Alternative

Artist: Fox Millions Duo Label: Thrill Jockey

Artist: Lola Ameche; Artist: Lola Dee Label: Jasmine Music

Artist: Sonny Knight & Lakers Label: Secret Stash

Artist: Strange Wilds Label: Sub Pop Records

Finally on vinyl (double LP, gatefold deluxe extended edition and with extensive liner notes by Kim Salmon) this master piece recorded back in 1996 and released only on CD in Australia. Kim Salmon and Jim Dickinson worked together and created this magnificent record which deserved strongly a vinyl plastic treatment. All the way from Melbourne, Australia to Memphis, USA. Kim Salmon, once again, exposed his versatility, creativity and imagination in this extensive and variable album which takes us from the blaxploitation pimp soundtrack as understood by Mr. Salmon, up to his ingenious focus on minimalist sounds. Kim Salmon, once again.... in this occasion with Jim Dickinson by his side. There is no need to mention anything else. Produced by Jim Dickinson Record Label: Bang! Records Style: Rock

It's not hard to see why this has been such an influential album. Part of the fabled Elephant 6 collective, Neutral Milk Hotel won over many a music critic with this cult classic. The band are recognized as one of the most influential alternative acts to come out of the mid-90s and sowed the seeds for everything from anti-folk to the likes of Arcade Fire, Caribou and even Franz Ferdinand. Record Label: Fire Records Style: Indie Rock

limited repress on clear vinyl - 180g - heavy jacket - downloadcode The long awaited reissue of the cult record "L'oceano delle onde che restano onde per sempre" from 2008. The eight piece group Neil On Impression from Italy presents a real masterpiece of instrumental music - fully-orchestrated movements combining harrowing Guitars, Drums, Voice, Percussion, Hands, Piano, Accordion, Glockenspiel, Keyboards, Bass, Acoustic Guitar, Saxophone, Trumpet, Organ, Effects, Cello and Violin. An intense resonance! Neil On Impression is an instrumental band from Forl, founded in 2002, blending dynamic explosive guitar and drum workouts with epic string arrangements and warm trumpets alongside piano to create a complex sound that is at times uplifting, melancholic and evocative. Neil On Impression played across Europe over the years and released three albums: For a new grammar of feelings (2004), The Perfect Tango (2006) and L'oceano delle onde che restano onde per sempre (2008). RIYL: Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Explosions in the Sky, God Is An Astronaut Record Label: Denovali Style: Post-Rock

Gogol Bordello's de_nitive and break-thru album!!! Limited Pressing - SideOneDummy 20 Year Anniversary Re-issue! 10 year anniversary for this album - originally released on August 9th 2005. This edition is limited to 3000 copies worldwide (1500 North America / 1500 Europe). Double LP pressed on Hot Pink Vinyl! Gatefold jacket is different than original pressing, the colors have been reversed! Record Label: Side One Dummy Style: Alternative Rock

Pioneering British space rock outfit Flying Saucer Attack have announced Instrumentals 2015, their first album in fifteen years. It'll be out July 17 via Drag City and Domino. It follows 2000's Mirror, and features fifteen instrumentals written solely by guitarist David Pearce. Record Label: Domino Records Style: Independent

Vinyl release of high sought after 'Ingladaloneness' EP from Dalis car featuring Peter Murphy (Bauhuas) and Mick Karn (Japan). Kscope re-release this highly sought after EP on 12" 180 Gram black vinyl, with original cover artwork and a printed inner sleeve bag. Dalis Car, formed in 1984 by Bauhaus' Peter Murphy (vocalist), Japan's Mick Karn (bassist, keyboardist, guitarist, saxophonist) and Paul Vincent Lawford (rhythm construction). Initially, they recorded one album, 'The Waking Hour' in 1984. In August 2010, Peter Murphy announced that he and Karn were planning on re-forming Dalis Car to record a second album, the project was cut short, as Karn had recently been diagnosed with cancer and passed away in the following January. The tracks they did record in that brief reunion included a re-working of 'Artemis' from 'The Waking Hour' with newly added vocals, guitar, and drums, and renamed 'Artemis Rise'; and were released in April 2012 as an EP entitled 'InGladAloneness'. The EP begins with the life-affirming 'King Cloud' and 'Sound Cloud' driven by Karn's dense and compelling bass and bassoon patterns and Murphy's singular voice, the songs contain lyrics that emotionally echo Murphy's response to Karn's condition and suggest musical directions the project might have pursued had it continued as a creative concern. Along with the inventively multi-layered re-imagining of 'Artemis', these pieces operate as the rhythmically propelled spiritual storm before the glacial calm of the two closing numbers. Record Label: K-Scope Style: Rock

