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	June 7, 2012

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		OTHER MUSIC RECORDING CO. SHOWCASE AT NORTHSIDE FESTIVAL, 2012 Our new Other Music Recording Co. imprint is throwing its first live music showcase at Union Pool on Thursday, June 14, as part of Brooklyn's Northside Festival. We couldn't be more excited about our line-up, which features Ex Cops, whose debut single also happens to be the inaugural release on our label with an album coming out later this year, and Nude Beach, whose full-length, II, will be getting an official release August 14 on Other, as well as our favorite Jersey bar punks the Everymen, and a surprise special guest. We'll be listing more details in our next Update and on our Facebook invite, so stay tuned and save the date. THURSDAY, JUNE 14 UNION POOL: 484 Union Ave. Williamsburg, BKLN Other Music Recording Co's Facebook Page


	FEATURED NEW RELEASES Metric (Pre-order + Concert Ticket) Liars Phil Cohran & Hypnotic Brass Ensemble Annette Peacock 2:54 Suum Cuique LP Oh No Bob Chance Crocodiles Ariel Pink & R. Stevie More 7" EP Dirty Beach 7" EP Harmony, Melody & Style (Various) Hollie Cook Dope Body Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros Brackles		ALSO AVAILABLE DNTEL Exitmusic Simian Mobile Disco SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT Customer of the Month Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/othermusicnyc Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/othermusic

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		OTHER MUSIC TUESDAYS AT THE ACE HOTEL NYC Other Music nights return to the gorgeous lobby of NYC's Ace Hotel every Tuesday in the month of June, with a different member of the staff DJing an eclectic mix of tunes every week. This coming Tuesday, Anastasia Crisis will be bringing a wide range of classic indie, post-punk and lots of other great underground sounds. While you're at the Ace, make sure to check out the Other Music-curated release display by the front desk featuring a nice range of new CD and LP releases. See you at the Ace! TUESDAY, JUNE 12: ANASTASIA CRISIS TUESDAY, JUNE 19: CHRIS PAPPAS TUESDAY, JUNE 26: ANDREAS KNUTSEN 8:00 p.m. to Midnight Every Week ACE HOTEL: 20 W. 29th St. NYC Facebook Invite

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		WIN TICKETS TO RAMONA FALLS With a great second Ramona Falls album, Prophet, just released, Brent Knopf (previously of Menomena) and his band bring their intricate, electro-tinged indie pop to the Mercury Lounge stage next Thursday, June 14, and Other Music has a pair of tickets to give away! Email tickets@othermusic.com to enter and we'll notify the winner on Friday. THURSDAY, JUNE 14 MERCURY LOUNGE: 217 E. Houston St. NYC

		WIN MOVIE PASSES & MORE TO WES ANDERSON'S MOONRISE KINGDOM From the colorful characters and vivid, imaginary settings of his movies to the unique selection of music which brings these worlds to life, director Wes Anderson is a true visionary. His newest film, Moonrise Kingdom, is now playing in New York City and as always, features a great cast, including Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton and Jason Schwartzman. Other Music is giving away five Moonrise Kingdom prize packages; each includes a run of engagement pass for two, a soundtrack CD courtesy of ABCKO, and a t-shirt. To enter, email giveaway@othermusic.com and make sure to include your mailing address. We'll notify the five winners on Friday via email.


	Pre-Order $13.99 CD		METRIC Synthetica (Mom & Pop) Metric's anticipated new album, Synthetica, is out next Tuesday, June 12, and we've got something special to sweeten the deal for fans. Emily Haines and the band will be playing a very intimate show at Brooklyn's Music Hall of Williamsburg on Wednesday, June 13, and if you pre-order the album from Other Music, we'll throw in a pass to the concert (good for one entry, limit two purchases per customer) while supplies last. We've got 20 passes total, so we'll offer 10 up for mail-order customers and 10 for purchases made in the shop -- don't hesitate!


