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. Digipak CD edition includes 3 bonus tracks and 24 page booklet on parchment paper.
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.
January 10 street date. Liverpool electropoppers Ladytron - Helen Marnie, Mira Aroyo, Daniel Hunt and Reuben Wu - formed in 1999 and sparked an entire movement in music pop culture powered by vintage synths and electro-rock engines. Originally released in 2002 by Emperor Norton Records and re-released by Nettwerk in 2011, Ladytron's second studio album "Light & Magic" was written and co-produced in Los Angeles by the band and Mickey Petralia and featured the underground hits "Seventeen", "Blue Jeans", and "Evil".
Please note new street date: February 14. New coloured vinyl repress of Mother Mother's third album, 2008's "O My Heart". Comprised of Ryan Guldemond (vocals, guitar), Molly Guldemond (vocals, keys), Jasmin Parkin (vocals, keys), Ali Siadat (drums), and Mike Young (bass), Mother Mother are best known for their deep connection with their fans, and for bringing stadium-sized energy to their live show, no matter the stage. Singing about themes of alienation and enormous longing for self and societal acceptance, the band's mission is to be a home for souls that feel they don't fit in anywhere else. A string of #1 radio hits in Canada, 8 billion global streams, and multiple Billboard chart appearances cement their global success.
Please note new street date: January 10. Expanding beyond the folk and pop stylings of his first album, Tom Waits' second studio release "The Heart Of Saturday Night" established his reputation as a versatile and distinctly American songwriter. Its bluesy jazz arrangements featured bass, drums, sax, and Waits on piano. The title track, a melancholy ode to Saturday night rituals, and the tenderly romantic hymn-like "San Diego Serenade" are enduring classics covered by an array of artists from Diana Krall and Nanci Griffifith to folk hero Eric Anderson. The album also features "Diamonds On My Windshield", the first of what would become a signature for Waits - the spoken word-poetry song. Waits' delivers these lyrics as pure beat jazz in the stylings of Jack Kerouac, Langston Hughes, and Bob Kaufman.
January 17 street date. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Frank Black's landmark solo album, "Teenager Of The Year", 4AD present an exclusive, one-time vinyl pressing of the double LP, remastered for the first time from its original analogue studio tapes. Sounding as essential as the day it was released, the limited 30th anniversary edition is cut at 45 rpm for optimum playback, and pressed on double indie gold vinyl. The album also comes in a gatefold sleeve with liner notes by both Frank Black and producer Eric Drew Feldman. "Teenager Of The Year" came out in 1994, one year after his self-titled debut album. In a rich songwriting vein, the double album of 22 songs never drags, instead its now widely regarded as the defining statement of his solo career. Among the plaudits thrown its way was Pitchfork ranking it in their Top 100 Albums of the 90s, saying "beneath its veneer lie moments brilliant enough to rival any of the Pixies' 1990s work, and Black's greatest lyrical achievements".
January 17 street date. Everything Is Recorded, the collaborative music project centred around producer Richard Russell (Gil Scott-Heron, Ibeyi, Damon Albarn), present a brand new single, "Porcupine Tattoo:" - a stripped-back lament featuring two American musical icons - Noah Cyrus and Bill Callahan - who appear on record together for the very first time. This imported limited edition 7" single is released on XL Recordings in partnership with Drag City, Callahan's long term label home. The B-side features a second collaboration between Everything Is Recorded and Callahan in the form of "Norm", a tribute to the Austin-based singer songwriter's favourite comedian, Quebec's Norm MacDonald.
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.
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.
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.
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.
January 17 street date. Dive back into the powerful rock anthems of "Hooked", Great White's electrifying 1991 album. Featuring raw, blues-infused guitar riffs and Jack Russell's iconic vocals, this classic release showcases hits like "Call It Rock N' Roll" and "Can't Shake It". Reissued for 2025, this edition brings the energy and emotion of "Hooked" to life with rich, dynamic sound. Whether you're a longtime fan or a first-time listener, this timeless album is a must-have for any rock collection.
January 17 street date. Dive back into the powerful rock anthems of "Hooked", Great White's electrifying 1991 album. Featuring raw, blues-infused guitar riffs and Jack Russell's iconic vocals, this classic release showcases hits like "Call It Rock N' Roll" and "Can't Shake It". Reissued for 2025, this edition brings the energy and emotion of "Hooked" to life with rich, dynamic sound. Whether you're a longtime fan or a first-time listener, this timeless album is a must-have for any rock collection.
January 17 street date. Dive back into the powerful rock anthems of "Hooked", Great White's electrifying 1991 album. Featuring raw, blues-infused guitar riffs and Jack Russell's iconic vocals, this classic release showcases hits like "Call It Rock N' Roll" and "Can't Shake It". Reissued for 2025, this edition brings the energy and emotion of "Hooked" to life with rich, dynamic sound. Whether you're a longtime fan or a first-time listener, this timeless album is a must-have for any rock collection.
January 17 street date. Nourished By Time's debut album, "Erotic Probiotic 2", tells his transformative story through impeccable songwriting, infectious ear worm melodies, vivid storytelling, and intimate DIY production. The album traverses a broad spectrum of sound, allowing his songwriting to dictate the ever-changing mood he orchestrates; whether it is love or loss. Sitting somewhere between indie, pop, and alternative R&B, Nourished By Time ultimately carves out a fresh sound defined by his vulnerable vocals, raw guitar licks and undeniable groove. Originally released on London label Scenic Route, the critically acclaimed album earned Pitchfork's "Best New Music", and was widely regarded as one of the "Best Albums of 2023" with features on Gorilla vs. Bear (#1), Pitchfork (#5), The Guardian, The Fader, Paste, and more.
January 17 street date. Matador Records present an imported 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.
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.
January 24 street date. River Lea Records presents "Salt River", the label-debut from London-based Vermont-native, Sam Amidon. As part of a decades-long quest to recontextualize what it means to sing folk songs or make folk music, Amidon collaborated with saxophonist and producer Sam Gendel to reinterpret and regenerate ten chosen songs. The music ranges from traditional Appalachian ballad "Golden Willow Tree" to a radical reimagining of Lou Reed's "Big Sky", and was recorded by Amidon, Gendel, and percussionist Philippe Melanson during sessions at Gendel's home in Los Angeles. As Amidon himself describes, "this album is a campfire, but the campfire is around Sam Gendel's synthesizer. Or maybe it's a journey through the corridors of my memory, if my memory was transplanted into Sam and Phil's dreams". Taken together, these 10 songs feel like a shared playground of discovery, with Amidon finding new ways for old songs to exist in the company of his two unfettered collaborators.
January 24 street date. River Lea Records presents "Salt River", the label-debut from London-based Vermont-native, Sam Amidon. As part of a decades-long quest to recontextualize what it means to sing folk songs or make folk music, Amidon collaborated with saxophonist and producer Sam Gendel to reinterpret and regenerate ten chosen songs. The music ranges from traditional Appalachian ballad "Golden Willow Tree" to a radical reimagining of Lou Reed's "Big Sky", and was recorded by Amidon, Gendel, and percussionist Philippe Melanson during sessions at Gendel's home in Los Angeles. As Amidon himself describes, "this album is a campfire, but the campfire is around Sam Gendel's synthesizer. Or maybe it's a journey through the corridors of my memory, if my memory was transplanted into Sam and Phil's dreams". Taken together, these 10 songs feel like a shared playground of discovery, with Amidon finding new ways for old songs to exist in the company of his two unfettered collaborators.
January 24 street date. Lou-Adriane Cassidy n’est plus un nom que l’on se doit de présenter. N’en témoigne que sa participation à la triomphale série de concerts Le Roy, la Rose et le Lou[p], nommée moment historique à deux reprises par La Presse (2021 et 2023). Les critiques dithyrambiques récoltées laissent entendre qu’elle est une de celles détenant l’avenir de notre chanson entre ses mains. Son troisième album, intitulé Journal d’un Loup-garou, marque encore un nouveau départ pour l’artiste. Exit la chanson d’influence française, tout comme la nouvelle chanson grunge qui marquait sa première réinvention. Lou-Adriane Cassidy se tient désormais aux croisements de plusieurs limites et se fait plus protéiforme que jamais. Elle s’y montre d’une vulnérabilité désarmante, scande un brûlot sur l’industrie du spectacle, revêt les traits d’un monstre prisonnier de sa condition, demande l’absolution pour elle-même et pour son père parti à ses 16 ans. Chantant avec une liberté et une force dont nous avions vu l’étendue sur scène mais peut-être jamais sur disque, Lou-Adriane Cassidy navigue des eaux plus pop et plus contemporaines que par le passé. Avec Journal d’un Loup-garou, elle nous dévoile la manifestation d’une vision claire et déterminée, une volition pure qui ouvre évidemment un nouveau chapitre de notre chanson d’aujourd’hui.
January 24 street date. Lou-Adriane Cassidy n’est plus un nom que l’on se doit de présenter. N’en témoigne que sa participation à la triomphale série de concerts Le Roy, la Rose et le Lou[p], nommée moment historique à deux reprises par La Presse (2021 et 2023). Les critiques dithyrambiques récoltées laissent entendre qu’elle est une de celles détenant l’avenir de notre chanson entre ses mains. Son troisième album, intitulé Journal d’un Loup-garou, marque encore un nouveau départ pour l’artiste. Exit la chanson d’influence française, tout comme la nouvelle chanson grunge qui marquait sa première réinvention. Lou-Adriane Cassidy se tient désormais aux croisements de plusieurs limites et se fait plus protéiforme que jamais. Elle s’y montre d’une vulnérabilité désarmante, scande un brûlot sur l’industrie du spectacle, revêt les traits d’un monstre prisonnier de sa condition, demande l’absolution pour elle-même et pour son père parti à ses 16 ans. Chantant avec une liberté et une force dont nous avions vu l’étendue sur scène mais peut-être jamais sur disque, Lou-Adriane Cassidy navigue des eaux plus pop et plus contemporaines que par le passé. Avec Journal d’un Loup-garou, elle nous dévoile la manifestation d’une vision claire et déterminée, une volition pure qui ouvre évidemment un nouveau chapitre de notre chanson d’aujourd’hui.
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.
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. 3LP deluxe edition includes a bonus LP of album demos.
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.
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.
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.
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. Indie shop exclusive edition on clear vinyl, limited to 2000 copies.
Please note new street date: January 24. Rick White and The Sadies, recorded live in concert at the Great Hall in Toronto, September 6, 2024. Rick, Mike, Sean, and Travis got together to play a one-off show and it went so well, and turned out so great, that Blue Fog decided to do a one time vinyl pressing of the show. Beautifully performed and recorded, this new 2LP release documents the whole special evening wonderfully. They play the entirety of their latest self-titled album as well as several tracks from The Unintended album that they made together in 2003, as well as a couple of Sadies tunes. A fine document of this terrific evening.
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).
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).
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
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".
January 31 street date. Repress of this 2024 RSD release. For the 10th anniversary of "Pinata", the album is presented in a green-in-clear with black & white splatter pressing, housed in an exclusive variant cover with a 24" x 24" poster. It's hard to believe it has been ten years since Freddie Gibbs was at a low point in his career, in between labels and surfing couches, and Madlib was a skinny, stoned, and sampling beatmaker trying to forge his way with his own Madlib Invazion imprint as he divested from the label his music built, Stones Throw. "Pinata", their sprawling collaboration, changed the courses of these two musical mavericks. Now, on the 10th year anniversary of its launch, Jeff Jank has designed fresh variant cover art as Madlib Invazion presents the single LP, half speed lacquered version of this hip hop classic.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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-.
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-.
February 7 street date. With "A Sonication", Germany-based metal band Obscura launch the second of their trilogy concept. The group's seventh album (and second for Nuclear Blast) pivots on many fronts. Advanced, elegant, and yet refreshing, "A Sonication" sums up past endeavors effortlessly as it gazes with purpose and conviction into the future. Obscura are fan-renowned and critically acclaimed for challenging and then expanding upon norms. From "Retribution" (2004) through "A Valediction" (2021), the band flourished and made significant progress in a musical genre unprepared for a creative shot of German invention. "A Sonication" spearheads Obscura into a new era of extreme metal.
February 7 street date. With "A Sonication", Germany-based metal band Obscura launch the second of their trilogy concept. The group's seventh album (and second for Nuclear Blast) pivots on many fronts. Advanced, elegant, and yet refreshing, "A Sonication" sums up past endeavors effortlessly as it gazes with purpose and conviction into the future. Obscura are fan-renowned and critically acclaimed for challenging and then expanding upon norms. From "Retribution" (2004) through "A Valediction" (2021), the band flourished and made significant progress in a musical genre unprepared for a creative shot of German invention. "A Sonication" spearheads Obscura into a new era of extreme metal.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
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".
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
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".
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".
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".
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".
February 28 street date. Indie shop edition. If "Funeral For Justice" was the sound of outrage, this is the sound of grief. Mdou Moctar presents "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. It retains heaviness, but it's haunting.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
September 13 street date. Pittsburgh hardcore band 156/Silence return with their new release, "People Watching". The band storms the metalcore scene with relentless energy and uncompromising passion. 156/Silence have been making a name for themselves for nearly a decade now; their previous album "Narrative" was released on Sharptone back in 2022. To promote the release of "People Watching", 156/Silence will be joining Signs Of The Swarm and Cane Hill on tour, with Canadian dates in Montreal (August 31), Toronto (September 1), and Vancouver (September 10).
September 13 street date. Pittsburgh hardcore band 156/Silence return with their new release, "People Watching". The band storms the metalcore scene with relentless energy and uncompromising passion. 156/Silence have been making a name for themselves for nearly a decade now; their previous album "Narrative" was released on Sharptone back in 2022. To promote the release of "People Watching", 156/Silence will be joining Signs Of The Swarm and Cane Hill on tour, with Canadian dates in Montreal (August 31), Toronto (September 1), and Vancouver (September 10).
Please note new street date: February 2. 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 its 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".
March 29 street date. Originally released in 2002, "Daylight" was the follow-up to Aesop Rock's critically-acclaimed "Labor Days" album, a cult classic released only six months prior. The EP was built around its titular opening song, "Daylight", one of the standout tracks from "Labor Days", and continued expanding upon the range and depth of Aesop's multi-talented gifts for writing and producing. In addition to the title track, Daylight also included its counterpoint, "Night Light", an alternate version in concept whose paraphrased lyrics simultaneously refer back to - and stand in stark opposition to - the original's, over darker, more menacing production. The tracklist for "Daylight" boasted seven songs, although there was a hidden track as well making a total of eight, that collectively featured production by Blockhead, El-P, Blueprint and Aesop Rock himself, as well as a guest verse from Blueprint.
March 29 street date. Originally released in 2002, "Daylight" was the follow-up to Aesop Rock's critically-acclaimed "Labor Days" album, a cult classic released only six months prior. The EP was built around its titular opening song, "Daylight", one of the standout tracks from "Labor Days", and continued expanding upon the range and depth of Aesop's multi-talented gifts for writing and producing. In addition to the title track, Daylight also included its counterpoint, "Night Light", an alternate version in concept whose paraphrased lyrics simultaneously refer back to - and stand in stark opposition to - the original's, over darker, more menacing production. The tracklist for "Daylight" boasted seven songs, although there was a hidden track as well making a total of eight, that collectively featured production by Blockhead, El-P, Blueprint and Aesop Rock himself, as well as a guest verse from Blueprint. At the time of its initial release, "Daylight" was only offered in CD and digital formats, while the vinyl was stripped back, available only as a three-song 12" single. Now, Rhymesayers Entertainment is pleased to present the complete EP on vinyl for the first time ever, pressed on two-colour side A/B effect orange & blue vinyl to complement the original artwork.
August 16 street date. Tommy Boy reissues an exclusive limited edition pressing of Afrika Bambaattaa & Soulsonic Force's groundbreaking classic, "Planet Rock". Considered one of founding fathers of rap, Afrika Bambaataa has long been considered a revolutionary, both within the music business and beyond. Raised in the South Bronx, Afrika Bambaataa made his name as a DJ, rapper and songwriter, eventually becoming the foremost DJ, event organizer, and promoter of the large block parties that rocked the neighborhood during the mid-to-late 1970s. Leading into the 80s, Bambaataa had found acclaim for releasing countless genre defining tracks, infusing hip hop and electronic elements into a sound that would influence other artists for years to come. With the release of the Soulsonic Force assisted "Planet Rock" in 1982, Afrika Bambaataa forever cemented his place in the history books as one of the most revered and innovative artists of his time.
August 16 street date. Tommy Boy reissues an exclusive limited edition pressing of Afrika Bambaattaa & Soulsonic Force's groundbreaking classic, "Planet Rock". Considered one of founding fathers of rap, Afrika Bambaataa has long been considered a revolutionary, both within the music business and beyond. Raised in the South Bronx, Afrika Bambaataa made his name as a DJ, rapper and songwriter, eventually becoming the foremost DJ, event organizer, and promoter of the large block parties that rocked the neighborhood during the mid-to-late 1970s. Leading into the 80s, Bambaataa had found acclaim for releasing countless genre defining tracks, infusing hip hop and electronic elements into a sound that would influence other artists for years to come. With the release of the Soulsonic Force assisted "Planet Rock" in 1982, Afrika Bambaataa forever cemented his place in the history books as one of the most revered and innovative artists of his time.
May 10 street date. First new album from acclaimed, forward-thinking indie artist Amen Dunes since the beloved 2018 album "Freedom", and his first album on Sub Pop Records. With "Death Jokes", for the first time since the project's incarnation in 2006, the spiritual reflections and meditations of Amen Dunes are turned away from himself, and out sharply towards the world. The album is also a drastic turn musically and thematically, rooted in the electronic music of raves and of rap music he grew up with but never imagined himself able to make, playing like a scathing electronic essay on America's culture of violence, dominance, and destructive individualism. The work on "Death Jokes" began just weeks before the first word of the pandemic came in the winter of 2019; it was completed three years later as we began to emerge from the worst. The album's meaning morphed as the pandemic went on, first a reflection on our attachment to form, and to ourselves, and then shifting into a solemn indictment of our culture's blind spots as we misjudge and attack, veiled self-centeredness and self-importance masquerading as morality.
May 10 street date. First new album from acclaimed, forward-thinking indie artist Amen Dunes since the beloved 2018 album "Freedom", and his first album on Sub Pop Records. With "Death Jokes", for the first time since the project's incarnation in 2006, the spiritual reflections and meditations of Amen Dunes are turned away from himself, and out sharply towards the world. The album is also a drastic turn musically and thematically, rooted in the electronic music of raves and of rap music he grew up with but never imagined himself able to make, playing like a scathing electronic essay on America's culture of violence, dominance, and destructive individualism. The work on "Death Jokes" began just weeks before the first word of the pandemic came in the winter of 2019; it was completed three years later as we began to emerge from the worst. The album's meaning morphed as the pandemic went on, first a reflection on our attachment to form, and to ourselves, and then shifting into a solemn indictment of our culture's blind spots as we misjudge and attack, veiled self-centeredness and self-importance masquerading as morality.
October 18 street date. After quietly releasing their self-titled debut album in 1999 while still in college, American Football disbanded after the album's release to focus on other projects, only to reunite 15 years later to a fanbase that had been consistently growing throughout the underground/emo scene. The album later appeared on Rolling Stone's "40 Greatest Emo Albums of All Time" list at #6, with Pitchfork giving its deluxe reissue the "Best New Reissue" title, calling it the "most influential album in the genre". To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the album's release, Polyvinyl is thrilled to announce a new remastered edition of the album with re-imagined artwork and packaging.
June 28 street date. Prepare to experience the relentless force of metal legends Anvil with their latest album, "One And Only". As pioneers of the genre, Anvil has forged a path of uncompromising metal excellence for over four decades, and "One And Only" is a testament to their enduring power and influence. Their 20th studio album (!) showcases Anvil at their finest, delivering a relentless onslaught of blistering riffs, thunderous drums, and anthemic choruses that will leave you electrified. With tracks that resonate with the raw energy and passion that define their sound, "One And Only" solidifies Anvil's place as true masters of heavy metal.
June 28 street date. Prepare to experience the relentless force of metal legends Anvil with their latest album, "One And Only". As pioneers of the genre, Anvil has forged a path of uncompromising metal excellence for over four decades, and "One And Only" is a testament to their enduring power and influence. Their 20th studio album (!) showcases Anvil at their finest, delivering a relentless onslaught of blistering riffs, thunderous drums, and anthemic choruses that will leave you electrified. With tracks that resonate with the raw energy and passion that define their sound, "One And Only" solidifies Anvil's place as true masters of heavy metal.
May 17 street date. "Strictly Leakage" was a 2007 Christmas gift to fans in the form of a free download. The title was a nod to both leaking their own music as well as to the golden era hip-hop that inspired them. It sounded uniquely different from Atmosphere's recordings around this time. Ant was back digging into the funk and soul crates, producing sample driven tracks that sounded as if they were birthed alongside early hip-hop classics. Slug was rapping with a renewed passion, yet somehow sounded more casual and carefree, delivering endless wordplay with more technical rhyme patterns than their recent releases. Together, they created 13 exclusive songs that sounded as if they were having fun flexing different creative muscles without the pressure of any official album expectations - undoubtedly as rewarding an exercise for themselves as it was for the listeners. Soon after release, "Strictly Leakage" was briefly pressed on a limited run of vinyl and CD, but it wasn't long before they sold out, and fans were left chasing streams and digital files in order to hear it. Finally, the project returns to vinyl and CD so fans everywhere can own and appreciate this unique chapter in Atmosphere's story.
May 17 street date. "Strictly Leakage" was a 2007 Christmas gift to fans in the form of a free download. The title was a nod to both leaking their own music as well as to the golden era hip-hop that inspired them. It sounded uniquely different from Atmosphere's recordings around this time. Ant was back digging into the funk and soul crates, producing sample driven tracks that sounded as if they were birthed alongside early hip-hop classics. Slug was rapping with a renewed passion, yet somehow sounded more casual and carefree, delivering endless wordplay with more technical rhyme patterns than their recent releases. Together, they created 13 exclusive songs that sounded as if they were having fun flexing different creative muscles without the pressure of any official album expectations - undoubtedly as rewarding an exercise for themselves as it was for the listeners. Soon after release, "Strictly Leakage" was briefly pressed on a limited run of vinyl and CD, but it wasn't long before they sold out, and fans were left chasing streams and digital files in order to hear it. Finally, the project returns to vinyl and CD so fans everywhere can own and appreciate this unique chapter in Atmosphere's story.
December 1 street date. The title of the previous Atmosphere album, "So Many Other Realities Exist Simultaneously", evokes the multiversal storytelling that has recently vaulted into the mainstream consciousness. Now with their latest effort, the irrepressible "Talk Talk" EP, Slug and Ant dart across space-time to grab hold of the timeline where they became titans of the electro-rap that was foundational to their youths. Evoking artists like Kraftwerk and Egyptian Lover, Atmosphere makes decades old visions of the future seem new once again. The genesis of the "Talk Talk" EP was in recording a track of the same name for "So Many Other Realities". The "Talk Talk" song exists alongside electro classics, at once vaguely alien and deeply human. Enamored with its outcome, Slug and Ant returned for a longer exploration of the sound, to mesmeric results. For all its well-documented roots in disco and R&B, rap's connection to the electronic music of the 1970s and 80s is a core part of its DNA. The "Talk Talk" EP is one of the clearest articulations of this truth to emerge in many years, a testament to the communal power of programmed sound.
December 8 street date. "The Beautiful Dark Of Life" is the ninth studio album from Atreyu, and their most ambitious project ever. Unfurled throughout the year as a series of three EPs, culminating in a surprise album release, Atreyu are taking their audience on a journey through "the seasons of life" and the rollercoaster of human existence. With songs that speak openly and honestly about anxiety, depression, self-belief, love, and identity, "The Beautiful Dark Of Life" represents Atreyu's most universal and important songwriting to date. Through the expression of deeply personal feelings and emotions, Atreyu are giving a voice to a global audience dealing with the very same issues that the band are laying bare, and who are seeking solace, empathy, escapism and empowerment through music. With sonics that touch every corner of the heavy music sphere - from metal to punk and alternative, via 1980s classic rock and with shades of industrial, hip-hop and unashamed pop - "The Beautiful Dark Of Life" is an album that showcases the very best of Atreyu and every influence that guides them, speaking more than ever to a generation of music fans who care little for the traditional constraints of genre.
Please note new street date: December 20. American metalcore stalwarts Atreyu make a passionate return to the hearts of fans everywhere with "The Pronoia Sessions" - a new collection that deconstructs, recreates, and reshapes eight of their greatest hits and two nostalgic tribute covers. The genesis stretches back to a series of acoustic performances at special events on the road. "We had the idea to do a show similar to Nirvana's "MTV Unplugged" as a one-off thing", explains frontman Brandon Saller. "Then we thought, "why not spend some time on it in the studio?". It spawned from there and unexpectedly turned into this monster". What began as an acoustic album evolved into a grand re-imagining of Atreyu classics.
Please note new street date: December 20. American metalcore stalwarts Atreyu make a passionate return to the hearts of fans everywhere with "The Pronoia Sessions" - a new collection that deconstructs, recreates, and reshapes eight of their greatest hits and two nostalgic tribute covers. The genesis stretches back to a series of acoustic performances at special events on the road. "We had the idea to do a show similar to Nirvana's "MTV Unplugged" as a one-off thing", explains frontman Brandon Saller. "Then we thought, "why not spend some time on it in the studio?". It spawned from there and unexpectedly turned into this monster". What began as an acoustic album evolved into a grand re-imagining of Atreyu classics.
September 13 street date. FR. Après une pause de 8 ans, le quatuor folk et groupe culte du Québec Avec pas d'casque dévoilent leur sixième album en carrière : Cardinal. Tout en douceur, la poésie de Stéphane Lafleur réverbère sur les mélodies calmes de cet album. Appuyé par des textes imagés et sensibles, ils dévoilent un album tout en douceur. Le groupe tournera également aux quatre coins du Québec.
EN. After an 8-year hiatus, Quebec folk quartet and cult band Avec pas d'casque unveil their sixth career album, Cardinal. Stéphane Lafleur's gentle poetry reverberates on the quiet melodies of this album. Backed by sensitive, vivid lyrics, they unveil a gentle album. The group will also be touring the four corners of Quebec.
September 13 street date. FR. Après une pause de 8 ans, le quatuor folk et groupe culte du Québec Avec pas d'casque dévoilent leur sixième album en carrière : Cardinal. Tout en douceur, la poésie de Stéphane Lafleur réverbère sur les mélodies calmes de cet album. Appuyé par des textes imagés et sensibles, ils dévoilent un album tout en douceur. Le groupe tournera également aux quatre coins du Québec.
EN. After an 8-year hiatus, Quebec folk quartet and cult band Avec pas d'casque unveil their sixth career album, Cardinal. Stéphane Lafleur's gentle poetry reverberates on the quiet melodies of this album. Backed by sensitive, vivid lyrics, they unveil a gentle album. The group will also be touring the four corners of Quebec.
December 22 street date. Avenged Sevenfold's self-titled album was the band's 4th studio album and the last to feature their drummer The Rev. "Avenged Sevenfold" has sold over 1.5 million copies worldwide and has been streamed over 750 million times and continues to be one of their largest and most popular albums. The album peaked at No. 4 on The Billboard 200, was awarded best album by Kerrang in 2008, was featured on Kerrang's "666 albums you must hear before you die" and was certified gold in 2008.
December 22 street date. "Nightmare" was Avenged Sevenfold's 5th studio album and the first to not feature their drummer The Rev, although parts written by The Rev were used as well as some vocal recordings. "Nightmare" has sold over 1.3 million copies worldwide and has been streamed over 800 million times and continues to be one of their most popular albums. The album reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and is RIAA certified gold.
May 17 street date. Music Theories Recordings and Mascot Label Group are proud to announce the latest live album from Ayreon, "01011001 - Live Beneath The Waves". Recorded live from a short run of shows in September 2023 at the 013 Tilburg in The Netherlands, this release is a must-have for Ayreon fans worldwide. The 2CD and DVD feature 2 tracks not included on the vinyl configuration.
May 17 street date. Music Theories Recordings and Mascot Label Group are proud to announce the latest live album from Ayreon, "01011001 - Live Beneath The Waves". Recorded live from a short run of shows in September 2023 at the 013 Tilburg in The Netherlands, this release is a must-have for Ayreon fans worldwide. Limited to 300 copies worldwide.
March 8 street date. Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band, the mysterious steel pan outfit hailing from Hamburg, have amassed a cult following around the globe. With a slew of classic 7"s and three critically acclaimed full length albums, they set a high bar for themselves, one they clearly intend on pushing even higher with this new offering. On their fourth album "BRSB", Bacao are back with more of the same, but more of the same with them is inherently different. Covering songs that span genres and range from mega hits to underground album cuts, they make them their own with their unique approach to the traditional steel pans of Trinidad and Tobago. This time around there is a big West Coast hip hop influence with covers of Game & 50 Cent's "How We Do", Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg's "Nuthin But A G Thang", and Tupac's "Got My Mind Made Up", all of which take on new energy and lend themselves to the BRSB steel treatment. Pulling from the contemporary smash hit section of hip hop they cover Drake's "Hotline Bling" and "Love$ick" by Mura Masa & A$AP Rocky. Then they go very unexpected with "Stranger Things Theme" where they take the synth heavy theme song to the hit show and give it a more hypnotizing tone than the original.
March 8 street date. Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band, the mysterious steel pan outfit hailing from Hamburg, have amassed a cult following around the globe. With a slew of classic 7"s and three critically acclaimed full length albums, they set a high bar for themselves, one they clearly intend on pushing even higher with this new offering. On their fourth album "BRSB", Bacao are back with more of the same, but more of the same with them is inherently different. Covering songs that span genres and range from mega hits to underground album cuts, they make them their own with their unique approach to the traditional steel pans of Trinidad and Tobago. This time around there is a big West Coast hip hop influence with covers of Game & 50 Cent's "How We Do", Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg's "Nuthin But A G Thang", and Tupac's "Got My Mind Made Up", all of which take on new energy and lend themselves to the BRSB steel treatment. Pulling from the contemporary smash hit section of hip hop they cover Drake's "Hotline Bling" and "Love$ick" by Mura Masa & A$AP Rocky. Then they go very unexpected with "Stranger Things Theme" where they take the synth heavy theme song to the hit show and give it a more hypnotizing tone than the original.
November 8 street date. Formed out of deep friendships, Bad Astronaut has always had an air of mystery. Created by Joey Cape (Lagwagon), Marko DeSantis (Sugarcult), and the late Derrick Plourde, the band carved a unique space outside of their main musical endeavors. Their music, characterized by more experimental sounds and intricate production, stood in contrast to the punk backgrounds they came from. Bad Astronaut has always been more than a side project - it's a reflection of the members' collective musical vision, free from the constraints of their primary bands. "Untethered" offers a fresh perspective on the band's classics. These reworked versions strip the songs down to their core, relying only on cello, piano, and vocals to highlight the raw emotion and songwriting behind each track. The band aims to showcase the essence of the music by removing most of the original instrumentation, allowing fans to connect with the heart of each song in a more intimate setting. While "Untethered" feels like a natural conclusion to Bad Astronaut's story, there's always the possibility of more music.
November 8 street date. Formed out of deep friendships, Bad Astronaut has always had an air of mystery. Created by Joey Cape (Lagwagon), Marko DeSantis (Sugarcult), and the late Derrick Plourde, the band carved a unique space outside of their main musical endeavors. Their music, characterized by more experimental sounds and intricate production, stood in contrast to the punk backgrounds they came from. Bad Astronaut has always been more than a side project - it's a reflection of the members' collective musical vision, free from the constraints of their primary bands. "Untethered" offers a fresh perspective on the band's classics. These reworked versions strip the songs down to their core, relying only on cello, piano, and vocals to highlight the raw emotion and songwriting behind each track. The band aims to showcase the essence of the music by removing most of the original instrumentation, allowing fans to connect with the heart of each song in a more intimate setting. While "Untethered" feels like a natural conclusion to Bad Astronaut's story, there's always the possibility of more music.
