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Featuring Remastered Ok Computer, B-Sides and Three Never Before Released Tracks: “I Promise,” “Lift,” “Man Of War” .Rescued from defunct formats, prised from dark cupboards and brought to light after two decades in cold storage… Oknotok will be issued on June 23rd through XL Recordings, coinciding (roughly) with the original 1997 release date(s) of Radiohead’s landmark third album Ok Computer.Oknotok features the original Ok Computer twelve track album, eight B-sides, and the Radiohead completist’s dream: “I Promise,” “Lift,” and “Man Of War.” The original studio recordings of these three previously unreleased and long sought after OK COMPUTER era tracks finally receive their first official issue on OKNOTOK. All material on Oknotok is newly remastered from the original analogue tapes. OK COMPUTER was originally released on various dates ranging from May to July 1997. Produced by the band and Nigel Godrich, the album features the singles “Paranoid Android,” “Karma Police,” “Lucky” and “No Surprises,” and is widely cited as one of the greatest works of Radiohead’s--or any artist’s—catalogue. OK COMPUTER was the first Radiohead record to reach #1 in the UK and to be nominated for the Album of the Year Grammy. In 2015, The National Recording Registry selected Ok Computer to be preserved in the Library of Congress as a recording that has proven “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”One copy per customer!

Deluxe Artwork incl. Artwork Cards"The title Villains isn't a political statement. It has nothing to do with Trump or any of that shit. It's simply 1) a word that looks fantastic and 2) a comment on the three versions of every scenario: yours, mine and what actually happened. Everyone needs someone or something to rail against-their villain-same as it ever was. You can't control that. The only thing you can really control is when you let go." -Joshua Homme Seit ihrem letzten Album ist viel passiert. Nachdem die QOTSA über 100 Shows zu ".Like Clockwork" gespielt hatten, ging Josh Homme mit Iggy Pop ins Studio um dessen Album einzuspielen. Neben den Songs für das Iggy Pop-Album skizzierte er auch immer wieder neue Queens Of The Stone Age Songs. Ende 2016 ging Josh endlich wieder mit seiner eigenen Band ins Studio, um das siebte Album der Band aufzunehmen. Produziert wurde "Villains" von Mark Ronson (der Mark Ronson? Ja, der Mark Ronson), co-produziert von Mark Ranking und gemixt vom Soundmagier Alan Moulder. Josh schwebte bei den Aufnahmen nichts weniger vor als eine neue Definition ihres Sounds. "The most important aspect of making this record was redefining our sound, asking and answering the question 'what do we sound like now?' If you can't make a great first record, you should just stop-but if you can make a great record but you keep making records and your sound doesn't evolve, you become a parody of that original sound." Dabei wurde Mark Ronson zu dem fehlenden Puzzleteilchen, das das in sich geschlossene Ökosystem der Queens Of The Stone Age kreativ aufmischen sollte. Er selber beschreibt die Arbeit an "Villains" so:"Queens are and have always been my favorite rock n roll band ever since I walked into Tower on Sunset and bought Rated R in the summer of 2000, so it was incredibly surreal to be welcomed into their secret, pirate clan-or the 'jacuzzi' as Josh likes to call it. I also knew that my super fandom alone would not keep me in the jacuzzi. There were moments during the making of the album in which i was aware i was watching my musical heroes craft something that was sure to become one of my favorite moments on any Queens album. And to have some part in that felt like being in a dream--a very heavy, dark, wonderful dream."

Featuring Remastered OK COMPUTER, B-Sides and Three Never Before Released Tracks: “I Promise,” “Lift,” “Man Of War” .Rescued from defunct formats, prised from dark cupboards and brought to light after two decades in cold storage… OKNOTOK will be issued on June 23rd through XL Recordings, coinciding (roughly) with the original 1997 release date(s) of Radiohead’s landmark third album OK COMPUTER.OKNOTOK features the original OK COMPUTER twelve track album, eight B-sides, and the Radiohead completist’s dream: “I Promise,” “Lift,” and “Man Of War.” The original studio recordings of these three previously unreleased and long sought after OK COMPUTER era tracks finally receive their first official issue on OKNOTOK. All material on OKNOTOK is newly remastered from the original analogue tapes. OK COMPUTER was originally released on various dates ranging from May to July 1997. Produced by the band and Nigel Godrich, the album features the singles “Paranoid Android,” “Karma Police,” “Lucky” and “No Surprises,” and is widely cited as one of the greatest works of Radiohead’s--or any artist’s—catalogue. OK COMPUTER was the first Radiohead record to reach #1 in the UK and to be nominated for the Album of the Year GRAMMY. In 2015, The National Recording Registry selected OK COMPUTER to be preserved in the Library of Congress as a recording that has proven “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”

Alternative Cover Artwork"The title Villains isn't a political statement. It has nothing to do with Trump or any of that shit. It's simply 1) a word that looks fantastic and 2) a comment on the three versions of every scenario: yours, mine and what actually happened. Everyone needs someone or something to rail against-their villain-same as it ever was. You can't control that. The only thing you can really control is when you let go." -Joshua Homme Seit ihrem letzten Album ist viel passiert. Nachdem die QOTSA über 100 Shows zu ".Like Clockwork" gespielt hatten, ging Josh Homme mit Iggy Pop ins Studio um dessen Album einzuspielen. Neben den Songs für das Iggy Pop-Album skizzierte er auch immer wieder neue Queens Of The Stone Age Songs. Ende 2016 ging Josh endlich wieder mit seiner eigenen Band ins Studio, um das siebte Album der Band aufzunehmen. Produziert wurde "Villains" von Mark Ronson (der Mark Ronson? Ja, der Mark Ronson), co-produziert von Mark Ranking und gemixt vom Soundmagier Alan Moulder. Josh schwebte bei den Aufnahmen nichts weniger vor als eine neue Definition ihres Sounds. "The most important aspect of making this record was redefining our sound, asking and answering the question 'what do we sound like now?' If you can't make a great first record, you should just stop-but if you can make a great record but you keep making records and your sound doesn't evolve, you become a parody of that original sound." Dabei wurde Mark Ronson zu dem fehlenden Puzzleteilchen, das das in sich geschlossene Ökosystem der Queens Of The Stone Age kreativ aufmischen sollte. Er selber beschreibt die Arbeit an "Villains" so:"Queens are and have always been my favorite rock n roll band ever since I walked into Tower on Sunset and bought Rated R in the summer of 2000, so it was incredibly surreal to be welcomed into their secret, pirate clan-or the 'jacuzzi' as Josh likes to call it. I also knew that my super fandom alone would not keep me in the jacuzzi. There were moments during the making of the album in which i was aware i was watching my musical heroes craft something that was sure to become one of my favorite moments on any Queens album. And to have some part in that felt like being in a dream--a very heavy, dark, wonderful dream."

