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lou barlow Brace The Wave release date : September 4, 2015 catalog # : JNR168 available formats : LP / CD / digital

LP: 656605486413

genre : Indie box lot quantity : 10 LP / 25 CD packaging : jacket / wallet

CD: 656605486420

Territory Restrictions: only available to North America vinyl non-returnable. track listing :

overview :

Redeemed

Nerve

Moving

Pulse

Wave

Lazy

Boundaries

C&E

Repeat

“Hi, my name is Lou Barlow, my first band was Deep Wound , we were a hardcore band. We recorded a 9 song 7” in 1983. One of my first song writing attempts appeared on that record. It’s called ‘Lou’s Anxiety Song’. The original title was ‘Pressures’ and it’s a straight forward description of my teen boy problems. The singer of the band decided to scream “Lou’s anxiety song!!” at the beginning instead of “pressures!” as I had written it. It was his commentary on the overly earnest lyrics of the song, the title stuck. Strangely, given my overwhelming desire to fit in, I didn’t change my tact and try to write in a more detached manner. In fact , I further delved into the most uncomfortable aspects of my life whenever I set pen to paper and pressed ‘record’. In 1987 I completed my first solo LP ‘ weed forestin’ ‘ , which was really just a cassette i duplicated and gave away . I called myself Sentridoh. The songs were short and I played a baritone ukelele that I modified with heavier strings and flexible tunings. At that point Deep Wound had become Dinosaur Jr. and I wouldn’t dare to play the songs for my slightly older and much cooler bandmates. My songs were potentially even more embarrassing. Somewhere along the way the songs connected with a few people. Generally these people became my bandmates or lovers. I figured I should hold on tight to anyone who understood what I was doing so I formed a band called Sebadoh. When I was dismissed from Dinosaur Jr in 1989 , Sebadoh became a ‘real’ band , meaning, we amped up my acoustic songs and began assaulting paying audiences. The story is that Sebadoh went on to do pretty well. I wrote a song called ‘ gimme indie rock’ and tried to step up my game. We recorded in studios and went on tour. In 1994 or so I formed another band with someone else who liked my first cassette. We called our band the Folk Implosion and in 1995 we had a charting single : ‘natural one’ (#26 US top 40! ). Anyway, it all eventually crashed and burned. By the early 2000’s I was back alone with my 4-track and a basic knowledge of digital recording. I still had a ukelele. I was still the most comfortable writing uncomfortable songs. I self-released a few things , the reviews were brutal. But I honestly believed that I was writing and recording my best material. I love the cozy self delusion of the creative process. Finishing songs, making records and holding the finished piece in hand ( or pressing ‘upload’ as the case may be ) is incredibly satisfying. In 2005 I made my first official solo LP “EMOH” , ‘official’ meaning I didn’t attach a nonsense word to it , I used my legal name. I followed that in 2009 with “goodnight unknown” . In the meantime I sensibly began touring with Dinosaur Jr and Sebadoh again which leads me to..now, 2015. I recorded ‘brace the wave’ in about 6 days with Justin Pizzoferrato at Sonelab studios in Easthampton Massachusetts ( I have recently moved back to the area after 17 years in LA ). Justin was the engineer for the 3 Dinosaur Jr ‘reunion’ LP’s , “beyond”, “farm” and “I bet on sky” . My ease with Justin meant I approached the sessions with a focus and confidence I don’t usually feel. Songs like “redeemed” , “wave’ and “moving’ reprise my early methods of tuning my ukelele down low and writing the song in the moment , during the recording process. Others like “lazy” and “c+e” are live recordings of traditional-style folk songs , some which I began writing nearly 20 years ago. The lyrics encapsulate yet another transitional period in my life . I still don’t feel I have a choice but to puzzle over difficult times in my songs. I kept this album short anticipating the listener fatigue associated with a musician who’s been around for 25+ years. As a music obsessive myself, I understand. I like new things too. But here it is, ‘Lou’s Anxiety Song’ versions 740 through 749: ‘brace the wave’ . Thanks for listening.” - Lou Barlow

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Joan Shelley Over and Even

Catalog #: NOQ047 Release Date: September 4, 2015 CD: Boxlot 30 LP: Boxlot 24 / Non-returnable

