April 30 street date. Beginning with the dynamic chaos of "Up & Down" and ending with Crumb's closest thing to a lullaby, "Ice Melt"'s ten tracks combine, like ice sculptures melting into a glistening puddle. From the start, the group knew that cohesion was best achieved through plumbing their individual strengths - frontwoman Lila Ramani's earliest songwriting, which catalyzed the group's first two EPs; Bri Aronow's knack for building (dis)affecting soundscapes; the hypnotic grounding of Jonathan Gilad's drums, a Crumb mainstay; and Jesse Brotter's distinctive bass playing, which subtly traces Ramani's vocal melodies while providing an unrelenting pulse. These collective skills make Crumb a project of independent self-discovery, four creative minds converging around an idea that is always shifting and reforming. "Ice Melt" is the cultivation of road-worn musicians exploring brand-new sounds and thematic concepts, pushing themselves into territory they could never have anticipated five years ago.
April 30 street date. Beginning with the dynamic chaos of "Up & Down" and ending with Crumb's closest thing to a lullaby, "Ice Melt"'s ten tracks combine, like ice sculptures melting into a glistening puddle. From the start, the group knew that cohesion was best achieved through plumbing their individual strengths - frontwoman Lila Ramani's earliest songwriting, which catalyzed the group's first two EPs; Bri Aronow's knack for building (dis)affecting soundscapes; the hypnotic grounding of Jonathan Gilad's drums, a Crumb mainstay; and Jesse Brotter's distinctive bass playing, which subtly traces Ramani's vocal melodies while providing an unrelenting pulse. These collective skills make Crumb a project of independent self-discovery, four creative minds converging around an idea that is always shifting and reforming. "Ice Melt" is the cultivation of road-worn musicians exploring brand-new sounds and thematic concepts, pushing themselves into territory they could never have anticipated five years ago.
April 30 street date. Beginning with the dynamic chaos of "Up & Down" and ending with Crumb's closest thing to a lullaby, "Ice Melt"'s ten tracks combine, like ice sculptures melting into a glistening puddle. From the start, the group knew that cohesion was best achieved through plumbing their individual strengths - frontwoman Lila Ramani's earliest songwriting, which catalyzed the group's first two EPs; Bri Aronow's knack for building (dis)affecting soundscapes; the hypnotic grounding of Jonathan Gilad's drums, a Crumb mainstay; and Jesse Brotter's distinctive bass playing, which subtly traces Ramani's vocal melodies while providing an unrelenting pulse. These collective skills make Crumb a project of independent self-discovery, four creative minds converging around an idea that is always shifting and reforming. "Ice Melt" is the cultivation of road-worn musicians exploring brand-new sounds and thematic concepts, pushing themselves into territory they could never have anticipated five years ago.
April 30 street date. Beginning with the dynamic chaos of "Up & Down" and ending with Crumb's closest thing to a lullaby, "Ice Melt"'s ten tracks combine, like ice sculptures melting into a glistening puddle. From the start, the group knew that cohesion was best achieved through plumbing their individual strengths - frontwoman Lila Ramani's earliest songwriting, which catalyzed the group's first two EPs; Bri Aronow's knack for building (dis)affecting soundscapes; the hypnotic grounding of Jonathan Gilad's drums, a Crumb mainstay; and Jesse Brotter's distinctive bass playing, which subtly traces Ramani's vocal melodies while providing an unrelenting pulse. These collective skills make Crumb a project of independent self-discovery, four creative minds converging around an idea that is always shifting and reforming. "Ice Melt" is the cultivation of road-worn musicians exploring brand-new sounds and thematic concepts, pushing themselves into territory they could never have anticipated five years ago.
July 17 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. Czarface delivers a fresh action adventure in the form of an all new Czarface comic, "Czar Noir", packaged with an exclusive vinyl soundtrack. In the spirit of the highly sought after Power Records series from the 70s, you can read along with the comic and hear the story come to life on vinyl. This all new action packed full color Czarface escapade comes with musical accompaniment by DJ 7L and the Czar-Keys. There’s death, destruction, mayhem and high drama! The set will be available exclusively for RSD 2021.
June 25 street date. The follow-up to 2018's "Historian" and her 2016 debut "No Burden", "Home Video" was built on Lucy Dacus's interrogation of her coming-of-age years in Richmond, Virginia. Many of the songs start the way a memoir might, and all of them have the compassion, humour, and honesty of the best autobiographical writing. "Home Video" is a gorgeous example of the transformative power of vulnerability. Dacus's voice, both audible and on the page, has a healer's power to soothe and ground and reckon. This album not only propels Dacus forward as a songwriter, but also props her up as one of the most effective storytellers of her generation.
June 25 street date. The follow-up to 2018's "Historian" and her 2016 debut "No Burden", "Home Video" was built on Lucy Dacus's interrogation of her coming-of-age years in Richmond, Virginia. Many of the songs start the way a memoir might, and all of them have the compassion, humour, and honesty of the best autobiographical writing. "Home Video" is a gorgeous example of the transformative power of vulnerability. Dacus's voice, both audible and on the page, has a healer's power to soothe and ground and reckon. This album not only propels Dacus forward as a songwriter, but also props her up as one of the most effective storytellers of her generation.
June 25 street date. The follow-up to 2018's "Historian" and her 2016 debut "No Burden", "Home Video" was built on Lucy Dacus's interrogation of her coming-of-age years in Richmond, Virginia. Many of the songs start the way a memoir might, and all of them have the compassion, humour, and honesty of the best autobiographical writing. "Home Video" is a gorgeous example of the transformative power of vulnerability. Dacus's voice, both audible and on the page, has a healer's power to soothe and ground and reckon. This album not only propels Dacus forward as a songwriter, but also props her up as one of the most effective storytellers of her generation.
