Tobacco: Fucked Up Friends (Anticon)
Black Moth Super Rainbow mainstay Tobacco delivers his solo debut with analog synthesizers and tape machines. The result, Fucked Up Friends, is a dreamy, spacey trip for synth lovers and incorporates hip-hop beats and heavily effected vocals.
Genghis Tron: Board Up the House Remixes Vol. 2 (Lovepump United)
Tobacco also makes an appearance on this, the second of five collectable Genghis Tron remix LPs. Dntel, Circle, and CFCF also rework the group's electro-grind madness.
MoHa!: One-way Ticket to Candyland [US release] (Rune Grammofon)
Freeform noise-rock duo MoHa! combines the most apoplectic elements of its influences into what can only be called enjoyable clatter. Guitar, distorted bass, and electronics are used to annihilate eardrums over live and programmed beats.
MoHa!: "Anders Hore 11"
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Dillinger Four: CIVILWAR (Fat Wreck Chords)
Political/humorist punks Dillinger Four have finally released CIVILWAR, their fourth full-length album and first in six years. These elder statesmen of '90s punk aren't breaking the mold here, but their formula is as tried and true as ever with 13 anthemic tracks of push beats and four-chord progressions.
Dillinger Four: "A Jingle for the Product"
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The Dillinger Escape Plan: Under the Running Board [reissue] (Relapse, 10/14)
Released almost exactly ten years ago, the Under the Running Board EP scorched listeners with just seven and a half minutes of frantic tech metal. To mark the anniversary, mathy fusionists The Dillinger Escape Plan have reissued the mini classic with ten bonus tracks – nine live cuts from the Dimitri Minakakis vocal era and a cover of Black Sabbath's "Paranoid."
Isis: Not in Rivers, But in Drops [CD single] (Ipecac)
Ambient sludge stars Isis (cover artists of ALARM 24) release their second single from 2006 full-length In the Absence of Truth. As we await the group's next album, due in 2009, this short release should tide us over with a video, album version, and live version of "Not in Rivers, But in Drops" as well as a remix of "Holy Tears" by Thomas Dimuzio.
Shai Hulud: Hearts Once Nourished with Hope and Compassion [picture disc repress] (Revelation)
Hearts Once Nourished with Hope and Compassion has stood for more than a decade as a bastion of progressive hardcore punk. Now two years after an enhanced reissue, the classic album gets a vinyl repress.
