Upcoming Releases

• Polar Bear

  Peepers

  Leaf

  Categorizing Sebastian Rochford poses problems. Jazz is at the heart of his work, yet his understanding of and engagement with a wide range of genres are such that it's impossible to shoehorn his recordings into neat and tidy boxes. Peepers is Rochford's fourth album as the leader and percussionist of the London-based Polar Bear, alongside collaborators Leafcutter John, Tom Herbert, Pete Wareham, and Mark Lockheart.

   

  Available March 2nd, 2010

   

• K11

  Metaphonic Portrait 1230 A.d.

  Actual Noise

  K11 is the nom de plume of Italian sound artist Pietro Riparbelli. On his last release as K11, 2009's Voices from Thelema (Aurora Borealis) Riparbelli visited the ruins of Aleister Crowley's Thelema Abbey in Cefalu, Sicily, where he documented signals and sounds coming through short-wave radio receivers--an instrumental trans-communication ritual, acting as a conduit for whatever spirits remain in the Abbey.

   

  Available March 2nd, 2010

   

• Wolf, Josiah

  Jet Lag

  Anticon

  The debut album from WHY? multi-instrumentalist Josiah Wolf offers up a rare achievement--a solo work with true legs of its own. Wolf's visual snapshots illustrate the wistfulness of a mundane moment and offer canny excavations of those poignancies that lie beneath the surface: tough triumphs, tougher truths, and outright failures.

   

  Available March 2nd, 2010

   

• Kuedo

  Dream Sequence

  Planet Mu

  Kuedo is the new name for Jamie Vex'd, one half of the legendary dubstep duo Vex'd, whose 2005 album Degenerate rewrote the rulebook. By bringing industrial, techstep, breaks and grime influences to the fore, Degenerate was crucial in establishing the dubstep sound out of the two-step and UK garage scenes.

   

  Available March 2nd, 2010

   

• Overnight Lows

  City Of Rotten Eyes

  Goner

  Goner Records is proud to release City Of Rotten Eyes, the debut of Jackson, Mississippi's OVERNIGHT LOWS. It's about time. MARSH and DAPHNE NABORS, guitar and bass, have been playing out as Overnight Lows ever since their previous band, THE COMAS, imploded in early 1995. Goner and many other labels have been badgering them for a record for years.

   

  Available March 2nd, 2010

   

• Hull, Scott

  Audiofilm Ii

  Crucial Blast

  Audiofilm II is the second installment in the Crucial Blast series of limited-edition 3" CDs from Scott Hull. Best known for his amazing thrash/grind riffage in the bands Pig Destroyer and Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Scott has been gradually revealing another side of his musical persona over the past few years, an obsession with cinematic soundscaping and darkly evocative film scores, mutant electronic textures and pitch-black isolationism that employs brilliant production trickery to immerse the listener in a vibrantly active aural environment.

   

  Available March 2nd, 2010

   

• Starkey

  Stars (feat. Anneka)

  Planet Mu

  DIGITAL VERSION INCLUDES 3 BONUS REMIXES!!!During the course of an appearance on Mary Anne Hobbs's show recently, Philadelphia producer and genre cross-pollinator Starkey built a track from scratch with the help of Anneka and Reso, leaving other Radio One DJs scrambling to play it. Well, here's what happens when they have more than two hours to work.

   

  Available March 9th, 2010

   

• Summer Cats

  Your Timetable

  Slumberland

  Melbourne, Australia's Summer Cats are keen students of pop in all its flavors. From the motorik strum of Modern Lovers to the folky lilt of early Creation / Sarah label bands to the feedback-drenched noisy pop of the '00s, Summer Cats have got you covered. Their 2009 Slumberland album Songs for Tuesdays dazzled with seemingly effortless song craft and sharp melodicism.

   

  Available March 16th, 2010

   

• Ludicra

  Tenant

  Profound Lore

  For the better part of the decade, San Francisco's Ludicra has cultivated a well-deserved reputation as one of the finest and most forward-thinking bands in the contemporary underground metal scene. They were one of the first inspired by the second wave of Norwegian black metal to fuse that sound with punk, traditional metal, and neo-folk elements, and alongside the now-legendary Weakling, they put Bay Area metal back on the map as a hotbed of artistic fervor.

   

  Available March 16th, 2010

   

• Eddy Current Suppression Ring

  Rush To Relax

  Goner

  When Eddy Current Suppression Ring formed in Melbourne, Australia, in 2003, bandmates Eddy Current, Rob Solid, Danny Current, and Brendan Suppression thought they would play a few shows and perhaps record a 7-inch or two. One of their first gigs, in fact, was an employee Christmas party at the record pressing plant where they worked.

   

  Available March 16th, 2010

   

• Extra Life

  Made Flesh

  Loaf

  Extra Life is the primary musical vehicle for singer, guitarist and composer Charlie Looker, an intense and respected voice in the New York experimental underground. For years, Looker was a core member of legendary brutal chamber ensemble Zs, and has also worked with Dirty Projectors, Glenn Branca, William Parker and the S.

   

  Available March 16th, 2010

   

• Beirut

  Lon Gisland

  Pompeii

  The sleeper hit of 2006, Beirut's Gulag Orkestar came out of nowhere to sell tens of thousands of copies in a matter of months and wound up on countless critics' year-end lists. As a stopgap before recording a new full-length in Fall 2007--and as a way to capture some current songs being performed at shows--the eight-member band checked into Sea Side Studios in Brooklyn to record Lon Gisland.

   

  Available March 16th, 2010