For those who absolutely love Destroyer (you know who you are), seeing the
tracklist for Februrary’s Destroyer’s Rubies is actually an exciting thing. So:

1. Rubies

2. Your Blood

3. European Oils

4. Painter In Your Pocket

5. Looters’ Follies

6. 3000 Flowers
7. A Dangerous Woman Up to a Point

8. Priest’s Knees

9. Water Colours Into the Ocean
10. Sick Priest

The press materials for XTC’s new Apple Box collection talk about how 1999’s Apple Venus and 2000’s Wasp Star were originally intended to be released a double album, but commercial pressures forced them to release them successively as separate albums. But see, now with this new boxset, you no longer have to go out and buy Apple Venus and Wasp Star as two separate discs, because now you can just buy the boxset and get them on…uh…well…two separate discs. Hmm. Am I missing something here? Anyway, Apple Box also contains 2 other discs, containing demos for the albums, plus all new artwork, 64 page booklet, etc. Plus also, you get links for two all-new XTC songs, including this one:

::: Spiral :::

You can order the box from XTC’s Idea Records website.

Secretly Canadian is releasing the next disc by Chicago’s Catfish Haven. Here’s the title track from the EP, which will precede the LP by several months:

::: Please Come Back :::

(And, if you missed it the first time, you can also grab “Paper Thin“, my favorite track from their ‘04 disc, Good Friends.)

Stereogum has posted another track from Cat Power’s upcoming disc, The Greatest. Has the Starbucks-sipping set already discovered “CHAN”, or are we only now just on the threshold? Surely they’re getting tired of their Sufjan/Iron and Wine/Garden State soundtrack by now.

And speaking of Iron and Wine, Mr. Beam appears, with a host of others (including Calexico, Unbunny, the Impossible Shapes, and more), on Tract Records’ new Will Oldham tribute, I Am A Cold Rock. I Am Dull Grass, which will be out in December.