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	Boston Spaceships Our Cubehouse Still Rocks (GBV inc)
	Following three full-length BOSTON SPACESHIPS records in only two years, Our Cubehouse Still Rocks is a breakthrough fourth album from the band featuring ROBERT POLLARD (GUIDED BY VOICES), CHRIS SLUSARENKO (GUIDED BY VOICES) and JOHN MOEN (DECEMBERISTS). The collaboration began as a long-distance recording project, but brilliantly hits its stride on this album as an unshakable, actualized band. For a group that took their name from the over-the-top UFO illustrations on record covers from '70s arena rockers Boston, there's no denying a classic-rock flag flying high overhead. Just below, however, is the bustling churn of art-damaged new wave, echoes of Devo, mid-period Wire and the sour songcraft of the Rough Trade stable. Easily the best collection of songs from the Spaceships, the record is brimming with hooks and Pollard's incredible gift for melodies so catchy they shine through even the weirdest musical surroundings.


	Boxer Rebellion Union (Boxer Rebellion)
	From the tribal-drum explosion of album opener “Flashing Red Light Means Go,” through the wintry atmospherics of enigmatic “The Gospel Of Goro Adachi” to live favorites “Evacuate” and “Semi-Automatic,” Union is an album that transcends convention in a seismic blast of unfettered invention.


	Cage, John Fontana Mix (EI Records)
	This edition of historic John Cage recordings features his first bona fide electronic piece, “Williams Mix,” consisting of a series of collages made up of over 600 tapes and assembled through I Ching principles and his own thrilling realization of the tape collage that is Fontana Mix.


	Candy Claws Hidden Lands (Twosyllable)
	Received a 7.9 rating from Pitchfork. RYAN HOVER and KAY BERTHOLF, composers, arrangers, and principle songwriters of CANDY CLAWS, wrote Hidden Lands on keyboard because they don't know how to play keyboard. They had to rely completely on what sounded right, rather than rely on techniques they had learned. Strange chords and melodies arose that might sound "wrong" to the trained musician, but sound mysterious and exciting to them. Each song on Hidden Lands contains a sample of every other song on the album. They'd used this technique on previous releases, but this time around it happens throughout the whole album, creating a very cohesive listening experience. Hidden Lands, their second album and first on Twosyllable records, is a musical companion to Richard M. Ketchum's book, The Secret Life of the Forest. To derive lyrics, the band borrowed paragraphs from the book and used translation software to translate them back and forth between English and Japanese until they equalized, finding very cool phrases along the way. The resulting lyrics are almost nothing like the original words, but are actually some very insightful and poetic phrases. On the road, Candy Claws are an orchestra of eight. Friends and musicians from the Fort Collins, Colorado area bring to life the sounds of Hidden Lands. It is completely unique and wonderful record. There may be nothing in the world like it.


	Chief Modern Rituals (Domino)
	In 2008 the members of Chief finished school, left New York City and returned home to the west coast with their suitcases stuffed full of soaring melodies, shimmering guitars, lovelorn lyrics and heart-stopping harmonies. Their debut album, Modern Rituals, is as rich and expansive as it is personal and intricate. This is a record so teeming with joyful desperation that you want to hold onto it with all your might. Modern Rituals is not only a radiant, cohesive and effortlessly captivating introduction to a formidable new band, it's a contender for most contagious album of the year.


	Clientele Minotaur (Merge)
	30-minute mini album featuring eight new tracks.


	Colour Revolt Cradle (Dualtone)
	The Oxford, MS, band dubbed a "Band To Watch" by Stereogum and the "best edge-of-your-seat energy since The Arcade Fire" by Paste -- have crafted their strongest statement to date with The Cradle, a 10-song album that focuses the band's wild-eyed, textured, standing at the edge of the world rock.


	Cotton Jones Tall Hours In The Glowstream (Suicide Squeeze)
	While Paranoid Cocoon found Cotton Jones lending itself to the occasional lengthy jam, Tall Hours In The Glowstream finds the band reigning in the songs, for a more succinct pop feel. The resulting sounds are rich and charmingly lo-fi, full of vivid imagery and gorgeous vocal harmonies.


	Cut Chemist Sound of the Police (A Stable Sound)
	For a man who's used to rocking eight turntables, you'd think cutting back to one might simplify things for Cut Chemist. Following his collaboration with DJ Shadow, where the DJ/producers played with four turntables apiece, the L.A. artist uses just one on his new live mix album, 'Sound of the Police.' But Cut Chemist, aka Lucas McFadden, reveals that less really did turn out to mean more. 'A Live One Turntable Mix of African and South American inspired Music'.


	Dandy Warhols The Capitol Years 1995-2007 (Capitol)
	Collects the best of the Dandy’s tenure on Capitol, plus a brand new track, “This Is The Tide.”


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