Readings staff customerservice@readings.com.au http://www.readings.com.au/feed/collection/new-music 2008-07-28T03:59:10Z 0805859009323 <p>No extra details available for this item.</p> 0602517761490 <p>No extra details available for this item.</p> 0602517761483 <p>No extra details available for this item.</p> 0602517761476 <p>No extra details available for this item.</p> 0602517761520 <p>No extra details available for this item.</p> 0602517761452 <p>No extra details available for this item.</p> 0602517761469 <p>No extra details available for this item.</p> 0602517761445 <p>No extra details available for this item.</p> 9340650001202 <p>Bobby Gillespie and Primal Scream. Names synonymous with the heady rock n roll lifestyle which epitomised the 90s. With a reputation for their off stage antics as much as their amazing live shows, Primal Scream have become a lasting symbol of excess, energy and most importantly, fantastic tracks.</p> <p>Getting back to what REALLY made Primal Scream tick, the music, Bobby Gillespie and co have spent the last couple of years working on the follow up to one of their most successful albums to date (Riot City Blues '06). Beautiful Future is the result.</p> <p>The first single ‘Can’t Go Back’, produced by Paul Epworth (Bloc Party, The Rakes) is the kind of high energy rock’n’roll the band excel at, all kinetic drum beats and scuzzy guitar riffs, everything moving at methamphetamine rate. ‘Uptown’ sees the band tackling the Philly soul sound, privileging the rhythm section of Mooney and Mani, who’ve rarely sounded tighter. ‘Glory Of Love’ meanwhile, is delightful post-punk pop, complete with swooning strings and a chocolate box chorus.</p> <p>The band up the ante with ‘Suicide Bomb’, Andrew Innes’ densely-layered guitar riffs coiling tightly round themselves, ‘Beautiful Summer’ a dark, melancholic track underscored by a haunting guitar signature and stately keyboard motif. Elsewhere, there’s a duet with CSS’ Lovefoxxx, ‘I Love To Hurt (You Love To Be Hurt)’ that’s full of shivering electro pulses and tense, claustrophobic rhythms.</p> <p>Featuring guest appearances from the delightful Lovefoxx from CSS, Josh Homme from Queens Of The Stone Age amongst others, ‘Beautiful Future’ is exactly what Bobby Gillespie has been aiming for.</p> 9340650001073 <p>The Dark Knight: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack returns with the ASCAP–winning composers from Batman Begins—Academy Award winner Hans Zimmer and seven-time Oscar nominee James Newton Howard—for a powerful orchestral score.</p> <p>This instalment in the Batman legacy continues the story of Bruce Wayne’s mission to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that run in the city streets. He soon finds himself prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known as The Joker.</p> <p>Directed by Christopher Nolan, THE DARK KNIGHT stars Christian Bale (Batman / Bruce Wayne), the late Heath Ledger (The Joker), Gary Oldman (Lt. Jim Gordon), &amp; Maggie Gyllenhaal (Rachel Dawes)</p> 5099922942326 <p>No extra details available for this item.</p> 5021456156467 <p>Exactly one year ago, in July 2007, British India emerged from the fertile underbelly of Melbourne’s independent music scene to take Australia by storm with their acclaimed debut album Guillotine. As their songs ‘Black &amp; White Radio’, ‘Tie Up My hands’, ‘Run The Red Light’ and ‘Russian Roulette’ became arm-raising, air-punching anthems at venues and festivals across the country, British India developed a hard-earned reputation for explosive live shows. For 11 months following the release of their debut album, the band toured constantly and played repeat ‘sold out’ shows nation-wide as well as major festivals such as the Big Day Out, Homebake, Golden Plains, Pyramid Rock, and Come Together.</p> <p>Now in July 2008, just 12 months from the release of Guillotine, the four high school friends are ready to take on the nation again, this time armed with their second album Thieves. Thieves is an album that celebrates the garage pop which has characterised British India’s initial success, and demonstrates the band’s growth, both as songwriters and musicians. This can be clearly heard in the band’s brooding, foot-stomping fi rst single ‘I Said I’m Sorry.’