July 17 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. Dinner Party is the supergroup of Terrace Martin, Robert Glasper, 9th Wonder, and Kamasi Washington, a collection of some of hip-hop's finest current producers and contributors. With fourteen Grammy nominations between the group, Dinner Party utilizes the strengths of each musician seamlessly, blending their styles to create something soulful for these trying times. Following the highly acclaimed release of the self-titled album, Dinner Party releases the followup, "Dinner Party: Dessert". The album builds on the mostly instrumental tracks released in the previous version, with heavyweight vocal features from Snoop Dogg, Cordae, Buddy, Reuben Vincent, Herbie Hancock, Rapsody, Bilal, and Tarriona Tank Ball.
July 17 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. Never before pressed on vinyl, Earthgang's Empire catalogue piece "Strays With Rabies" features Sheeda, Mereba, MO, Meegs, and Dreamville labelmate J.I.D. Making it abundantly clear that Atlanta's sound doesn't live strictly in the strip clubs, hip-hop duo WowGr8 and Johnny Venus take cues from early Outkast and Goodie Mob, delivering an otherworldly sound that is occasionally trippy and made with the people in mind. The buzz for Earthgang has only increased recently, with the 2019 release of "Mirrorland" and the Dreamville compilation album "Revenge of the Dreamers 3", on which they were heavily featured.
June 11 street date. "Big Mess" marks Danny Elfman's first solo collection in more than thirty years, but it's no return to form. Clocking in at 18 tracks, the sprawling, ambitious double album finds the Grammy and Emmy Award-winning composer breaking bold new ground as both a writer and a performer, drawing on a dystopian palette of distorted electric guitars, industrial synthesizers and orchestra in an effort to exorcise the demons brought about by four years of creeping fascism and civil rot. The songs here call to mind everything from Nine Inch Nails to David Bowie to XTC at times, balancing dense, harmonically complex arrangements with biting, acerbic wit as they reckon with the chaos and confusion of the modern world. Elfman wrote almost all of the record during quarantine, and while the anger, frustration, and isolation of it all is palpable in his delivery, "Big Mess" is about more than simply blowing off steam. In making the space to truly sit with his emotions and write without limitations, Elfman achieved a kind of artistic liberation on the record that had been eluding him for decades, rediscovering his voice and reinventing himself all at once in the process.
June 11 street date. "Big Mess" marks Danny Elfman's first solo collection in more than thirty years, but it's no return to form. Clocking in at 18 tracks, the sprawling, ambitious double album finds the Grammy and Emmy Award-winning composer breaking bold new ground as both a writer and a performer, drawing on a dystopian palette of distorted electric guitars, industrial synthesizers and orchestra in an effort to exorcise the demons brought about by four years of creeping fascism and civil rot. The songs here call to mind everything from Nine Inch Nails to David Bowie to XTC at times, balancing dense, harmonically complex arrangements with biting, acerbic wit as they reckon with the chaos and confusion of the modern world. Elfman wrote almost all of the record during quarantine, and while the anger, frustration, and isolation of it all is palpable in his delivery, "Big Mess" is about more than simply blowing off steam. In making the space to truly sit with his emotions and write without limitations, Elfman achieved a kind of artistic liberation on the record that had been eluding him for decades, rediscovering his voice and reinventing himself all at once in the process.
July 17 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. This 7" pressed on metallic gold coloured vinyl marks the first-ever physical release of Fleet Foxes' collaboration with the Resistance Revival Chorus, a New-York based collective of women and non-binary singers, on "Can I Believe You" and "Wading In Waist-High Water". Both tracks from Fleet Foxes' latest studio album "Shore"; these new arrangements were recorded at St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church in Brooklyn, NY in November 2020.
Please note new street date: March 19. Fleet Foxes fourth studio album "Shore" is a collection of 15 new songs, available on double-gatefold 2LP vinyl and CD. Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold shares, "Shore feels like a relief, like you’d feel when your feet finally hit sand after getting caught in a riptide. It's a celebration of life in the face of death, honoring our lost musical heroes, from David Berman to John Prine to Judee Sill to Bill Withers, embracing the joy and solace they brought to our lives and honoring their memory. "Shore" is an object levitating between the magnetic fields of the past and the future". "Shore" was released digitally in its entirety on the fall equinox (9/22) alongside an album length Super-16mm landscape film captured and edited in Washington State by the filmmaker Kersti Jan Werdal. The album was recorded in upstate New York at Aaron Dessner's Long Pond Studio, in Paris at Studios St. Germain, in Los Angeles at the legendary Vox, in Long Island City at Diamond Mine, and New York City's Electric Lady.
Please note new street date: March 19. Fleet Foxes fourth studio album "Shore" is a collection of 15 new songs, available on double-gatefold 2LP vinyl and CD. Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold shares, "Shore feels like a relief, like you’d feel when your feet finally hit sand after getting caught in a riptide. It's a celebration of life in the face of death, honoring our lost musical heroes, from David Berman to John Prine to Judee Sill to Bill Withers, embracing the joy and solace they brought to our lives and honoring their memory. "Shore" is an object levitating between the magnetic fields of the past and the future". "Shore" was released digitally in its entirety on the fall equinox (9/22) alongside an album length Super-16mm landscape film captured and edited in Washington State by the filmmaker Kersti Jan Werdal. The album was recorded in upstate New York at Aaron Dessner's Long Pond Studio, in Paris at Studios St. Germain, in Los Angeles at the legendary Vox, in Long Island City at Diamond Mine, and New York City's Electric Lady.
July 17 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. From First To Last formed in 2002 with guitarists Travis Richter and Matt Good. With a rotating lineup early on, the post-hardcore/screamo outfit released the EP "Aesthetic" on a small New York-based label in early 2003 before signing with Epitaph by the end of the year. After the departure of their original singer, Phillip Reardon, 15-year-old Sonny Moore (years later to go by the name Skrillex) joined as lead vocalist during the recording of the band's debut full-length. Written in two weeks, the group was rounded out on the album - 2004's "Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Bodycount" - with drummer Derek Bloom and bassist Jon Weisberger. They had the right idea, using dense lyricism and inventively propulsive drumming to separate "Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Bodycount" from the teeming post-hardcore pack. But like so many of its peers, FFTL tempers its fury with soft-focus introspection. This LP contains the original mixes of this album by producer Lee Dyess, and these mixes have never been released. In 2004, the album was remixed and released, leaving these masters in the vault where front man Skrillex (Sonny Moore) has unearthed and he asked for Epitaph to remaster and release this on vinyl for the first time.
