Armpit:Butta Daze CD [CPsiP] $12
Revolving feverishly around their own dark-matter, escaping Armpits unbelievable gravitational pull borders on the mathematically-impossible. Utterly impenetrable 'songs' coupled to unfathomable blankness (sometimes I swear they've packed up and gone home!), makes 'Butta Daze' one of the most fearfully disorienting, supremely damaged, and seriously beautiful recordings ever allowed out into daylight. Imagine your frontal lobe being sandwiched between two pink mattresses, and then subjected to the entire Gate discography, backwards, on 16rpm. Yep... Its THAT good!

Avarus: Jättiläisrotta CD [Secret Eye] $12
From the circle of psychos who bring you Kemialliset Ystävät and the Anaksimandros comes this release by the one and only Avarus. These Finns play a freaked out blend of noise, folk and, could it be... free jazz!???!??!!??! Packed with aural mayhem and musical non-sequiturs, this music will make you dance like Dr. Huxtable, no joke. Although they have released many tapes, 7", and CD-r's all over the world, this is Avarus' FIRST CD!

Ashtray Navigations: Four More Raga Moods [Ikuisuus] $12

The Big Huge: Crown Your Head With Flowers, Crown Your Heart With Joy CD [Secret Eye] $12
Brought up on American folk and British psychedelic pop music, The Big Huge wears its influences on its sleeve, while being sure not to recreate the past. After the split of Sonna, a Baltimore-based instrumental ambient group with releases on Temporary Residence (two of which were recorded by Steve Albini), The Big Huge (Drew Nelson) decided to revert back to his love of acoustic instrumentation. After a few solo shows, he decided to recruit fellow Baltimore-based musician, Michael Lambright, to help with accordian, ukulele, glockenspiel, and banjo. After a year of shows in Baltimore and the east coast, Drew and Michael began recording this, their first LP. Recorded by Chris Freeland and Drew in Chris' parents living room, the record has a summer vibe with lyrics harking back to a time of Welsh communes during the summer of love.

Brasil: Wander till spring CD [Nefryt] $12
AKA Brasil & the Gallowbrothers band, but here it is just mirt.  Comes in special 'tall' packaging.

The Dead C: Trapdoor Fucking Exit [Siltbreeze] $12
Whitehouse [Siltbreeze] $12
Tusk [Siltbreeze] $12

Dead Raven Choir: Selenoclast Wolves CD [God is myth] $12

The Franciscan Hobbies: Masks & Meanings CD [Soft Abuse] $12
"The second album from this satellite of San Francisco's Jewelled Antler Collective is packed full of earth mystery, permeated by the smell bone fires and vegetative rites. The sound of rust-caked acoustic guitar and banjo dominates, while the ripple of earthworked gongs, tremulous sitar and percussion makes this the perfect soundtrack to a version of The Wicker Man performed by a group of California heads." - The Wire

Richard Cholakian/Philip Gayle: HUD PES 2CD [Yabum] $14
Gayle, Philip: Pnbna CD [Fleece] $10
Gayle, Philip: Keguribap CD [Yabyum] $10
Gayle, Philip: Solo live '98 CD [Yabyum] $10
Houston's premier outsider guitarist. Resonating, often playful, solo acoustic improvisations utilizing various guitars, mandolin, water phone, rolling pin, etc. The double CD adds Cholakian on percussion.

Iditarod: River Nektar CD [Blue Sanct] $12
Iditarod: The Ghost, the Elf, the Cat and the Angel CD [Blue Sanct] $12
Now defunct free-folk Providence band. Jeffrey Alexander's prior project to Black Forest/Black Sea.

Antony Milton: The End of this short road CD [PseudoArcana] $12
How I wish this was an LVD release!  Among the best solo stuff by Antony, somewhere between the material on our Sirens release and the Swagger Jack comp.

Mirt: Oh! you are so naive CD [Catsun/Monotype] $12
Moods and atmosphere from Poland.  Between his solo work and the recordings with Brasil and the Gallowbrothers band, Mirt has created something truly unique which has no analogy in the West.

My Cat is an Alien: The secret of the Dancing Snow CD [Ikuisuus] $12

Of: The Sun & Earth Together CD [Ultra Hard Gel] $12
2008 release or organic texture and drone from Loren Chasse (Jeweled Antler Collective)

The Pin Group: (selt-titled) CD [Siltbreeze] $12
Absolute classic with Roy Montgomery and Peter Stapleton fusing the sound of Chairs Missing, Unknown Pleasures, and The Velvet Underground.  One of my personal favorites!

Pumice: White CD [Stabbies] $12
Pumice: Yeahnanvienna CD [Soft Abuse] $12
Pumice: Pebbles [Soft Abuse] $12
Buy them all!

The Renderers: Surface of Jupiter CD [Ajax] $12
Maryrose Crook & The Renderers: Ghost of our Vegas Lives CD [Ajax] $12
More in the school of rugged, broken NZ pop music (or is it country?)  Both of these albums come highly recommended.