Tracklisting: Brighter Than The Blues Stay On My Shore Over And Even Joan She Not Over By Half lley h a s been fea Ariadne’s Gone tured in The N No More Shelter ew York Times, Rolling Easy Now Stone an d on NPR’s W Lure And Line orld Caf Jenny Come In é and Mou ntain Sta Wine And Honey ge My Only Trouble Subtle Love Joan Shelly’s new album, Over And Even, was written in the back of an abandoned beauty parlor on the island of Thessaloniki. The whole thing had something to do with Vashti Bunyan. That’s what Joan told me, but Joan Shelley is a poet, so she makes things up. In a small, dark room that smells of expired hair-do chemicals, there is talk of hypnosis. All the windows are blacked out. “Look into my eyes.” White walls are blinding in the ancient sunlight. A bowl of oranges shines like solid gold, waiting for you. There is a small classical guitar, a sunburn, and a key that turns a lock, and songs come pouring out. Maybe the Greek deal was really about Leonard Cohen. That’s Joanie’s jam: songs wide open enough to let the wind blow the curtains around, and solid enough to hang a ton of heartache on. She writes smart, beautiful songs full of poetry, history, mystery and nature. Like all the best sad songs, they will make you cry. Then they will drag you outside and leave you flat on your back, staring up at the stars. Joan lands on a note like a laser beam on a diamond. Colors fly around the room, and her voice bends between them. People say her voice reminds them of Sandy Denny. It’s more than the vocal range. It’s a quiet power that draws you in. Maybe Over And Even wasn’t written last winter on a Greek island. Maybe these songs were written a hundred years ago in a farm house somewhere in Kentucky. That’s where Joan is from, and that’s where she and guitar player Nathan Salsburg recorded all the basic tracks live. All the people who played on Joan’s new record – and Daniel Martin Moore who recorded and engineered it – are friends. That comes through somehow in the sound of the album. Will Oldham and Glen Dentinger are genius harmony singers. They leave the perfect amount of space for microscopic shifts in Joan’s voice, without sacrificing their own awesome idiosyncrasies. Nathan Salsburg’s guitar follows every twist of the melody. When the song breaks your heart in two, Nathan is there with a high E-string to sew it back together. Joan Shelley’s voice flows out like a river. It never travels in a straight line. It follows bends and curves carved by history. We are all lucky just to be swept away, and go with her wherever she’s going. – Catherine Irwin

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WIDOWSPEAK ALL YOURS 1xLP/CD

Widowspeak has grown up in a lot of ways. The band’s third album, All Yours, is one that could only come from Molly Hamilton and Robert Earl Thomas: a honed and elegant interweaving of dream-pop and slowcore rock and roll, easygoing melodies and dusty, snaking guitars. It’s also their finest release to date: ten beautiful songs that are refreshingly straightforward yet built from the same well-chosen and deftlyused tools the band has always worked with.

CT -230 01 All Yours 02 Narrows 03 Dead Love (So Still) 04 Stoned 05 Girls 06 Borrowed World 07 Cosmically Aligned 08 My Baby’s Gonna Carry On 09 Coke Bottle Green 10. Hands

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All Yours is ambitious without feeling labored-over, anchored in the strengths of Widowspeak’s consistent influences. There are those familiar Morriconecome-Verlaine guitar passages, moody and country-tinged instrumentation, watery tremolo, velvety stacked vocals. You can hear Molly’s affection for The Cranberries and The Sundays in the wavering melodies of “Dead Love” or “Girls”, and Rob’s adoration of George Harrison and Robbie Robertson in his brilliantly economical guitar playing. The result is an aesthetically diverse and profoundly nostalgic sound; indebted to past eras without feeling dated.

RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 4, 2015 GENRE: ALTERNATIVE/INDIE/FOLK/AMERICANA After many line up changes, the band chose to work again with Jarvis Taveniere, who produced their self-titled debut in 2011. They also enlisted him and drummer Aaron Neveu (both of whom play in Woods) as the studio rhythm section. The presence of Taveniere and Neveu contributes a groove that wasn’t there previously, and there’s a few other new things: the swell of strings at critical moments, and for the first time, voices beyond Molly’s own. We finally get to hear Rob sing in the earnestly laid-back “Borrowed World.” Members of psych outfit Quilt contribute harmonies and keys throughout the record, most notably in “My Baby’s Gonna Carry On”, and “Cosmically Aligned”. Perhaps All Yours is so refreshing because it’s a return to form. It’s a record that feels as effortlessly unplanned as their debut, that serves to capture a moment rather than create one.

