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FAWN's members are not strangers to rock-as-release endeavors (their line up boasts members of THUNDERBIRDS ARE NOW!, VON BONDIES, KIDDO, JAVELIN & THOSE TRANSATLANTICS). Their debut, "Coastlines" evokes an undeniable positivity when the cadence of melodies start to go to a somber place. It's the kind of music to blast with your car windows open immediatley after quitting your job at the mall. Record Label: Quite Scientifi Style: Independent

Record Label: Pias Uk/Rock Action Style: Independent

Echo Lake formed late in 2010 after Thom Hill and Linda Jarvis met studying at art school in South London. The ex-choir girl's voice perfectly suited Hill's Brian Wilson meets Galaxie 500 productions and they set about work on a project. A songwriting and recording duo but fleshed out to a five piece for rare live dates, the act were picked up by cult London label No Pain In Pop and the resulting, acclaimed debut EP 'Young Silence' quickly caused a press feeding frenzy. Fourteen months later and debut album Wild Peace is a considered, singular work brashly proving all the hype right. Marrying Hill's huge, dense production style with countless interweaving layers of Jarvis' emotive and cavernous voice the tracks seem to both float like the densest of mirages and maintain a majestic, considered indie-rock classicism. It's a uniquely direct and convicted take on the melodic side of psychedelia's pop frontier; the sound of a band flying close to the sun with just their debut release. 'Further Down' is a meticulous introduction to the record; paced perfectly around Jarvis' vengeful whispers with a controlled and tuned aggression which could be a description of the group as a whole. Early single 'Another Day' is as straightforward a classic-British-guitar-pop-track as you could hope for, with Hill's joyous guitar lead spiralling over rising vocals and eventually building up to a frenetic climax. Third track 'Wild Peace' is swooning organ and string-led ballad set to soundtrack a lost prom waltz, the widescreen chorus summoning up hazy memories of Kim Gordon's cooings on 'Shadow of A Doubt', latterday Beach House and endlessly spinning mirror balls. The early-Arcade Fire immediacy of 'Even The Blind' is the album's boldest point: a shimmering affirmation of hope and self-belief in a decade of interesting times. After the impressionistic blushes of instrumental 'Monday 5AM' the record quickly picks up pace. 'Young Silence' and 'In Dreams' - both from the band's debut EP - more overtly recall My Bloody Valentine's raw, abstract energy and Deerhunter or Spacemen 3's layered, rhythmic sprawl. The former's a Spector-ish wall of sound pop tune set to warp speed and the latter an ethereal interpretation of kraut minimalism. Jarvis' interchangeable, chameleon vocals give 'Last Song Of The Year' a huge and uplifting melodic quality furthered by a hypnotic riff John Squire would be proud of atop stadium-sized drums. Closers 'Swimmers' and 'Just Kids' give hints of beachcombing Real Estate pop, listless Cocteau Twins shoegaze, Spiritualized atmospherics and mainstream Britpop pomp. In their essence, they display the uniqueness of a young band emerging fully formed, rapidly honing their many influences with supreme confidence. This one will be on plenty of reputed "End of Year" lists, Shimmering pop of the highest order! Record Label: No Pain In Pop Style: Independent

180-gram vinyl includes download code. After six years of constant Holy Fuck touring, Brian Borcherdt emerged from the tangled cables and broken drum machines with a slew of new songs. Looking to explore a different sound, Borcherdt teamed with producer Leon Taheny (Final Fantasy, Rituals, Bruce Peninsula) and together the pair recorded in a converted garage under the name Dusted. The resulting album, Total Dust, resides in an atmosphere that is sometimes melodic, sometimes haunting, and always clouded by a fuzzy glow. With string arrangements and half-hidden guitar feedback held together by the occasional tambourine and minimal drum machine, the stripped down mood perfectly complements a collection of songs that are more than capable of standing on their own merits Style: Independent

