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DRAFT / merch: Wriggle Out the Restless by This is the Kit (CD version)
This Is The Kit is the much beloved musical project of Kate Stables, born in England and based in Paris. The "band" has opened for artists such as Jose Gonzales, Jeffrey Lewis, The National, Alexi Murdoch, and Jolie Holland, and was recently selected by Sharon Van Etten as her “Favorite New Aritst” in an interview with Pitchfork Cool video for "Spinney" off Wriggle Out the Restless: -- Can't wait? You can get a digital download...$12.00
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HWY-001: s/t by The National (CD version)
Songs 1. Beautiful Head 2. Cold Girl Fever 3. The Perfect Song 4. American Mary 5. Son 6. Pay For Me 7. Bitters & Absolut 8. John’s Star 9. Watching You Well 10. Theory of the Crows 11. 29 Years 12. Anna Freud Description The National are five displaced Ohioans living in New York—two sets of brothers and one dear friend. They play smart, naked, and bracing rock music that has kept the press singing...$12.00
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HWY-002: Thom's Night Out by Clogs
Description “Few new CDs in any genre will do as much to challenge the way you listen to music.” - Andrew Ervin, Philadelphia City Paper Clogs are a quartet of classical musicians hailing from Australia and the United States. Featuring viola, classical guitar, bassoon, and percussion, they scrawl the folk sounds of India and the Jewish Diaspora atop lessons learned from minimalism, ambient music, and rock. The New Yorker writes that, “fans of Sigur Rós,...$12.00
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HWY-003: Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers by The National (CD version)
Description The National are five displaced Ohioans living in New York. They play smart, bracing, and beautiful rock music. Their self-titled debut was hailed throughout the US and Europe by publications ranging from the Village Voice and No Depression to Paris’s Liberation. England’s Kerrang! called it “the stuff underground legends are made of.” Their follow-up is a great leap forward, an omnibus of rock songwriting that is by turns upbeat and downcast, electric and acoustic,...$12.00
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HWY-004: Lullaby for Sue by Clogs
Description Clogs are four classical musicians hailing from Australia and the United States. On Thom’s Night Out, The Wire celebrated their “eerie, looping folk melodies, delicately bowed and struck strings [and] beautiful ‘lost at sea’ effect.” Their second record, Lullaby for Sue, is more rhythmic, ambient, electric, and eclectic. Think stars in a wide-open sky; gnarled NYC attic guitars; desert violins; medieval bassoons; junkyard metal as percussion. Clogs have been compared to artists as diverse...$12.00
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HWY-005: Maldoror by Erik Friedlander
Description Maldoror is Erik Friedlander’s first solo recording, ten improvisations inspired by the surrealist poems of Le Comte de Lautréamont and recorded at Berlin’s Teldex Studios. In a darkened recording studio in old East Berlin, in a seance-like atmosphere, a time-traveling collaboration took place between the lawless black humor of the 19th-century poet Isidore Ducasse and the daring and sensitivity of the 21st century cellist Erik Friedlander. Producer Michael Montes, an audience of one, had...$12.00
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HWY-006: High Heart and Low Estate by Baby Dayliner
Description Brooklyn’s Baby Dayliner is upbeat and joyous, earnest and romantic, all at the same time. “Right smack in the depth of your soul you’ll find a core the purity of which is begging to start you from the front,” he sings. “Fun funny, it’s funny, a raid on your heart! Fun funny, it’s funny a raid on your soul!” Imagine these lyrics, sung in a melodic monotone and laid over a series of wooshing...$5.00
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HWY-007: Stick Music by Clogs
Description Clogs’ third album, Stick Music, is a tour-de-force concept album conceived by Newsome and Dessner. Simply put: it is a deep exploration of strings. They are bowed, struck, plucked, and treated as never before. The results are intimate, melodic, gorgeous. One moment they resonate like gentle raindrops, the next they’re woven into dizzying eddies of sound. The record includes performances by cello virtuoso Erik Friedlander – a friend and downtown scene veteran (John Zorn’s...$12.00
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HWY-008: Cherry Tree by The National (CD version)
Description The National’s sophomore album, Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers, found the band emerging onto a larger stage. Uncut called it “a genuine treasure” and named it an album of the year; it was hailed by Rolling Stone and the indie media; Magnet, La Liberation (Paris), and the Chicago Tribune were only a few of the publications to tap it for their year-end lists. “About Today” can often be heard as an encore of the...$10.00
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HWY-009: All in Time by Pela
Description Desperate songs about addiction, isolation, hope, murder, sex, and Mexico. In spite of the dark subject matter, the songs are quite catchy, stetting Billy’s plaintive cries over a bed of wide-horizon rock and roll. Features Bryan Devendorf of The National on the EP’s title track. If instant gratification is your cup of tea, you can get a digital download of the album right here: <a href="http://pela.bandcamp.com/album/all-in-time-ep">All In Time EP by Pela</a> Songs 1. Latitudes...$5.00
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HWY-010: Lantern by Clogs
