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Using this point in time as a lens through which to view the present moment, Excess takes aim at corporate culture and extravagance. The overarching themes of alienation and escapism emerged as Automatic put Excess together, taking writing retreats to flesh out the new songs before decamping to the studio for sprint recording sessions with producer Joo Joo Ashworth (Sasami, FROTH). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1672330713652-R548IEGGC93AO22VFZZO/4111131-2849943.jpg Blog - 2022 RAGGED STAFF PICKS - Makaya McCraven - In These Times n These Times is a collection of polytemporal compositions inspired as much by broader cultural struggles as McCraven's personal experience as a product of a multinational, working class musician community. It's the recording that he's been trying to create for 7+ years, as it's been consistently in process in the background while he's put forth a prolific run of releases including: In The Moment (2015), Highly Rare (2017), Where We Come From (2018), Universal Beings (2018), We're New Again (2020), Universal Beings E&F Sides (2020), and Deciphering the Message (2021). With contributions from over a dozen musicians and creative partners from his tight-knit circle of collaborators - including Jeff Parker, Junius Paul, Brandee Younger, Joel Ross, and Marquis Hill - the music was recorded in five different studios and four live performance spaces while McCraven engaged in extensive post-production work at home. Featuring orchestral, large ensemble arrangements interwoven with the signature "organic beat music" sound that's become his signature, the album is an evolution and a milestone for McCraven, the producer. But moreover, it's the strongest and clearest statement we've yet to hear from McCraven, the composer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1672330796457-WDNXDJWVASHEGSV4FEV8/4130247-2875950.jpg Blog - 2022 RAGGED STAFF PICKS - Medicine Singers - Self Titled The debut album by Medicine Singers is a genre-smashing kaleidoscope of sound combining traditional powwow music with elements of psychedelic punk, spiritual jazz, and electronics in a stunning blend. Building on years of collaboration between Yonatan Gat and Eastern Algonquin powwow group Eastern Medicine Singers, the album features contributions from an all-star cast including jaimie branch, Laraaji, Ikue Mori, Thor Harris (Swans), Joe Rainey, and Ryan Olson (Gayngs). "I look at it like this, everybody is my brother and sister, no matter where they come from," says Medicine Singers leader Daryl Black Eagle Jamieson. "If their culture or music is different, I want to learn about it, and I want to play with them. I think it's our responsibility as artists to show the world that life is not about war and hate. Life is about music, peace, and culture. We need to communicate with people of different cultures and backgrounds. We need to show people how we can work together and make something beautiful." One Dollar of each Medicine Singers album sale goes to the Pocasset Pocanoket Land Trust. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1672330942661-B4MUI2LLKSFHXJUHMZH5/4090854-2846973.jpg Blog - 2022 RAGGED STAFF PICKS - Anteloper - Pink Dolphins 'Pink Dolphins' is a major new step for Anteloper - a duo consisting of Jaimie Branch (Fly or Die, Exploding Star Orchestra, TV On The Radio, Matana Roberts, William Parker, etc) on trumpet & synths plus Jason Nazary (Helado Negro, Bear In Heaven, Little Women, Desertion Trio, etc) on drums & synths. The album was produced by Jeff Parker (The New Breed, Tortoise, Chicago Underground), who also plays guitar on some tracks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1672331002670-9BIKFUVWWY4ANGXSOA7A/4132008-2879087.jpg Blog - 2022 RAGGED STAFF PICKS - Horse Lords - Comradely Objects Horse Lords return with Comradely Objects, a continuation of the quartet's exploration of repetition in minimalism and traditional musics, complex counterpoint, timbres and texture, but also an evolution of these sometimes disparate musical strands wound tightly around propulsive rhythmic grids. The most sublime document yet of the band's ongoing interrogation of aesthetic and social form, purpose, and intent, Comradely Objects doesn't identify a new utopia so much as limn a thrilling portrait of revolution underway. Vinyl edition comes with a high quality, multi-format digital download. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1672331067507-7GJR1HMAM67I4R6BGUK8/4127804-2872336.jpg Blog - 2022 RAGGED STAFF PICKS - Sam Prekop - The Sparrow 2022 release from the singer/songwriter and The Sea and Cake member. On The Sparrow, Sam Prekop expands his electronic cosmos with a remarkable expression of timeless simplicity and coherent execution. It's deceptively simple music that feels accessible without abandoning the experimental legacy of the Modular hardware system which serves, besides a polyphonic Prophet 5 synthesizer, as the center piece of this production. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1672331140269-EE7QJRI2T7C29Z9X80BT/4133733-2887331.jpg Blog - 2022 RAGGED STAFF PICKS - Weyes Blood - And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow Technological agitation. Narcissism fatigue. A galaxy of isolation. These are the new norms keeping Weyes Blood (aka Natalie Mering) up at night and the themes at the heart of her release, And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow. The celestial-influenced folk album is her follow-up to the acclaimed Titanic Rising. (Pitchfork, NPR, and The Guardian admiringly named it one of 2019's best.) While Titanic Rising was an observation of doom to come, And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow is about being in the thick of it: a search for an escape hatch to liberate us from algorithms and ideological chaos. "We're in a fully functional shit show," Mering says. "My heart is a glow stick that's been cracked, lighting up my chest in an explosion of earnestness." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1672331225624-BCOON15V8PMUCJPY23LO/4078004-2838831.jpg Blog - 2022 RAGGED STAFF PICKS - Daniel Villarreal - Panama 77 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1672331338360-PVAPTKWQ8URVZ73PNNCH/4097057-2833901.jpg Blog - 2022 RAGGED STAFF PICKS - Kikagaku Moyo - Kumoyo Island "In many ways Kumoyo Island represents the culmination of a journey for Kikagaku Moyo. While their decade-long career can be summarized as a series of kaleidoscopic explorations through lands and dimensions far and near, there's a strong intention in each of their works to take the listener to a particular place, however real or abstract they may be. 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Is a heliacal exploration of native place and environmental tuning, where Dalt reverses the spell of temporal containment. Through the spiraling tendencies of time and topography, Lucrecia has arrived where she began. CD edition includes lyrics and an essay by Miguel Prado in Spanish and English. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1672331596459-GEEIDPIJXI6TXNS42HNU/4142101-2894033.jpg Blog - 2022 RAGGED STAFF PICKS - Tom Skinner - Voices Of Bishara 2022 release from drummer, composer, and producer Tom Skinner (The Smile, Sons of Kemet). The first recording under Skinner's own name is a reference to an album he listened to repeatedly during the COVID-19 lockdown: cellist Abdul Wadud's 1978 solo album By Myself, which was privately pressed on Wadud's label, Bishara. The common Arabic name has the intention or meaning of "good news" or "the bringer of good news." The album features Shabaka (Sons of Kemet) and Nubiya Garcia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1672331656811-24TZTAZIUBGNPH3PJEPC/4099964-2863447.jpg Blog - 2022 RAGGED STAFF PICKS - Mat Ball - Amplified Guitar Solo album from Big Brave’s guitar wizard Mat Ball. Put out on Quad Cities own Garrote imprint. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1672331834562-6NWNFQ9ATQJOTD69XDNM/4095319-2851020.jpg Blog - 2022 RAGGED STAFF PICKS - Arp - New Pleasures Includes digital download. Arp, a.k.a. Alexis Georgopoulos, makes his anticipated return to Mexican Summer with the second chapter in his Zebra trilogy. New Pleasures advances the narrative begun with 2018's acclaimed ZEBRA; pastoral in mood, expansive in style, the record acted as a dawn on a nascent, Edenic landscape, reminiscent of a beautiful, long-lost Fourth World album. Now, Arp drops us deep into the grid of the city. New Pleasures fast-forwards a few centuries, locating listeners in a post-industrial Sprawl (to borrow an expression from William Gibson's Neuromancer) of concrete and glass, imbuing the album with the flinty glow of commerce, the sleek rhythms of industrialization, and the cool finesse of brutalism. The result is a vivid, deconstructed take on high-definition pop, avant-garde, and dance music forms; a prismatic inquiry into machine sentience, the economy of desire, and myriad forms of possession. By turns imaginative, cheeky, and energetic, it's Arp's most experimental and yet most alluringly accessible work to date. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1672331916195-VT7FVYK6WHVPL5BNIKGU/4130062-2879178.jpg Blog - 2022 RAGGED STAFF PICKS - Ghost Funk Orchestra - A New Kind of Love Each song on Ghost Funk Orchestra's 3rd album, A New Kind of Love, due to be released on Colemine Records... 2022, resonates like the soundtrack to a scene from an imaginary movie. The music could score a romantic drama, an action thriller, or a modern twist on a classic film noir. The spare, cascading vocals accentuate the lush instrumental orchestrations composed, performed, arranged and produced by multi-instrumentalist Seth Applebaum, whose latest brainchild was conceived and conceptualized during The Great Pause of 2020, a time of tension, bewilderment and isolation. Evoking the grooviness of an era which preceded his arrival on earth, Applebaum draws upon sonic devices of mid-century exotica and the succinct but dense arranging style of the leaders of the pop orchestras which dominated the hit parades of the 60s and early 70s. He blends impressions of this bygone era with an expression of his actual experiences as a young filmmaker coming of age in the 21st century, citing influences such as Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings and Antibalas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1672331987193-CD0CCVAJI1PTBQPPH02R/4103675-2841625.jpg Blog - 2022 RAGGED STAFF PICKS - Moor Mother - Jazz Codes Coming out on July 1, Jazz Codes is Moor Mother's second and latest album for Anti- and a companion to her celebrated 2021 release Black Encyclopedia of the Air. Jazz Codes uses free jazz as a starting point but the collection continues the recent turn in Moor Mother's multifaceted catalog toward more melody, more singing voices, more choruses, more complexity. In it's warm, densely layered course through jazz, blues, soul, hip-hop, and other Black classical traditions, Jazz Codes sets the ear blissfully adrift and unhitches the mind from habit. Through her work, Ayewa illuminates the principles of her multidisciplinary collaborative practice Black Quantum Futurism, a theoretical framework for perceiving and adjusting reality through art, writing, music, and performance, informed by historical Black ontologies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1672332080596-X40JLGOUQMQ22U1GQKVQ/4105298-2844687.jpg Blog - 2022 RAGGED STAFF PICKS - Birth - Born 2022 release, the debut album from the Southern California psychedelic/progressive rock unit. Featuring members of San Diego's revered retro rockers Astra, along with current or former members of Joy, Radio Moscow, and Sacri Monti, Birth owns a cavernous cache of credibility rarely found in developing musical groups. Described as a magic-eye journey into kaleidoscopic sound, and a dystopian take on the here and now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1672332129685-NBRKPBEWOMBL1F05HL1Z/4098522-2834679.jpg Blog - 2022 RAGGED STAFF PICKS - Bart Davenport - Episodes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1672332213135-FKT38RA06OBIDOMYVOI6/4081460-2862111.jpg Blog - 2022 RAGGED STAFF PICKS - Working Men's Club - Fear Fear Songs created in the shadow of terror and loss, but that crackle and pop with defiance, wrestled into being over one of the most extra-ordinary years in recent history. This is Fear Fear, a record made for agitating and dancing, for heart and soul, for here, now and tomorrow. The complete vision, that top-to-bottom rigour, is what makes the second album from Working Men's Club such a stunning and totally unique achievement. "The title summarises a mood that's been around for 18 months - and, in fact, for a lot longer. There's a miserable kind of war that's going on. People are scared of things aside from coronavirus. It documents time during lockdown to an extent, but it isn't just about that," he explains. "The first album was mostly a personal documentation lyrically, this is a blur between personal and a third-person perspective of what was going on." Making the busy feel finessed and the dreadful feel magical - Fear Fear manages those feats, and then some. Or, as Syd Minksy-Sargeant puts it: "We just set out to make the best-sounding album we could." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1672332326978-LYQ7VXHEH9A8FGQYOQVE/4142216-2902364.jpg Blog - 2022 RAGGED STAFF PICKS - The Reds Pinks & Purples - They Only Wanted Your Soul https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1672332431492-XY4FH6XBG51828VNQDEP/4069331-2846748.jpg Blog - 2022 RAGGED STAFF PICKS - Cola - Deep In View Deep in View is the debut album from former Ought members Tim Darcy (vocals, guitar) and Ben Stidworthy (bass) alongside Evan Cartwright (drums). Titled after philosopher Alan Watts' anthology of the same name, the record is built on a foundation of elegant guitar grooves and knotty rhythms, offering commentary on modern life and technology through curious lyrical vignettes, where quotidian objects and scenes are never just as they seem. Deep In View is equally a product of introspective songwriting as it is a consideration of the abstract landmarks of an increasingly media-mediated society. It also presents the most concise and melodic songs Darcy and Stidworthy have written to date.. The album sounds streamlined and intentional, as the rhythms of the punchy and exuberant guitar parts, urgent basslines, and unexpected drum patterns all tangle with each other in an elegant dance. At the center of all these elements is Darcy, whose characteristically wry voice shifts from detached to decisive to distressed, throughout the album's course. Both enigmatically dense in meaning but precisely intricate in sound, Deep in View is an album that sparks novel interpretations with every listen, like an art object that takes on new shape with each angle from which you hold it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1672332511863-QOATK8B2CILZQ6AH7EKG/4105767-2881094.jpg Blog - 2022 RAGGED STAFF PICKS - Charles Stepney - Step On Step Double vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. Chicago-born composer, producer and arranger Charles Stepney is known to some for his work with Earth, Wind & Fire, Deniece Williams, Ramsey Lewis, Rotary Connection, Minnie Riperton, Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, Terry Callier, and many more. In the decades since his untimely death in 1976, the presence of his name in liner notes has become a seal of quality for record collectors, while his sound has been sampled extensively by artists such as Kanye West, A Tribe Called Quest, The Fugees, MF Doom, and Madlib. Step on Step - which comes almost 50 years after Stepney's passing - is the enigmatic producer's eponymous debut album. It's an album full of creative compositional seedlings - originally written, performed, and recorded by Stepney in the basement of his home in Chicago, between the late 1960s and early 1970s, using just primitive drum machines, early-gen Moog synthesizers, pianos, vibraphones, and a few other instrumental accessories. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1672332655921-7JG22N7VDC1M5DLH0LOY/Blood-Incantation.jpeg Blog - 2022 RAGGED STAFF PICKS - Blood Incantation - Timewave Zero Spawned in the Fall of 2011, Cosmic Death Metal initiates Blood Incantation, spent the past decade establishing a reputation for creating powerful Athmospheric Death Metal with progressive elements, while gradually incorporating more Psychedelic & Ambient components with each new release. The inevitable zenith of these increasingly exploratory excursions was finally reached during the summer of 2021 and captured once again on analog tape at World Famous Studios in Denver, Colorado. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1672332771347-TNPCV727T6L9R6U6ONPU/4066447-2816538.jpg Blog - 2022 RAGGED STAFF PICKS - Hallas - Isle Of Wisdom A journey through evocative sounds created by a blend of 70's rock, folk, and psychedelic influences - Isle Of Wisdom is the third studio album of the Swedish adventure rock stars Hallas. The collection allows entering a different realm soaked in mystery and retro rock traits, key features of Hallas' imagery between fantasy and sci-fi. It was produced in collaboration with Linn Fijal and Vilma Colling at Riksmixningsverket studio, which has seen music from artists such as Arch Enemy, ABBA and Celine Dion, which gave them the chance to once again use ABBA's unique synthesizers for the production of Isle Of Wisdom. The LP starts with synthy "Birth Into Darkness", with an incredibly cleaver topline from the unique vocals of singer and bassist Tommy Alexandersson. The musical journey continues with the mystical single "Earl's Theme" embellished by choral voices and proceeds with exceptional "Elusion's Gate", a piece that by giving space to the guitar lines of Alexander Moraitis and Marcus Petersson, underlines the overall epic and mysterious atmosphere of the album. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1672334088855-H8KZXVWRNI0ETQYOST8H/4094532-2831067.jpg Blog - 2022 RAGGED STAFF PICKS - Joe Rainey - Niineta Joe Rainey is a Pow Wow singer. On Niineta he demonstrates his command of the style - faithful to tradition - accompanied by cinematic, bass-heavy production from Andrew Broder. Rainey's voice can celebrate or console, welcome or intimidate, and each note conveys a clear message: We're still here. We were here before you, and we never left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1672334167130-7AORJRTGD012D2UJ2PCQ/4105790-2885008.jpg Blog - 2022 RAGGED STAFF PICKS - The Black Angels - Wilderness Of Mirrors Double vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. 2022 release. The best music reflects a wide-screen view of the world back at us, helping distill the universal into something far more personal. Since forming in Austin in 2004, The Black Angels have become standard-bearers for modern psych-rock that does exactly that, which is one of many reasons why the group's new album, Wilderness of Mirrors, feels so aptly named. Indeed, in the five years since the release of the band's prior album, Death Song, and the two-plus years spent working on Wilderness of Mirrors, pandemics, political tumult and the ongoing devastation of the environment have provided ample fodder for the Black Angels' signature sonic approach. If the group's members were terrified as they honed new music heading into an election year, they realized they didn't even know how scary things could still get. So, they looked inward, focusing on both their ongoing creative and musical development as well as their own struggles amid the external chaos. Wilderness of Mirrors hits even more close to home, as the group recorded solely in the friendly confines of Austin for the first time in more than a decade and entrusted co-production duties to it's longtime front-of-house engineer, Brett Orrison. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1672334227727-KFUDR5QTKJF0O1T0ZE4G/4015282-2750313.jpg Blog - 2022 RAGGED STAFF PICKS - Nation of Language - A Way Forward Nation of Language's A Way Forward is more relaxed and confident than anything the Brooklyn band have done before. Released in May of 2020, their debut album, Introduction, Presence, did so much better than they'd ever imagined it would that they felt it best to trust themselves and follow their instincts on the resulting follow-up. Those instincts led them to a record more rooted in Krautrock and early electronic music, with influence from artists like Kraftwerk, Laurie Spiegel, and Cluster. A Way Forward feels even more like a journey than it's predecessor, something that can be followed from start to finish with greater emotional peaks and valleys and new sonic landscapes being explored. The highs are higher, the lows are lower, and there's a palpable gratitude of the ability to be present right now and experience any of these emotions at all. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1672334334547-L3WEX089YGKQIC313O1N/a2726392186_10.jpg Blog - 2022 RAGGED STAFF PICKS - Cruex Lies - Goodbye Divine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1672334450927-HTRKSOXWCIMBMXTA470X/4120815-2861023.jpg Blog - 2022 RAGGED STAFF PICKS - TRAAMS - Personal Best Personal Best, the third album from Chichester's TRAAMS and their first in seven years, represents a band rebuilt from the ground up. After half a decade apart, all it took was a global pandemic to reaffirm their intense urge to create music together, and the limitations the situation brought with it ended up revolutionizing their sound. "A lot of this album is about recognizing yourself," Stu, vocalist and songwriter, says. "This record is about the little changes we make, and the milestones we achieve in that process," he adds, reflecting on a seven year period where his band drifted apart before reconnecting and finding an entirely new way of working, a change that has resulted in their most beautiful and fully-formed album yet. "It's not about big declarations of love or huge outpourings of grief," he says. "It's about the little personal realizations and victories that people have throughout their lives. Some of them are massive, some of them can be hard, and some are small and beautiful, but they all matter." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1672334644126-EZVTNIG4LSC62KIFTP2S/Nduduzo---In-the-Spirit-of-Ntu-_Album-Cover.png Blog - 2022 RAGGED STAFF PICKS - Nduduzo Makhathini - In The Spirit Of Ntu South African pianist and composer Nduduzo Makhathini follows his acclaimed Blue Note debut, Modes of Communication (which was named one of the Best Jazz Albums of 2020 by The New York Times), with another profound artistic statement: In The Spirit Of Ntu. The album features some of South Africa's most exciting young musicians including saxophonist Linda Sikhakhane, trumpeter Robin Fassie Kock, vibraphonist Dylan Tabisher, bassist Stephen de Souza, drummer Dane Paris, and other special guests. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1672334895168-RJCOEKO4VYKI3FLEKWCG/4115383-2862291.jpg Blog - 2022 RAGGED STAFF PICKS - Nnamdi - Please Have A Seat As an artist, composer, producer, writer, and co-founder of Sooper Records, so much of NNAMDÏ's life is go/go/go, do/do/do, produce/produce/produce, with precious little time to stop. Take a Breath. Have a Seat. Please Have a Seat finds NNAMDÏ writing through those calmer moments as he's been able to capture them; to sit down, pause, and write twelve songs. If there is comfort here among the common themes, it's the comfort in finding wisdom and gaining confidence. Pausing, but also knowing there maybe is no real pause, that every moment is one to grow as a human, to reflect or learn. In fact, Please Have a Seat is bookended by two songs about running, about finding those moments in motion, getting out of go-brain and into something deeper, more elemental. That these are pop songs to NNAMDÏ is telling; the hooks are there, melodies and chorus lines that make Please Have a Seat warm and inviting. But the articulations are nonlinear, and NNAMDÏ's Please Have a Seat isn't a story or narrative collection so much as an incantation, a conjuring of elements with an almost synesthetic quality. Sounds, styles and themes crisscross into focus, giving a glimpse into NNAMDÏ's inspiration and inviting us to please have a seat ourselves, to make our own moment and our own meaning of it. With Please Have a Seat, NNAMDÏ doesn't so much tell a story as show us the power of it's requisite pieces. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1672335006469-LOXDVEZICPWI5BQ5KAC1/4058524-2805050.jpg Blog - 2022 RAGGED STAFF PICKS - Daniel Rossen - You Belong There Debut solo album from Daniel Rossen, a key songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and lead voice of bands Grizzly Bear and Department of Eagles. http://www.raggedrecords.org/blog/lowland-block-party monthly 0.5 2022-09-28 http://www.raggedrecords.org/blog/2022/6/23/the-john-d-hopkins-amp-reed-mullin-collection-sale-at-wake-brewing monthly 0.5 2022-06-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1656002808804-LSNRON03HWJUC6DQPVZU/hopkins+banner.jpg Blog - The John D. 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A co-founder of the legendary Sonic Youth, Gordon has performed all over the world, collaborating with many of music's most exciting figures including Tony Conrad, Ikue Mori, Julie Cafritz and Stephen Malkmus. Most recently, Gordon has been hitting the road with Body/Head, her spellbinding partnership with artist and musician Bill Nace. Despite the exhaustive nature of her résumé, the most reliable aspect of Gordon's music may be it's resistance to formula. Songs discover themselves as they unspool, each one performing a test of the medium's possibilities and limits. Her command is astonishing, but Gordon's artistic curiosity remains the guiding force behind her music. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1576081173719-U8HOP7OSRXEW4J67JX5S/3685445-2411285.jpg Blog - LISTEN: STAFF PICKS 2019 - Solange - When I Get Home When I Get Home is the 2019 album from Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter and visual artist Solange Knowles. This release represents the next phase in Solange's evolution as an artist, and is the follow up to her critically acclaimed 2016 album A Seat at the Table. The album is an exploration of origin. It asks the question how much of ourselves do we bring with us versus leave behind in our evolution. The artist returned to Third Ward Houston to answer this. When I Get Home was written, performed, and executive produced by Solange, and includes contributions from Tyler, the Creator, Chassol, Playboi Carti, Standing on the Corner, Panda Bear, Devin the Dude, The-Dream, and more. It also features samples from Third Ward's own Debbie Allen, Phylicia Rashad, poet Pat Parker, and Scarface. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1576081461292-ANOPCDK2N9B4E5AFIVDY/3709407-2416544.jpg Blog - LISTEN: STAFF PICKS 2019 - Angel Olson - All Mirrors The descent into darkness is a trope we find time again across history, literature and film. But there's also an abyss above. There's a winding white staircase that goes ever upward into the great unknown - each step, each turn, requiring a greater boldness and confidence than the one before. This is the journey on which we find Angel Olsen. Olsen's artistic beginnings as a collaborator shifted seamlessly to her magnificent, cryptic-to-cosmic solo work, and then she formed bands to play her songs, and her stages and audiences grew exponentially. But all along, Olsen was more concerned with a different kind of path, and on her vulnerable, Big Mood new album, All Mirrors, we can see her taking an introspective deep dive towards internal destinations and revelations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1576081591364-Q8GRU1FPJOWQ7S28F4SV/3686549-2410183.jpg Blog - LISTEN: STAFF PICKS 2019 - Hide - Hell Is Here 2018's "Castration Anxiety", the debut full-length from Chicago's Hide, presented an adept evolution in the journey of interdisciplinary artists Heather Gabel and Seth Sher. Trading in concrete and traditional songwriting and compositional structure for more challenging, stripped back, and cathartic arrangement, the duo ventured to reconfigure industrial music for a contemporary age. "Hell Is Here", Hide's 2019 sophomore full-length, sees this evolution progress even further. Using their previously established blueprint, Gabel and Sher poke and prod at the perception of musical context, and remind the listener that feelings of anxiety, pain, and discomfort are equally as important as those of resolution. Perhaps the strongest tool utilized here is the material's dichotomy between the abrasive and the sterile. Beneath the crushing noisy exterior, sparks the familiar human voice. Divorced from their caustic counterparts Gabel's vocals play a decisive role in cementing narrative for the material's uncompromising assault on the senses. Opening track "Chainsaw" immediately lays the groundwork for the excursion to come. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1576081704000-ZXWJPL1W8JBT350YU6F1/3743934-2510611.jpg Blog - LISTEN: STAFF PICKS 2019 - Arthur Russell - Iowa Dream The visionary musician Arthur Russell is as widely known as he's ever been. Thanks to Russell's partner Tom Lee and to Steve Knutson of Audika Records, who have forged several records from Russell's vast archive of unreleased material, the world now hears many versions of Arthur Russell. There's the Iowa boy, the disco mystic, the singer-songwriter and composer, and the fierce perfectionist deep in a world of echo. While all of these elements of Russell are individually true, none alone define him. Iowa Dream is yet another bright star in Russell's dazzling constellation. Blazing with trademark feeling, these nineteen songs are a staggering collection of Russell's utterly distinct songwriting. And although Arthur could be inscrutably single-minded, he was never totally solitary. Collaborating here is a stacked roster of downtown New York musicians, including Ernie Brooks (Modern Lovers), Rhys Chatham, Henry Flynt, Jon Gibson, Peter Gordon, David Van Tieghem and others. Musician Peter Broderick makes a contemporary addition to this list: more than forty years after Russell recorded several nearly finished songs, Broderick worked diligently with Audika to complete them, and provided audio restoration and additional mixing. Several tracks on Iowa Dream were originally recorded as demos, in two early examples of his repeated brushes with potential popular success-first in 1974, with Paul Nelson of Mercury Records, and then in 1975, with the legendary John Hammond of Columbia Records. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1576081898426-YVLYW695JW5I5A5R2F26/71BM6-u%2B3bL._SX522_.jpg Blog - LISTEN: STAFF PICKS 2019 - Gene Clark - No Other Gene Clark's 1974 masterpiece gets the reappraisal it's long overdue. On the eve of what would have been American singer-songwriter and Byrds founding member Gene Clark's 75th birthday comes the reissue of one of his finest works, No Other. Released in 1974 on Asylum Records, a year after the Byrds short- lived reunion, Gene reached for the stars with No Other; a psychedelic rock, folk, country and soul record that famously cost a small fortune to make. Although received warmly by critics, it flopped and was soon deleted, a failure Gene never came to terms with. However, as The New York Times wrote around the record's 40th anniversary in 2014, "hindsight has burnished No Other, as it has redeemed other albums that went on to be reconstructed as rock repertory, like Big Star's Third/Sister Lovers and Lou Reed's Berlin," with the album now being increasingly recognized as one of the greatest of it's time, if not all time. 45 years on and recently remastered at Abbey Road, 4AD are giving No Other the reappraisal it deserves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1576081982129-E4LUSRF5Y3JR3ANOWVD4/3930439.jpg Blog - LISTEN: STAFF PICKS 2019 - Resavoir - Self Titled Coming 6 months after the release of their debut single "Escalator" (which BBC's Gilles Peterson called "a winner") is Resavoir's first full-length album. The self-titled collection is a juicy suite of elegantly-orchestrated lo-fi jazz instrumentals, recalling vintage mod soul like David Axelrod, Piero Umiliani, or Charles Stepney, but doing it like The Avalanches or MF Doom would do.. We think it's a perfect score for summer too, in infinitely loop-able format: 9 tracks running 30 minutes total, and the last track goes in to the first track swimmingly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1576082165418-RLBO080XYOIP3ZGDKMLW/3731256-2499748.jpg Blog - LISTEN: STAFF PICKS 2019 - FKA Twigs - Magdalene Magdalene is the second studio album by English singer and songwriter FKA Twigs. It is her first body of work since her EP M3LL155X (2015), and first full-length record since LP1 (2014) Production was handled by FKA Twigs herself, with producers including Jack Antonoff, Metro Boomin, Nicolas Jaar, Kenny Beats, Oneohtrix Point Never, Jeff Kleinman, Skrillex, Sounwave, and Michael Uzowuru. Includes the singles "Cellophane", "Holy Terrain" (featuring rapper Future) and "Home with You". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1576082446865-7T4MVKG991UFVUZ68UQG/3735229-2495941.jpg Blog - LISTEN: STAFF PICKS 2019 - Portico Quartet - Memory Streams Portico Quartet return with Memory Streams, their fifth studio album and one that continues the journey that first started with 2008's Mercury nominated debut Knee Deep in the North Sea. It's a creative path that has seen the band embrace new technology and explore ambient and electronic influences alongside minimalism, jazz and beyond. It is a process that has encouraged change. Each album has seen the band expand it's palate or explore new trajectories. From the gentle charm of their breakthrough's inimitable mix of jazz, world and minimalist influences, to the tight-knit brilliance of Isla, the electronic infused eponymous Portico Quartet to 2016's return Art in the Age of Automation, each record has been it's own world, it's own statement and offered it's own meaning. It's the mark of a band that has always both stood apart from any scene and been prepared to challenge it's self and find new things to say and to push the limits of what they could do. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1576082542643-FP16XIZTFQJTV257NZZF/3912887.jpg Blog - LISTEN: STAFF PICKS 2019 - Cate Le Bon - Reward 2019 release from the Welsh singer/songwriter. The songs on Reward gracefully blend lush pop hooks and meticulous instrument exercises, at times calling on UK dub and post-punk, not unlike the music of The Raincoats or Talking Heads. It's a complex and lovely record from front to back. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1576197091838-0SA2Y5T7D94KRJVZ9Y0U/a1486258444_10.jpg Blog - LISTEN: STAFF PICKS 2019 - Deadbeat Beat - How Far https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1576082666284-OWE4ZFVL0O8A84F7D0DC/3707506-2415450.jpg Blog - LISTEN: STAFF PICKS 2019 - Stereolab - Dots & Loops September 6, 2019 sees the continuation of Stereolab's seven album reissue campaign when 1996's 'Emperor Tomato Ketchup', 1997's 'Dots and Loops' and 1999's 'Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night' are reissued, via Warp Records and Duophonic UHF Disks, as expanded and re-mastered editions on vinyl and compact disc. Each album has been re-mastered from the original 1/2' tapes by Bo Kondren at Calyx Mastering and overseen by Tim Gane. Bonus material will include alternate takes, 4 track demos and unreleased mixes. These reissues follow 1993's 'Transient Random Noise-Bursts With Announcements' and 1994's 'Mars Audiac Quintet' which received Expanded Editions earlier in 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1576197174059-GA1TOLHUWOVKVZBMTVKO/a4184900666_10.jpg Blog - LISTEN: STAFF PICKS 2019 - Ami Dang - Parted Plains https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1576083128252-25JYGIK995KL77FCY5KC/3714385-2507855.jpg Blog - LISTEN: STAFF PICKS 2019 - Battles - Juice B Crypts Battles return with Juice B Crypts on Warp Records to follow their complex, mind-bending predecessors Mirrored, Gloss Drop and La Di Da Di. Their latest album is a sensory overload of information that throws everything you thought you knew about Battles into flux once again. Battles' redefined line-up puts Ian Williams (keys, electronics) and John Stanier (drums) at the core of the covertly named Juice B Crypts, which was produced and mixed by Chris Tabron (Trash Talk, Mobb Deep, Ratking). Marrying synthesizer loops, cut-throat drum patterns and cyclical riffs, the album flirts with new technology, questions of authenticity and the technicalities of reinventing the wheel at the eleventh hour. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1576083324516-NDH77FYSKL8XKFMU8JVL/a3214999574_10.jpg Blog - LISTEN: STAFF PICKS 2019 - Toy - Songs Of Consumtion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1576083414267-6U5YD7WC9PUWX9WFBWFF/3911574.jpg Blog - LISTEN: STAFF PICKS 2019 - Altin Gun - Gece 2019 release, the sophomore album from the Turkish psych folk band. Altin Gün are easy to fall in love with. The band, which hails from Amsterdam but comes from various backgrounds (Turkish, Indonesian, Dutch) create music that opens doors between traditional Turkish folk songs and psych. With Gece, the band continue to experiment, opening sonic portals previously unexplored between genres. The traditional folk songs Altin Gün has re-worked for Gece become nearly unrecognizable in their talented hands, as they deftly change time signatures, adding new sounds and layers to each track. The result is a sparkling album that is guaranteed to lift the mood of any room it is played in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1576102377012-LNFEYVPQ4QN1BMAGPMAE/3683786-2417836.jpg Blog - LISTEN: STAFF PICKS 2019 - Raphael Sadiq - Jimmy Lee Jimmy Lee is the new album from Raphael Saadiq, the Grammy Award- winning musician, songwriter and go-to collaborator/producer Raphael Saadiq. This collection is Raphael’s first new album in eight years, and is the follow-up to 2011’s Stone Rollin.’ The album was announced in June, 2019 with the release of the single “Something Keeps Calling.” Jimmy Lee is a deeply personal, musically ambitious work inspired by his brother’s struggles with addiction that explores the razor’s edge people walk as they pursue pleasure that leads to pain — a brilliantly incisive and empathetic work from a master at the peak of his art. The album takes the listener from Saadiq’s native Oakland to Rikers Island as he traces the everyday struggles of addiction and incarceration, taking in both the thrills and pitfalls he witnessed throughout his brother’s life. Comprising narcotic funk, steely gospel affirmations, and quaking protest soul, Jimmy Lee is a resonant examination of modern life, in all its exuberance, destruction and consequence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1576102471296-K2511UJZJZQI8VS73KAX/3724959-2479168.jpg Blog - LISTEN: STAFF PICKS 2019 - Lightning Bolt - Sonic Citadel http://www.raggedrecords.org/blog/2019/7/19/listen-nothing-shocking-podcast monthly 0.5 2019-07-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1563579551402-W54H3ES1XB9WML58D2LP/pinkus.jpg Blog - LISTEN: NOTHING SHOCKING PODCAST - Pinkus of Butthole Surfers & Melvins http://www.raggedrecords.org/blog/june-new-releases- monthly 0.5 2019-06-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1561577588655-KH4PNWGSN185O9S534NB/June+New+Releases+2019.jpg Blog - NEW RELEASES: JUNE http://www.raggedrecords.org/blog/2019/3/5/list-record-store-day-2019-releases monthly 0.5 2019-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1552590940759-14UALN465XMUCQR1ZGS8/53918439_2235275186537773_4024857739057430528_o.jpg Blog - 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LISTEN: RAGGED 2018 STAFF PICKS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1544730493018-A1HU26RQ4HC2YJJUG58P/3054488.jpg Blog - LISTEN: RAGGED 2018 STAFF PICKS - Jeff Parker - New Breed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1544730497751-XOAT3JTTF2N00J7TARF4/3552339.jpg Blog - LISTEN: RAGGED 2018 STAFF PICKS - Low - Double Negative https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1544730495046-JQ4R7Y5N9XRCHFD9KOAW/3462832.jpg Blog - LISTEN: RAGGED 2018 STAFF PICKS - Facs - Negative Houses https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1544730495524-RPZOKTOURAHTBLYB3M6N/3470503.jpg Blog - LISTEN: RAGGED 2018 STAFF PICKS - Raphiq Bhatia - Breaking English https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1544730496067-TDLACSTIWZTBW7KBXFU2/3491112.jpg Blog - LISTEN: RAGGED 2018 STAFF PICKS - Kamaal Williams - The Return https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1544730496734-8VVML3A66FPOXSO2VCDT/3516880.jpg Blog - 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On this weeks episode our guest is Poison Drummer Rikki Rockett. Currently Poison is in the middle of their headlining tour with special guests Cheap Trick and opening act Pop Evil. The bands are fired up to make the journey across the U.S. together. Bret Michaels, POISON lead singer and noted philanthropist says, “The all original POISON is headlining again this summer. It’s going to be a mega concert and party combined. We will be playing all the hits and bringing high energy rock and roll good times. I promise this will be awesome. My friends CHEAP TRICK and POP EVIL will be joining us as well as some special guests on select dates. Again, I know all the bands with all the hits will be giving 1000%!!! 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Their second full album sounds international and ageless; Eastern influences, Ethio-dub, and jazz effortlessly merge producing psyche-delicious and accessible 21st century Ethio-dub-jazz. As if John Zorn put on Fela Kuti's shoes and imbibed Mulatu Astatke's whirls. Piloted by saxophonist/flutist/composer Nathan Daems (Ragini Trio, Dijf Sanders, Antwerp Gipsy-Ska Orkestra), this instrumental band aims for originality. Fellow musicians and "brothers down the road" are Jon Birdsong (dEUS, Beck, Calexico) on cornet, Simon Segers (Absynthe Minded, de Beren Gieren, Stadt) at the drums, Filip Vandebril (Lady Linn, The Valerie Solanas, Antwerp Gipsy-Ska Orkestra) on the bass, and Wouter Haest (Los Callejeros, Voodoo Boogie) playing keys. For many, the Ethiopian aspect once made known to the world by Mulatu Astatke will stand out. Still, Black Flower further adds oriental scales, Afrobeat à la Fela Kuti, jazz in a John Zorn way and varied western music traditions such as rock and dub. The resulting melting pot is undoubtedly inspired by Nathan's distant travels and the multifariously colorful city of Brussels. After their well-received debut album Abyssinia Afterlife (2014) which created an atmosphere of mythical figures and psychedelia, Black Flower now reflect on ancient and modern cultures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1513817645134-AGRWKFS1ZS79UJE4QBJI/3581188.jpg Blog - LIST: RAGGED RECORDS 2017 STAFF PICKS - Girlpool - Powerplant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1513817646848-WOHZL1H085VTYMANRY0L/3583573.jpg Blog - LIST: RAGGED RECORDS 2017 STAFF PICKS - Juana Molina - Halo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1513817647638-93QIYCN1XX00XIOCQBF4/3591397.jpg Blog - LIST: RAGGED RECORDS 2017 STAFF PICKS - Cende - #1 Hit Single https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1513817646851-SYJYMUACNXDFWR5NMHWR/a2735816485_10.jpg Blog - LIST: RAGGED RECORDS 2017 STAFF PICKS - The Golden Fleece - Kill The Time https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1513817647331-DS9HPJ0WLROHJP83C1LI/3601289.jpg Blog - LIST: RAGGED RECORDS 2017 STAFF PICKS - Roger Waters - Is This The Life We Really Want? Roger Waters, the creative power and songwriting force behind Pink Floyd, presents Is This The Life We Really Want ?, his first rock album in 25 years. The album is produced and mixed by Nigel Godrich (Radiohead, Paul McCartney, Beck, U2), and includes 12 new Roger Waters musical compositions and studio performances. Roger Waters' last studio album, 1992's Amused To Death, was a prescient study of popular culture, exploring the power of television in the era of the First Gulf War. This long-awaited follow-up, Is This The Life We Really Want ?, is an unflinching commentary on the modern world and uncertain times, and a natural successor to such classic Pink Floyd albums as Animals and The Wall. The musicians on Is This The Life We Really Want? are: Roger Waters (vocals, acoustic, bass), Nigel Godrich (arrangement, sound collages, keyboards, guitar), Gus Seyffert (bass, guitar, keyboards), Jonathan Wilson (guitar, keyboards), Joey Waronker (drums), Roger Mannning (keyboards), Lee Pardini (keyboards) and Lucius (vocals) with Jessica Wolfe and Holly Proctor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1513817647706-1JWTBST0IVZDXLKOQKDC/3603693.jpg Blog - LIST: RAGGED RECORDS 2017 STAFF PICKS - Beach Fossils - Somersault . The long-awaited return of Brooklyn's Beach Fossils, Somersault showcases a band in bloom. Charting into new musical territory with a refined songwriting style, it's an album that captures flashes of life in New York grounded in personal experience. As the band's first release on Dustin Payseur's new label Bayonet Records, which he co-owns with wife Kate Garcia - the group made the most of their newfound independence, investing ample time in expanding it's range both musically and lyrically. While Payseur handled the bulk of the songwriting duties in the past, Somersault is a true collaboration between the founding member and bandmates, Jack Doyle Smith and Tommy Davidson. Somersault evokes the laid-back mood of a warm, breezy city night, the air crackling with humidity and excitement. These songs pulse and pull, capturing a blend of promise and heartache. It's beautiful and layered, a refined, sweeping creation that threads together numerous styles, textures, and themes into a refreshing, singular vision. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1513817648298-EJRJ765S5D9SDT7LNK9D/3622334.jpg Blog - LIST: RAGGED RECORDS 2017 STAFF PICKS - Heliocentrics - The Sunshine Makers Soundtrack Original score by The Heliocentrics, including bonus tracks that were not included in the documentary itself. The Heliocentrics are a group for which genres are meaningless and boundaries invisible. Since first appearing on DJ Shadow's 2006 album The Outsider the group have gone on to release a string of records that float through jazz, hip-hop, psych, krautrock, and musique concrete whilst collaborating with numerous genre heavyweights from Mulatu Astake to Gaslamp Killer and picking up prestigious fans along the way, such as Madlib and the recently departed David Axelrod. Sunshine Makers is a documentary from the makers of the Academy Award winning Searching For Sugarman. Two warriors for peace, a vat of chemicals and an LSD cookbook. What could possibly go wrong? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1513817643806-JTU8Z5D2UAVOBFB4AXC3/3544851.jpg Blog - LIST: RAGGED RECORDS 2017 STAFF PICKS - J.E. Sunde - Now I Feel Adored Now I Feel Adored - J.E. Sunde - VINYL LP - Cartouche Records excitedly announces the sophomore release from JE Sunde. The new record from JE Sunde, 'Now I Feel Adored' released on March 3rd, 2017. - 'Now I Feel Adored', the follow up to 2014's brilliant critic and fan favorite 'Shapes That Kiss The Lips of God', features Sunde's core group of Andrew Thoreen (Har-Di Har) and Shane Leonard (Kalispell, Field Report). Several guest musicians and friends lent their skills including Marty Bruggermann who also played on Sundes first effort, and the contribution of Monica Martin's (of the band Phox) acapella duet on "I Will Smile When I Think of You" and many others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1513817649040-V65YD5NM0W4GFTQ9XKZ8/3684072.jpg Blog - LIST: RAGGED RECORDS 2017 STAFF PICKS - Protomartyr - Relatives In Descent After a year of extensive touring in support of 2015's The Agent Intellect, Protomartyr returned to their practice space in a former optician's office in Southwest Detroit. Guitarist Greg Ahee - inspired by The Raincoats' Odyshape, Mica Levi's orchestral compositions, and Protomartyr's recent collaboration with post-punk legends The Pop Group, for Rough Trade's 40th anniversary - began writing new music that artfully expanded on everything they'd recorded up until that point. The result is Relatives in Descent, their fourth full-length and Domino debut. Though not a concept album, it presents twelve variations on a theme: the unknowable nature of truth, and the existential dread that often accompanies that unknowing. 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In an attempt to hold on to this feeling, I decided to lift the original title of that song and use it for my own purposes. It's unclear to me what that purpose is, or what the connection is. I was not thinking about Suede when making this record. I was thinking about the last few years of the Thatcher era. Those were the years when music first really came at me like a sickness, I had it bad. Maybe "The Wild Ones" speaks to that feeling, probably why Suede made no sense in America. I think "ken" also means "to know." ken was produced by Josh Wells of Black Mountain, who has been the drummer in Destroyer since 2012. The album was recorded in it's entirety in the jam space/studio space that the group calls The Balloon Factory. However, unlike Poison Season, ken was not recorded as a "band" record, though everyone in the band does make an appearance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1513817651065-F4392ODTD0PMY1CJJEB0/3709442.jpg Blog - LIST: RAGGED RECORDS 2017 STAFF PICKS - Benjamin Clementine - I Tell A Fly https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1513817651469-LQ5QWSOT26OFUAREBD0Z/3730020.jpg Blog - LIST: RAGGED RECORDS 2017 STAFF PICKS - Snapped Ankles - Come Play The Trees 2017 debut album of woodland agitators, now located in East London. They come from the trees. When the city encroaches on the forest, nature finds a way to reclaim what is rightfully hers. Snapped Ankles arrive as messengers. On Come Play The Trees, they hold up a mirror to us. They're here to plant the seed. They're here to have a good time, but never at the expense of the natural habitat. This band emerges from the woods clutching an album that feels simultaneously modern and ancient. This is dance music once the computers finally fail us. Log synths, bass guitar and sticks on taut animal-skin form fearsome primal rhythms. Fuzz guitars rub up against dirty, rolling, arpeggiated synthesizers to ignite wild white-noise fires. Forest folklore passed down through generations has made it's way onto these tracks. Subjects veer from dystopian futures to Swedish flat-pack furniture, from the films of Jean-Luc Godard and Andrei Tarkovsky to throwaway YouTube comments. High art and cultural detritus are all fair game-a brave new world indeed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1513817653368-IA6CCQ3AGC986W6MCHTG/3730911.jpg Blog - LIST: RAGGED RECORDS 2017 STAFF PICKS - Circuit Des Yeux - Reaching for Indigo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1513817654328-RODGRYPOBHHFU1TGIRG5/3732444.jpg Blog - LIST: RAGGED RECORDS 2017 STAFF PICKS - Curtis Harding - Face Your Fears Curtis Harding could best be described as a student of the gritty, sweat-dripping, hip-swinging blues that wafted through the air of the American sixties. The offspring of a mother who sang gospel, and a retired veteran, he traveled all over the country as a child, singing alongside his parents, learning that music was in fact the great communicator, and that the key was not just in how pretty the notes were, but how if you were honest in what you were singing, you could stir a person on the inside. This is what Otis Redding knew. What Sam Cooke, and Bo Diddley, and B. B. King knew. That somehow there was a way to take your experiences, your pain and joy, and give them melody, cause them to live and breathe and massage the hearts and minds of all those who hear. That is what CURTIS HARDING does on his new album, Face Your Fear. He figures out how to tap into the old soul man of the past without mimicking or bastardizing it, but instead evoking the spirit of the true Soul music of yesterday, meshed with the realities of now. With a little production help from his friends Sam Cohen and Danger Mouse, Curtis Harding has put together a collection of tunes that NME described as "soul-meets-garage pop perfection." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1513817661931-Z3L3NTNGRHRRMZOGU8YK/a0708974788_10.jpg Blog - LIST: RAGGED RECORDS 2017 STAFF PICKS - Har-di-Har - we will will you https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1513820241076-0HDXJCPIQHWI7MR6YGTO/3711502+%281%29.jpg Blog - LIST: RAGGED RECORDS 2017 STAFF PICKS - Omni - Multi-task https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1513817656382-35BPOY549MZEKDN0FW8H/3734655.jpg Blog - LIST: RAGGED RECORDS 2017 STAFF PICKS - Escape-ism - Introduction to Escape-ism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1513817658209-AMU38YQYXS2KA22IL3XE/3738324.jpg Blog - LIST: RAGGED RECORDS 2017 STAFF PICKS - Bitchn' Bajas - Fresh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1513817658898-H1V9BG6BLB76HOTBSRTI/3743921.jpg Blog - LIST: RAGGED RECORDS 2017 STAFF PICKS - Metevari - Symmetri Metavari is the stage name of Indiana-based electronic musician Nathaniel David Utesch and is best described as the intersection of nostalgic electronics, ambient soundscapes and off-kilter synth pop music. Since 2008, Metavari have toured extensively in the US; sharing the stage with notable acts such as This Will Destroy You, Maserati, Tortoise, Titus Andronicus, Anamanaguchi, The Appleseed Cast & Small Black. Written and produced over the course of 20 months, the lengthy writing time stretched across a whirlwind season surrounding the miscarriage of Nathaniel and his wife's first pregnancy and coincidentally ended just after the success of their second. Nathaniel said of the writing, "The record was drenched in an incredibly dark season of our life and yet concluded at nearly the opposite. I quite literally finished the record with my newborn son in my arms." While much of 'Symmetri' was written as a re-scoring of Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis,' it's still almost impossible not to hear the disparate tug and pull from Nathaniel's personal experiences during the time of the recordings. The LP comes packaged in a deluxe jacket with a custom die cut center hole & includes a digital download containing a bonus track from Metavari and remixes from Sarah Davachi, Diamondstein, Antoni Maiovvi, Makeup and Vanity Set, Taragana Pyjarama, and Umberto. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1513822079687-RA6U45MSV8TLG2QZ7GVK/LinkWray.jpg Blog - LIST: RAGGED RECORDS 2017 STAFF PICKS - Link Wray - S/T https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1513817657346-EEPICQIK8E5F26XF4TVG/3735513.jpg Blog - LIST: RAGGED RECORDS 2017 STAFF PICKS - Twink - Think Pink https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1513820089542-HIAB23T9QB35I3N0J8UG/3738008.jpg Blog - LIST: RAGGED RECORDS 2017 STAFF PICKS - Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets Here Come the Warm Jets is the debut solo album by Brian Eno, credited only as Eno. Produced by him, it was released on Island Records in January 1974. The musical style of Here Come the Warm Jets is a hybrid of glam rock and art pop, similar to Eno's previous album work with Roxy Music, although in a stronger experimental fashion. In developing the album's words and music, Eno used unusual methods such as dancing for his band members and having them play accordingly, and singing nonsense words to himself that would form the basis of subsequent lyrics. The album features various guest musicians, including members of Roxy Music, Hawkwind, Matching Mole and Pink Fairies, as well as Chris Spedding, and Robert Fripp of King Crimson, who collaborated with Eno a year before in (No Pussyfooting).Here Come the Warm Jets peaked at #26 on the United Kingdom album charts and #151 on the US Billboard charts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1513821896652-9Z4TGC7NKU15Z2VH5U6U/3642643.jpg Blog - LIST: RAGGED RECORDS 2017 STAFF PICKS - Gabor Szabo - Dreams https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1513820537032-T8TUDW7QM1DOPJW93KTB/3635094.jpg Blog - LIST: RAGGED RECORDS 2017 STAFF PICKS - Terry Riley - Persian Surgery Dervishes Persian Surgery Dervishes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1513817654193-9KA63PSVK3TJI4BWAFU5/3731140+%281%29.jpg Blog - LIST: RAGGED RECORDS 2017 STAFF PICKS - Mr. Bongo Record Club 2 Compilation Volume Two picks up where the last one left off - with a touch more soul and disco - records we've been spinning in our DJ sets and on the radio show of the same name, that inspired this series. We opened a new record shop in the center of Brighton late in 2016 - 13 years after the mighty London store closed it's door. Now situated on the ground floor of our Gloucester Yard home the shop is open every Saturday to sell records that we love, some of which you'll hear on the radio shows, and on this album. It's been a resounding success and we've been able to host sunny in-store events and Facebook Live broadcasts with guests including Nick The Record, Dimensions Festival family Debora Ipekel, Flamingods, Slugabed, The Physics House Band and Remi Kolawole & Sensible J. In 2017 and beyond, we will be releasing more of our official reissues including lesser-known essentials from Brazil, such as Gal Costa's 'India', Robson Jorge & Lincoln Olivetti, Burnier & Cartier alongside 1980's Mexican psychedelia from Luis Perez. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1514406495294-N87Q6NAJGEODLJEKTA40/3734075.jpg Blog - LIST: RAGGED RECORDS 2017 STAFF PICKS - Warhaus - Self Titled https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1514408372376-U07P17FGCPF4Q5YT89K5/3540943.jpg Blog - LIST: RAGGED RECORDS 2017 STAFF PICKS - Real Estate - In Mind Long respected for their deft lyrical hand and gorgeous melodies, In Mind builds upon the band's reputation for crafting perfect songs and carries Real Estate even deeper into the pantheon of great songwriters. On the new record, the band fine-tunes the winsome songwriting and profound earnestness that made previous albums - 2009's Real Estate, 2011's Days, and 2014's Atlas - so beloved, and pushes their songs in a variety of compelling new directions. Written primarily by guitarist and vocalist Martin Courtney at his home in Beacon - a quiet town in upstate New York - In Mind offers a shifting of the gears, positing a band engaged in the push/pull of burgeoning adulthood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1514408381433-TTPE8EZOIFGXTKNAWDJF/3622334.jpg Blog - LIST: RAGGED RECORDS 2017 STAFF PICKS - The Heliocentrics - The Sunshine Makers The Heliocentrics are a group for which genres are meaningless and boundaries invisible. Since first appearing on DJ Shadow's 2006 album The Outsider the group have gone on to release a string of records that float through jazz, hip-hop, psych, krautrock, and musique concrete whilst collaborating with numerous genre heavyweights from Mulatu Astake to Gaslamp Killer and picking up prestigious fans along the way, such as Madlib and the recently departed David Axelrod. Sunshine Makers is a documentary from the makers of the Academy Award winning Searching For Sugarman. Two warriors for peace, a vat of chemicals and an LSD cookbook. What could possibly go wrong? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1514408439008-VGPSI2H1PEKEODGHPQR0/1716604.jpg Blog - LIST: RAGGED RECORDS 2017 STAFF PICKS - Agnes Obel - Philharmonics https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1514411178289-H261P9J1HYKZEIK5Z8LJ/3676793.jpg Blog - LIST: RAGGED RECORDS 2017 STAFF PICKS - Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun While past albums operated on the intimacy of stripped-down folk music (The Grime and the Glow, Unknown Rooms), or the throbbing pulse of supplemental electronics (Pain Is Beauty, Abyss), Chelsea Wolfe's sixth official album Hiss Spun wrings it's exquisiteness out of a palette of groaning bass, pounding drums, and crunching distortion. Recorded by Kurt Ballou (Converge), the album was conceived as an emotional purge, a means of coming to terms with the tumult of the outside world by exploring the complexities of one's inner unrest. "I'm at odds with myself," she explains. "I got tired of trying to disappear. The record became very personal in that way. I wanted to open up more, but also create my own reality." Hiss Spun features contributions by Aaron Turner (Old Man Gloom, SUMAC) and Troy Van Leeuwen (Queens of the Stone Age, Failure). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1514412450881-7EUX7K3PX7OKU21RMEPO/3718771.jpg Blog - LIST: RAGGED RECORDS 2017 STAFF PICKS - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Sketches Of Brunswick East (Feat. Mile High Club) Sketches of Brunswick East, a collaboration with LA tripster troupe Mild High Club, is a chance to get to know King Gizzard's sunny, playful side. Where previous albums have slipped down sonic worm-holes to explore distant galaxies, this one is an examination of (and homage to) the Melbourne suburb in which King Gizzard write and record in their own studio. A nod to Miles Davis's Sketches of Spain, this album sees the band further exploring a Tropicalia element only ever previously hinted at. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard is an Australian psychedelic rock band that formed in 2010 in Melbourne, Victoria. The band is noted for it's energetic live performances and prolific recording output. 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Doesn't aim to present any kind of narrative thread, or Brexit-era state- of-the-nation address, just a collection of snapshots and stories, artfully sequenced into a dazzlingly coherent whole. Man Alive! #is available on CD, standard single LP black vinyl and as a limited red vinyl edition sold exclusively at independent record stores. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1593747036986-3G6TFPHDWQ0NP0JGYDD9/3780201-2535017.jpg SPRING NEW RELEASES - Chris Janson - Real Friends https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1593747036988-8HI6BB4EDUEYEWBUZRJ9/3779759-2539406.jpg SPRING NEW RELEASES - Bruce Springsteen - 18 Tracks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1593747037431-GB06NJSGD1BQUKB3GNS6/3779555-2540052.jpg SPRING NEW RELEASES - Tennis - Swimmer Tennis are an indie pop duo comprising husband and wife Patrick Riley (guitar, keyboards, production) and Alaina Moore (vocals, keyboards). The band wrote their upcoming album on land and sea; on their sailboat traveling around Baja California, Mexico & in their recording studio they built in Denver. Alaina and Patrick were driven to elevate their songwriting & experimented with different instrumentation, time changes, & a focus on lyrical storytelling. The band experienced many life-changing occurrences over the last two years that influenced their writing - from loss to illness and renewed bonds. Tennis self-produced the album & enlisted Claudius Mittendorfer on mixing (Ra Ra Riot, Parquet Courts). The band has worked with brands such as Gucci, Madewell, and Vinyl Me, Please. Tennis has toured with Spoon, The Shins, Father John Misty, & opened this summer in Denver for Mumford & Sons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1593747051615-NJRBWX9TO3KWV5OJOGCZ/3774631-2530770.jpg SPRING NEW RELEASES - Post Animal - Forward Motion Godyssey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1593747037401-56S8BF0J9OYRO11KKDRR/3778053-2538222.jpg SPRING NEW RELEASES - Shake What You Brought! Soul Treasures From The SSS International Label https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1593747037988-ESBEKWO506WFO4UNOFE3/3778052-2538347.jpg SPRING NEW RELEASES - Prophet - Don't Forget It https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1593747037960-9L73US2KM2KGTQFQIH4S/3776854-2542044.jpg SPRING NEW RELEASES - Best Coast - Always Tomorrow Vinyl LP pressing in gatefold sleeve. 2020 sees the release of Always Tomorrow, the hotly anticipated album from Best Coast. Inspired by the '70s, the LA based duo expand their signature indie pop sound into a harmonic blend of melodic guitars and keyboards as warm and refreshing as a California breeze. Multi-instrumentalist Bobb Bruno, along with the irrepressible Bethany Cosentino, combine to bring her masterful storytelling to new heights, crafting their most eloquent and reflective album to date. It's the Best Coast you know and love at an entirely new level. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1593747038364-HXKSM8D5S3YPGJ2U2D0X/3776469-2532043.jpg SPRING NEW RELEASES - Cindy Lee - What's Tonight To Eternity For Patrick Flegel, Cindy Lee is more than just a recording music project. It is the culmination of a lifelong exploration of art, the electric guitar, queer identity and gender expression. "Singers like Patsy Cline and The Supremes carried me through the hardest times of my life," explains Flegel, "and also provided the soundtrack to the best times." Following the dissolution of Canadian experimental indie band Women, Flegel would delve deeper into songwriting that bends further toward high atmospherics and bracing melodies-a unique space where splendor naturally collides with experimentation. Delivering moments of sheer beauty through somber reflections on longing and loneliness, Cindy Lee is something to hold onto in a world of disorder.What's Tonight To Eternity, Cindy Lee's fifth long-form offering, showcases the project's most entrancing strengths: ethereal snowdrift pop and sly nods toward classic girl-group motifs. Recorded at Flegel's Realistik Studios in Toronto and featuring younger brother Andrew Flegel on drums, the album travels hand in hand with a spectral guide.Flegel found inspiration for Cindy Lee in the form of Karen Carpenter, drawing on the singer / drummer's early recordings as well as her look and style. "I found a deep interest and comfort in Karen's story, which is a cautionary tale about the monstrosity of show business, stardom at a young age and being a misfit looking for connection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1593747073369-8FBZPYHINNIDV6JBQ8OY/3774114-2541943.jpg SPRING NEW RELEASES - De La Soul - The Grind Date Double vinyl LP pressing. Re-issue of the seventh album from the hip-hop pioneers, originally released in 2004. Includes guest spots by Ghostface Killah, Flava Flav and MF Doom. This 2020 re-issue also features four previously unreleased instrumental bonus tracks. Tracks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1593747074540-6682GPYS2IZVY94OCAMJ/3771335-2540051.jpg SPRING NEW RELEASES - John Moreland - LP5 Critically acclaimed and revered songwriter John Moreland is set to release his fifth solo album, LP5, on February 7th via Old Omens/Thirty Tigers. Produced by Matt Pence (Jason Isbell, The Breeders, Sarah Jaffe) at The Echo Lab, LP5 marks the first time that Moreland has worked with an outside producer. The elevated and brilliant production on LP5, provides a stunning backdrop for Moreland's masterful and poetic lyrics, creating his most powerful work to date. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1593747074662-0AM4A7QWPKQOZASBLDIO/3771025-2528678.jpg SPRING NEW RELEASES - The Wonder Years - Burst & Decay If there's one thing for certain, it's that The Wonder Years put their entire souls into each body of work they release. Nearly three years ago, some of their most popular songs like "There, There" and "Don't Let Me Cave In" were taken to crushing new heights on the first edition of the groundbreaking Philly band's first acoustic EP, Burst & Decay. And they were only just getting started. Produced and engineered by Ace Enders (The Early November), Burst & Decay (Volume II), out February 14 on Hopeless Records, truly takes this stripped-back TWY experience to an entirely new level. The new EP features stunning string arrangements from Little Kruta String Quartet and guest vocals on "We Look Like Lightning" from Alex Maniak of the band Shortly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1593747075076-AWO3JADT42S4XOZWMNQE/3770065-2540547.jpg SPRING NEW RELEASES - T. Rex - Dandy In The Underworld https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1593747075236-4S5BJQ6SFE5XRYECGSHN/3770064-2540541.jpg SPRING NEW RELEASES - T. Rex - Futuristic Dragon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1593747075551-FOP2Q019KANERLDZUGC8/3769806-2540681.jpg SPRING NEW RELEASES - Too Free - Love In High Demand dentity is a strange and magnificent thing - and when people are given the chance to be their truest, most honest selves - possibilities seem infinite. Too Free is born of the most innate curiosity in Awad Bilal, Carson Cox, and Don Godwin - their only mission is a desire to connect. Drawing on the power of movement and improvisation, each track provides an empathetic space for the listener. Their debut album, Love in High Demand is a continuous refinement of the virtue of motion - each composition rooted in propulsive energy that envelops. Washington, DC is a city built of powerful rhythm and kinetic motion - and plenty of variety in terrain for it's compact size. Bursts of lush forest line cross-city parkways as it cradles the intersection of the Anacostia and Potomac, sedimentary waters that reminisce of the native swamplands it was before. Just like those swamps, Too Free taps into the same primitive and intrinsic sensibilities that shape their landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1593747075876-OZ8QA21OWGA70ZSSZPL8/3769799-2537675.jpg SPRING NEW RELEASES - Daises - Cherries EP From the minds that brought you CCFX, "What Are You Waiting For?", and Daisies "2" comes the 3rd release from the purveyors of the electronic paisley underground, "Cherries". Originally self released on the prolific JGAP label, now widely available on wax through perennial and k records. This avant pop project features Olympia, WA performance artists Chris McDonnell (CCFX, TransFX) and Valerie Warren. Along with frequent collaborator David Jaques (CCFX, CC DUST) co-producing. Recorded by the the band and Cooper Rosenthal, this release continues the Olympia tradition of singular artist blazing trails for others to soon follow. Look for the video for single "Everybody's Moving to London". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1593747100222-59TLRK2Z2M6SR2LYN7S8/3768586-2540687.jpg SPRING NEW RELEASES - Heartbones - Hot Dish Heart Bones is a rare thing-a new band with a long history-which heightens both expectations and standards. Sabrina Ellis and Sean Tillmann are obviously both tirelessly bustling and juggling and geographically separated by the entire height of the middle of the country. But put on their debut album Hot Dish and as soon as Sabrina's first line enters, completing the inversion of Sean's first line which has just spun your head around, the collaboration feels inevitable. Inevitable like, "Damn, right. Heart Bones. Guarding the center of vulnerabilities. Why do we have things called chest cavities instead of heart bones?" The anatomical warping of their name makes more sense given how fragile our meaty bodies actually are. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1593747121148-9UGBXE21IH29IM4KI4VO/3767352-2543307.jpg SPRING NEW RELEASES - Courtney Barnett - Mtv Unplugged Live In Melbourne On October 22nd Courtney Barnett performed a unique and special show at the invitation of MTV Australia in her hometown of Melbourne. The "Unplugged" performance features Barnett as you've never heard her before, warm, vulnerable and emotional. Under a garland of lights and a canopy of florals in the outdoor courtyard of Howler, Barnett performed a stirring set of eight songs to an intimate audience including "Depreston", "Avant Gardener" and "Sunday Roast". Joined by her usual band Dave Mudie and Bones Sloane, she also enlisted cellist Lucy Waldron. MTV Australia Unplugged Live in Melbourne will be available physically on February 21. - Barnett made the night even more iconic by inviting some of her favorite musicians to collaborate including legendary songwriter Paul Kelly, angelically-voiced New Zealander Marlon Williams and Milk! Records label-mate Evelyn Ida Morris. The performances included covers of Leonard Cohen, Archie Roach and Seeker Lover Keeper as well as a never-before-heard original track from Courtney herself titled "Play It On Repeat". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1593747099973-Z4JBKDWMJMCNGH88E4SQ/3767701-2532554.jpg SPRING NEW RELEASES - Riki - Self Titled iki is the Los Angeles based dark synth-pop outfit commandeered by the mysterious Niff Nawor, a visual artist and musician active in the deathrock / anarcho-punk scenes of the California bay area (formerly a member of Crimson Scarlet), before founding her solo endeavor as Riki in 2017. Niff's desire to explore her own sound manifested in the recording of the Hot City cassette tape in 2017, which featured Chelsey Crowley of Crimson Scarlet, Skot Brown of Phantom Limbs and Peđaof Doomed to Extinction. Released on Commodity Tapes and later reissued on vinyl by the well-regarded Symphony of Destruction label, Riki followed the release of the single with several small tours and festival dates, performing with such acts as Light Asylum, Black Marble, and Trisomie 21. For her self-titled debut album for Dais, Riki explores courage, physicality, and romance across eight timeless synth pop anthems. Produced and engineered by hardware-based synthesist Matia Simovich of INHALT, influences and ideas are worn proudly without deviating from fresh and daring electro-pop territory. Nostalgic cues can be heard ranging from Neue Deutsch Welle, early Adrian Sherwood productions, classic ZYX Italo Disco, Japanese Visual Kei and even classic new wave/pop like Pat Benatar, Kate Bush, and early Madonna. