Albums added in December: 16,452

Major additions this month from the Metropolis Records back catalog, featuring Darkwave/EBM/Industrial acts like Clan of Xymox, Combichrist, Covenant, Haujobb, KMFDM, Suicide Commando, Velvet Acid Christ, VNV Nation, and Wumpscut.

Featured Selections

Cranes, Cranes (11)

Cranes choose their eighth album to go eponymous, four years after Particles and Waves. Alison Shaw’s child plaint remains a constant in their dream pop repertoire, backed with the familiar strumming of Jim Shaw, and accompanied by the bell-like tones from their more recent outings.

Gotan Project, Live (24)

As it says on the tin, live renditions of Gotan Project’s electronic-flecked nuevo tango add spice and uncertainty to their more battened-down studio versions. The album covers material from their tours supporting La Revancha del Tango and Lunático, plus two orchestral reworkings.

Sigur Rós, Med sud I eyrum vid spilum endalaust (11)

Translating as “With a Buzz in Our Ears We Play Endlessly,” the fifth release by Icelandic post-rockers Sigur Rós adds more upbeat whimsy than earlier Hopelandic laments and includes their first song in English, “All Alright.”

Hector Zazou, L’Absence (11)

A companion album to Strong Currents, featuring some of the same featured female vocalists (Nicola Hitchcock of Mandalay, Caroline Lavelle, Emma Stow) plus others including actress Asia Argento, and a rare male voice by the French singer Edo. Sadly, among the last of Zazou’s collaborative efforts before his untimely death late last year.


Special Star Wars Copyright Challenge

Boba Fettt, Meisters des Universums (16)


See Also

Air Miami, Sixteen Songs (18)
-, Fourteen Songs (14)

And One, Bodypop (12)

Repost.

Apoptygma Berzerk, Harmonizer (11)
-, APBL2000 (13)
-, Singles Collection (13+18)
-, Soli Deo Gloria (14)
-, Kathy’s Song (6)
-, Black (10)

At the Drive-In, This Station Is Non-Operational (18)

The Breeders, Last Splash (2)
-, Off You (3)

Bright Eyes

Anne Clark, The Law Is An Anagram of Wealth (12)
-, To Love And Be Loved (10)
-, The Smallest Acts of Kindness (12)
-, Unstill Life (13)
-, Psychometry (19)

Holly Cole, Baby It’s Cold Outside (13)

Noel Coward, Sings Sail Away And Other Coward Rarities (26)

Cut Copy, Far Away (7)

Gigi D’Agostino, L’Amour Toujours II (15+15)

Danú, Think Before You Think (13)

Decemberists, 5 Songs EP (6)

Duplicate.

Deerhunter, Weird Era Cont (13)

Eels, Blinking Lights and Other Revelations (17+16)

Repost.

Faithless, A Kind of Peace (4)

Forthcoming Fire, Ekhnaton (14)
-, Illumination? (14)
-, Je Suis (12)
-, Watching Rome Burn (11)

John Foxx, Cathedral Oceans I & II (11+10)

Frightened Rabbit, It’s Christmas So We’ll Stop (1)

Hybrid, Symphony (4)

Jega, Geometry (13)
-, Spectrum (16)
-, Type Xer0 EP (4)

Juno Reactor, Transmissions (9)
-, Luciana (1)
-, Beyond the Infinite (8)
-, Bible of Dreams (8)
-, Shango (9)
-, Labyrinth (9)
-, Gods & Monsters (9)
-, Pistolero (7)
-, Masters of the Universe (5)
-, Hotaka (4)

Ken Kase Group, Extended Play – No Waiting (5)

KRS-One, KRS-One Digital (20)

Ladyhawke, Paris Is Burning (6)

Daniel Lanois, Rockets (10)
-, Here Is What Is (18)

Malicorne, Nous sommes chanteurs de sornettes (Malicorne IV) (10)
-, Quintessence (11)

M.I.A., Mausen (6)

Alannah Myles, Black Velvet (11)

Michael Nyman, MGV & Piano Concerto (9)

O’Death, One (5)

Rasputina, Frustration Plantation – Bonus Disc (9)

Duplicate.

Rilo Kiley, The Execution of All Things (12)

Steve Roach & Eric Wøllo, Stream of Thought (19)

Rocket From The Crypt, Group Sounds (13)
-, R.I.P. (20)

The Silent League, Aeroplanes (4)

Smile.dk, Party Around the World (6)

Toyko Police Club, Elephant Shell (11)

Laura Veirs, Two Beers Veirs (5)

Veruca Salt, IV (14)

Wumpscut, Music for a Slaughtering Tribe II (14)

soundtrack, Anne of Green Gables – Off Broadway cast (16)

Free

BLK JKS, Mystery EP (4)

Spoken Word

The Kama Sutra – Abridged (4)

Tribute Corner

Amonn-v2, A View To A Kill (1)
-, Be Bop A Lula (1)
-, Justify My Love (1)
-, Venus (1)
-, Anybody Seen My Baby (1)

Dan McKie vs Orbital, Halcyon Again (3)

Hampton String Quartet, The Off White Album (14)

Los Straitjackets, Smells Like Teen Spirit (1)