Rock And Pop

Artist Antlers
Title Burst Apart
Label Transgressive

Artist Antony & The Johnsons
Title Cut The World
Label Rough Trade

Cut the World features 11 symphonic versions of songs from Antony and the Johnsons four previous full-lengths, recorded in Denmark with the Danish National Chamber Orchestra and arrangements by Antony, composer Nico Muhly, Rob Moose, and Maxim Moston. The album was comprised of performances taken from two nights at the DK Concert Hall in Copenhagen. The album’s opener is the only new song in the batch. It was written by Antony Hegarty as part of the score for the stage production of The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic, directed by Robert Wilson. Hegarty also acts in the play.

[2x180gLP includes CD]

Artist Antony and Johnsons
Title Swanlights
Label Rough Trade

Artist Antony and the Johnsons
Title The Crying Light
Label Rough Trade

Artist Antony and the Johnsons
Title I am a Bird Now
Label Secretly Canadian

Artist Anywhere
Title Anywhere
Label ATP recordings
Ace new project signed to ATP featuring Cedric Bixler Zavala (Mars Volta, At The Drive-in), Mike Watt (The Stooges, Minutemen), Christian Eric Beaulieu (Triclops!) and Rachel Fannan (Sleepy Sun)!!        
The music captured on this material is an ethereal, resonant execution of what could be described as eastern acoustic punk. Likened to the voyeurism of Sandy Bull, Sir Richard Bishop, or Jack Rose style raga’s reinterpreted at times with Drive Like Jehu, Minutemen punk velocity, other moments emotionally spiraling toward a haunting, ethereal beauty akin to Vashti Bunyan lost in the desert of a desolate western.

180g LP version includes MP3

Artist Apse
Title Spirit
Label ATP
U.S post rock on ATP label. This is dead lush and at times rather terrifying.

Artist Arab Strap
Title Philophobia (Deluxe 2CD)
Label Chemikal Underground
2CD reissue includes original album / Peel session / Live at T in the Park 1998

Artist Arab Strap
Title Ten Years Of Tears
Label Chemikal Underground
This collection of Demos, b-sides, remixes, new recordings, live tracks and (mighty) Peel sessions marks the unfortunate end of Arab Strap’s 10 year career.  Ok, so both Malcolm Middleton and Mr. Moffat are still making music outside of the Strap but we wont forget their legacy.  Never. 

Artist Arab Strap
Title The Week Never Starts Here (2CD)
Label Chemikal Underground
2CD set includes Original Album / Peel Session / Live at King Tut’s 1996

Artist Arab Strap
Title The Last Romance
Label Chemical Underground

Artist Arbouretum
Title Coming Out Of The Fog
Label Thrill Jockey

Artist Arcade Fire
Title Funeral
Label Rough Trade

Artist Arcade Fire
Title Neon Bible
Label Mercury
The follow up to Funeral.  The addition of a full Hungarian orchestra and a military choir adds further to the multi-layered scope of their sound.

VINYL NOW OUT: Double gatefold LP.

Artist Archie Bronson Outfit
Title Der Dang Der Dang
Label Domino

Artist ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI
Title Moment Bends
Label V2
You may not have expected it, but the first great modernist pop album of 2011 is here… Four years on from their last album, ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI return with the hook-laden, magnetic and lush “Moment Bends”. It sounds like the album they’ve waited their whole lives to make, retaining the fizzing immediacy of its three predecessors and re-moulding with a more sophisticated touch.

LP is a gate fold edition.

Artist Arctic Monkeys
Title Humbug
Label Domino

Artist Arctic Monkeys
Title Suck It And See
Label Domino

Recorded during the latter half of 2010 and early months of 2011, Suck It and See finds the Arctic Monkeys partnering with James Ford for a third time. The album features a more accessible sound than its predecessor, Humbug, and shines a new light on the band’s pop influences.

[LP = 180g+MP3s]

Artist Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
Title Mature Themes
Label 4AD
Following up on the wildly successful Before Today, Ariel Pink delves back into the well of retro-leaning lo-fi pop on Mature Themes, the third album from the singer’s Haunted Graffiti project. Electro-funk revivalist Dam-Funk drops in on a cover of the obscure mixtape darling "Baby" by Donnie and Joe Emerson, delivering a faithful rendition of the drifting, lost blue-eyed soul gem. If that weren’t reassuring enough, pre-release single "Only in My Dreams" shows that Pink and company are still pop purists lovingly exploring the sounds of the past to create the weirdness of the future.

[LP includes CD]

Artist ART BRUT
Title Brilliant! Tragic!
Label cooking vinyl
This is the band’s second album to be produced by Pixies front man Frank Black. ’Brilliant Tragic’ is also the only Art Brut album to feature vocals from any of the band members apart from Eddie Argos, with bassist Freddy Feedback contributing backing vocals for the first time.

Artist Asia
Title Omega
Label Frontiers

Artist At The Drive In
Title Acrobatic Tenement
Label V2

Artist At The Drive In
Title Relationship Of Command
Label Transgressive
2013 reissue.

Artist ATLAS SOUNDS
Title Parallax
Label 4AD
3rd album from Deerhunter mastermind Bradford Cox.  This is perhaps his best work to date, juxtaposing his modern, sometimes avant songwriting sensibilities against a backdrop of ambient loneliness and a quiet feeling of desperation.

Artist Atoms For Peace (Thom Yorke)
Title Amok
Label XL

• Ltd CD version comes with fold out packaging
• Standard 2LP

The group – comprised of Yorke and Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea, all-star session drummer Joey Waronker, and Brazilian percussionist Mauro Refosco — recorded the album following their tour in 2010.

Speaking about the project during a recent interview with BBC Radio 1, Yorke said the group was initially formed to tour behind his solo LP Eraser, “but it sparked something off. So we ended up at the end of that getting into the studio and generating some new beats.”

Artist Atoms For Peace (Thom Yorke)
Title Default
Label XL