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1593747121093-NZ6VNTW42W69PG3N69R4/3767014-2538421.jpg SPRING NEW RELEASES - Elkhorn - Storm Sessions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1593747100407-LOY1KHSAWKDKTXAP9R54/3767696-2532562.jpg SPRING NEW RELEASES - Bambara - Stray The first thing that strikes you about Stray, Bambara's fourth - and greatest - album to date, will be it's pulverizing soundscape. By turns, vast, atmospheric, cool, broiling and, at times - on stand out tracks like "Sing Me To The Street" and "Serafina" - simply overwhelming. But Stray is not merely another, better entry in a catalog full of darkly thrilling, blistering experimental rock-via-punk. Rather, early on in it's conception the band made the decision to experiment with new compositions and song structures. The resulting addition of backing vocals from Drew Citron (Public Practice) and Anina Ivory-Block (Palberta) create a hauntingly beautiful contrast to Bateh's drunken baritone on tracks like "Sing Me to the Street", "Death Croons" and "Stay Cruel," while the Dick Dale-inspired guitar riffs on "Serafina" and "Heat Lightning" and the call-and-response choruses throughout the album showcase Bambara's ability to write songs that immediately demand repeat listens. These are just a few of the changes that reveal this album to be the monumental step forward that it is. Here Bambara finally sound like they've locked into what they were always destined to achieve, and the effect is nothing short of electrifying. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1593747122656-D4OEW7RSFZAZKU85DT9C/3765223-2532547.jpg SPRING NEW RELEASES - Envy - The Fallen Crimson The Fallen Crimson - the first new studio album from Envy in five years - is a record that almost never happened. Japan's most iconic and influential post-hardcore band suffered seemingly insurmountable personal and creative struggles that challenged the very existence of the band like nothing they had experienced in their nearly three decades together. After reuniting with briefly estranged singer Tetsuya Fukagawa - and shaking up their lineup for the first time in 25 years - Envy return refreshed with their most dynamic and progressive work, The Fallen Crimson. Opening with the kind of thunderous thrash that made them so renowned in the first place, and closing with the kind of triumphant ascent that has made them an inimitable force, The Fallen Crimson finds Envy perfecting their past, exploring their present, and pondering their future. It is the deepest, and most poignant album of Envy's legendary career. It bears the stories and scars of a band whose relationships with each other are as dynamic and progressive as their music - and we are all the better for it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1593747190533-7EMIVU8QFL244R8GH8T1/3760651-2538226.jpg SPRING NEW RELEASES - Grimes - Miss Anthropocene https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1593747170915-FPH5KBCU408SPP34UCTN/3765087-2525155.jpg SPRING NEW RELEASES - Marcos Valle - Brazilliance! Braziliance!' takes things back to the early heady days of Marcos' career with the bright and optimistic sound of Rio's Bossa Nova scene. It includes an instrumental version of 'Crickets Sing For Anamaria' or 'Os Grilos' in Portuguese, which would also be re-recorded with vocals. Though only in his early twenties at the time, 'Braziliance!' depicts very sophisticated production for a musician so young. Recorded in 1966, produced by Louis Oliveira and Ray Gilberts with arrangements by the very talented Emir Deodato, the album was released on Warner Bros. Records. The artwork presents a very clean-cut, wholesome looking Marcos but darker things were around the corner for Brazil. The 'Tropicalica' movement was on it's way and about to shake thighs up both musically and politically. Unlike some of his Bossa Nova contemporaries, Marcos continued to stay relevant, surfing the changes and adapting to the musical developments that culture and society projected and needed, without comprising his art. Under exclusive license to Light In The Attic Records & Distribution, LLC Mr Bongo Records. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1593747170794-TT9RXU3M5DJX5ALU4ZR9/3764675-2524967.jpg SPRING NEW RELEASES - Heldon - Interface https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1593747171162-0B1M3DMJ03ELOPJ6IJ5Z/3763148-2532568.jpg SPRING NEW RELEASES - Jung Jae il - Parasite (Original Soundtrack) Parasite, the seventh feature film by Korean director Bong Joon Ho, premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, where it took the coveted Palme d'Or for best film in competition. Since then, it has become the most critically acclaimed film of the year. For the film's bracingly original score, Bong turned to Jung Jae il, who brings the world of Parasite to life with plaintive piano and stirring strings. "The script for Parasite begins as follows: "Dark and hopeful music plays." For a long time, I contemplated whether this piece of music could actually exist. Director Bong and I began with a sound that could permeate through the entire film and progress with focus. What is the one singular tone that can accompany emotions ranging from the most trivial humiliation to the extremities of murder, express all sorts of chaos, and embody the exhilaration of speed, or peace, or loneliness, or messy and dirty situations? I thought that a string orchestra could express these various narratives with one consistent tone - the elegant and refined sounds of baroque music, grotesque and neurotic sounds of contemporary music reminiscent of Penderecki or Ligeti, sounds used to heighten emotions in many films, and violin and cello sounds that carry the bleakness of wandering nomads. In terms of the melody, it was structured as a repetition of ascension and descent as the Kim family ascends to the rich house only to descend back to their poor home and further below to the dreadful bunker hidden beneath the Park family's basement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1593747171250-P4I8IIU7PDF1TUZMS3OC/3762735-2525002.jpg SPRING NEW RELEASES - Agnes Obel - Myopia Vinyl LP pressing. For almost a decade, Agnes Obel has been one of the most independent and original artists in contemporary music. Now she has returned with new music, releasing the enchanting single "Island Of Doom", ahead of the release of her highly anticipated album Myopia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1593747171712-MWIRIYN0F7V0ET2KBQQU/3761985-2538399.jpg SPRING NEW RELEASES - Antibalas - Fu Chronicles Over the years, different members have traded production and composition duties from album to album. On the album Fu Chronicles, Amayo leads us through a thrilling sonic journey of kung fu meets Afrobeat, weaving together the strands of Edo and Yoruba cultural memory from Nigeria with his training and study in Chinese martial arts. Recorded in the Summer of 2018, over seventeen musicians and singers crammed into the storied Daptone House of Soul in Bushwick to record the massive body of work. With live versions and arrangements stretching up to thirty minutes, Perna, Amayo, and Roth worked tirelessly to preserve the hypnotic power of the long-form live arrangements into six concise and powerful album tracks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1593747211131-WXMZ7O1NVBEWU38EBST1/3744271-2509865.jpg SPRING NEW RELEASES - Christopher Paul Stelling - Best Of Luck Christopher Paul Stelling is a guitar virtuoso, a folk singer- songwriter and a touring troubadour. His album Best of Luck was produced by Grammy award winning musician-producer, Ben Harper. When Harper talks about his admiration for Stelling,. "A guy that can play any instrument from any country and play it with real feeling. He crosses genres but manages to respect them; he is a folk singer with an unusual soulfulness. He understands where this music comes from and why it's remains so essential. Of all the record's I have produced, this is one I'm most proud of." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1593747234292-88F0FDM2SJUMDQ1HT36B/3551465.jpg SPRING NEW RELEASES - Dwarves - Lick It 1983-86 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1594427953733-IP3S4A01YTURX4TENVGY/3778720-2538256.jpg SPRING NEW RELEASES - Wajatta - Don't Let Get You Down http://www.raggedrecords.org/spring/summer-new-releases daily 0.75 2022-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1662673498714-454L7KLC55HHBFGWMQH0/artworks-000051912111-9t9joj-t500x500.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Daft Punk - Human After All Double vinyl LP pressing. Human After All is the third studio album by French electronic music duo Daft Punk, first released in 2005. Unlike their previous studio album Discovery (2001), whose sound was inspired by disco and garage house and produced over the period of two years, Human After All was more minimalistic and improvisational with a mixture of heavier guitars and electronics, and was produced in six weeks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1662673298459-PYPB2RJDFCM0NWBOSWT9/4118083-2858331.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Daft Punk - Alive 2007 Double vinyl LP pressing. Alive 2007 is the second live album by French electronic music duo Daft Punk. It features Daft Punk's performance at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy arena in Paris on 14 June 2007 during their Alive 2007 tour. The set features an assortment of Daft Punk's music, incorporated with synthesizers, mixers and live effects. The album won the Grammy Award for Best Electronic/Dance Album in 2009. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1662674652847-GFZX29S0H7VH152EIA5G/4116498-2856654.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Daniel Johnston - Welcome To My World Welcome To My World is a collection of some of Daniel's most-beloved songs and is now available on vinyl for the very first time. These are the songs that built the legend...a must-have for the legion of devoted Daniel Johnston Fans as well as the perfect introduction for new listeners. Welcome To My World serves as an introduction to Daniel Johnston, housing a number of his most acclaimed works. Johnston's music captivated fellow artists and fans with its childlike elements and lo-fi elements. The singer-songwriter and artist earned a cult following in the early '80s, sharing homemade cassette tapes of his music, and his prominence was established after Kurt Cobain was publicly seen wearing a shirt with Johnston's illustration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1662676462158-SY21JX8JOSIPLFD3DT68/4118517-2859229.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Cursive - Domestica After more than 20 years, Cursive present a deluxe edition of their 2000 post-hardcore classic, Cursive's Domestica. The album is remastered with the original track listing on vinyl. Also included is a 7" single featuring 4 unreleased songs written by Tim Kasher while Cursive was broken up in 1998 and early 1999 before their reformation. Extended liner notes tell how these songs came to be and how the band reformed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1662673872160-ABOFPYKYD0A7Q1O3X15Z/60e2445a0e787637ff749f8732bcfb00.1000x1000x1.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Ozzy Osborne - Patient Number 9 Patient Number 9 is Ozzy Osbourne's 13th solo studio album and a continuation from 2020's top 5 release Ordinary Man, once again produced by Andrew Watt. This 13-track project running nearly over an hour long has the most legendary guests ever on an Ozzy Osbourne release. Three tracks alone - "Patient Number 9", "Degradation Rules", and "One Of Those Days" - feature Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, and Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath) respectively, not to mention Josh Homme (Queens of The Stone Age), Mike McCready (Pearl Jam), Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Duff McKagan (Guns N' Roses), Robert Trujillo (Metallica), Zakk Wylde (Ozzy's longstanding guitarist from the late 80's) as well as the late Taylor Hawkins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1662676291753-D1MQG21N37T5XPCGIPBC/61cjpIvQ8sL._SY450_.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - The Library Archive 2 - More Funk Jazz Beats... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1662674307959-AD6XWANWWMEO1ZCKDS5P/4094863-2830870.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - The Afghan Whigs - How Do You Burn? How Do You Burn?, the ninth studio album from The Afghan Whigs, finds the band in peak form, making the most vaulting and thrilling music of their lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1662677395492-F5Z5NQJ3QBO1I65AYUWL/4124875-2869323.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Declaime & Madlib - In the Beginning (Vol. 2) In the Beginning (Vol. 2) continues the treasure trove of the early works of Declaime & Madlib, the longtime collaborators who helped usher in a new sound and style from the city of Oxnard, Calif. This collection is brimming with previously unheard tracks from this beyond-creative duo that blends hip-hop with funk, jazz, soul, and psychedelia to lay the groundwork for so many other emcees and producers. For Declaime (a/k/a Dudley Perkins), this series serves as a way to honor his friends and the city that raised them. He shouts out names like The Almighty Metaphor (aka MED), Oh No the Disrupt, DJ Romes, Kazi, and more, who he says "created a lane for the city of Oxnard to get the recognition it deserves." Some of them make an appearance in one form or another on this collection, too-Romes, for example, mastered the project-that compiles 10 previously lost tracks that were recorded from 1993 to '96. In The Beginning (Vol. 2) is entirely produced by Madlib, who provided all the cuts as well. His instrumentals are on that raw and dusty vibe as they move freely through genres and sounds, like on standout cuts "Bandwagon,"WLIX," and "Signs (feat. Wildchild)." Those are all highlights for Declaime, too, and they demonstrate his ability to blend his observations of the world with bravado and third-eye insights. Even as young kids just getting their feet wet in the studio, these two were firmly on their path. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1662675425373-H999SSVG33PUB3936RAY/4090671-2824791.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Tedeschi Trucks Band - I Am The Moon: I. Crescent The fifth studio project from the Tedeschi Trucks Band, is the most ambitious and, at the same time, intimate record that America's best rock'n'roll big band has ever made: a genuinely epic undertaking in four episodes and 24 songs inspired by classical literature but emotionally driven by the immediate drama, isolation and mourning of the pandemic era. LP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1662675556573-GWO5289I85K0TIVMB9L4/4117383-2873259.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Charley Crockett - The Man From Waco Charley Crockett will release his latest album The Man From Waco on September 9th via Son of Davy/Thirty Tigers. Crockett wrote or co-wrote all 14 songs on the album, and in many ways The Man From Waco is the purest distillation of his artistry to date. What started as a demo session with producer Bruce Robison at Robison's studio The Bunker outside Austin, TX turned into the first album Crockett has ever made with his band The Blue Drifters backing him from start to finish. Mostly first takes with only a handful of overdubs, The Man From Waco finds Crockett refining his singular "Gulf & Western" sound which continues to captivate an ever-growing legion of fans. "I just wanted an honest partnership: do it at your place, live to tape, everybody in the room," Crockett says of the recording experience, and Robison was happy to accommodate. "The magic is in the performances on that tape. That's what Bruce wanted to do, that's what I wanted to do. When we were done, I said 'these are masters, not demos.'" There's a loose narrative thread that ties the album together, but at the center of The Man From Waco is Crockett, who continues to trust his instincts and carve out his own singular space. Eschewing the ever-growing siren song of major labels and GRAMMY-winning producers, Crockett is forging ahead as a mostly DIY artist, calling his own shots and giving himself the space to strive for greatness on his own terms. "Everybody was telling me: 'go right, go right, go right,'" says Crockett. "I went left. I had to hold on to what has gotten me this far." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1662741337622-BISV6OUJ35RMYDTIDQ1P/4113628-2862848.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Unwound - Live Leaves Every feedback squeal, bass chug, and hi-hat sizzle of what would be Unwound's final 37 shows was taped, the most compelling bits of which have been edited into a cohesive snapshot of a band at the end of an incredible run. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1662740873996-W3E27LZGIYOD0W8AKDAA/4111014-2880684.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Stereolab - Pulse Of The Early Brain The fifth and final volume in the classic Switched On series which compiles non-album tracks and sought after deep cuts by the group Stereolab. This volume is unique in that it does not hone in one particular period but gathers together unavailable tracks across the band's career, from early EP Low-Fi, to the brain-scrambling mid-90's Nurse With Wound remixes to unreleased installation tracks for sculptor Charles Long, culminating in a live version of fan favourite "Cybele's Reverie" captured at the Hollywood Bowl. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1662740455630-0BD3S42CDSIN78OYC42J/4105881-2844604+%281%29.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Of Montreal - Freewave Lucifer f-ck f-ck f-ck Over the course of the last two decades, Of Montreal's creative force, Kevin Barnes, has been wowing fans with their vast catalog of endlessly fascinating pop and mesmerizing live shows. Barnes' songwriting and production aesthetic has since become iconic in the industry and has garnered massive critical acclaim in publications such as Rolling Stone, The New York Times, NPR, and Pitchfork, who described the band's album, Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? as "ceaselessly fascinating and inexhaustibly replayable," as well as ranking it as the #5 album of the year. Barnes' influence on pop music is undeniable, with multiple late night TV appearances, including The Late Show With David Letterman and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, as well as brilliant collaborations with the likes of Solange, Janelle Monáe, Jon Brion, and others. The band has also performed across the globe, with festival appearances at Coachella, Sasquatch!, Pitchfork Music Festival and others, as well as hundreds of millions of streams worldwide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1662740640094-UE0GLIMO4G9SZ1BTUCOL/4088079-2820418+%281%29.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Built To Spill - When the Wind Forgets Your Name Vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. Built to Spill returns with When the Wind Forgets Your Name, Doug Martsch's unbelievably great new album (and his eighth full-length)... with a fresh new label. When the Wind Forgets Your Name continues expanding the Built to Spill universe in new and exciting ways. In 2018 Martsch's good fortune and keen intuition brought him together with Brazilian lo-fi punk artist and producer Le Almeida, and his long-time collaborator, João Casaes, both of the psychedelic jazz rock band, Oruã. Martsch fell in love with their music the moment he heard it. So when he needed a new band for shows in Brazil, he asked them, and the partnership went so well Martsch, Almeida, and Casaes continued playing together throughout 2019, touring the US and Europe and ultimately recording the bass and drum tracks for When the Wind Forgets Your Name at Doug's rehearsal space in Boise. After Martsch tracked guitars and vocals, they group collaborated from afar to mix the album. What emerged is When the Wind Forgets Your Name, a complex and cohesive blend of the artists' distinct musical ideas. Alongside Built to Spill's poetic lyrics and themes, the experimentation and attention to detail produces an album full of unique, vivid, and timeless sounds, from guitar-driven rock odes to REM and Dinosaur Jr to bluesy '60s-style anthems to dub-reggae-inspired instrumentation. It may have taken us 30 years of obvious fandom and courtship, but Sub Pop Records is unabashedly proud to finally release an excellent new album from Built to Spill: When the Wind Forgets Your Name. Sometimes persistence pays off. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1662676568164-HMF9GEOB6IS3DDPPOIVB/4114500-2856278.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Kiss - KISS Off The Soundboard: Live In Des Moines 1977 Live recording from the soundboard during the Alive II tour at Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Des Moines, IA, on November 29, 1977. Features "Let Me Go, Rock 'N' Roll, " "Beth, " and more performed by Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley, and Peter Criss. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1662677039098-FW07DIRFLR1518CRMTBP/2579137.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1662676658829-TEE9D3GT5OFPJNHB7ZY6/4119230-2881194.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Trick Or Treat - Original Soundtrack When guitarist "Fast" Eddie Clarke left Motörhead in 1982 and formed Fastway, a lynchpin of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal was born. The group recorded three acclaimed albums for Columbia before producer Dino DeLaurentis hired them to compose the soundtrack for his 1986 heavy metal horror film Trick or Treat (which, if you haven't seen you should-it's a hoot, with appearances by Ozzy Osbourne and Gene Simmons)! The record, which included seven new tunes and one song each from the albums Fastway ("Heft") and All Fired Up ("If You Could See"), hit the charts and proved to be the last Fastway record with vocalist Dave King... put this one in your bag this Halloween. First ever LP reissue, pressed in "Hellfire" vinyl limited to 2000 copies! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1662676752706-8GCCY0RJHSRY1DF9961B/4122178-2862512.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Bright Eyes - Fevers & Mirrors It's the desire to celebrate their sonic bounty that first got Oberst and the band excited about the idea of comprehensive reissues. But this wouldn't be a Bright Eyes project if a moment devoted to appreciating the past weren't turned into an opportunity to connect with the future. That's where the nine companion EPs come in. Or as Oberst puts it, "the supplemental reading" for the primary reissues: One six-track EP per reissued album, each featuring five reworked songs from that album. "My thing was they had to sound different from the originals, we had to mess with them in a substantial way." Plus one cover that felt "of the era" in which that particular albums was made - a song that meant something to the band at the time. To help the EPs come alive in the fullest way, Bright Eyes called in lots of old friends, like Bridgers, M. Ward, and Welch and Rawlings, as well as new ones like Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1662677166039-46BJ7X69LIU0DABW3UOA/4117313-2881188.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Jessie Davis - Self Titled Limited green colored vinyl LP pressing. Throughout the 1960s and 70s, Native American guitarist Jesse Davis (a.k.a. Jesse Ed Davis) was the "go-to" sideman for a remarkable group of musicians. Starting in the mid-'Sixties, he toured with Conway Twitty, then become a key part of Taj Mahal's band, playing on several albums and tours including an appearance on The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus. And let's not forget he paired up with Leon Russell to play on Bob Dylan's single "Watching the River Flow" - followed by accompanying George Harrison during the Concert For Bangla Desh. By now, he'd caught the eyes and ears of ATCO Records, who released his debut LP Jesse Davis in 1971 featuring Leon Russell, Eric Clapton, Gram Parsons, Merry Clayton, Ben Sidran, John Simon (producer of The Band), Alan White (of Yes), and many others including Delaney Bramlett behind the mixing desk. But supergroup aside, this record is a flat-out roots-rock classic, with Jesse's inimitable personality bubbling through every laconically-sung lyric and tasty lick. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1662677259435-OVJ4ED4R0Y5J2Q7OY0YF/4117500-2863470.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Jeff Parker/Eric Revis/Nasheet Waits - Eastside Romp Jeff Parker - Eric Revis - Nasheet Waits "Eastside Romp" - Jeff Parker (guitar) - Eric Revis (double bass) - Nasheet Waits (drums) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661896134674-4GW8JLS7CZGUAC5IVVMQ/4099469-2836383.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers Double vinyl LP pressing. 2022 release. Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers is the fifth studio album by rapper Kendrick Lamar. The album features narration by Whitney Alford and Eckhart Tolle, and guest appearances from Blxst, Amanda Reifer, Sampha, Taylour Paige, Summer Walker, Ghostface Killah, Baby Keem, Kodak Black, Sam Dew, Tanna Leone, and Beth Gibbons of Portishead. Lamar reunited with frequent collaborators Sounwave, J. Lbs, DJ Dahi, and Bekon for the majority of the album's production. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661896052476-7N7O9DJ6IRVX0NJDI2LF/4115258-2868679.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Marcus King - Young Blood Marcus King - "Young Blood" - 25-year-old GRAMMY-nominated artist Marcus King prepares to release his new album, Young Blood, produced by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys via Rick Rubin's American Recordings/Republic Records. He has toured with The Marcus King Band for over 10 years, as well as tours with Chris Stapleton, Greta Van Fleet, and Nathanial Rateliff. He's released 3 LPs with The Marcus King Band before his GRAMMY-nominated 2021 solo debut LP, El Dorado. He continues to tour with 100+ headline global dates in 2022. Vinyl LP pressing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661885131160-9JTF2CJO60OS12T9VBSV/4092568-2864479.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Ty Segall - Hello Hi "Hello, Hi" - Ty Segall - Tossing down straight acoustic shots with electric guitar back, Ty Segall rides through the valley of thee ol' Canyon legends, seeking an isolated place beneath the open sky to loose his herd of wild nerves Alone at last, naturally? Nope - there's a rider on the horizon, cross-hairs trained on his very own heart. Tremulating in fear and loathing upon the precipice of everyday, so that we don't think we don't have to, Ty guides ten songs of love through internal crevasses and past darkened cavities, as harmony vocals swarm above the treacherous, yet reverberant arroyos. Whatever doesn't get killed is getting stronger all the time. It's light rock made heavy through thought and intention, "Hello, Hi" is a lean, mean deal, baked in saltwater and sunlight, compassion pouring forth from beautiful blue eyes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661896225986-MACSNDH9UQIFNGYI9VLM/4109963-2848664.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Let's Turn It Into Sound The central mysteries of Smith's ninth studio album, Let's Turn it Into Sound, have to do with perception, expression, and communication: How can we communicate when spoken language is inadequate? How do we understand what it is we're feeling? How do we translate our experience of the world into something that someone else can understand? For Smith, a self-described "feeler," the answers are inspired by compound words in non-English languages, translation, sculptural fashion, dance, butoh, wushu shaolin, and other forms of sensory and somatic experience. Just like fashion uses lines, shapes, colors, textures, and silhouettes to communicate on a sensual level separate from the conscious mind, Let's Turn it Into Sound strives to use sound to communicate what words alone cannot. "The album is a puzzle," Smith says. "[It] is a symbol of receiving a compound of a ton of feelings from going out into a situation, and the song titles are instructions to breaking apart the feelings and understanding them." The energized "Is it Me or Is it You" comes from traversing the gaps between how you see yourself and how another might see you, through a filter of their own projections. The hushed sense of revelation that brackets "There is Something" refers to the feeling of walking into a room and being subconsciously aware of the dynamic present. All the while, Smith interprets these feelings through sound. This auditory interpretation process, driven by earnest curiosity, led Smith to record some thoughts and questions that popped up along the journey in Somatic Hearing-a booklet which accompanies the album. Over three frenzied months, recording alone in her home studio, Smith allowed herself to pursue new experiments to accompany her usual toolkit of modular, analogue, and rare synthesizers (including her signature Buchla), orchestral sounds, and the voice. She created a new vocal processing technique, and gave herself permission to pursue a pacing that felt intuitive, rather one that followed typical song structures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661889087628-2YH62NAWCQBTRHZK6Q4L/4100081-2846338.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Osees - Foul Form "Brain stem cracking scum-punk recorded tersely in the basement of my home. After a notoriously frustrating eon, the knee-jerk song path was aggressive and hooky. This is an homage to the punk bands we grew up on-the weirdos and art freaks that piqued our interests and pointed us on the trail head to here / now. Bad times make for strong music is something I agree with. I would say that is evident by the past few years of output from the underground. Transmissions have been all over the map: scanning... searching... sweeping out in the darkness looking for a foot hold. "[Osees] A Foul From represents some of our most savage and primal instincts. Fight or flight. And the importance of a sense of humor in the darkest hour. Nothing wrong with keeping it snappy in the meantime. For fans of Rudimentary Peni, Crass, Bad Brains, Black Flag, Screamers, Abwarts, Stooges and all things aggressively tilted towards your face. You can lean back but don't flinch... it's a brief foray into the exhausting pogo pit, so stiffen your back and jerk with your knees. Enjoy." -John Dwyer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661879518809-BXS51VOAY633KZEYOY2G/4095319-2851020.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Arp - New Pleasures Includes digital download. Arp, a.k.a. Alexis Georgopoulos, makes his anticipated return to Mexican Summer with the second chapter in his Zebra trilogy. New Pleasures advances the narrative begun with 2018's acclaimed ZEBRA; pastoral in mood, expansive in style, the record acted as a dawn on a nascent, Edenic landscape, reminiscent of a beautiful, long-lost Fourth World album. Now, Arp drops us deep into the grid of the city. New Pleasures fast-forwards a few centuries, locating listeners in a post-industrial Sprawl (to borrow an expression from William Gibson's Neuromancer) of concrete and glass, imbuing the album with the flinty glow of commerce, the sleek rhythms of industrialization, and the cool finesse of brutalism. The result is a vivid, deconstructed take on high-definition pop, avant-garde, and dance music forms; a prismatic inquiry into machine sentience, the economy of desire, and myriad forms of possession. By turns imaginative, cheeky, and energetic, it's Arp's most experimental and yet most alluringly accessible work to date. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661883607239-OK01G3WAIHGAS3NPIG4N/4104256-2844865.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Jack White - Entering Heaven Alive Entering Heaven Alive is the fifth studio album from Jack White, founding member of The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, and The Dead Weather. True to his DIY roots, this record was recorded at White's Third Man Studio throughout 2021, mastered by Third Man Mastering, and released by Third Man Records. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661895580042-PTNUFJ257VXFA8XVG45C/4119157-2862847.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661879628516-BDLSC2F0OM5O60DEE3R3/4096684-2851030.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Black Midi - Hellfire On Monday May 9th we kick off our next Black Midi campaign for the band's sophomore album Hellfire, with the single & Gustaf Holtenäs ("Slow") directed video "Welcome To Hell". Hellfire will be out on July 15th. The album was written in London 2021 and produced by Marta Salogni and Black Midi, with additional production from Max Goulding. Artwork was created by David Rudnick (who's done the artwork for all previous Black Midi albums as well), using AI technology into which he fed lyrics from the album to generate imagery which was then printed, cut up and reconfigured into a detailed and complex collage. No band can quite build their own universe like Black Midi. Hellfire, their third album and second in two years sees the London three piece at their most direct. "Welcome To Hell" tells the story of a debauched soldier's excess and military discharge, soundtracked by funky guitar sections, driving horns and a progressively snarling vocal. Premiered by Steve Lamacq on 6 Music. 2022 live dates incl Coachella, Glastonbury, Somerset House, more to be announced. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661897262352-GJPPHW3RA8PE764QF26L/4116885-2858272.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers Digitally remastered edition of this 1976 album by legendary singer/songwriter Johnathan Richman and his band the Modern Lovers. Includes the tracks "New England" and "Here Come The Martian Martians". This lineup of The Modern Lovers included drummer David Robinson (The Cars) and Greg "Curly" Keranen on bass. Co-Produced by Beserkley Records founder Matthew King Kauffman and Glen Kolotkin (Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661896801323-P4DEJSAGOS32QPSH0TYI/4033360-2849952.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Mavis Staples - We'll Never Turn Back Limited 15th Anniversary aqua blue vinyl LP pressing. We'll Never Turn Back is the seventh studio album by gospel and soul singer Mavis Staples. Recorded in 2007 and produced by roots rock and blues musician Ry Cooder, it is a concept album with lyrical themes relating to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661879710580-NAVT1M5SIHX0L8TWM0DB/4096243-2831569.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Contortions - Buy Soon after their 1978 debut on the Brian Eno-produced No New York, a compilation that defined the No Wave scene, James Chance's group Contortions had already evolved―getting sharper, tighter and just plain faster. Despite the loss of keyboardist Adele Bertei and bassist Geoge Scott (who refused to sign a new contract demanded by Chance and his then partner, band manager Anya Phillips) Contortions were firing on all cylinders, and their first full-length album, 1979's Buy, is a marvel of hot-wired energy. Led by the brash yelps and free-sax squawks of Chance, Contortions spit out fiercely rhythmic tunes charged by the wiry guitar lines of Jody Harris and the dizzying slide guitar of Pat Place. With drummer Don Christensen slipping in pointillist beats and David Hofstra's infectious basslines, the songs on Buy crackle with both precision and abandon. Opener "Designed to Kill" shoots sparks of sound in all directions, while "Contort Yourself" is a nihilistic dance number wherein Chance instructs listeners to twist into knots, physically and mentally. "It's better than pleasure, it hurts more than pain," he snarls, later imploring, "You better try being stupid instead of smart." Heavily influenced by the showman funk of James Brown (whose "I Can't Stand Myself" the band had covered on No New York) Contortions coined a downtown dance-punk sound that had immediate influence on subsequent No Wave bands―including Place's Bush Tetras and Bronx trio ESG―as well as the burgeoning disco movement. On Buy, Contortions' self-invented template is imprinted so hard into the grooves that it sounds like they're about to break, capturing a combustible band in all it's fiery fury. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661896582950-VJZKJK2YE1HSSPWUSFPH/windhand-levitation-sessions-2lp-indie-store-exclu.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Windhand - Levitation Sessions Originally airing on November 14th 2020, during the height of the great quarantine of planet earth. Windhand delivered one of the heaviest levitation sessions to date and we are proud to finally immortalize the performance in full on a Double Vinyl Gatefold LP. At the time of recording, the band had noted "It was great to get together with each other after so many months apart, to plug in all the gear and let the demons loose once again. For a moment there it almost felt like being back on the road. We got to work with our old friends like Jonathan Kassalow (lighting and organ), and frequent music video collaborator Jordan Vance. They pulled it all together and made the show a heavy visual experience to pair with the audio which was recorded and mixed by our live sound engineer, Chris Moore." Now mastered specifically for vinyl by Nick Townsend, this session sounds better than ever before and to celebrate we are finally releasing the video from this session in full, for free, on Levitation's Youtube Channel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661879308655-RMRL3EKFVSL6K16TUBYM/4008093-2761176.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Bad Brains - Quickness Quickness is the fourth full-length studio album by Bad Brains, originally released by Caroline Records in 1989. At the time of it's release, it was the band's best-selling album and also landed them a featured MTV music video for the opening track, "Soul Craft." This reissue marks the fifth release in the remaster campaign, re-launching the Bad Brains Records label imprint. In coordination with the band, Org Music has overseen the restoration and remastering of the iconic Bad Brains' recordings. The audio was mastered by Dave Gardner at Infrasonic Mastering and pressed at Furnace Record Pressing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661883516908-IFUB3AQC8VEQ6OCPEXGH/4081679-2824063.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - House Of Pain - Fine Malt Lyrics Tommy Boy Records celebrates 30 Years of House of Pain's debut album House of Pain (Fine Malt Lyrics) with this remastered edition. Everlast, DJ Lethal & Danny Boy formed House of Pain while attending high school and were signed to Tommy Boy Records after fashioning themselves as rowdy Irish-American hooligans, hitting the local rap and alternative music scene. House of Pain (Fine Malt Lyrics) went multi-platinum and the self titled debut album spawned the successful producer DJ Muggs, who produced the single "Jump Around". The song was also remixed twice by Pete Rock, one version featuring a verse from him and one without. "Jump Around" became a hit in 1992, reaching number 3 in the United States. The album also featured Cypress Hill member B-Real on the song "Put Your Head Out" and Funkdoobiest's Son Doobie on "House and the Rising Sun", both members of the musical collective known as Soul Assassins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661879777038-2WGGEE7RAJVRUOSB6CA9/4096513-2851014.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - The Dance - Soul Force Limited yellow colored vinyl LP pressing. 1981 album from the New York-based early '80s No Wave/Post-Punk band. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661896968258-6WM25ERQT16IEB0EBF76/4039078-2868305.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - NOFX - White Trash - Anniversary Edition Limited sea blue and clear cloudy colored vinyl LP pressing. White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean is the fourth studio album by NOFX, originally released in 1992. It is the first NOFX album to feature El Hefe on guitar, replacing Steve Kidwiller, who left the band in 1991. White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean was also the first NOFX album not produced by Brett Gurewitz, who produced the band's first three albums. The title is a reference to the eclectic ethnic identities of the band members: white "trash" (Erik Sandin), two Jews (Fat Mike and Eric Melvin), and a Hispanic man (El Hefe). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661879876856-MPKKGA8WC66XRGAQ86A1/4047459-2791214.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Flume - Palaces Vinyl LP pressing. Flume kicks off a new cycle with his highly anticipated third album, Palaces. The 13-track LP shows off his ability to expertly push the boundaries of a sound he helped define, while delivering songs that are still undeniably "Flume." Flume is an artist that has remained uncompromising in his vision and artistry since the beginning, and Palaces is no exception. Featuring a diverse range of artists from rising stars like Caroline Polachek, to established tastemakers like Damon Albarn, this album spans across genres, igniting his fan base and taking him to new heights, creating the perfect launch pad for his upcoming world tour. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661879987121-YBTCK2J1MNKTTAKBLA0C/4101713-2851488.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Isotope 217 - The Unstable Molecule Limited Edition, Clear Vinyl, Blue, Indie Exclusive, Digital Download Card https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661897532454-N54OCXNKUGFIC6QKM2OF/3677892-2410762.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind Double light blue colored vinyl LP pressing. Originally released in 2019. Guitarist Jim Root noted, "This is most time we've had to write a record, and work stuff out together. One of my inspirations this time around was those artists that recorded full length albums - not just songs. While the industry is moving toward singles, Slipknot wanted to make an album experience, front to back." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661897071372-GYJSJ2Z2XX6Y7HJ3XH59/4111468-2850405.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - John Ondolo - Hypnotic Guitar Of John Ondolo John Ondolo spent his life traveling between Tanzania, where he was born, and Kenya, where he recorded a string of singles for independent labels in the late 1950s and early 60s. Unlike most guitarists from the region, Ondolo used open tuning (a favorite of American blues guitarists), creating a hypnotic drone over which he laid down endless rhythmic variations on his main themes. Inspired by the exploding pop music scene in Nairobi, the newest rock and roll imports from the US, and the Abakuria tribal music of his youth, Ondolo transposed traditional instruments and rhythms to his guitar, playing it more like a traditional harp at times, and inventing a sound totally unique in the recorded history of African guitar. This album brings together John Ondolo's rare early 78rpm recordings in the first overview of this innovative but overlooked artist. We trace Ondolo's creative output from the resonant acoustic guitar masterpiece Tumshukuru Mungu to the relentless guitar and flute interplay of Kenya Style to his later electric guitar, bass, and drum recordings with the Jolly Trio, all tied together by Ondolo's rhythmic sense and vocal style. T https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661897187387-1Z1KICUVHKM3CXLOOFPB/4111035-2853179.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - John Prine - Endless Love Vinyl LP pressing of this 1984 album by the iconic singer/songwriter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661897387402-G8F8ORZ1GDL2KKXXT1X9/4020681-2756306.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Bruno Mars & Anderson Paak - An Evening With Silk Sonic An Evening with Silk Sonic is the debut studio album by American R&B duo Silk Sonic, composed of recording artists Bruno Mars and Anderson. Paak. Recording sessions for An Evening with Silk Sonic took place in 2017 and between early 2020 to mid-2021 at Shampoo Press & Curl Studios. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661897623824-5FMCI4OUCABEXG4KTPYD/4105180-2844507.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet The Rolling Stones - "Beggars Banquet" - The Rolling Stones returned to their blues roots on 1968's Beggars Banquet, which was immediately acclaimed as one of their landmark achievements. A strong, acoustic Delta Blues flavor colors much of the album, particularly "Prodigal Son" and Jagger/Richards' "No Expectations." Basic rock 'n' roll is not forgotten with "Street Fighting Man" and "Sympathy for the Devil." The lyrical bite of the material ensured it's place as one of the best blues-based rock albums of all time. 180-gram vinyl. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661880175959-SZ0YQKUSHZMARXO2MMJ8/4061693-2793746.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - The Linda Lindas - Growing Up Specialty Clear w/ Blue Pink Splatter (IEX) LP. A product of generations of underground music in L.A. and beyond, The Linda Lindas' debut, "Growing Up", channels classic punk, post punk, power pop, new wave, and other surprises into timelessly catchy and cool songs sung by all four members-each with her own style and energy. A handful of cuts have already been previewed at shows and enthusiastically approved by diehard followers in the pit at L.A.'s DIY punk institution The Smell and Head in the Cloud festival goers at The Rose Bowl alike. The Linda Lindas are stoked to unleash Growing Up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661880279396-VQ7IRD8LZLKRTSNEM6KA/4088981-2823095.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Lizzo - Special 2022 release, the fourth album from the singer and rapper. The album is the follow-up to her 2019 album Cuz I Love You, which peaked at number 4 on the Billboard 200 chart and was nominated for Album of the Year at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards. Special features the single "About Damn Time". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661894897796-XLPRHYGY31AT7ISKH9QT/4105140-2842969.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Ghost Funk Orchestra - Night Walker/Death Waltz Back in 2016, producer Seth Applebaum released two EPs that marked the inauguration of the band Ghost Funk Orchestra. 'Night Walker' and 'Death Waltz' were conceived as one-man-band, reel-to-reel tape recorded experiments that would bring together elements of all the sounds that Seth most adored at the time: tape-saturated drums, gratuitous spring reverb, surfy guitar, Latin-style percussion, odd time signatures, and Spanish-language female vocals. Initially released only in the digital domain and on a short run of cassette tapes, these two EPs that defined the early era of GFO are now finally available together on a single LP via Colemine Records. The tracks have been lovingly remastered by Doug Krebs. We invite you to take a dive into the humble beginnings of a project that has continued to grow, shape shift, and accrue new and exciting sounds for it's sonic palette. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661895080532-U4KB8KN5GOKREAZ2NMO5/4057984-2788477.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Girlpool - Forgiveness Forgiveness is the brand new full-length Girlpool album, which finds the duo embracing weirdo-pop decadence without sacrificing the poetic curiosity that has always made their music so absorbing. Just like they did for What Chaos Is Imaginary, Harmony and Avery each wrote their Forgiveness songs separately, then came together to decide how to present them in a style that felt representative of what excites and inspires them now. This time, the process resulted in their slickest and most ambitious music to date, filled with idiosyncratic and provocative gestures that simultaneously support and complicate the emotionally intricate material. With it's unique blend of introspective earworms and surreal party music, Forgiveness reaches beyond the loosely sketched parameters of "indie rock," challenging any preconceived notions of what a Girlpool album can or should be. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661895320411-FZG1E0VNCHB35A3CGEVS/4109643-2848432.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Amon Duul - Paradieswarts Duul Paradieswärts Düül is a 1970 psychedelic rock album by the German band Amon Düül. It was the final Amon Düül album to be recorded. In contrast to the communal, free-form improvisations of the earlier Amon Düül albums (generally thought to have all been recorded in a single "jam session" with various commune members coming and going throughout), Paradieswarts Düül was recorded with a smaller, more stable lineup of musicians. The pastoral, folk-influenced sound of the record has been compared to the gentler work of American bands Love and The Velvet Underground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661895379581-B1OFZ436CBM5IOLRG7BR/4109644-2848433.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Albert Ayler - Hilversum Session A legendary recording by tenor saxophonist Ayler with his amazing working band, recorded in Holland for radio play. Recorded on November 9, 1964, Hilversum, The Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661895512867-3MY2E4LYFZ2J275NFYP4/4100067-2846334.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Brown Acid - Fourteenth Trip Here's just a few of the gems on Brown Acid - The Fourteenth Trip, the much beloved series that is the Nuggets of proto-metal, pre-stoner rock: The Legends' "Fever Games" is a 1969 fever dream of heavy psych on par with Blue Cheer at their heaviest, featuring an incredible intro with whammy-bar gymnastics through an Echoplex. This Harrisburg, PA power trio, featuring Dan Hartman (Edgar Winter Group, et al) and his brother Dave, also name-checks Jimi Hendrix Experience in the midst of the song's most blatant Hendrix rip. Perhaps that's how Fever Games work? Transfer's velvet smooth groove has an almost proto-punk feel like a mashup of the Velvet Underground and The Flamin' Groovies. But the lyrics referencing tokin' reefer and the twanging surf lead situate them closer to their heavy rock brethren. This very rare 1974 self- released 45 is this lone archive of the band's existence-assume they just kept right on playin' it cool into oblivion. Cox's Army deploy the grungy rocker "I'm Tired" which sounds like if Jimi Hendrix fronted Mudhoney. Yes, please! Though they hailed from Aurora, IL, it sounds like there's definitely some Pacific Northwest in their blood. Particularly in the gritty production, which hints at The Sonics' "bustin' outta lo-fi" style. Not much is known about the enigmatic Columbus, OH musician known as Raven, whose "Back to Ohio Blues" closes this edition. The mantra-like droning riff of this eight-minute jam is a Black To Comm-style epic, driven by Raven's hostile, no-bullshit diatribe until it all busts open for an insane two-minute long drum solo soaked in odd effects that sounds like it was copped from a Melvins album. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661895634966-KU38CJM4RNFCISBQXJ8A/4119157-2862847.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Codeine - Dessau The pulse of the songs was harder to find and playing at that pace is, well, less forgiving," guitarist John Engle remarked. "Sometimes it felt like whatever we were playing might collapse in the space between notes. Beginning with 'Sea,' we played just enough to propel us forward. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661895747596-U3ZMFV7JKIZ84GZG4RY9/4111033-2853175.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Conan - Evidence Of Reality Hear the roar of battle. Smell the stench of spilled blood. A thousand heads piled high like a grim mound of suffering. England’s doom metal masters CONAN strike back again! Following their much acclaimed 2018 full-length, Existential Void Guardian, and their Live at Freak Valley record released just last year, the trio is gearing up for the release of their fifth studio album, entitled Evidence of Immortality via Napalm Records From colossal opening track 'A Cleaved Head No Longer Plots', CONAN’s upcoming magnum opus will overrun you like a steamroller. The British kings of brutally heavy slowness put their down-tuned pedals to the limit, crushing ears and minds when huge, rumbling chords and riff beasts muscle their way in over lances of infinite distortion. On tracks such as 'Levitation Hoax', CONAN showcases their trademark sound combined with uptempo, fierce riffage, and a pounding, impulsive groove in epic Caveman battle doom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661895860757-N0M0JBGWJ9BUDG4ACBH8/4119874-2866347.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Miles Davis - Decoy This record is self produced by Miles himself! Without long time production collaborator Teo Macero, Miles chases new directions with this 1984 recording. Miles allowed keyboardist Robert Irving and guitar legend John Scofeld to write most of the material on the LP. The record is dripping with some of the new sounds of synths which makes this a very unique entry in the Miles catalog. Decoy features John Sco eld on guitar, Robert Irving on synths and programming, Darryl Jones on bass, Al Foster on drums, Mino Cinelu on percussion, Bill Evans on sax, and guest appearances from Branford Marsalis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661896356909-4YAPGZOHSUWLQCEE5XN7/4118916-2863372.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Regina Spektor - 11:11 Vinyl LP pressing. 11:11 is the debut album by Regina Spektor that was originally self-released in July of 2001. The album was sold at Spektor's early shows, but has since been long out of print. 11:11 has now been remastered and is available once again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661896436099-NFGJKBAWC2TXM3GQKIPW/4084804-2876192.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Sun Ra - Ra To The Rescue Limited green colored vinyl LP pressing. Digitally remastered edition. One of the rarer albums in the Sun Ra canon, RTTR originally entered our orbit in 1983, mystifying listeners and confounding Ra fanatics with the minimal info on the Saturn pressing. Recorded at several locations over several years (including legendary avant-garde arts enclave, the Squat Theater in NYC), the tracks here include everything from Ra's sci-fi synthesizer insanity, Marshall Allen's skronking sax, an excellent Arkestra vocal track 'They Plan To Leave,' and so much more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661880375156-DBPOP1Z7YBD0N3HGQ5UX/4096852-2833183.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Sunny & The Sunliners - Mr. Brown Eyed Soul Vol. 2 Sunny Ozuna is a living legend and a man worthy of praise on many levels. In the Texas and Latin Music pantheon, few have been at it longer and are more revered by their fans and peers than Sunny is. He became a star right out of high school in the late '50s and hasn't looked back in the seven decades since. Among countless other honors and notable achievements, Sunny was the first Latino artist to appear on Dick Clark's "American Bandstand" (in 1963). He penned "Smile Now, Cry Later," a hit for him and The Sunliners, which along with the theater masks that grace the album's cover, became staples in the Chicano Soul and Lowrider Soul cultures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661880579600-98ZDD15UIFY6LQU0T3NF/4102065-2839374.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Talk Talk - The Party's Over (40th Anniversary Edition) Most critically-acclaimed and pioneering bands to come out of the UK. Talk Talk's The Party's Over was a start of a journey for Mark Hollis (vocals), Simon Brenner (keyboards), Lee Harris (drums), and Paul Webb (bass) who constantly evolved throughout their career from synth-pop beginnings into pioneering avant-garde post-rock in the latter stages of the band, being a large influence on artists such as Radiohead, St. Vincent and many more. To celebrate the 40th anniversary, The Party's Over is being released on white vinyl across all music retailers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661880727471-YLYNKR29QWAJK7RAIVY2/4090734-2824667.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Fire Doesn't Grow On Trees 2022 release. Recorded in Berlin and remotely between 2020 and 2021, The Brian Jonestown Massacre returns with their 19th full-length studio album. Fire Doesn't Grow On Trees is the beginning of a thrilling new phase for Anton Newcombe and his band. Joining him in the studio and remotely for this album were Ricky Maymi (guitars), Ryan Carlson Van Kriedt (keyboards), Hakon Adalsteinsson (guitar), Hallberg Daði Hallbergsson (bass), and Uri Rennert (drums). Originally, Newcombe was heavily influenced by The Rolling Stones' psychedelic phase - the name comes from Stones guitarist Brian Jones combined with a reference to cult leader Jim Jones. But his work in the 2000s has expanded into aesthetic dimensions approximating the UK shoegaze genre of the 1990s and incorporating influences from world music, especially Middle Eastern and Brazilian music. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661879120385-1566BQM8ZK46HEBKJA8G/4076119-2851369.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Automatic - Excess Vinyl LP pressing. 2022 release. Automatic's second album Excess rides the imaginary edge where the '70s underground met the corporate culture of the '80s - or, as the band puts it, "That fleeting moment when what was once cool quickly turned and became mainstream, all for the sake of consumerism." Using this point in time as a lens through which to view the present moment, Excess takes aim at corporate culture and extravagance. The overarching themes of alienation and escapism emerged as Automatic put Excess together, taking writing retreats to flesh out the new songs before decamping to the studio for sprint recording sessions with producer Joo Joo Ashworth (Sasami, FROTH). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1656013963380-J8JXKPXFF2I4YXABS5KO/4090854-2846973.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Anteloper - Pink Dolphins 'Pink Dolphins' is a major new step for Anteloper - a duo consisting of Jaimie Branch (Fly or Die, Exploding Star Orchestra, TV On The Radio, Matana Roberts, William Parker, etc) on trumpet & synths plus Jason Nazary (Helado Negro, Bear In Heaven, Little Women, Desertion Trio, etc) on drums & synths. The album was produced by Jeff Parker (The New Breed, Tortoise, Chicago Underground), who also plays guitar on some tracks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1657382858787-IJ80OEAPQS1UOBH4LPDZ/4039167-2774449.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Fleet Foxes - Very Lonely Robin Pecknold brings light to the bleakest of winters with Fleet Foxes' A Very Lonely Solstice, a 13-track career spanning collection recorded in December 2020, at Brooklyn, NY's St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church. Now being released for the first time, A Very Lonely Solstice captures a poignant moment in time. The recording was originally broadcasted as a live-stream event on the winter solstice of 2020, just days after New York declared a state of emergency tightening restrictions again in response to increasing COVID-19 cases. Fans worldwide tuned in while quarantined at home, finding solace and a sense of community in a period of extreme isolation. Much of A Very Lonely Solstice showcases a solo focus on Pecknold who offers up acoustic arrangements of fan-favorite songs spanning Fleet Foxes' catalog. Also featured: a cover of Nina Simone's "In The Morning" and a rearrangement of the traditional "Silver Dagger." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1656022721466-BHJT8L32MB8QG53QMES5/71P2Su0fu2L._SY450_.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Tyler The Creator - Call Me If You Get Lost Double vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. Includes poster. 2022 release. Call Me If You Get Lost is Tyler's sixth studio album and includes additional guest appearances from 42 Dugg, Lil Wayne, Domo Genesis, Brent Faiyaz, Lil Uzi Vert, Pharrell Williams, Teezo Touchdown, Fana Hues and Daisy World. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1657383668775-Z755JEXI03TLOGGTV9QU/3982818-2741715.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Lissie - Watch Over Me (Early Works 2002-2009) Watch Over Me (Early Works 2002 - 2009) is collection of previously unreleased songs from Lissie's archives which chronicle formative moments from the early years of her career until the release of her iconic debut album Catching A Tiger. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1657382982884-FO87ZSTY9JLFGFSEZNPD/4084229-2836206.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Friimen Muzik Company - Free Man Limited 180gm clear vinyl LP pressing. Comes with obi strip and features the original artwork. The album Free Man by the Friimen Muzik Company from 1976 was recorded at the famous Decca Studios in Lagos and has eight swinging tunes. Afrobeat and over the top melodic funk influenced brought by a wide array of both local and international artists. Originally released in 1976 on Anodisc Records Nigeria, Tidal Waves Music presents the first official reissue of this seminal Afrobeat/Afrofunk album. This is also the first time the album is being released outside of the African continent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661888417811-L02TDRNR9PA7722BMWJK/4113709-2868191.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Hudson Mohawke - Cry Sugar Limited blue colored vinyl LP pressing. 2022 release from the Scottish musician, his first artist album since the lauded 2015 release of Lantern. Includes the singles "Cry Sugar - Megamix," and "Bicstan." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661883698261-DGFPYO9Q50OZR2VP9SI1/4101737-2863337.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Potato Chip: Crunchy Dunwich Garage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661883815645-EL3Q8TLD83U6D5XJ2KO4/4087276-2824570.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - The Grateful Dead Europe '72 (50th Anniversary Edition) Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of The Grateful Dead's iconic Europe '72 Tour with the original Europe '72 album, newly remaste red. Plangent Processes tape restoration and speed correction, with mastering by GRAMMY® Award winning engineer Dave Glasser, Produce d for Release by David Lemieux. 180-Gram, Black Vinyl. In another industry defying move, The Grateful Dead followed up their first Gold Record, the 1971 liveshowcase SKULL ROSES, with another live album, one that to most fans and critics surpassed even the excellence of the previous offering. From April 7 to May 26, 1972, the Dead performed and recorded 21 live concerts, plus a set in a television studio, with every night being an exceptional display of the magic that was uniquely the live Grateful Dead. These concerts and this tour, 50 years later, are still considered one of the highest of high points in The Grateful Dead's performing career. In an era whena double album was rare enough, the Dead outdid even their own lofty standards by producing a 3 LP masterpiece that to this day is considered one of the finest live albums ever produced. Remastered from the original analog tapes, the album has never sounded better. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661883929960-0F74YPL4E8DS3U5EIHQE/4105267-2852420.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Jim James - Regions Of Light And Sound Of God (Deluxe Reissue) Jim James -"Regions Of Light And Sound Of God" Released in 2013, Regions of Light and Sound of God was the debut solo album from Jim James of My Morning Jacket. Deluxe Edition features the original album plus a bonus LP featuring 12 B-sides, demos, and alternate versions including "State of the Art (Demo)," and the previously unheard ballad, "Begin Again." The 2 LP set is housed in a rainbow foil tip-on gatefold jacket with revised artwork, a fold-out insert and is pressed on clear with purple blob vinyl. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661884007349-MLU2FN1FBO8VMY2VKJ0H/4077458-2817819.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Moby - Ambient Limited clear vinyl LP pressing. Ambient is the second studio album by electronica musician Moby, originally released in August 1993 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661884078980-7NBLN1IYPA461LKC29LV/4103675-2841625.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Moor Mother - Jazz Codes Jazz Codes uses free jazz as a starting point but the collection continues the recent turn in Moor Mother's multifaceted catalog toward more melody, more singing voices, more choruses, more complexity. In it's warm, densely layered course through jazz, blues, soul, hip-hop, and other Black classical traditions, Jazz Codes sets the ear blissfully adrift and unhitches the mind from habit. Through her work, Ayewa illuminates the principles of her multidisciplinary collaborative practice Black Quantum Futurism, a theoretical framework for perceiving and adjusting reality through art, writing, music, and performance, informed by historical Black ontologies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661884300952-7U7ZVWEDPQXYOF4V1S9E/4107189-2848061.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Nas - Magic 2022 release. Produced by Nas' longtime collaborator Hit-Boy, Nas shares Magic, the transcendent 9 track album including Wave Gods ft. A$AP Rocky and DJ Premier. Magic follows the August 2021 release of Grammy nominated album, King's Disease II. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661884498255-CXYK354CNH3KYHUHD6T3/4087324-2864389.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Saajtak - For The Makers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661886111092-DPTNNZMHEDA7BFY4G8M7/4035287-2774215.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Eddie Vedder - Earthling Earthling, the third studio album from Eddie Vedder, features the singles “Long Way,” “The Haves,” and “Brother The Cloud.” In addition, the album features collaborations with music legends including Stevie Wonder, Ringo Starr, Elton John, Chad Smith, Andrew Watt, and Josh Klinghoffer. Available from Seattle Surf/Republic Records. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661886389795-PSOIP6FZMV4Z7STCMBS3/4099533-2837095.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Viagra Boys - Cave World In this time of strife, insanity and confusion, only one band is depraved enough to offer themselves up as herald. Like sin-eaters if sins had to be ingested from a very small spoon, Viagra Boys have consumed the utterly incomprehensible chaos of our era and distilled it into 12 immaculate tracks of post-truth-cow-funk-kraut-wave-enlightenment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661886511689-ZS1NKHXFOMNPWOZ5RA6I/4105298-2844687.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Birth - Born Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. 2022 release, the debut album from the Southern California psychedelic/progressive rock unit. Featuring members of San Diego's revered retro rockers Astra, along with current or former members of Joy, Radio Moscow, and Sacri Monti, Birth owns a cavernous cache of credibility rarely found in developing musical groups. Described as a magic-eye journey into kaleidoscopic sound, and a dystopian take on the here and now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661886925352-88PD4B18CFN5UER0QFQZ/4111690-2850456.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - David Bowie - Earthing Earthling (2021 Remaster) - Earthling is the twentieth studio album by David Bowie released in February 1997 via Virgin Records, later reissued on BMG Records. This was the first album Bowie self-produced since his 1974 album Diamond Dogs. Bowie's 1970s experiments in dance music, art-rock and other space-age pop forms helped lay the groundwork for modern styles like ambient and techno and here he comes full circle picking styles and ideas from those he heavily influenced. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661886986070-HW6N105937S1AEFD3GKB/4111475-2850408.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - David Bowie - Outside In the cyber-drenched 1990s, David Bowie once again proves himself ahead of the game. Outside is more a monumental collage of techno-war coldness than a mere album. Bowie combines the most essential pieces of each of his previous personas and musical styles to make Outside into an all-too-dense song-cycle with a story-line. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661887445061-QL448TGA9ZEF9OP2E1LP/3992372-2731803.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Aaliyah - One In A Million Double vinyl LP pressing. One In A Million is the second studio album by Aaliyah. First released in 1996 by Blackground Records, the album features production from a variety of producers including Timbaland, Missy Elliot, Carl-So-Lowe, J. Dibbs, Jermaine Dupri, Kay Gee, Vincent Herbert, Rodney Jenkins, Craig King, Darren Lighty and Darryl Simmons. With countless accolades, One In A Million remains one of the most influential albums in Hip-Hop & R&B and proved to be a major breakthrough in Aaliyah's career. Welcome to the new world of funk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661887633069-Z76Q94ZO49DYH258VMB8/brockhampton-roadrunner-new-light-new-machine-Cover-Art.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661888326895-3B6XAFVWAS2T6FMLOC55/4104068-2842018.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Danny Elfman - Bigger. Messier. Following his triumphant performances at the 2022 Coachella Music and Arts Festival, Danny Elfman delivers Bigger. Messier, an ambitious double -album collection of remixed and reimagined tracks from his highly acclaimed Big Mess album. This sprawling, 23 track collection (available on 2 LP or 2 CD) features tracks reworked by some of the most groundbreaking and subversive artists around today. Bigger. Messier views the Grammy and Emmy Award-winning composers songs through the lens of luminaries from diverse sides of the music business, including Trent Reznor, Iggy Pop, Squarepusher, and Ghostemane. Elfman once again has achieved a kind of artistic liberation on the record that had been eluding him for decades, and connecting him to brand new audience. Born and raised in southern California, Elfman began his career as part of a surrealist, avant-garde musical theater troupe known as The Mystic Knights of Oingo Boingo. The group would eventually morph into the critically acclaimed rock band Oingo Boingo, whose high-energy performances and genre-bending sound garnered them a fanatically devoted cult following in the 1980s and '90s. Among the group's early fans was fledgling director Tim Burton and Paul Reubens (aka Pee-wee Herman), who enlisted Elfman to score their first feature film, Pee-wee's Big Adventure. The collaboration would prove to be the start of a long and fruitful partnership for Elfman and Burton, with Elfman going on to score a string of iconic Burton features like Batman, Beetlejuice, Big Fish, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas. To date, Elfman has scored more than 100 films. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661888968666-0ELYZGJIWBHJSM2E46YP/4051386-2785979.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Terrace Martin - DRONES Drones, Terrace Martin's first album-in-name since Velvet Portraits, started germinating in 2016. Contrary to the perception that info might cause, Martin wasn't merely toiling away for half a decade on this loosely conceptual set. He steered the Sounds of Crenshaw, Vol. 1 and Dinner Party projects, participated in R+R=Now, and in 2020 alone released a live LP, a crop of fine EPs, and singles such as the unflinching Black rebel anthem 'Pig Feet.' Add to that a seemingly full slate as a producer, sideman, and touring musician aiding artists ranging from 2 Chainz to Herbie Hancock. If Drones should be heard as the follow-up to Velvet Portraits, not as part of Martin's unceasing tear, so be it. Where the earlier album combined old-school R&B and traditional gospel, soul-jazz, and a little synth funk for over 70 mostly kicked-back minutes - with Martin often emphasizing his piquant alto sax - the comparatively succinct Drones is funkier, freakier, and ultimately more hip-hop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661889210650-6342YPJHMK09T93ILKI8/3218714-2862853.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Link Wray - Self Titled Limited vinyl LP repressing in gatefold jacket. Recorded in a shaky makeshift chicken shack in rural Maryland, Link Wray's eponymous 1971 solo album is a compelling and forward-looking piece of honest, handmade Americana. This album is vastly different from his previous work, foregoing instrumentals entirely. Instead, Wray, left with only one lung following a bout with tuberculosis in 1956, gives us his raw voice, full of spit and vinegar, as he blends elements of country, rock 'n' roll, roots, folk and gospel marked with fuzzy guitar and booming percussion. He kicks off with a track, "La de Da", that may be the greatest song the Stones never wrote. Elsewhere, the single "Fallin' Rain" channels Dylan at his most political, with lyrics about "stabbings and shootings and young men dying all around." Link Wray proved to be the only album that the guitarist issued in his own name to hit the American charts during his nearly 50-year recording career. Although it didn't receive much critical acclaim at the time of it's release, Link Wray has seen a resurgence in recent years and developed a cult following, with artists from Nick Cave to The Neville Brothers recording versions of it's tracks. Link Wray's musical journey began early, with his father Fred taking up the family music business. Link, along with brothers Vernon and Doug began playing together professionally in 1942, their rowdy instrumental single "Rumble" charting at number 16 in 1958. Following a string of hits on Philadelphia-based Swan Records, Vernon began to serve as the family's producer, eventually starting his own studio; first in the basement of his home and then-after his wife Evelyn complained about the noise-in a converted shack on the property. It was there that Link, Vernon and producer Steve Verroca found a sound that marked "a return to simplicity." This carefully remastered reissue will take you right back to that chicken shack, and to sessions so electric you can almost feel the atmosphere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661889422169-XLWYXBPRITODSAYLTMJU/4079500-2867813.