hi folks,
carl and i are playing a show at the cave gallery in detroit on OCTOBER 17th, 2009.
please go to www.cavedetroit.com   for more info
our performance is part of a month long gallery show our friend Mike Smith has currated. mike is a graduate of yale and is currently a teacher at ccs. we are very honored to be a part of his vision for this night. he will have a special personal art showing during our performance. join us for this beautiful experience.
we are the only act that night, and our performance will begin by 930 pm. this is an earlier show. don't miss out by showing up too late.




new arrivals this week from Factums, ZAK SALLY, BRUCE GILBERT, SCOTT WALKER (tilt reissue lp), MV & EE, HUSH ARBORS, and more!!



stormy records
13210 michigan ave
dearborn, mi 48126
313-581-9322
mon - sat 11am to 8 pm


in on tuesday




ZAK SALLY - Fear Of Song cd $13.99
When ZAK SALLY stopped playing bass for LOW after 12 years, he was convinced he was through with music & focused on cartooning & his small-press publishing concern, La Mano 21. He found himself drawn into the basement, however, with the self-imposed rule to write/play/sing/make every sound in every song. He brought the whole mess to Ben Durrant (Andrew Bird, Dosh, Shearwater) and they made a 9-song record out of it. Hand-assembled, signed & limited edition, (mostly) printed by Zak himself on his old offset press. "Fear of Song is clearly a very personal album...Sonically, it definitevely shows that Alan Sparhawk wasn't the only good songwriter in Low" - The Onion



Christmas Island  cd  Blackout Summer  on  In the Red $15.99
Debut full-length from San Diego lo-fi pop/garage trio. Beach Boys-style, sunny Southern California pop by way of the  late-70's/early-80's UK DIY
scene. Also upcoming and/or recently released: single on Captured Tracks, split single w/ Meth Teeth on Sacred Bones, & split single w/ Wavves on Woodsist




Factums Flowers Sacred Bones $17.99
Latest full-length from Seattle's bleak & ominous FACTUMS. 22 tracks recorded between 2006 & 2007 (but only now seeing a proper release) fluctuating from sound collage to soundtrack-esque, as well as more structured songwriting. Flashes of abrasive electropunk garner comparisons to Chrome,  Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle, & much of the early Wax Trax catalog.



Hurley, Michael   lp  Parsnip Snips  on  Mississippi $14.99
Originally released in Germany in a pressing of 500, & only 150 or so were sold before a gov't seizure. A very Rhaercdo rredcsord to find for years, now back in print. This reissue was remastered from original tapes & has superior sound quality to the original. Culled from Michael's output between 1969's "First  Songs" & 1972's "Armchair Boogie", one of the greatest singer/songwriters of all time.






all of these items will be in on friday for mailorder, and in the shop for sale on their actual release date -


Akron/Family  7"  River   on  Dead Oceans  $5.99
STREET DATE 10/20. 2nd single from 2009's "Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free." "River" delivers Ali Farka Toure-like guitar work, but this song is all about the infectious vocal melody. Features an exclusive non-album b-side, the lovely "Morning on Michigan Avenue (Thinking of Old Friends)." Strictly  limited edition, we advise scoring one of these slabs of vinyl now.


Atlas Sound  cd  Logos  on  kranky $13.99
STREET DATE 10/20. The prolific Bradford Cox delivers yet again, with his second solo album under the Atlas Sound moniker. Eleven delectable pop delights served up to tantalize & tickle your taste buds. Guest appearances by Noah Lennox (ANIMAL COLLECTIVE) & Laetitia Sadier (STEREOLAB).


Atlas Sound  lp   Logos  on  kranky $13.99
STREET DATE 10/20. Vinyl!



