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1 /2 / LAMA ENDLESS REPEATS Spoon Train Audio STA Etter at LAMA spilte sin første konsert i 2008 har utviklingen vært bratt og variert. Fra den selvproduserte Guidebook til Lamaland som trakk på referanser fra Nils Martin Larsens fortid i Jaga Jazzist, en plate full av knitrete elektronikk og jazzelementer, beveget Lama seg videre mot post-rocken. Allerede senere samme år kom den første bandproduksjonen. Albumet Look What You Made Us Do fikk gode kritikker og er en plate som lot seg inspirere av de pompøse lydlandskapene vi kjenner fra band som Mogwai, Sigur Ròs og Godspeed! You Black Emperor. Endless Repeats er spilt inn i fantastiske Ocean Sound på Giske, før superprodusent Jørgen Træen fått lagt sine hender på verket i mix og postproduksjon, og Björn Engelmann i Cutting Room har mastret det hele. Endless Repeats er blitt en følelsesladet popplate som gjennom gnistrende instrumentering og perfeksjonert produksjon utfordrer og begeistrer mer og mer for hver gjennomlytting. brutal truth end time Relapse RR / RR / Grindcore-veteranenen i BRUTAL TRUTH har aldri gitt ved dørene og 23-sporsangrepet End Time markerer ikke et skifte i så måte. Brutalt, velspilt og hardtslående for fans av for eksempel NAPALM DEATH, NUCLEAR ASSAULT, ANTHRAX etc. While BT don t exhibit any progressive or technical tendencies on End Time, they bring something refreshing to grindcore namely, a sharp rock n roll edge that makes the genre about as catchy as it s ever going to get. The chaos and noise isn t the grating sound of self-conscious abrasion. Rather, it s the expected slop of a rock and roll band that knows how to swing. End Time doesn t bring grindcore to the next level. On the contrary, it goes back to basics, setting a new standard for grimy, light-speed rock and roll. 4/5 METAL SUCKS DIVERSE ARTISTER THE LEGENDARY STUDIO ONE RECORDS original classic recordings Soul Jazz SJR 248 / SJR / Soul Jazz slo seg tidlig opp som hoffleverandør # 1 av reggae-reissues, og spesielt med utgivelser basert på Studio One-arkivene. På denne nye samleren gir de oss et nytt dypdykk i hvelvene til denne legendariske labelen som i sin tid ble kalt The Motown of Jamaica. og dobbel deluxe. Senere i år kommer en bok som presenterer coverart fra etikettens mange utgivelser NEW FOUND GLORY RADIOSURGERY Epitaph EPIT NEW FOUND GLORY har holdt det gående siden slutten av 90-talet med sin friske pop-punk. Bandet turnerte tidlig med likesinnede BLINK-182 og fikk et gjennombrudd med en opptreden i hit-filmen American Pie. På Radiosurgery har bandet teamet opp med samme produsent som på Sticks and Stones og Catalyst (begge solgte til gull i USA), NEIL AVRON, og platen vil garantert falle i smak hos fansen. New Found Glory have wrapped up one of their best albums ever (yup, it s THAT good) ROCK SOUND I

2 STIV CANTARELLI INNERSTATE El Cortez ECR STIV CANTARELLI var i sin tid med i bandet SATELLITE INN, et band som fikk god omtale i magasiner som NO DEPRESSION for sin blanding av alt.country og 80-tallsband som HÜSKER DÜ. På soloalbumet Innerstate har Cantarelli fått med seg RICHMOND FONTAINE som backingband, og musikalsk har han også mye til felles med dem. / / THE PINE HILL HAINTS WELCOME TO THE MIDNIGHT OPRY K Records K 236 / K / Mer Alabama ghost-country fra THE PINE HILL HAINTS (Haints er sørstats-lingo for spøkelser) på deres tredje album. Stilmessig vil bandet appellere til fans av f.eks. THE SADIES, 16 HORSEPOWER/WOVENHAND, bandet henter også fra gamle katter som JERRY LEE LEWIS og WOODY GUTHRIE. dreamers of the ghetto enemy/lover Temporary Residence TRR 198 / TRR / DREAMERS OF THE GHETTO er et Indiana-band som på debuten Enemy/Lover blander lyden av 80-tallets alternative filmsoundtrack med shoegazing som SPIRITUALIZED. THE VARUKERS THE DAMNATION OF OUR SPECIES Candlelight CANDLE Dobbel som gir oss et innblikk i D-beat/hardcorebandet THE VARUKERS karriere fra 1985 til spor for fans av DISCHARGE, GBH og lignende. 2 II

