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Lightspeed Champion is giving away a free download!

Domino USA — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:01:59

To celebrate what would have been Elvis’ 75^th birthday, Lightspeed Champion is giving away a free download of his version of the track Devil In Disguise, recorded in Avatar Studios in New York. Dev Hynes, aka Lightspeed Champion, also made an accompanying video in LA which you can watch here:

To receive your free download of Devil In Disguise and a free live track for the next four weeks head to: http://soundcloud.com/dominorecordco/lifeissweetsessions

Tricky Meets South Rakkas Crew

Domino USA — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:12:49

Love Cry

Domino USA — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:11:39

We have new material from Four tet. This is a limited edition 12".

Two Dancers

Domino USA — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:08:42

Two Dancers is the second Wild Beasts album. Co-produced by the band and northern enigma Richard Formby in remote Norfolk earlier this year, it follows 2008’s widely celebrated debut Limbo, Panto. The result is a record of tightrope-high drama, put simply, Two Dancers finds the Wild Beasts on fire. Two Dancers is alive with its sense of possibility, a sound that shimmers and sways in the band’s own mercurial fashion. Sit back and listen with wonder at the thrill of it all.

Two Dancers inhabits its own landscape, as Tom Fleming says, it's "a series of scenes…a big party, the street outside later on, or in a bedroom, or desperately hungry and starving to death on a distant beach." The words "bedroom," "desperately" and "party" perfectly capture the energies at work in Two Dancers. Equal to the euphoria and sense of expectation is a feeling of helplessness. Hedonism can produce a long night of the soul that burns on wired emotions, and on what Fleming calls "meaningless lust." The album’s lead single "Hooting And Howling," from its title down, captures this perfectly. Consisting of a staring match between guitarist Benny Little and lead vocalist Hayden Thorpe, "Hooting and Howling" is equal parts statement of intent, and relentless eye contact from a priapic state of mind. As with rest of the album, it feels slightly delirious, having turned itself inside out and finding a state of unique musical grace.

Two Dancers is full of references to the following: booty calls, puckered lips, bodies as perfect machines, and dim-lit streets. Lyrically Two Dancers is equally energetic and ripe. In "All The King’s Men" Fleming sings with purposeful intent about "Girls from Rodean, girls from Shipley, from Hounslow, girls from Whitby" as Hayden Thorpe’s falsetto soars with palpable anticipation. In this song, as on the whole of the album, Wild Beasts dare you to cut loose and be seduced, but you’ll join in on the disorientation along the way.

The album’s shorter tracks, the two minutes of "Underbelly" and "When I’m Sleepy," allow delicious moments for pause. "We were trying to come up with a way to describe it," as Fleming puts it "and the nearest we got is erotic downbeat music." Both are suggestive and abstract, capturing the fine art of feeling weird by shimmering in a twilight cadence. The band’s performances throughout are pure liquid energy. The needlepoint drama is a result of the band eschewing studio hyper gloss by playing together in the room - “recorded live, no over thinking” explains Thorpe. The sound and sensation of a band, to borrow the lyric of "This Is Our Lot," 'dancing late / like young reprobates.'

And Two Dancers is indeed a record made by real young men. As Thorpe, owner of one of the most wildly emotive falsettos observes, "It’s such a cliché to be perceived as being different. We’re seen as being outsiders, and that makes us close up the ranks even more.’" In closing up the ranks Wild Beasts have made a record of earthly pleasures that sounds thrillingly widescreen, open and in awe of life; equally intoxicated and disturbed by the possibilities of pleasure.

Crying Lightning

Domino USA — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:08:40

A Domino Mart Exclusive you won't find in any shop this side of the Atlantic...

The "Crying Lightning" single is available in quality 7" & 10" formats. Both versions include AM's take on the Nick Cave/Bad Seeds classic, "Red Right Hand". The 10" has one additional b-side ("I Haven't Got My Strange").

Live At The Apollo

Domino USA — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:11:50

Panda Bear 'You Can Count On Me'

Domino USA — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:09:36

And now comes, "You Can Count On Me", the second in the series of 7” singles from Panda Bear previewing his forthcoming album Tomboy, the much-anticipated follow-up to Person Pitch.

A gentle duet between Panda Bear and himself, "You Can Count On Me" glimmers with third world melodic overtones, an ethereal uplifting number that is over before you become too familiar. "Alsatian Darn" on the other hand is a much different creature...a slightly foreboding track with an off-beat melancholy chord progression that occasionally lets the light break through with a jaunty two-step, if ever so briefly.

A limited edition of "You Can Count On Me" will be available in stores beginning October 18th.

New Villagers Video for 'That Day' and Upcoming Tour Dates

Domino USA — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:09:34

Villagers have released the new video for "That Day," a new single from the Mercury Prize-nominated debut Becoming a Jackal.

The video, directed by Marco Sandeman, was shot in a day throughout various locations in London.

Later this month, Villagers will kick off their first full band North American tour. In addition to several headlining dates, the group has confirmed supporting dates with Ra Ra Riot and Givers.

Upcoming tour dates:
9/22 - Minneapolis, MN @ 400 Bar &
9/24 - Chicago, IL @ Schubas Tavern &
9/27 - Toronto, ON @ Drake Underground &
9/28 - Ottawa, ON @ Mavericks &
9/29 - Montreal, QC @ Casa Del Popolo &
10/19 - San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop $
10/20 - Los Angeles, CA @ Music Box At The Henry Fonda *
10/21 - Solana Beach, CA @ Belly Up Tavern *
10/22 - Tempe, AZ @ The Clubhouse *
10/24 - San Antonio, TX @ White Rabbit *
10/26 - Austin, TX @ Emos *
10/27 - Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live Ballroom *
10/28 - Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater *
10/29 - Little Rock, AR @ Revolution Music Room *
10/30 - Nashville, TN @ Exit In *
11/1 - Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie $
11/2 - Brooklyn, NY @ Knitting Factory $
11/3 - New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge $
11/4 - Boston, MA @ Great Scott $

& = solo
* = Full band w/ Givers, Ra Ra Riot
$ = Full band headline

Clinic 'Bubblegum' Deluxe Vinyl Edition & I'm Aware Download

Domino USA — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:09:27

The deluxe vinyl edition of Clinic's forthcoming album Bubblegum (out October 5th) is now available for pre-order from the Domino Mart.

The vinyl edition includes a 2nd LP titled Son of Bubblegum, which has six acoustic versions of songs from the album. This edition will include a fold out poster and a Clinic iron-on transfer and sticker.

All vinyl pre-orders will have access to download the bonus Son of Bubblegum tracks on September 20th.

In addition, we've also made "I'm Aware", the first single off of Bubblegum, available for download immediately. Grab it here.

Preview an acoustic version of "Bubblegum" from Son of Bubblegum below:

Bubblegum tracklist:
I'm Aware
Bubblegum
Baby
Lion Tamer
Linda
Milk & Honey
Radiostory
Forever (Demis’ Blues)
Another Way Of Giving
Evelyn
Un Astronauta En Cielo
Freemason Waltz
Orangutan

Son Of Bubblegum features the following tracks:
I'm Aware
Bubblegum
Baby
Linda
Evelyn
Freemason Waltz

Announcing Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca Expanded Edition

Domino USA — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:08:02

We're excited to announce the arrival of Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca Expanded Edition on September 28th. Bitte Orca was one of 2009's true standout albums, garnering best-of-the-year praise from the likes of the New York Times, NPR, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Spin, Time Magazine and many more.

This limited edition Bitte Orca expanded 2xCD set comes with premium packaging and a second disc that features never before released tunes from a very special and intimate live acoustic performance at New York’s Other Music record store, rare vinyl only b-sides and a stunning cover of Bob Dylan’s "As I Went Out One Morning". This is the defintive version of Bitte Orca.

Bitte Orca Expanded Edition will be released on CD and digitally. Pre-order Bitte Orca Expanded Edition.

The first 50 pre-orders will receive a free copy of the Ascending Melody 7".

And, to provide a sample of the bonus material, we're making the Other Music version of "Temecula Sunrise" available as a complimentary download. Grab it here.

Here's the complete tracklist:
Disc 1
1. Cannibal Resource
2. Temecula Sunrise
3. The Bride
4. Stillness Is The Move
5. Two Doves
6. Useful Chamber
7. No Intention
8. Remade Horizon
9. Fluorescent Half Dome

Disc 2
1. Fluorescent Half Dome (Live at Other Music)
2. Temecula Sunrise (Live at Other Music)
3. Two Doves (Live at Other Music)
4. Cannibal Resource (Live at Other Music)
5. No Intention (Live at Other Music)
6. Ascending Melody
7. Emblem of the World
8. Wave the Bloody Shirt
9. Bitte Bitte Orca
10. Stillness is the Move (Lucky Dragons Remix)
11. As I Went Out One Morning

Announcing the Orange Juice Boxset - Coals To Newcastle

Domino USA — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:08:01

Domino are very honoured to announce the upcoming release of Coals To Newcastle, a comprehensive seven-disc anthology of one of the finest groups of all-time, Orange Juice. Coals To Newcastle will be released on November 9th.

The release will be comprised of six audio compact discs and one DVD that will contain the band’s complete discography and other studio recordings as well as a collection of their BBC sessions. The DVD will contain the band’s two promotional clips for “Rip It Up” and “What Presence?!” (the latter directed by Derek Jarman), their four performances on The Old Grey Whistle Test and the rare posthumous concert video Dada With (The) Juice. In total, Coals To Newcastle includes 16 previously unreleased tracks with another 23 tracks previously unavailable digitally on earlier re-issues.

Join the list to get the inside story of the boxset as told by its producers and Edwyn Collins + a/v gems from the cutting room floor & special offers.

In six tumultuous years, Orange Juice, led by Edwyn Collins, blazed a trail of self-reliance with the legendary Postcard label, ran in conjunction with then-manager Alan Horne, and greatly expanded the palette of independent music at the start of the ‘80s with their brand of literate pop songwriting that both pre-saged the coming of The Smiths and kickstarted a renaissance in Scottish pop music that continues to this day.

After an embryonic start as the punk-influenced Nu-Sonics, Orange Juice came into being in 1979 as unfashionable pre-Year Zero punk influences such as The Byrds, Chic, Motown and The Velvet Underground began to make their presence known in the band’s developing sound. Over the next year, the group recorded four landmark 7” singles on Postcard (as well as putting out early releases from Aztec Camera, The Go-Betweens and Josef K). Though each single proved more successful than its predecessor, greater commercial aspirations led the band to sign to Polydor in the midst of making their first album in a prescient deal in which the band retained ownership of their material.

The original lineup abruptly fell apart shortly after the release of the debut album, You Can’t Hide Your Love Forever, and, as quickly, the band’s future was decidedly unassured. However, with the addition of Malcolm Ross, formerly of Postcard labelmates Josef K, and Zimbabwe-by-way-of-Glasgow drummer Zeke Manyika, the group proceeded to make their commercial mark with the timeless funk and soul-inflected Rip It Up, whose title track was to be the group’s biggest UK hit, peaking at #8 in February of 1983.

During the recording of a follow-up, the group had decided to head in a more rock direction, but creative tensions arose again and the group fell apart during the recording sessions from which the Texas Fever mini-LP was culled. With Polydor’s support of the group withdrawing, Collins, joined in the studio by Manyika, persevered to make the bittersweet swan song album, The Orange Juice, a collection that telegraphed the group’s impending demise amidst some of their finest recordings. Collins made it official in March of 1985 announcing mid-performance at a miner’s benefit at the Brixton Academy that it would be Orange Juice’s last performance.

