Mazes Mazes CD (Parasol)
PMO Release Date: February 2009
Nationwide Release: March 2009
Mazes is the first album from a band called Mazes, which includes Caroline Donovan and songwriter Edward Anderson of the Chicago band The 1900s. 11 sweet popsongs influenced by classic New Zealand pop and Guided By Voices.. Look, listen, etc.

The Green Pajaams Poison In the Russian Room CD (A Hidden Agenda Record)
PMO Release Date: March 2009
Nationwide Release: April 28, 2009
Veteran Seattle psych-pop band The Green Pajamas' gorgeous new album, their seventh for Hidden Agenda.

New Ruins We Make Our Own Bad Luck CD (A Hidden Agenda Record)
PMO Release Date: March 2009
Nationwide Release: April 28, 2009
Hometown heroes New Ruins' second album, We Make Our Own Bad Luck, will be released by Hidden Agenda this Spring. Rootsy home-recorded rock haunted by rural spectres. On limited LP, too, in February, as well as very limited cassette tape! Look, listen, etc.

Cameron McGill warm songs for cold shoulders CD (Parasol Records)
PMO Release Date: March 2009
Nationwide Release: April 28, 2009
Parasol welcomes Chicago folk-rock act Cameron McGill & What Army. His new album, warm songs for cold shoulders, is set for a late April release and will coincide with lots of touring in support. Look, listen, etc.

Bats The Gullty Office CD (A Hidden Agenda Record)
PMO Release Date: April 2009
Nationwide Release: May 2009
This Spring our Hidden Agenda imprint welcomes seminal New Zealand guitar-pop band The Bats to the roster, and hope you are as breathless at the notion of a new album as we are. The Guilty Office is The Bats 8th album and it lush and melancholy.

The Horse's Ha Of the Cathmawr Yards CD (A Hidden Agenda Record)
PMO Release Date: May 2009
Nationwide Release: June 2009
Hidden Agenda will release the debut album from Chicago slowburn-folk troupe The Horse’s Ha, led by Janet Bean (Eleventh Dream Day, Freakwater) anfd Jim Zinc (The Zincs). Think Fairport Convention, Pentangle and a little Astral Weeks, if you catch their drift. On vinyl too, in April.