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the xx - Coexist
So, the long awaited second album from London's young vanguards The xx finally drops, and the world no doubt lies in wait desperate to pick holes in it. It would have been easy for them to have emerged from the dark with ten tracks repeating the same formula that had them fashioned into hip patches on Rihanna and Drake's back catalogue (among others), but maybe it was too easy for a band who patently still regard the album process as important. 'Coexist' is a 'proper' long player first and foremost, probably to the point where it runs the risk of alienating Youtube listeners who just want odd tracks to listen to again and again until the next big hype crawls out of the smelting chamber. People listen differently in 2012, but it hasn't stopped The xx forging a divisively coherent record of restraint and subtlety that lives and dies in it working as one solid unit. The sparseness in the band's production has always been a pervading element, and it's something Jamie xx has shone even more light on in his own solo tracks, but here the productions are more than just a statement of intent, they're a perfect representation of minimalist pop. While very rarely instant (save for maybe opener 'Angels'), the lack of gloss and fat in the songwriting and instrumentation gives them an air of mystery and longevity that so many 'big' albums have sorely been missing recently. On a second or third runthrough the album slowly begins to unravel and make sense, with small, carefully crafted riffs digging into your subconscious - just like all great songs should. Somehow the band have managed to fuse the melancholy, post millennial R&B of Drake and The Weeknd, the nostalgic sizzle of garage pop and deliriously beautiful slowcore of Low and emerged victorious with an articulate, confident whole.
Warp Records
CD // £13.99
Grizzly Bear return with 'Shields', a grandiose continuation of the themes explored on ‘Veckatimest’.
Fierce Panda
2CD // £11.99
*Featuring cover versions by Nils Frahm / Broderick, Recoil, Zelienople, Do Make Say Think and more*
Full Of Joy
CD // £9.99
Golden Fable is a fresh new alias for, err, Tim McIver of Tim and Sam's Tim and The Sam Band With Tim And Sam.
Kranky
CD // £13.99
*Total find from Kranky - a 'lost' dreampop classic circa 90-93 eerily reminiscent of early Lush - so good*
The Seer (Special 2CD+DVD Edition)
Young God
2CD+DVD // £21.99
*Ltd 2CD+DVD set* ‘The Seer’ is an album that has been thirty tortured years in the making...
SUN ARK
CD // £12.99
Cameron Stallones returns from his mystic regressions to present a sixth solo LP as Sun Araw.
SUB POP
CD // £11.99
The fifth album from the Portland-based The Helio Sequence, new on Sub Pop.
Thrill Jockey
CD // £11.99
Freakwater singer Catherine Irwin returns with ‘Little Heater’, her second solo record for Thrill Jockey.
Temporary Residence Ltd.
CD // £11.99
**Typically epic offering at the altar of post-rock from Mono**
Sacred Bones Records
CD // £11.99
**Much anticipated 3rd album of pop-savvy neofolk rock from the Brooklynite beloved of Pitchfork**
CD // £13.49An Introduction To Crime & The City Solution: A History Of Crime (Berlin 1987-1991)
Mute
CD // £9.99
Excellent introduction to perennial outsiders, Crime and the City Solution.
Young Turks
MP3 Download // £1.80
FLAC Download // £2.10
Jamie xx edits two cuts by his world-taking band,
Young Turks
MP3 Download // £0.99
FLAC Download // £1.10
Last year's Four Tet remix of The XX finally releases by Young Turks.
Chained (John Talabot & Pional Blinded Remix)
Young Turks
MP3 Download // £0.99FLAC Download // £1.10
Long-form remix from John Talabot and Pional Blinded.
Young Turks
7" // £4.99
The opening pair of songs from 'Coexist', sitting pretty in trademark die-cut jacket and fold-out insert.
Young Turks
MP3 Download // £0.99
FLAC Download // £1.25
Gorgeous first single to be lifted from the forthcoming sophomore album from the XX, out in Sepember.
Crystalised Remixes (Dark Sky Mix)
Young Turks
MP3 Download // £3.05FLAC Download // £3.95
Dancefloor friendly revisions of 'Crystalised' from The XX's award winning debut album.
Young Turks
MP3 Download // £1.80FLAC Download // £2.80
Very possibly the best track from their heavily praised eponymous debut.
SHORT STORIES (KORELESS & SAMPHA)
Young Turks
MP3 Download // £1.70FLAC Download // £2.10
Sampha and Koreless fuse souls on the debut Short Stories 12".
Young Turks
MP3 Download // £3.50FLAC Download // £4.50
With remixes by John Talabot & Pional, Photek, Martyn, Dan Carey, and The Field.
Young Turks
MP3 Download // £1.70FLAC Download // £2.50
Heavy new 12” here from Manchester’s very own Illum Sphere, new on Young Turks.
Young Turks
MP3 Download // £0.99FLAC Download // £1.25
A shot of poppy Afro-Latin sunshine lifted from Pablo Díaz-Reixa's third album 'Pop Negro'.
MP3 Download // £2.25
FLAC Download // £3.25Young Turks
12" // £8.99
Morgan Zarate of Spacek and Hyperdub fame returns as Theshining alongside collaborator Acyde.
Young Turks
MP3 Download // £0.99FLAC Download // £1.25
First taster for Chairlift's second album, due out in early 2012.
Young Turks
MP3 Download // £1.95FLAC Download // £2.95
Morgan Zarate of Spacek and Hyperdub fame returns as Theshining alongside collaborator Acyde.
Sonic Cathedral
CD // £11.99
Ex-Slowdive feller Neil Halstead once again scratches his folkie itch on ‘Palindrome Hunches...
Third Rock Recordings
CD // £11.99
**Initial copies housed in special "concertina cut and fold package"**
Thrill Jockey
CD // £11.99
Tortoise's Douglas McCombs pays homage to Ennio Morricone with his first new Brokeback album in years.
The Complete Singles Collection
One Little Indian
2CD // £13.49
The complete Singles Collection by dreampop pioneers A.R. Kane...
Rock Action Records
CD // £8.49
Errors return with 8 tracks of frazzled electronic pop...
Centipede Hz (Special Edition)
Domino Recording Co
CD // £12.99
*Limited Edition 1st Pressing CD - comes in a metallic gatefold digipak*
ATP/Recordings
CD // £10.99
Deerhoof return with a new album of rhythmically-heavy pop songs for ATP.
I Know What Love Isn't (Deluxe Edition)
Secretly Canadian
2CD // £12.99
*Deluxe Edition - includes a 5-track bonus EP*
PIAS Recordings
CD // £10.99
**Dead Can Dancce return for their first new album since 1996. Includes 8-page lyric booklet**
Domino Recording Co
CD // £13.49
Small-scale and insular, ‘I Was A Cat From A Book’ is a brave and rewarding album from James Yorkston.
