Slipstream – Mantra CD $16.25
Nobunny – Love Visions CD $11.50
Various – Fading Yellow Vol. 8 CD $15.00
Various – Fading Yellow Vol. 9 CD $15.00
Shindig! – Shingdig! Annual Number One BOOK $18.75
Loop – Heaven’s End [expanded re-issue] DCD $18.00
Twilight Sad - Here, It Never Snowed, Afterwards… CD5 $9.00
Neil Young - Sugar Mountain...Canterbury... 1968 CD+DVD $20.50

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The Soundtrack of Our Lives - Communion
(Akashic-WMS) DCD $27.50
Listen: Universal Stalker • Ra88 • Saturation Wanderers
Restocking... A Triumphant Return To Form! You give TSOOL an inch, they'll make a mile, and here they've been allowed three years to conjure a double-album of sprawling rock tracks, with their trademark retro-rock magnificence and epic psychedelic anachronisms in full effect. These are the kind of songs that made them icons in the first place in our book. Been a long time...glad to have you back. [more detail]

FM3 - Buddha Machine 2 (FM3) CD $23.00
Brown: / Gray: / Maroon:
Listen: Loop 01: Mao • Loop 02: Piano
The plastic box chockfulla meditative drones that fits in your shirt pocket is back, welcome version 2.0 of this cute/cool little Eno-endorsed ambient music generator! Now with nine new drones, improved sound quality, and a hands-on pitch-bend control dial, "like a whammy bar for your buddha box", it lets you noodle around with your choice of expanded ambient pallettes. Comes in three new colors and a sturdier housing. Turn on, bliss-out, and drone away. [more detail]

Stone Breath – Knotwork CD $12.50
Pelle Carlberg – The Lilac Time CD $17.50
The Black Watch – After the Gold Room CD5 $2.25
Japanther – Tut Tut, Now Shake Your Butt CD $11.75
Feist – The Reminder [expanded re-issue] DCD $19.00
R.E.M. – Murmur [expanded 2008 re-issue] DCD $28.00
Los Campesinos! – We’re Beautiful, We’re... CD+DVD $15.25
David Byrne & Brian Eno – Everything That Happens… CD $15.00

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Swervedriver - Ejector Seat Reserveation [expanded re-issue]
(Sony/Creation) CD $16.75
Listen: The Other Jesus • Last Day On Earth
The overtly pop, fuzz-rock pinnacle (that was never released Stateside) from dread-locked British dervishes who took calm, cool, collected shoegaze to its illogical, visceral, monumental conclusion. Now available in a handsome digi-package, bolstered with bonus tracks, augmented liner notes. This comes in on import, but we’re really looking forward to the Hi-Speed Soul label’s similarly expanded U.S. re-issues of Raise and Mezcal Head in early 2009, maybe the best one-two punch in indie-guitar-rock ever. [more detail]

José González - Live At Park Ave: 01 March 2008
(Mute) MCD $11.00 Listen: The Nest
New this week: Limited edition, live mini-album (9 tracks, 30 minutes) from our fave Swedish-Argentine troubadour, recorded at Park Avenue CDs last March. José and his trusty guitar and a roomful of enthralled fans. You can hear his foot tapping, keeping time. If you haven't seen him live, a intimate and spellbinding set I can assure you, then this might tide you over. [more detail]

Headlights - Remixes (Polyvinyl) CD $12.50
Listen: Cherry Tulips (TJ Lipple remix)
New this week: Nifty new remix album from local/global indie-pop sensations Headlights, an intriguing reconnaissance of 13 of the band's songs, sweetly and expertly remixed by folks like The Album Leaf, Aloha's TJ Lipple, Spinnerty and Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, among others. Artwork honors the band's longtime and legendary farmhouse home, which they moved out of this past Summer. Limited, hand-numbered to 1000! [more detail]

Dim Dim – Whip CD $13.25
Legends – Seconds Away CD5 $5.25
Of Montreal – Jimmy 45+DVD $16.25
Deerhunter – Microcastle LP+CD $11.50
Lorna – Writing Down Things To Say CD $11.00
Activities of Dust – New Mind CD+DVD $13.50
Apples In Stereo – Stephen, Stephen 45+DVD $16.25
Belle & Sebastian – BBC Sessions [deluxe] DCD $15.50
Isobell Campbell+Mark Lanegan – Sunday at Devil... CD $15.25