3 WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM CELESTIAL LINEAGE Southern Lord LORD WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOMs mesterlige Celestial Lineage også på. 2x180g rød vinyl limitert til 1000 eksemplarer. a a.v. club 5/5 terrorizer 5/6 LYDVERKET 8.6 pitchfork 4.5/5 allmusic 4/5 uncut DINOSAUR JR. DINOSAUR Jagjaguwar JAG Reutgivelse på av DINOSAUR JRs første album fra DINOSAUR JR. YOU RE LIVING ALL OVER ME Jagjaguwar JAG Reutgivelse på av DINOSAUR JRs gjennombruddsplate, innflytelsesrike You re Living All Over Me fra /5 ALLMUSIC 9.1 PITCHFORK DINOSAUR JR. BUG Jagjaguwar JAG Reutgivelse på av Bug fra 1988, albumet DINOSAUR JR. for tiden turnerer USA og Europa med. 4.5/5 ALLMUSIC MINUS THE BEAR This Is What I Know About Being Gigantic Suicide Squeeze SSQ MINUS THE BEARs debut-ep fra 2001 for første gang på. 8.6 PITCHFORK MINUS THE BEAR HIGHLY refined PIRATES Suicide Squeeze SSQ MINUS THE BEARs debutalbum fra 2002 for første gang på. III

4 DAVID BURKE HEART OF DARKNESS BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN S NEBRASKA Cherry Red Books CRBOOK Forfatteren DAVID BURKE tar for seg SPRINGSTEENs klassiske Nebraska-album, og diskuterer både albumet i seg selv, som kritikk av Reagans Amerika, men også dets ettermæle både blant musikere og fans. Paperback/300 sider. BOK Well now everything dies baby that s a fact But maybe everything that dies someday comes back Put your makeup on fix your hair up pretty And meet me tonight in Atlantic City ARTHUR CONLEY I M LIVING GOOD THE SOUL OF ARTHUR CONLEY Kent Soul KEND Brilliant samling som tar for seg fantastiske ARTHUR CONLEY og hans tid som tradisjonell soulsanger før suksessen med superhiten Sweet Soul Music, og maset etter å finne en dansbar uptempo-låt som kunne følge opp dens suksess. 24 spor spilt inn for en rekke labels og produsert av folk som OTIS REDDING (!), CLARENCE CARTER, SWAMP DOGG og TOM DOWD. JAMES BURTON THE EARLY YEARS Ace CHD Den første av to samlinger som tar for seg JAMES BURTON, en av rockens aller viktigste gitarister, og hans mange bidrag til populærmusikken. Burton er selvsagt mest kjent fra ELVIS TCB BAND, men har også spilt med alt av fintfolk fra midten av 50-tallet (DALE HAWKINS Suzie Q) helt frem til nåtiden (BRAD PAISLEYs Play). Burton ble i 2001 valgt inn i The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame til store ord fra en av hans største fans, KEITH RICHARDS. THE DAMNED THE CHISWICK SINGLES Big Beat WIKD spors samling som gir oss de komplette Chiswick-singlene til innflytelsesrike THE DAMNED. Remastret av originalprodusent ROGER ARMSTRONG, fire låter som aldri har vært ute på før, og en rekke eksklusive bilder pryder bookleten. IV

5 TRINI LOPEZ SINNER NOT A SAINT The Complete King And DRA Recordings Ace CHD spors samling fra de tidlige årene til musikeren og skuespilleren TRINI LOPEZ som hadde en stor hit med If I Had a Hammer i Rock n roll/doo wop. DIVERSE ARTISTER THE FLASH RECORDS STORY Ace TOP Dobbel samling som tar for seg Los Angeles-labelen Flash Records. Flash hadde sin storhetstid på 50-tallet og spesialiserte seg på blues, doo wop og R&B. 60 spor i alt. ETTA JAMES CALL MY NAME WITH BONUS TRACKS Kent Soul KEND Reutgivelse av ETTA JAMES 1966-album Call My Name, originalt gitt ut av Chess Records. Hele elleve bonusspor er lagt til. dynamite Chicago soul 4/5 ALLMUSIC TWO THINGS IN ONE TOGETHER FOREVER the music city sessions Beat Goes Public BGPD TWO THINGS IN ONE var en soulkvintett fra San Francisco som hadde en rekke vestkyst-hits på tidlig 70-tall. Her er 16 spor de spilte inn for Music City-etiketten. DIVERSE ARTISTER TEXAS BOHEMIA REVISITED Trikont Dypt inne i ørkenen i Texas finnes det små tyske og tsjekkiske samfunn med dype røtter i Böhmen. Texas Bohemia-serien (dette er volum 3) tar for seg den unike musikken, hillbilly møter polka, som oppsto i disse samfunnene. JACKIE DAY DIG IT THE MOST the complete jackie day Kent Soul KEND JACKIE DAY presenteres for første gang på. Day opererte på vestkysten av USA på 60- og 70-tallet og ga blant annet ut for Music City. Fin-fin soul. V

