COREY DARGEL - Less Famous Than You  CD (Use Your Teeth (UK): TEETHCD02: 842108007617)  $14.59

EXCLUSIVE.  Composer, lyricist, and singer Corey Dargel's gentle assault on the pop idiom creates a tension which pervades his music: Deadpan and detached vocals reveal heartbreaking intimacies, awkward and obtrusive drum patterns struggle against fragile harmonies, vocals and music uneasily opposing each other as songs stumble to their ends. Emotional and intelligent, his songs evoke the fragility of Antony & The Johnsons and The Hidden Cameras, the electronic works of the late Macon Sumerlin, and the avant-pop approaches of Mark Amerika and Arthur Russell. Voted one of Time Out New York's "Top 25 People To Watch In 2006," Dargel's live performances have received glowing reviews in the New York Times and the Village Voice.

SIMON BOOKISH - Unfair/Funfair  CD (Use Your Teeth (UK): UYT001: NO UPC)  $13.49

EXCLUSIVE.  simon bookish is the alter-ago of composer leo chadburn, who studied baroque music and performance at the guildhall school of music. tired of the dogma of the classical music scene he concentrated on his own unconventional laptop-programming and vocals, by turns lugubrious and spectacularly dramatic, to produce his first tracks as simon bookish. he immediately gained notoriety, following a series of exuberant live performances and forged collaborative partnerships with experimental musicians leafcutter john and max de wardener. impossible to classify, being neither bona-fide performance artist nor pop-star poseur, bookish has appeared at venues ranging from london's long-running indie/electronic club trash to the berlinale film festival and has provided eccentric remixes at the request of scottish pop sensations franz ferdinand, grizzly bear, and the organ to great acclaim and surprise. 'unfair/funfair' is the debut collection of songs by simon bookish. literate, bizarre and full of black humour. bookish presents his unique world-view, fuelled by art and anger. this intensely strange series of sketches ranges from the surreal historical-recreation of richard of york to the dystopian musique concrte of london bunker, the eerie calm of topography and the hysterical disco of handsome girls.

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