resident instore appearance : the holloways october 9th 2009
27.09.09
resident new releases september 28th 2009
Album of the Week : Le Loup – Family (Talitres)
Single of the Week : Thom Yorke – Feelingpulledapartbyhorses / Thehollowearth – limited 12″ (XL)
Welcome to this week’s run down of what’s new in the Resident camp. You’ll note we’ve been a lot more decisive this week & have managed to chose just 1 album of the week from the massive pile of new releases we’ve had in. It was a bit of a no brainer to be honest as the hypnotic yet majestic new album from Sam Simkoff’s indie-rock-folk collective Le Loup is a very special record indeed that will appeal to fans of Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver & Grizzly Bear, no doubt, as well as any of you who bought the extraordinary previous album (a bit of a shop favourite)…………other biggies this week come from Ian Brown (buy the album here & you can enter a competitoin to win a pair of the trainers he is sporting on the album cover, signed by the man himself) - you’ll get a free poster while they last too………….Portland’s newest guitar heroes Hockey finally deliver their Strokes-meets-LCD Soundsystem dancefloor-friendly debut……..James Chapman, aka Maps, is back with his 2nd full length of trippy, mellow electroinics – one for fans of M83 or Ulrich Schnauss……..the much lauded debut from San Fran residents Girls has been receiving nothing but great press including an almost unheard of 9.1 from Pitchfork – now you can find out what all the fuss has been about for your self (& you’ll get a free poster to boot)………..chillout masters Zero 7 are back & their new album pushes the boundaries to include everything from dance pop to acoustic folk……….Gallic beatmaster Vitalic returns with another big, brash, fun dose of his dirty electronica…………the legendary Andrew Weatherall finally gets around to making his 1st ever “solo” album which explores the integration of substrata rock n roll with modernist electronics………..the Warp label are celebrating their 20th anniversary in style with a set of compilations – Warp 20 Chosen & Warp 20 Recreated are both released this week – the fancy boxset is coming your way next week – all will come with a poster, snazzy sticker & metal pin badge while they last…………electronic hip hop pioneers Anti-Pop Consortium return with their long-awaited 3rd album (free poster with this one too!)…….the prolific Fleet Foxes sticksman J.Tillman has recorded another fine solo album – fans of Sufjan Stevens or Damien Jurado will undoubtedly appreciate what this man’s up to………..all this & new albums from Karen O, Hope Sandoval, Kid Harpoon, Liam Frost, Paramore, Megafaun, Pens, Shannon Wright, Chris Garneau, Paloma Faith, Newton Faulkner, Piney Gir, Alice In Chains, Simon Joyner, Circulatory System, Amy Millan, Tap Tap, Animal Kingdom, Pictureplane, Lusine, Terror Danjah, Breakestra, John Abercrombie Quartet & Sharon Shannon & this week’s vinyl releases include Boredoms‘ Super Roots 10 (will only be available on vinyl), Fanfarlo, Mars Volta, Mount Eerie (has 2 extra tracks not on the US version), Bombay Bicycle Club & The Feelies, amongst others. To check out the complete list of all new releases in this week, click on the link below.
Other bits n pieces you may or may not be interested in :
- we have some new additions to our Change From A Fiver section so now you can pick up the latest albums from Fleet Foxes, The Rakes, Slow Club, Quiet Village, Madness & more for a bargain £4.99
- the recent Yo La Tengo album has been released as a bundle (either cd or LP) with the vinyl LP ‘Adventureland’ this week – it is the only way you can by this much sought after score to the Greg Mottola film & is very limited.
- We have an exhibition of local photographer Greg Neate’s work starting this week, running throughout October – Transitional Spaces is a photography exhibition of “bands, fans & the spaces in between”. Come & check out our wall sometime this month.