February 23 street date. "Omega Sessions" is a 5-song EP recorded by Bad Brains in 1980 and (eventually) released in 1997. The tracks were recorded and mixed at the original Omega Recording Studios in Rockville, Maryland. The EP contains early versions of songs that eventually appeared on later releases, including a reading of "I Against I". Side B of the vinyl features a custom etching.
July 26 street date. "I Against I" is the third studio album from Bad Brains, originally released in 1986 on SST Records. It remains the best-selling album in the band's catalog, showcasing Bad Brains' unique fusion of punk rock, hardcore punk, reggae, and heavy metal influences. It remains influential to this day, inspiring countless punk, ska, reggae, and hardcore bands with its innovative sound and uncompromising attitude. This reissue marks the eighth 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 and pressed at Furnace Record Pressing.
July 26 street date. Canadian exclusive colour variant (colour TBA), limited to 300 copies. "I Against I" is the third studio album from Bad Brains, originally released in 1986 on SST Records. It remains the best-selling album in the band's catalog, showcasing Bad Brains' unique fusion of punk rock, hardcore punk, reggae, and heavy metal influences. It remains influential to this day, inspiring countless punk, ska, reggae, and hardcore bands with its innovative sound and uncompromising attitude. This reissue marks the eighth 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 and pressed at Furnace Record Pressing.
July 26 street date. "I Against I" is the third studio album from Bad Brains, originally released in 1986 on SST Records. It remains the best-selling album in the band's catalog, showcasing Bad Brains' unique fusion of punk rock, hardcore punk, reggae, and heavy metal influences. It remains influential to this day, inspiring countless punk, ska, reggae, and hardcore bands with its innovative sound and uncompromising attitude. This reissue marks the eighth 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 and pressed at Furnace Record Pressing.
July 26 street date. "I Against I" is the third studio album from Bad Brains, originally released in 1986 on SST Records. It remains the best-selling album in the band's catalog, showcasing Bad Brains' unique fusion of punk rock, hardcore punk, reggae, and heavy metal influences. It remains influential to this day, inspiring countless punk, ska, reggae, and hardcore bands with its innovative sound and uncompromising attitude. This reissue marks the eighth 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 and pressed at Furnace Record Pressing.
July 26 street date. "I Against I" is the third studio album from Bad Brains, originally released in 1986 on SST Records. It remains the best-selling album in the band's catalog, showcasing Bad Brains' unique fusion of punk rock, hardcore punk, reggae, and heavy metal influences. It remains influential to this day, inspiring countless punk, ska, reggae, and hardcore bands with its innovative sound and uncompromising attitude. This reissue marks the eighth 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 and pressed at Furnace Record Pressing.
July 26 street date. "I Against I" is the third studio album from Bad Brains, originally released in 1986 on SST Records. It remains the best-selling album in the band's catalog, showcasing Bad Brains' unique fusion of punk rock, hardcore punk, reggae, and heavy metal influences. It remains influential to this day, inspiring countless punk, ska, reggae, and hardcore bands with its innovative sound and uncompromising attitude. This reissue marks the eighth 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 and pressed at Furnace Record Pressing. This "Punk Note" edition comes with alternate packaging artwork from designer John Yates (Stealworks). The artwork is a nod to Reid Miles and Francis Wolff, and their amazing work at the Blue Note label.
February 23 street date. "Omega Sessions" is a 5-song EP recorded by Bad Brains in 1980 and (eventually) released in 1997. The tracks were recorded and mixed at the original Omega Recording Studios in Rockville, Maryland. The EP contains early versions of songs that eventually appeared on later releases, including a reading of "I Against I". Side B of the vinyl features a custom etching.
Available now. At the start of 2024, BADBADNOTGOOD were brimming with new creative energy. Having just come off a run of one-off international tour dates and a series of sessions for projects with artists Daniel Cesar, Charlotte Day Wilson, reggie, Baby Rose, and Turnstile, the Canadian-trio of Al Sow, Chester Hansen, and Leland Whitty were eager to get back into the studio to simply create. The trio called on some of their closest friends and collaborators for an intensive and productive one-week of recording at Valentine Studios in Los Angeles in February 2024. The result of those sessions is the "Mid-Spiral" series, originally released as 3 parts digitally earlier this year and now collected altogether on double vinyl. The "Mid-Spiral" suites see BADBADNOTGOOD return to their roots of instrumental jazz while once again pushing the boundaries of how they cross pollinate genres, incorporating their love of hip-hop, neo-soul, psychedelic, funk and more. For the sessions, the trio incorporated additional musicians to add more voices of instrumentation, resulting in a deeply collaborative and expansive new sound.
October 25 street date. Matador are pleased to present another installment of the Revisionist History Program with a double LP compilation from legendary Philadelphia ensemble Bardo Pond. Released together on vinyl for the first time, "Melt Away" catalogues late 1990s rarities and outtakes from the creative apex in the band's career. Album highlight "The Trail", originally recorded for the "What's Up Matador" compilation, dissolves six minutes into a moment. Blink once and you'll miss it. Blink twice and the wallpaper might start to move.
October 25 street date. Matador are pleased to present another installment of the Revisionist History Program with a remastered purple vinyl deluxe edition of Bardo Pond's classic 1999 LP, "Set And Setting". This 25th anniversary package follows the legendary Philadelphia ensemble's long-since sold-out repress of "Amanita" in 2021, and features the eleven-minute opener "Walking Stick Man" and the single "This Time (So Fucked)". Timothy Leary said, "never take psychedelics without proper set and setting".
August 9 street date. Since its original release in 1980 to generally indifferent reviews, Bauhaus' debut album, "In The Flat Field", has grown in stature and is now appreciated as an innovative foundation stone of "gothic" music. Peaking at number one and remaining on the UK Indie chart for over two years, this dynamic collection defies categorisation, offering an incendiary tinderbox of driving jagged rhythms, screeching guitars, brooding atmospherics, provocative lyrics, and wildly animated vocals.
June 14 street date. This is the fourth Beak> studio album, imaginatively titled ">>>>". "At its core we always wanted it to be head music - listened to as an album, not as individual songs. This is why we are releasing this album with no singles or promo tracks. With the opening track, "Strawberry Line" (our tribute to our dear furry friend Alfie Barrow, who appears on the album's cover) as the metronomic guide for the album, we then resumed recording, as before, at Invada studios in Bristol, whilst still touring around Europe and North/South America. After playing hundreds of gigs and festivals over the years we felt that touring had started to influence our writing to the point we weren't sure who we were anymore. So we decided to go back to the origins of where we were at on our first album - with zero expectations and just playing together in a room. Hopefully we have achieved this".
June 14 street date. This is the fourth Beak> studio album, imaginatively titled ">>>>". "At its core we always wanted it to be head music - listened to as an album, not as individual songs. This is why we are releasing this album with no singles or promo tracks. With the opening track, "Strawberry Line" (our tribute to our dear furry friend Alfie Barrow, who appears on the album's cover) as the metronomic guide for the album, we then resumed recording, as before, at Invada studios in Bristol, whilst still touring around Europe and North/South America. After playing hundreds of gigs and festivals over the years we felt that touring had started to influence our writing to the point we weren't sure who we were anymore. So we decided to go back to the origins of where we were at on our first album - with zero expectations and just playing together in a room. Hopefully we have achieved this".
November 15 street date. Swedish musician Thea Gustafsson - who writes, records, and produces under the moniker Becky And The Birds - has recently turned a new leaf, entering an era of creative freedom and emotional release with her self-produced debut album, "Only Music Makes Me Cry Now". Across the 12 track record, Gustafsson has returned to her roots, recalling the carefree, experimental mindset she inhabited when she first picked up producing, in addition to utilizing the boundless skills she's gained since then. With this collection of ethereal, erratic, heavy-hitting, and hypnotic tracks, she creates sonic worlds with the intention of staying curious, eager, and above all, brave. In retaining her universal drive to push the boundaries of her production, her innovative and distinct style shines more than ever.
August 30 street date. Third album of masterful music by actor/comedian Jon Benjamin, who is widely known for his work on "Archer", "Bob's Burgers", and much more. "The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack of the (Unproduced) Film...The Jazz Daredevil" follows Jon Benjamin - The Jazz Daredevil's landmark 2015 debut "Well I Should Have... Learned How to Play Piano", which garnered gushing coverage from NPR's All Things Considered, blew through two vinyl pressings, and is now a sought-after collectible; and the 2020 follow-up "The Soundtrack Collection", arguably the first truly great collection of movie theme songs performed poorly with a Moog synthesizer and expertly by an orchestra at the same time.
May 10 street date. The pair named themselves Bibi Club for the discotheque in their living room, where the couple's bibis - their loved ones - come and dance. The duo formed by Adèle Trottier-Rivard and Nicolas Basque explore emotional and physical territories, overcoming obstacles with intense, raw yet benevolent radicalism. A former member of the very first exclusively female scout group, Les Guides, Adèle reconnects with the values that made her who she is: courage, perseverance, sisterhood, friendship. The years she spent in that community, discovering nature and developing intense relationships, became part of her identity and informed her writing, all the way to the creation of "Feu de garde". The influence of Moondog, Stereolab, and, more than ever, Suicide can be heard in the direct, singular approach of the album, which also features group chants inspired by Girl Guide outings in the woods. Pushing back the boundaries of genres and letting their creativity run free, Bibi Club fill "Feu de garde"with relentless rhythms. On stage Adèle grabs percussion instruments and takes risks. Liberated, seductive, undeniable. **** (Mojo UK)
May 10 street date. The pair named themselves Bibi Club for the discotheque in their living room, where the couple's bibis - their loved ones - come and dance. The duo formed by Adèle Trottier-Rivard and Nicolas Basque explore emotional and physical territories, overcoming obstacles with intense, raw yet benevolent radicalism. A former member of the very first exclusively female scout group, Les Guides, Adèle reconnects with the values that made her who she is: courage, perseverance, sisterhood, friendship. The years she spent in that community, discovering nature and developing intense relationships, became part of her identity and informed her writing, all the way to the creation of "Feu de garde". The influence of Moondog, Stereolab, and, more than ever, Suicide can be heard in the direct, singular approach of the album, which also features group chants inspired by Girl Guide outings in the woods. Pushing back the boundaries of genres and letting their creativity run free, Bibi Club fill "Feu de garde"with relentless rhythms. On stage Adèle grabs percussion instruments and takes risks. Liberated, seductive, undeniable. **** (Mojo UK)
December 8 street date. Big Thief present the remastered reissue of their 2016 debut album, "Masterpiece", arriving for the first time on 4AD. The 12 track album is filled with characters and visceral narratives, songs that pivot in the space of a few words. Adrianne Lenker's voice and guitar playing speak of rich emotional territory with grace and insight. In her words, the record tracks "the masterpiece of existence, which is always folding into itself, people attempting to connect, to both shake themselves awake and to shake off the numbness of certain points in their life. The interpretations might be impressionistic or surrealistic, but they're grounded in simple things". Containing much-loved songs such as ‘Paul’, ‘Real Love’, and ‘Masterpiece’, the album was recorded in July 2015 at an old house that they turned into a studio on Lake Champlain, with producer Andrew Sarlo and engineer James Krivchenia (who would go on to become a full-time Big Thief member).
July 19 street date. Bizhiki is almost wholly a made-in-Wisconsin project, a collaboration between Dylan Bizhikiins Jennings, Joe Rainey, and the multi-instrumentalist Sean Carey (S. Carey), who for years has been a secret weapon within the Bon Iver family. "Unbound" opens with a single, trembling chord that rises and descends before meeting a warm, beguiling voice, a voice singing in a tradition that's been heard in northern river country for millennia. The music that follows is a soulful dialogue between the ancient tradition of powwow singing and a contemporary musical palette. On "Unbound", the powwow style of singing is entwined with synthesized voice modulation, and hand drumming is accented with electronic samples and beats - the harmonies and resonances are equal parts cultural and musical. Recording steadily over the course of years, the trio chipped away at an expansive, ambitious and unique record that sounds like no other music being made today.
July 19 street date. Bizhiki is almost wholly a made-in-Wisconsin project, a collaboration between Dylan Bizhikiins Jennings, Joe Rainey, and the multi-instrumentalist Sean Carey (S. Carey), who for years has been a secret weapon within the Bon Iver family. "Unbound" opens with a single, trembling chord that rises and descends before meeting a warm, beguiling voice, a voice singing in a tradition that's been heard in northern river country for millennia. The music that follows is a soulful dialogue between the ancient tradition of powwow singing and a contemporary musical palette. On "Unbound", the powwow style of singing is entwined with synthesized voice modulation, and hand drumming is accented with electronic samples and beats - the harmonies and resonances are equal parts cultural and musical. Recording steadily over the course of years, the trio chipped away at an expansive, ambitious and unique record that sounds like no other music being made today.
July 19 street date. Bizhiki is almost wholly a made-in-Wisconsin project, a collaboration between Dylan Bizhikiins Jennings, Joe Rainey, and the multi-instrumentalist Sean Carey (S. Carey), who for years has been a secret weapon within the Bon Iver family. "Unbound" opens with a single, trembling chord that rises and descends before meeting a warm, beguiling voice, a voice singing in a tradition that's been heard in northern river country for millennia. The music that follows is a soulful dialogue between the ancient tradition of powwow singing and a contemporary musical palette. On "Unbound", the powwow style of singing is entwined with synthesized voice modulation, and hand drumming is accented with electronic samples and beats - the harmonies and resonances are equal parts cultural and musical. Recording steadily over the course of years, the trio chipped away at an expansive, ambitious and unique record that sounds like no other music being made today.
Please note new street date: December 15. 25th anniversary edition. English indie rock group Black Box Recorder formed in London in 1997 and featured Sarah Nixey, Luke Haines (of The Auteurs), and John Moore (of The Jesus and Mary Chain). Their debut album, "England Made Me", was released on Chrysalis Records in 1998. The album was named after the eponymous Graham Greene novel and fuses indie rock and easy-listening pop stylings with lyrics that explore life and the experience of growing up in England. Pitchfork's Michael Sandlin described the sound of the album as "mildly morose but slightly tongue-in-cheek Sylvia Plath-meets-Paul McCartney pop sensibility". "England Made Me" remains a high point in the band's catalogue with standout tracks including 'Kidnapping An Heiress', 'Girl Singing In The Wreckage', and the single 'Child Psychology', which was recently back in the spotlight with a viral moment on social media after being championed by Billie Eilish.
November 22 street date. A quarter century since their 1998 debut, "No Fear Of Time" finally reunites one of the greatest hip-hop duos of all-time, Black Star. Group members yasiin bey and Talib Kweli first joined forces to deliver their iconic breakout, "Mos Def And Talib Kweli Are Black Star", which quickly became one of hip-hop's most revered works and launched both already-rising stars into the stratosphere. Although each has since enjoyed success and acclaim in their individual careers, they've never realigned for a sophomore follow-up to that release until now. Produced entirely by renowned beatsmith Madlib, "No Fear Of Time" has a future vibe with vintage soul. The 9 track album was recorded guerrilla-style in hotels and dressing rooms around the globe, and initially saw a non-traditional release, being made available exclusively on a subscription-based podcast platform. Now, the album is officially available on physical formats for fans worldwide to own and appreciate the triumphant return of Black Star.
November 22 street date. A quarter century since their 1998 debut, "No Fear Of Time" finally reunites one of the greatest hip-hop duos of all-time, Black Star. Group members yasiin bey and Talib Kweli first joined forces to deliver their iconic breakout, "Mos Def And Talib Kweli Are Black Star", which quickly became one of hip-hop's most revered works and launched both already-rising stars into the stratosphere. Although each has since enjoyed success and acclaim in their individual careers, they've never realigned for a sophomore follow-up to that release until now. Produced entirely by renowned beatsmith Madlib, "No Fear Of Time" has a future vibe with vintage soul. The 9 track album was recorded guerrilla-style in hotels and dressing rooms around the globe, and initially saw a non-traditional release, being made available exclusively on a subscription-based podcast platform. Now, the album is officially available on physical formats for fans worldwide to own and appreciate the triumphant return of Black Star.
August 2 street date. Resolicitation at a lower price - preorders will be filled at this price. Right on time for their show at 2024's edition of Wacken Open Air, Blind Guardian proudly present "Somewhere Far Beyond - Revisited", a complete re-recording of their 1992 classic "Somewhere Far Beyond", a landmark record for Germany's heavy metal titans. After three albums on No Remorse Records, it was the band's major label debut coming out via Virgin Records. After finding the right balance of speed, heaviness, melodies, drama and irresistible choruses on 1990's "Tales From The Twilight World", "Somewhere Far Beyond" honed this approach to perfection, evolving further on a conceptual level and increasingly daring take on Blind Guardian's sonic range. "Somewhere Far Beyond" experimented with keyboards, orchestrations, and folk elements, the latter manifesting in the group's best-known song and live staple, "The Bard Song (In The Forest)".
August 2 street date. Resolicitation at a lower price - preorders will be filled at this price. Right on time for their show at 2024's edition of Wacken Open Air, Blind Guardian proudly present "Somewhere Far Beyond - Revisited", a complete re-recording of their 1992 classic "Somewhere Far Beyond", a landmark record for Germany's heavy metal titans. After three albums on No Remorse Records, it was the band's major label debut coming out via Virgin Records. After finding the right balance of speed, heaviness, melodies, drama and irresistible choruses on 1990's "Tales From The Twilight World", "Somewhere Far Beyond" honed this approach to perfection, evolving further on a conceptual level and increasingly daring take on Blind Guardian's sonic range. "Somewhere Far Beyond" experimented with keyboards, orchestrations, and folk elements, the latter manifesting in the group's best-known song and live staple, "The Bard Song (In The Forest)".
October 4 street date. Epitaph Records has reissued The Blood Brothers' classic album "Crimes" to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release. The collectors edition vinyl include rare B-sides, never before seen photos, and a new retrospective for the ultimate collectors' edition. From 1997 to 2007, The Blood Brothers' "molotov mixture of suburb surrealism and sonic extremity" (Alternative Press) rocked and riveted critics and fans around the world. Formed in the suburbs of Seattle, the dueling singers Johnny Whitney and Jordan Blilie along with Cody Votolato (guitar), Morgan Henderson (bass), and Mark Gajadhar (drums) crafted a unique style of convulsive, ground breaking hardcore that was quickly embraced by critics and fans of punk, hardcore, and indie rock. Over their ten years in existence the quintet released five critically acclaimed studio albums.
September 27 street date. The second solo album by UK singer-songwriter Naima Bock, formerly of London band Goat Girl. Most of the writing of "Below A Massive Dark Land" was a solitary affair. It may not sound like it - it's made up of strong, purposeful arrangements with a huge host of musicians, filled with cradling space and warm light. This will also come as a surprise to anyone who has seen Naima perform in the time since the release of her 2022 debut "Giant Palm", which was undoubtedly a communal experience. However, the record is not a stark, stripped back affair. "Below A Massive Dark Land" still has the majesty that made "Giant Palm" so remarkable. Having tugged the first record down from the skies and spreading it across the earth, Naima finds a newfound vocal power and confidence born from hundreds of hours on stage, and the music sounds fuller, more tangible, and no less enveloping.
September 27 street date. The second solo album by UK singer-songwriter Naima Bock, formerly of London band Goat Girl. Most of the writing of "Below A Massive Dark Land" was a solitary affair. It may not sound like it - it's made up of strong, purposeful arrangements with a huge host of musicians, filled with cradling space and warm light. This will also come as a surprise to anyone who has seen Naima perform in the time since the release of her 2022 debut "Giant Palm", which was undoubtedly a communal experience. However, the record is not a stark, stripped back affair. "Below A Massive Dark Land" still has the majesty that made "Giant Palm" so remarkable. Having tugged the first record down from the skies and spreading it across the earth, Naima finds a newfound vocal power and confidence born from hundreds of hours on stage, and the music sounds fuller, more tangible, and no less enveloping.
March 15 street date. Canadian Exclusive colour variant, limited to 500 copies. The solo debut by Canadian indie icon Dan Boeckner - of Wolf Parade, Operators, Divine Fits, Handsome Furs - is filled with lively, catchy rock that calls to mind The Cars or David Bowie. Boeckner understands the grit and gravel that accumulates in the heart and that it takes an unwavering courage to crack through that clutter and burrow to the other side. And in his hands, that quest comes via post-apocalyptic synth and guitar heroism, a rallying cry for those always coming home through the scorched clouds. No matter where his genre exploration has taken him, there's something about growing up in punk and DIY spaces that puts collaboration in Boeckner's blood. Composed of a collection of intimately familiar elements, "Boeckner!" elicits the same thrill of young passion and discovery. It's a jet-powered chase through a tech-noir cityscape - fueled by a dream and that special someone in the passenger seat.
March 15 street date. The solo debut by Canadian indie icon Dan Boeckner - of Wolf Parade, Operators, Divine Fits, Handsome Furs - is filled with lively, catchy rock that calls to mind The Cars or David Bowie. Boeckner understands the grit and gravel that accumulates in the heart and that it takes an unwavering courage to crack through that clutter and burrow to the other side. And in his hands, that quest comes via post-apocalyptic synth and guitar heroism, a rallying cry for those always coming home through the scorched clouds. No matter where his genre exploration has taken him, there's something about growing up in punk and DIY spaces that puts collaboration in Boeckner's blood. Composed of a collection of intimately familiar elements, "Boeckner!" elicits the same thrill of young passion and discovery. It's a jet-powered chase through a tech-noir cityscape - fueled by a dream and that special someone in the passenger seat.
March 15 street date. The solo debut by Canadian indie icon Dan Boeckner - of Wolf Parade, Operators, Divine Fits, Handsome Furs - is filled with lively, catchy rock that calls to mind The Cars or David Bowie. Boeckner understands the grit and gravel that accumulates in the heart and that it takes an unwavering courage to crack through that clutter and burrow to the other side. And in his hands, that quest comes via post-apocalyptic synth and guitar heroism, a rallying cry for those always coming home through the scorched clouds. No matter where his genre exploration has taken him, there's something about growing up in punk and DIY spaces that puts collaboration in Boeckner's blood. Composed of a collection of intimately familiar elements, "Boeckner!" elicits the same thrill of young passion and discovery. It's a jet-powered chase through a tech-noir cityscape - fueled by a dream and that special someone in the passenger seat.
May 3 street date. English pop/goth band The Bolshoi were different. Their songs were dark and subversive, sufficient evidence for many critics to corral them under the "gothic" banner at the time of their debut - but they really only "flirted" with goth. They oozed dark, pensive lyrics supported with inventive pop-goth guitar making them nearly impossible to categorize. They released three albums during their existence, but they also recorded a fourth album that was never officially released during their tenure. Provisionally titled "Country Life", the album was originally released in 2015 as part of a limited 5-CD box set. Beggars Arkive is excited to now release it on vinyl for the first time. "Country Life" consists of demos recorded for the album (many of these only survived on reference cassettes but were digitally restored), along with a brand new acoustic reimagining of the song "Dolores Jones" that singer/guitarist Trevor Tanner recorded specifically for this release.
June 7 street date. Bonny Light Horseman's core trio - Anaïs Mitchell, Eric D. Johnson, and Josh Kaufman - have amassed an incomparable collected resume. They've also lived a big ol' messy and tangled up pile of life, and all that living permeates their music with the wisdom, humor, and depth that underlies the accolades. Theirs is the stuff that defines folk music as a genre: love and loss, hope and sorrow, community and family, change and time. At the center of Bonny Light Horseman is, always, the singular combination of three powerful and tender artists, artists who expertly dodge superlatives but are quick to acknowledge that their bond makes each one better, braver and more vulnerable than they'd be on their own. Bonny Light Horseman's new album, "Keep Me On Your Mind/See You Free", is an ode to the blessed mess of our humanity. Confident and generous, it is an unvarnished offering that puts every feeling and supposed flaw out in the open. The themes are stacked high and staked even higher: love and loss, hope and sorrow, community and family, change and time all permeate Bonny Light Horseman's most vulnerable and bounteous offering to date.
June 7 street date. Bonny Light Horseman's core trio - Anaïs Mitchell, Eric D. Johnson, and Josh Kaufman - have amassed an incomparable collected resume. They've also lived a big ol' messy and tangled up pile of life, and all that living permeates their music with the wisdom, humor, and depth that underlies the accolades. Theirs is the stuff that defines folk music as a genre: love and loss, hope and sorrow, community and family, change and time. At the center of Bonny Light Horseman is, always, the singular combination of three powerful and tender artists, artists who expertly dodge superlatives but are quick to acknowledge that their bond makes each one better, braver and more vulnerable than they'd be on their own. Bonny Light Horseman's new album, "Keep Me On Your Mind/See You Free", is an ode to the blessed mess of our humanity. Confident and generous, it is an unvarnished offering that puts every feeling and supposed flaw out in the open. The themes are stacked high and staked even higher: love and loss, hope and sorrow, community and family, change and time all permeate Bonny Light Horseman's most vulnerable and bounteous offering to date.
September 20 street date."Five Dice, All Threes" is a record of uncommon intensity and tenderness, communal exorcism, and personal excavation. These are, of course, qualities that fans have come to expect from Bright Eyes, nearly three decades into their career. The tight-knit band of Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Nate Walcott tends to operate in distinct sweeping movements: each unique in its sound and story but unified by a sense of ambition and ever-growing emotional stakes. Even with this rich history behind them, these new songs exude a visceral thrill like nothing they have attempted before. Oberst has always sung in a voice that conveys a sense of life-or-death gravity. At times throughout "Five Dice, All Threes", you may feel worried for him; other times, he may seem like the only one with the clarity to get us out of this mess. This time around, the band invites such like-minded voices onto the record with them, with notable guest appearances from Cat Power, The National's Matt Berninger, and Alex Orange Drink, the frontman of the New York punk band The So So Glos.
September 20 street date."Five Dice, All Threes" is a record of uncommon intensity and tenderness, communal exorcism, and personal excavation. These are, of course, qualities that fans have come to expect from Bright Eyes, nearly three decades into their career. The tight-knit band of Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Nate Walcott tends to operate in distinct sweeping movements: each unique in its sound and story but unified by a sense of ambition and ever-growing emotional stakes. Even with this rich history behind them, these new songs exude a visceral thrill like nothing they have attempted before. Oberst has always sung in a voice that conveys a sense of life-or-death gravity. At times throughout "Five Dice, All Threes", you may feel worried for him; other times, he may seem like the only one with the clarity to get us out of this mess. This time around, the band invites such like-minded voices onto the record with them, with notable guest appearances from Cat Power, The National's Matt Berninger, and Alex Orange Drink, the frontman of the New York punk band The So So Glos.
September 20 street date."Five Dice, All Threes" is a record of uncommon intensity and tenderness, communal exorcism, and personal excavation. These are, of course, qualities that fans have come to expect from Bright Eyes, nearly three decades into their career. The tight-knit band of Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Nate Walcott tends to operate in distinct sweeping movements: each unique in its sound and story but unified by a sense of ambition and ever-growing emotional stakes. Even with this rich history behind them, these new songs exude a visceral thrill like nothing they have attempted before. Oberst has always sung in a voice that conveys a sense of life-or-death gravity. At times throughout "Five Dice, All Threes", you may feel worried for him; other times, he may seem like the only one with the clarity to get us out of this mess. This time around, the band invites such like-minded voices onto the record with them, with notable guest appearances from Cat Power, The National's Matt Berninger, and Alex Orange Drink, the frontman of the New York punk band The So So Glos.
February 9 street date. Rough Trade Records present the 15th anniversary reissue of Sea Power's Mercury Prize nominated record, "Do You Like Rock Music?". The album has been expanded with radio sessions, B-sides, and extensive new sleeve notes written by Roy Wilkinson. This kaleidoscopic record encapsulates Sea Power's true heart. "Easy, easy..." Only Sea Power could turn a football chant into art - with ease. From this bounding refrain of ‘No Lucifer’, via the serenity of ‘Waving Flags', the balm-like ‘No Need To Cry’ and the joyous ‘Trip Out’, the 2008 album "Do You Like Rock Music?" reflects the band's ability to find glacial beauty in the commonplace, making soul-stirring epiphanies an everyday occurrences.
February 9 street date. Rough Trade Records present the 15th anniversary reissue of Sea Power's Mercury Prize nominated record, "Do You Like Rock Music?". The album has been expanded with radio sessions, B-sides, and extensive new sleeve notes written by Roy Wilkinson. This kaleidoscopic record encapsulates Sea Power's true heart. "Easy, easy..." Only Sea Power could turn a football chant into art - with ease. From this bounding refrain of ‘No Lucifer’, via the serenity of ‘Waving Flags', the balm-like ‘No Need To Cry’ and the joyous ‘Trip Out’, the 2008 album "Do You Like Rock Music?" reflects the band's ability to find glacial beauty in the commonplace, making soul-stirring epiphanies an everyday occurrences.
October 25 street date. 40th Anniversary 2CD includes: The Age of Consent plus 5 newly commissioned 2024 remixes. / Hundreds & Thousands and 5 bonus tracks / Remixes from ABSOLUTE., Planningtorock, The Knocks, Dave Audé vs Tall Paul, and Superchumbo / Exclusive detailed timeline by project consultant Barnaby Ashton-Bullock. Updated artwork with rare and unseen photos.
October 25 street date. 40th Anniversary double vinyl edition featuring: The Age of Consent (2018 remaster) / Hundreds & Thousands (2024 remaster). Updated artwork with rare and unseen photos on Inner Sleeves.
October 25 street date. The definitive version of Bronski Beat’s The Age of Consent. Meticulously researched by project consultant Barnaby Ashton-Bullock. 67 tracks, including 22 previously unreleased tracks uncovered and restored from the London Records archive. 5 Discs in wallets (4 audio CDs and 1 DVD) / The Age of Consent [16 Tracks] / Hundreds & Thousands [11 Tracks] / Consent Extended – The 12 Inches Plus [11 Tracks] / Ignore at Your Peril – The Rarities Plus [19 Tracks] / DVD – The First Chapter – The Videos Plus [10 Tracks]. 24-page booklet featuring rare and unseen photos, and essays by: Tom Rasmussen, Lesley Chow, Lucy Robinson, Barnaby Ashton-Bullock
November 8 street date. Beggars Arkive present the 2024 reissue of "Big Red Letter Day", the fourth album from Boston rock band Buffalo Tom. Released in 1993, the 11-track record found the band doing what they do very well indeed, but with more body and gloss to the production. The albumwas recorded in Los Angeles by The Robb Brothers (The Lemonheads) and features numerous favorites such as "Sodajerk", "I'm Allowed", "Treehouse", and the classic "Late At Night". Buffalo Tom (Bill Janovitz, Chris Colbourn, and Tom Maginnis) formed at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1984 - a breeding ground of post punk guitar bands like Dinosaur Jr. and Pixies. The three longstanding bandmates recognize the achievement of their longevity as a creative unit. Initially offering a raw, propulsive sound that emphasized Janovitz's imposing guitar squall, Buffalo Tom's early approach gave way to a more melodic, yet no less distinctive, style.
November 8 street date. Beggars Arkive present the 2024 reissue of "Birdbrain", the second album from Boston rock band Buffalo Tom. Released in 1990, and produced by Dinosaur Jr.'s J. Mascis, songs from the record have become fan favourites including the epic title track along with "Enemy". Buffalo Tom (Bill Janovitz, Chris Colbourn and Tom Maginnis) formed at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1984 - a breeding ground of post punk guitar bands like Dinosaur Jr. and Pixies. The three longstanding bandmates recognize the achievement of their longevity as a creative unit. Initially offering a raw, propulsive sound that emphasized Janovitz's imposing guitar squall, Buffalo Tom's early approach gave way to a more melodic, yet no less distinctive, style.
