THE VINYL WORD: GOGOL BORDELLO'S ALBUM 'PURA VIDA CONSPIRACY'

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Internationally renowned gypsy punk rock group Gogol Bordello return with their sixth full-length album Pura Vida Conspiracy. Produced by Andrew Scheps, the new album was recorded in El Paso, Texas at Sonic Ranch Studios and is a powerful collection of 12 surging new songs.

The album’s title is derived from a Spanish slang phrase for “pure life,” which is a theme that resonates throughout the new material.  The disc’s opener, “We Rise Again,” introduces the album’s limitless, all-embracing themes instantly, centered on a chorus of “Borders are scars on face of the planet.” The new songs are infused with ideas rooted in Eastern philosophy but also search for a means of joining fragmented parts and persons, and of creating a worldwide consciousness.

“For me music is a way to explore human potential,” frontman Eugene Hutz says. “And that’s my main interest in life – human potential. Everyone knows there’s something inside of us that we’re not using. How do we get it? How do we reach it?  Every single person knows that there’s something and nobody knows what it is. So at one point I said to myself, I’m gonna get down and get it.”

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NEW RELEASE OF THE WEEK: PET SHOP BOYS' NEWEST ALBUM 'ELECTRIC'

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“Everything about tonight feels right and so young,” sings 58-year-old Neil Tennant on Vocal. “And everything I want to say out loud will be sung.” As his thin yet perennially yearning voice lingers, 53-year-old Chris Lowe’s synths throb and rush, breaking over the relentless beat in big Balearic waves of ecstasy. It is a perfect encapsulation of the communal, near spiritual rapture of great dance music, wrapped up in a blissed-out, fist-pumping techno anthem. For a couple of late-middle-aged men on their 12th album in nearly 30 years, the Pet Shop Boys sound like they are having a really good time.
Just last year, on Elysium, their last album with major label Parlophone, the long-serving electropop duo sounded adrift and even a little bitter, with an over-smooth American disco production and songs about their fading appeal. Maybe they were saving all the good stuff for their own new label, X2. Electric has a spring in its dance steps, marrying the single-mindedness and bright beats of club culture with their own characteristic melodiousness, finely attuned sense of song structure and slightly detached air of being both in the song and above it.
The Pet Shop Boys have always treated trashy pop as a form of art. Tennant’s strongest lyrics manage a difficult blend of ironic awareness and complete engagement, enabling songs to release genuine emotion in satirical situations. Electric is an album of neatly observed tracks about nightlife; a tableau of unrequited desire, impossible love and inevitable heartbreak, that sounds like just the kind of thing to dance away your troubles to.
It must be odd being electropop veterans who have seen the future take shape in their own image. Their vintage synths have a kind of brash colourfulness and melodic emphasis that separates them from the aggressively disjointed attack of the boldest new beats, yet the 21st-century Pet Shop Boys still sound decidedly modern. Producer Stuart Price (Madonna, The Killers) is a very good fit, balancing textures and colours while maintaining constant underlying movement. Fluorescent is weird and mesmeric, awash with shimmering sound effects and pulsing on an orgasmic vocal gasp, while a cover of Bruce Springsteen’s The Last to Die is typically mischievous, turning the rock icon’s post-Iraq belter into a sleek pop anthem about domestic dysfunction. An instant standout is Thursday, which has all the hallmarks of an Eighties classic given a contemporary edge by the perfectly pitched interjections of British rapper Example.-The Telegraph

NEW RELEASE TUESDAY: PET SHOP BOYS LISTENING PARTY WITH RARE TEST PRESSING GIVEAWAY AND PIE HOLE PIZZA, PLUS FLY2VOID MEET & GREET!

pet-shop-boys-electric 200The Record Exchange’s New Release Tuesday series continues on July 16 with Pet Shop Boys’ Electric! The album — available on CD and vinyl — will be featured during our weekly listening party at 6 p.m.! Enjoy free pizza from our New Release Tuesday partners Pie Hole and enter to win our New Release Tuesday raffle prizean ultra-rare (only 10 available in the U.S.) vinyl test pressing of Electric! NOTE: You must purchase a copy of Electric to be entered to win. Here’s why.

Head to the RX early and catch a special release party, meet and greet and acoustic performance with Fly2Void fly2voidstarting at 5 p.m.! The band is celebrating the release of its new album Take on the World, which was mixed at NRG Studios (Linkin Park) by Jay Baumgardner (Papa Roach, Sevendust) in Hollywood and mastered by Tom Baker (Beastie Boys, NIN) at Precision Mastering in Hollywood.