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Friska Viljor - Tour de Hearts (Crying Bob) CD $15.00
Listen: Old Man • Oh No
Second album from Swedish duo-turned-sextet. Manic, soulful pop that comes across immediately lovable and loveably immediate, with loads of jangling guitars, sweet harmonies and a seriously tricked-out bells-n-brass section. Think Broder Daniel meets Shout Out Louds meets Bergman Rock (bob hund) and/or Beirut, Elephant 6 phenoms, Devotchka, Bright Eyes... [more detail]

Mellow - Perfect Colors (Atmospheriques) CD $26.00
Listen: Perfect Colors • Fantastic
Not new, but long overdue, an outright neo-psychedelic masterpiece from French electro-pop-alchemists Mellow, released in 2004, only as an import. Fans of fellow Franco-poppers like Air, Daft Punk and even Phoenix will cozy-up, but there’s more to Mellow’s dream-pysch opuses. Like plush, proggy baroque-pop complexities that recall Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd, along with the nodding, narcoticized ruminations of the Spacemen 3 extended family. [more detail]

Vetiver - More of the Past EP CD5 $6.25
Guitar – SaltyKisses [re-issue] CD $12.50
Flaming Lips – Christmas On Mars CD+DVD $24.50
Bubblegum Lemonade – Doubleplusgood CD $12.50
Earth – Bees Made Honey… [deluxe vinyl] DLP $25.00
New Order – Low Life [expanded re-issue] DCD $23.00
Acid Mothers Temple – Glorify Astrological... CD $13.25
Pitchfork 500: Guide to the Greatest Songs… BOOK $13.00
Love Is All – A Hundred Things Keep Me Up at Night CD $11.50

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Frida Hyvönen - Silence Is Wild (Secretly Canadian)
CD $11.50 Listen: Dirty Dancing • Enemy Within
Latest from our fave Swedish songstress, now in heavy rotation on the Parasol carousel. Silence Is Wild is more like Frida’s symphony-backed Songs for…Pudel than her starker debut Until Death Comes. Blending supremely intimate songwriting, rife with innuendo and insinuation, with a baroque sumptuousness courtesy Bear Quartet guitarist and producer Jari Haapalainen. [more detail]

Norma - Book of Norma (Novoton) CD $13.00
Listen: Waste • You Go, We Follow
Jim's Pick: Parlaying hypnotic, dreamrock majesty Swedish trio Norma are comparable in their epic scope, dynamics, and totally cosmic bombast to fellow Swedes Eskju Divine, Silverbullit (Citizen Bird), Lionheart Brothers, and occasionally Moonbabies. 180-proof shoegaze, invoking klassic krautrock, and classic drone-rock. [more detail]

Lucksmiths – First Frost CD $12.25
Danielson – Trying Hartz DCD $11.50
Low – Santa's Coming Over 45 $4.25
Wilderness – (k)no(w)here CD $11.50
Grampall Jookabox – Ropechain CD $11.50
Telescopes – Singles 1989-1991 CD $13.25
Black Moth Super Rainbow – Drippers CD $11.25
Wee Hairy Beasties – Holidays Gone Crazy CD $11.50

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Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Cont. (Kranky)
DCD $12.25 Listen: Agoraphobia • Little Kids
New album from Atlas Sound's Bradford Cox & Co explores other-dimensional drone, but with a thumping pop heart. It's no surprise that baroque, sugar-sweet melodies, like The Beach Boys meets Grizzly Bear, abound in Deerhunter's psych-vibrancies. What is surprising is the full-length bonus album, Weird Era Cont. Win, win! [more detail]

Crystal Stilts - Alight of Night (Slumberland)
CD $13.00 Listen: Crystal Stilts • Shattered Shine
Debut album of spectral avant-garage primitivism from NYC lofi-goth loft-foggers, the follow-up to their recent singles collection, which was totally boss. Echoing Joy Division and The Velvet Underground with a twist of Pin Group fuzz-fusion; naïve and spooky like Beat Happening meets The Jesus & Mary Chain in The Gun Club’s attic. Pop spasms! Garage odes! Moody dirges! Woozy ballads! [more detail]

