See also: Tower Records -- the continuing collapse

This “Gana el Hawa” is great so far.

Folke Rabe/Jan Bark, “Argh”

James Blacksaw, “Waking Into Sleep”

Ran Blake, “All That Is Tied”

The Invisible Pyramid Box

Solo piano, drones, and guitar folk trance goodness.

Villalobos, Fizheuer Zieheuer

Skatebard, Midnight Magic (WHY IS THIS NOT UNIVERSALLY LOVED)

Gramme, Pre Release (except for “Like Me,” not too hot on this, but I’m trying to fill in the gaps in my Output shelf before it becomes impossible)

Harry Nilsson, Nilsson Schmilsson (in which Lime and Coconut clash in an epic battle for supremacy o’er the land)

the free design, stars/time/bubbles/love

swing out sister, somewhere deep in the night

Sun Kil Moon—Ghosts of the Great Highway

this is one of those albums I’ve meant to buy for years never really got around to it and now love it

Just received the entire LP outputs of The Cardiacs, Monsoon Bassoon, Levitation and Camp Blackfoot in the mail from everything1967. The Chavez box-set also arrived today, but (understandably) it hasn’t been listened to yet.

I haven’t had such a pig-in-shit day of listening since...oh, since EVER. Jeez this stuff is heady. SING TO GOD = DOES NOT DISAPPOINT, and the Monsoon Bassoon are simply gigantic!

I haven’t had such a pig-in-shit day of listening since...oh, since EVER

Same here. I was already ordering a lot of stuff (with more of the way, god willing), and then with Tower closing, I suddenly have all these CDs sitting around that I either haven’t listened to yet or have only partly heard.

I still have the eight I bought on Wednesday barely listened-to as well, they’ll need to be returned to at some point!

The eight being, to recap, bardo pond ‘dilate’, mastodon ‘blood mountain’, six by seven ‘artists cannibals poets thieves’, neurosis ‘a sun that never sets’, einsturzende neubauten ‘tabula rasa’, serena-maneesh ‘s/t’, catherine wheel ‘happy days’, and KMFDM ‘what do you know, deutschland’. Add that to those listed above and I really do have my work cut out!

bach—well-tempered clavier, book 1, robert levin (werckmeister III tuning)

lucio battisti—umanamente uomo: il sogno (this is great)

purcell—dido & aeneas—lorraine hunt lieberson, nicholas mcgegan

george cacioppo—advance of the fungi

oh yeah, forgot the vinyl stack:

a second wind for organ—kagel / mumma / wolff performed by david tudor

jean-claude eloy & michel zbar w/ les swingle singers

The Ex—Singles. Period: The Vinyl Years 1980–1990

White Magic—Through the Sun Door

Blood Sweat and Tears—Child is Father To The Man

Duke Ellington—Afro-Eurasian Eclipse

Sun Kil Moon—Ghosts of the Great Highway,

this album is SO GOOD. one of my favourite discoveries this year.

Also picked up the Rhino boxset, “one Kiss Leads to Another”. So, so good!!

derrick, hooray. i love it how the album switches between hard rock stuff with some heafy riffage and the slow, brooding Americana haunts. beautiful!

Damsel—s/t CD

Fela Kuti—Black President LP (I got this for half price cos the guy thought it was a 12“ as it only has 3 tracks. He also said ”if you can pronounce his name you can have it for free.“ lol douchebags. I didn’t get it for free)

Reversal of Man—This Is Medicine

Black Pus—2 and 3 CDRs

Career Suicide—Anthology 2004–05 CD

Fucked Up—Generations II tape

Urban Tribe—The Collapse of Modern Culture 2LP

Jeff Mills—From The 21st 12”

Outhud—It’s For You 12“

MRR presents Public Safety comp LP

On the way:

Cargo Cult—Strange Men Bearing Gifts

Taint—Die Die Truthspeaker

Trencher / Phil Collins 3 7”

Van Pelt 7“

Negative Approach LP

Poison Idea LP

Rapider Than Horsepower EP

Giant Haystacks tape