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The first single from TENDER TRAP's new album "Ten Songs About Girls" is "Step One", which offers obstreperous instructions to aspiring young girl bands everywhere. With three strong female voices on the record, sometimes harmonizing, sometimes calling and responding, sometimes singing alone, TENDER TRAP draw on the dynamics of the original girl group songs, but aim to show what happens when those girls aren't in thrall to the male Svengali. "Step One" is a fantastic call and response, fist-pumper of a song, laying out advice in a series of steps about how to become a successful girl band Record Label: Fortuna Pop! Style: Independent

With their fifth studio album, "Fairytales and Other Forms of Suicide", The Old Ceremony continues to explore the cinematic textures and songcraft that have become their unique calling card. More than any of their past recordings, Fairytales coheres around a central theme: of awakening to the world as it is and learning to see the beauty in its harshness. Meditations on love ("Fairytales and Other Forms of Suicide," "The Royal We," "Day That I Was Born,"), politics ("Sink or Swim"), and scientific progress ("Star by Star") all return to this central theme. Over their career The Old Ceremony has forged their own distinctive sound. It is the sound of seeking: for new textures, for hidden corners of experience, for a flash of truth in an otherwise confusing world. Style: Independent

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Released in full colour gatefold sleeves and now a double white vinyl Record Label: Invada Style: Independent

Record Label: Domino Records Style: Independent

Record Label: Criticalheights Style: Independent

Hungry Ghost, a Portland supergroup of obscure '90s indie rockers, was born of decades long friendships and mutual admiration. Stewed and simmered in the cauldrons of Olympia post-punk, Portland experimentalism, and New Mexican trash-garage, Hungry Ghost is Sara Lund (Unwound, Corin Tucker Band) on drums, Andrew Price (Irving Klaw Trio) on guitar, and the Lorca Wood attack (The Drags) on bass. Masterfully produced by PacNW indie rock legend Sam Coomes (Quasi, Heatmiser, Elliot Smith, Pink Mountain, Crock, etc), who also contributes guest keyboards on the album, these recordings manage to capture the focused, gritty edge and hypnotic raw power of the band's live performances. In addition to the aforementioned bands, nods are given to influencers as far and wide as Led Zeppelin, Erkin Koray, Alice Coltrane, The Groundhogs, The Staple Singers, John Fahey, Black Sabbath, Pussy Galore, Nick Drake, The Kinks, X, Joy Division, The Gories, and African Psychedelia of the '60s and '70s Record Label: Hungry Ghost Style: Independent

Moxie Bravo from the High Strung features the song "The Luck You Got" from Showtime's Shameless. Though Moxie Bravo is the High Strung's first album as a trio, they opt for refinement instead of reinvention on this set of songs. Reunited with These Are Good Times producer Jim Diamond, the band plays up its power poppy hooks and close harmonies instead of the garagey leanings of their debut. The song "The Luck You Got" is being used as a theme song to the US version of the show "Shameless Record Label: Paper Thin Style: Independent

Brand new album from the High Strung! Sixth album from the genre-jumping Detroit band. A number of the songs "think big" ("Extraordinary Times", "Big Game Hunter", "Giant") or consider what is possible ("?Posible o' Imposible?", "Rats Rats Rats"). It's philosophical, it's randy. It's got energy, it's got nerve. It's sexy and fresh, strange and smart. It's the kind of album kids will be downloading, illegal or not, as they talk about the lyrics Record Label: Paper Thin Style: Independent

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Record Label: Skycap Style: Independent