November 8 street date. Beggars Arkive present the 2024 reissue of "Let Me Come Over", the third album from Boston rock band Buffalo Tom. Released in 1992, the power trio recorded a varied group of songs they had been developing at home and on the road, mixing their live sound with some more acoustic based guitar ballads. The album's single "Taillights Fade" became their signature song. Buffalo Tom (Bill Janovitz, Chris Colbourn and Tom Maginnis) formed at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1984 - a breeding ground of post punk guitar bands like Dinosaur Jr. and Pixies. The three longstanding bandmates recognize the achievement of their longevity as a creative unit. Initially offering a raw, propulsive sound that emphasized Janovitz's imposing guitar squall, Buffalo Tom's early approach gave way to a more melodic, yet no less distinctive, style.
August 30 street date. The first Sub Pop album by the wonderful Welsh trio The Bug Club is filled with thrillingly witty and energetic catchy punk. The way you're saying it, "prolific" isn't the right word for The Bug Club. You've got to say it with the trademark Welsh lilt and pay due homage to this inimitable band's origins in the renowned hit factory of Caldicot, South Wales. Do that, and you're about right with how to summarize a group who've released ten singles, two albums, two EPs, three things nobody knew how to describe, and an album under a different band's name, all since 2021, and while playing 200+ gigs a year. Their third LP "On The Intricate Inner Workings Of The System" sees the band serve up a beefy slab of their speciality Modern-Lovers-meets-"Nuggets" garage rock. There's B-52's call-and-response fun mixed with AC/DC power chord grunt. Leaning towards fast-paced punk, opening double salvo "War Movies" and "Quality Pints" sets out the stall: duel vocal piss-taking, surreal takes on everyday topics that go full circle and become profound, riffs all day long and then all the next day too.
August 30 street date. The first Sub Pop album by the wonderful Welsh trio The Bug Club is filled with thrillingly witty and energetic catchy punk. The way you're saying it, "prolific" isn't the right word for The Bug Club. You've got to say it with the trademark Welsh lilt and pay due homage to this inimitable band's origins in the renowned hit factory of Caldicot, South Wales. Do that, and you're about right with how to summarize a group who've released ten singles, two albums, two EPs, three things nobody knew how to describe, and an album under a different band's name, all since 2021, and while playing 200+ gigs a year. Their third LP "On The Intricate Inner Workings Of The System" sees the band serve up a beefy slab of their speciality Modern-Lovers-meets-"Nuggets" garage rock. There's B-52's call-and-response fun mixed with AC/DC power chord grunt. Leaning towards fast-paced punk, opening double salvo "War Movies" and "Quality Pints" sets out the stall: duel vocal piss-taking, surreal takes on everyday topics that go full circle and become profound, riffs all day long and then all the next day too.
April 5 street date. Provogue Records is proud to announce the latest studio album from Grammy award winning bluesman, Cedric Burnside, entitled "Hill Country Love". To Burnside, the album is a culmination of a career that's already seen astonishing accomplishments and only keeps growing. When Cedric prepared to record "Hill Country Love", the follow-up to his 2021 Grammy winning album "I Be Trying", he set up shop in a former legal office located in a row of structures in the seat of Tippah County, a town with 5000 residents that's known as the birthplace of the Hill Country Blues style. The fourteen songs on the record were finished in two days, but in addition to being satisfied with the sound, Burnside believes that his eleventh album represents real creative progress.
April 5 street date. Provogue Records is proud to announce the latest studio album from Grammy award winning bluesman, Cedric Burnside, entitled "Hill Country Love". To Burnside, the album is a culmination of a career that's already seen astonishing accomplishments and only keeps growing. When Cedric prepared to record "Hill Country Love", the follow-up to his 2021 Grammy winning album "I Be Trying", he set up shop in a former legal office located in a row of structures in the seat of Tippah County, a town with 5000 residents that's known as the birthplace of the Hill Country Blues style. The fourteen songs on the record were finished in two days, but in addition to being satisfied with the sound, Burnside believes that his eleventh album represents real creative progress.
September 20 street date. Butthole Surfers and Matador Records present the 2024 remastered reissue of their fourth full-length studio album, "Hairway To Steven". Originally released in 1988 on Touch and Go, the 8-track record is a blast, ranging from the blood-smeared guitar-overload of "Jimi" to the acoustic guitar-based sing-along sweetness of "I Saw an X-Ray of a Girl Passing Gas", to the Fugs-like ranting of "John E. Smokes". Yet somehow, the album managed to get the straight media to actually notice. For all its strangeness, "Hairway To Steven" got rave notices in places that had never paid the band any attention previously. It was the Buttholes' last album of the 80s and marks the beginning of their ascendance into something akin to commercial success, not that the band actually imagined anything at all like that occurring.
September 20 street date. Butthole Surfers and Matador Records present the 2024 remastered reissue of their third full-length studio album,"Locust Abortion Technician". Originally released in 1987 via Touch and Go, the 12-track album saw the band's transition from being weirdo Texas outcasts to internationally recognized smut-kings of the American underground. From the opening track, "Sweat Loaf", which quotes Black Sabbath with results both hilarious and bowel-stomping, to the scuzz-guitar riven "found" vocals of "22 Going on 23", the record is a non-stop face-full of hallucinogenic gas. Maniacal sludge guitar figures and Gibbytronix vocals are smeared everywhere, with most excellent results. For many folks, "Locust Abortion Technician" represents the album with which the Buttholes fully fulfilled their insane potential.
March 22 street date. Butthole Surfers and Matador Records present the 2024 remastered reissue of "Rembrandt Pussyhorse", the band's second full-length studio album. Originally released in April 1986 on Touch And Go, the 13-track album is arguably the most experimental release in Butthole Surfers' considerably experimental catalog. Making heavy use of in-studio tape editing and sound modulation, the album adds piano, organ, and violin, among other sounds, to their then-usual battery of electric guitar, bass, and dual drummers. "Rembrandt Pussyhorse" is America viewed through a kaleidoscope of Woodstock's brown acid.
July 26 street date. The date was March 22, 2022. Bill Callahan strode onto the stage at Chicago's Thalia Hall, flanked by Matt Kinsey on guitar, Dustin Laurenzi on alto sax, and Jim White on the kit. They all were feeling good, and it seemed like the crowd was also. But that wasn't all. They had some special surprises planned - take it away, Bill: "this is a live album that was taken from the tour for "Reality" Songs tend to mutate after they've been recorded. These songs were mutating faster than usual. I knew these songs were about to get superpowers. As far as I was concerned, this change needed to be documented. The date was mid-point in the tour, so I knew we'd be as hot as we were going to get. Not too green, not too brown. So we took advantage of Chicago's easily accessible players - we got Nick Mazzarella to add alto sax to one song, and from the opening band, Pascal Kerong’A to sing on a song, and Nathaniel Ballinger on piano on one song - and I couldn't pass up the opportunity to invite Joshua Abrams and Lisa Alvarado to play on "Natural Information". The hardest part of making the record was cutting songs out - it could have been a triple album".
July 26 street date. The date was March 22, 2022. Bill Callahan strode onto the stage at Chicago's Thalia Hall, flanked by Matt Kinsey on guitar, Dustin Laurenzi on alto sax, and Jim White on the kit. They all were feeling good, and it seemed like the crowd was also. But that wasn't all. They had some special surprises planned - take it away, Bill: "this is a live album that was taken from the tour for "Reality" Songs tend to mutate after they've been recorded. These songs were mutating faster than usual. I knew these songs were about to get superpowers. As far as I was concerned, this change needed to be documented. The date was mid-point in the tour, so I knew we'd be as hot as we were going to get. Not too green, not too brown. So we took advantage of Chicago's easily accessible players - we got Nick Mazzarella to add alto sax to one song, and from the opening band, Pascal Kerong’A to sing on a song, and Nathaniel Ballinger on piano on one song - and I couldn't pass up the opportunity to invite Joshua Abrams and Lisa Alvarado to play on "Natural Information". The hardest part of making the record was cutting songs out - it could have been a triple album".
May 3 street date. "Look to the East, Look to the West", the new album by Camera Obscura, is a revelation. The Tracyanne Campbell-led outfit, reuniting with producer Jari Haapalainen, have crafted an album that simultaneously recalls why longtime fans have ferociously loved them for decades while also being their most sophisticated effort to date. It is also the most hard-fought album of Camera Obscura's career. Following the 2015 passing of founding keyboardist and friend Carey Lander (to whom the penultimate track "Sugar Almond" is addressed), the band went into an extended hiatus. They remained in contact, but their status was uncertain until they announced their return, having been invited to perform as part of Belle And Sebastian's 2019 Boaty Weekender cruise festival, along with a pair of sold-out warm-up shows in Glasgow. "Look to the East, Look to the West" feels big, a widescreen reframing of Camera Obscura's sound that, paradoxically, saw the band go back to basics - there are no string or brass arrangements, with more emphasis placed on piano, synthesizers, Hammond organ, and drum machines, and, perhaps most strikingly, the group have dropped the veil of reverb that characterized their previous albums.
May 3 street date. "Look to the East, Look to the West", the new album by Camera Obscura, is a revelation. The Tracyanne Campbell-led outfit, reuniting with producer Jari Haapalainen, have crafted an album that simultaneously recalls why longtime fans have ferociously loved them for decades while also being their most sophisticated effort to date. It is also the most hard-fought album of Camera Obscura's career. Following the 2015 passing of founding keyboardist and friend Carey Lander (to whom the penultimate track "Sugar Almond" is addressed), the band went into an extended hiatus. They remained in contact, but their status was uncertain until they announced their return, having been invited to perform as part of Belle And Sebastian's 2019 Boaty Weekender cruise festival, along with a pair of sold-out warm-up shows in Glasgow. "Look to the East, Look to the West" feels big, a widescreen reframing of Camera Obscura's sound that, paradoxically, saw the band go back to basics - there are no string or brass arrangements, with more emphasis placed on piano, synthesizers, Hammond organ, and drum machines, and, perhaps most strikingly, the group have dropped the veil of reverb that characterized their previous albums.
May 3 street date. "Look to the East, Look to the West", the new album by Camera Obscura, is a revelation. The Tracyanne Campbell-led outfit, reuniting with producer Jari Haapalainen, have crafted an album that simultaneously recalls why longtime fans have ferociously loved them for decades while also being their most sophisticated effort to date. It is also the most hard-fought album of Camera Obscura's career. Following the 2015 passing of founding keyboardist and friend Carey Lander (to whom the penultimate track "Sugar Almond" is addressed), the band went into an extended hiatus. They remained in contact, but their status was uncertain until they announced their return, having been invited to perform as part of Belle And Sebastian's 2019 Boaty Weekender cruise festival, along with a pair of sold-out warm-up shows in Glasgow. "Look to the East, Look to the West" feels big, a widescreen reframing of Camera Obscura's sound that, paradoxically, saw the band go back to basics - there are no string or brass arrangements, with more emphasis placed on piano, synthesizers, Hammond organ, and drum machines, and, perhaps most strikingly, the group have dropped the veil of reverb that characterized their previous albums.
June 7 street date. "Shut Up & Play!" is Toronzo Cannon's third Alligator release and features 11 striking new originals delivered with purpose and passion. From scorching-hot blues to a gospel-inspired rave-up to deep, slow burners, the songs tackle the gamut of human emotions, all sparked by Cannon's dynamic guitar work and commanding, cathartic singing. As one of the genre's most creative artists, Cannon blazes his own path with imaginative songs fueled by potent guitar solos and his soulfully authoritative vocals. A Chicago blues icon, he has performed at the Chicago Blues Festival ten times.
June 7 street date. "Shut Up & Play!" is Toronzo Cannon's third Alligator release and features 11 striking new originals delivered with purpose and passion. From scorching-hot blues to a gospel-inspired rave-up to deep, slow burners, the songs tackle the gamut of human emotions, all sparked by Cannon's dynamic guitar work and commanding, cathartic singing. As one of the genre's most creative artists, Cannon blazes his own path with imaginative songs fueled by potent guitar solos and his soulfully authoritative vocals. A Chicago blues icon, he has performed at the Chicago Blues Festival ten times.
December 8 street date. On March 28-30, 2022, Car Seat Headrest played three consecutive sold out nights at New York's Brooklyn Steel. An air of celebration, community and showmanship was present, made all the more palpable as the shows were far from a certainty - they took place amidst a year which saw the band having to postpone or cancel a large swath of their North American tour dates due to ongoing health issues. The three night residency is captured on "Faces From The Masquerade" - a double album's worth of live performances that finds Car Seat Headrest at their most playful, exuberant and precision honed. The title alludes to the by now familiar, custom-made gas mask worn by frontman Will Toledo at shows, complete with an expressive LED display for eyes. In addition to the group's four core members - Toledo, guitarist/backing vocalist Ethan Ives, bassist Seth Dalby and drummer Andrew Katz - they were joined on the tour by keyboard player Ben Roth.
October 4 street date. Upon first listen, two things about "Honey" are immediately clear: First, it is an entirely new kind of Caribou record. Second, in being an entirely new kind of Caribou record, it is in keeping with Dan Snaith's discography, each new album marked by radical thematic and sonic shifts. "Honey" is not a departure from the Caribou we've known up to this point but rather the product of a lifetime spent listening to and crafting immaculate pop music. After two intensely personal Caribou albums ("Suddenly" and the Grammy-nominated "Our Love"), Snaith now pulls himself away a little in search of music that isn't about any one person and is relatable to everybody. It also brings Snaith's two personas, Caribou and Daphni, closer together than ever before. On "Honey", Snaith fuses their strengths into a record that grabs you and moves you like Daphni before it uplifts you like Caribou. Huge dancefloor tracks twinkle and surprise in a way only Snaith's productions can, with a freshness that defines an artist who is too excited by music-making to ever truly settle into any one sound.
October 4 street date. Upon first listen, two things about "Honey" are immediately clear: First, it is an entirely new kind of Caribou record. Second, in being an entirely new kind of Caribou record, it is in keeping with Dan Snaith's discography, each new album marked by radical thematic and sonic shifts. "Honey" is not a departure from the Caribou we've known up to this point but rather the product of a lifetime spent listening to and crafting immaculate pop music. After two intensely personal Caribou albums ("Suddenly" and the Grammy-nominated "Our Love"), Snaith now pulls himself away a little in search of music that isn't about any one person and is relatable to everybody. It also brings Snaith's two personas, Caribou and Daphni, closer together than ever before. On "Honey", Snaith fuses their strengths into a record that grabs you and moves you like Daphni before it uplifts you like Caribou. Huge dancefloor tracks twinkle and surprise in a way only Snaith's productions can, with a freshness that defines an artist who is too excited by music-making to ever truly settle into any one sound.
October 4 street date. Upon first listen, two things about "Honey" are immediately clear: First, it is an entirely new kind of Caribou record. Second, in being an entirely new kind of Caribou record, it is in keeping with Dan Snaith's discography, each new album marked by radical thematic and sonic shifts. "Honey" is not a departure from the Caribou we've known up to this point but rather the product of a lifetime spent listening to and crafting immaculate pop music. After two intensely personal Caribou albums ("Suddenly" and the Grammy-nominated "Our Love"), Snaith now pulls himself away a little in search of music that isn't about any one person and is relatable to everybody. It also brings Snaith's two personas, Caribou and Daphni, closer together than ever before. On "Honey", Snaith fuses their strengths into a record that grabs you and moves you like Daphni before it uplifts you like Caribou. Huge dancefloor tracks twinkle and surprise in a way only Snaith's productions can, with a freshness that defines an artist who is too excited by music-making to ever truly settle into any one sound.
November 22 street date. Robin Carolan's soundtrack for Robert Eggers' highly anticipated "Nosferatu" is a haunting, gothic-infused and meticulously crafted work that draws from a vast palette of sounds, instruments, and inspirations. Following their successful collaboration on "The Northman", Carolan reunites with Eggers to bring the legendary tale of Nosferatu to life, infusing the film with a score that is as complex and nuanced as the story itself. With Daniel Pioro, one of Britain's most exciting young classical musicians, at the helm as the orchestra leader and first chair for a vast majority of the recording, the soundtrack features a vast orchestration, including 60 string players, a full choir, various horns and woodwinds, a harpist, and two percussionists. Carolan's inspirations for the soundtrack were as eclectic as they were profound. He frequently drew upon the works of Bartok and Coil and explored the more obscure side of Hammer Horror soundtracks and found a deep connection to the music of the Ukrainian film "The Eve of Ivan Kupalo", which helped shape the score’s otherworldly tone. Carolan intentionally moved beyond the typical horror score, focusing on capturing the tale’s melancholy and tragic elements while weaving in a sense of warped romanticism.
November 22 street date. Robin Carolan's soundtrack for Robert Eggers' highly anticipated "Nosferatu" is a haunting, gothic-infused and meticulously crafted work that draws from a vast palette of sounds, instruments, and inspirations. Following their successful collaboration on "The Northman", Carolan reunites with Eggers to bring the legendary tale of Nosferatu to life, infusing the film with a score that is as complex and nuanced as the story itself. With Daniel Pioro, one of Britain's most exciting young classical musicians, at the helm as the orchestra leader and first chair for a vast majority of the recording, the soundtrack features a vast orchestration, including 60 string players, a full choir, various horns and woodwinds, a harpist, and two percussionists. Carolan's inspirations for the soundtrack were as eclectic as they were profound. He frequently drew upon the works of Bartok and Coil and explored the more obscure side of Hammer Horror soundtracks and found a deep connection to the music of the Ukrainian film "The Eve of Ivan Kupalo", which helped shape the score’s otherworldly tone. Carolan intentionally moved beyond the typical horror score, focusing on capturing the tale’s melancholy and tragic elements while weaving in a sense of warped romanticism.
May 3 street date. It's been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become "Lost Themes", his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood's great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With "Lost Themes IV: Noir", they've struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration. Since the first "Lost Themes", John has referred to these compositions as "soundtracks for the movies in your mind". On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs "noirish" is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone. The noir quality, then, is something you understand instinctively when you hear it, as in connected in an emotional way.
May 3 street date. It's been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become "Lost Themes", his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood's great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With "Lost Themes IV: Noir", they've struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration. Since the first "Lost Themes", John has referred to these compositions as "soundtracks for the movies in your mind". On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs "noirish" is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone. The noir quality, then, is something you understand instinctively when you hear it, as in connected in an emotional way.
May 3 street date. It's been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become "Lost Themes", his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood's great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With "Lost Themes IV: Noir", they've struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration. Since the first "Lost Themes", John has referred to these compositions as "soundtracks for the movies in your mind". On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs "noirish" is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone. The noir quality, then, is something you understand instinctively when you hear it, as in connected in an emotional way.
May 3 street date. It's been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become "Lost Themes", his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood's great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With "Lost Themes IV: Noir", they've struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration. Since the first "Lost Themes", John has referred to these compositions as "soundtracks for the movies in your mind". On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs "noirish" is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone. The noir quality, then, is something you understand instinctively when you hear it, as in connected in an emotional way.
May 3 street date. It's been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become "Lost Themes", his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood's great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With "Lost Themes IV: Noir", they've struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration. Since the first "Lost Themes", John has referred to these compositions as "soundtracks for the movies in your mind". On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs "noirish" is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone. The noir quality, then, is something you understand instinctively when you hear it, as in connected in an emotional way.
November 1 street date. "Camelot", Jennifer Castle's extraordinary, moving chronicle of the artist in early middle age, charts a realer place than the legendary Camelot of the British Early Middle Ages, but it too is a space more psychic than physical. In Castle's "Camelot", the fantastic interpenetrates the mundane, and the Grail, if there is one, distills everyday experience into art and art into faith, subliming terrestrial concerns into sublime celestial prayers to Mother Nature, and to the unfolding process of perfecting imperfection in one's own nature. "Castle's songs are vibrant and bountiful landscapes, and even in their quietest, darkest moments, they thrum and glow. [She] has a stunning capacity for crafting lines rich with nuance, humor and devastating beauty" - CBC.
August 30 street date. Across the ten tracks of "Wild God", Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds dance between convention and experimentation, taking left-turns and detours that heighten the rich imagery and emotion in Cave's soul-stirring narratives. It is the sound of a group emboldened by reconnection and taking flight. There are moments that touch fondly upon the Bad Seeds' past but they are fleeting, and serve only to imbue the relentless and restless forward motion of the band. Produced by Cave and Warren Ellis, and mixed by David Fridmann, Cave began writing the album in 2023. With sessions at Miraval in Provence and Soundtree in London, the Bad Seeds added their unique alchemy, with additional performances from Colin Greenwood (bass) and Luis Almau (nylon string guitar, acoustic guitar). "There's no f***ing around with this record. When it hits, it hits. It lifts you. It moves you. I love that about it", says Cave.
August 30 street date. Across the ten tracks of "Wild God", Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds dance between convention and experimentation, taking left-turns and detours that heighten the rich imagery and emotion in Cave's soul-stirring narratives. It is the sound of a group emboldened by reconnection and taking flight. There are moments that touch fondly upon the Bad Seeds' past but they are fleeting, and serve only to imbue the relentless and restless forward motion of the band. Produced by Cave and Warren Ellis, and mixed by David Fridmann, Cave began writing the album in 2023. With sessions at Miraval in Provence and Soundtree in London, the Bad Seeds added their unique alchemy, with additional performances from Colin Greenwood (bass) and Luis Almau (nylon string guitar, acoustic guitar). "There's no f***ing around with this record. When it hits, it hits. It lifts you. It moves you. I love that about it", says Cave.
August 30 street date. Across the ten tracks of "Wild God", Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds dance between convention and experimentation, taking left-turns and detours that heighten the rich imagery and emotion in Cave's soul-stirring narratives. It is the sound of a group emboldened by reconnection and taking flight. There are moments that touch fondly upon the Bad Seeds' past but they are fleeting, and serve only to imbue the relentless and restless forward motion of the band. Produced by Cave and Warren Ellis, and mixed by David Fridmann, Cave began writing the album in 2023. With sessions at Miraval in Provence and Soundtree in London, the Bad Seeds added their unique alchemy, with additional performances from Colin Greenwood (bass) and Luis Almau (nylon string guitar, acoustic guitar). "There's no f***ing around with this record. When it hits, it hits. It lifts you. It moves you. I love that about it", says Cave.
Please note new street date: April 19. At once a hazy relic and a digital snapshot of the human experience, "Your Day Will Come" is the debut album from Chanel Beads. The remarkable project announces the arrival of New York-based musician Shane Lavers as a new force in experimental music, capturing the many contradictions of modern existence and the strange infiniteness of the digital world. The songs feel like a memory in which you can't distinguish between what actually happened or what was a false reproduction in your mind - although the burning emotion remains intact. Throughout, Lavers weaves in contributions from his live bandmates, singer-songwriter Maya McGrory (Colle) and experimental instrumentalist Zachary Paul, who offer their own layers of feeling. As McGrory offers a more full-bodied tone and Lavers often sings with his higher-pitched head voice, the two collaborators meet in the middle; it's an intermingling of identities or a subconscious pining for androgyny.
Please note new street date: April 19. At once a hazy relic and a digital snapshot of the human experience, "Your Day Will Come" is the debut album from Chanel Beads. The remarkable project announces the arrival of New York-based musician Shane Lavers as a new force in experimental music, capturing the many contradictions of modern existence and the strange infiniteness of the digital world. The songs feel like a memory in which you can't distinguish between what actually happened or what was a false reproduction in your mind - although the burning emotion remains intact. Throughout, Lavers weaves in contributions from his live bandmates, singer-songwriter Maya McGrory (Colle) and experimental instrumentalist Zachary Paul, who offer their own layers of feeling. As McGrory offers a more full-bodied tone and Lavers often sings with his higher-pitched head voice, the two collaborators meet in the middle; it's an intermingling of identities or a subconscious pining for androgyny.
September 20 street date. For years, Manu Chao has been travelling the world to meet his fans in unusual venues, villages, and small festivals. Elusive, but always accessible to those who cross his path, Manu now presents his new studio album "Viva Tu", a collection of songs written at the heart of daily lives and struggles, and a fresh take on the state of the world, singing sunny, universal songs in Spanish, French, English, and Portuguese, painting an unforgiving picture of social imbalances. The lead song "Viva Tu", a heartfelt rumba dedicated to the daily life heroes, has already made its mark. The second single, "São Paulo Motoboy", is a colourful, sunny ode to the two-wheeled delivery people venturing the Latin American metropoles every day. The album also features some memorable collaborations, including "Heaven's Bad Day" with country legend Willie Nelson, and "Tu Te Vas" with rising French rapper Laeti.
September 20 street date. For years, Manu Chao has been travelling the world to meet his fans in unusual venues, villages, and small festivals. Elusive, but always accessible to those who cross his path, Manu now presents his new studio album "Viva Tu", a collection of songs written at the heart of daily lives and struggles, and a fresh take on the state of the world, singing sunny, universal songs in Spanish, French, English, and Portuguese, painting an unforgiving picture of social imbalances. The lead song "Viva Tu", a heartfelt rumba dedicated to the daily life heroes, has already made its mark. The second single, "São Paulo Motoboy", is a colourful, sunny ode to the two-wheeled delivery people venturing the Latin American metropoles every day. The album also features some memorable collaborations, including "Heaven's Bad Day" with country legend Willie Nelson, and "Tu Te Vas" with rising French rapper Laeti.
September 20 street date. For years, Manu Chao has been travelling the world to meet his fans in unusual venues, villages, and small festivals. Elusive, but always accessible to those who cross his path, Manu now presents his new studio album "Viva Tu", a collection of songs written at the heart of daily lives and struggles, and a fresh take on the state of the world, singing sunny, universal songs in Spanish, French, English, and Portuguese, painting an unforgiving picture of social imbalances. The lead song "Viva Tu", a heartfelt rumba dedicated to the daily life heroes, has already made its mark. The second single, "São Paulo Motoboy", is a colourful, sunny ode to the two-wheeled delivery people venturing the Latin American metropoles every day. The album also features some memorable collaborations, including "Heaven's Bad Day" with country legend Willie Nelson, and "Tu Te Vas" with rising French rapper Laeti.
September 20 street date. For years, Manu Chao has been travelling the world to meet his fans in unusual venues, villages, and small festivals. Elusive, but always accessible to those who cross his path, Manu now presents his new studio album "Viva Tu", a collection of songs written at the heart of daily lives and struggles, and a fresh take on the state of the world, singing sunny, universal songs in Spanish, French, English, and Portuguese, painting an unforgiving picture of social imbalances. The lead song "Viva Tu", a heartfelt rumba dedicated to the daily life heroes, has already made its mark. The second single, "São Paulo Motoboy", is a colourful, sunny ode to the two-wheeled delivery people venturing the Latin American metropoles every day. The album also features some memorable collaborations, including "Heaven's Bad Day" with country legend Willie Nelson, and "Tu Te Vas" with rising French rapper Laeti.
April 20 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. The Charlatans debut single "Indian Rope" (originally released on Dead Dead Good) has not been pressed on vinyl since 1990. Now part of the Beggars Arkive catalogue, this very special picture disc is being released for Record Store Day 2024.
November 8 street date. Beggars Arkive present the 30th anniversary expanded edition of The Charlatans' third album, "Up To Our Hips". The set features the original album, plus 10 bonus tracks (all curated by Tim Burgess), including two BBC live session songs recorded for the Steve Lamacq and Jo Whiley Show, alongside B-sides, alternate mixes, and outtakes. This special package has brand new reimagined artwork by Nik Void. Originally released in 1994 on Beggars Banquet, "Up To Our Hips" marked a new direction for the band. It leaned away from the lighter pop songs of their previous two albums with its darker, heavier and organ led sound. This was due in part by the legal case that keys player Rob Collins was embroiled in, as he was accused of acting as a getaway driver in an armed robbery. Charges (and a lengthy sentence) were eventually dropped in court, but the band feared Rob would be sent to prison for years - many of the lyrics on the album reflect the stress of the band at the time. Limited edition petrol blue bio-vinyl.
November 8 street date. Beggars Arkive present the 30th anniversary expanded edition of The Charlatans' third album, "Up To Our Hips". The set features the original album, plus 10 bonus tracks (all curated by Tim Burgess), including two BBC live session songs recorded for the Steve Lamacq and Jo Whiley Show, alongside B-sides, alternate mixes, and outtakes. This special package has brand new reimagined artwork by Nik Void. Originally released in 1994 on Beggars Banquet, "Up To Our Hips" marked a new direction for the band. It leaned away from the lighter pop songs of their previous two albums with its darker, heavier and organ led sound. This was due in part by the legal case that keys player Rob Collins was embroiled in, as he was accused of acting as a getaway driver in an armed robbery. Charges (and a lengthy sentence) were eventually dropped in court, but the band feared Rob would be sent to prison for years - many of the lyrics on the album reflect the stress of the band at the time.
September 27 street date. Ray Charles reshaped the entire landscape of American music. Released in 1962 and obliterating barriers of genre, race, and audience, "Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music" became the first country album to sell over a million copies, single-handedly tranforming the once-niche genre into a mainstream phenomenon. Tangerine is proud to reissue this landmark album with historically accurate sound and artwork for the first time since its original issue. This is the only official, licensed version available of "Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music", produced with the full cooperation of the Ray Charles Foundation.
September 27 street date. Ray Charles reshaped the entire landscape of American music. Released in 1962 and obliterating barriers of genre, race, and audience, "Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music" became the first country album to sell over a million copies, single-handedly tranforming the once-niche genre into a mainstream phenomenon. Tangerine is proud to reissue this landmark album with historically accurate sound and artwork for the first time since its original issue. This is the only official, licensed version available of "Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music", produced with the full cooperation of the Ray Charles Foundation.
September 27 street date. Ray Charles reshaped the entire landscape of American music. Released in 1962 and obliterating barriers of genre, race, and audience, "Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music" became the first country album to sell over a million copies, single-handedly tranforming the once-niche genre into a mainstream phenomenon. Also released in 1962, "Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music Vol. 2" hit just as big, eliminating any doubts about Ray's sincerity - or his genius. Tangerine is proud to reissue this landmark album with historically accurate sound and artwork for the first time since its original issue. This is the only official, licensed version available of "Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music Vol. 2", produced with the full cooperation of the Ray Charles Foundation.
September 27 street date. Ray Charles reshaped the entire landscape of American music. Released in 1962 and obliterating barriers of genre, race, and audience, "Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music" became the first country album to sell over a million copies, single-handedly tranforming the once-niche genre into a mainstream phenomenon. Also released in 1962, "Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music Vol. 2" hit just as big, eliminating any doubts about Ray's sincerity - or his genius. Tangerine is proud to reissue this landmark album with historically accurate sound and artwork for the first time since its original issue. This is the only official, licensed version available of "Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music Vol. 2", produced with the full cooperation of the Ray Charles Foundation.
November 15 street date. Willie Nelson said "Ray Charles did more for country music than any other artist". These 12 songs, culminating with the #1 hit Ray and Willie made together ("Seven Spanish Angels"), proves the point. "Best Of Country & Western" is the first time the biggest country songs across Ray's entire career have been distilled down to a single, hit-packed LP. Spanning three decades - from his first chart-topping country song, "I Can't Stop Loving You" to his last, "Seven Spanish Angels" - this collection is the ideal entry point for even themost casual fans of Ray Charles and anyone curious to hear where today's biggest country stars are drawing inspiration.
November 15 street date. Willie Nelson said "Ray Charles did more for country music than any other artist". These 12 songs, culminating with the #1 hit Ray and Willie made together ("Seven Spanish Angels"), proves the point. "Best Of Country & Western" is the first time the biggest country songs across Ray's entire career have been distilled down to a single, hit-packed LP. Spanning three decades - from his first chart-topping country song, "I Can't Stop Loving You" to his last, "Seven Spanish Angels" - this collection is the ideal entry point for even themost casual fans of Ray Charles and anyone curious to hear where today's biggest country stars are drawing inspiration.
October 18 street date. Ray Charles' landmark "Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music" albums expanded country music from a niche-genre to a mainstream phenomenon. 1966's "Crying Time" and 1965's "Country And Western Meets Rhythm And Blues" are companion pieces that more overtly blend country - the genre he transformed - and soul - the genre he invented. Their hits, "Let's Go Get Stoned", "Crying Time", and "Together Again", are just an indication of the variety (and quality) throughout these two outstanding examples of Ray's all-encompassing genius. Tangerine is proud to reissue these landmark albums on vinyl for the first time since their original release.
