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Architects [The Sky, the Earth & All Between]

February 28 street date. Architects are back and charging forward in the heavy rock world with their latest sonic masterpiece, "The Sky, The Earth & All Between". After two relentless years on the road - featuring massive European summer tours with Metallica and top billing at festival stages across North America - the band has returned to the studio to deliver their most powerful collec­tion of songs yet. With the creative force of Jordan Fish (Bring Me The Horizon) behind the boards, Architects have captured the explosive energy of their live performances while elevating their signature melodic edge. This album reflects the perfect blend of raw intensity, emotional depth, and innovative production. Already making waves, singles like "Curse" and "Seeing Red" have drawn rave reviews from Metal Injection, Alternative Press, and Loudwire. Idobi crowned "Seeing Red" an "anthem powerhouse", and the track's global success landed it in the top 10 of charts worldwide, amassing over 45 million streams along the way. "The Sky, The Earth & All Between" builds on the momentum of their 2022 album "the classic symptoms of a broken spirit", which stormed to the top of the UK Rock and Metal Charts. With this new release, Architects are once again set to push the boundaries of modern heavy music, cementing their status as one of the most ex­citing and essential bands of our time.
Bulat, Basia [Basia's Palace]

February 21 street date. "Basia's Palace" got its start in 2022. A new home, a new family, a pause: the singer was finally finding time to hear her own thoughts, to think about old stories, to boot up her Nintendo to play Dragon Warrior 4. The album that emerged from this - that started in dawn-kissed synth instrumentals, lyrics scribbled down in a Hayao Miyazaki notebook - is the softest and most questing of Basia Bulat's career. "Basia's Palace" is like a time-travel score, with Bulat as Chrono Trigger's intrepid adventurer, going back into the past to shape the events of the future. After years of releasing records where live performance came first, the singer-songwriter wanted to express herself in a completely different way, composing with MIDI instead of piano/guitar. Reuniting with co-producer Mark Lawson, she found herself moving through a dreamworld of whispers, synths, early Eurovision tunes - and her great uncle’s gauzy Maryla Rodowicz and Marek Grechuta LPs. Throughout, Bulat pays tribute to the magic of creation and the spellwork of performance.
Cap'n Jazz [Burritos, Inspiration Point, Fork Balloon Sports (white vinyl)]

February 21 street date.  (Please note format change: 1LP / white vinyl) In 1991, four kids from the suburbs of Chicago formed Cap'n Jazz, arguably one of the most influential rock bands of the last 30 years. Those kids, brothers Tim & Mike Kinsella, Victor Villarreal, and Sam Zurick, were joined by Davey von Bohlen in 1994 and recorded their only full-length album before calling it quits - "Burritos, Inspiration Point, Fork Balloon Sports, Cards In The Spokes, Automatic Biographies, Kites, Kung Fu, Trophies, Banana Peels We've Slipped On, And Egg Shells We've Tippy Toed Over" - often referred to as "Shmap'n Shmazz". Originally released on the Man With Gun label, the album quickly fell out of print after the band's breakup, with the songs eventually making their way to the "Analphabetapolothology" compilation, released in 1998 via Jade Tree Records. In addition to the band's influential legacy, Cap'n Jazz was the catalyst to the formation of other notable bands featuring the original members, including American Football, Joan Of Arc, The Promise Ring, Owls, Owen, Make Believe, Ghosts And Vodka, and many more.To celebrate its 30th anniversary, Polyvinyl is thrilled to announce the vinyl reissue of "Shmap'n Shmazz", which has been remastered from the original tapes - restoring the original album on vinyl for the first time since 1995, including its original artwork.

Cici Arthur [Way Through]

February 21 street date. "Way Through" is a collaborative album by Toronto musicians Chris Cummings, Joseph Shabason, and Thom Gill (as Cici Arthur). Inspired by moments of discovery in familiar places, the album's title reflects the feeling of uncovering hidden paths in life. Musically, it blends mid-century influences like Jobim and Sinatra, with producer-instrumentalists Shabason and Gill crafting lush, expansive soundscapes. Featuring a 30-piece orchestra led by Owen Pallett, the album brings a grand scale to Cummings' intimate, reflective lyrics. The project began in 2020 when Cummings lost his job and turned to full-time music for the first time in his life. His collaborators tailored the arrangements to showcase his understated vocal delivery against sweeping orchestral backdrops. Through its orchestral richness and deeply personal lyrics, "Way Through" captures the tension between ambition and realism, offering a poignant reflection on life's unpredictable journey.
Circuit Des Yeux [Halo On the Inside]

