Some information just in, direct from Matador. I'm
sure that many of you will crave to hear these in the
upcoming months!! New stuff by Pole, Jega, BoC,
Modernist, amongst others.. ; )
Matador Records :: www.matador.recs.com ::
quoted 113 lines note firm BELLE & SEBASTIAN RELEASE DATE-JUNE 6!!
>note firm BELLE & SEBASTIAN RELEASE DATE-JUNE 6!!
>
>*OUT NOW*
>YO LA TENGO "And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out"
>Yo La Tengo have bucked their own trends yet again with a
>startlingly intimate epic. While its aggressive modesty may
>seem offputting at first, it reveals itself to be one of the
>most powerful, moving, and mature records by any band in
>years.
>
>MARY TIMONY "Mountains"
>At times augmenting her bizarre guitar work with piano,
>harpsichord, and viola, former Helium frontwoman Timony gives
>her expansive surreal musings a surprisingly stark musical
>forum. Far more imaginative and affecting than the Tori Amos
>types she's apt to be compared to.
>
>BELLE AND SEBASTIAN "Lazy Line Painter Jane" (3-CDEP box set)
>FINALLY, the box set of their three previously-import-only CD
>EPs: Dog On Wheels, Lazy Line Painter Jane, and 3
6
9
>Seconds Of Light. Taken together, could be the best B&S
>record yet. Remarkable stuff. You can't have a copy, but
>hey, you can expense it.
>
>NON PHIXION "Black Helicopters" 12-inch
>New York's most intense and anarchic hip hop group address
>government conspiracy and epidemic paranoia on the new 12".
>They're smart, scary, and they can rhyme, like, really fast.
>
>CONSOLE "14 Zero Zero" 12-inch
>A love song from a computer to
to its programmer?
>Humanity?! SOOO millennial, dude. It also might be the
>catchiest song we've ever released (so it rips off "Blue
>Monday"
)
>
>* M A R C H *
>21 CAT POWER "The Covers Record"
>Accompanying herself on only sparse piano and guitar, Chan
>Marshall has taken songs by Michael Hurley, Dylan, the
>Stones, Moby Grape, Nina Simone, and more (including herself)
>and made one of the most unique covers records ever. Almost
>gruesome in its melancholy (think "Drama Of Exile," "Pink
>Moon," "Music For A New Society") she de/reconstructs these
>songs to the point of unrecognizability, producing a wondrous
>work full of her own extraordinary personality.
>
>21 CONSOLE "Rocket in The Pocket"
>You're going to know all about Console thanks to the Gap-ad
>friendly electro-pop hit "14 Zero Zero" (see above). The
>album, however, is another beast altogether, a set of warm,
>playful ambient electro a la Boards Of Canada, though with a
>latent pop sensibility. Console is essentially Martin
>Gretschmann, keyboard player for hugely-underrated German
>band the Notwist, and the king of my world.
>
>21 QUICKSPACE "The Death Of Quickspace"
>London's Quickspace take an improvisational approach to their
>hypnotic but diverse sound, creating a mood & groove like no
>rock band we've heard in years. Li'l Eric Demby says "I
>don't listen to music with guitars anymore, except
>Quickspace." This is a band we've wanted to work with since
>their inception; Death is their 3rd US release, but the 1st
>to be released simultaneously here & overseas.
>
>*A P R I L*
>4 THE WISDOM OF HARRY "Coney Island of Your Mind" 7"
>Pete Astor gets all Primal Scream on us with a linear,
>hypnotic pop-dance groove. Look for the followup to last
>year's Stars Of Super 8 comp this fall.
>
>18 MR. LEN "What The Fuck" 12-inch
>One of the masterminds behind Company Flow, turning a
>complete 180 on his 2nd Matador 12" with a particularly jiggy
>number.
>
>18 NIGHTMARES ON WAX featuring DE LA SOUL "The Sound of
>N.O.W." EP
>DJ Food, Rae & Christian, Paul Nice, and others revisiting
>the chill-out mastery of the recent Carboot Soul album.
>
>18 THE MODERNIST "Explosion"
>WOW-Elegant techno-haus from Cologne wizard Jorg Burger (of
>Burger/Ink, The Bionaut, B Movement, and more). Minimalism
>gone super-expansive. His finest work yet.
>
>*J U N E*
>6 BELLE AND SEBASTIAN "Fold Your Hands Child You Walk Like
>A Peasant"
>The first album of new Belle & Sebastian material in almost
>two years, this is apt to be the best pop album of the year.
>
>6 LIVE HUMAN "Elefish Jellyphant"
>SF's remarkable Live Human disintegrate all barriers between
>improvised jazz, underground hip-hop and experimental rock;
>it's a completely fresh spin on instrumental music.
>
>20 POLE "3"
>Another installment in the brilliant recording career of
>German vinyl-cutter Stefan Betke, whose records are among the
>most acclaimed electronic releases of recent years. With dub
>bass, random noise, and no percussion, Betke crafts gorgeous
>soundscapes that are as fleshy as they are cerebral.
>
>20 JEGA "Geometry"
>This followup to 1998's Spectrum (released on Matador last
>year) is another wild conglomeration of styles, drum 'n' bass
>to jazz to ambient to jungle to funk to hardcore
and back.
>Comparisons to fellow sonic extremists might happen if Dylan
>Nathan (aka Jega) stopped long enough to invite them.
>
>*C O M I N G S O O N*
>new albums by CORNELIUS, BOARDS OF CANADA, NON PHIXION, and
>MORE!!