Ben Reynolds: Music is Language CD [Ikuisuus] $12 

Reynols: Sosina Arada Mica CD [CPsiP] $12
From the same country that brought you the Argentine Rugby Team comes the brand new bucket of steaming hot-fong from the globes finest heavy metal shamen. Lurid-green, audio-slime that whispers your name and threatens to suck you down its own psychic plughole. The shiniest examples of everything Reynols-ish: visionary wail and murmer, cyclopean beating, and unshackled string twist. Powerful, deeply sinister, and truly beyond your wildest dreams.

Seht: Application Antarctica Download Form  CD [CPsiP] $12
Brrrrr, its gettin cold in here... don't fall asleep ‘cause you may never wake up. Like its namesake, ‘Antarctica...' comes on like a vast cathedral of suspended ice-prongs dripping out action at a pace roughly comparable to the formation of a glacier. Natures fractured architecture pixelated and amplified through the green luminescence of night vision goggles... almost TOO beautiful to be real? My esteemed friends, this hugely confident release falls well inside the parameters of ‘effortless' and represents a pinnacle of sensual, hypothermic dream-states. File under ‘Near Death'.

Spires that in the Sunset Rise: Four Winds The Walker CD [Secret Eye] $12
Four-piece freak folk unit out of Chicago.  Diverse instrumentation includes mbira, bul bul tarang, cello, ankle bells, bongos, tiny little harp things and wordless vocalizations of ecstasy. Some people describe the Spires sound as a cross between Comus and The Raincoats. Not completely accurate, but not too far off either...

Urdog: Eyelid of Moon CD [Secret Eye] $12
URDOG follow their influences down the rabbit hole to create a pulsating mix of kommische-prog-psych-drone INSANITY. Jeff Knoch 's Farfisa shifts from King Crimson to Alice Coletrane, to Amon Düül II, and back while Dave Lifriri lays down the heavy acid guitar licks. We hear more of drummer Erin Rosenthal's ethereal voice this time out.

Various Artists: Intransitive 23 CD [Intransitive] $14
"When Stelzer began assembling this album, he asked that each of the artists record these tracks without the use of any digital devices. How they interpreted what "no digital devices" meant was up to them. Obviously, Stelzer was seeking a more tactile approach to sound making (as opposed to the potential for sterility that laptop jockies might revert to). He also hedged his bets by asking the cream of the crop including Jonathan Coleclough & Colin Potter, Francisco Lopez, Frans De Waard, Birchville Cat Motel, Giuseppe Ielasi, Atau Tanaka, nmperign, Alexandre St. Onge, the Animist Orchestra, and many others. Across the twenty two tracks, quiet passages, textural events, and field recordings make up the bulk of the content, with everything punctuated by periodic silences which divide all of the tracks and whisper that another interesting turn of haptic improvisation is around the corner. Another great album from Intransitive.

Various Artists: The Tone of the Universe (=The Tone of the Earth) 2CD [PseudoArcana] $17
Blithe Sons, Peter Wright, Keijo, Eugene Carhesio & Leighton Craig, CJA, Anla Courtis, Vibracathedral Orchestra, Hands of Satisfaction, A.M/Uton, The Moglass, Neil Campbell, Birchville Cat Motel, The Skaters, seht, Of, 1/3 Octave Band, The Nether Dawn, My Cat is an Alien. 

Various Artists: For the Dead in Space vol. 1 CD [Magic Eye] $12
Includes Damon & Naomi, Flying Saucer Attack, Tower Recordings, Bevis Frond, Batoh (from Ghost), Metronome (Eric from Yesteryear), Shy Camp (Tom's son David Rapp) and 9 more - even Tom Rapp himself (with an unreleased track from 1971). The CD version has 2 extra tracks. Receiving rave reviews and air-play worldwide. Glowing reviews in Popwatch, Washington Post, NY Times, National Public Radio, Magnet and countless other indie magazines.

Various Artists: For the Dead in Space vol. 2 & 3 2CD [Secret Eye] $14
The new double CD set FOR THE DEAD IN SPACE is a continuing tribute to TOM RAPP and PEARLS BEFORE SWINE. This new 2CD volume features more than 25 different artists. Both sets represent simply the finest artists in the folk, experimental and noise undergrounds paying tribute to an acid folk legend. Liner notes by Phil McMullen (editor of Ptolemaic Terrascope) with additional notes by Jeffrey Alexander.

Simon Wickham-Smith: Two4Dancin CD [CPsiP] $12
As you probably know, Mr Wickham-Smith is a truly unique voice and ‘Two4Dancin' sees him at his most profoundly grand... a double album released simultaneously on a single CD. No, I'm not joking! Damn near exploding at the seams with wonderfully resonant contradictions, it's exquisite textures are capable of blissfully enveloping daily life AND driving your neighbours completely batty. Massive Attack meets Steve Reich? A slave to an infinite, block-rockin' beat which melts into deep transparency revealing a subterranean omniverse of casiotone-mantras, silicon-chip psalms, and the mystical babblings of angels and derelict gutter-drunks. Free your ass and your mind will follow... this is incredible, and completely out of left field for C/Psi/P.