CAMERA OBSCURA - Tears For Affairs - 7"

"Tears for affairs" is the fourth song taken as a single from the highly praised third album by CAMERA OBSCURA. Along with the title track, the CD-single format includes one new, previously unreleased track: "The last song", as well as a brand new video of �Lloyd, I�m ready to be heartbroken�, directed by Victoria Bergsman (THE CONCRETES, TAKEN BY TREES) and filmed by Blair Young, the man behind most of the band�s videos; the clip features artwork by Fran�ois Marry, French designer and musician living in England.

Camera Obscura -If Looks Could Kill - 7"

Contains exclusive B side. "If looks could kill" is the third song taken as a single from the highly praised third album by CAMERA OBSCURA, an album composed of melodic pop jewels from the first to the very last song. Along with the title track, destined to be danced to death in the best pop music clubs due to its unstoppable Motown beat and the Phil Spector-esque sound. As usual, the 7" is a limited edition vinyl release, and it features an exclusive, previously unreleased B-side: a cover version of Phil Spector and the PARIS SISTERS' eternal classic tune, "I love how you love me".

Camera Obscura -Let's Get Out of this Country - 7"

White vinyl. Camera Obscura new single with exclusive B-sides. Having just finished the UK tour, and ready to tour the USA during all the month of July, CAMERA OBSCURA are more active than ever after the release of "Let's get out of this country", their third album. And out of their country they will go, because this summer they're booked in some festivals, like Emmaboda in Sweden or Belladrum and Summer Sundae in the UK, as well as a short German tour and two shows in Spain in September (in Madrid and at the Lemon Pop festival in Murcia). Besides all this, we are glad to announce the forthcoming release (in September) of a new single taken from the album after that glorious "Lloyd, I'm ready to be heartbroken": this time, the chosen track from the album is the title track, "Let's get out of this country". As usual, the B-sides in both formats of the single (CD-single and limited edition 7") will be previously unreleased songs: except for the song on the B-side of the 7", which is the cover version of Sheena Easton's "Modern girl" the band recorded for the 80's covers album that went along with the latest issue of Q Magazine.

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.

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.

CATHOLIC BOYS - "Fixed" - 7"

Sweet Rot delivers the second in a series of four posthumous CATHOLIC BOYS 7-inches. Sweet Rot hasn't gone wrong yet and this one's no exception.

caUSE co-MOTION! "This Just Won't Last" - 7"

Reverb disasters and crash-pop shambels, all simply thrilled and smashing times, 'This Just Won't Last' is a mess of clatter and jangle, broken hearts, sticks and strings. Limited to 500 copies, with handsome two colored screen printed job that folds out into an even more handsome poster.

For fans of comet gain, tv personalities etc.

caUSE co-MOTION! "Which Way Is Up?" - 7"

Review from Soundsxp.com :

Play this at Twee As Fcuk and they'd all be scratching their heads and saying: "I'm sure I know this. Wasn't it on that Creation compilation?..." But it wasn't - because it's the now sound of C86. New York's caUSE co-MOTION! have the same untutored trebly pop noise that the Soup Dragons, BMX Bandits et al had back in the day, and are just as brief as the originators: a quick rattle of jangly boyish optimism and then it's gone. Flip it over to hear their fine cover of the Marine Girls' 'Falling' with its scratchy Orange Juice-type guitars. The odd thing is that master-producer Tim Barnes (Rogers Sisters, Sonic Youth) had a hand in this and his job presumably was to remove any suggestion of production. A blissful breeze of no-fi fun!

caUSE co-MOTION! - Who's Going To Care ? - 7"

It's almost impossible not to love this band and their dedication to the DIY spirit of indie rock. Four new tracks that sounds like the best early 70's London by way of Detroit songs you never heard and great silk screened covers that fold out to a poster, what more could you ask for in a 45? Highly recommended.

CAZALS - Comfortable Silence - 7"

Ok so maybe we’ve heard it all before. But the day the public ceases to warm to guitar bands will be the day Ragged Words ceases to be. It may be ‘tight’, ‘wiry’, ‘angular’ or any other type of indie rock adjective, yet Cazals should be judged on whether they are any good and it just so happens they are.

Comfortable Silence is the bands third single, following the limited releases of Beat Me To The Bone and Poor Innocent Boys and their first on the Young and Lost Club label. Comfortable Silence itself is catchy and brash without being overly brazen. It’s a good song but as is so often the clincher in these situation song number 2 ‘Cost’ is its better. As the double of double A-side or a B-Side, ‘Cost combines the danceable art rock feel of Franz Ferdinand with its Libertines routes.

Another key aspect in the indie singles world is to have an element of distinction. In this case it’s the voice of Phil Cazal. Rather like label mates at Good Shoes and Vincent Vincent and The Villains, Cazals possess a vocalist bursting with character.

