Sophomore release by Agalloch from Portland, OR. The Mantle is a grand multi-dimensional opus of 70 minutes featuring their melancholic metal with post rock and neo-folk elements. References range from Pink Floyd, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Sol Invictus, Ulver, Dissection, Fields Of The Nephilim and more. The End Records. 2002.

Hilary Duff is gearing up for an extremely busy summer before she turns 18. The multi-platinum recording artist's first two albums sold nearly 12 million copies around the world. Hilary just finished recording new songs for her Most Wanted CD which comes out August 16. The disc is a collection of Hilary's hits re-mixed and re-mastered featuring 9 never before released songs including 4 brand-new songs recorded exclusively for this album.

全英最畅销专辑，全美MTV音乐奖 最佳男歌手、最佳流行影带、最佳舞曲 最大赢家
滚石、Uncut杂志四颗星评价，全球畅销突破600万张

Since the release of her 1986 groundbreaking album Control, Janet Jackson has done just that by taking control of her career. Her groundbreaking musical style, compelling music videos and show stopping performances have impacted the world, making her an international iconic superstar. Janet's new album 20 Y.O. is the celebration of her 20 years since taking control and shows why she remains a staple in mainstream popular music.

Note: Initial run of 20 Y.O. includes 4 different covers designed by contest winners.

ALL THE HITS PLUS TWO BRAND NEW SONGS RECORDED EXCLUSIVELY FOR THIS ALBUM.

Hilary Erhard Duff is an American actress, businesswoman, singer-songwriter, producer, and writer. Duff began her acting career at a young age and quickly became labeled a teen idol as the title character of the television series Lizzie McGuire and in the theatrical film based on the series, The Lizzie McGuire Movie.

The music of Brooklyn music/art collective Slow Six is the sound of lifelong musicians exploring and sounding out a room together. Amplified strings, guitars, a Fender Rhodes, and drums are joined by homegrown software "instruments" to process the sound live. Often live radio and TV broadcasts are incorporated within these sonic textures and tangled rhythms, acting as unwitting vocal collaborators from afar. The detail and structure of these compositions reveals the band's background in the world of modern classical music, leaning on NYC's post-minimalist heritage, while their electrified live energy projects the palpable drive of a long-running band with deep indie roots.

The title of This Will Destroy You’s new album, Another Language, feels almost like an inside joke. Over three albums and a handful of EPs across the last decade, the Texas band has turned their expansive, instrumental songs into a communicative form of expression. What’s being expressed, exactly? That’s up to you, really. The songs’ epic, ethereal drifting serve as a Rorschach test for your inner psyche. If you’re having an optimistic day, they might feel uplifting and empowering. If you are depressed, they might make you want to crawl into a dark hole of self-loathing and Cinnabon. “Invitation” from their new album is a four-minute choose-your-own-emotion track that can speak to you however you want. It’s in another language.

Nicolás Jaar is a Chilean-American composer and recording artist based in New York. Among his notable works are the albums Space Is Only Noise, Pomegranates and Sirens.

Shulamith is the second studio album from American indie rock band Poliça, scheduled to be released in fall of 2013 on Mom + Pop Music in the US,and Memphis Industries in the UK.

The ever prolific Kurt Vile has announced that he will release a new long-player on March 7 via Matador. Smoke Ring For My Halo was recorded by John Agnello (Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr.) throughout 2010 at various studios in NYC and is the follow-up to this years Square Shells EP.

Partly inspired by the true story of the Salton Sea, a failed river redirection to assist Californian agricultural development at the turn of the 20th century, Rafael Anton Irisarri’s “The Unintentional Sea” mimics the ideas of transformation of place. During the1950s, this ecological disaster was seized and rebranded by corporate land developers, flipping it into a dream getaway destination for West Coast elites. Before long, record temperatures and a rising level of water mineralization led to the mass death of fish and other wildlife, and in turn so too did the resort town's population, leaving behind a vast post-human deserted wasteland. This unintentional sea had given life and now has taken it away.
The follow-up to the much acclaimed “The North Bend,” this album continues Irisarri’s development of landscape inspired musical renderings. Like the Salton Sea of today his latest edition is a gently churning portrait of fluidity. It’s a record that sounds like staring at a vast ocean in light breeze. Layer upon layer of currents swirl below the surface, while gentle surges and waves coalesce creating fleeting patterns and moments of intermeshed sonics. As these elements meet and break away again, a sense of motion - both micro and macro - is created, a rendering of the ocean calm before the inevitable storm. Coated in a thick blanket of bass tonality, flickers of light catch on the crests of these waves, uneasy jewels of sonic light that appear as quickly as they disappear.

Zoe Keating, <em>One Cello X 16: Natoma</em>