Pitchfork

What's that unmistakable shape lurking in the shadows of a snow-swept indie newstand near you? Why, it must be a Yeti! Yeti #5, in fact.

And as they've done in the past, the offbeat lit/art/music publication has packed its pages with a bonus compilation brimming over with rare and exclusive jams. Yeti #5's attendant disc boasts the likes of Deerhoof, Iron and Wine, Atlas Sound (covering Sparks, "sort of"), Akron/Family, Dean & Britta (covering Dean's own Galaxie 500 über-classic "Tugboat"), Mount Eerie, and D+ (Phil Elverum, Karl Blau, and Beat Happening's Bret Lunsford).

What's more, the 25-track CD also includes four songs hand-selected by Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeff Mangum and literally culled from the man's personal collection of rare 78s-- Mangum actually sent his old records to the Yeti crew for digitizing.

And that's to say nothing of the magazine itself, which spreads features on Akron/Family, Will Oldham, and the Sublime Frequencies label, just to name three, over its 228 provocative pages.

All that and more can be yours in Yeti #5, available for preorder now and due to hit shops March 7. (Full disclosure: Yeti is owned by Pitchfork contributor Mike McGonigal.)

Yeti #5 CD:

01 Spiritualaires: "Be Ready When He Comes"
02 Sadoum Ouled Aida: "Untitled"
03 Phoaming Edison: "Sheba"
04 Radio Sumatra: "Outtake #1"
05 Atlas Sound: "It's Fair Fair Game Inside"
06 Dean & Britta: "Tugboat (live)"
07 Akron/Family: "Small Shape (live)"
08 Anglin Brothers: "It's an Unfriendly World"
09 Deerhoof: "Forbidden Fruits (live)"
10 Radio Sumatra: "Outtake #2"
11 Triptych Myth/Cooper-Moore: "Distance"
12 Marika Papagika: "Sometime You Might Love Me"
13 Alexandra Potskhershvili: "Suliko"
14 Unknown: "?"
15 Marika Papagika: "I Want to Hold You Tight in My Arms"
16 Radio Sumatra: "Outtake #3"
17 D+: "Clever Knot"
18 Mount Eerie: "Blue Light (instrumental)"
19 A Hawk and a Hacksaw With the Hun Hangar Ensemble: "Vereb / The Sparrow (live)"
20 Iron and Wine: "Wolves (Song of the Shepherd's Dog) (live)"
21 Radio Sumatra: "Outtake #4"
22 Shawn David McMillen: "Texarkana 1971"
23 AC & Blind Mamie Forehand: "Honey in the Rock"
24 Mary Price: "Dark Was the Night"
25 Blind Willie Johnson: "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground"