Happy Holidays from Revolver USA and Midheaven

“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”


- Frank Zappa 

Stream Mammatus' "Heady Mental" in Its Entirety

All three songs from Mammatus' latest are now up on Spiritual Pajamas' SoundCloud page. You can purchase the LP, MP3 or FLAC on Midheaven.

UPDATE: More FLAC Files Now Available on Selected Titles

We've added more CD-quality FLAC offerings to Midheaven! Here's a sampling, with many, MANY more to come:

Matt Baldwin Imaginary Psychology
Factory Floor Turn It Up
Francisco Franco s/t
Guerilla Toss Gay Disco
Magic Trick River of Souls
Moan Think About Forgotten Days
Model Village Stockholm
New Bums Slim Volume
Robert Pollard Blazing Gentlemen
Pat Thomas Coasters Riding in the Air
Wanda Group A Slab About Being Held Captive

You can also find frequent updates on our digital page.

Full-Resolution/CD-Quality WAV and FLAC Files Now Available on Selected Titles

Midheaven mailorder is rolling out batches of recent new release downloads in full-resolution FLAC and WAV formats. Yes, our MP3s have always been 320kbps, but now you can purchase digital files in even higher quality -- at very sensible prices, too.

We're working towards getting the majority of our digital catalog available in increased resolution. For now, here's a clickable list of available titles, and please check back soon and often for additions...and keep an eye out here for updates:

http://www.midheaven.com/digital

NOW AVAILABLE IN FULL-RESOLUTION FLAC or WAV:

Beat Detectives Music 2
Cheap Time Exit Smiles
Fast Times Bodytalk
Nils Frahm Spaces
Mammatus Heady Mental
Kevin Morby Harlem River
Secret Chiefs 3 Book Of Souls: Folio A
Shifted Under a Single Banner
Sole Crimes Against Totality
Vatican Shadow When You Are Crawling
Various Mountains of Tongues - Musical Dialects of the Caucasus

Kid606 "Cute Never Dies" video

From his Happiness album on Tigerbeat6!

Hollow Sunshine video for "Here for Now"

Hollow Sunshine's Robotic Empire LP and download are available for sampling and sale at Midheaven.

Friday News Roundup

Nils Frahm scores 9 out of 10 in Uncut (left, click for a more legible version)

Baths session (Daytrotter)

Bobby Draino stream (XLR8R)

Circuit Des Yeux reviewed (Pitchfork)

Coppice interview (Vimeo)

Cosmic Psychos according to Fred Mills (Blurt)

John Davis interview (Paste)

Flying Saucer Attack: An Ethos That's Totemic, Or, At Least Innovatory (The Quietus)

Hollow Sunshine review, stream of "Hear For Now" (Impose)

Holy Ghost! do Dave (Stereogum)

Melt-Banana profile (Village Voice)

Pharaohs poetic waxings (Test Pressing)

Secret Pyramid reviewed (TinyMixTapes)

Sapphire Slows review (Pitchfork) Sapphire Slows review (XLR8R)

Vaura - full album stream (Pitchfork Advance, may expire soon)

Woods "It Ain't Easy": the official music video!

A lovely ditty from the Bend Beyond album set to images. It's official!

Midheaven mailorder releases for the week of November 4

The crisp Autumnal newness at Midheaven continues unabated with fresh, leafy titles from Atlantean Kodex (20 Buck Spin) 2xLP, Botanist/Palace Of (Flenser) LP, Circus Devils (Happy Jack Rock) LP, Daedelus (Anticon) CD/LP, John Davis (Shrimper) CD/2xLP, Molly Drake (Squirrel Thing) CD/LP, Hollow Sunshine (Robotic Empire) LP, Kassin (20|20|20) LP, Melt Banana (Azap) LP, Pampers (In The Red) LP, Sapphire Slows (Not Not Fun) LP, Tough Age (Mint) CD/LP, Vastum (20 Buck Spin) CD/LP, Vaura (Profound Lore) CD, Wreck & Reference (Flenser) LP, Yob (Profound Lore) CD, V/A Mountains Of Tongues: Musical Dialects From The Caucasus (L.M. Dupli-Cation) LP,  V/A: Virus 100: Dead Kennedys Tribute (Alternative Tentacles) CD (Reissue)...and more!  And that "more" includes 320kpbs MP3 downloads of many of the same titles for sale, too.

You can find all the above and the usual-suspect MORE on this week's Midheaven new release digest - or just visit midheaven.com. Or click the links on the margin over there to the right. Choice is good.

Wednesday News Roundup

The internet has been very kind to artists and labels affiliated with Revolver USA/Midheaven this week:

 Nils Frahm interview (Quietus)

 Palace of Worms track streamed (Pitchfork)

 John Davis album stream and interview (American Songwriter)

 Melt-Banana gets Noisey'd (duh)

 Circuit Des Yeux tour, two tracks streamed (Brooklyn Vegan)

 Far Out Fangtooth video for "Beyond Your Bones" (Vimeo)

 Kid606 video for "Cloudsculpting" (YouTube)

 Super Wild Horses album stream (SPIN)

 Heldon gets Graded On A Curve (Vinyl District)

 Holy Ghost! covered Drake (SoundCloud)

 LCD Soundsystem has a track backing the new Samsung commercial (YouTube)

 Tuxedomoon's new Superior Viaduct reissues explained (Dangerous Minds)

 Gonerfest 10 highlights! (Antigravity)

...and there will be a BBC Radio profile on Molly Drake next week. More info as it becomes apparent. 

Revolver is Pinteresting

Revolver USA/Midheaven has a Pinterest account.

We're not much for posting recipes or gardening pics (yet) but you can see album art for all our recent exclusives and other amusements.

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Nils Frahm "Spaces" 2xLP/CD (Erased Tapes) released November 19

Revolver USA and Midheaven are very pleased and proud to announce our partnership with the Erased Tapes label for distribution of a remarkable new release.

Berlin-based contemporary composer Nils Frahm has built a steady reputation for his intimate, poignant piano recordings, yet they only reveal a fragment of what to expect from a Frahm concert. The artist’s heart lies in improvisation, in the magic of a moment where, inspired by the space and the audience, his fingers create new compositions loosely based around his familiar melodies.

Spaces is an ode to the joy of live performance. It expresses Frahm’s love for experimentation and answers the call from his fans for a record that truly reflects what they witness during his concerts. Breaking the convention of a traditional live release, the album was recorded over the course of two years in different locations and on various media, including old portable reel-to-reel recorders and cassette decks. These moments were later pieced together in his Durton Studio for what Frahm refers to as a collage of field recordings rather than a live album.

Spaces includes surprises such as the sound of a toilet brush banging on piano strings to create a dub-sounding track. The decision to select takes that include the sounds of people coughing and cell phones ringing make clear that his audience is an integral part of every performance. In his own words: “What I love most about playing in front of people has something to do with a certain kind of energy exchange. The attention and appreciation of my audience feeds back into my playing. It really seems as if there is a true and equal give and take between performer and listener, making me aware of how much I depend on my audience. And since the audience is different every night, the music being played will differ, too. Every space I performed in has its own magic and spirit.”

The album was mastered by the gifted hands of Mandy Parnell; its November release is preceded by a string of West Coast shows in late September and will be celebrated with a special concert in New York City on November 25th.

Nils Frahm Spaces 2xLP/CD is released exclusively in North America by Erased Tapes and Revolver USA/Midheaven on November 19, 2013. You can preorder it on Midheaven.

Listen to the premiere track "Says" from Spaces on SoundCloud:



Track listing:

1.  An Aborted Beginning
2.  Says
3.  Said and Done
4.  Went Missing
5.  Familiar
6.  Improvisation for Coughs
      and a Cell Phone
7.  Hammers
8.  For – Peter – Toilet Brushes – More
9.  Over There, It’s Raining
10. Unter – Tristana – Ambre
11. Ross’s Harmonium