Elsinore
-Yes
Yes Yes (Parasol) CD
$10.00 Elsinore
-Yes
Yes Yes (Parasol)LP
$11.00 Elsinore
-Yes
Yes Yes (Parasol)Digital
DL $8.00
Parasol Label Group Presents:
Available Tuesday 8/10! The new album from Champaign,
IL's, Elsinore, channeling the work of modern-day
masters Ben Gibbard and Sufjan Stevens. The band,
led by songwriter Ryan
Groff, has crafted a batch of vivacious yet personal
popsongs that joyfully soundtrack the simplistic bliss
of life in the Midwest. This is feel good music but
Yes Yes Yes isn't just optimistic; these
are stories of self-examination, sacrifice, compromise,
and lessons learned, all leading to the avoidance
of a quarter-life crisis.. Visit the Yes
Yes Yes release page for full-album streaming
and digital download options via Bandcamp,
tour dates & more.
Animal
Collective & Danny Perez - Oddsac
(DVD/BOOK)DVD$24.00
Landing on the Moon - We Make History
NowCD
$10.50
The Green Pajamas - The Red Red Rose
EPCD5
$4.75
PVT - Church With No MagicCD
$13.00 /
DLP $17.25 Starflyer 59 - The Changing of the
Guard
CD $14.25
Land Of Talk - Swift Coin b/w Lossless45
$3.75
Bad Apples - Lead Sister Remixes
CD5 $8.25
Christie Front Drive - S-T
LP $14.25
The Thermals - I Don't Believe You45
$4.25
The Budos Band - III CD
$13.00 /
LP $13.75
Godflesh - Streetcleaner [Redux Ed]DCD
$16.75
Woven Bones - I've Gotta Get b/w Hey
Kid
45 $4.75
Hawkwind - Blood of the EarthCD
17.00 /
LP $26.75
Lovesliescrushing - girl. echo. suns.
veils.CD
$16.75
Yui Onodera And The Beautiful Schyzophonic -
RadianceCD
$14.00
Spur - Of the Moments (Galactic
Zoo/Drag City) LP
$14.00 Listen:
You
Could Help Me Ease the Pain
Unearthed Treasure: This collection
of decades-old recordings (from the 60s and early
70s) by Belleville, Illinois' Spur is all trippy and
roughshod and iconic and whatnot, with everything
from acidic garagerock to peaceful-eyed soft-pop ballads.
Think The Byrds, Moby Grape, The Grateful Dead and
even the Flying Burrito Brothers. Belleville? Illinois?
Who knew? And that's one boss sleeve, ain't it? [more
details]
Angie Heaton - Time Takes Time
EP (Me & The Baby) CD5
$4.75 Featured
Release: Angie's got a new self-released,
limited EP featuring three new songs recorded with
Caleb from New Ruins with a special guest appearance
from her buddy Paul Chastain (Velvet Crush, Matthew
Sweet, etc). This very limited private CDR pressing
is an edition of fifty in unique sleeves, each one
has different artwork. [more
details]
Elsinore
- REMIXES [digital EP] (Parasol)Free DL with
Preorder!
Special Bonus Preorder Action:
Pre-order Elsinore's new album Yes
Yes Yes on compact
disc and/or LP
vinyl and we'll send you a download code for a
free, three-track remix EP (streaming via link above)
and then in early August when we ship your order we'll
send you a another download code for the whole album
in your choice of high-quality audio formats.
