From the archives:

Dinosaur Jr. - Farm [15th Anniversary Edition] (August 16)

Galaxie 500 - Uncollected Noise New York '88-'90 (September 20)

Bob Dylan and The Band - The 1974 Live Recordings (September 20)

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II [Expanded Edition] (October 4)

J Spaceman & John Coxon - Music For William Egglestone's Stranded In Canton (October 18)

BASIC - This Is BASIC (September 6)

Just as I thought, this is Chris Forsyth following the path of Robert Quine & Fred Maher's Basic album, from 1984. Excellent.

Alan Sparhawk-"White Roses, My God"
https://alansparhawk.bandcamp.com/al...e-roses-my-god

So he's got two solo albums ready. Next one next year?

The price of the CD on Bandcamp is incorrect, evidently - it goes for $12 at the Sub Pop Megamart. I think somebody repeated the price of the T-shirt or something.

"the next solo record after this one, recorded with Trampled by Turtles as his backing ban"


looking forward to that one !
I in general really hate those misformed vocals, but somehow when Alan does it it still works for me

Sub to the Pop emailed me back - the CD on Bandcamp went from $29 to $12. YOU'RE WELCOME. :D

Wendy Eisenberg - Viewfinder (September 13)

Tropical Fuck Storm - Inflatable Graveyard (September 27)

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - Woodland (August 23; CD and LP October 25)

This happens every 10+ years, so...

Aluk Todolo - LUX (September 6)

Envy – Eunoia (October 11)

Silver Scrolls -Mind Lines (September 6)

I'm really looking forward to this one. Their debut was amazing.

Whitney Johnson – Hav (27.9)
Lia Kohl - Normal Sounds (30.8)
Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets - Indoor Safari (13.9)
Mamaleek – Vida Blue (9.8)
Matchess – Stena (27.9)

Seefeel - Everything Squared (August 30). Holy crap!

Samara Lubelski Bill Nace Duo - 43/80 (out now, few copies remain)

Laura Cannell and Lori Goldston - The Deer Are Small And The Rabbits Are Big (August 23)

Neil Young - Archives Vol. III (1976-1987) Box Set


:eek: 17 CDs and five Blu-rays :eek:

The Rat Henry LP on Petty Bunco is probably my favourite new release of the year so far, and The Shadow Ring boxset is my favourite archival release.

I've sent Graham Lambkin the full video of his performance at Worse, recently, and he replied that he will send me something through the post, which is nice of him. I'm hoping it's some of his artwork or this box set because I really want it, but money is tight for us at the moment. I'm also looking forward to take some snaps of him, when he comes back from the States.

The boxset is great and it comes with an enourmous book about the Shadow Ring. At first I was skeptical with the way the music has been collected, the CDs are not replications of albums and singles, but a roughly chronological (by recording date) ordering of all their previously released music (excluding the live LP, and The Klaus Canterbury 7" I think), and some previously unreleased,bits and bobs across the approx 10 CDs,
Personally I think 3 CDs of pre-Shadow Ring material is more than is really needed, it could have been boiled down to 1 CDs worth and it would have been fine. But ultimately that's not really important. I was curious to hear how the music all sounded with a remastering but having listened now I don't have much to say about it, which is probably a good thing. I'd have to play the new versions side by side with old ones to see exactly how different they are, which I may do to at some point in the nearish future as I'm off work with a broken arm and have the rare treat of time to kill.

Klara Lewis - Thankful (September 27)

Bobby Would