Time on their debut 7" by means of personnel and style. Cheap Time have found a way to infuse the Red Kross punk sound of the first record with the glam of mid seventies LA. The yield is a band that isn't as fucked as Hubble Bubble, nor is it as dandy as Milk N Cookies or Sparks. The record is, however, bizarre and borderline awkward at times while retaining an infectiousness that will have you salivating until the lp on In The Red arrives this spring.

The Hex Dispensers - Lose My Cool - 7"

If anyone is still unfamiliar with The Hex Dispensers then you missed out on one of the best lps of 2007. This record is your chance to be privy to the spooky, speedy, catchy-as-fuck style of rock n' roll that The Hex Dispensers are dispensing. These songs are as memorable as those of Texas cohorts The Marked Men and as dark as Jay Reatard's. What does is it for me is the absolute strangeness of content. If anyone has questions as to what a "Taxidermy Porno" is, please forward them to Alex Cuervo. This three song 45 also features a killer cover of The Wipers "Tragedy"

Milimetrik - Northwest Passage's New Era - 12"

Millimetrik, lo-fi ambient ambassador Pascal Asselin, has been crafting honest, vivid musical landscapes taking sounds from hip-hop to classical music. His constantly evolving sound has a way of expressing his moods in exceptionally beautiful ways. At times melancholic, Millimetrik’s sounds will deeply brings you into an authentic journey

Bruce Peninsula - Lift Them Up - 7"

Featuring reworked versions of two recordings of anonymous origins (collected as part of the Alan Lomax archives) and a song from Texan pastor/dolceola-player Washington Phillips, this record is meant to commemorate the humble beginnings of Bruce Peninsula's ever-morphing brand of secular gospel music. The release, which comes courtesy of Toronto's Escape Goat Records, is limited to 500 hand-numbered copies and features beautifully printed cover art by Standard Form. Bruce Peninsula are currently putting the finishing touches on a full-length of original material, entitled A Mountain Is A Mouth, which should surface in the Fall.