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Brian Jonestown Massacre Aufheben (A Records)
2012 album brings the traditional Brian Jonestown Massacre sound mixed with eastern influences and brings it up to date with the benefit of additional weirdness.

Calexico Flor De Muertos (MVD)
Flor De Muertos is a meditative and celebratory journey into the rich borderlands culture between Tucson, Arizona and the towns of Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Mexico. Director and Tucson native Danny Vinik evokes the power and beauty of the Sonoran Desert and its people in this poetic exploration of life and death along the US/Mexico border. Part documentary and part concert film, Flor De Muertos features a stunning performance by Calexico at Tucson's historic Rialto Theatre. 87 minutes.

Colorstore Afire ((local))
Locals Colorstore return with a new full-length in 2012! "However Colorstore applies themselves to music, they come out on top—perhaps because they have assembled some of the greatest local talents in this endeavor, but maybe because they had a clear vision of the territory they wanted to confirm in this albums journey. This music will dilate your pupils and send you stunningly into a new light of understanding."--Java

Earle, Justin Townes Nothing’s Gonna Change The Way You Feel About Me N (Bloodshot)
Of the new record, Earle comments, “I think that it s the job of the artist to be in transition and constantly learn more. The new record is completely different than Harlem River Blues. This time I've gone in a Memphis-soul direction.”

Father John Misty Fear Fun (Sub Pop)
Nom-de-plume of Josh Tillman, who's been recording and releasing solo albums under his own name since '03. Fear Fun consists of such disparate elements as Waylon Jennings, Harry Nilsson, Arthur Russell, All Things Must Pass, and Physical Graffiti, often within the same song. Tillman's voice recalls Roy Orbison at his most joyous, while the music maintains a dark, mysterious yet playful quality.

Funkees Dancing Time: The Best Of Eastern Nigeria's Afro R (Soundway)
For the 5-year period this compilation spans, The Funkees' output crackled with dancefloor fire. Having featured on three of Soundway's most popular titles, across the definitive Nigeria Special compilation series, Soundway felt The Funkees' output deserved closer inspection. Presented here are 18 slices of funky Afro-rock grooves, hand-picked by Soundway's MILES CLERET from a selection of the band's 45s and two full-lengths. In the early 1970s, The Funkees were the #1 east Nigerian band and the only outfit to seriously challenge the popular Lagos-based rock combos MonoMono and BLO. It wasn't long before promoters in the UK came calling and The Funkees packed up their instruments and moved to London, where they quickly established a fierce reputation on the live circuit. Here, they recorded two seminal albums before finally breaking up in 1977 amidst some controversy. This collection features for the first time all of their Nigerian 45s alongside the best of their UK album material and is accompanied by a full interview with original member SONNY AKPAN, who still lives in the capital.

Great Lake Swimmers New Wild Everywhere (Nettwerk)
Their fifth album in just under a decade, this new collection of 12 tracks reveals a depth and maturity previously only hinted at by lead singer and songwriter Tony Dekker. Available in Regular and Deluxe editions. Deluxe contains an additional disc with seven bonus tracks.

Heartless Bastards Arrow (Partisan)
On Arrow, the eccentric, hypnotic nature of songwriter Erika Wennerstrom's voice is captured by producer Jim Eno (Spoon) who helps blend the bands driving, straight-forward rock & roll into a unique sound. Vinyl version includes download featuring two exclusive bonus tracks.

Heavy Blanket Self Titled (Outer Battery)
J Mascis rounds up a couple partners-in-crime from his adolescence with an eye – and ear – towards shredding harder, wailing louder, and generally melting faces even more brutally than ever before. Stoner dirtbags cloaked in mystery, j's longtime buddies Pete Cougar and Johnny Pancake lay down the heavy rhythm base for j's massive licks and blistering guitar mastery. Ever wondered what Band of Gypsies would sound like if you mixed it up with Japanese hard psych and smoked it through a giant power bong? Well, now you know. Don't say we didn't warn you.