For a complete tracklisting, please visit the pre-order page.

Villagers Announce New Live Dates

Domino USA — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:08:14

After stunning American audiences with his powerful solo performances, Villagers' frontman Conor J. O'Brien has confirmed his first ever full band North American tour supporting the Mercury Prize-nominated debut, Becoming a Jackal. In addition to several headlining dates, the group has confirmed supporting dates with Ra Ra Riot and Givers.

In addition to Conor, the full band is comprised of James Byrne (drums), Tommy McLaughlin (guitar), Cormac Curran (piano/organ), and Danny Snow (bass).

Here are the dates:
9/22 - Minneapolis, MN @ 400 Bar &
9/24 - Chicago, IL @ Schubas Tavern &
9/27 - Toronto, ON @ Drake Underground &
9/28 - Ottawa, ON @ Mavericks &
9/29 - Montreal, QC @ Casa Del Popolo &
10/19 - San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop $
10/20 - Los Angeles, CA @ Music Box At The Henry Fonda *
10/21 - Solana Beach, CA @ Belly Up Tavern *
10/22 - Tempe, AZ @ The Clubhouse *
10/24 - San Antonio, TX @ White Rabbit *
10/26 - Austin, TX @ Emos *
10/27 - Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live Ballroom *
10/28 - Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater *
10/29 - Little Rock, AR @ Revolution Music Room *
10/30 - Nashville, TN @ Exit In *
11/1 - Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie $
11/2 - Brooklyn, NY @ Knitting Factory $
11/3 - New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge $
11/4 - Boston, MA @ Great Scott $

& = solo
* = Full band w/ Givers, Ra Ra Riot
$ = Full band headline

Watch them performing "Ship of Promises" live at Dublin's Button Factory:

New Tricky website & video for Murder Weapon

Domino USA — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:08:08

As well as unveiling his new website (http://www.trickysite.com), Tricky unveils his new video for the first single, "Murder Weapon", from his forthcoming album Mixed Race (out October 5th).

"Murder Weapon" is a reworking of the classic dancehall hit from Jamaican-born Echo Minott, originally released in the early '90s. Tricky fell in love with the track and was determined to hear how it would sound with a female vocalist (in a similar fashion to his reworking of "Black Steel" with Martina Topley-Bird). Tricky here enrolls Irish-Italian Franky Riley, who has toured as Tricky's vocalist for two years and makes her recording debut on his new album Mixed Race.

The video, filmed by Fleur and Manu in La Salle, Tricky’s boxing club in Paris, features Tricky training and boxing with other local fighters. It's a cinematic odyssey of guns, boxing and coercion.

New Owen Pallett EP - "A Swedish Love Story"

Domino USA — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:08:58

Owen Pallett follows his critically acclaimed album Heartland with an EP of brand new material. A Swedish Love Story brims with pop melodies, sweeping strings and joyous emotion. From the opening track’s propulsive rhythm and soaring vocals, to the taut and energetic strings of "Scandal at the parkade", into the gorgeous and epic closer "Don’t stop", the A Swedish Love Story EP is a stunning mini-masterpiece.

A Swedish Love Story will be released on 10" and digital on September 28th. It's available for pre-order now from the Domino Mart.

Here's the tracklist:
01. A man with no ankles
02. Scandal at the parkade
03. Honour the dead, or else
04. Don’t stop

Here's what Owen has to say about A Swedish Love Story:
To contrast Heartland's convoluted record process, and also to cut myself a break, I recorded this EP in New York City over a week, using not much more than my violin, my Moog, a bass and a drum kit. It's closer in sound to my first album Has A Good Home than anything else. It's called A Swedish Love Story in tribute to one of my favourite films En Karlekshistoria and as a love letter to the Swedish pop stars who inspired it. This is probably the most posi record I'll ever make, enjoy the mood while it lasts.

Clinic: New Video and Stream of "I'm Aware"

Domino USA — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 17:08:08

Rewiring their trademark hyped up sound Clinic have entered a dream state of harpsichord, dulcimers and strings. And that dream state is best visualized by means of the psychedelic puppetry in their new video for "I'm Aware", their first single off of Bubblegum. The video was directed by Peter Fowler (the gentleman behind many Super Furry Animals artwork and visuals).

Clinic are set to release their new album, Bubblegum, on October 5th and "I'm Aware" is available now through the Domino Digital Store and iTunes.

Watch the video for "I'm Aware"

"Snapshot: A Domino Compilation" now available on Amazon

Domino USA — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:08:17

"Snapshot", our newest compilation of recently released tracks by Domino artists, is now available as a free MP3 download from Amazon.

The compilation serves as a "best of to date" for 2010 featuring songs from Chief, Archie Bronson Outfit, Wild Beasts, Villagers, Owen Pallett, Steve Mason, Malachai, These New Puritans, The Fall, Dirty Projectors and To Rococo Rot. Hope you enjoy it!

Download the compilation

Here's the tracklist:
Chief "Night & Day"
Archie Bronson Outfit "Hoola"
Wild Beasts "We Still Got The Taste Dancin' On Our Tongues"
Villagers "Becoming a Jackal"
Owen Pallett "Lewis Takes Off His Shirt"
Steve Mason "All Come Down"
Malachai "Snowflake"
These New Puritans "Attack Music"
The Fall "Bury Pts. 1 + 3"
Dirty Projectors "No Intention"
To Rococo Rot "Horses"

October tour

Domino USA — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 00:08:08

Fall US dates

Domino USA — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:08:00

August dates

Domino USA — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:07:33

August NYC dates

Domino USA — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:07:00

September dates

Domino USA — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:07:04

July dates

Domino USA — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:07:32

July dates

Domino USA — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:07:28

July tour dates

Domino USA — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:06:26

Live

Domino USA — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:06:59

Fall dates

Domino USA — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 03:06:54

Bitte Orca Expanded Edition

Domino USA — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:08:59

Dirty Projectors' Bitte Orca was one of 2009's true standout albums, garnering best-of-the-year praise from the likes of the New York Times, NPR, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Spin, Time Magazine and many more.

This limited edition Bitte Orca expanded 2xCD set comes with premium packaging and a bonus disc which includes unreleased "Live at Other Music" acoustic tracks, hard to find b-sides and a cover of Bob Dylan's "As I went Out One Morning".

For The Ghosts Within

Domino USA — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:08:14

Domino is proud to release Wyatt, Atzmon, Stephen’s beautiful album, For the Ghosts Within. For The Ghosts Within is a new collaboration between Robert Wyatt, saxophonist/composer Gilad Atzmon and violinist/composer Ros Stephen. A song cycle featuring, along with Wyatt originals, standards such as "Lush Life", "In A Sentimental Mood" and "Round Midnight", For The Ghosts Within places Wyatt’s voice (and whistling) amid the seductive drama of string quartet, alto saxophone, and the universal rhythms of the night.

The result is a tour de force of contemporary composition that once again highlights Robert Wyatt’s unique position as a collaborator and conspirator, and his never-ending appetite to create new musical languages.

Coals To Newcastle Boxset

Domino USA — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:08:32

Domino are very honoured to announce the upcoming release of a comprehensive seven-disc anthology of one of the finest groups of all-time, Orange Juice. Coals To Newcastle will be released on November 9th.

The boxset is made up of six audio compact discs and one DVD that contain the band's complete discography and other studio recordings as well as a collection of their BBC sessions. The DVD contains the band's two promotional clips for "Rip It Up" and "What Presence?!" (the latter directed by Derek Jarman), their four performances on The Old Grey Whistle Test and the rare posthumous concert video "Dada With The Juice". In total, Coals To Newcastle contains 16 previously unreleased tracks with another 23 tracks previously unavailable on earlier re-issues.

Join the list to get the inside story of the boxset as told by its producers and Edwyn Collins + a/v gems from the cutting room floor & special offers.

Disc One: The Glasgow School
01. Falling And Laughing
02. Moscow
03. Moscow Olympics
04. Felicity (live)
05. Blue Boy
06. Lovesick
07. Simply Thrilled Honey
08. Breakfast Time
09. Poor Old Soul, Pt. 1
10. Poor Old Soul, Pt. 2
11. Louise Louise
12. Three Cheers for Our Side
13. (To Put It in A) Nutshell
14. Satellite City
15. Consolation Prize
16. Holiday Hymn
17. Intuition Told Me, Pt. 1
18. Intuition Told Me, Pt. 2
19. Wan Light
20. Dying Day
21. Texas Fever
22. Tender Object
23. Poor Old Soul (French version)
24. Poor Old Soul (instrumental version)
25. Simply Thrilled Honey (live)
26. Botswana (live)
27. Time to Develop (live)
28. Blue Boy (live)

-Tracks 1-3 originally released in February 1980 ( Postcard 7" 80-1).
-Track 4 included in some early editions of Postcard 7" 80-1 as a flexi-disc and also available in issue 5 of the Ten Commandments fanzine. The original master tape for this recording (which was a live cassette bootleg recorded by Malcolm Ross) was unable to be located, so a high-quality recording was taken from one of the original flexi-discs and has been included for anthropological purposes.
-Tracks 5, 6 originally released in August 1980 (Postcard 7" 80-2) .
-Tracks 7, 8 originally released in November 1980 (Postcard 7" 80-6).
-Track 9, 10 originally released in March 1981 (Postcard 7" 81-2) .
-Tracks 11-22 recorded in May 1981 and released in September 1992 as Ostrich Churchyard (DUBH 922)
-Tracks 23, 24 originally released in March 1993 (Postcard DUBH 934CD)
-Tracks 25-28 originally released on a limited bonus cassette included with some copies of the "Rip It Up" 7" single (POSP 547) in February 1983 as The Felicity Flexi Session: The Formative Years and come from the same show as track 4 on disc one.

Disc Two: You Can't Hide Your Love Forever
01. Falling And Laughing
02. Untitled Melody
03. Wan Light
04. Tender Object
05. Dying Day
06. L.O.V.E. Love
07. Intuition Told Me, Pt. 1
08. Upwards And Onwards
09. Satellite City
10. Three Cheers For Our Side
11. Consolation Prize
12. Felicity
13. In A Nutshell
14. Intuition Told Me, Pt. 2
15. Moscow
16. You Old Eccentric
17. Two Hearts Together (10" version)
18. I Can't Help Myself (7" version)
19. Tongues Begin to Wag
20. Barbeque

-Tracks 1-13 originally released in February 1982 as You Can't Hide Your Love Forever (POLS 1057)
-Tracks 14, 15 originally released in October 1981 as b-sides to the "L.O.V.E. Love" single (POSP 357).
-Track 16 originally released in January 1982 as a b-side to the "Felicity" single (POSP 386).
-Track 17 originally released in August 1982 (POSP 470).
-Tracks 18-20 originally released in October 1982 (POSP 522)

Disc Three: Rip It Up
01. Rip It Up
02. A Million Pleading Faces
03. Mud In Your Eye
04. Turn Away
05. Breakfast Time
06. I Can't Help Myself
07. Flesh Of My Flesh
08. Louise Louise
09. Hokoyo
10. Tenterhook
11. Rip It Up (12" version)
12. Snake Charmer
13. Lovesick
14. Flesh Of My Flesh (7" version)
15. Lord John White And The Bottleneck Train (12" version)
16. Flesh Of My Flesh (12" version)
17. All That Ever Mattered

-Tracks 1-10 originally released in November 1982 as Rip It Up (POLS 1076)
-Tracks 11-13 originally released in February 1983 (POSP 547).
-Tracks 14-16 originally released in May 1983 (OJ 4).