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Talking Therapy Ensemble - Talking Therapy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661889556105-8FLIXNHMTSQDQSUS8XUM/4083105-2816609.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1661889785885-H0V5L8KBDXTRKG3U0AJR/4098986-2863788.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Yard Act - Dark Days Limited silver colored vinyl LP pressing. Can it really just be over a year since Yard Act exploded into the national consciousness with their debut EP Dark Days, released via their own Zen FC imprint? Yard Act have gone on to be one of 2022's defining artists with the release of their debut album The Overload, and their rise has been as entertaining as it has been meteoric. And as well as touring the world and smashing sales records, they've still found time to continue Zen FC, releasing acclaimed 7"s from Baba Ali and Benefits. Being the budding record industry moguls that they are, they couldn't bear to see the Dark Days EP languishing out of print. So they commandeered a Danish pressing plant and rudely shoved their way to the front of the queue, picked a new colour (silver in honour of the Overload finishing second in the album charts) and rushed through a repress in time for the summer. And while they were at it, they sorted out a run on the format of the future, cassette. So there you have it: while you're thinking about putting 'The Overload' at the top of your albums of 2022, you can enjoy the EP of 2021 all over again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1657394584660-9BN4M2IMLT8YPCZ5AKJT/4084225-2836190.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Ofege - Try And Love Ofege was formed in the early 1970s by a bunch of teenagers at the St. Gregory's College in Lagos Nigeria. Due to their vibrant combo of sweet harmonies, hooks & fuzz, Ofege would become one of the most legendary Nigerian groups of all time, with expressive sales and national stardom. At the turn of the century (and because of tracks appearing on various psychedelic music compilations) Ofege would receive international acknowledgment for being the first of their kind and the ultimate West-African psychedelic funk band! Their first album was recorded while the band members were still in high school (average age of 16), Ofege's debut album 'Try And Love' was originally recorded and released in 1973 on EMI Nigeria. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1657381983074-I3VPS319LWFV1OU0268D/arthur-brown-long-long-road-Cover-Art.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Arthur Brown - Long Long Road Pretty much everyone into rock music knows ARTHUR BROWN - and not just because of his iconic, career-defining transatlantic hit single 'Fire' from the 1968 album "The Crazy World of Arthur Brown" but also through his many collaborations with other outstanding artists, such as a cameo in the cult film "Tommy", in which his dramatic vocals were backed by ERIC CLAPTON and THE WHO, as well as working with THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT, DAVID GILMORE, THE PRODIGY, BRUCE DICKINSON, THE STRANGLERS, KULA SHAKER, DIE KRUPPS, and many others. Scheduled for release on Arthur's 80th birthday on June 24, 2022, "Long Long Road" effortlessly shifts from progressive rock and soul to pristine blues rock, with the much-loved singer summoning his full vocal range with a mature mastery that comes only with the experience of a lifetime. Wild, vibrant, and crammed with rich musical textures, this album is quintessentially ARTHUR BROWN, and can easily be construed as the apex and summary of a fascinating career that has spanned several decades. Arthur is widely credited as a pioneer of shock rock and progressive rock, and a significant influence on heavy metal. His live performances include iconic classics, dance, poetry, visuals and a subliminal soundtrack of new electronic music. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1657395081919-0P29KV7I7QAHLVZ778VU/4051462-2852473.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Owls - S/T After several years pursuing careers apart from one another, the original line-up of the revered Cap'n Jazz reunited to form Chicago's art-funk post-rock groove outfit, OWLS, Featuring Tim Kinsella (Joan of Arc), Mike Kinsella (Joan of Arc, American Football), Victor Villarreall (Ghosts and Vodka), and Sam Zu-rick (Joan of Arc, Ghosts and Vodka), OWLS retained the obtuse structures of their previous bands while sonically stripping down to the basics of pure simple rock. Available again on vinyl for the first time since 2011! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1657395264789-KMMT0VNH7FEU73Z03HKX/4039069-2836093.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Refused - Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent Limited baby blue colored vinyl LP pressing. Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent is the second full-length album by Swedish hardcore punk band Refused. It was originally released in 1996. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1657386090023-DIXLISCXAXH8LEBQO7FF/4083976-2817304.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Volta Jazz - Wild Rice From the landlocked tropical savanna of Upper Volta, an ever-evolving cast of musicians brought the world's rhythms to the streets of their native Bobo-Dioulasso. Combining Congolese rhumba, American R&B, French yé-yé, Cuban son, and regional Senufo and Mandingo traditions, Orchestre Volta Jazz was at the epicenter of the West African musical explosion of the '60s and '70s. Air Volta compiles nine original songs originally issued on the Disques France-Afrique and Sonafric labels, a peerless primer of a group that turned the brutality of colonialism into something beautiful and enduring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1657385459325-2NQLM9CHFEWAT5K9V2IA/4083974-2817302.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Super Djata Band - En Super Forme Vol. 1 - Okra Connecting Wasulu hunter music, griot praises, pastoral Senufo dances, Fula and Mandingo repertoire with western psychedelia, blues, and Nigerian afro-beat, Zani Diabaté's Super Djata Band was among Mali's top orchestras. Tracked live inside Radio Mali's cozy environs in January 1982, en Super Forme was briefly available via Côte d'Ivoire's Musique Mondiale imprint. The album centers around Diabaté and his electric guitar's pyrotechnics, a relentless shredder that stands shoulder to shoulder with Mali's fingerstyle gods Ali Farka Touré and Djelimady Tounkara. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1657392327832-UNLUAOX19VSLJG0OX2N9/4099297-2836183.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Tim Heidecker - High School Limited clear red vinyl LP pressing. 2022 release. Since 2016, Tim Heidecker has chronicled the annals of adulthood on a series of supreme singer-songwriter albums. The crushing devastation of divorce and the existential malaise of middle-age, the minutiae of home ownership and the ritual of family vacation, child rearing and global warming: Heidecker has handled it all with humor and heart. But, there's one pivotal lodestar of human development he has yet to mine - that's right, High School. Produced by Mac DeMarco, Eric D. Johnson (Fruit Bats, Bonny Light Horseman), Drew Erickson. Feat. Kurt Vile, Jonathan Rado. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1657392442689-V5EFCU7NYNDDBSF3EOLX/4084008-2817275.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Joys Union Group - Boredom Euphoria Joys Union Group is a new Texas group that aims to blur the lines between new age, jazz and "New Weird America"-esque psychedelia and Trouble In Mind is honored to unveil "Boredom Euphoria", their stunning debut album. The group is led by Neil Lord (Future Museums) alongside Michael C. Sharp (Uniform, Sungod, Impalers), Kristine Reaume (Sungod) and Dailey Toliver (Molly Burch). The album was mixed by Ben Greenberg & mastered by Andrew Weathers. While the album still skirts the boundaries of the ambient & kosmiche zones Lord is known for is his solo Future Museums project, Joys Union Group fully feels like an organic, living entity, rather than a sequence of electronic signals; heady, deep, jammy & blissful. Leading off with the serene "Cloud Paint", the album arrives like a spring sunrise, as shafts of light peek through the treeline, leading into the title track "Boredom Euphoria", with it's percussive swing driving under guitar & key splashes & embellished by a shimmering, cascading flute melody. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1657387487832-GZ4ITHCZ8PKUTG9XXWDV/BANKS-Serpentina-album-artwork.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Banks - Serpentina Limited white colored vinyl LP pressing. 2022 release, the fourth album from the platinum-certified artist. The musician enters previously uncharted territory in every sense-from sound to lyrics to visuals, and everything in-between. "In the past, I've been really tight and controlled, and I don't feel like that right now," says Banks. "I just feel more wild and free." Featuring already released singles 'The Devil' and 'Skinnydipped,' the 13-track Serpentina started taking form in the early days of quarantine, when Banks decided to use the time under lockdown to master the production software Ableton. Despite being heavily involved with the production across all of her previous three records, it was her first time fully in control. "It felt like opening up a whole new world," says Banks. "It feels like a journey listening to it from the beginning to end." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1657383301775-4E5FGQAR8FW2EKVDJFVV/2162496.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Nico Gomez - Ritual Belgium, not the first place you'd think of when it comes to Latin or Afro funk. Yet one of the greatest records to blend both styles came from the small northern European country, masterminded by Nico Gomez and his Afro Percussion Inc. 'Ritual' was originally released in 1971 on the Dutch label Omega International (Gomez was born in Holland before moving to Belgium in the late 40s). Across it's 11 tracks it delivers the kind of production, arrangement and musicianship that rightfully belong in a dictionary next to the definition of professional. Gomez' band was tight, and they knew it. It is a multifaceted work which intertwines equal parts of Funk, Afro-Bop and Latin traditions. The track 'Lupita' is a certified classic and a favourite of many discerning DJs. We hope this reissue brings it's blazing funk grooves to both new ears and those already tuned in to this masterpiece's legacy. Reproduced in original style packaging and pressed on red vinyl. Mastered from original tape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1657386222315-D5NLWR4AFQGDU4YSQXV4/4093960-2829835.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - XTC - White Music Limited 200gm vinyl LP pressing of the 1978 classic debut album by iconic British rock group XTC. Newly cut from masters by Jason Mitchell at LOUD mastering and approved by Andy Partridge. White Music neatly encapsulates the frenetic nature of the post-punk/new wave period, a time when bands such as XTC could issue two singles and two albums in under twelve months while maintaining a full schedule of gigs reached in poor transport, frequently followed by poorer accommodation and along with all of the accompanying press and promo requirements, all in order to build an audience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1657395616519-8POSA3SUGA7ECVLQTNCE/4093527-2827738.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Switchblade Symphony - Bread And Jam For Frances A goth rock classic comes to vinyl for the very first time - the haunting second album by highly revered female duo Switchbalde Symphony! This album built on the success of the group's debut album Serpentine Galley while expanding their sound with a greater variety of sounds, smaples and songs, including the all-time fan favorite track, "Wicked," as well as the extremely popular "Dirty Dog" plus lots more! Limted edition PINK vinyl! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1657385957605-QYV7IWGFKFYTAFCCSQR7/4081478-2817045.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - TV Priest - My Other People Without a brutal evaluation of their own becoming, TV Priest might have never made their second album. Heralded as the next big thing in post-punk, they were established as a bolshy, sharp-witted outfit, the kind that starts movements with their political ire. There was of course truth in that, but it was a suit that quickly felt heavy on it's wearer's shoulders, leaving little room for true vulnerability. "A lot of it did feel like I was being really careful and a bit at arm's length," says vocalist Charlie Drinkwater. "I think maybe I was not fully aware of the role I was taking. I had to take a step back and realize that what we were presenting was quite far away from the opinion of myself that I had. Now, I just want to be honest. " https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1657397260151-8O3Q2O24MD8O8RCA3L4U/4093538-2827750.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Vandals - Slippery When Ill The second album from the clown princes of punk rock, Southern California's The Vandals! Originally released in 1988, the album was later reissued as The Vandals Play Really Bad Original Country Tunes in 1999, but for this reissue we've restores the original artwork as well as the full track list PLUS 2 bonus tracks! Limited edition RED MARBLE vinyl! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1657387778553-6SZGC42W6ZSYAB5JJ3FW/4093529-2827745.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - The Dickies - Stukas Over Disneyland The third and hugely entertaining studio album from LA punk pillars, The Dickies! This 1983 album brings both the fun and the fire with original tunes as well as covers of underground heroes The Quick plus a super fast version of "Communication Breakdown" by not-so-underground band Led Zeppelin! Includes 3 bonus rarities that haven't been available since 1990 and were recorded in the early 1980s! Available in RED vinyl! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1656023069314-T7JIX98T1DHZFPAR88TW/Flightpath_logo.svg.png SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Kanye West - Donda Kanye West delivers a Deluxe Edition of the record-shattering Donda, featuring 4 bonus tracks plus fan-favorite verses from Andre 3k, Kid Cudi and more. This release, from one of “the most influential pop stars of the 21st century,” was his 10th #1 album on the Billboard 200, racking up over 1 billion streams in the first 10 days. Originally previewed at 3 historic livestream events, the global phenomenon topped charts in 11 countries and set an Apple Music record of #1s in 152 countries. 4 LP. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1656020329455-1J81EDFF4BL8JU3HYJ7Z/4081951-2846478.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Sessa - Estrela Acesa São Paulo's Sessa returns with Estrela Acesa, an enchanting collection of songs adorned with elegant strings and hypnotic rhythms, honoring post-tropicalia masters like Arthur Verocai, Jorge Ben, and Milton Nascimento. If Grandeza, Sessa's acclaimed debut album, was about the drunkenness of love, Estrela Acesa is about love's hangover. Side A Gostar do Mundo Cancao da Cura Sereia Sentimental Música Helena Pele da Esfera Side B Dor Fodida Irmao de Nuvem Que Lado Voce Dorme? Ponta de Faca Voce e a Musica Estrela Acesa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1656024218597-ATGLVN8SD5R738RXG3PF/4090835-2846497.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - The Smile - A Light for Attracting Attention The Smile will release their highly anticipated debut album A Light For Attracting Attention in June, 2022 on XL Recordings. The 13- track album was produced and mixed by Nigel Godrich and mastered by Bob Ludwig. Tracks feature strings by the London Contemporary Orchestra and a full brass section of contempoarary UK jazz players including Byron Wallen, Theon and Nathaniel Cross, Chelsea Carmichael, Robert Stillman and Jason Yarde. The band, comprising Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood and Sons of Kemet’s Tom Skinner, have previously released the singles You Will Never Work in Television Again, The Smoke, and Skrting On The Surface to critical acclaim. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1656024304056-NY4V13J1TKTG1B65EQZD/4080337-2846485.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Perfume Genius - Ugly Season Double vinyl LP pressing. Perfume Genius returns with Ugly Season, the follow up to 2020's overwhelmingly praised Set My Heart On Fire Immediately. Called "his strongest work to date" by Pitchfork (9.0, best new music) and "stunning" by The Wall Street Journal, Set My Heart... marked the continued elevation of Mike Hadreas' powers. Ugly Season was born out of the 2019 dance and music collaboration The Sun Still Burns Here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1656023409793-VXCPC9GCIRHGK529TBXA/4031430-2825231.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1657395922649-AQ0ABMYAQW1AOZAOW3JY/Telekinetic-Yeti-Primordial.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1656023314078-3LJYN37FIEBFFWQ54BVO/4096515-2846669.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Warren Zevon - Preludes Double vinyl LP pressing. Includes booklet. Following Warren Zevon's death in 2003, his son Jordan Zevon discovered 126 unreleased outtakes and demos in a piano-sized touring case. This discovery would be distilled down to the best of these recordings and eventually released as a 2-CD set titled Preludes released on May 1, 2007. When the album was released, it featured sixteen unreleased recordings from Zevon's personal archives, as well as six never-before released songs and a five-part 2000 interview with KGSR's Jody Denberg. This release will be pressed for the first time on black vinyl. This double LP set features all of the exclusive bonus tracks as well as a beautiful 20-page perfect bound book, all packaged in a hardbound slipcase. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1656020598409-HSHCQGGXTKDXCKT8GZZM/4079789-2811051.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Soccer Mommy - Sometimes, Forever Sometimes, Forever - the immersive and compulsively replayable new Soccer Mommy full-length - cements Sophie Allison's status as one of the most gifted songwriters making rock music right now. The album finds Sophie broadening the borders of her aesthetic without abandoning the unsparing lyricism and addictive melodies that made earlier songs so easy to obsess over. To support her vision, Sophie enlisted producer Daniel Lopatin, whose recent credits include the Uncut Gems movie score and The Weeknd's Dawn FM. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1656015701880-6H2ZOLAYXA6T89SU6YZ6/4077001-2806848.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Vaxis II: A Window... Double blue colored vinyl LP pressing. 2022 release. Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind welcomes us back to The Amory Wars as the second installment of the new five-part Vaxis arc about a couple on the run from tyrannical forces and their mysterious new addition. Named one of Revolver's 'Most Anticipated Albums of 2022,' Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind includes the recently released singles "Rise, Naianasha (Cut The Cord)" and "Shoulders," the latter of which vaulted into the Top 10 at Active Rock Radio, marking the group's career highest radio chart position to date. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1656023194586-7AQJNGSXVCEGGKV2F22O/4088826-2846044.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Wild Style (Various Artists) Animal Records - founded by Chris Stein of Blondie fame - only ever released one album in it's brief early-80s history, but what an album that was. Wild Style remains the most seminal soundtrack in hip-hop history, a snapshot of the scene as it evolved from the streets to the recording studio. But it's not just a vital document, it's also a damn good listen. The line-up is a who's who of those who stood out from hip-hop's nascent block party days. The Double Trouble pairing of Rodney Cee and KK Rockwell, The Chief Rocker himself, Busy Bee, the mighty line-ups of both The Cold Crush Brothers and The Fantastic Freaks. The music captures the free-form, roaming nature of the film - it's rough at the edges, it's occasionally amateurish, but it's completely, utterly glorious. The original Animal tracklisting, of which this is a reissue, is full of recurring sounds and motifs, all of them co-produced by Chris Stein and Fab Five Freddy, stepping away from breakbeats to produce a sound that reminds you of them, while being totally unique. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1656015264547-BFFMO1157WQT9DM6HD55/4098475-2834734.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Cachemira - Ambos Mundos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1656019426857-4Q2F3LSXIFD7HK4BDTB0/4075935-2825397.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Phi-Psonics - The Cradle (Deluxe Edition) Phi-Psonics is a meditative, immersive instrumental group from Los Angeles, led by bassist Seth Ford-Young and featuring Sylvain Carton on woodwinds, Mitchell Yoshida on electric piano, and Josh Collazo on drums. Their deeply soulfulmusic draws on jazz and classical influences together with Ford-Young's own musical experiences, relationships, and his introduction to spirituality, yoga and philosophy at a young age, to create something uniquely it's own. The music that would becomeThe Cradle, wasn't written specifically for an album, originally Ford-Young was just writing down what was coming through. As time went by and the album began to take shape, the world situation seemed to be getting darker and his compositions aim to offer hope as a response to the negative influences that abound today. Remarkably for such a beautiful sounding record, it was recorded at the composer's home, rather than in a studio, but the relaxed nature of this process gives the music an airy lightness that propels the music to some magical spaces. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1656016622636-C5R426RVS2BNYJXHLMBW/61nyH4En%2BGL._SS500_.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Lucrecia Dalt - The Seed (Original Score) Vinyl LP pressing. Includes digital download. Lucrecia Dalt's debut film score to The Seed, a sci-fi horror film directed by Sam Walker on Shudder. The Seed's release follows the Colombian artist's collaboration with Aaron Dilloway, Lucy & Aaron, her acclaimed 2020 album No era solida, a site specific performance for the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona, plus sound installations for CTM Festival and Medellin's Museum of Modern Art. Often seeking inspiration in the worlds of fiction, poetry, geology and desire, excavating nuanced references to untangle and respond to in her music, Dalt's debut score is incredible stand-alone piece of work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1656019642618-QQMCOOJLG4L5R6SX12BZ/4084550-2846606.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Polica - Madness Vinyl LP pressing. 2022 release from Polica, the Minneapolis-based project of singer, Channy Leaneagh, producer, Ryan Olson, bassist, Chris Bierden and drummers, Ben Ivascu and Drew Christopherson. Madness is Polica's seventh release since 2012"s ground-breaking debut LP Give You The Ghost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1656022495761-KCPEBKL4CRR9AGE0HKVN/3992384-2819532.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Timbaland & Magoo - Indecent Proposal Double vinyl LP pressing. Indecent Proposal is the second studio album from Norfolk, VA duo Timbaland & Magoo. Originally released in 2001, the album features Magoo's Q-Tip-like flow and Timbaland's distinct production style drawing from reggae, retro and soul. Features include early appearances from Jay-Z, Twista, Petey Pablo and Ludacris, as well as looks from Aaliyah, & Static Major. Released nearly two months after Aaliyah's untimely passing, the album was dedicated to the memory of "Babygirl." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1656018513374-50ICZ0U2RQZVT767GDP8/4087256-2821661.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Jack Johnson - Meet Moonlight Jack Johnson / MEET MOONLIGHT - Meet The Moonlight, Johnson's eighth studio album and first full-length release in five years, was produced by Blake Mills (Alabama Shakes, Perfume Genius, Jim James) and recorded in Los Angeles and Hawaii. The creation process marks a major artistic milestone from past work, taking shape from a one-on-one collaboration with Mills, and unveiling an intimate and highly experimental process that involved embedding Johnson's elegantly stripped-back arrangements with enchanting sonic details. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1656020733699-PUUINEZ9DH3LNJD4CLUE/4064159-2836094.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1656020840040-IOXL9M0E19G1PJ7I4W8Y/4064163-2836095.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1656021211239-414VGLUW6XOE8NFBDNR1/3992382-2819530.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Tim's Bio: From the Motion Picture - Life from Da Bassment Originally released in 1998 by Blackground Records, Tim's Bio: From the Motion Picture - Life from Da Bassment is the debut solo album from Hip-Hop & R&B superproducer Timbaland. With guest appearances from heavyweights such as Magoo, Missy Elliot, Aaliyah, Ginuwine, Plays, Skillz, Nas, Jay-Z & Twista, as well as the debut on-record appearance of acclaimed MC Ludacris, Timbaland takes full control of production for the album. The album features the hit songs "Here We Come," and "Lobster & Scrimp." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1656017850230-Q0W4RF80HE3S6V9JR9KD/4092844-2828495.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Lou Donaldson - Blues Walk Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Lou Donaldson had already helmed 7 Blue Note sessions by the time he made his undisputed masterpiece Blues Walk in 1958. Joining the saxophonist were Herman Foster on piano, Peck Morrison on bass, Dave Bailey on drums, and Ray Barretto on congas for a 6-song set that yielded one of his most memorable themes with the cool struttin' title track. This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is stereo, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1656018293174-9Q3RM36MJPSEP97DKOGO/4099015-2846815.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Earth - Full Upon Her Burning Lips Limited color vinyl reissue. Earth have stripped away the layers and auxiliary instrumentation that embellished some of their previous records and have deconstructed their dynamic to the core duo of Dylan Carlson on guitar and bass and Adrienne Davies on drums and percussion. The ten tracks came together in bits and pieces. Some songs stemmed from a handful of musical phrases and repeating patterns concocted in moments of downtime during their 2017 tour schedule, while others came from rehearsals in the months leading up to recording or in moments of divine inspiration in the studio. The record was engineered, mixed, and mastered by longtime associate Mell Dettmer at Studio Soli. Knowing their process and their sound, Dettmer helped harness, shape, and document the songs in a manner that highlights the depth of Earth's sparse components, capturing a hidden dimension to the patterns and creating a kaleidoscope of auditory activity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1656015573691-BH81LF2VFWOYA97V37HH/4088284-2821464.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Chrome - Another World Brand new vinyl pressing of the groundbreaking 1985 album from experimental rock icons, Chrome! • This is the second album of the Damon Edge era of Chrome and laid the groundwork for the hugely influential cold wave sound Edge developed through the '80s and into the early '90s! • Unique SPLATTER vinyl design! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1656018118557-XQZLP2XVGXH2VDQUNKLV/4069253-2846646.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Julien Dyne - Modes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1656023971766-2V0KHYPWACC1GMN8S99O/4069331-2846748.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Cola - Deep In View Deep in View is the debut album from former Ought members Tim Darcy (vocals, guitar) and Ben Stidworthy (bass) alongside Evan Cartwright (drums). Titled after philosopher Alan Watts' anthology of the same name, the record is built on a foundation of elegant guitar grooves and knotty rhythms, offering commentary on modern life and technology through curious lyrical vignettes, where quotidian objects and scenes are never just as they seem. Deep In View is equally a product of introspective songwriting as it is a consideration of the abstract landmarks of an increasingly media-mediated society. It also presents the most concise and melodic songs Darcy and Stidworthy have written to date.. The album sounds streamlined and intentional, as the rhythms of the punchy and exuberant guitar parts, urgent basslines, and unexpected drum patterns all tangle with each other in an elegant dance. At the center of all these elements is Darcy, whose characteristically wry voice shifts from detached to decisive to distressed, throughout the album's course. Both enigmatically dense in meaning but precisely intricate in sound, Deep in View is an album that sparks novel interpretations with every listen, like an art object that takes on new shape with each angle from which you hold it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1656017723625-KZX5SO8U8QRVKKZMRVA8/393641.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - The Distillers - Sing Sing Death House Limited 20th Anniversary 'doublemint' colored vinyl LP pressing. Sing Sing Death House is the second studio album by punk rock band The Distillers, originally released in 2002. The song "Seneca Falls" was featured in the game Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1656017049379-3VXWX3143XYA2MERTFAX/3554560.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Dengue Fever - Dengue Fever Los Angeles based Cambodian and American band Dengue Fever released their first album (2003's self-titled) with no idea how it would be received. Was Khmer-rock, or the very idea of covering lost classic Cambodian songs, even something that would resonate with music fans? Would anyone in the indie community want to hear songs in Khmer? Would anyone in the world music community want to hear psych or garage rock? More than a decade and many releases later, the answer to all those questions is an emphatic yes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1656016895752-KYRVFBJW7TIJ720MPL9F/2167671.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Dengue Fever - Venus On Earth Los Angeles based Cambodian and American band Dengue Fever released their first album (2003's self-titled) with no idea how it would be received. Was Khmer-rock, or the very idea of covering lost classic Cambodian songs, even something that would resonate with music fans? Would anyone in the indie community want to hear songs in Khmer? Would anyone in the world music community want to hear psych or garage rock? More than a decade and many releases later, the answer to all those questions is an emphatic yes. Today, partly because of those first two albums, Dengue Fever are recognized for their trademark blend of sixties Cambodian pop and psychedelic rock. Later, albums like Venus on Earth (2008), Cannibal Courtship (2011) and the lesser known In The Ley Lines (2009), cemented the band as true global pioneers who are constantly evolving their sound forward. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1656020121220-I31H1F6FS42CSUTTCS83/4061388-2828658.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Rolling Blackouts C. F. - Endless Rooms Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever return in 2022 with Endless Rooms, the Melbourne quintet's third album proper. Described by the band as them "Doing what we do best: chasing down songs in a room together", Endless Rooms stands as a testament to the collaborative spirit and live power of RBCF. While initial ideas were traded online during long spells spent separated by lockdowns, the album was truly born during small windows of freedom in which the band would decamp to a mud-brick house in the bush around 2hrs north of Melbourne built by the extended Russo family in the 1970s. There, it's 12 tracks took shape, informed to such an extent by the acoustics and ambience of the rambling lakeside house that they decided to record the album there. The house also features on the album cover. For the first time, the band self-produced the record (alongside engineer, collaborator and old friend, Matt Duffy), creating their most naturalistic and expansive document yet. The result is a collection of songs permeated by the spirit of the place; punctuated by field recordings of rain, fire, birds, and wind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654360852855-XHKJYBNB2A6TKV7FULJB/4079970-2813730.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Angel Olsen - Big Time Double vinyl LP pressing. 2022 release. Big Time is an album about the expansive power of new love, but this brightness and optimism is tempered by a profound and layered sense of loss. During Olsen's process of coming to terms with her queerness and confronting the traumas that had been keeping her from fully accepting herself, she felt it was time to come out to her parents, a hurdle she'd been avoiding for some time. After that tearful but relieving conversation, she celebrated with her partner, their friends, oysters, and wine. Three days later, her father died; his funeral became the occasion for Olsen to introduce her partner to her family. Though she was fearful their presence as a newly out queer couple would be "an additional symbol of loss," those days went peacefully, yet only two weeks later Olsen got the call that her mother was in the ER. Hospice came soon after, and a second funeral came quickly on the heels of the first. Another trip back to St. Louis, another grief to face, another deepening and intensification of this still-new love. Three weeks after her mother's funeral she was in the studio, recording this incredibly wise and tender album. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654360480354-B1V4WVP2T6XT1JT49354/4087325-2839914.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - El Perro - Hair Of El Perro is a new band led by guitarist/vocalist/songwriter/producer Parker Griggs of Radio Moscow. The sound contains elements that fans of Radio Moscow will recognize, but this is rock music with a new, fresh spin and feel. The band's debut album, "Hair Of El Perro", takes heavy psychedelic rock as a starting point but jams into more syncopated territory, spicing it's sound with Latin rhythms and hints of Funkadelic-style grooves. You could say that El Perro plays psychedelic funk rock, and you wouldn't be wrong. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654360667111-UPT91PSET8N3OGMYDG06/2853138.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - The Grateful Dead - Three From The Vault Limited quadruple vinyl LP pressing housed in a gatefold Stoughton "tip-on" jacket. From The Vault releases are distinguished from the more abundant Dick's Picks series in that Dick's Picks are "direct from the soundboard" recordings, while the From The Vault series were professionally recorded on multi-track tape and then mixed down (decades) later for release. Recorded live at the Capitol Theatre (Port Chester, NY) in 1971, this is the worldwide vinyl debut release of this seminal show featuring the 5 piece line-up of Pigpen, Garcia, Weir, Lesh, and Kruetzmann (Mickey Hart had temporarily left the band at that point), freshly remastered in 2014 by Joe Gastwirt for your pleasure. 20 classic songs on eight sides of wax, this show has previously only been available on CD; this is the first ever vinyl LP release! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654360561593-CLVUMXNYZ789UDXFJMGQ/3486327-2658468.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Kikagaku Moyo - House In The Tall Grass Kikagaku Moyo's debut album exerts an elemental power. Enlivening their sound with sitars, percussive drums, theremins, wind instruments and ethereal vocals, the band manages to sound powerfully spacious and lazily serene all at once. Their songs can be light as air, or heavy as earth. Many evolve out of intense experiences of engagement with the natural world. The album's first track, "Can You Imagine Nothing?" was written over a night spent jamming on a suspended footbridge in remote mountains. As the song progressed the bridge began to sway, making band members feel as though they were floating weightless in midair. Kikagaku Moyo started in the summer of 2012 busking on the streets of Tokyo. Though the band started as a free musiccollective, it quickly evolved into a tight group of multi-instrumentalists. Kikagaku Moyo call their sound psychedelicic because it encompasses a broad spectrum of influence. Their music incorporates elements of classical Indian music, Krautrock, Traditional Folk, and 70s Rock. Most importantly their music is about freedom of the mind and body and building a bridge between the supernatural and the present. Improvisation is a key element to their sound. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654114907138-38143CRAG45GE27COPI6/4088630-2838314.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Frightenrs - Always Before Dan Klein's unfortunate passing, The Frightnr's agreed to keep a promise he asked of them - continue making music together. Part of that promise has been made manifest here... Daptone Records is proud to present Always! - the raw, soulful long player from The Frightnr's. The road to Always began with a period of intense songwriting back when The Frightnr's and producer Victor Axelrod (Ticklah) were working on the group's debut, rocksteady masterpiece, Nothing More to Say. In addition to the scorchers heard therein, Axelrod and The Frightnr's agreed many of the recordings were too sweet to tamper with in order to fit the rocksteady mold. Some were created at their headquarters in Queens with Dan on the mic, some were elaborations on older ideas, others were brand new creations made at the finish line. Thanks to the vocal stems they had captured in this golden period, Dan Klein's other-worldly voice lived on, giving The Frightnr's all the raw material they needed for an entire album's worth of new, original music. So with that, The Frightnr's and Axelrod returned to the studio and painstakingly conceptualized, tracked, re-tracked and mixed them into a complete album with their beloved friend singing lead. The fruits of this arduous process lay bare the undying love and respect between musical brothers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654114555967-8P82LTN3Y2GRQ364WYIK/s-l400.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Doja Cat - Planet her Titled after the fictional planet conceived by rapper/singer Doja Cat, Planet Her is an amalgamation of pop, hip hop and R&B styles. The artist's third studio album includes the singles "Kiss Me More" featuring SZA, "You Right" featuring The Weeknd, "Need To Know" and "Woman", and also features guest appearances by Young Thug, Ariana Grande, JID, Eve and Gunna. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654033139305-BN74L0962IMJ3MAT2G1L/4085703-2835116.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Arca - Kick III Vinyl LP pressing. 2021 release from the Venezuelan musician, singer, songwriter, rapper, producer, and DJ. Kick III sees her returning to the club nights that shaped her early adult-hood where Arca was born: the surrealist DJ, warping dance music structures to fit her singular vision-relentless rhythms to drive listeners into uncharted states of euphoria, anthems for the basement-dark queer clubs of our cyberpunk near-future; the climax of the cycle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654033218631-LGCT0D12FDLOQ6KA32JG/4085705-2835118.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Arca - Kick IIII Vinyl LP pressing. 2021 release from the Venezuelan musician, singer, songwriter, rapper, producer, and DJ. With Kick IIII, the cycle resolves, and a new species of xenopop emerges, sensual and serene. Arca's talents as a composer and sound designer take the lead on closing track "Paw," setting melodies to drift on deep, gentle waves of orchestral ambience, an oceanic bliss. On Kick IIII, the ambient ecstasy transitions swiftly into lullaby-like compositions as we come to the conclusion of the Kick series; the renewal stage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654114454120-ZOBSGTC9K7ABBIC9W0AW/4066867-2798406.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Dehd - Blue Skies The rapturous reception of 2020's Flower of Devotion gave Dehd access to more resources - budgets, studios, producers. Rather than seek something new however, they invested in themselves, their process, and their deep belief in what they have always done. They booked the same studio where they recorded Flower of Devotion but tripled their stay, giving themselves time to play with arrangements and delight in a wonderland of drum machines and synthesizers. While continuing to write and record every part of the album themselves, the new relationship with Fat Possum did allow for a few indulgences, namely in the addition of Grammy winning mixing engineer, Craig Silvey (The Rolling Stones, The National, Arcade Fire), and mastering engineer, Heba Kadry (Slowdive, Bjork, Cate Le Bon), ensuring Dehd's vision for "Blue Skies". The result is the band's second consecutive breakthrough: sharper and smarter, with harmonies and rhythms more sophisticated and considered. Blue Skies is still Dehd - just more wild and wonderful than ever before. Another jolt of timely hope, only with twice the power. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654033550139-BMOIJ1ZLYBRAUP1Y66JA/4078801-2812288.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Cave In - Heavy Pendulum The legendary Cave In makes a highly anticipated return with their Relapse Records debut, Heavy Pendulum, their first full studio record in over a decade. The band (Stephen Brodsky - Guitar/Vocals, Adam McGrath - Guitar/Vocals, John-Robert Conners - Drums) sees a revival following the addition of Nate Newton (Converge, Doomriders, Old Man Gloom) on bass and vocals. Produced by Kurt Ballou at God City, Heavy Pendulum showcases everything that has long established Cave In as one of the best contemporary rock, hardcore, and metal bands since their monumental 1998 debut Until Your Heart Stops. From the driving tracks such as crushing opener "New Reality" to the metallic edge of "Blood Spiller", Heavy Pendulum sees Cave In look back at their discography and capture their most memorable, visceral, and forward-thinking moments to create a record that is all at once familiar and in true Cave In fashion, ahead of the mainstream. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654033789457-RQXDAYLSOV0VRAXYLEXG/2151604.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance Darkthrone began life in the late 80's as a thrash/death metal act and progressed through technical death/doom metal experimentation to become legends of the black metal world. They were one of the original leading bands of the Norwegian scene, as well as inspiring a whole generation of metal bands. The Underground Resistance was another stellar venture through the metal cosmos and contains Darkthrone's trademark masterful riffing in a broad range of styles, effortlessly bounding through the annals of classic metal, taking in thrash and black metal and not forgetting a dose of punk. Overall, a ferocious and dynamic set of tracks drenched in Fenriz's and Nocturno's rich and diverse tastes in all things metal, primarily those rooted firmly in the spirit of the 80's. Six tracks long and every one an epic, this was undoubtedly among Darkthrone's strongest material of the decade. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654036208711-CB5BMJ0GDTJB35XMS3BS/4089827-2824881.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Offeneders - Endless Struggle: Millennium Edition "Not Since 1981 has there ever been nor will there ever be a band like The Offenders." - X Con Ron - M.D.C. BEER CITY SKATEBOARDS AND RECORDS is proud to bring you the second and final album from 80's hardcore/punk legends; The Offenders - Endless Struggle Millennium Edition LP! Completely restored and remastered and all from the original reel tapes. Featuring the original mix that's been out of print for a very long time. Back in the early 80's Texas was churning out a fair share of bands that would go on to become legends in the hardcore/punk scene and beyond. The Offenders were no exception to this phenomenon. Anytime they played you knew as soon as they hit the stage they meant business and you were in for an intense experience like no other. The Offenders had already established themselves as a no BS hardcore/punk band with their first release 'We Must Rebel'. They played a ton of shows and toured on it a bunch to. A few years past while all this happened and in those years they wrote some more ass kicking songs that would end up being their second and final release 'Endless Struggle'. This hardcore/punk scorcher had the same rage and urgency as the first album, but the progression of the band could be heard and defiantly appreciated. This originally came out in 1985 and was produced by the legendary Spot. It contains 13 ragging songs that you will not forget. Top all that off with extensive liner notes by none other then OFFENDERS drummer Pat Doyle and you have a hard hitting restored and remastered LP that will have you playing it again and again. So if you want to own a part of hardcore/punk history that's just as ass kicking and as relevant as it was when it first came out. Pick up this release and never forget 'Don't Mess with Texas... HARDCORE!' https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654036423443-6AJJBZGNRHRGZ9IH7HS5/4089826-2825319.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Offenders - We Must Rebel: Millennium Edition "Not Since 1981 has there ever been nor will there ever be a band like The Offenders." - X Con Ron - M.D.C. BEER CITY SKATEBOARDS AND RECORDS is proud to bring you another hard hitting early 80's hardcore/punk classic from back in the day. We bring you the restored and remastered Millennium reissue of the original mix of OFFENDERS - We Must Rebel Millennium Edition LP! Back in the early 80's Texas was churning out a fair share of bands that would go on to become legends in the hardcore/punk scene and beyond. The Offenders were no exception to this phenomenon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654036686967-EF9CAFLPF0HUYYQAOCNV/4064662-2835225.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Pigeon - Yagana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654037338410-O9EY2JJ2IGBFSIZ656L4/4065767-2795485.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Soft Machine - Wonderland Rare early Soft Machine cuts from 1963 -1970, featuring Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, Mike Ratledge, Hugh Hopper, Daevid Allen and others. Pressed on red vinyl. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654036867746-HTHFA0KQF1UJOUP2T3ZS/3531238.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Power Trip - Nightmare Logic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654036932214-L1RQNDBWQ8IUIN4698C8/4066033-2808117.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Project Gemini - The Children of Scorpio Good things come to those who wait. The album 'The Children of Scorpio' by Project Gemini aka Paul Osborne is a result of his steeped 30-year musical journey that's seen him dig deep, study his record collection and re-emerge to fine-tune his craft. A cinematic musical journey that plays out like a long-lost soundtrack (think cult B-movies of the 60s and 70s); 'The Children of Scorpio' was formed from Paul's love of a myriad of genres; from European library music, acid folk, psych-funk, vintage soundtracks and the contemporary breaks scene. The album draws on iconic classics such as the masterful cinematic funk of Lalo Schifrin's 'Dirty Harry', Ennio Morricone's 'Vergogna Schifosi' and Luis Bacalov's 'The Summertime Killer', to name but a few. You can also hear the folk sounds of Mark Fry's iconic 'Dreaming With Alice', the Britsh folk-jazz of The Pentangle and the David Axelrod-produced 'Release Of An Oath' by The Electric Prunes, woven into the cultural tapestry of this gem. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654037091104-Q3UZ1IA83ENY82OTAEUO/Rosalia_Motomami.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Rosalia - MOTOMAMI MOTOMAMI is the new album from Grammy Award winning recording artist, producer and songwriter Rosalía. The album has been declared as “One of the Most Anticipated Albums of 2022” by multiple global press outlets including BBC, El Pais, NME, NYLON, Pitchfork, TIME and Wall Street Journal amongst others. Rolling Stone en Español wrote, “It’s a brave record… Genres are a thing of the past; there’s room for everything here… what modern music should be: art and flavor, dembow, champeta, flamenco, bachata, hip-hop, piano melodies… …MOTOMAMI feels like a freight train from the future, hurtling right at us at full speed and no brakes. Rosalía is the power source behind it all.” MOTOMAMI features the previously released songs “LA FAMA,” “SAOKO,” and much, much more. “LA FAMA” (feat. The Weeknd), is a powerful and cautionary song that finds Rosalía and The Weeknd singing to each other in Spanish about how charming and seductive fame can be, making her a dangerous and shallow lover. And “SAOKO” is a shining example of the spirit of MOTOMAMI—grit and grace, strength and vulnerability, fierce femininity, and an unapologetic, brave attitude. ROSALIA / MOTOMAMI https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654037248118-SVJUVZBD8MNVVYE3R4OF/4012044-2835404.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Patrick Shiroishi - Hidemi The concentration camps that Japanese Americans had to go through has been a major part of my work for the last couple of years,' says Los Angeles-based composer and saxophonist Patrick Shiroishi. Hidemi, a solo multilayered woodwind journey, considers the personal experience of his grandfather after getting out. 'His name is Hidemi Pat,' Shiroishi explains, 'so I was named after him, but I never got to meet him, as he passed away before I was born.' As Patrick's name is in memory to his grandfather, Hidemi is too, and across the album's nine tracks, Shiroishi brings the listener through tension and release, showcasing something unfiltered, beautiful, and ultimately hopeful, a testament to perseverance and grace. All of the album was written and performed by Shiroishi, who sang and played alto, baritone, tenor, C melody, and soprano saxophones, stacking up layers of harmonies often each recorded in one take. RIYL: Colin Stetson, Battle Trance, Upsilon Acrux. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654036749904-0GSG4F578U6DJHRRZERS/4080508-2820735.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - The Police - Around The World Restored & Expanded Around The World Restored & Expanded follows The Police on their first world tour in 1979 and 1980, as they visit 6 continents building their fanbase show-by-show, country-by-country, song-by-song. In between the performances, the film offers a jovial glimpse of the band as they travel around the world and their visits to local sights. Around The World is presented with restored picture and remastered audio and includes complete performances of 4 songs featured in the documentary. Recorded during The Police’s first world tour, the CD & LP showcases Sting, Andy Summers, & Stewart Copeland playing with a frenzy and passion that would make them the biggest band in the world. Spotlighting tracks from their first two albums, these performances were recorded in Japan, Hong Kong, and England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654034234038-UZWH6VZ9L1863S6RE9NN/4075071-2805733.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Front Line Assembly - Disorder Deluxe reissue of the landmark 1988 album from groundbreaking industrial/EBM pioneers, Front Line Assembly! Completely revamped artwork as well as 3 bonus tracks make this one of the cellectible FLA reissues of the year! Limited edition RED & BLACK SPLATTER vinyl pressing! FLA's The Mechanical Soul Tour kicks off May 5 in San Francisco and will hit Portland, NY, Chicago, Philadelphia, Austin, Los Angeles and more! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654033389048-CUNOABBVKMLIYEW51A31/4070693-2800977.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Brant Bjork Somera - Somera Sól Vinyl LP pressing. Reissue. Somera Sól is the second album from the stoner rock band Brant Bjork and the Bros. It features former Kyuss drummer Alfredo Hernandez and guest appearances by Sean Wheeler of Throw Rag and Mario Lalli of Fatso Jetson. This is the second LP released by Brant Bjork in 2007 following the solo acoustic Tres Dias. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654035823398-VLN6Q7FI0DAQWUPX9T8T/4081629-2835492.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Metric - Old World Underground, Where Are You Now? (Clear Vinyl, Silver, Indie Exclusive) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654035153041-9OX2P04LJHBENEJ01M9D/4064522-2798575.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - It's A Rough Old Road To Travel (Various Artists) From the people who brought you 'Hillbillies In Hell'... 16 timeless tales of existential angst wrought from backwoods outsiders and Nashville misfits. Furtive banjos and lonesome voices soundtrack a turbulent vista of Eternal Questions and Unquenchable Wanderlusts. Trench-warfare Laments, harrowing Self-examinations, faltering Ids and devastated Egos. Many originally waxed on private press labels and distributed in unrewarding amounts, these Troubled Troubadours sing of endless Yearnings, distant Freedoms, collapsing Identities, primordial Fears and stygian landscapes of molten Self-doubt. Years in the making - 'It's A Rough Old Road To Travel' presents existential Howls and Jungian diatribes from forgotten 45s: windswept Longings, broken Survivalists and disrupted Ecologies. All for your contemplative listening pleasure. Strictly Limited Edition Deluxe Gatefold LP with exclusive scholarly liner notes by Alvin Lucia! Full dynamic range 2022 remasters direct from the first generation analogue master tapes! Limited Edition 500 LPs - 250 'Windswept Heartache' Milky Clear LPs! / 250 'Soul Necrosis' Black LPs! (randomly inserted) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654034745022-LHNLA4VIN6W18128L52Y/4081640-2835125.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Horse Lords - Interventions Reissue of this great 2016 album. For punks that like Terry Riley. Colored Vinyl, Blue, Indie Exclusive, Digital Download Card https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654035968884-D066L8E2HSRSCDLW10KD/4070892-2801207.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Moon Duo - Stars Are the Light (Neon Pink) Limited pink colored vinyl LP pressing. Stars Are the Light, the luminous seventh album by the American psych explorers Moon Duo, marks a progression into significantly new territory. From a preoccupation with the transcendental and occult that informed Ripley Johnson and Sanae Yamada's guitar-driven psych rock, and reached it's apotheosis in the acclaimed Occult Architecture diptych, Stars Are the Light sees the band synthesize the abstract and metaphysical with the embodied and terrestrial. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654034917984-XFJ8N6SFF33SF143HQFB/4039313-2776287.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Hot Water Music - Feel The Void Recorded at Black Bear Studios in Gainesville, FL, Feel The Void marks the return of producer Brian McTernan, who worked with the band on 2001's A Flight And A Crash, 2002's Caution and 2004's The New What Next, often thought of as Hot Water Music's classic period. From the moment the dark, portentous intensity of "Another Breath" kicks the record off, it's clear that this is a band at the peak of their powers. McTernan's involvement was incredibly instrumental in channeling that spirit and energy - the intense urgency of "Killing Time, "Newtown Scraper" and "Scratch On," the nervous but positive emotional energy of "Hearts Stay Full" and the title track, the soaring chorus of "The Weeds," the surging, powerful roar of closer "Lock Up." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654035576126-OXSM3U33G6RK75TL2U27/4081642-2835452.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Matmos - Regards / Uklony Dla Boguslaw Schaeffer Matmos are one of the most prominent experimental electronic artists working today, crafting work by creating new conceptual frameworks & immediately testing those frameworks absolute limits. For Regards / Uklony dla Boguslaw Schaeffer, they've focused on another artist known, in large part, for doing the same. Boguslaw Schaeffer was one of the first Polish artists creating electronic music. In step with American contemporaries like John Cage and Morton Feldman, he worked across the boundaries of classical composition, electronic experimentation, and radical theater in playfully form-breaking ways. Regards.. however, was not just inspired by his work, Matmos were given access to the entirety of Schaeffer's recorded works to use as they saw fit, commissioned by the prestigious Instytutu Adama Mickiewicza. They re-assembled & re-combined these recorded works with modern instrumentations in a way that only Matmos could, and what emerges is a composite portrait of the utopian 1960s Polish avant-garde and the contemporary dystopian cultural moment regarding each other across a distance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654033862684-9C65E5I2R07KZK2YQOGX/4067291-2835334.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Desaparecidos - Read Music/Speak Spanish Limited translucent blue vinyl LP pressing. 2022 finds us releasing the 20th Anniversary Edition of Desaparecidos' Read Music/Speak Spanish into a world in which the dread and disenfranchisement detailed throughout the album feel as pertinent today as they did then. The characters and settings may have changed, but the startling narrative has not. In late 2001, Conor Oberst, Denver Dalley, Landon Hedges, Ian McElroy, and Matt Baum spent a week at Presto! Recording Studio in Lincoln, NE recording a punk album. That debut album, released in the post-9/11 fog of early 2002, screamed out observational commentary on urban development, the sacrifice of human value for the dollar bill, and the new American Dream in a way that felt distinctly out of sync with the hyper-patriotic atmosphere of peak G.W. Bush-era America. The band toured, got a bit of attention, and then went their separate ways for a long spell. In the ensuing years, Read Music/Speak Spanish gained cult status and became one of the most beloved and meaningful documents of the era, capturing the alienation that those who had seen through the fog of war for $$$$ experienced at the time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654034598979-5Z2G8YJXR55H6LT8PKG0/download.jpeg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - High Pulp - Pursuit Of Ends Vinyl LP pressing. 2022 release from the Seattle-based collective. There's something defiant, something utterly liberating about High Pulp's remarkable ANTI- Records debut, Pursuit of Ends. Drawing on punk rock, shoegaze, hip-hop, and electronic music, the band's brand of experimental jazz is both vintage and futuristic all at once, hinting at times to everything from Miles Davis and Duke Ellington to Aphex Twin and My Bloody Valentine. The songs here balance meticulous composition with visceral spontaneity, and the performances are nothing short of virtuosic, fueled by raw, ecstatic horn runs ducking and weaving their way around thick bass lines and dizzying percussion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654034312492-QGRVXYRXSO4G7ESASOEF/4081637-2835209.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Future Bubblers 5.0 (Various Artists) 2022 UK jazz/funk/pop compilation curated by Giles Peterson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654035236813-3UMZAFNDQVNHJZHJ5BZO/4084369-2817407.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music R.A.P. Music, the fifth studio album by rapper Killer Mike was originally released in 2012 and is finally back in print. Production was handled by rapper and producer Jamie "El-P" Meline; the album was the first collaboration between Killer Mike and El-P, who would later form the critically acclaimed duo Run the Jewels. R.A.P. Music received widespread acclaim from music critics. It landed on the Year End Best Album lists of Entertainment Weekly, Consequence of Sound, Complex, Chicago Tribune, Paste, NPR, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Stereogum, Spin, Vulture, Village Voice, and many more. Killer Mike's breakthrough LP, R.A.P. Music is being reissued by Adult Swim / WaterTower Music. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654034042248-OJOE6VWW751M4KGZHHN4/4057916-2789366.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Bill Evans - At The Montreux Jazz Festival Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. One of Bill Evans' best live album, At The Montreux Jazz Festival won the 1969 GRAMMY for Best Jazz Instrumental Album. The legendary pianist is backed here by drummer Jack DeJohnette, who had just joined the trio and would gain renown in later years as a member of Keith Jarrett's Standards Trio. Evans' longtime bassist Eddie Gomez is also extensively featured on this iconic and immortal set. Includes new, specially prepared liner notes by Brian Morton. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654116218284-T43X7W64AFLMS6QBP33K/ab67616d0000b2737621d134e7431d472c6b22f6.jpeg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Guilty Simpson - Ego Collaborative album from Detroit MC Guilty Simpson and Texas producer Gensu Dean. Features appearances from Black Milk, Skyzoo, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Marv One, and Yarbrough. The lead single "Don't Pull" streamed on Brooklyn Vegan - "finds Guilty Simpson sounding as bulletproof as ever". Guilty Simpson has worked with J Dilla, Madlib, Oh No, Royce Da 5'9", and was a Random Axe member alongside Black Milk and Sean Price. Gensu Dean has worked with Brand Nubian, Roc Marciano, Large Professor, Planet Asia, Conway, and Denmark Ves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654112568035-MW2IBD11SHUUR2386KZU/Harry-Styles-Harrys-House.jpeg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Harry Styles - Harry's House Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing housed in gatefold jacket. Includes printed inner sleeve, postcard, and 12 page booklet. 2022 release. Harry's House is the third solo studio album from Grammy award-winning global superstar Harry Styles. The 13-track full-length album was recorded in multiple locations across the UK, Los Angeles, and Tokyo from 2020 to 2021. It was written by Harry alongside frequent collaborators Kid Harpoon, Tyler Johnson, and Mitch Rowland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654112722802-5TFBU26GURQERVH1DJJJ/4064370-2835216.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Un-scene : Post Punk Birmingham 1978-1982 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654112811261-SDB8TH7O0JK1SJ4O8PY3/4078004-2838831.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Daniel Villarreal - Panama 77 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654112891946-496CEOABWLB5U90ZJ62J/4010427-2747665.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Widespread Panic - Miss Kitty's Lounge Double vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. Recorded in John Keane's Studio, Athens GA during the demo tracking session in the winter of 1990. The original five; John Bell, Michael Houser, Todd Nance, Dave Schools, Domingo Ortiz with John Keane on guitars, Page McConnell on organ, and Randal Bramblett on sax. Includes liner notes from John Keane and John Bell. 'they provide an interesting snapshot of where the band was at the time; more stripped down and guitar oriented prior to the addition of a full time keyboard player.' - John Keane, Producer & Engineer. 'This was Widespread Panic un-filtered - or, at least self-filtered - filling in almost every cranny with sound and movement.' - John Bell, Widespread Panic.Double vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. Recorded in John Keane's Studio, Athens GA during the demo tracking session in the winter of 1990. The original five; John Bell, Michael Houser, Todd Nance, Dave Schools, Domingo Ortiz with John Keane on guitars, Page McConnell on organ, and Randal Bramblett on sax. Includes liner notes from John Keane and John Bell. 'they provide an interesting snapshot of where the band was at the time; more stripped down and guitar oriented prior to the addition of a full time keyboard player.' - John Keane, Producer & Engineer. 'This was Widespread Panic un-filtered - or, at least self-filtered - filling in almost every cranny with sound and movement.' - John Bell, Widespread Panic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654112978409-KSH2VKR861MR2BKB7XB8/3782415.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Wire - Pink Flag Vinyl LP pressing. Digitally remastered edition. Pink Flag is the debut studio album by English band Wire. It was released in November 1977, through Harvest Records. Though the album failed to chart on it's initial release, it has been widely acclaimed and is considered by critics and other commentators to have been highly influential on many other musicians since it's release. Wire's first three albums need no introduction. They are the three classic albums on which Wire's reputation is based. Moreover, they are the recordings that minted the post-punk form. This was adopted by other bands, but Wire were there first. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654113078097-YOQ2LR4WDIZYFXQK6ZB5/4070445-2800820+%281%29.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - XTC - Mummer Limited 200gm vinyl LP pressing housed in originally conceived - but never used - album cover. XTC's sixth album, Mummer was another turning point for the band as it marked their first release as a studio only band. The comparatively quieter/more considered English Settlement was very much an album of songs written with one ear for the studio and another for how they would work live. Mummer was different. Freed from the constraints of 'the road' this was XTC in widescreen - experimenting with songs, arrangements and the expanded sonic palette that studios can provide when there is no afterthought as to how to reproduce the material in a variety of theatres, university halls and other venues few, if any, of which were built with rock groups in mind. And, just as the Mummers' plays involve people travelling from place to place in a village enacting tales of the cycle of life (albeit in disguise), XTC travelled the best of the UK's studios recording, mixing and re-mixing their songs cycle to exacting standards. Released as the follow-up to their most successful UK album to date and with a new record label in America, band and record company hopes were high - three of the album's first four songs were issued as singles - but were to remain unfulfilled. Fans loved it, the press was positive but radio was changing, especially in the UK, and with no touring it failed, as sometimes happens with bands adopting a new approach, to cross over to that wider audience. As also happens with such records, it's reputation (and sales) have, over the years, grown far greater than it's initial reception indicated and it can now be seen, in retrospect, to have been an important first step towards the sort of expansive approach to writing and recording that would yield much greater commercial results later in the same decade with Skylarking and the albums that followed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1656019043163-1F7OWNJISI0F2DDU0FPA/4036348-2835224.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Mount Liberation Unlimited - Welcome To The Jungle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654114025061-0G4E193V99TUZTX7438P/4085274-2838303.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Maria Chiara Argiro - Forest City https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654114190340-QVE64X1LNMUTRR3PL93X/4061744-2792399.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Bright Eyes - A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997 Opaque Gold Vinyl. It's the desire to celebrate their sonic bounty that first got Oberst and the band excited about the idea of comprehensive reissues. But this wouldn't be a Bright Eyes project if a moment devoted to appreciating the past weren't turned into an opportunity to connect with the future. That's where the nine companion EPs come in. Or as Oberst puts it, "the supplemental reading" for the primary reissues: One six-track EP per reissued album, each featuring five reworked songs from that album. "My thing was they had to sound different from the originals, we had to mess with them in a substantial way." Plus one cover that felt "of the era" in which that particular albums was made - a song that meant something to the band at the time. To help the EPs come alive in the fullest way, Bright Eyes called in lots of old friends, like Bridgers, M. Ward, and Welch and Rawlings, as well as new ones like Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654114269529-UKL1OUB46605ENJFEUMU/4061746-2809309.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrors: A Companion Opaque Gold Vinyl. It's the desire to celebrate their sonic bounty that first got Oberst and the band excited about the idea of comprehensive reissues. But this wouldn't be a Bright Eyes project if a moment devoted to appreciating the past weren't turned into an opportunity to connect with the future. That's where the nine companion EPs come in. Or as Oberst puts it, "the supplemental reading" for the primary reissues: One six-track EP per reissued album, each featuring five reworked songs from that album. "My thing was they had to sound different from the originals, we had to mess with them in a substantial way." Plus one cover that felt "of the era" in which that particular albums was made - a song that meant something to the band at the time. To help the EPs come alive in the fullest way, Bright Eyes called in lots of old friends, like Bridgers, M. Ward, and Welch and Rawlings, as well as new ones like Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654114332047-LEMRZ498XRUQU04CMTHP/4061745-2809308.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Bright Eyes - Letting Off The Happiness: A Companion Opaque Gold Vinyl. It's the desire to celebrate their sonic bounty that first got Oberst and the band excited about the idea of comprehensive reissues. But this wouldn't be a Bright Eyes project if a moment devoted to appreciating the past weren't turned into an opportunity to connect with the future. That's where the nine companion EPs come in. Or as Oberst puts it, "the supplemental reading" for the primary reissues: One six-track EP per reissued album, each featuring five reworked songs from that album. "My thing was they had to sound different from the originals, we had to mess with them in a substantial way." Plus one cover that felt "of the era" in which that particular albums was made - a song that meant something to the band at the time. To help the EPs come alive in the fullest way, Bright Eyes called in lots of old friends, like Bridgers, M. Ward, and Welch and Rawlings, as well as new ones like Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654112655362-WAATJJIWI4VYSBX404T8/4067255-2826056.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Tomberlin - I Don't Know https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654114616556-RPAC78VO40855ILIESFF/3917121.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Duster - Stratosphere Best listened to from inside the womb, Duster's 1998's debut Stratosphere simultaneously capped off and reinvented the slow core's first wave. A four track dreamscape that will wake the neighbors and then lull them back to sleep. Hazy, arpeggiated guitars layer over a deliberate drummer with no real place to be, as semi-inaudible vocals warn of millennial malaise and subtly encourage the listener to "rock out, rock out, rock out, rock out." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654114678657-GAFD0CGIM92ZRRO3VS03/4043588-2777478.