July 17 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. To commemorate its 30th year, Get On Down presents "Mr. Hood" with a full color OBI in a never to be repeated tri-colour pressing of the double LP. KMD (Kausing Much Damage, or a positive Kause in a Much Damaged society) was the early 90s Hip Hop group that served as a launching pad for the career of the artist we now know as MF DOOM (known during his KMD tenure as Zev Love X). In the 30 years since "Mr. Hood" was released, so much has changed in the world and the world of Hip Hop but this recording has maintained an ageless appeal with DOOM becoming an artist oflegendary stature.
Available now. One of the most acclaimed albums of 2020 finally repressed on black vinyl and now available in a limited metallic silver vinyl edition. Recorded over nine days at Neil Halstead's studio stationed on an old airfield, "Silver Ladders" finds Mary Lattimore exercising command and restraint. Her signature style is refined, the sprawling layers of harp reigned in and accented by flourishes of low-end synth and Halstead's guitar. The music can feel ominous but not by compromising vivid wonder, like oceanic overtones that shift with the tides. These songs are clearly tales, and yet "Silver Ladders" is open to interpretation.
Available now. One of the most acclaimed albums of 2020 finally repressed on black vinyl and now available in a limited metallic silver vinyl edition. Recorded over nine days at Neil Halstead's studio stationed on an old airfield, "Silver Ladders" finds Mary Lattimore exercising command and restraint. Her signature style is refined, the sprawling layers of harp reigned in and accented by flourishes of low-end synth and Halstead's guitar. The music can feel ominous but not by compromising vivid wonder, like oceanic overtones that shift with the tides. These songs are clearly tales, and yet "Silver Ladders" is open to interpretation.
June 4 street date. Liz Phair brashly but effortlessly drops lyrical nuggets into her melody-driven, lo-fi songs. It makes for a devastating back catalogue; each of her records acts as another timely klaxon call for a generation not prepared to sit back nor shut up. It's a career that's heralded her Grammy Award nominations, a spot on Rolling Stone's albums of all-time list, and decades of critical acclaim that has inspired and influenced some of the brightest new faces of yesterday and today, veering from cult icon to mainstream concern. Over a decade since her last record was released, Liz Phair now returns with another bagful of fireworks already fizzing to be let off in the shape of new album "Soberish". Liz maintains the sass that propelled her to become such a critical darling, and that innate ear for melody and razor sharp way with words." Hey Lou" is the record's opening gambit, a mischievous ode to Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson, and Liz's jaunty lament back into our ears. Welcome back Miss Phair, we've missed you.
June 4 street date. Liz Phair brashly but effortlessly drops lyrical nuggets into her melody-driven, lo-fi songs. It makes for a devastating back catalogue; each of her records acts as another timely klaxon call for a generation not prepared to sit back nor shut up. It's a career that's heralded her Grammy Award nominations, a spot on Rolling Stone's albums of all-time list, and decades of critical acclaim that has inspired and influenced some of the brightest new faces of yesterday and today, veering from cult icon to mainstream concern. Over a decade since her last record was released, Liz Phair now returns with another bagful of fireworks already fizzing to be let off in the shape of new album "Soberish". Liz maintains the sass that propelled her to become such a critical darling, and that innate ear for melody and razor sharp way with words." Hey Lou" is the record's opening gambit, a mischievous ode to Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson, and Liz's jaunty lament back into our ears. Welcome back Miss Phair, we've missed you.
June 4 street date. Liz Phair brashly but effortlessly drops lyrical nuggets into her melody-driven, lo-fi songs. It makes for a devastating back catalogue; each of her records acts as another timely klaxon call for a generation not prepared to sit back nor shut up. It's a career that's heralded her Grammy Award nominations, a spot on Rolling Stone's albums of all-time list, and decades of critical acclaim that has inspired and influenced some of the brightest new faces of yesterday and today, veering from cult icon to mainstream concern. Over a decade since her last record was released, Liz Phair now returns with another bagful of fireworks already fizzing to be let off in the shape of new album "Soberish". Liz maintains the sass that propelled her to become such a critical darling, and that innate ear for melody and razor sharp way with words." Hey Lou" is the record's opening gambit, a mischievous ode to Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson, and Liz's jaunty lament back into our ears. Welcome back Miss Phair, we've missed you.
June 11 street date. "Oh, Inverted World", the earth-shattering, indie-rock-redefining 2001 debut album by The Shins, is presented here in its finest form, dressed up all nice for its 20th birthday. The classic tunes get new life by way of a full remastering job under band leader James Mercer's watchful eye, the art is given a little extra zest via a die-cut jacket and a classy inner sleeve, and the package is rounded off with a big ol' booklet with vintage photos, handwritten lyrics, and more. The music, of course, is obviously essential. Aside from a friendly reminder that this is the album with the smash hit "New Slang", we just need to note that the remastering job truly makes this the album Mercer always wanted it to be. Never quite satisfied with the sonics of the original, Mercer took the 20th anniversary of the album as his opportunity to finally set the (literal!) record straight. And the results sound stellar: great for new fans, and well worth the attention of those already on board!
June 11 street date. "Oh, Inverted World", the earth-shattering, indie-rock-redefining 2001 debut album by The Shins, is presented here in its finest form, dressed up all nice for its 20th birthday. The classic tunes get new life by way of a full remastering job under band leader James Mercer's watchful eye, the art is given a little extra zest via a die-cut jacket and a classy inner sleeve, and the package is rounded off with a big ol' booklet with vintage photos, handwritten lyrics, and more. The music, of course, is obviously essential. Aside from a friendly reminder that this is the album with the smash hit "New Slang", we just need to note that the remastering job truly makes this the album Mercer always wanted it to be. Never quite satisfied with the sonics of the original, Mercer took the 20th anniversary of the album as his opportunity to finally set the (literal!) record straight. And the results sound stellar: great for new fans, and well worth the attention of those already on board!
