VINYL FORMAT. Featuring a string quartet and children's choir, just like The Wall. We don't need no stinkin' education, just the new Smog album (and our front teeth back). "Smog's seventh full-length album Knock Knock proves to be singer/songwriter Bill Callahan's subtlest collection of songs yet. Indeed, one of the album's greatest accomplishments is its gently optimistic tone; if his other albums made a deadpan joke out of misery, on this album Callahan delivers the punchlines with traces of a grin. It's    [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Adult contemporary singer-songwriter Bill Callahan returns with his latest album of love-taking, heart-breaking and dream-making popterfuge. Ten songs that take on and lap up just about every possible pop style be it an anthemic power ballad, a saucy tango, or a gentle waltz, all with his unique voice and personal lyrical outlook.

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VINYL FORMAT. A River Ain't Too Much to Love proves that still waters still run deep. Smog's newest songs are like a cycle, with plenty of glints and highlights as it revolves. A River Ain't Too Much to Love was recorded at Pedernales in Spicewood, Texas. That's Willie Nelson's place - which has something of a Sunset Boulevard vibe now - the swimming pool filled with dirt, someone named Rusty coming in to sweep up every morning...with such a familiar, comfortable setting, the band recorded al   [ read more ]

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A River Ain't Too Much to Love proves that still waters still run deep. Smog's newest songs are like a cycle, with plenty of glints and highlights as it revolves. A River Ain't Too Much to Love was recorded at Pedernales in Spicewood, Texas. That's Willie Nelson's place -- which has something of a Sunset Boulevard vibe now -- the swimming pool filled with dirt, someone named Rusty coming in to sweep up every morning... with such a familiar, comfortable setting, the band recorded all together,   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. We all want life to be beautiful. And it usually is, whatever direction we choose to look. But never before has there been a Smog LP quite this beautiful. Lush instrumentation threads through the material and the ability to fictionalize places our hero in deeper emotional water. An instant classic!

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VINYL FORMAT. Released on July 5, 1993. "Smog's third album, 1993's Julius Caesar, features increasingly creative songwriting and arrangements that celebrate the lo-fi recording process. Like grainy snapshots taken in an instant-photo booth, Julius Caesar's 13 songs have a fuzzy, distinctive character, heightened by their low-budget surroundings. An immensely creative album, Julius Caesar's artistic, arranged approach to lo-fi displays Callahan's willingness to grow and experiment as a musician and storytel   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. A sweeping masterwork that ranges from Lou Reed-esque glam-boogie to Stonesy blues-rock. While their eleventh full-length may strike some as easy listening with its soft steel guitars, female harmony vocals, and fluttering guitars, "Supper" certainly retains Smog's penchant for sharp observations, a steady stream of humorous specters, and discomfiting intimacy.

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VINYL FORMAT. Building on Julius Caesar's artful songcraft, "Wild Love" expands Bill Callahan's lyrical and musical horizons, balancing roughness and polish in just the right amounts. Recorded in a proper studio with Drag City's favorite producer, Rian Murphy, the album benefits from a wider musical palette; instead of Julius Caesar's lo-fi patchwork, the sound is focused into a hypnotic blend of chamber music and indie rock. A finely wrought, magnetic work, full of music and lyrics too artful to be just    [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Doctor Came at Dawn' documents romantic decay and deception with Bill Callahan's typical unflinching honesty. Over the album's ten songs, he recounts every painful detail of falling in and out of love. 'You Moved In' recalls an affair's desperate, obsessive beginnings with grim humor: 'You could have done better, but oh well.' The song's eerie, foreboding strings and piano arrangement, as well as Callahan's deadpan vocals, give fair warning that 'The Doctor Came at Dawn''s intimate sound hits    [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. An under recognized pioneer of the lo-fi revolution, Smog is essentially the alias of one Bill Callahan, an enigmatic singer/songwriter whose odd, fractured music neatly epitomizes the tenets and excesses of the home-recording boom. "Accumulation" is a compilation of singles, including an unreleased track, b-sides, a-sides, and songs from compilations. Beautiful.

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VINYL FORMAT!! Rain On Lens has a similar feel to y2k's Dongs Of Sevotion. It pushes against the fully orchestrated production he enjoyed with Jim O'Rourke on 1997's Red Apple Falls and 98's Knock Knock, but is sharper and more focused than his earlier records, leaving us with a maturer sounding (Smog); wisdom a-plenty. Bill's group of players on Rain On Lens include Rick Rizzo (from the last Smog touring band, and Eleventh Dream Day) on guitar and Pat Samson (from US Maple) on drums. That core-band laid do   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. REISSUE. Like Wild Love and Knock Knock, Red Apple Falls represents the more elaborate side of Bill Callahan's discography. His outsider/loser image is still perfectly intact, but it is shaped here with a more expansive sonic palette. Everything from French horn and pedal steel to hurdy gurdy is employed on these unassumingly poetic tales of self-loathing. There's a larger cast than usual at work here, and the denser musical texture may be the reason Callahan's lyrical sel   [ read more ]

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