The Natural Yogurt Band.

It's kind of tough to keep up with the avalanche of amazing releases/announcements coming out of the Stones Throw/Now-Again camp these days. This little gem was put out about a month back, an expanded rerelease of the Natural Yogurt Band's Away With Melancholy.



The album was originally available last year on the Jazzman label, but that issue is now way out-of-print. The band seems to fit perfectly beside the other "strikingly revivalist yet decades into the future" camp of the Now-Again roster, namely the Heliocentrics and Karl Hector and the Malcouns. Natural Yogurt Band dudes Miles Newbold and Wayne Fullwood look to the airy lounge jazz of fifties and sixties hi-fis, Lionel Hampton and Quincy Jones and such, while also hinting at the damaged studio psychedelia of Silver Apples and White Noise.

The Now-Again issue comes with three bonus tracks (one of which you can find below) and and absolutely beautiful packaging. You'll do best to grab it on wax. Double 10" discs in a mirror-like foil gatefold sleeve. This is why physical forms of music aren't going anywhere.

The Natural Yogurt Band, "Invisible Ink"

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Buy the record from Stones Throw, or for a couple bucks less over at Turntable Lab.

And keep an eye out - LP #2 in 2010.