Featured New Releases + New Vinyl Restocks + More New Albums Discounted

Hey good people, it’s Friday and that usually means we have a few new releases on vinyl to feature. We have 5 excellent albums we are featuring this week and have all the details for you below. We have also received a bunch of restocks and added a few new things to the rotation here. In order to make space for all the new releases that have been coming in we have loaded up the “new vinyl on sale” browser here at Backbeat. We now have nearly 200 albums below cost for you folks to dig through. Let’s get on to the new releases!


Featured New Releases May 6

 

King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard – Nonagon Infinity

“Nonagon infinity opens the door,” sings Stu Mackenzie, frontman of Australian psych-rockers King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard. It turns out, though, that once the door’s open, it never closes. That’s because the Melbourne septet has ingeniously crafted what may be the world’s first infinitely looping LP. Each of the nine, complex, blistering tracks on ‘Nonagon Infinity’ seamlessly flows into the next, with the final song linking straight back into the top of the opener like a sonic mobius strip. But far from a simple conceptual experiment, the album is both an exhilarating shot of adrenaline and a remarkable feat of craftsmanship, the result of painstaking planning and an eye for detail years in the making.
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Factor Chandelier – Factoria

The ruins of the failed city of Factoria lie under the residential subdivision of Silverwood Heights in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, the hometown of producer extraordinaire Graham Murawsky (aka Factor Chandelier). Just prior to World War I, Chicago entrepreneur Robert E. Glass ventured north with dreams of building an elaborate industrial city in a formerly typhoid-riddled area that would house a brick plant, flour mill, brewery, school, post office, restaurant, hotel, and whatever else progress would afford. But before his development plans could come into fruition, war, the cessation of banks issuing credit, and the inability to secure electrical power turned Factoria into a ghost town. Inspired by the obscure story of the Magic City that never was, Factor Chandelier has crafted a 13-track album that pays homage to Factoria and wonders what could have been.
On the Factoria LP, Chandelier’s follow-up to the 2013 concept album Woke Up Alone, he builds a city of expansive beats that bang with punishing drums and industrial clatter at one moment and exude a melodic, pastoral calm the next. The sounds shift on the album in accordance with the hope that the city began with and the wartime entropy that engulfed it. Recorded and mixed by Factor at his Chandelier Studios in Saskatoon, the album incorporates the bass of Enver Hampton, violin and guitar from The Pxrtals, and guest vocals from a host of Fake Four family and friends.

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Wire – Nocturnal Koreans

Having completed a preliminary round of work on their eponymous 2015 album at Rockfield Studios,Wire found themselves with 19 tracks. Among them, there was a critical mass of 11 aesthetically unified songs. In typical Wire fashion, however, the remaining material was something other: it had the sound of a band already moving in a different direction, beyond the album project in which they were engaged at that time. These tracks were the basis for Nocturnal Koreans.

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Jakob Skøtt – All The Colours Of The Dust

Causa Sui drummer is back with a third installment in his “drums versus synthesizers” explorations!
There’s an earthy vibe ringing thru the heavily modulated synths – at times sounding more like soaring guitars or saxophones – or perhaps some un-earthly rhythm-device that amalgamates rhythm and melody into one substance. This LP is a result of a multi-coloured vision that has soaked up a wide range of styles and merged them into something fresh and radiant – and frankly: quite groovy.

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Death From Above 1979 – Live at Third Man

Recorded live-to-acetate in September of 2015! For over 10 years, these international men of mystery, Jesse Keeler and Sebastien Grainger, have dipped their toes into whatever waters they pleased (MSTRKRFT, Deserts/Bad Tits, Femme Fatale, The Mountains, Black Cat No.13), and created songs that’ll get you off your ass and make you feel things. A decade after a sudden break up, following the release of their rich and gritty first record You’re A Woman, I’m a Machine, tours with Nine Inch Nails and Queens Of The Stone Age, and one foot in the door of the mainstream, Death From Above 1979 reunited and released their second LP The Physical World last fall. The duo picked right up where they left off and hit the road last summer. Amidst their resurgence, DFA 1979 decided to dip their toes in the water of Third Man Record’s Blue Room. The room which is home to the 1953 Scully Lathe that previously cut James Brown singles at King Records, and where they decided to record the epic live performance to master and be reproduced for generations to enjoy. United Record Pressing has completed the pressing of these records and they are officially ready for release. ”We’ve always been wary of live recording experiences because they can end up so sterile and flat sounding and they hardly ever translate the feeling of the actual show. The feeling of the moment,” DFA 1979 said of the experience. ”When we were asked to record Live At Third Man Records we agreed without hesitation. If there is one person who knows about feeling the moment, it’s Jack White. He’s the patron saint of vibes. We cut two twenty minute long sets straight to acetate. No second chances. Terrifying but alive.”

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New Vinyl Restocks and Additions

Here’s what came in today to round out the selection of new vinyl here at Backbeat.

New Vinyl Restock May 6


Recent Arrival Used Records

If you don’t follow us on Facebook you missed out on our post of what went out this week in our used browsers. Let’s get you all up to speed with some pics.

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That’s all for today… Yo Mamma