	$14.99 CD		LIARS WIXIW (Mute) "No.1 Against the Rush" "His and Mine Sensations" Claimed by the post-millennial, post-punk cognoscenti upon their debut, Liars have stymied, befuddled, and fucked with everyone who has laid ears on them since. Who else could go from 0 (as all the major music magazines decimated They Were Wrong, So We Drowned upon its release in '04) to 9.0 (as Pitchfork labeled 2006's Drum's Not Dead) in the span of a single album? And just when it seemed the group had mastered the art of noise and abstraction, they became a great Jesus and Mary Chain band for the next two albums. Now comes WIXIW, which finds the band wholly overhauling expectations again. Gone are the guitars and in their stead, banks of electronics. With a little help from Mute label head Daniel Miller (who perfected icy synth-pop way back when with the Normal), Liars dump a strange little record on us. There are traces of Kid A and Bowie's Berlin trilogy to be had, but Liars twist it to their own ends. "No. 1 Against the Rush" is heady pop, but elsewhere, there's a foreboding ambience as if something left over from Aphex Twin's SAW II was re-purposed here. Yet another great change of direction from one of the most unpredictable and exciting acts out there. [AB]


	$15.99 CD $21.99 LPx2 $9.99 MP3		KELAN PHILIP COHRAN & THE HYPNOTIC BRASS ENSEMBLE Kelan Philip Cohran & the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble (Honest Jon's) "Cuernavaca" "Apsara" Earlier this year, jazz trumpeter Phil Cohran celebrated his 85th birthday. Through the decades Cohran has performed and recorded with a role call of jazz icons, including Miles Davis, Clark Terry, Oliver Nelson, Big Mama Thornton, and probably most importantly, Sun Ra. Born in Mississippi, Cohran moved to Chicago in the mid-'50s, joining the Arkestra after accepting an invite from Ra's main sideman, John Gilmore. This period found Cohran playing on some of Sun Ra's best-known recordings, including one of my absolute favorites in the Arkestra discography, Angels and Demons at Play. Cohran remained in Chicago after the band migrated east, setting up with his own arts collective and becoming a teacher and guide for many young players pursuing the spiritual side of jazz. Along the way he started a family, and with the lessons and inspirations of their father guiding them, eight of Cohran's sons eventually began their own project, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble -- a group that first made a name for themselves bringing their music to the streets of Chicago, New York and beyond, with one of their most legendary, show-stopping, crowd-pleasing performances taking place in front of the Honest Jon's London shop, the ensemble apparently stopping traffic and getting signed in the process. Until now father and sons never recorded an album together, though Phil did appear on HBE's last self-released EP, Bulletproof Brass. This latest release from Honest Jon's brings together the generations, featuring a whole album of elder Cohran's music played by and with his talented offspring. It's a brass-heavy exploration of the funky and grounded, referencing African sounds, hip-hop, and above all jazz spirituality. The hour-long journey moves with an easy pace, built on nearly ever brass instrument in the book, along with lots of shakers and percussive accents, Cohran's great kalimba playing, and a bellowing sousaphone holding down the bass. Recorded in Chicago by R. Kelly's engineer, the sound is crystal clear, with each instrument, big or small, receiving ample space. This is a great listening experience, and a special moment in music history; rarely does a great musician not only raise, nurture and cultivate a legacy, but also gets the opportunity to share the studio with them. If you've been a regular reader of our newsletters you know that we have been enthusiastic about Phil Cohran's music for years, and this special recording is no different. Highly recommended -- oh, and happy b-day, Mr. Cohran, thanks for the gift. [DG]