DIIV - formerly known as DIVE - is the nom-de-plume of Z. Cole Smith, musical provocateur and frontman of an atmospheric and autumnally-charged new Brooklyn four-piece. Recently inked to the uber-reliable Captured Tracks imprint, DIIV created instant vibrations in the blog-world with their impressionistic debut "Sometime"; finding it's way onto the esteemed pages of Pitchfork and Altered Zones a mere matter of weeks after the group's formation. Enlisting the aid of NYC indie-scene-luminary, Devin Ruben Perez, former Smith Westerns drummer Colby Hewitt, and Mr. Smith's childhood friend Andrew Bailey, DIIV craft a sound that is at once familial and frost-bitten. Indebted to classic kraut, dreamy Creation-records psychedelia, and the primitive-crunch of late-80s Seattle, the band walk a divisive yet perfectly fused patch of classic-underground influence Record Label: Captured Tracks Style: Independent

Formerly known as YellowFever this is the first full-length under the moniker DEEP TIME. From Austin TX comes a bewitching pop duo, comprised of Jennifer Moore on Organ, electric guitar and vocal microphone, and Adam Jones on drums. Jennifer Moore, once the torchbearer for girl-group legends THE CARROTS is something altogether unusual in the modern age; a singer with those endangered qualities: personality, style, and an arresting delivery. Adam Jones is the jazzy 'batterista,' as musical and dynamic a drummer as you will see on the scene today. What if Stereolab were more interested in sounding like Young Marble Giants or LiLiPut instead of Krautrock and French Pop? Record Label: Hardly Art Style: Independent

Record Label: Pias Uk/Sunday Best Style: Independent

Record Label: Pias Uk/Sunday Best Style: Independent

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Mikal Cronin steps momentarily away from the rhythm section of THE MOONHEARTS with his debut solo release. TY SEGALL plays drums on a few tracks & helped record this platter, which also features guest spots from Ty as well as John Dwyer (THEE OH SEES). Mikal's debut is full of personal & universal themes, taking such influences as late 60s Del Shannon & The Everley Bros, a more punk Harry Nilsson or Curt Boettcher, balancing sweet melodies & chords with chunky, psychedelic guitar freakouts, filtering them through his own mutant California fuzz. Record Label: Trouble In Mind Style: Independent

FORMAT: "7xLP + DVD + Book + USB" Box Set. This deluxe box set is strictly limited to 1,000 copies. "A Dot In Time." collects the entire audio-visual output of the Books via 95 songs on 7 vinyl records, a 2-hour DVD, a 56-page picture book, and a cassette-shaped USB flash drive containing every song in high-quality MP3 format. Included in this set are all of the highly acclaimed original studio albums, remastered in 2011: Thought For Food, The Lemon of Pink, Lost and Safe, and The Way Out; also included is the previously unreleased double-album Music For A French Elevator and Other Oddities, a 45-track compendium of rare and previously unreleased tracks, all remastered in 2012 exclusively for this release. The Freedom From Expression DVD is also included here. Previously unreleased and compiled especially for this box set, it collects every video ever made by the Books, including several previously only seen in live concerts. Packaged in a sturdy, gorgeous full-color box, this is the exhaustive and perfectly fitting conclusion to one of underground music's most vital players of the past decade. This deluxe box set is strictly limited to 1,000 copies. Style: Independent

Record Label: The Noise Company Style: Rock

went to the studio with Eric Slick [Dr. Dog] and just ripped through a loose concept. Ended up using his first take drums. Went and found a couple of kids in the building to play sax and vibes. Ended up layering tons of Eventide guitars over it and jotted down a quick bit of lyrics. First take vocals all the way across. Beefheart/Barrett bastardization gone mudslide." - Michael Johnson on "Marijuana's on the Phone". Backed with "Blame Mark Griffey," the 7" features a full-color cover in a heavy PVC sleeve, plus two transparency masks by Freegums. The record was created in partnership with Needless Records, the Florida-based label home to Jacuzzi Boys and Woven Bones. Record Label: Hometapes Style: Independent

