Amoeba hollywood Staff
Skylarking (CD)
Horace Andy
Does everyone else already know about this one? I'm obsessed. A good contestant for the best reggae album i know in fact! Looping and looping in my car
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Hani Polyphonic Singing in Yunnan China (LP)
Hani from Yunnan China
This is some of the wildest music I ever heard in my life. Sounds like nothing else. Played in a group with the simplest of reeds and pipes and grasses... just unbelievable. Unbelievably avant garde unbelievably beautiful
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Khalik Hena (LP)
Warda Al-Jazairia
We got all kindsa problems in this world, all kindsa unprecedented and terrifying problems, but to live in the re-issue renaissance, the golden archive era, has some really incredible benefits. Like this LP originally recorded in 1973. I feel legitimately grateful I ever got to hear it.
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Free Repetition (CD)
Scalpy
This is my piping hot brand new album. Is this kosher? I dig it, i'm proud of it, i think it's fresh and interesting. Perhaps you'll dig it as well.
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Killian
Amoeba Hollywood
Music, Horror and the number 42. Hollywood Buyer.
Prelude to Ecstasy, Product Type: (LP)
The Last Dinner Party, Product
Favorite album of the year so far. Baroque pop at its finest.
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Tangk , Product Type: (LP)
Idles, Product Title:
Consistent greatness from the UK Post Punk band
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Does You Inspire You, Product Type: (LP)
Chairlift, Product Title:
Caroline Polachek’s first foray into music still holds up 16 years later.
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A Dog A Deer A Seal, Product Type: (LP)
Hit Bargain, Product Title:
Amazing LA punk. Was lucky enough to see them open for Les Savy Fav and became an immediate fan.
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When Evil Lurks, Product Type: (BLU)
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My favorite movie of last year. Great atmospheric horror with the right amount of shock value.
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Let Me Do One More, Product Type: (LP)
Illuminati Hotties , Product
One the best live acts around right now.
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Prelude to Ecstasy (LP)
The Last Dinner Party
Favorite album of the year so far. Baroque pop at its finest.
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Does You Inspire You (LP)
Chairlift
Caroline Polachek’s first foray into music still holds up 16 years later.
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A Dog A Deer A Seal (LP)
Hit Bargain
Amazing LA punk. Was lucky enough to see them open for Les Savy Fav and became an immediate fan.
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When Evil Lurks (BLU)
My favorite movie of last year. Great atmospheric horror with the right amount of shock value.
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Derich Heath
Amoeba Hollywood
dheath.bandcamp.com
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A Ghost Waits, Product Type: (BLU)
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An immensely likable flick about a likable guy falling in love with a likable ghost, it's easy to see why this received almost unanimous praise from critics. A Ghost Waits begins as a horror-comedy, incorporates an effective romantic angle, and concludes on a sincere, poignant note. That ending might have proven fatal in the hands of lesser artists. It was a bold move, and they pulled it off. Shot in B&W on a shoestring budget, the film possesses so much heart, from a DIY-filmmaking perspective and a basic human one. Funny, entertaining, unexpectedly touching stuff. I want to hug this movie.
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The Scarlet Letter, Product Type: (BLU)
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No one asked for it, no one wanted it, but Kino-Lorber released Roland Joffe's 90's adaptation of The Scarlet Letter. Personally, I'm grateful. Hilariously wrongheaded in every way, it offers up more laughs than your average comedy - many of them thanks to Robert Duvall, looking, sounding, and behaving exactly like Lord Farquaad. I like when Demi gives birth to a baby that's, like, at least ten months old. A "so-bad-it's-good" gem.
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Wild Beasts, Product Type: (BLU)
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Absolutely insane Italian movie (from one of the guys behind Mondo Cane) about a bunch of zoo animals going on citywide rampage after drinking water laced with PCP. Just as nutty as it sounds, an exploitation flick with a beautifully bonkers premise that delivers everything it promises. Polar bears attacking children in a gymnasium, a chase between a cheetah and a Volkswagen, tigers on the subway, elephants on an airplane runway - it's a total trip, and the film teaches valuable life lessons. For example, you do not want to be trapped in a car surrounded by drugged-out elephants. Avoid that as best you can.
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Greener Grass, Product Type: (BLU)
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Absurdist black comedy, one of the oddest and most otherworldly films I've watched in a while, is a twisted dissection of suburban ennui that feels kinda like Lisa Frank's Eraserhead. Upper class American life viewed as a candy-coated, dread-soaked bizarro world. Weird doesn't even begin to describe it. There's a lot of funny stuff in here. The flick has a strong look, mixes the mundane and the menacing to great effect. Greener Grass is a bright, colorful movie with an undercurrent of doom, like death is lurking on the edge of every frame. An erratic ride but one worth taking, as unsettling as it is amusing.
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