March 14 street date. Chicago-based experimental composer and world class vocalist Circuit des Yeux (Haley Fohr) presents an adventurous new album, "Halo On The Inside", marking a thrilling new era for the celebrated artist. Less a departure than an evolution, the record finds Fohr channelling the dark orchestral folk of previous work through the prismatic lens of dark-wave and industrial music, creating a sound that maintains the poetic heart of her songwriting while pulling it through new worlds and sonic textures. There's shock in metamorphosis, "Halo On The Inside" tells us, but there's also levity and beauty. A moment of seclusion and dislocation, yielding to rebirth and ominous beauty.
Clipping [Dead Channel Sky]

March 14 street date. While Clipping's last few projects have been record-long concepts like classic prog rock, their cyberpunk-infused new album "Dead Channel Sky" is mixtape-like, a carefully curated collection in which every track is a love letter to a possible present. It sounds crisp and classic at the same time. When something strikes us as retrospective and futuristic at the same time, it's a reminder of how slipshod our present moment truly is. What if someone explicitly merged hip-hop and cyberpunk - those twin suns of the 1980s and 90s - into one set and sound? After all, both movements are the result of hacking the haunted leftovers of a war-torn culture that's long since moved on. On "Dead Channel Sky", Clipping texture-map the twin histories of hip-hop and cyberpunk onto an alternate present where Rammellzee and Bambaataa are the superheroes of old; where Cybotron and Mantronix are the reigning legends; where Egyptian Lover and Freestyle are debated endlessly, and Ultramag and Public Enemy are the undeniable forefathers; where the lost movements of 1980s and the 1990s are still happening: rave, trip-hop, hip-house, acid house, drum & bass, big beat - the detritus of a different timeline, the survivors of armed audio warfare.
Darkside [Nothing]

February 28 street date. "Nothing", the third album from DARKSIDE: nine transmissions of negative space, telepathic seance, and spectral improvisation. On their first two reinventions, Nicolás Jaar and Dave Harrington entered the studio with a clutch of scattered ideas to mold into what became the revered "Psychic" (2013) and 2021's "Spiral". In a fundamental shift from their first dozen years as a band, the duo recruited their longtime friend, collaborator, drummer and instrument designer Tlacael Esparza, to become a full-time member. The outcome is magnetic and hieroglyphic, slipping through the cracks of convention with serpentine guitars, extraterrestrial static, and cavernous drums. No band but DARKSIDE could have made "Nothing", and in no moment but now. In support, the trio are performing in Toronto, March 15th at History, Montréal, March 16th at MTELUS, and The Vogue Theatre in Vancouver, April 5th.
De La Soul [Clear Lake Audiotorium (EP) (sea green vinyl)]

March 7 street date. de la Soul's "Clear Lake Audiotorium" is one of their most sought-after releases by super fans. The holy grail of de la Soul releases, it was released in 1994 exclusively as a promotional item to A-list DJs. It features four tracks from the group's "Buhloone Mindstate" album and two new tracks - "sh. Fe. Mc's" featuring A Tribe Called Quest and "Stix & Stonz" featuring The Fearless Four, Grandmaster Caz, and Prince Whipper Whip). While only 500 copies were pressed of the original, this legendary collector's item is now available as a limited edition release.
Deep Sea Diver [Billboard Heart]

February 28 street date. "Billboard Heart", the new album by Deep Sea Diver, immediately puts the Seattle band in the company of St. Vincent, TV On The Radio, and Flock of Dimes, bands that have found newly ornate and magnetic ways to make indie rock by discarding notions of how it must sound or what it must say. It's their fourth album and first for Sub Pop, and it is a coup, a triumph over self-doubt, transforming failure into an opportunity to find new freedom, belief, and strength. From end to end, the material on "Billboard Heart" is astonishing. The title track is a radiant and magnificent thing, the billowing synths of Elliot Jackson and tunneling pedal steel of Greg Leisz bolstering an anthem for fearlessly advancing into the future. "Emergency" links hardcore's vim to electroclash's instant allure with Deep Sea Diver mastermind Jessica Dobson's captivating vocals and guitar work in the spotlight. Tender and vulnerable, "Tiny Threads" is a sweeping anthem for anyone trying to hold anything together - life, love, themselves. "Billboard Heart" emerged when Dobson trusted her instincts, a personal breakthrough that prompted an artistic one. It is, in turn, the best Deep Sea Diver album yet, a defiant and brilliant exclamation mark at the end of a long period of wandering.
Destroyer [Dan's Boogie (black vinyl)]

