Bend
Sinister CDEP
SBL 007 - $10 USD
Five brand new songs from Vancouver's prog-pop masters.
Spider
The
Way To Bitter Lake CD
SBL 006 - $16 USD
"The Way To Bitter Lake is a blissful blend of Iron & Wine, Vashti
Bunyan, Will Oldham, Cat Power, Edith Frost. Hushed vocals over lilting old
timey folk, gorgeous and timeless melodies, spare arrangements, but so deftly
arranged as to be more powerful than almost any of her contemporaries... this
is an absolute gem. Pastoral, and haunting, soft and shimmery, suffused with
warm summer sunlight, a rambling record if there ever was one. Cool afternoon,
bare feet, tall grass, clouds drifting lazily by, soft breezes, the smell
of earth and leaves, wandering through a fuzzy folk dream. Absolutely gorgeous.
" - Aquarius Records, San Francisco
Bend
Sinister Through
the Broken City CD
SBL 002 - $16 USD
Free
poster while supplies last
[Through the Broken City] is an epic, minor masterpiece that makes one wonder
who the heck these kids are and why you haven’t heard of them before. Offering
up nine tracks—more than half of which are longer than five minutes in length—the
band displays strong songwriting skills, excellent musicianship and enough
oomph in their arrangements that the album is an interesting listen from beginning
to end. I have no idea if they can pull this shit off live, but if they can,
look out, because these kids will be going places. Fast. -View Magazine,
Hamilton
Ladyhawk
Self
Titled CD
/ LP
SBL 003
"Recorded
with a rough and unmeditated live sound, the band's debut is by turns melancholic
and boisterous. Singer Duffy Driediger has a memorably weathered voice,
rasping with feeling and fraying a little into vibrato at the exuberant
choruses. Darcy Hancock, who plays lead guitar, is the other key factor,
cranking out the monstrous riffs and squalling waves of feedback that define
the album... Fans of new country rockers like Centro-Matic and Oakley Hall
will immediately fall into step with LADYHAWK, as will lovers of old-style
electric roots outfits like Crazy Horse and Uncle Tupelo."
- popmatters.com
Ships to Canada
Only. For international orders visit Jagjaguwar.
People
for Audio And
this will be our homecoming CD SBL 001 - $16 USD
"An impressive melange of genres, And This Will Be Our Homecoming has
a more optimistic, bright feeling than most instrumental music, due to the
constant changing rhythm, which goes from a standard beat, to more classic
jazz rhythms and even a little prog thrown in for good measure... The epic
“Conversation In A Minor Tone” delves into more standard post-rock
ideas, but they pull it off with such confidence and purpose that the intrigue
of seeing it pulled off in a live setting is palpable...hesitation is one
thing that, wonderfully, is lacking in this record."
-Exclaim! Magazine
Maxime
De La Rochefoucauld Orchestraki
CD
SBL 004 - $16 USD
The 'system
ki' has been in development for over a decade. Maxime de La Rochefoucauld's
(AKA Maxime Rioux) creation involves an infinite number of compositional possibilities
which he has demonstrated with his 40 + trance inducing sculptures of sound.
Rioux has found a way to use live acoustic instruments in a way that involves
no human contact; the results are a transfixing and spiritual experience for
the listener and viewer alike.
People
for Audio The
New Ancients CD
SBL 005 - $16 USD
"These Montreal darlings steer clear of the dreaded sophomore slump
a very big way. The New Ancients is the kind of album most bands only dream
of making: a wise-beyond-their-years opus that is so dense, thought-out
and orchestrated it will take you years to fully ingest/digest it. At its
heart and soul is rock of the art and pop variety; the record is not afraid
to take left turns - usually within the same song - into field recordings,
jamborees, a newfound love of vocals, a shopping list of instruments, and
psychedelics, sometimes drawn out over extended canvases, sometimes snapshot
snippets. " - Steve Guimond, The Hour