Cigarettes After Sex frontman Greg Gonzalez had a clear vision for his band’s gorgeously cinematic debut album. After the phenomenal online break-out success of “Nothing’s Gonna Hurt You Baby”, from the band’s debut EP 1, the Brooklyn transplant (originally from El Paso) wanted to project his worldview on to a bigger screen, a broader canvas. As Greg explains, “This is like the novel or feature-length version of Cigarettes. I wanted it to feel like a complete work, where some of the imagery repeats – like it’s all in the same world. It’s very much a fulfilment of the feelings in the short works.”That sense of fulfilment is richly felt on Cigarettes After Sex, which unspools like the most achingly romantic of movies: immersive, cohesive and transporting. Swooning in the spirit of influences such as Mazzy Star and Red House Painters, its sumptuous songs of love elevate Cigarettes to the ranks of those acts who create worlds of their own, exciting the most devoted kind of following.Alongside keyboardist Phillip Tubbs, bassist Randy Miller and drummer Jacob Tomsky, the ability of Gonzalez and his band to set a scene and sustain a mood reels you in deeply. On album opener ‘K’, a tale of blossoming love etched in tiny details luxuriates over chiming guitars; on the hymn to romantic compulsion of ‘Each Time You Fall in Love’, the suspended animation of Angelo Badalamenti’s heart-stopping Twin Peaks music is echoed. ‘Sunsetz’ and the gently lilting ‘Sweet’, meanwhile, showcase Gonzalez’s ability to weave impressionistic snapshots of romance into melodies that haunt like memories of past loves, all coalescing around his melting vocals.

The National are back with Sleep Well Beast, their seventh studio album.

Flying Microtonal Banana is King Gizzard’s first-ever experience in microtonal tuning, which features intervals smaller than a semitone and not found in customary Western tuning octaves. “Earlier this year we started experimenting with a custom microtonal guitar our friend Zak made for (lead singer and guitar player) Stu Mackenzie,” drummer Eric Moore explained. “The guitar was modified to play in 24-TET tuning and could only be played with other microtonal instruments. We ended up giving everyone a budget of $200 to buy instruments and turn them microtonal.”

Jeffrey "Jeff" Tweedy ist ein US-amerikanischer Songwriter, der vor allem als Frontmann seiner Band Wilcobekannt wurde. Gemeinsam mit Jay Farrar war Tweedy auch Gründungsmitglied der Formation Uncle Tupelound Mitglied bei der Allstarband Golden Smog. Zusammen mit Glenn Kotche und Jim O‘Rourke betreibtTweedy außerdem das Projekt Loose Fur. Für sein Soloalbum "Together At Last" hat der Musiker elfAkustikversionen von Songs seiner Hauptband Wilco sowie seinen Nebenprojekten Loose Fur und GoldenSmog eingespielt, so zum Beispiel das ruhige, wundervoll melancholische Country-Stück "Laminated Cat".Weitere Lieder sind unter anderem "Via Chicago", "Lost Love", "Muzzle Of Bees", "Ashes Of American Flags"und "Sky Blue Sky". "Together At Last" wurde in Tweedys Aufnahmestudio The Loft in Chicago eingespielt.Ein Genuss für alle feinsinnigen Musikfans.

Pisse sind zurück. Nach "Mit Schinken durch die Menopause" gibt es Nachschlag in Form einer 2-teiligen Singlereihe. Et voilà: "Kohlrübenwinter" #1 und #2. Warum? Deshalb! Fakten und Informationen: 8 Lieder auf 2 7" Singles aufgeteilt. Aufgenommen 2016 von Duckface im Dong Xuan Center Berlin / Lichtenberg. Besetzung: Schlagzeug / Gitarre / Bass / Theremin / Synth. Songs: Armes Schwein, Vernissage, Schwätzer, Dienstleistungsgesellschaft. Punk.

Third album, recorded all over London with producer Charlie Andrew for the third time.

Pisse sind zurück. Nach "Mit Schinken durch die Menopause" gibt es Nachschlag in Form einer 2-teiligen Singlereihe. Et voilà: "Kohlrübenwinter" #1 und #2. Warum? Deshalb! Fakten und Informationen: 8 Lieder auf 2 7" Singles aufgeteilt. Aufgenommen 2016 von Duckface im Dong Xuan Center Berlin / Lichtenberg. Besetzung: Schlagzeug / Gitarre / Bass / Theremin / Synth. Songs: Armes Schwein, Vernissage, Schwätzer, Dienstleistungsgesellschaft. Punk.

All eleven of the songs on Crack-Up were written by Robin Pecknold. The album was co-produced by Pecknold and Skyler Skjelset, his longtime bandmate, collaborator, and childhood friend. Crack-Up was recorded at various locations across the United States between July 2016 and January 2017: at Electric Lady Studios, Sear Sound, The Void, Rare Book Room, Avast, and The Unknown. Phil Ek mixed the album, at Sear Sound, and it was mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound. Fleet Foxes is Robin Pecknold (vocals, multi-instrumentalist), Skyler Skjelset (multi-instrumentalist, vocals), Casey Wescott (multi-instrumentalist, vocals), Christian Wargo (multi-instrumentalist, vocals), and Morgan Henderson (multi-instrumentalist).

- "The Hall of Mirrors" sampled by Jay-Z for "It's Alright" andJigmastas for "Beyond Real"- "Trans-Europe Express" sampled by 2 Live Crew for "Drop the Bomb",Afrika Bambaataa for "Planet Rock",De La Soul for "Ghetto Thang",Kool G Rap & DJ Polo for "Rhymes I Express",Professor Griff for "Last Asiatic Disciples",Rampage for "Ramp Europe Express",Trouble Funk for "Trouble Funk Express",Truck Turner for "Bring it to the Cypher" andWyclef Jean for "Stayin' Alive"

