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7 Year Rabbit Cycle
Ache Horns
Release Date: 04/11/06
Label: Free Porcupine Society
CD: $15.98
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From founding member of Deerhoof. Ache Horns, the bands third full-length, was recorded over a six-month stretch of downtime in 2005 between tours. Imagine The Ex trying to break up a fight between US Maple and GodSpeed! You Black Emperor and youll begin to fathom what the band has achieved, thanks in large part to new members Stewart and Smith and stellar contributions from guests George Chen (K.I.T.), ambient noise artist Grouper and violist George Behringer.
Genre/Style: Rock / Experimental
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Aloha
Some Echos
Release Date: 04/11/06
Label: Polyvinyl
CD: $13.98
| Aloha loves a bit of everything but they don’t dabble here and there. They meld it all to make their own unmistakable noise on this their fourth album. Aloha makes warm progressive rock with a dreamy resonant aftertaste. The early genesis inspired four piece has skillfully crafted an ambitious and intriguing fusion of pop punk and jazz rock. A perfect laser show soundtrack for the art school set.
Genre/Style: Rock / Pop
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Black Angels
Passover
Release Date: 04/11/06
Label: Light In The Attic
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This release Relative Theory has been drooling over the past month. So freaking incredible and we hope this band gets bigger than Sam Cooke because they totally deserve it. They are awesome guys and their sound is a pulsating trip through the desert. Remember on the Simpson's when Homer ate that hot chilli and Johnny Cash was the voice of the talking coyote? Yeah like that. Passover does not let up on any track and it makes you feel like getting down with your tribal ancestors.
Genre/Style: Psychedelic Rock |
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Tom Brosseau
self-titled
Release Date: 04/11/06
Label: Loveless
CD: $15.98
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Since the 2005 release of What I Mean To Say Is Goodbye, Tom Brosseau has garnered much acclaim from Chord, Harp, John Doe and Bonnie Raitt. On the heels of this success comes a re-release of Brosseau's 2001 CD The Blue Record, which has been unavailable for several years. All the songs have been re-mastered, and Brosseau has added five bonus tracks, three of which are previously unreleased. Used to Own a Rowing Boat is an outtake from the Goodbye recording sessions with Sam Jones, while The Young and the Free is a 2003 on-air recording from KCRWs Morning Becomes Eclectic with Nic Harcourt.
Genre/Style: Folk |
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Built to Spill
You In Reverse
Release Date: 04/11/06
Label: Warner Bros
CD: $14.98
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Built To Spill returns with its long-awaited album, the
first in five years. Putting aside extensive overdubs and an atmosphere sweep, You in Reverse captures the organic, loose, impromptu feel of the band's jams.
Genre/Style: Rock |
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Calexico
Concretes In Color
Release Date: 04/11/06
Label: Quarterstick
CD: $14.98
LP: $15.98
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Where the open blue skies of the landscapes they
chronicled were tempered by the amokey dark blues of their jazz influences Garden Ruin is musically brighter. Lyrically too, the album takes a left turn in which contemporary rather than mythical America is addressed. Put succinctly, Garden Ruin is where Calexico fill those dusty empty landscapes they documented with a big big sound.
Genre/Style: Rock / Americana
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Crystal Skulls
Outgoing Behavior
Release Date: 04/11/06
Label: Suicide Squeeze
CD: $13.98
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Instead of angular post-Fall inspired riffage or the art-
damaged tones of their angsty Seattle neighbors, these boys have studied their AM radio classics, finding as much in common with Donald Fagan as contemporary homeboys The Sea And Cake. With a bite of George Harrison's guitar and a nip at Stereolab's rhythms, last years debut Blocked Numbers was a true pop pleasure. This, their follow-up, channels a cocky hint of Meat Is Murder-era Smiths and sits on a treasure chest of songs that Todd Rundgren would gladly drop trou for. Vocalist Wargo's nu-lounge swagger carries his well- honed band through eleven tracks of smoky AM glory.
Genre/Style: Rock / Pop |
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Timmy Curran
Citsuca
Release Date: 04/11/06
Label: Record Collection
CD: $7.98
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Heralded as one of the true leaders of modern
progressive surfing, Curran spent the last seven years on the WCT competing with the worlds top surfers. His extraordinary abilities transcend the confines of the ocean, as hes already known for his talent as a musician and songwriter in the surfing community. This is his 6-song debut EP.