October 18 street date. Ray Charles' landmark "Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music" albums expanded country music from a niche-genre to a mainstream phenomenon. 1966's "Crying Time" and 1965's "Country And Western Meets Rhythm And Blues" are companion pieces that more overtly blend country - the genre he transformed - and soul - the genre he invented. Their hits, "Let's Go Get Stoned", "Crying Time", and "Together Again", are just an indication of the variety (and quality) throughout these two outstanding examples of Ray's all-encompassing genius. Tangerine is proud to reissue these landmark albums on vinyl for the first time since their original release.
October 18 street date. Ray Charles' landmark "Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music" albums expanded country music from a niche-genre to a mainstream phenomenon. 1966's "Crying Time" and 1965's "Country And Western Meets Rhythm And Blues" are companion pieces that more overtly blend country - the genre he transformed - and soul - the genre he invented. Their hits, "Let's Go Get Stoned", "Crying Time", and "Together Again", are just an indication of the variety (and quality) throughout these two outstanding examples of Ray's all-encompassing genius. Tangerine is proud to reissue these landmark albums on vinyl for the first time since their original release.
October 18 street date. Ray Charles' landmark "Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music" albums expanded country music from a niche-genre to a mainstream phenomenon. 1966's "Crying Time" and 1965's "Country And Western Meets Rhythm And Blues" are companion pieces that more overtly blend country - the genre he transformed - and soul - the genre he invented. Their hits, "Let's Go Get Stoned", "Crying Time", and "Together Again", are just an indication of the variety (and quality) throughout these two outstanding examples of Ray's all-encompassing genius. Tangerine is proud to reissue these landmark albums on vinyl for the first time since their original release.
December 15 street date. Children Of Bodom was a Finnish melodic death metal band, formed in 1993 as Inearthed. The final line-up of the group upon their split in 2019 consisted of Alexi Laiho (lead guitar, lead vocals), Jaska Raatikainen (drums), Henkka Seppälä (bass), Janne Wirman (keyboard), and Daniel Freyberg (rhythm guitar). The band released ten studio albums, two live albums, two EPs, two compilation albums and one DVD. They are one of Finland's best selling artists of all time, with more than 250,000 records sold there alone. In 2019, Children Of Bodom held their last concert in Helsinki named "A Chapter Called Children Of Bodom", before disbanding the band. Laiho and Freyberg carried on as Bodom After Midnight in 2020. Laiho, who was one of the founding members of Children Of Bodom as well as the only main songwriter, died on December 29, 2020.
December 15 street date. Children Of Bodom was a Finnish melodic death metal band, formed in 1993 as Inearthed. The final line-up of the group upon their split in 2019 consisted of Alexi Laiho (lead guitar, lead vocals), Jaska Raatikainen (drums), Henkka Seppälä (bass), Janne Wirman (keyboard), and Daniel Freyberg (rhythm guitar). The band released ten studio albums, two live albums, two EPs, two compilation albums and one DVD. They are one of Finland's best selling artists of all time, with more than 250,000 records sold there alone. In 2019, Children Of Bodom held their last concert in Helsinki named "A Chapter Called Children Of Bodom", before disbanding the band. Laiho and Freyberg carried on as Bodom After Midnight in 2020. Laiho, who was one of the founding members of Children Of Bodom as well as the only main songwriter, died on December 29, 2020.
August 2 street date. The origin of Chrystabell and David Lynch's album "Cellophane Memories" comes from a vision that David experienced during a nighttime walk through a forest of tall trees, over the tops of which he saw a bright light. As he recalls it, the light became the lilt of Chrystabell's voice and revealed a secret to him. For "Cellophane Memories", the two have traveled through different portals. Elisions in time reappear over and over within Chrystabell's vocals, which emerge and dissolve and loop back in layers of harmony and history. They are mantled by David's, and late composer Angelo Badalamenti's, orchestra of waldeinsamkeit-inspired strings, oneiric guitar glissandi and clouds of reverb, whose melodies are like the sensation of time pausing for a first kiss. Fittingly, many of the songs are set in fairytale forests, mountain peaks, swimming holes, crepuscular highways and darkened bedrooms. These are the abodes of both loneliness and romance, the sorts of sublime landscapes where people often travel alone in search of a wayward lover.
August 2 street date. The origin of Chrystabell and David Lynch's album "Cellophane Memories" comes from a vision that David experienced during a nighttime walk through a forest of tall trees, over the tops of which he saw a bright light. As he recalls it, the light became the lilt of Chrystabell's voice and revealed a secret to him. For "Cellophane Memories", the two have traveled through different portals. Elisions in time reappear over and over within Chrystabell's vocals, which emerge and dissolve and loop back in layers of harmony and history. They are mantled by David's, and late composer Angelo Badalamenti's, orchestra of waldeinsamkeit-inspired strings, oneiric guitar glissandi and clouds of reverb, whose melodies are like the sensation of time pausing for a first kiss. Fittingly, many of the songs are set in fairytale forests, mountain peaks, swimming holes, crepuscular highways and darkened bedrooms. These are the abodes of both loneliness and romance, the sorts of sublime landscapes where people often travel alone in search of a wayward lover.
August 2 street date. The origin of Chrystabell and David Lynch's album "Cellophane Memories" comes from a vision that David experienced during a nighttime walk through a forest of tall trees, over the tops of which he saw a bright light. As he recalls it, the light became the lilt of Chrystabell's voice and revealed a secret to him. For "Cellophane Memories", the two have traveled through different portals. Elisions in time reappear over and over within Chrystabell's vocals, which emerge and dissolve and loop back in layers of harmony and history. They are mantled by David's, and late composer Angelo Badalamenti's, orchestra of waldeinsamkeit-inspired strings, oneiric guitar glissandi and clouds of reverb, whose melodies are like the sensation of time pausing for a first kiss. Fittingly, many of the songs are set in fairytale forests, mountain peaks, swimming holes, crepuscular highways and darkened bedrooms. These are the abodes of both loneliness and romance, the sorts of sublime landscapes where people often travel alone in search of a wayward lover.
April 20 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. Originally released 50 years ago on Asylum Records (produced by Thomas Jefferson Kaye), "No Other" is one of the late-American singer-songwriter (and Byrds founding member) Gene Clark's finest works. A visionary record of psychedelic rock, folk, country, and soul, Gene called upon a who's who of L.A. talent. Famously costing a small fortune to make, and warmly received by critics, "No Other" wasn't a commercial success and was quietly deleted shortly after its release. The very definition of a "lost classic", the decades since has seen the album only grow in prowess and is now seen as one of the finest of its era. First heard 5 years ago as part of a CD box set, the studio outtakes are finally getting the vinyl pressing fans have been asking for. Working from the original multi-track tapes, Sid Griffin (The Long Ryders) and John Wood (Fairport Convention, Nick Drake) forensically mixed 18 alternative versions without editing or compositing, so things are heard as they went down in the studio, before any overdubbing took place. Housed in a beautiful mirror board sleeve and containing photos from the recording sessions, as well as comprehensive song notes by Griffin.
August 2 street date. clipping. celebrates the 10th anniversary of their 2014 Sub Pop debut, "CLPPNG", with a new coloured vinyl edition, limited to 1000 copies. Before clipping.'s debut album "Midcity", the trio of rapper Daveed Diggs and producers Jonathan Snipes and William Hutson did not expect to find an audience for their abrasive brand of rap music. But, since their formation, the field of commercial music enlarged ever so slightly, making room again for noisier, more adventurous elements in electronic production (though clipping. insist they simply make rap music). "CLPPNG" is a much more ambitious project than "Midcity". The album features guest verses from some of the band's strongest influences, including Gangsta Boo (formerly of Three 6 Mafia, and currently of Da Mafia 6ix), Guce (longtime Bay Area mainstay, member of Bullys Wit Fullys), King T (all-around West Coast gangster rap legend, founder of the Likwit Crew, and mentor to Xzibit and Tha Alkaholiks). "CLPPNG" stretches the band's experimental sounds to fit a wider emotional range. "Midcity" had anger and aggression figured out, but "CLPPNG" fits the group's harsh electronics to club tracks, a slow jams, songs to strip to, and more.
August 23 street date. "The Moon and the Melodies" is a singular record within the Cocteau Twins' catalogue. Unusually ethereal, even by their standards, and largely instrumental, the album was guided by the free-form improvisations of collaborator Harold Budd, an ambient pioneer who had drifted into their orbit as if by divine intervention. Building on the atmospheric bliss of "Victorialand", released earlier the same year (1986), it signalled a possible future for the trio, yet it was a path they'd never take again. Now, almost forty years after its initial release, Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd's "The Moon and the Melodies" is being reissued for the first time, remastered from the original tapes by guitarist/co-producer Robin Guthrie, and complete with the original 23 Envelope (Vaughan Oliver) artwork. For such a low-key affair, the album casts a long shadow - but bassist Simon Raymonde believes the record's uniqueness stems directly from its humble, unpremeditated origins: "It captured a moment in time between friends that are enjoying making music together. Really, that's the essence of it".
August 23 street date. "The Moon and the Melodies" is a singular record within the Cocteau Twins' catalogue. Unusually ethereal, even by their standards, and largely instrumental, the album was guided by the free-form improvisations of collaborator Harold Budd, an ambient pioneer who had drifted into their orbit as if by divine intervention. Building on the atmospheric bliss of "Victorialand", released earlier the same year (1986), it signalled a possible future for the trio, yet it was a path they'd never take again. Now, almost forty years after its initial release, Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd's "The Moon and the Melodies" is being reissued for the first time, remastered from the original tapes by guitarist/co-producer Robin Guthrie, and complete with the original 23 Envelope (Vaughan Oliver) artwork. For such a low-key affair, the album casts a long shadow - but bassist Simon Raymonde believes the record's uniqueness stems directly from its humble, unpremeditated origins: "It captured a moment in time between friends that are enjoying making music together. Really, that's the essence of it".
December 6 street date. Une atmosphère musicale unique, subtil mélange d'intensité et de délicatesse. Pour coller à l'atmosphère mystique et renforcer la dimension poétique du jeu vidéo Child of Light (Ubisost), Coeur de Pirate a composé intégralement une bande originale intimiste et nostalgique, accompagnant le joueur tout au long de son aventure. Avec l'aide de l'Orchestre Symphonique de Bratislava, l'artiste Montréalaise a également pu recréer l'ambiance épique des séquences de combats du jeu. Le jeu vidéo "Child of Light" puise son inspiration dans les contes de fées classiques, et offre un décor dans un style aquarelle unique inspiré des oeuvres de l'Âge d'Or de l'illustration. Le joueur incarne Aurora, une enfant au coeur pur, dont l'âme se retrouve transportée dans le Royaume de Lemuria, privé de ses 3 sources de lumière.
May 19 street date. Cold Hart is set to release his sixth studio project, Pretty In The Dark. As one of the co-founders of the Gothboiclique collective, alongside artists like Wicca Phase Springs Eternal, Lil Peep, Fish Narc, YAWNS, and Lil Tracy, Cold Hart played a pivotal role in shaping a bold fusion of emo and hip hop. This unique blend infused a contemporary production sensibility into guitar riffs and samples, evoking a sense of instant nostalgia for those who grew up listening to bands like Linkin Park and Blink-182. In "Pretty In The Dark", Cold Hart showcases his versatility by exploring dreamy guitars, energetic grooves, and lively pop-punk riffs, transitioning towards an alternative/indie rock sound. Through numerous releases, his musical evolution has led him to hone in on traditional songwriting, aligning more closely with the influences of his formative years - whether it's the stylings of The Cure or Depeche Mode. These new tracks received a positive reception during Cold Hart's extensive US summer tour, where he captivated fans while sharing the stage with The Drums.
May 31 street date. "Darning Woman" is an intentional, beautiful, sometimes confrontational album that shreds expectations of DIY, bedroom music, and feminine themes. There's a lushness and maternal instinct at play, as Anastasia Coope connects the dots between physicality, ephemera, and the ultrafeminine. "Darning Woman" explores, among other things, the meditative aspect of sewing, patching and embellishment, care and repair, collection not as modern, craven consumption but as a counterpoint to materialism. Coope is also the founder and leader of the Bonzo collective and show series, an exciting new home for the type of expansive, profoundly creative scene that New York has been missing for some time. And while Bonzo may well be the ascent of a new community, "Darning Woman" is the story of Anastasia Coope, herself. It is the sound of Coope entering the world as an artist, acknowledging the tangle of what changes - the gaze of the world, Coope's art in reaction and community to art in general - and what does not: her ideas and her own self.
May 31 street date. "Darning Woman" is an intentional, beautiful, sometimes confrontational album that shreds expectations of DIY, bedroom music, and feminine themes. There's a lushness and maternal instinct at play, as Anastasia Coope connects the dots between physicality, ephemera, and the ultrafeminine. "Darning Woman" explores, among other things, the meditative aspect of sewing, patching and embellishment, care and repair, collection not as modern, craven consumption but as a counterpoint to materialism. Coope is also the founder and leader of the Bonzo collective and show series, an exciting new home for the type of expansive, profoundly creative scene that New York has been missing for some time. And while Bonzo may well be the ascent of a new community, "Darning Woman" is the story of Anastasia Coope, herself. It is the sound of Coope entering the world as an artist, acknowledging the tangle of what changes - the gaze of the world, Coope's art in reaction and community to art in general - and what does not: her ideas and her own self.
May 31 street date. "Darning Woman" is an intentional, beautiful, sometimes confrontational album that shreds expectations of DIY, bedroom music, and feminine themes. There's a lushness and maternal instinct at play, as Anastasia Coope connects the dots between physicality, ephemera, and the ultrafeminine. "Darning Woman" explores, among other things, the meditative aspect of sewing, patching and embellishment, care and repair, collection not as modern, craven consumption but as a counterpoint to materialism. Coope is also the founder and leader of the Bonzo collective and show series, an exciting new home for the type of expansive, profoundly creative scene that New York has been missing for some time. And while Bonzo may well be the ascent of a new community, "Darning Woman" is the story of Anastasia Coope, herself. It is the sound of Coope entering the world as an artist, acknowledging the tangle of what changes - the gaze of the world, Coope's art in reaction and community to art in general - and what does not: her ideas and her own self.
Available now. July release finally available via FAB! Crack Cloud has always been something beyond a rock band: both profound and grand, vaporous and elusive. The first iteration of Crack Cloud was formed nearly a decade ago as a proxy-rehab outlet on the fringes of Calgary. Over time, two EPs and accompanying visual pieces were produced out of the residence known as Red Mile. By 2017, several members had relocated to Vancouver, working out of harm reduction centers and low-barrier shelters. Sobriety, self-reformation and the idealism of their work further formed an ethos for Crack Cloud. Now, "Red Mile" is a bit of a homecoming. Members have returned to Calgary. "Red Mile" is, for them, something like samsara: a return and a rebirth. The album's sound breathes expansive energy into the circuitous, street bound sonics of Crack Cloud's prior material. Fizzling synths intertwine with chiming pianos. Songs layer like Russian nesting dolls; one may find a Ramones chorus set within a desolate Western prog soundtrack only to watch it erupt into a joyous anthem. Real-ass guitars - alternately lilting, scuzzy, and soaring - ring out across wide sun-bleached spaces.
Available now. July release finally available via FAB! Crack Cloud has always been something beyond a rock band: both profound and grand, vaporous and elusive. The first iteration of Crack Cloud was formed nearly a decade ago as a proxy-rehab outlet on the fringes of Calgary. Over time, two EPs and accompanying visual pieces were produced out of the residence known as Red Mile. By 2017, several members had relocated to Vancouver, working out of harm reduction centers and low-barrier shelters. Sobriety, self-reformation and the idealism of their work further formed an ethos for Crack Cloud. Now, "Red Mile" is a bit of a homecoming. Members have returned to Calgary. "Red Mile" is, for them, something like samsara: a return and a rebirth. The album's sound breathes expansive energy into the circuitous, street bound sonics of Crack Cloud's prior material. Fizzling synths intertwine with chiming pianos. Songs layer like Russian nesting dolls; one may find a Ramones chorus set within a desolate Western prog soundtrack only to watch it erupt into a joyous anthem. Real-ass guitars - alternately lilting, scuzzy, and soaring - ring out across wide sun-bleached spaces.
Available now. July release finally available via FAB! Crack Cloud has always been something beyond a rock band: both profound and grand, vaporous and elusive. The first iteration of Crack Cloud was formed nearly a decade ago as a proxy-rehab outlet on the fringes of Calgary. Over time, two EPs and accompanying visual pieces were produced out of the residence known as Red Mile. By 2017, several members had relocated to Vancouver, working out of harm reduction centers and low-barrier shelters. Sobriety, self-reformation and the idealism of their work further formed an ethos for Crack Cloud. Now, "Red Mile" is a bit of a homecoming. Members have returned to Calgary. "Red Mile" is, for them, something like samsara: a return and a rebirth. The album's sound breathes expansive energy into the circuitous, street bound sonics of Crack Cloud's prior material. Fizzling synths intertwine with chiming pianos. Songs layer like Russian nesting dolls; one may find a Ramones chorus set within a desolate Western prog soundtrack only to watch it erupt into a joyous anthem. Real-ass guitars - alternately lilting, scuzzy, and soaring - ring out across wide sun-bleached spaces.
August 30 street date. Provogue Records is proud to announce the new studio album from the legendary Steve Cropper, "Friendlytown". The follow-up to his 2021 album, "Fire It Up", which debuted at #1 on the Billboard Blues Album Chart and was nominated for the Best Blues Album at the 64th Grammy Awards, "Friendlytown" is yet another hit from the guitar hero. Featuring guest appearances from Billy Gibbons, Brian May, and Tim Montana, "Friendlytown" is a must have for fans of Cropper's world-renowned repertoire. "I feel great about this batch of songs. It's packed with great radio hooks, and features some of the best musicians in the world", says Cropper. "It's like guitar heaven".
August 30 street date. Provogue Records is proud to announce the new studio album from the legendary Steve Cropper, "Friendlytown". The follow-up to his 2021 album, "Fire It Up", which debuted at #1 on the Billboard Blues Album Chart and was nominated for the Best Blues Album at the 64th Grammy Awards, "Friendlytown" is yet another hit from the guitar hero. Featuring guest appearances from Billy Gibbons, Brian May, and Tim Montana, "Friendlytown" is a must have for fans of Cropper's world-renowned repertoire. "I feel great about this batch of songs. It's packed with great radio hooks, and features some of the best musicians in the world", says Cropper. "It's like guitar heaven".
June 14 street date. New York psych-pop band Crumb return with "AMAMA", their most carefree and open-hearted album to date. A soundscape full of playful and patchwork experimentation - glitchy pitch-shifted vocals, cell phone recordings, nautical blips, sax mouthpiece solos, blasted drum samples, and piano strings dampened with Silly Putty - "AMAMA" continues to deepen the band's hypnotic sound in a cohesive line back through 2021's "Ice Melt", 2019's "Jinx", and breakout EPs "Locket" and "Crumb". Without a doubt, "AMAMA is Crumb" at their most animated. It exists at the crossroads of psychedelia, pop, jazz, and rock, and cements Crumb as a band uniquely their own. "AMAMA" is an incandescent statement about searching for solid ground, connection, and clarity in a life of nomadic upheaval.
June 14 street date. New York psych-pop band Crumb return with "AMAMA", their most carefree and open-hearted album to date. A soundscape full of playful and patchwork experimentation - glitchy pitch-shifted vocals, cell phone recordings, nautical blips, sax mouthpiece solos, blasted drum samples, and piano strings dampened with Silly Putty - "AMAMA" continues to deepen the band's hypnotic sound in a cohesive line back through 2021's "Ice Melt", 2019's "Jinx", and breakout EPs "Locket" and "Crumb". Without a doubt, "AMAMA is Crumb" at their most animated. It exists at the crossroads of psychedelia, pop, jazz, and rock, and cements Crumb as a band uniquely their own. "AMAMA" is an incandescent statement about searching for solid ground, connection, and clarity in a life of nomadic upheaval.
February 23 street date. To celebrate the band's 40th anniversary, The Cult have reissued their adventurous and highly-regarded debut album, "Dreamtime", on standard black as well as limited edition oxblood-red imported vinyl. Originally released in 1984 following the band's evolution from the Southern Death Cult, to Death Cult, and then simply The Cult, "Dreamtime" finds them pivoting from their goth and punk roots into something eclectic, aspirational, and adventurous. Rife with lyrical references to the indigenous cultures of the Americas and Australia, and set against a more bombastic and muscular musical backdrop, "Dreamtime" hints at what would envelop the band over the next four decades, a dedication to wholly unique songwriting, both musically and thematically, and the frenzy that was soon to come with the release of "Love" only a year later.
February 23 street date. To celebrate the band's 40th anniversary, The Cult have reissued their adventurous and highly-regarded debut album, "Dreamtime", on standard black as well as limited edition oxblood-red imported vinyl. Originally released in 1984 following the band's evolution from the Southern Death Cult, to Death Cult, and then simply The Cult, "Dreamtime" finds them pivoting from their goth and punk roots into something eclectic, aspirational, and adventurous. Rife with lyrical references to the indigenous cultures of the Americas and Australia, and set against a more bombastic and muscular musical backdrop, "Dreamtime" hints at what would envelop the band over the next four decades, a dedication to wholly unique songwriting, both musically and thematically, and the frenzy that was soon to come with the release of "Love" only a year later.
October 4 street date. Like a scantily clad Creature from the Black Lagoon, Manhattan four-piece cumgirl8 has emerged from their primordial goo, resurrecting in striking full colour with their long awaited debut LP. After coming-of-age with an introductory self-titled EP (2020), experiencing their own end with their "RIPcumgirl8" EP (2021), and witnessing a twisted vision of the afterlife through their first EP on 4AD, "phantasea pharm" (2023), cumgirl8 now present "the 8th cumming". The album's track list sonically oscillates between dark and light, travelling intergalactically between distorted, gothic industrialism akin to the retro horror soundtracks of John Carpenter, to Chris & Cosey or Suicide-reminiscent suspenseful and sometimes romantic synth-wave, and gritty post-punk experimentalism. Described as a utopian, chaotic "Greta Thunberg fever dream", "the 8th cumming" was recorded live, and entirely on analogue.
October 4 street date. Like a scantily clad Creature from the Black Lagoon, Manhattan four-piece cumgirl8 has emerged from their primordial goo, resurrecting in striking full colour with their long awaited debut LP. After coming-of-age with an introductory self-titled EP (2020), experiencing their own end with their "RIPcumgirl8" EP (2021), and witnessing a twisted vision of the afterlife through their first EP on 4AD, "phantasea pharm" (2023), cumgirl8 now present "the 8th cumming". The album's track list sonically oscillates between dark and light, travelling intergalactically between distorted, gothic industrialism akin to the retro horror soundtracks of John Carpenter, to Chris & Cosey or Suicide-reminiscent suspenseful and sometimes romantic synth-wave, and gritty post-punk experimentalism. Described as a utopian, chaotic "Greta Thunberg fever dream", "the 8th cumming" was recorded live, and entirely on analogue.
October 4 street date. Like a scantily clad Creature from the Black Lagoon, Manhattan four-piece cumgirl8 has emerged from their primordial goo, resurrecting in striking full colour with their long awaited debut LP. After coming-of-age with an introductory self-titled EP (2020), experiencing their own end with their "RIPcumgirl8" EP (2021), and witnessing a twisted vision of the afterlife through their first EP on 4AD, "phantasea pharm" (2023), cumgirl8 now present "the 8th cumming". The album's track list sonically oscillates between dark and light, travelling intergalactically between distorted, gothic industrialism akin to the retro horror soundtracks of John Carpenter, to Chris & Cosey or Suicide-reminiscent suspenseful and sometimes romantic synth-wave, and gritty post-punk experimentalism. Described as a utopian, chaotic "Greta Thunberg fever dream", "the 8th cumming" was recorded live, and entirely on analogue.
October 11 street date. "East My Love", the resplendent, country-tinged 12th album by Current Joys, feels familiar. It's meant to: the 12 songs contained within dive deep into the rich folklore of the American West to tell time-worn tales of love and trauma, heartbreak, and spiritual renewal. Cast with a warm glow and finding Current Joys' Nick Rattigan tapping into some of his lushest, most high-fidelity production to date, it's the kind of album that listeners could see themselves within, and, hopefully, keep close when they're most in need of reassurance or escapism. Rattigan wrote "East My Love" alone in the woods in Tennessee, with no cell reception and nobody in earshot for miles. Composed three years before "Love + Pop", the experimental pop double record he released in 2023 and 2024, the songs on "East My Love" felt too raw to confront until he felt well and truly out from underneath the cloud that had been cast over him. There's a purity of catharsis that runs through these songs; written without pretense, they take base human needs and desires and fit them into a grander tradition of American songwriting that takes in everything from Willie Nelson to Bright Eyes. True to that, many of the songs on "East My Love", due to their outside-looking-in perspective, play like standards.
October 11 street date. "East My Love", the resplendent, country-tinged 12th album by Current Joys, feels familiar. It's meant to: the 12 songs contained within dive deep into the rich folklore of the American West to tell time-worn tales of love and trauma, heartbreak, and spiritual renewal. Cast with a warm glow and finding Current Joys' Nick Rattigan tapping into some of his lushest, most high-fidelity production to date, it's the kind of album that listeners could see themselves within, and, hopefully, keep close when they're most in need of reassurance or escapism. Rattigan wrote "East My Love" alone in the woods in Tennessee, with no cell reception and nobody in earshot for miles. Composed three years before "Love + Pop", the experimental pop double record he released in 2023 and 2024, the songs on "East My Love" felt too raw to confront until he felt well and truly out from underneath the cloud that had been cast over him. There's a purity of catharsis that runs through these songs; written without pretense, they take base human needs and desires and fit them into a grander tradition of American songwriting that takes in everything from Willie Nelson to Bright Eyes. True to that, many of the songs on "East My Love", due to their outside-looking-in perspective, play like standards.
October 11 street date. "East My Love", the resplendent, country-tinged 12th album by Current Joys, feels familiar. It's meant to: the 12 songs contained within dive deep into the rich folklore of the American West to tell time-worn tales of love and trauma, heartbreak, and spiritual renewal. Cast with a warm glow and finding Current Joys' Nick Rattigan tapping into some of his lushest, most high-fidelity production to date, it's the kind of album that listeners could see themselves within, and, hopefully, keep close when they're most in need of reassurance or escapism. Rattigan wrote "East My Love" alone in the woods in Tennessee, with no cell reception and nobody in earshot for miles. Composed three years before "Love + Pop", the experimental pop double record he released in 2023 and 2024, the songs on "East My Love" felt too raw to confront until he felt well and truly out from underneath the cloud that had been cast over him. There's a purity of catharsis that runs through these songs; written without pretense, they take base human needs and desires and fit them into a grander tradition of American songwriting that takes in everything from Willie Nelson to Bright Eyes. True to that, many of the songs on "East My Love", due to their outside-looking-in perspective, play like standards.
October 11 street date. For the first time in almost a decade, brothers Taylor and Griffin Goldsmith grace the cover of a Dawes record. It's just the two of them this time, and as such, "Oh Brother" marks a distinctive new chapter for the California rock band - one that is both introspective and accessible, all while maintaining their beloved sense of sincerity. "Oh Brother" steers Dawes decidedly forward, honouring 15 years of Taylor and Griffin's musical relationship, as well as the next era of their band. Each of the nine songs began with just Taylor on guitar and vocals and Griffin on drums. At this point in the Goldsmith's career, Dawes has cemented itself as one of the most earnest, no-bullshit musical acts out there. They're a band that can move seamlessly between folk rock, piano ballads, and sprawling jams while maintaining both an immediately recognizable sound and a freedom from expectations. "Oh Brother" shows how the Goldsmith brothers remain creative, ambitious, and inspired - what it means to be lifers in a band together.
October 11 street date. For the first time in almost a decade, brothers Taylor and Griffin Goldsmith grace the cover of a Dawes record. It's just the two of them this time, and as such, "Oh Brother" marks a distinctive new chapter for the California rock band - one that is both introspective and accessible, all while maintaining their beloved sense of sincerity. "Oh Brother" steers Dawes decidedly forward, honouring 15 years of Taylor and Griffin's musical relationship, as well as the next era of their band. Each of the nine songs began with just Taylor on guitar and vocals and Griffin on drums. At this point in the Goldsmith's career, Dawes has cemented itself as one of the most earnest, no-bullshit musical acts out there. They're a band that can move seamlessly between folk rock, piano ballads, and sprawling jams while maintaining both an immediately recognizable sound and a freedom from expectations. "Oh Brother" shows how the Goldsmith brothers remain creative, ambitious, and inspired - what it means to be lifers in a band together.
February 23 street date. Erika de Casier isn't searching for perfection - she's just trying to show you where she's at right now. Her third album, "Still", proves that she is a master of writing songs that speak to universal experiences of modern life, even for all their specificities and quirks. If "Essentials" (2019) was filled with perfect songs about flirtation and new love, and "Sensational" (2021) added wrinkles in the form of partners who were rude and plainly annoying, "Still" sees de Casier writing about genuine heartbreak with a new clarity. Yet among all the success, the accolades, the acclaim, her greatest achievement may be, simply: she's still Erika de Casier. The album is classic de Casier, her idiosyncratic mix of luxuriant electronica and moonlit R&B drilled further into that one-of-a-kind sound. The songwriting is as masterful and universal as ever, and her proficiency as a producer heightened as she produces other voices (They Hate Change, Shygirl, Blood Orange) for the first time.
February 23 street date. Erika de Casier isn't searching for perfection - she's just trying to show you where she's at right now. Her third album, "Still", proves that she is a master of writing songs that speak to universal experiences of modern life, even for all their specificities and quirks. If "Essentials" (2019) was filled with perfect songs about flirtation and new love, and "Sensational" (2021) added wrinkles in the form of partners who were rude and plainly annoying, "Still" sees de Casier writing about genuine heartbreak with a new clarity. Yet among all the success, the accolades, the acclaim, her greatest achievement may be, simply: she's still Erika de Casier. The album is classic de Casier, her idiosyncratic mix of luxuriant electronica and moonlit R&B drilled further into that one-of-a-kind sound. The songwriting is as masterful and universal as ever, and her proficiency as a producer heightened as she produces other voices (They Hate Change, Shygirl, Blood Orange) for the first time.
February 23 street date. Erika de Casier isn't searching for perfection - she's just trying to show you where she's at right now. Her third album, "Still", proves that she is a master of writing songs that speak to universal experiences of modern life, even for all their specificities and quirks. If "Essentials" (2019) was filled with perfect songs about flirtation and new love, and "Sensational" (2021) added wrinkles in the form of partners who were rude and plainly annoying, "Still" sees de Casier writing about genuine heartbreak with a new clarity. Yet among all the success, the accolades, the acclaim, her greatest achievement may be, simply: she's still Erika de Casier. The album is classic de Casier, her idiosyncratic mix of luxuriant electronica and moonlit R&B drilled further into that one-of-a-kind sound. The songwriting is as masterful and universal as ever, and her proficiency as a producer heightened as she produces other voices (They Hate Change, Shygirl, Blood Orange) for the first time.
July 12 street date. Dead Bob is the solo incarnation of John Wright, drummer of long time and apparently legendary (but now retired) Canadian punk band NoMeansNo. Wright has spent 50 years drumming, 45 years songwriting, 30 years touring, 3 years helping robots play punk rock, 30 years brewing, and a lifetime playing music - in more bands than you can count on one hand. "Life Like" was recorded and produced by Wright in the wilds of British Columbia, and while he primarily wrote and performed it himself, he can't take all of the credit, having engaged the help of several friends including Byron Slack (Invasives), Kristy Lee Audette (Rong), Ford Pier (The Ford Pier Vengeance Trio, D.O.A., Rheostatics), Selina Martin, and his son Aidan Wright, as well as two old collaborations with his brother Rob in the writer's chair. As might be expected, the songs roll out cohesively but defy the cookie cutter pigeon holes, so "genre" is a tricky one to convey, but one thing that is not unclear is it is not to be listened to quietly! The material on "Life Like" spans decades - and there's lots more in the vault!
