Cargo Collective: August 08

Robin Guthrie
Carousel
Rocketgirl CD
uplifting, summery, opulent, dreamlike, exquisite, moving – with Guthrie quietly coaxing beauty out of layers of echoes and always inventive soundscaping.

Pete Molinari
Today, Tomorrow & Forever EP
Damaged Goods 10”/CD
Brand new covers EP recorded in Nashville with guest vocalists The Jordanaires, available on very limited vinyl and CD with 3 bonus tracks.

Cornershop
Judy Sucks A Lemon For Breakfast
Ample Play Double Vinyl & CD
"Sounds like a mighty summer record from here" Uncut Magazine. Another copper coloured classic, Cornershop are back once again!

Thought Forms
S/ T
Invada CD
" Thought Forms have tapped into a rich vein of tuneful epic noise that existed before they were born, taking cues from Sonic Youth and Slint but managing to sound very English." KKKK Kerrang! “They’re raw – almost grungey – but they’ve got that shoegazing thing going on too.”Geoff Barrow, Portishead in NME, May 2009

Black Sheep
Kiss My Sweet Apocalypse
Invada 2CD / 2LP
Debut from Julian Cope’s brand new free action group. Clothed in Anarchist red-and-black replete with a delightful Black Sheep calendar, KISS MY SWEET APOCALYPSE is, unfortunately, for Motherfuckers and the children of Motherfuckers only.

Fucked Up
Hidden World
Jade Tree CD
The NME Cover stars debut full length in stores now. Transcending the boundaries of punk with melody, aggression & expansive structures. Jade Tree’s full available catalogue is also now in stock at Cargo.

Bruce Springsteen Tribute CD : Play Some Pool, Skip Some School, Act Real Cool Where It's At Is Where You Are 2CD
The songs of Bruce Springsteen have been re-born in the able hands of 38 indie, folk and underground acts, including the Wave Pictures, Darren Hayman (ex-Hefner), Glam Chops (with Eddie Argos of Art Brut), Jeniferever, Butcher Boy & many more.

The Branded
Shout & Holler!
Dirty Water LP / CD
Sweden’s new garage-rock kings deliver pulverising guitars and snotty caveman singing, like a lost sixties nugget by a band striving to equal the greatness of The Troggs, the Namelosers and Bo Diddley.

Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring
How I Wasted My Youth
Marketstall CD
"How I Wasted My Youth" is a curious masterpiece of pop, filled with melodies and harmonies that turn its lyrics of disappointment and loss into a strangely joyful, uplifting, beautiful record.

Brian Olive
Brian Olive
Alive Records LP / CD
Solo debut by ex-Greenhornes/Soledad Brothers guitarist. A colorful patchwork of acid-washed pop, 60's Stax-influenced rock n'roll and beatnik jazz.

Dave Cloud & The Gospel Of Power
Fever
Fire Records LP / CD
Like some latter-day Captain Beefheart kidnapping his band to force them to knock out Trout Mask Replica, Cloud has created another record of fractured garage & garrulous lo-fi, bizarre character studies & paeans to ladies & love.

Duke Garwood
The Sand That Falls
Fire Records LP / CD
Steeped in the blues and deeply influenced by his hero Thelonious Monk, Garwood transports you to a world soundtracked by sparse plucking, gentle percussion and his deep, thoughtful vocal

Cargo Collective: July 09

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Terry De Castro
A Casa Verde
Scopitones CD
The Wedding Present’s Terry de Castro takes a novel approach to her solo debut of swirling Americana. She covers cool songs written by her friends and elaborate sleeve-notes explain why.

The Bobby McGee’s
L’Appropriation Bourgoisie De La Bobby McGee’s
Cherryade CD
Magical long-awaited debut album from the legendary Brighton-based ukulele-wielding tweecore antifolk pioneers. "In my ideal world Bobby McGee's would be No1 EVERY DAY" Huw Stevens

Billy Childish
Archive From 1959/The Billy Childish Story
Damaged Goods 3LP/2CD

The Church
Untitled #23
Second Motion Records LP / CD
“An irresistibly melodic album, dense, psychedelic, yet emotive and personal... After 30 years The Church have succeeded in creating a listenable work of art.. A pure masterpiece and a religious experience”.
Rolling Stone 5-stars

Colin MacIntyre
Island
Future Gods Recordings CD
Best known for his 3 albums under the Mull Historical Society moniker, this 2nd album under his own name is his most stripped back album to date. “MacIntyre sings with utter conviction about the things that matter most” Uncut magazine

That Fucking Tank
Tanknology
Gringo CD
That Fucking Tank is a DIY noisy rock duo from Leeds, UK. Tanknology is their 2nd LP and Is classic rock radio at it's finest.

Pocketbooks
Flight Paths
How Does It Feel To Be Loved CD
Debut album of sparkling indiepop from London's Pocketbooks. "Pure snowshaker pop, and more dressing table than kitchen sink" Simon Armitage.