	$15.99 CD		ANNETTE PEACOCK I'm the One (Future Days) "Pony" "Love Me Tender" Okay, first up, FULL DISCLOSURE: I wrote the liner notes to this release. It's one of my favorite albums, and I was absolutely thrilled to be able to help spread the love for this truly unique and trailblazing record. To give a Cliffs Notes overview, Annette Peacock is a composer and songwriter who began her career as a jazz improviser, but quickly developed a truly unique songwriting ability. She was given the opportunity to test-drive one of the first prototype Moog synthesizers, and in the process created one of the wildest, most extreme singer-songwriter albums ever set to tape. I'm the One was her solo debut, originally released in 1972, and it features a set of songs which blend loose, wild soul and funk grooves with jazz improvisation, sharp-as-a-tack Tin Pan Alley lyricism, and most importantly, her pioneering usage of the Moog as a filtration device on her vocals. She was one of the first people, woman or man, to use the synthesizer to process the human voice outside of academic circles, and her electronic siren calls on this record are as rabid as a pack of wolves going to town on a bloody steak. The album has been sampled by numerous producers over the years, and has become a bit of a rare-groove holy grail. David Bowie tried in vain for years to work with Annette, and had to settle for signing her to his management company for a time, never really knowing what to do with her. The woman has bewildered many bigshots of the lesser sex for decades, as men have never quite figured out how to package and sell a woman with as much innovative genius as her unstoppable sensuality. This album sounds like a Roswell reinterpretation of the Laurel Canyon sound, of Betty Davis jamming with '70s Miles, and of so much more. It's one of the greatest, most unsung albums I've ever heard and it full-blown changed my life when I was just exiting my teenage years and entering the wilderness of my twenties. I know that I'm a bit hyperbolic, but I assure you, this woman laid the groundwork for so many artists we sell twelve times as many records from, and she usually did it more successfully. Much of her catalogue has languished out of print for ages, and while Peacock herself issued a pricey, self-released edition of this album on compact disc, this is the first widespread legitimate release of I'm the One on CD ever. I'm not going to talk about the notes, because that would be a little weird, but I'm proud of them and tried to present Annette in a context which seldom gets discussed -- that of an innovator and figurehead in electronic music. Let me know what you think, and for heaven's sake, thank Light in the Attic/Future Days for putting this important album back on the shelves where it belongs. It's a doozy. [IQ]


	$13.99 CD		2:54 2:54 (Fat Possum) "Revolving" "Scarlet" The core of British duo 2:54 are sisters Colette and Hannah Thurlow. Named after their favorite moment (occuring at two minutes and fifty-four seconds) in the Melvins song "A History of Bad Men," they strive for, and usually achieve, an intensity befitting their namesake, albeit with a touch more melody. Formed as a band only 18 months ago, they nonetheless had all of their formative years to develop their vision, teaching each other guitar and sharing record collections. Colette's icy haunting vocals and Hannah's hard-edged guitar licks are captured by Rob Ellis (PJ Harvey) and mixed with precision by Alan Moulder (Depeche Mode, My Bloody Valentine); the fuzz and snarl are clear and wonderfully numbing. Opening track "Revolving" channels Kim Gordon's bass lines over a blizzard of drums and shimmering guitar play; the single "Scarlet," first released on their debut EP last year, has a shoegaze-injected sound with an eye on melody and firmly placed emotion. "You're Early" triggers memories of the punkish atmosphere of the Pixies but with added phantom harmonies. It is best played loud! Let it flow over you like the impetuous waves crashing unrestrained on the album cover, and expect to be pleasantly surprised. [MF]


