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NEW RELEASE TUESDAY 10/8: SLEIGH BELLS LISTENING PARTY, PLUS CAGE THE ELEPHANT, OF MONTREAL, AMOS LEE

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Sleigh-Bells-Bitter-Rivals-Cover-Art-Hi-Res-1024x1024The Record Exchange will host a Sleigh Bells listening party at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8. Hear their new album Bitter Rivals, pick it up on CD or vinyl and enter to win a rare vinyl test pressing of the album — one of only 15 in the country!

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Here’s a quick look at the bright and shiny new releases this week at The Record Exchange:

CD

Sleigh Bells – Bitter Rivals

Cage the Elephant – Melophobia

Amos Lee – Mountains of Sorrow, Rivers of Song

Korn – Paradigm Shift (deluxe edition also available)

Of Montreal – Lousy with Sylvianbriar

Lindi Ortega – Tin Star

Danny Brown – Old

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. – The Speed of Things

Panic at the Disco – Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die!

The Fratellis – We Need Medicine

Miley Cyrus – Bangerz (deluxe edition also available)

Lissie – Back to Forever

Anna Calvi – One Breath

Various Artists – CBGB

Turin Brakes – We Were Here

Earthless – From the Ages

RJD2 – More Is Than Isn’t

Various Artists – Red Hot and Fela

Anders Osborne – Peace

Mayday Parade – Monsters in the Closet

Kodaline – In a Perfect World

Patty Griffin – Silver Bell

Diego Garcia – Paradise

William Shatner – Ponder the Mystery

Seasick Steve – Hubcap Music

Stone Temple Pilots with Chester Bennington – High Rise

Echosmith – Talking Dreams

Dance Gavin Dance – Acceptance Speech

Alter Bridge – Fortress

Daniel Bachman – Jesus I’m a Sinner

St. Lucia – When the Night

Kenny Rogers – You Can’t Make Old Friends

Cassadee Pope – Frame By Frame

Tim Kasher – Adult Film

Alex Chilton – Electricity by Candlelight: NYC 2/13/97

Parquet Courts – Tally All the Things That You Broke

Parquet Courts – Light Up Gold + Tally All the Things That You

Suburban Legends – Dreams Aren’t Real, But These Songs Are Vol. 1

New Found Glory – Kill It Live

Glasser – Interiors

Joe Nichols – Crickets

Joe Cocker – Live at Montreux 1987

Deep Purple – Live at Montreux 1996 and 2006

Nektar – Sounds Like This

Deap Vally – Sistrionix

Black Sabbath – Seventh Star

George Thorogood and the Destroyers – Ride Til I Die/The Hard Stuff

Tony Bennett – Live at the Sahara: Las Vegas, 1964

Answer – New Horizon (deluxe edition also available)

Answer – Everyday Demons

Answer – Revival

Various Artists – NOW Christmas

VINYL

Red Fang – Whales and Leeches

Cage the Elephant – Melophobia

Sleigh Bells – Bitter Rivals

Various Artists – CBGB

Amos Lee – Mountains of Sorrow, Rivers of Song

Jesu – Everyday I Get Closer to the Light From Which I Came

Blackmore’s Night – Dancer and the Moon

Testament – First Strike Still Deadly

The Get Up Kids – Eudora

Pearl Jam – Backspacer

Weezer – Green

Litter – Distortions

Carpathian Forest – Black Shining Leather

DVD/BLU-RAY

American Horror Story: Asylum DVD

The Avengers: Emma Peel Megaset DVD

The Hangover Pt. 3 DVD

Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life Blu-ray

Levon Helm – Ain’t In It For My Health DVD

Fairport Convention – Live in Maidstone 1970 DVD

I Married a Witch (Criterion Collection) DVD and Blu-ray

After Earth DVD

The Borrowers DVD

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RECORD EXCHANGE TOP 20 SELLERS (WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 6, 2013)

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featured new releases1. Pure Heroine, Lorde
2. Mechanical Bull, Kings of Leon
3. From Here to Now to You, Jack Johnson
4. The Worse Things Get, Neko Case
5. Wise Up Ghost, Elvis Costello and the Roots
6. The B-Room, Dr. Dog
7. Event II, Deltron 3030
8. Made Up Mind, Tedeschi Trucks Band
9. Diving Board, Elton John
10. Fight for My Soul, Jonny Lang
11. AM, Arctic Monkeys
12. Days Are Gone, Haim
13. Dream Theater, Dream Theater
14. Brothers of the 4×4, Hank 3
15. Nothing Was the Same, Drake
16. Hesitation Marks, Nine Inch Nails
17. VII, Blitzen Trapper
18. Seasons of Your Day, Mazzy Star
19. Dream River, Bill Callahan
20. Country Music Dead, New Transit

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SLEIGH BELLS LISTENING PARTY OCT. 8: WIN AN ULTRA-RARE TEST PRESSING LP!