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Etran De L'Air - Agadez Etran de L'Aïr (or "stars of the Aïr region") welcomes you to Agadez, the capital city of Saharan rock. Playing for over 25 years, Etran has emerged as stars of the local wedding circuit. Beloved for their dynamic repertoire of hypnotic solos and sun schlazed melodies, Etran stakes out a place for Agadez guitar music. Playing a sound that invokes the desert metropolis, "Agadez" celebrates the sounds of all the dynamism of a hometown wedding. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654114781414-J3KSKVW5A7BKJPCUPXGO/4088466-2821584.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Flower Travellin' Band - Anywhere Reissue of Flower Travellin' Band's debut album Anywhere, originally released in 1970. Anywhere is the first album from the legendary Japanese rockers fronted by Yuya Uchida. Although an album consisting mainly of cover versions, Anywhere still exhibited many of the musical traits that were to come to the fore on the band's next release, the classic 1971 album Satori, an album of original material delivered with panache by the increasingly confident Uchida. An album made memorable by it's risqué cover as well as it's ground-breaking approach to Western rock music. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654114992189-9EFOVUIDU27ZI6VQXHLD/4081637-2835209+%281%29.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Future Bubblers 5.0 (Various Artists) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654115086805-RLH7QF7S1P4B2K1K59PH/4064670-2798370.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Get Up Kids - On A Wire On a Wire is the third studio album by the band "The Get Up Kids" on Vagrant Records. Originally released in 2002. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654115183700-SKKLW93E1O50TWKUOCN3/4051446-2823040.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Locust - New Erections New Erections is the third studio album by punk rock band The Locust. It was originally released in 2007, via ANTI-, their second album for the label. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654115354468-OSWKN7EXBIJ7R2BJ0YIU/4077468-2808150.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - The Pink Fairies - Kings of Oblivion Kings of Oblivion is one of the best-kept secrets of hard rock - and an important part of it's history. If you like your rock and roll "real," it doesn't get much more real than this. Just don't go expecting Judas Priest, AC/DC or Black Sabbath; This is high-energy rock that truly belongs on the streets, and a landmark album in it's genre. Truly a classic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654115437516-UNXBFBY0GB5XS584PHL2/3817332-2562545.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Powers/Rolin Duo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654115544752-ALDK06VRVSJUCZWGL6WV/4074614-2803571.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Claire Rousay - Everything Perfect Is Already Here When words trail off at the beginning of Claire Rousay's Everything Perfect Is Already Here, ornate instrumentation is waiting to fill a void left by the breakdown of language. Yet it becomes clear as we trace Rousay's collaged sonic pathway that breakdown, of meaning and also of melody, is also a place to rest. Everything perfect... is made up of two extended compositions that cycle between familiarity and unknowing. There are seemingly infinite ways to feel in response to these pieces of music, which shift tone across their languid duration, earnest like a familiar song but unbound from the emotional didacticisms of lyrical voice and pop form. Rousay builds a fluid landscape around the acoustic contributions of Alex Cunningham (violin), Mari Maurice (electronics and violin), Marilu Donovan (harp), and Theodore Cale Schafer (piano), whose respective melodies weave gently in and out, sometimes steady, sometimes aching, sometimes receding altogether in deference to less overtly musical sounds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654115781489-6LSCELQ1PB8E6WFVNN6J/4092035-2838254.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Ty Segall - Whirlybird Soundtrack Ty Segall meets a new non-rock challenge head-on; soundtrack music for the documentary film Whirlybird. A variety of synth sounds, electric keyboards, drums, percussion and saxophone (and yeah, a few guitars) form a shifting impressionist counterpart, instrumental music that dialogues with and serves to frame the film's compulsive themes and images. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654115866138-49H99UDL9NUDGX3U3N3R/4042611-2785827.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Shout Out Louds - House Vinyl LP pressing. 2022 release, the sixth album from the Swedish indie band. The album was produced by Björn Yttling (Peter Bjorn and John). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654115961016-DT25S8YN1MMNHS8L8UA8/4051450-2825388.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Some Girls - Heaven's Pregnant Teens Heaven's Pregnant Teens is the first and only studio album by Californian punk band Some Girls. It was their last recording as a band before their break-up in 2007. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654116048719-L6RWLCIWNPH21MM3IWBG/4076027-2811283.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Sparks - Exotic Creatures of the Deep Exotic Creatures of the Deep was also promoted in the UK by a number of live performances dubbed the "Sparks Spectacular": a record-setting twenty-date residency from May 16 through June 11, 2008 at London's Carling Islington Academy, where the group played each one of their previous twenty albums in it's entirety in chronological order. The final appearance at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire on June 13 premièred Exotic Creatures of the Deep. Russell Mael - all vocals, engineering, mixing / Ron Mael - keyboards, programming, orchestrations, mixing / Tammy Glover - drums / Dean Menta - guitars / John Thomas - mixing, engineering https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654116128191-LZTXS37YV5Q8F0QITYAY/4070656-2803402.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Sparks - The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman Double vinyl LP pressing. The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman is the 22nd album by Sparks, originally released in 2009. The duo's first work in the radio musical genre, the album is built around an imaginary visit to Hollywood by Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman in the mid-1950s. It's storyline focuses on the divides between European and American culture, between art and commerce. Unlike other Sparks albums, the work is conceived as a single piece, to be listened to as a whole, rather than a collection of stand-alone songs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654035317009-Q377UXW1VZDYB059MOLT/4081671-2835346.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Knxwledge - 1988 Limited grape colored vinyl LP pressing. 2020 album from the Grammy Award-winning beatmaker. 1988 is the highly anticipated follow-up to Knxwledge's hugely acclaimed 2015 album Hud Dreems. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654034465205-OZXGKDX25AS2I2EP0484/4079269-2812265.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - The Hollywood Stars - Sound City "Sound City" was originally recorded in 1976, was thought to have been lost and is now available on vinyl for the first time, The Hollywood Stars were originally put together by impresario and Hollywood figure Kim Fowley in 1973 (much as he did with The Runaways) and he, always an attention seeker and an attention grabber, crammed their gigs at the Whiskey A-Go-Go full of influential people, together with the coolest and most colorful Sunset Strip characters. He wanted to create a West coast version of the New York Dolls, minus the cross-dressing and they had the sound people wanted in LA's feel-good, glitzy rock'n'roll landscape. When touring, groups like Journey, The Knack, Van Halen, and the Runaways all opened FOR the Hollywood Stars. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654033014018-IPLZZCZR3WL7WSNTC9XL/4070017-2831072.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - !!! - Let It Be Blue 2022 release. Let It Be Blue contains 11 tracks that incorporate a multitude of styles and genres, easily becoming their most ecclectic release yet. The band have taken a new approach to recording over the past two years, primarily working in the box to start, as opposed to their usual studio focused approach. The result, a prominent electronic / dance-leaning edge prevades the band's familiar sonic motifs and songwriting, pushing the towards new dynamic limits for the New York mainstays. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654033637036-X4Q5S30IYR4WGYTVVCQQ/4078886-2809584.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Cloud Rat - Do Not Let Me Off The Cliff Vinyl LP pressing. Includes wild art insert. This deluxe edition is fully remastered and contains three bonus tracks that were not available on the original CD. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654035650199-KB3C6CEE0VQB33PNXMXI/4075090-2804842.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Metal Urbain - Panik! A collection of vintage recordings by groundbreaking French punk band, Metal Urbain! MU was one of the first punk bands to use a synthesizer and drum machines paving the way for such later acts as Steve Albini's Big Black! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1652478804841-IVFQHP4I2FGS0P79CRFK/4075570-2806154.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - The Black Keys - Dropout Boogie Vinyl LP pressing. 2022 release. As they've done their entire career, The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney wrote all of the material for their new album, Dropout Boogie, in the studio, and the album captures a number of first takes that hark back to the stripped-down blues rock of their early days making music together in Akron, Ohio, basements. After hashing out initial ideas at Auerbach's Easy Eye Sound studio in Nashville, the duo welcomed new collaborators Billy F. Gibbons, Greg Cartwright, and Angelo Petraglia to the sessions, marking the first time they've invited multiple new contributors to work simultaneously on one of their own albums. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1654035025017-G8M0AOT0L4A6DCEGEHTU/4080325-2817199.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - Georgia Blue Limited purple colored vinyl LP pressing. "Georgia Blue is a labor of love. On election day 2020, when I saw that there was a good chance the state of Georgia might go blue, I came up with an idea: to record an album of Georgia-related songs as a thank you to the state and donate the money to a Georgia based non-profit organization. I will admit my motivations were a bit selfish. For years, I've been looking for an excuse to record these songs with my band and some friends. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1652480322287-2D87FA9VTMNG7WOZF6I1/4076075-2809059.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Florence & The Machine - Dance Fever Double vinyl LP pressing with etching on Side D. Housed in gatefold jacket. 2022 release, the fifth studio album from Florence + The Machine. Written and produced through the haze of two lockdowns in London and NYC with producers Jack Antonoff and Glass Animals' Dave Bayley. Dance Fever sees Florence at the peak of her powers, coming into a fully realized self-knowledge, poking sly fun at her own self-created persona, playing with ideas of identity, masculine and feminine, redemptive, celebratory, stepping into her place in the iconic pantheon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1651937659956-CL7QLRON3I4ZXCDL6V49/4078011-2809031.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Arcade Fire - We Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. Includes poster and sticker. We is the 2022 album from Canadian rock band Arcade Fire. This is the sixth Arcade Fire studio album, and is made up of seven songs that speak to this moment with unique directness. Written, recorded, and released during a critical historical juncture, they are divided into two distinct sides, "I" and "WE." If the "I" side of the record evokes and embodies our holed-up anxiety and lack of physical connection, the "WE" side captures the excitement of new possibilities and the elevating thrill of committing to one another socially and personally. Produced by Nigel Godrich, Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, We is a 40 minute epic as much about the forces that threaten to pull us away from the people we love, as it is inspired by the urgent need to overcome them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1652543245552-S2I3UYQERDYFE8BWZAJB/4070445-2800820.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1651273217279-FMEHFY8LTAA2MYQF0FUG/4051298-2783963.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - The Weeknd - Dawn FM 2022 release. Dawn FM is the fifth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter The Weeknd. The album is narrated by Jim Carrey, and features guest appearances from Tyler, the Creator and Lil Wayne. The production was handled by The Weeknd himself alongside Oneohtrix Point Never-who produced the majority of the tracks-as well as Max Martin, Oscar Holter, Calvin Harris, and Swedish House Mafia, among others. The album serves as a follow-up to The Weeknd's fourth studio album, After Hours (2020). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1652481852321-OVOBNB9LSUE8SWE3RJ60/4074705-2803616.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Monophonics - Sage Motel Monophonics cordially invite you to attend the grand re-opening of the once thriving, once vibrant establishment, the legendary Sage Motel. A place where folks experience the highs and lows of human existence. A place where big dreams and broken hearts live, where people arrive at without ever knowing how they got there. It's where folks find themselves at a crossroads in life. So join us as we examine where the stories are told and experiences unfold... and sink into a soft pillow of soulful psychedelia... down at the Sage Motel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1652478617591-DAQ1IHBQEQZRE4CE67RD/4079542-2812262.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Bad Brains - S/T Limited transparent red colored vinyl LP pressing. Bad Brains is the self-titled debut studio album recorded by American hardcore punk/reggae band Bad Brains. Recorded in 1981 and released on (then) cassette-only label ROIR on February 5, 1982, many fans refer to it as "The Yellow Tape" because of it's yellow packaging. Though Bad Brains had recorded the 16 song Black Dots album in 1979 and the 5-song Omega Sessions EP in 1980, the ROIR cassette was the band's first release of anything longer than a single. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1652482107246-A65N51HVQL5P1TG1ODIV/4072022-2802674.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Kevin Morby - This Is A Photograph The story begins with Kevin Morby absentmindedly flipping through a box of old family photos in the basement of his childhood home in Kansas City. Just hours before, at a family dinner, his father had collapsed in front of him and had to be rushed to the hospital. That night Morby still felt the shock and fear lodged in his bones. So he gazed at the images until one of the pictures jumped out at him: his father as a young man, proud and strong and filled with confidence, posing on a lawn with his shirt off. This was in January of 2020. As the months went on and the world dramatically changed around him, Morby felt an eerie similarity between his feelings of that night and the atmosphere of those spring days. Fear, anxiety, hope and resilience all churning together. The themes began twisting in his mind. History, trauma and the grand fight against time. Having the courage to dream, even while knowing the tragedy that often awaits those who dare to dream. While his father regained his strength, Morby meditated on these ideas. And then, he headed to Memphis. He moved into the Peabody Hotel and spent his days paying tribute and genuflecting to the dreamers he admired. In the evening, he would return to his room and document his ideas on a makeshift recording set-up, with just his guitar and a microphone. The songs, elegiac in nature, befitting all he had seen, poured out of him. Produced by Sam Cohen (who also worked on Morby's Singing Saw and Oh My God), This Is A Photograph features musical contributions from longtime staples of Morby's live band, as well as old friends and new collaborators alike. If Oh My God saw Morby getting celestial and in constant motion and Sundowner was a study in localized intent, This Is A Photograph finds Morby making an Americana paean, a visceral life and death, blood on the canvas outpouring. As Morby reminds us early on, time is undefeated. So what do we do while we're still here? This is a photograph of that sense of yearning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1652542096988-X5MGERO8CWXGUSM6IVKU/1429380.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Roxie Music - Stranded Roxy Music - "Stranded" - Stranded gave Roxy Music their first #1 album in the UK and brought with it an undeniable presence that would see the American audience take note. It was becoming all too clear that Roxy Music were ahead of their time. Released in 1973, it was their 3rd studio album and includes the Top 10 UK hit, "Street Life." This vinyl reissue is mastered at half-speed and cut by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios. It also features revised artwork with a gloss laminated. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1652541898134-QVY6O7VQ9OWPA050TSPY/1429381.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Roxy Music - Country Life Roxy Music - "Country Life" Critically, Country Life is deemed to be Roxy Music's most consistent and sophisticated album. Musically and lyrically, the album has been considered more cynical and hard-rocking than their previous work. Released in 1974, it was their 4th studio album and includes the singles "The Thrill of It All," and "All I Want Is You." This vinyl reissue is mastered at half-speed and cut by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios. It also features revised artwork with a gloss laminated finish. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1652481950057-JBBO7PRHFX2XE6WIU6KG/4088796-2822914.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Moon Duo - Escape - Expanded Edition To celebrate the tenth anniversary of Moon Duo's long-out-of-print debut LP Escape, Sacred Bones is proud to present a new deluxe version of the album. The new reissue will include the original album in it's entirety, plus three additional rare tracks taken from Moon Duo's wild early days. Reflecting on the album in March 2020, the band shared the following statement: "We made this record in a rehearsal space in San Francisco in late 2009. It was kind of a classic band space, shared by a rangy assortment of musicians over months and years, behind one of several similar doors in a dark red hall. A windowless room lit by string lights and an odd assortment of lamps, the walls a palimpsest of posters and gig fliers. There was a grimy, burn-pocked rug, cluttered gear in various stages of use and abandonment, and the air seemed to hang in a permanent film of smoke residue and stale beer. We recorded to a 4-track tape machine over the course of a few nights - we'd just start the beats, hit 'record' and let fly. We had a vague sense of coalescence, or fomentation, like a glimpse of a thing in outline which you can't yet see, but neither of us knew at the time that this was the record that would mark the beginning of our life as a touring band and would initiate our connections to so many (now long-time) friends, familiars and collaborators. Ten years feels like both a lifetime and the blink of an eye - measurable but impossible to quantify. These four tracks, and the others that join them here, are a snapshot of our earliest incarnation: flying blind, but high on the freedom of experimentation and filled with hope for things to come." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1652478885648-0ZVD6R4ZT1Z5X843ZPC8/4074852-2803994.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Alex Chilton - High Priest Limited Edition Sky Blue Vinyl with Rare Never-Before-Seen vacation photos. "What it lacks in Polish, it more than makes up in charm, verve and just plain ol' soul. This could be what rock'n'roll is all about." Trouser Press - 1987's High Priest was the first full-length album since 1979's Like Flies On Sherbert from Big Star front man Alex Chilton. Includes: "Dalai Lama", "Volare" and "Let Me Get Close to You" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1652480572387-8Z76WUAPIRPGDV6OECNC/4068955-2799084.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Sam Gendel - Live A Little Live A Little is 10 fully improvised ten songs by acclaimed experimental multi-instrumentalist Sam Gendel and eleven year old Antonia Cytrynowicz. The album was recorded in one sitting, back-to-back, in the sequence they appear with no preparation or premeditated ideas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1652481574565-PYNVGDVJUK817320YQLQ/4037151-2774212.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Thomas Leer & Robert Rental - The Bridge The Bridge, a seminal electronic album, will now be available on vinyl for the first time since it's original release in 1979 and on CD for the first time since 1992. With Robert unfortunately passing away in 2000, this record, Leer and Rental's one and only album together, stands alone in capturing the duo's pioneering capabilities. The Bridge was originally released on Throbbing Gristle's Industrial Records label in 1979 and is considered to be an early electronic avant-garde synth-pop masterpiece, seeing the likes of John Foxx, Propaganda, Art of Noise and ABC citing the pair as key influences. Rental also collaborated with Mute Records founder Daniel Miller as The Normal, releasing the first single on the label "T.V.O.D."/"Warm Leatherette" in 1978. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1652482321403-NKVCW04IFC58YQINIHHU/4077936-2814353.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Orchestre "Les Volcans" Du Benin - Vol.1 Originally released in 1980 on the Alberika label, Orchestre Les Volcans du Benin Vol.1 has long been a holy grail LP for Afro-Cuban aficionados. It now sees it's first official reissue on Acid Jazz Records, with four infectious tracks across the two sides, including latin dancefloor dynamite and a DJ must-have, Oya Ka Jojo. Remastered by Nick Robbins at Sound Mastering and presented in a wonderful color sleeve, it's an opportunity to finally own this special and highly sought after LP. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1652480846571-0KY4AX0V9KCFXTM993PC/4072037-2809992.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Idrissa Soumaoro - Le Tioko-Tioko Idrissa Soumaoro, L'Eclipse de L'I.J.A.'s sought-after album 'Le Tioko-Tioko' was originally released in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1978 and has been a long-time favourite at Mr Bongo. Two tracks from the album were featured on our 2017 compilation 'The Original Sound Of Mali' (MRBLP135), and we subsequently released the track 'Nissodia' on it's own 12" (MRB12053) in 2020, complete with a blistering dancefloor re-edit by Mike D of The Beastie Boys. 'Le Tioko-Tioko' is one of the rarest vinyl albums from the already scarce Malian vinyl discography, partly as the album was never released commercially, only independently distributed via the Malian Association for the Blind in Bamako. Though recorded at Radio Mali under the aegis of master engineer Boubacar Traoré; the album was originally released in East Germany. The tapes had been taken by some Malian students to East Berlin as part of a student exchange program. It was then manufactured and released on the East German stat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1652481447975-R54N01WSLAK95O78ZC92/4037151-2774212.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1652541616054-WRGA9UU4W77D1HWSUJW8/4072028-2832741.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Penrose Showcase 1 (Various Artists) Vinyl LP pressing. Finally back in print! Featuring a revised track-listing, Daptone is proud to present Penrose Records - Showcase Vol. I. 14 sides of Sweet Soul from some of the most exciting groups on the SoCal Souldies scene. Featuring: Thee Scared Souls, Thee Sinseers, The Altons, Los Yesterdays, and Vicky Tafoya. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1652480123585-V3JQZGEKHCGWS1FG65MA/4074853-2803977.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Doctor Bionic - Invisible Hand Instrumentals that really have the tone & feel. These records are in their own category with tones of vibe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1652479128120-XHFE5H9992Z6RGZ5NRML/5e3163ea64a0f6d63629adf7130002ab.600x600x1.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Dillinger Escape Plan - Irony Is A Dead Scene Limited 20th Anniversary orange with black and white splatter colored vinyl LP pressing. Irony Is a Dead Scene is the third EP by mathcore band, The Dillinger Escape Plan. It was recorded with Mike Patton and released in 2002. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1652478696938-APALB6YK5DLLMAXGCV59/4072257-2802996.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Berlin - Metro (Greatest Hits) Fans of '80s new wave are in for an extra special treat on this innovative compilation featuring one of the most celebrated band of that decade, Berlin! Includes Berlin's smash hit singles "Sex (I'm A...)," "Metro" and "Take My Breath Away" along with daring club ready remixes by Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Mission UK, and Rosetta Stone! CD version includes two rare bonus tracks - covers of Blondie and Madonna! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1651937751255-UI5PH26FE4RYVD6OBTRL/4072412-2828882.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Belle and Sebastian - A Bit of Previous A Bit of Previous is a classic Belle and Sebastian album preoccupied with songs and melodies that won't leave your head and lyrics that can make you smile and ponder and sometimes be melancholic. It's an album self-produced and recorded by Belle and Sebastian (with contributions from Brian McNeil, Matt Wiggins, Kevin Burleigh and Shawn Everett) and their most hands-on since The Boy With The Arab Strap. So what is a A Bit of Previous? It's a bit of everything, and a lot of what makes Belle and Sebastian so special and enduring. It's a band tackling the in- sight, experience and responsibility that come with getting older with humour and irreverence and lyrical exactitude and musical bravado. It's one of the UK's most beloved pop portraitists asserting themselves as an infallible source of energy and fun. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1651945935364-AOJKOMVWY4RFCBXG6Z2V/4079389-2820020.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Sharon Van Etten - We've Been Going About This All Wrong Limited smoke colored vinyl LP pressing. 2022 release. Sharon Van Etten has always been the kind of artist who helps people make sense of the world around them, and her sixth album, We've Been Going About This All Wrong, concerns itself with how we feel, mourn, and reclaim our agency when we think the world - or at least, our world - might be falling apart. The ten tracks on We've Been Going About This All Wrong are designed to be listened to in order, all at once, so that a much larger story of hope, loss, longing and resilience can be told. This is, in itself, a subtle act of control, but in sharing these songs it remains an optimistic and generous one. There is darkness here but there is light too, and all of it is held together by Van Etten's uncanny ability to both pierce the hearts of her listeners and make them whole again. Things are not dark, she reminds us, only darkish. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1651273072844-IAPZ66HUWJSOF3NEGANK/4058215-2798480.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Toro Y Moi - Mahal Limited silver colored vinyl LP pressing. Toro y Moi's seventh studio album, Mahal, is the boldest and most fascinating journey yet from musical mastermind Chaz Bear. The record spans genre and sound-encompassing the shaggy psychedelic rock of the 1960s and '70s, and the airy sounds of 1990s mod-post-rock-taking listeners on an auditory expedition, as if they're riding in the back of Bear's Filipino jeepney that adorns the album's cover. But Mahal is also an unmistakably Toro y Moi experience, calling back to previous works while charting a new path forward in a way that only Bear can do. Mahal is the latest in an accomplished career for Bear, who's undoubtedly one of the decade's most influential musicians. Since the release of the electronic pop landmark Causers of This in 2009, subsequent records as Toro y Moi have repeatedly shifted the idea of what his sound can be. But there's little in Bear's catalog that will prepare you for the deep-groove excursions on Mahal, his most eclectic record to date. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1651938997043-RI6ZEN4LWL96FLRQURTS/4052760-2829280.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Fontaines D.C. - Skinty Fia 2020's A Hero's Death saw Fontaines D.C. land a #2 album in the UK, receive nominations at the GRAMMYs, BRITs and Ivor Novello Awards, and sell out London's iconic Alexandra Palace. Now the band return with their third record in as many years: Skinty Fia. Used colloquially as an expletive, the title roughly translates from the Irish language into English as 'the damnation of the deer'; the spelling crassly anglicized, and it's meaning diluted through generations. Part bittersweet romance, part darkly political triumph - the songs ultimately form a long-distance love letter, one that laments an increasingly privatized culture in danger of going the way of the extinct Irish giant deer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1651937836767-9NMAQDCVPR2C3PSC8KOD/4076122-2829188.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Benny Sings - Beat Tape II Vinyl LP pressing. Benny Sings' latest release Beat Tape II is the successor to Benny's 2018 project Beat Tape, and follows his April 2021 album, Music. Beat Tape II is a mixtape-style record with some of the best beats Benny has created over the years. It features wide variety of artists including JONES, Cola Boyy, Mocky, Marc Rebillet, St. Panther, Rae Khalil, Kenny Beats, GRAMMY nominee Cory Henry, the Koreatown Oddity and more. T https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1651938558887-GNJAWPTO08CCKDZOG570/4077363-2829414.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Gerald V. Casale - Aka Jihad Jerry & The Evildoers Limited red colored vinyl LP pressing. In 2005, Devo's Gerald V. Casale released the notorious Jihad Jerry & The Evildoers album as a limited edition CD from Cordless Recordings. With contributions from all of his Devo bandmates, Josh Freese, Bob Casale, Bob Mothersbaugh, and Mark Mothersbaugh, it's considered to be the "lost" DEVO album, and a holy grail for collectors. Now, Real Gone Music presents Jihad Jerry & The Evildoers in a special gatefold-and-inner-sleeve package featuring artwork by acclaimed woodcut artist Tomo 77. Our release also includes a very special bonus track, "I'm Gonna Pay U Back," featuring members of Devo joining forces for the first time ever with Oingo Boingo's lead guitarist Steve Bartek. It's been over 10 years since Devo's 2010 album Something for Everybody... this one will slake the thirst of the band's devotees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1651945243368-PL2QT25HOPK3J4O72PKO/4042672-2776465.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Sky Dust Drifter (Various Artists) An anthology born out of isolation and deep introspection, Sky Dust Drifter is a cosmic medley of sun-soaked AOR, psychedelic folk, and soft rock. This soundtrack was driven by the lonesome cowboy, a lockdown savior leaving me adrift in desert winds and dimly lit country bars. Long-distance trades and masked meetups yielded a collection of private press LPs and 45s from ten different artists spanning 1973 to 1980. This seemingly random stack of records revealed songs living entangled in themes of hard luck, heartache, and the inevitable loneliness of existence. Adorned in cracked leather and chrome, this album is an aimless wander from the soil to the stars.Featuring an unreleased English version of the compilation's title track "Sky Dust Drifter," (originally released only in Hebrew), the record shifts from laconic afterthoughts to bold proclamations. From Michael Andrews' blue-eyed soul assertion "Something Bad's Better Than Nothin'," to the searing electric guitars and bold synths of Sunburst's "Special Lady," Sky Dust Drifter thrives on solitude in a universe of unconditional self-rule where loneliness is not darkness but rather a blazing light of autonomy.Original artwork by Arina Kokoreva https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1651945848622-17385QMID68XE3UFSVP1/4009496-2743710.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Tink - Heat of the Moment Chicago singer and rapper, Tink, is back in 2021 to claim her rightful title as the undisputed Queen of Chicago R&B. Her fourth studio album, Heat of the Moment, is executive produced by Hitmaka and includes production from Ayo & Keys, OG Parker, Tariq Beats & Platinum Libraries. Tink shows off her writing prowess and taps in with a tight but strong list of features including Yung Bleu, Jeremih, Davido, & Kodak Black, to add to an already impressive body of work. The album has amassed over 45M streams since release, and debuted at #7 on the Billboard Indie Charts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1651945699460-O82AWY0VVGXKFYX3CM77/4070889-2801208.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Richard Thompson - Music From Grizzly Man Richard Thompson's score for Grizzly Man - Werner Herzog's 2005 documentary film of real life and death in the Alaskan wilderness - is one of the best-kept secrets in the British guitarist's epic canon: an instrumental masterpiece disguised as a movie soundtrack. Recorded over two days as Thompson played live in the studio to Herzog's footage - mostly alone, at times in chamber settings with cello, piano and percussion - these tenderly detailed melodies and quietly visceral improvisations are cinema in their own right, rendered with pictorial instinct and the dazzling technique forged in Thompson's lifelong passage through traditional folk, psychedelia, North African modes and intensely personal songwriting. Here is Thompson at his natural best - finger-picking dance; snake-curl twang and singing-wire harmonics - in a solo clarity that runs from jig-like joy to deep-note meditation, the "Main Title" blues march with it's echoes of Fairport Convention's "Sloth" to the long night of "Treadwell No More," a harrowing darkness in slicing treble and tremolo shiver. Produced by guitarist Henry Kaiser, Grizzly Man is a record of powerful solitude - as bold and majestic as the land in Herzog's film; as intimate as prayer - and essential Richard Thompson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1651940039554-GMAQ6386G8122CB8FN6P/4064572-2795876.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Goblin - Wampyr "Wampyr" is the title of the Italian version of George A. Romero's movie directed in 1976, "Martin", curated by Dario Argento and edited by Piero Bozza. A very different adaptation from the original film, which was then 'overshadowed' by the success of "Dawn of the Dead / Zombi" and that only in recent years has been appropriately re-evaluated. For the Italian version of "Martin", as well as for "Dawn of the Dead / Zombi", the music of Goblin was used, this time taken from the albums "Roller" and "Il Fantastico Viaggio del Bagarozzo Mark", here included in their 'film versions', different from those contained in the two mentioned albums. In addition, this LP contains two other songs used in "Wampyr" that were never officially released before, "Strange Terminal" and "Royal Road", written by composer Aldo Salvi, to make this release even more exclusive. Not to be missed by any Goblin and horror-themed soundtrack lovers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1651938230466-OIDQGX161I9MCSWSRVU6/4067277-2797801.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - The Cutthroat Brothers - The King Is Dead The Record Store Day release "The King Is Dead" by the Cutthroat Brothers and Mike Watt was such a success that the album is getting a vinyl reissue, due out 4/29/2022. The Cutthroat Brothers are a duo of real-life barbers, the Sweeney Todds of Rock, Jason Cutthroat on vocals & guitar and Donny Paycheck on drums. For this album, "The King Is Dead", the duo called on another Punk Rock icon, Mike Watt. Jack Endino (Mudhoney, The Sonics, Screaming Trees, L7, Soundgarden) produced mixed and mastered this LP. This album has the North Pacific sound all over. Their songs are about blood, death, drugs, sex, black magic, bad relationships, although not necessarily in that order. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1651946028946-E5TQJKEKBVDYUXZ5IAKC/4075634-2809041.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Eddie Vedder - Ukulele Songs The Deluxe Edition LP features the original 16-track Ukulele Songs album on high-grade 180-gram black vinyl in expanded packaging that includes a 16-page booklet and a special lithograph. The Standard Edition LP has also been pressed on 180-gram black vinyl. Ukulele Songs comprises a fine mixture of original material penned by Vedder that he initially performed live, alongside vintage classics and standards. A recast, uke-driven version of “Can’t Keep,” which originally appeared as the opening track on Pearl Jam’s hard-charging November 2002 album Riot Act, opens the proceedings, while newer-bred original songs like the resigned lament of “Sleeping By Myself,” the charming love orbit of “Satellite,” the hopeful brightness of “Light Today,” and the instrumental interlude “Waving Palms” all set the table for the 35-minute album. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1651938475117-K7OINX7DAZPJ4BCW843U/4075044-2820273.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Def Leppard - Pyromania Vinyl LP pressing Pyromania is the third studio album by Def Leppard, originally released in 1983 The first album to feature guitarist Phil Collen who replaced founding member Pete Willis, Pyromania was produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange. The album was a shift away from the band's traditional heavy metal roots toward a more radio-friendly sound, finding massive mainstream success. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1651945378539-TVEDVNTF88BYP4L4PR8N/4070624-2803403.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Sparks - Balls (Double Vinyl Edition) Sparks - Balls (Double Vinyl Edition) - Balls is the 18th studio album by Sparks and was originally released in August 2000. The album has been newly remastered for this LP reissue and is released on heavyweight 2X vinyl. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1651945550925-NCSD8WG8FK2HR6SOWAM3/4070627-2803405.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Sparks - Hello Young Lovers (Double Vinyl Edition) Hello Young Lovers (Double Vinyl Edition) 20th Studio Album On 180g Double LP! Newly Remastered For Vinyl! - Hello Young Lovers is the 20th studio album by Sparks and was originally released on 6th February 2005. The album was the most commercially popular Sparks album since the 1970s. Hello Young Lovers has been newly remastered for this LP reissue, which is released on heavyweight vinyl. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1651939170949-64WVQZAWOEVO6DKEXSU5/4055455-2800851.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Girls Against Boys - House Of GVSB Seminal post-hardcore band Girls Against Boys are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the 1996 release of their critically acclaimed album House of GVSB with a double vinyl reissue of the album. Packaged in a full-color gatefold jacket, side A and B are the original album remastered by Bob Weston (Shellac). Side C and D feature odds and ends from the band's 90s era work including sought-after b-sides, singles, compilation tracks, and one previously unreleased recording. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1651938707818-EJ6ICT0G5524HPK48QP4/4087235-2822628.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Justin Townes Earle - Single Mothers / Absent Fathers Colored vinyl 2LP reissue of Justin Townes Earle's 2014 album Single Mothers and 2015 follow-up Absent Fathers. Absent Fathers was recorded alongside Single Mothers as a double album, but as the singer-songwriter began to sequence it, he felt each half needed to make it's own statement and they took on their own identities. Single Mothers was released in September 2014 and, combined with Absent Fathers, perfectly showcases exactly why JTE is considered a forefather of Contemporary Americana. The albums were recorded live with his four-piece touring band with only days of rehearsal leading up to recording to keep the ideas fresh. No overdubs, no other singers, no additional players - just a real, heartfelt performance capturing the moment. In fact, his songs "Picture in a Drawer" and "It's Cold in This House" are only Justin, his guitar and his pedal steel player Paul Niehaus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1651272621672-ZM39WOSFWMLVSAK9UAW2/3804784-2568709.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Jerry Paper - Abracadabra https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1651272446001-S8HQOV1CQ8RP49OS09MD/4058507-2826343.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Melody's Echo Chamber - Emotional Eternal Includes digital download. Emotional Eternal, the third studio album from Melody's Echo Chamber, is a deeply human collection of songs full of prolonged moments of sonic transcendency. A record that clearly exhibits it's maturity but still regards the world with a childlike wonder. Having swapped Paris for the clean air of the Alps, Melody hopes "the record has that uplifting quality. I made some big and impactful decisions and changes to my life. It took me to where it is peaceful, and I think the record reflects this." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1651272743414-W5AB7WYZFOB0ZTC0DJQ4/4075680-2806315.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Oink Floyd - Saucerful Of Secrets Released as a limited edition for Record Store Day in 2019, the original mono mix of Pink Floyd’s A Saucerful of Secrets has been remastered by James Guthrie, Joel Plante and Bernie Grundman from the 1968 analog tapes. Pressed on 180 gram vinyl, it will be presented in a black, poly-lined inner sleeve inside a reproduction of the original LP sleeve. With classics like "Set the Controls For The Heart Of The Sun", "Remember a Day" and "Jugband Blues", A Saucerful Of Secrets is the only album to feature the five band members: Roger Waters on bass and vocals, Richard Wright on keyboards and vocals, Nick Mason on drums, Syd Barrett and David Gilmour on guitar and vocals. A Saucerful of Secrets (mono) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1651272278344-N3OY9HFQ4T8QJI6NEO18/4077481-2808168.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Ken McIntyre - Year Of The Iron Sheep Sowing Records present a reissue of Ken McIntyre's Year Of The Iron Sheep, originally released in 1962. Recorded intermittently between June and September 1962, Year Of The Iron Sheep was Ken McIntyre's third album, the fruit of various studio sessions featuring three different personnel line-ups. Here the great multi-instrumentalist, mostly known for his collaborations with the likes of Eric Dolphy, Archie Shepp, Cecil Taylor, and Charlie Haden, is heard on alto sax and flute while the rhythm section variously features pianist Jacki Byard, bassists Ron Carter and Ahmed Abdul-Malik, drummers Ben Riley, Louis Hayes, and Warren Smith. An amazing cast of players for a great and yet forgotten post-bop gem. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1651268755571-05TXJLBQ9R4XZMQJYEOT/4029230-2768955.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Spiritualized - Everything Was Beautifu Spiritualized will release "Everything Was Beautiful" via Fat Possum on 2/25/22. It is the ninth studio album from Spiritualized and it comes 30 years after the debut album. This is the follow up to 2018's "And Nothing Hurt". Jason Pierce performs 16 different instruments across the album. It is recorded at 11 different studios and includes more than 30 musicians across the album. There will be an indie exclusive Pink vinyl inserted into a gold foil sleeve, housed in a high gloss UV Jacket that includes a removable pill box with braille inlay. Some assembly required. Designed by Farrow Design. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1651268359116-VEMPWQXFJCBMKSD5POYS/4048990-2781487.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Yin Yin - The Age Of Aquarius Yīn Yīn's dazzling second album dives even deeper into dancefloor propulsion and space travel atmospherics than their lauded debut The Rabbit that Hunts Tigers (2019). The beautiful, old and somewhat staid city of Maastricht, where the band is based, isn't really conducive to setting up a bustling music scene: and it's a place where the outsiders quickly recognize each other. Yīn Yīn are all "nightlife people", which meant their friendship initially came about through co-organizing and deejaying DIY parties. Things started to move for real when Yves Lennertz and Kees Berkers decided to make a cassette tape that drew on references to Southern and South East Asian music. Once the idea was formed, Lennertz and Berkers wasted no time in taking "a lot" of instruments to a rented rehearsal room in a small village near Maastricht. They asked friends to help out, and they became a full band: with Remy Scheren on bass, Robbert Verwijlen on keys and Jerome Cardynaals, and Gino Bombrini on percussion. A "united against the world" stance is also heard at the end of "Declined by Universe". It's a funny, maybe surreptitious statement of belief in what they do. Yīn Yīn also wanted to create an illusion of strength in other ways: "Declined By Universe" sounds as if there is a large group of people playing, not just the core band. Nods to brilliant, invigorating dance music abound, some of the thumping beats in numbers like "Chong Wang" the title track and "Nautilus" drop some thumping 1990s-style electric boogie and Italo disco chops along the way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1651269566891-KME01I3IS0FPQJTJTA4B/4072311-2803410.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Rocket From The Crypt - Group Sounds Vagrant Records continues their 25th Anniversary celebration with a colored vinyl LP reissue of Rocket from the Crypt's Group Sounds. Rocket from the Crypt's ninth full-length album and debut for Vagrant, Group Sounds was originally issued in 2001 and features 13 blasts of the most explosive and dense rock & roll ever committed to tape. The new "Wall of Sound" is erected only to be kicked over. Bricks continuously toppling over without mercy. Passionately out of control and adventurously violent. Past promises are made good and old allegiances are unapologetically broken. These are the Group Sounds. The perfect combination of everything you could ever want. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1651269013721-ZKWF8Z8X8Q3F8AT6O0C6/4060663-2797593.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Broadcast - BBC Maida Vale Sessions Double vinyl LP pressing. Archive release. Four BBC sessions recorded at the Maida Vale studios between October 1996 and August 2003. 15 tracks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1651269811878-WZF6M7O5VREF7CA14JI4/4062660-2793093.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - These Arms Are Snakes - Duct Tape & Shivering Crows Over the course of their seven-year run back in the '00s, These Arms Are Snakes covered a lot of territory, both in terms of actual miles spent on the road and in terms of their creative bandwidth. Though the band was often mistaken for a typical non sequitur-named screamo outt or another"animal" indie band, the Seattle group quickly deed expectations and garnered a reputation forsubverting the popular underground sounds of time. The group cultivated a small but fervent fanbaseacross multiple continents with their signature combination of synth-infused noise rock, bad-trippsychedelia, amboyant proto-metal boogie, and unhinged basement-show hardcore beforeimploding at the end of 2009. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1650058413925-ZOZ2YVXC9GYGSBZ8ZPVE/4064729-2797958.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Orville Peck - Bronco Bronco is the new album from country artist and songwriter Orville Peck. A consummate storyteller, the country rock inspired Bronco plays upon the horse theme so often found in Orville’s work, but this time with an exploration of freedom, breaking free from that which binds us and all that is wild and untamed. Bronco builds upon and follows Peck’s previous album Pony and EP Show Pony, which explored themes of love, loss and loneliness but advances the story arc in a bolder, newer and warmer trajectory. “This is my most impassioned and authentic album to date,” says Peck. “I was inspired by country rock, 60s & 70s psychedelic, California and even bluegrass with everything being anchored in country. Bronco is all about being unrestrained and the culmination of a year of touring, writing in isolation and going through and ultimately emerging from a challenging personal time.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1650056690772-KRODWWEUW6HPB9XOOC21/4041862-2787536.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Father John Misty - Chloe Double vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. 2022 release. Father John Misty returns with Chloë and The Next 20th Century, his fifth album and first new material since the release of God's Favorite Customer in 2018. Chloë and the Next 20th Century was written and recorded August through December 2020 and features arrangements by Drew Erickson. The album sees Father John Misty - aka Josh Tillman - and producer/multi-instrumentalist Jonathan Wilson resume their longtime collaboration, with Dave Cerminara returning as engineer and mixer. Basic tracks were recorded at Wilson's Five Star Studios with strings, brass and woodwinds recorded at United Recordings in a session featuring Dan Higgins and Wayne Bergeron, among others. Chloë and The Next 20th Century features the singles "Funny Girl," "Q4," "Goodbye Mr. Blue," and "Kiss Me (I Loved You)." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1650058228711-U8WYD6FX8WGUK7X6WMFQ/4075636-2806072.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Made In Timeland Made In Timeland has been whispered about on fan message boards for almost 2 years. Like so many other things, it was delayed by the pandemic. It was finally released after the band's marathon 3-hour show in Melbourne and will be made available in stores on April 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1650055676035-4J8EYW89A45L6TFBSTAH/4062948-2814215.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Alabaster Deplume - Gold New 2022 studio album on Chicago’s International Anthem Records. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1650057541742-7KSMDY4G0E65UR5PVT6H/4052756-2810072.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Aldous Harding - Warm Chris Aldous Harding Announces Details Of A New Studio Album, The Follow-Up To 2019'S Acclaimed Designer. For Warm Chris, The New Zealand Musician Reunited With Producer John Parish, Continuing A Professional Partnership That Began In 2017 And Has Forged Pivotal Bodies Of Work (2017'S Party And The Aforementioned Designer). All Ten Tracks Were Recorded At Rockfield Studios And Includes Contributions From H. Hawkline, Seb Rochford, Gavin Fitzjohn, John And Hopey Parish And Jason Williamson (Sleaford Mods). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1648312964965-CXLEN8IQUBQD391MKJBM/4000211-2761431.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Nas - King's Disease II Double vinyl LP pressing. Following the Grammy Award winning album, King's Disease, the king returns to his throne with the second coming, King's Disease II. The star studded project offers tacit game on life, love, and loss, uplifting through action and lived experience in a way only Nas can. This is a body of work for the fans, for the day 1's that contributed to the legacy. Alongside the decorated production savant, Hit-Boy, Nas remains rooted in lyrical prophetism while proving that he constantly reinvents the wheel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1648311684116-Q0CPZ1OH04MW6TRA1P66/4045912-2783631.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Ibibio Sound Machine - Electricity Electricity is the fourth and most progressive album from Ibibio Sound Machine, and like all good Afrofuturist stories, it begins with an existential crisis. "It's darker than anything we've done previously," says Eno Williams, the group's singer. "That's because it grew out of the turbulence of the past year. It inhabits an edgier world." Electricity was produced by the Grammy Award- and Mercury Prize-nominated British synthpop group Hot Chip, a collaboration born out of mutual admiration watching each other on festival stages, as well as a shared love of Francis Bebey and Giorgio Moroder. The fruits of their labor reveal a gleaming, supercharged, Afrofuturist blinder. Electricity is the first album Ibibio Sound Machine have made with external producers since the group's formation in London in 2013 by Williams and saxophonist Max Grunhard. True, 2017's Uyai featured mixdown guests including Dan Leavers, aka Danalogue, the keyboard jedi in future-jazz trio The Comet Is Coming, but Hot Chip and Ibibio Sound Machine worked together more deeply throughout the process, collaborating fully. Along the way, the team conjured a kaleidoscope of delights that include resonances of Jonzun Crew, Grace Jones, William Onyeabor, Tom Tom Club, Kae Tempest, Keith LeBlanc, The J.B.'s, Jon Hassell's "Fourth World," and Bootsy Collins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1648308371604-HKPB2M2O1NZ852LTKTYV/XLdxxDCsblood_incantation-680x680.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Blood Incantation - Timewave Zero Spawned in the Fall of 2011, Cosmic Death Metal initiates Blood Incantation, spent the past decade establishing a reputation for creating powerful Athmospheric Death Metal with progressive elements, while gradually incorporating more Psychedelic & Ambient components with each new release. The inevitable zenith of these increasingly exploratory excursions was finally reached during the summer of 2021 and captured once again on analog tape at World Famous Studios in Denver, Colorado. Epitomizing their Cosmic essence and Experimental nature, this new recording reveals an alternate dimension for experiencing the mind-bending songwriting of Blood Incantation?s dense & otherworldly sonic landscapes: Beyond the limitations of genre and free to travel among the stars. Echoes of TANGERINE DREAM, PINK FLOYD, LUSTMORD, POPOL VUH & DEAD CAN DANCE synthesize in an archaic planetarium soundtrack, taking the listener on a cinematic journey through the Stargate, into the vast darkness of Outer Space, and beyond the infinite transcendental luminosity of the Mind's Eye. http://www.raggedrecords.org/summer-new-releases daily 0.75 2023-07-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1690654918993-8LSP61QJRIEAADB1QCDC/4227777-3026129.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Aphex Twin - Blackbox Life Recorder Featuring four new tracks, Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / In A Room7 F760 marks Richard D. James' first new music in five years, following on from 2018's Collapse EP. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1690658842775-2RMSZMZBCY7BE9YCXUNP/4219732-2983579.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Mort Garson - Journey To The Moon & Beyond The Mort Garson (Plantasia, Ataraxia, Lucifer) archives have brought to bear yet another awe-inspiring bloom. Journey to the Moon and Beyond is a colourful synthetic dream world consisting of a collection of largely unreleased and unheard material from the Patch Cord Productions archives. Highlights include music from a soundtrack to the 1970 National Geographic special and the live broadcast of the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing, as first heard on CBS News. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1690658726867-PDEU0PECS8JBTCNE6N6R/4216739-2980555.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Funkindustry - Midnight City Lovers In 2020, Funkindustry discovers it's audience in Japan. After 3 years of work, the band will release on June 23, 2023 "Midnight City Lovers" a 5 tracks EP in collaboration with 5 Japanese singers. A real tribute to City-Pop music with the Funkindustry style, this new opus is tinged with disco, boogie and funk sounds. Inspired by the great names of City-Pop, such as Tatsuro Yamashita or Mariya Takeuchi, Funkindustry makes us discover a new face of it's musical palette. The album features iconic singers from the current Japanese City Pop scene: Asako Toki, Natsu Summer, Eri Takenaka, JiLL-Decoy Association and EMI. The release of the new album will be accompanied by a Japanese tour between Osaka and Tokyo from June 14 to 28, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1690659645184-0L3U9LZVA0F5E427ZD9E/4212809-2984587.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Steve Hillage - Madison Square Garden 1977 A brilliant, vintage live performance from Gong guitar guru and one of the most innovative guitarists of his era, Steve Hillage! Crystal clear soundboard recording that captures Hillage at the height of his powers with performances from his second solo album including a psychedelic cover of Donovan's "Hurdy Gurdy Man" plus the epic length "Hurdy Gurdy Glissando," "Lunar Musick Suite" and more!Special limited edition PURPLE MARBLE vinyl pressing with full color insert and sleeve! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1690661848515-7S2J5D8XTJ24UXNK31L2/149101.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Zohastre - Abracadabra ZOHASTRE / ABRACADABRA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1690658622679-7AX1IRO0QZ3EB4HF6J85/4225455-2991370.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Converge - Axe To Fall Vinyl LP pressing. Axe to Fall is the seventh studio album by the metalcore band Converge, originally released in 2009. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1690655119256-P3CWQ7MNZNTW4GXB6WLO/4230643-3016050.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Sandy Bull - Live In San Francisco Late 1969 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1690659324943-I4JXTT3BDQDMLBKL0KGR/4207993-3020634.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Beverly Glenn-Copeland - The Ones Ahead Beverly Glenn-Copeland began his musical career in the 1960s, when he studied classical singing at Montreal's McGill University and performed at Expo 67. A pair of self-titled, multi-genre albums released in the early '70s showcased his powerful voice and songwriting talent. In 1986, while living in rural Ontario, Glenn-Copeland taught himself to use digital synthesis and recorded the album that would ultimately alter the entire course of his career. At the time, he self-released Keyboard Fantasies via a 200-copy cassette run, selling just a handful while the rest waited in storage. In 2015, a Japanese record collector emailed Glenn-Copeland about selling the remainder; and a new generation had unearthed his art. In 2021, he released the remix album Keyboard Fantasies Reimagined, which featured reimagined versions of the album's songs from contemporary visionaries such as Arca, Blood Orange, and Kelsey Lu. His multifaceted body of work surrenders to the beauty, pain, and great capacity for healing that courses through life; in it's unguarded sincerity, it invites you to share in it's courage. Glenn-Copeland's new album, The Ones Ahead - his first collection of new music in nearly two decades - deepens these explorations, casting searching light into how all of us must dissolve the harms of this world and carry each other forward into the next. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1690661308628-KDSDG0Q8PEPASZGIGNZK/4227653-3014202.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Prends Le Temps D'ecouter: Tape Music, Sound Experiments And Free Folk Songs By Children From Freinet Classes 1962-1982 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1690661409115-CNTKQG5P6X05RJPLIN3C/4209971-2975043.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Prince - Lovesexy Lovesexy was not the album that the music industry was expecting Prince to release in 1988. In what Jon Pareles of The New York Times described as "one of the most enjoyable and peculiar moves of the 1980s," Prince announced that he would follow up the critically revered Sign o' the Times with The Black Album, a raw collection of hard-rocking, funky dance music. But then, a mere week before it's scheduled release, he scrapped his plans and demanded that Warner Bros. Destroy all copies of the album. Only one of the songs from that album, "When 2 R in Love," would be saved from the cutting room floor, and within seven weeks Prince had recorded an all-new collection of songs to join it on the album Lovesexy. Lovesexy was a brighter, lighter, and more melodic release, inspired by the more spiritual direction that Prince's music had started to take in the second half of the decade. "We need love and honesty, peace and harmony, positivity," he sings in the album's closing track, echoing the sentiment that courses throughout the album: after confronting society's deepest troubles in his earlier political work, Lovesexy sought to unite and uplift. In Prince's words, Lovesexy was his gospel album. Single LP on black vinyl. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1689435941496-9RBS2MQT1TA7SOVLM5L1/4219531-2988102.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - John Coltrane - Evenings At The Village Gate: John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy John Coltrane -"Evenings At The Village Gate: John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy" / In August of 1961, the John Coltrane Quintet played an engagement at the legendary Village Gate in Greenwich Village, New York. Eighty minutes of never-before-heard music from this group were recently discovered at the New York Public Library. In addition to some well-known Coltrane material ("Impressions"), there is a breathtaking feature for Dolphy's bass clarinet on "When Lights Are Low" and the only known non-studio recording of Coltrane's composition "Africa", from the Africa/Brass album. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1689436091723-5MAI2C98AEJ9FONE8PR8/4221113-2985759.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Damned - The Best Of The Damned With a well-received new album "Darkadelic" in the shops, the Damned continue to build on their legendary status. This month as well as finally releasing the "David Vanian And The Phantom Chords" album as a 2LP set we are delighted to also offer "The Best Of The Damned".This album was originally released back in 1981 and pulled together the classic singles that the band had made for the label like 'Love Song', 'Smash It Up' (Parts 1 and 2)', 'I Just Can't Be Happy Today', 'History Of The World Part 1', 'Hit Or Miss', their Christmas single 'There Ain't No Sanity Clause' and 'Wait For The Blackout'. Not only are these now seen as gold-standard Damned tracks but also map out a musical development where they moved from their punk roots to crafting melodic pop songs that also took them into the charts. Better still, when originally pressed up in 1981 the album cannily also included those earlier classics punk classics 'New Rose' and 'Neat Neat Neat'. There's even Captain Sensible and the Softies' version of 'Jet Boy, Jet Girl' that appeared on the flip of 'Wait For The Blackout' in 1982. You don't mess with a classic so we have reissued the album just as it looked back in 1981, complete with inner sleeve and blackmail label lettering. Saying that, fans of the Damned both old and new will need no encouragement to add this to their collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1689437894586-I0XAVRLKF94JFNP2HJDQ/4220787-2986959.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Deftones - S/T Limited ruby red colored vinyl LP pressing. Deftones' self-titled 4th studio album, featuring the songs "Hexagram" and "Minerva," celebrates it's 20th anniversary with a limited-edition vinyl pressing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1689435411461-NW49Z6FGY8AI2RVQDPOI/4180401-2989717.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Clark - Sus Dog Double vinyl LP pressing including booklet. Clark recruits none other than Thom Yorke as Exec Producer for his first album centred on his own singing. It combines his trademark searing synth melodies and beats with vocal hooks. Thom says "the way he approached it all wasn't the usual singer songwriter guff thank god; it mirrored the way he approached all his composition and recording, but this time it had a human face. His face." Chris says "I kept on thinking what would it sound like if The Beach Boys took MDMA and made a rave record" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1689440092895-ZUW4ZXN5CYUCJ8JPM9AI/4213260-2979690.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Nik Turner - Xitintoday Deluxe collector's edition reissue of the 1978 experimental ambient masterpiece from Hawkwind co-founder Nik Turner featuring recordings made inside one of the great pyramids in Egypt! Also features several alums from prog rock legends Gong including Steve Hillage, Miquette Giraudy, Harry Williamson, Mike Howlett, Tim Blake and more!Meticulous recreation of Barney Bubbles' superb artwork on a gorgeous picture disc vinyl in a gatefold jacket with a 16-page booklet insert! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1689439799164-38V7M9QX9YWSLCTV4AKK/4203173-2966996.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Archie Shepp & Bill Dixon Quartet During the period of 1961-1963, saxophonist Archie Shepp and trumpeter Bill Dixon co-led a group that varied in size between a quartet, quintet and sextet, depending on the gig. However, their only recorded works together consist of the studio quartet album made for Savoy in October 1962, and presented here in it's entirety. Both musicians belonged to the avant-garde of free jazz and their celebrity had yet to arrive during the time they worked together. 180-gram VIRGIN VINYL LIMITED EDITION. The Complete Album + 2 Bonus Tracks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1689438618047-PXHI6ZUGT43IQXV64MRH/Joni_Clouds.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Joni Mitchell - Clouds Featuring "Chelsea Morning," "The Fiddle and the Drum" and one of Joni Mitchell's best known songs "Both Sides, Now," the accomplished singer/songwriter's second album Clouds is certified gold and won the 1969 Grammy (her first of nine) for Best Folk Performance. Originally released in May of 1969, all ten tracks were written by Mitchell and the album features a self-portrait as it's artwork. Uncut wrote, "... it's hard to pinpoint one single quality that makes Clouds so impressive. It's content perfectly matches it's delivery, the delight of language employed with such precision ideally suited to music even more lively... It confirmed Mitchell not only as a writer of unusually versatile songs open to endless reinvention but as a performer of exquisite sensitivity able to shed light on our passions and doubts." 2021 remaster on vinyl LP. 180-Gram Vinyl. Newly Remastered by Bernie Grundman. Under the Supervision of Joni Mitchell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1689439661324-V33CBPQKJ3H15DE9S0WZ/4217490-2980983.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Marc Ribot - Connection Connection is the 5th full length album from trio Ceramic Dog, and it's also their best. Marc Ribot, Shahzad Ismaily and Ches Smith have created a work that doesn't resolve the tension between their punk/new music/free jazz points of departure and the pop ambitions they've always buried beneath the surface... so much as push to the breaking point. Tracks such as "That's Entertainment" devours/deconstructs the Hollywood standard's psychotic cliches, while "Ecstasy"-whose Boogaloo inflected groove recalls Ribot's earlier work with the Cubanos Postizos, run up against post-apocalyptic landscapes and minimalist polytonal disco. On "Connection", they gamble with/for it like there's no tomorrow. Along for the ride are a few longtime Ribot comrades Syd Straw, Anthony Coleman, Oscar Noriega, and features more recent collaborators Greg Lewis and James Brandon Lewis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1689440407642-3HEEI0JTFJ0M5CQ981JY/4221074-2985758.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Tribal Rites Of New Saturday: Brooklyn Disco 1974-1975 Before there was Saturday Night Fever there was underground disco. DJs across America went out and found the music to play; dancers went out and found the clubs. At this point, in the early seventies, the disco was the venue and not a genre of music. By the time Nik Cohn's short story Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night was published by New York magazine in June 1976, disco was the biggest genre of music on the charts and was about to get bigger still, becoming an all-enveloping cultural phenomenon. Cohn sold the film rights to Robert Stigwood, and his classic club yarn became Saturday Night Fever. "Tribal Rites Of The New Saturday Night" is the soundtrack to Cohn's story, where disco began; a 1975 score for the underground clubs of Brooklyn and Queens that played R&B, soul and Latin beats to people who lived for the weekend. Bob Stanley has put this collection together, sourcing what was actually played in Brooklyn discos in 1974 and 1975. Only a few specific records were mentioned in Cohn's feature, but two of them - Ben E King's 'Supernatural Thing Part 1' and Harold Melvin's 'Wake Up Everybody' - were cosmically great and both are included here, alongside underground favourites like Moment Of Truth's Four Tops-like 'Helplessly' and Gloria Scott's Barry White-produced modern soul classic 'Just As Long As We're Together'. Ivano Fossati's incredible 'Night Of The Wolf' has fans in northern soul, disco and prog circles. Without Cohn's original story, it's quite possible that disco would have remained an underground phenomenon - "Tribal Rites Of The New Saturday Night" paints a scene in full flower. Saturday Night Fever would eventually, if unintentionally, wreck the underground nature of this scene, and clubs like Studio 54 would destroy the democracy of the party, but for two or three years the scene was largely undocumented and magical. This album is the sound of disco before it was captured. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1689435540656-G21LDPJR47Y44KOPB5WN/4169381-2931882.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Charlie XCX - Pop 2: 5 Year Anniversary Limited fifth anniversary colored vinyl LP pressing. The 2017 album, which contains collaborations with Caroline Polachek, Kim Petras, Carly Rae Jepson and Tove Lo, is a firm fan favorite and features popular Charli XCX cuts "Out Of My Head" and "Unlock It". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1689438152530-U3HSWOOYRN8HGNM918C1/4224185-2990323.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Kinks - Preservation Act 1 Preservation Act 1 LP The Kinks - Preservation Act 1 is a concept album and the 12th studio album by the Kinks, originally released November 1973 by RCA Records. Preservation is the bands most ambitious project - a rock opera that uses the charming, small-town nostalgia of Village Green as a template to draw the entirety of society and how it works. Epic opener "Morning Song" sets the scene and mood for the record, followed by a classic sounding Dave Davies' riff, "Daylight," which echoes themes and sounds tones of one their most recognisable and highly acclaimed albums, The Village Green Preservation Society. Standout tracks are the endearingly lazy "Sitting in the Midday Sun" and the beautiful "Sweet Lady Genevieve" - both strong contenders for overlooked Ray Davies. A critically acclaimed album, reviewed by Rolling Stone at the time as "A highly listenable, enjoyable album". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1689438877809-D42F7LGTK7SK7HQYVGSJ/4199749-2964765.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Lukas Nelson & The Promise of the Real - Sticks And Stones Indie Exclusive, Clear Vinyl, Blue, White https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1688829350879-D4T9APFKLUR6C6ODWJXV/4213286-2977042.