NEW VINYL ARRIVALS & RESTOCKS
Alt-J: An Awesome Wave
Band of Horses: Everything All The Time
Burial: Untrue (2LP)
Dntel: Life is Full of Possibilities
DJ Shadow: Endtroducing
Do Make Say Think: Winter Hymn, Country Hymn, Secret Hymn
Explosions in the Sky: The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
Flying Lotus: Until The Quiet Comes
Godspeed You! Black Emperor: F# A# ∞
Japandroids: No Singles
Jens Lekman: Night Falls Over Kortedala
Jens Lekman: I Know What Love Isn’t
Limblifter: s/t (Re-Issue)
Loscil: Sketches From New Brighton (2LP)
Metz: s/t (Available Oct. 9)
The Mountain Goats: Transcendental Youth
Notorious B.I.G.: Life After Death
Notorious B.I.G.: Ready to Die
Obituary: Cause Of Death
Public Enemy: Yo! Bum Rush the Show
Sepultura: Beneath The Remains (2LP)
Sepultura: Arise (2LP, 180g)
Sepultura: Roots (2LP)
Seriusmo: Mosaik (2LP)
Shabazz Palaces: Black Up
Sufjan Stevens: Seven Swans
Tallest Man on Earth: There’s No Leaving Now
2Pac: Me Against the World
2Pac: Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z.The Sadies: New Seasons
Chad Van Gaalen: Soft Airplane
Washed Out: Within & Without
Wild Nothing: Nocturne
Women: s/t
*plus many more

FEATURED VINTAGE VINYL ARRIVALS
Eno: Here Come the Warm Jets
Ella Fitzgerald: The Rodgers and Hart Songbook (2LP)
Fucked Up: David’s Town - 11 Original Hits From Byrdesdale Spa, UK!
Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures
Jimmy Reed: Down in Virginia
Kraftwerk: Autobahn
Ramones: Rocket to Russia
Woody Shaw: Love Dance
Roy Wood: Mustard
V/A: Reggae Explosion
*plus many more

EQUIPMENT & ACCESSORIES NEW ARRIVALS & RESTOCKS
Audio Technica ATH-M10 Headphones
Audio Technica M50 & M50s Headphones
Stanton DJ Pro 60 Headphones
Stanton DJPRO-2000S DJ Headphones
Stanton T.52B Turntables
*plus more

COMING SOON… (RELEASES & RESTOCKS)
Daphni: Jiaolong
Danny Brown: XXX
Baroness: First and Second
The Buzzcocks: Singles Going Steady
John Fahey: The Voice of the Turtle
Father John Misty: Fear Fun
Freddie Gibbs: Str8 Killa
Four Tet: There Is Love in You
Flying Lotus: Until the Quiet Comes (2LP & Deluxe 2LP editions)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
Gil Scott Heron: Pieces of a Man
Jay-Z: Reasonable Doubt
LL Cool J: Mama Said Knock You Out
Lonnie Liston Smith: Astral Travelling
Michael Kiwanuka: Home Again
Merchandise: Children of Desire
Portugal. The Man: The Majestic Majesty
Possessed: Seven Churches
Propagandhi: Failed States
Arthur Russell: Let’s Go Swimming
Toy: s/t
Ty Segall: Twins
Titus Andronicus: Local Business
Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band: In the Jungle, Babe
*plus many more

STAFF PICK OF THE WEEK

Metz: S/T

In case you haven’t heard; Toronto’s very own Metz are releasing their self titled full length LP this week on Sub Pop.  My only advice if you have interest in tasteful: noise, hardcore, psych-scapes and unbridled fury, then buy this record.  Since the first time I saw them 3 years ago I’ve said that “Metz are the best live band in Toronto”, I still stand behind that statement.  Now you can bring them home on an LP, what a treat!

God speed and good hunting,

Ian

FEATURED VINYL ARRIVALS / RE-STOCKS
Jens Lekman: I Know What Love Isn’t (Secretly Canadian)
Like Morrissey, Stuart Murdoch, and Jonathan Richman before him, Jens Lekman broadcasts such an extreme personality with his songs that it would be easy to write him off as a construct, as if the fey Swede wandered out of a Wes Anderson movie and into a record deal. Yet like those spiritual forebears, Lekman’s persona is so effortless it has to be genuine. He doesn’t write as the character Jens Lekman; he pours out every insight and longing with minimal filter. As such, his albums play like collections of diary entries and handwritten letters, the story of Lekman’s life set to song. This is a guy who decided not to go through with a sham marriage because he knew he couldn’t resist the compulsion to write a song about it and thus expose the whole thing. Instead, he wrote a song about not going through with it, which became the title track for his first album in five years, I Know What Love Isn’t. And while his previous records came off like a collage of big-hearted art films, this one is pure rom-com. Lekman has always been an old soul, but having turned 30 and symbolically crossed the precipice from freewheeling youth to responsible adult, he now believes himself able to contribute to a tradition as old as pop music: the breakup album. — The AV Club

The Mountain Goats: Transcendental Youth (Merge)
John Darnielle and his Mountain Goats have frequently been at their best while capturing characters in dark situations, usually struggling to get through. Darnielle’s direct lyrics can pinpoint an emotion without limiting the utility of sharing that experience. On Transcendental Youth, the band takes us through a series of trials, flickering a light in a pursuit of something more. The album doesn’t match the group’s best output, but it’s a strong and occasionally stunning entry. The album offers plenty of splendid moments. The spare, piano-led “White Cedar,” drawing on a symbol of eternal life or endurance, provides a memorable portrait of spiritual fortitude. The singer’s epiphanic experience not only changes him, but it grows in strength, allowing him to take action (“forge my armor”) even as he practices patience for an inevitable change. Darnielle continues to show the strength of concreteness in his writing. It’s not so much that he writes of exact addresses or times, but that his characters think in specific, idiosyncratic ways that allows lines like “I hide down in my corner because I like my corner” to be a source of character development rather than glib comments. Other songs, though, sound too general to connect effectively. “Until I Am Whole” can’t quite formalize its imagery, and the self-afflicted injury feels more like use of a trope rather than the revelation of a personal moment. — Paste Magazine

Dntel: Life is Full of Possibilities (Sub Pop)
Housed behind an entirely appropriate title, the debut album of Dntel (aka Jimmy Tamborello) is a gorgeous, mostly ambient journey into moody, poetic electronic sounds. One imagines these ten songs would make for a delightful, if feverish, score to a kaleidoscopic dream. Though Life Is Full of Possibilities is centered on somewhat standard clicks & cuts, textured sound washes, and cut-and-paste electronic dynamics, Dntel’s music contains such pristine melodies and is so effective in its stimulation of one’s emotions that it makes for a refreshing, fascinating hour. It’s the kind of music Kevin Shields has been threatening to unleash since the collapse of My Bloody Valentine. Dntel is aided more than a bit by his guest vocalists/lyricists, who include Chris Gunst from Beachwood Sparks, Rachel Haden of the defunct That Dog, Benjamin Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie, and Brian McMahan from Slint and The for Carnation, among others. When Dntel is at his best, he brings to mind some of the finest European sound collagists, chief among them Múm. Indeed, “Suddenly Is Sooner Than You Think” and “The Dream of Evan and Chan” bear an uncanny resemblance to the superb songs on Múm’s Yesterday Was Dramatic, Today Is Okay. Gibbard’s vocals on “The Dream of Evan and Chan” blend with the Múm-like overtones so perfectly that the song is easily one of the mostly touching and beautiful sonic creations of the year. — AllMusicGuide