Bonnie Prince Billy   7"  Stay   on  Drag City $6.99
STREET DATE 10/20. "Stay," is one of four songs covered by Bonnie Prince Billy & the Beware band (Josh Abrams, Emmett Kelly, Jennifer Hutt & Michael Zerang) for inclusion in their 2008 tour set. All were recorded during the Beware recording sessions. "People Living," was recorded in December  2008, bathing in a deep & natural reverb at a church outside of old Milano. Bonny had been invited to participate in a sacred music festival, and this recording is  from one of those sets. The band is a trio here: Bonny, Emmett Kelly & Louisville-based fiddler Cheyenne Mize.



Lightning Bolt  cd  Earthly Delights   on  Load $14.99
STREET DATE NOW 10/20. NEW ALBUM!!! After scrapping two entire full lengths, LB is finally ready to unleash new music to the masses. Taking the lessons of extreme metal, blood-brother marrying them to expansive & explosive song form and applying it to Olympic training  methods - "Earthly Delights" uses electric stimulus to shock smile technology to worldwide domes. This is what 2000 years of evolution & the invention of electric  instrumentation introduced into the tank of hook force can do to you. This record has the sound of a ten piece band with a much tighter pay scale, matched with  the sonics of military cartoons. Swank artwork by Brian Chippendale.




Espers  cd  I I I  on  Drag City $14.99
lp also available - $18.99
STREET DATE 10/20. Espers III was intended to be an aural reversal of the layered sound of II. The goal was to record fewer tracks in order to achieve a stronger, more oxygenated sonic presence. Where II was almost claustrophobic in its density & darkness, III was envisaged as being somehow  lighter, effervescent; perhaps even of a cheery disposition at times. As more time passed in the recording process, a growing dementia within both song  & lyrics emerged, making even the most ethereal songs on III seem oddly unwholesome to all involved.


White Rainbow  cd  New Clouds on   kranky $13.99
STREET DATE 10/20. Forkner has turned White Rainbow into an even more spontaneous & open-ended musical project & has shaped this new album into a dense, lengthy exploration of the relationship between hypnotic, circular, fourth-world drum rhythms, acid-boogie guitar & drifting sheets of fuzzy  psychedelic drone. The tracks on New Clouds are a tug-of-war between stasis & change, the desire to meld the meditative effects of a near static drone with  the uplifting trip of free-flowing compositions. Slowly melting fluorescent sunsets morph into drapes of psychedelic fog, rumbling over cacophonous rhythms.


White Rainbow double lp New Clouds on  kranky $18.99
STREET DATE 10/20. Vinyl for Adam Forkner's solo jamathon. this is a double lp


in on wednesday!!


Rice, Boyd: Way I Feel LP $19.99
on red vinyl


Rice, Boyd: Hatesville LP $19.99
 LP version, on vinyl for the very first time and limited to 1000 copies. Black vinyl LP in a sturdy old-school tip-on cover with glossy insert.



WALKER, SCOTT: Tilt LP $14.99
First repress of the vinyl version in a number of years. Domestic issue of this strange1995 album, originally issued in Europe on Fontana/Universal. "It must be stressed that even those familiar with Walker's career -- the sublime mid-60s Walker Brothers hits, the dramatic maturation of The Voice and Inimitable Presence on the not-to-be-missed first four solo LPs -- were shocked by Tilt. Yes, Tilt astonishes. The bleak, gothic theatre that Walker's oblique lyrics and operatic vocals convey is bolstered every step of the way by dark string arrangements, reverbed guitars, the whirring of synthesizers and the rattle of percussion. It furthers by an astonishing margin the already singular breadth of Scott Walker's 30-year career, finding him at still another and different peak of his ability as a vocalist and lyricist. And God what a barren and unfamiliar summit it is!"



