Date: November 18th 2009

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KATSEN-It Hertz CD (Shelflife-$12.99)
For fans of: Section 25, Ladytron, Mint Royal, My Favorite, Annie, Compute. Katsen are the electronic pop duo from Brighton, England consisting of Donna Grimaldi and Chris Blackburn. Donna and Chris met back in 2001 at a craft fair, when Donna’s brilliant mixtapes, with their bold collage covers, caught Chris’ attention and fired his imagination. For the first time, after playing two-fingered synth in various bands, he’d met someone with the tastes and talents to compliment his own. Together with a collection of toy Casios and old monophonic synths (some held together by gaffer tape), they began crafting what would become their 12 track debut album “It Hertz!”
“We’d get together to listen to records and after exhausting Donna’s extensive and very cool collection, we’d get out my synths and toy keyboards and create our own sound long into the happy night.” Interrupted only by Donna running away one summer to join the circus (true story), and Chris teaching acting to ballet dancers, Katsen songs continued to form, taking cues from 50s chic, 70s krautrock and the sharper edges of 80s synthpop. Following on from cameo appearances in compilations such as “Bot POP” (Happy Robots) and “Electronically Yours Vol.1” (Undo/ EMI), “It Hertz!” is the full length offspring of Katsen’s eight-year partnership; the love of the square wave and all things Casio. Stand out tracks include the pop hit “Where Nobody Can Find Us,” “Chequered Flag,” “Let’s Build A City,” and “Constellation”. The album also includes covers of The Passions and Black Box Recorder.

THE LUCY SHOW-Undone CD (Words-on-Musuc-$11.99)
Signposts: The Cure, Jesus & March Chain, The Beatles. Nearly 25 years since its release, ...undone, the 1985 debut by the London quartet The Lucy Show, remains an essential work in the British post-punk oeuvre. Produced by Steve Lovell (Blur, James) and Steve Power (Robbie Williams, Blur), ...undone injects howling guitars and psychedelic flourishes into bittersweet pop songs with hook-laden choruses.
Available now for the first time on CD, when ...undone was originally released, The Lucy Show was filling to capacity London venues like the Marquee Club and the Lyceum Ballroom. Across the Atlantic, the record landed at #1 on the U.S. college radio charts, with a tour across America soon to follow.
Throughout ...undone guitars ring and beautiful chaos takes root, with songs alternately injecting hints of Beatles imagery both melodic ("Come Back to the Living," "Remain") and experimental ("Undone," "Dream Days") onto post-punk soundscapes.
But the importance of ...undone extends well beyond its post-punk canvas, which, on songs like "Dream Days," conjures up Psychocandy with both noise and melody to spare. As Big Takeover Editor Jack Rabid writes, ...undone is a "Touchstone bridging the early Magazine/Bunnymen/Sound/Comsat Angels U.K. post-punk pinnacle and the House of Love and Stones Roses emergence, sparking the shoegaze-dreampop explosion."


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THE MAYFAIR SET - Young One CD (Captured Tracks / Woodsist - $12.99)
Brand new CD version of the great Mayfair Set EP and 7" combined to make a nice long EP or short LP styled CD. Dum Dum Girls and Blank Dogs together.

TUNE-YARDS - Bird Brains CD (4AD-$11.99)
BiRd-BrAiNs is the debut record from tUnE-yArDs, the singular musical project of New England native Merrill Garbus. Recording herself using a digital voice recorder and produced using shareware mixing software, Garbus was described by Stereogum as “a self-contained Sublime Frequencies compilation, jumping between blues, African tunes, shiny reggae-esque sprawls, and lo-fi folk”, infusing the worldly sonic palette of M.I.A. or post-punk pioneers The Raincoats. Merrill comments on BiRd-BrAiNs: “It is a patchwork of sound snippets, of history in a present tense. It is a composer’s commitment to the preservation of stories, however small and unassuming.”


