Out This Week 7/2

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07/02/2013
Jim Beckmann

It's a very short list of new releases this holiday week, so you can probably tie your record store shopping to your quest for 4th of July BBQ supplies. While you're stocking up on burgers, weiners, beer and soda, you might stop to grab the latest from British producer Zomby, whose third album, our Music Director, Don Yates, describes as "a sprawling 2-CD set containing 33 mostly short tracks of dark, beat-driven instrumentals blending elements of hip hop, dubstep, grime and drum ‘n’ bass, combining ominous synths, booming beats and eerie melodies." Okay, so that's maybe a bit more for the light night, post-fireworks me-time, but you are in a more active mood, try the new album from Belize's The Garifuna Collective, who carry on after the death of their frontman, Andy Palacio, with "another impressive set of Garifuna music, a heavily African-influenced, percussion-driven music with hypnotic call-and-response chanting." If you're in a rebellious or even dangerous mood, try the new LP from post-punk legends The Fall. Their 30th(!) album not only follows but "makes up" for 2011's Ersatz GB, which The Fall's frontman, Mark E. Smith, admits to being "not very good" but warns that 2013's Re-Mit "is going to terrify people. It's quite horrible," adding, "The Fall have had enough and we're coming for you." Further danger abounds on the latest from The Builders and the Butchers, whose post-apocalyptic landscape of sound and song draws inspiration from the works of Cormac McCarthy. If song titles like "Blood Runs Cold", "Hellfire Mountain" and "Desert Fire" don't scare you off, you'll find howlin' good fun in the Portland band's latest round of boot-stompin', yell-alongs.

So get out there now to check out these and other new releases out this week:

  • The Builders and the Butchers - Dirt in the Ground (MP3)
  • from Western Medicine on Badman Records
  • Danny Michel with The Garifuna Collective - Blackbirds Are Dancing Over Me
  • from Black Birds Are Dancing Over Me on Stonetree / Cumbancha
  • The Fall - Hittite Man
  • from Re-Mit on Cherry Red
  • The Garifuna Collective - Ubóu (The World)
  • from Ayó on Stonetree / Cumbancha
  • A Grave With No Name - Aurora (MP3)
  • from Whirlpool on Lefse Records
  • Grant Olney - Not From Body (MP3)
  • from Hypnosis for Happiness (self-released)
  • Owen - Bad Blood
  • from L'Ami du Peuple on Polyvinyl Records
  • Pretty Lights - Around The Block (feat. Talib Kweli)
  • from A Color Map of the Sun (self-released)
  • Shortcircles - All I Can Be For You
  • from Between Waves on Plug Research Music
  • The Toxic Avenger - Romance & Cigarettes Edit (MP3)
  • from Romance & Cigarettes EP on Roy Music
  • TRAAMS - Low
  • from Ladders EP on FatCat Records
  • Zomby - With Love
  • from With Love on 4AD

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