	$21.99 LP		SUUM CUIQUE Ascetic Ideals (Modern Love) Suum Cuique is the alias that Miles Whitaker (Demdike Stare, MLZ, Pendle Coven) uses for his most extreme experiments, and his second album under this guise finds him crafting eight pieces of pure, raw analogue evil without the aid of plunderphonic hauntology or techno safety blankets. Closest in sound and style to artists like Mika Vainio or Eleh, these tracks are more stark and barren than anything in the Demdike catalogue, though parallels can definitely be drawn to their universe, as he recorded this LP in between sessions for their Elemental project. Many of the pieces alternate between an axis of pure noise drone and quiet, softly pulsating beds of rhythm; I'm most often reminded of Coil's Black Light District and Monoton's black album, as both of these records also take the extremes of bleak, stark analogue minimalism and create such rich landscapes of beauty from those same limited means. Whitaker seems to sculpt clouds of static into repeating trances similar at times to Demdike's sample-based voodoo magic, though here he's working with not even ghostly sonic sources, but the acrid trails left behind by those same ghosts -- it's as if fossils are all that remain from Andy Stott's productions and Whitaker is smoking their bones. There are very subtle winks toward both John Carpenter and Pauline Oliveros, and it seems that Whitaker is trying to craft a midway point or collusion of their individual, singular visions, and in the process has created something grotesque yet beautiful. This most certainly is not for everyone, but adventurous listeners who have enjoyed releases by artists mentioned above should check this out immediately. It's an impressive album whose subtleties reveal themselves over repeated listens, and which blends a more academic approach to the rich sonic trademarks which have given the Modern Love stable its deserved reputation as innovators in electronic music. Limited to 700 copies worldwide, these won't last long, so grab one while you can! [IQ]


	$15.99 CD		OH NO Ohnomite (Five Day Weekend) "Dolemite" "Sound Off" Oxnard, California-based producer, MC, and little brother to Madlib, Michael "Oh No" Jackson picked apart and reassembled music from Ethiopia for 2009's Ethiopium, upended sounds of Turkey, Lebanon, Italy and Greece on 2007's Oxperiment, and attacked the work of Galt McDermont on 2006's Exodus into Unheard Rhythms. On his latest dispatch of deconstruction, Ohnomite, Jackson creates a thick and funky collage of vocal snippets, soulful organs, slinky horns, snappy drums, pimping strides and groovy melodies from the recordings of Rudy Ray Moore, a/k/a Dolemite, adding his own synths, drums, and attitude throughout. Much like the films that inspired the recordings, Jackson gets down and dirty, strip-club sexy, yet always keeps his game tight and his humor sharp. Having begun this project while Moore was alive (he died in 2008), this feels more like an inspired tribute and revision than a kitschy mash-up. He invites a gang of like-minded MCs to join in the admiration, including MF Doom, Erick Sermon, Guilty Simpson, Evidence, Alchemist, Roc Marciano, Frank Nitt, Phife Dawg, LMNO, Chino XL, M.E.D. and more. Having produced so many beats for the Stones Throw label, Oh No's tracks always have a familiar air to them, much like Madlib's own, yet come off more focused and immediate, less cerebral overall. If you enjoyed the dense psych-funk ensemble feel of the Quakers album, this is a bit grittier, yet still a time-warped journey in modern day underground hip-hop. Sometimes following in your brother's footsteps isn't such a bad thing. [DG]