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Anohni & the Johnsons - My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross, ANOHNI's 6th studio album, shape shifts through it's subject matter: the loss of loved ones, inequality, alienation, privilege, denial, ecocide and the tidal power of Earth, isolation, Future Feminism, and the intention that we might yet transform our ways of thinking, our religious ideas, our societal structures, and our relationships with the rest of nature. On her first full album since 2016's HOPELESSNESS, she explains the creative process was painstaking, yet also inspired, joyful, and intimate, a renewal and a renaming of her response to the world as she sees it. "A couple of these songs are almost a response to the call of [Marvin Gaye's] What's Going On, from 2023. They are a kind of an echo from the future to that album from 50 years ago." ANOHNI places her heart on the line and in a groove in the opening track "It Must Change," describing systems in collapse with a note of compassion for humanity: "The truth is I always thought you were beautiful in your own way / That's why this is so sad. "Scapegoat" waivers between tenderness and instrumental brutality. The primordial, Kali-esque curse "Rest" positions the record at moments in conversation with experimental rock of the 1970s. Her voice is sensual and smoothed, selectively reaching to the edges of what it can contain. "I don't want you to be dead, I can't accept it," she cries out at the climax of "Can't." "How sweet the vista, the portal view / On my way to black and blue," she grieves on "Sliver of Ice," a remembering of some of the last words Lou Reed shared with her. A record it's creator acknowledges is inextricably both personal and political, and one that is full of heartfelt music that also questions it's own right to be heard, My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross demonstrates music's unique capacity to bring harmony to competing, sometimes contradictory, elements. She shares, "For me, there's no heavenly respite; creation is a spectral and feminine continuum, and our souls are an inalienable part of nature." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1688831394668-BLT4ZAVCV6T7EVS7VQTP/4221607-2992570.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Gabriels - Angels & Queens Frontman Jacob Lusk is nothing short of incredible on the trio's debut album, a powerful half-hour of top-tier songwriting that proves Gabriels are far more than soul revivalists. - This album highlights that Gabriels, having drafted Kendrick Lamar collaborator Sounwave as producer, are far more than revivalists. He helps craft a sound that feels entirely of the moment, and not merely because there's a constant, nagging sense of tumult and foreboding lurking behind even it's prettiest songs. There's certainly nothing retro about a track such as The Blind, where the beat is made of a stumbling, clattering array of samples, Lusk's vocal is drenched in backwards reverb and the piano and strings battle for space with droning, overcast synths. The orchestration that opens To the Moon and Back could have transported there directly from a 1940s jazz ballad, but it's swiftly replaced by a cavernous-sounding swirl of massed vocals and an insistent, cyclical bass riff. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1688829228946-XZS1NTRBFBLM3G2XY7FU/4214239-3015534.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Tony Allen/Adrian Younge - Jazz Is Dead 18 Indie Exclusive, Colored Vinyl, Brown https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1688829683267-QTVB9I6QNB0K9U31R5SR/3655406.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Gal Costa - India 50th Anniversary Edition Without question, Gal Gosta is one of the all-time greats. An inspirational, iconic figurehead in Brazilian music, her outstanding career ran from 1967 up until 2022 when we sadly lost her. Making her mark initially as one of the principal figures in the Tropicália movement of the 60s, she remained a trailblazing beacon that lit the way for decades to come. 'India' is a post-Tropicália masterpiece that was originally released in 1973 on the Philips record label. It features a stellar line-up of musicians including Gilberto Gil, Arthur Verocai, Dominguinhos, Rogério Duprat and Tenorio Jr. Amongst others.For it's 50th anniversary, we knew we had to do something special, so we enlisted the sensational mastering and lacquer-cutting engineer Miles Showell from Abbey Road to cut a half-speed master for a beautiful spacious sound. The album is housed in it's original replica gatefold cover with an OBI. There is also an insert with an interview, and an A2 poster exclusive to this release. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1688833682813-NVPMQGK26WTR6S0WQ6B0/4220942-2985671.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Teenage Jesus And The Jerks - S/T During the late 1970s, after No Wave pioneer Lydia Lunch met saxophonist James Chance, she began setting her angry and disjointed poetry to anti-music, founding her ground-breaking band Teenage Jesus and The Jerks with Lunch's shouted lyrics matched by her non-conventional use of electric guitar. The group's self-titled debut EP is a fast and furious affair, produced by Robert Quine of the Voidoids/Lou Reed, with future Nick Cave drummer Jim Sclavunos on bass and Bradley Field on minimalist percussion; steeped in aggression and audacity, it's an awesome disc that rebuffs punk's easy cliches and refuses to be categorized. This reissue also includes the Pre EP and the tracks from the legendary No New York compilation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1688831598271-L9MHUDVV3XL71UPBLUK7/4200289-2964843.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Grouplove - I Want It All Right Now Los Angeles' Grouplove blend a quirky, '90s-style indie rock sensibility with a spirited, arena-ready roar. It's a sound they debuted on 2011's Never Trust a Happy Song, which spawned the number one Billboard Alternative Songs Chart hit "Tongue Tied." They have continued to straddle mainstream and indie success, playing festivals around the globe and remaining Top 20 Billboard Alternative chart regulars with albums like 2013's Spreading Rumours and 2020's Healer. In March 2021, Grouplove returned with their surprise fifth album, This Is This. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1688833225081-NKMQV468V5PLT8KR7GDO/4222132-2990727.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation (Indie Exclusive, 180 Gram Vinyl, Colored Vinyl) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1689438378219-NW9UT06OFL4WDYGQC3U7/1454780.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Madlib - High Jazz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1688833338508-OVAZTJJJHWDWY2LV7Y7I/4209178-3015530.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Penguin Cafe - Rain Before Seven... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1688829445488-I5KFAM42HCVEMCZI933Y/4212596-2980528.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Brown Acid: The Sixteenth Trip Sixteen trips might fry the fragile psyche of the average teenager, but the hoary old heads at Brown Acid boiled their brain pans long ago! As such, Riding Easy is bringing even more hard rock, heavy psych, and garage rock rarities from the North American wasteland of the 1970s. From L.A. to Youngstown, OH, from Toronto to Charlotte, The Sixteenth Trip has got everything covered. As always, original copies of these 45s would cost a pretty penny-if one could find 'em in the first place. And by now one knows the drill: This ain't no bootleg. All songs are officially licensed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1688832624942-06IHJSHWUXF2188BZ1E3/4210801-3017881.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - PJ Harvey - I Inside The Old Year Dying The story behind PJ Harvey's tenth album - I Inside the Old Year Dying - goes back six years to the end of touring around her previous record The Hope Six Demolition Project, and Harvey's keen feeling that somewhere in the endless grueling cycle of albums and shows, she had lost her connection with music itself. Eventually (thankfully), she once again began to feel pulled in the direction of new songs, music, and sounds. The resulting body of work is audacious and original even by the standards of an artist who has always ensured that each phase of her progress has taken her somewhere new. Anchored by her nearly thirty-year creative partnership with her long-term musical associates John Parish and Flood, Harvey set out with an explicit mission: to avoid anything reminiscent of their musical past. She draws on the creative freedom she had felt in past musical work on soundtracks, and in the theater. Her perspective shifts away from the big themes of previous albums, towards something more intimate, eerie, and human. Meanwhile, her voice has become, if anything, a more intensely pure instrument over the years. With I Inside the Old Year Dying, Harvey builds a sonic universe somehow located in a space between life's opposites, - between recent history and the ancient past. Scattered with biblical imagery and references to Shakespeare, all these distinctions ultimately dissolve into something profoundly uplifting and redemptive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1688833097430-0RRFX8PJR48KH4TN1F94/4220183-2984879.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - El Topo - (Original Score) El Topo is the landmark cult film classic credited with launching the midnight movie madness revolution of the 1970s. The soundtrack was recorded at Abbey Road Studio and originally released by Apple Records in 1971. The music was composed by Alejandro Jodorowsky with additional input from conductor John Barham. This 180-gram vinyl LP includes an 8-page booklet with new liner notes by acclaimed musician and songwriter Gary Lucas and stills from the film. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1688829582339-L0M2IOHKOJPO4MU2CYUD/4213266-2977055.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Julie Byrne - The Greater Wings The first album in over six years from American songwriter Julie Byrne is a testament to patience and determination, the willingness to transform through the desolation of loss, the vitality of renewal, and the courage to rise, forever changed. For nearly a decade, Byrne has moved through the world as a characteristically private artist largely outside the public eye. A self-taught musician that has committed her life to her work, she now emerges from a deeply trying and generative period with the most powerful, lustrous, and life-affirming music of her career, The Greater Wings. While they hold the plasticity of grief and trauma, the songs are universally resonant, unbridled in their devotion and joy, held up by the love and alliance of a chosen family. Byrne leans further into atmospheres both expansive and intimate; the lush, evocative songcraft flows between her signature fingerpicked guitar, synthesizer, and a newly adopted piano, made wider by flourishes of harp and strings. It is the transcendent sound of resource, of friendship that was never without romance, of loyalty that burns from within like a heart on fire, and the life force summoned in unrepeatable moments - raw, gorgeous, and wild. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1688830632130-TQ7WURS6JEWNLI34HK29/4220972-2986973.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Cradle Of Filth - Damnation And A Day Double vinyl LP pressing. Damnation and a Day (subtitled From Genesis to Nemesis...) is the fifth studio album by English extreme metal band Cradle of Filth. It was released on 10 March 2003 and is Cradle of Filth's only album on a major label, Sony Records, after which they transferred to Roadrunner. It features the one hundred and one-piece Budapest Film Orchestra including the forty-piece Budapest Film Choir. The album is partly based on John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1688833574519-VHB12574S4S9WAK4D1BO/4224656-2989606.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Taylor Swift - Speak Now (Taylor's Version) Taylor Swift's 2010 album "Speak Now" is being re-released on July 7 as "Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)." The album will be released as a 3-LP vinyl - [Orchid Marbled 3 LP] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1688830719666-QMZA5Q77X2XQ70UO4NQ8/4218986-2983180.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Fairport Convention - What We Did On Our Holidays Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. From a bunch of school friends setting out to be 'the British Jefferson Airplane', over the course of their first quartet of releases, the group metamorphosed into the leading exponents of British folk rock. In the way American folk and blues had looked back to gospel songs and spirituals, Fairport mined a seam a traditional English folk song, and then combined them with rock rhythms to create something ground-breaking and quickly emulated. For many, this is the first time the considerable talents of Richard Thompson, Sandy Denny, Ashley Hutchings, Ian Matthews, Dave Swarbrick and Dave Mattacks would have been heard on record. Original vocalist Jusy Dyble left the group in 1968 and was replaced by Alexandra 'Sandy' Denny. The rest of the line-up remained unchanged, and a move to Island Records saw What We Did On Our Holidays released in January the following year. Denny made her mark immediately with her opening song, Fotheringhay. Her voice, as accomplished as Dyble's but bluesier, added a new bite to the material. As well as Dylan and Joni Mitchell covers, the group began to experiment with traditional folk, covering She Moves Through The Fair and Nottamun Town. The album also includes Meet On The Ledge, Fairport's anthem, written by Richard Thompson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1688831274118-WLGHXPHSOSLN4D5AMP3F/4218985-2983178.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Fairport Convention - S/T Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. From a bunch of school friends setting out to be 'the British Jefferson Airplane', over the course of their first quartet of releases, the group metamorphosed into the leading exponents of British folk rock. In the way American folk and blues had looked back to gospel songs and spirituals, Fairport mined a seam a traditional English folk song, and then combined them with rock rhythms to create something ground- breaking and quickly emulated. For many, this is the first time the considerable talents of Richard Thompson, Sandy Denny, Ashley Hutchings, Ian Matthews, Dave Swarbrick and Dave Mattacks would have been heard on record. Although all of that would have been difficult to ascertain on their jaunty, hippy 1968 Polydor debut Fairport Convention. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1688769718508-E91V443UW3IYIC79TJY2/4215746-3012070.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Six Finger Satellite - The Pigeon Is the Most Popular Bird Sub Pop is thrilled to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Providence, RI noise-rock legends Six Finger Satellite's debut album, The Pigeon Is the Most Popular Bird with a new, fully remastered CD and double-LP reissue. Released in 1993, The Pigeon Is the Most Popular Bird is a landmark of noisy, distressing post-punk, drawing influence from Gang of Four, The Birthday Party, and Wire while adding a healthy dose of the band's own, unique sonic antagonism. Amongst the brittle rock tracks, it has dashes of ahead-of-their-time keyboard and studio experiments that became more prominent on the band's later albums, presaging LCD Soundsystem, DFA Records, and much of the early-2000s post-punk revival. Pitchfork rightly called The Pigeon Is the Most Popular Bird "one of the best noise-rock records of the 90s," writing that "the transitions from silly to searing highlight Six Finger Satellite's unpredictable and caustic approach... this was their most exhilaratingly bitter pill to swallow." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1688769569959-TK69BTKUOV0V4SHRD58J/4205962-2971486.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Arthur Russell - Picture of Bunny Rabbit In 1986 Arthur Russell was diagnosed with HIV, that same year he released his career-defining masterpiece World of Echo, the first and only solo album issued during his lifetime. Arthur had found his voice and a fresh direction with a set of new, transformative material, unlike anything he or anyone else had previously released. His illness ensured that the artistic growth and sense of exploration encapsulated in World of Echo would be tragically curtailed. Within six short years he was gone. His final years were filled with a renewed commitment to creativity and unceasing live and recording work. Picture of Bunny Rabbit features nine previously unreleased performances from this era compiled from completed masters culled from two unique test pressings. A further four tracks were discovered in his tape archive. The bulk of the material was recorded with engineer Eric Liljestrand at Battery Sound Studios NYC and at Arthur's apartment studio in the East Village. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1688768973342-Z944WXFA3O975DDZDN16/4220944-2985674.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Lydia Lynch - Queen Of Siam Vinyl LP pressing. Queen of Siam is the debut solo album American artist Lydia Lunch, originally released in 1980. It features Jack Ruby on bass, Douglas Bowne on drums, and Pat Irwin on saxophone, piano and everything else. The Billy Ver Planck Orchestra (Jazz for Playboys, Jazz for Playgirls) perform on four of the tracks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1688769446975-7WR4JCOKB5VR8HSS2LUZ/4215448-3010902.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Hania Rani - Esja (Clear Vinyl) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1688768102393-GRSUGT6KU8NG221SLFD6/4207169-2968935.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Acantha Lang - Beautiful Dreams In a few short years, rising Robert Randolph collaborator Acantha Lang has swiftly become one of modern soul music's best-kept secrets - building a dedicated fanbase through her "Standing On The Shoulders Of..." Soul series where she honors past Stax and soul legends with spirited reimaginings of jukebox classics. Come June 30th, Lang will release her debut album 'Beautiful Dreams' a record that's destined to propel her from an undiscovered gem into the pantheon of modern soul greats. With Acantha's takes on Stax-inspired funk with Southern blues, she tells highly personal tales atop spirited, shimmering grooves. Acantha's storytelling style harkens to age-old blues traditions while grounding itself in contemporary themes, delivering head-on lyrical attacks on fake news (the tell-all "He Said/She Said"), odes to motherly love in the wake of Katrina's disaster (the gripping "Lois Lang"), and celebrations of Black strength and womanhood with confidence and pride. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1688768009806-GKQ1P3R4YLCGA01E32IM/4210536-2974281.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - L80s: So Unusual (Various Artists) The tenth volume of Numero's elaborately packaged Cabinet of Curiosities series, L80s finds the group exploring the far-flung corners of the global downtempo underground. This 12-song mix tape weaves icy hot coldwave, Sausalito seafood jazz, Glaswegian goth, makeshift Madonna, Sade spoofs, and Brat Pack balearic into a high-waisted, party-ready pair of danceable denim. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1688770179161-CEX6DR7676C2DQZ2IY9D/4207799-2981219.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Frank Zappa - Funky Nothingness Frank Zappa -"Funky Nothingness" Funky Nothingness is the "lost album" sequel to the iconic Hot Rats (1969). Primarily recorded at The Record Plant studio in 1970, it contains mostly unreleased compositions and jams featuring Don "Sugarcane" Harris and newcomer Aynsley Dunbar. Titled by Zappa himself, this compilation contains vintage FZ mixes with modern mixes by Craig Parker Adams. The 2 LP set is mastered by John Polito with lacquers cut by Chris Bellman on 180-gram black vinyl. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1688769861031-8SDY9I0R8BWN3DUFN6AZ/1306737.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Sly & The Family Stone - Fresh (Colored Vinyl, Orange) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1688767927581-GOYQ26D321JU6HGE8URE/4210184-2974763.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Kesha - Gag Order Gag Order is an album that finds the GRAMMY-nominated pop star, Kesha, excavating the deepest recesses of her soul to date. The record, which Kesha has labeled "post-pop" and was produced by Rick Rubin, is a full-bodied collection that flows like a stream of conscious journey through the psychedelic dark depths of the human psyche followed by basking in the cleansing light when finally reaching the surface. EXPLICIT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1688770048749-7CIRKZQD8AUCTE2Y4XD7/4203986-2966431.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Lucinda Williams - Rock N' Roll Heart (Indie Exclusive, Colored Vinyl, Blue) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1688769287598-7P3HSXK6YM1BXY12JRYX/4208144-2972428.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady Janelle Monáe's The Electric Lady album is pressed on a two clear LPs and is a one-time pressing. This vinyl is a part of Atlantic Records' 75th Anniversary vinyl collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1688767748311-KCT2PUAEYC9BZ44UV5LF/4219467-2984983.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Grandaddy - Sumday Limited white colored vinyl LP pressing. Sumday is the third studio album by indie rock band Grandaddy, originally released in 2003.Limited white colored vinyl LP pressing. Sumday is the third studio album by indie rock band Grandaddy, originally released in 2003. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1688767544963-BQ9LNA824Q3I79PWIF4I/4208654-2970564.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Neko Case - Wild Creatures Eco Mix LP (indie retail exclusive). Wild Creatures is a career retrospective album containing twenty-three of Neko Case's most impactful tracks from her discography, and will now be available on CD and 2x LP. With a career spanning over twenty years, she has famously collaborated withThe New Pornographers and Case/Lang/Veirs in addition to releasing many critically acclaimed solo albums, including 'Fox Confessor Brings The Flood', 'Middle Cyclone' and most recently 2018's 'Hell-On'.Gathering power year after year, Neko sings with the fierce abandon of a newborn infant crying in a basket in the woods. Since escaping the labels of country and Americana, the gorgeous train-whistle vocals of her early career sit submerged in her later style, where their ghost can appear any minute. When her voice jumps an octave, it's almost visible, like sparks at night. "I never knew where I wanted to go or what I wanted to do with my voice," she says, "but I just wanted to do it so bad."The Vinyl configurations include: 2 LPs with printed inner sleeves, in a Gate-fold jacket. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1688767419156-FNDVHUGC20CONXROQNWL/4210526-2986509.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - The Body - I Shall Die Here/Earth Triumphant On I Shall Die Here, The Body sonically serrates the remains of metal's already unidentifiable corpse and splays it amid tormented voices in shadow. Sharing their heathen vision with The Haxan Cloak, The Body's tried, true, and absorbingly tragic sound is mutilated by process and re-animated in a spectral state. This double LP set is expanded with the previously unreleased Earth Triumphant, a full-length companion album that would become I Shall Die Here, showcasing The Body's brutality in it's most primal form. Newly remastered by Matt Colton at Metropolis Studios, this is the definitive edition of a shocking classic of unbridled bleakness and innovation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1688767649393-SL7FV5765WBB074GV8SY/4221054-2985516.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Galactic - Tchompitoulas TCHOMPITOULAS once again sees Galactic enlisting a diverse array of talent that includes their own vocal powerhouse Anjelika "Jelly" Joseph along with Afro-Cuban rockstar Cimafunk, Also featured on the EP are south Florida rapper Eric Biddines, trumpeter Eric Gordon, and fellow New Orleans legend Glen David Andrews. Highlights include the fiery instrumental workout, "Big Whiskers," available everywhere now for streaming and download. "In the true collaborative spirit of Galactic, we approached this EP as a way to connect with some of our new favorite singers and rappers including our new (Ish) singer Anjelika 'Jelly' Joseph," says Galactic co-founder/bassist Robert Mercurio. "Recording with a different artist influences our songwriting and can bring out some exciting results. This also gets our creative juices flowing. Only 1500 Made. 180 Gram, Opaque Cafe Au Lait Colored Vinyl https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1688765327735-K879JLO2DSCC247URQHI/4212556-2991927.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Black Duck - S/T (Indie Exclusive, Colored Vinyl, Orange, Digital Download Card) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1688765424102-SSYW1Q2CKZDXF4C0XYZZ/4217345-2982679.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Cro-Mags - The Age Of Quarrel Vinyl LP pressing. The Age of Quarrel is the first album by the New York hardcore band Cro-Mags, originally released in 1986. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1688765790574-9Q8CLLM3YAEBNAKGWPEW/4205211-2967537.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Bendik Giske - S/T Now on the cusp of his third solo album, Norwegian saxophonist Bendik Giske knows himself well. With his new, self-titled record, he is in his prime as an artist: confident in his voice and abilities, buoyed by critical acclaim from all corners - including two Norwegian Grammy nominations - and a surge in audiences everywhere. With the intriguing choice of Beatrice Dillon as album producer - clearly the British electronic musician is a fellow traveler in the practice of original aesthetic expression - her influence is immediate and keenly felt. Together, they strip away a layer of melodicism, honing in on pattern and rhythm to bring out a different dimension of his mesmerizing sound. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1688765533457-96NUIT0T4SX3WZVCZFWP/4212713-2977827.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Death Cab For Cutie - The Photo Album (180 Gram Vinyl, Booklet, Deluxe Edition, Colored Vinyl, Digital Download Card) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1688765896272-PSUCSWCKUE4BWUD5A0BO/4184185-2958131.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - The Heliocentrics - Out There https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1688765649659-JWMNEJ1YEK79316FGY9F/4209165-2972746.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Ghostface Killah - Propane Tape/Bronze Tape A very special colleciton from lead Wu-Tang member and one of the most respected artists in hip hop today, Ghostface Killah! Features a guest star line-up for the ages including fellow Wu-Tang members Raekwon, Cappadonna, and Killah Priest PLUS Snoop Dogg, E-40, KXNG Crooked, Benny The Butcher, Ras Kass, Planet Asia, and so many more!Production by Wu-Tang affiliate who has worked with RZA and Sunz Of Man, Bronze Nazareth, as well as Diplomats associate and Purple City member Agallah! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1688766030269-04TGOVM0VV3C33MUJ45A/3449108.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Fela Kuti - Gentleman (Limited Edition, Smoke, Anniversary Edition) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1688767201028-34CNG97O4PEBVMFJFRYD/4220969-2991926.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Sam Prekop - Sons Of Indie Exclusive, Colored Vinyl, Turquoise, Digital Download Card https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1686866304048-FOKD2ZXCGK0K2P8IS3U7/J_Cole_Born_Sinner1.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - J Cole - Born Sinner Double vinyl LP pressing. Reissue. The second studio album by rapper and producer J. Cole, originally released in 2013. Born Sinner features standout tracks including "Power Trip" with Miguel, "Crooked Smile," "Forbidden Fruit" and "She Knows." The album peaked at #1 on the Billboard 200 and is now certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1686866586686-UZGGVE6LOEUA77C4NLU0/3210816-2569020.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Madlib - Shades Of Blue (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series) Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. The sound of Blue Note had been embedded in hip hop through sampling and remixes since it's early days, but Madlib raised the bar when the DJ/producer/rapper/musician invaded their vaults for his 2003 masterpiece, Shades Of Blue - a visionary album featuring remixes/reimaginations of classics by Donald Byrd, Bobbi Humphrey, Ronnie Foster, Bobby Hutcherson, Wayne Shorter and more. Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series is all-analog mastering from the original master tapes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1686865505085-KY5VMPSITKM8ZTKD6DAR/4209377-2972942.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms And Lava King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - "Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms And Lava" - Over 7 days, King Gizzard recorded hours and hours of jams to create their 21st album - Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava. "I have a list on my phone of hundreds of possible song titles... words and phrases I feel could be digested into King Gizzard world." Mackenzie chose 7 from the list he felt "had a vibe," then attached a BPM to each one. A lyrical group effort, the result of this experimental creative process is a quest into the dense and unpredictable. Indie Exclusive Lucky Rainbow 180-gram LP. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1686865610113-3UYUU2OUHD279G50C28B/4216235-2980357.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Queens Of The Stoneage - In Times New Roman... 'In Times New Roman...', the 8th studio album from Queens of the Stone Age is raw, brutal & rough around the edges but with a refinement that reveals itself further with each successive listen - and QOTSA founder Joshua Homme's lyrics are as witty and withering than ever. The results are instantly identifiable ; QOTSA's sonic signature, expanded and embellished with new and unprecedented twists in virtually every song, a live in-a-room recording that showcases a band at the height of their creative powers. 'In Times New Roman...' is a party for the obscene and the clean, the outcasts and the weirdos, and anyone and everyone in between. One of the most important bands in recent rock history is B A C K but it's no exaggeration to call this album a devastating rebirth. Recorded at Pink Duck Studios, Shangri-La Studio, Dumbfox Studio. Produced By Queens of the Stone Age Mixed By Mark Rankin.'In Times New Roman...', the 8th studio album from Queens of the Stone Age is raw, brutal & rough around the edges but with a refinement that reveals itself further with each successive listen - and QOTSA founder Joshua Homme's lyrics are as witty and withering than ever. The results are instantly identifiable ; QOTSA's sonic signature, expanded and embellished with new and unprecedented twists in virtually every song, a live in-a-room recording that showcases a band at the height of their creative powers. 'In Times New Roman...' is a party for the obscene and the clean, the outcasts and the weirdos, and anyone and everyone in between. One of the most important bands in recent rock history is B A C K but it's no exaggeration to call this album a devastating rebirth. Recorded at Pink Duck Studios, Shangri-La Studio, Dumbfox Studio. Produced By Queens of the Stone Age Mixed By Mark Rankin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1686866790244-QPGTM1DCHJRMVLUH9GRX/4208603-2972427.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Sturgill Simpson - High Top Mountain 10 Year Anniversary Edition of Sturgill Simpson's debut album, High Top Mountain. The anniversary edition includes an "Old King Coal" blacked-out album cover with a glossy embossed jacket and is pressed on translucent black vinyl. Sturgill Simpson's authenticity stands out like an island of hope in a sea of tacky. Pure and uncompromising, devoid of gloss and fakery. High Top Mountain's dozen instant classics evoke the sound of timeless country in it's many guises and brings back the lyrical forthrightness and depth that permeated the music Simpson absorbed during his Kentucky childhood. Bonafide mountain hillbilly soul, as pure as you are going to find anywhere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1686864943111-M2EYZAPWIWYUZW80OE0Q/4168364-2969478.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Mac DeMarco - Five Easy Hot Dogs "The plan was to start driving north and not go home to Los Angeles until I was done with a record," Five Easy Hot Dogs is a collection of instrumental recordings from Mac's time on the road. "Kind of like being on tour, except there weren't any shows and I'd just be burning money." All of the songs on Five Easy Hot Dogs were recorded and mixed in the corresponding city from each song title and the tracklisting reflects the chronological order in which the songs were produced. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1686863038001-7ZKZXAT6UMLSLYTG6TOL/4215799-2979872.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Oh No - Good Vibes/Bad Vibes Following in the footsteps of his famed brother Madlib, Oh No has become one of the most celebrated independent hip-hop artists of the 21st century. His storied career has included not only rap success but an impressive resume behind the boards, with production credits for Mos Def, Freddie Gibbs, de la Soul, Action Bronson, Talib Kweli, Ab-Soul, and more. An innovator in the art of sampling with a history of exploring diverse source material, Oh No is now back with Good Vibes / Bad Vibes, a new instrumental album deconstructing the work of iconic vibraphonist Roy Ayers. A split collection with two thematically distinct halves, the album is entirely constructed from the early, jazz-centric realm of the Ayers archive. Good Vibes is "light and vibrant, with colorful layers radiating under the sun shine," Oh No explains, while Bad Vibes contains "dark murky atmospheric tones for the angry moments, those times when it's necessary to step in the mud." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1686865207110-JNMJIJWXMDT7A37D0CLU/4210701-2981436.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Scorpions - Fly To The Rainbow The Scorpions' second studio album, FLY TO THE RAINBOW, was released on November 1, 1974 and is the first album to be self-produced by the members of the band. The album came out shortly after their LONESOME CROW tour, after which Michael Schenker left the band and was replaced by Uli Jon Roth. Stylistically, FLY TO THE RAINBOW deviated strongly from their debut album LONESOME CROW and moved in a more experimental direction, which, however, already showed strong Hard Rock influences and gave an idea of where the band would later go. In addition to lead singer Klaus Meine, the album also features the voices of Rudolf Schenker ("They Need a Million") and Uli Jon Roth ("Drifting Sun"). To date, the album has sold more than a million copies worldwide. FLY TO THE RAINBOW was remastered with special care from the original tapes and is now released as a 180g 1LP, pressed on transparent purple vinyl. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1686862475003-ULIH06G28VI9PUCE74SF/4210080-2974354.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Cate Le Bon - Crab Day Re-issue of Cate Le Bon's April 2016 album originally released on Drag City which she described as "A coalition of inescapable feelings and fabricated nonsense,". A few years prior to it's release, Cate's mother unearthed her birth certificate, and admitted to her daughter that they'd had her birthday a day off for nearly three decades. That sense of misaligned reality is the guiding force on Crab Day, where Cate establishes a strange, almost Dadaist lyrical scheme to make sense-or make more nonsense-of some unnamed life rupture that's left her grasping. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1686865098452-FOOM7C1UYNXFRSREJ6SK/4200047-2971260.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Owl City - Coco Moon With total album sales of over three million, single sales surpassing 20 million globally, and a diamond certification for the monumental hit "Fireflies" Owl City has now delivered the highly anticipated new album Coco Moon: a wildly imaginative body of work revealing his deepened devotion to the strange magic of creativity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1686864822955-EJYV5U1P1I8GDXE9JHV9/4200616-2963757+%281%29.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Electronic Music Anthology: House Music Session https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1686251332264-Z00IKA8KZ1Q6KXJH5EBU/4179171-2942180.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Freddie Gibbs - $oul $old $eparately Soul Sold Separately is the fifth studio album by rapper Freddie Gibbs, originally released in 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1686260709984-3BI7W7QY66QK79EK6NPD/4215495-2983708.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Janelle Monae - The Age Of Pleasure Vinyl LP pressing. 2023 release. The Age of Pleasure is the fourth studio album by American musician Janelle Monáe. Includes the singles "Float" and "Lipstick Lover". The Age of Pleasure is her first studio album in over 5 years since her previous album Dirty Computer (2018). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1686259454932-9XIMQXEKO8C68YMQMXKN/Prince_Gold.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Prince - The Gold Experience The Gold Experience, released in 1995, was the first full-length Prince album to be credited to his unpronounceable symbol and was released at the most public, heated stage of his battle with the major label industrial complex. With the word "SLAVE" written on one cheek, Prince shined on the opulent ballads "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" and "Gold" and the defiant single "[eye] Hate U," and the album earned widespread critical acclaim. Available as black vinyl double LP. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1686261047764-GUY957FFKL0XGL42V9CI/CarterIII.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III Double vinyl LP pressing. Lil Wayne's classic 8x platinum album, Tha Carter III, is celebrating it's 15th anniversary with this 2 LP standard black vinyl reissue. Released in 2008, the album debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 selling over 1 million copies in it's first week. It features the multiplatinum singles "Lollipop (feat. Static Major)," "A Milli," "Got Money (feat. T-Pain)" and "Mrs. Officer (feat. Bobby Valentino & Kidd Kidd)." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1686864711852-IK3RZ8IXN2WMZEICQ3BF/4211041-2977509.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Tina Turner - Private Dancer Limited vinyl LP repressing of this classic album from the rock/pop/R&B icon. Originally released in 1985, Private Dancer was a triumphant comeback and spectacular success for the veteran vocalist. Disc One contains the original album which includes the hits 'What's Love Got To Do With It', 'Better Be Good To Me' and the title track. Private Dancer earned Turner three top 10 singles in the U.S. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1686261173439-HL3G4AC0ICHPW176WDQZ/4217466-2981189.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Sonny Sharrock - Black Woman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1686259968116-QPHL01872SWN8I8YH7RL/4192030-2959281.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Patti Smith - A Wing And A Prayer Vinyl LP pressing. Live show recorded February 15th, 1976 at the Boarding House, San Francisco. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1686260299198-RAEZ8I2TADZ45DF3LNZD/4202357-2965378.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - My Morning Jacket - MMJ Live Vol. 3: Bonnaroo 2004 MMJ Live Vol 3: Bonnaroo 2004 [Coke Bottle Clear 2 LP] - My Morning Jacket, touring behind It Still Moves, took the stage at Bonnaroo on a scorching day in the summer of 2004. Ominous dark clouds rolled in early in the performance. "I'll never forget it," reflected Jim James, "We're playing, and the sky just rips open and rain starts pouring down. People are losing their minds... Everybody is petrified that we're going to get electrocuted, but it was such a transcendent moment that we just didn't care." It would become one of the festival's most iconic sets. LP Packaging: Coke Bottle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1686260407280-QNFBUPJO3QLIG9X7HQTC/4190600-2957271.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Death Cab For Cutie - Asphalt Meadows (Acoustic) Death Cab for Cutie went back into the studio in December 2022 with the goal of reinterpreting their latest record 'Asphalt Meadows' with the most minimal arrangements possible and presenting the songs in their rawest, most intimate forms. Now, they're proud to announce that the acoustic album version of 'Asphalt Meadows' to be released on vinyl by Barsuk Records this summer. The album also includes one of the band's favorite songs "The Plan" by Low as a tribute to the late amazingly talented Mimi Parker. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1686260164375-CAU55BWTB19GR0JUO4VM/4194018-2959382.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Tears For Fears - The Hurting Tears for Fears debut album The Hurting was released on March 7, 1983 and peaked at #1 on the U.K. albums chart in it's second week of release. It reached platinum status in January 1985 and contains three Top 5 U.K. singles - "Mad World," "Change," and "Pale Shelter." This LP has been mastered at Abbey Road Studios and cut at half-speed for superior quality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1686251193971-ONBHKD9ER1FDNAPTC8WV/4193487-2960040.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Italio Disco Club Italo-Disco is a musical genre derived from Disco that started in the early 80's. It became popular in Italy and Europe, before reaching it's peak in American clubs, especially in Chicago and Detroit. Discover 12 groovy tracks of the emblematic artists of this genre in their maxi version. Featuring Ken Laszlo "Hey Hey Guy", P. Lion "Happy Children", Kano "Another Life", Ryan Paris "Dolce Vita" and more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1686251513224-HNAF03E574LWTHV3E1OR/a1582129034_16.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Squid - O Monolith Vinyl LP pressing housed in gatefold jacket. Includes digital download. Expansive, evocative and hugely varied, O Monolith retains Squid's restless, enigmatic spirit, but it still holds surprises for those familiar with Bright Green Field. It's a reflection of the outsized progression of a band always looking to the future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1686259690690-AHT706JC2XPRO3FZY1YX/MIND838LP_PROD.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Kraftwerk - Turning Japanese: Nakano Sun Plaza Radio Broadcast Vinyl LP pressing. Kraftwerk live at Nakano Sun Plaza in Tokyo, Japan on September 8th, 1981. FM broadcast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1686260830567-WG6P478XT7C60IVAY1SM/4213697-2979315.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Alkaline Trio - Good Mourning Good Mourning is the handsome if dark-eyed offspring of the deliberately melodic From Here to Infirmary LP and Alkaline Trio's more raucous earlier work. Whether or not the band 'sold out' (or whatever) when Infirmary arrived with the stamp of ambitious indie Vagrant, the set nevertheless seemed forced. For Good Mourning, Derek Grant replaces Mike Felumlee behind the kit, joining the grating-like-gouda voices and ringing guitars of Matt Skiba and Dan Andriano on the AT's second Vagrant outing. It's an album that kills with catchiness. Deluxe Limited Edition Explicit Content https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1685816628615-PHB9L0SX8612C0WRNVQL/4194109-2981168.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Protomartyr - Formal Growth In The Desert Includes digital download and poster. Since their 2012 debut, Protomartyr have mastered the art of evoking place: the grinding Midwest humility of their hometown, as well as the x-rayed elucidation of America that comes with their vantage. The group's sixth album was recorded at Sonic Ranch in Tornillo, TX with producer Jake Aron. "The desert is more of a metaphor or symbol," singer Joe Casey says, "of emotional deserts, or a place or time that seems to lack life." The "growth" came from a period of colossal transition for Casey, including the death of his mother. But life does go on, and Casey describes the great theme of Formal Growth In The Desert as an embrace and acknowledgment of that fact: a 12-song testament to "getting on with life," even when it feels impossibly hard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1685816053412-YHXP4MNK1DY5447PW1I0/4203649-2966320.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Bob Dylan - Shadow Kingdom Double vinyl LP pressing with etched fourth side. 2023 release. Shadow Kingdom presents Dylan performing revelatory 21st century versions of songs from his storied back catalog - including fan favorites like "Forever Young" and "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue," and deep catalog gems like "Queen Jane Approximately" and "Wicked Messenger." Originally reinterpreted for an exclusive streaming film event, which aired in July 2021. The album's setlist includes 13 original songs handpicked by Dylan for his Shadow Kingdom performance plus the closing instrumental, "Sierra's Theme." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1685816412405-L6A2KC6Q33D9NFZQDA7S/R-27265287-1685715508-5609.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Foo Fighters - But Here We Are But Here We Are is the new album from Foo Fighters, and marks the bands return after a year of staggering losses, personal introspection and bittersweet remembrances. A brutally honest and emotionally raw response to everything Foo Fighters have endured recently, But Here We Are is a testament to the healing powers of music, friendship and family. Courageous, damaged and unflinchingly authentic, the album opens with “Rescued,” the first of 10 songs that run the emotional gamut from rage and sorrow to serenity and acceptance, and myriad points in between. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1685816971333-3RR1J86GRIWKQJSB6XPX/4201666-2971371.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Juan Wauters - Wandering Rebel There's freedom to be found in consistency. Until recently, Juan Wauters may not have agreed with this statement. As a touring musician and multinational citizen, transience had always come naturally to him. Circumstance, however, recently prompted him to reconsider the benefits of staying in one place. His most introspective work to date, Wauters' sixth solo album Wandering Rebel finds the artist taking stock of how he's changed, how the world sees him, and what he wants out of life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1685817293979-7JHX3M0HHNFBJHISTHGO/R-11343527-1514606002-4392.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Tomahawk - Mit Gas Vinyl LP pressing. Mit Gas is the second studio album by Tomahawk, originally released in 2003. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1685817056810-PU43AWZ9YNY0PYNOUOHX/4209715-2975053.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Tomahawk - Anonymous Vinyl LP pressing. Anonymous is the third studio album by Tomahawk, originally released in 2007. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1685815503331-BFJJI8OB4VXXSNGLREII/4184378-2949526.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Desmond Dekker - Essential Artist Collection Double vinyl LP pressing. Long before Bob Marley's rise to pre-eminence, the title of the world's leading reggae performer rested firmly with another young singer from Kingston, Jamaica: Desmond Dekker. Between 1967 and 1970, Desmond enjoyed a succession of international hit singles, breaking new ground with singles such as '007', the first Jamaican-produced single to break into the UK top twenty, and 'Israelites', the first reggae single to reach the Number One spot in Britain and to breach the US chart. Further triumphs followed thereafter, with major chart hits including 'It Mek', 'Pickney Gal', 'You Can Get It If You Really Want' and 'Sing A Little Song', all of which cemented his place in history as Jamaica's first global superstar. All these works, along with the best of his remaining recordings from the ska, rock steady and reggae eras are featured on this compilation, featuring extensive liner notes and imagery, the set pays due respect to the original King of Reggae and superbly demonstrates the immense talent that set Desmond Dekker apart from his peers during the Golden Age of Jamaican music. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1685815326597-G5AXLE6I2Q3PV0ZNVJO2/4194598-2959313.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - De La Soul - Stakes Is High Double vinyl LP pressing. Stakes is High is the fourth studio album by de la Soul, originally released in 1996. Stakes is High was critically lauded for it's music, lyricism, and it's overall message concerning the artistic decline rap music began to face in the mid-90s. The title track and first single was produced by J Dilla and the album's second single, "Itzsoweezee (HOT)", with only Dave on vocals, was accompanied by a creative music video. The album spawned a third single "4 More", featuring Zhane. The album did provide a launching pad for future star rappers and actors Mos Def, who appeared on the track "Big Brother Beat" and Common who is featured on "The Bizness". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1685815103719-NOZJP1PVMAS4FBZ7K3E9/4199234-2962664.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Bully - Lucky For You Lucky For You is Bully's most close-to-the-bone album yet. It's an album that's searing and unmistakably marked by it's creator's experiences, while still retaining the massive sound that Alicia Bognanno has become known for over the last decade. Her fourth album draws from personal pain and the universal struggle that is existing, learning, and moving on-and it's all soundtracked by Bognanno's rock-solid melodic sensibilities and a widescreen sound that's impossible to pin down when it comes to the textures explored. These ten songs are simply the most irresistible Bognanno's put to tape yet, making Lucky For You her greatest triumph to date in a career already packed with them. In that vein, Lucky For You is a document of perseverance in the face of the big and the small stuff. "I'm so overly emotional and sensitive, it's a blessing and a curse" she says with a laugh, but there's no downside to her expressions of vulnerability on this record; it's the latest bit of evidence that nothing can hold Bognanno back. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1685816765132-WZC8765VVJHTT58N8UM5/4160630-2970559.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Rancid - Tomorrow Never Comes Rancid - the legendary Bay Area punk rockers are back with their 10th studio album, Tomorrow Never Comes on Epitaph Records. Emerging from the blue-collar swamps of Berkeley, California, Rancid has now been a living, breathing punk rock band for over a quarter century. Back in 1991, after the demise of their much beloved and still influential first band, Operation Ivy, founding members Tim Armstrong (vocals, guitar) and Matt Freeman (bass, vocals) decided to do the impossible - start an even better band. Thus, Rancid. Signing with Epitaph Records, the band released their first album, "Rancid," in 1993. Shortly thereafter, Lars Frederiksen (vocals, guitar) joined the band and they went on to release incredible records from "Let's Go." (1994) to their classic - platinum selling "... And Out Come The Wolves." (1995). Drummer Branden Steineckert joined the band in 2003, cementing the line-up that rocks out till this day.Seeing Rancid live is a life changing experience and steady touring is in the plan for 2023, kicking off in Las Vegas at the legendary Punk Rock Bowling Festival in late May - the band will hit Europe in June and the rest of the world soon after.Through it all, Rancid has remained fiercely independent, never losing their loyalty to community or each other. Their music confronts political and social issues, while balancing personal tales of love, loss, and heartbreak with attitude. Rancid gives their listeners a community where everyone can belong. By carrying on the traditions and spirit of the original punk rock bands that came before, Rancid has become a legend and inspiration to punk bands that have come after. They are the living embodiment of East Bay punk. And if you don't know all this by now - you're not playing their music loud enough! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1685815011919-060N1ZT6MJ8TGXCSEORU/4190723-2971230.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Beach Fossils - Bunny Brooklyn bedroom-pop trailblazers Beach Fossils' new album 'Bunny,' is a triumphant return for one of the 2010s most influential NYC bands. 'Bunny' is a precise blend of the luscious dream-pop atmospheres they notoriously honed on their earliest projects, the post-punk vigor expressed on 'Clash the Truth,' and the warm, sophisticated songwriting of 'Somersault.' Composer Dustin Payseur peppers the album equally with descriptions of the joy of fatherhood and the existential pleasure of smoking cigarettes out of a car window with friends-'Bunny' features Beach Fossils' most personal lyrics to-date. This is a collection of new favorite tracks for fans of every era of Beach Fossils. Releasing on Payseur and his partner Katie Garcia's own label, Bayonet Records, 'Bunny' will prove to be the culmination of a decade's worth of growth and experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1685814642778-E7CL7QUWJN1H06Y02ZH9/3567513.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Alkaline Trio - From Here To Infirmary Vinyl LP pressing. From Here to Infirmary is the third album by Alkaline Trio. It was their first album for Vagrant Records. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1685814427637-8UBMPDPD2X10XFLBXSTW/3812148-2557418.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Hiroshi Yoshimura - Green Barely known outside of his home country during his lifetime, the late Japanese ambient music pioneer Hiroshi Yoshimura has seen his global stature rise steadily in the past few years. The 2017 reissue of his lauded debut, _Music For Nine Post Cards_, along with algorithmically created playlists and recommendations has helped ignite a renaissance in his acclaimed body of work, much of which has never been released outside of Japan. Known for his sound design and environmental music, Yoshimura worked on a number of commissions following the 1982 release of _Music For Nine Post Cards_, including works for museums, galleries, public spaces, TV shows, video art, fashion shows, and even a cosmetics company. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1685811149846-16C7DHB5AMFKYQ6TYV05/4199078-2962635.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - M. Sage - Paradise Crick Like a winding system of trails and paths cutting through a digital forest-scape, M. Sage's Paradise Crick is shaped by time. Full of wonder and charm, designed patiently and from a rich, curious mulch of synthesized and acoustic sound, the versatile American artist and magic realist's new suite of music is an imaginary destination and a pastoral fantasy that envisions the natural and fabricated worlds as one. Speckled with harmonica, autoharp, chimes, voice, and other alchemical mysteries, Crick's texture is treated as a sensorial adventure; the swamps gurgle, the lakes glisten, and the valleys breathe in robust HD. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1685811249293-SOA9D5DLSEHJ5C3W01BY/4197415-2963283.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Midwife & Vyva Melinkolya - Orbweaving Madeline Johnston and Angel Diaz became close friends in 2020, regarding each other as a lifeline when things were difficult in their personal lives. This friendship was born from music but quickly became so much more than that. The two met in person in 2021, when Diaz came for a recording residency at Johnston's studio in New Mexico. It was during this session that they wrote and recorded Orbweaving, in the heat of summer in the arid Chihuahuan Desert. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1685811476037-H44QN6Z48IDHLILEXLX8/4120709-2859571.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Rico Nasty - Las Ruinas Many artists change the game. However, Rico Nasty reinvents, recharges, and reimagines it with every move. She never follows. She never obeys. She never (ever) gives a f***. Instead, the Washington, D.C.-born and Maryland-raised sonic sorceress shapeshifts at the speed of the culture, infusing airtight rap with uncontainable punk energy, hyperpop unpredictability, industrial intensity, and just the right amount of heavy metal attitude. With an inimitable and influential signature style, she has reached multiplatinum status, posted up nearly 1 billion streams, and sold out countless shows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1685810809527-IWZL5APEWYPUATWQ4FQI/4202665-2984673.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Kassa Overall - Animals https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1685811349768-4GST1CHDO22BTZI1QQNU/4160671-2918669.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Plastic Crimewave Syndicate - Space Alley Plastic Crimewave Syndicate has finally returned with a wide-ranging/raging new album - recorded two years ago in an expansive, benevolent alleyway in the midst of a dark, diseased, claustrophobic time of global chaos. The new PCWS album, entitled 'Space Alley,' boldly travels into the relatively unexplored malevolent terrain of free doom, space/noise punk, and darkly dubbed-out library/soundtrack grooves (call it 70's crooked-cop show/freak-funk, if you must). This is all capped off with a sidelong, (beat of the) earth-harvesting modal exploration of synthed-out kraut-throb. With new bassist Rob Rodak (Dead Feathers) aboard, and guests like sax-skronk legend Taralie Peterson (Spires That in the Sunset Rise), flautist Sara Gossett (Spiral Galaxy), and synthlord Will MacLean (Protovulcan), new influences have seeped into PCWS's dystopian vision. The Syndicate have opened for revered deities like Nik Turner, Loop, Simply Saucer, Chrome, and Josefus; but now a more diverse and groovy array of past underground sounds like Skin Alley, Sound of Imker, Here and Now, Mann/Sharrock, Black Sun Ensemble, Parson Sound, and Schizo have influenced PCWS's journey. Recorded by Eric Block (Rhys Chatham, Sick Gazelle) of Rec Rooms studios, and mastered by Monster Magnet/Desert Sessions guitar god JP McBain, the mind-fry level is set to 11 ½ on Space Alley! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1685811671131-8FYQ9TQ1XCYVMNC5PEZB/4199085-2963138.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Stone Temple Pilots - Purple Vinyl LP pressing. Stone Temple Pilots' acclaimed 1994 album, Purple, in clear vinyl as part of the Atlantic 75 celebration. Includes the hits "Vasoline", "Interstate Love Song" and "Big Empty". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1685811839852-57DMC422KNQLRT5GZ0RT/4207472-2972381.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Suicide - A Way Of Life Celebrating it's 35th anniversary, Mute / BMG announce a special edition of A WAY OF LIFE, the third studio album by influential electronic-punk duo SUICIDE, to be released on 26th May. Although the band barely received any credit during their career, Suicide are cited as one of the most inspirational bands of the 1970s, influencing the likes Soft Cell, Depeche Mode and The Jesus And Mary Chain, whilst garnering fans in Nick Cave, Jim Thirlwell, M.I.A., Spiritualized, Lydia Lunch, Bobby Gillespie and Savages to name a few. Originally released in 1988, more than a decade after their iconic self-titled album, A Way of Life saw Alan Vega & Martin Rev once again team up with The Cars' frontman Ric Ocasek to produce "nine creepily ingratiated industrial pop songs" (Pitchfork). This anniversary edition is available on Limited Edition Yellow Vinyl, CD as well as Digital and sees the album fully remastered by Denis Blackham (Skye Mastering). Featured on each format are bonus tracks 'Heat Beat' and a newly unearthed live cover of Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA'. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1685813013297-FFWC43NEPFHG557V1HR8/4205130-2968873.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Sylvan Esso - What Now Sylvan Esso's sophomore album, What Now, showcases the sound of a band truly fulfilling the potential and promise of their debut. Everything has evolved - the production is bolder, the vocals are more intense, the melodies are more infectious, and the songs shine that much brighter. What Now is an album of the finest songs this band has ever written, produced masterfully, and sang fearlessly to articulate our collective undercurrents of anxiety and joy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1685810188569-QHGOWGFDUCWTHVWD71ZF/4203172-2966998.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - John Lee Hooker - Burning Hell One of John Lee Hooker's lesser-known gems from his most inspired years, Burning Hell was recorded in Detroit during April 1959. Hooker only plays acoustic guitar throughout the album, which is a country blues classic, and sings straight to the bone with his soul drenched vocal delivery. It was Hooker's second LP packaged for the folk/ traditional blues market (following The Country Blues of John Lee Hooker, issued in 1959). Burning Hell is quite different from his earlier recordings, most of which had featured Hooker on an electric guitar with his trademark reverb and stomping foot. Folk purists of the day were delighted with this long play, believing Hooker had returned to his roots, leaving the "glitzy commercialism" of R&B behind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684519028797-8ABTVJ89BCVK9MZ14FOP/4204502-2966805.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - SZA - SOS SOS is the second studio album from GRAMMY award winning singer SZA, and the follow up to 2017’s major label debut album Ctrl. The genre-blending album contains elements of pop, R&B, soft-rock, gospel, and hip-hop. SOS features guest appearances from Travis Scott, Don Toliver, Phoebe Bridgers, and the late Ol’ Dirty Bastard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684515756901-HKIO90TTBX2KZTANVH4A/4176068-2965654.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Khruangbin & Friends - Live At Stubb's It's only fitting that Khruangbin's first-ever official live releases would be double albums paired with their tourmates: artists whose music they love and admire, friends who've become family along the way. Khruangbin's 'Live At' series of live LPs traces just one small slice of the band's flight plan through the years: it's a taste of some of their most beloved cities, stages and nights. Each release comes with a limited-edition unique album cover exclusive for the recording's home turf, just a little something extra for the fans that bring a little something extra. Most of all, Khruangbin's 'Live at' series ignites both sides of the band's magic: the warm, prismatic feeling of their albums and the bewitching energy of their performances. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1685814873112-X7H8EL18TGJ7GGSUV2E9/4202098-2980686.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Rich Aucoin - Synthetic Season 2 On Synthetic: Season 2, Halifax pop artist and composer Rich Aucoin continues his journey through the history of synthesizers. The second entry in his quadruple LP series once again features an armada of the world's most rare, historic, and highly sought after electronic instruments. Gaining access to the collections of Calgary's National Music Centre and LA's Vintage Synthesizer Museum, Aucoin ran amok on machines to create four albums of thrilling, transporting instrumental music. Each song on Synthetic: Season 2 conjures a world of it's own, combining Aucoin's melodic sensibilities with textural, genre-agnostic experimentation. The album swerves into action with the wiggling synths and thunderous drum breaks of "Wav" - recorded on the Hammond Novachord from 1939 and considered the very first analog, fully polyphonic synthesizer - stacking hooks like a cinematic training montage as it climbs toward the first of many transcendent conclusions. "Shift" changes course into eerie, frostbitten industrial territory with rubbery beats that bounce like pogo sticks, switching tempos unexpectedly and dissolving into skittering arrays of sound. The squelching groove of "Pure" brings a touch of '90s French House, like Daft Punk jet-setting around the world. Six minutes pass in a flash during this playful brain-dance. "Space" is a thumping banger built upon chiming, subaquatic beats that slice through thick drones and filter disco drops. It's passages of extraterrestrial techno tranquility will make you feel like an astronaut floating in the inky void, making shapes in zero gravity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684515100362-TX9NNIA6W5BDQQIRX3MG/4195830-2961097.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Grateful Dead - History of the Grateful Dead Vol. 1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684514958991-MFZ1W7149RNFEE1M9O8B/4204762-2968095.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Ghost - Phantomime Ghost - "Phantomime " - Ghost follows last year's international chart-topping opus IMPERA as intended from the start with PHANTOMIME, a diverse and spellbinding sampling of the GRAMMY Award-winning band's musical DNA. Featuring covers of classics by Television, Genesis, The Stranglers, Iron Maiden and Tina Turner, PHANTOMIME pays tribute to these unlikely bedfellow influences while stamping them all with Ghost's undeniable sonic signature. LP features curated live photos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684519387862-PMWW0AZFBBE0IY96FIWJ/4197097-2982769.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Tinariwen - Amatssou Some people have commented that Tinariwen have always been a country band, albeit a North African take on that most North American of genres. That idea is magnified on Amatssou, which finds the Tuareg band's trademark snaking guitar lines and hypnotic rhythms blending seamlessly with pedal steel, piano and strings from guest musicians including Daniel Lanois, the embellished arrangements lending the songs an epic, universal application. Full of poetic allegory, the lyrics call for unity and freedom. There are songs of struggle and resistance with oblique references to the recent desperate political upheavals in Mali and the increasing power of the Salafists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684514629685-8Y9CUH8FPOBDCBK3CAQO/170999.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Common - Resurrection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684519155816-R2XFYP7Z5IAJTZDP6QCW/1879182-2596891.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas The last of the "all-home-recordings albums" by The Mountain Goats and the only one about which that claim is true, All Hail West Texas was originally released as a free-standing compact disc on the late, lamented Emperor Jones. That was about a decade ago. The songs were originally transferred from the cassettes onto which they were recorded to 1/4" reels at Tiny Telephone by Alex Newport, who also played in Fudge Tunnel. John got really excited when he realized his tapes were being EQ'd by the guy from Fudge Tunnel. Remastered from those reels, along with 7 unearthed songs from the two surviving contemporaneous cassettes, All Hail West Texas stands as the peak of The Mountain Goats' home recording era, a time people like to refer to as "when John Darnielle had his four-track," except John did not actually use a four-track. He used the condenser mic of a Panasonic boombox and there was no overdubbing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684516000793-LXIJ8ZT8TCD43NRVC6FA/81BXsj6n8jL._SY450_.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Dave Matthews - Walk Around The Moon Vinyl LP pressing housed in gatefold jacket. Includes booklet. 2023 release. Dave Matthews Band's 10th studio album, Walk Around the Moon, took shape during the pandemic and is as much a reflection on the current times as it is an urge to find common ground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684514852744-QRPXRG9BP78E9FDR19RM/4199039-2980468.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Miles Davis - Volume 1 (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series) Legendary trumpeter Miles Davis was still near the start of his storied career when he cut the three sessions that comprise his Blue Note recordings in 1952, 1953, and 1954. In 1955, Blue Note compiled the tracks into two 12" LPs as part of the 1500 series. The music presents all the hallmarks of his early style from blazing bebop to beautiful ballads. This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is mono, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original masters, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684518736754-4XQDACLJ4AOEJL0Q6YUB/4202794-2968413.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Paul Simon - Seven Psalms Seven Psalms is the 2023 studio album of original material from Paul Simon and his first in seven years since 2016's Stranger To Stranger. Conceived more as a continuous piece of music in seven segments as opposed to seven individual songs, the album is primarily acoustic with Paul playing guitar, keyboards, and percussion with occasional support by strings and backing vocals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684516813288-B9C7L0NSM8A0N849ILR5/4192849-2958244.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Niagra - S/T Niagara was more a project than an actual band formed by German jazz drum legend Klaus Weiss. He formerly worked with another jazz legend from his mother country, Klaus Doldinger and gained fame in the German jazz circuit of the 60s and 70s. His 1971 works with NIAGARA was the offspring of the vision to create an orchestra made entirely of drummers and percussionists. Despite the fact that there is definitely no regular melody instrument to be heard on this album, the two lengthy compositions are arranged in such an enthralling way, that they have a rather catchy and memorable feel. Among the cult drummers featured on this album are Udo Lindenberg (yes, this icon of German rock and pop started as a drummer!) and session hero Keith Forsey. So what both compositions offer is an ever pulsating rhythm inferno, a maelstrom of different grooves and sounds. If you go for this album to find some pop tunes, you better change your mind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684519790612-XO79CTBH6QKION551MQJ/1908529.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Tom Ze' - Brazil Classics 4: Massive Hits - The Best of Tom Ze (Compiled by David Byrne) , Tom Zé Brazil Classics 4: Massive Hits - The Best of Tom Ze' Limited blue colored vinyl LP pressing. Brazil Classics, Vol. 4: The Best of Tom Zé - Massive Hits is a compilation album by Brazilian singer-songwriter Tom Zé. This 1990 album was Tom Zé's first release on Luaka Bop after being discovered by David Byrne and was the first introduction of Zé's music to a wider U.S. audience. Music critic Robert Christgau has named it among his 10 best albums from the 1990s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1685810924889-LIT6SRETR4FZM51XKTEF/4192156-2957669.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Lemon Twigs - Everything New York duo The Lemon Twigs return with their first new release since 2020's 'Songs For The General Public'. On 'Everything Harmony', their fourth full-length studio release, the prodigiously talented brothers Brian and Michael D'Addario offer 13 original servings of beauty that showcase an emotional depth and musical sophistication far beyond their years as a band, let alone as young men. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684518598569-7LPUFWAVAZITYB19MAP1/4203199-2965257.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Shrine Northern: 60s Rarest Dance Label Ace Records is proud to announce the purchase of the Shrine label and Eddie Singleton's independent productions. To celebrate we have compiled an album of the very best dance recordings the label made in 1965 and 1966, primarily in Washington DC. The business's failure made this music incredibly hard to find for record collectors and Shrine is rightly known as the rarest soul label. It is much more than that though. The music was made by some one of the original founders of Motown, Raynoma Liles Gordy and her Motown-schooled cousin Mike Ossman, New York music business luminaries Eddie Singleton and Harry Bass and the up-and-coming talents of Washington's Keni St Lewis and Maxx Kidd. The acts included the hugely respected Ray Pollard and fellow New Yorker J. D. Bryant, talented and established Washington and Baltimore acts Eddie Daye & The 4 Bars, Bobby Reed and the Enjoyables. Importantly, they discovered and developed the local talent of the area in the shape of the Cautions, Les Chansonettes, the Prophets and Shirley Edwards. It took decades for UK Northern Soul fans to realise the significance of the label. It finally clicked for Stafford's Top Of The World all-nighter DJs who searched out the incredibly hard to find later releases and played them to the cult-following of the rare soul scene. The scarcity was caused by Shrine pressing up a batch of fourteen future singles but only getting a handful released before they folded. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684516466815-L6DLX7CWGXP60N78YBTI/4204892-2968665.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684516173220-WXZ47DQ65OXUR5EDAXS1/4204775-2968526.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Melvins - Houdini Live 2005 Limited translucent pink colored vinyl LP pressing. 2006 live release from the alt-rockers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684513956123-7SO08KY7G6GZ8JNSX9WX/4047827-2793621.