Genre/Style: Rock
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Eagles of Death Metal
Death By Sexy
Release Date: 04/11/06
Label: Downtown
CD: $13.98
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The Dream Boys duo is back! This Joshua Homme produced album sounds exactly the way God intended live rock and roll to sound - raw, sleazy, and spiffy. Its more hook laden than your old job at the bait shop. Put your dancing shoes on for a skuzzy sexed up and
danceable brand of rock and roll.
Genre/Style: Rock / Garage |
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Brian Eno / David Byrne
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Release Date: 04/11/06
Label: Nonesuch
CD: $14.98
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Highly Recommended. Brian Eno and David Byrne's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts appears downright visionary. With its "found" vocals, cut-and-paste arrangements, funked-up rhythms and embrace of influences from all around the globe, the duo's controversial work anticipated the creative cross-pollination and technological innovation of contemporary dance music, world music, hip hop and alternative rock.
Genre/Style: Experimental / Pop / Dance |
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Feathers
self-titled
Release Date: 04/11/06
Label: Gnomonsong
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Feathers are an eight-piece collective musical ensemble, currently based between Northampton, Massachusetts and Brattleboro, Vermont. Formed in 2003 by Kyle and Kurt (first names only, please) at a Northampton record store, they were quickly joined by Shayna, Meara, Asa, Ruth, Greg and Jordan (more or less in that order). There are five primary songwriters, each with a unique style, and four singers. All eight musicians switch around on numerous instruments, loosely playing what can be described as psychedelic folk. Their debut album, now issued on CD for the first time via Gnomonsong, features simple strummed guitars, delightfully sweet harmonies, lysergic electric guitar, and tribal drumming, with a swirly folk vibe throughout. The group seems to draw inspiration from the same magical, natural forest elements that motivated Incredible String Band and Comus to release their own classic music in decades past. Yes, songs about forest creatures and loving the moon are contained
herein.
Genre/Style: Folk / Psychedelich |
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Field Music
self-titled
Release Date: 04/11/06
Label: Memphis Industries
CD: $14.98
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Hailing from the same celebrated North East (Britain)
scene that spawned The Futureheads and Maximo Park, Field Music add something more cerebral to the spiked Mackem brew. Comprising a core of three members and an ever-shifting crew of local luminaries, Field Music are something of a North East supergroup. Peter Brewis was The Futureheads' original drummer; Barry Futurehead was in one of the many early Field Music line-ups and sometime drummer Tom English is on loan from Maximo Park. Their pop is huge, loaded with melody and harmony, and perfect for fans of Big Star, Modern Lovers, My Bloody Valentines, Neptunes, etc.
Genre/Style: Pop / Rock |
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Josephine Foster
Wolf In Sheep's Clothes
Release Date: 04/11/06
Label: Locust
CD: $14.98
| Over the course of just a few years, Foster has
captivated audiences and critics alike through a magnetic patchwork of recordings ranging from broken spirited balladry (Born Heller) to fiery psych rock gestalt (All The Leaves Are Gone) to the voice of an outsider folk siren (Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You). The one constant is the utterly overwhelming strength and seductive unease of her voice and the bravery of an iconoclastic spirit. A deeply absorbing, magical reconstruction of 19th century German art songs that float in a wash of blissed voice and electric guitar in an almost dreamlike fashion through a salon of her own invention. She makes a case for German as one of the previously unknown romance languages.
Genre/Style: Singer / Songwriter |
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Growing
Color Wheel
Release Date: 04/11/06
Label: Troubleman Unlimited
CD: $13.98
LP: $16.98
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Their fourth album sounds like a symphony. Growing is taking their place in the world of heavy ambient drone alongside the likes of Sunn and Khanate. If Growing was the soundtrack to every Jacques Cousteau movie I would rapidly buy those dvds. I actually already own them so I will just watch with Growing in the background. cest la vie.