6 MIRI OKKAR Kimi KR Instrumental post-rock fra islandske MIRI på deres debut, Okkar. Folk fra FM BELFAST, BENNI HEMM HEMM og MÚM bidrar. TIM KASHER BIGAMY Affairs of the Heart Bigamy inneholder syv spor spilt inn i forbindelse med tim kasher-debuten The Game of Monogamy, og er limitert til 500 ex på. Kasher turnerer for tiden i Europa sammen med MARIACHI EL BRONX. AIDS WOLF MA VIE BANALE AVANT-GARDE Lovepump United U AIDS WOLF med dobbel 24-spors hvor de fortsetter å flytte grensene for populærmusikk videre inn i Noiseland. AIDS Wolf s monastic commitment to brutal prog-punk and strident no wave has hardened their music from a rough lump of coal into a jagged diamond. PITCHFORK DIVERSE ARTISTER Japan : A Benefit Album Polyvinyl PRC Dobbel hvor en rekke artister bidrar med eksklusive spor hvor inntektene går til de jordskjelvrammede i Japan via det amerikanske Røde kors. Artister som OF MONTREAL, ST. VINCENT, DEERHOOF, XIU XIU, EFTERKLANG, CASIOKIDS og STRFKR bidrar. 2x180g, limitert til 2000 ex. COLIN STETSON THOSE WHO DIDN T RUN Constellation CST 84lp Tospors titommer (ca. tyve minutters spilletid) fra avant-saksofonisten COLIN STETSON som for tiden er å finne i BON IVERs band. THE HIVE DWELLERS LYNCH THE SWAN K Records DBN CALVIN JOHNSONs THE HIVE DWELLERS med syvtommer i Ks Dub Narcotic-serie. 7 VI

7 NYHETER UKE FORHÅND 7. OKTOBER STILL CORNERS CREATURES OF AN HOUR Sub Pop SP 940 / SP / / 1. Cuckoo 2. Circulars 3. Endless Summer 4. Into The Trees 5. The White Season 6. I Wrote In Blood 7. The Twilight Hour 8. Velveteen 9. Demons 10. Submarine Creatures of an Hour, the debut full-length by Still Corners, glows with the delicate vocals of singer Tessa Murray and the atmospheric, cinematic influences of songwriter Greg Hughes. Still Corners capture both the youthful tone of French New Wave and the unease of Italian horror, from the projections (created by band member Leon Dufficy) that feature heavily in their live performances, to the free-floating grace of Creatures of an Hour. There re just certain things in certain movies, like older horror movies and other foreign films, that you see sometimes. They just have a certain vibe and atmosphere, says Hughes. All these little bits, these tiny moments. That s what I was trying to go back to. To bottle that up and put it into a song. Recorded at Hughes own studio in Greenwich, the devil is truly in the details of Creatures of an Hour. Fusing whispered intimacy to the emotional expansiveness of composer Ennio Morricone, Hughes crafts deceptively simple songs that linger like half-remembered dreams. Lead single Cuckoo (SP928, released 6/28/11, still available!) shines in its simplicity, a single drumbeat, ghostly guitar, and distant organ highlighting Murray s haunting soprano as she asks, I d like to read your mind/can you read mine? It s about confusion, explains Hughes. It s about being confused. Am I going crazy? Does this person like me? What s happening? That s the vibe of the whole record really. For the time being, Hughes is happy to maintain Still Corners musical mystery. I don t like to talk too much on decoding the songs. It takes the mystery away, he says. Reviewers like Gorilla vs. Bear, Pitchfork and Drowned in Sound (Single