June 11 street date. "Oh, Inverted World", the earth-shattering, indie-rock-redefining 2001 debut album by The Shins, is presented here in its finest form, dressed up all nice for its 20th birthday. The classic tunes get new life by way of a full remastering job under band leader James Mercer's watchful eye, the art is given a little extra zest via a die-cut jacket and a classy inner sleeve, and the package is rounded off with a big ol' booklet with vintage photos, handwritten lyrics, and more. The music, of course, is obviously essential. Aside from a friendly reminder that this is the album with the smash hit "New Slang", we just need to note that the remastering job truly makes this the album Mercer always wanted it to be. Never quite satisfied with the sonics of the original, Mercer took the 20th anniversary of the album as his opportunity to finally set the (literal!) record straight. And the results sound stellar: great for new fans, and well worth the attention of those already on board!
June 11 street date. "Oh, Inverted World", the earth-shattering, indie-rock-redefining 2001 debut album by The Shins, is presented here in its finest form, dressed up all nice for its 20th birthday. The classic tunes get new life by way of a full remastering job under band leader James Mercer's watchful eye, the art is given a little extra zest via a die-cut jacket and a classy inner sleeve, and the package is rounded off with a big ol' booklet with vintage photos, handwritten lyrics, and more. The music, of course, is obviously essential. Aside from a friendly reminder that this is the album with the smash hit "New Slang", we just need to note that the remastering job truly makes this the album Mercer always wanted it to be. Never quite satisfied with the sonics of the original, Mercer took the 20th anniversary of the album as his opportunity to finally set the (literal!) record straight. And the results sound stellar: great for new fans, and well worth the attention of those already on board!
June 25 street date. "The Turning Wheel" revolves around themes of human unity, the future, divine love and the enigmatic ups and downs of being a part of this carnival called Life. Venturing to push the boundaries of her primarily synth-based work, SPELLLING took on the ambitious task of orchestrating and self-producing an album that features an ensemble of 31 collaborating musicians. "The Turning Wheel" incorporates a vast range of rich acoustic sounds that cast SPELLLING's work into vibrant new dimensions. The double LP is split into two halves - "Above" and "Below". Lush string quartet shimmer combines with haunting banjo and wandering bassoon leads, as the album progresses from the more jubilant, warm, and dreamy mood of the "Above" tracks to the more chilling and gothic tone of the "Below" tracks. This progression is anchored by SPELLLING's familiar bewitching vocal style that emphasizes the theatrical and folkloric heart of her songwriting.
June 25 street date. "The Turning Wheel" revolves around themes of human unity, the future, divine love and the enigmatic ups and downs of being a part of this carnival called Life. Venturing to push the boundaries of her primarily synth-based work, SPELLLING took on the ambitious task of orchestrating and self-producing an album that features an ensemble of 31 collaborating musicians. "The Turning Wheel" incorporates a vast range of rich acoustic sounds that cast SPELLLING's work into vibrant new dimensions. The double LP is split into two halves - "Above" and "Below". Lush string quartet shimmer combines with haunting banjo and wandering bassoon leads, as the album progresses from the more jubilant, warm, and dreamy mood of the "Above" tracks to the more chilling and gothic tone of the "Below" tracks. This progression is anchored by SPELLLING's familiar bewitching vocal style that emphasizes the theatrical and folkloric heart of her songwriting.
June 25 street date. "The Turning Wheel" revolves around themes of human unity, the future, divine love and the enigmatic ups and downs of being a part of this carnival called Life. Venturing to push the boundaries of her primarily synth-based work, SPELLLING took on the ambitious task of orchestrating and self-producing an album that features an ensemble of 31 collaborating musicians. "The Turning Wheel" incorporates a vast range of rich acoustic sounds that cast SPELLLING's work into vibrant new dimensions. The double LP is split into two halves - "Above" and "Below". Lush string quartet shimmer combines with haunting banjo and wandering bassoon leads, as the album progresses from the more jubilant, warm, and dreamy mood of the "Above" tracks to the more chilling and gothic tone of the "Below" tracks. This progression is anchored by SPELLLING's familiar bewitching vocal style that emphasizes the theatrical and folkloric heart of her songwriting.
June 25 street date. "The Turning Wheel" revolves around themes of human unity, the future, divine love and the enigmatic ups and downs of being a part of this carnival called Life. Venturing to push the boundaries of her primarily synth-based work, SPELLLING took on the ambitious task of orchestrating and self-producing an album that features an ensemble of 31 collaborating musicians. "The Turning Wheel" incorporates a vast range of rich acoustic sounds that cast SPELLLING's work into vibrant new dimensions. The double LP is split into two halves - "Above" and "Below". Lush string quartet shimmer combines with haunting banjo and wandering bassoon leads, as the album progresses from the more jubilant, warm, and dreamy mood of the "Above" tracks to the more chilling and gothic tone of the "Below" tracks. This progression is anchored by SPELLLING's familiar bewitching vocal style that emphasizes the theatrical and folkloric heart of her songwriting.
June 18 street date. Where once was "Superwolf", now roam "Superwolves", the demon spawn of Matt Sweeney and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy.The songs go boldly into undreamed-of places, and go deep, as Matt and Bonny take all the musics they know to make songs that penetrate. In classic Garcia-Hunter style, Sweeney and the ‘Prince’ first work separately, finding a path to each other in their solitary imaginings. Bonnie lyric sets delivered to Matt spark Sweeney's guitar brain; chords and a melody are shaped, recorded fast and loose and sent back to the Prince, then the two parties meet up to sing, stitch, strengthen, and finally perform them together in front of a small unsuspecting audience. Then new sets of lyrics are sent, animated and played in a high wire style until the shared songs and experiences are ready to commit to record. This is just the beginning of their fusion process, as words imply vocalizations to counter and support, and guitar lines suggest harmonic fields to subtly push into.
