Encore Records

Of Montreal

Paralytic Stalks

Quirky, funky indie pop outfit Of Montreal offer their 11th full-length with Paralytic Stalks, finding band brainchild Kevin Barnes at his most personal since 2007 release Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?

Recorded in Athens, Georgia at Barnes’ home studio with engineer Drew Vanderberg (Deerhunter, Best Coast) and a crew of session musicians (a first in Of Montreal history), Barnes lays bare his emotions to ponder revenge, self-loathing, and relationship turmoil through an eclectic ‘60s pop, revivalist prog, and pseudo country-tinged lens.

Craig Finn

Clear Heart Full Eyes

Clear Heart Full Eyes is the debut solo release from Hold Steady and Lifter Puller front man Craig Finn.

The record takes a simpler route than the intricate musings of the Hold Steady, with Americana and country influences manifesting here.

Recorded in Houston, Texas, with producer Mike McCarthy and friends from bands such as Phosphorescent and White Denim during a 5-day session, the album showcases Finn s superb lyrical narrative and accompanying melodic vocals.

John K. Samson

Provincial

Debut solo album from the Weakerthans main main. Provincial began with a simple idea: to explore four different roads in Manitoba.  “They’re the places I kept going back to. ” Samson talked to relatives, friends and strangers; he visited archives, a tuberculosis sanatorium turned RV park, a forgotten cemetery. The result is this collection of evocative songs, an album that fits beside Bruce Springsteen s Nebraska, Sun Kil Moon s Ghosts Of The Great Highway, Mountain Goats Tallahassee. While the teenage craving of “Cruise Night” recalls the Cars, “Stop Error” invokes Bach; for “When I Write my Master s Thesis, ” Samson s inspiration was all jukebox serendipity Bob Dylan s “When I Paint My Masterpiece, ” sailing out from the corner of a Yukon dive bar. Provincial is a record full of fierce, tuneful, vivid stories.

The Cure

Bestival Live 2011

Two CD live release from the Goth rockers led by Robert Smith. The band headlined the Isle Of Wight-based festival in September 2011, playing a 32-song, two-and-a-half-hour set. The Cure frontman Robert Smith said of the reasoning behind the album’s release: “We had such a great time in the Isle Of Wight at Bestival that we wanted to release this show as a way of thanking fans and islanders alike.” All profits from sales of this live album will be donated to the Isle Of Wight Youth Trust, a charitable, independent and professional organization which offers counseling, advice, information and support services to young people aged 25 and under on the Isle of Wight.

Alex Chilton

Free Again “The 1970 Sessions”

A collection of 1970 solo recordings from the former Box Tops/future Big Star leader. Alex Chilton was the lead singer of a million-selling band, The Box Tops, but felt like little more than a puppet of the group’s producers. In the era of free love, he’d been pressured into a shotgun marriage and fatherhood. And he’d ultimately come to see himself as the pawn of an unscrupulous business machine, sent to grind it out on the road in a series of silly lip-synched TV performances and one-night stands while someone else cashed his checks. As he entered the studio that summer to make his first solo recordings, the man who would come to define the very spirit of musical independence was still bound in chains. At a time where liberation and self-expression were rallying cries, Alex Chilton was about to break free.

Guided By Voices

Let’s Go Eat The Factory

2012 reunion album from the Indie Rock pioneers, the first album in 15 years from the classic lineup (Robert Pollard, Tobin Sprout, Mitch Mitchell, Greg Demos and Kevin Fennell).

Mojo / Uncut

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The February 2012 issues are here now !!

Trent Reznor

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo OST

Three CD set.

The soundtrack for the 2011 US adaptation of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, composed by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.

Soundtrack includes Reznor and Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ take on Led Zeppelin’s ‘Immigrant Song’.

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Uncut / Mojo / Classic Rock / The Wire / Classic Rock Prog and Word

The year end issues are in stock !!

Smashing Pumpkins

Siamese Dream & Gish

Digitally remastered and expanded deluxe three disc (two CDs + DVD) edition of these albums.
Features the remastered version of the original album plus a bonus CD consisting of previously unreleased or alternate versions of songs from the era, a DVD containing a previously unreleased live show from The Metro, 13 postcards featuring original album collages and a 24 page booklet that includes lyrics, photos, liner notes and track-by-track annotations by Corgan.