</p> <p>Again produced by Easybeats legend Harry Vanda &amp; Glenn Goldsmith, Thieves is jam packed with brilliant pop melodies, high-octane rock &amp; roll, and the budding lyrical genius of Declan Melia. The journey begins with ‘God Is Dead, Meet The Kids’ depicting a soulless and morally bankrupt Internet generation, quickly followed by the blistering power and angst of ‘This Dance Is Loaded’. There’s the tragedy of adolescent love in ‘Airport Tags’, humor and irony in ‘You Will Die &amp; I Will Take Over’ before the journey ends in the faith and hope of ‘The Golden Years’. Thieves shows just how far British India have come in only a year, and their rise will continue in 2008. Watch out Australia, British India will be stealing the hearts of pretty young things across the nation with Thieves.</p> 0098787077025 <p>First South American band signed to Sub Pop. Formed in 2003 in São Paulo, Brazil by a group of art-damaged, pop culture omnivores with an abiding thirst for good times.</p> <p>CSS’s debut full-length Cansei de Ser Sexy (“I got tired of being sexy” in Brazilian Portuguese) was released in 2006. Described by Uk newspaper The Guardian as “..an unlikely, brilliantly wrong fusion of Tom Tom Club, dance culture and the Fall.”</p> <p>They’ve toured around the world a number of times, with the likes of Gwen Stefani, Ladytron, Klaxons, Diplo, played festivals from Coachella, Pitchfork to Reading, Roskilde, and Australias own V Festival in 2007! * Vocalist Lovefoxx showed up at #3 on NME’s 2007 “Cool List” and, their song “Music is My Hot, Hot Sex” was used in a worldwide iPod Touch ad in late 2007, driving the song, nearly a year-and-a-half after its release, to become the highest charting single by a Brazilian band in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 chart!</p> <p>Produced in Brazil by the band’s own Adriano Cintra and mixed in Los Angeles by Mark “Spike” Stent (Madonna, Bjork, Massive Attack, U2, M.I.A., and Arcade Fire), Donkey is tough, street-ready, and recreates the frenetic energy of their live shows! And really, with CSS the live show is the thing. Equal parts dance party, urban circus, and out-and-out chaos, the band’s unaffected, unbridled joy in performance is for real and for you!</p> 9332727013317 <p>This winter sees the return of UNKLE, as they release the spectacularly beautiful ‘End Titles... Stories For Film'; a collection of recordings, each inspired by the cinematic image, recorded in the last 2 years by UNKLE &amp; various collaborators.</p> <p>Never prepared to stagnate or run out of fresh ideas, UNKLE have teamed up with some of today's most exciting &amp; cutting edge acts on ‘End Titles'. Taking in the talents of JOSH HOMME (QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE), BLACK MOUNTAIN, GAVIN CLARK, JOEL CADBURY (SOUTH) JAMES PETRALLI from WHITE DENIM, CHRIS GOSS (MASTERS OF REALITY, QUEEN OF THE STONE AGE, SOULWAX), and many more is a bursting collaborative opus, filled from beginning to end with challenging works that may not otherwise fit onto a regular UNKLE album. In Lavelle's words: "It's not a new album in the usual sense, but new music that has been inspired by the moving image."</p> <p>Refusing to be shackled to any single genre or style, Lavelle found the compiling of ‘End Titles' to be a challenging artistic endeavor in its own right, not to mention a liberating experience: Again, in Lavelle's words: ‘'It covers a much wider range of influences than an album, like ‘War Stories', which has a particular focus. There is room for everything in this kind of collection, from classical all the way to beat-driven instrumentals and electronic rock.''</p> <p>Turning bold beatscapes and epic rock structures into musical mise-en-scène, ‘End Titles - Stories For Film' is an immensely powerful ode to the film medium which is a must for UNKLE fans, cinema buffs, and lovers of great music alike.</p>