And speaking of labels, don’t expect this to be the Young and Lost Club’s first and last Single of The Week. Just you wait for New Moscow’s debut single…

from raggedwords.com by Padraic Halpin

Centipede E’est - Surf Licks and the Wall of Sound for World Peace - 12"

Second outing from this Pittsburgh quartet, one which continues to break ground merely by following their own musical passions instead of kowtowing to any manner of prescribed notions for modern, youth-approved independent music. Their influences reach back into the barren deserts of the late-’80s diaspora, when bands started moving outwardly from stale punk and alternative tropes and got greased on a musical fluidity once forgotten (see bands like Mofungo, Saccharine Trust … well, let’s face it, a lot of the mid-to-late SST bands that were firmly on the second string and didn’t outright suck), bent with the interlocked yet asymmetrical guitar dynamics of Sonic Youth or Polvo, atop an arid psychedelic vista once visited by the Dead. From up there, you can see a long way out. Dwell on that as these four songs combine the above concepts with a rhythmic propellant worthy off Watt and Hurley getting linear, of African rhythms gently tugging at the sides of each track, and of your very concept of a jam band tightening up and playing around with some much-needed restrictions. There you will find the centipede, crawlin’ out west. Blows their first CD right off the map, and shows more outright, untapped potential than just about any band on the touring circuit. That they have no gimmick forces audiences to pay attention to the intrepid nature of the musical interplay, and surely you will find that this group houses one of the finest rhythm sections nobody knows about. They’re the kind of band you can’t help but root for; their ideas are so refreshing and ridden with earworms that categorization becomes a moot point. Here’s a band that knows what to do with an influence, and how to make it their own instead of just smashing a couple disparate sounds together and calling it a day. Put your hand on this one and feel it. Edition of 300, beautiful mastering job and abject clarity. Nobody needs this more than you.
(from stille single, dusted.com)

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.

Cheap Time - Spoiled Brat - 7"

SRR-02 is the "Spoiled Brat" b/w "Jet Set" + "Killing Time" 7", the first record from Cheap Time (ex-Rat Traps) from Nashville. Recorded by Jeffrey Novak on a 4 track. This summer the band will be touring the West Coast with the Lamps and Haunted George and will also be recording their debut LP for In the Red Records at the Distillery.

Chuck - Na Naagy Um - 7"

et more fun-filled antics of a Pixies/Marychain/Elastica in the Balkans at the Eurovision Song Contest while being abducted by aliens kind. As Norman Records put it "Thank god for Sheffield rabble rousers Chuck." Or Vanity Project "Enough to make wanton random destruction seem utterly necessary." Or even Tasy Fanzine "Yet another brilliant release from SPC." Or, indeed, Pure Groove "Wonderful new offering from Chuck"

A Selection of Reviews

"Thank god for Sheffield rabble rousers Chuck." Norman Records

"Enough to make wanton random destruction seem utterly necessary." Vanity Project

"Yet another brilliant release from SPC." Tasty Fanzine

"Sheffield’s own Gogol Bordello" Loose Lips Sink Ships

Cococoma - All I Give - 7"

Shit Sandwich Records is proud to present the debut of Chicago's newest hit-makers, Cococoma. This guitar-drums-organ combo plays rough and tough Nuggets-style garage rock that's both brutal and graceful. Or is it?

Cococoma/Hipshakes - Tour split - 7"

Split single sold on a tour that took place earlier this year. Chicago’s Cococoma have been lauded in these pages before, as have England’s Hipshakes. This is no different; Cococoma’s organ-led garage punk fight songs still rattle with the same pissed-off fervor, and the Hipshakes still manage to get in and out with 90 second bursts of slash-and-burn punk. White vinyl, nice lookin’ record. from Still Single (dusted.com)

Coconut Coolouts - PIzza Regret - 7"

Four song singles are better at parties and so are the Coconut Coolouts.
Featuring:
1.Pizza Regret
2.Spell it out, Dummy
3.Head Full of Stones
4.Weekend
...four delicious slices! The other amazing thing about this 7" is that its got two covers! so its basically like two singles for the price of one...(without of the 2nd 7" of course)...holy fuck.
tuck in!

Codes in the Clouds- Distant Street Lights - 7"

Instrumental rock needn't always be about sticking to the same converse structure, although sadly what should have been a brave new beginning for expression without words has gradually become a uniform – anyone with a spare copy of Young Team or Agaetis Byrjun and a satchel full of effects pedals can form their own post-rock band. Well it's easy, innit? All you need are intermittent time signatures and occasional spats of silence and the rest is an exercise in repetition, right? Wrong...

Dartford five-piece Codes In The Clouds are a different proposition entirely. While there is no mistaking the fact that at least one member of the band probably owns an Explosions In The Sky record, they also seem to have studied the complex musical palettes of Ennio Morricone and John Barry, as 'Distant Street Lights' isn't merely about lolloping guitars over a formulaic backing, but more importantly screams the word 'Ambition!' with every subtly-crafted chord. While they will undoubtedly find themselves pigeonholed in with the post-rock set, don't let that put you off, as CITC owe more to the panoramic views of people like Epic45 or Yann Tiersen, albeit from a more youthful angle. For example, b-side 'Fractures' is possibly the most gripping piece of music you'll hear this year, almost like the final chapter from a Jack Arnott novel. For a band still in their infancy, that is no mean compliment.