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Roy Ayers - Virgo Vibes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684515513304-1C3MKAV3D9LG1B96B92V/4203240-2965259.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Millie Jackson - S/T Millie Jackson's first single was released on the MGM label in 1969 but her career took off when she signed to Spring where she teamed up with producer Raeford Gerald. The single 'A Child Of God (It's Hard To Believe)'/ 'You're The Joy Of My Life' was a Top 30 R&B hit and 'Ask Me What You Want'/'I Just Can't Stand It', 'My Man, A Sweet Man'/'I Gotta Get Away From My Own Self' and 'I Miss You Baby'/'I Ain't Giving Up' not only did more damage on the R&B chart but also entered the Hot 100. All four singles appeared on her debut LP "Millie Jackson", issued on Spring in 1972. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684514099159-V92466Q31M6SQGFA80JS/4181968-2951372.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Beach House - Become "The Become EP is a collection of 5 songs from the Once Twice Melody sessions. We didn't think they fit in the world of OTM, but later realized they all fit in a little world of their own. To us, they are all kind of scuzzy and spacious, and live in the spirit realm. It's not really where we are currently going, but it's definitely somewhere we have been. We hope you enjoy these tunes, Alex and Victoria/Beach House." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684514336269-37E5A7WQ17SE5FJGM3C9/4103490-2855742.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Big Star - # 1 Record https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684514759541-SZM5IMQV0YTSVE4ZIHLB/America%27s_Volume_Dealer_%28Corrosion_of_Conformity_album_-_cover_art%29.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Corrosion Of Conformity - Americas Volume Dealer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684447584270-Q1BO6QH3Q7LX8P9V1Q8V/4196679-2961430.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Animal Collective - Spirit They've Vanished Double vinyl LP pressing. Delxue digitally remastered 20th Anniversary edition. Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished is the first collaborative studio album by Avey Tare (David Portner) and Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), released in August 2000. It was later retroactively classified as the debut album by Portner and Lennox's group Animal Collective. The album was first released as a CD on the band's own Animal label (now known as Paw Tracks) with only 2000 copies produced. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684512211425-RSXTGS2OER7YLFL9B3SV/4181819-2955507.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Praise A Lord WhoYves Tumor - Chews But Which Does Not Consume Vinyl LP pressing housed in gatefold jacket. Includes poster and digital download. 2023 release. Yves Tumor reveals a complex intimacy with each album: offering glimpses in familiarizing with Sean Lee Bowie, while simultaneously elevating the beautiful myths and fantasies that embolden our connections to art and music. 'Praise A Lord...' offers the widest narrative shot yet, opening with a literal breath and a naked voice that's spoken to you from a dark nightmarish depth and ending in an almost spiritual church-like celebration; uniquely different songs struck cohesively as album that begs to be reopened and re-experienced. The listener is empowered in that spectrum between moody darkness and bright excitement with songs that carry a wild variety of exalting emotion from highs to lows, making for a radical artistic statement redefining pop experience in that authentic engagement. Yves Tumor's sound is clear and unmistaking yet unpredictable, with an identity that is universally charismatic through an androgynous presentation that is sexual, poetic, and honest: an overall presence that will never need to conform because it is continuously shifting and redefining what the pop world begins to emulate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684447735147-40ZNAKFYNAZ58ABAC495/4191066-2955212.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - AS I Lay Dying - Shaped by Fire Reborn through pain, like iron shaped by fire. The triumphant return of As I Lay Dying. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684448989862-AD7DHNXQTZJJHEGFCKZS/2196677.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Kadaver - Abra Kadavar The second full length release from Germany's Kadavar, gatefold, glow in the dark vinyl. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684516676467-POZVNR7PPE729PE7LNZ4/4198818-2970612.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - A Moi La Liberte: Early Electronic Rai - Algerie 1983-1990 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684520117852-27JZHEHJ4KKYZCE5PC3H/4198873-2971255.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Fred Ventura Presents Milano Undiscovered 2023: Modern Italo Disco, Synth Pop And House Experiments From Milan's Underground https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684512401591-RJR6MO4FB6EIO253F83S/4203687-2967321.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Zozobra - Bird Of Prey Taking it's name from the 50-foot effigy burned every year by a hysterical mob during the Fiestas de Santa Fe in Santa Fe, NM, Zozobra is the brainchild of Caleb Scofield (Cave In / Old Man Gloom) and, to carry on his musical legacy, the two Zozobra albums Harmonic Tremors (2007) and Bird Of Prey (2008) can now be streamed everywhere on all streaming platforms once again. Also both albums will see their respective vinyl releases, the first time they will be officially issued on vinyl for widespread distribution (previous editions were tour-only editions and the Caleb memorial version). Following on the seismic heels of Harmonic Tremors, Bird Of Prey was originally released in 2008 via Hydra Head Records respectively and features drummer Aaron Harris (Isis), who also recorded and mixed the album. Scofield's second full-length under the Zozobra moniker is a white-hot exploder shot through with snaking melody lines and implacable riffs. From front to back, Scofield's signature roar is tempered by his own gleaming backup chants; meanwhile, an arsenal of guitars alternately churns and shimmers in the flames of Zozobra's effigial namesake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684448390161-UHZ88TE1T3X25UWAJNT0/4197055-2961246.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - The Cult - S/T THE CULT is fronted by Ian Astbury on vocals and Billy Duffy on guitar. Their music and albums at this point need no introduction as they have cemented themselves over the years since they began in 1983, as one of the greatest rock bands around. 1994 brought their seif-titled sixth album The Cult, sometimes also known as the "Black Sheep" album due to the cover image. Recorded with Bob Rock, It is a very personal album with a lot of the narrative subject matter referring to Astbury's younger years. Unlike their previous albums, this one revealed itself more slowly with each listen. This album is considered an overlooked and underrated gem and preceded their 1995 break-up. The band reformed in 1999 and continues to tour and release albums, including their most recent, 2022's Under The Midnight Sun. A1. Gone A2. Coming Down (Drug Tongue) A3. Real Grrrl B1. Black Sun B2. Naturally High B3. Joy C1. Star C2. Sacred Life C3. Be Free D1. Universal You D2. Emperor's New Horse D3. Saints Are Down https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684449713603-O46A14PY7WT9EWDJ5F65/4199094-2974333.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Motorhead - Kiss Of Death Motörhead's 18th studio album Kiss Of Death continued the heavy, blistering sound evident on it's Cameron Webb-produced predecessor, Inferno. Originally released on 29th August 2006, it charted at number 4 in Germany, the band's highest position to date there. The album featured guests Mike Inez from Alice In Chains and C.C. Deville from Poison. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684448471393-PYMQ7G2SK1IGZ2EJ6TYI/4190362-2957162.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Daft Punk - Random Access Memories (10th Anniversary Edition) DESCRIPTION Triple 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Includes poster and booklet. 2023 marks the 10th anniversary of Daft Punk's multi Grammy winning hit record Random Access Memories including Get Lucky, Instant Crush, Lose Yourself To Dance and featuring Pharrell Williams, Nile Rodgers, Julian Casablancas, Paul Williams, Panda Bear and Todd Edwards. To celebrate this milestone a special expanded edition will be released including 35 minutes of unreleased music (Demo and Studio Outtakes). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684511933220-0HVDIGKUYGUXHO7LZ25C/4208079-2970807.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Whatitdo Archive - Palace Of A Thousand Sounds US cinematic outfit Whatitdo Archive Group return with 'Palace Of A Thousand Sounds', the band's sophomore album exploring the worlds of Mid-Century exotica and library music, out on May 5th. From the instrumental cinematic-soul outfit behind 2021's critically acclaimed The Black Stone Affair comes Whatitdo Archive Group's most recent foray into the realms of the esoteric and arcane, and their most adventurous album to date: Palace Of A Thousand Sounds, available May 5th, 2023 on Record Kicks on limited edition LP, CD and digital platforms. After The Black Stone Affair enthralled record collectors by traversing the cinematic landscape of an imagined 1970s Spaghetti Western, Palace Of A Thousand Sounds finds Whatitdo Archive Group entrenched deeper in the worlds of mid-century exotica and library music-from the Tropicalia-steeped Amazon to the minor key tonalities of the far-out Near East. When the dust finally settled from their debut album, composer and tireless sound scientist Alexander Korostinsky set out to discover the band's new direction, with the ultimate goal to breathe new life into the mid-century era sound with the compass of modernity as his guide. From it's conception in 2021, Palace has sought to carry on a legacy set in motion by the likes of Martin Denny, Les Baxter and Juan García Esquivel. Korostinsky, guitarist Mark Sexton, and drummer Aaron Chiazza recorded the album in marathon sessions from Korostinsky's Studio "A," in Reno, Nevada-a mysterious sonic laboratory where the year 1970 has yet to happen, and vintage analog equipment interfaces with modern musical perspectives and experimental recording techniques to produce era-defining sounds. Not content to appeal to the sensibilities of armchair anthropologists, Palace Of A Thousand Sounds finds the band interrogating the genre itself while making studious tributes to the real places and times it draws from. It's in this tension between here and there, fantasy and reality, that Whatitdo Archive Group find their groove. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684449963698-XIOC1SVISWNMUHOVELUP/4198371-2980423.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Oval - Romantiq Indie Exclusive, Limited Edition, Clear Vinyl, Red, Digital Download Card https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684511806607-7Z0P70CUEHE2N818BAV3/4198339-2963368.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? Limited Edition Color Vinyl to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of this legendary album! 2,000 unit total worldwide pressing on Yellow vinyl. Remastered from original release with download card featuring 4 bonus tracks from the original sessions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684512055555-50Q8L3ODZT2NK9B0FZ0E/4201852-2971074.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Sam Wilkes & Jacob Mann - Perform The Compositions Of Sam Wilkes & Jacob Man Of all the things that can and should and will be said of Sam Wilkes' & Jacob Mann's Perform the Compositions of Sam Wilkes & Jacob Mann, let's begin at the beginning and acknowledge that it is an aptly named record indeed. An ideal collaborative effort (which is to say, greater than the sum of it's parts), here we have two longtime friends, two luminaries of the New Weird Los Angeles - the experimental, genre-encompassing underground-who have, at last, devoted a full-length record to their signature musical admixture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684518472288-GEC80LVMKF8D38E7WBNO/4208026-2971158.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Pumpkin Witch - The Return Of The Pumpkin Witch The 4th Pumpkin Witch album released by Deathbomb Arc, and their first non-reissue for the label. Nothing can keep the Pumpkin Witch dead for long. The Witch is back! And her web of evil is larger than ever, her vile plans call for nothing short of world domination... The Three Dark Figures have conjured up 11 new tracks of creepy cackles and crazed cacophony that create an audiological kaleidoscope of terror. An emphasis on percussion and an evident influence from goth club music blends with the horror soundtrack-fueled dark ambience of albums past, making this perfect listening for any unholy ritual or cemetery soiree. You can lock your doors, board up your windows, and say your prayers but nothing can protect you from "The Return of the Pumpkin Witch"! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684510640099-BQ15NNAVF6G6C55TON5Q/4172424-2940963.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Archie Shepp - Kwanza Archie Shepp - KWANZA (VERVE BY REQUEST SERIES) These 1969 recordings (released 5 years later) combine Shepp's free jazz bonafides and a blend of blues and funk through an African lens, all in a big band setting. The all-star brass section, featuring James Spaulding and Charles Davis on sax along with trombonist Graham Moncur III lead the way on stand outs including "New Africa" and "Spoo Pee Doo." This Verve By Request LP features transfers from analog tapes and remastered on 180-gram vinyl, pressed at Third Man in Detroit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684447809760-55WY7DYBOLMHSEQYEBXN/4202918-2966816.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Dorthy Ashby - The Rubaiyat Of Dorothy Ashby The Rubaiyat Of Dorothy Ashby, released on Cadet Records in 1970, is a wonderous mix of spiritual and funky jazz with unique instrumentation that defies categorization. Harpist Ashby adds the koto, a 13-string Japanese instrument, to her arsenal and her longtime arranger Richard Evans blends flutes, vibraphone, oboe, kalimba and Ashby's own vocals into a singular, soul-affirming set. Verve By Request Series features transfers from the analog tapes remastered on 180-gram vinyl. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684449355264-FV1LJ09W35XL99UKQ1WM/4198496-2968046.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - - Mastodon - Call Of The Mastodon The Call of the Mastodon, a collection of Mastodon's first-ever forays into the recording studio, exposes the humble beginnings of hard rock's heaviest hitters. The nine tracks laid to tape here, the first the fledgling quartet had ever written, document a band finding it's own voice and place in the musical world. Remixed and remastered by original producer Matt Washburn, and repackaged by the band's longtime artist Paul Romano, The Call of the Mastodon is a vital piece of heavy metal history and the crucial starting point in the still burgeoning Mastodon legacy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684448574554-NN1NJTRAQSGHTJA4HIQN/4208027-2971161.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Debby Friday - Bitch Punk Debby Friday's first two eps brought together on vinyl for the first time ever, released in celebration of her recent signing to Sub Pop. Hard industrial beats and smooth, erotic vocals bring a unique power to DEBBY's work, only matched by her confident visual style. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684510237406-OHXZM85QS5BFGN5K1UZL/4199380-2964589.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Run DMC - Tougher Than Leather Released in 1988, Tougher Than Leather followed Run-DMC’s massively successful third album Raising Hell and furthered their innovative, aggressive, and hard-hitting sound that defined the hip-hop scene of the 1980s. From the incredible lead single, “Run’s House” to their cover of The Monkee’s “Mary, Mary,” Tougher Than Leather features a slew of incredible hits and is essential listening for any fan of classic hip-hop. Tougher Than Leather blends Run-DMC’s infectious, charismatic flows and heavily sample-based production with hard-hitting raps, soaring choruses, and rapid-fire delivery. Stand out tracks include “Run’s House,” “I’m Not Going Out Like That,” as well as “Beats to the Rhyme,” a story-based cut that stands as an anthem to hip-hop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684450170335-U07XDW00SL9FL780YLZA/4205127-2968527.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Ritual Howls - Virtue Falters The Detroit trio's fifth album is eight tracks of what we've come to expect from the always in form group - a cinematic blend of twangy industrial rock, metal, noise, baritone vocals, and macabre lyrics -but with an immediate urgency not yet seen from the band on past albums. It's their most focused album to date. a https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684449842995-VL9OAJHZBJVXGEP7KASZ/4177252-2945202.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - The National - First Two Pages Of Frankenstein First Two Pages of Frankenstein is The National's ninth studio album. This 11-song collection signals a new chapter in the band's discography. Anchored by evocative melodies and an enthralling lyrical narrative, First Two Pages of Frankenstein finds The National sounding more creatively energized than ever and poised to earn them even more fans. The album was produced by the band at Long Pond Studios in upstate New York and features guest appearances by Taylor Swift ("The Alcott"), Phoebe Bridgers ("This Isn't Helping" and "Your Mind Is Not Your Friend") and Sufjan Stevens ("Once Upon a Poolside"). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684449102377-3NOZ1YFO03FUBWVBS64T/4209267-2972265.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Les Rallizes Dénudés - Azabu Studio Demo 1985, Vol. 1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684448671058-O8FOCMN6DKBPZ58ABK1X/4203101-2967016.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - The Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis Limited gold and black colored vinyl LP pressing. Option Paralysis is the fourth studio album by mathcore band The Dillinger Escape Plan, originally released in 2010. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684448797176-5DO0349MESUQFTHUF7XE/a3028136745_16.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Hidden Waters: Strange and Sublime Sounds of Rio de Janeiro Hidden Waters: Strange and Sublime Sounds of Rio de Janeiro' is compiled by Joe Osborne (founder of specialist Brazilian music platform Brazilian Wax) and Russ Slater (editor at large of Sounds and Colours). Focusing solely on the 'Rio Scene', rather than taking on the mammoth task of tackling Brazil as a whole, this collection presents 20-plus ground-breaking artists selected from Rio's resurgent music scene. By presenting a snapshot into the pulse of the city and the vibrant musicians that live in it, 'Hidden Waters' collates tracks from a wide spectrum of musical genres from the avant-garde edge to bossa nova, samba, Candomblé, lo-fi rock, jazz and funk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684448020211-Q5DLZ64VRTZPL6PQSJ08/4194870-2959746.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Black Sugar - Black Sugar II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684447925279-IYGQDBNXCRO9VA5W6GA9/4199986-2970588.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Syd Barrett - An Introduction To Syd Barrett A reissue of the 2010 collection that brought together for the first time the tracks of Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett on one compilation. David Gilmour, who originally worked on Syd Barrett's two solo albums, as co-producer of The Madcap Laughs and as producer of Barrett, was the executive producer for the album. Damon Iddins and Andy Jackson at Astoria Studios remixed five tracks including 'Octopus', 'She Took A Long Cool Look', 'Dominoes' and 'Here I Go', with David Gilmour adding bass guitar to the last track. Pink Floyd's 'Matilda Mother' also received a fresh 2010 mix. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684448088017-Q1ECDXV9DA4P4SPEDBTP/4198492-2973584.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Blood Ceremony - The Old Ways Remains Limited purple colored vinyl LP pressing. 2023 release. It's been a long time coming - but has it been worth the wait? F*ck yes, is the simple answer. Blood Ceremony have delivered to esoteric goods on a gigantic scale, which is arguably their finest release to date. Don't miss out on this beast of an album! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684449213700-LAUHEU19L5QLFK4S1VUY/4208081-2971105.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Mackjunt - Lap Of Luxury Lap Of Luxury - 14 Songs of Virtualistic Vaporwave. Dedicated and made for Jazz Playaz. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684511008193-Q1FN4FP3IERSI52RNJAY/4190752-2955063.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Nina Simone - Great Women Of Song Throughout her career, Nina's music has inspired audiences of all ages, races, and nationalities. Created with the newest generation of Nina Simone fans in mind, Great Women of Song features the best of the best. Miss Simone's most loved and notable hits assembled in one package. From the evergreen track "Feeling Good," to the mysteriously romantic remake of "I Put a Spell on You" and many more, the album is the gift that will keep on giving. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684449607699-I4JXISR3RY8E4JWK9BR9/4210982-2974928.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Gary Moore - Blues For Greeny https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1683322688069-T1ZNYJIE5JKHR3AKO4WO/4191935-2966227.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Karate - Unsolved Whatever sense of unity bound a hodgepodge of underground American punk sounds in the 1990s like a Duct-tape wallet began to come unglued by the end of the decade. A couple years into the new millennium and the emo scene that once had enough space for a band as brazen in their fusion of slowcore, jazz, and post-hardcore as Boston's Karate would barely be reflected in a cookie-cutter style commercialized by major labels and mid-level indies that acted like the majors. The part of punk that overlapped with indie rock would begin a slow ascent from it's comfortable home on college radio charts to the soundtrack of American Apparel shops and eventually the Billboard charts. In this strange, stratifying milieu, Karate, a band that seemed to thrive by cleaving to a nether-zone between several sounds that otherwise never touched, delivered an engrossing constantly shifting shot of rock that covered three sides of 12-inch vinyl: Unsolved arrived in 2000. Karate spent much of the ' 90s wrestling punk aggression and volume into svelte shapes and often condensed what felt like a generation of scuffed-up intensity into whispers. The quiet moments carried much of that unbridled intensity throughout Unsolved -the fuzzy guitar squawk and snatchet of machine-gun drumming on "Sever" aside, things hit a little more sharply the moment the trio pivoted into their subdued jazz melodic interplay on that song. Karate's transition into indie-rock maturity had become so complete by the time they dropped Unsolved that you could play the coffeehouse soul of "Halo of the Strange" and sultry jazz of "Lived-But-Yet-Named" to an unsuspecting punk and spend an entire evening trying to convince them that, yes, this band had made their bones playing the same DIY circuit made of bands that sounded like they wanted to harm their audience. But few bands other than Karate played like they understood the musical lingua franca of scene godheads such as Fugazi and Unwound, and knew how to make that language evolve, and nearly every song on Unsolved made that clear. If you didn't get the memo by the end of the elegiac 11-minute closer "This Day Next Year," which gained an irrepressible power from a plaintive guitar melody cycling through the song's back half like a yearnsome cry for the divine, you might've been better off buying a ticket for Warped Tour and waiting a decade or two to figure it out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684450053853-4U5Y4VZDT5XGJ9U8NB45/4177233-2942743.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Overmono - Good Lies Highly anticipated would be an understatement; since their inception Overmono have purposefully cultivated a fanbase that heralds them as one of the UK's most original contemporary live electronic acts. A run of ground-breaking club EPs between 2020 and 2022 built momentum and culminated in their breakthrough club single, 'So U Kno', which encapsulated the hearts of clubbers and went on to become a bonafide phenomenon as dancefloors re-opened; featuring in end of year lists published by Resident Advisor, Pitchfork, DJ Mag and Mixmag. Since then, Overmono have been named 'Best Live Act' at the prestigious DJ Mag Best of British Awards, taken their custom audio-visual live show to the most credible festivals across the globe, including Glastonbury, Movement Festival, Dekmantel, and produced innovative releases including their instalment of their 'Fabric Presents' DJ mix series and collaborations with Joy Orbison. Now, Overmono return to present their most ambitious release to date. Across the twelve-track project, Overmono journey through a powerful distillation of their musical career so far; incorporating "So U Kno" alongside new music that propels them beyond the dancefloor. "Good Lies" remoulds and interweaves captivating vocal cuts into a series of multi-genre electronic sounds that flits effortlessly between euphoria and melancholy in the same 4-bar loop https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1683323073743-ZJ1L8F7V2CYWKCWSSAIV/4187446-2958278.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Bill Orcutt - Jump On It "It's been ten years since Bill Orcutt released A History of Every One (2013), a compendium of hacksaw renditions of American standards on acoustic guitar - and since ten years is a blink of an eye, you are forgiven for not immediately realizing that we've gone an entire decade waiting for Jump On It, the next Orcutt solo acoustic record. As those of us of 'a certain age' will tell you (ad nauseam), a decade is a blink of an eye containing an infinity of experiential moments, and if this record is any gauge, the weight of those experiences have squashed Orcutt's rough edges, feathered his stop-motion timing into a languid lyrical flow, and snapped the shackles tethering his instant compositional skills to the imperative to deconstruct guitar history. In short, Jump On It is a collection of canonical, mature acoustic guitar soli to contrast against the fractured downtown conceits of previous acoustic releases..." -Tom Carter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1683323323962-RCLH5DU4NWIGH7YLQWZJ/3f3df4fc-dc83-46fc-b3c0-2b5ff79567ed_thumbnail_2048.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - TYpe O Negative - Dead Again The 2022 reissue of the seventh & final studio album from New York metal legends Type O Negative. When "Dead Again" was released in 2007 it became the band's highest charting album of their career. The 2-LP contains 10 tracks. Limited edition black LP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1683323749132-IPIT04RB7JJ35DH5MZCY/download.jpeg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Ed Sheeran - (Subtract) Limited yellow colored vinyl LP pressing. 2023 release. An album that revisits Ed Sheeran's singer/songwriter roots, and one that was written against a backdrop of personal grief and hope, "-" presents one of the biggest stars on the planet at his most vulnerable and honest. Growing up with the likes of Damian Rice, Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan playing on repeat in his parents' house - artists that his dad, John, introduced him to - "-" was always on Ed's horizon. Yet as the songs and writing process took on a whole new meaning and direction after a series of hard-hitting events impacted Ed's world in 2022, one thing that remained untouched was his strong desire to make a record anchored in his love of singer/songwriter compositions. And now, as he gears-up for the release of his most soul-baring work to date, "-" serves as a timely reminder for why Sheeran remains one of the most gifted lyricists of his generation; an artist who breaks down his own experiences for fans to seek comfort and belonging. "-" is the result of Sheeran pushing the boundaries of his songcraft, as he delivers the most profound songwriting of his career. Teaming-up with Aaron Dessner (The National) on writing and production after the pair joined forces following an introduction from mutual friend Taylor Swift, Ed and Aaron began crafting the album in February last year. Writing over 30 songs during their month-long studio stint, the album's tracks are seamlessly tied together by exquisite production from paired back, folk-leaning textures to bolder, full-band/orchestral arrangements. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1683323458138-R80CLGVJLFPYEETQX89V/product_id.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Wu Tang - Legendary Weapons (Indie Exclusive, Colored Vinyl, Silver) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1683323150062-IT2MR3Y1OB5BZYVKU1AA/4164562-2923522.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Augustus Pablo - Thriller Thriller is the 1975 album from Augustus Pablo, the reggae visionary who popularized the use of the melodica in the genre. As the founder of multiple labels, he was a crucial part of invigorating the burgeoning scene in it's early days. The record's warm, mellow sound makes for a breezy and hypnotic listen. Now, Org Music is reissuing this lost gem for the first time since the 70s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1683323933216-KLNOR43KDGXP9LBJFE4X/Screenshot_2023-01-13_at_10.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - The Stone Roses - Sally Cinnamon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1683322288821-X5Q30UFPI8K21K9RV4X5/4190067-2953629.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Rudy De Anda - Closet Botanist In 2020, Rudy de Anda moved his homebase out of California for the first time. He was headed East. Somewhere in the back of the U-Haul, among the boxes and baggage, was a mostly finished record. Upon arriving in Chicago, Rudy quickly found the final pieces of his new LP, Closet Botanist. It's due out April 28, 2023, on Colemine/Karma Chief Records. The album was recorded in Austin, Texas at the Electric Deluxe recording studio. The space is owned and operated by Adrian Quesada (Black Pumas), who helped produce and engineer Rudy's new LP. "In the past, I've done most of my recording in California, " Rudy explained. "The new location changed the vibe. The band and I were 100% focused on the process."Rudy's previous releases have grown synonymous with California sunshine. He was born in Los Angeles and spent most of his formative years in Long Beach. "People often tell me my music reminds them of the beach and the sun, " Rudy said of his older songs. Closet Botanist isn't a total departure from Rudy's beachy, psych-rock roots, but it does sound more mature. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1683321139022-XRPQNVLL2BGVNKIGUW17/4157182-2943634.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Fever Ray - Radical Romantics Limited red colored vinyl LP pressing. 2023 release. Mute is excited to announce the release of Fever Ray's Radical Romantics. The album presents Fever Ray's struggle with love, relationships, identity and self preservation. Featuring collaborations with Olof Dreijer (The Knife), Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Vessel, Aasthma and more, this album feels like the apex of their career, incorporating elements of The Knife and early Fever Ray, while looking steadfastly into the future. Includes the single "What They Call Us" which Pitchfork awarded with Best New Track. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1683322137710-JPJ3TZGFMZ4JXXOA2ZUH/4163245-2935270.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Kimbra - A Reckoning Two-time Grammy-award-winning artist Kimbra's fourth studio album, A Reckoning, is a reflective record capturing the macro reckonings of our world around the environment, health, race, spirituality and feminism. But at the heart of the record is her war with the micro reckonings that she faces internally. It's the most sonically autonomous and confessionally raw she has ever been, finding influence in everything from modern movie soundtracks to electro-industrial pop. The album was first imagined in 2018, during Kimbra's tour with co-producer Ryan Lott of the band Son Lux, who recently scored A24's Everything Everywhere All At Once. Kimbra hopes listeners will find catharsis and connection on A Reckoning, whether they are contending with change in their own lives or processing shifts in the world around them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1684518100025-JBUB4LORA9WH6B15LUK0/4203320-2975379.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Pixel Grip - Arena Pixel Grip are a Chicago based three piece who have been gradually building a following based around their ready-made club anthems. Their sound has been influenced by two of the greatest 80s musical offspring's - darkwave and synthpop. Their new album ARENA is heavily influenced by the 80s Western musical movement, featuring the trademark pulsating basslines, Berlin-inspired electronic rhythms, and a myriad of vocals inflections. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1683321714637-GTUFQJ50XSNY0N0DHIM7/4185607-2949516.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Jesse Ware - That! Feels Good! Jessie Ware releases her 5th studio album That! Feels Good! On April 28, 2023. It's the follow-up to 2020's What's Your Pleasure? which proved her status as one of the U.K.'s most influential artists and became her highest charting album to date. Last year saw Jessie support juggernaut Harry Styles in the U.S. on tour, gain 2.4 billion global streams and complete a fantastic run of live shows, including career-defining sets at Glastonbury and Primavera Sound. Jessie Ware continues to cement herself as a formidable force at the forefront of pop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1683322565734-WXDABTLF5BA6ICEUR29G/4172769-2933615.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Drain - Living Proof LIVING PROOF is the band's Epitaph Records debut and follow up to their 2020 breakout release, California Cursed. The new album is a testament to the hard work and heartfelt ethos that's at the center of Drain's good-time psyche. There are a couple surprises on the album. Rapper Shakewell appears on the track, "Intermission". There's also a cover of "Good, Good Things," a nearly four-decade old melodic punk carol by the Descendents: slam-pit forebearers to Drain if there ever were any. "It's crazy because the song's been out like forty years, but lyrically it's a Drain song!" exclaims vocalist Sam Ciaramitaro. "It just hits on everything that I love, that I'm about." What Sammy's about is plenty wholesome. "I hope with this record that when someone hears it, it gives them hope," beams. "If we were able to get through the tough times, anyone can. I can't wait to play these songs and hear a room full of people singing back to us. We're what the title says, the Living Proof." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1683321897345-Q63V234E7VA1FXZZKBE7/4196220-2961418.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Windhand - S/T Deluxe double violet colored vinyl LP pressing. Reissue of Windhand's 2012 debut album, remastered by Jack Endino and featuring 5 unreleased tracks and all new artwork by Arik Roper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1683321980747-SKHYR0PDWT7JR8N7UQU4/4190226-2953626.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble - Live At Panama 66v Limited clear-with-orange-swirl colored vinyl LP pressing. The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble is a 9 piece heavy, instrumental funk band from San Diego, CA. Their influences are vast and include Hip Hop groups like Wu-Tang Clan and A Tribe Called Quest, as well as funk and soul masters like Isaac Hayes, The Meters, and James Brown. Their last two LPs debuted in the top 15 on Billboard's Contemporary Jazz Chart. SFSE is equally at home in the studio as they are on the stage, where their original songs transform and take on new life through live performance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1683320140191-YK35N9HC6Q4TUGE4LDZU/4164010-2923093+%281%29.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - 100 Gecs - 10,000 Gecs 2023 release, the highly-anticipated sophomore album by 100 gecs. Following their breakout debut album, 1,000 gecs, the anticipation of their next body of work has been high and the band's teases have been plentiful. The album includes previously released singles "Mememe" which was described in the story as "an ebullient carnival of ska-inflected verses that bounce off a chorus of thrash guitars and a squiggling synth line" along with the 90's Alt Rock-inspired "Doritos & Fritos," which The Fadernoted as "unlike any other gecs track before it." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1683320539702-4CAXBQOW9QTAZ0WWWQDZ/4187453-2951882.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Daniel Caesar - Never Enough Double vinyl LP pressing. 2023 release, the third album from the Grammy-winning singer/songwriter and musician. Includes the singles "Do You Like Me?" and "Let Me Go." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1683321523690-VYNQIC59ZN0BMX59QU57/4192354-2959489.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Love And Rockets - S/T Love And Rockets is the seminal, groundbreaking trio of Daniel Ash (vocals and guitar), David J(vocals and bass) and Kevin Haskins (drums). Formed in 1985 after the first split of their band Bauhaus, Love and Rockets provided a clean slate and an opportunity to plumb the depths of imagination and influences. Everything changed for Love and Rockets in 1989 when they released their self-titled fourth album. The song "So Alive" reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the album attained gold status. The song reached No. 1 in Canada and charted within the top 30 in Australia, and New Zealand. In the US, it was #1 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart for five weeks and was ranked No. 1 on that listing's year-end chart for 1989. Billboard wrote that "So Alive" was "the best T. Rex tune that Marc Bolan never wrote. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1683321390043-HSET1T0M12AA6SGYPMVQ/4192487-2957332.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Love And Rockets - Earth Sun Moon Love And Rockets is the seminal, groundbreaking trio of Daniel Ash (vocals and guitar), David J(vocals and bass) and Kevin Haskins (drums). Formed in 1985 after the first split of their band Bauhaus, Love and Rockets provided a clean slate and an opportunity to plumb the depths of imagination and influences. In 1987, Love and Rockets third album, the acoustic leaning Earth, Sun, Moon was released and spawned the college radio hit "No New Tale To Tell". It was described as "at once gutsy and rootsy yet also rhapsodic and uplifting". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1683321797220-7LUSBCHZ9LDPVQYFFIJ6/4139573-2945683.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site - Anniversary Edition Reconstruction Site is the third studio album by The Weakerthans, released in 2003. A song cycle about grief, regret, loss and eventual hope, the album is thematically framed by three tracks, "(Manifest)", "(Hospital Vespers)" and "(Past-Due)", which set three different sonnets following a terminally ill hospital patient into the aftermath of his death to the same melody. Apple & Black Half And Half https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1683321308499-S5HNQCVK783JN3JP1ZEX/4156219-2912434.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - King Crimson - Earthbound Earthbound - is the final remaining release of the original King Crimson vinyl albums series. The album has been cut from masters approved by Robert Fripp by Jason Mitchell at Loud Mastering. Continues the highly collectable King Crimson series. Much requested reissue by fans of the band. Earthbound, originally released in 1972, was one of the earliest (if not the first) "official bootleg" released by a major rock band, consisting of a series of deliberately lo-fi live recordings of King Crimson's Islands era line-up on tour in the USA. When issued, because of it's mid-price, it was excluded from the main album charts in the UK but topped the mid-price charts rubbing shoulders with Jim Reeves and Mantovani. Atlantic in the USA didn't even bother to release it. By then, the band had broken up and the label had already been alerted to the likelihood of a new King Crimson line-up promised for later in the year. Like the later live album, USA, Earthbound remained deleted on vinyl and unreleased on CD until both were finally released in 2002 on CD. An expanded CD/DVD edition appeared in 2017 alongside the Sailors' Tales boxed set. Ironically this non-availability in the peak CD era served to enhance interest in the album while DGM's live releases made fans aware that there was a larger story to be told of this line-up's history. When Robert Fripp was asked to guest on the second Grinderman project, Nick Cave noted: "I wanted to work with Robert Fripp because he has done some of the most uniquely unsettling guitar work I have ever heard along with some of the most delicate and finessed" explained Cave. "I grew up listening to a lot of the King Crimson stuff. The vinyl copy of the phenomenal live album Earthbound, is one of my most treasured possessions. " With Robert Fripp and Mel Collins having both appeared in the 2014/2021 line-ups and the Islands era material a regular feature of those live shows, interest in Earthbound and that era of King Crimson music is probably higher now, 50 years on from the original release, than it was at the time. Cut by Jason Mitchell at Loud Mastering from the restored masters of the original recordings used for the CD/DVD release in 2017, the new vinyl version is still nobody's idea of a 'hi-fi experience'. However, it remains one of the grittiest, most powerful live documents of an era with a band pushing at the limits in a manner which few of their contemporaries ever managed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1683319476581-07IFPTJEF42MLEE40YIX/4181350-2946383.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Facs - Still Life Everything eventually turns to dust. Everyone knows this, but few want to acknowledge that our time on this mortal coil is fleeting, preferring to remain in stasis, in hopes that "the end" will pass them by. Chicago trio FACS (guitarist Brian Case, bassist Alianna Kalaba & drummer Noah Leger) have been perfecting their brand of intense, cathartic post-punk over the course of four ever-evolving albums, beginning with 2017's "Negative Houses" thru 2021's landmark "Present Tense', which saw the trio dig deep into the gaping maw of a black hole & pulling back whatever debris they could grasp onto. Their newest "Still Life In Decay" comes as an addendum to the last album - a "post-event review" if you will. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1683319270218-QUE4I669BDKDS75AMJUN/4164551-2924070.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Lana Del Ray - Did You Know That There's A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd is the ninth studio album from acclaimed singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey, comprising 16 tracks and interludes with features including Father John Misty, Tommy Genesis, Jon Batiste, Bleachers and more. It follows the prolific artist's 2021 albums Chemtrails Over The Country Club and Blue Banisters. Standard heavyweight black double vinyl in gatefold sleeve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1683319798162-2MYWVGYGUFML1T5PZ0FZ/4173858-2935101.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island Double vinyl LP pressing housed in gatefold jacket. Includes insert and digital download. Jeff Mangum creates a world of his own on this amazing 1996 debut from Neutral Milk Hotel. On Avery Island is full of trombone, keyboards, overdriven acoustics, and beautiful songs. On this anniversary reissue, the complete version of "Pree-Sisters Swallowing a Donkey's Eye" as originally intended completes the album. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1683320917603-E5DT5IPNLCO3YGXQJFN7/4194139-2959847.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Death Cab for Cutie - Codes And Keys Death Cab for Cutie's seventh studio album, Codes And Keys was originally released in 2011 and is back in stock. Available in standard-weight vinyl as a gatefold 2xLP, this album includes fan-favorites "You Are A Tourist," "Underneath the Sycamore," and the title track "Codes and Keys." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1683322812072-2M3T2G7UY7569EMDALSQ/4184333-2960116.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Angel Olson - Forever Means Last year's Big Time brought Angel Olsen to a deeper, truer sense of self than ever before. Borne from the twin stars of grief and love, the album delivered beautiful sense of certainty, the sure-footed sound of an artist fully, finally at home with herself. But within that wisdom comes the realization that there is no finish line, no destination or static end point to life while you're living it, and Forever Means collects songs from the Big Time sessions that hold this common theme. They are, in Olsen's words, "in search of something else." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1683319914327-T17EKEVCAKSKXUIAT18N/3529671-2470921.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Kali Uchis - Isolation Translucent Blue Vinyl LP pressing. 2018 release. Isolation is Kali Uchis's debut album and features an impressive cast of featured artists and collaborators. Jorja Smith, Damon Albarn, Tame Impala's Kevin Parker, Tyler, The Creator, Bootsy Collins, Steve Lacy, Two Inch Punch, BADBADNOTGOOD, Thundercat all appear on the American Colombian's debut LP. Bookended by the airy, flute-laced 'Body Language', produced by Thundercat, and the immaculately orchestrated soul of 'Killer', recorded with The Dap-Kings in New York, it turns through R&B, on the stuttering beats and skanking guitar of 'Miami', punctuated by a spot from BIA, by way of popping funk on 'Just A Stranger', made with her previous collaborator, Steve Lacy. There's the metronomic electro-pop tick of 'In My Dreams', recorded with Damon Albarn, reciprocating the two appearances Uchis made on their recent record and Tame Impala's Kevin Parker lines 'Tomorrow' with a disco strut and melancholic synths. The mainstay influences of golden-era soul remain strong as well, here recalibrated to bemoan infidelity on 'Fool' and rail against corporate vampires on 'Teeth In My Neck'. The album also includes 'After The Storm' featuring Tyler, The Creator and Bootsy Collins, which ascended to the top of Spotify Viral charts across the globe, "Nuestro Planeta" featuring Reykon and "Tyrant" featuring Jorja Smith. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1683319702033-Q0Z7OTV2SVFFDG7K9NQI/4179269-2941067.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Mudhoney - Plastic Eternity Fortunately, the absurdities of modern life have always been prime subject matter for Seattle-based foursome Mudhoney, and the band take aim at all of them with typical barbed humor and muck-encrusted riffs on on 11th studio album, Plastic Eternity, which was recorded over nine days at Crackle & Pop! In Seattle with longtime producer Johnny Sangster.From taking on climate change from the perspective of the climate if the climate tried to play guitar like Jimi Hendrix ("Cry Me An Atmospheric River") to a driving rock and roll song about taking drugs meant for livestock ("Here Comes the Flood") to a classic punk attack on treating humans like livestock ("Human Stock Capital"), Plastic Eternity is a run through all the proto-genres of guitar rock with a keen eye on the inanities of the world in the 2020's. It also contains a genuine love song in closing track "Little Dogs," an ode to the simple joys of hanging out with tiny canines. Mudhoney (vocalist Mark Arm, guitarist Steve Turner, bassist Guy Maddison, and drummer Dan Peters) remain the ur underground group, their gnarly primordial punk stew and Arm's sharply funny lyrics as potent a combination as they've been since the band's formation in the late 1980s. When asked why they continue making records nearly four decades after forming, Arm's answer is simple. "We like each other and we like being in a band together," says Arm. "Some people have poker night or whatever the f***, and they have the excuse to get together with their friends. For us, this [band] is that. This is what we do." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1680214080652-473H0NEKZFWNN0ZZA8YZ/4176714-2950904.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Altin Gun - Ask Vinyl LP pressing. 2023 release. With Ask, the Amsterdam-based sextet Altin Gün marks an exuberant return to the '70s Anatolian folk-rock sound that characterized their first two albums, On (2018) and Gece (2019). It is also the closest the band have come so far to capturing the infectious energy of their live performances. "We took a very traditional approach to recording a rock album, like in the '70s," bassist Jasper Verhulst says, with the band using vintage recording equipment to give the set a warm, welcoming sound. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1680215240505-G8KVPO2C2V0P8S6JZ5B9/a3665205369_16.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Laminated Denim King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - "Laminated Denim" - The spiritual successor to 2022's Made In Timeland, Laminated Denim is a world of it's own. First made available at their October 2022 shows at Red Rocks, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard's 22nd album consists of two special 15-minute tracks swarming with the mysteries and maverick inventions that thrive within the Gizzverse. Indie Exclusive "Lemon Sun Edition" 180-gram LP. 33 RPM https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1680214174429-DEYSAMN8EMUCAV0ZLSAG/4172785-2933659.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - The New Pornographers - Continue As A Guest Over the past 20 years, The New Pornographers have proven themselves one of the most excellent bands in indie rock. They've constantly offered new sonic surprises with every album, and Continue as a Guest is their greatest leap to date. The group's ninth album and first for Merge establishes them alongside modern luminaries like Yo La Tengo and Superchunk when it comes to their ability to evolve while still retaining what made them so special in the first place. A dazzling and intriguing collection of songs that are truly built to last, Continue as a Guest finds bandleader A.C. Newman and his compatriots Neko Case, Kathryn Calder, John Collins, Todd Fancey, and Joe Seiders exploring fresh territory and shattering the barriers of their collective comfort zone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1680214859049-S6O8ZK4WLLDZNMTJ1EAI/4180413-2943851.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Rob Mazurek & Exploding Star Orchestra - Lightning Dreamers Lightning Dreamers is new work by composer, trumpeter, post-rock and avant-jazz legend Rob Mazurek (Isotope 217, Chicago Underground), who wrote the music for a compacted version of his long-running Exploding Star Orchestra. The album is dedicated to the late artist jaimie branch (who was a protégé of Mazurek's), and features guitarist Jeff Parker, vocalist Damon Locks, drummer Gerald Cleaver, and pianists Angelica Sanchez and Craig Taborn, among others. It was recorded mostly at the remote Sonic Ranch studios in West Texas, not far from Mazurek's current home in Marfa, with mixing and post-production at IARC studios in Chicago. The album is a follow-up to Mazurek and ESO's widely-acclaimed release Dimensional Stardust, which charted an 8.0 in Pitchfork and #5 in The New York Times' Best Jazz Albums of 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1680214279696-C2Q3YGPX0J48RCJ5O55Q/4178332-2940856.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Boygenius - The Record The record is the debut full-length album from boygenius. The LP is pressed on black vinyl and features gatefold packaging, a temporary tattoo, and 24-page zine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1679595189347-81ICWD9OAJFCS4DBGSTC/4170325-2952708.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Ali Toure Farka - Voyageur Ali Farka Touré is well known as one of the most influential and talented guitarists that Africa has ever produced. His legacy and impact are hard to overstate: Ali's sound merged his much-loved traditional Malian musical styles with distinct elements of the blues, resulting in the creation of a groundbreaking new genre, now well known as the 'desert blues', earning him 3 Grammy awards and widespread reverence. 'Voyageur' is the first release of previously unheard music since 2006's 'Savane', and features a collection of recordings captured at various points in Ali's illustrious career. The album, which features fellow Malian superstar Oumou Sangaré on 3 tracks, reaffirms Ali's status as a globally revered legend of African music. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1680215090008-7QFVMB7SFXGFUXBTJEDU/4179027-2941110.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Deerhoof - Miracle - Level After 28 years, Deerhoof records their studio debut and it's all in Japanese. Musically, Miracle-Level is vulnerable, brave, and brimming with spicy surprises. Deerhoof once again speak in a secret code that only their fans understand, in which hooks abound, and genre is nonexistent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1680214428208-ZGVY58NA1RAYWRVGIQ9F/4183920-2961798.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Cluster - Cluster II Cluster was the pioneering German duo of Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius. Formed on the cusp of the 1970s, they were a part of West Germany's nascent Kosmische Musik scene. The group would use restrained improvisational techniques similar to Gruppo Nuova Consonanza, working with both electric and acoustic instruments (organ, guitar, tone generators, cello, etc.) to create a singular sound that Julian Cope called "a huge beating heart, planet-sized and awesome." Originally released in 1972 on Brain, Cluster II features six pieces of atmospheric, proto-ambient drones - a step forward from Cluster's 1971 self-titled debut, which had all untitled songs. On "I'm Suden," hypnotic bass pulsations and repetitive guitar patterns flow serenely, while side two opener "Live In Der Fabrik" dives deep into Roedelius and Moebius' foreboding industrial soundscapes and synergistic textural interplay.As Roedelius told Uncut magazine in 2022, "This feels like a breakthrough? Well, we were just getting more into it, and getting more experienced at being able to elaborate it. Conny (Plank) was working with us again-as well as being a multi-talented artist, he was a very experienced sound master and great human being. He contributed as a fellow musician, adding sounds with his mixing table such as reverb, delay and other effects enriching the whole pieces so that they finally became somehow unique."It's no surprise that when Neu! Guitarist Michael Rother first heard Cluster II, he suggested a collaboration with the band-resulting in the supergroup Harmonia who would make their first album together the following year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1680214500964-ER5AI0WEN7MOVO8IBA3T/4183921-2961816.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Cluster - Zuckerzeit Cluster was the pioneering German duo of Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius. Formed on the cusp of the 1970s, they were a part of West Germany's nascent Kosmische Musik scene. The group would use restrained improvisational techniques similar to Gruppo Nuova Consonanza, working with both electric and acoustic instruments (organ, guitar, tone generators, cello, etc.) to create a singular sound that Julian Cope called "a huge beating heart, planet-sized and awesome." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1680215375132-BD3TR8YJ1JBHG551N548/4179097-2941122.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Moss Icon - Lyburnum Wits End Liberation Fly Lyburnum Wits End Liberation Fly was the one and only full-length album by experimental post-punk innovators, Moss Icon. Recorded in 1988, Lyburnum would not be released until 1993 - several years after Moss Icon's demise. Originally released on Vermiforn - the esoteric noise label founded by Sam McPheeters of Born Against - the vision that Moss Icon's Tonie Joy had for Lyburnum failed to manifest in it's finished product. An uphill battle that involved misplaced photos, misunderstood instructions and increasing apathy, Lyburnum ended up being an it-is-what-it-is situation. Despite these challenges and shortcomings, Lyburnum Wits End Liberation Fly was instantly cherished as a feral masterpiece - a singular entity that would become a defining influence on post-hardcore and emo in the 1990s and beyond. Nothing before sounded like this, and nothing since has quite captured the same mysterious fury. Now, finally, Moss Icon's seminal Lyburnum Wits End Liberation Fly LP will be released exactly as it was always intended to look, sound, and feel. The artwork has been fully restored, and includes previously unpublished photos that were inadvertently missing from the original release. Brilliantly remastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music, the vinyl has been newly cut by Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering Service, and pressed onto audiophile-grade vinyl at RTI. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1680214734016-W7R2XOT246LQFORHJ5HN/4186831-2952740.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Jerry Garcia - Reflections Jerry Garcia - "Reflections" New 2023 pressing on pink vinyl. Originally released in early 1976, Reflections features a diverse mix of roots-oriented styles with contributions from Garcia's two primary vehicles of musical expression - the Grateful Dead and the Jerry Garcia Band. As writer Steve Silberman noted while Reflections was effectively two half-albums in one, "it's one of Garcia's most artistically unified statements of harmony, affirmation and joy." : [Pink LP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1680215482638-OASBA6ENHO54FTNEZF9Q/4171834-2931798.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Jonesy - Keeping Up Reissue, originally released in 1973. Formed in 1971 by guitarist John Evan-Jones and his bassist brother Trevor, obscure British prog-rock act Jonesy had a shifting line-up and unusual elements, Chicago-born Jimmy Kaleth's battery of keyboards including a Mellotron. Sophomore set Keeping Up... saw Trevor return to the fold, along with drummer Plug Thomas, fresh from sessions with Supertramp; guitarist Ray Russell's lush string arrangements and Alan Bown's plaintive trumpet and flugelhorn add extra musical dimensions. Capturing the group at their most eclectic, Keeping Up... is a must for Mellotron fans and all lovers of pop, jazz, and blues-tinged prog. Includes one bonus track, "Every Day's The Same". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1680214967544-HZ9BQ4H8XTRVVIMA28ER/Cover_art_for_Tomahawk%27s_album__Oddfellows_.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Tomahawk - Oddfellows Oddfellows is the fourth studio album by musical supergroup Tomahawk, originally released in 2013. Oddfellows was recorded live in the Easy Eye Sound Studio in Nashville, Tennessee, after a brief period of rehearsal. Guitarist Duane Denison favored the location as it's cheaper studio costs allowed for longer periods of song-writing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1679598243239-CJLZJ49B85NR651ST3XD/4172432-2933104.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Unknown Mortal Orchestra - V Created between Palm Springs, California and Hilo, Hawai'i, V is the first double album from the Hawaiian-New Zealand singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Ruban Nielson's Unknown Mortal Orchestra band. Designed to play as one continuous movement and road-tested on dry California freeways, V is the definitive Unknown Mortal Orchestra car record. It's also the fifth full-length album Ruban has released in twelve years. Across fourteen sunbleached songs - written solo or with his brother Kody - Ruban draws from the rich traditions of West Coast AOR, yacht rock, weirdo pop and Hawaiian Hapa-haole music. Over a laidback blend of singalong anthems and cinematic instrumentals, he evokes blue skies, afternoons spent lounging by hotel swimming pools and the alluring darkness that lurks below perfect, pristine surfaces. It's a duality expressed in the dilapidated sunset blues and the saltcorroded soul Ruban explores through tracks like 'Layla' and 'Nadja. ' During the pandemic's early days, Ruban reunited with Kody at a cousin's wedding in Hawai'i. With assistance from their father, Chris Nielson (saxophone/flute) and longstanding Unknown Mortal Orchestra member Jake Portrait, they brought everything Ruban had been thinking about together. The result was V, due for release on March 3, 2023, through Jagjaguwar. When they talked about records that moved them in that spine-shivering manner, Ruban started thinking about the 70s AM radio rock and 80s pop songs that had lurked on the edge of his subconscious mind for most of his life. He wanted to write his version of records like that, leading to the two glorious uptempo singles Unknown Mortal Orchestra released in 2021, 'Weekend Run' and 'That Life'. However, the golden good times never last forever. Not long after, health issues began to plague his extended family. Putting his recordings aside, he helped his mother and his uncle move home from New Zealand and Portland to Hawai'i, and began dividing his time between Hawai'i and Palm Springs. During this period he reconnected with his relatives, reassessed his past, and started to look at things with fresh eyes. Hawai'i brought back memories of the darker side of his parents' lifestyle as entertainers. On those trips, he heard those classic AM radio rock records everywhere. They were inextricably intertwined with the palm trees, swimming pools, and glamorized hedonism he'd internalized from his childhood. There's a type of music in Hawai'i called Hapa-haole (Half white). You can hear it expressed in signature Unknown Mortal Orchestra style through the humid guitar-led atmosphere of V's penultimate song, 'I Killed Captain Cook'. Although the songs are presented in a traditional Hawaiian manner, they're mostly sung in English. Having been influenced by Hawaiian music since Unknown Mortal Orchestra's first album, Ruban saw a space for himself within the tradition. When he reflected on his success, he realised he had the responsibility and platform to represent Hapa-haole music on the global stage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1679597244922-8FOIX4U77OG4QMHYU8XN/4174364-2935567.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - M83 - Fantasy M83 / FANTASY - VINYL LP - Mute is excited to announce the release of M83's ninth studio album Fantasy, out March 17th 2023. Over the span of two decades, M83 mastermind Anthony Gonzalez has firmly established himself as an artist whose work transcends mere escapism in favor of full-on worldbuilding. Whether it be via his celebrated studio albums, film soundtracks, or compositions for stage productions, Gonzalez has proven that nothing surpasses his ability to perfectly encapsulate a specific time, emotion, or sense of place. Now with Fantasy, the Platinum selling, GRAMMY-nominated artist returns with his most personal album to date. Featuring long-time collaborator Justin Meldal-Johnsen and Joe Berry, M83's touring keyboardist and sax player, the album was born out of extended jam sessions that lasted nearly a year. The result is an exuberant, live-sounding record where trademark M83 goosebump moments abound. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1679595693722-ZCIJYQ94RMWSGCPYGNC4/4164010-2923093.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - 100 Gecs - 10,000 Gecs 2023 release, the highly-anticipated sophomore album by 100 gecs. Following their breakout debut album, 1,000 gecs, the anticipation of their next body of work has been high and the band's teases have been plentiful. The album includes previously released singles "Mememe" which was described in the story as "an ebullient carnival of ska-inflected verses that bounce off a chorus of thrash guitars and a squiggling synth line" along with the 90's Alt Rock-inspired "Doritos & Fritos," which The Fadernoted as "unlike any other gecs track before it." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1679596491236-HA8PO40616LK06RIQ7PF/4180595-2943873.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Dur-Dur Band Int - The Berlin Session https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1679597899079-TQL9IGEQPIPZL0BEBAMS/4169535-2931878.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Son Lux - Brighter Wounds Limited gold colored vinyl LP pressing. Brighter Wounds is the fifth studio album by Son Lux. It was released through City Slang on February 9, 2018. Music videos were created for "Slowly", "All Directions", and "The Fool You Need". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1679598566839-MW9OEOUWK5DLSX3D1H79/4174776-2936518.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - U2 - Songs Of Surrender Double 180gm vinyl LP pressing with 4-page insert featuring liner notes from The Edge. Songs of Surrender features 16 new acoustic and reimagined recordings from the U2 catalog, produced and compiled by The Edge, including "One," "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For," and "Pride (In The Name Of Love)." U2 have sold over 175 million albums, won 22 Grammy awards, and released 14 studio albums. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1679597491230-7QZO2AVCA53T6N5C60JH/4171675-2935256.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Kate Nv - Wow Kate Nv's WOW offers listeners a prismatic shift in perspective and scale, a parallel dimension in which the mundane becomes funny, unfamiliar, and altogether sensational. Turning the contents of her 2020 album Room for the Moon upside down and spilling it across a floor checkered with intrigue and surprise, Kate places sound, object, and ritual under the microscope to magnify the delight hidden in plain sight of everyday life. Vinyl edition includes a high quality multi-format digital download. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1679597731233-1L10MI1MJ6QC6ZGXI077/4174630-2943013.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Shalom - Sublimation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1679596013300-EH7O1TZIMFAEPVF9DVAS/4179331-2943241.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Death and Vanilla - Flicker https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1679595827658-E6GNWSAUJ2ISP8MJMWP5/4184148-2946978.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Willie Bobo - Bobo's Beat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1679595901487-62Y936HVW78HKCYBAFXX/4169447-2928058.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Waltel Branco - Meu Balanco https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1679597578905-TCSY8H7K5GKTN4C30QSP/4175615-2943019.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Rilo Kiley - Take Offs And Landings Double vinyl LP pressing. At the beginning of the 2000's, Rilo Kiley was a fiercely independent band, having released an EP under their own Rilo Records label. But, even with only very minimal touring outside of southern California, their brilliant live show and excellent songcraft started to attract a fair amount of national attention in publications like Harper's Bazaar and Rolling Stone, and even some airplay on MTV. The band initially self-released Take Offs and Landings before signing to Barsuk, who promptly reissued the album. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1679598098783-W0WFQT15EEHL1H9JV9UU/4103683-2862388.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Cecil Taylor - The World Of Cecil Taylor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1679596795836-HZF0YGY0G3AIHTI90WFS/4178190-2940590.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Faust - Momentaufnahme I https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1679594953682-1AREHLV2PS7BNCXMY1EY/4147840-2942726.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Mdou Moctar - Niger Ep Vol. 2 (Indie Exclusive) (Indie Exclusive) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1679594871661-CJUGJTIN3K46SJ77EYRI/4147839-2942725.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Mdou Moctar - Niger Ep Vol. 1 (Indie Exclusive) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1679594778674-IDXSQEIWZA4G194I0Z5W/4159134-2916670.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Maajo - Water Of Life Afro-Finnish band Maajo return with their third album, "Water of Life," a fluid celebration of various influences. Supported by two preceding singles, "Better Days" and "Unelmissani," the album is the group's first release with the Brooklyn, NY-based tastemaker label Wonderwheel Recordings. Maajo's signature Afro-Balearic sound meets late eighties new age and fusion, with touches of modern soul. The addition of two band members, Waina and Gilbert K, as well as featuring artists Issiaka Dembele and Ismaila Sané, has rooted the album's stories in a diverse range of backgrounds, featuring vocals in no less than six different languages. Gilbert K's drum grooves pay tribute to the late Tony Allen's legendary heritage and the percussion experiments on a more melodic and atmospheric tip. "Water of Life" shows a band at it's maturation point, reaching the cross-cultural coalescence of Finnish-African sound that's ready for the dancefloor or home-listening. The three vocalists take centre-stage on the album: Waina hails from Zambia and sings in Nyanja, English and Finnish; a renowned musician in Zambia for over two decades who now calls Finland home, Waina wrote a song that reached the finals of the 2020 Afrimusic contest. Gilbert K primarily sings in his native Mauritian Creole while comprising part of the percussion line. He made his way to Finland by way of South Africa and China, eventually winning the Voice of Finland show. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1679596383206-J0MYWK21UBC83MRD5WX2/4153498-2909849.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Dils - Dils Dils Dils The Dils are one of the most legendary punk bands of all-time. Fronted by brothers Chip and Tony Kinman, the group was as important to the U.S. scene as The Clash and Sex Pistols were to England. Though they only recorded three singles, their potent political punk tunes such as "I Hate The Rich", "Class War", and "Red Rockers" still leave a mark some 25 years later. Their seminal 1977 debut 7" "I Hate The Rich" (included on the Bacchus Archives Class War compilation alongside a scorching live set from 1980) was recently named by Mojo magazine as one of the 100 best punk shockers of all-time. Their other studio cuts and ten more roaring live recordings from 1977-1981 are included here on Dils, Dils, Dils. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1679596186388-PLTQI187FSFP7BCO8O2D/4164424-2923554.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - The Dickies - Balderdash Limited yellow and purple splattered vinyl LP pressing. 2023 archive collection. Seasoned punk rock veterans The Dickies crack open their crusty old sock drawer and unearth a bevy of unreleased musical treasures. This collection includes both live and studio gems dating all the way back to the band's mid-'80s salad days through the '90s and into the 21st century. Includes tracks from the recently released 7" as well as recut versions of some of the band's best punk rock covers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1679596675870-3L9NKRIUM1U7TK986G9B/4184139-2946992.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Eater - The Album (Colored Vinyl, Splatter) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1679597384463-0NWCMBMO5O7URRCSVJNX/4180664-2944763.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Motorhead - Snake Bite Love Motorhead / SNAKE BITE LOVE - Originally released on 10th March 1998, Snake Bite Love is Motörhead's 14th studio album. The album shows the less heavier side of the band, with several tracks that are slower than one might expect from Motörhead. However, Snake Bite Love still retains the classic mix of true heavy metal and rock n'roll that Motörhead do so well. This album will be available as transparent red vinyl. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1679595033761-CJ02BLDZ3HHGQ7LSKC5F/4178021-2943885.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Off! - First Four Ep's Vinyl LP pressing. First Four EPs is the debut 2010 studio album by the band Off! Which features former Black Flag and Circle Jerks singer Keith Morris. The album was produced by Dimitri Coats and recorded and mixed by Steven Shane McDonald. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1679594655550-N68842M97UAKL7ASSVV5/4169612-2943180.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Les Big Bird - The Eternal Light Brigade https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1679596952084-7SW0JW2067YBWCQOP7O8/81M3t1FI%2BEL._UF1000%2C1000_QL80_.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Flaming Lips - Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell includes 7 "Yoshimi"-era tracks that were included in the 6 CD Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots 20th Anniversary Box Set released in November 2022. Originally released as CD EP in 2003, it is now being released on vinyl for the first time. It features two versions of the title track (one remixed by Jason Bentley), a remix by The Postal Service of "Do You Realize?", and 4 non-album tracks. This limited edition version is pressed onGlow In The Dark Green Vinyl. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1679597101160-UBGI0S6EQF6JJG5L1KQQ/ab67616d0000b273a283a97be6306ecfa7719cc3.jpeg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - The Flaming Lips - Fight Test "Fight Test" was the third single released from The Flaming Lips hugely popular and successful albumYoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. Released in June 2003, the single entered the US Billboard Top 100 and peaked at #28 in the UK singles chart. The 7-track EP was included in the 6 CDYoshimi Battles the Pink Robots 20thAnniversary BoxSet released in November 2022, and it is now being released on vinyl for the first time. In addition to the title track, it features a remix of "Do You Realize?", "Thank You Jack White", and 3 covers including a live version of the Kyle Minogue hit "Can't Get You Out Of My Head", and Radiohead's "Knives Out". This limited edition version is pressed on Ruby Red Vinyl. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1679595335764-W9HECRH1F8ASKFYLBGHV/4171954-2933964.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Unwound - Unwound Meeting at the halfway point between Bleach and Damaged, Unwound's 1995 self-titled album arrived years after the original trio of Vern Rumsey, Justin Trosper, and Brandt Sandeno made their Avast Studios debut. Compiling their EPs for Kill Rock Stars and Gravity Records with five more session outtakes, Unwound was released on Rumsey's Punk In My Vitamins as the band began flirting with the mainstream. Witness a band's prehistory as it plays out in a feral maelstrom of screaming, distortion, feedback, and abrasive promise. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1679594568808-6PTJQ8FI7D0OXXJYGL2C/978380.jpeg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Daniel Johnston - Songs Of Pain Double vinyl LP pressing. Songs of Pain is the first album by folk singer-songwriter Daniel Johnston, recorded on a simple tape recorder and released on assette. This is the album's first time being pressed on vinyl. Back in the early 1980s, when the punk-rock DIY spirit was going strong, emerging artists found a cheap and efficient way of distributing their music-the homemade cassette. Sometimes very crude and low-fi, the tapes became a hallmark of instant "indie cred." The erratic, troubled, and startlingly talented Daniel Johnston was one of the first musicians to really make a name for himself in this medium, and his first two tapes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1679594461143-Y5GEOCHHJ8Y58S5EQ4BW/4181680-2946202.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Syl Johnson - Diamond In The Rough https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1678468073252-BJ0KMNKC0IHNA4GNBBQ2/4175658-2943071.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Beths - Jump Rope Gazers Limited red colored vinyl LP pressing. Everything changed for Auckland, New Zealand's The Beths when they released their debut album, Future Me Hates Me, in 2018. They quit their jobs, said goodbye to their hometown, and devoted themselves entirely to performing across the globe. Songwriter/lead vocalist Elizabeth Stokes worked on The Beths' second LP, Jump Rope Gazers, in between these intense periods of touring. Like their earlier music, the album tackles themes of anxiety and self-doubt with effervescent power pop choruses and rousing backup vocals, zeroing in on the communality and catharsis that can come from sharing stressful situations with some of your best friends. Their most emotive and heartfelt work to date, Jump Rope Gazers stares down all the hard parts of living in communion with other people, even at a distance, while celebrating the ferocious joy that makes it all worth it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1678466870219-KFOMVCUGY2ABMTYNFCI6/ab67616d00001e0281fccd758776d16b87721b17.jpeg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Kali Uchis - Red Moon In Venus Grammy Award-winner Kali Uchis' third studio album, Red Moon In Venus, will be released on March 3, 2022, via Geffen Records. It features the new single, "I Wish You Roses." EXPLICIT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1678403901479-KF9UHKMPOPFGR0J0KAAG/4173179-2943295.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Don Cherry - Hear & Now After bursting on the scene with Ornette Coleman, trumpeter Don Cherry went on to make some of the most interesting and collectible albums in modern jazz, particularly during the '70s, when he incorporated world music motifs into a singular style of jazz fusion. Produced by Narada Michael Walden, 1977's Hear & Now was the only solo album Cherry recorded for Atlantic, and while it's probably the most rock-heavy of any of the albums in his catalog, it still displays his signature eclecticism, incorporating Indian drones on "Mahakali" and African drums on the dazzling, album-ending suite "Journey of Milarepa/Shanti/The Ending Movement - Liberation (from Welkin of Infinity)." It also boasts a fantastic supporting cast with Michael Brecker, Collin Walcott, Marcus Miller, Tony Williams, Steve Jordan, and guitarist Stan Samole, who particularly shines. First-ever American LP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1679594293704-MJJFLR6Z1XOGPXO1R6HE/4178346-2943922.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Iggy and The Stooges - Raw Power Live Vinyl document of the reformed Stooges' (Iggy Pop, Scott Asheton, James Williamson, Steve Mackay, Mike Watt) "Raw Power" performance at All Tomorrow's Parties in September 2010. A mind-blowing night for sure. Iggy and the band sound flawless as they rip through the archetype riffage of "Search and Destroy," "Raw Power," "Gimme Danger" and more. Punk rock, no doubt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1679594366436-DGH0K9MFSWC1U170TU0Q/4172311-2932587.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - The Heartbreakers - Yonkers Demo he first recordings from the hugley influential NY-born garage punk band The Heartbreakers who would live on as the support band behind ex-NY Doll Johnny Thunders! These are the only recordings featuring the lineup of Richard Hell, Johnny Thunders, Walter Lure and Jerry Nolan! Includes full liner notes from Dave Thompson! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1678467345401-3V8JAEE8CWD09D19O7BH/4172081-2932400.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Xiu Xiu - Ignore Grief Xiu Xiu has spent twenty years grappling with how to process, to be empathetic towards, to disobey and to reorganize horror. Ignore Grief is a record of halves. Angela Seo sings on half of the record. Jamie Stewart sings on half of the record. Half of it is real. Half of it is imaginary. The real songs attempt to turn the worst life has offered to five people the band is connected with into some kind of desperate shape that does something, anything, other than grind and brutalize their hearts and memory within these stunningly horrendous experiences. The imaginary songs are an expansion and abstract exploration of the early rock and roll "Teen Tragedy" genre as jumping off point to decontaminate the band's own overwhelming emotions in knowing and living with what has happened to these five people. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1678404116406-EX76QF47R0K8YN8B1NAY/4167315-2928948.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - De La Soul - 3 Feet High And Rising Double magenta colored vinyl LP pressing. 3 Feet High and Rising is the debut studio album by hip hop trio de la Soul and was released on March 3, 1989. It marked the first of three full-length collaborations with producer Prince Paul, which would become the critical and commercial peak of both parties. Critically, as well as commercially, the album was a success. It contains the singles, "Me Myself and I", "The Magic Number, " "Buddy, " and "Eye Know". The album title came from the Johnny Cash song "Five Feet High and Rising". It is listed on Rolling Stone's 200 Essential Rock Records and The Source's 100 Best Rap Albums. When Village Voice held it's annual Pazz & Jop Critics Poll for 1989, 3 Feet High and Rising was ranked #1. It was also listed on the Rolling Stone's The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Released amid the 1989 boom in gangsta rap, which gravitated towards hardcore, confrontational, violent lyrics, de la Soul's uniquely positive style made them an oddity beginning with the first single, "Me, Myself and I". Their positivity meant many observers labeled them a "hippie" group, based on their declaration of the "D.A.I.S.Y. Age" (Da. Inner. Soul. Yall). Sampling artists as diverse as Hall & Oates, Steely Dan and The Turtles, 3 Feet High and Rising is often viewed as the stylistic beginning of 1990s alternative hip hop (and especially jazz rap). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1678467167005-CLWGYXB9QHFZIEWFJJA4/4177232-2939987.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - The Stranglers - Feline (Deluxe Edition) A deluxe and expanded 40th anniversary edition of The Stranglers' Feline. - A sensuous and textural departure for the band, this 2LP edition features bonus tracks and rarities and is pressed on red and translucent marbled vinyl. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1678467020367-2ZJDWVRR9YXPS3HU5JP4/456049.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Dusty Springfield - Dusty In Memphis Famed (and notoriously curmudgeonly) rock critic Robert Christgau dubbed this "the all-time rock-era torch record" and the Library of Congress included it into the national registry. It's got Dusty's interpretation of "Son of a Preacher Man," plus choice selections written by Goffin and King, Randy Newman, Burt Bacharach and Hal David, and more. Pour a glass of wine, turn on the fire, and put Dusty in Memphis on the turntable. Your night is planned. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1678402082862-51EU3M9NSJD4G55HF5VS/4141748-2899135.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - David Bowie - Divine Symmetry Vinyl LP pressing. This release brings together early mixes of Hunky Dory tracks originally featured on the BOWPROMO album in 1971 along with new alternative Ken Scott mixes to create an alternative version of the Hunky Dory album and also featuring the session outtake 'Bombers' in the tracklisting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1678466492399-QME0HXH2DYD31OJ4DVPT/4177978-2940074.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Subhumans - From The Cradle To The Grave (Indie Exclusive, Colored Vinyl, Purple) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1678402690257-T2XVJDGU38CB5LNL14J2/4170023-2928538.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - En Attendant Ana - Principia Parisian quintet en Attendant Ana's third album "Principia" is without a doubt their best yet. Bandleader Margaux Bouchaudon's voice anchors many of the songs on "Principia". The songs were composed from a place of confusion about the state of the world and their place in it, looking outward and inward for answers. Guitarist Max Tomasso - newly joined just before the recording of "Juillet"- feels more "moved-in", his guitar-work gliding effortlessly through. New member Vincent Hivert's bass-work is rubbery & flexible, urging on drummer Adrien Pollin's metronomic swing. The band's secret weapon, multi-instrumentalist Camille Frechou's trumpet & saxophone add a new layer of sophistication to the group's debonair indie pop. Bouchaudon says "One of the most important points we tried to focus on was the place given to each instrument. For the first time, we withdrew parts, we were careful not to play everyone at once and I think that the result is a much lighter album in which every musician has a specific place and moment". "Principia" is a great step forward without sacrificing the things that make the band unique, and absolutely feel like the next great phase of an already great band. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1678401878588-TSB8G1C9TJJTM1AAZI4P/4113728-2890753.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Algiers - Shook Double vinyl LP pressing. Algiers have always been unflinching, but SHOOK is at the same time notably joyous and celebratory. It was born when Fisher and Mahan found themselves back in their native Atlanta for several months, reeling from growing pressures and burnout as touring musicians. This triggered an intense period of beatmaking, reconnecting as friends over hours immersed in episodes of Rhythm Roulette and Against the Clock and descending deep into alt-rap YouTube rabbit holes. A revisit of DJ Grand Wizard Theodore's 1970s punk-infused New York City rap masterpiece 'Subway Theme' served as a spiritual moodboard for the album's cross-pollination of urban and counter-culture styles. Across the seamlessly flowing set, including spoken vignettes and ambient instrumental segues, the band pay respect to a sprawling lineage of rap and punk iconoclasts from DJ Premier, DJ Screw and Dead Boys to Lukah, Griselda and Dïat - chopping and screwing beats on a dusty SP-404 and a Sequential Circuits Tempest, building imagined sample libraries from scratch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1678403071276-QF4TH5EU3TXWVEKSANUX/Gorillaz.jpg SUMMER NEW RELEASES - Gorillaz - Cracker Island Limited colored vinyl. 'Cracker Island' is the eight studio album from Gorillaz, an energetic, upbeat, genre-expansive collection of 10 tracks featuring yet another stellar line-up of artist collaborators: Thundercat, Tame Impala, Bad Bunny, Stevie Nicks, Adeleye Omotayo, Bootie Brown and Beck. Recorded in London and LA earlier this year, it is produced by Gorillaz, Remi Kabaka Jr. And eight-time Grammy Award-winning producer / multi-instrumentalist / songwriter extraordinaire Greg Kurstin. Title track 'Cracker Island' kickstarted the new campaign this Summer hitting the charts across the globe with a top 10 video racking up 10M views in 10 days. The virtual band exploded onto TikTok gaining over 2.1 m followers in the space of a few months where they continue to innovate, taking virtual characters where no character has been before. http://www.raggedrecords.org/fall-new-releases daily 0.75 2023-11-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1700326971871-NIIUE4KD1WDNK0EG7UWB/4233152-3020094.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Andrew Bird - Outside Problems Andrew Bird on Outside Problems: I wanted to record Inside Problems outside, but this plan fell apart when it became clear that some dude with a wood chipper could really ruin our day. I did so much casual recording during the pandemic, in my backyard or in Ojai, that I gathered enough outdoor recordings to make Outside Problems. Most of these were made without any intention of making an album, just improvisations on simple themes, some of which make up the musical backbone of Inside Problems. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1700329106395-KGRMIZ9U1XUCH41YJBGB/4263096-3057069.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Kurt Vile - Back To Moon Beach Kurt Vile - "Back To Moon Beach" - Back To Moon Beach is an EP by no one's definition but Kurt Vile's. For Kurt, this collection is an expression of just how deep his well of non-album material runs. This includes six tracks culled from various sessions over the last four years, and represents a wide swath of the inspirational musical community Kurt surrounds himself with. (Verve Records) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1700328915435-UKPIYKCSTADSA1ZQXDZX/4248468-3041660.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Sunwatchers - Music Is Victory Over Time In the decade or so that hard-working New York quartet Sunwatchers have operated, the group has steadily & subtly refined their sound - a brain-blasting mixture of jazz, psychedelia, krautrock, punk, noise, & Saharan blues - into something that is avant-leaning enough to appeal to the discerning jazz & experimental music fan & weird & wooly enough to get the true heads' toes tapping. "Music Is Victory Over Time" is the band's 5th album, and fourth for Chicago-based Trouble In Mind Records, seeing the long-running lineup of Peter Kerlin (bass guitar), Jim McHugh (guitars), Jason Robira (drums), and Jeff Tobias (alto saxophone and keyboards) in prime form. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1700329193403-G4I3AL799KYRW2S0HKLX/Ween-ThePod.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Ween-The Pod WEEN - The Pod (Fuscus Edition) / Back in print on vinyl. Named one of the 20 best albums of 1992 by Spin Magazine, Ween's 2nd record was recorded by Dean and Gene Ween on a Tascam four-track cassette recorder between January and October 1990. All songs were recorded at the Pod, the apartment where they lived for a year and 10 months. In 1999 The Stranger declared: "someday, classical music students will write dissertations on The Pod." "Fuscus Edition" pressed on brown and cream A-side/B-side 2xLP vinyl. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1700329007835-7GOY36X0I404B49LFWI7/2140935.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - A Tribe Called Quest - The Love Movement The Love Movement is the fifth studio album by A Tribe Called Quest. Originally released on September 29, 1998, by Jive Records, it is a concept album exploring the lyrical theme of love containing 15 album tracks and 6 bonus tracks over 3-LPs. The album features the singles "Find A Way" and "Hot Sex" and has been certified Gold by the RIAA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1700328846153-IJWJ7Y6Y267KNP2MC9A4/4255443-3075521.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Space Funk 2: Afro Futurist Electro Funk In Space 1976-84 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1700327147437-E14787H72UVVBXIMAGP8/a2659711613_16.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Boris with Merzbow - 4092001 Limited silver colored vinyl LP pressing. 04092001 was originally released only on vinyl in a limited edition of 500 copies, and immediately discontinued. The specially printed jacket is reproduced as faithfully as possible to this original release. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1700328251268-E97T1X6UBE5E1J3NWEFA/4244275-3040409.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Sinead O'Connor - Am I Not Your Girl Sinéad O'Connor is widely regarded as one of the most influential female performers of the '90s, not only for her sensational performances and raw vocal emotion but also for her outspoken confidence to express herself publicly. Sinéad was born in Dublin in 1966, and was discovered by Paul Byrne, drummer of U2 protégés In Tua Nua, while singing wedding covers in the city. After co-writing the first In Tua Nua single, she left school to focus on music, studying voice and piano at the Dublin College of Music before relocating to London in 1985. The follow-up album to the hugely successful I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got album, Am I Not Your Girl? was released in September 1992 and features Sinéad performing a collection of songs that she had grown up listening to and which had inspired her to become a singer. It was during the promotional campaign for the album when Sinéad made a controversial appearance on Saturday Night Live. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1700328632012-P7BZYE1N47YGFPBZI30Z/4244274-3040105.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Sinead O' Connor - The Lion And The Cobra Sinéad O'Connor is widely regarded as one of the most influential female performers of the '90s, not only for her sensational performances and raw vocal emotion but also for her outspoken confidence to express herself publicly. Sinéad was born in Dublin in 1966, and was discovered by Paul Byrne, drummer of U2 protégés In Tua Nua, while singing wedding covers in the city. After co-writing the first In Tua Nua single, she left school to focus on music, studying voice and piano at the Dublin College of Music before relocating to London in 1985.Released in November 1987, Sinéad's striking debut album The Lion and the Cobra was met with critical and commercial success. The album synthesises several of Sinead's influences into a diverse array of sounds and styles, from the hushed, atmospheric 'Troy' and 'Jackie' to the pop-rock hit single 'Mandinka', and the hip-hop inspired 'I Want Your (Hands on Me)'. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1700327498331-5CKCAA8AAKE28FR1WMLG/4238830-3028207.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - 4238830-3028207.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1700328766277-4TK25D0W1QR4STNKFZ0Q/4253394-3075318.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Wayne Shorter - Night Dreamer (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series) 1964 was a pivotal year in the musical life of Wayne Shorter. Early in the year, the saxophonist was still a member of Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, appearing on classic Blue Note albums like Free for All and Indestructible. That summer he would join the Miles Davis Quintet, cementing a lineup that became one of the seminal bands in jazz history. But before that he stepped out confidently as a Blue Note artist when he entered Van Gelder Studio in April to record his masterful label debut as a leader, Night Dreamer. The sublime six-song set signaled the arrival of one of the most important new voices in jazz, a visionary composer and thrilling improviser with a wholly distinctive sound. Timeless Shorter originals including "Black Nile," "Virgo," "Armageddon," and the extraordinary title track are given transcendent performances by a quintet featuring trumpeter Lee Morgan, pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Reggie Workman, and drummer Elvin Jones. / This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is stereo, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1700328039374-7DBAVVIYS2NSULMAGWWV/4250223-3042861.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Iron And Wine - Who Can See Forever Limited edition on glacial blue vinyl. Iron & Wine's Who Can See Forever is an accompanying live record to the film of the same name. Captured at Haw River Ballroom in Saxapahaw, North Carolina, the soundtrack features nineteen songs from the twenty plus year career of singer-songwriter Sam Beam. Having found inventive ways to re-invent his catalog live over the years, Who Can See Forever offers new and fresh versions of Iron & Wine songs including "The Trapeze Swinger", "Boy With a Coin" and "Naked As We Came." The film - initially intended as a live concert film - evolved into a visual portrait capturing Beam during a creative outburst that earned him four Grammy nominations in four years. Like his music, the film touches on universally personal themes as Beam juggles being an artist, husband and father. Taken as one, the soundtrack and film are a fascinating first-time glimpse behind-the-scenes of Iron & Wine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1700327896277-M64NFQLN6JGXFMBPEUXJ/4260805-3054371.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Ice-T - Power 35th Anniversary of the Platinum-selling Sophomore Album, co-produced by Ice-T and Afrika Islam. Releasing as a Limited Edition 'Ice Cold Gold' Color Vinyl, this record includes legendary singles like "I'm Your Pusher" and "High Rollers" from one of rap's Original Gangsters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1700327287333-LVI7TYPWZJAQ5KMYR4JH/4250810-3043646.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Duster - Remote Echoes Culled from half a decade of home four-tracking, Remote Echoes is a hissy, crumbly, and ungrounded expression of Clay Parton and Canaan Amber's ongoing Duster project. A mix of cassette only demos released under the banners Christmas Dust and On The Dodge, this 14 track album also includes a bevy of previously unissued stragglers. Duster's unique blend of fuzzy guitars, bargain synths, muffled percussion, and hushed vocals anticipated chillwave, mumblecore, and corecore, elegantly illustrating the holy trinity of slacker vices: cigarettes, coffee, and the weed supreme. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1699721792620-9G1IWKRPGD0NDKDUY2YD/4258935-3057508.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - The Silver Cord King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - "The Silver Cord" / The Silver Cord, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard's 25th studio album is a full-hearted and purposeful embrace of electronic equipment and electronic music in it's own right. Standard Edition LP is pressed on recycled black vinyl and housed in a thick brown outer sleeve. Recycled vinyl LP pressing. The Silver Cord is the 25th studio album by Australian psychedelic rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1699721868727-DTCC0GEYONJRW4XLVK6M/4254971-3047950.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Grateful Dead - Built To Last Grateful Dead - Built to Last / The Grateful Dead's final studio album, released in October 1989, contains some of the strongest songs of the later-era Grateful Dead, including "Foolish Heart," "Standing On The Moon," and Brent Mydland's "Blow Away. " Brent had three songs on the LP, demonstrating his importance to the band with his strong vocal and musical contributions. Two of Bob Weir's more dynamic songs are also on the album, "Picasso Moon" and "Victim Or The Crime," showing off some of his deepest, most interesting song-craft. The Dead's Final Studio Album, Newly Remastered. 1LP, Black Vinyl. Mastered by GRAMMY® Award-winning engineer David Glasser. Produced for release by David Lemieux. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1699721992216-MD0SM7KGO196ELJ7J3FF/image_1ca72d2e-18a9-47a9-b781-dbe2858d9de1_1024x1024%402x.png FALL NEW RELEASES - Jimi Hendrix - Live At The Hollywood Bowl This recording has never before been released or even bootlegged. It captures the Jimi Hendrix Experience at a unique moment in their illustrious career. Before a sold out audience of 17, 000 people, the Experience overwhelmed an unsuspecting audience with a superb show that encompassed his renditions of songs by the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters as well as signature songs such as "Purple Haze" and "The Wind Cries Mary". Are You Experienced, the group's debut album, had not yet been released by Jimi's label Reprise. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1699722110442-Z7VH7LGW83P6H39TATEJ/4243999-3034536.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Goat - Medicine It is hard to know how many times the mythology and mystery of Goat's backstory can be written about, but new release 'Medicine' does away with any need to dwell on the past, returning with a more introspective, slightly mellower psych-folk sound that remains recognisably them. There is a consistently restrained, warm feel across the whole work, and the band suggest that the overall theme of the album is about "the impermanence of life in different ways: sickness, relationships, love, death and how our time is finite". At times the album's sound has nods to classic Swedish 70s psych/prog/folk acts such as Arbete & Fritid, Charlie & Esdor and Träd, Gräs & Stenar. 'Vakna' takes on this influence, progressing across nearly six minutes of swaying, warping guitar solos, without ever breaking out into chaos. The 'Medicine' of the title may refer to a number of salves, or the value of relationships and love: "For our families, friends, society, this could be done through the use of psychedelics, through meditation, through learning from other people, staying curious and never settling for a 'solid' identity". Flute is foregrounded throughout, threading across several tracks from the opener 'Impermanence And Death'. It duets elegantly with keening synth lines through the beautiful 'You'll Be Alright', and leads the melody of the closing track 'Tripping In The Graveyard'. 'TSOD', with it's backdrop of sitar and acoustic guitar, has an indelible vocal melody that could be a lost George Harrison recording. The title of the full album version of first single, 'I Became The Unemployment Office', comes from an expression for someone taking advantage of you. The joyous, echo-laden groove of penultimate track 'Join The Resistance' bursts into life and continues to build to a moment of release with a huge Sabbath-esque riff. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1699722204347-HN9NR1HV0ZL0JMFOU6VY/4237293-3024824.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Melenas - Ahora https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1699722588067-O0WMOSAOJ67I4BCW5YP3/4218001-2982086.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Iggy & The Stooges - Jesus Loves The Stooges Limited edition BLACK & GOLD SPLATTER vinyl compilation featuring rare, raw and rockin' studio recordings from the godfater of punk rock, Iggy Pop! Features Pop's unique twists on Bob Dylan's "The Ballad Of Hollis Brown," Hendrix's "Purple Haze" plus the Stooges classics "Jesus Loves The Stooges," "I Wanna Be Your Dog," "I'm So Glad" and more! Previously available as CLO2218 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1699722358799-YY4YJNBB92RB2G910N3H/4239135-3028882.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Chris Stapleton - Higher Current ACM Entertainer of the Year, Chris Stapleton is set to release his 5th Studio Album- Higher on November 10th on 2LP/180 Gram Vinyl. This Indie Store Exclusive version will be Opaque BONE Vinyl. The album will include 14 songs including the first single "White Horse". Chris has won numerous awards including eight Grammy Awards, 10 Academy of Country Music (ACM) Awards including current Entertainer Of The Year, and 14 Country Music Association (CMA) Awards. He was named the ACM's Artist-Songwriter of the Decade. In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Stapleton at number 170 on it's list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time. Indie Exclusive 2 LP. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1699722430113-51SS98H0B7RF51ALGWJW/4248450-3040554.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Pauline Anna Strom - Trans Millenia Consort Trans-Millenia Consort is the near mythical debut album by the late West Coast composer, healer, and medium Pauline Anna Strom. First released in 1982, the album is a bold and beautiful evocation of a life that exists between and beyond time. Evoking ancient rituals and primordial futures, the music of Trans-Millenia Consort glows with a strange iridescence; it's pulsing embryonic waveforms flutter and drift, tones fall like raindrops of the long-ago, and melodies shimmer and dance across the ages like fireflies of a lost world. Restored and mixed from the original reels by Marta Salogni, and newly remastered, this is the album's first ever official reissue, and the definitive edition of a visionary statement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1699722287149-KTWOGY52HQ75Q9OX43NZ/4252086-3076236.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Resavoir - S/T https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1699722812645-FZ40G46RRGYM2K7VZ71I/4163963-2923174.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want To Turn Into You Limited copper colored vinyl LP pressing. 2023 release. Desire, I Want to Turn Into You is the fourth studio album by singer-songwriter and producer Caroline Polachek, and second under her given name. Features the singles "Bunny Is a Rider", "Billions", "Sunset", "Welcome to My Island", and "Blood and Butter". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1699723276645-OPGOHJWA2EX6TAIDTC7M/4254454-3048034.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Boygenius - The Rest Boygenius (Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus) presents the rest, a new four-track EP, serving as an expansion of their critically acclaimed debut full-length, the record. Produced by boygenius, Tony Berg, Jake Finch, Ethan Gruska, Calvin Lauber, Collin Pastore and Marshall Vore, the rest continues to showcase the band's songwriting prowess and distinct sound. This EP also includes a 16-page newspaper zine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1699722940732-1M6AH2G8C9K0WZKNWP1U/4253003-3058060.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Oasis - The Masterplan Digitally remastered edition. The Masterplan is a compilation album by Oasis, originally released in 1998. It comprises B-sides which never made it onto an album up to that point. Originally intended for release only in areas such as the United States and Japan, where the tracks were previously only available on expensive European-import singles, The Masterplan reached number 2 in the UK, where it initially went platinum, and number 51 in the United States. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1699723019822-16LJ7A6KQ7F2Q95CHNN0/4241309-3031260.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Hania Rani - Ghosts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1699723086151-172ERZ0E9M28JHDM30KK/4064743-2800774.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Mildlife - Live from South Channel Island Mildlife's 2020 sophomore album, Automatic, debuted in the Top 10 on the Australian charts, and snared a converted ARIA Award for Best Jazz Album. It saw the band elevate with more disciplined, directional and arguably more danceable synergy. With tightly structured arrangements making way for melodic improvisation and ethereal vocals, Mildlife effortlessly glide between live performances and studio songwriting; like Kraftwerk and Herbie Hancock quarantined in Bob Moog's Trumansburg workshop. In early 2021, unable to play shows due to the pandemic, Mildlife traveled by boat to a long abandoned 19th century island fort to perform for fairy penguins and abalone poachers. The result is Live from South Channel Island, a 70 minute motion picture and live album where the band masterfully recreate the magic of their live shows, framed by the gorgeous Port Phillip Bay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1699723166979-6M4W339S1HQGPYYYWPBK/4252328-3076215.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Tashi Dorji - Guitar Improvisations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1698508467896-8O2HZC5Y6G5KRM4K6J87/4243132-3037195.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - DJ Shadow - Action Adventure Action Adventure is DJ Shadow's seventh solo LP, an inward-looking project, made for Shadow alone without any collaborators. DJ Shadow explains, "This album is about my relationship to music. My life as a collector and curator. All my records and tapes." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1698507997829-EP7Y2AFGOZVN3M9SXP03/4243446-3034649.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Black Pumas - Chronicles Of A Diamond Black Pumas - Chronicles Of A Diamond / As they set to work on their highly awaited sophomore album, Black Pumas broadened their palette to include a dazzling expanse of musical forms: heavenly hybrids of soul and symphonic pop, mind-bending excursions into jazz-funk and psychedelia, and starry-eyed love songs that feel dropped from the cosmos. The debut was nominated for seven Grammys and reached one million album equivalents. Chronicles Of A Diamond arrives as the fullest expression yet of their frenetic creativity and limitless vision. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1698508534894-TL9VZ2DZAK7BTKALGPS1/4236083-3022509.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Ice Spice - Like...? Named after one of her signature catchphrases, Like..? is the best showcase yet for 23-year-old rapper Ice Spice's defiant charm. Packed with Instagram caption-worthy lyrics and inventive instrumentals from Ice and her frequent collaborator and executive producer RIOTUSA, the Bronx Baddie's new project features the hits "Munch (Feelin U)," "Bikini Bottom," and "In Ha Mood." Deluxe Edition LP is pressed on BABY PINK vinyl and contains 5 bonus tracks, including the single "Deli," and a new version of "Princess Diana" featuring Nicki Minaj. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1698508229349-SXTXIB52ULBMRFRBCFTP/4233507-3026439.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Bex Burch - There Is Only Love And Fear https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1698508332629-HICIKDZKSBZ27366D27O/4228565-3015348.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Betty Davis - Crashin' From Passion In the 1970s, Betty Davis defied genre and gender by pushing her voice to extremes and embracing the erotic. She articulated a kind of pre-punk, funk-blues fusion that had yet to be normalized in mainstream music - a style that few musicians have come close to replicating. As one of the first Black women to write, arrange, and produce her own albums, Betty was a visionary who disregarded industry boundaries and constraints. Raw, unapologetic and in full control, Betty paved the way for generations of future artists who said "funk you" to the music industry and social norms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1698509187254-FLTA2LAYMRAVTEZN6AKG/4247361-3039645.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Sparks - S/T imited Edition Orange Vinyl LP! Celebrate Five Decades of Their Amazing Debut Album! Mastered by Joe Reagoso from the Original Bearsville Records Tapes! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1698509488748-M6WZ5SGRRH4AAZI9J73I/4244882-3035695.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Talking Heads - Naked Naked, originally released in 1988 includes "(Nothing But) Flowers" and "Blind". Reissued for the first time since the original release. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1698508952652-709960AWJIYTZ90DOXXP/4244114-3039431.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - OMD - Bauhaus Staircase OMD - aka Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - are back, and this time, they're political. On Wednesday, the beloved synth-pop pioneers announced their 14th studio album, Bauhaus Staircase, due out October 27th via White Noise. As a preview, they also shared the album's title track as it's first single. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1698509559073-IPGJECQKYS306A5L1P1G/4243890-3040367.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - The Serfs - Half Eaten By Dogs Anyone paying attention can see that Cincinnati, OH is a very real hotbed of musical creativity at the moment, and the three members of The Serfs - Dylan McCartney (vocals, percussion, guitar, bass, electronics), Dakota Carlyle (Electronics, bass, guitar, vocals) & Andie Luman (vocals, synths) - and their respective side projects (The Drin, Crime of Passing, Motorbike) are undeniably near the center of Cincinnati's neu-underground scene. After releasing albums on Berlin minimal-synth label Detriti & Seattle-based DREAM Records in 2018 & 2022 respectively, the band makes the move to Trouble In Mind for their third and best album yet. "Half Eaten By Dogs" puts a decidedly Midwestern spin on the modernist twitch of future-forward bands like Total Control or Cold Beat as well as the post-industrialist dance floor grime of Skinny Puppy, Dark Day, This Heat or Factrix. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1698509286050-7PEBBBMKZRJ4C4LURIBI/4246267-3037874.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Swans - Feel Good Now Live double album originally released Independently in UK on vinyl and compact disc. This album compiles recordings from the 1987 European tour, made by the bands sound engineer on a Sony Walkman. Limited Edition/one time pressing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1698508824796-SL8S9DSK1PREZVRXWFAT/2768088-2729465+%281%29.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Nirvana - In Utero (30th Anniversary) Celebrating In Utero's 30th, the album pressed on 180-gram vinyl plus 5 b-sides & bonus tracks pressed on a 10-inch have been newly remastered from 96kHz 24-bit transfers of the original analog tapes by original album engineer Bob Weston. Original album artwork has been expanded to a premium tip-on gatefold jacket for the first time with new 10-inch jacket art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1698509630436-FKWZL3R3LAHFC0O4JYHE/4232171-3035242.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Toro Y Moi - Sandhills Toro y Moi's 'Sandhills' is both a tender love letter to Chaz Bear's hometown of Columbia, South Carolina, and a poignant, bittersweet acceptance that one can never really go back home. Recalling Sufjan's 'Seven Swans' or Karen O's soundtrack work for 'Where The Wild Things Are,' these loping folk-pop songs are themselves a sort of Saturn return, reminiscent of Bear's first handmade CD-Rs as Toro y Moi. Bear gave them out to friends in the earliest days of the moniker, the releases stuffed in the Case Logic visor of their cars, and each listen brings a little more of that detail to life: the mall after which 'Sandhills' is named; the teenaged friends spending aimless hours there, full of big ennui and bigger dreams; the late-capitalist decline and empty big box stores of Sandhills today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1698509103578-UA64R8MXE44Y3L85AEA2/3516019.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Sheer Mag - Compilation (Indie Exclusive, Clear Vinyl, Gold) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1698508744888-18PRM9D3H989WSP2HFML/2604126.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Method Man - Tical It was the first Wu-Tang solo album released after the group's debut, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers). Similar to all first generation solo Wu-Tang projects, TICAL was mainly produced by group member RZA. The album features guest appearances from several Wu-Tang members including RZA, Raekwon, & Inspector Deck. The album was a commercial success, reaching number four on the Billboard 200, and number one on the Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart. On July13, 1995, it was certified platinum. This success was driven by it's two singles, 'Bring the Pain' and 'I'll Be There for You/You're All I Need to Get By'. TICAL has since been hailed by several music critics as a hip hop classic and it's success is matched by it's influence as a major piece in the East coast hip hop renaissance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1698508395130-06JJP935ITNW8RSIHRBP/4243862-3037202.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Deerhoof - Runners Four DESCRIPTION Deerhoof / RUNNERS FOUR The Runners Four is Deerhoof's double-LP concept album about friends banding together as honorable outlaws in a corrupt world, deciding what to save in an apocalypse, passing secret messages of warning and hope from a remade future back to a soon-to-be-destroyed present. Abundant with lyrical allusions to the flood, where cargo hold claustrophobia inside meets a watery chaos outside, it was written and self-produced by Satomi Matsuzaki, John Dieterich, Chris Cohen and Greg Saunier while they holed up in a rented Oakland rehearsal room for the winter months 2004-'05. Reissused on Pink & Blue Vinyl Double LP! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1697902650840-0EKNQSSH5A54RCVLCS3J/4245380-3037099.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Andrew Savage - Several Songs About Fire Solo album from Parquet Courts front man. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1697903108105-HSC47M1H1CJ8HUT4821Y/4250999-3044126.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Devo - 50 Years Of De-evolution 1973-2023 Double vinyl LP pressing. 2023 compilation celebrating 50 years of Devo's career. Including the band's biggest hits "Whip It", "Jocko Homo", "Beautiful World" and more. This 2LP version includes 25 tracks, and tracks from all different Devo eras for the first time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1697903193722-D8NIGRO0QWPD610FGM2J/4242142-3035235.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Dirty Three - Ocean Songs Recorded by Steve Albini at Chicago's Electrical Audio and released in 1998, Ocean Songs is Dirty Three's fourth album. It sees them straying a bit from the manic dynamics on 1996's Horse Stories, where the songs were at first coaxed into existence, only to be bashed apart in a raucous ending. Ocean Songs plies the listener with tales of longing and weariness, although hope is just around the corner. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1697904032170-15YT47QWCJ1WCKE4ZW5V/4241864-3050868.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow 20 year anniversary remaster. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1697902529111-LT20QB7Z8M1ORCR4NRGG/4243967-3034563.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Tortoise - TNT Indie Exclusive, Clear Vinyl, Black, Blue, Digital Download Card. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1697904111824-UO0YZ75329ZDXNBUW5LK/4252178-3046245.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Joe Strummer - Streetcore Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros' third studio album, featuring the single "Coma Girl," was released posthumously following Joe's death in 2002. Due to Strummer's passing many of the tracks feature first and only vocal takes. The fan-favorite cover of Bob Marley's "Redemption Song" and the track "Long Shadow" were produced by Rick Rubin. The audio has been remastered by Paul Hicks (The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, George Harrison) and art has been reproduced from the original release. Dark Horse recently celebrated what would have been Strummer's 70th birthday with the release of Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1697903956147-MBQ3BYDVAM4X774XMC7D/4242243-3035266.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Joeseph Shabason - Welcome To Hell What comes after that scene, born of - or despite - those apparent depictions of damnation, would become a cultural touchstone: skateboarding performed at the highest level, composed and displayed in a fashion that would influence and endear audiences for decades to come. Welcome to Hell features a unique and progressive patchwork of skateboarders, most of which would become icons in their world, and helped redefine what the modern skateboarding video could be. A young Joseph Shabason felt that impact. The acclaimed musician hit rewind on his VHS copy of Welcome to Hell hundreds of times in his youth, each watch as thrilling as the last. That invigorating, improvisational, full-body experience of skateboarding is one that Shabason likens to jazz, where a shared language exists between the wheels and woodwinds. The way the skateboarder and musician command that language is what distinguishes them, adding definition to the mercurial concept of "style." This connection becomes most apparent in collaboration; ensembles of skaters and musicians are a noisy, creative bunch. Reflecting on this relationship and the Toy Machine classic would ultimately lead Shabason to wonder: what does hell sound like? The answer was a concept album that, like his previous records, lives in the personal. One that, much like skateboarding itself, would push him to try something new: rescoring Welcome to Hell. The video's original soundtrack served as a musical awakening for many - an active, aggressive mix of songs from bands like The Misfits, Black Sabbath, and Sonic Youth. Here, you'll find that recontextualized, softened, yet no less energizing. Over the album's ten songs, Shabason plays with the angular and ambient, exploring large group melodies that move forward with the on-screen action, shifting the mood in subtle and substantial ways that reframe our understanding of this culture-defining skate video and the skateboarders in it. In Shabason's "Hell," quintessential "East Coast powerhouse," Mike Maldonado is backed by a sharp, driving modal composition that calls back to 1970s Miles Davis, the melodic sensibilities of Azimuth, and stands as a fascinating complement to Maldonado's hard-charging on-board approach. The debut of Elissa Steamer, a pioneer decades ahead of her time, is given fresh spirit with an off-kilter funk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1697903260782-J2RLOMTZUKL3UTIU9WGD/4223109-3032963.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Dr. Know - Fuck Off And Die Punk rock legends and pioneers of the Nard-core genre, Oxnard's premiere hardcore movement, present this walloping collection of highlights from the band's storied career! Includes the fan favorites "Watch It Burn," "God Told Me To," "Mr. Freeze" and more PLUS 4 bonus cover songs! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1697904170007-7RNSUG8Y1WR37ENGQDFY/4248930-3040746.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Tyler The Creator - Wolf Long out of print on vinyl, Tyler, The Creator’s classic album Wolf finally receives an official repress. The album is pressed on two pink-colored LPs in a gatefold jacket with printed inner sleeves and a 12”x 12” insert. The package also includes an oversized sticker of Tyler’s face. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1697903421556-QAR25FBQW6ND7AJ69C9U/4239901-3029702.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Vince Guaraldi - A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving 50th Anniversary Special Edition A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. The album features the original music from the 10th Peanuts special composed by Vince Guaraldi (A Charlie Brown Christmas, It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, A Boy Named Charlie Brown), including previously unreleased bonus takes and mixes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1697902385612-6NGQTXGSG88668ATIRIQ/4239910-3032644.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Slint - Spiderland Dark Blue Vinyl. Produced by Brian Paulson at River North Recorders in Chicago and released by Touch and Go Records in April of 1991, the six songs on Spiderland methodically mapped a shadowy new continent of sound. The music is taut, menacing, and haunting; it's structure built largely on absence and restraint, on the echoing space between the notes, but punctuated by sudden thrilling blasts of unfettered fury. It is a sound that no one had heard before and that no one will ever forget. The eerie, now-iconic black and white cover photo of the four-band member's heads breaking the surface of the water was taken by their friend Will Oldham. Spiderland spawned a whole new genre, frequently called Post-Rock, and came to be regarded as one of the most important and influential records of the past thirty years. Slint broke up shortly before Spiderland was r https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1697903351329-AJRFB1TYL4MN0U679LQ4/4239591-3029483.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Ghost - Infestissumam Ghost -"Infestissumam (10th Anniversary)"Ghost's second studio album Infestissumam was originally released in April 2013 and features the single "Secular Haze." Since their 2010 debut album, Opus Eponymous, the band has built a cult-like fanbase performing conceptualized Satanic church music mixed as a unique and soulfully evil mass. 10th Anniversary Edition LP is pressed on tangerine vinyl. Indie Exclusive. Limited Edition. [Tangerine LP] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1697903726101-ECIB4HIWTYFAEDFA6Y4U/4249174-3042357.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Quicksilver Messenger - S/T Quicksilver Messenger Service is the debut studio album by Quicksilver Messenger Service, originally released in 1968. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1697903490000-S7AM3A593JX3X208A8WS/4249177-3042361.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Antonio Carlos Jobim - Stone Flower Antônio Carlos Jobim was a primary force behind the evolution of bossa nova and his sixth studio release Stone Flower is an absolute classic. The album is emblematic of '70s bossa with it's seductive samba beat fused with elements of modern jazz provided by a star-studded supporting cast of Ron Carter, Hubert Laws, Airto Moreira, and Joe Farrell. Stone Flower was recorded by Blue Note engineering virtuoso Rudy Van Gelder and arranged by fellow pianist and guitarist Eumir Deodato; the fidelity and musicality is so well cared for that it effortlessly carries listeners away. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1697903011861-B3R11CNNB0YRW3RXUN3E/479011.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - R.L. Burnside - Come On In Limited pink colored vinyl LP pressing. Come On In is a remix album by Delta blues guitarist R. L. Burnside, originally released in 1998. Although the album's fusion of styles was deemed unusual by critics, it received acclaim from music journalists and showed respectable sales, becoming the best-selling album distributed by Epitaph Records in early 1999. The album's sound was explored by Burnside in his later works. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1697903831054-QYQUN6AIRP41PLYU1NYU/4246151-3041274.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Salt-N-Peppa - Very Necessary https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1697902229561-XCG2Q0POVN853YCVOPX6/3871937-2627502.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual 40th Anniversary Pressing / In 1983, Cyndi Lauper's debut album, She's So Unusual quickly became a worldwide sensation. It's legacy has lived on 40 years later as one of the most iconic albums of it's time. Including smash hits, "Girls Just Want to Have Fun," "Time After Time," "She Bop" and more, this exclusive 40th anniversary edition comes on opaque blue vinyl. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1697902132700-G9QI8MC0P6A7B1KXCTFI/4238822-3028200.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Mary Lattimore - Goodbye, Hotel Arkada "And Then He Wrapped His Wings Around Me," Lattimore looks to two of her closest friends - songwriter Meg Baird, her collaborator on 2018's Ghost Forests, and accordionist composer Walt McClements, who she's toured and performed alongside - to surface a core memory. As a kid, Lattimore won a drawing contest through a country radio station and got to see Sesame Street Live! In Asheville. She and her mom were invited backstage, and there the benevolent icon Big Bird "gave me an incredible hug with his scratchy yellow wings." The trio channel the enveloping warmth of that portrait, the feeling of innocent escape, flying away towards a childhood dream that is just out of reach, surreal, and tinged with sadness. In a rare vocal passage in Lattimore's library, Baird softly hums with the rolling washes of harp above McClements' tranquil drone; just for a moment, we are held in a sublime canary yellow embrace. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1697902040099-3U7NBSPV59CH8LASTPZ9/4231049-3029118.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Jpegmafia & Danny Brown - Scaring The Hoes After teasing the project for over a year, Jpegmafia and Danny Brown have announced their debut collaborative album, Scaring the Hoes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1697901972567-R8ETZK7QM1B8ZTBZFOA4/4246808-3039653.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Daniel Johnson - Fear Yourself Special 20th anniversary edition of Daniel Johnston's Mark Linkous-produced landmark album. Features updated packaging and remastered audio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1697901662664-0KXUUBJ5TKNUK1XB0ODY/4247452-3040922.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - The Band - The Last Waltz ROCKTOBER Brick & Mortar Exclusive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1697901765823-I5WU6POIGT3RXNTVLXFU/4227568-3011063.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Baroness - Stone Baroness return with their highly-anticipated sixth album, STONE, on Sept. 15 via Abraxan Hymns. While they wrote STONE, frontman John Baizley recorded and pre-mixed it in real time, giving each song on STONE it's own sonic treatment. The album features original cover art by John Baizley and is available on a variety of formats. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1697901869399-SQFPHITARG36SR20CHCM/4227359-3011320.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here? In the late 2000s a sprawling catalog of what is now genre-defining music was emanating from an unlikely place. Cleveland, Ohio has a broad reputation for many things, but in the aughts, psyche-expanding Kosmische wasn't necessarily Cleveland's calling card... until Emeralds. The trio of John Elliott, Steve Hauschildt, and Mark McGuire had released a profusion of limited-run cassettes, CD-Rs, and vinyl titles that had been passed around basement shows and then migrated to niche music communities online, creating a unique kind of murmur at the height of the DIY blog era. Three kids from the rust belt were crafting a distinctive and truly far-out strain of music on their own terms in the Midwest. They were flipping lids in wood-paneled basements and circulating around the underground with soaring sounds stylistically indebted to deep German electronic music pioneers and released with the ethos and twisted fervor of renegade Midwestern noise freaks. After several releases garnered a die-hard fandom in niche circles of internet/music culture, and then catching the attention of the late Peter Rehberg, the renowned artist and curator of the Editions Mego label, an expectation was set that the next Emeralds record was going to be a big one. And in 2010, Does it Look Like I'm Here was it. Artistically, the album is a definitive statement; this is to say it was crafted by heads for heads, a genuine article and a profoundly deep listen, but the mainstream dove in too. Pitchfork acknowledged the rarefied nature of the album's electricity with a "Best New Music" rating. This crossover success is a result of the tracks' potency and wonderfully engineered and succinct structures. It's dialed in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696964087294-Q5TA4IVAXFBZ4IQ9VTCZ/4247450-3039274.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - A-Ha - Hunting High and Low Rhino ROCKTOBER Colored Vinyl, Orange, Brick & Mortar Exclusiv https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696966509526-ZW8MPSBSOOFB7454E17O/1407810.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Van Morrison - Astral Weeks Rhino Records ROCKTOBER Reissue Colored Vinyl, Olive, Brick & Mortar Exclusive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696964239559-ZLE1WME1I94H143I1G9B/2852479.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Bad Company - Bad Company Clear Vinyl, Brick & Mortar Exclusive Rhino Rocktober Reissue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696965347886-2O0UDQFWLHEKWDN0U3NG/Back_in_the_USA.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - MC5 - Back In The USA Rhino ROCKTOBER Reissue. (Clear Vinyl, Brick & Mortar Exclusive) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696965927673-JV54LI00RZKE07T0Z708/2061983.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - MC5 - - Kick Out The Jams Rhino records ROCKTOBER reissue Clear Vinyl, Red, Brick & Mortar Exclusive, Splatter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696971985654-QV7JVJRLXWZTTEHNJT0A/4247445-3040916.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Talking Heads - True Stories True Stories ROCKTOBER (Colored Vinyl, Red, Brick & Mortar Exclusive) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696971261034-XPI5LYMRO5XOBB7XWSLA/4244807-3035693.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Stone Temple Pilots - Thank You Double vinyl LP pressing. Greatest Hits collection featuring: "Interstate Love Song", "Plush", "Vasoline", "Creep" and more! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696972926743-JFL428YJ12QQBRUTDGKI/4244881-3039650.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - ZZ Top - The Best of ZZ Top The first ZZ Top Compilation With hits from their first six albums. Includes: "La Grange", "Tush"and "Just Got Paid". On Translucent Blue Vinyl. Rhino ROCKTOBER Reissues Clear Vinyl, Blue, Brick & Mortar Exclusive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696966850750-JSWRIA7584T3U4FCT3OV/4247385-3039263.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Portugal. The Man - Woodstock Rhino Records ROCKTOBER reissue Crystal Clear Diamond Vinyl (Clear Vinyl, Brick & Mortar Exclusive) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696972458460-CWBSUHLIBIFYM69EX32G/4242639-3033043.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Vanishing Twin - Afternoon X Vanishing Twin furthers their exploration of decidedly experimental territories with Afternoon X. Crafted with a playful balance of humour and rigour, with each member embracing the role of the multi-instrumentalist and process, over outcome. Following a series of line-up changes, Vanishing Twin is now the tightly honed collective of singer and multi-instrumentalist Cathy Lucas, drummer Valentina Magaletti (Holy Tongue, Tomaga, Moin) and bassist Susumu Mukai (Zongamin). Harnessing the diverse touchstones of it's members; Lucas' left-field song-craft, Magaletti's singular approaches to experimental percussion, and Mukai's long history in the production of electronic music, the band has refined a hypnotic sound at the juncture of minimalism, kosmische, post-punk, and dream-laden, psychedelic pop. These eight fluttering abstractions, culled, collaged, and built upon from a vast constellation of instruments, samples, and unclaimed sources. Lucas employs her voice as an instrument and a generator of raw sound, weaving surreal imagery and uncanny juxtapositions amongst the dance and propellant drive. From infectious grooves of the album's title track and the constrained minimalism of "Subito", to the ambitious heights of pieces like 'The Down Below' and Lazy Garden, which unfurl a psychedelic avant-gardism on the scope and scale of David Axelrod and Scott Walker. Vanishing Twin embark upon a new multifaceted journey that collectively culminates as the bands most forward-thinking and groundbreaking release to date. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696972728863-9YYUHTJ7YLSK716K0PX4/4240220-3030879.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Daniel Villarreal - Lados B Drummer Daniel Villarreal was joined by guitarist Jeff Parker and bassist Anna Butterss for two days of recording in the backyard of Chicali Outpost in LA. For all three musicians, it was the first recording session they'd done in-person since the pandemic began. Some moments made it on Villarreal's acclaimed 2022 album Panamá 77, but most of the music remained unreleased. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696968192631-4TMWXFH7ZVG9BRD9ZXM4/4238519-3032652.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Sufjan Stevens - Javelin Over the course of his career, Sufjan Stevens has blurred distinctions between the major and the minor, between the details that color our existence and the big events that frame our lives. He has turned historical footnotes of States into kaleidoscopic pop, and rendered the immeasurable grief of loss with intimacy and grace. Javelin - Sufjan's first solo album of songs since 2020's The Ascension and his first in full solo singer-songwriter mode since 2015's Carrie & Lowell - bridges all these approaches. Sufjan uses the quietness of a solitary confession to ask universal questions in songs we can share communally. Accompanying the CD and LP formats of the album is a 48-page book of art and essays. With a series of meticulous collages, cut-up catalog fantasies, puff-paint word clouds, and iterative color fields, Sufjan builds order from seeming chaos and vice versa. And toward the middle of it all are 10 short essays by Sufjan, another window into the process that informed Javelin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696966639905-EY87RX1DSOP3K56XAZKE/4237679-3030969.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff 35th Anniversary yellow vinyl edition. In 1988, Mudhoney followed their instant-classic debut single with Superfuzz Bigmuff, a six-song EP so overflowing with chaotic rock energy it warped thousands of minds, and inspired countless guitarists to immediately search for the titular fuzz pedals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696966406347-EGPF2L82A3ZYNYZYHT4E/warner-records-mac-miller-npr-music-tiny-desk-concert-lp-blue-vinyl-lp-093624855958-wb855958-1-photo-photo-photo-33019092598967_400x.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Mac Miller - NPR Tiny Desk Concert Mac Miller's Swimming marked a pivotal point in the late artist's career. His devotion to constant sonic exploration and artistic reinvention had already been well-documented prior to the album's release - the quantum leap from his Billboard chart-topping debut Blue Slide Park to his sophomore album Watching Movies with the Sound Off, his tour de force as a producer on his 2014 mixtape Faces and ability to direct a full band on 2016's The Divine Feminine were evidence of his steadfast commitment to growth in his craft. Yet upon it's release, Swimming was immediately understood by both his fans and critics alike as the high water mark of his career: an album that perfectly showcased the musical chops he had developed vocally and instrumentally over the course of a decade. This understanding was reinforced when, just 3 days after the album's release, NPR Music published a Tiny Desk Concert where Miller and band performed album cuts "Small Worlds," "What's The Use?" featuring regular collaborator Thundercat and "2009" with a full band. The now-iconic performance remains one of the highest streamed performances in the history of NPR's Tiny Desk Concert series and is now available on vinyl for the first time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696966753626-ICXD9VLBLTIYSMGDQAGC/4245364-3037212.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Oneotrix Point Never - Again Double vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. Includes digital download. 2023 release. Daniel Lopatin is a Brooklyn-based musician, composer, and Mercury Prize nominated producer who records and performs as Oneohtrix Point Never. Again is his tenth album. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696966042483-WSSDSR1AZC2IUADH8JDD/4246999-3051395.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Meat Puppets - Up On The Sun Vinyl LP pressing. Digitally remastered edition of the Meat Puppets' 1985 album. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696964751655-K8AWJZCYE23NE0XPZBF0/4252646-3045549.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Gravediggaz - 6 Feet Deep https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696964499081-M84J21K9DICGYWXVTB9M/4247575-3040375.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Anthology II Movie Themes 1976-1988 Anthology II continues the celebration of his compositional genius via an excellently sequenced collection of some of his most iconic pieces of music from his extensive filmography, all newly recorded with his musical collaborators Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter. The compilation opens with "Chariots of Pumpkins" from Halloween III that perfectly captures the eerie essence of the cult classic film with it's pulsating synths and haunting melodies. The listener is engulfed by a sense of unease and anticipation, before being thrust into "69th St. Bridge" from Escape From New York, a dynamic track that encapsulates the futuristic and gritty nature of the film via the use of throbbing bass lines, driving rhythms, and electronic textures. The record has also an isolating tone as it skulks through ambient leaning tracks such as "Fuchs" and "To Mac's Shack" from The Thing, and "Walk to the Lighthouse" from The Fog, all of which display a slower tempo, foreboding undertones and an ethereal atmosphere that feels like a distant whisper. All of which has been cautiously laid in preparation to the grand finale. The iconic and instantly recognizable "Laurie's Theme" from the original Halloween. It's simple yet menacing piano melody which has become synonymous with the horror genre, concludes the album by striking fear into the hearts of listeners. These tracks represent just a fraction of John Carpenter's impressive musical repertoire. With each haunting note and pulsating beat, his soundtracks continue to resonate with audiences, forever etching his name in the annals of film music history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696965080863-HURX8F0JLR8Y8L3PE1E1/4247091-3040027.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Erkin Koray - Mechul: Singles And Rarities Turkish guitar master Erkin Koray. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696964951840-F9JYWWJDZNJV5X4H0MSM/4236819-3026415.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Hella - Hold Your Horse Is Limited gold colored vinyl LP pressing. On their debut "Hold Your Horse Is" Hella's style started to transform, organically. Zach was pushing the envelope rhythmically, and Spencer began to simultaneously play both rhythm and melody on the same instrument. 2023 marks the 21st anniversary of HYHI, which is being repressed as a commemorative re-release by KRS, including both the remastered original album and the 3 song demo which landed them their deal with KRS in 2001. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696964659538-1KZC821VAOITPBEOW9O2/4252645-3048062.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Ghostface Killah - Iron Man Get On Down proudly present the debut solo album from Wu-Tang Clan's Ghostface Killah. Originally released in 1996 on Epic Records, Ironman earned immediate success, debuting at number two on the Billboard 200 chart, and number one on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. Produced by RZA, Ironman found inspiration in sources ranging from blaxploitation films to classic soul and charted a whole new direction for hip-hop in the process. The album features classic bangers like "Daytona 500" featuring Raekwon and Cappadonna to soulful emotionally. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696963556913-TR7XRCFRDMOR4NOU18SO/1431745.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Steely Dan - Aja Aja is the sixth studio album by Steely Dan, originally released in 1977. On the album, band leaders Donald Fagen and Walter Becker pushed Steely Dan further into experimenting with different combinations of session players, enlisting the services of nearly 40 musicians, while pursuing longer, more sophisticated compositions and arrangements. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696963850603-31N18FP3N0N8RVVSZQ6C/4236876-3027651.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Wilco - Cousin Wilco’s thirteenth studio album, Cousin, was recorded in the band’s legendary Chicago studio – The Loft – over a period of two years. The ten new tracks are written by band leader Jeff Tweedy and feature musical performances by the longtime lineup of Nels Cline, Mikael Jorgensen, Glenn Kotche, John Stirratt, Pat Sansone and, of course, Tweedy on lead vocals. After a short detour back into their country-influenced roots via last year’s Cruel Country double album, Cousin sees Wilco back in their more familiar progressive and experimental rock territory. Tweedy’s singular songwriting voice is in full evidence, with lyrics weaving across a variety of topics – from the iconoclastic to the introspective. Adding a unique and new element to the recording process was the attachment of Welsh singer/songwriter Cate Le Bon as producer – the first time an outsider has been actively involved in a Wilco recording session for more than ten years, since Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Le Bon brought her unique musical perspective to the band’s trademark sound and provided them with an inspiring new challenge to push their musical boundaries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696963625318-APWVQYHL01WRSU5B4OZQ/4240233-3030112.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Tengger - Tengger https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696963950184-NIBN10EYGK0KGVEHWVHW/4243157-3047668.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Wolves In The Throne Room - Crypt Of Ancestral Knowledge (Colored Vinyl, Silver) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696958342161-TDW9JTUVX6102P1WVCHI/4237228-3026592.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Animal Collective - Isn't It Now? At this point, it is almost impossible to say what makes for a classic Animal Collective album; the standard fluctuates with the weather, your temperament, whatever chemicals may or may not waft through your mind. But from start to finish, first listen to last, Isn't It Now? absolutely lands as a classic, it's mix of playfulness and earnestness, glittery pop and tessellated textures seeming to synthesize and update all that has ever made and still makes this band so compelling. It is experienced and wise, energized and young, the work of four people committed to finding the frontier of a beginner's mind, together. Recorded, mixed and co-produced by Russell Elevado (D'Angelo, The Roots, Kamasi Washington). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696963757895-7BORMIVT2LAEMLDM1CNS/4237277-3027919.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696958940626-RR9L8D9LCJDW3G1B47XR/4237919-3027995.