Description Clogs are a sister band to The National featuring Padma Newsome on strings and Bryce Dessner on guitar. Their fourth album is their finest and most varied effort to date as the group augments their unique sonic palette (acoustic guitar, strings, percussion, bassoon) with melodica, ukulele, and mandola – and Dessner goes electric! Especially recommended if you enjoy fellow travelers like Rachel’s, The Books, Bell Orchestre, or even Moondog, Erik Satie, and 16th-century lute...$12.00
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HWY-011: Critics Pass Away by Baby Dayliner
Get this album for $8.00 for a very limited time! Description Critics Pass Away is Baby Dayliner’s sophomore album. Even more successfully than his debut, it fulfilled the promise of Baby Dayliner’s kaleidoscopic worldview, equally embracing sounds from pop, rock, dance, and hip-hop. Britain’s Uncut described it as “a romo romp through a New York ghost world that is neither the drainpipe-and-denim sweatpit of CBGBs nor the mirrorball glitz of Studio 54 but somewhere...$8.00
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HWY-013: Devastations by Devastations
Description As the first band signed to the label on the strength of an unsolicited demo, Devastations have a long history with Brassland. Since forming, they’ve shifted their home base from Melbourne to Berlin to London, established their “cultdom” (Q Magazine), worked in fits and spurts, been on and off hiatus, and created a reputation for themselves as the consummate musicians’ musicians. A brief recap: 2004 – The year of the infamous demo. They crossed...$5.00
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HWY-015: Coal by Devastations
From Mojo by Manish Agarwal: Sharply dressed Aussies who’ve relocated to Berlin and favour grown-up, vaguely gothic melodrama. The Devastations have enjoyed their share of Bad Seeds comparisons. Still, originality aside, this is a fine set of songs. Conrad Standish’s lovelorn croon is more Jarvis Cocker than Nick Cave – see Pulpy opener “Sex & Mayhem” – while the music’s faded lounge feel often recalls erstwhile tourmates The Tindersticks. “The Night I Couldn’t Stop Crying”...$5.00
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HWY-017: With My Left Hand I Raise the Dead by Doveman
Description Doveman is Thomas Bartlett and a select group of collaborators. This sophomore album was produced, engineered, and mixed by Grammy Award-winner Patrick Dillett with assorted creaks, clinks, and interludes recorded by Thomas at home. (Dillett’s previous recording and production credits include Aaliyah, Mary J. Blige, David Byrne, and Caetano Veloso.) The record sounds simultaneously more mature and more precocious than its predecessor, The Acrobat. Weighing in at over an hour in length, the record...$12.00
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HWY-018: Mothertongue by Nico Muhly
Description Classical music can be a daunting exercise for those unfamiliar with the genre. Luckily, the composer Nico Muhly prizes communication – both in day-to-day life (note his frequently updated blog at nicomuhly.com) and in his music. It’s this sensibility which has inspired the titles of both his records, Speaks Volumes and Mothertongue. Mothertongue in particular sounds like the product of someone in love with language. Voices are treated as exquisite instruments. (The click of...$12.00
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HWY-021: The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton by Clogs
Description “When trying to describe Clogs’ music to other folks, it might be better to forgo any genre distinctions and head straight for the thesaurus so you can find fresh and exciting ways to say ‘sublime.’” -Pitchfork.com “[There is] no question that the classical and indie realms can share a border where music turns pensive, knotty, and otherworldly.” -New York Times The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton is Clogs’ highly anticipated fifth album....$12.00
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HWY-023: The Conformist by Doveman
Description Doveman is Thomas Bartlett and his select group of collaborators. On his latest album, The Conformist, those players include Sam Amidon, Nico Muhly, Glen Hansard (Swell Season, The Frames, Once), Norah Jones, Dawn Landes, Beth Orton, Martha Wainwright and The National members Matt Berninger, Aaron Dessner, Bryce Dessner, and Bryan Devendorf. Of Doveman’s new record, Hansard says, “The Conformist is just fucking beautiful. Thomas brings so much light to other people’s music, it’s great...$12.00
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HWY-024: Riposte by Buke and Gase (CD version)
Note: For an overview of Buke & Gase stuff available from the store look here. Riposte is the debut album of the instrument-building, genre-defying duo Buke & Gase. Their music is loud yet folky, polyrhythmic yet melodic. DustedMagazine.com called them part of a tradition where "the avant-garde, the handcrafted, the anti-authoritarian" overlap -- yet they have have received unbelievable amounts of love & support from the classical music community and press outlets like NPR (Tiny Desk...$12.00
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HWY-027 Composed by Jherek Bischoff (CD version)
Composed is a meticulously arranged, multi-tracked album of nine orchestral pieces which features a different guest vocalist on almost every track, including luminaries David Byrne, Caetano Veloso, Mirah, Carla Bozulich (Evangelista, Geraldine Fibbers), Craig Wedren (Shudder To Think), Dawn McCarthy (Faun Fables), Zac Pennington (Parenthetical Girls), Soko and more. Avant ringers like Deerhoof's Greg Saunier and Wilco's Nels Cline provide instrumental solos. Vinyl fanatics: For a limited time we will include a copy of Jherek's Record Store Day 7" vinyl single for an...$12.00 - $15.00