“Lovely Creatures” ist der bislang umfassendste Überblick der Arbeiten von Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. Die Sammlung spannt den Bogen vom Debüt “From Her To Eternity” bis zu “Push The Sky Away”, dem 15. Studioalbum, und navigiert durch eines der berauschendsten, idiosynkratischsten und originellsten Werke zeitgenössischer Musik. Dazu gehören die langjährigen Liveklassiker “Stagger Lee” und “The Mercy Seat”, die 1995er Hitsingle “Where The Wild Roses Grow” und auch die Fanlieblinge “Jubilee Street” und “We No Who U R”. Es gibt Songs, die Neulinge nur durch Film- oder Fernsehsoundtracks kennen, z.B. “O Children” (Harry Potter und die Heiligtümer des Todes Teil 1) und das allgegenwärtige “Red Right Hand”, das Fans der Serie Peaky Blinders bekannt sein sollte. Das Album wurde von Nick Cave und Gründungsmitglied Mick Harvey zusammengestellt, mit tatkräftiger Unterstützung der derzeitigen Bad Seeds. Ehemalige und aktuelle Bandmitglieder haben ihre privaten Archive geplündert und bisher ungesehene Fotos und Memorabilien zur Verfügung gestellt, die mit einer Serie von Essays in einem wunderschön gebundenem Buch zusammengefasst wurden. Das Buch ist erhältlich als Teil einer limitierten Super Deluxe Edition, die ausserdem eine DVD mit zwei Stunden raren und ungesehenen Archivaufnahmen enthält.

Now 82 years old, and sensing that time is running short, Cohen offers, writes Rolling Stone, a “gift to music lovers: a realistically grim, spiritually radiant and deeply poetic worldview, generally spiked with a romantic thrum and an existential wink.”

Auf ihrem zweiten Album „Come As You Are“ feiern Jazz Against the Machine wieder Ihre Lieblingslieder aus den 90ern: Perlen des Grunge, Rock und Metal, die sie kompromisslos - aber respektvoll - mit Trompete, Vibraphon, Bass und Schlagzeug interpretieren. So wird „Refuse / Resist“ von Sepultura als Samba gespielt und deckt auf, wie viel lateinamerikanischer Rhythmus in der brasilianischen Metal Band steckt. Panteras „Walk“ ist schon im Original geshuffelt und „Black Hole Sun“ steckt bei Soundgarden bereits so voller harmonischer Finessen, dass der Song längst ein Jazz Standard geworden ist. Überraschendes, wie Becks „Loser“ und vor allem Red Hot Chili Pepper’s „Under the bridge“ im jazzigen Afrobeat-Gewand, findet sich ebenfalls auf der Tracklist. Gute Songs bleiben eben gute Songs! Come as you are...

Sacred Bones Records 10th Anniversary! special limited colored reissue!

Now a four-piece, with the addition of Bloc Party’s Matt Tong on drums, the Atlanta-London-NYC band this time is produced by Adrian Utley (Portishead) and Ali Chant, mixed by Randall Dunn (Sunn O)))), with post-production by Ben Greenberg (Uniform, Hubble), ‘The Underside Of Power’ zooms across a musical landscape including but not limited to Southern rap to British grime to horror movie soundtracks to late-70s English industrial to Northern Soul. In the wake of our current political climate, Algiers cast a withering gaze on subject matter ranging from oppression, whiteness, police brutality, dystopia, and hegemonic power structures. Now a four-piece, with the addition of Bloc Party’s Matt Tong on drums, the Atlanta-London-NYC band.

Chastity Belt are back with new album ’I Used To Spend So Much Time Alone’!The record is being previewed with new single ‘Different Now’, which also has its own shiny video.‘I Used To Spend So Much Time Alone’ is the follow-up to the band’s 2015 album ‘Time To Go Home’ and the new viddy for ‘Different Now’ parodies Temple of the Dog’s ‘Hunger Strike’ clip.

“It felt like we were in a movie that had a totally implausible ending ...”, so they had to return to keep this movie running.

Es war der Abstand – der zeitliche, räumliche und methodische –der Mac DeMarco zu "This Old Dog", dem ersten Longplayer seit"Salad Days" von 2014, inspirierte. Mit einer Handvoll Demos inder Tasche, die er in New York geschrieben hatte, zog er vonQueens nach Los Angeles und realisierte nach ein paar Monatenin der neuen Heimat, dass dieser Abstand ihm neue Perspektiveneröffnete. Mit dem Poppen und Klicken der CR-78 und dem akustischenGeklimper des Album-Opener “My Old Man” sowie dem vonSynthesizern durchzogenen zweiten Song “This Old Dog” wirdschnell klar, dass Mac DeMarco diesmal tief in die Trickkistegegriffen hat.Auf "This Old Dog" sind die Synthesizer stärker verwurzelt als aufseinen bisherigen Releases, aber trotzdem achtet DeMarcosorgfältig darauf, dass diese den Rest der Instrumente und den“unplugged”-Eindruck des Albums nicht überschatten.

Deluxe gatefold sleeve, remastered from the original analog tapes and pressed on virgin black vinyl. Still contains the vinyl-only bonus track "Take Me Away" (a Blue Oyster Cult cover). Latest version of the gatefold sleeve has the imagery in "60's" green.

Recorded in UK, Europe, USA March through November 2016. Album length: 77:47

This is it: Chain & the Gang; “Best Of .

Love is Love was written and recorded in the two months immediately following the election, but it’s not a record borne entirely of angry, knee-jerk reaction to what America is becoming. Instead, it’s a meditation on love, and on what life means now. Taking cues from last year’s City Sun Eater in the River of Light, it feels very much like a record made from living, shoulder to shoulder, in a major city: weaving psychedelic swirls of guitar between languid horns reminiscent of the best Ethiopian jazz—Love is Love is a distinctly New York record. It is a document of protest in uncertain times and an open-hearted rejection of cynicism in favor of emotional honesty. It is bright, and then, unexpectedly, a little dark sometimes too.

Four clicks and we’re off, galloping through realms on a phase-shifted, hydra-headed, many-armed and muscular monster. This Australian beast of a band with a bear of a name and a thick herd of members delivers many things on this warped song-cycle: a skeleton of propulsive kraut-beat fleshed out with a liberal dose of citric sweetness; flutes and harmonicas bleeding through the mix often and welcomingly; an early-’80s heavy metal / fantasy vibe; and many lovely left turns into psychedelic mellowing, both groovily and sometimes with just a dash of DMT dread. The whole thing is just gooey with tape manipulations, saturations and wah pedal, yet many tasty tidbits bubble to the top.

Souvlaki is Slowdive's second studio album, originally released in 1993. The album contains synthesizer contributions from Brian Eno on "Sing" (which he co-wrote) and "Here She Comes".

One of the milestones in music history that shouldn't be missed in any serious vinyl diggers collection!