- Just a quick reminder that this week is Brighton Live – 5 days of free music events across Brighton & Hove. www.brightonlive.net
resident instore appearance : we were promised jetpacks november 13 2009
resident new releases 21st september 2009
Albums of the Week : Rain Machine (Kip Malone of TV On The Radio) – Rain Machine (Anti)
Heather Woods Broderick – From The Ground (Preservation)
Joakim – Milky Ways (K7)
Vic Chesnutt – At The Cut (Constellation)
Single of the Week : Magic Kids – Hey Boy limited 7″ (Goner)
Forthcoming Instores : The Leisure Society – Mon 5th October @ 6pm
Mumford & Sons – Tues 6th October @ 6pm
Fanfarlo / First Aid Kit – Weds 7th October @ 6pm
We Were Promised Jetpacks – Friday 13th November @ 6pm (details to follow)
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Greetings one & all!Well the good ship Resident is buckling under the weight of exotic musical bounties this week – as ever this time of year is normally rich pickings & this September is certainly no exception! To start with, we have 4 superb Albums Of The Week (on a week like this, we really couldn’y be forced to whittle it down to just 1 & even restraining it to 4 proved to be very tricky)….Anyway, first off TV On The Radio’s Kip Malone steps up with his own side project Rain Machine – taking the influences of TVOTR (namely blues, gospel, 60’s jazz & African music) Malone brings them to the fore culminating in a dense, uplifting musical experience that easily lives up to his day job…..Heather Woods Broderick (yep, sister of Peter!) upholds the Broderick family name with a rich & resonant record that could easily be a companion to Peter’s masterpiece ‘Home’ – anyone who saw her perform with Peter the other week will already know how gorgeous her voice is………on a very different tip, celebrated French cat Joakim delivers a pretty insane record that covers trippy psychedelia, Goblin-styled drama-funk fuzz, krautrock & acid house on one mind-bending disc – my personal fave this week…back in 2007, Vic Chesnutt hooked up with A Silver Mt Zion & a bunch of others & delivered one of the year’s most devastating albums & now he’s back with the old crew for his new album, which is by turns intense & intimate & we’re loving it………..phew! albums of the week out of the way we’ve got all this coming your way too…….Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon brings us post-rock, Reich-esque minimalism, folktronica & the odd droney shape with his Volcano Choirproject……..Richard Hawley brings us an atmospheric masterpiece with his new album, using all manner of strange old instruments this is a dark but very rewarding listen…
ever wondered what kind of record Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, Jim James & M.Ward might make if locked down in a studio together? Wonder no more! Monsters Of Folk is just that & is a brilliant record that far surpasses their recent individual efforts & Sam’s loving it…..the mighty Om are back with more dirge-like heavy sludge & slow building moodiness……..Micah P. Hinson delivers a considered collection of cover songs on his new effort…..Nick Cave & Warren Ellis have compiled a selection of their soundtrack work onto 2 essential discs….Times New Viking come up with the goods on their most raucously joyous album yet…old psych! new psych! psych psych! it’s The Amorphous Androgynous’ new comp & it’s brain-meltingly awesome!! – the last one has become a regular fixture on the stereo here & this one looks set to do the same……..Nat’s pick of the week comes from A Sunny Day In Glasgow who deliver a delicious slice of joyous Cocteau Twins-meets-Animal-Collective bliss……..Rhino mine L.A. for their excellent new Nuggets box set… Basement Jaxx are back with more Jaxx-style dance bangers…Dizzee Rascal gets us in a spin with his new bonkers effort…all this and so much more including Pearl Jam, Fryars, Yacht, Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band, Gong, Mika, Harmonia & Eno, Part Chimp, To Kill A Petty Bourgeoisie, Blk Jks, Herve & the Jan Garbarek Group plus another heap of re-issues fromthe likes of Harmonia & Eno, Ian Hunter, Black Sabbath, Big Star, Emerson Lake & Palmer, The Cult & Gary Numan. As ever, for the full run down click on the New Releases link below!
13.09.09
resident new releases september 14th 2009
Albums of the Week : Vivian Girls – Everything Goes Wrong (In The Red)
Health – Get Color (City Slang) comes with free bonus disc & badge set
Single of the Week : Thom Yorke – All For The Best limited 7″ (The Mezzotint Label)
Hope you’ve all had a splendid week. Here in the Resident basement we have been wading our way through seemingly endless boxes of stock to bring you the biggest new release week we’ve had for ages – we’ve had trouble getting it all out in our little shop – poor thing is bursting at the seams. So, here’s a quick run down of the highlights from the mountain of new albums we’ve got instore for you this week : Brooklyn’s Vivian Girls are back with another mighty fine instalment of their unique brand of indie-punk-pop – a more subtle & less immediate album but as Daniel says, it’s “an incredible album”…………so too is the 2nd album of noise/dance fusion from Health whose gloriously asymmetrical offering comes with a free bonus disc & badge set if you get in quick……………big news this week is the release of the highly anticipated debut from the 4AD signed The Big Pink who we’ve had a massive soft spot for since their debut single ‘Too Young To Love’ came out nearly a year ago – we’ve got free posters of the beautiful album artwork to give away with the album (the indies only double LP comes out a week later)…………Battles’ frizzy haired frontman Tyondai Braxton puts out his 2nd solo album – a guitars/vocals/percussion/electronics based 21st century orchestral set……………the new album from David Sylvian is stuck on a broken down lorry apparently but is due in Monday/Tuesday & if you’re liking his more avant garde direction, this is an