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The wee little label that could, NYC-based upstart imprint What's Your Rupture? got the jump on all those older, more experienced indie labels, introducing U.S. audiences to top-shelf acts from abroad and Pitchfork favorites like Love Is All and the Long Blondes through a series of vinyl EPs. Ever charitable, they also nodded to homebred lo-fi spazz-rockers caUSE co-MOTION! and spirited UK vets Comet Gain. Now all four acts and their respective EPs come bundled together on one convenient little piece of CD plastic.

Imagine the Shapes collects the first four What's Your Rupture? vinyl EPs onto CD-- 14 tracks in all-- and arrives February 6. If, like WYR?, you're one to think ahead, flex your foresight and preorder it now right here.

Believe it or not, this will mark the first time the Long Blondes-- whose Someone to Drive You Home snuck into our Top 50 Albums of 2006, despite the fact that we, er, haven't actually reviewed it yet-- appear on CD in the States.

If the news of this comp has you so excited you just can't contain yourself, bottle that energy and unleash it on the dancefloor at Imagine the Shapes' record release show, going down February 4 at Los Angeles' the Echo, as part of the Part Time Punks club night. caUSE co-MOTION! will perform, the kids will convulse, and the DJ will spin the Imagine comp in between sets if he/she knows what's good for him/her. caUSE co-MOTION tour the nation beginning next week; keep your browsers tuned to Pitchforkmedia.com for details.

Imagine the Shapes:

01 Love Is All - "Spinning & Scratching"
02 Love Is All - "Make Out Fall Out Make Up"
03 Love Is All - "Ageing Had Never Been His Friend"
04 caUSE co-MOTION! - "Baby Don't Do It"
05 caUSE co-MOTION! - "This Just Won't Last"
06 caUSE co-MOTION! - "This Time Next Year"
07 caUSE co-MOTION! - "Take a Look"
08 The Long Blondes - "Giddy Stratospheres"
09 The Long Blondes - "Polly"
10 The Long Blondes - "Autonomy Boy"
11 The Long Blondes - "Darts"
12 Comet Gain - "Beautiful Despair"
13 Comet Gain - "Never Die"
14 Comet Gain - "Mainlining Mystery"