Here We Go Magic
Here We Go Magic
Western vinyl LP / CD
Psych-pop with Grizzly Bear's stamp of approval. According to Pitchfork: "If it sounds like a field recording of a ca. 1971 Paul Simon acid trip, it's as much kismet as intent."

Trainwreck Riders
The Perch
Alive Records LP / CD
"The Perch", is filled with the band's unique brand of romantic urban country, bohemian folk & dirty punk blues. It displays Pete Frauenfelder's & Andrew Kerwin's amazing songwriting evolution, both lyrically & musically

Jackie 0 Motherfucker
Ballads Of The Revolution
Fire Records LP / CD
JOMF return with BALLADS OF THE REVOLUTION their 10th studio record, and the culmination of 15 years spent defining their unique take on american music.

Pink Punk
Zombie God Delicious
Freeport Records CD & DVD
Yap (One Minute Silence), John Hendicott and vocalist Donna Williams return to the fray with their 2nd album. ZGD fuses dark cinematic break beat and soundscapes with Yap's social invective slam poetry and rap. Also available to coincide is the accompanying 2 hour DVD ‘A Word In Your Ear’

Groove Diggerz
Money For Good Times
Breakin' Even CD
Annie Nightingale championed Breakspoll Award Winners - Groove Diggerz (Rob Savage) second album of mind numbing bass and crossover breaks features Lindy Layton (Beats International), Sophie Barker (Zero 7), Ronnie Black (Dub Pistols) and more. “Really refreshing” - IDJ Magazine.

Cargo Collective: June 09

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Magnetic Morning
A.M.
Sweet Nothing LP / CD
Magnetic Morning are Adam Franklin from Swervedriver & Sam Fogarino from Interpol. Low-key and haunting throughout, their debut album A.M. is hypnotic and seductive.

The Lovely Eggs
If You Were Fruit
Cherryade CD
Spellbinding debut album from oddball duo The Lovely Eggs. Imagine Daniel Johnston roller skating to a Moldy Peaches tea party at Kim Gordon's house!

Georgia’s Horse
The Mammoth Sessions
Fire Records LP / CD
Georgias Horse : redolent of the sun-baked vacant lots of Wim Wenders’ ‘Paris Texas’, the folk psychedelia of Smog and the torrid and threatening country death songs of PJ Harvey’s ‘To Bring You My Love’.

The Dials
Companions of The Rosy Hours
Gear Discs CD
PRS New Music Award winners The Dials have been favourably compared to The Byrds, Love, Ronnie Lane and early Pink Floyd. "Really, really good" (Dave Henderson, Mojo) “A great band” (Bob Harris, BBC Radio 2)

Maybeshewill
Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony
Field CD
‘Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony’ takes the instrumental wide-screen expanses and beauty of Post-Rock and combines it with the immediacy and brutality of hardcore.

Sam Isaac
Bears
Hear You Me CD
"Debut album by Malvern troubadour featuring 12 tracks of "beautiful love pop" (NME). Includes Radio 1 favourites "Fire Fire," "Come Back Home Tonight " and new single "Sideways."

The Legends
Over and over
Labrador CD
1st single "Seconds away" was described as 'The noisiest pop single to ever come out of Sweden' and created a huge buzz worldwide, no.1 at Elbo.ws for 3 wks! RIYL My Bloody Valentine, Animal Collective, Panda Bear, Stereolab & JAMC.

Sophia
There Are No Goodbyes
Flower Shop Recordings LP/ CD
Robin Proper-Sheppard returns with possibly the most accomplished and yet darkest album of his career as the former God Machine frontman orchestrates his well-known melancholia to tragically beautiful new heights. Ecstatic sadness indeed.

Radio Moscow
Brain Cycles
Alive Records LP / CD
New album by this heavy-jam powerhouse (their first was produced by Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys), & an homage to the thrilling days of yesteryear, when vinyl was king & analog stereo ruled the world.

Plushgun
Pins & Panzers
Tommy Boy LP / CD
Bursting out of a Brooklyn bedroom, Indie Electro Dance infiltrating USA, Canada, Spain, Germany and now the UK! “Highly energized indie pop!” Amplifier “8 out of 10…great indie pop songs, very hummable!” Pete Shelley / Buzzcocks

The Young Playthings
Back To The Future
Smalltown America CD
Second album by TYP. For Fans Of – Modest Mouse, Fugazi, Magnetic Fields & Bruce Springsteen. A dark and enigmatic pop record with a punk rock heart.

Clubroot
Clubroot
LoDubs
Epic debut from the highly-commended Clubroot. A grand, emotive and elaborately realised evolution of dubstep’s low end sonic tropes, as profound and vast as it is uniquely expressive.

Cargo Collective: May 09

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Kid606
Shout at the Döner
Very Friendly LP/ CD
Combines all the brash and exciting plunderphonic and sampledelic elements he is best known for with a whole new world of uncharacteristically musical and danceable hooks and styles which are both fresh and timeless.

