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Brooklyn's Forest Fire returns with a full-length follow-up to last year's sold-out Psychic Love Star EP. With some great new songs, and with some great new players joining them, FF have refined and enriched their singular "homegrown hymn" flavor-- and crafted a short and sweet new album to add to your running list of "favorite new albums."

As Air Waves, Brooklyn's Nicole Schneit writes great, uncomplicated rock songs that you will consistently, inevitably find yourself humming days later. Grab this EP, and you'll get 5 of those songs-- enough to keep you hummin' all week.

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Kaz Nomura, aka PWRFL Power, is a guitar virtuoso, Seattlite (& winner of Seattle's Block Party "Block Star" contest), touring madman, animated character in an eSurance commercial, and singer of eccentric and endearing little love songs. Don't call him "twee;" call him "kawaii as F*CK."

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Just in time to soundtrack your evening walks through the chill Autumn air, Chicago's Manishevitz have returned with their fourth long-player; the first since 2003's critically-lauded City Life (Jagjaguwar, 2003). On "East to East," Manishevitz cruises through a set of swaggering, thoughtfully-composed rock songs, with a liberal dose of open-ended groove structures (think Neu!) and moody pop mutations (think Roxy Music).

Special low-priced 4-song EP that'll get you hooked on Brooklyn's Clear Tigers, well in advance of their forthcoming full-length. 200 copies, in hand-screened Mini-7" style sleeve.

Short and sweet pop gems from the wild untamed scrublands of Vancouver, BC. Co-released with Fuzzy Logic Recordings, this is a special limited release of 100 with unique, hand-painted covers.

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An artistic collaboration between multi-instumentalist / singer / songwriter Jason Zumpano (of Zumpano, Destroyer, and Sparrow) and visual artist Jason McLean resulted in 12 JZ-penned solo piano compositions and a number of new pieces of art from McLean. Catbird presents a document of this collaboration in the form of a CD/print set in a numbered limited edition of 200.

A thoughtful and gently unfolding work from New Englander Brian Michael Roff and his new project, The Underpainting. Edition of 150.

Hot on the heels of their splendid new full-length, Arms Down, on Absolutely Kosher, comes this great 3-song 7-inch; Catbird's first vinyl release! 500 copies, on purple vinyl.

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The mighty Moviola's latest (their 7th album in 12 years) is a satisfying, 16-song slab of timeless, cosmic American music. Limited Edition (200) includes a DVD featuring 5 videos, photo slideshow, and unreleased demos. Grab a seat, have a pull from our bottle, and kick back. Feel free to put your feet up on the coffee table. Ties would be loosened if any of us wore ties.

The newest project from Andrew Goldman (Maestro Echoplex) combines his lovely, subdued songwriting style with layered strings and programmed beats (courtesy of Oktopus and DJ Still of Dalek, among others). Edition of 150, with 4-song bonus disc.

Homegrown hymns for those with no religion. Enchantingly lo-fi and sneakily catchy, this 6-track EP is the debut release from Brooklyn's Forest Fire. Limited edition of 200, in hand-screened cases.

Mathew Sawyer is an internationally respected visual artist, vintage ukelele aficionado, and one-time drummer for the Television Personalities. He's also responsible for Blue Birds Blood, 12 tracks of pure punk'd up, folk'd out, lo-fi love songs. Jewel-cased edition. First 200 orders include a 3-song bonus CD, in hand-screened sleeve.

The second EP for Catbird from Gothenburg, Sweden's Magnus Larsson, aka Pet Politics. On The Spring EP, Magnus fleshes out his charming pop songs with a velvety underground of synthy horns, and oohs and aahs. Hand-screened arigato pak, edition of 200.

Originally self-released in 2001, Last Night received accolades from the BBC, the Village Voice, Time Out NY, the Washington Post, and more, but due to lack of good distribution channels, the disc always remained extremely hard to find. Catbird is proud to re-release Last Night, complete with a newly-designed letterpressed case. See also: Fulton Lights.