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - The Grateful Dead - Wake Of The Flood (50th Anniversary Remaster) 50th Anniversary Remaster of the debut album from the band's own label, Grateful Dead RECORDS. With the recent passing of founding member Ron "Pigpen" McKernan and temporary exit of drummer, Mickey Hart, this 1973 release introduces a fresh lineup that includes newest members Keith and Donna Godchaux on keys and vocals. Features"Eyes Of The World," "Stella Blue," and "Mississippi Half-Step." 50th Anniversary Remaster by David Glasser, with Plangent Processes tape restoration and speed correction. Produced for Release by David Lemieux. 180-Gram, black Vinyl. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696963316154-ANG4NT48NDCVS3Q1767E/4235173-3029588.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Modern Nature - No Fixed Point In Space No Fixed Point In Space, the third full-length album by Jack Cooper's Modern Nature, takes the palette of sound and themes that were honed on 2021's Island Of Noise and launches them into an expansive world of openness and vivid technicolour. It's a music that hasn't been heard before; as melodic as anything Cooper has produced but framed by rhythms and instrumentation that reflect the chaos, unpredictability and colour of the natural world. "With this record," Cooper explains, "I wanted the music to reflect nature: beginnings and endings, arrivals and departures, process and chance. I wanted the music and the words to feel like roots, branches, mycelium, the intricacies of a dawn chorus, neurons firing, the unknown. The way you see or hear music in your head is abstract and magic... often more beautiful than what eventually appears on tape. When you sit down with an instrument and begin translating an idea, it quickly conforms. I've tried to develop this music without thinking in terms of set rhythms, time signatures, folk or pop structures, syntax; the devices you associate with the music world which I come from. I wanted to make music that was abstract, free and honest, whilst still being predominantly tonal and recognisably song based. It feels like time to make something that no one has heard before." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696957656159-XEJJ6Y7AG5RDY2O60PQL/4227105-3027963.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Mitski - The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We Sometimes, Mitski says, it feels like life would be easier without hope, or a soul, or love. But when she closes her eyes and thinks about what's truly hers, what can't be repossessed or demolished, she sees love. She hopes her album, The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We, will continue to shine that love long after she's gone. Listening to it, that's precisely how it feels: like a love that's haunting the land." This is my most American album," Mitski says about her seventh record, and the music feels like a profound act of witnessing this country, in all of it's private sorrows and painful contradictions. In this album, which is sonically Mitski's most expansive, epic, and wise, the songs seem to be introducing wounds and then actively healing them. Here, love is time-traveling to bless our tender days, like the light from a distant star. The album is full of the ache of the grown-up, seemingly mundane heartbreaks and joys that are often unsung but feel enormous. It's a tiny epic. From the bottom of a glass, to a driveway slushy with memory and snow, to a freight train barreling through the Midwest, and all the way to the moon, it feels like everything, and everyone, is crying out, screaming in pain, arching towards love. Love is that inhospitable land, beckoning us and then rejecting us. To love this place - this earth, this America, this body - takes active work. It might be impossible. The best things are. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696957739665-GLDZYTKMQTS4QCN7CWYA/4212531-3038224.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Yussef Dayes - Black Classical Music Double vinyl LP pressing. 2023 release. Black Classical Music is Yussef Dayes' nineteen-track debut solo studio album. His drum licks and Rocco Palladino's bass are the sturdy anchors, aided by Charlie Stacey (keys/synths), Venna (saxophone), Alexander Bourt (percussion), and a host of features including: Chronixx, Masego, Jamilah Barry, Tom Misch, Elijah Fox, Shabaka Hutchings, Miles James, Sheila Maurice Grey, Nathaniel Cross, Theon Cross, and the Chineke! Orchestra-the first professional orchestra in Europe to be made up of majority Black and ethnically diverse musicians. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696963431329-2Q2PBI7YGHSXNICU2K7B/4244558-3039422.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Ed Sheeran - Autumn Variations "Last autumn, I found that my friends and I were going through so many life changes. After the heat of the summer, everything either calmed, settled, fell apart, came to a head or imploded," says Ed Sheeran. "My dad and brother told me about a composer called Elgar, who composed 'Enigma Variations', where each of the 14 compositions were about a different one of his friends. This is what inspired me to make this album. When I recorded Subtract with Aaron Dessner, we clicked immediately. We wrote and recorded non-stop and this album was born out of that partnership. I feel he has captured the feeling of autumn so wonderfully in his sonics and I hope everyone loves it as much as I do." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696958617522-C95G6AGIAXWJQDUXPH53/4237291-3024848.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Duster - Stratsophere (25th Anniversary Edition) Stratosphere (25th Anniversary Edition) - Constellations Splatter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696959384214-WD4EB7RQGBMLGU92CJNZ/4235749-3021955.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Laurel Halo - Atlas Vinyl LP pressing. Atlas, the 2023 album from renowned electronic artist Laurel Halo, is a suite of sensual ambient jazz collages, designed to take the listener on a roadtrip through the subconscious. Blending both synthetic ambient textures and acoustic instrumentation, the album is a series of endlessly listenable maps, rife with hidden detail. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696958500046-W4IEOSBZ46R8Y5FHZDZD/4242200-3035128.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Dan Auerbach - Keep It Hid Easy Eye Sound - Keep It Hid - Dan Auerbach - The critically acclaimed and long-out-of-print 2009 debut solo album from The Black Keys singer and guitarist Dan Auerbach. An intimate and underrated affair with shades of greazy rock & roll, blue-eyed soul, and bluegrass hollers. Reissued with new artwork and pressed from the original master. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696963216947-DW6XTBYWDPW6VMQ3G6KQ/4235001-3038627.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Jason Isbell - Southeastern Jason Isbell's songs are filled with ghosts. They're haunted by spirits both welcome and unwelcome, by the personal and historical legacies that make us who we are. Nowhere Is this more evident than on his 2013 breakthrough album Southeastern. Isbell offers confessions. Reflections. and promises that contront and make communion with those who have come before and remain wIth us still. It's twelve tracks represent an extended meditation on the concept articulated by another celebrated southern storyteller, author William Faulkner: "The past is never dead. It isn't even past." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696958838021-E5TGRCCK2MRL2XRC85A6/4223338-2987178.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Flower Traveling Band - Satori Released in 1971, this is the first album produced by a Japanese artist with the overseas market in mind. It was released in the United States, Canada, and Japan, and in particular, the single 'SATORI PART2' reached number eight in Canada. There is also an oriental thought trend in Europe and the United States, and the work is characterized by incorporating more oriental and Japanese sounds. Japan at this time was also a turning point from GS to folk, and there were still few people who accepted rock, but it continues to be supported by it's advanced sound. Of course, it is very popular overseas and it's name recognition is still undiminished. The jacket reproduces the original W jacket, Rock Age OBI, and enclosed postcard as much as possible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696958742284-BGJHVBCGOQPDWN4QY2Z4/4235703-3022691.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Fleetwood Mac - Rumours Live Fleetwood Mac was at the top of its game in August 1977 when the band returned to its adopted home in Southern California to play three shows at The Forum in Los Angeles. RUMOURS had only been out a few weeks when the band left in February to tour the world, returning six months later to play three shows at The Forum for nearly 50,000 fans. RUMOURS LIVE captures the energy and excitement of the band’s opening night at The Forum on August 29, 1977. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696959252859-L8AHWWYCW5RY2MQ3WTL3/3710116.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Green Day - Dookie (30th Anniversary) GLimited 30th Anniversary baby blue colored vinyl LP pressing. Green Day's third studio album Dookie was released in February 1994, and has since sold over 15 million copies worldwide, including 10 million in the US (RIAA Diamond certified). The album is an iconic punk-rock-pop masterpiece and one of the most influential and defining albums of the 1990's. It spawned five hit singles that are still hugely popular songs: "Longview", "Basket Case", "Welcome to Paradise", "When I Come Around", and "She". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696958101039-26PDA5TNRNUDBUQCEBKT/4229528-3026459.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Alabaster Deplume - Come With Fierce Grace When we are boldly and sincerely requested as ourselves, as whoever we may be, we can, in response to one-another, create naturally, things that no-one could have ever specifically demanded we deliver. In order to record the compositions in his critically acclaimed 2022 release GOLD, Alabaster instilled a culture of creativity by leading his ensembles in spontaneous composition and development. To allow them to be present, he kept them constantly creating. This resulted in an abundance of material that he has since produced and arranged, resulting in this collection. It is a piece made entirely of authentic, un-stipulated - yet welcomed - human interaction. It is similar to how elements in nature contribute to shared work and beauty without conscious motive - a bee's own motives result in the delivery of pollen. As Alabaster says himself, "The great thing wants to happen, let us allow it to happen" On his first trip to the US Alabaster collected messages from individuals, to be delivered to the hearts of his audiences. One, who preferred to remain anonymous, encourages us to "come with fierce grace" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696957529526-IWMXE33CAZTAQO4U32ZA/4205529-3023552.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Nation Of Language - Strange Disciple Nation of Language have attracted an increasing, international audience with their danceable and impassioned takes on new wave and post-punk traditions. Their hopeful music-marked by soaring melodies, blinking synth lines, and frontman Ian Devaney's towering voice-is a ray of light in an era of anxiety, cynicism, hatred, and snark. Following the critical acclaim of their 2020 debut album, Introduction, Presence, and it's 2021 follow-up, A Way Forward, Nation of Language return with their third studio album, Strange Disciple. Recorded in the East Williamsburg home studio of their producer Nick Millhiser (LCD Soundsystem / Holy Ghost!), it is the band's first album recorded completely to analog tape. The sonic direction of the record became clear after the band wrote "Sole Obsession," "Spare Me the Decision," and "Sightseer," all groovy, bass-driven songs that deviate from the straight-forward drive of A Way Forward. As their bass lines became more playful and ambulatory, they also relied more on the electric guitar, which had largely been a background element up until this point. Strange Disciple is a spiritual, searching record. We follow a bumpy journey of self-exploration, stumbling on moments of clarity and wisdom, and then getting tripped up again. It's an invitation to both celebrate and mourn, find yourself and lose yourself, reflect on one's infatuations and perhaps even form new ones with these songs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696957436068-OOVXJ0DL60LAV9OZ7BAJ/4231283-3018480.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - R.E.M. - Reveal R.E.M. - "Reveal" / Released in 2001, Reveal was co-produced with long-time collaborator Patrick McCarthy. The album sees R.E.M. experiment with synthesized sound, but also make "a conscious return to their classic sound" (Allmusic). The record features hits "Imitation of Life" and "All the Way to Reno (You're Gonna Be a Star). This edition is pressed on 180-gram vinyl with a printed insert. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696957959399-PCPGOI1HDWQAFXVMD77Q/The_Loveliest_Time.png FALL NEW RELEASES - Carly Rae Jepsen - The Loveliest Time The Loveliest Time is the follow-up to 2022's The Loneliest Time, which continues in Jepsen's tradition of coupled releases - but this time they're not so much B-sides as they are a second chapter. While The Loneliest Time was born from a period of isolation and self-discovery, The Loveliest Time is a celebration of that growth. Featuring shimmering lead single Shy Boy, The Loveliest Time is Jepsen at her most experimental and intimate to date. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696955166684-F7U3XRH3OF0ZYISB41OR/4225808-3000907.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Devandra Banhart - Flying Wig Indie Exclusive, Clear Vinyl, Blue, Poster, Digital Download Card https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696955457894-G2HKHKBE1GHQ9JXBDPG4/James_Blake_-_Playing_Robots_into_Heaven.png FALL NEW RELEASES - James Blake - Playing Robots Into Heaven Gearing up for another pivotal creative chapter, GRAMMY® Award-winning UK singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer James Blake has released "Big Hammer, " the debut single from his forthcoming, sixth studio album Playing Robots Into Heaven which will be released on September 8, 2023. Playing Robots Into Heaven follows the critically acclaimed Friends That Break Your Heart and will see James return to the electronic roots of his Hessle, Hemlock and R&S records days. It will also nod to his latest creation, the CMYK event series with Ronda INTL which kicked off in Los Angeles last March and will be venturing to London on July 6th. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696955671779-SPED60PL2Q04EHELIQ37/4242087-3033711.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Cannibal Corpse - Chaos Horrific 2023 release from the veteran death metal band. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696955792295-6RFRQ5E4LF21VFH9DF13/4237512-3025514.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Explosions In The Sky - End End, the enigmatic new album by Explosions in the Sky, was inspired by darkness, but became a loud, dramatic, wild rumination on life and death. "Our starting point was the concept of an ending-death, or the end of a friendship or relationship. Every song comes from a story, or an idea one of us has had that we've all expanded on and made it's own world. Maybe it's our nature, but we kept feeling that the album title was ultimately open to a lot more interpretation-the end of a thing or a time can mean a stop, but it can also mean a beginning, and what happens after one thing ends might pale in comparison to what it becomes next," says the band about the album. End is perhaps the "grandest" Explosions In The Sky album - melding the quiet restraint and crushing feel of their early releases with the sonic texturing and ornate experimentation of their later releases, and their increasingly deep film and television scoring catalog, influenced by personal tastes stretching from classical to soul to experimental ambient music. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696956481219-VRG4EXU8GWXQ2K2LS7M9/a4133281759_16.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Mondo Drag - Through The Hourglass DESCRIPTION It's been nearly eight years since the last Mondo Drag album came out. In that time, the Bay Area psych-prog band toured the US and Europe, performed at major festivals and-once again-reformed their rhythm section. But in the context of the band's nearly two-decade existence, this period may have been the most fraught. Vocalist and keyboardist John Gamiño lost friends and family members. Meanwhile, humanity suffered the throes of a global pandemic. "It was a dark chapter," he recalls. "I was going through a lot of stuff personally-there's been a lot of death, loss of family members, and grief. Plus, the band was inactive. It felt like time was slipping away from me. I felt like I was wasting my opportunities. I felt like I wasn't participating in my story as much as I could have." This feeling of time slipping away is the prevailing theme on Mondo Drag's new album, Through the Hourglass. "For me, Through the Hourglass really encompasses the quarantine / pandemic years," Gamiño says. "But in a way that includes a couple of years before that for us, because the band was stagnant during that time. Living with that was really impactful on our daily lives. So, the album is reflective. It's looking at time-past, present, future." Luckily, Mondo Drag emerged from this dour period reborn. Freshly energized by bassist Conor Riley (formerly of San Diego psych squad Astra, currently of Birth), who joined in 2018, and drummer Jimmy Perez, who joined in 2022, Gamiño and guitarists Jake Sheley and Nolan Girard have triumphed over the seemingly inexorable pull of time's passage. The result is a dazzling and often plaintive rumination on the hours, days, and years-not to mention experiences-that comprise a lifetime. Through The Hourglass was tracked at El Studio in San Francisco, with an additional ten days of recording at the band's rehearsal space, which doubles as a hybrid analog-digital recording studio. The album was engineered and mixed by Phil Becker, drummer of space-punk mainstays Pins Of Light. "We're still here," Gamiño says. "We've been in the studio working on our craft and honing our skills. Now we're re-emerging for the next stage of our life cycle." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696955315709-VB7WG896T9322IMU2KUT/3448762.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Beastie Boys - Licensed To Ill Indie Exclusive, Limited Edition, Colored Vinyl, Burgundy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696955567439-UM3YMG5VKEPJ09MSQO09/4227553-3026455.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Jamie Branch - Fly Or Die Fly Or Die Fly Or Die ((world War)) In July of 2022, just one month before Jaimie Branch's death sent shockwaves around the world, the trumpet player and composer was in Chicago at International Anthem (IARC) studios putting finishing touches on an album. It was a suite of music she had composed and then recorded with her flagship ensemble, Fly or Die, over the course of a residency at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska. In her wake, the album was near complete, with only mixing tweaks, final titles, and artwork to be fully realized. In the months following, her family (led by sister Kate Branch), her band (Jason Ajemian, Lester St. Louis, and Chad Taylor), and her collaborators at IARC (engineers Dave Vettraino and David Allen, comrades Alejandro Ayala and Scott McNiece) banded together to gather memories, texts, emails, photographs, artwork and fragments belonging to jaimie to light the path forward. The goal was always to do what jaimie would have done. Packaged in stunning artwork by John Herndon, Damon Locks, and branch herself, Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)) is jaimie's final album with the quartet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696955942751-CQ367X1RKQSUWQ1J7MRO/4241692-3031442.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Talib Kweli & Madlib - Liberation 2 Double vinyl LP pressing. Liberation 2 is a 2023 studio album from hip hop musicians Talib Kweli and Madlib, a sequel to their 2007 release Liberation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696956613774-47M4J7UAQWIO716KD5XR/4235874-3021979.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - 4235874-3021979.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696956908899-2GZ58O2VKF9VSYV2RS6G/2564485.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Public Enemy - Yo! Bum Rush The Show Indie Exclusive, Limited Edition, Colored Vinyl, Burgundy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696957034163-RDJNK5AKLZ0NQKELWSK7/4231055-3019685.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Woods - Perennial "Woods are in bloom again, inviting you to disappear into a new spectrum of colors and sounds and dreams on Perennial. "Formed in Brooklyn in 2004, Woods have matured into a true independent institution, above and below the root, reliably emerging every few years with new music that grows towards the latest sky. Operating the Woodsist label since 2006 and curating the beloved homespun Woodsist Festival for the musical universe they've built, Perennial is the sound of a band on the edge of their 20th anniversary and still finding bold new ways to sound like (and challenge) themselves."Perennial grew from a bed of guitar / keyboard / drum loops by Woods head-in-chief Jeremy Earl, a form of winter night meditation that evolved into an unexplored mode of collaborative songwriting. With Earl's starting points, he and bandmates Jarvis Taveniere and John Andrews convened, first at Earl's house in New York, then at Panoramic House studio in Stinson Beach, California, site of sessions for 2020's Strange To Explain. With a view of the sparkling Pacific and tape rolling, they began to build, jamming over the loops, switching instruments, and developing a few dozen building blocks."The album's resulting eleven songs, four of them instrumental, are in the classic Woods mode-shimmering, familiar, fractionally unsettling-but with the half-invisible infinity boxes of Earl's loops burbling beneath each like a mysterious underground source. From source to seed to bloom, each loop unfolds into something unpredictable, from the jeweled pop of the aching 'Little Black Flowers' to the ecstatic starlit freak-beat of 'Another Side.' They are blossomings both far-out and comforting, like the Mellotronic cloud-hopping of 'Between the Past,' or sometimes just plain comforting, like the widescreen snowglobe fantasia of the instrumental 'White Winter Melody,' touched by Connor Gallaher's pedal steel."-Jesse Jarnow https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696957127349-TVATXAOB8OFPG4QN9Z5K/4232942-3021521.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Tom Waits - Rain Dogs Noted as Tom Waits’ most critically acclaimed album, Rain Dogs follows the new musical path Waits had taken with Swordfishtrombones. Considered the middle of a de facto trilogy with Swordfishtrombones and Franks Wild Years, Rain Dogs is the first of Waits’ albums to be written in New York, in a Lower Manhattan basement. A 53-minute, 19-track monster, Rain Dogs is a kind of mutant, late 20th century musical “Canterbury Tales” with a shape-shifting band. There are banjos and marimbas and bowed saw and parade drum and howling horns (and Keith Richards and Marc Ribot) on this rollicking, rough-hewn opus—and Waits, using his voice in increasingly weird-and-wild ways. The songs are stories, sagas, laments, breakdowns, character studies, comedies and cabaret numbers. There’s the aching “Hang Down Your Head,” and the moving anthem, “Downtown Train,” which was covered by Patti Smith and Rod Stewart. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1696957219006-GG64QRS30YEUINPZ4NHB/4232941-3021553.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Tom Waits - Bone Machine Originally released in 1992 on Island Records, Bone Machine is Tom Waits’ 11th studio album. 5 years after Franks Wild Years, Bone Machine is a return to studio albums for Tom Waits. The album features David Hidalgo, Les Claypool, Brain and Keith Richards and won a GRAMMY for Best Alternative Music Album. Bone Machine is rather pointedly otherworldly… another edge pusher – his most poetically and sonically daring work yet. Writing again with his longtime collaborator and wife, Kathleen Brennan, Waits acknowledges writing ‘darker’ material saying “A great many songs live there, so that’s where I’ve been digging lately.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1697902757323-36HTU5Y7HE8EJ2R85OWS/4237500-3029112.jpg FALL NEW RELEASES - Tristian Allen - Tin Iso & The Dawn Across the arc of Tristan Allen's epiphanic, four-part journey, Tin Iso and the Dawn, the New York based composer and puppeteer brings sonic life to a fantastical realm of characters whose universal longings mirror our own. In the first release of this mythic trilogy, intricate sound design and spellbinding leitmotifs make sense of loss and what's beyond. http://www.raggedrecords.org/winter-new-release daily 0.75 2023-12-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1708554612632-ZHUU1830WMB2MXI0B7OZ/4284337-3086345.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Gil Scott-Heron - Free Will Released in 1971, Gil Scott-Heron's second album "Pieces Of A Man" is a stone-cold classic and rightly seen as one of the greatest albums of all time. There is a reason why a full album of songs did not appear as a follow-up. Both producer Bob Thiele and Scott-Heron's writing partner Brian Jackson had been keen to move forward quickly with song-based material, but Scott-Heron saw himself first and foremost as a writer. A new novel, The Nigger Factory, would be published in 1972 and he also enrolled for writing seminars at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Once the decision was made to combine poetry and song, sessions were booked for the 2nd and 3rd March 1972. The first session with Bernard 'Pretty' Purdie (drums), Hubert Laws (flute/piccolo), David Spinozza (guitar), Jerry Jemmott (bass) and Brian Jackson (electric and acoustic piano) recorded the songs with Horace Ott taking care of the arrangements. The second session was dedicated to poetry, recorded with Scott-Heron, Jackson, Eddie Knowles and Charlie Sanders from their college group Black & Blues. "Free Will" was released in 1972. The song side included the heart-rending Vietnam war commentary of 'Do You Hear What They Said?', the propulsive title track and the beautiful 'The Middle Of Your Day'. The poetry side immerses you in the radical politics of the day via 'No Knock' and 'The King Alfred Plan', and ends with his heartfelt tribute to John Coltrane '... and then he wrote Meditations'. Like "Pieces Of A Man" it is a classic and a cornerstone of any record collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1708553963105-QRVRQFQ70Z7QQ2O6Y3EJ/4276290-3080809.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Eccentric Soul: The Shoestring Label (Various Artists) Operating in a basement studio at the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, pipeline man Howard Neal and his appropriately named Shoestring label was Alton, Illinois' answer to a question no one asked. Pressed in minuscule numbers and barely outside the 62002 zip code, the singles by The James Family, Jimmie Green, Pete & Cheez, and Carletta Sue are prime examples of cosmic midwestern disco in search of a break. This heavy weight 10-song LP is housed in a tip-on sleeve, and includes an essay and imagery that complete the picture of this pure expression of small-town soul. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1708554049468-1QQWDAT1GWE9K8OJQ8JD/4291052-3098001.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - J Dilla - Ruff Draft: Dilla's Mix Limited clear with black colored vinyl LP pressing. When Ruff Draft saw it's initial release in 2003, J Dilla possessed production skills on par with anyone in hip-hop - technically and creatively. "At the top of his game," says longtime friend and collaborator, Karriem Riggins. After years of building while modestly deferring to others of both greater and lesser notoriety, Dilla finally completed the first solo endeavor on his own label, entirely on his own terms. This definitive reissue of Ruff Draft takes Dilla's recently discovered mixes of the album - only ever issued on the rare, original vinyl EP - and restores his vision for the project... "straight from the mothaf***in' cassette," as he phrased the sound he was going for on the intro. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1708554474018-4XW7OXFMMNDIR46EMRLW/4284186-3084969.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Lee Scratch Perry - King Perry Vinyl LP pressing. Conceived, written and recorded during the COVID pandemic, 'King Perry' is Lee Scratch Perry's posthumous album, produced by Daniel Boyle, and featuring guest performances from Greentea Peng, Shaun Ryder, Tricky, Marta, Rose Waite and Fifi Rong. Two tracks were also co- produced with Tricky, who releases Perry's last works on his False Idols label. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1708553513983-XAROE63X4DJX3NF2LTZ2/3992374-2731804.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Aaliyah - S/T Double vinyl LP pressing housed in gatefold jacket. Aaliyah is the self-titled third and final studio album by the "Queen of Urban Pop," Aaliyah. Originally released in 2001 by Blackground Records, the album debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 albums chart. Cited by critics as one of the best R&B records of it's time, the album is a reflection of herself as both a young adult and matured vocalist. Standout tracks include "We Need A Resolution," "More Than A Woman," and "Rock The Boat." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1708555195177-GLUAITHXZOWEGU33CTPI/4286508-3089159.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Miles Davis - Ascenseur Pour L'echafaud Contradictory accounts of Miles Davis' creation of the soundtrack to Louis Malle's film noir Ascenseur pour l'Échafaud have all become part of its legend. Rarely has a soundtrack been so decisive. Nearly 70 years on, beyond the myth, this taut, feverish recording, imbued with extreme dramatic tension, remains one of the Miles' finest records. The basic outline remains: Jean-Paul Rappeneau suggested to Malle asking Miles Davis to create the film's soundtrack who agreed to record the music after attending a private screening. Davis was performing at the Club Saint-Germain in Paris in November 1957 and on December 4, he brought his four sidemen to the recording studio without having had them prepare anything. Davis only gave the musicians a few rudimentary harmonic sequences he had assembled in his hotel room, and, once the plot was explained, the band improvised without any precomposed theme, while edited loops of the musically relevant film sequences were projected in the background. Bassist Pierre Michelot recalled in 1988 that "Miles just asked us to play two chords, D minor and C7, 4 bars of each, ad lib." Typically, Miles planned very little but know exactly what he wanted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1708553725381-C1MUW1LQU3PJ5V2R2M78/4264260-3056595.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Cocteau Twins - Four Calendar Cafe Released in March 1996, Milk & Kisses is the eighth and final studio album by Cocteau Twins. And like it's predecessor, 1993's Four Calendar Café, it's yet to be formally released on vinyl outside Europe. That all changes next January when 4AD will reissue both titles in the United States. The second of two albums Cocteau Twins released via Fontana / Capitol Records after their long association with 4AD ended in 1990 with Heaven or Las Vegas, the band warmed the waters for Milk & Kisses with a pair of exceptional EPs where they took their music to new places, Twinlights and Otherness - the first largely acoustic, the second their only sanctioned remixes (done with Seefeel's Mark Clifford). A period of high creativity for the band, renewed after a turbulent time, they recorded and produced Milk & Kisses between their September Sound studio in London and the coastal town of Pors Poulhan in Brittany, France. Featuring the singles 'Tishbite' and 'Violaine' and fan favourites such as 'Serpentskirt' and 'Treasure Hiding', the album is a cathartic listen too with MOJO saying in a glowing review that the album's title "accurately intimates it's soothing, healing powers." Ultimately, Milk & Kisses also proved to be their swan song, bringing the curtain down on 14 years of wonder to leave an incredible legacy that new generations continue to discover to this day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1708555086259-3PTAOVHFLN6BWF5A50IR/3743417-2510592.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Blood Incantation - Hidden History Of The Human Race LP+CD, Booklet & Poster (Neon Green-Lilac Split) [Import] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1708555276348-7F87I4Z76MIA2A4M4RVB/4284923-3087086.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Franz Ferdinand - S/T Limited orange and black colored vinyl LP pressing. Winner of the 2004 Mercury Music Prize, Franz Ferdinand's debut album was an instant hit. The Glasgow four-piece channelled throwback art-rock through an early noughties Britpop-revival prism. A must listen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1708554688607-SKOMNXU78DQTYLCT5CD0/4270973-3076200.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Ty Segall - Three Bells A fifteen song cycle that takes a journey to the center of the self. Ty's been on this kind of trip before, so he's souped up a vehicle that's all his own - a sophisticated machine - to take us there this time. The conception of Three Bells arcs, rainbow-like, into a land nearly beyond songs - but inside of them, Ty relentlessly pushes the walls further and further in his writing and playing to cast light into the most opaque depths. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1708554303735-LSNB6K8E1O8UYQ1EDGU4/4276647-3081121.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Lords Of The New Church - Open Your Eyes A rare and highly sought after '80s bootleg album from trailblazing post-punk band The Lords of the New Church performing live in New York 1982! Comes with another rarity - the never before reissued debut 7" in it's original picture sleeve with unique versions of both "New Church" and "Livin' On Livin'!" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1708554875867-KI71BBYEP7DY02YTFBBA/artworks-fcb0b4e1-dd17-4e7c-b280-6f464e0152d1-0-t500x500.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - William Elliot Whitmore - Silently The Mind Breaks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1708554759497-RHCF1NZIFLPS1SQ6PD1Z/4273513-3077685.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - The Vaselines - The Way Of The Vaselines Loser Edition on crystal clear vinyl. The Vaselines have long been celebrated by musicians and music enthusiasts across genres and across the globe, including super-fan Kurt Cobain. Emerging in the mid-eighties under the wing of The Pastels's Stephen McRobbie, The Vaselines came to define the sly wit and irresistible pop hooks of the era's Scottish indie scene. Sub Pop's remastered reintroduction of The Way of The Vaselines is an opportunity for those already familiar with the Scottish band's brief career to delve deeper into their body of work, while those new to their music can experience firsthand why so many hold them in such high regard. Originally mastered from a cassette tape (and since remastered on much better equipment in the new millennium), The Way of The Vaselines compiles the band's two EPs (Son of a Gun and Dying for It) and their sole LP release (Dum-Dum). This 2024 edition is the first ever vinyl release of The Way of The Vaselines, which originally came out on CD in 1992. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1708551215622-PG1OBS7FQGWJZS9GY1FT/4273357-3077580.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - 90 Day Men - We Blame Chicago 90 Day Men spent a decade boldly in conflict with the world, catering to no one and careening toward it's own abyss. Forged by Midwestern teens amid a late-90s spike in angular indie rock, the band wrote itself into the lexicon of Chicago music history. Eschewing trend and time, 90 Day Men was as ornate as it was alienating, transcending genre and embracing the strange. This 5LP set, remastered by Heba Kadry, collects the band's three studio albums and a previously unreleased 2001 Peel Session, plus EPs, singles, and outtakes, all detailed within a 68-page oral history curated by Joan of Arc's Tim Kinsella. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1708554402653-4TROLDY7GBADB0FN7O8J/4281626-3089959.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Paul McCartney - Band On The Run (50th Anniversary Edition) Half-Speed Master Band On The Run (50th Anniversary Edition) [Half-Speed Master https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1708554147408-3A1UEZNG76ABEJWPIQL8/4290596-3097569.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Antonio Carlos Jobim - Girl From Ipanema The Girl from Ipanema was the first album by Antônio Carlos Jobim and features a dozen instrumentals arranged by Claus Ogerman, whose work would mark the beginning of a lifelong musical relationship with Jobim. Of these twelve songs, nearly all of them are jazz standards. The opening track "The Girl from Ipanema" is believed to be the second most recorded song in history behind The Beatles' "Yesterday." Jobim plays both guitar and piano. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1708553850934-9EZJUTK3IM3INUEMSH6S/4264694-3057335.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Green Day - Saviors Green Day / Saviors (Deluxe 180gm Vinyl) Green Day is not your savior. But the spirit of rock n roll might be. And as the greatest punk band alive, they're the loudest vessel we have... to give it a shot. Green Day are ready to flip off the famous, stupid and contagious, by putting a mirror to the present tense like only they can, with Saviors- an inspired new studio album to be released in early 2024. Amazingly, Saviors represents Green Day's 14th studio album, yet somehow this enduring power trio - Billie Joe Armstrong, Tré Cool & Mike Dirnt - remain devoted to their defiant craft that has fueled their career-long destruction of every boundary bestowed on the genre, and landed 3 East Bay punks in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame. The album was recorded in both London and Los Angeles under the audacious ear and Rock prowess of Green Day's longtime friend & collaborator, GRAMMY® Award-winning producer Rob Cavallo. The deluxe version of the album features a gatefold sleeve, an embossed cover, and an exclusive 24"x36" poster, pressed on 180gm vinyl. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1708550887344-XXD693B3TEAW7HVD988Q/4266036-3059112.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Future Islands - People Who Aren't There Anymore There are bands that come and go, and then there are those that carve their own unique path, leaving an indelible mark on the heart of listeners. Future Islands are unquestionably of the latter. They are a band that has defied convention, embraced vulnerability, and crafted a distinctive sound that resonates deeply with audiences around the globe. Now on their seventh release, People Who Aren't There Anymore heralds a new chapter for Future Islands. For Future Islands, albums aren't a static reflection of a moment in time, they are a fluid chapter in their lives that can change and mutate. People change and pull away. The band is no different, coming up against their future while staring at their past. They're not the same people they were when Future Islands began nearly two decades ago. They are now spread about, some settled down and some still moving. "We're like waves, we're all changing," says William. People Who Aren't There Anymore reflects the transience of a band's existence; the rare privilege of travelling all over the world contrasting with the sadness of fleeting moments in and out people's lives. Being everywhere but also nowhere. Remembering the lives lost and the living they'll never see again, cherishing the present and being grateful for the past. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1708553583602-TX00CRVUQI1ZPZ2B8J9D/4270798-3093839.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Kevin Ayers - Joy Of A toy New Official Gatefold LP Vinyl Release For The Classic Debut Album From The Legendary Kevin Ayers. Remastered From The Original Master Tapes & Cut At Abbey Road Studios. With Fully Restored Artwork. An original member of Soft Machine, Kevin Ayersd embarked on a solo career following a US tour with the Jimi Hendrix Experience in 1968. He was one of the first signings to EMI's Progressive imprint Harvest and recorded his debut album in the Summer of 1969 at Abbey Road studios. 'Joy Of A Toy' is a classic of psychedelic and progressive rock, featuring contributions from his former Soft Machine band mates, David Bedford and such wonderful songs as 'The Lady Rachel', 'Stop This Train (Again Doing It)', 'Girl on a Swing' and 'All This Crazy Gift of Time'. This official gatefold LP vinyl edition fully restores the original LP artwork, has been remastered from the original Harvest master tapes and has been cut at Abbey Road studios. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1708551010198-5H5K0OQOO1808XP1206U/4239806-3029226.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - The Menzingers - Some Of It Was True The Menzingers are an absolute institution. The Philadelphia punk legends' multi-decade reputation as road warriors with an unbeatable catalog is cemented as hard truth-and their seventh album, Some Of It Was True, stands as their most immediate-sounding and energetic record to date. The follow-up to 2019's sensational Hello Exile accomplishes the daunting task of capturing the Menzingers' distinctive live energy in the confines of the studio, resulting in a sound that's both rich, raw, and complementary to the group's increasingly prismatic songwriting approach. More than 15 years in, the Menzingers are still holding their listeners square in the immediate present, and Some Of It Was True documents that power in thrilling fashion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1708553072199-LC8GB2CIXU2CKQUV6MG9/4263377-3056300.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Danny Brown - Quaranta As the intro notes, "Quaranta" is Italian for "forty." According to Brown, Quaranta is the spiritual sequel to XXX, his breakout album released on Fool's Gold in 2011, that infamously cataloged a life lived on the edge at thirty. The whirlwind of parties, tours, collaborations and achievements that followed that landmark release seemed to fly by fast-ten years later, when COVID-19 brought the world to a halt, Brown found himself in downtown Detroit, living alone for the first time ever. After years of escapist escapades, he was forced to adjust to the stillness and silence, and the bars on Quaranta are diaristic in a distinctly Danny Brown way. First-person scenes from Brown's early childhood and family arrive vividly on "YBP"; he tears into rising rents for two-bedrooms and new gourmet shops that now litter downtown Detroit on "Jenn's Terrific Vacation"; and regret-filled reflections on a near fifteen-year rap career add depth throughout the project. There's no shortage of Brown's typical blitzing verses over angular, mesmerizing production from some of his oldest collaborators including Quelle Chris, Paul White & SKYWLKR, but the Alchemist produced "Tantor" is just the kind of cold-steel contradistinction which he's been celebrated throughout his career. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1708551475546-526A9HP29RJ56GFQZ0A7/4276351-3080718.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Velvet Underground - Live At Max's Kansas City: Expanded Version (Colored Vinyl, Brick & Mortar Exclusive, Remastered) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1708551893618-EVZDK3G9UUNAAUJCMIUI/4276376-3080714.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Yes - Yes (Colored Vinyl, Brick & Mortar Exclusive) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1708553202973-JOZAQR9HNJG7VMXCJVLX/4276449-3114486.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era (1965-1968) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1708553285217-JM9UWL38EK2T81DKIBR5/2590223.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Bud Powell - Amazing Bud Powell (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series) The amazing bebop piano genius Bud Powell made his most enduring recordings as a leader for Blue Note. Powell's 1949 and 1951 sessions were compiled in 1955 on The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 1. Featuring the pianist with the likes of Sonny Rollins, Fats Navarro, Roy Haynes and Max Roach on bebop classics including "Un Poco Loco" and "Bouncing with Bud." Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series is all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1708551664585-PLOWF1989RQQ7NZOUTGH/4273932-3080339.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Elvin Jones - Poly-Currents (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) After his six years with the seminal John Coltrane Quartet, the master drummer Elvin Jones signed with Blue Note in 1968 and began building his own career as a bandleader. His first two albums for the label were spare trio outings—Puttin’ It Together and The Ultimate—both featuring saxophonist Joe Farrell and bassist Jimmy Garrison. For his next album—1969’s unfettered post-bop exploration Poly-Currents—Jones expanded his ensemble with additional woodwinds and percussion while still maintaining spacious realms for the musicians to delve into on modal band member originals including “Agenda,” Agappe Love,” “Mr. Jones,” and “Whew.” Jones is joined throughout by a cast that includes Farrell on tenor saxophone, English horn, and flutes, George Coleman on tenor saxophone, Pepper Adams on baritone saxophone, Fred Tompkins on flute, Wilbur Little on bass, and Cuban conguero Candido Camero. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1708551364302-KTAOD0UOAOK4MSPRYZET/4286138-3088305.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Lou Donaldson - Midnight Creeper Alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson hadn't recorded for Blue Note since 1963 when he returned to the label in 1967 and began a new chapter in his lengthy career. Sweet Papa Lou had helped lay Blue Note's soul jazz foundation alongside Hammond B3 organists including Jimmy Smith, Baby Face Willette, and Big John Patton going back to the late-1950s thru the early-60s on standout dates including his own Here 'Tis, Good Gracious!, and The Natural Soul. Upon his return Donaldson pushed ahead with a new hard-grooving sound on 1967's Alligator Bogaloowhich was the first of his many collaborations with organ virtuoso Lonnie Smith and also featured the young guitar star George Benson and the impossibly funky drummer Leo Morris (aka Idris Muhammad). On Mr. Shing-A-Ling he added the bluesy trumpeter Blue Mitchell to the mix, and for 1968's soul jazz manifesto Midnight Creeper he got the whole gang back together for a greasy 6-song set including the jaunty title track, "Love Power," "Bag of Jewels," and "Dapper Dan." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1708551591158-PW3T2ERODS1BCDD2ARIW/4275283-3079435.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Paramore - S/T Paramore / PARAMORE - Celebrate 10 years of Paramore's self-titled album with this Black 2xLP vinyl reissue. 10th Anniversary Reissue on Double LP! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1708551787043-PV3UZCEKBO2RQ858LKOA/4276224-3080695.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Melanie Martinex - After School (Colored Vinyl, Brick & Mortar Exclusive) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1708551728563-7F1NFX7BFAX8XMQP9F60/4271193-3090706.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Lil Peep - Live Forever LIL PEEP / LIVE FOREVER / Live Forever is the second solo mixtape by American singer/rapper Lil Peep. It was first released on December 2, 2015, two months after his first mixtape, Lil Peep; Part One. The mixtape was preceded by two singles: "Flannel" and "Haunt U", and three additional singles were issued posthumously. The mixtape was later re-released on the seventh anniversary of the mixtape's release in 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1708551126038-X8YJVLR822DLYLP6PDRS/4273562-3077995.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - The Smile - Wall Of Eyes Radiohead's Thom Yorke & Jonny Greenwood + Sons of Kemet's Tom Skinner! / The Smile's 2024 album Wall of Eyes was recorded between Oxford and Abbey Road Studios, and is produced and mixed by Sam Petts-Davies. It features string arrangements by the London Contemporary Orchestra. Wall of Eyes is the follow up their 2022 debut LP A Light for Attracting Attention, which received critical acclaim from the likes of The Guardian, Pitchfork, The Observer, The Needle Drop, Rolling Stone, New York Magazine, Uncut and MOJO, and more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1703362439609-ESCKVVYZN4A1RB8IV7GR/4268213-3071662.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Meitei - Kofu III Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Includes booklet. Hailing from Hiroshima, Meitei, unveils the final chapter of his transformative Kofū trilogy. "Kofū III" marks the apex of a musical journey that began in 2020, unraveling an introspective exploration of the artist's psyche while delving deep into the essence of Japanese culture. This latest release invites listeners into the innermost sanctums of Meitei's existence - a passage filled with serenity, self-discovery, and the triumphant conquest of personal demons. Meitei's journey has been deeply intertwined with his surroundings. His move from bustling Kyoto to the tranquil rural town of Onomichi in Hiroshima wasn't just a change of location but a profound shift in his life. Navigating through the ebbs and flows of mental well-being, Meitei found solace in the quiet, low-key energy of Onomichi, where he began creating his distinctive brand of "ambient" music dedicated to resurrecting 'lost Japanese moods'. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1703362262876-I7OW786YQEBYUFL4EAK7/1436939.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Bob James - Two 2023 reissue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1703362029208-FAESEZIWFEBMPSCTJ08L/4262097-3054938.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Boomshakalaka (Original Soundtrack) He's Heating Up! Ship to Shore PhonoCo. Is proud to present BoomBaptist's critically acclaimed LP Boom Shakalaka on limited edition vinyl! A love-letter to the seminal basketball videogame which took arcades and games consoles by storm nearly thirty years ago, BoomBaptist's trip-hop masterpiece is a sonic melange of samples, beats and soul, tinged with mid-90s nostalgia whilst utilising modern production techniques. Pressed on 'He's on fire!' splatter vinyl, Boom Shakalaka is as hot as it sounds! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1703355092542-56B4G2C9CF0KNTJMBJI1/4273663-3078070.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Screensaver - Decent Shapes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1703354799868-TCXPOFZAA4RXAHOHVH9U/4262844-3086497.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Green Street (blue Note Classic Vinyl Series) Grant Green began his lengthy and prolific Blue Note career with the 1961 release of his debut album Grant's First Stand, a stellar soul jazz outing that featured the guitarist in an organ trio with Baby Face Willette on Hammond B3 and Ben Dixon on drums. When he returned to Van Gelder Studio next in April of that year it was once again with a trio but this time one with a leaner sound featuring Green backed by bass (Ben Tucker) and drums (Dave Bailey). The spare setting and sturdy support created spacious realms for Green to expound at length, unspooling his inventive, bluesy lines on a 5-song set that included the no-nonsense originals "No. 1 Green Street," "Grant's Dimensions," and "Green With Envy." Green also showcased his singular tone on a stunning version of Thelonious Monk's "'Round About Midnight" and an alluring rendition of the standard "Alone Together." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1703352524072-D59OWRVLWBB9PKM5NYHP/4271947-3075187.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Moebius - Tonspuren (40th Anniversary Edition) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1703363184361-567TG7OXLQYHEXVO6WT5/4262421-3055196.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Radon - More Of Their Lies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1703355009375-6JJTJPBW66EI0QS2KOLM/4234081-3029581.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Mogwai - Rock Action Reissue Transparent Red Vinyl - Rock Action - Mogwai - Rock Action is the third studio album by Scottish post-rock band Mogwai. The album was produced by Dave Fridmann of Mercury Rev in New York. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1703353321619-XO7XWWRKB9VQIRKXPWGM/4263553-3056490.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Soul Jazz Records Presents: Studio One: Roots 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1703353208844-FF5H3O3T05WYAUXSGI0P/4262848-3083998.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Now's The Time: The Genius Of Charlie Parker # 3 (Verve By Request Series) This 1957 release, the third in a series of albums expanding on Bird's 10-inch Clef releases from the early 1950's, 'Now's The Time' boasts some of Parker's purest recordings and strongest playing, featuring two different quartets. His lyrical and fluid improvisations on cuts like 'The Song Is You' and 'Laird Baird' are on full display, prime examples of his unmatched genius. This Verve By Request title is pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Third Man in Detroit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1703351573715-38X8OE28L77FQBPM69E9/4266730-3072842.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Mark Lanegan - Phantom Radio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1703353674978-93DLZCJ56GPDT2LOQ2IA/4269602-3072932.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Neil Young - Before And After On his new album, BEFORE AND AFTER, Young has approached a totally eclectic collection of mostly obscure songs like a painter with a new palette. Picking from a vast array of his originals, Young chooses favorites from his playbook like a trip into his music history and performs them mostly alone, taking a solo acoustic journey to a new place. Each of the songs blend and create one continuous flow, clocking in at a 48-minute pure and intimate listening experience. Produced by Lou Adler and Neil Young and mixed by Young and Niko Bolas, aka The Volume Dealers, this is unlike any other album he has released to date. - Young describes BEFORE AND AFTER succinctly: "The feeling is captured, not in pieces, but as a whole piece - designed to be listened to that way. This music presentation defies shuffling, digital organization, separation. Only for listening. That says it all". - New versions of the songs themselves seamlessly move and morph with mesmerizing clarity, beginning with his earliest Buffalo Springfield appearance, "Burned," to the recent "Don't Forget Love" (from 2021's BARN) and including the previously unreleased song "If You Got Love". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1703353460944-CVOX8L6VUV9OUPSSZEM1/Ssd_kids.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - SS Decontrol - Kids Will Have Their Say (Trust Edition) Long out-of-print 1982 debut, The Kids Will Have Their Say, that hasn't already been written? Long heralded as the first straightedge album, this collection of songs captures a time and an era in the nascent hardcore scene before formulas and posturing. In other words, it's an unfiltered, artistic statement that's singular in scope and vision. The Boston act's debut was extremely limited, never repressed, and has gone on to have a life of it's own despite the fact the only affordable way to listen to it has been low-quality streams on YouTube. Now, after being out of print for 40 years, the album will be available on vinyl by Trust Records with remastered audio and a painstaking recreation of the iconic cover art courtesy of Bryan Ray Turcotte. Over the years, the mythology of the album has only grown-and this reissue of the album is sure to introduce this prescient and powerful collection of songs to a new generation of fans who never had the opportunity to see the original lineup of guitarist Al Barile, vocalist Springa, bassist Jaime Sciarappa, and drummer Chris Foley perform live. In many ways, SSD launched the hardcore scene in Boston as we know it and the band's kinship with MINOR THREAT's Ian MacKaye arose out of the fact that both acts refused to conform to society's still shifting standards at the time. From the unbridled aggression of SSD's 'Boiling Point' to the strippeddown groove of 'How Much Art,' the album was as reactionary as it was revolutionary and is an artistic statement that remains to be remarkably complex for a group of guys barely into adulthood. Whether you're buying this because you're lucky enough to own the original pressing or you're hearing the album for the very first time, this version of The Kids Will Have Their Say is a striking document of the nascent hardcore scene that sounds just as vital today as it did when it was originally recorded. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1703354916847-KOHHE62UCRR5IMEYEKVI/4241876-3031393.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Hum - Electra 2000 180-Gram Black Vinyl in a Gatefold Jacket. Champaign, Illinois band Hum is re-issuing it's four-album catalog on vinyl with exclusive distribution by Polyvinyl Records. The band members oversaw every step of the re-mastering, lacquer cutting, and manufacturing stages while working with original designer Andy Mueller/Ohio Girl in updating the artwork. Each album is offered in a double-LP 180g set in black. Electra 2000 (1993 - 12-Inch Records, Champaign, IL)Recorded and mixed by Brad Wood at Idful Studio, Chicago, IL.Re-mastered by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound, Nashville.Offered in black 180g double LP at 45 rpm.You'd Prefer an Astronaut (1995 - RCA Records)Recorded and mixed by Keith Cleversley at The Playground, Chicago, IL.Licensed from Sony Music and re-mastered by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound, Nashville.Offered in black 180g double LP at 45 rpm.Downward is Heavenward (1998 - RCA Records)Recorded by Mark Rubel at Pogo Studio, Champaign, IL. Mixed by Brian Malouf at Pacifique, LA.Licensed from Sony Music and re-mastered by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound, New York. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1703351447580-76STE2RUE2DHWAPRBU1A/4241878-3031395.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Hum - You'd Prefer An Astronaut 180-Gram Black Vinyl in a Gatefold Jacket. Champaign, Illinois band Hum is re-issuing it's four-album catalog on vinyl with exclusive distribution by Polyvinyl Records. The band members oversaw every step of the re-mastering, lacquer cutting, and manufacturing stages while working with original designer Andy Mueller/Ohio Girl in updating the artwork. Each album is offered in a double-LP 180g set in black. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1703351353157-CZ10XFZDIUX1GNEYGW45/4239270-3028943.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Peter Gutteridge - Pure In the swirl of underground music emerging from Dunedin, New Zealand in the 1980s, Peter Gutteridge stands as one of the era's most intense and shadowy figures. Despite being a founding member of The Clean and The Chills, Gutteridge would eschew indie-rock fame for the hypnotic and driving sounds of his later bands such as Snapper. Fittingly, it is Pure-Gutteridge's lone solo album of intimate home recordings-that serves as the most revealing and celebrated release of his career. As Peter Jefferies writes in the liner notes, "That's what's so good about Pure. Not only the songs, but the name, the name for the recording. It is as pure as you can get. That's the real deal, when it goes from nothing to something and he catches it on his machine."Originally released on cassette in 1989 on Xpressway, Pure documents Gutteridge's stunning use of 4-track as instrument. Featuring lo-fi pop gems and interstitial sketches, the LP combines densely layered keyboards and guitars, distorted drum machines and possessed-sounding vocals to create a truly singular work of undistilled artistic vision.While Gutteridge denied that he was the architect of the "Dunedin Sound," Pure sits comfortably next to the most revered Flying Nun releases of it's time. Shifting exquisitely from churning rattle to an airy ease without losing momentum, these twenty-one songs hold a lasting place in the canon of DIY music. Recommended for fans of Syd Barrett, Jim Shepard and early Fad Gadget. Includes drawing chosen by Peter's family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1703354235421-JTHIBJ4Y5WGO7C4G3ZMU/4248474-3040451.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Art Feynman - Be Good The Crazy Boys Until now, Art Feynman - the eccentric alter ego of accomplished producer Luke Temple - has strictly been a solo act, a way for the artist to explore surprising sonic landscapes without the burdens of identity. Slightly twisted takes on Kosmische musik, worldbeat, and art pop can all be found scattered across the Art Feynman discography, but with his new album Be Good The Crazy Boys, Feynman fully immerses himself into pools of collective madness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1703355074942-JQYN8XSGFE0KHVEOVLNG/4273663-3078070.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - 4273663-3078070.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1703351073393-L7LLREWSQTL6KJF23OYT/a2397253739_16.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Drab Majesty - Object In Motion Cloudy red vinyl. The latest EP from Drab Majesty marks the start of a stirring new chapter in the band's majestic legacy. Written during a 2021 retreat to the remote coastal Oregon town of Yachats, Deb Demure leaned into the neo-psychedelic resonance of a uniquely bowl-shaped 12-string Ovation acoustic/electric guitar. After early morning hikes in the rain, Deb would record ambient guitar experiments the rest of the day, tapping into "flow states," letting the sound lead the way. These sessions were then refined or recreated, and later elevated further with key collaborations by Rachel Goswell (Slowdive), Justin Meldal-Johnson (Beck, M83, Air), and Ben Greenberg (Uniform, Circular Ruin Studio). An Object In Motionis true to it's title, capturing the chrysalis moment of an artist evolving, reborn and untethered, silhouetted against an open horizon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1703350946988-96V8NU7L5TJJ4V5WE76K/4264264-3056600.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Car Seat Headrest - Faces From The Masquerade In March of 2022, Car Seat Headrest brought their "explosive" (Brooklyn Vegan) live show to Brooklyn Steel in New York in support of their 2020 LP 'Making a Door Less Open.' Across three back to back nights, the band played revved up versions of tracks spanning their extensive back catalog. On December 8th, CSH will release a collection of recordings from those performances which includes fan favorites "Beach Life-In-Death," "Crows", "Something Soon," and "Drunk Drivers / Killer Whales." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1703350769227-QQZ70MVC9NY16GSFW20L/4260731-3080785.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Fiona Apple - When The Pawn... Vinyl LP pressing. Fiona Apple's second album, When The Pawn..., was released in 1999 to widespread critical praise and is now widely regarded as a classic and includes tracks "Paper Bag," "Fast As You Can," and "I Know". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1703350708303-KJRA5FTWCN083OQU5TQX/4260734-3057637.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Fiona Apple - Tidal Double 180gm vinyl LP pressed at 45 RPM. Fiona Apple's debut album, Tidal, was released in 1996 and has been heralded as a masterpiece of modern music and since it's release, Fiona Apple has become one of the most iconic female artists of her generation. Tracks including "Shadowboxer," "Sleep To Dream," and standout "Criminal". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1703349771724-7Z6ZULKKZ2NGJTKM7ARE/4264395-3057904.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Petrer Gabriel - i/o (Dark-Side Mix 2LP) DESCRIPTION Dark Side Mix. Double vinyl LP pressing. More than 20 years in the making, i/o is Peter Gabriel's first album of new material since 2002's Up. During 2023, Peter has been releasing a new song from the album on the occasion of every full moon. Being revealed roughly every four weeks, each track has been allowed to find it's own time and space, to enjoy it's own orbit. 12 tracks of grace, gravity and great beauty that provide welcome confirmation of not only Peter's ongoing ability to write stop-you-in-your-tracks songs but also of that thrilling voice, still perfectly, delightfully intact. Throughout the album the intelligent and thoughtful - often thought-provoking - songs tackle life and the universe. Our connection to the world around us - 'I'm just a part of everything' Peter sings on title track i/o - is a recurring motif, but so too the passing of time, mortality and grief, alongside such themes as injustice, surveillance and the roots of terrorism. But this is not a solemn record. While reflective, the mood is never despondent; i/o is musically adventurous, often joyous and ultimately full of hope, topped off as it is, by the rousingly optimistic closing song, Live and Let Live. Always looking to push the boundaries, i/o is not simply a collection of a dozen songs. All 12 tracks are subject to two stereo mixes: the Dark-Side Mix is by Tchad Blake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1703350857515-ZE7NQWBGIKN5P91RIU4Q/4260638-3059922.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - The Beatles - Now and Then The Beatles -"Now and Then" / The Beatles' double-A-side single for "Now And Then" and "Love Me Do" pairs the last Beatles song with the band's first UK single. Powerful musical bookends to The Beatles' recorded canon, both songs are also featured in the expanded 2023 Editions for 1962-1966 ('The Red Album') and 1967-1970 ('The Blue Album'). "Now And Then" is the last Beatles song, written and demoed by John Lennon in the mid/late 1970s. With John's voice now pristine in the mix, "Now And Then" features elements from the 1995 sessions including George Harrison's guitar parts, and vocal and instrumental parts recorded by Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr in 2022, along with a new arrangement for strings. Produced by Paul and Giles Martin, "Now And Then" is the last song recorded by all four Beatles, a powerful and fitting finale for the band's timeless recordings. The song that started it all, "Love Me Do" was The Beatles' first UK single in 1962. For the first time, the iconic song has been de-mixed using machine aided learning and remixed in true stereo. "Love Me Do" launched The Beatles' journey to unparalleled worldwide success and acclaim that continues to this day. Artist Hometown: Liverpool, England / Capitol Music Group; Capitol; Black 12" Single https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1703349606111-VZ3IRSI5F4DZI8FVW61R/4258399-3051977.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Brainiac - Smack Bunny Baby Brainiac is celebrating the 30th anniversary of their debut album, Smack Bunny Baby, by bringing it back into print on vinyl. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1703349704932-EENGC3CKNNMLMXO1HMP4/4259738-3054660.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Sheryl Crow - Tuesday Night Music Club Celebrating it's 30th anniversary, Tuesday Night Music Club is unveiling a special treat for it's aficionados - a pristine vinyl edition of the acclaimed 7x certified Platinum album, a version that wasn't available back in 1993. This release isn't just a nostalgic nod, but a journey back to authentic sound, providing a fresh way to experience the beloved tunes. The magic touch comes from Bernie Grundman, the original mastering wizard behind the album. Employing the original 1/2" flat master tape, Grundman crafted a new master, and with precise strokes, cut the lacquers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1703350251954-4UQDDY3MPNMP0ZPN0KYF/4230130-3017391.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Mac Miller - Watching Movies With The Sound Off (10 Year Anniversary Edition) Double 180gm picture disc vinyl LP pressing. 10th anniversary deluxe edition of Mac Miller's second studio album Watching Movies with the Sound Off on heavyweight galaxy vinyl. Includes a bonus 10" zoetrope picture disc with bonus track "The Star Room (OG Version)" and a never before released vinyl exclusive track "The Quest." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1703350375108-NSAME50I77M66NB59X54/4085292-2819731.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Opeth - In Cauda Venenum Double vinyl LP pressing. Digitally remastered edition. English version of the remixed & remastered "Connoisseur Edition" of In Cauda Venenum. "How do you transfer a state of the art Pro-Tools recording, with a zillion different tracks, on to a piece of plastic and generate sonic greatness?" With lockdown, Opeth's mastermind Mikael Akerfeldt finally found the time to unite 'a team of musical nerds', as he describes it, to ponder over the question, how they could produce a master of 'In Cauda Venenum' that sounds as surpreme as Akerfeldt's favourite records from the past? After heated discussions and trying out many different methods that never seemed to fully please the Swedish master's ear, they transferred the album to magnetic tape and then cut the vinyl lacquers from the tape itself, to create a warm, powerful and yet dynamic master that is now available in form of their In Cauda Venenum's "Connoisseur Edition". There are few bands that can or will match Sweden's Opeth. Since forming in the tiny Stockholm suburb of Bandhagen in 1990, the Swedes have eclipsed convention, defiantly crushed the odds, and, most importantly, crafted 13 stunningly beautiful, intrinsically intense albums to become one of the biggest progressive rock/metal bands on the planet; whether that be live or on record. Ask any Opeth fan. Enquire with any band that's shared the proverbial pine with the Swedes. Or, get a label representative to talk Opeth. They'll all tell you the same thing: Opeth are peerless. And they're only getting better, even after selling more than two million records and even hitting the #1 in the German album charts with their album "Sorceress" in 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1703350487053-RA1TY5NAV9VL5P31FW4S/4237321-3024828.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Say She She - Silver The female-led discodelic soul band Say She She, named as a silent nod to Nile Rodgers (C'est chi-chi!: It's Chic!"), release their sophomore album 'Silver' on the heels of an epic break-out year that grows brighter by the day. The three strong voices of Piya Malik (El Michels Affair staple feature, and former backing singer for Chicano Batman), Sabrina Mileo Cunningham and Nya Gazelle Brown front the band. This harmonizing trio was formed in a classic New York tale of friends that met by following the music: the downtown dancefloors, through the Lower East Side floorboards and up to the rooftops of Harlem.'Silver' was entirely written and recorded live to tape at Killion Sound studio in North Hollywood earlier this year and produced by Sergio Rios (of Orgone). While these analog recording techniques help root Say She She's sound in a bedrock of tonal warmth that only tape can achieve, it is also their process of cutting the track in the moment and capturing the magic of communal creativity that has seen their sound described as "a glorious overload of joyful elation and spiritual elevation" (MOJO) and "infused with the wonky post-disco spirit of early '80s NYC" (The Guardian).Silver, the element, is known as the metal of self-confidence and the mirror of the soul. With that, the 16-song double-LP projects not only their growth in writing with confidence, but also reflects a deeper exploration into their punk-chic, femme-forward sensibility.Ultimately, 'Silver' oozes with quirk and adventure and embraces the multifaceted nature of what it means to be a modern femme. The She She's fully embrace their role as beauticians, actively reminding people of the inherent beauty in the world. They skillfully employ double entendres and humor to encourage open dialogue and fearlessly address important matters that demand attention. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557f2900e4b04d4f94870f6f/1703350587941-T9W4I3D2LEA0GUYAK1QK/4268503-3072845.jpg WINTER NEW RELEASE - Weezer - SZNZ: Winter Weezer - SZNZ: Winter / SZNZ: Winter is the tenth EP by American rock band Weezer, and the last of four EPs in their SZNZ (pronounced "seasons") project. Rivers Cuomo described the project's overall emotion as sadness. Cuomo said that the songwriting would be stylistically similar to Elliott Smith featuring "lots of loss and despair".