Disc Four: Texas Fever
01. Bridge
02. Craziest Feeling
03. Punch Drunk
04. The Day I Went Down To Texas
05. A Place In My Heart
06. A Sad Lament
07. Out For The Count
08. Bridge (Summer '83 version)
09. Poor Old Soul (new version)
10. Leaner Period
11. Move Yourself
12. The Day I Went To Texas (flexi version)
13. I Feel A Song Coming On [Craziest Feeling]
14. Bridge
15. The Day I Went To Texas
16. A Place In My Heart
17. Out For The Count
18. Chinese Eyes [Punch Drunk]

-Tracks 1-6 originally released in March 1984 as Texas Fever (OJMLP 1)
-Tracks 7, 8 originally released in February 1984 as b-sides to the "Bridge" single (OJ 5).
-Track 9 included in some copies of OJ 5 as a flexi-disc.
-Tracks 10, 11 originally released in March 1998 as part of the CD re-issue of Texas Fever (539 982)
-Track 12 was given away in March 1983 as a free flexi-disc included in copies of Melody Maker.
-Tracks 13-19 are previously unreleased mixes of tracks from the Texas Fever recording sessions.

Disc Five: The Orange Juice
01. Lean Period
02. I Guess I'm Just A Little Too Sensitive
03. Burning Desire
04. Scaremonger
05. The Artisans
06. What Presence?!
07. Out For The Count
08. Get While The Gettings Good
09. All That Ever Mattered
10. Salmon Fishing In New York
11. What Presence?! (12" version)
12. A Place In My Heart (12" dub version)
13. In A Nutshell (live)
14. Simply Thrilled Honey (live)
15. Dying Day (live)
16. Bury My Head In My Hands
17. Lean Period (12" dub version)
18. Rip It Up (live)
19. What Presence?! (live)
20. Burning Desire ("Alexis" mix)

-Tracks 1-10 originally released in November 1984 as The Orange Juice (OJHP 2)
-Tracks 11, 12 originally released in April 1984 (OJ 6).
-Tracks 13-15 included in some copies of OJ 6 as a limited edition cassette.
-Tracks 16,17 originally released in October 1984 b-sides to the "Lean Period" single (OJ 7).
-Tracks 18,19 included in some copies of OJ 7 as a limited edition flexi-disc.

Disc Six: BBC Sessions
01. Poor Old Soul
02. You Old Eccentric
03. Falling And Laughing
04. Lovesick
05. Upwards And Onwards
06. Wan Light
07. Felicity
08. Dying Day
09. Holiday Hymn
10. Three Cheers For Our Side
11. Blokes on 45
12. Mud In Your Eye
13. I Can't Help Myself
14. In Spite Of It All [Two Hearts Together]
15. Turn Away
16. What Presence?!
17. Salmon Fishing In New York
18. Bridge
19. BBC interview part one
20. BBC interview part two

-Tracks 1-4 taken from the first session recorded for John Peel, October 1980.
-Tracks 5-7 taken from a session recorded for Mike Read, January 1981.
-Tracks 8-11 taken from the second session recorded for John Peel, August 1981.
-Tracks 12-15 taken from the first session recorded for Kid Jensen, April 1982.
-Tracks 16-18 taken from the second session recorded for Kid Jensen, February 1984.
-Tracks 19, 20 taken from an interview conducted by Richard Skinner at The BBC in February 1983.

Disc Seven: Dada With (The) Juice
Rip It Up (music video)
What Presence?! (music video, directed by Derek Jarman)
Rip It Up (Old Grey Whistle Test, originally aired October 8th, 1982)
I Can't Help Myself (Old Grey Whistle Test, originally aired October 8th, 1982)
What Presence? (Old Grey Whistle Test, originally aired December 11th, 1984)
Out For The Count (Old Grey Whistle Test, originally aired December 11th, 1984)

Dada With (The) Juice:
Salmon Fishing In New York
Dying Day
Falling And Laughing
In A Nutshell
Simply Thrilled Honey
A Place In My Heart
Craziest Feeling
Bridge
Rip It Up
Poor Old Soul
What Presence?!
The Day I Went Down To Texas
All That Ever Mattered / Diana

Bubblegum

Domino USA — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:08:28

Domino is proud to announce the arrival of Clinic's new album Bubblegum on October 5th 2010.

Bubblegum, Clinic’s sixth album, is a rewiring of Clinic’s trademark hyped up sound. In place of churning riffs and wired vocals is a dream state of harpsichord, dulcimers and strings. Melody and softness combine with the band’s unique internal logic to produce a record of pop beauty.

Bubblegum is Clinic throwing us a curveball. Alternating between lost soundtracks to exploitation films: "Liontamer", "Un Astronauta En Cielo", watery pop-psych: "Bubblegum", "Linda", "Forever (Demis’ Blues)" and ping-pong symphonies: "Milk & Honey" and "Another Way Of Giving", this is a very different and very singular Clinic.

Produced by John Congleton (Bill Callahan, St Vincent) and recorded at Elevator Studios in Liverpool, Bubblegum is a high water mark in Clinic’s career to date.

Mixed Race

Domino USA — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:07:13

Recorded in Paris, where Tricky has been residing for the past two years, Mixed Race is his most passionate album to date. Musically his production work takes influences from UK, Jamaican, US, North African and French music. He sets out on his music mantra with the album’s lead off track, “Every Day,” and then proceeds through a lyrical journey with temptation, reflection, mischief and misbehavior.

The album was produced by Tricky and features as always an array of talented singers and collaborators. Mixed Race introduces Irish-Italian Frankey Riley, as well as guest appearances from Jamaican singer Terry Lynn, Primal Scream front man Bobby Gillespie, lutist/vocalist Hakim Hamadouche, London-based vocalist Blackman and Tricky’s brother Marlon Thaws, who is the thirteenth of his fourteen siblings.

Tricky on Mixed Race
The album’s called Mixed Race because being mixed race is the single biggest influence on my music. You sat down at the table in my house and you saw every colour. It’s made me much more open-minded than I could’ve been. I come from both worlds.

Mixed Race is a gangster album. I can’t do gangsta rap. That’s not me. I can’t talk about being a bad boy, ‘cos I’m not. But I’ve been around that. So this is the closest I can get to a gangsta album. Its very gully, as Jamaicans call it... very dark. Tense, street and urban. It’s like a movie, almost.

This is also the most uptempo album I’ve done. I wanted something that could be played in a club...maybe! Which is unusual for me. Because I don’t give a shit about clubs.

Modern Rituals

Domino USA — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:07:44

"On their debut, this shaggy quartet conjure classic West Coast folk rock like they were baptized by David Crosby and reared by the members of Love." – Rolling Stone

"Taking inspiration from 70’s melodic rock, this Santa Monica quartet’s sound is as shimmering as a Venice sunset...Modern Rituals will no doubt be an essential soundtrack to summer 2010." - Los Angeles Times

"The members of Chief have great pipes and each song on their debut LP Modern Rituals is centered on a soaring explosion of vocal euphony that could melt the heart of even the most jaded music fan." – Paste

In 2008 the four members of Chief finished school, left New York City and returned home to the west coast with their suitcases stuffed full of soaring melodies, shimmering guitars, lovelorn lyrics and heart-stopping harmonies. Their debut album, Modern Rituals, is as rich and expansive as it is personal and intricate. This is a record so teeming with joyful desperation that you’ll want to hold onto it with all your might. Modern Rituals is not only a radiant, cohesive and effortlessly captivating introduction to a formidable new band, it’s a contender for most contagious album of the year.

The band, Evan Koga (vocals/guitar), brothers Danny and Michael Fujikawa (on vocals/ guitar and drums, respectively) and Mike Moonves (bass), evoke bright and heartfelt melancholy layered with classic rhythms and guitar sounds without being nostalgic. Written and recorded in Los Angeles and produced by Grammy winner Emery Dobyns, Modern Rituals has sunshine seeping through every note. But if California is emanating from every crevasse then the resulting sound is as universal and world wearied as it gets. The album is thematic in its tales of romantic disappointments, left lovers and floundering emotions and the band’s musical touchstones include the great denimed romantics: Love, The Beach Boys, Neil Young and The Band.

Natural, timeless songwriting for times that change too quickly.

Wide Open Road: The Best of The Triffids

Domino USA — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:07:54

Continuing with the Triffids reissue program that we started in 2006 with the release of the band’s classic Born Sandy Devotional album, and which has seen Calenture, In The Pines, Black Swan and Treeless Plain all remastered and released as deluxe CDs with additional music and sleeve notes, comes the 18 track Wide Open Road - The Best of the Triffids compilation. This is a tremendous introduction to a band with an impressive body of work.

(words from the sleeve notes by John O Donnell)
"...Eleven years after his death (in February, 1999), the songs of David McComb and the music made by The Triffids still lives and breathes and resonates. As evidenced here...For me, The Triffids had the perfect arc...They remind me of that great line by Jack Kerouac in On The Road where he says 'the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centrelight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"'... With The Triffids, the middle of the arc, the blue centrelight pop, where everybody goes "Awww!" is the song "Wide Open Road", which is why it’s right that it’s the lead-off and title track of this collection...

But all around and before and after "Wide Open Road" were great moments of wildly varying colour and kind. Forming in Perth, Western Australia in the late 70s, around drummer Alsy McDonald and David McComb on guitars/vocals, the Triffids mutated through a number of different lineups as they released a handful of crude cassette 'albums', compiling more than 80-90 songs. Graduating to vinyl, their 7" singles were naive gems, tracks like "Reverie" and "Spanish Blue" full of pop smarts and sharp lyrics but with a clumsy, awkward charm. "Beautiful Waste" was their first great song. By the time of their debut album Treeless Plain, they had settled on their lineup of David McComb (vocals/guitar), Alsy McDonald (drums, vocals), Jill Birt (keyboards, vocals), Robert McComb (guitars, violin, vocals), Martyn P Casey (bass) and 'Evil' Graham Lee (pedal and lap steel, guitars, vocals) was to complete the definitive version of the band shortly after Treeless Plain...

The studio albums and the songs end up being the lasting document and the Triffids stand proud and tall on this measure. Their live shows are simply burnt in my memory, as visceral, brilliant, intelligent, haunting, pretty, dark, petulant, sloppy, irresistible...kind of like 'fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centrelight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'"

Becoming A Jackal

Domino USA — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:04:15

“Becoming a Jackal is the unnervingly poised debut of Villagers” - NEW YORK TIMES

“20 Albums You Should Hear This Summer” - NME

“The Dubliner’s solo offering exudes an aura of maturity that belies his tender age... a fine debut and speaks of even finer things to come” - BBC

"Villagers have managed to craft an endearing record, glowing with a heart-warming level of nostalgia...it’s truly refreshing to find such an artist who can straddle such divisive terrain with nonchalant aplomb." "8/10" - DROWNED IN SOUND

From the very first seconds of Becoming a Jackal, he’s got you. A faint drone of organ, joined by eerie strings and a cascade of piano that collectively casts a Hitchcock movie shadow before a hushed voice asks, “Have you got just a minute? / Are you easily led? / Let me show the backroom / Where I saw the dead / Dancing like children on a midsummer morn / And they asked me to join” – and then the music obliges by with a similar spectral sweep. ‘I Saw the Dead’ is an introduction to the vivid narratives, gripping poetry and melodic depth of Conor J. O’Brien – or as he likes to call himself and his cohorts, Villagers.

Over the course of 11 varied, subtle, complex and plain gorgeous songs, the Dubliner shows just why he is Domino’s latest signing. O’Brien namechecks David Axelrod, Jens Lekman, Robert Wyatt and Rufus Wainwright but you could equally add Paddy McAloon, Paul Simon and Randy Newman to the possible roots of this record.