This is Fly2Void’s first album in 11 years and shows the true musical realm of the band’s music and influences. “We poured our musical hearts and souls into this record. We wanted to give our fans, new listeners, and ourselves, the most honest/rockin’/groovin’ musical playlist that we could. Take on the World is definitely an album that wraps up what Fly2Void is all about (musically and personally).”pie hole

Are you a proud owner of a Radio Boise KRBX Card? Bring it in every Tuesday from 6 to 9 p.m. and receive 20% off gift shop items and used CDs, vinyl, DVD/Blu-ray and cassettes (excluding collectibles – individual items $100 and over).radio boise tuesdays

Speaking of our beloved community radio station, their Radio Boise Tuesdays series at Neurolux features local and touring bands as well as a Radio Boise DJ after each show. Radio Boise receives 20% of drink sales from every Radio Boise Tuesday show. You receive the benefit of DRINK SPECIALS at each one. The music kicks off at 7 p.m. — right after you’ve filled your belly with pizza and heard some new music at the RX!

Check out the Radio Boise Tuesdays performance schedule HERE.

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

CD

Pet Shop Boys – Electric

Mayer Hawthorne – Where Does This Door Go (deluxe edition also available)

David Lynch – The Big Dream

Sara Bareilles – Blessed Unrest

Robert Randolph – Lickety Split

Matt Nathanson – Last of the Great Pretenders

Fly2Void – Take on the World

Philip H. Anselmo – Walk Through Exits Only

Doc Watson – Definitive

Various Artists – Only God Forgives Soundtrack

Sick Puppies – Connect

Mayday – Believers

Joey and Rory – Joey and Rory Gospel

Cody Simpson – Surfers Paradise

Defeater – Letters Home

Court Yard Hounds – Amelita

Patrick Sweany – Close to the Floor

Various Artists – Teen Beach Movie Soundtrack

Canned Heat – Live Heat ’72

Various Artists – Verve Remixed: The First Ladies

Everfound – Everfound

Nona Hendryx – Nona

Christopher Cross – A Night in Paris

Bob Saget – That’s What I’m Talking About

Various Artists – Turbo Soundtrack

Kidz Bop Kids – Kidz Bop 24

VINYL

Gogol Bordello – Pura Vida Conspiracy

Philip H. Anselmo – Walk Through Exits Only

Matt Nathanson – Last of the Great Pretenders

Sara Bareilles – Blessed Unrest

David Lynch – The Big Dream

Maps – Vicissitude

Defeater – Letters Home

Peter Buck – You Must Fight to Live on the Planet of the Apes

Eric Clapton – Every Little Thing

Cliff Martinez – Only God Forgives Soundtrack

Nightingales and Canaries – Nightingales and Canaries

Black Label Society – Blessed Hellride

Black Label Society – Stronger Than Death

S.E. Rogie – The Sounds of S.E. Rogie Vol. 1

Nachtmystium – Instinct: Decay

Toody – Toody

DVD/BLU-RAY

Black Sabbath – Rock Heroes DVD

Boris Karloff – Black Sabbath Blu-ray

Evil Dead (2013) DVD and Blu-ray

42 DVD and Blu-ray

Lord of the Flies DVD and Blu-ray

Bob Saget – That’s What I’m Talking About DVD

WIN A RARE VINYL TEST PRESSING OF THE NEW PET SHOP BOYS ALBUM!

pet shop boysThe Record Exchange was one of only 10 indie record stores in the country to get our hands on an ultra-rare vinyl test pressing of the new Pet Shop Boys album Electric, and one lucky customer will win it Tuesday!

We will hold the drawing for the test pressing at our Pet Shop Boys New Release Tuesday Listening Party (6 p.m. July 16). Because of the rarity of this item, unlike most New Release Tuesday raffle prizes, you have to purchase the new Pet Shop Boys to be entered to win. Why? Because we want the test pressing to go to a Pet Shop Boys fan and not up on eBay Wednesday.

Fear not, though, as we’ll have a second New Release Tuesday raffle prize for everyone to enter without purchase.

NEW GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV IN STOCK!

Isakov 4Gregory Alan Isakov‘s new album The Weatherman is now in stock at The Record Exchange!

This indie store exclusive release has been garnering heaps of critical praise, with American Songwriter calling Isakov “an indie-folk troubadour whose voice channels Paul Simon and whose songs combine the rootsy influence of Bruce Springsteen with the sharply-worded insight of Leonard Cohen.”