Balmorhea
All Is Wild, All Is Silent
Western Vinyl - LP/ CD
"Austin's Balmorhea takes a giant leap forward on their bold new album. Known for their understated simplicity & restraint Balmorhea has produced an album as complex as the workings of the lonely human heart."

The Loves
Three
Fortuna Pop - CD
Sixties obsessives' third and finest album - eleven tracks of bubblegum pop, Nuggets garage and mini-rock operas about synaesthesia, coca-cola and girls.

Holly Golightly
Painted On
Damaged Goods Records - LP/ CD
Reissue of Hollys 3rd proper album, originally out on the Sympathy label, now finally available again on digipak CD and 12" LP vinyl. Also Available - Up The Empire LP & CD/ Down Gina’s At 3 LP & CD.

The Soundscapes
Freestyle Family
BNS Sessions - CD
"It is The Soundscapes conscious attention to strong melodies and pin-perfect drumming that fiercely drive each song." - Jezebel Music. RIYL My Bloody Valentine & Ride.

Adam Franklin
Spent Bullets
Second Motion - LP/ CD Second solo album from Swervedriver singer / guitarist. Some of the most sonicly beautiful songs of Franklin's career converge on one disc that aims straight for the heart.

65daysofstatic
Escape From New York
Monotreme - CD with DVD
Debut album from Belfast, punk-post-rock quartet: heavy, huge and hopeful. For fans of Fugazi, Sigur Ros and DJ Shadow.

Idan Rabinovici
Bedroom Folk
Medici - CD
Visionary folk from the acclaimed Israeli singer/songwriter. His bruising honesty and uplifting truths will move you like no other artist this year. Essential.

Hopewell
Good Good Desperation
Tee Pee - LP/ CD
GGD is a chameleon of the most sincere, beautiful & rocking sort – the sum of a decade long exploration swirled through the funnel cloud of Atom Heart Mother, Ege Bamyasi, Odyssesy & Oracle & Nothing’s Shocking.

Crippled Black Phoenix
200 tons of Bad Luck
Invada - CD/ Ltd CD box set/ LP
2nd from Justin Greaves post rock / prog/ folk outfit. Rocka-a-Rolla described their 1st album as “the best album ever made” & for this release “some of the most inspirational , fascinating music from these shores in recent years.” Uncut gives it 4* & said “highly recommended”

Cats On Fire
Our Temperance Movement
How Does It Feel To Be Loved - CD
Jangling indiepop tussling with rip-roaring rock’n’roll, ornate REM-esque melodies squaring up to exuberant dancefloor smashes. “COF hit a high mark few other earnest young men can get near.” Q

Neil’s Children
X.Enc
Structurally Sound - CD Perfectly fusing the bands darker edges with more melodic sounds, this is one of the most exciting albums to come from the London underground scene in the past 10 years.

The Orb LIVE in CLAPHAM - THURSDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2009

**EXCLUSIVE WORLD PREMIERE!**

**THE ORB PERFORM BAGHDAD BATTERIES LIVE IN CLAPHAM**

thursday september 10th, 7:00pm-1:00am

at the-situation modern
arch 635 : lendal terrace : london SW4

tickets £10 [includes free white overall & badge]

Malicious Damage Records, in association with the-situation modern is proud to present the first ever live performance by THE ORB of the forthcoming album, Baghdad Batteries featuring Dr. Alex Paterson and Prof. Thomas Felhmann. Full support will be supplied by dynamic female duo SHE IS DANGER and dynamic male duo CANED & ABLE. The evening will also feature eight projectors, two large screens and the audience will also be used as a human screen. Throughout the proceedings v-jays the Rev. Gary Oldknow "The Scunthorpe Samurai" and St Michael of Coles "The Kilburn Kamikaze" will battle it out for the eye of the beholder. This will all take place in the gallery side of arch 635, but of course the bar side will be open for the whole of the proceedings. T

Tickets are limited to 250, cost £10 each

TICKETS ON SALE NOW

On entry each ticket-holder will be given a numbered white hooded overall to wear during The Orb's performance. You will then be part of the human screen.

SOME INTERESTING FACTS
The Baghdad Battery was first described by German archaeologist Wilhelm Konig in 1938 after it was found, with several others, at Khujut Rabu, just outside Baghdad. The jars are thought to be about 2,000 years old and consist of an earthenware shell, with a stopper of asphalt. Sticking through the top of the stopper is an iron rod. Inside the jar the rod is surrounded by a cylinder of copper. Konig thought they looked like electric batteries and published a paper on the subject in 1940. Several years later, Willard Gray of the General Electric High Voltage Laboratory in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, made some reproductions. When filled with an electrolyte, like grape juice, the devices produced about two volts of electricity. In 1953, Remington Records of the USA began taping some of its sessions in stereo, eventually releasing the first stereophonic phonograph discs to the public in 1958. Lemons like plenty of water but they prefer to be flooded at watering time and allowed to get dry between waterings.


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