Growing up in Dun Laoghaire, a southeast seaside Dublin suburb, O’Brien wrote his first song, aged just 12, a week after his older brother lent Conor his acoustic guitar. “Bizarrely enough, my first lyric was “When I’m walking down these streets, I feel like a monkey in the Arctic”. I haven’t told Domino that yet! The song was called ‘Psychic’, which was about being afraid of a psychic friend because he could read your thoughts. Yes, it was a weird one...”

Roald Dahl books, Jim Henson fantasy films (The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth) and a passion for model painting fed the teen Conor’s imagination, while his first band, formed with three friends from St. Conleth’s College in Ballsbridge, Dublin, defined the adult version. The Immediate were loved in Ireland for their whip-smart, literate bursts of melody, and their sole album In Towers and Clouds was considered the best homegrown debut since U2’s Boy back in 1980. But as the accolades escalated, the band shocked everyone by suddenly breaking up.

“It felt like ending an incredible long-term relationship. I’m terrified of bands now, so I do everything myself” says O’Brien, who created the artwork and played all the instruments on Becoming a Jackal (except for the strings and French Horn which were arranged by Villagers pianist/organist Cormac Curran).

After choosing the name Villagers - “I like the name because it doesn’t offend the songs” - O’Brien released The Hollow Kind EP in February 2009 and the 7” ‘On a Sunlit Stage’ last October on the Any Other City label, run by Villagers drummer James Byrne. After signing to Domino, Becoming a Jackal was recorded in Villagers guitarist Tommy McLaughlin’s home studio, with Tommy engineering and co-producing alongside Conor. “We wanted to make it sound a bit like a Neil Young album, not to dress it up too much, like someone is whispering in your ear, but also to get the epic-ness at times.”

From restrained to unleashed, from a whisper to a literal howl, Becoming a Jackal mutates, intrigues and beguiles in equal measure.

Boys Outside

Domino USA — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:04:07

"Mason has regained his trademark warmth and tenderness. [Boys Outside] offers an elegant blend [just] as soothing and stirring as those on Beta Band's debut" "8/10" - NME

"His career-best solo project has just enough pure pop ingredients in it to melt perfectly with the experimental….[Boys Outside] distinctively leaves you with that great Beta Band taste in the mouth, but still allows new grounds to explore for Mason" - Dazed

"[Boys Outside] is an unusually catchy album that packs some formidable grooves. Mason's best post-Beta Band work" "4/5" - Mojo

Having recently signed to Domino imprint Double Six, Steve Mason has announced the release of his new album, Boys Outside, on Tuesday, June 22nd 2010.

The 10-track album was produced by Richard X and Steve Mason. Very much indicative of the fragile, stripped down, haunting sound of the album, "All Come Down" was released as a download only single in December of last year and was roundly praised for it’s beauty and simplicity drawing numerous comparisons to his early work with the Beta Band on the 3 EPs album.

Having previously recorded as both King Biscuit Time and Black Affair, both largely electronic based projects, Steve Mason enlisted the help of producer Richard X and consciously made a decision to go back to basics; the album was written entirely on acoustic guitar with many of the finished tracks stripped back to reveal his undoubted songwriting talent.

Your Future Our Clutter

Domino USA — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:03:19

Domino is incredibly proud to announce that it will be releasing the new album from The Fall. Recorded at various studios in the north of England over the past year Your Future Our Clutter is Mark E Smith and Co’s debut for Domino and will be released on May 4th 2010.

Your Future Our Clutter is The Fall at their most rampant, most forward moving and bone shaking best. With nine tracks that rock like raw fury, we see The Fall heading into their next decade with the same intensity with which they started.

You Can Count On Me (SOLD OUT)

Domino USA — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:08:44

***Attention: Mart has now sold out of this 7"***

Limited quantities will be available at better record stores beginning Oct 19 or you are welcome to visit our UK Mart.

A gentle duet between Panda Bear and himself, "You Can Count On Me" glimmers with third world melodic overtones, an ethereal uplifting number that is over before you become too familiar. "Alsatian Darn" on the other hand is a much different creature...a slightly foreboding track with an off-beat melancholy chord progression that occasionally lets the light break through with a jaunty two-step, if ever so briefly.

"You Can Count On Me" is the second in the series of 7" singles from Panda Bear previewing Tomboy the much-anticipated follow-up to Person Pitch.

Remixes: Four Tet / Nathan Fake

Domino USA — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 17:08:43

On August 31st, Domino is releasing a 12” featuring two heavyweight remixes of Jon Hopkins tracks taken from his recent album, Insides.

Hot on the heels of Jon’s hypnotic remix of Four Tet's Angel Echoes (July 19th), Kieran Hebden here returns the favour, delivering his hardest uptempo offering for a while, a garage-tinged remix of "Vessel". Retaining all the beauty of the original but aligning it with the dancefloor, he builds clouds of euphoria over the original's slamming bass.

The 12” is b/w a stamping freeform techno reworking of "Wire", from Border Community's Nathan Fake.

Angel Echoes

Domino USA — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:07:08

"Angel Echoes" is the third single from Four Tet’s universally acclaimed album There Is Love In You. The A side on this remix 12” features a deep, club ready remix by Caribou, fresh off the heels of the release of his critically acclaimed new album Swim. The flip side contains a gorgeous piano infused remix by Domino’s very own Jon Hopkins, whose 2009 album, Insides, was a clear electronic standout.

Hoola

Domino USA — Wed, 19 May 2010 23:05:21

The "Hoola" 12"s are a Domino Mart exclusive.

The tracklisting on each format of Hoola is as follows:

12" (Hoola House of David Remix)
Hoola - House Of David Remix
Hoola - Moscow remix

12" (Hoola MCDE Remix) - AVAILABLE SOON
Hoola - MCDE Remix
Chunk - 6th Borough Project Remix

Digital EP
Hoola (album version)
Hoola (Moscow Remix)
Hoola (House of David Remix)
Hoola (M.C.D.E. Remix)
Chunk (6th Borough Project Remix)

Becoming A Jackal 7"

Domino USA — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:04:39

“Gorgeous...Just Amazing” - NPR
“expertly crafted songs and soaring vocal range” - Death & Taxes
“With fast fingers, he plucked quickly alternating chords and ballooning, hypnotic crescendos... at times–this is high praise–he approaches the bitter romanticism of Leonard Cohen.” - New York Times

"Becoming a Jackal" is the first single from Villagers same-titled full-length, which will be released on June 8th. The B-Side ("Twenty-Seven Strangers") also comes from the Becoming a Jackal sessions.

Villagers frontman Conor O'Brien represents the emergence of a great new songwriting talent. Growing up in Dun Laoghaire, a southeast seaside Dublin suburb, O’Brien wrote his first song, aged just 12, a week after his older brother lent Conor his acoustic guitar. “Bizarrely enough, my first lyric was “When I’m walking down these streets, I feel like a monkey in the Arctic”. I haven’t told Domino that yet! The song was called ‘Psychic’, which was about being afraid of a psychic friend because he could read your thoughts. Yes, it was a weird one...”

Roald Dahl books, Jim Henson fantasy films (The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth) and a passion for model painting fed the teen Conor’s imagination, while his first band, formed with three friends from St. Conleth’s College in Ballsbridge, Dublin, defined the adult version. The Immediate were loved in Ireland for their whip-smart, literate bursts of melody, and their sole album In Towers and Clouds was considered the best homegrown debut since U2’s Boy back in 1980. But as the accolades escalated, the band shocked everyone by suddenly breaking up. “It felt like ending an incredible long-term relationship. I’m terrified of bands now, so I do everything myself” says O’Brien.

After choosing the name Villagers - “I like the name because it doesn’t offend the songs” - O’Brien released The Hollow Kind EP in February 2009 and the 7” On a Sunlit Stage last October on the Any Other City label, run by Villagers drummer James Byrne. After signing to Domino, Becoming a Jackal was recorded in Villagers guitarist Tommy McLaughlin’s home studio, with Tommy engineering and co-producing alongside Conor. “We wanted to make it sound a bit like a Neil Young album, not to dress it up too much, like someone is whispering in your ear, but also to get the epic-ness at times.”

From restrained to unleashed, from a whisper to a literal howl, Becoming a Jackal mutates, intrigues and beguiles in equal measure.

Lewis Takes Off His Shirt 12"

Domino USA — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:04:34

Featuring the Heartland album version of "Lewis Takes Off His Shirt" as well as remixes by Dan Deacon, Benoît Pioulard and CFCF. Simon Bookish contributes a remix of "Keep The Dog Quiet" and Max Tundra remixes "Midnight Directives".

My Propeller

Domino USA — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:02:01

Marlene

Domino USA — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:02:40

Dev Hynes, the voice, ears, fingers, flesh and blood behind Lightspeed Champion, is back with a brand new single, Marlene.

Majestic and epic, Marlene is full of headlong melodies and expansive arrangements, where the grandness is frequently allowed to loom rather than thunder, yielding to passages of repose, before the infectious rhythm kicks in again.

Dev Hynes plays every instrument on all three B-sides himself - a concerto; a cover of Serge Gainsbourg’s "69 Année Erotique" (in French!) and his version of "(He’s) The Great Imposter," written in 1961 by eighteen-year old Sharon Sheeley, the fiancé of and songwriter for Eddie Cochran.

Ascending Melody

Domino USA — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:01:07

This limited edition 7" is a Domino Mart exclusive featuring two previously unreleased tracks from the Bitte Orca sessions.

Lewis Takes Action 7

Domino USA — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:12:49

A Domino Mart Exclusive! Limited Edition.

ODDSAC: A Visual Album by Animal Collective and Danny Perez

Domino USA — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:07:15

A Swedish Love Story

Domino USA — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:08:06

We Still Got The Taste Dancin' On Our Tongues

Domino USA — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:07:45

“We Still Got The Taste Dancin’ On Our Tongues” 10” features the album track of the same name, the rare B side “Through The Iron Gate”, the Jon Hopkins remix of “Two Dancers (ii)” and a chilling acoustic version of “The Devil’s Crayon”.

Night & Day 10"

Domino USA — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 22:04:53

"Night & Day" is the debut single from the four members of Chief: Evan Koga, Mike Moonves and brothers Danny & Michael Fujikawa. The band recorded their debut album, Modern Rituals, with Grammy award winner Emery Dobyns in and around the greater Los Angeles area. "Night & Day" layers lush production over signature melodies that recall the vast Pacific Coast of California, the cityscape of NYC and all things in between. The 10" also features two non-album tracks including fan favorite ''Your Direction"and "My Love Is Gone".

Sing (Remixes) 12"

Domino USA — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:04:19

Featuring the Mosca "Sing" remix and Banton's Indian Chants remix by Hardhouse Banton.

Forwardness Fridays EP

Domino USA — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:03:32

Featuring the Speculation album version of "Forwardness", a Traversable Wormhole remix of "Forwardness" and Shackleton’s West Green Road remix of "Fridays", which features Faust’s Jochen Irmler on organ.

Sing

Domino USA — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:02:51

Seven Gulps of Air

Domino USA — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:11:02

Seven Gulps of Air features two brand new tracks from Jon Hopkins alongside three radical re-mixes from this year’s Insides LP. Full of directional shifts in colour and sound the canvas of Insides is stretched into new possibilities by remixers Tunng, Geese and Tom Middleton. Their adventurous treatment of the material is echoed in the sources and free spirit of the two new tracks: "Seven Gulps of Air" and "A Drifting Down."

