Chet Delcampo / The Fountain / Record Cellar Multi-instrumentalist Delcampo, who played most of the instruments here, has created finely-crafted songs which hint at the kind of mild depression that drove the Church to create their classic album Starfish. In fact, due to Delcampo's husky, almost whispered vocals and subtle acoustic guitar work, some songs, such as "Coffee with Tom T. Hall," could be mistaken for long-lost Church tracks...more» FEATURED ON THE BOOMBOX!
		The Monkeywrench / Electric Children / Estrus If you were a big Mudhoney fan, listening to Electric Children will immediately bring back good memories. Mark Arm's distinct, cackling voice has stood the test of time and presents itself here with his familiar uniqueness -- but also swaggers about with a mature and confident persona that slyly weaves itself between Bland's harmonicas and tinny, snare drum beats...more» FEATURED ON THE BOOMBOX!
		90 Day Men/GoGoGoAirheart / Split EP / Box Factory The 90 Day men are reminiscent of a myriad of bands. One minute you hear the influence of Satisfact; the next there are reflections of DC's now defunct Circus Lupus. The best of 90 Day Men's three songs is the last, "Methodist", which is almost like a dueling spoken-word session. GoGoGoAirheart's singer fluctuates between sounding like the singing twin in Blonde Redhead and Ian from the Make-Up...more»
		Centromatic / All the Falsest Hearts Can Try / Quality Park We're talking serious "lost my dog, lost my girl, got no money, hole in my leg, kinda confused, forgot my keys, it's too damn hot, let's get a burrito" fuzzed out, melodic, heartbreaking indie-rock. You know, the kind that comes from Texas. Indeed, Mr. Will Johnson, the voice and main force behind Centro-matic, is from Texas, and as far as I can tell the band is currently based in Denton, a dusty little town with a curiously active music scene...more»
		DJ Me DJ You / Rainbows and Robots / Emperor Norton As its title suggests, Rainbows and Robots is a mixture of the trippy and the technological, a melange of sci-fi and psychedelia that teeters on the border between mind-expansion and mind control. Looped loungecore swank grooves rub elbows with Delhi-style sitar samples and whucka-whucka guitars. Breakbeats bump and keyboards burble. Mysterious "found" vocal tracks mutter their disjointed travelogue to the rhythm of swollen, infected scratches...more»
		Looper / The Geometrid / Sub Pop With The Geometrid, Looper's strengths are more obvious. For Stuart David, who had grown tired of the linear nature of B&S's process, The Geometrid is an opportunity to take more aggressive control of his sonic palette, moving in techno-fetishistic directions that were anathema to the Belle and Sebastian charter. This is an album about technology, albeit not in the typical sense...more»
		Of Montreal / Horse and Elephant Eatery (No Elephants Allowed) Singles and Songles / Bar/None Just to set the record straight, this is not a new Of Montreal record (though one is due out later this year). It is a compilation of hard-to-find and previously unreleased tracks, including Japanese-only bonus tracks, cover tunes and nearly-impossible-to-find / long-out-of-print 7" singles and compilation appearances. With all this sticky-sweet pop goodness on a single disc, you've got more sugar than a jumbo-sized bag of cotton candy...more»
		Optiganally Yours / presents: Exclusively Talentmaker / Absolutely Kosher Unwilling to be pigeonholed as novelty artists, the Optiganally Yours guys (Pea Hix and ex-Heavy Vegetable/current Thingy Rob Crow) have recorded their sophomore album without using any optigans...choosing instead to utilize the Chilton Talentmaker, a poor optigan cousin so obscure that until recently the duo was unaware that any had actually been manufactured...more»
		Sientific American / Saints of Infinity / Slabco Successful in its ambitions from start to finish, the completed piece lulls you through a mixture of jazzy ambience, tasteful samples and softcore scratchin'. Unlike the work of most electronica acts, Saints of Infinity can be played for enjoyment at volumes high and low, making it one of the few modern records of this sort that you find yourself playing regularly, no matter which new neighborhood cat is listening outside on your windowsill...more»
		Jen Wood / This Uncontainable Light / Tree This four song EP is Wood's first release since 1997. Her music has been described as having a "stark folkish beauty", though folk-inspired is a more appropriate phrase. While Wood's songs are musically spare (Katrina Thomson assists on guitar on vocals while Jayson Tolzdorf drums), there is a boldness conveyed by Wood's honestly emotive voice, acoustic cleverness and oscillating percussive manoeuvers...more»