Genre/Style: Rock / Drone / Experimental |
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Jesu
Silver
Release Date: 04/11/06
Label: Hydrahead
CD: $11.98
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Justin K. Broadricks impressive and storied musical past includes the names of underground heavyweights like Napalm Death and Godflesh, alongside revered avant/industrial pioneers Techno Animal and Ice, but after nearly two decades of diligent stereophonic thrill- seeking, Broadrick has found his true calling in Jesu. This EP is an electro-psychedelic symphony born of the pastoral majesty found around his country home near the English/Welsh border. An icy-sweet combination of tidal guitar resonance and sweeping electronic atmosphere, the four epic tracks within comprise a panoramic snapshot of Broadricks stunning sonic prowess.
Genre/Style: Drone / Experimental |
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Lambchop
Decline of Country and Western Civilization Part II: Woodwind
Years
Release Date: 04/11/06
Label: Merge
CD: $14.98
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This release is a collection of A-sides, B-sides,
compilation tracks, and unreleased songs in a chronological compendium of a golden age in their career. Spanning 1994 to 1999, Decline centers around the weather worn and haunting voice of Kurt Wagner, the one constant in a band that numbers as many as twenty and as few as four, depending on the time or place. Discover a fertile musical history where Lambchop ties together influences as diverse as Porter Wagoner, Curtis Mayfield, and the Velvet Underground with contemporaries like Giant Sand, Vic Chesnutt, and Sonic Youth.
Genre/Style: Rock / Country / Experimental |
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Mono
You Are There
Release Date: 04/11/06
Label: Temporary Residence
CD: $13.98 |
'Throughout their six-year career, this Japanese quartet
has ascended consistently in both popularity and critical acclaim. But still elusive is the successful translation of their powerful and violently beautiful live performances to their recordings, until now. Once again recorded by Steve Albini, the album extends the cinematic drama of 2003's Walking Cloud And Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered And The Sun Shined while surpassing the sinister heaviness of 2002's lauded One Step More And You Die. If Walking Cloud was a nuclear winter, then You Are There is the post-war rebirth. This band isnt heavy like Black Sabbath. Theyre heavy like Beethoven.
Genre/Style: Post Rock / Experimental |
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Tom Moulton
A Moulton Mix
Release Date: 04/11/06
Label: Souljazz
CD: $21.98
LP: Vol. 1 $24.98 Vol. 2 $24.98
| Tom Moulton is one of the most important people in the history of dance music. From inventing the first ever 12" single to remixer to the stars, the trademark A Tom Moulton Mix is a mark of quality given to only the finest records -- From Grace Jones' seminal 'La Vie En Rose' to the million-selling MFSB disco anthem 'Love Is The Message,' to over 4000 remixes. Tom Moulton began his career in the early 1960s as a promotions man at the legendary R'n'B label King Records, home of James Brown, Little Willie John, Hank Ballard and The Midniters and many more. In the 1960s he also began a career in modelling that would run parallel to his music. In 1971, he visited New York's Fire Island, the infamous gay holiday resort where he describes seeing 'white men dancing to black music' for the first time. It was here that Tom Moulton first began splicing up tapes for the discotheque.
Genre/Style: Rock / Pop / Emo
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Parts and Labor
Stay Afraid
Release Date: 04/11/06
Label: Jagjaguwar
CD: $13.98 Sale $10.98
| This Brooklyn trio combines tumultuous noise with
enormous, triumphant melodies. Malfunctioning electronics howl in agony, drums rupture like fireworks, battle cries are belted through a monolithic layer of distorted bass and guitar. P&L revel in day-glo noise, charred drones, punk velocity, and phoenix-like hooks; a unique blast influenced by the clamor of Husker Du, the bluster of Boredoms, and the homemade spirituals of Neutral Milk Hotel. This is a pop record that yowls like noise, and a noise record that captivates like pop.
Playing Relative Theory on May 6 w/ Wilderness
Genre/Style: Rock / Post Rock / Experimental |
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Pretty Girls Make Graves
Elan Vital
Release Date: 04/11/06
Label: Matador
CD: $13.98
LP: $12.98
| The Seattle quintets follow up to the universally
acclaimed, The New Romance and their first album since the addition of keyboardist Leona Marrs is by far their most ambitious miltifarious and scorching to date. Produced by Colin Stewart, Elan Vital provides the band with a bigger bolder canvas with which to weave their magic. The new material road tested at gigs around the globe with Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand and Death Cab for Cutie shows a blindingly original American band who areimproving with each
successive album.