Seven Gulps of Air came into being via a commission from designer Christopher Kelly, for his label Theatre De La Mode’s latest fashion film, shown at London Fashion Week. Mutual friend Mike Lindsay, the production and songwriting fulcrum of Tunng, created the rhythmic template of the track, which drew heavily on the collection’s African themes.

Seven Gulps of Air (with Tunng): the title track configures live handclapping and vocal incantations from Malinese singer Abdallah Ag Housseyni. The result sounds like someone stamping their way down to the centre of the earth, following the voices in their head and the nicest and nastiest of basslines.

Small Memory (Tunng remix): Tunng turn Small Memory into a reeling medicine show. Playing around the original’s piano line you can hear bottles being uncorked and the loping groove of footsteps swaying, before settling into the sound of the early hours drifting by.

The Low Places (Geese remix): a new performance by Geese who treat their violins and violas as hand percussion as much as chamber instruments. The result is the sound of every scrape of the bow and dust of the resin falling in counterpoint to original’s eerie melody. The tension of the strings taken to the tightest point of collapse before finding a strange kind of calm.

A Drifting Down: reworks Insides’ "A Drifting Up" by magnifying its details. Starting around King Creosote’s hums and Emma Smith’s violin phases then dispersing into an electro-acoustic depth of field, shifting around a narcotic moment’s pause for thought.

Light In The Veins (Tom Middleton Remodel): Tom Middleton’s euphoric take on "Light In The Veins" which manages to replace the blood stream with pure white light, pushing further into hands in the air, blissed out synaesthesia.

Fall Be Kind EP

Domino USA — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:11:32

Recorded by Ben Allen at Sweet Tea in Oxford, MS in February 2008 and at Mission Sound in Brooklyn, NY August 2009, Fall Be Kind includes recent live favorites 'Graze' and 'What Would I Want? Sky' (featuring the first ever licensed Grateful Dead sample).

Stillness Is The Move

Domino USA — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:04:52

The “Stillness Is The Move” 12" single is the first new Dirty Projectors release since 2007’s critically acclaimed album Rise Above. It also marks their debut for Domino Records. The band formed around David Longstreth in 2002 and has hosted a variety of different collaborators. The group now consists of Angel Deradoorian, Amber Coffman, Brian Mcomber and David as principal members. “Stillness Is The Move” was recorded in the fall of 2008 in Portland, OR and Brooklyn, NY as part of the sessions for the forthcoming full length album, Bitte Orca.

The 12" includes the b-sides “Wave The Bloody Shirt” and “Bitte Bitte Orca”, as well as a Lucky Dragons remix and an A Cappella mix of the single.

My Mistakes Were Made For You

Domino USA — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:10:54

Taken from their Mercury-nominated The Age Of The Understatement album, "My Mistakes Were Made For You" features the London Metropolitan Orchestra, conducted by Owen Pallet.

B-sides for My Mistakes Were Made For You include an exclusive live orchestrated version of the band’s "Separate And Ever Deadly" plus live cover versions of the Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra classic "Paris Summer," the Burt Bacharach penned, Love covered "My Little Red Book," plus acoustic versions of four album tracks.

Domino Yeah Podcast - August 2010: The Count & Sinden Get MEGA and loads of new tunes from ...

Domino USA — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 20:08:20

In this episode, hit-makers The Count & Sinden speak with our genial host Billy Reeves about their debut LP ("Mega Mega Mega"). Villagers have been nominated for the Mercury Music Prize and we celebrate with "Ship of Promises". Plus new songs by Tricky, These New Puritans, Lightspeed Champion and Chief.

Oh! and remixes galore with Four Tet's remix of Jon Hopkin's "Vessel", Reeboot's "Un Dia" remix and the Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip) remix of Steve Mason's "Am I Just A Man".

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Chapter 1: Intro with Billy Reeves (0:00)
Chapter 2: Tricky "Murder Weapon" (0:21)
Chapter 3: These New Puritans "Hologram" (3:19)
Chapter 4: Steve Mason "Am I Just A Man (Alexis Taylor remix)" (5:54)
Chapter 5: The Count & Sinden interview (10:20)
Chapter 6: The Count & Sinden "After Dark" (18:22)
Chapter 7: Juana Molina "Un Dia (Reeboot Remix)" (22:21)
Chapter 8: Lightspeed Champion "I Don't Want to Wake Up Alone" (30:49)
Chapter 9: Jon Hopkins "Vessel (Four Tet remix)" (33:30)
Chapter 10: Villagers "Ship of Promises" (38:47)
Chapter 11: Chief "Night & Day" (38:47)

Domino Yeah Podcast - July 2010: Chief on the finer points of brotherly love and tunes from ...

Domino USA — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:07:10

Time now for the July edition of Domino Yeah!

Let's see what our good pal Billy Reeves has to say about this episode:
Billy Reeves here, hello. I’ve been looking all my adult life for the band who will marry to emotion of the Go-Betweens with the skill of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, and here they are, four laid-back dudes from L.A. - Chief. Said chaps have been playing the 2 biggest UK festivals recently (Hyde Park & Glastonbury) so just before they left London, England I caught up with them; and herein play you two tracks from their forthcoming beautiful LP.

PLUS how about some Dirty Projectors? Some She & Him? Jon Hopkins ambient re-thinking of ‘Angel Echoes’ by Four Tet? And an announcement of a very special show from Villagers too. (#1 in Ireland don’tcha know). Balmy!

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Chapter 1:Intro with Billy Reeves (0:00)
Chapter 2: Dirty Projectors "Stillness Is The Move" (0:31)
Chapter 3: Wild Beasts "Hooting & Howling" (5:20)
Chapter 4: Chief "Night & Day" (10:39)
Chapter 5: Interview with Chief (14:34)
Chapter 6: Chief "Breaking Walls" (18:35)
Chapter 7: She & Him "Thieves" (23:14)
Chapter 8: Four Tet "Angel Echoes (Jon Hopkins Remix)" (23:14)
Chapter 9: Villagers "Ship Of Promises" (32:26)

Position Available: Digital/Direct Sales & Marketing Manager

Domino USA — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:06:27

Digital/Direct Sales & Marketing Manager

Domino is seeking a confident high calibre individual to head up its digital and direct to consumer sales initiatives for its London office. Position will manage both key partnerships with digital music services (e.g. iTunes) and company's ecommerce operations.

Ideal candidate is very familiar with Domino's output, aware of its history and will complement the company culture.

Individual should possess a strong imaginative progressive vision and pioneering spirit. Additionally, applicant must demonstrate a command of new sales paradigms and ability to adapt to shifts in the marketplace.

General

Manage sales activities across multiple product types and business models including physical and digital transactions, ad-supported and subscription models and mobile
Establish and meet short and long term departmental goals and objectives
Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of sale, methods, costs, and results
Crystallize company marketing plans and objectives into actionable campaigns
Communicate trends, success, opportunities, and recommendations
Develop account best practices around content delivery, sales and merchandising

Account Management

Build and maintain excellent relationships across physical, online and mobile accounts.
Successfully manage account relationships including verification of: launch, product delivery, punctual reporting and on-going partnership maintenance in addition to maximizing revenues
Drive revenue growth through promotional innovation and catalogue development

Direct-To-Consumer

Develop Domino's direct-to-consumer business with its artist roster
Liaise with the A&R/project management to develop direct-to-consumer initiatives (i.e. product lines)
Build and maintain excellent artist/management relationships

Our Candidate will need to have most of the following attributes:

Min 3 to 5 years account management & direct sales experience and/or strong digital marketing and operational skills
A results-oriented self-starter who will strive for excellence
Detail-oriented, organized, able to multi-task and collaborate
Adept at execution
Comfortable with technology and a working knowledge of digital technology--commerce & content management platforms
Professional written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
Able to craft and deliver executive-level presentations
Excellent negotiating and people skills
Well organized with the ability to plan and deliver on tight deadlines with exceptional attention to detail

To submit a CV and cover letter please email: digitalmarketing{at}dominorecordco{dot}com.

Domino Yeah Podcast - June 2010: An interview with The Fall and new tunes from Villagers, ...

Domino USA — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:06:48

A new edition of Domino Yeah is up!

Ever wondered what it’s like to be in The Fall? From what your genial host Billy Reeves sees, it’s a right good laugh! Peter, Kieron and Dave invite Billy to help set up the stage for Mark in Birmingham, and talk about the current LP "Your Future, Our Clutter". The relatively new two young lads explain how they got invited to join the band and the chaps sift through an enormous pile of 10p records bought in the excellent Birmingham branch of Record & Tape exchange.

So, two tracks from The Fall to hear, as well as a special Archie Bronson Outfit remix, the next single from "Becoming A Jackal" by Villagers, a lovely bit of Robert Wyatt and the beautiful sound of young L.A. new boys Chief.

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Chapter 1: Intro with Mr. Billy Reeves (0:00)
Chapter 2: Chief "Breaking Walls" (0:29)
Chapter 3: Archie Bronson Outfit "Hoola - Moscow Remix" (4:58)
Chapter 4: The Fall "Cowboy George" (11:11)
Chapter 5: The Fall interview (16:32)
Chapter 6: The Fall "Bury Pts. 1 + 3" (23:55)
Chapter 7: Villagers "Ship Of Promises" (30:43)
Chapter 8: Domino Glastonbury Line-up (34:24)
Chapter 9: Robert Wyatt "Sea Song" (35:18)

Domino Yeah Podcast - May 2010: Sticky Buns with Steve Mason, Overripe Apples with Quasi & ...

Domino USA — Tue, 04 May 2010 16:05:25

This edition we share a very sticky bun with Steve Mason to talk about his new LP and Raith Rovers Football Club. We interrupt Quasi as they drive their wee tour bus between Atlanta, Georgia and Brirmingham, Alabama. Plus, Dev from Lightspeed Champion tells us how the prostitutes of Dalston in North London inspired his new single (and how to play it on the guitar!).

Also you’ll also hear a song entitled "Release The Chickens", classics from Pavement and The Steve Reid Ensemble and a proper exclusive: a not-to-be-heard-anywhere-else song from the mindcrushingly good new LP from Villagers.

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Chapter 1: Intro with Billy Reeves (0:00)
Chapter 2: Bonde Do Role "Solta O Frango" (0:54)
Chapter 3: Villagers "The Pact (I'll Be Your Fever)" (2:32)
Chapter 4: Interview with Steve Mason (6:03)
Chapter 5: Steve Mason "Am I Just A Man" (10:48)
Chapter 6: Pavement "Stereo" (14:18)
Chapter 7: Interview with Quasi (17:50)
Chapter 8: Quasi "Bye Bye Blackbird" (22:30)
Chapter 9: Lightspeed Champion "Madame Van Damme" (29:13)
Chapter 10: Tribute to Steve Reid (34:25)

Domino Yeah PODCAST - April 2010: Muffins For Villagers & A Cupboard Full of New Music

Domino USA — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:04:39

In this episode: Billy Reeves tests his baking skills with VILLAGERS. Plus, previews of new releases from BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY, THE FALL, TO ROCOCO ROT, MALACHAI and a bona fide classic from THE TRIFFIDS. Click the Play button to listen.