Limited colored vinyl edition. One copy per customer.Every Country's Sun takes two decades of Mogwai's signature, contrasting sounds – towering intensity, pastoral introspection, synth-rock minimalism, DNA-detonating volume – and distills it, beautifully, into 56 concise minutes of gracious elegance, hymnal trance-rock, and transcendental euphoria. Produced by psych-rock luminary Dave Fridmann, it's a structural soundscape built from stark foundations up; from a gentle, twinkling, synth-rock spectre to a solid, blown-out, skyward-thrusting obelisk. There's percussive, dream-state electronics (“Coolverine”), church organs as chariots of existential fire (“Brain Sweeties”), tremulous, foreboding bleeping – possibly from a dying android (“aka 47”). Their most transportive album yet, it also hosts their most fully realized art-pop sing-along of their storied history, “Party In The Dark,” a head-spinning disco-dream double-helix echoing New Order and The Flaming Lips, featuring Braithwaite's seldom-heard melodic vocals declaring he's “directionless and innocent, searching for another piece of mind”. This is music as a keep-out chrysalis, protective audio armor through exalting organs and portentous, dissonant guitar fuzz warping at the edges, bending the world inside-out into a reality in which you'd much rather live. The last three songs ascend into explosive exorcism, closing with the colossal “Every Country's Sun,” its searching intensity whooshing towards infinity in a dazzling cosmic crescendo.

Royal Blood is a mixture of anguished vocals, ferocious drumming and bass that provides intricate detail as well as a rumble of rhythm. Royal Blood are the result of a lineage that stretches from present day heroes Queens of the Stone Age to the influential Led Zeppelin, and all the way back to early blues pioneers.

Zos Kia was formed by John Gosling (Mekon), John Balance (Coil)and Min, with guest Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson (ThrobbingGristle). Their one and only album, 'Transparent', was releasedon tape in 1983 by Austria's now defunct Nekrophile label.These first released recordings of both Coil and Zos Kia werereissued years later by Coil (Threshold House/Eskaton) in anedited edition. Now the complete recordings appear for thefirst time, completely remastered from the unedited tapes. The music on 'Transparent' is genuinely unsettling and disturbing, with a more primal industrial feel than 'Scatology', the Coil album which followed. Here's an essential insight into the very early work of these extraordinary artists and an undeniable link between Coil and Throbbing Gristle. The double vinyl edition comes in a sumptuous gatefold sleeve with a 12-inch booklet featuring unseen images.

Back in print on limited edition vinyl!

2nd full-length features the same crisp John Lennon/Phil Spector era homegrown lush production that could have walked out of GeoffEmerick's mixing board in 1972, but with that peculiar Mac touch that's completely of right now.

- "The Robots" sampled by Ugly Duckling for "Einstein's Takin Off"- "Man Machine" sampled by 2 Live Crew for "Dick Almighty",Fearless Four for "Rockin' It",Jay-Z for "Sunshine",MC Lyte for "Cha Cha Cha",Peanut Butter Wolf for "I Will Always Love H.E.R." andSylk Smoov for "Trick with a Good Rap"

180g Vinyl including download code.

Der Zürcher Songschreiber Faber singt „ficken“ und „blasen“, er nennt einen Song „Brüstebeinearschgesicht“ und lässt den Protagonisten „im Stehen pissen“. Ganz klar: Faber ist keinerfür Leute, die bei Faber an Sekt denken und Max Frisch nie gelesen haben. Insofern stimmt es aufjeden Fall: Es ist wirklich schön, dass es ihn gibt. Auf seinem Debütalbum „Sei ein Faber im Wind“verwandelt der Zürcher Songschreiber Faber vermeintlich Profanes in Wahrhaftigkeit. Faber ist keiner, der über das Leben singen würde, ohne überhaupt gelebt zu haben. Das macht seine Musik sowertvoll. „Sei ein Faber im Wind“ verhandelt eingängige Melodien mit stampfenden Beats. Es gehtimmer um absolut alles und irgendwie auch um nichts, weil manchmal ja alles so herrlich egal seinkann. Wir hören Posaunen und Gitarren und Geigen und ein Klavier und vor allem hören wir dieseStimme. Faber singt seine Lieder mit einem gewaltigen Furor und maximaler Hingabe. Es liegt auchan dieser verzehrenden, ja: sich selbst beinahe aufzehrenden Stimme und der Art, wie sie eingesetztwird, dass hier vermeintlich Profanes zu großer Wahrheit wird.Die LP kommt mit ausgestanzter Cover-Front mit 13 Fotoeinlegern als Austauschcover und inkl. CD.

Now a four-piece, with the addition of Bloc Party’s Matt Tong on drums, the Atlanta-London-NYC band this time is produced by Adrian Utley (Portishead) and Ali Chant, mixed by Randall Dunn (Sunn O)))), with post-production by Ben Greenberg (Uniform, Hubble), ‘The Underside Of Power’ zooms across a musical landscape including but not limited to Southern rap to British grime to horror movie soundtracks to late-70s English industrial to Northern Soul. In the wake of our current political climate, Algiers cast a withering gaze on subject matter ranging from oppression, whiteness, police brutality, dystopia, and hegemonic power structures. Now a four-piece, with the addition of Bloc Party’s Matt Tong on drums, the Atlanta-London-NYC band.

This is King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard's 10th studio LP "Murder Of The Universe". A concept album to end all concepts, Murder Of The Universe is a face-melting musical assault concerned with the downfall of man and the death of the planet.

“Rock n Roll Consciousness” is the 5th solo album by the American alternative rock musician Thurston Moore.Thurston Joseph Moore (born 1958) is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label. Moore was ranked 34th in Rolling Stone's 2004 edition of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.