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TUNE-YARDS - Bird Brains LP (Marriage-$15.99)

AFTERNOON NAPS-Parade LP (Happy Happy Birthday To Me-$14.99)
With nothing more than just 3 minutes, and a "verse-chorus-versechorus-end!" motto, Afternoon Naps are a vibrant indiepop band from Cleveland, Ohio. Like Brian Wilson if re-imagined by Felt or the Primitives, these teenage symphonies are relics from the past; brought back to save the 21st century from complete and utter pop boredom. Influenced by the C86 scene, 60's bubblegum, and sunshine pop act Yellow Balloon, songwriter/guitarist Tom Dechristofaro and keyboardist/arranger Leia Hohenfeld have been happily playing together since 2006. Having no expectations and "Walk away Renee" constantly spinning on the stereo, the duo recruited some close friends to help bring the band to life. A consistently enthusiastic live show that's the equivalent of a 20 minute sugar rush, has helped establish them as one of indiepop's brightest young acts. Their 2007 debut "Sunbeamed", a loving homage to sand and summer, was self-released and modestly well received. The 8 songs clocking in at jus
t a hair under 22 minutes doesn't mean they're short on ideas, just really good at editing! Many swell things have been said about "Sunbeamed"..."It may very well be my favorite album of 2007"(fab UK blog Indie-Mp3) and "the best American group that doesn't use distortion" (some random guy in Sweden...ha!). A quick selling Cloudberry Records single was to follow, along with some nicely played shows at notable festivals like Athens Popfest, NYC Popfest, and the first ever of the popular UK night "Twee as Fuck" to be held in the united states. Now singing their hearts out to wider audiences, Afternoon Naps signed onto Happy Happy Birthday to Me Records, the cozy Athens, GA label, to release their next batch of fun. "Parade", a new record that's full of ever present now-ness, day-glo reverb, and energetic hooks for kids, and also adult kids, is due just in time for the summer of 2009. Highlights include the "all-things-Cleveland-by-way-of-Morrissey" bombast of "Plum City Fight Song", the Orange Juice future-disco of "Mitten Fingers", and "The Day We Started" featuring Leia's mix of Motown's heartbroken soul and a flirtatious Amelia Fletcher. Do you wanna smile? Sulk over lost love? Cringe at pictures of yourself from school years past when you wore that ONE sweater and the boy in front of you never spoke a word? Well they can't help you there, but one listen to these sparkling tunes and you just might cheer up and be ready to take on the impending dullness that is the near future! Afternoon Naps are a band to listen to if you are doing some or all of the following things: petting animals, hammocking, beach combing, dancing, looking out a window. -*Yodar Critch*,2009

THE BITTERS - "East" b/w "Foreign Knives" 7" (Captured Tracks-$6.99)
The Bitters is Ben a.k.a. Young Guv from Fucked Up and Erin. These two tracks are less obvious than the four song 12" from this past summer but no less great.

BUNNYGRUNT-Matt Harnish & Other Delights LP (Happy Happy Birthday To Me-$14.99)
Bursting into existence during the brief-lived Great Indie Pop Scare of the mid-1990's, Bunnygrunt garnered an unlikely amount of success for a band that never managed to plan any further ahead than their next tour. Over their initial five year run, the St Louis band toured the entire USA a half-dozen times, released two great albums, a million singles & compilation tracks, and then blew out in a blaze of glory with a whirlwind tour of Japan. After pursuing other interests for a few years, main Grunt-ers Karen Ried & Matt Harnish decided to dust off the Bunnygrunt brand name for another go around. An appearance at the Athens Popfest cemented their return to activity, but also marked a broadening in their sound. While the jangling guitars and harmony-filled choruses of 90's indie pop remain, Bunnygrunt's solid Midwestern Classic Rock upbringing is equally represented, as is their love of 70's Power Pop & 60's Nuggets fuzz. This isn't music for blogs, this is shout along live,
loud, in the joyful moment Rock-n-Roll.

CAMERA OBSCURA-The Blizzard 7" (4AD-$4.99)
In the spirit of the rapidly approaching holiday season Camera Obscura are back with a great new Holiday single. The A-Side is a fantastic rendition of the Harlan Howard song "The Blizzard" and it is backed with the Sleigh bell-riffic "Swans" from "My Maudlin Career." This is a limited edition single.

CHRISTMAS ISLAND - "Nineteen" b/w "Twenty-Nine" 7" (Captured Tracks-$6.99)
San Diego's Christmas Island have just released an excellent debut LP on In The Red that reminds me a lot of Beat Happening in the best possible way. This single is two more great songs along those lines. Great picture sleeve too.

SPECTRALS - "Leave Me Be" b/w "Suit Yourself" 7" (Captured Tracks-$6.99)
A young British man named L. single handedly produced this dreamy, Sonic Flower Groovy fuzz-pop stomper, although it sounds like it could have been recorded at Gold Star in 1965 for release on Creation in 1985. Two tracks, one million hooks.

TUNE-YARDS-Hatari 7" (4AD-$4.99)
"Hatari" from the "BiRd-BrAiNs" full length and the Non album "Hap-B" along with a cool remix of "Hatari". Limited edition.


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