June 18 street date. Where once was "Superwolf", now roam "Superwolves", the demon spawn of Matt Sweeney and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy.The songs go boldly into undreamed-of places, and go deep, as Matt and Bonny take all the musics they know to make songs that penetrate. In classic Garcia-Hunter style, Sweeney and the ‘Prince’ first work separately, finding a path to each other in their solitary imaginings. Bonnie lyric sets delivered to Matt spark Sweeney's guitar brain; chords and a melody are shaped, recorded fast and loose and sent back to the Prince, then the two parties meet up to sing, stitch, strengthen, and finally perform them together in front of a small unsuspecting audience. Then new sets of lyrics are sent, animated and played in a high wire style until the shared songs and experiences are ready to commit to record. This is just the beginning of their fusion process, as words imply vocalizations to counter and support, and guitar lines suggest harmonic fields to subtly push into.
June 18 street date. Where once was "Superwolf", now roam "Superwolves", the demon spawn of Matt Sweeney and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy.The songs go boldly into undreamed-of places, and go deep, as Matt and Bonny take all the musics they know to make songs that penetrate. In classic Garcia-Hunter style, Sweeney and the ‘Prince’ first work separately, finding a path to each other in their solitary imaginings. Bonnie lyric sets delivered to Matt spark Sweeney's guitar brain; chords and a melody are shaped, recorded fast and loose and sent back to the Prince, then the two parties meet up to sing, stitch, strengthen, and finally perform them together in front of a small unsuspecting audience. Then new sets of lyrics are sent, animated and played in a high wire style until the shared songs and experiences are ready to commit to record. This is just the beginning of their fusion process, as words imply vocalizations to counter and support, and guitar lines suggest harmonic fields to subtly push into.
May 21 street date. One year ago NYC-via-Seoul electronic producer, DJ, and vocalist Yaeji released her debut, full-length project in the form of a diary-like mixtape titled "What We Drew". To commemorate the project's anniversary, Yaeji has issued a new limited-edition blue vinyl version of the album. Noted by Time Magazine, Stereogum, Billboard, Gorilla vs Bear, New Yorker, Pitchfork and more as one of the best albums of 2020, "What We Drew" is a reflection of Yaeji's gratitude towards her community, family and friends during a period of growth that resulted in a new found laser-focused creative vision for the artist.
May 28 street date. Bachelor, the new project from Melina Duterte (Jay Som) and Ellen Kempner (Palehound), is not a band, it's a friendship. In January of 2020, the duo packed the entirety of Duterte's recording equipment into two cars and headed to a rental house in Topanga, CA where over the course of two weeks, they wrote and recorded their debut album "Doomin' Sun". In this space, Kempner and Duterte hybridized their individual songwriting talents, producing a collection that slips between moods with ease and showcases their lyrical prowess. There was a lot of pain that went into the record, especially around themes of queerness and climate change inspired by the red skies and wildfires subsuming Australia at the time. However, when the duo did shed tears during the creative process, they weren't tears of sadness, they were tears of laughter. When Kempner and Duterte look back on those weeks, what they remember first is shortness of breath and the inability to track vocal takes without falling to the floor howling. They couldn't remember a time they'd ever been so delirious with creativity, so overwhelmed with joy.
May 28 street date. Bachelor, the new project from Melina Duterte (Jay Som) and Ellen Kempner (Palehound), is not a band, it's a friendship. In January of 2020, the duo packed the entirety of Duterte's recording equipment into two cars and headed to a rental house in Topanga, CA where over the course of two weeks, they wrote and recorded their debut album "Doomin' Sun". In this space, Kempner and Duterte hybridized their individual songwriting talents, producing a collection that slips between moods with ease and showcases their lyrical prowess. There was a lot of pain that went into the record, especially around themes of queerness and climate change inspired by the red skies and wildfires subsuming Australia at the time. However, when the duo did shed tears during the creative process, they weren't tears of sadness, they were tears of laughter. When Kempner and Duterte look back on those weeks, what they remember first is shortness of breath and the inability to track vocal takes without falling to the floor howling. They couldn't remember a time they'd ever been so delirious with creativity, so overwhelmed with joy.
May 28 street date. Bachelor, the new project from Melina Duterte (Jay Som) and Ellen Kempner (Palehound), is not a band, it's a friendship. In January of 2020, the duo packed the entirety of Duterte's recording equipment into two cars and headed to a rental house in Topanga, CA where over the course of two weeks, they wrote and recorded their debut album "Doomin' Sun". In this space, Kempner and Duterte hybridized their individual songwriting talents, producing a collection that slips between moods with ease and showcases their lyrical prowess. There was a lot of pain that went into the record, especially around themes of queerness and climate change inspired by the red skies and wildfires subsuming Australia at the time. However, when the duo did shed tears during the creative process, they weren't tears of sadness, they were tears of laughter. When Kempner and Duterte look back on those weeks, what they remember first is shortness of breath and the inability to track vocal takes without falling to the floor howling. They couldn't remember a time they'd ever been so delirious with creativity, so overwhelmed with joy.
Available now. Come Closer's knack for creating lo-fi, hook-laden tunes will make you want to instantly hit the "replay" button. Come Closer leader J. Wang produced the record in his house with some help from an all star cast. Davey Quinn (Tiltwheel, Dan Padilla) and Chris Prescott (Pinback, No Knife, Rocket From The Crypt) lend their musical and engineering talents that helped bring this record to life.
May 7 street date. Extremely limited edition 12" single featuring "Dearest Alfred" (Knxwledge remix) and "Father Bird, Mother Bird" (Kadhja Bonet remix). Most shops will be capped at one copy per store. Please DO NOT post a listing for these anywhere online until you receive your copies so you know how many you have to sell. These also should not have a label listed when posting about them online.
