Encore Records

Gorillaz

Plastic Beach

Deluxe CD/DVD edition includes a bonus DVD that contains a 45 minute documentary on the ‘making of’ the album hosted by Murdoc but featuring creators Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett.

Long awaited 2010 album from the genre-defying animated musical collective.

Five years on from the release of Demon Days, Murdoc Niccals and Co. return with Plastic Beach.

The band have taken up residence, recording on a secret floating island deep in the South Pacific, a plastic beach HQ, made up of the detritus, debris and washed up remnants of humanity.

This plastic beach is the furthest point from any landmass on earth; the most deserted spot on the planet.

As the world’s biggest animated band, Gorillaz formed in 1998, and have since sold 12 million copies over two albums!

Broken Bells

S/T

2010 debut album from this duo featuring James Mercer (The Shins) and Brian Burton (AKA Danger Mouse).

The album features 10 melodically seductive and psychologically provocative songs co-written and performed by Mercer and Burton.

The album features Mercer on vocals, guitars and bass while Burton plays organ, drums, piano, synths and bass.

The pair play all the instruments on the album with the exception of a full string section arranged by Daniele Luppi.

Pavement

Quarantine the Past - Greatest Hits

New collection from the Indie Rock legends, which spans the entirety of Pavement’s career from 1989 to 1999.

The compilation takes the listener on a trip, from the scratchy and mysterious sounds of their early vinyl-only releases up to the rich, multilayered warmth of their final recordings.

Although it does not include any unreleased material, it definitely digs deeper than the hits.

Pavement

Watery Domestic / Wowee / Slanted / Brighten / Crooked / Terror

Released in conjunction with the reunion tour, Matador has reissued all the Pavement releases on LP.

Download coupon included.

The Brian Jonestown Massacre

Who Killed Sgt Pepper ?

Recorded in early & late 2009 between Iceland & Berlin with a US tour in between, the Brian Jonestown Massacre move forward with this new full length album “Who Killed Sergeant Pepper ?”.

Working with musicans of the likes of Will Carruthers (ex Spacemen 3 & Spiritualized) , Unnur Andrea Einarsdottir (who recorded vocals on the last BJM album) and other musicians from France, Germany and Iceland, this is the band’s most ‘multicultured’ release to date, while still retaining their trademark style throughout the course of the album.

The 13 tracks ranging from the ambient bhangra beats to rock to shoegaze to gypsy influences of Eastern Europe music & then back again to the subliminal all tinged with the bands trademark psych.

Shout Out Louds

Work

The third full-length album from Sweden’s Shout Out Louds.

Produced by Phil Ek (Fleet Foxes, The Shins), Work strips away all of the bells and whistles of previous efforts to showcase the band doing what they do best, writing and playing Pop music that is nostalgic and angst-ridden, but ultimately life-affirming.

Tindersticks

Falling Down a Mountain

Gorgeously loose and supple, the album reveals a newly colorful, textured, dynamic and, at times, even exuberant musical personality for the band that broadens the album’s diversity.

Of course, the album remains tinged by the band’s unique brand of ‘Northern Soul’ and ‘bubbling cauldron’ approach to sonics anchored by leader Stuart Staples’ inimitably intimate, deadpan voice that marked some of their most compelling earlier work.

The overall result is a magnificent updating of the Tindersticks canon.

Album Leaf

A Chorus of Storytellers

2010 release from Alt-Rock favorite Jimmy LaValle (AKA The Album Leaf).

A Chorus Of Storytellers was recorded by Ryan Hadlock in the frosty month of February 2009 at Bear Creek Studio, just outside of Seattle, and it was mixed in the decidedly warmer month of June in Reykjavik, Iceland by Birgir Jon Birgisson (of Sigur Ros).

Those paying attention will notice that this is nearly the same way their last album Into The Blue Again was recorded.

There is, however, one fundamental difference between this and every other album The Album Leaf has ever recorded.

For the first time in five albums, The Album Leaf recorded as a whole band. In the past, almost every instrument was performed by principal songwriter and multi-instrumentalist LaValle. This time the whole band was invited to participate and the result is possibly their best record yet.

Los Campesinos!

Romance Is Boring

If you come to Romance Is Boring with too many preconceptions about Los Campesinos!, please leave them at the door: this album may not be what you expect.

Of course, the signs of a rejuvenated Campesinos! were there, if you were looking.

Last year’s mini album We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed debuted a firmer, harder sound, the giddy sugar rush of “You! Me! Dancing!” metabolized into nervous adrenaline and lyrics spiked with jealousy, angst and paranoia.

But Romance Is Boring feels like a band that’s – well, not so much grown up – let’s say “fully realized.”

Steve Kilbey & Martin Kennedy

Unseen Music Unheard Words

The writer of magical hit Under The Milky Way (from Donnie Darko) joins forces with atmospheric ambient stalwarts All India Radio for an album of chilled & enchanting songs sung in Steve Kilbey’s (The Church) distinct & bewitching voice.