September 6 street date. "Light 'Em Up" sees the return of ex-Motley Crue vocalist John Corabi for his first Dead Daisies album since 2018's "Burn It Down". The Dead Daisies spent the early part of 2024 in both Nashville and Muscle Shoals with producer Marti Frederiksen writing and recording songs for this, their 7th studio album.This album is in-your-face rock, packed with huge hooks, Doug Aldrich''s giant intense guitar riffs, and Corabi's distinctive vocals that will leave no audience in their seats when played live.
September 6 street date. "Light 'Em Up" sees the return of ex-Motley Crue vocalist John Corabi for his first Dead Daisies album since 2018's "Burn It Down". The Dead Daisies spent the early part of 2024 in both Nashville and Muscle Shoals with producer Marti Frederiksen writing and recording songs for this, their 7th studio album.This album is in-your-face rock, packed with huge hooks, Doug Aldrich''s giant intense guitar riffs, and Corabi's distinctive vocals that will leave no audience in their seats when played live.
November 22 street date. "Nobody Loves You More" is Kim Deal's debut album, although it's technically not her first release under her own name - she self-released a 5-part, 10-song 7" vinyl series in 2013, and beyond that, she's earned her stripes as early as the late 80s with bands Pixies and The Breeders. "Nobody Loves You More" took shape in pieces, coming to light with a variety of collaborators, including Breeders past and present (Mando Lopez, Kelley Deal, Jim Macpherson, and Britt Walford), as well as new friends like Jack Lawrence (The Greenhornes) and Savages' Fay Milton and Ayse Hassan. Tracked over the last several years, the record's last recording was helmed by iconic engineer and Deal's close friend Steve Albini, tracking "A Good Time Pushed" with Jim and Kelley in November 2022. Sonically versatile and propulsively infectious, the resulting record is a celebration of Deal's unmatched artistry, nodding not only to her career highlights with celebrated bands across the alternative landscape, but also to her immovable cultural weight.
November 22 street date. "Nobody Loves You More" is Kim Deal's debut album, although it's technically not her first release under her own name - she self-released a 5-part, 10-song 7" vinyl series in 2013, and beyond that, she's earned her stripes as early as the late 80s with bands Pixies and The Breeders. "Nobody Loves You More" took shape in pieces, coming to light with a variety of collaborators, including Breeders past and present (Mando Lopez, Kelley Deal, Jim Macpherson, and Britt Walford), as well as new friends like Jack Lawrence (The Greenhornes) and Savages' Fay Milton and Ayse Hassan. Tracked over the last several years, the record's last recording was helmed by iconic engineer and Deal's close friend Steve Albini, tracking "A Good Time Pushed" with Jim and Kelley in November 2022. Sonically versatile and propulsively infectious, the resulting record is a celebration of Deal's unmatched artistry, nodding not only to her career highlights with celebrated bands across the alternative landscape, but also to her immovable cultural weight.
November 22 street date. "Nobody Loves You More" is Kim Deal's debut album, although it's technically not her first release under her own name - she self-released a 5-part, 10-song 7" vinyl series in 2013, and beyond that, she's earned her stripes as early as the late 80s with bands Pixies and The Breeders. "Nobody Loves You More" took shape in pieces, coming to light with a variety of collaborators, including Breeders past and present (Mando Lopez, Kelley Deal, Jim Macpherson, and Britt Walford), as well as new friends like Jack Lawrence (The Greenhornes) and Savages' Fay Milton and Ayse Hassan. Tracked over the last several years, the record's last recording was helmed by iconic engineer and Deal's close friend Steve Albini, tracking "A Good Time Pushed" with Jim and Kelley in November 2022. Sonically versatile and propulsively infectious, the resulting record is a celebration of Deal's unmatched artistry, nodding not only to her career highlights with celebrated bands across the alternative landscape, but also to her immovable cultural weight.
May 17 street date. Southern Death Cult formed in 1981, releasing their sole, self-titled album posthumously in 1983. That same year, Death Cult formed, with Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy joining forces for the first time, releasing two 12-inches which were subsequently combined and released as a CD in 2008. Now, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of The Cult, the duo have compiled tracks from the Death Cult era for a special release, "Paradise Now". Death Cult is a vital transmission from the generation of Shamanic post-punk gothic futurists. In late 2023, Astbury and Duffy reformed the project for a series of live performances including a sole U.S. date at The Ace Hotel in Los Angeles, and a limited run of U.K. shows. Death Cult became The Cult in 1984, releasing "Dreamtime" that same year. The seminal post-punk band has gone on to sell more than four million albums, with numerous Canadian and U.S. gold and platinum certifications. Ian Astbury (vocals) and Billy Duffy (guitar) have released 11 studio albums over The Cult's 40-year career.
May 3 street date. After successful tours with Militarie Gun and Together Pangea and hometown support, Death Lens is poised to release their latest album, "Cold World". Death Lens relentlessly seeks a place in your consciousness, a persistent presence whispering in your ear. Concealing ferocity beneath a stylish veneer, their live shows unleash energy and chaos, leaving spectators disarmed and forever transformed. In recordings, Death Lens forges unyielding rock, blending West Coast surf punk with Britrock's tight, bouncy rhythms. Despite their deceptive chill and vibe-focused portrayal, live performances brim with hardcore intensity. Rooted in slick guitar sonics and sugary backing vocal harmonies, reminiscent of indie punk and shoegaze, Death Lens channels the energy of bands like Turnstile and Militarie Gun on stage, creating soundtracks for indelible memories of high-energy, sweat-soaked singalongs.
May 3 street date. After successful tours with Militarie Gun and Together Pangea and hometown support, Death Lens is poised to release their latest album, "Cold World". Death Lens relentlessly seeks a place in your consciousness, a persistent presence whispering in your ear. Concealing ferocity beneath a stylish veneer, their live shows unleash energy and chaos, leaving spectators disarmed and forever transformed. In recordings, Death Lens forges unyielding rock, blending West Coast surf punk with Britrock's tight, bouncy rhythms. Despite their deceptive chill and vibe-focused portrayal, live performances brim with hardcore intensity. Rooted in slick guitar sonics and sugary backing vocal harmonies, reminiscent of indie punk and shoegaze, Death Lens channels the energy of bands like Turnstile and Militarie Gun on stage, creating soundtracks for indelible memories of high-energy, sweat-soaked singalongs.
August 16 street date. Steve Marion, the critically acclaimed–and completely wordless–songwriter and guitarist known as Delicate Steve has unveiled a new album called Delicate Steve Sings. Is the album title a reference to the instantly recognizable “voice” of his guitar? Does he actually sing this time? Has he not been singing all along? That’s the crux of Sings—Marion is the rare guitarist where you can put on any of his records and know exactly who’s playing. In an indie rock landscape stuffed end-to-end with guitars and amplifiers, nobody else sounds like this. That unique voice has kept Steve busy in an unpredictable variety of settings. The sheer spread of his work outside his own records—collaborating with Miley Cyrus and Paul Simon, playing in Amen Dunes and The Black Keys, and being sampled by Kanye West—doesn’t mean Steve’s a chameleon. It means he’s singular. One night while on a trip to Greece, Marion looked out over the sea while listening to Willie Nelson’s pop standards record Stardust, a cosmic epiphany washing over him about what his next record could be. Delicate Steve Sings is a record centered on channeling iconic voices with his guitar. In doing so, Marion is casting himself in the role of iconic singers like Willie who make standards their own. In the process, he reveals just how singular (dare we say iconic) that voice is. The guitar sings these songs—smoothly, sweetly, boldly, and on its own terms.
September 13 street date. "Salad Days" is the follow-up to Mac DeMarco's lauded 2012 album "2", which saw the Edmonton local propelled into the limelight. Written and recorded around a relentless tour schedule, "Salad Days" gives the listener a very personal insight into what it's all about to be Mac amidst the craziness of a rising career in a very public format. In celebration of the 10 year anniversary of DeMarco's career-defining album, this limited edition 2xLP compiles both the original "Salad Days" and "Salad Days Demos" into a unique "Chamber Of Reflection" package complete with full colour poster, 12-page booklet with DeMarco's "Salad Days" tour dates, original rider, previously unpublished photos, and new liners written by Mac. "DeMarco channels Harry Nilsson, The Beach Boys, Steely Dan, and The Beatles, but the offbeat stoner vibes are all him" - Rolling Stone.
November 29 street date. Destroy Boys' catalogue vinyl is back in stock! 2024 has been a big year for the band with the release of their new album, "Funeral Soundtrack #4" (available on Hopeless Records) and Epitaph Records are harking back to these two seminal vinyl releases from the band's early days, just in time for Black Friday. "Make Room" (2018) will be available on black vinyl as well as a limited 500 unit pressing on coloured vinyl exclusive for indie retail. Destroy Boys formed in 2015, when founding members Violet Mayugba and Alexia Roditis were just 15 years old, and each release has marked a period of growth and change. "On the second record ("Make Room"), we went to college and were saying goodbye to our childhood", Mayugba explains. Now, at 24, Mayugba and Roditis are standing firmly on solid ground with more resolute and confident than ever in their place as musicians.
November 29 street date. Destroy Boys' catalogue vinyl is back in stock! 2024 has been a big year for the band with the release of their new album, "Funeral Soundtrack #4" (available on Hopeless Records) and Epitaph Records are harking back to these two seminal vinyl releases from the band's early days, just in time for Black Friday. "Make Room" (2018) will be available on black vinyl as well as a limited 500 unit pressing on coloured vinyl exclusive for indie retail. Destroy Boys formed in 2015, when founding members Violet Mayugba and Alexia Roditis were just 15 years old, and each release has marked a period of growth and change. "On the second record ("Make Room"), we went to college and were saying goodbye to our childhood", Mayugba explains. Now, at 24, Mayugba and Roditis are standing firmly on solid ground with more resolute and confident than ever in their place as musicians.
November 29 street date. Destroy Boys' catalogue vinyl is back in stock! 2024 has been a big year for the band with the release of their new album, "Funeral Soundtrack #4" (available on Hopeless Records) and Epitaph Records are harking back to these two seminal vinyl releases from the band's early days, just in time for Black Friday. "Sorry Mom" (2017) is on vinyl for the first time and will be available on black vinyl as well as a limited 500 unit pressing on coloured vinyl exclusive for indie retail. Destroy Boys formed in 2015, when founding members Violet Mayugba and Alexia Roditis were just 15 years old, and each release has marked a period of growth and change. "The first one ("Sorry, Mom") was our high school album", Mayugba explains. Now, at 24, Mayugba and Roditis are standing firmly on solid ground with more resolute and confident than ever in their place as musicians.
November 29 street date. Destroy Boys' catalogue vinyl is back in stock! 2024 has been a big year for the band with the release of their new album, "Funeral Soundtrack #4" (available on Hopeless Records) and Epitaph Records are harking back to these two seminal vinyl releases from the band's early days, just in time for Black Friday. "Sorry Mom" (2017) is on vinyl for the first time and will be available on black vinyl as well as a limited 500 unit pressing on coloured vinyl exclusive for indie retail. Destroy Boys formed in 2015, when founding members Violet Mayugba and Alexia Roditis were just 15 years old, and each release has marked a period of growth and change. "The first one ("Sorry, Mom") was our high school album", Mayugba explains. Now, at 24, Mayugba and Roditis are standing firmly on solid ground with more resolute and confident than ever in their place as musicians.
February 9 street date. Madi Diaz has been making records and writing songs professionally since the mid 2000s, but it wasn't until she released 2021's "History Of A Feeling" that she felt the glare of wider notoriety. It wasn't her debut album, but it certainly felt like it. She made her daytime and night time television debuts, embarked on her first solo tour since 2012, and supported Waxahatchee and Angel Olsen on tour, and also collaborated with them on record. Harry Styles handpicked Diaz to open for him in arenas and stadiums in North America, and was so taken by her captivating live show, he asked her to be a member of his touring band as well as continuing to open the show in various cities. After three months on the road touring internationally, Diaz is gearing up to release her new album, "Weird Faith", perched on the precipice of her moment. Featuring Kacey Musgraves and produced by Sam Cohen and Konrad Snyder, the album feels expansive and exploratory, showcasing her growth as a songwriter and speaking earnestly about the fears that come from falling in love again.
February 9 street date. Madi Diaz has been making records and writing songs professionally since the mid 2000s, but it wasn't until she released 2021's "History Of A Feeling" that she felt the glare of wider notoriety. It wasn't her debut album, but it certainly felt like it. She made her daytime and night time television debuts, embarked on her first solo tour since 2012, and supported Waxahatchee and Angel Olsen on tour, and also collaborated with them on record. Harry Styles handpicked Diaz to open for him in arenas and stadiums in North America, and was so taken by her captivating live show, he asked her to be a member of his touring band as well as continuing to open the show in various cities. After three months on the road touring internationally, Diaz is gearing up to release her new album, "Weird Faith", perched on the precipice of her moment. Featuring Kacey Musgraves and produced by Sam Cohen and Konrad Snyder, the album feels expansive and exploratory, showcasing her growth as a songwriter and speaking earnestly about the fears that come from falling in love again.
February 9 street date. Madi Diaz has been making records and writing songs professionally since the mid 2000s, but it wasn't until she released 2021's "History Of A Feeling" that she felt the glare of wider notoriety. It wasn't her debut album, but it certainly felt like it. She made her daytime and night time television debuts, embarked on her first solo tour since 2012, and supported Waxahatchee and Angel Olsen on tour, and also collaborated with them on record. Harry Styles handpicked Diaz to open for him in arenas and stadiums in North America, and was so taken by her captivating live show, he asked her to be a member of his touring band as well as continuing to open the show in various cities. After three months on the road touring internationally, Diaz is gearing up to release her new album, "Weird Faith", perched on the precipice of her moment. Featuring Kacey Musgraves and produced by Sam Cohen and Konrad Snyder, the album feels expansive and exploratory, showcasing her growth as a songwriter and speaking earnestly about the fears that come from falling in love again.
August 16 street date. When Dinosaur Jr. reunited, more than 20 years after their formation and legendary dissolution, the worry was that these guys were just flogging the back catalogue, taking the old show on the road as a marketing gimmick. But the 2007 release of "Beyond" gave a hearty Marshall-driven "F**K YOU!" answer to those inquiring ears. And then came "Farm", the 9th full-length record by the original line-up: J Mascis, Lou Barlow, and Murph. If "Beyond" was Dinosaur Jr.'s return to form, "Farm" was proof that Dinosaur Jr. could (and still do, to this day!) deliver timeless, exhilarating rock music. "Farm" encompasses Dinosaur Jr.'s signature palette: soaring and distorted guitar, unshakable hooks, honey-rich melodies. At times wholly 70s guitar-epic, at times perfect for sitting by a babbling brook with Joni and Neil, these songs get into your head and stay there, bouncing happily around. This expanded deluxe edition of "Farm" features four songs never pressed to vinyl and never given worldwide release: "Houses", "Whenever You're Ready" (The Zombies cover), "Creepies" (Instrumental), and "Show".
July 12 street date. The DIP is a Seattle-based rhythm and blues band that is known for its poignant songwriting, detailed arrangements, and vintage sound. Featuring a three-piece horn section, the group's music harkens back to earlier soul and funk influences while hinting at the jazz foundations that brought the band's members together. "Love Direction", the follow-up to 2022's "Sticking With It" (which landed at #1 on the Billboard Current R&B Albums Chart) is the band's fourth full-length studio album. Despite the title, this latest record isn't a collection of straightforward love songs, but an investigation into the different angles and challenges that relationships can bring.
July 12 street date. The DIP is a Seattle-based rhythm and blues band that is known for its poignant songwriting, detailed arrangements, and vintage sound. Featuring a three-piece horn section, the group's music harkens back to earlier soul and funk influences while hinting at the jazz foundations that brought the band's members together. "Love Direction", the follow-up to 2022's "Sticking With It" (which landed at #1 on the Billboard Current R&B Albums Chart) is the band's fourth full-length studio album. Despite the title, this latest record isn't a collection of straightforward love songs, but an investigation into the different angles and challenges that relationships can bring.
June 28 street date. Emerging once again from the unending waves crashing upon our fragile time-craft (adrift on the eternal ocean, and taking on water), Dirty Three are a) back, b) tangled in seaweed, rank with saltwater and possessed of three rather ominous thousand-mile stares (at least!), and c) not wasting another minute - as nothing is guaranteed. For their first album in over a decade, they flew in, got together, and started playing. Music's their language, their true love; they never stop listening to that. And like the label says, "Love Changes Everything". The Dirty Three - Warren Ellis, Mick Turner, and Jim White - formed in Melbourne in 1992, to play with guitar, drums and violin or viola, and within a couple years, they'd broken out - out of Australia, out of anything else they might have been inside of, to boot - and got worldwide. worldwide. Over the next ten years, they toured over and over the planet and cut seven albums out along the way. After this, their unique style of play was decoupled, more often than not, and pieced together in many other, fruitful collaborations with many other esteemed talents. Over the past 20 years, they've gotten together a few times, renewed the vow, revved the engines and played some shows, or made an album. Like now!
June 28 street date. Emerging once again from the unending waves crashing upon our fragile time-craft (adrift on the eternal ocean, and taking on water), Dirty Three are a) back, b) tangled in seaweed, rank with saltwater and possessed of three rather ominous thousand-mile stares (at least!), and c) not wasting another minute - as nothing is guaranteed. For their first album in over a decade, they flew in, got together, and started playing. Music's their language, their true love; they never stop listening to that. And like the label says, "Love Changes Everything". The Dirty Three - Warren Ellis, Mick Turner, and Jim White - formed in Melbourne in 1992, to play with guitar, drums and violin or viola, and within a couple years, they'd broken out - out of Australia, out of anything else they might have been inside of, to boot - and got worldwide. worldwide. Over the next ten years, they toured over and over the planet and cut seven albums out along the way. After this, their unique style of play was decoupled, more often than not, and pieced together in many other, fruitful collaborations with many other esteemed talents. Over the past 20 years, they've gotten together a few times, renewed the vow, revved the engines and played some shows, or made an album. Like now!
June 28 street date. Emerging once again from the unending waves crashing upon our fragile time-craft (adrift on the eternal ocean, and taking on water), Dirty Three are a) back, b) tangled in seaweed, rank with saltwater and possessed of three rather ominous thousand-mile stares (at least!), and c) not wasting another minute - as nothing is guaranteed. For their first album in over a decade, they flew in, got together, and started playing. Music's their language, their true love; they never stop listening to that. And like the label says, "Love Changes Everything". The Dirty Three - Warren Ellis, Mick Turner, and Jim White - formed in Melbourne in 1992, to play with guitar, drums and violin or viola, and within a couple years, they'd broken out - out of Australia, out of anything else they might have been inside of, to boot - and got worldwide. worldwide. Over the next ten years, they toured over and over the planet and cut seven albums out along the way. After this, their unique style of play was decoupled, more often than not, and pieced together in many other, fruitful collaborations with many other esteemed talents. Over the past 20 years, they've gotten together a few times, renewed the vow, revved the engines and played some shows, or made an album. Like now!
Please note new street date: April 19. As the first-ever album composed entirely of sampled material, "Endtroducing…" is a landmark in the history of electronic music. Its influence reverberates through the years, inspiring countless artists and solidifying DJ Shadow's place as a visionary in the realm of sample-based production. Each track tells a unique story, from the hypnotic groove of "Building Steam With a Grain of Salt" to the cinematic atmosphere of "Midnight in a Perfect World". Shadow's meticulous craftsmanship shines through, showcasing his unparalleled skill in constructing beats that resonate with both intensity and emotion. Mastered and cut at Abbey Road Studios.
July 19 street date. For more than two decades, Dr. Dog have maintained a shared devotion to the unruly alchemy of making music. When it came time to create their eleventh studio album, the Philadelphia-bred band adopted an entirely new way of working together, embracing a multilayered process designed to foster a deeper synergy among its five members. After beginning that journey with a close-knit session in the Pennsylvania woods, Dr. Dog steadily made their way toward the joyfully unfettered psych-rock of their new self-titled LP. Mixed by multi-Grammy-winner Matt Ross-Spang (Jason Isbell, Drive-By Truckers), "Dr. Dog" finds lead guitarist Scott McMicken taking the helm as producer for the first time in the history of the decidedly egalitarian band. True to the eclectic spirit that's always animated the band, the album's 11 tracks shift from soul to surf-rock to symphonic pop with an exuberance made all the more powerful by their revitalized creative energy. Their first full-length since 2018's "Critical Equation", "Dr. Dog" reveals a band - over twenty years into their storied career - growing together and evolving, fully committed to the singular work of dreaming up songs that brighten the mind and expand the soul.
July 19 street date. For more than two decades, Dr. Dog have maintained a shared devotion to the unruly alchemy of making music. When it came time to create their eleventh studio album, the Philadelphia-bred band adopted an entirely new way of working together, embracing a multilayered process designed to foster a deeper synergy among its five members. After beginning that journey with a close-knit session in the Pennsylvania woods, Dr. Dog steadily made their way toward the joyfully unfettered psych-rock of their new self-titled LP. Mixed by multi-Grammy-winner Matt Ross-Spang (Jason Isbell, Drive-By Truckers), "Dr. Dog" finds lead guitarist Scott McMicken taking the helm as producer for the first time in the history of the decidedly egalitarian band. True to the eclectic spirit that's always animated the band, the album's 11 tracks shift from soul to surf-rock to symphonic pop with an exuberance made all the more powerful by their revitalized creative energy. Their first full-length since 2018's "Critical Equation", "Dr. Dog" reveals a band - over twenty years into their storied career - growing together and evolving, fully committed to the singular work of dreaming up songs that brighten the mind and expand the soul.
March 8 street date. Following two critically acclaimed John Parish-produced studio albums - "New Long Leg" (2021) and "Stumpwork" (2022) - South London's Dry Cleaning take a moment to reflect on their journey and pay homage to their roots with the release of the band's first two EPs, "Boundary Road Snacks" and "Drinks"/"Sweet Princess", now remastered and reissued together in one package featuring the original artwork and lyric sheet. "Sweet Princess" was a thrilling debut, its dizzying and restless instrumentals with Florence Shaw's sardonic vocals delivering a satirical collage of witty observations and social commentary. A further six songs in the form of the "Boundary Road Snacks" and "Drinks" EP quickly followed two months after. With singles like 'Sit Down Meal' and 'Viking Hair', it's a powerful companion to their debut.
March 8 street date. Following two critically acclaimed John Parish-produced studio albums - "New Long Leg" (2021) and "Stumpwork" (2022) - South London's Dry Cleaning take a moment to reflect on their journey and pay homage to their roots with the release of the band's first two EPs, "Boundary Road Snacks" and "Drinks"/"Sweet Princess", now remastered and reissued together in one package featuring the original artwork and lyric sheet. "Sweet Princess" was a thrilling debut, its dizzying and restless instrumentals with Florence Shaw's sardonic vocals delivering a satirical collage of witty observations and social commentary. A further six songs in the form of the "Boundary Road Snacks" and "Drinks" EP quickly followed two months after. With singles like 'Sit Down Meal' and 'Viking Hair', it's a powerful companion to their debut.
March 8 street date. Following two critically acclaimed John Parish-produced studio albums - "New Long Leg" (2021) and "Stumpwork" (2022) - South London's Dry Cleaning take a moment to reflect on their journey and pay homage to their roots with the release of the band's first two EPs, "Boundary Road Snacks" and "Drinks"/"Sweet Princess", now remastered and reissued together in one package featuring the original artwork and lyric sheet. "Sweet Princess" was a thrilling debut, its dizzying and restless instrumentals with Florence Shaw's sardonic vocals delivering a satirical collage of witty observations and social commentary. A further six songs in the form of the "Boundary Road Snacks" and "Drinks" EP quickly followed two months after. With singles like 'Sit Down Meal' and 'Viking Hair', it's a powerful companion to their debut.
December 6 street date. It's the fifth Duster album, OK? San Jose slowcore/space rock outfit Duster returns with surprise album "In Dreams", continuing their of inclination of sonically capturing an open-ended question. These thirteen tracks hone in on their trademark dark, droning guitar tones, dialed back percussion, and alluring hard-panned vocals while expanding and exploring synth-heavy and drum machine avenues.
December 6 street date. It's the fifth Duster album, OK? San Jose slowcore/space rock outfit Duster returns with surprise album "In Dreams", continuing their of inclination of sonically capturing an open-ended question. These thirteen tracks hone in on their trademark dark, droning guitar tones, dialed back percussion, and alluring hard-panned vocals while expanding and exploring synth-heavy and drum machine avenues.
December 6 street date. It's the fifth Duster album, OK? San Jose slowcore/space rock outfit Duster returns with surprise album "In Dreams", continuing their of inclination of sonically capturing an open-ended question. These thirteen tracks hone in on their trademark dark, droning guitar tones, dialed back percussion, and alluring hard-panned vocals while expanding and exploring synth-heavy and drum machine avenues.
December 6 street date. It's the fifth Duster album, OK? San Jose slowcore/space rock outfit Duster returns with surprise album "In Dreams", continuing their of inclination of sonically capturing an open-ended question. These thirteen tracks hone in on their trademark dark, droning guitar tones, dialed back percussion, and alluring hard-panned vocals while expanding and exploring synth-heavy and drum machine avenues.
June 7 street date. Eels, the ever-changing critically acclaimed project of principal singer/songwriter E (Mark Oliver Everett), have released 14 studio albums since their 1996 debut, "Beautiful Freak". "Eels Time!" was recorded between Los Feliz, California and Dublin, Ireland. It consists of twelve brand new tracks with some of E's most introspective and personal material in recent years, and features collaborations with American musician and actor Tyson Ritter.
June 7 street date. Eels, the ever-changing critically acclaimed project of principal singer/songwriter E (Mark Oliver Everett), have released 14 studio albums since their 1996 debut, "Beautiful Freak". "Eels Time!" was recorded between Los Feliz, California and Dublin, Ireland. It consists of twelve brand new tracks with some of E's most introspective and personal material in recent years, and features collaborations with American musician and actor Tyson Ritter.
December 13 street date. Formed in 1993, Electric Wizard have recorded nine studio albums, of which "Come My Fanatics" (1997) and "Dopethrone" (2000) are considered genre landmarks. Electric Wizard's brand of doom metal incorporates stoner and sludge traits, with lyrics focusing on the occult, witchcraft, H.P. Lovecraft, horror films, and cannabis. This one-take dungeon session features some of their most classic moments, captured live, raw, and uncensored. This is a career-defining collection, and a must-have for followers of this iconic British metal band.
December 13 street date. Formed in 1993, Electric Wizard have recorded nine studio albums, of which "Come My Fanatics" (1997) and "Dopethrone" (2000) are considered genre landmarks. Electric Wizard's brand of doom metal incorporates stoner and sludge traits, with lyrics focusing on the occult, witchcraft, H.P. Lovecraft, horror films, and cannabis. This one-take dungeon session features some of their most classic moments, captured live, raw, and uncensored. This is a career-defining collection, and a must-have for followers of this iconic British metal band.
December 13 street date. Formed in 1993, Electric Wizard have recorded nine studio albums, of which "Come My Fanatics" (1997) and "Dopethrone" (2000) are considered genre landmarks. Electric Wizard's brand of doom metal incorporates stoner and sludge traits, with lyrics focusing on the occult, witchcraft, H.P. Lovecraft, horror films, and cannabis. This one-take dungeon session features some of their most classic moments, captured live, raw, and uncensored. This is a career-defining collection, and a must-have for followers of this iconic British metal band.
February 9 street date. Blues-rock guitar legend and tireless road warrior Tinsley Ellis swaps his blistering, full-band workouts for equally intense, soul-searching acoustic folk blues. Ellis has been performing solo acoustic shows almost exclusively for over a year now. All of Tinsley's famed guitar chops and gruff, passionate vocals are on full display across the album's 12 tracks. Nine newly written originals sit alongside reverent, yet spirited, versions of songs by Son House, Willie Dixon, and Leo Kottke. Whether showcasing intricate fingerpicking or letting loose with fiery slide runs, Tinsley delivers each song with the unvarnished intimacy of the best acoustic blues.
February 9 street date. Blues-rock guitar legend and tireless road warrior Tinsley Ellis swaps his blistering, full-band workouts for equally intense, soul-searching acoustic folk blues. Ellis has been performing solo acoustic shows almost exclusively for over a year now. All of Tinsley's famed guitar chops and gruff, passionate vocals are on full display across the album's 12 tracks. Nine newly written originals sit alongside reverent, yet spirited, versions of songs by Son House, Willie Dixon, and Leo Kottke. Whether showcasing intricate fingerpicking or letting loose with fiery slide runs, Tinsley delivers each song with the unvarnished intimacy of the best acoustic blues.
July 26 street date. Falling In Reverse makes anthems that provoke and inspire. Unnervingly ahead of the pack and yet always decisively right on time, their mix of bombastic declarations and intimate confessions connect with diverse crowds worldwide. "Popular Monster" is their first full-length album in over seven years; an eleven song masterpiece, featuring five tracks that are bonafide smash hits, (three certified gold and one certified 2x platinum). Not ones to rest on their laurels, the six new tracks are incredible, and feature unexpected collaborations with some of the music industry hottest hitters. With hit songs like "Popular Monster" topping the rock radio charts and earning them their first 2x platinum single, the band's momentum only grows stronger, and their live performances are a big reason why. The package includes a 24-page, 4 colour booklet with lyrics and imagery from their YouTube Trending music videos, sized for both CD and LP formats.
July 26 street date. Falling In Reverse makes anthems that provoke and inspire. Unnervingly ahead of the pack and yet always decisively right on time, their mix of bombastic declarations and intimate confessions connect with diverse crowds worldwide. "Popular Monster" is their first full-length album in over seven years; an eleven song masterpiece, featuring five tracks that are bonafide smash hits, (three certified gold and one certified 2x platinum). Not ones to rest on their laurels, the six new tracks are incredible, and feature unexpected collaborations with some of the music industry hottest hitters. With hit songs like "Popular Monster" topping the rock radio charts and earning them their first 2x platinum single, the band's momentum only grows stronger, and their live performances are a big reason why. The package includes a 24-page, 4 colour booklet with lyrics and imagery from their YouTube Trending music videos, sized for both CD and LP formats.
July 26 street date. Falling In Reverse makes anthems that provoke and inspire. Unnervingly ahead of the pack and yet always decisively right on time, their mix of bombastic declarations and intimate confessions connect with diverse crowds worldwide. "Popular Monster" is their first full-length album in over seven years; an eleven song masterpiece, featuring five tracks that are bonafide smash hits, (three certified gold and one certified 2x platinum). Not ones to rest on their laurels, the six new tracks are incredible, and feature unexpected collaborations with some of the music industry hottest hitters. With hit songs like "Popular Monster" topping the rock radio charts and earning them their first 2x platinum single, the band's momentum only grows stronger, and their live performances are a big reason why. The package includes a 24-page, 4 colour booklet with lyrics and imagery from their YouTube Trending music videos, sized for both CD and LP formats.
November 22 street date. After a decade being born, Josh Tillman is finally busy dying. "Mahashmashana" is the sixth album by Father John Misty. It was produced by Tillman and Drew Erickson and comes on the heels of this year's "Greatish Hits" collection and the online explosion of his recently gold-certified hit single "Real Love Baby", both of which earned Father John Misty droves of new fans in 2023 and 2024. Father John Misty has earned praise from Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, and more, and has performed on Saturday Night Live, Austin City Limits, the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Tonight Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, and Late Night with Seth Meyers. Along with his feature with Lana Del Rey on "Let The Light In", Tillman has also contributed to songs from Beyonce, Post Malone, Lady Gaga, and Khalid.
