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Resurgam
Coming Soon! (08.26.08)

Alias’ first solo instrumental album in five years, one which finds the accomplished electro/acoustic musician and beat-smith returning to a proven foundation, while building all else anew. Alias’ most melodic work yet, Resurgam is also an album of heavy, intricate rhythms. Features collaborative tracks with Yoni Wolf of WHY? and The One AM Radio.

Anticon is proud to be presenting the 2xLP version of Astrological Straits, the solo debut from Zach Hill, drummer for Northern California noise-rock outfit Hella. Long considered one of the most innovative drummers of modern music, Zach spent the majority of the last year working on the new album as well as recording and touring with Marnie Stern.

For Hill’s own solo release he enlisted a number of former recording partners and included a number of new ones. Guests contributing to Astrological Straits include Les Claypool, Chino Moreno, No Age’s Randy Randall and Dean Spunt, !!!/LCD Soundsystem’s Tyler Pope, Marco Benevento, Prints’ Zac Nelson, Marnie Stern, The Flying Luttenbacher’s Jonathon Hicshke, Satori/RX Bandit’s Steve Borth, The Advantage’s Robbie Moncrief, Them Hills’ Dan Elkan and Hella bandmates Carson McWhirter and Josh Hill.

SJ Esau
Small Vessel
Available Now! (06.24.08)

On his second album for Anticon, Bristolian rock collagist SJ Esau, or Sam Wisternoff, tightens his playful, genre-bounding compositions even as he brings in a cast of collaborators to amplify his singular vision. While 2007’s Wrong Faced Cat Feed Collapse smartly played to its own contrasts, Small Vessel melds its diverse moods and styles into a buoyant, bold and cohesive whole, making for an album both utterly post-modern and curiously epic despite its humble means.

SJ Esau's Small Vessel on either CD or LP format accompanied by a collection of remixes and reworkings on a CD-R... featuring anticon's own Bracken and Sole amongst and extensive cast of collaborators.

**Limited to 100 copies!!**

A two disc collection of remixes, b-sides, and more - (CD version enhanced with videos). Featuring Boards Of Canada, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Serena Maneesh, Bracken, Jessica Bailiff, and many more. Read what Pitchfork Media says here.

Odd Nosdam's Pretty Swell Explode on either 2xCD or 2xLP format accompanied by a new collection of rarities from the Nosdam vault on a CD-R. Featuring:
- 4 previously unreleased jams
- 411 Video Magazine's theme song remix !
- Method Man's 'P.L.O. Style' remix !!
- Sole, Jel, Pedestrian, and Why? !!!

Limited to 100 copies!!

**Limited to 100 copies!!**

Dosh's 4th full-length, the perfect amalgam of the explorative wonderment of his self-titled debut and the seasoned virtuosity found in 2006's much accliamed The Lost Take. Features help from Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Andrew Bird, Fog, Odd Nosdam and more.

Two years after wooing critics with the beloved Elephant Eyelash, WHY? return, third LP in hand. In short, Alopecia is a collection of hard rhymes and raw-spun songs forced through the stubborn smile of a life-lover scorned and reborn. In long, this is an album of bone-dry jokes, suicides played out in poem, musings on final moments written inside of restrooms, begrudging self-affirmation, and the grit and glories of every day living. Yoni Wolf has returned with the Art of Songcraft tucked under his arm. Inspired as much by MF Doom and Lil’ Wayne as J. Newsom and Big Dylan, his words roll out bent and beautiful, not unlike the musical architecture that sends those words skyward.

The debut record from new anticon signee Son Lux, a collection of songs sharing the same air and space; painted from the same palette but set apart still - each is a distinct region of one broad sonic landscape, characterized by the austere grandness of chamber music, undulating electronica, the intricately orchestral assembled via hip-hop collage, a day-plain pop ease silhouetted by deep soul.

WHY? thaws from the icebox with The Hollows. This latest blast of darkly tinted pop finds the Bay-based trio further realizing their distinct sound—smart, shimmering, sweetly soured—while expanding that ever-crooking subsurface smile we saw bare its teeth on 2005’s critically acclaimed Elephant Eyelash LP.

The U.S. and European editions of The Hollows each boast three exclusive B-sides and a different color vinyl. The American 12-inch continues with Dntel’s remix of the unreleased track “By Torpedo Or Crohn’s,” Xiu Xiu's lo-fi electro take on “Yoyo Bye Bye,” and Half-Handed Cloud's “Pre-teen Apocalyptic Film Acting,” a tempo-jumping medley of select WHY? work. The European editions of The Hollows, brought to you by our new good friends at Tomlab, features a remix by Boards of Canada of another unreleased track, “Good Friday,” a cover of “Yoyo Bye Bye" by Dump (James McNew of Yo La Tengo), and a cover of Reaching Quiet's "Broken Crow" by Nick T. of Islands.