Released July 13th:
Melvins/Isis - Split12
$13.75
Sun Kil Moon - Admiral Fell PromisesCD
$13.75
Carnival Season - Misguided Promise:
CD
$9.50
LA Vampires & Zola Jesus - LA Vampires
Meets...LP
$13.50
Superchunk - Digging For Something b/w
February Punk45
$4.75
Tommy Keene - Tommy Keene You Hear Me:
A RetrospectiveCD
$17.25
School of Seven Bells - Disconnect From
Desire
CD $12.50 / DLP
$24.00
Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse - Dark
Night...CD
$13.00 / DLP
$18.50 Junior Wells - Messin' With The Kid:
Original Masters
CD $13.00
Devotionals - DevotionalsCD
$13.75 / LP
$14.75
The Vibrators - Punk: The Early Years
LP $24.00
Blue Giant - S-TCD
$18.25 /
LP $24.00
Love Language - LibrariesCD
$12.50
Various - Welcome Home/Diggin'
The Universe (Woodsist) LP
$15.00 Featured
Release: From the label that dizzied
us with very-little-fi records from bands like Woods,
Meneguar,
Real
Estate, Kurt
Vile, Wavves
and Crystal
Stilts comes the LP version of Welcome Home/Diggin'
The Universe. Previously available as a cassette only
release, this recommended collection is the perfect
excuse to check the Woodsist scene or grab some phuzzy
one-offs from your Woodsist faves. LP features exclusive
tracks from
Moon Duo, Woods,
Ducktails,
Fresh
& Onlys, Skygreen
Leopards, Art
Museums, et al. [more
details]
Elsinore
- Yes Yes Yes & remix [digital
single] (Parasol)DL
$1.00
Parasol Label Group Presents:
Digital-only single from local heroes Elsinore! Via
the player/link above you can stream and/or purchase
high-quality downloads (in a variety of formats) of
the title track from the upcoming album Yes
Yes Yes (available August 10th) plus an exclusive
remix by Scarecrow Adams. Stream
their recent 7" too.
Male
Bonding - Nothing Hurts (Sub Pop)CD
$12.50
Male Bonding - Nothing Hurts(Sub Pop)LP
$14.00
Play/Download mp3:Year's
Not Long Listen: Franklin
Highly Recommended:
British poppunk reverb enthusiasts Male Bonding's
new album has been in heavy rotation here at PMO HQ.
No surprise as we're collectively fans of The Buzzcocks,
That Petrol Emotion, Eno's early albums, The Close
Lobsters and others of that lovely ilk. Male Bonding
channels the whole lot of them and does it 2010-style
with such astounding energy and panache. Short, sweet,
frantic songs, bristling with hooks and yearning;
manic pop thrills indeed. Details
here.
Mark
Bacino - Queens English (DreamCrush)CD
$11.00 Play/Download mp3:Happy
New this week:
Mark Bacino is a NYC singer/songwriter, producer and
multi-instrumentalist. With two critically acclaimed,
power-pop obsessed album releases to his credit (1998's
Pop
Job! and 2003's The
Million Dollar Milkshake, both on Parasol),
Bacino returns to the fray with Queens English;
a self-produced album he describes as "A
melancholy love-letter to NYC & life in its outer-boroughs".
Mark gets all orchestral and showtunesy, and it's
pretty awesome. Pick up a CD copy of Queens English
from Parasol and get a free digital EP from DreamCrush!
Details
here.
The
Amazing - Wait For A Light... (Subliminal
Sounds)
CD $13.25 The Amazing - Wait For
A Light... (Subliminal Sounds)
LP $19.00 Listen:Evil Featured
Release: Dulcet Swedish psych-folk
continuum-benders The Amazing's long-awaited second
effort is a mini-album of recently unrivaled stoned
beauty. Pink Floyd and Nick Drake are valid touchstones
in this blissed-out folk-pop trip, laced with idyllic
imagery and a pastoral 70s vibe. Not so surprising
when you take into account their supergroupness: members
of Dungen, Life On Earth and Granada, with help from
Dungen frontman Gustav Ejstes. Between this and The
Amazing's highly
recommend debut you've got a soundtrack to many
a dusky summer evening. If this don't get you all
peaceful-eyed and such, we don't know what will. Jim's
#1 of the year so far. [more
detail]
Family
Cactus - Come Howling (Arch Hill,
etc)CD
$13.00 Play/Download mp3:In
Transit
Featured Release:
Yet another awesome New Zealand band, a Wellington
7-piece (featuring members of Brunettes, Nudie Suits,
Grand Prix and Good Laika) getting all orchestral
and expansive with lush harmonies and some seriously
nifty guitar work. Between them and Surf
City the Kiwi Pop Sound is alive and well Down
Under. Eminently appealing guitar pop, sweet and catchy
like Shout Out Louds and stately and epic like Arcade
Fire and with the occasional Radiohead-esque nuance
that stirs the soul where and when you least expect
it. [more
detail]
Unbunny
-Moon
Food (Hidden Agenda) CD
$10.00 Unbunny
-Moon
Food (Hidden Agenda)Digital DL Unbunny
-Cellphone
b/w Winning Streak (PLG/RSD) 45
$4.00 Listen:Landslide
Parasol Label Group Presents:Moon Food is the long-awaited new album from
singer/songwriter Jarid del Deo’s Unbunny and
it continues to balance hopefulness and a deft sense
of humor with dark, crushing despair. But that’s
life. And it’s what Unbunny has been singing
and strumming about over the course of fifteen years,
five full-length albums (2004's Snow
Tires and 2008's Sensory
Underload, both on Hidden Agenda Records)
and sundry EPs and singles. Visit the Moon
Food release page for full-album streaming
and digital download options via Bandcamp,
European tour dates & etc.
