Encore Records

Broken Social Scene

Forgiveness Rock Record

2010 release, the first Broken Social Scene record following the acclaimed Broken Social Scene Presents series.

As a core six-piece who had spent most of 2007 and 2008 on the road, Drew, Canning, Spearin, Whiteman, Goldberg and Peroff spent early 2009 working on new material in Toronto.

The pairing down of the band’s massive personnel list for the first time proved extremely fruitful; they created spacious songs written as a band by a band, resulting in more cohesive, melody-driven compositions than previous BSS output.

Recording both in Toronto and Chicago, and working with producer John McEntire, they found a fresh perspective on their own sound.

The album features guest turns by BSS alumni: Leslie Feist, Amy Millan and Evan Cranley of Stars, Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw of Metric, Jason Collett, Ohad Benchetrit of Do Make Say Think and Years, John Crossingham, Marty Kinack, Leon Kingstone and Julie Penner.

New Pornographers

Together

The fifth album from Canadian-US collective The New Pornographers, featuring Neko Case and Destroyer’s Dan Bejar, in addition to bandleader and chief songwriter A.C. Newman.

Playing to all the New Pornographers strengths, Together combines the freewheeling, glammy spirit of their debut Mass Romantic with the very personal, emotional songwriting of their most recent material.

As a result, it’s an album that aims to please, as exciting for the New Pornographers obsessive as for casual new listeners.

John Grant with Midlake

Queen Of Denmark

Queen Of Denmark is a record of gravitas and grace, of FM melody magic laced with raw emotional bleeding.

It asks why relationships are roulette and love is hell in a last-ditch attempt at self-improvement and atonement after a decade of alcohol and cocaine dependency. And yet there is redemption in its exquisite grooves. And on top, to further the album’s brilliance, Grant’s backing band on the album are Denton, Texas’ mightiest Midlake - contributing their most empathic ‘70s-style Soft-Rock know-how.

Put simply, Queen Of Denmark is the record Grant’s been waiting his whole life to make.

Apples In Stereo

Travelers In Space and Time

The Apples’ 2010 album and seventh studio effort, Travellers in Space and Time is the follow-up to their critically acclaimed hit album New Magnetic Wonder and their second release in association with Elijah Wood’s Simian Records.

Travellers finds the studio-obsessed indie rockers continuing the hook-heavy Pop mastery they achieved on New Magnetic Wonder.

James

The NIght Before

2010 mini album from the veteran Britpop outfit.

The Night Before seems fearless in comparison to its predecessors, a product, no doubt, of the way it was conceived: the band set up an ftp site to which they all contributed, downloading and updating each other’s efforts at various intervals whilst Baker knocked things into shape.

This “virtual” recording process (which eventually led to recording sessions in Brighton and Oswestry), was presumably inspired by the band’s history of working with Brian Eno and has brought out the best in James, the results proving as diverse and intriguing as anything the band have attempted before. Seven tracks.

Plants and Animals

La La Land

2010 sophomore album from the Indie Rock/Pop outfit.

It’s not easy to label the kind of music that Plants & Animals make, but it’s easy for it to feel instantly familiar.

Maybe that’s because they record to tape and their records sound like they could have been made in 1972. La La Land is louder and tougher than their debut album, Parc Avenue (2008) but also showcases them at their smoothest and most cohesive to date.

Inspired by a rediscovery of electric guitars, amplification and fuzz pedals, it takes us up and away from Parc Avenue’s Montreal-in-the-summer vibe and out into the Rock ‘n’ Roll ether.

Caribou

Swim

‘Swim’, the new album from 2008 Polaris Music Prize winner CARIBOU (aka MANITOBA), is a masterpiece - the record he’s wanted to bring to fruition for as long as he’s been making music.

From Dundas, Ontario (and now based in England), Dan Snaith has been a leading figure in electronic music over the past decade.

A mathematics scholar and an ingenious multiinstrumentalist/composer, he surprised critics and fans with 2007’s ‘Andorra’, a brilliant, electro-tinged pop breakthrough with a timeless grace that made most year-end “best of” lists and won the aforementioned Polaris Prize.

After the startling infectiousness of ‘Andorra’, ‘Swim’ is a more complex, multi-layered affair—ripe with fascinating rhythms, instrumentation, and vocals (including those of Born Ruffians’ Luke LaLonde) that becomes more alluring with each listen.

MGMT

Congratulations

Congratulations is a collection of nine individual musical tours de force sequenced to flow with sonic and thematic coherence.

Produced by MGMT and Sonic Boom, the album was recorded throughout 2009 in Upstate New York, Malibu and Brooklyn and features the band’s core duo (Andrew Vanwyngarden and Ben Goldwasser) performing with Matt Asti, Will Berman and James Richardson, their live band.

Ultravox

Ultravox / Systems of Romance / Hahaha / Vienna / Rage In Eden / Quartet

UK Remasters.

One and two cd remasters with previously unreleased bonus tracks !

Al Stewart

Uncorked

2010 live acoustic album from the Scottish singer/songwriter.

Uncorked was recorded in America in 2009 by Al supported by Dave Nachmanoff, who has worked with Al since 2006.

This album was complied from three shows, and was produced by Nachmanoff.

13 tracks including ‘Old Admirals’, ‘Bedsitter Images’, ‘Midas Shadow’ and many more.