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The world has caught up to Beachwood Sparks since they came out of nowhere in 2000 with their self-titled debut album, bringing new life to what Gram Parsons famously described as "cosmic American music," and recapturing L.A.'s laidback but vibrant heyday back in the late '60s and early '70s. At the time, this kind of harmony-rich, irony-free music was rare. After their second album, 2002's trippier Once We Were Trees, and the decidedly offbeat 2003 EP Make the Cowboy Robots Cry, Beachwood Sparks called it quits. But during the subsequent half decade, the indie music scene began to change with the appearance, and wholesale acceptance, of multi-voiced throwback groups from Fleet Foxes to Bon Iver to Grizzly Bear. Clearly, the time is right for an album that stands as the purest expression of this hallowed form to appear in the 21st century, as the planets at long last align for this single-minded band. With "The Tarnished Gold", Los Angeles, CA's much-beloved BEACHWOOD SPARKS return with their first new album in 11 years. The album features the singles "Forget the Song" and "Sparks Fly Again." "The Tarnished Gold" is the work of the classic BEACHWOOD SPARKS lineup: singer/guitarist Chris Gunst, singer/bassist Rademaker, singer/multi-instrumentalist Farmer Dave Scher, and singer/drummer Aaron Sperske, with invaluable support from guitarist and longtime friend Ben Knight (The Tyde). For the sessions, the band expanded to seven members, with guitarists Knight and Neal Casal (solo artist and former member of Ryan Adams and the Cardinals), with Dan Horne on pedal steel in place of Scher, who opted to play organ, key, flying V guitar and electrified melodica. Also lending a hand were Gunst's wife Jen Cohen (from The Aislers Set and, more recently, Mystic Chords of Memory), Sparks' very first drummer Jimi Hey, Brent's brother Darren (leader of The Tyde), and L.A. indie-rock maestro Ariel Pink. Producer Thom Monahan returned to his familiar spot behind the console. The album finds the band - chemistry as strong as ever - pushing themselves to make a truly memorable record. "We're treading in areas that we never thought we'd go on this record," says Rademaker. "It's great to be making the kind of music that I like with my best friends and favorite musicians. The triumph was not only that it came out so listenable and good but also that we made the most of just being together. And if this turns out to be the last Beachwood Sparks record, we can take satisfaction in the fact that we went out on a high note. At any rate, I know I'll be listening to this record for the rest of my life.

The 11th official album by Anglo-French popular underground oxymoron, Piano Magic, ,Life Has Not Finished With Me Yet", sees the group emerging from beneath the wreckage of previous guitar-heavy albums to re-investigate the darker, more electronic sonic themes of their earlier work. Instant parallels will inevitably be drawn with the ghostly chamber pop of 1999's ,Artists Rifles" and the even earlier surreal romanticism of ,Low Birth Weight". At the core, once again, Glen Johnson"s unashamedly nihilistic ruminations on the human condition, though now shrouded in foggy analog synth washes, pulsing heart beats, cathedral reverbs and Joe Meek-esque spectral vox. This is an album of beautiful, indispensible baroque ghostliness, of disconnected hearts and oceans. Touchstones would be the new, airless beauty of Regis and Raim, the timeless gravitas of Dead Can Dance and the urban, though melodic, isolationist output of late 70's/early 80's Factory records.Since 1996, Piano Magic have established themselves as something of an oxymoron: a popular underground band. Previously hailed as a secret love amongst European darkwave enthusiasts, recent concerts in their home city of London have revealed a confident foray into quieter, more fragile, melodic material, eschewing the dynamic, cathartic guitar barrages of recent albums, ,Part Monster" and ,Ovations" . Often cited for their selective collaborations (with Vashti Bunyan, Low, Dead Can Dance), ,Life Has Not Finished With Me Yet" is the group stripped back to the core of Glen Johnson, Jerome Tcherneyan, Angele David Guillou, Franck Alba and Alasdair Streer, albeit with\ a small supporting orchestral cast. Josh Hight (of Irons) adds his voice to ,Judas", ,The Way We Treat Animals" and "A Secret Never Told