Woods
- At Echo Lake (Woodsist)CD
$11.75 Woods - At Echo Lake
(Woodsist)LP
$13.00
Listen:The
Blood Dries Darker
Behold with childlike wonder!
Woods' follow-up to Songs
of Shame takes us out to some strange, California
canyon shack, tucked back in chaparral and those damn
eucaplytus trees; in rooms full of nitrous tanks,
self-filling hookahs and shag carpet a foot deep.
At Echo Lake is a acid folk record for &
by lusciously, lysergically weird folks. Classic rock
meets sphere harmonies, The Grateful Dead meets Elephant
6, spooky and sunny in turns. Unbearably good. [more
detail]
The
Green Pajamas - Complete Book of Hours
[expanded reissue] (Green Monkey)CD
$11.00 Listen:Paula Takes
us back to 1987, to The Green PJs' psychedelic pop
beginnings! Book of Hours was their first
proper album, following the home-recorded Summer
of Lust cassette and the transcendent "Kim
the Waitress" single. Out of print on any format
for twenty years, this is the first ever CD release
for Book, with all the tracks from the original
American album as well as tracks released on the Australian,
German and Greek versions. [more
detail]
Common
Loon -The
Long Dream of Birds (Hidden Agenda) CD
$10.00 Common
Loon -The
Long Dream of Birds (Hidden Agenda) Digital
DL Listen:Mexico
Parasol Label Group Presents:
The debut album from Illinoisian dayglo-pop duo Common
Loon, Matt Campbell and Robert Hirschfeld have known
each other since Kindergarten (for real) and they
in apocalyptic dream rock, blending classic West Coast
harmonies with some cosmically-inclined guitar-gush
lushness and otherworldly atmospheres. Names dropped
include Sparklehorse, Sebadoh, Spacemen 3's extended
family, Apples In Stereo, Olivia Tremor Control, Granddaddy...
Visit the release
page for full-album streaming, digital options,
tour dates and etc!
The
Soundtrack of Our Lives - Immaculate
ConvergenceEP
(Longfellow Deeds)45
$10.00
Featured Release:
Finally got a stack of this new single from France!
Three new songs from Swedish rocker pals The Soundtrack
of Our Lives. A handsomely packaged 7" single
is the only physical format for this release, these
songs do not appear on any album and there is no CD
version available. [more
detail]
Dum
Dum Girls - I Will Be (Sub Pop)
CD $13.00
LP $13.00 Download
mp3:Jail
La La
New this week:
Dum Dum Girls' debut full-length is, unsurprisingly,
a Spectorian-pop marvel (no, Mr. Blank Dog isn't on
board but they managed just fine without him thank
you very much) and it finds Dee Dee aided & abetted
by ex-Vivian Girl Frankie Rose along with producer
Richard Gottehrer (Go-Go's and Blondie; hell the dude
co-wrote "My Boyfriend's Back" in the 60s).
Don't worry it's still gritty and lofi, but the harmonies
stay golden and the songs are sensual and serrated
as all get out. Pitchfork: "Terrifically
fun and occasionally ferocious...a blistering half-hour
of menacing, witty bubblegum pop."
[more detail]