May 21 street date. Little Giant Drug was a project formed by Mitch Harris and Shane Embury of Napalm Death way back in 1996. The duo's love for indie rock inspired them to record an album to please themselves. They enlisted the help of singer Simon Orme on vocals from neighbouring Walsall and recorded this album at Framework studio in Birmingham - the same studio as Napalm Death's "Diatribes". "Prismcast" remains an important part of the duo's musical history.
May 28 street date. Originally released in 2007, "Inventions for the New Season" was Maserati's third album - and their first with new drummer, Jerry Fuchs (!!!, Turing Machine, LCD Soundsystem, The Juan Maclean). Fuchs' influence was immediately felt, pushing the tempos and helping the band shed much of its former self - saving only their trademark reverb and delay-drenched guitars. The result was a sweaty, delirious mix of late-70s Pink Floyd, German psych-rock, and mid-80s action film scores that instantly cemented Maserati's reputation as a white-knuckled instrumental force. To celebrate Maserati's 20th anniversary, "Inventions for the New Season" is being remastered from the original master tapes.
May 28 street date. When Jerry Fuchs joined Maserati in 2004, he initiated a complete overhaul of the group: old songs were dropped, tempos were drastically sped up, and the budding psych-rock impulses of guitarists Coley Dennis and Matt Cherry were given room to grow. That spirit shines bright on 2012's "Maserati VII", their first album conceived since Fuchs' passing. On "Maserati VII", they're grounded and driven by new drummer Mike Albanese (Cinemechanica), whose dexterity and stamina prove a perfect fit for Maserati's trademark relentless, driving rhythms and epic song lengths, anchored by bass badass, Chris "Coach" McNeal. To celebrate Maserati's 20th anniversary, "Maserati VII" will be made available again on vinyl for the first time in over five years, packaged in the original heavyweight, full-color old-style tip-on gatefold jacket with custom matte and spot gloss varnishes.
May 28 street date. When Jerry Fuchs joined Maserati in 2004, he initiated a complete overhaul of the group: old songs were dropped, tempos were drastically sped up, and the budding psych-rock impulses of guitarists Coley Dennis and Matt Cherry were given room to grow. That spirit shines bright on 2012's "Maserati VII", their first album conceived since Fuchs' passing. On "Maserati VII", they're grounded and driven by new drummer Mike Albanese (Cinemechanica), whose dexterity and stamina prove a perfect fit for Maserati's trademark relentless, driving rhythms and epic song lengths, anchored by bass badass, Chris "Coach" McNeal. To celebrate Maserati's 20th anniversary, "Maserati VII" will be made available again on vinyl for the first time in over five years, packaged in the original heavyweight, full-color old-style tip-on gatefold jacket with custom matte and spot gloss varnishes.
May 28 street date. Prior to the release of their lauded 2010 album, "Pyramid of the Sun", Maserati collected their rare and out-of-print vinyl tracks from the previous couple years into a compilation for CD and digital release. Featuring all four tracks from their blink-and-it's-gone limited-edition split LP with Zombi, as well as their remix LP (featuring The DFA's Tim Goldsworthy and !!!'s Justin Van Der Volgen), "Passages" was augmented with two previously unreleased tracks. The "Passages" collection was remastered from the original master tapes, and packaged with eye-popping new artwork. To celebrate Maserati's 20th anniversary, "Passages" is being made available on vinyl for the first time ever. Packaged in an updated design that maintains the spirit of the original, the vinyl was cut by Amy Dragon at Telegraph Mastering, and the records were pressed at RTI.
May 28 street date. Prior to the release of their lauded 2010 album, "Pyramid of the Sun", Maserati collected their rare and out-of-print vinyl tracks from the previous couple years into a compilation for CD and digital release. Featuring all four tracks from their blink-and-it's-gone limited-edition split LP with Zombi, as well as their remix LP (featuring The DFA's Tim Goldsworthy and !!!'s Justin Van Der Volgen), "Passages" was augmented with two previously unreleased tracks. The "Passages" collection was remastered from the original master tapes, and packaged with eye-popping new artwork. To celebrate Maserati's 20th anniversary, "Passages" is being made available on vinyl for the first time ever. Packaged in an updated design that maintains the spirit of the original, the vinyl was cut by Amy Dragon at Telegraph Mastering, and the records were pressed at RTI.
May 28 street date. To celebrate Maserati's 20th anniversary, "Rehumanizer" available again on vinyl for the first time in recent years (and CD has been reduced in price), packaged in the original full-color jacket and heavyweight inner sleeve, with custom matte and spot gloss varnishes. Maserati are a band obsessed with process. Specifically, they're obsessed with the process of marrying the past to the future - retro futurists hellbent on forging Krautrock and classic rock into one motorik, monolithic vehicle. "Rehumanizer" is the most accomplished product of that process to date, a marriage of man and machine that plays like a supergroup comprised of Gary Numan, Cluster, and Pink Floyd.
May 14 street date. Montréal's Pale Lips is made up of four badass ladies who can riff like Chuck Berry and play with enough attitude to stare down the Ramones. And to top things off, their songs come equipped with the kind of melodies and hooks that get lodged in your brain after just one listen. Proving once again that rock 'n' roll still satisfies in a way that no other style of music possibly can. And you just won't hear music more joyful than this. Put this album on, and you've got yourself an instant party wherever you may be. If you're not dancing and singing along within the first minute, there may be no cure for whatever ails you. And don't bother asking me for tips on how to get these songs out of your head. No such means exist.
Available now. Double LP version on red and green vinyl. The second album from Papir, originally released in 2011. Papir is a trio from Copenhagen who have played together for years under various names while slowly, but surely, perfecting their unique brand of semi-improvisational psychedelic rock. Based around Christoffer Brøchmann's complex and powerful drumming, Papir creates instrumental journeys - organic structures of sound that move forward with the hypnotic groove of Can or electric Miles Davis through euphoric peaks, thunderous riffs and beautiful cosmic dronescapes. Nicklas Sørensen's guitar playing displays his love for fuzzed-out psychedelic rock from the 1960s and 1970s but also has a highly melodic aspect that reveals his admiration for German heroes Michael Rother and Manuel Göttsching. Similarly Christian Becher Clausen's bass playing covers a wide palette of ideas and sounds - sometimes using the instrument as a solid groove-maker and other times as a tool for creating spacy soundscapes and drones. Limited to 350 copies.