	$15.99 CD $17.99 LP		BOB CHANCE It's Broken (Trunk) "It's Broken" "Jungle Talk" A few years ago, crate-digging aficionado Chris Veltri of legendary San Francisco record shop Groove Merchant told me he had a record he was pretty sure I'd drool over. He pulled out a homemade looking black and white LP, with what looked like Xerox-copied photos of that well-meaning uncle you always thought was just a bit, well, "off." He dropped the needle on the record, and what poured forth from the speaker sounded like a lost Cerrone classic -- if Cerrone had been recorded through a phaser box by R. Stevie Moore; that feeling of finding something genuinely special rippled through like a chill. Veltri's friend DJ Shadow has described the album as "hairy-forearm disco." I might call it "outsider disco." Call it what you will, It's Broken! hasn't left my DJ bag since that foggy afternoon. Played, recorded and engineered in 1980 by Chance himself, It's Broken! found an ecstatic embrace in the Balearic/leftfield dance community when Veltri got a hold of dead stock of the long-lost album and put it into the hands of DJs like Andrew "Lovefingers" Hogge, Soft Rocks, and DJ Harvey (a God to many in that community), who's played the shit out of the title-track in his globe-trotting sets. Opening track "Brown Skinned Girl," a throwaway blues exotica, hardly deserves mention -- it's likely the weakest track here. Better is "Honey Lips," a kooky collision of Beach Boys introversion and ELO school dance populism as recorded by a hotel lobby band. Better yet, skip ahead to "It's Broken!," a 10-minute epic which drops a few liberal quotations from Moroder's "The Chase." It's an unlikely classic, but a classic for sure. Flip to the B-side. "The Van Man" conjures images of a knock-off English Beat on a cruise ship bound for abduction by a man wearing only scratchy polyester. "I See Her" recalls an AM radio ballad by a shut-in who spends a bit too much time in his mother's company. "Colours" is AM disco of the breezy variety, with Glen Campbell or Tim Hardin in mind but achieving a low-rent Barry Manilow charm R. Stevie Moore could appreciate. Again, it's the side's last track that brings it all home. Saving best for last, "Jungle Talk" is the dark horse favorite, and this DJ's stalwart 3 a.m. jam. Reminiscent of sound library notables Nino Nardini or Roger Roger going Balearic, this is the sound of the jungle in the disco, and is what made this an absolute must-purchase. Touched as it is, and endearingly so, It's Broken has an upbeat swing that will keep you coming back for more even when you thought it was good for only a novelty laugh. Highly recommended. [AGe]


	$11.99 CD $14.99 LP+MP3 $9.99 MP3		CROCODILES Endless Flowers (Frenchkiss) "Endless Flowers" "My Surfing Lucifer" Crocodiles draw on the music of Jesus and Mary Chain, Echo & the Bunnymen, and Spacemen 3, but apart from these obvious references, the group carries a touch of 1960s pop ideals blended into their echo-drenched web of sound, and the band returns with some fresh ideas as well on a new full-length out on Frenchkiss Records (home of the Hold Steady, Passion Pit, the Drums, et al). Self-produced in Berlin last summer, Endless Flowers is the first release to include Crocs' full lineup alongside the originating duo of Brandon Welchez and Charles Rowell, and along with the more powerful live sound, the production strikes a balance between their hazy debut and its crisper follow-up, Sleep Forever. This album's title track illustrates the slightly perplexing cover art, with its lyrics of crooked staircases and withered plants in a psych-rock package, and is followed by the pounding drums and distant organs of "Sunday (Psychic Conversation #9)." "No Black Clouds for Dee Dee" is the poppiest, lightest, and most amorous song, no doubt dedicated to Welchez's wife and front woman of Dum Dum Girls, whose backing vocals can be heard on "My Surfing Lucifer" -- a catchy, head-bopping tune driven by gleeful guitar fuzz. Between the typical Crocodiles melancholy and some serious hook-filled tunes, Endless Flowers is quite a roller-coaster ride, showing lyrical growth and perhaps a new angle on the blooming sound of these San Diego natives. [ACo]


	$9.99 45 $9.99 45		ARIEL PINK & R. STEVIE MOORE Ku Klux Glam EP (Slowboy) DIRTY BEACHES Dune Walker (Slowboy) The latest from home recording impresario R. Stevie Moore is a collaboration with none other than Ariel Pink and it's a match made in heaven if there ever was one. Cheekily titled, the Ku Klux Glam EP sounds exactly as you'd imagine: it's three slices of solid, leftfield pop that would be equally at home in either artist's past discography. The only kicker here is that Germany's Slowboy Records only made 700 of these 45s, so if any of the above sounds like your thing, act now! Also in stock from Slowboy is a new 7" by Vancouver's Dirty Beaches. Dune Walker is very much in the vein of what Alex Zhang Hungtai does best: creating minimal tracks that slither and squirm into your ears with a haunting, disquietude a la Suicide's Alan Vega. This one is limited to 400 copies worldwide, so you know the drill.


