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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. |
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Big Thief [Capacity] January 31 street date. Arriving for the first time on 4AD, Big Thief present the 2025 repress of their stunning sophomore album, 2017's "Capacity". After 2016's "Masterpiece", "Capacity" was recorded in a snowy winter nest in upstate New York at Outlier Studio with producer Andrew Sarlo. The album jumps right into lives marked up and nipped in surprisingly swift fashion. They are peopled and unpeopled, spooked and soothed, regenerating back into a state where they can once again be vulnerable. Adrianne Lenker's songs introduce us to a gallery of multifaceted women and deal with the complicated matters of identity - at once dangerous and curious, though never unbelievable. Lenker shows us the gentle side of being ripped open. "Big Thief's sophomore album beautifully excavates family history and trauma into a delicate, intricately built folk rock record, showcasing the gorgeous style of singer Adrianne Lenker" (Pitchfork - Best New Music). |
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Bonnie Prince Billy [The Purple Bird] January 31 street date. "The Purple Bird" finds Bonnie "Prince" Billy working with a "producer" for only the second time in his illustrious catalogue. This time it's David "Ferg" Ferguson (Johnny Cash, Sturgill Simpson) who guides the songs backed by "the best band you can get in Nashville right now", country singer John Anderson and bluegrass legend Tim O'Brien. "The Purple Bird" is simultaneously like and unlike other BPB records. Many of the songs are a product of multiple composers' voices, making the shape-shifting aspect of the BPB persona more fluid than ever before. |
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Bulat, Basia [Basia's Place] 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. |
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Cap'n Jazz [Burritos, Inspiration Point, Fork Balloon Sports (2LP)] February 21 street date. 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. |
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Clean [Modern Rock (30th anniversary edition)] January 24 street date. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Clean's album "Modern Rock", it has been remastered from the original tapes by producer and engineer Tex Houston and preserves Hamish Kilgour's original artwork. "Modern Rock" crackles with spontaneous energy, as if The Clean - namely, Hamish Kilgour, David Kilgour, and Robert Scott - couldn't help but make music together whenever they were in the same room. Following their 1989 reunion tour and the 1990 release of "Vehicle", those opportunities were rare. Then, for nine days in April 1994, the stars aligned over Dunedin and "Modern Rock" bloomed into life. It's an album of easy charm by a band so attuned to guitar pop that they make the creation of their sonic universe seem easy, as if what you're being let in on is a long-running conversation between three masters at a point where all three are riffing off of each other, line by line and hook by hook. The reissue offers new and old fans of The Clean alike an opportunity to hear the band at a creative zenith, shining light on an era that, until now, has been the provenance of crate diggers and completionists. First time in print on vinyl since its initial release, and the first time "Modern Rock" has ever been available on LP in North America. |
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Coolio [Greatest Hits (yellow vinyl)] January 31 street date. Artis Leon Ivey Jr., better known as Coolio, was one of the most influential rappers of the 1990s. With his slick flow, witty wordplay, and ability to tell stories in his music, he is often credited for changing the course of hip hop by bringing it to a wider audience. Arguably his best-known track, the 11 x platinum single "Gangsta's Paradise" reached No. 1 in 14 countries and won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance. In addition to "Gangsta's Paradise", this 10-track greatest hits collection also includes the hip hop classics "Fantastic Voyage", "C U When U Get There", and "Rollin' With My Homies" from the "Clueless" soundtrack. |
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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. |
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Englehorn, Gus [The Hornbook] January 31 street date. Gus Englehorn is ultimately a citizen of Planet Gus, an uncanny universe created through a big-bang collision between serene beauty and apocalyptic chaos, populated by folkloric heroes, creepy characters, and oversized insects alike. A critically acclaimed indie-rock singer-songwriter, he spent much of his life as a professional snowboarder, but always dreamed of writing songs. Accompanied by his wife Estée Preda, his key collaborator with whom he produces his albums and creates music videos, his approach is visceral, subconscious and much like his snowboarding career, risk taking and unapologetic. "The Hornbook" magically transmutes the entire history of 20th-century rock 'n' roll - 50s golden oldies, 60s garage spunk, 70s glam flamboyance, 80s indie transgression, 90s lo-fi weirdness - into an alien transmission from the future. Now, if you stayed awake during high-school history class, you might remember that a hornbook is an early-education tool for children dating back to the 15th century - a wooden paddle inscribed with the alphabet, numbers, and the odd Bible verse. "When I was writing these songs, it felt like I was making a children's book - every song was a little story", Gus Englehorn says of the title concept. "But it also felt like a little bit of a cipher for our whole world". |
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Father John Misty [I Love You, Honeybear (Canadian exclusive-coke bottle clear 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". |
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Fleet Foxes [Fleet Foxes/Sun Giant EP (Canadian exclusive-2LP/clear orange vinyl)] January 17 street date. Canadian retail exclusive clear orange vinyl variant of the Fleet Foxes' classic debut album, originally released in June 2008. The glorious gatefold vinyl LP version also includes the 2008 "Sun Giant EP" on a second, enclosed, piece of vinyl (it is not available as a separate vinyl release). Limited to 500 copies. |
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Gits [Frenching The Bully (LOSER edition-silver vinyl)] January 31 street date. Remastered reissue of The Gits' 1992 debut album "Frenching The Bully", which has been out of print on physical formats for years. The Gits were an iconic Seattle punk band that left an indelible mark on the underground rock scene between 1990 and 1993, when they disbanded following the tragic murder of singer Mia Zapata. Zapata was the greatest rock singer of her time and may have likely been the greatest blues singer in punk rock history, the woman who married the 78 and the '78. Tragedy did not make this true. Mia Zapata made this true, and the ferocious, spring-loaded shrapnel frame that was built around her by Andy Kessler, Matt Dresdner, and Steve Moriarty - who, with Mia, combined to form The Gits - made it true. The Gits put out three EPs in 1990-1991 before signing with C/Z Records and releasing their first full-length album, "Frenching The Bully" in 1992. Seattle embraced the Gits' blend of ferocious fangs and soft heart, the slug/slap of the guitars, and the gorgeous, soft underbelly of the poetic emotions. These qualities not only fit in with the doe-eyed/sharp-clawed grunge ethos but earned The Gits the respect of their peers. |