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Chapter 1: Intro with Billy Reeves
Chapter 2: Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & The Cairo Gang "The Sounds Are Always Begging" (0:15)
Chapter 3: Malachai "Warriors" (5:58)
Chapter 4: Villagers "Twenty-Seven Strangers" (9:26)
Chapter 5: Interview with Villagers (12:29)
Chapter 6: Villagers "Becoming A Jackal" (15:53)
Chapter 7: The Triffids "Wide Open Road" (20:05)
Chapter 8: To Rococo Rot "Seele" (25:18)
Chapter 9: The Fall "Bury Pts. 1 + 3" (29:22)

ALEX CHILTON - THE SINGER AND THE SONGS (December 28, 1950 – March 17, 2010)

Domino USA — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:04:45

Alex Chilton was a soul singer. The music of Alex Chilton and Big Star has a huge emotional depth to it that has resonated through the years, which is why he had, and still has, a huge influence on people who form rock’n’roll bands. Well, the good ones anyway. It’s also why he never sold too many records, because regular folks can’t take that kind of honesty. They prefer the fake to the real and the overdone to the understated. Alex Chilton was one of the givers. His life was a triumph for art, truth, singing and rock’n’roll music. I don’t go for that underachiever shit that the “journos” always go on about - the guy made three of the greatest albums of all time!!! What a fucking talent!

Let me tell you my Alex Chilton story. Indulge me, cos I’m a bit choked up here. In 1986 I released a record by the Replacements, called Boink!, on my label, Glass Records. It was a mini LP culled from some of their earlier releases but had an unreleased track called “Nowhere Is My Home” produced by Alex Chilton, which mightily impressed Nikki Sudden, who alongside his brother Epic Soundtracks, first turned me on to Alex’s music. Nikki and Epic are sadly no longer with us either. 6 years later I was working at Creation Records and I met Alex at Victoria Station straight off the Gatwick Express. Creation brought him over to London to talk about making a record. Me and Alan McGee took him out for a couple of drinks and had a real nice time. The next day Alex and myself went up to Glasgow together on the train for the weekend to record a hastily arranged session for BBC Radio Scotland with Teenage Fanclub. He told me some great stories, like taking acid for the first time with Dennis Wilson, and hanging out at Dennis’s place when Manson and “all those chicks” were around. I lapped all that stuff up. I love all those stories. He was damn good company. At the rehearsal for the Radio thing, Alex asked the band to play “Alcoholiday”, his favourite song from “Bandwagonesque”, which he then proceeded to sing, and yes he knew all the words. Imagine how you’d feel if Alex Chilton sang one of your songs, two feet away from your face. I tell you, walking into the Griffin, where all the Glasgow bands hung out, with Alex fuckin’ Chilton was totally genius. Cries of “No way!!” could be heard all the way up past the King’s Cafe to Sauchiehall Street. Well, for some reason or another that record never happened, and I think that it was a great disappointment to him, as indeed it was to me.

Alex, it was a pleasure and a privilege to know you for a brief time. You are the MAN and I remain, your fan. God bless.

David E Barker March 2010.

Here are some other stories and tributes from some of Alex’s friends and fans.

I feel lucky that with Teenage Fanclub we had the opportunity to work with Alex a few times and through that to fully realise what an amazing musician he was. I’d actually been reminiscing about working with Alex the day before I found out he’d died, remembering a radio session we recorded in ‘92 where, at his instigation of course, we worked on an instrumental version of a theme from the overture of Wagner’s Tannhauser. On the day I heard he’d died I went to a concert, the thought of which had prompted my reminiscence, where the Scottish Symphony Orchestra played the overture of Tannhauser. Of course, in my mind this was a beautiful little tribute to him, someone for whom the work of Wagner, Eddie Floyd, and Joe Meek were all part of the same thing. Alex was inspiring to me in terms of his songwriting, his eclecticism, his not just innovative but also accomplished musicianship, and all that allied with his disdain for sycophancy and bullshit. He was a great guy and I always enjoyed his company. Raymond McGinley, Teenage Fanclub

I was introduced to the music of Alex Chilton by Brian Taylor, guitarist in the first Pastels lineup. Brian, it's fair to say was not too impressed by many things, but Alex had found his favour, and he seemed to love everything from pop soul sides with the Box Tops through to raw but exciting productions for The Cramps and Tav Falco's Panther Burns. Me, I really liked Alex's voice and some of his songs; hearing September Gurls for the first time was unbelievably thrilling. Alex always seemed like someone who could move easily from era to era - 1960s, 1970s, 1980s. He was clever enough to keep moving and aware enough to usually have the right length of hair for the time. Eventually he started turning up in Glasgow thanks to super enthusiastic fans like Jason from V-Twin, and of course the Teenage Fanclub connection, which he knew was a good thing. I met him a couple of times and he seemed kind of there, not there. But somehow I expected this smart traveller to keep moving; moving through things and around them, to be here for ever or at least until he was 100. Not to be. It's like the feeling you get from listening to so many of his lovely, sad songs. Stephen Pastel, Glasgow. March 2010

We were in LA mixing an album and Alex is passing through town. He has a show at McCabes guitar shop and invites us down. Alex plays a great set and we hang out afterwards and drink beer. He tells us that he's going to be playing at a Beach Boys fanclub event the next evening and that we should “really” come down as it's going to be “very special”.

We make our way to a small theater in Santa Monic, once inside, us and the fifty other people there take our seats and watch The Beach Boys Hawaii concert movie along with a load of outtakes and rare and unseen clips. Next, we are treated to a set of Beach Boys tunes performed by a band that includes Brian Wilson producer Andy Paley, who are accompanying a number of guest singers. Alex does a great version of Solar System. The show builds to a climax and it seems that the night is over when unexpectedly, Rodney Bingenheimer appears at the front mic and announces that there is to be one more performance, and at that, Brian Wilson shuffles onstage and up to the piano. He sits down and self deprecatingly starts to play "I'm a little teapot" (with the handle and spout arm movements) before launching into "Do it again" and then "God only knows". We are at the front of the stage about five feet away from Brian, gobsmacked. This is his first public performance in a long time. He's fragile but brilliant. Alex is at the other side of the stage and looks over at us with an enormous grin on his face. Thanks for that Alex. What a treat.

Alex Chilton, was a great singer and performer and a much better songwriter than he would have you believe. He is man who told Charles Manson where to get off....but that's another story. Norman Blake, Teenage Fanclub

We did some west coast dates with Alex in 1988 around the time of High Priest. We were all mightily impressed at the Chilton Soundcheck, which involved parking his guitar and his amp on the stage before going straight back out of the venue again in search of good times. (It was a trick he repeated in London in the nineties, striking terror into the hearts of his "minders" by disappearing into the Streets of Fear around King's Cross.)

Then in 92 I ran into him in New Orleans. He wasn't supposed to be drinking, but he took me on a 2 night binge that ended up in a transvestite cowboy bar called "Roundup". It was only supposed to be a one night thing, but when I went out around town the next day I found him banging on the window of a bar that I was passing, beckoning me in for round two, as it were.

Of course, he was a proper Southern Gent, courteous and charming and prone to the occasional "Vietnam moment" where he would sort of glaze over and start muttering incomprehensibly at some unseen foe for a second before snapping back into your reality once again. Like a lot of southern people he had a genuine belief in astrology. Our birthdays were close together ("December boys got it bad") and he called me "the Jack of Hearts". Guess we all knew who the King was.

In New Orleans we went past this bar, which he told us was Muddy Waters' club. "I had some of the best nights of my life in there," he said. I figured he meant that he'd played some gigs there. "No," he replied, "I was the janitor."

That struck me as typical of him. He said that he only really rated three or four of his own songs and was much happier just being a singer, covering other people's stuff. For somebody who had done so much and meant so much to so many, he seemed almost entirely uncorrupted by any kind of "ego". Even after the Big Star revival of the nineties, he would still regularly turn up and play on old sixties revue packages in odd places like Canadian leisure centres.

I never heard him refer to Jody Stevens as anything other than simply "The Drummer". Once in London, Joe Foster was talking to him about the fact that there were Big Star tee shirts on sale; he was concerned that Alex was getting his fair cut of the proceeds. With consummate unconcern Alex told him "Aaaah, that was the Drummer's idea." Case closed.

Alex Chilton was the real thing. Raised in a house full of music in Memphis, he lived the true and proper rock and roll life all his life. I'm not sure that we shall ever see his like again. Pat Fish, The Jazz Butcher

These New Puritans

Domino USA — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:03:21

As their name suggests, These New Puritans are a group on a very precise mission. Hailing from around Southend-On-Sea in the UK and consisting of Jack Barnett, his twin brother George, Thomas Hein and Sophie Sleigh-Johnson. Their latest album, Hidden, pulls together a host of unlikely influences – the later work of Steve Reich, Dancehall, Japanese percussion and the great British composer Benjamin Britten. These New Puritans have constructed an imaginarium whose contents are of less importance than the way in which it has been assembled, the creative and unprecedented use of contrasting sound sources to create a massive burst of percussion with layers of sample sounding classical and chunks of contemporary polished pop pushed through an analog filter.

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"Somber, arty and quintessentially British: that’s Hidden the second album by These New Puritans." - New York Times

“A shockingly brilliant album… Announces These New Puritans as one of the most powerful artistic forces in Britain today – 9/10” – NME

"Hidden is a strikingly inventive and original rock record. Granted, nothing is ever completely new in pop music, but the album freshly synthesizes older ideas (post-rock textures, no-wave skronk, Steve Reich-influenced phasing) and current trends (dubstep's delay, chart pop's stentorian synth lines, global beats)." - 8.1 Pitchfork

Loops Journal

Domino USA — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:03:13

"Whoop-di-do: the eagerly-anticipated issue #2 of Loops magazine…Quake in boggled awe before Paul Morley’s essay on Michael Jackson. They don’t make music magazines like this anymore." - Dazed & Confused

Issue #2 of Loops, the biannual journal dedicated to music writing from Faber and Domino, is available on March 18th.

Issue #2 features essays from Andy Miller (Est-ce, est-ce ce bon?: on Serge Gainsbourg's flirtation with Nazi chic on Rock Around the Bunker), Dan Franklin (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Fast: on Napalm Death and the Possibility of Life's Destruction) and Frances Morgan on Red Square's Thirty Three and the resonance of rediscovery after the event. Pieces from Simon Reynolds, Nick Kent, Lavinia Greenlaw, Owen Hatherley, Dan Franklin, Matt Thorne and Rob Chapman are also included.

And then there's An Awfully Big Adventure, Paul Morley's spectacularly honest and exposing portrait of Michael Jackson and his debated legacy. Book shelves and tabloid columns have been blasting the ears of fans and critics alike since Jackson’s death, yet very little has been heard. Morley corrects this by unravelling and indulging the myth to ask just who he was, how we came to piece him together through our collective desires and fears, and why his destiny so inevitably reflected the dysfunctionality of the culture. This expansive essay takes a refreshingly imaginative perspective on a story that too often focused on the apocryphal fantasy rather than the magic of the man himself. Morley’s fascinating essay inclines us not just to look at Michael Jackson but to look at ourselves – the very forces implicit in making the man The King of Pop.

Loops is edited by Lee Brackstone and Richard King.

Lee Brackstone is Publishing Director at Faber for pop culture titles and fiction. The Faber pop culture list has published such influential works as Jon Savage’s England’s Dreaming, Simon Reynolds’s Rip It Up and Start Again and Greil Marcus’s Lipstick Traces. Richard King has worked at Domino for 15 years. In that time he has seen the label release records by Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand, Sebadoh and Robert Wyatt and build an incredible history and reputation. He is currently working on How Soon Is Now?, an access all areas history of the UK independent music business 1975 - 2005.

Loops Issue #2 can be ordered here.

The following is an edited extract of Matt Thorne's piece for Loops 2.