March 28 street date. What is a "boogie"? In the common tongue, it's a dance or an occasion to dance. This being a Destroyer album and not the common tongue, the implications of a title like "Dan's Boogie" are at once more alluring and dangerous. "A boogie is a hustle, a scam that doesn't quite work, the moves we make when we're up against it", explains Dan Bejar. To record "Dan's Boogie", Bejar had to burst through a series of intentional and unintentional barriers to write the songs. Initially challenging himself to not write songs so the ideas would well up inside of him until they breached containment, the months following the completion of 2022's "LABYRINTHITIS" turned into one year then two, at which point Bejar gave himself a New Year's resolution to play the piano every day for an hour. That lasted about four days, but the songs Bejar credits as coming from that resolution are all-timer Destroyer songs across the vast spectrum Bejar and his collaborators have established for themselves: spectacle-laden pop epics, personal piano ballads, and smouldering works of mood that blur the lines between song and novel and cinema, each brimming with the urgency of a state secret in the mind of a tortured spy. Where previous Destroyer albums were locked in combat with the world, "Dan's Boogie" dances with it, its nine reveries coalescing into one long hustle. Dan Bejar's eye may be on the exits, but he's not leaving anytime soon.
Everything Is Recorded [Temporary]

February 28 street date. XL Recordings present the third studio album from Everything Is Recorded, the collaborative music project centred around producer Richard Russell. "Temporary" features an incredible roll call of collaborators including Sampha, Bill Callahan, Noah Cyrus, Florence Welch, Maddy Prior, Jah Wobble, Kamasi Washington, Rickey Washington, Roses Gabor, Jack Penate, Samantha Morton, Nourished By Time, and more. Created over four years from 2020 to 2024, Russell rebooted his musical DNA: while his music had previously been about rhythm, words, and melody in that order, on "Temporary" he swaps rhythm and melody, the rhythm taking up less space and the melody coming to the fore. Musically, some songs are inspired by the sonic thought experiment "what if folk music had "gone digital" in the 1980s, just as reggae had?", while spiritually and lyrically the themes encompass grief and loss. Every song sounds washed in sunshine and graced by tenderness. In Russell's own words "making the album was joyous, a way of hallowing life".
Father John Misty [I Love You, Honeybear (LOSER edition-pearlescent red vinyl)]

February 14 street date. Father John Misty's landmark 2015 sophomore album, "I Love You, Honeybear", is back on vinyl, remastered and reissued as a single LP. The album debuted at number 17 on the Billboard 200 chart, reached number 3 on the Billboard US Top Alternative Albums and Top Rock Albums charts, and was hailed as one of the best albums of 2015 by Pitchfork, Billboard, The A.V. Club, NME, and Stereogum. Originally released as a double LP, the now-classic album includes fan favorites "Chateau Lobby #4 (in C for Two Virgins)" and the title track, "I Love You, Honeybear".
Glacier, John [Like A Ribbon]

February 14 street date. Within the UK, there are a select few burgeoning icons, artists that push the boundaries with their musical output while embodying a presence across all mediums that feeds into mass intrigue and curiosity. London-based rapper, poet, and producer John Glacier is one of the few that can lay claim to this status. After years of garnering intrigue across the mainstream and underground, Glacier presents her debut album, "Like A Ribbon". Executive producer Kwes Darko helps to lay the sonic tapestry for the weaving of John's own tale, alongside contributions from the likes of Flume, Mk.gee contributor Andrew Aged, Surf Gang, Eartheater, Sampha, and more. "Like A Ribbon" is the story of living in a modern world, told through an imaginatively otherworldly lens.
Heathen [Bleed The World: Live (transparent red vinyl)]

March 14 street date. Mirroring the band's crushing set list featuring "Sun In My Hand" and "The Blight", "Bleed The World: Live" is the perfect audio representation of the Heathen live show, encapsulating the "Empire Of The Blind" world tour as a moment in time. Produced by guitarist Kragen Lum and mixed by Zeuss, "Bleed The World: Live" transports the listener into the concert hall with a crystal-clear yet heavy production and captures the interaction between band and audience that makes every Heathen live show special.
Holley, Lonnie [Tonky (2LP-black vinyl)]

