Rock And Pop

Artist EFRIM MANUEL MENUCK (Godspeed/Silver Mt. Zion)
Title High Gospel
Label Constellation
The droning, mangled electric guitar beds that underpin group-vocal melodies and divebombing electronics on the album’s opening track, and the hauntingly processed field recordings and ominous tape-delayed sound-sculpture of "a 12-pt. program for keep on keeping on", establish Menuck’s inimitable sonic palette in uncompromising and inspired style. "12-pt. program" ends in a glorious squall of soaring tones and distorted breakcore beats that yield to the ensuing song’s intimate yet wide-screen suite for electric guitar and violin (courtesy Silver Mt. Zion bandmate and partner Jessica Moss). "heavy calls & hospitals blues" closes Side 1 with a simple piano-based ballad that harkens back to Efrim’s vocal debut on the first Silver Mt. Zion album in 1999.

[NB vinyl is 180g & CD is included]

Artist Efterklang
Title Parades and Under Giant Trees (2CD)
Label Leaf
Deluxe 2CD package of the orignal album along with the long unavailable ’Under Giant Trees’ EP, plus rare live tracks! Oh and a 16 page booklet too.

Artist Efterklang
Title Piramida
Label 4AD

4 stars out of 5 -- "[U]nderneath the surface gloss -- partly created by Casper Clauser’s immaculately poised vocals -- PIRAMIDA hides intriguing depths, mapping out treacherous ground of memory and loss." Mojo

Artist Efterklang
Title Tripper / Springer
Label Leaf
2CD version of the original album plus their debut EP, plus some live tracks.

Artist Egg
Title The Civil Surface
Label Esoteric

Artist 18 Visions
Title Eighteen Visions
Label Trustkill

Artist Eitha Tal Ffranco
Title Os Ti'n Ffosil
Label Klep Dim Trep

Artist Mark Eitzel
Title Klamath
Label Decor
’Klamath’ is Mark Eitzel’s first proper solo album of new original material sine 2001. Eitzel producing with Franz Nicolay from the Hold Steady and Marc Capelle from American Music Club and Dave Douglas (who drums with Kelley Stoltz) questing on the album.

Artist Electrelane
Title Axes
Label Too Pure
Steve Albini recorded album with new bassist Ros Murray...recorded form beginning to end with the whole band in one room... This unorthodox approach to recording lends a sense of urgency and great momentum to the album and as a result the finish is far from polished but sublime all the same.

1. One, Two, Three, Lots
2. Bells
3. Two For Joy
4. If Not Now, When?
5. Eight Steps
6. Gone Darker
7. Atom’s Tomb
8. Business Or Otherwise
9. Those Pockets Are People
10. The Partisan
11. I Keep Losing Heart
12. Come Back
13. Suitcase

Artist Electric Light Orchestra (ELO)
Title Balance Of Power (2007 Remaster)
Label Epic

Artist Electric Six
Title Switzerland
Label Metropolis

Artist Electric Soft Parade
Title No Need to be Downhearted
Label TRUCK

Artist Electric Wizard
Title Black Masses
Label Rise Above

Artist Electric Wizard
Title Dopethrone
Label Rise Above

Artist The Elephants
Title Take It
Label Tapete
"Take It" is the second album by denmark’s pop band The Elephants. Uplifting and sunny tunes for the late summer.

Artist Eli 'Paperboy' Reed
Title Come And Get It
Label Parlophone
There are singers who sing and there are singers whose sheer power of expression can knock you off your feet. Eli ’Paperboy’ Reed falls firmly into the latter category.

Artist Ellen And The Escapades
Title All the Crooked Scenes
Label Branch Out Records
CD and Ltd edition gatefold album. Fans include Lauren Laverne and Steve Lamacq, and the band were recently playlisted for ten weeks on Amazing Radio.

Artist EMA
Title Past life martyred
Label Souterrain Transmissions

Artist Emeli Sande
Title Our Version Of Events
Label Relentless

Artist Emily White
Title Victorian America
Label Talitres
Enormously urgent remastered, repackaged repress/reissue for this much buzzed about record that tragically went out of print just as demand was erupting. Includes lyrics & a bonus track. Armed with little more than an acoustic guitar and her fragile alto, San  Francisco folk singer/songwriter Emily Jane White offers complex tales  of melancholy and isolation. While comparisons to contemporaries like  Cat Power and Hope Sandoval are frequent, Emily’s music owes a clear  debt to classic female jazz and blues singers such a Billie Holiday. The lead track "Bessie Smith" from her debut Dark Undercoat is an homage to the influential legend

Artist Emmy The Great
Title First Love
Label Close Harbour

The much anticipated debut album from Emmy the Great follows on from her fantastic in store in this very shop.

Artist EMMY THE GREAT & TIM WHEELER
Title This Is Christmas
Label Infectious

 ‘This Is Christmas’ is a much-needed departure from the usual sentimental warblings that clutter up the charts this time of year.  The perfect alternative Christmas gift along with the She & Him album of course.

Artist EMPEROR
Title ANTHEMS TO THE WELKIN (bonus tracks)
Label CANDLELIGHT

Artist EMPEROR
Title WRATH OF THE TYRANT
Label CANDLELIGHT

Artist Empire Of The Sun
Title Walking on a Dream
Label Virgin
Here it is, one of the most written about ’ones to watch’ for 2009. The ’block-buster film’ style in the cover art really does suit the build up that the press have given this release .. it’s almost like it was planned this way.