November 22 street date. After a decade being born, Josh Tillman is finally busy dying. "Mahashmashana" is the sixth album by Father John Misty. It was produced by Tillman and Drew Erickson and comes on the heels of this year's "Greatish Hits" collection and the online explosion of his recently gold-certified hit single "Real Love Baby", both of which earned Father John Misty droves of new fans in 2023 and 2024. Father John Misty has earned praise from Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, and more, and has performed on Saturday Night Live, Austin City Limits, the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Tonight Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, and Late Night with Seth Meyers. Along with his feature with Lana Del Rey on "Let The Light In", Tillman has also contributed to songs from Beyonce, Post Malone, Lady Gaga, and Khalid.
August 16 street date. "Greatish Hits: I Followed My Dreams And My Dreams Said To Crawl" is a career-spanning collection of highlights from indie icon Father John Misty's five albums, plus the hit single "Real Love Baby" (on CD and LP for the first time!), and the brand new, previously unreleased song "I Guess Time Just Makes Fools of Us All". Father John Misty - aka Josh Tillman - has captured the hearts and minds of music fans worldwide since his 2012 debut, "Fear Fun". Father John Misty has earned accolades from the likes of The Guardian, The Sunday Times, and Rolling Stone, and has performed on Saturday Night Live, Austin City Limits, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and The Tonight Show.
August 16 street date. "Greatish Hits: I Followed My Dreams And My Dreams Said To Crawl" is a career-spanning collection of highlights from indie icon Father John Misty's five albums, plus the hit single "Real Love Baby" (on CD and LP for the first time!), and the brand new, previously unreleased song "I Guess Time Just Makes Fools of Us All". Father John Misty - aka Josh Tillman - has captured the hearts and minds of music fans worldwide since his 2012 debut, "Fear Fun". Father John Misty has earned accolades from the likes of The Guardian, The Sunday Times, and Rolling Stone, and has performed on Saturday Night Live, Austin City Limits, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and The Tonight Show.
August 16 street date. "Greatish Hits: I Followed My Dreams And My Dreams Said To Crawl" is a career-spanning collection of highlights from indie icon Father John Misty's five albums, plus the hit single "Real Love Baby" (on CD and LP for the first time!), and the brand new, previously unreleased song "I Guess Time Just Makes Fools of Us All". Father John Misty - aka Josh Tillman - has captured the hearts and minds of music fans worldwide since his 2012 debut, "Fear Fun". Father John Misty has earned accolades from the likes of The Guardian, The Sunday Times, and Rolling Stone, and has performed on Saturday Night Live, Austin City Limits, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and The Tonight Show.
February 23 street date. The temptation to mythologize Bill Fay can be overwhelming; Fay was, for decades, as prolific as he was under-appreciated. Fay's unsung-hero status has changed slowly, steadily, on the order of almost twenty-five years. With each new album comes new hosannas and evangelizers - Jeff Tweedy, Kevin Morby, Adam Granduciel and Julia Jacklin, to name just a few. The Bill Fay Group, in particular, is Fay's most significant collaborative work; he records as a member of a larger group here, and the result summons a grander sonic scale, an elegant counterweight to Fay's instincts for the understated. "Tomorrow Tomorrow And Tomorrow" brings to bear the galactic qualities of early rock, the intricacy of jazz improv, and Fay's earthy folk magic. It has a patchy release history: recorded between 1978 and 1981, it was not released until 2005, when it appeared on CD with limited streaming and no vinyl companion. A 2006 reissue brought the album onto vinyl but with a truncated sequence and nine songs missing. Now, finally, "Tomorrow Tomorrow And Tomorrow" arrives in full worldwide. It features the album's original 22 songs and includes rare and previously unseen photographs from the album's original recording session.
February 23 street date. The temptation to mythologize Bill Fay can be overwhelming; Fay was, for decades, as prolific as he was under-appreciated. Fay's unsung-hero status has changed slowly, steadily, on the order of almost twenty-five years. With each new album comes new hosannas and evangelizers - Jeff Tweedy, Kevin Morby, Adam Granduciel and Julia Jacklin, to name just a few. The Bill Fay Group, in particular, is Fay's most significant collaborative work; he records as a member of a larger group here, and the result summons a grander sonic scale, an elegant counterweight to Fay's instincts for the understated. "Tomorrow Tomorrow And Tomorrow" brings to bear the galactic qualities of early rock, the intricacy of jazz improv, and Fay's earthy folk magic. It has a patchy release history: recorded between 1978 and 1981, it was not released until 2005, when it appeared on CD with limited streaming and no vinyl companion. A 2006 reissue brought the album onto vinyl but with a truncated sequence and nine songs missing. Now, finally, "Tomorrow Tomorrow And Tomorrow" arrives in full worldwide. It features the album's original 22 songs and includes rare and previously unseen photographs from the album's original recording session.
April 5 street date. Beggars Arkive presents the limited expanded deluxe reissue of Fields Of The Nephilim's third, highly acclaimed album, "Elizium". Originally released in 1990 by Beggars Banquet, this package contains the original album, along with 4 bonus tracks, that have been expanded onto a limited edition brick-red double LP. Recorded and produced by Pink Floyd engineer Andy Jackson, the audio is via analogue transfer to 96khz/24 bit by John Dent at Loud, with vinyl mastering by Geoff Pesche at Abbey Road. Formed in 1984, Fields Of The Nephilim is the creation of vocalist and front man Carl McCoy. Highly influential, especially in the world of goth, but also within the metal and electronic genres, their legacy endures to this day. "Elizium" is one of the band's most beautiful albums and considered by many to be their best.
October 18 street date. Distance as a measure of time and place informs Kelly Finnigan's "A Lover Was Born" with a grit and grace that turns passion into virtue. The latest solo release from The Monophonics frontman roots itself in the best traditions of midwest soul labels like King, Curtom, Dakar, and the Bodie Recording Company. "A Lover Was Born" is a testimony that these deep cut grooves are not resigned to nostalgia; instead, they are at the burning heart of longing and hope. The journey Finnigan takes listeners on over the album's eleven tracks echo the state of motion and growth since his solo debut, "The Tales People Tell" (2019). These two records bookend a prolific period of output, including a pair of Monophonics albums, a Christmas album, a mixtape, and a full slate of producing other artists. Throughout "A Lover Was Born", Finnigan's voice is raw and earthy - in the best tradition of R&B shouters like Otis Redding, Lee Moses, and David Ruffin. The songs on "A Lover Was Born" reconfigure the spliced and sampled DNA of hip hop (extracted by crate diggers like Dilla and RZA) to create something new, underscoring both the spectrum and depth of soul while making a case to the timelessness of Finnigan's sound.
October 18 street date. Distance as a measure of time and place informs Kelly Finnigan's "A Lover Was Born" with a grit and grace that turns passion into virtue. The latest solo release from The Monophonics frontman roots itself in the best traditions of midwest soul labels like King, Curtom, Dakar, and the Bodie Recording Company. "A Lover Was Born" is a testimony that these deep cut grooves are not resigned to nostalgia; instead, they are at the burning heart of longing and hope. The journey Finnigan takes listeners on over the album's eleven tracks echo the state of motion and growth since his solo debut, "The Tales People Tell" (2019). These two records bookend a prolific period of output, including a pair of Monophonics albums, a Christmas album, a mixtape, and a full slate of producing other artists. Throughout "A Lover Was Born", Finnigan's voice is raw and earthy - in the best tradition of R&B shouters like Otis Redding, Lee Moses, and David Ruffin. The songs on "A Lover Was Born" reconfigure the spliced and sampled DNA of hip hop (extracted by crate diggers like Dilla and RZA) to create something new, underscoring both the spectrum and depth of soul while making a case to the timelessness of Finnigan's sound.
October 18 street date. Distance as a measure of time and place informs Kelly Finnigan's "A Lover Was Born" with a grit and grace that turns passion into virtue. The latest solo release from The Monophonics frontman roots itself in the best traditions of midwest soul labels like King, Curtom, Dakar, and the Bodie Recording Company. "A Lover Was Born" is a testimony that these deep cut grooves are not resigned to nostalgia; instead, they are at the burning heart of longing and hope. The journey Finnigan takes listeners on over the album's eleven tracks echo the state of motion and growth since his solo debut, "The Tales People Tell" (2019). These two records bookend a prolific period of output, including a pair of Monophonics albums, a Christmas album, a mixtape, and a full slate of producing other artists. Throughout "A Lover Was Born", Finnigan's voice is raw and earthy - in the best tradition of R&B shouters like Otis Redding, Lee Moses, and David Ruffin. The songs on "A Lover Was Born" reconfigure the spliced and sampled DNA of hip hop (extracted by crate diggers like Dilla and RZA) to create something new, underscoring both the spectrum and depth of soul while making a case to the timelessness of Finnigan's sound.
October 18 street date. Distance as a measure of time and place informs Kelly Finnigan's "A Lover Was Born" with a grit and grace that turns passion into virtue. The latest solo release from The Monophonics frontman roots itself in the best traditions of midwest soul labels like King, Curtom, Dakar, and the Bodie Recording Company. "A Lover Was Born" is a testimony that these deep cut grooves are not resigned to nostalgia; instead, they are at the burning heart of longing and hope. The journey Finnigan takes listeners on over the album's eleven tracks echo the state of motion and growth since his solo debut, "The Tales People Tell" (2019). These two records bookend a prolific period of output, including a pair of Monophonics albums, a Christmas album, a mixtape, and a full slate of producing other artists. Throughout "A Lover Was Born", Finnigan's voice is raw and earthy - in the best tradition of R&B shouters like Otis Redding, Lee Moses, and David Ruffin. The songs on "A Lover Was Born" reconfigure the spliced and sampled DNA of hip hop (extracted by crate diggers like Dilla and RZA) to create something new, underscoring both the spectrum and depth of soul while making a case to the timelessness of Finnigan's sound.
October 25 street date. "The Nothing That Is:, Fit For An Autopsy's seventh and latest album (and third for Nuclear Blast), bears no sign whatsoever of commercial concession or rehashed past glories. Instead, the ten-song album finds the band exploring moodier textures and deeper emotions that add new power and dynamics to their already brutal and complex music, while also completely tuning out the ambient noise of passing musical trends and the expectations of the outside world.
October 25 street date. "The Nothing That Is:, Fit For An Autopsy's seventh and latest album (and third for Nuclear Blast), bears no sign whatsoever of commercial concession or rehashed past glories. Instead, the ten-song album finds the band exploring moodier textures and deeper emotions that add new power and dynamics to their already brutal and complex music, while also completely tuning out the ambient noise of passing musical trends and the expectations of the outside world.
October 25 street date. "The Nothing That Is:, Fit For An Autopsy's seventh and latest album (and third for Nuclear Blast), bears no sign whatsoever of commercial concession or rehashed past glories. Instead, the ten-song album finds the band exploring moodier textures and deeper emotions that add new power and dynamics to their already brutal and complex music, while also completely tuning out the ambient noise of passing musical trends and the expectations of the outside world.
December 1 street date. Limited edition box set commemorating the 15th anniversary of "The Wrong Side of Heaven", volumes 1 and 2. The deluxe box set contains 6 LPs housed in double gatefold jackets. Vol. 1 is pressed on silver metallic vinyl and vol. 2 is pressed on gold metallic vinyl. Also included is the "'Purgatory: Tales From The Pit" live album, previously available in limited release. The package also contains 6 bonus tracks, a decal sheet, and album art unique to this package. Limited to 6000 copies.
December 13 street date. Fleet Foxes' "Live On Boston Harbor" serves as the live album companion to the band's concert broadcast in 2022, marking the autumnal equinox and coinciding with the second anniversary of the GRAMMY-nominated studio album "Shore". Recorded at Leader Bank Pavilion in Boston, "Live On Boston Harbor" documents the "Shore" world tour with a two-hour career-spanning set across 3 LPs. It offers a mesmerizing experience for Fleet Foxes enthusiasts that showcases the band's musical journey. Robin Pecknold is joined by Skyler Skjelset, Casey Wescott, Christian Wargo, Morgan Henderson, and Christopher Icasiano. Fleet Foxes' fourth studio album, "Shore", was praised as one of the top albums of 2020 by Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, NPR, The New Yorker, Mojo, Uncut, and more. With over 250 million global streams to-date, "Shore" also found strong support at radio, holding #1 on JBE non-comm chart for 14 weeks in a row and reaching Top 5 BDS Monitored and Top 10 Mediabase at the AAA format with the single "Can I Believe You".
August 23 street date. Italy's Fleshgod Apocalypse returns with new music for the first time since 2019. After numerous setbacks, including a life-threatening rock-climbing incident and a global pandemic, the band is finally back and hungrier than ever. Known for their unique blend of technical death metal with symphonic elements, "Opera" delivers the goods in droves. The complex compositions, intense guitar work, and powerful orchestration are only complimented by their theatrical stage presence.
March 1 street date. "With "8 tableaux", I tried to give musical form to a painting. Music is an art that takes place over time. Painting is a freeze-frame at a precise moment in the painter's creative flow. So how do you combine these two art forms? Do you have to stop time? How do you stop time in music? By basing the structure of the pieces on cycles that recur again and again, we can make the listener believe that the music was there before, and that it will also be there afterwards. With no beginning and no end, all that's left is this musical freeze-frame. In taking this approach, it became clear to me that music and painting both appeal to contemplation. Another concept I worked on for this record is the notion of randomness in music. Riopelle is often associated with the Automatist movement. For me, his major works from the 50s are more reminiscent of romantic abstraction or even a great organic and organized chaos (a link to be made with nature here). It was on the basis of this reflection that I tried to integrate the notion of controlled chance or, rather, of chaos filtered through emotion".
March 1 street date. "With "8 tableaux", I tried to give musical form to a painting. Music is an art that takes place over time. Painting is a freeze-frame at a precise moment in the painter's creative flow. So how do you combine these two art forms? Do you have to stop time? How do you stop time in music? By basing the structure of the pieces on cycles that recur again and again, we can make the listener believe that the music was there before, and that it will also be there afterwards. With no beginning and no end, all that's left is this musical freeze-frame. In taking this approach, it became clear to me that music and painting both appeal to contemplation. Another concept I worked on for this record is the notion of randomness in music. Riopelle is often associated with the Automatist movement. For me, his major works from the 50s are more reminiscent of romantic abstraction or even a great organic and organized chaos (a link to be made with nature here). It was on the basis of this reflection that I tried to integrate the notion of controlled chance or, rather, of chaos filtered through emotion".
September 13 street date. Prepare for the newest offering by American thrash legends Flotsam And Jetsam. "I Am The Weapon" not only takes up seamlessly where its two outstanding predecessors left off, but also goes one step further in terms of musical skill and composition. While they fully live out their core competencies such as their aggressive style with fast tempos, "I Am the Weapon" features more surprising moments than ever before. From brutal high-octane tracks like "I Am The Weapon" to the atmospheric but not superfast "Burned My Bridges", each track on the album is convincing in its own way.
September 13 street date. Prepare for the newest offering by American thrash legends Flotsam And Jetsam. "I Am The Weapon" not only takes up seamlessly where its two outstanding predecessors left off, but also goes one step further in terms of musical skill and composition. While they fully live out their core competencies such as their aggressive style with fast tempos, "I Am the Weapon" features more surprising moments than ever before. From brutal high-octane tracks like "I Am The Weapon" to the atmospheric but not superfast "Burned My Bridges", each track on the album is convincing in its own way.
September 13 street date. Prepare for the newest offering by American thrash legends Flotsam And Jetsam. "I Am The Weapon" not only takes up seamlessly where its two outstanding predecessors left off, but also goes one step further in terms of musical skill and composition. While they fully live out their core competencies such as their aggressive style with fast tempos, "I Am the Weapon" features more surprising moments than ever before. From brutal high-octane tracks like "I Am The Weapon" to the atmospheric but not superfast "Burned My Bridges", each track on the album is convincing in its own way.
December 6 street date. The Fluid are arguably the great unsung band from the fertile underground rock scene of the late 1980s and early 90s. The Denver five-piece fused the fire of 80s hardcore with crunching Detroit protopunk, 60s garage rock, and 70s rock swagger. Think MC5, Faces, 70s Stones, all cranked up and really high on Sex Pistols and Black Flag singles. From 1986 to 1993, The Fluid put out four albums and a number of EPs and singles, including a split 7" with Nirvana in 1991, before doing one album for a major label and promptly disbanding. The Fluid were the first non-Seattle band to sign to Sub Pop, and their second album, 1988's "Clear Black Paper" was the second full-length album the label ever released. The band fit right in on Sub Pop's nascent roster of acts who, wherever they stood on the spectrum of punk/rock/metal, shared a commitment to thunderous riffs and explosive live shows.
December 6 street date. The Fluid are arguably the great unsung band from the fertile underground rock scene of the late 1980s and early 90s. The Denver five-piece fused the fire of 80s hardcore with crunching Detroit protopunk, 60s garage rock, and 70s rock swagger. Think MC5, Faces, 70s Stones, all cranked up and really high on Sex Pistols and Black Flag singles. From 1986 to 1993, The Fluid put out four albums and a number of EPs and singles, including a split 7" with Nirvana in 1991, before doing one album for a major label and promptly disbanding. The Fluid were the first non-Seattle band to sign to Sub Pop, and the band fit right in on their nascent roster of acts who, wherever they stood on the spectrum of punk/rock/metal, shared a commitment to thunderous riffs and explosive live shows. "Roadmouth" is The Fluid's third album, originally released in 1989 and now back on vinyl.
December 6 street date. The Fluid are arguably the great unsung band from the fertile underground rock scene of the late 1980s and early 90s. The Denver five-piece fused the fire of 80s hardcore with crunching Detroit protopunk, 60s garage rock, and 70s rock swagger. Think MC5, Faces, 70s Stones, all cranked up and really high on Sex Pistols and Black Flag singles. From 1986 to 1993, The Fluid put out four albums and a number of EPs and singles, including a split 7" with Nirvana in 1991, before doing one album for a major label and promptly disbanding. The Fluid were the first non-Seattle band to sign to Sub Pop, and the band fit right in on their nascent roster of acts who, wherever they stood on the spectrum of punk/rock/metal, shared a commitment to thunderous riffs and explosive live shows. The six-track "Glue" EP riginally came out in 1990, and is now back on vinyl for the first time since then, with two bonus tracks.
December 6 street date. The Fluid are arguably the great unsung band from the fertile underground rock scene of the late 1980s and early 90s. The Denver five-piece fused the fire of 80s hardcore with crunching Detroit protopunk, 60s garage rock, and 70s rock swagger. Think MC5, Faces, 70s Stones, all cranked up and really high on Sex Pistols and Black Flag singles. From 1986 to 1993, The Fluid put out four albums and a number of EPs and singles, including a split 7" with Nirvana in 1991, before doing one album for a major label and promptly disbanding. The Fluid were the first non-Seattle band to sign to Sub Pop, and the band fit right in on their nascent roster of acts who, wherever they stood on the spectrum of punk/rock/metal, shared a commitment to thunderous riffs and explosive live shows. "Overflow" is packed with killer outtakes and rarities from two late-80s studio sessions by The Fluid.
December 6 street date. The Fluid are arguably the great unsung band from the fertile underground rock scene of the late 1980s and early 90s. The Denver five-piece fused the fire of 80s hardcore with crunching Detroit protopunk, 60s garage rock, and 70s rock swagger. Think MC5, Faces, 70s Stones, all cranked up and really high on Sex Pistols and Black Flag singles. From 1986 to 1993, The Fluid put out four albums and a number of EPs and singles, including a split 7" with Nirvana in 1991, before doing one album for a major label and promptly disbanding. The Fluid were the first non-Seattle band to sign to Sub Pop, and the band fit right in on their nascent roster of acts who, wherever they stood on the spectrum of punk/rock/metal, shared a commitment to thunderous riffs and explosive live shows. The six-track "Glue" EP riginally came out in 1990, and is now back on vinyl for the first time since then, with two bonus tracks.
June 28 street date. "How the fuck are we going to turn this into a song?". That's the question Lou Barlow and John Davis have asked themselves since co-founding The Folk Implosion in the early 1990s. Beginning with improvised jams featuring Barlow on bass and Davis on drums, the duo develop their beat-driven pop collages from the ground up. It's the process they used on their debut cassette, "Walk Through This World With The Folk Implosion", and one they’ve returned to 30 years later on their spellbinding, self-referencing reunion, "Walk Thru Me". Contrasts and comparisons are the keys to unlocking "Walk Thru Me", and The Folk Implosion as a whole. Beyond the audible differences between Barlow's soft voice and Davis's urgent, reedy proclamations, their approaches to songwriting are strikingly distinct. Finally, Davis's Persian music studies in weekly Zoom lessons inspired him to integrate traditional Middle Eastern instruments such as the setar, oud, saz, and tombak.
August 23 street date. Fontaines D.C. present their highly-anticipated fourth album (and XL Recordings debut), "Romance". It's the Dublin-made, London-based band's first offering with producer James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Florence And The Machine) and is without doubt their most assured, inventive, and sonically adventurous record yet. "Romance" sees an ascent into grungier breaks, dystopian electronica, hip-hop percussion, and dreamy Slowdive-esque textures that may surprise fans. The shoegaze touchpoints first pressed on "Skinty Fia" (#1 in the UK & Ireland) unfold here like a purpling bruise, though any "retro aesthetic", as Grian Chatten (vocals) describes it, is left behind. "We say things on this record we've wanted to say for a long time. I never feel like it's over, but it's nice to feel lighter".
August 23 street date. Fontaines D.C. present their highly-anticipated fourth album (and XL Recordings debut), "Romance". It's the Dublin-made, London-based band's first offering with producer James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Florence And The Machine) and is without doubt their most assured, inventive, and sonically adventurous record yet. "Romance" sees an ascent into grungier breaks, dystopian electronica, hip-hop percussion, and dreamy Slowdive-esque textures that may surprise fans. The shoegaze touchpoints first pressed on "Skinty Fia" (#1 in the UK & Ireland) unfold here like a purpling bruise, though any "retro aesthetic", as Grian Chatten (vocals) describes it, is left behind. "We say things on this record we've wanted to say for a long time. I never feel like it's over, but it's nice to feel lighter".
Please note new street date: June 14 (CD). Four Tet has announced a new album, "Three". Spanning eight tracks, it marks the UK producer's first full-length release since 2020's "Parallel". Recent singles "Loved" and "Three Drums" appear on the new record, in addition to the newly unveiled cut "Daydream Repeat".
Please note new street date: April 26. Four Tet has announced a new album, "Three". Spanning eight tracks, it marks the UK producer's first full-length release since 2020's "Parallel". Recent singles "Loved" and "Three Drums" appear on the new record, in addition to the newly unveiled cut "Daydream Repeat".
March 29 street date. Two years after his #1 classical crossover hit "Piano Piano", co-founder of The Lumineers and multi-instrumentalist Jeremiah Fraites is back with his breathtaking follow up record "Piano Piano 2". With arguably bolder and more genre-bending instrumentation, "Piano Piano 2" features a stunning vocal performance by Grammy-nominated folk artist Gregory Alan Isakov on a reimagined orchestral cover of the Radiohead classic "No Surprises".
June 28 street date. "Into The Blue" is the second solo album from Aaron Frazer (of Durand Jones & The Indications). A daring blend of soul, psychedelia, spaghetti western, disco, gospel, and hip-hop, "Into The Blue" represents the impressive range of Frazer's sonic talents. Frazer maintains the unmistakable falsetto and classic songwriting he's known for, but plants the album firmly in the now with a hip-hop mentality at its core, weaving together genres and production techniques to form something new. "Into The Blue" was conceived, like so many classic records, out of actual heartbreak. Frazer moved cross-country from Brooklyn to Los Angeles and embarked on a journey that's reflected in the album's themes of grief, loneliness, and searching for healing. For "Into The Blue", Frazer enlisted Grammy-winner Alex Goose as co-producer, known for his crate-digging samples and collaborations with hip-hop artists like Freddie Gibbs, Madlib, and Brockhampton. Frazer also experimented with samples for the first time on a record, drawing from unexpected sources like 90s R&B group Hi-Five.
June 28 street date. "Into The Blue" is the second solo album from Aaron Frazer (of Durand Jones & The Indications). A daring blend of soul, psychedelia, spaghetti western, disco, gospel, and hip-hop, "Into The Blue" represents the impressive range of Frazer's sonic talents. Frazer maintains the unmistakable falsetto and classic songwriting he's known for, but plants the album firmly in the now with a hip-hop mentality at its core, weaving together genres and production techniques to form something new. "Into The Blue" was conceived, like so many classic records, out of actual heartbreak. Frazer moved cross-country from Brooklyn to Los Angeles and embarked on a journey that's reflected in the album's themes of grief, loneliness, and searching for healing. For "Into The Blue", Frazer enlisted Grammy-winner Alex Goose as co-producer, known for his crate-digging samples and collaborations with hip-hop artists like Freddie Gibbs, Madlib, and Brockhampton. Frazer also experimented with samples for the first time on a record, drawing from unexpected sources like 90s R&B group Hi-Five.
February 23 street date. Guitar legend Ace Frehley announces the release of his new studio album, "10,000 Volts". Produced by Ace and Steve Brown (Trixter), the 11 track album sees Ace perfrom electrifying, hard-hitting, riff-heavy rock 'n' roll. Rock 'n' roll and heavy metal simply wouldn't look, sound, or feel the same without Ace Frehley. Among hundreds of accolades, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame® inducted him in 2014 as a co-founder and the original lead guitarist of Kiss. Guitar World named him in the Top 15 of its "100 Greatest Heavy Metal Guitarists of All Time" and plugged the lead from "Shock Me" on the "50 Greatest Guitar Solos of All Time".
June 21 street date. "The Return Of Tomorrow" is Fu Manchu's first new album in 6 years, and they made sure that it was worth the wait. Their 14th album is their first double LP of new material and it was conceived of as a vinyl listening experience. The first LP features 7 songs in their iconic heavy fuzz sound while the second LP sees the band mellowing out with 6 slower tempo jams. Both LPs are 45RPM for the thickest possible sound. CD listeners need not worry, as this version of the album was mastered specifically for the format. Like the band's most recent album, "Clone Of The Universe" and their 3 part "Fu30" EP series, "The Return Of Tomorrow" was recorded at The Racket Room in Santa Ana, California by Jim Monroe (Adolescents, Ignite) and co-produced with Fu Manchu.
June 21 street date. "The Return Of Tomorrow" is Fu Manchu's first new album in 6 years, and they made sure that it was worth the wait. Their 14th album is their first double LP of new material and it was conceived of as a vinyl listening experience. The first LP features 7 songs in their iconic heavy fuzz sound while the second LP sees the band mellowing out with 6 slower tempo jams. Both LPs are 45RPM for the thickest possible sound. CD listeners need not worry, as this version of the album was mastered specifically for the format. Like the band's most recent album, "Clone Of The Universe" and their 3 part "Fu30" EP series, "The Return Of Tomorrow" was recorded at The Racket Room in Santa Ana, California by Jim Monroe (Adolescents, Ignite) and co-produced with Fu Manchu. This limited edition release of 4000 units is packaged in a glossy gatefold jacket with printed sleeves featuring live photos of the band and includes one "space" coloured LP and one "sky" coloured LP.
February 23 street date. Matador's Revisionist History Catalogue Series presents the 15th anniversary edition of Fucked Up's Polaris Prize winning sophomore album, "The Chemistry of Common Life", arriving on a limited edition clear orange double LP. The now classic 2008 album synthesizes numerous diverse impulses into an expansive epic about the mysteries of birth, death, and the origins of life (and re-living). Merging elements of hardcore songwriting with up to 70 tracks of guitars, organs, winds and vocals (including 18 guitars on the first single, the fatalistic "No Epiphany"), the music remains iconoclastic and startling, with Pink Eyes' vocals front and center. Guest musicians, of course, abound, notably gorgeous voices such as Brooklyn's Vivian Girls and Toronto's Katie Stelmanis (Austra). Today, "The Chemistry of Common Life" remains as conceptually ambitious as it is musically adventurous, pushing through and far beyond the accepted boundaries of punk and hardcore.
January 26 street date. Baltimore-based 4-piece Future Islands present their seventh album, "People Who Aren't There Anymore", via 4AD. Following 2020's "As Long As You Are", the 12 track record heralds a new chapter for the band, who despite having formed nearly two decades ago, continue to challenge themselves and each other. Where they've pursued ever-higher energy anthems in the past, they've turned inward this time, and unlocked a new level of ferocity, delivering some of their most inspiring and heartbreaking tracks by doing the opposite: taking their time, making each breath, each syllable, each cymbal crash count. The result is a powerful, defining statement from a group of musicians that have made the best album of their career.People Who Aren’t There Anymore was produced by Future Islands and Steve Wright, and mixed by Steve Wright and Chris Coady (who returns to working with the band for the first time since 2014’s Singles).
January 26 street date. Baltimore-based 4-piece Future Islands present their seventh album, "People Who Aren't There Anymore", via 4AD. Following 2020's "As Long As You Are", the 12 track record heralds a new chapter for the band, who despite having formed nearly two decades ago, continue to challenge themselves and each other. Where they've pursued ever-higher energy anthems in the past, they've turned inward this time, and unlocked a new level of ferocity, delivering some of their most inspiring and heartbreaking tracks by doing the opposite: taking their time, making each breath, each syllable, each cymbal crash count. The result is a powerful, defining statement from a group of musicians that have made the best album of their career.
People Who Aren’t There Anymore was produced by Future Islands and Steve Wright, and mixed by Steve Wright and Chris Coady (who returns to working with the band for the first time since 2014’s Singles).
October 25 street date. The debut album from MUNA's lead singer Katie Gavin. "What A Relief" reveals a softer, earthier side of Gavin's sound and taps into the unguarded self-possession and homespun pop sensibility of singers like Alanis Morissette, Fiona Apple, and Ani DiFranco, and uses their tenacity as a north star for Gavin's own trek towards self-discovery. Written over the course of seven years, "What A Relief" comprises a set of songs that Gavin always loved but which "had something in them" that she and her bandmates felt didn't quite fit within the universe they were trying to cultivate with MUNA. Openness of spirit is the overwhelming character of "What A Relief", an album that's refreshing in its willingness to accept people as they come, even as it remains in dogged pursuit of a life that's kinder, wiser, and more loving. Gavin's explorations of desire and intimacy feel time-worn and necessary - songs that might teach a generation if not how to live, exactly, then at least how to look within oneself for guidance about how to move forward.
October 25 street date. The debut album from MUNA's lead singer Katie Gavin. "What A Relief" reveals a softer, earthier side of Gavin's sound and taps into the unguarded self-possession and homespun pop sensibility of singers like Alanis Morissette, Fiona Apple, and Ani DiFranco, and uses their tenacity as a north star for Gavin's own trek towards self-discovery. Written over the course of seven years, "What A Relief" comprises a set of songs that Gavin always loved but which "had something in them" that she and her bandmates felt didn't quite fit within the universe they were trying to cultivate with MUNA. Openness of spirit is the overwhelming character of "What A Relief", an album that's refreshing in its willingness to accept people as they come, even as it remains in dogged pursuit of a life that's kinder, wiser, and more loving. Gavin's explorations of desire and intimacy feel time-worn and necessary - songs that might teach a generation if not how to live, exactly, then at least how to look within oneself for guidance about how to move forward.
October 25 street date. The debut album from MUNA's lead singer Katie Gavin. "What A Relief" reveals a softer, earthier side of Gavin's sound and taps into the unguarded self-possession and homespun pop sensibility of singers like Alanis Morissette, Fiona Apple, and Ani DiFranco, and uses their tenacity as a north star for Gavin's own trek towards self-discovery. Written over the course of seven years, "What A Relief" comprises a set of songs that Gavin always loved but which "had something in them" that she and her bandmates felt didn't quite fit within the universe they were trying to cultivate with MUNA. Openness of spirit is the overwhelming character of "What A Relief", an album that's refreshing in its willingness to accept people as they come, even as it remains in dogged pursuit of a life that's kinder, wiser, and more loving. Gavin's explorations of desire and intimacy feel time-worn and necessary - songs that might teach a generation if not how to live, exactly, then at least how to look within oneself for guidance about how to move forward.