Genre/Style: Rock / Synth |
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Saves The Day
Sound the Alarm
Release Date: 04/11/06
Label: Vagrant
CD: $13.98
| Latest from one of the original 'emo' bands', who are
back with their classic sound of revved up tempos and wonderful
melodies.
Genre/Style: Rock / Emo / Punk |
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Wilderness
Vessel States
Release Date: 04/11/06
Label: Jagjaguwar
CD: $13.98 Sale $10.98
| Wilderness is an unconventional band from Baltimore
whose apparent musical pedigree stems from the like of The Fall, This Heat, Savage Republic ,Public Image Limited and Joy Division without sounding like any of them and whose music is every bit as spiritual as it is visceral as nuanced as it is overt and as communal and all embracing as it is culturally alienating and nihilistic. Vessel States is sure to fortify the critical acclaim.
Genre/Style: Rock / Punk |
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FM3 Buddha Machine
Price: $24.98 |
Restocked! 2nd edition now available. A unique 'soundbox' from China, which is causing senstation worldwide. A totally dazzling item which causes jaw-dropping delight everywhere -- Alan Bishop bought twenty-four of these on sight, Brian Eno bought eight (how's that for apocalyptical math?). FM3 are a duo of Christiaan Virant and Chinese keyboardist and computer musician Zhang Jian -- based in Beijing. The Buddha Machine is a hardware loop player, built kind of like a little AM radio (available in 6 different colors, shipped randomly), but without all the nonsense -- total genius from out of nowhere! The Buddha Machine is a small soundbox made in China which comes with an integrated speaker, a volume control, mini jack-out and a switch to choose between nine different loops which are stored on a small chip and can be directly played by this mini soundsystem. |
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Daniel Powter
self-titled
Release Date: Apr 06
Label: Warner
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Young Canadian singer's debut album, produced by Mitchell Froom (Elvis Costello, Crowded House) and Powter's long-term collaborator Jeff Dawson. The album confirms Powter's fine songwriting talents with standout tracks such as the memorable opening track 'Song 6', the driving melodies of 'Suspect' and the delicate ballad 'Jimmy Gets High'. The first single to be released from the Album was 'Bad Day', a remarkably infectious pop song that was a huge hit in Europe in Spring 2005.
Genre/Style: Rock
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John Ritter
Animal Years
Release Date: Apr 06
Label: V2
CD: $16.98 |
The 29 year old Idaho native returns with his stunning
new album. Following the independent release of The Golden Age Of Radio and Hello Starling Ritter was championed by critics in publications ranging fron the NY Times to Details. On this his V2 debut, Josh more than lives up to the buzz. As a storyteller Ritter is matched only by his lofty influences.
Genre/Style: Pop / Singer-Songwriter |
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Editors
The Back Room
Release Date: Mar 06
Label: Fader
CD: $15.98 $11.98 |
When you're friends been blogging about these guys for months and another friend text messages you from SXSW telling you how amazing these guys are, so gotta listen. Shimmering, dark pop in the vain of I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness, Interpol, Joy Division. These guys are the hype and maybe, MAYBE the new black.
Genre/Style: Rock |
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Sondre Lerche
Love & Fear
Release Date: Mar 2006
Label: Astralwerks
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A charming detour into jazz-inflected pop, Duper
Sessions is a fresh, back-to-basics collection of songs that showcases a more intimate side of this gifted singer-songwriter. Inspired by Chet Baker, Caetano Veloso and even David Lynch, Duper Sessions transports the listener into a different time and place, filled with melody and romanticism. Featuring classic-sounding originals plus covers of songs by Elvis Costello, Cole Porter and Prefab Sprout's Paddy McAloon, Duper Sessions is Sondre Lerche's tribute to the music he loves
Genre/Style: Pop |
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Mark Erelli
Hope and Other Casualties
Release Date: Mar 06
Label: Signature Sound
CD: $17.98 |
On this album Erelli returns to the classic folk rock sound of his earlier releases and tackles social as well as personal issues with his best group of songs yet. Special guests include Lori McKenna and the group Redbird. Don't miss one of 2006's finest releases.
