Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

01 Southern Point
02 Two Weeks
03 All We Ask
04 Fine for Now
05 Cheerleader
06 Dory
07 Ready, Able
08 About Face
09 Hold Still
10 While You Wait for the Others
11 I Live With You
12 Foreground

So after finding out what the-album-that-somehow-comes-up-in-every-comment-thread was called, the only outstanding issue was: how exactly do you visually conceptualize aVeckatimest? I figure either you incorporate imagery of the namesake uninhabited isle, or create sort of a hand-drawn collage of various geometric shapes rendered in pastels and earth tones to capture the breadth of emotion and mood-spanning mystery conjured by the title's syllabic string. Oh I guess the latter...www.stereogum.com

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Thee Early Worm - Early Worm

1. Joint Effort

2. Firesong
3. Mourning To The Dusk
4. Waltz Of The Newt
5. Prelude
6. Clockword Cloud
7. Rather Hard To Libel
8. A Very Short Middle
9. Balloon
10.Lament

Early Worm is a transfixingly lo-fi recording of the first to tape experiments by Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV figurehead Genesis P-Orridge. Recorded in his parents attic in 1968 in suburban England, P-Orridge and his group of local teenage freaks, weaned on a steady diet of Burroughs/Gysin cut ups, ESP records and emerging psychedelia, married their absurdity and dada to whatever they could find. The results interestingly enough are far more acoustic-based than one would imagine from a founding father of industrial music. Often times the melodies and detuned melodies are reminiscent of Jandek but tweaked using homemade solutions like paperclips and tape feedback. The general feel is akin to far outside loners and goes beyond the feel of what would come later but shows the personality of a individual. One gets the feel of being a fly on the wall to these live, one take experiments. Originally pressed as a single copy acetate back in the day, the original master reels were found by Dias label founder Ryan Gelik and is presented here on LP to the curious public for the first time. Most interestingly bizarre is P-Orridge’s father’s harmonica performance on the track “Lament”. Seems as though askew ran in the blood. While certainly not the most coherent statement Early Worm is an interesting recording of bizarre tribal home-made weirdness despite whoever is involved.

Wavves - Wavvves

01. Rainbow Everywhere
02. Beach Demon
03. To the Dregs
04. Sun Opens My Eyes
05. Gun in the Sun
06. So Bored
07. Goth Girls
08. No Hope Kids
09. Weed Demon
10. California Goths
11. Summer Goth
12. Ghost Ramp
13. Killr Punx, Scary Demons
14. Surf Goth

Nathan Williams from San Diego is the current toast of the blogs but, if the name is unfamiliar, you might recognise him from his musical moniker Wavves. His debut album is a delight of bedroom pop drenched in dirty, overamped, fuzzy guitars. It’s punk marinaded in surf-pop, drawing on the Beach Boys, Wipers, Beat Happening and the Pixies, and taking its cue from the K Records’ DIY dynamic. There are a couple of departures into playful space-prog wibbling and pitchshifting electronica but the majority of the record is some form of brutally distorted guitar pop: from catchy punk (‘Here’s To The Sun’) to frenetic, driving Pixiepop (‘Teenage Super Party’) to Wire-like spikiness (‘Side Yr On’). It sounds as inspired and underproduced as punk rock records from 1976 with the same amphetamine frenzy. It may be raw but it’s powerful and satisfying stuff, best listened to very loud....www.soundsxp.com

Swan Lake - Enemy Mine

1. Spanish Gold, 2044 

2. Paper Lace 

3. Heartswarm 

4. Settle on Your Skin 

5. Ballad of a Swan Lake, or, Daniel’s Song 

6. Peace 

7. Spider 

8. A Hand at Dusk 

9. Warlock Psychologist

For lack of a better word, this album is more cohesive and less a mash-up of three different styles than 2006's Beast Moans. What we, have here is instead a band with three lyricists and vocalists working together on the same thing interweaving, rather than throwing against a wall, their vocals and musical styles so we get Krug's dissonant pop with Mercer's wild despair and Bejar's warbling nonsense. On the track's opener, Mercer takes the lead and delivers what could be a straight up Frog Eyes track but without his wife's chaotic drumming. "Paper Lace" gets both Bejar's nonsense through Jackie's return and shines through the lyrics, I think, while Mercer handles the vocal duties only for Bejar to come back with a slow not-quite piano ballad that's almost entirely a Destroyer track stylistically. Arrgh, without linear notes, it's hard to know who's responsible for what and when but regardless the trio leave you with a record that is distinctly all of them individual and possessing a rawness that has been sorely lacking in some of their other projects.