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JERUSALEM IN MY HEART If He Dies, If If If If If If CD / 180gLP / DL

RELEASE DATE: 04 SEPTEMBER 2015

“A daring act brimming with promise.” – TINYMIXTAPES “[JIMH] has a mature and unbridled energy that defies classification, and I cannot recommend it enough.” – A CLOSER LISTEN "Compelling, confounding, deeply moving." – ALL MUSIC GUIDE ON TOUR IN CANADA & EUROPE THROUGHOUT OCT/NOV 2015 Radwan Ghazi Moumneh returns with a second full-length album from his acclaimed Jerusalem In My Heart (JIMH) project, conceived and recorded in his dual homes Montréal and Beirut. Known for his production and engineering work with artists as diverse as Matana Roberts (all three chapters of her Coin Coin recordings to date), Aids Wolf, Ought, Eric Chenaux (with whom he also released a collaborative album for the Grapefruit Records Club) and Suuns (with whom he also released a collaborative album on Secretly Canadian in spring 2015), Moumneh has been firing on all cylinders over the past few years. He has brought JIMH to mesmerized live audiences in Canada, Europe and the Middle East since the release of his first album in 2013, following many years during which the project was a strictly Montréal-based live/theatrical happening. While JIMH continues to expand to include a larger cast of players for select engagements and commissions, the group is currently an immersive and performative audio-visual duo at its core, with Moumneh responsible for all sound/composition and filmmaker Charles-André Coderre creating 16mm visuals and live projections/installations. Moumneh expands his compositional palette on If He Dies, If If If If If If, exploring new deconstructions and juxtapositions of both traditional and popular Arab musical currents, with an album that oscillates between powerfully emotive vocal tunes and instrumental works that primarily make use of Radwan's expressive acoustic playing on buzuk and zurna as a point of departure. One of Moumneh’s finest melismatic a cappella vocal performances opens the album, followed by the uncharacteristically literal-titled “A Granular Buzuk”, where said instrument is processed, re-sampled and otherwise disrupted through Radwan’s real-time custom signal patches. “7ebr El 3oyoun” follows with languidly plaintive vocals set against a gradually accelerating riff underpinned by hand percussion, and Side One closes with a scabrous white noise intervention wherein the entire audio mix is fed through a contact mic placed in Radwan's mouth. Moumneh continues to channel his love for Arabic pop and Casio/cassette culture on the silky lo-fi disco of “Lau Ridyou Bil Hijaz?” which opens Side Two, then pays homage to the until-recentlyexiled Kurdish poet and singer Sivan Perwer on the traditional-minded, unadorned folk tune “Ta3mani; Ta3meitu”. The album closes with a tour-de-force drone piece built from Bansuri flute (performed by guest player Dave Gossage) and a delicate acoustic number set against the sound of waves recorded on a beach in Lebanon. (Song titles employ the transliterative characters used in Arabic phone texting.)

If He Dies, If If If If If If is an adventurous, scrupulous, impassioned and highly original work of modern contemporary Arabic music and a gratifying sign that Jerusalem In My Heart is situating itself in recorded works with the same thoughtful and dynamic intensity previously accessible only in live performances. (Needless to say, JIMH continues to be a must-see live act as well.) Thanks for listening.

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Diane Coffee

Everybody’s a Good Dog ABOUT THIS RECORD In December of 2012, former Disney actor and didgeridoo craftsman Shaun Fleming moved from his hometown of Agora Hills, CA to become the third roommate in a small Manhattan apartment. The move took its toll on Fleming, who soon fell ill with the flu. Not having any friends in New York, and not feeling well enough to explore the city, Fleming holed up in his apartment for the next two weeks, writing and recording songs everyday, a process that gave birth to the alter-ego Diane Coffee, and her first album My Friend Fish. My Friend Fish was an album born out of sickness and nostalgia for the sunshine and solitude of California. Sweet, gritty, and full of life, the songs were our first glimpse into Diane's vibrant and pleasantly twisted world. According to Fleming, it was "a documentation of my new east coast existence. My acceptance and embrace of Diane." He goes on to explain "I had never lived in a big city until then, but spontaneous moves have always helped to inspire my writing. I don’t think I ever felt comfortable or at home in the city though. I missed the quiet. I missed having a fire. I missed the color green." It's not surprising that after visiting the charming midwest town of Bloomington, IN (home of Foxygen's label) Fleming decided to make yet another spontaneous move. "I might just like new surroundings. It’s too hard for me to go from city to city, only to come back to another city," says Fleming. Naturally the move and the return to a small town got his creative juices flowing again. Just as the move from sunny California to New York inspired a dark album with relatively optimistic lyrics, his move from New York to Bloomington inspired the new album Everybody's a Good Dog, a bright energetic album with relatively dark lyrics.

TRACK LIST 01 Spring Breathes