absolute treat………….on a similar tip, the meeting of the great minds of Christian Fennesz & Sparklehorse’s Mark Linkous makes for a glitchy, spacey, mesmerising beauty………the mercury nominated Rachel Unthank has beefed up her band & released her much lauded new album as The Unthanks, an impressive record of Steve Reich-esque composition, west coast harmonies & modern folk that Paul Morley has claimed he will be listening to “at least forever”………..the unstoppable Muse are back with an even more massive slice of their monster riffing, stadium filling, space rock…….2 hip hop legends release their new records this week : Q-Tip’s “lost jazz funk odyssey” from 2001 finally gets a proper release & Jay-Z comes out of retirement (again), to put the world to rights & put his followers back in their place………Dr.Alex Paterson & co. aka The Orb, serve up their 3rd volume in the Orbsessions series……….LCD Soundsystem’s Nike workout ‘45:33′ gets the remix treatment………Flaming Lips fans should check out the Pink Floyd-inspired psychedelic offering from Wayne Coyne’s nephew & friends, operating under the name of Stardeath & White Dwarfs………fans of Black Devil Disco Club will delight in the flawless collection of the early work of Bernard Fevre, his original name before he adopted the disco pseudonym………there’s a great slice of modern folk served up by Scotland’s Withered Hand……….Mary Ann Hobbs presents Wild Angels is an essential document of where the leftfield dancefloor is at right now…………if you were lucky enough to catch the ever incredible Peter Broderick at Audio this week, you’ll recall him talking about a cd release of a collection of early work ‘4 track songs’ which arrived in store this week, along with the reissue of his modern classic, ‘Home’, which has now been augmented with a disc of unreleased material & alternate versions………..there’s a stack of other brilliant reissues again this week including essential works from The Feelies (see Matt’s recommended picks), Townes Van Zandt, Big Star, Julian Cope, John Coltrane, The Durutti Column & many more. To see a complete list of all the new release instore this week, click on the link below:
06.09.09
resident new releases september 7th 2009
Album of the Week : A Mountain Of One – Institute Of Joy (Ten Worlds Records)
Single of the Week : Kode 9 / Flying Lotus / Black Chow – Hyperdub 5.1 EP very limited 12″ (Hyperdub)
Welcome to your weekly update on what’s new for us Residents this week. First up – new albums………this week sees the release of the highly anticipated album proper from A Mountain Of One – an outfit who have completely split the Resident camp with their releases to date – I passionately hated their ‘Collected Works’ & Sam had an allergic reaction to it but Matt & James made us suffer it regardless – now though, it’s all changed round – Matt & James don’t get it & I’m swallowing my previously harsh words & going out on a limb & putting their new offering on the top spot as now, their Talk Talk / Roxy Music / Pink Floyd / Fleetwood Mac inspired psychedelic zig zagging makes perfect sense to me………….Yo La Tengo are back with another all-over-the-map-but-somehow-hangs-together-perfectly addition to their catalogue (the limited cd & lp bundles of this album that come with the live lp are delayed at customs but we can take preorders if you want to ensure you get one)…….the Wakefield born brotherly trio The Cribs hook up with Johnny Marr to bring some real finesse to their ever-maturing indie rock – free badges with this one while they last………Cockney boy Jamie T finally returns with the follow up to his Mercury nominated debut & earns himself an Observer Music Monthly 5/5 review………….Vladislav Delay has made a move over to the Leaf Label, joined forces with the extraordinary Scottish composer Craig Armstrong & as such, delivers one of his warmest, most organic records to date – the perfect balance of disturbing & enchanting……….if you like your electronica ever so slightly beatier, check out the new lush, melodic ambient offering from Lawrence………..Scotland’s The Pastels & Tenniscoats from Japan have joined hands for a gorgeous release that sounds much as you would expect from this dreamy pairing……….by complete contrast, the 2nd album from The Victorian English Gentlemens Club is a ballsy, gutteral, scuzzy, gritty affair that is far superior to their debut – a stunner……….the 3rd official album from Mount Eerie merges the dreamwave electronics of David Lynch or Angelo Badalamenti soundtracks with sounds from the edges of the ambient, black metal world – intense!……….the epic, krauty, driving instrumental rock of Vowels should be one for fans of Fuck Buttons, Battles or Boredoms…………..hotly tipped The Antlers release their beautiful, ambient but anthemic record – if you’re going to the now sold out Passion Pit show on Monday, then get their early to see them supporting, along with the fabulous Esben & The Witch…….there’s a heap of great reissues from the likes of Eno & Cluster, SRC, Blades of Grass & Damon & Naomi……..the Bat For Lashes album has been given an extra disc of material to bolster the already incredible Mercury nominated album but for the most of important reissues of all, you’ll have to wait until Wednesday when The Beatles catalogue in its newly remastered glory finally gets released – all the albums are available individually but there are also limited box set versions available both in Mono (for the purist) & Stereo. For a complete list of all the new releases this week, click on the link at the bottom.
Other bits ‘n’ pieces for you :
- the Health album isn’t officially out until Monday 14th but we are expecting it early, so by midweek you should be able to pick up a copy & if you get in quick, you will also get a bonus remix disc & badge set.
- there are a fair few new additions to the Change From A Fiver selection instore including the new albums from The Maccabees & Yeah Yeah Yeahs, so grab em while they’re the bargain price of £4.99!