New Spring Thrill Jockey releases available now! Spring is rolling in the door with a fresh set of new releases. April brings new albums from Boredoms, Thalia Zedek, and the Baltimore trio Thank You. April 8th welcomed the international CD release of Boredoms - Super Roots 9. Super Roots 9 features Boredoms LIVE accompanied by a 20 piece choir. The CD is housed in a custom made mini-gatefold case with custom art work by EYE, get all the details below! Also on April 8th we saw the latest addition to our ongoing cd/book series from Robert A.A. Lowe and Rose Lazar entitled Gyromancy. The 4 x 6" pocket sized book features original artwork by Rob Lowe (90 Day Men, Lichens) and Rose Lazar (The Great Lake Goods) as well as a 3" CD of music created by Rob for this project. This release is limited to 1,000 copies for the world. Out of the 1,000 Rob and Rose have created 100 unique, handcrafted versions of the release. gyromancy n. : fortune telling by walking in a circle until dizzy; the fortune is determined by where the person falls. Thrill Jockey is proud to present Gyromancy, the latest in our series of limited edition book + CD packages. Following the release of Daniel A.I.U. Higgs Atomic Yggdrasil Tarot and Aki Tsuyuko’s Hokane we have a new pocket-sized edition to the series. Gyromancy is a 4” x 6” soft cover perfect-bound book featuring artwork from Robert A.A. Lowe and Rose Lazar. Included with the book is a special 3” CD featuring the music of Robert A.A. Lowe. Robert Lowe was a member of the band 90 Day Men and currently plays music under the name Lichens. He is an absolute fixture in the Chicago music and arts community. Rose Lazar runs her own hand-printed goods company called The Great Lakes Goods. Gyromancy looks at future past, neo antiquity, ritual magic, and patterning. The book represents a dream walk through nature and all of it’s influences. Repetition of imagery keeps you aware of the cyclical patterns that nature presents us with. We get caught up in these patterns without noticing them, to the point that you have to stop and take a harder look. Gyromancy is an attempt at taking a harder look. Boredoms - Super Roots 9 is available now! Long regarded as musical pioneers, Boredoms have continually pushed sonic boundaries and inspired musicians for over 20 years. Their albums and their performances defy categorization, each one a completely unique event. The one commonality is that the members of the Boredoms have amazing technical skills as musicians, limitless imagination and the ability to combine the two - as no others have. In April the first NEW edition in eight years to the SUPER ROOTS series, Super Roots 9, finally gets a worldwide release. Super Roots 9 is a recording of a live show on Christmas Eve in 2004, in Japan. The performance featured a 20-person choir alongside the group. Super Roots 9 is the FIRST live recording of the band ever released. The CD, packaged in a special custom-made Mini Gatefold LP style jacket, will feature artwork by EYE and a 40-page perfect bound booklet with music scores and notations. Boredoms are making this album available digitally for the first time- with services that offer the highest bit rate. Released on April 22nd Thalia Zedek - Liars and Prayers and Thank You - Terrible Two are available now! Female rock pioneer Thalia Zedek (Uzi, Come, Live Skull) returns with the intense new full length, Liars and Prayers. Throughout Thalia’s musicianship her voice has remained a singular calling card. Her songwriting has great depth and a pervading melancholic tone much like the work of Nick Cave. She has chosen unusual instrumentation to compliment her guitar, such as the viola and trumpet contributions of David Curry. Her songs are rich in texture and reveal with each listen their delicately crafted layers. Her debut album for Thrill Jockey, 2004’s Trust Not Those in Whom Without Some Touch of Madness, garnered great critical acclaim, and the Adelaide performance on her Australian tour for that album even earned a spot on The Wire magazine’s top 60 Greatest Shows Ever. For the new album, Liars and Prayers, Thalia has expanded upon her touring band of the last few years of Daniel Coughlin (drums) and David Curry (viola, trumpet) to fill out the sound with the bass and piano of Winston Braman (Consonant, Sherperdess, Fuzzy) and Mel Lederman (Victory at Sea). Liars and Prayers is the masterwork of her thus far impressive career. Her voice and songs have never been stronger and the full band and the recording by Andrew Schneider (Unsane, Cave In) allow her to combine the delicacy of the arrangements of her trio with the force that was her band Come. The very moving “Body Memory” is a poignant example of this perfect synthesis. Read about Liars and Prayers in Thalia's own words here. Thank You - Terrible Two Thrill Jockey is very excited to introduce you to Terrible Two, the brand new album from Baltimore’s Thank You. The album recording was engineered by Baltimore’s beloved J. Robbins (Yeasayer, Mary Timony, Jets to Brazil) at his studio and was produced and mixed by Chris Coady (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Celebration, TV on the Radio) at his studio in New York City. Thank You is an athletic rhythm/action unit, made up of Jeffrey McGrath, Michael Bouyoucas, and Elke Wardlaw. They are three free individuals, subsumed into a collective form that spits out dank, skittering tracks filled with light and dark. Terrible Two was released on vinyl on April 22nd. This will be followed by a CD release on June 3rd Still fresh are recent releases from Human Bell, Nemeth, Bill Dixon with Exploding Star Orchestra, and School of Language. Nemeth is preparing for a string of dates in May with KTL in the U.S.. Both Human Bell and School of Language will be on tours in Europe this Spring. Check all the tour dates here. Check out the news section for all the latest info.. including tour updates, albums coming down the line, highlights, and more. Dip into the Thrill Jockey online radio to hear exclusive mixes made by TJ artists.