Sole’s last album, Live From Rome, came out only two and a half years ago (in early 2005), and even having been busy in the meantime, as mansbestfriend, and touring the U.S. and Europe twice, he nonetheless refers to the self-titled Sole & Skyrider record as a “comeback.” In some ways, it is a record of return—a return to rhyming, particularly the complicated rhyme schemes that marked Sole’s early work. Sole And The Skyrider Band also represents a return to the musical consistency and coherence that made the Alias-produced Selling Live Water a critical triumph.

Somewhere beyond atmosphere but within gravity’s pull—nearly freeform yet defined by its unerring direction—working its duality of lush etherea punctuated by bright bursts of rhythm and light, you’ll find Anywhere Out Of The Everything, the sophomore follow up to Telephone Jim Jesus' cult-classic, A Point Too Far To Astronaut. Featuring contribution from Pedestrian, WHY?, Alias, Doseone, Bomarr, Odd Nosdam and more.

Another headnodic-heavy-hitter from the sonic maestro of cLOUDDEAD.

More and more, Odd Nosdam's albums are intricately woven audio scrapbooks that buzz with singular experience as lived through the eyes and ears of one very electric human conduit. Level Live Wires (follow up LP to 2005's gorgeous Burner), is the distinct product of inspiration, bizarre happenstance and wonder lived out in a series of bright moments. Here 8-track cassettes, samplers, synths and Dictaphones, lost records and found sounds, field recordings and happy accidents are brought to stirring life by our humble collagist. Featuring: Hood / Bracken's C. Adams, TV On The Radio's Tunde Adebimpe, WHY?'s Doug, Yoni and Josiah, Thee More Shallows' D Kesler, Jel, and Jessica Bailiff.

The rumors are true. DJ Mayonnaise is, indeed, Still Alive. Eight years after the release of his debut—Anticon’s inaugural instrumental LP, 55 Stories—Mayo has returned. While DJ Mayonnaise is still a master of sample and scratch, he’s turned his attention to the art of composition and the subtlety of details. Simply put, this album, too, is alive.

While past Mansbestfriend projects dwell in a glorious sort of doom, Poly.sci.187 plays ethereal and heavy like a series of ghost dreams drifting through thick Arizona air. Hip-hop’s collagist tendencies are present here, but the songs are freeform—ambient, heavily textured soundscapes that ride a beat out just as easily as they derail it in favor of new ground. From start to finish, Poly.sci.187 is filled with sonic explorations. It is an accomplished work that testifies not only to the fine art of experimentation, but to the aural abilities of Tim Holland, instrumentalist—may he be loud even in silence.

With the release of Collected Remixes—a hand-picked compilation of Alias’ greatest work as a remix artist—there need be no question: Alias is, indeed, the owner of a damn respectable portfolio. Here he reworks, reinvents, remixes and otherwise welds his personal touch to the respective works of a wide range of peers, friends and fans including the One AM Radio, John Vanderslice, Lucky Pierre, Giardini Di Miro, Sixtoo, Lali Puna, Christ., Lunz, Boy in Static, 13 & God, and Alias & Tarsier. Collected is a collection of import-only, lost or limited release tracks that plays like an album, each song the proud new owner of the Alias trademark: that alternately searing and frostbitten production, reverberating and crunchy, built of considered keystrokes, finely cut click ’n’ pop, guitar pickings, and drum machine ballistics.

After numerous collaborations with anticon artists WHY? and Odd Nosdam, it only came naturally that Thee More Shallows has found a home in anticon. Here on Book of Bad Breaks, the full-length follow-up to 2005’s critically heralded More Deep Cuts LP, Thee More Shallows have sharpened the edges of their precisely-arranged, orchestral post-pop. The result is an album moving fast and fluidly between rich, icy atmospherics and angular, galloping pop songs, never slowing its pace.

For SJ Esau’s Anticon debut, the Bristol-based bedroom virtuoso continues his masterful balance of sonic manipulation and songcraft across 12 alternately expansive and explosive tracks. WFCFC is an album that successfully bridges genre-less explorations into sound to detailed composition, solo meanderings to inspired collaboration, a sense of humor to a sense of melancholy, and the listener to a unique world that could only be inhabited and operated by SJ Esau himself. These are unlikely anthems for the unsung and uneasy hero in each of us.

After January 2007’s release of We Know About The Need, Bracken returns a mere two months later to present Eno about the Need. With the sort of ecstatic free drone experiment Bracken only previously hinted at, the successor to We Know offers nocturnal recordings, minimalist drones, tape loops, general clatter and hell, even the odd song here and there. The whole thing has the ‘sweepings from the cutting room floor’ aesthetic because, well, essentially that’s what it is.

What sets this album apart from the pack is underlying idea behind it’s format and distribution. This record has been released on double vinyl in a worldwide edition of only one copy. The hope is that interested parties will slowly but surely pass this record around the world to one another – a chain album if you will. There is no ownership involved, no commercial considerations, you listen to it, you pass it on. Simple. In other words, in the age of digital downloads it’s the world’s most awkward, cumbersome, end-user hassling record out there today. Hopefully the journey will be tracked on Bracken’s Myspace.