Welcome! Stinkweeds is an independently owned and operated store and website based in Phoenix, AZ. We guarantee personalized service from people who love music. We've been here since 1987, primarily focusing on imports and independent labels. If we don't have something in stock, we will not charge your card, but instead will write and let you know the status of your order. If you don't see something you're looking for, please request it in the comments box on your order...if it's still in print, we can get it for you. There are currently over 19,000 items on the site, many of them hard to find! Thanks for choosing an independent business!! artist title label		Album Leaf Chorus Of Storytellers (Sub Pop) CD - $13   For the first time in five albums, The Album Leaf recorded as a whole band. In the past, almost every instrument was performed by principal songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jimmy LaValle. CD now -- double-vinyl available next week.   Beach House Teen Dream (Sub Pop) CD - $14 LP - $20   Recorded in upstate New York, in a converted church called Dreamland with producer/engineer Chris Coady (who has worked with TV on the Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Blonde Redhead, and a bunch of others) Teen Dream is the third album from the Baltimore-based duo Beach House, and their Sub Pop debut. The new album gives voice to a full universe of unbridled imagination, and the manifestation of Teen Dream has been a welcomed and all-consuming obsession for Beach House the past nine to twelve months. LP and CD version come with a companion DVD featuring a video for each song on the album, each by a different director! LP comes with digital download.   Broken Bells High Road (Columbia) 7in - $5   James Mercer from The Shins & Danger Mouse join forces to become Broken Bells. This cut from Broken Bells is titled "High Road", which is off of their self-titled LP. The album will be released March, 9th 2010. With exclusive B-side "An Easy Life" an Indie exclusive Non album track.   Chicago Underground Duo Boca Negra (Thrill Jockey) CD - $14 LP - $16   The fifth release of the critically acclaimed Chicago Underground Duo made up of Rob Mazurek (Exploding Star Orchestra, Isotope 217, Mandarin Movie) and Chad Taylor (Fred Anderson, Iron and Wine, Marc Ribot). The recording contains powerful grooves along with ambient sound structures, folk song simplicity and polyrhythmic bursts of energy with lyrical melodic vignettes. "Mazurek is a player of great poise and elegance, while Taylor's deftness, imagination and formidable technical skill always make his playing a joy to listen to." - The Wire   Final Fantasy Heartland (Domino) CD - $14 2LP - $20   Heartland exists. The third Final Fantasy full-length and the first for Domino, it is the product of nine months work in four countries. Heartland is a fully orchestral record, designed to exist simultaneously as an album, a 45-minute piece of orchestral music and a set of songs for looped violin and voice.   Four Tet There Is Love In You (Domino) CD - $14   Four Tet (aka Kieran Hebden) finally releases a follow up to 2005's Everything Ecstatic with There Is Love in You, after a few years of EPs and remix albums in between. First single "Love Cry" was released ahead of the album to enthusiastic reviews. This album features faster tempos and more vocals. We dig!   Magnetic Fields Realism (Nonesuch) CD - $15 LP - $20   Realism was cut in the distortion-free environs of a Los Angeles studio, and its sound is as pristine as a plein-air painting. There are no drum kits to be heard, and the fascinatingly varied instrumentation - guitars, accordions, violins, cellos, tablas, banjos, tuba, even a smattering of mellifluous falling leaves -- did not need to be plugged in. And, as with Distortion, the album credits emphasize: No synths. LP version includes the CD!   Midlake Courage Of Others (Bella Union) CD - $12   The Courage of Others is the lusted after follow-up to Midlake’s 2006 cult classic The Trials of Van Occupanther. Existing outside the plane of trends and time, Midlake has conjured a novel world, but one that seems to have existed forever. Looms of intricately textured keyboards, flute, guitars and voice are woven into broad cloaks of sound, all riding the wave of songwriter Tim Smith’s sweeping vocals. They blend early Brit folk influences with thick-throated guitars propelling new sounds and emotions. The Courage of Others is positioned to be the latest installment in the important and ever-evolving discography of one of modern music’s most unique torchbearers.   Retribution Gospel Choir 2 (Sub Pop) CD - $14 LP - $16   This is Alan Sparhawk's (Low) rock band and it rules! Intricate and HEAVY drums, guitar chugs, and anthemic sing-a-long vocal melodies.   Spoon Transference (Merge) CD - $14 LP - $20   Produced by the band, Transference is made up of eleven new gems that honor the Spoon tradition while pushing the envelope of the band's sound ever further. "Before Destruction" opens proceedings with a transfixing air of foreboding before "Is Love Forever?" and "The Mystery Zone" kick in with hooks that grip the listener's cortex with the tenacity of an aural tapeworm. "Who Makes Your Money" and first single "Written In Reverse" will be familiar to Spoon fans who witnessed the band playing prototypical live versions at select dates in 2008, as will "Got Nuffin," the title track of the EP released by the band earlier this year. This is the first full-length offering of new Spoon material since 2007's Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga.   Vampire Weekend Contra (Bundled Version) (XL) CD - $15 LP - $17   The highly anticipated follow-up to Vampire Weekend's critically hailed debut. Another criminally catchy masterpiece, Contra is loaded with the jingle-jangle rhythms the boys have become notorious for. The CD version is the limited edition indie exclusive with 3 bonus tracks! LP features MP3 download.   Veirs, Laura July Flame (Raven Marching Band) CD - $14   Laura Veirs' seventh album July Flame, which Colin Meloy calls 'the best album of 2010,' explores the emotion of mid-summer. Drenched in wood smoke, sunlight, pollinators, and pastoral dales, her lyrics explore the dichotomy between one's desire for permanence and the realization that such things rarely exist.   Yeasayer Odd Blood (Secretly Canadian) CD - $12 LP - $13   Since the release of their critically acclaimed 2007 debut All Hour Cymbals, Yeasayer has been around the world and back again. While their first record was conceived in total artistic isolation, constant touring forced Yeasayer to finally engage with their contemporaries. At times Yeasayer sound as if they would be at home playing live in scene from Blade Runner or inside one of Oscar Neimeyer's concrete modernist temples from the 1960s. Yeasayer have plunged into the craft of pop music, and the exercise has paid off.   Enter your email address to join our weekly mailing list & receive updates on new releases and special products!
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