Upcoming Releases

• Solar Bears

  Inner Sunshine

  Planet Mu

  John Kowalski and Rian Trench, the two members of Planet Mu's new signing Polar Bear, met at the Pulse Sound Engineering School in Dublin, Ireland. This taster EP precedes their full-length album She Was Coloured In, to be released this fall. The pair's multi-faceted sound mixes the rich colors of hip-hop-inflected analog electronica and touches of the shimmering neon synths of late-'70s / early-'80s Kosmische music (Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulz, Popul Vuh).

   

  Available August 9th, 2010

   

• Jee Day

  Like A Child

  Dfa

  “It only takes one listen to Jee Day's "Like A Child" - and its whirling, hypnotic rush - to recognize the know-how that has made studio whiz Dennis "DJ" McNany a go-to source in New York City's dance music scene. Over the last decade, the sound architect has become a musical jack-of-all-trades: Fine tuning releases from outfits such as The Rapture and Turing Machine; working on early output from DFA Records; maintaining his own Run Roc label; remixing artists like Panthers, Ghostape and Digable Planet's Ladybug Mecca; and contributing keyboards and percussion on tour with The Juan Maclean.

   

  Available August 10th, 2010

   

• Heads, The

  Relaxing With The Heads

  Rooster

  Relaxing With. is The Heads' debut album, first released in 1996. This reissue, remastered and boosted with extras, has been a long time coming. Amidst a world suffocating in Britpop smarm, The Heads' debut cut a timely swath of unkempt psychedelic rock into the face of the English underground.

   

  Available August 16th, 2010

   

• Venetian Snares

  My So-called Life

  Timesig

  A lesson in mutant jungle, My So-Called Life rips up the taste and decency rulebook and mashes up ten songs in the characteristic style of breakcore king Venetian Snares (a.k.a. Aaron Funk). "Posers with Camera Phones" sets the standard: Melody? Check. Jungle breaks? Check. Tongue-in-cheek offensive sample? Check.

   

  Available August 23rd, 2010

   

• Ikonika

  Dckhdbtch

  Planet Mu

  Ikonika returns to Planet Mu following her debut album on Hyperdub and lots of work as an in-demand remixer and a brilliant DJ. In contrast to the recent album, these three new tracks have a sad, emotional quality and pared-down, minimal production that shares as much with techno as it does with dubstep.

   

  Available August 23rd, 2010

   

• Efterklang

  Tripper + Springer (Special Edition)

  Leaf

  The Leaf Label is proud to present special double-CD editions of the first two full-length Efterklang albums, together with their accompanying EPs, in deluxe foldout card packaging with new 16-page booklets. 2004's Tripper album is paired with the five-track Springer mini-album that preceded it in 2003, while watershed second album Parades is joined by the long out-of-print Under Giant Trees mini-album.

   

  Available August 24th, 2010

   

• Crystal Ark

  Tangible Presence Of The Miraculous

  Dfa

  If there is a driving motive at the heart of Gavin Russom's latest project The Crystal Ark, it is to create music that communicates and compels physicality and movement. The group's first single, aptly named "The City Never Sleeps" (DFA2241), is as tireless as the title suggests--an invocation to move, crafted by a visionary.

   

  Available August 24th, 2010

   

• Man’s Gin

  Smiling Dogs

  Profound Lore

  Man's Gin was born in Colorado when Cobalt multi-instrumentalist Erik Wunder and a friend took up their their acoustic guitars and a bottle of cheap liquor and began writing lonely tributes to the drink in which they were drowning their sorrows. The collaboration yielded a batch of home-recorded songs they called The Rum Demos, and circulated among their small circle of friends.

   

  Available August 24th, 2010

   

• Limes

  Rhinestone River

  Goner

  Memphis is home to several of rock's most endearingly off-kilter rock storytellers, from Jim Dickinson to Jeffrey Evans to Ross Johnson. To that list, one can now add Shawn Cripps, leader of The Limes.  On the band's debut full-length, Rhinestone River, Cripps retains the musical talents of Harlan T.

   

  Available August 24th, 2010

   

• Efterklang

  Parades + Under Giant Trees (Special Edition)

  Leaf

  The Leaf Label is proud to present special double-CD editions of the first two full-length Efterklang albums, together with their accompanying EPs, in deluxe foldout card packaging with new 16-page booklets. 2004's Tripper album is paired with the five-track Springer mini-album that preceded it in 2003, while watershed second album Parades is joined by the long out-of-print Under Giant Trees mini-album.