This 7" comes with free bonus CD and download code.

Comet Gain "Beautiful Despair" - 12"

Dusted review:

Over the last decade, London's Comet Gain have proven themselves to be an outfit of brilliant flashes; if not an entirely consistent one, in the rediscovery of '60s Brill building pop kidnapped by '90s DIY kids in love with that they could not have. "Mainlining Mystery (Finchley Road)," written in part as an ode to resurfaced Television Personality hero Dan Treacy and the lost bodies and efforts of those like him, reminds us all that they're not lost so long as we remember. It also works as an exegesis of the band's career in and of itself, and many others like them. "The song we wrote today existed yesterday/And will always sound the same," guest vocalist Jon Slade intones over a hypnotic, hushed 3 A.M. "Sister Ray" vibe.

Everything Comet Gain has done up to now is owned up for here, in one extended elegy to our peppermint scene. For anyone who's ever gotten lost in underground music, this one's for you, a dour "History Lesson, Part II" for a different but equally monumental time, keeping mixtapes and shy, defiant first kisses alive for the next generation as it collapses into detuned synth heartstoppage. "Beautiful Despair" gets serious and despondent over slashing "King and Country"/Swell Maps-ian pouty determination, raggedly telling the same tale lyrically and dimensionally. It's one of the best singles they've had in a long time. The short, positive "Never Die" follows, warmly reassuring that everything will be OK. Probably the most serious and determined Comet Gain release, ever, and a high water mark for their career - higher than Realistes, even, in terms of song success ratio. This may not come as a shock to you, but here is yet another completely brilliant and unstoppable What's Your Rupture release, and Kev's winning streak shows no signs of being over. This one might actually be the best yet. Comes wrapped in a two-color poster sleeve. Absolutely positively a must-own.

Copy - Mobius Beard

Mobius Beard, the debut record from Portland's Copy (a.k.a. Marius Libman), is an 8-bit masterpeice of fuzzy synth harmonies and innovative beats. Bustling with jovial melody and human frailty, it fits in well on E*Rock's Audio Dregs label [and] begs repeated listening.

CPC Gangbangs- The Broken Glass - 7"

Here it is kiddies, the brand new heart stopper of a 7” from Mtl’s most barbarous garage band, the CPC Gangbangs! This puppy is a picture disc, designed by Mr. Tommy Gangbang himself, so it looks as sick as it sounds. The tracks (“The Broken Glass” b/w “Rich Rich Rich”) are absolute killers, that aren’t available on their new Swami album, and definitely aren’t rejects! For enhanced pleasure, I’d recommend renting Pathfinder (pure Viking violence) and putting this baby on in the background.

Crash Normal - Heavy Listening - 12"

From Paris, France we have the debut full length by this unique trio. They dare to fuse garage punk, funky loops, and digital cut & paste and actually pull it off. Humm, dance, break things, jump up and down to the compu-punk groove these Frenchies lay down. Some nice French lady vocals, too. And, fuck it kids, these fine Frenchtards are CRIMINALLY ignored. Be the first in your state to own this great record. As good as the 3.5 7"s you've might have heard by them. Terminal Boredom writes "Like a steel toed boot to the nuts comes this debut LP by France's Crash Normal to wake me up from the stale, boring, verse-chorus-verse-repeat-repeat nightmare of a lot of records I've been hearing lately...These guys have a sound unlike anyone else going today and with songs like this I'm now on an active hunt to track down their earlier singles." No cd issue, vinyl only. White vinyl.

Crystal Castles vs Health - Crimewave - 7"

Remixes battles between two great up and coming bands, Toronto's own glitch pop saviours Crytal Castles and Health (LovePump Records). This is seriously the best 7" of the year and once it ends, there is no way you won't turn it over and glitch out again and again to it. Super highly recommended.

CSS - Alala - 12"

Straight up: this is the best track from CSS' album and I'm really happy to see it getting a proper single release. Their first single was nice and dancey and all, but this is the realness! CSS are no joke and "Alala(1)" shows their harder side, perfectly contrasting the shimmery disco guitar and synths from "Let's Make Love" with buzzsaw guitars and a thick-as-fuck beat. I can't get enough of that little noise in the chorus – sounds like the girl from The Grudge! Maybe I'm a bit biased, but Bonde do Role's remix(2) basically rips shit up. Gorky and Pedro throw some baile drums under the dark, spooky keyboard sound from the original track and then proceed to chop the hell out of Lovefoxxx's vocals ("b-b-b-b-bitches!") while fading effects in and out of the mix. Awesome shit, and infinitely more mixable than the original version. Princess Superstar contributes a remix(3) as well, and the girls are kind enough to tack the acapella on the end for you lunkheads.