of the Week!) however have proven more than happy to sing the praises of the pop beauty of Still Corners. So grab some popcorn and stick around for Still Corners this is just act one. FORHÅND 7. OKTOBER LONEY DEAR HALL MUSIC Dear John / Polyvinyl DEAR 002 / PRC / / Name My Heart Blues Calm down Maria, is that you? D Major Largo Young Hearts Durmoll I dreamed about you What have I become After his last time touring the United States in support of 2009 s Dear John (Loney Dear s fifth album and Polyvinyl debut), Emil Svanangen returned home to Sweden and began to play shows with chamber orchestras throughout the country. To successfully accomplish this feat, he was forced to revisit his earlier material -- re-writing and re-arranging these older songs for performance on a grander scale. This experience had an indelible influence on the writing and recording of the appropriately titled Hall Music, an expansive record that finds Svanangen closer to creating the type of orchestral music he has always sought to bring to life on stage (whether he s actually playing with an orchestra or not). Above all, Hall Music Svanangen s sixth full-length under the Loney Dear moniker -- is a study in merging contrasts, an album of impossible pairings brought to life at the hands of a skillful songwriter further mastering his craft. VII

8 NYHETER UKE FORHÅND 7. OKTOBER RWAKE REST Relapse RR / RR / /2 1. Souls of the Sky 2. It Was Beautiful But Now It s Sour 3. An Invisible Thread 4. The Culling 5. Ti Progetto 6. Was Only a Dream Arkansas backwoods doomsayers RWAKE awaken from their slumber and unleash their long-awaited new album Rest. Their first new material in over 4 years, Rest is less a set of songs than a perpetually evolving, deeply emotional set of missives heralding the end of times. Rest is nothing short of epic, and not only one of 2011 s finest albums, but one of the finest progressive/doom/sludge metal records ever. Recommended if You Like: NEUROSIS, OPETH, CULT OF LUNA, UFOMAMMUT, WINTER, DISEMBOWELMENT, EYEHATEGOD Stor artikkel om bandet i oktoberutgaven av Metal Hammer Norway! / Heaven s Escape Odetta After The War Sticks & Stones Grand Street Dark Tears Strung Tomorrow Is October* Piano Furnace Deathbed Version Room At Arles Eyes Out For You Unspeakable The World And All I Know JOE HENRY REVERIE Anti EPIT / EPIT / FORHÅND 7. OKTOBER Revered musician and producer JOE HENRY is set to release a captivating new album entitled Reverie this October 10 via Anti- Records. It stands as a career high point. HENRY is an acclaimed solo artist with 12 critically heralded albums to his credit including 2009 s masterful Blood From Stars. He is also a multi Grammy winning producer with credits that include Solomon Burke s 2002 album Don t Give Up On Me, which won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Blues Album as well as works by esteemed artists such as Bettye LaVette, Mose Allison, Aimee Mann and Ani DiFranco, and an additional Grammy for Best Traditional Folk Album with the 2010 album by the Carolina Chocolate Drops. HENRY s new album Reverie is an all-acoustic production, though also a raw and raucous and messy affair. As HENRY explains, I knew it should be stripped and lean but not demur, sonically speaking; in black and white, but not without red blood in its veins. The record came to fruition when HENRY and his fellow musicians convened in HENRY s basement studio for three days of exploration. Next the great guitarist Marc Ribot joined with his particular and wiry racquet for a few songs. There was some additional lost-world underscoring from singer Jean McClain, and a brief soliloquy given air and a smear of lipstick by Patrick Warren s pump organ. The final touch occured when the song Piano Furnace was sent