"“Cleromancy” isn’t a word one normally finds in rock lyrics. Then again, In Spades – the forthcoming album by The Afghan Whigs, from which the new song “Oriole” hails – is defined only by its own mystical inner logic. The term means to divine, in a supernatural manner, a prediction of destiny from the random casting of lots: the throwing of dice, picking a card from a deck. From its evocative cover art to the troubled spirits haunting its halls, In Spades casts a spell that challenges the listener to unpack its dark metaphors and spectral imagery. On the one hand, In Spades is as quintessentially Afghan Whigs as anything the group has ever done – fulfilling its original mandate to explore the missing link between howling Midwestern punk like Die Kreuzen and Hüsker Dü, The Temptations’ psychedelic soul symphonies, and the expansive hard-rock tapestries of Led Zeppelin and Lynyrd Skynyrd. At the same time, this new record continues to push beyond anything in the Whigs’ previous repertoire – another trademark, along with the explosive group dynamic captured on the recording. Indeed, the chemistry of the lineup – Dulli, guitarists Dave Rosser and Jon Skibic, drummer Patrick Keeler, multi-instrumentalist Rick Nelson, and Whigs co-founder/bassist John Curley – set the tone for In Spades’ creation. When it came to follow up the band’s triumphant return to recording – Do To the Beast (2014), which was the band’s first ever Top 40 album, – the die was cast. “This is the first time since Black Love [the Whigs’ 1996 noir masterpiece] that we’ve done a full-blown band album,” Dulli says. The joys, sorrows, and upheavals of innocence and experience echo throughout In Spades: it powerfully documents where The Afghan Whigs have been, and where they might go next. For Dulli and Curley, it’s a journey that, since their origins as one of the first Sub Pop acts to be signed from outside the label’s Pacific Northwest base, has spanned decades. Dulli notes they were barely in their twenties when they first started the band, and yet here they are, fulfilling dreams long held and frequently realized. “Having a break from the Whigs helped me remember what made it so rewarding,” Curley says. “Over the course of a lifetime, there are constants, and there’s also change. You see who’s dropped off the vine – who’s going in reverse, and who’s still by your side. It’s interesting to see where life takes you, and where it doesn’t. That’s the journey and it hasn’t stopped.” In Spades was recorded at Rick Nelson’s studio Marigny Sound in New Orleans, LA."

Only one copy per customer!!Michelle Gurevich, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, also known by her former stage name Chinawoman. Her music is influenced by her Russian heritage, and has been described as slowcore rock and "lo-fi pop". This is the limited vinyl edition of the new album “New Decadence” by Michelle Gurevich. Limited edition of 500 copies only!

Prophets of Rage, the supergroup featuring members of Rage Against the Machine, Public Enemy and Cypress Hill, will release its debut EP, “The Party's Over” via Caroline Records. Formed in 2016, the group consists of three members of Rage Against the Machine (bassist and backing vocalist Tim Commerford, guitarist Tom Morello, and drummer Brad Wilk), two members of Public Enemy (DJ Lord and rapper Chuck D), and rapper B-Real of Cypress Hill.

Wir haben wirklich Glück mit Schnipo Schranke. Dass in einer Zeit, in der alles Gestörte, Neurotische entweder zu riesigen Funmonstern aufgeblasen oder unter den Teppich gekehrt wird, plötzlich diese beiden Songwriterinnen um die Eckegekommen sind. Als vor anderthalb Jahren das Debüt von Daniela Reis und FritziErnst alias Schnipo Schranke herauskam, war man irgendwie irritiert bisbegeistert: Dass diese beiden jungen Frauen so derbe Sachen zu soentzückenden Melodien singen. Sie haben nicht locker gelassen und weitergetextet und komponiert, immer weiter: Auch um klar zu machen, dass diewirklich derben Sachen nichts mit "Pimmel" oder "Pisse" singen zu tun haben. Sondern mit Liebe, Tod, Vergangenheit, zum Beispiel. Sie können sich die Augen und die Ohren reiben: Wie schaffen die das wohl? Daniela Reis und Fritzi Ernst, haben im ersten Jahr ihrer Starwerdung so viel um die Ohren gehabt: Ihr Debütalbum haben sie in die Welt getragen, ständigKonzerte gespielt, Termine, Termine. Und währenddessen haben sie noch einsolches zweites Album produziert."Stars hängen an der Wand / Ich hänge in den Seilen" heißt es in dem Song"Stars". Das zweite Album hätte auch "Sick" heißen können, denn SchnipoSchranke sind voll gestört und darin sehr ehrlich. Sie hängen oft in den Seilen,sind aber total fleißig (sie würden sagen: streberhaft). Und diese Mischung istselten, um nicht zu sagen: Rare. Außerdem kann rare noch blutig heißen undindifferent, dünn, blau, halbgar, rar, kaum und nicht zuletzt eigentümlich.Sie haben sich das DIY-Konzept nicht ausreden lassen. Keine Streicher, keineGastmusiker, die ihre tollen Melodien umspielen. Wieder hat Ted Gaier (DieGoldenen Zitronen) das Album produziert, diesmal sind die drei nach Reichenowgefahren, in die ehemalige Scheune einer LPG des kommunistischenDeutschlands. "Wir wussten, was wir anders und besser machen wollten", sagtDaniela Reis. Ausgefuchster ist es geworden, rhythmisch und soundmäßiginteressanter, düsterer, wilder."Singer/Songwriter" im deutschen Kontext, da denken wir alle an Männer mitBart und Hut, die Stadien füllen, in dem sie sentimental von Heimat oder Frühersingen. Aber Früher und Heimat sind nicht sentimental und Liebe ist nicht diesesSchmusegefühl. Heimat sind auch die Schatten der Vergangenheit und Liebe istauch einsam auf dem Baum sitzen und warten, bis du endlich mal lüftest.Fassungslos dem Tod ins Gesicht schauen. Von all dem handeln die Songs vonSchnipo Schranke. Dass man durch Pipi, Sperma und Eiter reiten muss, es gehtum's Sich-Aushalten-Müssen, ums Eingeliefertwerden, um Dope, auf Tour sein,down sein, eine von den Geilen sein und dabei ist "Rare" auch immer wiederschrecklich lustig. Allzeit likebereit, das höchste der Gefuhle. Danke Schnipo.Autor: Christoph Twickel

EP 6, released August 26th:A. NothingnessA2. Kill That NotionB1. Come Together- DubB2. Battle Cry - Dub

Mastered directly from original analog tapes, pressed on 180 gram blck vinyl! Signed to Atlantic Records in the hubbub after Nirvana's Nevermind exploded, the Melvins' fifth album Houdini was a conscious attempt by the band to make a record that wouldn't alienate their fans but that the band members themselves would also enjoy. Their best-selling release by a country-mile, this album crested at number 29 on on the Billboard Heatseekers chart. Houdini would be most folks introduction to the band and songs like ''Honeybucket'' received MTV airplay.

Damon Albarn's brainchild which includes the massive hit Clint Eastwood feat. Del!

House In The Tall Grass' introduces us to a more refined Kikagaku Moyo sound, featuring soft vocals, warm sitar and a masterful balance between loud and soft, and chaos and order.

Remastered for the 2015 season!

Erhältlich als Vinyl inklusive MP3-Download-Code!

Mystery-music from the strange and ancient-modern California fringe … thats what the press release says. Kinda fitting!