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Sleigh-Bells-Bitter-Rivals-Cover-Art-Hi-Res-1024x1024The Record Exchange will host a Sleigh Bells listening party at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8. Hear their new album Bitter Rivals, pick it up on CD or vinyl and enter to win a rare vinyl test pressing of the album — one of only 15 in the country!

Initial praise for Bitter Rivals:

”Though ‘Bitter Rivals’ begins with a little acoustic strumming, it quickly morphs into the best kind of Sleigh Bells song: Raw, jittery, loud, and replete with the awesome chorus…” – EW’s Music Mix

“Enter ‘You Don’t Get Me Twice,’ a dangerously sweet song that infuses Alexis Krauss and Derek E. Miller’s trademark sonic assault with bolder melodies and honey-soaked vocals.” – SPIN

“With the group’s signature blend of thrashing guitars and pop vocals, as well as equal parts choreographed dance and headbanging, it’s not so much a change as a welcome return.” – Complex.com

“With ‘Bitter Rivals,’ Sleigh Bells continue their quest for ear-bleeding sonic glory, blending nuclear power chords with muscular synths and R&B croons to remain lovably singular.” – Billboard.com

“Sleigh Bells’ third album will almost certainly deliver plenty of bombastic riffs that you’ll be hearing in movie trailers for the rest of your life, but going on the first single “Bitter Rivals,” it’s also a bit more aggressively pop with less over-the-top noise, and more clean, foregrounded vocals from Alexis Krauss. (#11 on “26 Albums To Get Excited About This Fall”)” – Buzzfeed

“Get ready to head bang, because Sleigh Bells is back – and more generous than ever.” – V Magazine

“…’Bitter Rivals’ — its title, song, and video — rallies from the fiery football arenas of hell, crunching and hyping with the sort of pep that Sleigh Bells have trademarked in, oh, under three years.” – Consequence of Sound

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THE VINYL WORD: 'VII' IS BLITZEN TRAPPER'S 'STRONGEST ALBUM'

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blitzen-trapper-viiPREVIEW/BUY THE VINYL HERE

The menacing, gloomy backwoods that open Blitzen Trapper’s seventh album arrive without warning, a backdrop with the startling, dark allure of a horror film, crooked roads and deep, wild forest framing a narrative that just can’t end well.

It’s the details of the setting that brings “Feel The Chill” to life for singer/songwriter Eric Earley. Striding along Earley’s quickly spat lyrics are a guitar riff that steals equally from funk and twang, harmonica blasts like cries for help and a disembodied organ, floating in on the wind.

With each record, Earley’s writing grows more vivid, closer to the short-story-in-a-song realm of the Drive-By Truckers, Vic Chesnutt and Jason Molina at his most direct. That’s not to say Earley typically writes with so much darkness as the late, troubled Chesnutt or Molina, but that he creates slice-of-life reality as well as anybody. Earley’s characters are the distinctly rural or small-town set, and whether they’re wounded or triumphant, these characters are honest, lifelike and endlessly captivating.

VII is Blitzen Trapper’s strongest album to date, with years of musical experimentation having come together in the band’s own mad-scientist brand of cosmic Americana. At the front is Earley, writing from the heart and from sharply recalled memories, stories that are colorful, bizarre and built to thrill, like those murky woods of “Feel The Chill.” — Paste

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NEW RELEASE OF THE WEEK: 16 YEAR OLD LORDE'S 'PRECOCIOUS' DEBUT

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featured new releasesPREVIEW/BUY THE ALBUM HERE

[16 year old] Lorde, who wrote all the lyrics on Pure Heroine and co-wrote the music, has fashioned herself a correspondent on the front lines of elegantly wasted post-digital youth culture and working-class suburban boredom. Her songs capture the drama and debauched regality of being a teenager: their subjects include online gossip, empty bottles, queen bees, and young people who already feel old. “I’m kinda older than I was when I rebelled without a care,” she sings with a languid sigh on the bleacher-stomping single “Team”. Or is she saying “revelled”? It’s hard to tell the two words apart, and maybe that’s the point.

That carefully cultivated ambiguity is precisely what makes Pure Heroine work. “Royals” walks the line between rebelling against and reveling in the trappings of power, luxury, and excess of contemporary pop. The arrangement is economical—just a few finger snaps and a barely-there beat caught in the gravitational pull of Lorde’s charisma—but overall, “Royals” gets to have it both ways. Whether she’s singing about her schoolyard peers or the world’s most famous pop stars (who, as she admits on “Tennis Court”, have just become her new peers), Lorde achieves a tricky balancing act of exposing irony and even hypocrisy without coming off as preachy or moralistic, simply because—thanks to Pure Heroine‘s constant use of the royal “we”—she’s usually implicating herself in the very contradictions she’s exposing.

Lorde’s music is quietly wise to a particular modern irony: Beneath every #DGAF there’s a person who secretly gives a fuck about something, and behind every anti-pop song there’s a singer who—just like everybody else—knows what it’s like to feel happy, free, confused, and lonely at the same time. — Pitchfork

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