	$22.99 CDx2 LP Vol. 1 $25.99 LPx2 LP Vol. 2 $25.99 LPx2		VARIOUS ARTISTS Harmony, Melody & Style: Lovers Rock and Rare Groove in the UK 1975-1992 (Soul Jazz) "All Night Long" La Famille "Feel No Way" Janet Kay The evolution of lovers rock is possibly, in my opinion, the UK's greatest contribution to reggae music. Lovers rock began in the 1960s, where many singers would record reggae covers of popular soul and R&B tunes of the time; it was in 1970s London, though, where lovers rock really came into its own, and was given a proper name. The sound is a marked deviation away from the militant roots/rasta ideology so prevalent at the time, and was focused more on slow jams and romance; these tunes were the moments where couples at reggae dances could cuddle up close and get a few minutes of respite from the riots and racial tension running wild in the UK during the period. The lovers rock sound has parallels to the American girl-group/soul movement; many of the most beloved and well-known lovers rock performers were teenage girls singing songs about heartbreak that no 15- or 16-year-old should ever be able to feel, and their innocent, octave-shattering voices gave the songs a sugar-coating that betrayed the gravitas of their emotional subject matter. I personally have been a huge lovers rock fanatic for years, and have tried to spread the love as much as possible to open ears. Thankfully, Soul Jazz has just issued this excellent primer which includes some of the most important songs and artists from the sound's early years of growth in the UK, as well as drawing upon some lesser known tracks that I'd never heard before. The vibe throughout coasts upon smooth blends of bass & drum rhythm sections with a bit of keyboards and some thick brass sections, with a key emphasis on sensual, melodic bass lines. There's a bit of a flirtation with synth and drum machine technology too, well before the onset of dancehall and digital production, and on the whole, it's one of the most tuneful collections of reggae you'll hear all year, overflowing with soul, heartbreak, and sweet slow jams that will have you dancing all night. Included in the set is also a massive booklet detailing the history of the sound and its evolution, along with photos and artist bios. A collection like this has been long overdue, and as many of these artists do not have albums of their own currently in print, this is a blessing. Find a partner, put this on, and cuddle up close; it's easily one of Soul Jazz's best collections and deserves your full attention. This one gets my absolute highest recommendation. [IQ]


	$13.99 CD		HOLLIE COOK In Dub (Prince Fatty) "Shadow Dub" "Milk & Honey Dub" The debut album from Hollie Cook (the daughter of Sex Pistols drummer Paul Cook) was an across the board hit at the store last year. The self-titled album, released on Mr. Bongo, was a light and breezy mix of pop-infused reggae and lovers rock, and with a sweet voice that mixed Lily Allen twee and Janet Kay sexy, her songs found their way into daily rotation on the OM stereo. Now a year later, the producer of that album, Prince Fatty, offers up an equally infectious dub version. Using analog gear and vintage techniques, he re-imagines the island vibes and sway of the original into a summery tropical storm reminiscent of classic dub productions by Dennis Bovell, August Pablo, or King Tubby. If you like Brenda Ray, the dubby side of Saint Etienne, Compass Point-era Grace Jones or Tom Tom Club, this is right up your alley. Both the original and now the dub version come highly recommended, perfect no matter what the season. [DG]


	$13.99 CD		DOPE BODY Natural History (Drag City) "Shook" "Powder" At a time when music genres have become overly compartmentalized and hyper-specific, Baltimore quartet Dope Body manage the uneasy task of finding no particular slot in which to fit. Depending on how you're listening, these four hairy bros can call to mind shameless '90s butt rock excess, boarish noise, and ripping hardcore punk, often within the confines of the same song, and usually with tongues planted firmly in cheek. Natural History is the group's second album (and first for Drag City), and finds them sacrificing none of the bombast that was on display throughout the entirety their Hoss Records' debut Nupping. Built around ferocious, pounding rhythms and mangled, treated guitars, Dope Body's tracks play out like looser, more self-aware updates on the kind of sound the Jesus Lizard and even the Rollins Band pursued in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Riffs coalesce and crunch around hoarsely shouted vocals on tracks like "Beat" and "High Way." Elsewhere, songs like "Powder " and "Weird Mirror" attack with sideways hooks, dialing down the malice and dread that permeates parts of the record in favor of anthemic stomps and shouts that are every bit as propulsive as they are catchy. A raw-throated, full-bodied rock album that sidles up to genre conventions only to obliterate them, Dope Body's Natural History is a great sophomore effort from these Maryland weirdos. [MC]