March 21 street date. Lonnie Holley's life of survival and endurance is one that required - and no doubt still requires - a kind of invention. An invention that is also rich and present in Holley's songs, which are full and immersive on "Tonky", an album that begins with its longest song, a nine minute, exhaustive marathon of a tune called "Seeds", which begins with a single sparse sound and then expands. Chants, faint keys, strings, and atop it all, Holley's voice, not singing, but speaking plainly about working the earth when he was young, the violence he endured in the process of it all, going to bed bloodied and in pain from beatings. "Seeds" not only sets the tone for an album that revolves around rebirth, renewal, and the limits of hope and faith, but it highlights what Holley's greatest strength as a musician is - a commitment to abundance, and generosity. He is an incredibly gifted storyteller with a commitment to the oral tradition, such that many listeners would be entirely content sitting at the feet of a Lonnie Holley record and turning an ear to his robust, expansive storytelling. But "Tonky" is an album as expansive in sound as it is in making a place for a wide range of featured artists to come through the door of the record and feel at home, no matter how they spend the time they get on a song.
Japanese Breakfast [For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) (black vinyl)]

March 21 street date. After a decade making the most of improvised recording spaces set in warehouses, trailers, and lofts, Japanese Breakfast's fourth album, "For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)", marks the band's first proper studio release. Produced by Grammy Award winner Blake Mills, the record sees front-woman and songwriter Michelle Zauner pull back from the bright extroversion that defined its predecessor "Jubilee" to examine the darker waves that roil within, the moody, fecund field of melancholy, long held to be the psychic state of poets on the verge of inspiration. The result is an artistic statement of purpose: a mature, intricate, contemplative work that conjures the romantic thrill of a gothic novel. "For Melancholy Brunettes" follows a transformative period in Zauner's life during which her 2xGrammy nominated breakthrough album "Jubilee" and her bestselling memoir "Crying In H Mart" catapulted her into the cultural mainstream, delivering on her deepest artistic ambitions. Sadness is indeed the dominant emotional key of this record, but it is sadness of a rarified form: the pensive, prescient sadness of melancholy, in which the recognition of life's essentially tragic character occurs with sensitivity to its fleeting beauty. Zauner finds space enough inside it for glimmers of hope.
Lewis, James Brandon [Apple Cores]

February 7 street date. "Apple Cores" is the latest full-length album from New York tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis, "one of the fiercest sounds in jazz today" (The Guardian) with a "penchant for unbound exploration" (Pitchfork). Informed by the rhythms and textures of hip-hop and funk while remaining rooted in jazz, "Apple Cores" was recorded with Chad Taylor (drums/ mbira) and Josh Werner (bass/guitar) over the course of two intense, entirely improvised sessions. The album takes its name and intention from the column that poet and jazz theorist Amiri Baraka wrote for DownBeat in the 1960s. In addition to Baraka, the influence of another jazz giant looms mightily over Apple Cores: trumpeter and multi-instrumentalist, Don Cherry. In a testament to Cherry's influence over the music that the trio is playing, Lewis designed each song title as a cryptogram of sorts, making subtle references to Cherry's life and music. "Apple Cores" further cements Lewis as one of the provocative and prolific musical voices of his generation. It follows his breakthrough with JazzTimes' Album of the Year "Jesup Wagon" (2021), a dreamlike mosaic of gospel, folk-blues, and catcalling brass bands inspired by inventor George Washington Carver, and "Eye Of I" (2023), his joyous and exploratory debut for ANTI-.
Lumineers [Automatic (black vinyl)]

February 14 street date. Since their breakout 2012 self-titled debut album, The Lumineers have achieved some incredible milestones: number one hits, billions of streams, packed global arena tours, multi-platinum releases, Grammy nominations, and, most important to core members Jeremiah Fraites and Wesley Schultz, numerous beloved, timeless songs. The band's fifth studio album, "Automatic", is being released in a music landscape that has become dominated by solo artists dependent on other writers. Schultz says being one of the few groups touring who write all their own material, is "a unique badge of honour". But that's not to say they won't collaborate with other artists; Schultz and Fraites have recently written and appeared on songs with pop icon P!nk, as well as rising singer-songwriters James Bay and Zach Bryan.
Mereba [The Breeze Grew A Fire (black vinyl)]

February 14 street date. Southern-bred, alternative R&B singer-songwriter Mereba artistically embodies self-understanding on "The Breeze Grew A Fire", her grandest work and first release on Secretly Canadian. To hone in on this latest album, it was necessary for Mereba to reconnect with her whole many-sided self, from her inner child to her inseparable relationships. Mereba peacefully transmutes her beginnings, looking upon her closest kinships and friendships with a keen understanding of their steadying, inspirational force. Surrounded by the gentle breeze of these relationships and recollections, Mereba is empowered as both an artist and mother, while also being reminded to nurture her childlike wonder. While nowhere near the end of her musical trek, "The Breeze Grew A Fire" is a loving, inspiring return to origin, one where Mereba frees a painful past, eases into future possibilities, and goes with life's flow.