HUSH ARBORS: Yankee Reality CD  $12.99
"Yankee Reality. What does it mean? Does it portend that there is some unique, other plain of existence for northerners and/or city folk? Something perhaps alien to, well, everybody else? Virginia cum citizen of London/rambling man Keith Wood knows all about it. Several years ago, he relocated to the city of crumpets and tea, where he, among other things, secured a gig playing guitar for notoriously intense death folk legends Current 93. In the midst of all this excitement, he has managed to write and record a brand new Hush Arbors album, his second for Ecstatic Peace!, and it's his finest to date. With a full band in tow -- multi instrumentalist Leon Dufficy, bassist Jason Ajemian, and drummer Ryan Sawyer -- and none other than J Mascis in the producer's chair, Yankee Reality continues Wood's winning streak while introducing an embarrassment of riches in the way of surprises and curveballs along the way. Yankee Reality is a credit to Keith Wood's vast talents as a songwriter and performer, but also, stands as a shining example of his breadth of focus and versatility. How many fools out there love Merle Haggard, The Dead and Dinosaur, Jr equally? I know one." -- James Jackson Toth, Nashville, TN, August 2009

   
MV & EE: Barn Nova CD $12.99
"Still harvesting and sustaining in the deep woods of Vermont , MV & EE (Matt 'MV' Valentine, once the brawn of the Tower Recordings, and Erika 'EE' Elder, CEO of Heroine Celestial Agriculture and The MV & EE Medicine Show) are following their 2008 release Drone Trailer with their feature-film-for-the-blind Barn Nova, which marks their return to the Ecstatic Peace! label. MV & EE aspire to the sort of beautifully rewarding standard in their documented output that Sun Ra or The Grateful Dead achieved. It is with Ecstatic Peace! that their most consistent works have been born and continue reach fans with The Golden Road, their most constant band. Together with Doc Dunn (pedal steel, rhythm guitar, vocals, drums) and Mike Smith (Rickenbacker 4001, vocals), who appeared on Drone Trailer, as well as J Mascis (drums, guitar, plate reverb) and Woods' Jeremy Earl (vocal, drums) they take you on the ride now known as Barn Nova and here they jam. Justin Pizzoferrato also appears contributing percussion, space echo and aiding once again at the controls. This album was recorded at MV & EE's own home studio 'Maximum Arousal Farm' as well as their current local New England rooms of choice, 'Bank Row' (an old mid 1900s bank) and J's home studio 'Bisquiteen.' These kindred spirits share a wealth of ideas including a serious reverence and desire to upgrade/expand the classic-rock idiom. Barn Nova marks the return of 'Spectrasound,' MV's production technique that places tones dancing all around the stereo sound field: it has to be heard to be believed. This effect is all the more impressive that the majority of it was created recording live, rather than conjured through studio post-production during mixing. Especially potent on the A side-ending stomp 'Summer Magic,' where Erika's economical leads go head-to-head with J's on a particularly mind-blowing live-in-studio effort; It brings to mind the vibe of Green Blues, Mother Of Thousands and even an electric Moon Jook with matured songwriting. Inspired by the likes of Jerry Garcia, John Cipollina and Tom Verlaine, Matt Valentine displays an insatiable appetite to play in various idioms with constant exploration and development. Meanwhile, Elder's harmony leads recall the glorious twinned guitar lines of Canned Heat's Al Wilson & Henry Vestine at their most potent."



GILBERT, BRUCE: Oblivio Agitatum CD $17.99
Editions Mego proudly releases a new album by the UK's legendary experimental noise musician Bruce Gilbert, whose career stretches back to late-1960s British avant garde art and music scenes, and who has since played an important and influential role with his involvement in various rock-based formations (he is a former member of Wire), and choreographic projects and art installations. Oblivio Agitatum is Gilbert's first album-length release since Ordier (realized in 1996 and released in 2004), essentially making this his first album of the 21st century. A startling and mesmerizing work which recalls some of his mid-1980s works such as This Way and Shivering Man. An ever-shifting set of agitated and obscure tones, creating a sense of confusion while still being highly structured and concentrated. A stunning return.