	$12.99 CD $23.99 LP		EDWARD SHARPE & THE MAGNETIC ZEROS Here (Vagrant) "That's What's Up" "Mayla" Alex Elbert's alter ego Edward Sharpe is the messianic cult leader of an 11-member clan called the Magnetic Zeros. In 2009, after joining Alcoholics Anonymous, Edward was born and created as an outlet for the end of Elbert's addiction and the beginnings of a crusade to heal and save Mother Earth. The group rented a white bus and began to spread their gospel. A co-ed clan of revelers ready to heal you and set your soul free, the Magnetic Zeros' music is based on early-'70s California commune-pop and vintage psych-funk -- they are the Polyphonic Spree with fewer robes and rainbows and more beards and bongs. Their second album is firmly rooted in Dylan folk and Cash swagger, and they aim to convert you from the second the album begins. This sermon is about love, not hate, and the band crafts fractured fairy tales with neither hero nor heroine in sight; Edward Sharpe just wants you to dance and believe that love can truly bring us all together. As with their debut, there are some hooky songs, and some hokey filler, and your enjoyment of this largely depends on how badly you want -- no, need to -- feel the love. Choruses chime, handclaps commence (along with didgeridoos and clanking shepherd's bells) -- be prepared to profess your fidelity with fervor. Welcome to the new summer of love! [MF]


	$15.99 CD		BRACKLES Rinse Presents: Brackles (Rinse) Rob "Brackles" Kemp has been a mainstay on the Rinse FM radio station for the past few years; following 2010's nice and glitchy Songs for Endless Cities compilation for !K7, and a few singles for Planet Mu and Brainmath, Rinse Presents: Brackles is a collection of his own anthemic productions. Deep into the UK funky-2-step-dubstep-house fusion that has made Rinse a name of note, Brackles creates mainly vocal-based tracks that feel just right for the radio, dancefloor, runway, and boutique in equal measure. His ear and skills are finely tuned into the wide-reaching aspect of contemporary British underground music; his rhythms roll, his bass lines are deep and steady, and the beats are bouncing, with synthy melodies riding high. The album plays out like a night at the club or the latest podcast from the UK, good stuff if you like producers like SBTRKT, Jamie xx, etc. [DG]


	$14.99 CD $19.99 LP		DNTEL Aimlessness (Sub Pop) "Still" "Trudge" Jimmy Tamborello is a born collaborator and a distinctive producer, and as such, he has worked on a number of stunning pop records over the years, most notably his breakthrough album from the Postal Service. But DNTEL is his ongoing solo exploration, and while there is hazy pop here, like on the swirling "Santa Ana Winds" with Nite Jewel's Ramona Gonzalez on vocals, it is always obscured behind shifting rhythms and layers of meticulous sound design. And that's why we love this project -- Tamborello is trying to please no man but himself, and the results on Aimlessness are endlessly intriguing: abstract and decidedly soft-focused, but far from aimless.