Moctar, Mdou [Tears Of Injustice]

February 28 street date. If "Funeral For Justice" was the sound of outrage, this is the sound of grief. Mdou Moctar present "Tears Of Injustice", a complete re-recording, and rearranging (for acoustic and traditional instruments) of their previous album, "Funeral For Justice". It's an evolution of the band's critically adored breakout, and the meditative mirror-image to the blistering original. On "Funeral For Justice", anger at the plight of Niger and the Tuareg people is plainly expressed in the music's volume and velocity; on "Tears Of Injustice", the songs retain that weight sans amplification. They are steeped in sadness, conveying the grief of a nation locked into a constant churn of poverty, colonial exploitation, and political upheaval. It is Tuareg protest music in a raw and essential form. "When Mdou writes the lyrics, he typically writes them with an acoustic guitar. So you're getting closer to that original moment", says bass player Mikey Coltun. "It retains heaviness, but it's haunting".
Okonski [Entrance Music (black vinyl)]

February 28 street date. After nearly two years, Okonski returns with "Entrance Music", an album that finds the trio at the height of their improvisational prowess and celebrating the spontaneous and meditative. On the heels of 2023's debut "Magnolia", pianist and leader Steve Okonski has reconvened long-time musical collaborators (Durand Jones & The Indications bandmate Aaron Frazer on drums and bassist Michael Isvara "Ish" Montgomery) for another session in the spirit of artists like The Bad Plus, Gerald Clayton, and The Breathing Effect. Ultimately "Entrance Music" serves as an invitation to early hours, where songs linger in the doorway, announcing their presence before returning to the air, in a meticulous drift into the next. From the rippling notes of the pastoral opener, "October", "Entrance Music" is lush with anticipation, both band and listener feeling the tension in the tranquility - where the interplay of jazz improvisation and boom bap beats never shortchanges the musicianship but the talent is ever in service of the song.
Strange, Bartees [Horror]

February 14 street date. Bartees Strange presents his ambitious, wide-ranging third full-length album, "Horror". The world can be a terrifying place, and for a young, queer, black person in rural America, that terror can be visceral. "Horror" is an album about facing those fears and growing to become someone to be feared. Throughout the record, Strange lays down one difficult truth after another, all over a sonic pastiche of music he loved as a kid. His dad hipped him to Parliament/Funkadelic, Fleetwood Mac, Teddy Pendergrass, and Neil Young. Those influences merged with his interests in hip-hop, country, indie rock, and house, culminating in a record that feels completely original. Strange began the album at his home studio, followed by a session with Yves and Lawrence Rothman (Yves Tumor, Lady Gaga), then after meeting Jack Antonoff, the two of them finished the record together, working on the songs raw, editing, arranging, and dressing them up in clothing bound to inspire fear.
Sure Fire Soul Ensemble [Gemini (black vinyl)]

March 28 street date. Recorded between late 2021 and early 2024 at The Kitchen II in their homebase of Lemon Grove, California, Sure Fire Soul Ensemble steer their "introspective party music" into fresh sonic realms. While their breakbeat-heavy brand of funk-soul-jazz is still the cornerstone of their sound, they've begun to take more and more cues from library music labels such as KPM Music, spiritually-leaning jazz labels such as Tribe and Black Jazz Records, and exotica-adjacent jazz artists such as Cal Tjader and Dorothy Ashby. Now leaning more into the "introspective" part of their sound, they evoke the spirits of Freddie Hubbard, Phil Ranelin, Wendell Harrison, Bubbha Thomas, Chester Thompson, and even Cannonball Adderley at his headiest and most cosmic. SFSE maintains their commitment to keeping it funky, but dares to go where they haven't gone before and, as a result, breaks intriguing new ground in their overall sound.
Van Etten, Sharon [Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory (black vinyl)]

February 7 street date. From the off, "Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory" is sonically different from Van Etten's previous work. Writing and recording in total collaboration with her band for the first time, Van Etten finds the freedom that comes by letting go. The result of that liberation is an exhilarating new dimension of sound and songwriting. The themes are timeless, classic Sharon - life and living, love and being loved - but the sounds are new, wholly realized and sharp as glass. Reflecting on this new artistic frame of mind, Van Etten muses, "sometimes it's exciting, sometimes it's scary, sometimes you feel stuck. It's like every day feels a little different - just being at peace with whatever you're feeling and whoever you are and how you relate to people in that moment. If I can just keep a sense of openness while knowing that my feelings change every day, that is all I can do right now. That and try to be the best person I can be while letting other people be who they are and not taking it personally and just being. I'm not there, but I'm trying to be there every day". "Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory" is a quantum leap in that direction.

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