Starflyer 59 – Dial M CD $14.00
The Dead C - Secret Earth CD $9.00
Vivian Girls – Self-Titled LP $10.50
Piano Magic - Dark Horses CD $12.25
M83 – Digital Shades Vol. 1 CD $15.25
Future Clouds & Radar – Peoria CD $15.00
Snow Patrol – A Hundred Million Suns CD $16.25
O Death – Broken Hymns, Limbs and Skin CD $13.50

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Park Hotell - Free for Friends (Ultra Radio) CD $14.00
Listen: Dead Ringers • Bite My Head Off
Jim's Pick: Vivacious debut full-length (after an early single and an awesome double-EP) from Lulea's Park Hotell, truly one of Sweden’s most intriguing bands. Here they're in full-on echoing pop mode, anthemic, uptempo songs illuminated with ringing guitars and brilliant co-ed harmonies. Think classic Madchester new wave: The Smiths, The Weddoes and Close Lobsters (sigh); along with fellow Scandinavians The Bear Quartet, Laakso, Shout Out Louds, and Wannadies. [more detail]

The Dears – Missiles CD $15.25
Sea & Cake – Car Alarm CD $14.00
Parts & Labor – Receivers CD $11.50
Girl Talk – Feed The Animals CD $14.25
Of Montreal – Skeletal Lamping CD $14.00
Herman Dune – Next Year In Zion CD $15.75
Dreamend – Long Forgotten Friend CD $12.50
Sebastien Grainger - …& The Mountains CD $12.50

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Hauschka - Ferndorf (Fat Cat) CD $11.50
Listen: Blue Bicycle • Freibad
Lush, piano-led instrumental suites balancing between minimalism, classical and orchestral post-rock; a mesmerizing ode to the idyllic mountainous environs of the artist's childhood home in rural Germany. Is this a new ripple in the legacy of esteemed artists like Steve Reich, Michael Nyman, Philip Glass and Arvo Pärt? Or is it the download generation’s version of George Winston’s Autumn? Either way it’s exquisite neo-new-age music for indiedom. [more detail]

Alps – III CD $14.25
Plush – Fed [UK re-issue] CD $18.50
Hearts of Palm UK – For Life CD $11.00
Isis – Not In Rivers But In Drops CD5 $6.00
Ane Brun – Changing of the Seasons CD $11.00
Crooked Fingers – Forfeit/Fortune LP+DL $13.50
Windy & Carl – Songs for the Brokenhearted CD $12.25
I'm From Barcelona – Who Killed Harry Houdini CD $15.25

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Crystal Antlers - EP (Touch & Go) CD5 7.00
Listen: Vexation
Saturday Shift: From self-released to Touch & Go in just a few weeks, this is T&G's version of San Fran freak-prog-garage-rock tribalists' debut EP. Echoing, orgasmic soul-psych epiphanies, a rapturous space-rock bong-dream slathered across six stupendous tracks. Think Stooges, Union Carbide Productions, Les Savy Fav, Comets On Fire, Wooden Shjips and A Place To Bury Strangers. [more detail]

Mr. Stephens - With Ms. Harmon's Kindergarten Class
(Choo Choo Train) CD $10.00
Listen: It's Almost Time for Halloween
Parasol Label Group Presents: Our new children's music label, Choo Choo Train Records. We lead-off with former Lonely Trailer frontman Tim Stephens, who strums his acoustic guitar and leads Ms. Harmon's kindergarten class through a rollicking set of feelgood sing-a-longs and good-natured kid-centric tomfoolery. Includes guest apperances by former Trailer mate Brian Reedy on drums! [more detail]

Women – Self-Titled CD $11.50
El Guincho – Alegranza CD $13.25
Grails – Doomsayers Holiday CD $11.50
Land of Talk – Some Are Lakes CD $12.50
Daniel Martin Moore – Stray Age CD $12.50
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