February 23 street date (LP) / March 29 (Cassette) / April 12 (CD) (date change). The first vocal album by beloved Ethiopian nun, composer, and pianist Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru - profound and deeply moving home cassette recordings made amidst political upheaval and turmoil. These songs, recorded between 1977-1985, are different from anything previously released by the artist. Rich with the sound of birds outside the window, the creak of the piano bench, the thump of Emahoy's finger on the record button, they create a sense of place, of being near the artist while she records. Emahoy dreamt of releasing this music to a larger audience before her passing in March of 2023. Mississippi are proud to release this music, in collaboration with her family, now, in what would have been her 100th year. LP comes with a 16-page booklet full-color booklet. Gold cover first edition.
February 23 street date (LP) / March 29 (Cassette) / April 12 (CD) (date change). The first vocal album by beloved Ethiopian nun, composer, and pianist Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru - profound and deeply moving home cassette recordings made amidst political upheaval and turmoil. These songs, recorded between 1977-1985, are different from anything previously released by the artist. Rich with the sound of birds outside the window, the creak of the piano bench, the thump of Emahoy's finger on the record button, they create a sense of place, of being near the artist while she records. Emahoy dreamt of releasing this music to a larger audience before her passing in March of 2023. Mississippi are proud to release this music, in collaboration with her family, now, in what would have been her 100th year. LP comes with a 16-page booklet full-color booklet. Gold cover first edition.
May 10 street date. “Mayday is an album that keeps on giving; every listen reveals additional nuances and every visit to the end- groove invites a return to the start.” -Lucy Sante In May 2024, Myriam Gendron comes back with her third full-length record, aptly titled Mayday. On Mayday, the artist showcases her love of traditional folklore music, drawing inspiration from the Appalachian variant of an english Christmas carol (“Lully Lullay”) and french canadian sea shanties alike (“La belle Françoise (pour Sylvie)”). But the album is just as much an endorsement of Gendron’s talent as a singer-songwriter, as her bold poetic voice and musical arrangements shine on tracks such as country-folk ballad “Long Way Home”, rock and jazz infused closer “Berceuse”, cinematic 6-minutes long “Terres brûlées” or heartwarming instrumental interlude “La Luz”. On Mayday, she sings in both English and French, paying homage to various traditions across North America. Music critic Byron Coley writes: “Myriam has privately described the mood of Mayday as dark, in part due to the fact it was assembled after her mother’s passing, but she is always capable of balancing and blending emotional content in a way that makes it ultimately hopeful.” The album benefits from the precious contributions of renowned artists, collaborators and friends of Myriam, amongst which we can name Marisa Anderson, Jim White (‘Dirthy Three’), Cédric Dind-Lavoie, Bill Nace and Zoh Amba.
May 10 street date. “Mayday is an album that keeps on giving; every listen reveals additional nuances and every visit to the end- groove invites a return to the start.” -Lucy Sante In May 2024, Myriam Gendron comes back with her third full-length record, aptly titled Mayday. On Mayday, the artist showcases her love of traditional folklore music, drawing inspiration from the Appalachian variant of an English Christmas carol (“Lully Lullay”) and French Canadian sea shanties alike (“La belle Françoise (pour Sylvie)”). But the album is just as much an endorsement of Gendron’s talent as a singer-songwriter, as her bold poetic voice and musical arrangements shine on tracks such as country-folk ballad “Long Way Home”, rock and jazz infused closer “Berceuse”, cinematic 6-minutes long “Terres brûlées” or heartwarming instrumental interlude “La Luz”. On Mayday, she sings in both English and French, paying homage to various traditions across North America. Music critic Byron Coley writes: “Myriam has privately described the mood of Mayday as dark, in part due to the fact it was assembled after her mother’s passing, but she is always capable of balancing and blending emotional content in a way that makes it ultimately hopeful.” The album benefits from the precious contributions of renowned artists, collaborators and friends of Myriam, amongst which we can name Marisa Anderson, Jim White (‘Dirty Three’), Cédric Dind-Lavoie, Bill Nace and Zoh Amba.
May 10 street date. “Mayday is an album that keeps on giving; every listen reveals additional nuances and every visit to the end- groove invites a return to the start.” -Lucy Sante In May 2024, Myriam Gendron comes back with her third full-length record, aptly titled Mayday. On Mayday, the artist showcases her love of traditional folklore music, drawing inspiration from the Appalachian variant of an english Christmas carol (“Lully Lullay”) and french canadian sea shanties alike (“La belle Françoise (pour Sylvie)”). But the album is just as much an endorsement of Gendron’s talent as a singer-songwriter, as her bold poetic voice and musical arrangements shine on tracks such as country-folk ballad “Long Way Home”, rock and jazz infused closer “Berceuse”, cinematic 6-minutes long “Terres brûlées” or heartwarming instrumental interlude “La Luz”. On Mayday, she sings in both English and French, paying homage to various traditions across North America. Music critic Byron Coley writes: “Myriam has privately described the mood of Mayday as dark, in part due to the fact it was assembled after her mother’s passing, but she is always capable of balancing and blending emotional content in a way that makes it ultimately hopeful.” The album benefits from the precious contributions of renowned artists, collaborators and friends of Myriam, amongst which we can name Marisa Anderson, Jim White (‘Dirthy Three’), Cédric Dind-Lavoie, Bill Nace and Zoh Amba.
September 20 street date. After 25 years, The Get Up Kids' classic second album, "Something To Write Home About", is still recognizable as the same electrifying, scrappy album it was upon release, but also transformed by time into one of the most seminal records of the band's scene. To celebrate the album's 25th anniversary, Polyvinyl Records is thrilled to announce a special deluxe reissue. The album has been meticulously remastered from the original tapes and will be paired with a slew of bonus material, including rare demo versions of multiple songs from the album as well as never-before released rarities from the era. Originally released in September of 1999, "Something To Write Home About" has been established as an important late-millennium rock-and-roll document; a convergence of power pop, alternative rock, and punk, it provided the parameters for emo's Midwest-centered second wave. To support the release, the band will also perform the album in full throughout a lengthy North American headline tour later this year, including a stop in Toronto on October 5.
March 29 street date. As she's gotten older, Ella Smoker has found that her subconscious has been trying to tell her "some pretty wacky stuff". Thoughts will come to the 21-year-old singer-songwriter in dreams, or as she writes lyrics in studio sessions, words floating onto the page before she's really had a moment to realise what they are. "As soon as we start making the music, my brain sort of turns off," she explains. "I'll be sitting there, writing all this stuff that feels like a load of nonsense, and a month later, I'll look back and be like "oh". It all comes from a place I didn’t even realise was there". In learning how to open up to herself, gglum ended up finding a kindred spirit in producer Karma Kid (Maisie Peters, Shygirl, Connie Constance), pushing past her natural bedroom-pop introversion to find joy in the process of collaboration. The release of "The Garden Dream" will offer gglum plenty more opportunity to get both silly and serious, to be bold in her exploration of new ideas and sounds. But it will also offer the opportunity to further accept herself as the dreamlike artist she always wanted to be; confidently embellishing acoustic worlds that her listeners can burrow safely within.
March 29 street date. As she's gotten older, Ella Smoker has found that her subconscious has been trying to tell her "some pretty wacky stuff". Thoughts will come to the 21-year-old singer-songwriter in dreams, or as she writes lyrics in studio sessions, words floating onto the page before she's really had a moment to realise what they are. "As soon as we start making the music, my brain sort of turns off," she explains. "I'll be sitting there, writing all this stuff that feels like a load of nonsense, and a month later, I'll look back and be like "oh". It all comes from a place I didn’t even realise was there". In learning how to open up to herself, gglum ended up finding a kindred spirit in producer Karma Kid (Maisie Peters, Shygirl, Connie Constance), pushing past her natural bedroom-pop introversion to find joy in the process of collaboration. The release of "The Garden Dream" will offer gglum plenty more opportunity to get both silly and serious, to be bold in her exploration of new ideas and sounds. But it will also offer the opportunity to further accept herself as the dreamlike artist she always wanted to be; confidently embellishing acoustic worlds that her listeners can burrow safely within.
March 29 street date. As she's gotten older, Ella Smoker has found that her subconscious has been trying to tell her "some pretty wacky stuff". Thoughts will come to the 21-year-old singer-songwriter in dreams, or as she writes lyrics in studio sessions, words floating onto the page before she's really had a moment to realise what they are. "As soon as we start making the music, my brain sort of turns off," she explains. "I'll be sitting there, writing all this stuff that feels like a load of nonsense, and a month later, I'll look back and be like "oh". It all comes from a place I didn’t even realise was there". In learning how to open up to herself, gglum ended up finding a kindred spirit in producer Karma Kid (Maisie Peters, Shygirl, Connie Constance), pushing past her natural bedroom-pop introversion to find joy in the process of collaboration. The release of "The Garden Dream" will offer gglum plenty more opportunity to get both silly and serious, to be bold in her exploration of new ideas and sounds. But it will also offer the opportunity to further accept herself as the dreamlike artist she always wanted to be; confidently embellishing acoustic worlds that her listeners can burrow safely within.
February 23 street date. Coming off the heels of 2022's "A New Kind of Love", "A Trip To The Moon" sees Ghost Funk Orchestra diving even deeper in the worlds of film music, exotica, and psychedelic surf rock. The aim is to create a layered and collaged listening experience with more elements than you could possibly pick out in a single listen. The guitars are fuzzy and flooded with spring reverb, and the horns are arranged in a studio big band fashion. It's full of big compositions with garage rock attitude. Influences range everywhere from Eddie Palmieri and Esquivel to The Lively Ones, Dusty Springfield, and War. The tracks are tied together by real recorded transmissions from the Apollo moon missions. The concept for the album is a story about a woman stranded on earth by her cosmonaut partner, left to ponder his whereabouts and whether or not he'll make it back from the cosmos alive.
February 23 street date. Coming off the heels of 2022's "A New Kind of Love", "A Trip To The Moon" sees Ghost Funk Orchestra diving even deeper in the worlds of film music, exotica, and psychedelic surf rock. The aim is to create a layered and collaged listening experience with more elements than you could possibly pick out in a single listen. The guitars are fuzzy and flooded with spring reverb, and the horns are arranged in a studio big band fashion. It's full of big compositions with garage rock attitude. Influences range everywhere from Eddie Palmieri and Esquivel to The Lively Ones, Dusty Springfield, and War. The tracks are tied together by real recorded transmissions from the Apollo moon missions. The concept for the album is a story about a woman stranded on earth by her cosmonaut partner, left to ponder his whereabouts and whether or not he'll make it back from the cosmos alive.
February 23 street date. Coming off the heels of 2022's "A New Kind of Love", "A Trip To The Moon" sees Ghost Funk Orchestra diving even deeper in the worlds of film music, exotica, and psychedelic surf rock. The aim is to create a layered and collaged listening experience with more elements than you could possibly pick out in a single listen. The guitars are fuzzy and flooded with spring reverb, and the horns are arranged in a studio big band fashion. It's full of big compositions with garage rock attitude. Influences range everywhere from Eddie Palmieri and Esquivel to The Lively Ones, Dusty Springfield, and War. The tracks are tied together by real recorded transmissions from the Apollo moon missions. The concept for the album is a story about a woman stranded on earth by her cosmonaut partner, left to ponder his whereabouts and whether or not he'll make it back from the cosmos alive.
June 7 street date. The Ghost Inside stands as an unstoppable force in the realm of hard rock music. Fueled by unwavering determination and unyielding passion, this band has forged a path marked by resilience and redemption. Their latest endeavor, the 6th studio album titled "Search For Solace", delves into the profound theme of grappling with one's own thoughts - the internal struggle between good, bad, and evil. It explores the journey of finding comfort and making peace amidst the chaos of life's ebb and flow. The album reflects the band's commitment to not succumb to negativity, anger, or darkness, aligning with their identity as an uplifting and comforting musical force for fans seeking solace. Established in 2004, The Ghost Inside has solidified its position as a trailblazer in melodic hard rock. Their music seamlessly combines raw aggression with profound lyricism, creating a resonant experience for their dedicated fanbase. Their music embodies a spirit of resilience, unity, and the indomitable power of the human spirit. Each thunderous breakdown and soaring melody strikes a deep chord within the hearts of their fans, serving as a testament to the band's enduring impact.
June 7 street date. The Ghost Inside stands as an unstoppable force in the realm of hard rock music. Fueled by unwavering determination and unyielding passion, this band has forged a path marked by resilience and redemption. Their latest endeavor, the 6th studio album titled "Search For Solace", delves into the profound theme of grappling with one's own thoughts - the internal struggle between good, bad, and evil. It explores the journey of finding comfort and making peace amidst the chaos of life's ebb and flow. The album reflects the band's commitment to not succumb to negativity, anger, or darkness, aligning with their identity as an uplifting and comforting musical force for fans seeking solace. Established in 2004, The Ghost Inside has solidified its position as a trailblazer in melodic hard rock. Their music seamlessly combines raw aggression with profound lyricism, creating a resonant experience for their dedicated fanbase. Their music embodies a spirit of resilience, unity, and the indomitable power of the human spirit. Each thunderous breakdown and soaring melody strikes a deep chord within the hearts of their fans, serving as a testament to the band's enduring impact.
June 7 street date. The Ghost Inside stands as an unstoppable force in the realm of hard rock music. Fueled by unwavering determination and unyielding passion, this band has forged a path marked by resilience and redemption. Their latest endeavor, the 6th studio album titled "Search For Solace", delves into the profound theme of grappling with one's own thoughts - the internal struggle between good, bad, and evil. It explores the journey of finding comfort and making peace amidst the chaos of life's ebb and flow. The album reflects the band's commitment to not succumb to negativity, anger, or darkness, aligning with their identity as an uplifting and comforting musical force for fans seeking solace. Established in 2004, The Ghost Inside has solidified its position as a trailblazer in melodic hard rock. Their music seamlessly combines raw aggression with profound lyricism, creating a resonant experience for their dedicated fanbase. Their music embodies a spirit of resilience, unity, and the indomitable power of the human spirit. Each thunderous breakdown and soaring melody strikes a deep chord within the hearts of their fans, serving as a testament to the band's enduring impact.
April 5 street date. "You Only Live 2wice" is the third studio album from Freddie Gibbs. Following a tumultuous time in Gibbs' personal life, the album focuses on Freddie overcoming his obstacles and rising from the ashes anew, as reflected in the album art depicting the resurrection of Jesus. At 8 tracks, the album has no features, instead using the space to let Gibbs bear his soul. The album includes the chilling violin-laced single "Crushed Glass" as well as standout hits "20 Karat Jesus" and"Amnesia." Executive produced by Ben "Lambo" Lambert & Gibbs himself, the album sees production from BADBADNOTGOOD, Kaytranada, Speakerbomb, Dupri, Jay Nari, Teddy Walton, Blair Norf, and more. Back in print for the first time since its initial release and pressed on opaque red vinyl.
May 24 street date. In one sense, it's easy for artists - songwriters, specifically - to express their feelings in their work. After all, that's what the lyrics are for! But it's much harder to convey emotional energy in how you play, slash at the guitar, and the structure of the music itself. That's precisely why Girl And Girl's Sub Pop debut, "Call A Doctor", feels like such a vital, electrifying shock to the senses. Not since the early work of Car Seat Headrest or Conor Oberst's widescreen emotional brutality as Bright Eyes has indie rock managed to come across as this intimate and grandiose, as the Australian quartet led by Kai James lay a lifetime's worth of woes - mental health, the human race's planned obsolescence - across a canvas of indie rock that feels both timeless and in-the-moment. The album's eleven songs - spanning sweeping guitar epics and wry acoustic shuffles to spiky punk maneuvers and the type of raw, adoringly unvarnished indie-pop associated with legendary PacNW label K Records - are literally plucked from James' personal history, as he reworked older recordings with newer lyrics reflecting his past struggles as well as new anxieties that emerged prior to the album's recording.
May 24 street date. In one sense, it's easy for artists - songwriters, specifically - to express their feelings in their work. After all, that's what the lyrics are for! But it's much harder to convey emotional energy in how you play, slash at the guitar, and the structure of the music itself. That's precisely why Girl And Girl's Sub Pop debut, "Call A Doctor", feels like such a vital, electrifying shock to the senses. Not since the early work of Car Seat Headrest or Conor Oberst's widescreen emotional brutality as Bright Eyes has indie rock managed to come across as this intimate and grandiose, as the Australian quartet led by Kai James lay a lifetime's worth of woes - mental health, the human race's planned obsolescence - across a canvas of indie rock that feels both timeless and in-the-moment. The album's eleven songs - spanning sweeping guitar epics and wry acoustic shuffles to spiky punk maneuvers and the type of raw, adoringly unvarnished indie-pop associated with legendary PacNW label K Records - are literally plucked from James' personal history, as he reworked older recordings with newer lyrics reflecting his past struggles as well as new anxieties that emerged prior to the album's recording.
Please note new street date: February 9. "plastic death" - the second album by glass beach - is a follow-up record almost five years in the making. The band's self- titled 2019 debut has over the years grown a cult fanbase for its unflinching depiction of queer life as mediated through social media, its oversized ambition, and its scrappy yet adventurous production. And while it took some time to arrive, "plastic death" sounds like the logical expansion of all the things that made their first album so special. Frontperson and primary songwriter J McClendon is joined by lead guitarist Layne Smith, bassist Jonas Newhouse and drummer William White to create something adventurous on each song. Trumpet, trombone, violin, and even marimba dance and bloom alongside the band's own creative and dextrous instrumentation - a stunning, transformative creation that pulls from indie rock, jazz, prog, hardcore, metal, experimental, and beyond. "plastic death" is a complete, uncompromising, playful work of art; every corner and crevice of the record's 13 tracks, each arrangement and timbre and texture, is alive with intention and possibility.
Please note new street date: February 9. "plastic death" - the second album by glass beach - is a follow-up record almost five years in the making. The band's self- titled 2019 debut has over the years grown a cult fanbase for its unflinching depiction of queer life as mediated through social media, its oversized ambition, and its scrappy yet adventurous production. And while it took some time to arrive, "plastic death" sounds like the logical expansion of all the things that made their first album so special. Frontperson and primary songwriter J McClendon is joined by lead guitarist Layne Smith, bassist Jonas Newhouse and drummer William White to create something adventurous on each song. Trumpet, trombone, violin, and even marimba dance and bloom alongside the band's own creative and dextrous instrumentation - a stunning, transformative creation that pulls from indie rock, jazz, prog, hardcore, metal, experimental, and beyond. "plastic death" is a complete, uncompromising, playful work of art; every corner and crevice of the record's 13 tracks, each arrangement and timbre and texture, is alive with intention and possibility.
Please note new street date: February 9. "plastic death" - the second album by glass beach - is a follow-up record almost five years in the making. The band's self- titled 2019 debut has over the years grown a cult fanbase for its unflinching depiction of queer life as mediated through social media, its oversized ambition, and its scrappy yet adventurous production. And while it took some time to arrive, "plastic death" sounds like the logical expansion of all the things that made their first album so special. Frontperson and primary songwriter J McClendon is joined by lead guitarist Layne Smith, bassist Jonas Newhouse and drummer William White to create something adventurous on each song. Trumpet, trombone, violin, and even marimba dance and bloom alongside the band's own creative and dextrous instrumentation - a stunning, transformative creation that pulls from indie rock, jazz, prog, hardcore, metal, experimental, and beyond. "plastic death" is a complete, uncompromising, playful work of art; every corner and crevice of the record's 13 tracks, each arrangement and timbre and texture, is alive with intention and possibility.
February 23 street date. Offering fuzzy grunge-pop with doses of shimmering synths and emo angst, Ned Russin co-fronted Title Fight before halting in 2018 and Ned began playing music as Glitterer. Now a full band, Glitterer returns with "Rationale", combining 90s grunge, capital-R riffs a la The Stooges, and a keyboard lead that gives self-deprecating melodrama. After relying more on synths for the entirely solo, home-recorded "Glitterer" LP in 2017, he involved collaborators on the crunchier "Looking Through the Shades" in 2019. This trend toward driving indie rock grit with 90s influences continued on 2021's "Life Is Not a Lesson" and now "Rationale".
October 18 street date. The Ouroborus - that is, the icon of the snake or dragon eating its own tail - appears to some a statement of the brutality of nature. Commonly, it's taken simply to mean the endless cycles of death and rebirth that characterise life on this planet. As such, it's an image that looms large in the world of Goat, the ever-mysterious and endlessly revivifying collective whose latest album marks another adventure above and beyond this particular plane of reality. This may be a band that has named albums both "Requiem" and "Oh Death", yet this eponymous salvo proves yet again that transcendence and metamorphosis are their watchwords. "Goat" sees this ever-unpredictable outfit summoning rhythmically-driven rituals in unmistakable, uplifting and scintillating style, equally adept at ignitiing dancefloors and expanding minds. ‘One More Death’ and ‘Goatbrain’ are spectacular curtain-raisers, embodying a hedonistic spirit driven by incisive funk and possessed by merciless fuzz/wah-drenched guitar. Yet elsewhere, the band's love of hip hop is the fuel for the end-credits-epic album closer ‘Ourobourus’, which marries infectious chant to breathless Lalo Schifrin-style breakbeat action. And which also means ultimately, like the titular oldest allegorical symbol in alchemy, we're right back where we started.
October 18 street date. The Ouroborus - that is, the icon of the snake or dragon eating its own tail - appears to some a statement of the brutality of nature. Commonly, it's taken simply to mean the endless cycles of death and rebirth that characterise life on this planet. As such, it's an image that looms large in the world of Goat, the ever-mysterious and endlessly revivifying collective whose latest album marks another adventure above and beyond this particular plane of reality. This may be a band that has named albums both "Requiem" and "Oh Death", yet this eponymous salvo proves yet again that transcendence and metamorphosis are their watchwords. "Goat" sees this ever-unpredictable outfit summoning rhythmically-driven rituals in unmistakable, uplifting and scintillating style, equally adept at ignitiing dancefloors and expanding minds. ‘One More Death’ and ‘Goatbrain’ are spectacular curtain-raisers, embodying a hedonistic spirit driven by incisive funk and possessed by merciless fuzz/wah-drenched guitar. Yet elsewhere, the band's love of hip hop is the fuel for the end-credits-epic album closer ‘Ourobourus’, which marries infectious chant to breathless Lalo Schifrin-style breakbeat action. And which also means ultimately, like the titular oldest allegorical symbol in alchemy, we're right back where we started.
October 18 street date. The Ouroborus - that is, the icon of the snake or dragon eating its own tail - appears to some a statement of the brutality of nature. Commonly, it's taken simply to mean the endless cycles of death and rebirth that characterise life on this planet. As such, it's an image that looms large in the world of Goat, the ever-mysterious and endlessly revivifying collective whose latest album marks another adventure above and beyond this particular plane of reality. This may be a band that has named albums both "Requiem" and "Oh Death", yet this eponymous salvo proves yet again that transcendence and metamorphosis are their watchwords. "Goat" sees this ever-unpredictable outfit summoning rhythmically-driven rituals in unmistakable, uplifting and scintillating style, equally adept at ignitiing dancefloors and expanding minds. ‘One More Death’ and ‘Goatbrain’ are spectacular curtain-raisers, embodying a hedonistic spirit driven by incisive funk and possessed by merciless fuzz/wah-drenched guitar. Yet elsewhere, the band's love of hip hop is the fuel for the end-credits-epic album closer ‘Ourobourus’, which marries infectious chant to breathless Lalo Schifrin-style breakbeat action. And which also means ultimately, like the titular oldest allegorical symbol in alchemy, we're right back where we started.
June 7 street date. Goat Girl - Lottie Pendlebury (she/her), Rosy Jones (they/them) and Holly Mullineaux (she/her) - present their third album, "Below The Waste", arriving on Rough Trade Records. Progressing from their angst-fuelled self-titled debut (2018) to the escapist world of sophomore LP "On All Fours" (2021), the South London trio enter their most self-assured era yet with this 16-track record. Pieced together like a collage over an extended period of time, the instrumentation was tracked mostly over a ten-day stint in Ireland at Hellfire Studios, in the shadow of the infamous Hellfire Club itself. They also used Damon Albarn's Studio 13. Additional strings, woodwind instruments, and vocals (including a choir made up of family and friends) were added to this framework at a number of locations, from a barn in Essex to Goat Girl's own studio. Co-produced by the band and John Spud Murphy (Lankum/Black Midi), "Below The Waste" takes the band's distinctive sound to new extremes, as they delve fearlessly into expansive noise-rock, delicate folk and synth-driven pop.
June 7 street date. Goat Girl - Lottie Pendlebury (she/her), Rosy Jones (they/them) and Holly Mullineaux (she/her) - present their third album, "Below The Waste", arriving on Rough Trade Records. Progressing from their angst-fuelled self-titled debut (2018) to the escapist world of sophomore LP "On All Fours" (2021), the South London trio enter their most self-assured era yet with this 16-track record. Pieced together like a collage over an extended period of time, the instrumentation was tracked mostly over a ten-day stint in Ireland at Hellfire Studios, in the shadow of the infamous Hellfire Club itself. They also used Damon Albarn's Studio 13. Additional strings, woodwind instruments, and vocals (including a choir made up of family and friends) were added to this framework at a number of locations, from a barn in Essex to Goat Girl's own studio. Co-produced by the band and John Spud Murphy (Lankum/Black Midi), "Below The Waste" takes the band's distinctive sound to new extremes, as they delve fearlessly into expansive noise-rock, delicate folk and synth-driven pop.
June 7 street date. Goat Girl - Lottie Pendlebury (she/her), Rosy Jones (they/them) and Holly Mullineaux (she/her) - present their third album, "Below The Waste", arriving on Rough Trade Records. Progressing from their angst-fuelled self-titled debut (2018) to the escapist world of sophomore LP "On All Fours" (2021), the South London trio enter their most self-assured era yet with this 16-track record. Pieced together like a collage over an extended period of time, the instrumentation was tracked mostly over a ten-day stint in Ireland at Hellfire Studios, in the shadow of the infamous Hellfire Club itself. They also used Damon Albarn's Studio 13. Additional strings, woodwind instruments, and vocals (including a choir made up of family and friends) were added to this framework at a number of locations, from a barn in Essex to Goat Girl's own studio. Co-produced by the band and John Spud Murphy (Lankum/Black Midi), "Below The Waste" takes the band's distinctive sound to new extremes, as they delve fearlessly into expansive noise-rock, delicate folk and synth-driven pop.
October 4 street date. THE PLAIN TRUTH= we drifted through it, arguing. every day a new war crime, every day a flower bloom. we sat down together and wrote it in one room, and then sat down in a different room, recording. "NO TITLE"= what gestures make sense while tiny bodies fall? what context? what broken melody? and then a tally and a date to mark a point on the line, the negative process, the growing pile. the sun setting above beds of ash while we sat together, arguing. the old world order barely pretended to care. this new century will be crueler still. war is coming. Don't give up. pick a side. hang on. Love.
October 4 street date. THE PLAIN TRUTH= we drifted through it, arguing. every day a new war crime, every day a flower bloom. we sat down together and wrote it in one room, and then sat down in a different room, recording. "NO TITLE"= what gestures make sense while tiny bodies fall? what context? what broken melody? and then a tally and a date to mark a point on the line, the negative process, the growing pile. the sun setting above beds of ash while we sat together, arguing. the old world order barely pretended to care. this new century will be crueler still. war is coming. Don't give up. pick a side. hang on. Love.
March 8 street date. Legendary musician and multi-disciplinary artist Kim Gordon presents her second solo album, "The Collective", via Matador. Recorded in her native Los Angeles, the 11-track album follows Gordon's 2019 full-length debut, "No Home Record", and continues her collaboration with producer Justin Raisen (Lil Yachty, John Cale, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Charli XCX, Yves Tumor), along with additional producer, Anthony Paul Lopez. "The Collective" advances their joint world building, with Raisen's damaged, blown out dub and trap constructions playing the foil to Kim's intuitive word collages and hooky mantras, conjuring communication, commercial sublimation and sensory overload. "On this record, I wanted to express the absolute craziness I feel around me right now", says Gordon. "This is a moment when nobody really knows what truth is, when facts don't necessarily sway people, when everyone has their own side, creating a general sense of paranoia".
March 8 street date. Legendary musician and multi-disciplinary artist Kim Gordon presents her second solo album, "The Collective", via Matador. Recorded in her native Los Angeles, the 11-track album follows Gordon's 2019 full-length debut, "No Home Record", and continues her collaboration with producer Justin Raisen (Lil Yachty, John Cale, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Charli XCX, Yves Tumor), along with additional producer, Anthony Paul Lopez. "The Collective" advances their joint world building, with Raisen's damaged, blown out dub and trap constructions playing the foil to Kim's intuitive word collages and hooky mantras, conjuring communication, commercial sublimation and sensory overload. "On this record, I wanted to express the absolute craziness I feel around me right now", says Gordon. "This is a moment when nobody really knows what truth is, when facts don't necessarily sway people, when everyone has their own side, creating a general sense of paranoia".
December 13 street date. "The most interesting music of her career" (Exclaim - 8/10). Deluxe edition of Kim Gordon's 2024 album, "The Collective". This exclusive package includes a pressing of both the album and bonus 7" ("ECSP"/"Bangin' On The Freeway") on indie silver vinyl, all housed in an LP sleeve. Limited to 100 copies in Canada. Recorded in her native Los Angeles, the 11-track album follows the legendary musican's 2019 full-length debut, "No Home Record", and continues her collaboration with producer Justin Raisen (Lil Yachty, John Cale, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Charli XCX, Yves Tumor), along with additional producer, Anthony Paul Lopez. "The Collective" advances their joint world building, with Raisen's damaged, blown out dub and trap constructions playing the foil to Kim Gordon's intuitive word collages and hooky mantras, conjuring communication, commercial sublimation, and sensory overload.
June 7 street date. Peggy Gou presents her 10-track debut LP, "I Hear You". Featuring the Canadian Platinum single, "(It Goes Like) Nanana", and her Lenny Kravitz collaboration, "I Believe In Love Again", the record sees Gou stepping into the next level of her artistry and boldly claiming her voice through the kaleidoscopic lens of 90s house music. Peggy Gou has ascended from underground sensation to global icon by sticking to her own unwavering vision, becoming one of the most in-demand electronic musicians/DJs in the world. Having performed to over a million people worldwide in 2023, the self-managed, South Korean-born and Berlin-based producer/artist has blazed her own trail as the first Korean DJ to play Berghain, the first female DJ to headline Ushuaïa Ibiza, and the first woman in over 20 years to appear within the Top 10 of DJ Mag's annual Top 100 list.
June 7 street date. Peggy Gou presents her 10-track debut LP, "I Hear You". Featuring the Canadian Platinum single, "(It Goes Like) Nanana", and her Lenny Kravitz collaboration, "I Believe In Love Again", the record sees Gou stepping into the next level of her artistry and boldly claiming her voice through the kaleidoscopic lens of 90s house music. Peggy Gou has ascended from underground sensation to global icon by sticking to her own unwavering vision, becoming one of the most in-demand electronic musicians/DJs in the world. Having performed to over a million people worldwide in 2023, the self-managed, South Korean-born and Berlin-based producer/artist has blazed her own trail as the first Korean DJ to play Berghain, the first female DJ to headline Ushuaïa Ibiza, and the first woman in over 20 years to appear within the Top 10 of DJ Mag's annual Top 100 list.
June 7 street date. Peggy Gou presents her 10-track debut LP, "I Hear You". Featuring the Canadian Platinum single, "(It Goes Like) Nanana", and her Lenny Kravitz collaboration, "I Believe In Love Again", the record sees Gou stepping into the next level of her artistry and boldly claiming her voice through the kaleidoscopic lens of 90s house music. Peggy Gou has ascended from underground sensation to global icon by sticking to her own unwavering vision, becoming one of the most in-demand electronic musicians/DJs in the world. Having performed to over a million people worldwide in 2023, the self-managed, South Korean-born and Berlin-based producer/artist has blazed her own trail as the first Korean DJ to play Berghain, the first female DJ to headline Ushuaïa Ibiza, and the first woman in over 20 years to appear within the Top 10 of DJ Mag's annual Top 100 list.
