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PLUNT: Plunt
Girl Group vocals crash into Velvet Underground grooves with alt country guitars and ska horns.
CD price: $12.97
JOHNNY DOWD: A Drunkard’s Masterpiece
A Drunkard’s Masterpiece is a creative car crash of Americana, beatnik rock, poetry, prose, jazz rock, rap, screaming metal guitar, retro pop, spoken word and country noir. MOJO (Sylvie Simmons)
Recommended if you like Johnny Dowd.CD price: $10.97
FRAZE GANG: Fraze Gang
Greg Fraser (vocals. guitar) and Stevie Skreebs (Bass, Vocals) of 80s Hair Metal legends Brighton Rock, carry on where they left off, party hearty good times with no apologies.
CD price: $9.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
C.R. AVERY: Magic Hour Sailor Songs
If Lawrence Ferlinghetti could play harmonica like Little Walter, you'd have an idea of what a groundbreaking piece of work this is and the genre busting audio statement that defines Magic Hour Sailor Songs.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
IAN FERRIER: What Is This Place?
Montreal writer, poet and singer Ian Ferrier has teamed up with an all-female choir and Montreal's top avant garde jazz musicians to create a wonderfully moody masterpiece not unlike the very first Leonard Cohen album.
Recommended if you like Leonard Cohen, Jack Kerouac.CD price: $8.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
KEVIN KANE: How To Build A Lighthouse
Solo album by ex-Grapes of Wrath singer and writer. Beautiful understated pop exactly as you'd expect it to be.
Recommended if you like Syd Barrett, Grapes of Wrath.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
DAVE RAVE & MARK MCCARRON: In The Blue Of My Dreams
Pop jazz with strings and woodwinds recorded in New York with strings and woodwinds.
CD price: $9.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
ARI SHINE: A Force Of One
This is loud hip shakin' guitar rock and roll from Los Angeles produced by Earle Mankey (Sparks, Concrete Blonde, Beach Boys, Three O'Clock, etc).
Recommended if you like The Knack, Elvis Costello.CD price: $9.97 / MP3 price: $8.97
KEVIN HOUSE: World Of Beauty
World of Beauty is the second album from reknowned painter/songwriter Kevin House - his canvases and installations have earned accolades from the likes of The Village Voice, and others.
CD price: $10.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
MERYN CADELL: Angel Food For Thought
CD Reissue of the 1991 classic cd of eclectic performance art. Includes the hit single and video for "The Sweater"
Recommended if you like Laurie Anderson, Meryn Cadell.CD price: $10.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
BARDI JOHANNSSON: Haxan
Recorded with the Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra, this is a moody late night gothic instrumental soundtrack created for the cult 1920s silent film, HAXAN, banned for decades due to its nudity, witchcraft and Satanic imagery
Recommended if you like Bang Gang, Bardi Johannsson.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
JOHNNY DOWD: Cruel Words
An American original; a singular musical vision distilled from the raw detritus of primal rock and roll, free jazz, swamp blues and greasy funk; anchored by a voice channeling Johnny Cash through Chet Baker.
CD price: $9.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
LINDA MCLEAN: No Language
Linda McLean lives in Northern Ontario; a rough-hewn Lucinda Williams, with taut songs full of fire and emotion not easily forgotten. Now, with her new album, we're proud to introduce this great Canadian roots artist to North America and beyond. Produced
CD price: $9.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
KOBAYASHI: Strange Lights And Resolutions
Acid Jazz with trip hop and bop feel.
CD price: $10.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
JOE MANNIX: A Town By The Sea
Phil Ochs fronting The Band in another time, another place.
CD price: $9.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
BEDSIT POETS: The Summer That Changed
Luna meets Fairport Convention/Pentangle soft electric folk pop. The vibe of Jacques Dutronc and Francoise Hardy... in English.
CD price: $8.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
ANTON BARBEAU WITH THE BEVIS FROND: King Of Missouri
King of Missouri is like (ok, take your pick) Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Robyn Hitchcock, Julian Cope, or even Andy Partridge fronting the Jeff Beck Yardbirds, or better yet, The Move.
CD price: $10.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
KIMBERLEY REW: Essex Hideaway
A love letter to life and wonder and all things British and beautiful. Rew's trademark cascading wall of guitars enrich an album that pours out of the grand tradition of Ray Davies, Robyn Hitchcock, Dave Edmunds, and Nick Lowe.
CD price: $10.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
DANDI WIND: Bait The Traps
Lene Lovich fronts Skinny Puppy with help from The Voluptuous Horror Of Karen Black and Wendy O. Williams.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $6.99
ANN MORTIFEE: Into The Heart of The Sangoma
Ann Mortifee is an author/playwright/actress and native South African. This is the story of her journey home and the Zulu blood ceremony that changed her life. SACD 5.0 hybrid disc. Incredible sounds.
CD price: $11.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
JOHNNY DOWD: Cemetery Shoes
On the back road to Hell's front door, Johnny Dowd is the point when you know there's no turning back. His tangled cobweb of dark tales bursting with the debris of life's lost dreams, broken hearts and everything left behind by sinners on the run.
CD price: $9.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
LAUREN AGNELLI: Love Always Follows Me
CD is a brilliant mixture of standards/originals, Lauren's wonderful rich voice at once conjuring up Francoise Hardy, Astrud Gilberto, Nico and even Marianne Faithfull
CD price: $10.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
ANDY CREEGGAN: Andiwork II
A wonderful dreamy instrumental collection of ambient and soft classical moods distilling influences as diverse as Duke Ellington, Claude Debussy, and Maurice Ravel; incorporating choirs, string quartets, muted brass and much more... a mesmerising mood.
CD price: $9.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
KEVIN HOUSE: Gutter Pastoral
It is an intoxicating breath of very early Bruce Cockburn and Leonard Cohen framed with a certain joyful sadness like Chet Baker or Nick Drake.
CD price: $8.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
PAUL HYDE: The Big Book Of Sad Songs Vol 1
Ray Davies Village Green era melodies + the emotional vocal bite of Richard Thompson & Shane McGowan + John Prine's earthiness and way with a phrase
CD price: $10.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
JOE MANNIX: White Flag
Phil Ochs meets PF Sloan with The Band. Dark, intelligent and heavily textured Americana
CD price: $10.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
SKINJOBS: Burn Your Rainbow
Queer Punk. Punk Rock.
Recommended if you like Pansy Division, Sparkmarker.CD price: $10.97 / MP3 price: $8.97
KATRINA AND THE WAVES: The Original Recordings 1983-1984
Guitar driven LOUD R&B Rock. All the tracks from their 2 canada only lps on Attic records.
CD price: $19.99 / MP3 price: $14.99
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Driving in The Rain 3 AM (Songs To get Lost With)
Late night roots sounds by various artists.
CD price: $9.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
KIMBERLEY REW: Great Central Revisited
"...big, jangling guitars, engaging lyrics and harmonies from heaven..." - MOJO Magazine
CD price: $7.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
DAVE RAVE & MARK MCCARRON: Another Side Of Love
Sparse acoustic jazz; guitar, brushes, vocals & hammond B3. Think: Chet Baker.
CD price: $10.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