Limited edition of 400 copies on black vinyl.

new Rock-Supergroup feat. Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters), John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin) und Josh Homme (Queens Of The Stone Age)

Specially remastered for vinyl, triple album comprehensive reissue in gatefold sleeve. The first LP has never been previously released and is comprised of the original demos that were written for this album.The songs "Foot Down and Low", "Go For It" and "The Answer Lies" have never been re-recorded or released on any subsequent album.LP2 is the pre-production demo version of the entire original album, including "Planet Of The Ape Hangers," which was only released on the Japanese version of the album.The third LP is the 2002 Mammoth Records album newly remastered specifically for this vinyl only release.

Originally available as bonus disc only, now released separately.

When two best friends start a band, songs get filled with inside jokes. In My Head takes the listener on a journey of Andreya Casablanca and Laura Lee's friendship, their life, and a step further into the world of GURR. Having met in an American Studies class in Berlin, and after spending time in the US together, the US West coast sound was an obvious influence on their music, but Andreya and Laura draw from a wide set of pop culture references and personal experiences for their debut album. How to deal with one's own ignorance (first single release Moby Dick), let yourself go and have nights that turn into mornings (Breathless), or deal with the loss of love through someone else's perspective (Yosemite). Instead of telling stories of how it was, the two friends want to create a world of characters, stories and feelings everyone can relate to and everyone can tell in their head for themselves. First Wave Gurrlcore they call their own genre, always with a slight and acknowledging nod to riot girl culture and yet stressing that they want to invent their own style they pair straightforward garage rock tunes with more psychedelic and wave elements on their debut album. "We didn't start making music because of Kathleen Hanna," explains singer Andreya Casablanca. "Musically we were more influenced by bands like Gun Club, Echo & the Bunnymen, the B52s or classics like the Ramones and Beatles."

This compilation contains every song Beach House has made that does not exist on one of their albums.

Jawohl! Richtig gehört: Moritz R®, Kurt Dahlke aka Pyrolator und Frank Fenstermacher haben sich nach 25 Jahren imStudio getroffen und ein neues Album aufgenommen. Für die später Hinzugekommenen: ohne Übertreibung kann manbehaupten, dass DER PLAN eine der, wenn nicht die wirkmächtigste deutsche Band der musikalischen Aufbruchszeit amAnfang der 80er Jahre war.

Limited editoin box set including the album on double LP and CD plus a six track demo LP, digital download code and set of Tarbox Road photographic prints. One copy per customer.Every Country's Sun takes two decades of Mogwai's signature, contrasting sounds – towering intensity, pastoral introspection, synth-rock minimalism, DNA-detonating volume – and distills it, beautifully, into 56 concise minutes of gracious elegance, hymnal trance-rock, and transcendental euphoria. Produced by psych-rock luminary Dave Fridmann, it's a structural soundscape built from stark foundations up; from a gentle, twinkling, synth-rock spectre to a solid, blown-out, skyward-thrusting obelisk. There's percussive, dream-state electronics (“Coolverine”), church organs as chariots of existential fire (“Brain Sweeties”), tremulous, foreboding bleeping – possibly from a dying android (“aka 47”). Their most transportive album yet, it also hosts their most fully realized art-pop sing-along of their storied history, “Party In The Dark,” a head-spinning disco-dream double-helix echoing New Order and The Flaming Lips, featuring Braithwaite's seldom-heard melodic vocals declaring he's “directionless and innocent, searching for another piece of mind”. This is music as a keep-out chrysalis, protective audio armor through exalting organs and portentous, dissonant guitar fuzz warping at the edges, bending the world inside-out into a reality in which you'd much rather live. The last three songs ascend into explosive exorcism, closing with the colossal “Every Country's Sun,” its searching intensity whooshing towards infinity in a dazzling cosmic crescendo.

Als Martin Hossbach Dirk von Lowtzow fragte, ob dieser Lust hätte, ein Stück von Hossbachs englischer Lieblingsband Pet Shop Boys zu covern, sagte dieser sofort zu. Die Wahl von Lowtzows fiel auf »I Want a Dog«, B-Seite von »Rent« und in einem epochalen Frankie-Knuckles-Remix auch auf dem Album »Introspective« (1988) enthalten (dessen Innenhülle die Pet Shop Boys mit Neil Tennants Hund im Arm zeigen). Beide Stücke wurden von Moses Schneider aufgenommen und produziert. Den Hund auf dem Cover zeichnete von Lowtzow selber, das Grafikdesign besorgte Will Bankhead, Haus-Grafiker von Honest Jon’s und Betreiber der Labels The Trilogy Tapes und Hingefinger.

Beach Fossils veröffentlichen ihr neues Album Somersault auf BayonetRecords. ,Somersault" präsentiert die Band in voller Blüte. Beach Fossilsstecken mit verfeinertem Songstrukturen neue Territorien ab und fangendas Leben in New York auf einer sehr persönlichen Ebene ein. Dasselbstbetitelte Debütalbum von 2010 etablierte einen Sound, der sowohlminimal als auch vereinnahmend war. Mit ,Somersault", dem erstenAlbum der Band seit dem 2013er ,Clash the Truth", haben Beach Fossilsjahrelange Erfahrung kanalisiert. Angereichert mit komplexererInstrumentalisierung, die auf einem dynamischen Mix aus Gitarre, Bassund Drums basiert, aber jetzt auch Streicher, Klavier, Cembalo, Flöteund Saxophon beinhaltet, offerieren die neuen Tracks einenvielschichtigen Pop mit scharfsinnigen, pointierten und ehrlichen Lyrics.Als erste Veröffentlichung auf Payseurs neuem Label Bayonet Records,das er zusammen mit seiner Frau Kate Garcia betreibt, hat die Band dieneue Unabhängigkeit sehr genossen und reichlich Zeit in die Ausweitungihrer musikalischen und textlichen Breite investiert. Während Payseursich in der Vergangenheit hauptsächlich alleine mit dem Songwritingbeschäftigte, ist ,Somersault" jetzt zum ersten Mal eine wahreKollaboration mit den Gründungs- und Bandmitgliedern Jack Doyle Smithund Tommy Davidson. Die neuen Songs spielen mehr mit flüssigen,eklektischen Kompositionen, die durch Experimente im Studio und dasSampeln der eigenen Aufnahmen entstanden ist. Zwischen schimmerndenKompositionen und eindringlichen Soundlandschaften entwickelt,Somersault" die gelassene Stimmung einer lauen Nacht in der Stadt, beider die Luft vor Aufregung vibriert. Diese Songs pulsieren und fangeneine Mischung aus Verheißung und Herzenskummer ein. Es ist eineschöne und mehrlagige, eine verfeinerte und extensive Kreation, die vieleverschiedene Stile, Strukturen und Motive zu einer frischen, einzigartigenVision werden lässt.