KIRBY, LEYLAND: Sadly, The Future Is No Longer What It Was 2LP $26.99
Previously released on CD as part of a 3CD package, this is the second of three double vinyl editions of When We Parted My Heart Wanted To Die, Sadly, The Future Is No Longer What It Was, and Memories Live Longer Than Dreams. This second edition features a further 90 minutes of layered drones and treated modern classical pieces from James Leyland Kirby, also sometimes known as The Caretaker. Following on from the dense atmospherics of Part 1 (which sold out in a week), this set opens up with a detuned piano lullaby, somehow reminding us of both the Twin Peaks soundtrack and the work of Thomas Köner. Side C opens with perhaps the most harrowing piece on offer throughout the set, aligning a fragile melody with tense layers of compressed drones, imbuing proceedings with an imbalanced, almost harrowing quality. The volume closes with "Not As She Is Now But How She Appears In My Dreams," a sublime solo piano piece rendered with all the nostalgia and foggy emotional resonance you'd expect. Limited pressing of 500 copies only for the world; featuring artwork by Ivan Seal and mastered at Berlin's Dubplates & Mastering.



COWLEY & JORGE SOCARRAS, PATRICK: Catholic CD $17.99
Macro Recordings announces the release of a full Patrick Cowley album, written and performed in collaboration with Indoor Life vocalist Jorge Socarras, that has never been released. This is NOT a reissue, nor is it material scrapped by the artists -- the original release of this album was delayed for 3 decades due to Cowley's tragic death in 1982. Recorded between 1976 and 1979, Catholic is a genre-bending concept album with a range from minimalistic proto-techno to synth-driven post-punk -- pre-dating LCD Soundsystem and The Rapture by almost 30 years. Patrick Cowley (1950-1982) remains one of disco's most influential artists and a key producer of the genre. With seminal hits like "Do You Wanna Funk," "Menergy" and "Megatron Man," his work for disco-superstar Sylvester and of course, his million-selling remix of Donna Summer's "I Feel Love," he created the soundtrack for a whole generation. Artists such as Depeche Mode, The Pet Shop Boys and New Order cite him as a major influence. With a whole new global-disco aficionado scene now playing his records every weekend across the world's clubs, this release is about to hit the streets right on time. It shows a much broader range than any Cowley or Socarras material available and gives a totally new perspective to one of the most inspiring eras in music history.



GODS GIFT: Pathology: Manchester 1979-84 CD $12.99
"From 1979 to 1984 other bands on the Manchester scene played larger roles, but sooner or later almost everyone who was there mentions Gods Gift -- in tones of awe or amazement. Here's where the rest of the world finds out what all the racket was about. The early Manchester scene was anchored by The Fall, Joy Division, a few straightahead punks, and the more idiosyncratic denizens of the Manchester Musicians Collective. And Gods Gift out-did them all -- in diffidence, darkness, pure feral energy and gleeful musical anarchy. Their successes were epic, but their failures, too, left indelible impressions. Guitarist Steve Murphy: 'If things were going wrong, we'd make them go more wrong...' Singer Steven Edwards once shouted out to a baffled London crowd, 'Wotcha dancing for? -- it's tuneless, you pillock!' This was no pose. As much as can be said of any band in rock history, Gods Gift were the product of their day jobs: Murphy, Edwards, and at least five others who played in GG all worked 'inside' at Prestwich Asylum -- then the largest psychiatric hospital in the U.K. The hospital's grayness, hopelessness, and constant menace permeated not just GG's tunes and lyrics, but their very stage-presence -- Edwards in work-clothes, and Murphy playing (always!) with his back turned to some of the U.K.'s least cuddly audiences. GG recorded a fight onstage and used it in place of lyrics for their self-released first 45, 'People.' Gods Gift found a champion in New Hormones' owner, Richard Boon, who booked the band and put out the 12" Gods Gift EP and their landmark 'Discipline' single, but unfortunately, as New Hormones' finances crumbled, Boon's favorite track, 'Clamour Club,' remained unreleased. Messthetics' 17-song CD, Pathology, spans GG's career from 1979 to 1984, drawing material from their records, a Manchester Musicians Collective compilation, several demos and two full-length cassette albums. 12-page booklet with photos and extensive bio; 75 minutes of pounding, insistent, magnificent noise."