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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. |
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Gray, David [Dear Life (2LP-black vinyl)] January 17 street date. David Gray is back doing what he does better than almost anyone, and fans of complex, serious, lyrical songcraft should rejoice. "Dear Life", Gray's 13th album, may be the deepest, strangest, loveliest album this pioneering British singer-songwriter has ever delivered. Years in the making, it is an album of emotional crisis and resolution, mortality and faith, reality and illusion, love and heartbreak, magic, science, loss and acceptance. "Dear Life" is an album of emotional crisis and resolution, mortality and faith, reality and illusion, love and heartbreak, magic, science, loss and acceptance. While it is full of yearning and hope, there is an undercurrent of darkness, a tension between competing forces of hope and despair: a cavalcade of emotions in what is his most lyrically-focused collection to-date. |
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Halo Effect [March Of The Unheard (crystal clear vinyl)] January 10 street date. Swedish melodic death metal all star sensation The Halo Effect, featuring former and current members of In Flames, Dark Tranquility, and Engel, is back with their eagerly awaited second album. The follow-up to 2022's "Days Of The Lost" bears all the trademarks of their heritage and the Gothenburg sound but also adds a modern twist. In early 2025, The Halo Effect will embark on an extensive European headlining tour, being supported by fellow Swedes, Pain. |
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Hellacopters [Overdriver (brick red vinyl)] January 31 street date. Swedish high energy rock and roll band The Hellacopters released their eighth studio album, "Eyes Of Oblivion", on April 1, 2022. It marked the first full-length since the release of their temporary farewell record "Head Off" in 2008, which Nuclear Blast Records reissued in October 2024. Now The Hellacopters return with their ninth studio opus "Overdriver". Keeping their action rock melodic and powerful, "Overdriver" features plenty of roaring guitars, brilliant leads, and earth-shattering grooves. The release of "Overdriver" also coincides with the celebration of 30 years of The Hellacopters history - so way more than one reason to crank it up until your VU meter bursts! |
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Horsegirl [Phonetics On And On] February 14 street date. Horsegirl - the New York-via-Chicago trio of Nora Cheng, Penelope Lowenstein, and Gigi Reece - present their sophomore album, "Phonetics On And On" . The follow-up to 2022's "Versions Of Modern Performance" the album was produced by Cate Le Bon and recorded at The Loft in Chicago, the band's original and sonic home. The 11-track record is an exploration of the lines between pop, minimalism, and playful experimentation. The trio write with unanticipated honesty, leading us through scenes of girlhood and youth. These are moments of their lives. The indelible truth is that Horsegirl is a band of best friends; being around them you can see that love in their eyes. It's a love that is ever-present in "Phonetics On And On", as tenderness reverberates back and forth across the recording. |
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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-. |
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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. |
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Mogwai [The Bad Fire (2LP-black vinyl)] January 24 street date. The arrival of a new Mogwai album (their eleventh) is cause for great celebration. The album's title, "The Bad Fire", is a working-class Glaswegian term for hell, reflecting the difficult time that members of the band were going through. New to the studio was American producer John Congleton, known for his work with Explosions In The Sky, Sigur Rós, and John Grant. Congleton's work can be heard on the album's three singles. The album opener "God Gets You Back" sounds like Daft Punk being hunted by My Bloody Valentine, while "Fanzine Made Of Flesh" sounds like a victory parade for a baby yeti; and "Lion Rumpus" does actually sound like a lion rumpus. The music of Mogwai is a difficult thing to describe, but an easy thing to experience. At punishing volume, it can annihilate your body, leaving you as little more than a head which should by rights fall helplessly to the ground. Yet the music contains an updraft, a sense of beauty encased in the onslaught. "The Bad Fire" may have been created in dark conditions, but all that is transcended by the act of four musicians working together here, now, in the moment - the only place where Mogwai exist. |
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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. |
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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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Yo La Tengo [Old Joy (black vinyl)] February 28 street date. For the first time on vinyl, Yo La Tengo's understated, lonesome score to Kelly Reichardt's classic "Old Joy". Recorded in a single afternoon at YLT's studio in Hoboken, "Old Joy" is a drifting, improvisatory journey, born out of years-long friendship between the band and the film's director. The six instrumental tracks, created in collaboration with legendary guitarist Smokey Hormel, carry that unmistakable YLT sound, but delivered in service of another great work of art. The music, like so much of Reichardt's film work, is low-key yet arresting, stripped down to the essentials, warm and unpretentious. The record includes two variations on the beloved "Leaving Home" theme, released for the first time on vinyl after years traveling in YLT fan circles. This music is a balm, remarkably full of emotion despite (or maybe because of) its restraint and minimalism. |
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Yo La Tengo [Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo (2LP)] January 17 street date. Matador Records present an imported black vinyl repress of "Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo". Back in print for the first time in over 20 years, the compilation assembles more than two hours of hard to find and unreleased Yo La Tengo music from 1988-1995. |
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