Friday, December 5, 2008

Academy Mail Order Update: Early December 2008

Lots of new releases and re-stocks, as well as some exclusive old-time reissue stock. To order, e-mail a list of what you want to academymailorder@gmail.com.

NEW RELEASES & RE-STOCKS:

Blank Dogs - The Fields
New on Woodsist Records LP $12

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig! Lazarus Dig!! Double LP $28

Children's Hospital - Alone Together
New LP on Sacred Bones! Dark art punk for art punks. $14

Crazy Dreams Band
Baltimore's new brew of venomous sludge. LP $15

Emaciator - Coveting
New LP on Not Not Fun from this guy, AKA Pedestrian Deposit. Harsh noise & sound scapes, but a lot more mellow than his previous work. $14

Love Tan - Miscellaneous Night Feelings LP $14

Thee Mighty Caesars - Surely They Were The Sons of God LP $10
Re-stocked!!

Jay Reatard - The Matador Singles LP $15

The Rebel - Northern Rocks Bear Weird Vegetable
Excellent new recordings by this Country Teasers offshoot. Intelligent and willfully bizarre. Droll, even. LP $14

Royal Trux - Accelerator LP $13

Royal Trux - Cats & Dogs LP $11

Royal Trux - Hand of Glory LP $14

Royal Trux - Pound For Pound LP $14

Royal Trux - Veterans of Disorder LP $13

Sex Vid - Communal Living LP $13

Matt Valentine & Erika Elder - Gettin' Gone Electric acid-washed rock from ex-Tower Recordings helmseman. Band members include J Mascis, Samara Lubelski, and more! Great. Double LP $22



NEW RE-ISSUES:

Animals & Men - Never Bought, Never Sold
Back in stock on Mississippi Records! Classic DIY. LP $13

The Better Beatles - Mercy Beat
Famous for their "Penny Lane" 45. 10 Beatles cuts re-done as minimal synth/bedroom-wave. $12.

Karen Dalton - In My Own Time
Back in stock! Comes with bonus 7" with alternate mixes of "Katy Cruel" and "Something On Your Mind." Essential femme county/rock-rock sessions. One of the most amazing voices of her time. LP $18.

The Dead C - DR 503/The Sun Stabbed EP
Essential jangle-drone deconstruction from New Zealand. Their early records laid the blueprint for much of what we're buried under today. Pre-Siltbreeze LP and EP together on double LP! $22

The Dead C - Eusa Kills/Helen Said This
Second double LP volume of early material re-issued! Eusa kills features a T-Rex cover, barely recognizable under the murk. The Helen Said This EP (two side-long tracks) is some of their finest long-form work to date. $22

Dead Kennedys - What Shall We Do Tonight?
1978 Demos LP $14

Daniel Johnson - Artistic Vice / 1990
Classic LPs reissued! Double LP $18

Daniel Johnson - Hi How Are You?
Re-stocked! $16.

Daniel Johnston - Yip Jump Music!
Re-ish of cassette material back in stock!! Re-ish of cassette material back in stock!! Double LP $16

The Nervse - One Way Ticket Classic power pop, features "Hanging On The Telephone" of course. $18

Bulent Ortacgil - Benimle Oynar Misin?"
Legit reissue on Wah-Wah of super rare Turkish folk-rock/singer songwriter. Think Donovan or Dylan, if you must. LP $27

The Rats LP
Mississippi Records re-issued this Fred n Toody pre-Dead Moon LP. Sick. $14

V/A - Bloodstains Across California
OOP KBD rare LP $13

V/A - Bloodstains Across The Midwest LP $13



Blues & Old-Time Reissues!
Many of these are old label stock from the 7os. If you've been digging on recent Mississippi Records compilations like "Last Kind Words", "Life Is A Problem" or "I Don't Feel At Home" you might want to check a few of these out.

The Allen Brothers - The Chattanooga Boys Recordings made 1927-1934, featuring the Allen Brothers on guitar, banjo, kazoo and vocals. Ballads, blues and comedic songs. Fuckin' great. Original copies on the Old-Timey label. LP $12

Roosevelt Sykes - 1929-1936 Original presing on Document. Perhaps the finest blues pianist of all time, here recorded with a number of different collaborators. LP $12

Sonny Boy Williamson - Blues Classics
Original copies. 1937-1944. LP $18

v/a - Blue Ladies Volume 2: 1937 - 1939
The complete recordings of Hattie Bolten, Lilie Mae Kirkman, Lorraine Walton, and Minnie Mathes. Original copies on Document. LP $10

v/a - Jubilee to Gospel
"A selection of commercially recorded black religious music, 1921-1953." Original LPs $15

v/a - Oh, Run Into Me But Don't Hurt Me!
Female Blues Singers 1923-1930. LP $16

v/a - Shim Sham Shimmy
Rare electric blues selections from 1945-50. LP $16

7" MANIA! New and restocks

Amber Alerts-Ghost House Great follow up to their split with Wizzard Sleeve. Dirty south synth scuzz punk! $5

The Barbaras-Summertime Road
Garage pop psych outta Memphis on Goner $5

Finally Punk-Coffee, Tea, And Misery
FINALLY! PUNK! New and great one from these gals on M'Lady Records. One of the best bands around sez I. $6

Grave Blankets-Our Love Is Real
New on HoZac Records. Great mean spite fueled garage. $6

Life Partners-Aids Of Spades
Art scum punk ala Electric Eels and some of San Francisco's late 70s weirdos. On Ride The Snake Records. 300 copies. $5.50

Medication-Don't Die
Excellent loner downer vibrations on HoZac. One of this year's best. $6

MV & EE-The Best It Ever Was
Great psych folk on The Great Pop Supplement $6

Subtle Turnhips-F* The People F* The Power
French spazz punk on HoZac $6

V/A The World's Lousy With Ideas Vol 3
The madness continues with this repress featuring Suspicions, Wax Museums, Romance Novels, and Nobunny. Great multiple covers as always. $5.50

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