Finally, for the first time since its original release in 1993, Mezcal Head is available on European soil. In celebration, the first 1.500 copies will be pressed on "Mezcal" coloured vinyl; transparent with a hint of gold vinyl.

Mit „Keine Nacht für Niemand“, dem dritten Studioalbum der Band Kraftklub, gelingt den Chemnitzern ihr bislang vielseitigstes Album. Zwischen Euphorie und Aufruhr, Liebe und Depression, Galligkeit und fein ausziseliertem Humor treffen Kraftklub auf insgesamt 12 Tracks die alte Tante Zeitgeist genau zwischen den Augen. Vor allem aber ist „Keine Nacht für Niemand“ genau das zeitgeistig-politische Album, auf das wir alle in diesen Tagen gewartet haben. Es wird ein langer und aufregender Sommer mit Kraftklub!Das Album kommt auf rotem Vinyl inkl Download Code.

Limited edition pressed on clear wax!“Sincerely, Future Pollution” is the sixth studio album by Canadian band Timber Timbre.Timber Timbre is a Canadian music group, featuring Taylor Kirk, Simon Trottier, Mathieu Charbonneau and Olivier Fairfield. The moniker refers to an early series of recordings made in a timber-framed cabin set in the wooded outskirts of Bobcaygeon, Ontario.

Repress! This Tokyo band started channeling the spirits of the Japanese psychedelic underground in the Summer of 2012, quickly developing the sound of '60s psychedelia to a breathtaking degree. The band's s/t debut exerts an elemental power. Enlivening its sound with sitars, percussive drums, theremins, wind instruments and ethereal vocals, the band manages to sound powerfully spacious and lazily serene all at once.

Mighty Oaks are an indie/folk rock trio made up of Ian Hooper (US), Claudio Donzelli (Italy) and Craig Saunders (UK). They formed in 2010 and are based in Berlin. According to Allmusic, the group releases "tight, three-part harmonies and effusive, largely acoustic-driven folk anthems." In early 2014 they released their first LP, “Howl”, on Universal Records. The album peaked at No. 10 on the German Billboard chart, with several singles charting as well. Now, the band presents their follow up album “Dreamers”.

With praise still reverberating from December's unveiling of 'Governed By Contagions', At The Drive In has issued another clarion call from its first album in 17 years: 'Incurably Innocent' is the second track to be released in advance of that record, titled in • ter a • li • a, now available for pre-order and confirmed for release May 5th on Rise Records.Pitting spacey phaser and thrash-y riffing against a sidewinder hook and siren wail, "Incurably Innocent," described by vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala as "a song about sexual abuse and being able to finally speak out," reveals additional facets of the kaleidoscopic in • ter a • li • a (Latin for "among other things"). Produced by Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Rich Costey at Hollywood's Sound Factory, the 11-song 41-minute in • ter a • li • a picks up where 2000's Relationship of Command left off... and rockets off into myriad other trajectories as unpredictable as they are intense.

’Hot Thoughts’’ is the bravest, most sonically inventive work of Spoon’s career. With all due respect to earlier efforts that have made the quintet both critically acclaimed and a commercial contender, preconceptions about this band are about to be obliterated. That’s not to say ‘Hot Thoughts’ doesn’t have a requisite supply of infectious earworms but there’s a lyrical bent that’s as carnal as it’s crafty, and a newfound sense of sonic exploration that results in the genresmasher Spoon have flirted with in the past but not fully consummated.Co-produced by Spoon and Dave Fridmann and reunited with Matador (third time’s the charm), let's acknowledge that Britt Daniel’s spot in the pantheon of rock’s genius songwriters was well established a ways back, but with the crackling, incandescent, multi-dimensional backdrop conjured on ‘Hot Thoughts’, the lines between accessible and experimental become non-factors for once and all. It’s pop as high art, delivered with total confidence and focus.

“Prisoner” is the sixteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Ryan Adams. The album is Adams' first album of original material since his 2014 album Ryan Adams and was preceded by the singles "Do You Still Love Me?," "To Be Without You," and "Doomsday."Ryan Adams (born David Ryan Adams; November 5, 1974) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, poet and painter. He is best known for his prolific solo career, during which he has released fifteen albums, and as a former member of alternative country band Whiskeytown, with whom he recorded three studio albums. In 2000, Adams left Whiskeytown and released his debut solo album, “Heartbreaker”, to critical acclaim. The album was nominated for the Shortlist Music Prize. In addition to his own material, Adams has also produced albums for Willie Nelson, Jesse Malin, Jenny Lewis, and Fall Out Boy, and has collaborated with Counting Crows, Weezer, Norah Jones, America, Minnie Driver, Cowboy Junkies, Leona Naess, Toots and the Maytals, Beth Orton and Krista Polvere. He has written “Infinity Blues”, a book of poems, and “Hello Sunshine”, a collection of poems and short stories.

Returning with their first full length record for Rough Trade, it will be fascinating to find out what Sleaford Mods made of 2016.The title here refers to cuisine in a pub the pair visited that consisted of "half a scotch egg, cup of chips, pickle and a mini pork pie" - a menu that sums up the useless state of England, as viewed through the lens of lead ranter Jason Williamson.Featuring all new songs recorded with Steve Mackey (Pulp), this is sure to be one of 2017's most-anticipated releases.

"Forget" was recorded during a period of epic productivity for Xiu Xiu. While writing "Forget" they released the lauded "Plays the Music of Twin Peaks", collaborated with Mitski on a song for an upcoming John Cameron Mitchell film, composed music for art installations by Danh Vo, recorded an album with Merzbow and scored an experimental reworking of the Mozart opera, "The Magic Flute".

Deluxe 2xLP version on aluminum & copper vinyl, a die-cut customizable jacket with 4 interactive “background” sleeves (so you can have whatever sky you damn well feel like as the cover), all encased in a clear slipcase. Includes a fold-out poster and an exclusive holographic tarot card not available in the standard FJM’s Ha Deck by Ed Steed.Since 2012, Father John Misty, aka Josh Tillman, has unexpectedly emerged as a singular (if not undeniably, um, idiosyncratic) voice. Whether by virtue of his lyrics, which routinely defy the presumed polarities of wit and empathy; his live performances which may perhaps be described best as “intimately berzerk”, or the infuriating line he seems to occupy between canny and total fraud online or in interviews, Father John Misty has cultivated a rare space for himself in the musical landscape – that of a real enigma. Pure Comedy sees Tillman at the height of these powers: as a lyricist, and equally so a cultural observer – at times bordering on freakishly prescient. Tillman’s bent critiques, bared humanity and gently warped classic songwriting are all here in equal measure and – at 75 minutes – there’s a veritable fuck ton of it. The album navigates themes of progress, technology, fame, the environment, politics, aging, social media, human nature, human connection and his own role in it all with his usual candour, and in terms as timely as they are timeless.Tillman wrote the majority of Pure Comedy throughout 2015 and recorded all the basic tracking and vocals live to tape (in no more than two takes each) at United Studios (fka the legendary Ocean Way Studios, favored by Frank Sinatra and The Beach Boys) in Los Angeles March 2016.Pure Comedy was co-produced once again by Josh Tillman and long-time producer Jonathan Wilson; mixed by Tillman, Wilson and Trevor Spencer, and mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering Studios. The album features string, horn and choral arrangements from classical iconoclast Gavin Bryars (Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet, Sinking Of The Titanic), with additional contributions from Nico Muhly and Thomas Bartlett.