Here We Go Magic A Different Ship (Secretly Canadian)
Recorded & produced by Nigel Godrich (Rodiohead, Beck), the ten songs of A Different Ship carry a consistent thematic concern -- what the band describes as an “unresolved tension between valuing being alone and valuing being connected.” Says Temple: “The music is beautiful, but feels like it’s brittle and about to crack. It’s always suspended in between major and minor, happy and sad, trying to find that middle ambiguous place.”

Lower Dens Nootropics (Ribbon)
Lower Dens' 2010 debut LP Twin-Hand Movement was a largely overlooked moment of understated brilliance. Native Texan turned Baltimore transplant Jana Hunter had been quietly toiling in the throes of experimental indie rock for years before forming an official band around her uneasily atmospheric solo songs, and though there was no dramatic shift in style or tone, something crystallized under the Lower Dens namesake that hadn't been there before. Finding a foggy middle ground between Motorik-Krautrock rhythms and the most dimly lit corners of shoegaze, Twin-Hand Movement built an atmosphere that was instantly transfixing though deceptively simple. Following a series of singles and a few other scattered appearances, the band returns with sophomore effort Nootropics, expanding their sound only slightly with more electronic elements. While less guitar-centric, the same narcotic feel of the first album carries through here, a patient continuation of the languid summer night soundscape that Twin-Hand Movement set up so well.

Moss Icon Complete Discography (Temporary Residence)
In the mid-late 1980s, Moss Icon pioneered a progressive, highly emotive sound that stood in stark contrast to just about everything even remotely considered punk-rock at the time. In retrospect, they more resembled an inspired marriage of the bleak post-punk leanings of Joy Division with the raucous riffage of the Wipers, albeit considerably less accessible thanks to Moss Icon's more sinister tone, exploratory arrangements, and frontman Jonathan Vance's almost stream-of-conscious sociopolitical rampages. In the decades since Moss Icon's disbandment, bootlegged t-shirts and patches have been easier to come by than actual recordings, and the Internet is filled with misconceptions and misinformation, incidentally lending an enigmatic, almost mythical status to the band. Rather than attempt to pull back the curtain, this collection – compiling the group's entire official catalog – serves to permanently document the very important contributions of one very important group from a very formative era of underground music

Off Self-Titled (Vice)
If 2012 really is the end, the members of OFF! are determined to go out kicking and/or screaming -- preferably both. As such, they've written their first "proper" full-length. It was written and recorded at lightning speed, the only speed at which OFF! know how to operate.

Santigold Master Of My Make-Believe (Atlantic)
Through chopped pianos, the clink of glass bottles, and the peaking blast of motorcycle engines, Master of My Make-Believe accounts for 21st century details of life from the heart's center to the mind's periphery. Available on CD and on gold vinyl.

Van Etten, Sharon Tramp (Jagjaguwar)
A startling collection, filled with as much defiant rock as pious, minimal beauty. There are declarative hymns, and remarkably sultry numbers. Guest appearances from Jenn Wasner (Wye Oak), Julianna Barwick, and Zach Condon (Beirut).

Watson, Patrick Adventures In Your Own Backyard (Domino)
“Every Watson song is full of melodies that unfold beautifully. Listen to the piano; for me, it's the phrasing that does it. That slight hesitation between the notes slays me. He does the same thing with his sweet, high voice, always playing with timing and phrasing and dynamics -- and always serving the song and the lyric.” -- NPR

White, Jack Blunderbuss (Third Man)
Produced by Jack White and recorded at his own Third Man Studio in Nashville, Blunderbuss has been described by White as "an album I couldn't have released until now. I've put off making records under my own name for a long time but these songs feel like they could only be presented under my name. These songs were written from scratch, had nothing to do with anyone or anything else but my own expression, my own colors on my own canvas."



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