May 14 street date. Originally released in 2014 and available for the first time on CD with two bonus tracks. Written, recorded, mixed and produced by Will Dorey, Skinshape's self-titled debut album showcases the talents of the then 23 year old. Recorded in bedrooms, lounges and ‘The Arch’ studio in North London the trademark ‘Skinshape’ sound was already starting to emerge. Everything from psychedelia and rock to indie and dub is explored. A stunning debut for a now much loved artist.
May 14 street date. Originally released in 2014 and available for the first time on CD with two bonus tracks. Written, recorded, mixed and produced by Will Dorey, Skinshape's self-titled debut album showcases the talents of the then 23 year old. Recorded in bedrooms, lounges and ‘The Arch’ studio in North London the trademark ‘Skinshape’ sound was already starting to emerge. Everything from psychedelia and rock to indie and dub is explored. A stunning debut for a now much loved artist.
May 14 street date. Cocksure rockers/movers/shakers Watts return with their fifth full-length album. We're sliding 10 brand new shots down the Rum Bar and into your ears. "Shady Rock & Rollers" is pouring up a heavy dose of Cheap Trick, Stones, Mott, AC/DC, infused classic rock 'n' roll, struttin' with swagger, hooks galore, infectious lead geetar riffs, and a whole lotta WATTS for your stereo cranked up listening pleasure.
May 21 street date. Power metal at its best from this new British supergroup featuring Ian Treacey (Meathook Seed), Tim "Ripper" Owens (ex-Iced Earth), Shane Embury (Napalm Death), and John Walker (Cancer). Produced by Simon Efemy (Paradise Lost, Dimmu Borgir).
May 7 street date. Gatefold purple vinyl edition. Bonfire's acoustic best of is a homage to their own creative history and knows how to inspire the fans even in times without concerts.
May 21 street date. Mick Kenney (Mistress) and Shane Embury (Lock Up, Napalm Death) have been friends for two decades. As fans of each other's respective bands and then becoming good friends in the Birmingham Grind scene, they kept the enthusiasm high when the pressure of boredom lifted its head. Such disgusting angry beauty. Stirring, violent, bliss. An assault, an indignation, a stripping away of civility leaving raw emotional hatred. With the help of fellow nut Duncan Wilkins, they finally spat this bastard of an album!
May 7 street date. Gilby Clarke's first new solo album in nearly two decades, 'The Gospel Truth' is full of fist-pumping rock 'n' roll songs with fat choruses, bluesy licks and trademark solos. It's classic rock, a new version of what Gilby likes to do and that's loud guitars. The album features legendary Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx as well as drumming from John Mellencamp and Chickenfoot sticksman Kenny Aronoff and Stephen Perkins (Jane's Addiction, Porno For Pyros, Infectious Grooves). Clarke, who's an old school mash-up of Keith Richards, Johnny Thunders, and B. B. King, continues to write fist-jacking rock 'n' roll songs with fat choruses. He's a guitar hero, certainly, but also a gentleman whose heart happens to rush at rock 'n' roll speed.
May 28 street date. Originally forming in Germantown, Maryland in 1991, Clutch signed to Warner imprint East West Records in 1993 for their first full-length album, "Transnational Speedway League: Anthems, Anecdotes, and Undeniable Truths", a good showcase for their earlier, more American punk and hardcore influenced roots. Also released by East West, tracks such as 'Escape from the Prison Planet', 'Spacegrass' and 'Big News' from 1995's self-titled "Clutch" album saw the band move more towards a bluesy, stoner rock vibe in 1995. After several independently released records, plus a brief spell on Columbia, Clutch signed to Atlantic for their fifth long-player, the self-explanatory "Pure Rock Fury" in 2001. CD4 collects together seven non-album tracks.
May 28 street date. This wonderful concert recording was mainly recorded in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary in August 2019. The concert continued a series of live performances that followed the release of the acclaimed collaboration between Djabe (one of Hungary's most acclaimed Jazz groups) and former Genesis guitarist and acclaimed solo artist Steve Hackett; "Life is a Journey: The Sardinia Tapes", an album which was the result of improvised sessions that took place in a church on the island of Sardinia. "The Journey Continues" captures on two CDs and a DVD Djabe & Steve Hackett performing selections from that album on the concert stage, along with classic Genesis material such as "Hairless Heart", "Firth of Fifth", and "Los Endos", Hackett's "Last Train to Istanbul", and Djabe compositions.
May 21 street date. Herman Frank's "Two For A Lie" captivates everyone with its well-known hard riffs and unbelievable power. Frank has been in business for decades and still doesn't tire of standing up for his ideals. From Accept and Victory to his solo project launched in 2009 and his work as a producer, Frank has been a guarantor of uncompromising heavy metal of the very first calibre for decades. As he has proven with his previous four solo albums, the Herman Frank concept has undoubtedly found great favour with a steadily growing fan community. Not least because of the top-class line-up of the band itself: Masterplan frontman Rick Altzi, guitarist Heiko Schröder, At Vance and Masterplan drummer Kevin Kott, and Jaded Heart bassist Michael Müller give the project a wonderfully heavy polish.
May 14 street date. "Abyss Of Wrathful Deities" is Grave Miasma's latest opus after five years of quiescence. Bone-breaking, aggressive, and demonic death metal pairs with the accomplished and progressive production of Jaime Gomez Arellano (Orgone Studios), forming a sepulchral miasma which elevates the band's songwriting to a previously unrivalled level. Developing on the powerful and dark sound pursued on "Endless Pilgrimage", the London trio presents nine distinctively enigmatic tracks on death and resurrection, the demons of far-away lands, and Tibetan burial rituals. Grave Miasma are both the circling vulture and the epiphany, equally well-versed in the raw and primitive as they are in technical lead guitar orgies. Music not as a means of style, but as an accurately-wielded sharp scythe.