Genre/Style: Alt Country / Singer-Songwriter / Folk |
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Carter Administration
Air Guitar Force One
Release Date: Sept 05
Label: Theory 8
CD: $10.98 |
One of Nashville's longest running trios have captured
10 of their best tracks for their debut full length released by theory 8. The entire album's sound can be summed up with a lyric from the title track..."I've got my degree in rock n' roll". The Carter approach to songwriting focuses on simple hooks and sing along choruses. The Tennessean describes them best, "The Carters could go toe-to-toe with Fountains of Wayne in a battle of tenacious harmony- hooks, and with fellow locals Kings of Leon in scratch-and-grit guitar style. Seasoned Intimidator sounds like the band's funneled returned Nashvillian Ben Folds' vocal hooks onto a Thin Lizzy guitar chug (and man does it work)...it is a fantastic collection of rock 'n' roll that leans on remarkable songwriting above an easily marketable style." If you find yourself overexposed to flavor of the month indie fodder and need to remember what amazing rock music sounds like, Air Guitar Force One is the album for you. For fans of Tom Petty, Sebadoh, AC/DC, Spoon
Genre/Style:Rock |
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Various Artists
Demons and Red Meat
Release Date: Oct 04
Label: Mission Label
CD: $8.98 |
1,000 LIMITED EDITION DEMONS AND RARE MEAT are packaged in screen-printed, hand numbered cardboard cases. Limited Editions will be shipped until we run out, so order them quick. Considering the plethora of compilations out today, Demons and Rare Meat is a necessary reaction to excess. In compiling rare and exclusive tracks from today's elite independent artists, Demons and Rare Meat cuts the fat and gets right to the main vessel of new and creative music. This is the first release from Chicago's Mission Label and the goal is to offer a diverse and progressive platform for today's most groundbreaking artists.
Demons and Rare Meat features exclusive and unreleased songs from established acts; such as Tunde Adebimpe from TVotR (Touch and Go), Schneider TM (City Slang/Mute), and Okkervil River (Jagjaguwar) . The first side project from The Polyphonic Spree, called 25% Toby, appears alongside rare tracks from breakout bands; such as The Dirty Projectors (Western Vinyl), The Octopus Project (Peek-a-boo), Certainly, Sir (Spoilt), Via Audio (Kill Normal), The Mattoid (Cleft Music) and many more...
There is a demand for diversity and people are willing to mix and match genres seamlessly. Overall, this record should help everyone involved; exposing a new label and new bands, while providing collectable material for the fans. This is highly recommended.
Genre/Style: Rock / Electro / Pop
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Jel
Soft Money
Release Date: Feb 06
Label: Anticon
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The head architect of Anticon's aural acropolis at long
last offers his album-length debut, Soft Money. On 2002's 10 Seconds, Jeffrey "Jel" Logan created a long-playing ode to his first real love, the SP-1200 sampler, composed entirely of hand-picked snippets from over three decades of hip-hop. Soft Money takes the same meticulous approach but expands it both literally and conceptually. Though undeniably rooted in the boom-bap of hip hop, this is an ode to all good music, channeled through one man, his machines, and a little help from his friends.
Genre/Style: Hip-Hop |
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Psychic Ills
Dins
Release Date: Mar 06
Label: Social Registry
CD: $13.98 Sale $10.98 |
Simply put, this record is fucking amazing. Sonic
noise, incendiary percussion and hypnotic rhythms morphing into waves of aural rapture. You must own this album and in turn, this album will own you.
Genre/Style: Rock / Experimental |
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Slackers
Peculiar
Release Date: Feb 06
Label: Hellcat
CD: $14.98 Sale $10.98 |
NY's Slackers have captured the power of live
performance in the studio. Recording the rhythm tracks while performing live in one of their favorite venues - Ernesto's in Sittard, Holland - The Slackers then overdubbed vocals, horns, and guest spots in the studio. Combining the clarity and balance of a studio record with the spirit and fever they've generated live onstage across the globe, "Peculiar" showcases a band at the height of their powers after nearly fifteen years of constant touring. With an amazing batch of new tracks, alongside the familiar social and political songs, The Slackers have made the album of their career; one that'll both satisfy and surprise their rabid fan base. For fans of Rancid and Flogging Molly, Gogol Bordello, The Skatalites, and The
Clash.
Genre/Style: Rock / Pop |
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Dudley Perkins
Expressions
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Drive By Truckers
Blessing and a Curse
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Elefant
Black Magic Snow
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Fiery Furnaces
Bitter Tea
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People Under The Stairs
Stepfather
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Spankrock
YoYoYoYoYo
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