Record Label: Trouble In Mind Style: Indie Rock

Pioneering British space rock outfit Flying Saucer Attack have announced Instrumentals 2015, their first album in fifteen years. It'll be out July 17 via Drag City and Domino. It follows 2000's Mirror, and features fifteen instrumentals written solely by guitarist David Pearce. Record Label: Domino Records Style: Independent

Four Swiss musicians, an 18 years old underground institution, found a fifth member - the singer who completed the brand-new Thrash monster EXPENZER. To describe their sound, imagine the brash „kick in the door“, feeling from Pantera's Cowboys from Hell - the drive, never lettig up, like The Haunted's“...made me do it“ and the class of acts like Testament or Exodus. Join this exciting ride on a Record Label: Czar Of Bullets Style: Trash Metal

Downloadcode / gatefold cover. As you are listen to “Confidence In The Future” today, it quickly becomes clear what kind of worlds must have collided here. A stunning amalgamation of aural treats, created by making subtle compromises between Pop, Jazz, Rock and Folk, that exists in every single track across-the-board. Due to its stylistic complexity “Confidence In The Future” is an album that is somehow never really able to settle on any one taste, inevitably opening up new dimensions to the listener. Imagine how this was in 1980. Especially in Berlin's commercial music scene. And especially when the involved musicians treated the project after its completion, more like a matter of personal importance than a career move. And for Hirsch, Spinning Motion's initiator, all of this seemed to be fulfilling enough. Prophetically the record is named after the most significant song of the eight-piece collection “Confidence In The Future”. 35 years on the title finds the verification it deserves. It unleashes its bottled power no sooner than the day, Jazzanova member and Notes On A Journey co-founder, Stefan Leisering finds the record in a crate at the flea market on the Strasse des 17. Juni. Like a bottle of Château Lafitte-Rothschild unearthed after 35 years, forgotten about in an abandoned cellar, do we get to experience the quiet composure and savage intensity of a treasure brought to light. It takes Leisering another ten years to comprehend what kind of music historical treasure has been hiding in his record collection. He acquired “Confidence In The Future” sometime in the early noughties and only by re-listening to this oddity one day in 2010 or 2011 did everything finally click into place. A lost gem of Berlin Pop history, one that could almost never have happened. Compositions so ahead of their time that you can only understand and classify them today properly. There's a sense of inadvertent (and therefore unaffected) ingeniousness in songs like “Devotion To You”, “Prisoner Of Life” and “Playground Of Burial-Funds” that you have to live in the 21st Century to appreciate fully. Each of the eight tracks (maybe apart from the instrumental closer “Elegy”) has some sort of melancholy, introverted reflectiveness, and yet still always something conciliatory. Manfred Tappert's voice lends his lyrics, written by him, but preconceived by Hirsch, something utterly personal, intimate even. Every single song, particularly within the framework of the oeuvre, tells a story, and due to this intimacy, and the adventurous arrangements touches you deeply. No matter the time or place. To add to all of this, this incomparable record has also an entirely different facet, which only becomes apparent with today's perspective. The title track, “Confidence In The Future”, and “Answer My Questions” remind one eerily of Kings Of Convenience, and the cosy “Naze” resembles Turin Brakes. So evidently that you'll find yourself, while listening, in a quaint retro-retro-loop, the musical equivalent of a time paradox. But this is exactly the beauty of music. Music doesn't abide by the rules of time and space as we do, and therefore each listen to each piece of music is unique and purely based on the context of the listening. And every once in a while times have to change just so music can find a new determination and new listeners. Confidence in the future ultimately means: Good music is patient, outlives everything and will sooner or much, much later find its destination. NOTES ON A JOURNEY is looking eagerly forward to finally celebrating the first proper release of Spinning Motion's “Confidence In The Future” Record Label: Notes On A Journey Style: Jazz/World

Artist: Sonic Youth Label: Goofin' Records

Artist: STONE TEMPLE PILOTS Label: Music On Vinyl

Artist: Mac Demarco Label: Captured Tracks

Artist: Mac Demarco Label: Captured Tracks

Artist: Yuth Label: Prosthetic Records