The Long Lost - The Long Lost

01. The Art Of Kissing 

02. Amiss 

03. Sibilance 

04. Overmuch 

05. Past Perfect 

06. Ballroom Dance Club 

07. Siren Song 

08. Colour 

09. Regrets Only 

10. Cat Fancy 

11. Wobegone 

12. Finders Keepers 

13. Domestics 

14. Awash

The Long Lost consists of high-school-sweethearts turned husband-&-wife Alfred (a.k.a. Daedelus) and Laura Darlington. Both hail from Santa Monica, California, where they met in the high school orchestra - he on double-bass and she on flute - and became partners in the ballroom dance club.

After 4 years apart, they formed The Long Lost during a renewed courtship in 1998. In contrast to the avant-electronics and hip-hop aesthetics of Alfred’s music as Daedelus, The Long Lost is a union of two songwriters & producers with a penchant for sad sounds and delicate, electro-acoustic melodies. These two hopeless romantics make psychedelic lullabies for lovers and the lovelorn.

A fascinating and utterly individual project, The Long Lost take the subject of love away from the cliches and hackneyed wailing of the mainstream and reconnect it to those strange and uncontrollable emotions we’re all so in thrall to...www.plugonemag.com

Casiotone For The Painfully Alone - Advance Base Battery Life

1. Old Panda Days (w/ Nick Krgovich)
2. Lesley Gore On The T.A.M.I. Show (version)
3. White Corolla
4. White On White
5. Holly Hobby
6. Lonesome New Mexican Nights
7. The Only Way To Cry
8. It's A Crime
9. Missoula
10. Hot Boyz (w/ Dear Nora)
11. Born In The U.S.A. (w/ Concern)
12. Streets Of Philadelphia (w/ Concern)
13. Graceland
14. Sunday St
15. Voice Of The Hospital

Advance Base Battery Life is a compilation of singles and rarities from Owen Ashworth's Casiotone for the Painfully Alone moniker. It collects rare songs from his decade+ long career, and features guests Concern and Dear Nora...www.prefixmag.com

Secret Message Machine - Giants, Madmen, and Ghosts

1. Insomnia
2. Giants
3.Literary Criticism
4. Hungry Vilains
5. Leatherwing
6. Dead Man I
7. Dear Firefly
8. Ghosts
9. Greensboro
10. Black Waves

elements of singer/songwriter indie rock, with no cliches or tired sounds. Each track, although fronted by seemingly forlorn vocals, springs to life with intricately placed layers of bass, acoustic strumming, magical effects and rock guitar coming and going at just the right moments..http://www.primaverasound.com

Yellowhead - Mealwine

01) Cll th Abmlnc m Bd 

02) Rush Therapy  

03) Mahjong  

04) Birdie's Life 

05) Alzheimer Counter 

06) Mildret, the Tea-Potesse 

07) Indeed  

08) Ice Tea Department 

09) Sasha's Chopped Piano  

10) Humanoid Basketball  

11) Copymarket Hyperwriter  

12) Flying Worm  

13) Keine Mautstrassen  

14) Olympic Sportkids 

15) Heavy Snowfall Cyclists  

16) Müsli and Cigarettes  

17) T th Pschtrc Clnc

Eero Johannes - Eero Johannes

01 Lipton Service Boy  

02 HAL Manifesto 

03 We Could Be Skweeeroes 

04 Finnrexin 

05 Natt I Sparvagnen 

06 Sumuhumus

07 Mobile 363 

08 Elain 

09 Tonewash 

10 Katt Witt 700 Watts

11 Mantik

12 Hiisi

13 Polka Plok

Timber Timbre - Timber Timbre

01. Demon Host
02. Lay Down in the Tall Grass
03. until the Night Is Over
04. Magic Arrow
05. Will Find Out
06. I Get Low
07. Trouble Comes Knocking
08. No Bold Villain