February 16 street date. Following the release of her debut album, "Stay Alive" (2020) and the "At War With The Silverfish" EP (2021), Emmy-nominated artist, author, musician, activist and Against Me! founder/songwriter Laura Jane Grace returns with "Hole In My Head" - her beautiful new album featuring eleven tracks that showcase her undeniable power as a songwriter and storyteller. The album features her most personal and emotionally gripping songs of her career - stripped down masterpieces like "Dysphoria Hoodie" paired with blistering distorted anthems like "Hole In My Head" and "Birds Talk Too", tracks that demand the listener's attention with an immediacy and urgency unlike anything Grace has written before. Grace has collaborated with artists such as Miley Cyrus, Joan Jett, Weezer, and others, and has performed at countless clubs and festivals around the world, including Coachella, Reading Festival, BottleRock, and more.
February 16 street date. Following the release of her debut album, "Stay Alive" (2020) and the "At War With The Silverfish" EP (2021), Emmy-nominated artist, author, musician, activist and Against Me! founder/songwriter Laura Jane Grace returns with "Hole In My Head" - her beautiful new album featuring eleven tracks that showcase her undeniable power as a songwriter and storyteller. The album features her most personal and emotionally gripping songs of her career - stripped down masterpieces like "Dysphoria Hoodie" paired with blistering distorted anthems like "Hole In My Head" and "Birds Talk Too", tracks that demand the listener's attention with an immediacy and urgency unlike anything Grace has written before. Grace has collaborated with artists such as Miley Cyrus, Joan Jett, Weezer, and others, and has performed at countless clubs and festivals around the world, including Coachella, Reading Festival, BottleRock, and more.
February 16 street date. Following the release of her debut album, "Stay Alive" (2020) and the "At War With The Silverfish" EP (2021), Emmy-nominated artist, author, musician, activist and Against Me! founder/songwriter Laura Jane Grace returns with "Hole In My Head" - her beautiful new album featuring eleven tracks that showcase her undeniable power as a songwriter and storyteller. The album features her most personal and emotionally gripping songs of her career - stripped down masterpieces like "Dysphoria Hoodie" paired with blistering distorted anthems like "Hole In My Head" and "Birds Talk Too", tracks that demand the listener's attention with an immediacy and urgency unlike anything Grace has written before. Grace has collaborated with artists such as Miley Cyrus, Joan Jett, Weezer, and others, and has performed at countless clubs and festivals around the world, including Coachella, Reading Festival, BottleRock, and more.
October 18 street date. The tenth Grand Magus album and their first concept record, "Sunraven" is a return to the heavy metal might of "Wolf God" and "Sword Songs", but with an underlying story adding greater depth to the Swedes' earthy bombast. Made manifest via a grandiose production, inspired by the revered Old English epic poem of Beowulf. In true heavy metal style, these nine new songs dive deep into heroic fantasy, but with the same real-world resonances that are scorched into the genre's calloused skin.
October 18 street date. The tenth Grand Magus album and their first concept record, "Sunraven" is a return to the heavy metal might of "Wolf God" and "Sword Songs", but with an underlying story adding greater depth to the Swedes' earthy bombast. Made manifest via a grandiose production, inspired by the revered Old English epic poem of Beowulf. In true heavy metal style, these nine new songs dive deep into heroic fantasy, but with the same real-world resonances that are scorched into the genre's calloused skin.
October 25 street date. Immerse yourself in the timeless allure and electrifying energy of Great White's iconic album, "Once Bitten". The late Jack Russell's powerhouse vocals take center stage, perfectly complemented by Mark Kendall's masterful guitar riffs, creating a captivating sonic journey. The album's standout tracks, include "Lady Red Light", the adrenaline-pumping "Rock Me", the gritty "Mistreater", and the heartfelt ballad "Save Your Love", each offer a unique glimpse into Great White's dynamic range and emotional depth.
November 29 street date. Immerse yourself in the raw intensity and melodic brilliance of Great White's classic album, "...Twice Shy". Jack Russell's soaring vocals and Mark Kendall's fiery guitar work unite to create an unforgettable listening experience, showcasing the band's signature blend of blues-infused hard rock. An essential addition to any rock collection, the 1989 album features standout tracks like the chart-topping anthem "Once Bitten, Twice Shy", the high-octane "Heart The Hunter", the hard-hitting "Mista Bone", and the soulful ballad "The Angel Song".
November 29 street date. Immerse yourself in the raw intensity and melodic brilliance of Great White's classic album, "...Twice Shy". Jack Russell's soaring vocals and Mark Kendall's fiery guitar work unite to create an unforgettable listening experience, showcasing the band's signature blend of blues-infused hard rock. An essential addition to any rock collection, the 1989 album features standout tracks like the chart-topping anthem "Once Bitten, Twice Shy", the high-octane "Heart The Hunter", the hard-hitting "Mista Bone", and the soulful ballad "The Angel Song".
November 29 street date. Immerse yourself in the raw intensity and melodic brilliance of Great White's classic album, "...Twice Shy". Jack Russell's soaring vocals and Mark Kendall's fiery guitar work unite to create an unforgettable listening experience, showcasing the band's signature blend of blues-infused hard rock. An essential addition to any rock collection, the 1989 album features standout tracks like the chart-topping anthem "Once Bitten, Twice Shy", the high-octane "Heart The Hunter", the hard-hitting "Mista Bone", and the soulful ballad "The Angel Song".
October 25 street date. Immerse yourself in the timeless allure and electrifying energy of Great White's iconic album, "Once Bitten". The late Jack Russell's powerhouse vocals take center stage, perfectly complemented by Mark Kendall's masterful guitar riffs, creating a captivating sonic journey. The album's standout tracks, include "Lady Red Light", the adrenaline-pumping "Rock Me", the gritty "Mistreater", and the heartfelt ballad "Save Your Love", each offer a unique glimpse into Great White's dynamic range and emotional depth.
October 4 street date. Geordie Greep (guitarist and vocalist in black midi) presents his debut solo album, "The New Sound", arriving via Rough Trade. Following three astonishing albums with black midi, most recently 2023's "Hellfire", and almost non-stop worldwide tours for near-on 5 years, this 11-track double LP boasts a brand of high quality, all-embracing alternative pop fun not heard in a very long time. "With recording "The New Sound", it was the first time I have had no one to answer to. And with every impulse I had, I was able to completely follow it through to its conclusion", said Geordie. Over 30 session musicians were involved, on two continents, in São Paulo and London. "Some of the tracks we had recorded already, elsewhere. Half were done in Brazil, with local musicians pulled together at the last minute. They'd never heard anything I'd done before, they were just interested in the demos I'd made. The tracking was all done in one, maybe two days. Then we did the overdubs later, in London".
October 4 street date. Geordie Greep (guitarist and vocalist in black midi) presents his debut solo album, "The New Sound", arriving via Rough Trade. Following three astonishing albums with black midi, most recently 2023's "Hellfire", and almost non-stop worldwide tours for near-on 5 years, this 11-track double LP boasts a brand of high quality, all-embracing alternative pop fun not heard in a very long time. "With recording "The New Sound", it was the first time I have had no one to answer to. And with every impulse I had, I was able to completely follow it through to its conclusion", said Geordie. Over 30 session musicians were involved, on two continents, in São Paulo and London. "Some of the tracks we had recorded already, elsewhere. Half were done in Brazil, with local musicians pulled together at the last minute. They'd never heard anything I'd done before, they were just interested in the demos I'd made. The tracking was all done in one, maybe two days. Then we did the overdubs later, in London".
August 23 street date. Originally released in 1996 as a limited fan-club pressing for Rockathon, Guided By Voices' "Tonics And Twisted Chasers" has always existed as an anomaly in Robert Pollard's vast discography. In many ways, the album serves as the tail of a creative comet that in just two years included the "classic line-up" trilogy of "Bee Thousand", "Alien Lanes", "Under The Bushes, Under The Stars", and countless singles that crammed endless hooks in their grooves. In the intervening space, "Tonics And Twisted Chasers" has taken on a mythic status. It's arguably Pollard's strangest, gnarliest, most enlightened record and also the fans first chance to see the stitches that bind his galaxy of songs. It's like peering at the caliber inside a watch, responsible for making the whole enterprise tick. This nineteen-song collaboration with guitarist Tobin Sprout could be interpreted as spontaneous sketches, late-night improvisations, ideas that blossomed later in the timeline, but as with anything in Pollard's orbit, its intention is clear when heard as a cohesive whole.
June 28 street date. Building on forty years years of GBV history, the majestic and triumphant "Strut Of Kings" is the forty-first album by indie rock royalty Guided By Voices. Largely recorded in Kings County, New York (Brooklyn), the album is perhaps a gesture towards the malevolent "kings" on the world stage. As the "Serene King" waltzes across the battlefield, Emperor Pollard evokes castles, King Kong and strutting roosters, a surreal yet regal journey. The only new Guided By Voices album of 2024 (!) includes some of their hookiest nuggets in recent memory.
June 28 street date. Building on forty years years of GBV history, the majestic and triumphant "Strut Of Kings" is the forty-first album by indie rock royalty Guided By Voices. Largely recorded in Kings County, New York (Brooklyn), the album is perhaps a gesture towards the malevolent "kings" on the world stage. As the "Serene King" waltzes across the battlefield, Emperor Pollard evokes castles, King Kong and strutting roosters, a surreal yet regal journey. The only new Guided By Voices album of 2024 (!) includes some of their hookiest nuggets in recent memory.
August 23 street date. Originally released in 1996 as a limited fan-club pressing for Rockathon, Guided By Voices' "Tonics And Twisted Chasers" has always existed as an anomaly in Robert Pollard's vast discography. In many ways, the album serves as the tail of a creative comet that in just two years included the "classic line-up" trilogy of "Bee Thousand", "Alien Lanes", "Under The Bushes, Under The Stars", and countless singles that crammed endless hooks in their grooves. In the intervening space, "Tonics And Twisted Chasers" has taken on a mythic status. It's arguably Pollard's strangest, gnarliest, most enlightened record and also the fans first chance to see the stitches that bind his galaxy of songs. It's like peering at the caliber inside a watch, responsible for making the whole enterprise tick. This nineteen-song collaboration with guitarist Tobin Sprout could be interpreted as spontaneous sketches, late-night improvisations, ideas that blossomed later in the timeline, but as with anything in Pollard's orbit, its intention is clear when heard as a cohesive whole.
October 4 street date. Half Waif is the stage name of American musician Ananda Rose "Nandi" Plunkett. "See You At The Maypole", the sixth full-length album in Half Waif's prolific catalogue, is a recognition of personal sadness, and a call to ecstatic togetherness. It's gathering the colours of our spirit, in all its shades, and making something intricate and remarkable. The ceremonial folk dance performed around a maypole is filled with fauna and flora, with ribbons woven into complex braids incapable of unraveling; these dances are survivals of ancient ritual, honouring the living trees, and the return of Spring and fertility. These patterns - this dance - cannot be completed alone, and so, Half Waif welcomes others to join her, a collective of bleeding colour. While the seclusion of grief feels infinite, Rose brought the songs to her trusted friend and longtime collaborator of the past decade, Zubin Hensler. The pair had worked away from others for "Mythopoetics", carefully crafting each note and flourish themselves, but something else was needed for "See You At The Maypole". To that end, Hensler and Rose welcomed a wealth of players and friends into the world of the record.
August 9 street date. Following a successful two year world tour, the award-winning Swedes Hammerfall are back! Forged on the road, the quintet have returned with ten new, solid pieces of classic heavy metal with the album "Avenge The Fallen". Encompassing themes of freedom, represented by faithful warrior Hector choosing his own path on the artwork. Much like Hammerfall have and always will do.
August 9 street date. Following a successful two year world tour, the award-winning Swedes Hammerfall are back! Forged on the road, the quintet have returned with ten new, solid pieces of classic heavy metal with the album "Avenge The Fallen". Encompassing themes of freedom, represented by faithful warrior Hector choosing his own path on the artwork. Much like Hammerfall have and always will do.
October 4 street date. The Hard Quartet present their eponymous debut album, via Matador Records. The band is comprised of songwriters Emmett Kelly (The Cairo Gang, Ty Segall), Stephen Malkmus (Pavement, the Jicks, Silver Jews), Matt Sweeney (Chavez, Superwolf, Red Dead Redemption 2), along with Jim White (Dirty Three, Xylouris White). "We're all jazzed" - S.M.
October 4 street date. The Hard Quartet present their eponymous debut album, via Matador Records. The band is comprised of songwriters Emmett Kelly (The Cairo Gang, Ty Segall), Stephen Malkmus (Pavement, the Jicks, Silver Jews), Matt Sweeney (Chavez, Superwolf, Red Dead Redemption 2), along with Jim White (Dirty Three, Xylouris White). "We're all jazzed" - S.M.
October 4 street date. The Hard Quartet present their eponymous debut album, via Matador Records. The band is comprised of songwriters Emmett Kelly (The Cairo Gang, Ty Segall), Stephen Malkmus (Pavement, the Jicks, Silver Jews), Matt Sweeney (Chavez, Superwolf, Red Dead Redemption 2), along with Jim White (Dirty Three, Xylouris White). "We're all jazzed" - S.M.
August 23 street date. With their new album "Rhapsody", the extraordinary vocalists Ifedayo Gatling, Dennis Bailey, and George Marage are able to fully explore the entire range of music that influenced them. The follow-up to their acclaimed 2021 release "Look Up!", the record is a dive into a lesser-known but hugely important era in the evolution of gospel music. Starting in the mid-1960s, local gospel groups and singers began incorporating elements of popular soul and funk styles and in 2006, Chicago-based reissue label Numero Group released "Good God!" A Gospel Funk Hymnal". Harlem Gospel Travellers's longtime friend and mentor Eli "Paperboy" Reed approached the group with the idea of digging through the Numero catalogue and recording some of the gospel funk material, reinterpreted in their own way. At a moment when the world is reconsidering the concepts of genre and category and who's allowed to participate in which traditions, HGT are squarely on the cultural pulse.
August 23 street date. With their new album "Rhapsody", the extraordinary vocalists Ifedayo Gatling, Dennis Bailey, and George Marage are able to fully explore the entire range of music that influenced them. The follow-up to their acclaimed 2021 release "Look Up!", the record is a dive into a lesser-known but hugely important era in the evolution of gospel music. Starting in the mid-1960s, local gospel groups and singers began incorporating elements of popular soul and funk styles and in 2006, Chicago-based reissue label Numero Group released "Good God!" A Gospel Funk Hymnal". Harlem Gospel Travellers's longtime friend and mentor Eli "Paperboy" Reed approached the group with the idea of digging through the Numero catalogue and recording some of the gospel funk material, reinterpreted in their own way. At a moment when the world is reconsidering the concepts of genre and category and who's allowed to participate in which traditions, HGT are squarely on the cultural pulse.
August 23 street date. With their new album "Rhapsody", the extraordinary vocalists Ifedayo Gatling, Dennis Bailey, and George Marage are able to fully explore the entire range of music that influenced them. The follow-up to their acclaimed 2021 release "Look Up!", the record is a dive into a lesser-known but hugely important era in the evolution of gospel music. Starting in the mid-1960s, local gospel groups and singers began incorporating elements of popular soul and funk styles and in 2006, Chicago-based reissue label Numero Group released "Good God!" A Gospel Funk Hymnal". Harlem Gospel Travellers's longtime friend and mentor Eli "Paperboy" Reed approached the group with the idea of digging through the Numero catalogue and recording some of the gospel funk material, reinterpreted in their own way. At a moment when the world is reconsidering the concepts of genre and category and who's allowed to participate in which traditions, HGT are squarely on the cultural pulse.
October 25 street date. Provogue Records is proud to announce the return of Grammy-nominated powerhouse vocalist, Beth Hart, with her newest studio album, "You Still Got Me". Two years removed from her critically acclaimed covers album, "A Tribute To Led Zeppelin", Beth returns to form with arguably her best album to date. Featuring guest appearances from guitar legends Slash and Eric Gales, "You Still Got Me" is yet another hit in Beth Hart's world-famous discography.
October 25 street date. Provogue Records is proud to announce the return of Grammy-nominated powerhouse vocalist, Beth Hart, with her newest studio album, "You Still Got Me". Two years removed from her critically acclaimed covers album, "A Tribute To Led Zeppelin", Beth returns to form with arguably her best album to date. Featuring guest appearances from guitar legends Slash and Eric Gales, "You Still Got Me" is yet another hit in Beth Hart's world-famous discography.
February 9 street date. "PHASOR" is Helado Negro's tightest collection of songs - deep, atmospheric, and meticulously executed. His acclaimed 2021 album, "Far In", focused on being in quarantine - talking to your mother through Zoom instead of across a room. "PHASOR", in turn, is a homage to going outside again. The 9 tracks make up a return-to-life, remembering what the sun feels like, and letting it warm your skin. Helado Negro recently relocated to Asheville, North Carolina, and the landscape around him was essential to this album - the crystalline mountains dotted with mica, wild blueberry bushes, and inky dirt surfaces. He made the collection of songs at his studio, across the hall from the studio of his wife, his frequent collaborator Kristi Sword, who created the album art drawings.
February 9 street date. "PHASOR" is Helado Negro's tightest collection of songs - deep, atmospheric, and meticulously executed. His acclaimed 2021 album, "Far In", focused on being in quarantine - talking to your mother through Zoom instead of across a room. "PHASOR", in turn, is a homage to going outside again. The 9 tracks make up a return-to-life, remembering what the sun feels like, and letting it warm your skin. Helado Negro recently relocated to Asheville, North Carolina, and the landscape around him was essential to this album - the crystalline mountains dotted with mica, wild blueberry bushes, and inky dirt surfaces. He made the collection of songs at his studio, across the hall from the studio of his wife, his frequent collaborator Kristi Sword, who created the album art drawings.
February 9 street date. "PHASOR" is Helado Negro's tightest collection of songs - deep, atmospheric, and meticulously executed. His acclaimed 2021 album, "Far In", focused on being in quarantine - talking to your mother through Zoom instead of across a room. "PHASOR", in turn, is a homage to going outside again. The 9 tracks make up a return-to-life, remembering what the sun feels like, and letting it warm your skin. Helado Negro recently relocated to Asheville, North Carolina, and the landscape around him was essential to this album - the crystalline mountains dotted with mica, wild blueberry bushes, and inky dirt surfaces. He made the collection of songs at his studio, across the hall from the studio of his wife, his frequent collaborator Kristi Sword, who created the album art drawings.
October 25 street date. Reissue of "Head Off", the seventh studio album from Sweden's The Hellacopters. Originally released in 2008, "Head Off" consists of 12 cover songs by bands like The Peepshows, New Bomb Turks, Dead Moon, The Bellrays, and more.
October 25 street date. Reissue of "Head Off", the seventh studio album from Sweden's The Hellacopters. Originally released in 2008, "Head Off" consists of 12 cover songs by bands like The Peepshows, New Bomb Turks, Dead Moon, The Bellrays, and more.
April 20 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. Kristin Hersh's celebrated debut album "Hips And Makers" is getting a first-ever reissue on Record Store Day 2024, to coincide with its 30th anniversary. Pressed on a 2LP set, the first 3 sides feature the original album, reconfigured for optimum playback, along with three tracks from the "Your Ghost" EP and a bonus track, "Hysterical Bending". The 4th side features the full "Strings" EP, which includes the previously orphaned track, "The Key". Reflecting its original design, the "Hips And Makers" 30th anniversary deluxe edition arrives in a gatefold sleeve and on limited edition clear green vinyl.
March 29 street date. High Llamas present "Hey Panda" - a modern pop music/deep listening experience that could only issue forth from their personal quadrant of the galaxy. "Hey Panda" projects soulfully through an enervating abstract of today's popular music; the sound of the Llamas' stately melodies and expressive ditties laid open - blissfully shattered - with drums and vocals hitting different, burning sounds and contemporary production twists pulling the ear at every turn. For the past few decades, High Llamas have trafficked in contemporary pop sounds directed toward the avant end of the spectrum as much as not. But here the message was clear. Llamas' composer-in-residence Sean O'Hagan was determined to let go. "Hey Panda" does just that, with a set of tunes reflecting on multiple levels how definitions change over the course of a lifetime, radiating an optimism derived from the diverse conundrums of today.
March 29 street date. High Llamas present "Hey Panda" - a modern pop music/deep listening experience that could only issue forth from their personal quadrant of the galaxy. "Hey Panda" projects soulfully through an enervating abstract of today's popular music; the sound of the Llamas' stately melodies and expressive ditties laid open - blissfully shattered - with drums and vocals hitting different, burning sounds and contemporary production twists pulling the ear at every turn. For the past few decades, High Llamas have trafficked in contemporary pop sounds directed toward the avant end of the spectrum as much as not. But here the message was clear. Llamas' composer-in-residence Sean O'Hagan was determined to let go. "Hey Panda" does just that, with a set of tunes reflecting on multiple levels how definitions change over the course of a lifetime, radiating an optimism derived from the diverse conundrums of today.
April 19 street date. High On Fire brings an electrifying experience with their dynamic sound that blends sludge, doom, and thrash metal. Dive into a sonic journey as their music transcends boundaries, delivering a heavy and intense atmosphere. Their latest single, "Burning Down", amplifies the raw power of their signature style, featuring relentless riffs and thunderous beats. With High On Fire, listeners embark on a visceral adventure through the depths of metal, where each note ignites a fiery passion for the genre.
April 19 street date. High On Fire brings an electrifying experience with their dynamic sound that blends sludge, doom, and thrash metal. Dive into a sonic journey as their music transcends boundaries, delivering a heavy and intense atmosphere. Their latest single, "Burning Down", amplifies the raw power of their signature style, featuring relentless riffs and thunderous beats. With High On Fire, listeners embark on a visceral adventure through the depths of metal, where each note ignites a fiery passion for the genre.
April 19 street date. High On Fire brings an electrifying experience with their dynamic sound that blends sludge, doom, and thrash metal. Dive into a sonic journey as their music transcends boundaries, delivering a heavy and intense atmosphere. Their latest single, "Burning Down", amplifies the raw power of their signature style, featuring relentless riffs and thunderous beats. With High On Fire, listeners embark on a visceral adventure through the depths of metal, where each note ignites a fiery passion for the genre.
September 13 street date. "Same As It Ever Was" is the second album by House Of Pain, which followed their massively successful debut album. With this album, Everlast changed his style of rapping considerably and unveiled a much more distinctive and recognizable approach. Sounding twisted, damaged, and maniacal, Everlast grabs the listener's attention and refuses to let go on such wildly entertaining fare as "Back From The Dead", "Over There Shit", and "Runnin' Up On Ya." House of Pain's subject matter - namely, their superior rapping skills and the threat they pose to sucker MCs - is far from groundbreaking. But an abundance of strong, clever hooks and Everlast's psycho-like rapping make "Same As It Ever Was" consistently appealing. Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, this edition contains a bonus of remixes of the tracks "On Point" and "Legend".
September 13 street date. "Same As It Ever Was" is the second album by House Of Pain, which followed their massively successful debut album. With this album, Everlast changed his style of rapping considerably and unveiled a much more distinctive and recognizable approach. Sounding twisted, damaged, and maniacal, Everlast grabs the listener's attention and refuses to let go on such wildly entertaining fare as "Back From The Dead", "Over There Shit", and "Runnin' Up On Ya." House of Pain's subject matter - namely, their superior rapping skills and the threat they pose to sucker MCs - is far from groundbreaking. But an abundance of strong, clever hooks and Everlast's psycho-like rapping make "Same As It Ever Was" consistently appealing. Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, this edition contains a bonus of remixes of the tracks "On Point" and "Legend".
June 21 street date. Hailing from Mongolia, The HU are unlike any other rock band in the world, reintroducing their style of music "hunnu rock" - from the Mongolian root word for human being, "hu". Since their debut, the band has been #1 on the Billboard World Albums Chart, #1 on the Top New Artist Albums, and Top 5 globally on Hard Rock album charts (US, Canada, UK, and more). They have toured the world extensively, with sold out shows in Europe, the UK, and the United States. The band now returns with this live performance piece from Glastonbury 2023. Featuring 12 songs recorded at the band's first appearance at the legendary festival, the setlist includes the band's breakthrough hit "Wolf Totem" in addition to popular tracks from the most recent album "Rumble Of Thunder".
December 8 street date. Back in print titles from the pioneering shoegaze/alt-rock band Hum. The band members oversaw every step of the remastering, lacquer cutting, and manufacturing stages while working with original designer Andy Mueller/Ohio Girl in updating the artwork. Hum's fourth album, "Downward Is Heavenward", was originally issued by RCA in 1997.
December 8 street date. Back in print titles from the pioneering shoegaze/alt-rock band Hum. The band members oversaw every step of the remastering, lacquer cutting, and manufacturing stages while working with original designer Andy Mueller/Ohio Girl in updating the artwork. Hum's fourth album, "Downward Is Heavenward", was originally issued by RCA in 1997.
December 8 street date. Back in print titles from the pioneering shoegaze/alt-rock band Hum. The band members oversaw every step of the remastering, lacquer cutting, and manufacturing stages while working with original designer Andy Mueller/Ohio Girl in updating the artwork. Hum's third album, "You'd Prefer An Astronaut", was originally issued by RCA in 1995.
December 8 street date. Back in print titles from the pioneering shoegaze/alt-rock band Hum. The band members oversaw every step of the remastering, lacquer cutting, and manufacturing stages while working with original designer Andy Mueller/Ohio Girl in updating the artwork. Hum's third album, "You'd Prefer An Astronaut", was originally issued by RCA in 1995.
December 8 street date. Back in print titles from the pioneering shoegaze/alt-rock band Hum. The band members oversaw every step of the remastering, lacquer cutting, and manufacturing stages while working with original designer Andy Mueller/Ohio Girl in updating the artwork. Hum's second album, "Electra 2000", was originally released in 1993 and has been unavailable for a long time.
December 8 street date. Back in print titles from the pioneering shoegaze/alt-rock band Hum. The band members oversaw every step of the remastering, lacquer cutting, and manufacturing stages while working with original designer Andy Mueller/Ohio Girl in updating the artwork. Hum's second album, "Electra 2000", was originally released in 1993 and has been unavailable for a long time.
September 27 street date. Take a trip to Paradise, Pop. 10 with beloved singer-songwriter and producer, Christian Lee Hutson. Following his 2022 release "Quitters" (produced by longtime collaborator Phoebe Bridgers and Conor Oberst), he enlisted the help of Bridgers once again to produce. The album title is based on a real life small town where Hutson spent a portion of his childhood. He takes listeners on a journey of autobiographical fiction with his signature wit and sharp storytelling. There are retable themes of love and the limbo of life in his narration across an elevated indie rock sound. In addition to Bridgers' assist, Hutson's partner Maya Hawke contributed vocals and co-wrote several songs.
September 27 street date. Take a trip to Paradise, Pop. 10 with beloved singer-songwriter and producer, Christian Lee Hutson. Following his 2022 release "Quitters" (produced by longtime collaborator Phoebe Bridgers and Conor Oberst), he enlisted the help of Bridgers once again to produce. The album title is based on a real life small town where Hutson spent a portion of his childhood. He takes listeners on a journey of autobiographical fiction with his signature wit and sharp storytelling. There are retable themes of love and the limbo of life in his narration across an elevated indie rock sound. In addition to Bridgers' assist, Hutson's partner Maya Hawke contributed vocals and co-wrote several songs.
May 3 street date. "Pull The Rope", the new record by Ibibio Sound Machine, casts the Eno Williams and Max Grunhard-led outfit in a new light. The hope, joy, and sexiness of their music remains, but, further honing the edge of their acclaimed 2022 album "Electricity", the connection they aim to foster has shifted venues from the sunny buoyancy of a sunlit festival to a sweat-soaked, all-night dance club. Williams and Grunhard attribute this shift to a matter of collaborators, recording "Pull The Rope" with Sheffield-based producer Ross Orton (Arctic Monkeys, M.I.A.) over the course of two weeks. The way the pair wrote songs changed significantly - rather than Eno penning lyrics to music generated by Max and company's jamming, Orton started with Eno and Max writing together before adding the band. With less time in the studio and a new way of considering how they built songs, the duo found making decisions about the sound of "Pull The Rope" quicker and more instinctual than before.
May 3 street date. "Pull The Rope", the new record by Ibibio Sound Machine, casts the Eno Williams and Max Grunhard-led outfit in a new light. The hope, joy, and sexiness of their music remains, but, further honing the edge of their acclaimed 2022 album "Electricity", the connection they aim to foster has shifted venues from the sunny buoyancy of a sunlit festival to a sweat-soaked, all-night dance club. Williams and Grunhard attribute this shift to a matter of collaborators, recording "Pull The Rope" with Sheffield-based producer Ross Orton (Arctic Monkeys, M.I.A.) over the course of two weeks. The way the pair wrote songs changed significantly - rather than Eno penning lyrics to music generated by Max and company's jamming, Orton started with Eno and Max writing together before adding the band. With less time in the studio and a new way of considering how they built songs, the duo found making decisions about the sound of "Pull The Rope" quicker and more instinctual than before.
May 3 street date. "Pull The Rope", the new record by Ibibio Sound Machine, casts the Eno Williams and Max Grunhard-led outfit in a new light. The hope, joy, and sexiness of their music remains, but, further honing the edge of their acclaimed 2022 album "Electricity", the connection they aim to foster has shifted venues from the sunny buoyancy of a sunlit festival to a sweat-soaked, all-night dance club. Williams and Grunhard attribute this shift to a matter of collaborators, recording "Pull The Rope" with Sheffield-based producer Ross Orton (Arctic Monkeys, M.I.A.) over the course of two weeks. The way the pair wrote songs changed significantly - rather than Eno penning lyrics to music generated by Max and company's jamming, Orton started with Eno and Max writing together before adding the band. With less time in the studio and a new way of considering how they built songs, the duo found making decisions about the sound of "Pull The Rope" quicker and more instinctual than before.
August 23 street date. Tenderpunk pioneer Illuminati Hotties is the musical project founded by producer/writer, Sarah Tudzin. The new self-produced album "Power" (with co-production by John Congleton (St. Vincent, Death Cab For Cutie)) features the Hotties trademark wit, vibrancy, and is undeniably fun. "Power" features Cavetown on single "Didn't". To support the album, the band is confirmed for a NPR Tiny Desk performance and kicks off their US/Canada headlining tour on September 25 running through November. Songs by Illuminati Hotties appear in Fortnite and Netflix as well. The previous album, 2021's "Let Me Do One More", landed on multiple Best Of lists, including NY Times, LA Times, NPR, Spin, Paste, Consequence, Pitchfork, and Esquire. Tudzin's production work with Boygenius was nominated for 3 Grammy awards and won Best Alternative Music album.
September 6 street date. Reissue of Immolation's 2017 album "Atonement". Immolation is a name long synonymous with the extreme music scene, delivering some of the most unique and creatively dark death metal the underground has witnessed over the past 35 years. "Atonement" goes beyond all expectations and will leave its listeners crumbled on the ground in a pile of ash, thanking Immolation for every minute it took them to get there!
September 6 street date. Reissue of Immolation's 2017 album "Atonement". Immolation is a name long synonymous with the extreme music scene, delivering some of the most unique and creatively dark death metal the underground has witnessed over the past 35 years. "Atonement" goes beyond all expectations and will leave its listeners crumbled on the ground in a pile of ash, thanking Immolation for every minute it took them to get there!
September 6 street date. Reissue of Immolation's 2013 album "Kingdom Of Conspiracy". Immolation is a name long synonymous with the extreme music scene, delivering some of the most unique and creatively dark death metal the underground has witnessed over the past 35 years.
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