'Gigolos Get Lonely Too': Prince, His Protégées, Side-Projects and Their Influence (Part One: ’78-‘84)

As with Prince’s own releases, the records that his protégées and friends have put out over the last thirty years have been of variable quality. This strand of Prince’s music is driven by two major motivations: Prince’s delight in hiding from public view, and the fact that enjoys being in a studio or on stage over anything else. But it’s more than a straightforward desire to release as much as possible. In fact, it isn’t stretching things too far to see ‘Vanity’, ‘Apollonia’ and ‘Sister Fate’ as Prince’s characters, part of the novel he sings about trying to write in the unreleased ‘Moonbeam Levels.’ Others have suggested it makes more sense to see them as Prince’s alter egos, the name ‘Vanity’ believed to have been inspired by the physical similarity between Denise Matthews and Prince.

In the summer of ’79 Prince took his band of the era to Boulder, Colorado to work on his first planned side-project, a New Wave band named The Rebels. Although the nine Rebels songs are cherished by collectors, it’s disappointing the record wasn’t released, as just as his recordings as Madhouse reveal Prince the jazz musician, the rock underpinnings of several of Prince’s Rebels songs reveal Prince the New Waver but also Prince the rockabilly. It’s also the only album Prince has been involved in where he really is just one of the band rather than merely trying to give this impression; from now on he’d always remain in command.

Instead of The Rebels, Prince’s most significant early side-project was the first album by The Time. The six-track album features Prince in deep disguise, co-producing under the pseudonym Jamie Starr. The Time would evolve into a band with a very clear identity, but the project initially grew out of, Lisa Coleman told me, jokes and silliness. She was living with Prince at the time, and her contribution to the album was greater than has previously been acknowledged. “My room was upstairs, so he would call me down, 'Lisa, would you help me do this string part? What about these lyrics? Can you finish this verse?' He involved me, I punched him in while he was playing the drums, whatever it was.”

She wasn’t there the night they decided to make Morris Day the front-man, but remembers him as a cute freckle-faced boy with a big ‘fro who would run and get them hamburgers. Lisa says Prince never doubted that Morris would rise to the challenge, although she felt, “The guy had had a huge responsibility thrust upon him and what seemed like fun and games at first became a big deal.’”

Vanity 6, Prince’s first female-fronted side-project, was closer to Dirty Prince. The band started out as the Hookers, and very nearly had a lead singer named ‘Vagina’, but Vanity 6 were always a pop band. What gives Prince’s earliest work much of its charm is his tireless subservience before unkind, promiscuous or uninterested women, and it seems surprising but sweet that when writing his first songs for women to sing he didn’t take on the persona of the unavailable lover, but imagined instead a sister to his poor sexually frustrated brothers. The band’s most famous song, ‘Nasty Girl,’ may be less well-known than Prince’s greatest hits, but it’s among the most influential songs Prince has written.

While working on the Vanity 6 album, Prince had also been preparing The Time’s second album, released a fortnight later. Morris Day stands alone on What Time Is It?, checking his watch in front of a wall covered with clocks. The record has more character than its predecessor, and although it is structured similarly, with three long dance tracks and three shorter songs, the lyrics are sharper and less generic, the concept now clearly in focus. It’d be the hits from the third Time album that’d truly fix the band in the public consciousness, but this is just as good.

Prince took these two bands on tour as support when promoting 1999, happy to reveal himself as puppet-master. The friction between the various camps spilt out beyond the shows and Lisa remembers there being no doubt as to who was in charge. “There were three buses. Our bus had a video-machine on it, and we stopped at a truck stop and the video machine was gone. Me and Dez went onto Vanity 6's bus and Prince was on the bus watching something with Vanity. And we said ‘hey, that's from our bus’ and he said, 'they're all my buses.’”

Almost two years would pass between the second Time album and Prince’s next full-length project with a protégée, Sheila E’s The Glamorous Life (1984). Prince presented Sheila E with songs that he’d already recorded, allowing her to replace his scratch vocal and then building up most songs around her percussion. Prince often experiments with techniques and styles in his side-projects that don’t reach full fruition in his own work until several years later and the first Sheila E album has less in common with the very mainstream rock record he’d just completed than their later collaborations on Sign O’The Times and Lovesexy.

The Time’s third album, ‘Ice Cream Castle’ features the two songs for which the band are now best known, ‘Jungle Love’ and ‘The Bird’ (they perform both in Purple Rain (1984)), but the first single was ‘Ice Cream Castles’, in which Morris Day drops his usual ‘bring me a mirror’ schtick to sing about falling in love with a white woman. Nothing else on side one of ‘Ice Cream Castles’ is as powerful, but it’s the three songs on Side Two that make this The Time’s most commercially and artistically successful album. Nevertheless, for all his love of party-time, Prince’s musical experimentation would soon get more serious, and the events surrounding his next project, The Family, would ultimately change the direction of his music, and the course of his career, forever.

Dominocast - March 2010

Domino USA — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:03:56

Check out the all-new March 2010 edition of Dominocast hosted by Mr. Billy Reeves. This episode features an interview with GALAXIE 500. Plus, preview new releases from Eugene & The Lizards, Archie Bronson Outfit, Pavement, Four Tet, Wild Beasts, Galaxie 500, She & Him and Arctic Monkeys.

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Chapter 1: Intro with Billy Reeves (0:00)
Chapter 2: Eugene & The Lizards "Bugjuice" (0:38)
Chapter 3: Archie Bronson Outfit "Magnetic Warrior" (2:51)
Chapter 4: Pavement "Cut Your Hair" (5:44)
Chapter 5: Four Tet "Sing" (8:50)
Chapter 6: Wild Beasts "We Still Got The Taste Dancing On Our Tongues" (12:50)
Chapter 7: Galaxie 500 "Oblivious" (16:33)
Chapter 8: Interview with Galaxie 500 (19:13)
Chapter 9: Galaxie 500 "Blue Thunder" (24:22)
Chapter 10: She & Him "In The Sun" (27:33)
Chapter 11: Arctic Monkeys "My Propeller" (30:18)

Bubble & Scrape

Domino USA — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:06:36

Bubble & Scrape was the last record before the lineup fractured. This deluxe re-issue is digitally re-mastered for the first time and is double in size from the original seventeen-track album. It includes fifteen bonus tracks - six never before released, four from the limited edition bonus 7-inch released with the original UK LP, and five rare B-sides.

Colossal Youth

Domino USA — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:04:34

In their short lifetime Young Marble Giants: Alison Statton and brothers Stuart and Phil Moxham released one album, a handful of singles and a Peel Session; the album, 1980's acclaimed Colossal Youth, is one of the most definitive records of the post punk era. Taking the unprecedented step of making their first ever release a long player certainly paid off. Colossal Youth became a parallel soundtrack to the unsteady stabs of the post punk early eighties, and quickly became one of (the then nascent) Rough Trade Records best sellers. Becalmed, resigned and a little tense, it created a new vocabulary for song.

Since its release the sound of Colossal Youth has seeped into the vocabulary of personal music. Young Marble Giants made the abstract immediate and the introspective warm and natural. Their influence filters through every generation from Nirvana to Belle & Sebastian, and there is something almost canonical about the album's use of voice, muted instruments and space. Their tracks have been covered by Belle & Sebastian and Courtney Love's Hole; Colossal Youth's attention to sparse detail is now a modus operandi for haunted electronica auteurs and spectral singer-songwriters alike, but ultimately, only the Young Marble Giants sound like Young Marble Giants. Domino are proud to re-release Colossal Youth and the Collected Works of Young Marble Giants, drawing together the band's album and singles for the first time ever on a CD set. Including a 32 page booklet, the limited edition initial pressings of the set will also include a third disc, which features 6 tracks the band recorded for John Peel in 1980, making it a complete package of Young Marble Giant's recorded tracks.

Calenture

Domino USA — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:04:33

In The Pines and Calenture, reissued by Domino nearly two decades after their original releases, are two very, very different albums. In The Pines was recorded in a Western Australian woolshed on a budget barely clearing four figures of Australia's woebegone dollar and the most expensive single item on the bill, as dutifully noted on the sleeve, was beer. Calenture was recorded in studios in London, Liverpool and Bath, with a major label?s money and a soon to be big-name producer. Two very, very different albums, by one very, very different band. Before embarking on the globe-spanning journeys on which In The Pines and Calenture gestated, The Triffids had, in 1986, banked the first of the succession of masterpieces, Born Sandy Devotional, a furious hymn to the desolation of the soul, set in the Australian outback. Born Sandy Devotional won gleaming reviews at the time, and again upon its re-release in 2006 ("A dazzling treasure," said Uncut. "One of the dozen greatest albums ever made," said The Guardian). The Triffids recorded Born Sandy Devotional in a studio in London, its blindingly intense reflections of their homeland perhaps partly fuelled by homesickness.

In The Pines was to serve as a reconnection. Back in their native Perth, The Triffids rented recording equipment, loaded their vehicles with musical instruments, eight-track recording equipment and the aforesaid beer, and went bush to Ravensthorpe, Western Australia, population 450, a 550 kilometre drive across the emptiness which had inspired Born Sandy Devotional. In The Pines seemed, at the time, an eccentric career move. The Triffids were widely believed, by their modest but fervent fanbase and a legion of crusading critics, to be but one determined, faithful leap from ascent to the stratospheres. Wandering off into the outback, much like one of the deranged characters that had inhabited Born Sandy Devotional, did not seem calculated to redeem the tantalising promise of that astounding album. The Triffids knew what they were doing, though: In The Pines is a thing of modest majesty, at once haunted by the desolation of its circumstances (the gothic folk waltz of the title track, the knelling, intense "Kathy Knows") and suffused with the infectious camaraderie of people making music for the joy of it (a rowdy singalong of Bill Anderson's country standard "Once A Day", led by Graham Lee, at what one can only suspect was the end of a very, very long day).

In The Pines has often been likened, in terms of both songwriting quality and spirit, to Bob Dylan and The Band's The Basement Tapes, and it is not unduly flattered by the comparison. This re-mastered reissue also makes clear that In The Pines, far from being a perverse diversion, occupies a logical position in The Triffids' canon. Its relationship to Born Sandy Devotional was always explicit, in its manufacture amid the very landscape Born Sandy Devotional painted, and in the appearance of "Born Sandy Devotional" the song, which was omitted from the album with which it shared a name. What is fascinating about this reissue beyond, of course, it being a bunch of great songs recorded by a shockingly great rock'n'roll band, is that In The Pines is properly revealed as the sketchbook from which The Triffids would create their most opulent, most ambitious album, Calenture. There was at least one hint of this on the original edition of In The Pines.

"One Soul Less On Your Fiery List," a melody as graceful as its title was cumbersome, reappeared on Calenture as "Hometown Farewell Kiss." This reissue reveals that the In The Pines sessions yielded three more songs that were held over for Calenture: "A Trick Of The Light," "Blinder By The Hour" and "Jerdacuttup Man." On the long drive home from Ravensthorpe and the (only marginally) longer flight back to Europe, The Triffids must have believed that they secreted considerable magic up their sleeves. They did. Abetted by producer Gil Norton (later to work with Pixies, Counting Crows and Foo Fighters among others) and occasional member Adam Peters, The Triffids sculpted an astonishing collection of gorgeous, glorious glacial pop songs, evocative of approximate contemporaries like U2 and Echo & The Bunnymen, as well as of the 70s-vintage orchestral pop standards written by Jimmy Webb for Glen Campbell.