   

  Available August 24th, 2010

   

• Intelligence

  Males

  In The Red

  Males is the sixth full-length release from Seattle, Washington's The Intelligence. This time, main-brain Lars Finberg ditched his usual method of recording all the instruments himself and had his current touring band play on it--Susannah Welbourne, Beren Ekine Huett (Eat Skull) and Chris Woodhouse (Mayyors, FM Knives, Karate Party), who also served as the record's producer.

   

  Available August 24th, 2010

   

• Knights Of The New Crusade

  Knight Vision

  Alternative Tentacles

  The Christian rock scene is replete with slick, careerist bands whose lyrics gingerly tread on the ecumenical outskirts of religious allusions in an attempt to alienate as few mainstream rock consumers as possible. It's no wonder that The Knights of the New Crusade, with their resolute unconcern for compromise (Matthew 16:26), became a flashpoint for contention in both the Christian and secular rock music worlds.

   

  Available August 24th, 2010

   

• Dj Nate

  Hatas Our Motivation

  Planet Mu

  DJ Nate, born Nathan Clark, grew up on Chicago's West Side. The 20-year-old artist started making Footwurk tracks five years ago, more recently turning his hand to hip hop and R&B. With only a few self-made CDRs and YouTube videos, Nate attracted the attention of London's Planet Mu Records, who is proud to present his proper debut releases.

   

  Available August 24th, 2010

   

• Stargazer

  Great Work Of Ages

  Profound Lore

  One of the most unique and bizarre underground bands around, Stargazer plays death metal that leans toward the technical / progressive side of the genre, following in the footsteps of Atheist, Cynic, Pestilence and Gorguts. The two primary members--known as The Serpent Inquisitor and The Great Righteous Destroyer--have been involved with some of Australia's top extreme metal bands, including Mournful Congregation, Cauldron Black Ram and Outre-era Portal.

   

  Available August 24th, 2010

   

• Doozer, The

  Great Explorers

  Siltbreeze

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  Originally released as a CD on the UK label Pickled Egg in 2009, Great Explorers is the second full-length effort from one-man dynamo The Doozer. Siltbreeze was delightfully chuffed to make its acquaintance (by way of Matt Valentine's suggestion) and agreed to release it unto all the world on the much-sought-after vinyl format.

   

  Available August 24th, 2010

   

• Chap

  Even Your Friend

  Lo Recordings

  Kids, are you ready for summertime love? "Even Your Friend" is the second single from The Chap's new album Well Done Europe--which, needless to say, is a masterpiece. It contains hit after hit, quite a few of which address themes of love and death and stuff like that. Sounding like the coolest new wave pop album ever recorded by a group of teachers (though almost nobody in The Chap is a teacher), it's the warmest-sounding, catchiest record they've ever produced.

   

  Available August 24th, 2010

   

• Circle Pit

  Bruise Constellation

  Siltbreeze

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  Glimmer Twins infatuation--well, some folks can pull it off, others cannot. We all know how well Royal Trux rocked 'n' cocked it through the '90s, and now in the second decade of the 21st century, Circle Pit have sauntered into the boozy sway with their debut LP Bruise Constellation.

   

  Available August 24th, 2010

   

• Blackshaw, James

  All Is Falling

  Young God

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  The ultra savant of 12-string mantra cycles expands further into cinematic, orchestral glory--an orgy of organic, deeply felt and exquisitely played pathways to the sublime.
  All Is Falling features James Blackshaw's first foray into the realm of the electric 12-string guitar and stretches his intuitive compositional acumen to the max.

   

  Available August 24th, 2010

   

• Christian Mistress

  Agony And Opium

  20 Buck Spin

  In the Olympia, WA, music scene, punk and indie rock have long ruled the day, and the state capital has yet to make a relevant contribution to heavy metal. That changes August 2010 with the release of Christian Mistress's debut LP Agony & Opium. In 2009, Christian Mistress released a four-song demo cassette, which quickly went on to move several hundred copies worldwide.

   

  Available August 24th, 2010

   

• Eats Tapes

  Still Lox W/ Xyx Bice Ep

  Tigerbeat6

  Eats Tapes take on the complacent global experimental and techno music scenes with an EP of all new tracks that document a stellar step forward in their unique sound. These curiously titled tracks give an obvious nod to late 90's UK techno and Germany's funky minimalists, while staying true to their psyched out Northern California and Portland roots.

   

  Available August 27th, 2010

   

• Dj Nate

  Da Trak Genious

  Planet Mu

  DJ Nate, born Nathan Clark, grew up on Chicago's West Side. The 20-year-old artist started making Footwurk tracks five years ago, more recently turning his hand to hip hop and R&B. With only a few self-made CDRs and YouTube videos, Nate attracted the attention of London's Planet Mu Records, who is proud to present his proper debut releases.

   

  Available September 6th, 2010

   

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