Cream coloured vinyl LP (+ free full album download). As a regular collaborator with the likes of Howe Gelb/Giant Sand, Devotchka and Calexico, it is no surprise to find that Naïm was able to assemble such a wonderful supporting cast for his third album of songs, which sits alongside his series of 'Soundtracks' releases, as well as his pre-solo ventures as one half of Amor Belhom Duo, one quarter of A.B.B.C., and back in his native France with the band Witches Valley. Having relocated to Tucson, Arizona in the mid 0s, Naïm has become an established part of the city's critically acclaimed band of sonically adventurous troubadours, and much like the more renowned lights of the Tucson scene shows an ability to absorb and make his own different genres, or as he himself describes it: "i had most of the songs, and i wanted to frame them through a theme...i didn't compose thinking 'Brazil', i had the songs and then decided to 'take them to Brazil'". So 'Dansons' is the new album, inspired by Brazilian sounds, though remaining firmly in Naïm's own tradition of songwriting, primarily sung in French, partly sung in English, and sometimes, like with the opening track, simply allowing the music itself to create its own unique hybrid language - a song that began originally as 'country', took a rhythmic twist, and added some bossa nova sounding guitar, hence the title "Creole"; and similarly the sole cover version on the album - "Our Day Will Come" - takes its cue from the Ruby & The Romantics original, but transforms it from a rocksteady ballad into a bossa nova duet with the delightful vocal assistance of Emilie Marchand. Elsewhere, "The Other Step" acts as some kind of spatial counterpart to the aforementioned cover , and the title track is the per-'sonic'-fication of swaying hips with its sultry shuffle breaking into the more traditional (to Naïm's adopted surroundings) sound of sud-ouest America, before a flourish of Djangoism brings it nicely back. Whilst once more embracing the spirit of Brazilica, the cuica adds its distinctive backdrop most predominantly on the "The Day After" - a late addition prompted by Calexico's Joey Burns' assertion that something was missing.see it's all about the ingredients, and a good sonic chef will always be prepared to take on board some sound advice - yet at the same time recalls the boulevards of Paris (as further evoked by the words of Charles Baudelaire that provide the lyrics to "Le Revenant", itself a wink to Serge Gainsbourg who pulled off a similar trick back in the revolutionary decade of Naïm's birth), and then once more the cuica leads beautifully into "Time is Real" a pastoral meditation on the "materiality" of time, whilst alluding to the ability to rewind eel to real' in the recording process. With a core recording set up gathered at Jim Waters' Waterworks studios of Naïm's regular gigging partner Matt Mitchell on classical guitar, Athur Vint on drums and Giant Sand's Thoger Lund on upright bass, recording directly on to analog tape, not just for the tone quality, but as Naim says: "you can't fix it...it forces you to get the take right"; and later augmented by Howe Gelb on wurlitzer piano, Marco Rosano on accordion and Christian Ravaglioli on oboe, with Emilie Marchand adding vocals to two songs and John Convertino supplying thunder drum on another. Record Label: Vacilando 68 Style: Independent

Jon Windle releases his eagerly awaited follow up to 2010's STEP OUT THE MAN, with 10 infectious new tracks packed full of the classic wit, humour, twists and turns that have become synonymous with a Windle tune. Recorded once more with Alan Smyth at 2Fly studios, this album charts the journey of several imagined characters through a life changing weekend of drunken debauchery, romance, regret and libatious pleasures. With frank and deliberately ironic humour and subtle poetry, Sober Minds has a definite sixties psyche influence, whilst maintaining a contemporary edge in its lyrical content. Windle's growing maturity as a solo recording artist is evident in the style and subject matter of the tracks offered on this second release. His ability to recall his youth, with joy and just enough cynicism to keep us interested alongside his talent for writing solid, danceable pop music ensures this album will find a place in the hearts of fans old and new, local and international. Record Label: Tiny Teeth Style: Independent

Record Label: Counter Records Style: Rock

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Record Label: Illegal Art Style: Independent

Hungry Ghost, a Portland supergroup of obscure '90s indie rockers, was born of decades long friendships and mutual admiration. Stewed and simmered in the cauldrons of Olympia post-punk, Portland experimentalism, and New Mexican trash-garage, Hungry Ghost is Sara Lund (Unwound, Corin Tucker Band) on drums, Andrew Price (Irving Klaw Trio) on guitar, and the Lorca Wood attack (The Drags) on bass. Masterfully produced by PacNW indie rock legend Sam Coomes (Quasi, Heatmiser, Elliot Smith, Pink Mountain, Crock, etc), who also contributes guest keyboards on the album, these recordings manage to capture the focused, gritty edge and hypnotic raw power of the band's live performances. In addition to the aforementioned bands, nods are given to influencers as far and wide as Led Zeppelin, Erkin Koray, Alice Coltrane, The Groundhogs, The Staple Singers, John Fahey, Black Sabbath, Pussy Galore, Nick Drake, The Kinks, X, Joy Division, The Gories, and African Psychedelia of the '60s and '70s Record Label: Hungry Ghost Style: Independent

The High Strung's 2003 release! The High Strung don't do garage rock per se. Instead of going for bluesy guitar chops like some of their Motor City counterparts, these Detroit natives-turned-Brooklyn ruffians sugarcoat rock & roll for a '60s psychedelic/indie rock blend. Call it garage pop if you like. These Are Good Times marks the band's debut, introducing the High Strung's sunny, stylish sound, which very well matches the Buzzcocks' more cheeky moments Record Label: Paper Thin Style: Independent