to Dublin so singer-songwriter Lisa Hannigan, for whom Henry had just produced an album, could illuminate a few words with her indelible spirit. The result is an album more lifelike fuming and nervously ticking than any HENRY has managed. It is also a work that addresses, albeit subtly, some profound themes. This album speaks about time, HENRY elaborates, The great river that reminds us we are buoyant after all, as its moving current lifts us by the chin and just off of the balls of our feet, while we strain to dig our toes into the sandy ground. I am not convinced that any song exists without some knowing nod in its direction. And so with Reverie I am nodding, then to time, but also to all the love, hope, despair, and revelation that stands naked inside its weather. VIII

9 NYHETER UKE FORHÅND 21. OKTOBER THRONE OF KATARSIS VED GRAVEN Candlelight CANDLE Profetens Siste Vandring 2. Helvete Kaller 3. Av Dypets Kulde 4. The Holy Remains The Weak 5. Mesterens Tilbakekomst 6. Åpne Alle Sår 7. The Ultimate Shrine October the 21st a new Black Metal opus sees the darkness of the world. Cold, raw, and with the bizarre aura of an everlasting funeral, Throne Of Katarsis delivers their requiem in honor of the final darkness. During three long nights the seven rites of this album were recorded. The séance was performed in darkness and with poisoned minds, and with a dedication closer to a possession. All instruments and vocal s were recorded live in the studio, in order to capture the aura the band creates during their evocations. A couple of guitar leads and also church organ were added to the mix. The band now consists of four individuals, previously being a demonic duo for seven years. The full line up is now: Infamroth (voice, guitar and church organ), Skinndød (guitar), Sanrabb (bass) and Vardalv (drums). The album title Ved Graven can be translated to At the Grave, and is by far the darkest material written by the band to this date. This is the their third studio album, and continues the march towards the funeral. TOM WAITS BAD AS ME Anti EPIT / EPIT / EPIT / / LTD ED DELUXE 2 / / + FORHÅND 24. OKTOBER DIV Chicago - 2:15 Raised Right Men - 3:24 Talking At The Same Time - 4:13 Get Lost - 2:43 Face To The Highway - 3:44 Pay Me - 3:15 Back In The Crowd - 2:49 Bad As Me - 3:10 Kiss Me - 3:42 Satisfied - 4:07 Last Leaf - 2:56 Hell Broke Luce - 3:57 New Year s Eve - 4:28 Throughout his career, Tom Waits has created milestone albums that serve both to refine the music that has come before, and to signal a new phase in his career: Rain Dogs and Mule Variations are both counted by fans as among these pivotal works. Now comes Bad As Me, his first studio album of all new music in seven years, which finds Tom Waits in possibly the finest voice of his career and at the height of his songwriting powers, working with a veteran team of gifted musicians and longtime co-writer/producer Kathleen Brennan. From the opening horn-fueled chug of Chicago, to the closing barroom chorale of New Year s Eve, Bad As Me displays the full career range of Waits songwriting, from beautiful ballads like Last Leaf, to the avant cinematic soundscape of Hell Broke Luce, a battlefront dispatch. On tracks like Talking at the Same Time, Waits shows off a supple falsetto, while on blues burners like Raised Right Men and the gospel tinged Satisfied he spits, stutters and howls. Like a good boxer, these songs are lean and mean, with strong hooks and tight running times. And there is a pervasive sense of players delighting in each other s musical company that brings a feeling of loose joy even to the album s saddest songs. Bad As Me is a Tom Waits album for the ages. Deluxe Disc 2 Tracklisting: She Stole The Blush - 2:50 Tell Me - 3:42 After You Die - 2:47 IX