Dirty Projectors announce their long-awaited 7th LP. The new album does everything we want and expect from Dirty Projectors — but in a way we never could have imagined or anticipated. In a career of surprising conceptual gambits, unexpected stylistic evolutions, and continually changing lineups — this is, as DJ Khaled says, “Another One”!

Deluxe edition of their 1997 album.

“NYC Ghosts & Flowers” is the 11th studio album by American noise rock/alternative rock band Sonic Youth. It was released on May 16, 2000 by record label DGC. The album was very experimental and can be considered as a reaction to the theft of their instruments in July 1999, in which many irreplaceable guitars and effects pedals were stolen. This is also the first album since “Bad Moon Rising” in which Sonic Youth used John Cage-like prepared guitar, for example using a bicycle horn between the strings on “Lightnin”, a lime between the strings and the first pickup and a file inserted over the neck pickup on “Small Flowers Crack Concrete” and a drum stick between the strings in “Free City Rhymes”. Finally back in print!

One of the most distinctive voices in British music, Jamie T releases his hugely anticipated fourth album “Trick”. Trick arrives after a gap of less than two years shot through with the kind of vibrancy that can only come from a man who’s rediscovered his love of writing, recording and performing. Recorded in London and Detroit, Michigan, “Trick” features co-production and all instruments played by Jamie and long-time creative partner James Dring and is the kind of brave and eclectic rock/punk/reggae/rap/pop celebration that only Jamie T could make. Inspired by claustrophobic London Summers, the album is a proud, punchy summing-up of all Jamie’s unique signatures – Clash-like anthems, youthful reminiscence, high-speed raps, earworm choruses and snarky humour.

Returning with a more psychedelic sound and a range of guest vocalists that slice through the starkest of electro beats, 'Mystère' sees La Femme celebrating all that's wonderful about their city Paris. Recorded between a castle in Brittany and a Paris basement before being finished up with Sonny Diperri (Animal Collective) in LA, 'Mystère' once again sees backgrounds blurred and worlds collide. The band's chic retro-futurist surf-pop sound possesses the same dose of glamorous punk stomp as previously, but now layered with an elegant fusion of influences including Ennio Morricone, Marie Et Les Garcons, The Velvet Underground, oriental sounds, Turkish disco, Tuareg blues, medieval psychedelia, and mainstays s.a. Brian Eno and Pink Floyd.

Here's something very special for the heads, limited to 300 copies on black wax.In fall 2015, the Cosmic Compositions crew came up with a beautiful compilation showcasing a range of psychedelic, punk & surf rock from around the globe and we at hhv.de are very pleased to present this quality release on vinyl now. Artists included here are Jitwan, Pacific Yew, Ashes Holland, Anderson Mahalek, Salami Rose Joe Lewis, Christoph El Truento and many more.

Using the textured soundscapes of The Bends as a launching pad, Radiohead delivered another startlingly accomplished set of modern guitar rock with OK Computer. The anthemic guitar heroics present on Pablo Honey and even The Bends are nowhere to be heard here. Radiohead have stripped away many of the obvious elements of guitar rock, creating music that is subtle and textured yet still has the feeling of rock & roll. Even at its most adventurous -- such as the complex, multi-segmented "Paranoid Android" -- the band is tight, melodic, and muscular, and Thom Yorke's voice effortlessly shifts from a sweet falsetto to vicious snarls. It's a thoroughly astonishing demonstration of musical virtuosity and becomes even more impressive with repeated listens, which reveal subtleties like electronica rhythms, eerie keyboards, odd time signatures, and complex syncopations. Yet all of this would simply be showmanship if the songs weren't strong in themselves, and OK Computer is filled with moody masterpieces, from the shimmering "Subterranean Homesick Alien" and the sighing "Karma Police" to the gothic crawl of "Exit Music (For a Film)." OK Computer is the album that establishes Radiohead as one of the most inventive and rewarding guitar rock bands of the '90s. - allmusic.com

Pablo Honey in no way was adequate preparation for its epic, sprawling follow-up, The Bends. Building from the sweeping, three-guitar attack that punctuated the best moments of Pablo Honey, Radiohead create a grand and forceful sound that nevertheless resonates with anguish and despair -- it's cerebral anthemic rock. Occasionally, the album displays its influences, whether it's U2, Pink Floyd, R.E.M., or the Pixies, but Radiohead turn clichés inside out, making each song sound bracingly fresh. Thom Yorke's tortured lyrics give the album a melancholy undercurrent, as does the surging, textured music. But what makes The Bends so remarkable is that it marries such ambitious, and often challenging, instrumental soundscapes to songs that are at their cores hauntingly melodic and accessible. It makes the record compelling upon first listen, but it reveals new details with each listen, and soon it becomes apparent that with The Bends, Radiohead have reinvented anthemic rock. - allmusic.com

Die Melvins - die Band, die u.a. auch dafür berühmt ist, in ihrer frühen Phase Kurt Cobain als Gitarristen abgelehnt zu haben - sind seit 1983 aktiv. Ihre Zusammenarbeit mit Mike Pattons (Faith No More) Label Ipecac besteht seit 1999 und begann mit der sogenannten "Trilogie des Wahnsinns", die aus den Alben "The Maggot" (1999), "The Bootlicker" (1999) und "The Crybaby" (2000) besteht. Und auch "Basses Loaded" entspringt jener Funken des Wahnsinns, den es braucht, um amerikanischen Indie-Rock derart querzudenken, wie nur die Melvins das tun. Heavy, verspielt, schräg aber dennoch prägnant, ist "Basses Loaded" bei aller Abwechslung ein sehr stringentes Album, welches die Band auf dem Höhepunkt des Schaffens präsentiert.