Calenture, repackaged with an extra disc of demo recordings, was named after an arcane term for sunstroke; the album's bewildering failure to shift copies by the million suggested that that the record-buying public had fallen prey to precisely this affliction. Calenture roared into life with its opening track and first single, "Bury Me Deep In Love," a soaring ballad that still deserves to be remembered for more than soundtracking the wedding of Harold and Madge on "Neighbours." Despite starting with the bar set so stratospherically high, Calenture did not waver. "A Trick Of The Light" blossomed into a feather-delicate pop classic reminiscent of fellow under-rated Antipodeans The Go Betweens. "Jerdacuttup Man" McComb's channeling of the internal monologue of a centuries-dead British Museum exhibit drew from Celtic folk roots planted deep beneath the surface sheen of the album's production. "Holy Water," set to a shuffling drum machine, hinted at the always restless Triffids' interest in electronica, something explored further on the newly included b-side "Love The Fever" (and on as-yet-regrettably-unreleased covers of Madonna's "Into The Groove" and Pet Shop Boys' "Rent"). "Save What You Can," the album's closing track for which a new video has been shot is the perfect signoff, definitive David McComb, both ragingly passionate and coolly laconic. "Time is against us," he croons, "even love conspires to disgrace us, and things being what they are..." Two very, very different albums from one very, very different band and two chances to buy records this astonishing is one more than anyone should need.

In The Pines

Domino USA — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:04:33

Entomology

Domino USA — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:04:33

There needed to be a gloomy remotely intimate glam pop group named after a character created by Franz Kafka who detuned their pained, pining guitars like the Velvet Underground, who screwed up dance beats with as much nimble knowingness and/or amateurish exuberance as Devo, who faced up to long lasting reality with as much sad, mad grace as Magazine, who got stuck into logic as defiantly as Pere Ubu, who had spent a lot of time watching Television and listening to the first six or seven songs written by Buzzcocks.

They took themselves very seriously whilst circling the idea that fun was a very peculiar notion. They were The Sound of Young Scotland, together with Orange Juice, whose guitars were also radiant and brittle, whose rhythms were also scrubbed and blunt, whose vocals were also proud and serious, but who sounded like another group completely. A touch more rational. A little less glaring. A splinter less uptight. Lacking, perhaps, the art for art's sake element that some of us swooned over, and which we see explicitly echoed in the way, say, the popular Franz Ferdinand express themselves. Their own men. In their own special time. Who would know when it was time to quit.

The Freed Man

Domino USA — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:04:33

The Freed Man was one of the first and most crucial releases in the burgeoning lo-fi movement, which would peak in media attention in the mid 1990s with the success of Beck, Guided By Voices and Pavement. But while it helped inspire and define a global movement, there's little trace of that ambition within these tracks. Sebadoh in this incarnation are a cherishably intimate experience. The seventy-odd minutes of wayward brilliance collected here offer the listener the rare and recommended opportunity to transport themselves to the weedhazed bedroom where these scraps and songs and pranks were recorded, to imbibe deeply of the haywire creativity that went on in these sessions. Finally released in deluxe edition, this is the second Sebadoh reissue from Domino, following last year's critically lauded release of III. The Freed Man re-issue has been re-mastered and includes a whopping 52 tracks on a single disc, including many tracks that have never seen the light of day until now. It also contains expanded liner notes by Lou Barlow and Eric Gaffney.

III

Domino USA — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:04:32

Even before his acrimonious departure from Dinosaur Jr, bassist Lou Barlow was recording his own material. Dinosaur's second album, 1987's You're Living All Over Me, had closed with "Poledo," one of Barlow's tape experiments - a chilling mess of funereal folk and disturbing, manipulated found sounds. Lou, it transpires, had been messing about with tape recorders since he was a kid. "My sisters had one of the first cheap tape-recorders," he remembers, "And my cousin showed me that if you half-press the 'ffw' button and the 'record' button and yell into the mic, it'll make this nice stretched-out groaning sound. That cracked me up! I started making cassettes of me playing guitar and singing, real primitive multi-tracking, when I was about twelve. Twenty-five years later, I still have them somewhere."

As he became more and more estranged from Dinosaur front man J Mascis, Barlow immersed himself in his home-recorded music. He made cassettes and began selling them through small 'indie' record stores. "I did it for myself, primarily, but with the understanding that other people would find it. It immediately made sense to some people, like Eric Gaffney." Gaffney, a singer/guitarist/drummer Barlow describes as "a musical terrorist," would form the yin to Barlow's yang in Sebadoh for their first two self-released cassettes, The Freed Weed and Weed Forestin. Together, they'd collate impenetrable experiments, fucked-up songs, confessional folk fragments, and collages of ambient and found sounds, bouncing off each other, trying to outdo each other in this explosion of errant creativity. Theirs was a productive, if fraught relationship. Jason "Jake" Loewenstein, a teenaged musician and home-recorder who'd already purchased Sebadoh tapes, joined the group, and they began to tour. "It was all about freedom and democracy, this chaos" explains Barlow.

They were hella productive boys, too. This remastered re-release of the album comes bolstered with a disk swollen with tracks recorded around the time of III's sessions. The bonus disk opens with the group's Gimme Indie Rock! EP, it's sardonic title track an ecstatic homage-to/deconstruction-of the burgeoning indie-rock genre, complete with shout-outs to Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore and even Dinosaur. "I felt the music of the underground had become one-dimensional, noisy, and I wanted to fashion my own response to that," Barlow told Mojo magazine, last year. "I knew I was on the right track, when people said I was a 'pussy' for playing an acoustic guitar. I'd found my new passion: quiet was the new loud."

Born Sandy Devotional

Domino USA — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:04:32

"Imagine Joy Division curising down a highway in a heat-haze, chrome gleaming - not easy, but easily that good. You really do need a copy of Born Sandy Devotional like you need oxygen.? TIME OUT A "Buried Treasure" **** - MOJO

Much is always made about the remoteness of Western Australia in relation to understanding the Triffids' music. Their music was also informed by a vast wealth of influences and a deep musical knowledge: from UK punk to California rock from a much earlier generation, Sixties' folk, Dylan, Van Morrison, classic soul and country music. Much is always made about the remoteness of Western Australia in relation to understanding the Triffids' music. Their music was also informed by a vast wealth of influences and a deep musical knowledge: from UK punk to California rock from a much earlier generation, Sixties' folk, Dylan, Van Morrison, classic soul and country music.

Born Sandy Devotional was recorded in London in August 1985 with Gil Norton (fresh from working on Echo & The Bunnymen's Ocean Rain) producing. By now they'd also added "Evil" Graham Lee to the band, contributing the haunting, atmospheric lap and pedal steel guitar that added so much to the album's ambience. Born Sany Devotional [complete with re-mastered audio, bonus tracks, and deluxe packaging] marks the first in a series of Triffids re-issues being released on Domino.

The Glasgow School

Domino USA — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:04:31

We're all unbelievably privileged to be a part of this fine project. One of the finest, most underrated groups of all-time and we get to re-issue their long, out-of-print early recordings. This package includes the first four singles along with the aborted first album, Ostrich Churchyard, PLUS a couple of previous unreleased rarities. It really is hard to overstate how important Orange Juice was in terms of influence musically...The Smiths, The Pastels, Belle & Sebastian, Franz Ferdinand and countless others are indebted to this maverick group who were arguably the first big indie/guitar pop sensation in the UK (though basically ignored here, criminal that part). But you can read the full story when you pick up The Glasgow School, which compiles all the studio recordings the band did for Postcard Records, the imprint group leader Edwyn Collins ran along with the legendary Alan Horne. The deluxe package (and by deluxe we mean DELUXE, a hardbound booklet that will far out live all of us who own it) will include a few audio surprises, as well as a lengthy historical essay penned by the band's original drummer turned acclaimed writer, Steven Daly.

Owen Pallett - Scandal at the parkade

Domino USA — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:08:06

Watch Owen perform "Scandal at the parkade" LIVE from Tavastia (Helsinki, 2010). "Scandal at the parkade" appears on the forthcoming A Swedish Love Story EP.

New Clinic Video - I'm Aware

Domino USA — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 19:08:01

Rewiring their trademark hyped up sound Clinic have entered a dream state of harpsichord, dulcimers and strings. And that dream state is best visualized by means of the psychedelic puppetry in their new video for "I'm Aware", their first single off of Bubblegum.

Directed by Peter Fowler (the gentleman behind many Super Furry Animals artwork and visuals).

New Steve Mason Video - Am I Just A Man

Domino USA — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:07:31

The new video from Steve Mason for "Am I Just A Man" his album Boys Outside.

Video directed by JMD.

New Chief Video - Night & Day

Domino USA — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:07:08

The new video from Chief for "Night & Day" from their forthcoming debut Modern Rituals.

"Night & Day" is overflowing with West Coast sunshine and charm, with a sweeping, fiercely infectious chorus and lyrics full of romantic yearning.

Directed by Matt Creed.

New Archie Bronson Video: Hoola

Domino USA — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:07:18

The new video for "Hoola" from Archie Bronson Outfit's Hoola 12".

Instead of making an ordinary video for the single the band turned to friend Alex Smith who edited footage of the long lost British Z-movie classic Hoola to the song. A cult horror film that somehow slipped through the cracks when it was made a few decades ago, it follows the adventure of killer brain from space seeking a new host planet – and contains a band sponsored ad break.

Beware the brain!!!

New Animal Collective video: Guys Eyes

Domino USA — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:07:07

The new video for "Guys Eyes" from Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion.

Directed by: Joey Gallagher
Director of Photography: Charlie Smith (with archival footage courtesy of the Smith Family and additional filming by Joey Gallagher)
Edited by: Joey Gallagher

Starring: Mike Machemer, Brian Weitz, Abby Portner, and Charlie Smith with surfing by Mike Machemer, Charlie Smith, Trace Marshall, Chad Marshall, and friends and Skateboarding by Matt Mooney, Elijah Berle, and Cory Kennedy

New Villagers Video: Ship Of Promises

Domino USA — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:06:58

With its layered strings, bounding drumbeat, changing tempo and rare lyrical beauty, "Ship of Promises" draws you in and simply won't let go. For anyone yet to hear Conor J. O'Brien and his band's full length debut, this is a good indicator of the treasures that lie within.

This ethereal accompanying video is directed by Kathryn Ferguson.

Villagers - Home Sessions

Domino USA — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:06:41

Villagers' Conor O'Brien recently recorded a series of acoustic versions of songs from Becoming a Jackal at his home outside of Dublin. Without further adieu, were are pleased to present the Home Sessions:

New Chief Video - "Your Direction"

Domino USA — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:06:02

The new video for "Your Direction" from Chief's Night & Day EP. Chief's debut album Modern Rituals will be out in August.

The video, compiled by Charles Russell, is made of up of previously "undeveloped 16mm film in my grandparents garage...What emerged was an intimate look inside my family history from the Rockwellian 50's to the turbulence of the Vietnam War. People just trying to find their direction along with the entire country."

New The Fall Video - "Bury Pts. 2 + 4"

Domino USA — Wed, 05 May 2010 22:05:38

The legendary Fall have released their much anticipated 28th album, Your Future Our Clutter. This is the first video off their new record.

Directed by ThirtyTwo.

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Tricky Meets South Rakkas Crew

Love Cry

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Live At The Apollo

Panda Bear 'You Can Count On Me'

New Villagers Video for 'That Day' and Upcoming Tour Dates

Clinic 'Bubblegum' Deluxe Vinyl Edition & I'm Aware Download

Announcing Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca Expanded Edition

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Clinic: New Video and Stream of "I'm Aware"

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Becoming A Jackal 7"

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My Propeller

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Ascending Melody

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ODDSAC: A Visual Album by Animal Collective and Danny Perez

A Swedish Love Story

We Still Got The Taste Dancin' On Our Tongues

Night & Day 10"

Sing (Remixes) 12"

Forwardness Fridays EP

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Seven Gulps of Air

Fall Be Kind EP

Stillness Is The Move

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