	$11.99 CD $14.99 LP+MP3 $9.99 MP3		EXITMUSIC Passage (Secretly Canadian) Preview Songs on Other Music's Download Store If you're unfamiliar with the story of Exitmusic, let us bring you up to speed: New York City duo Aleksa Palladino and Devon Church met as teenagers while backpacking across Canada and it was, as they say, love at first sight. They changed their lives to be together, Palladino stumbled upon success as an actress (Boardwalk Empire), and the two started Exitmusic together. Here, the music they create owes just as much to the sentiment of their narrative as it does to the raw, plentiful musical talent of Palladino and Church themselves; while Passage is dark and atmospheric, it also burns brightly as their moody and majestic cinematic electronics create an album of pop-noir anthems. The album, like Palladino herself, doesn't lack range; there are danceworthy flashes as well as majestic instances so characteristic of post-rock greats, not to mention some beautiful, melancholy moments represented best by bands like Beach House. A very worthwhile debut.


	$14.99 CD $24.99 LPx2+MP3 180 Gram $9.99 MP3		SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO Unpatterns (Wichita) "Cerulean" "Put Your Hands Together" Simian Mobile Disco's new one strikes a sort of middle ground in the pendulum swing that defines this rock-band-gone-techno's recorded output of the past five years. It revels in both sparkling '80s-inspired electro-pop (we could swear "Cerulean" reminds us of the theme from Beverly Hills Cop), but avoids the big indie vocal star turns the band has turned to in the past seeking actual radio hits. It nods to glitchy IDM, but mostly this is cool, laid-back house music that incorporates both sides of the duo's passions, getting dark and getting shimmery in equal measure often in the same track. It's solid and occasionally thrilling, however, it's safe to say that Unpatterns probably won't be winning them new legions of fans.

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Favorite sections at Other Music:

Staff Picks for sure = where to find below-radar gems. Also Experimental, International, Minimal Wave, Electronic, Then, New Arrivals. And always have a soft spot for "La Decadanse"

Top 3 albums/bands you were turned onto at Other Music:

Almost as hard to answer as the all-time picks! So many transcendent favorites but most noteworthy: Os Mutantes (from the OM-affiliated reissues in '99), Lucio Battisti, Arthur Russell

Your go-to people in the shop:

I've gotten great recommendations from pretty much everyone that's worked at OM -- but I'd spend hours with Mikey, Scott or Andreas if they're on the floor.

Why record stores over online shopping?

The tactile experience speaks for itself as does the idea of supporting local business and very cool people. But more than anything, great record stores provide the main (sole?) opportunity for me to truly discover and discuss great music with kindred spirits. It's easy to grab a copy of The Wire or spend time on the web trying to figure out what to buy. I rarely listen before purchasing except when I'm at the shop, and nothing beats the thrill of hearing some heretofore unknown artist on the store's system. From The Action's Rolled Gold to those first Animal Collective CDs (it felt like OM was the only store that carried them) to BoC/Gas/Pole to the early Finders Keepers stuff to the Ghost Box stuff to Fennesz to Betty Davis to Crash Course in Science to Träd Gräs Och Stenar to Dadawah to Chrissy Zebby Tembo to Yves Des Mey to the Shintaro Sakamoto record -- I shudder to think at what I might have missed out on had I not made those visits to OM all these years, and it's that for which I'll always be grateful and make certain to physically get to the store.

And having two kids I want to be able to share this same experience with them in the future. My 3 year old loves going to Other Music and pointing at (90%) of the records on display and saying "Daddy, you have this one!" -- or soon enough, "Hey Dad, it's Mikey's Afro Jam of the Week!" I can't do that with my kids via online shopping.

Im DJing the biggest, awesome-est music fest of the century. I have to be sure to drop "________" in my DJ set:

Motley Crue's "Live Wire"
Bjork "Crystalline" (Omar Souleyman version)
Jacques Dutronc "Les Cactus"
HEALTH "Tears"
Can "Yoo Doo Right"

If applicable, fave in-store event attended at Other Music and/or other OM event:

There have been quite a few. Boredoms. Dirty Projectors. Teenage Fanclub were super-earnest and nice. But in the earlier stages of my relationship with my now-wife, I dragged her to see singer-songwriter (and OM-discovery) Nick Garrie for an intimate in-store performance. We were smitten. So sentimentality wins in this case.


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