October 25th New Releases

•A Classic Education – Call It Blazing CD/LP (Lefse)

“Melding all sorts of influences (’90s indie rock, ’80s Flying Nun, ’60s baroque/psych), A Classic Education are just tight enough while retaining a bit of shambolic charm, sweeping romanticism.” — Brooklyn Vegan

•A Loss For Words – No Sanctuary CD (Rise)

New from the Boston pop/punk band.

•Banner Pilot – Heart Beats Pacific CD/LP (Fat Wreck Chords)

Banner Pilot is a punk band from Minneapolis, MN.

•The Beets – Let the Poison Out CD/LP (Hardly Art)

All of the Beets elements are here; jangly acoustic guitar, simply captured sing-along lyrics about yourself, being free, not fitting in, and an undercurrent of restless energy.

•Black Tusk – Set the Dial CD/LP (Relapse)

New from GA sludge/hardcore/metal outfit — produced by Jack Endino.

•JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound – Want More CD/LP (Bloodshot)

With a sound like a meeting between Otis Redding and The Stooges, Brooks erupts with raw emotion, harnessing the Uptown Sound’s post-punk edge and delivering music ranging from sweaty on-the-one workouts, dance-punk booty shakers, garage rock thump humps, and aching R&B ballads.

•Coldplay – Mylo Xyloto CD/LP (Capitol)

New album now available — vinyl version due November 1.

•Comet Gain – Howl of the Lonely Crowd CD/LP (What’s Your Rupture)

Their influence remains a traceable and tangible thing; galvanizing iconic bands and musicians, from Bikini Kill and Make-Up to a younger generation like Male Bonding, Love is All, Veronica Falls, and Crystal Stilts.

•Danava – Hemisphere of Shadows CD/LP (Kemado)

Danava’s bombastic ‘70s sound melds blazing psych-metal with glam-rock flair.

•Dead to Me – Moscow Penny Ante CD/LP (Fat Wreck Chords)

Third studio album from the punk rockers.

•Deer Tick – Divine Providence CD/LP (Partisan)

From the band that’s been both accurately and inaccurately labeled just about everything this side of Top 40 comes a true-to-form rock & roll record. More raw, real, and raucous than anything they have released to date.

•Dirty Projectors + Bjork – Mount Wittenberg Orca CD/LP (Domino)

A collaboration between the orchestral Brookyln group and the avant-pop princess… inspired by a whale sighting.

•Dntel – Life Is Full of Possibilities CD/LP (Sub Pop)

“Now reissued with bonus material, this album is best remembered for birthing the Postal Service, via the Jimmy Tamborello and Ben Gibbard collaboration ‘The Dream Of Evan And Chan.’ A decade on, it offers a vision of how ‘experimental’ met ‘catchy’ in 2001. [8.8]” — Pitchfork

•Dub Trio – IV CD/LP (Roir)

“When listening to IV you can hear that ‘dub’, as a concept and less as a genre synonymous to reggae, is at the core of the music, and while listening you’ll hear everything from metal to dubstep… there’s even a prepared piano track,” says Dub Trio drummer Joe Tomino.

•El Rego – El Rego CD/LP (Daptone)

El Rego is a true legend of African soul music. Here for the first time on album are twelve of his greatest recordings from the late ’60s and early ’70s hand-picked by Daptone Records.

•HoneyHoney – Billy Jack CD/LP (Lost Highway)

Twenty-something musicians Suzanne Santo and Ben Jaffe thread sweet melodies with big acoustic guitar sounds, percussive banjos and countrified fiddles.

•Justice – Audio, Video, Disco CD (Elektra)

New club jams from the Ed Banger wonderkids.

•Peggy Sue – Acrobats CD/LP (Yep Roc)

Peggy Sue call upon early influences like Sonic Youth and The Breeders to release the ferocity that had always been swimming just beneath the surface of their music.

•John Prine – Singing Mailman Delivers CD (Oh Boy)

Specially priced double CD set of John Prine’s earliest recordings, one year before his debut, with classic hits and one unreleased song. Both discs consist of recently unearthed tapes — the first disc is a August 1970 recording for John recording songs that would make up his first album at the WFMT studios in Chicago. Disc Two is a live set from November 1970, featuring versions of many of the same songs, recorded during his residency at Chicago’s Fifth Peg.

•Prurient – Time’s Arrow CD/LP (Hydra Head)

Prurient veer away from punishing noise, hitting a new trajectory where structured songs are shaped via a core of dark synths.

•Russian Circles – Empros CD/LP (Sargent House)

Empros picks up where the anthemic riffs and melodies of 2009′s Geneva left off and injects slithering rhythms amid skull-crushing heft with all the visceral intensity of Godflesh, Swans and Neurosis.

•She & Him – A Very She & Him Christmas CD/LP (Merge)

Deschanel and Ward let the holiday tunes speak for themselves, oftentimes recording them with just acoustic guitar and vocals. Available on CD and on red vinyl.

•Spectrals – Bad Penny CD/LP (Slumberland)

Spectrals is 21-year-old Louis Jones. Mixing ingredients of pop, soul, doo-wop and garage rock ballads, it sounds vintage but current, while the Yorkshire lilt in Jones’s voice (a result of his hometown, Heckmondwike) places him firmly in the UK, rather than Detroit.

•Star Fucking Hipsters – From the Dumpster to the Grave CD/LP (Fat Wreck Chords)

12 new tracks expectedly span several genres including punk, ska, hip-hop, metal and folk, all wrapped in a hardcore shell.

•Strange Boys – Live Music CD (Rough Trade)

“ Texas skuzz-punks The Strange Boys made a move toward cleaning up its screechy R&B on last year’s Be Brave, but the new Live Music is a whole other level of good behavior for the band. The record prominently features piano and even a ballad or two, though singer Ryan Sambol’s love-it-or-hate-it vocals keep the Strange Boys on the drunk and unkempt side of pop” — A.V. Club. Vinyl version due November 8.

•Surfer Blood – Tarot Classics CD/LP (Kanine)

New EP featuring remixes by Totally Sincere and Speculator. Deluxe vinyl version features bonus remixes by School Of Seven Bells and Allen Blickle and alternative mixes of the EP tracks by Sune Rose Wagner (The Raveonettes) in the download, along with live concert bootleg DVD.

•Christina Vantzou – No. 1 CD/LP (Kranky)

Christina began composed No. 1 in isolation over a three-year period using synthesizers, samples, and voice, transforming the 45 minute single track into a score for a seven piece orchestra.

•Tom Waits – Bad As Me CD/LP (Anti)

Waits’ first studio album of all new music in seven years. Available in Regular and Deluxe editions. Deluxe package includes a 40-page book and three bonus tracks.