May 14 street date. "Abyss Of Wrathful Deities" is Grave Miasma's latest opus after five years of quiescence. Bone-breaking, aggressive, and demonic death metal pairs with the accomplished and progressive production of Jaime Gomez Arellano (Orgone Studios), forming a sepulchral miasma which elevates the band's songwriting to a previously unrivalled level. Developing on the powerful and dark sound pursued on "Endless Pilgrimage", the London trio presents nine distinctively enigmatic tracks on death and resurrection, the demons of far-away lands, and Tibetan burial rituals. Grave Miasma are both the circling vulture and the epiphany, equally well-versed in the raw and primitive as they are in technical lead guitar orgies. Music not as a means of style, but as an accurately-wielded sharp scythe.
April 23 street date. Something dark, melancholic, and at times even sinister is haunting each of the eight tracks collected on Noeta's sophomore full-length, "Elm", which is lyrically based loosely on emotions connected to the eponymous poem by Sylvia Plath. The music of the Swedish duo comes with an inherent ethereal beauty, which is carried by Êlea's both lucent and lucid voice. The focus on the singer's bewitching vocals is further underlined by a subtle and nearly minimalistic instrumentation by her long-time collaborator Andris, who masterly captures and enhances the musical moods. "Elm" witnesses Noeta charting their very own left hand course through the rising tide of unique female artists such as Chelsea Wolfe, Anna Von Hausswolff, and Emma Ruth Rundle, to name but a few of the highly individual female voices claiming their territory in the world of dark music.
May 7 street date. Reissue of the DVD/CD set 'Frozen In The Moment" Live In Atlanta'. Redemption is one of the leading progressive metal bands in the world today. Formed in Los Angeles in 2000 by guitarist/keyboardist/songwriter Nicolas van Dyk, the band features iconic vocalist Tom S. Englund of Evergrey, and the phenomenal rhythm section of Chris Quirarte (drums) and Sean Andrews (bass) supported by keyboard phenom Vikram Shankar.
May 21 street date. Released in July 2020, Thundermother's "Heat Wave" is a rock sensation that you cannot avoid. It stormed the charts and achieved big results in many countries, including #6 in Germany. Now Thundermother are releasing the "Heat Wave Deluxe Edition" as a 2-CD digipak and limited edition coloured double vinyl versions. Not only can you find the complete original album on it, but also a bonus CD/vinyl with no less than 10 other previously unreleased tracks.
May 21 street date. Internationally recognized solo artist and songwriter Mike Tramp presents his brand new album, 'Everything Is Alright'. The title track - an honest number written directly from the heart - will be the Danish entry for the Eurovision Song Contest. Having won the Danish Song contest in 1978 with "Mabel" and representing Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest later that same year, Mike will return just over four decades later on the same stage and in the context that kickstarted his career.
May 28 street date. SoulMusic Records is proud to present a 3-CD deluxe box set consisting of the two albums Atlantic Starr cut for Warner Brothers, 1987's "All In The Name Of Love" and 1989's "We're Movin' On" along with "Love Crazy", recorded for Reprise Records in 1991. Extensive liner notes from renowned UK-based writer Charles Waring include new quotes from Jonathan Lewis and Rachel Oliver-Cobbin (the female lead vocalist for the Reprise album), stellar mastering from Nick Robbins and great artwork from Roger Williams make this reissue (produced by SoulMusic.com founder David Nathan) a must have for Atlantic Starr's global audience.
May 14 street date. The definitive reissue of one of rock's rarest and most sought-after albums - equal parts pastoral folk and contemplative psychedelic. The first time since 1971 that this album has been run from the original master tapes, recently discovered in Italy. Mark Fry was 19 - recently graduated from high school and in Italy studying painting - when he walked barefooted into RCA's Italian subsidiary, played some songs he'd written on his guitar and was signed to record the album that would become legend. The first recordings he made proved stuff, so he was paired with members of the Scottish band Middle of the Road, who were in Rome while under contract to RCA Italiana. Pressed in small amounts for Vincenzo Micocci's RCA sub-label It, "Dreaming With Alice" remained an out of reach masterpiece for many but its creator, who returned to England in 1971 and subsequently traveled the world, playing music, sometimes recording and painting. By the time of its rediscovery, its master tapes were assumed lost. The pristine source material reveals nuances not heard on anything but original It pressings. The CD edition pairs "Dreaming With Alice" with previously-unreleased recordings from the mid-1970s.
May 14 street date. The definitive reissue of one of rock's rarest and most sought-after albums - equal parts pastoral folk and contemplative psychedelic. The first time since 1971 that this album has been run from the original master tapes, recently discovered in Italy. Mark Fry was 19 - recently graduated from high school and in Italy studying painting - when he walked barefooted into RCA's Italian subsidiary, played some songs he'd written on his guitar and was signed to record the album that would become legend. The first recordings he made proved stuff, so he was paired with members of the Scottish band Middle of the Road, who were in Rome while under contract to RCA Italiana. Pressed in small amounts for Vincenzo Micocci's RCA sub-label It, "Dreaming With Alice" remained an out of reach masterpiece for many but its creator, who returned to England in 1971 and subsequently traveled the world, playing music, sometimes recording and painting. By the time of its rediscovery, its master tapes were assumed lost. The pristine source material reveals nuances not heard on anything but original It pressings. The CD edition pairs "Dreaming With Alice" with previously-unreleased recordings from the mid-1970s.
May 28 street date. Barry Gibson's Local Heroes was a tribute band with a difference. Across three albums, they paid homage to the musical legacy of Britain's most successful instrumental combo, The Shadows - only most of the musicians were actually ex-members! This triple-CD edition includes all three albums by Barry Gibson's Local Heroes. Six additional tracks from the first album are present. As an extra treat for Shads fans everywhere, "Some Of Our Shadows Are Missing" also boasts four previously unreleased tracks recorded for a possible fourth album. The booklet for this new package includes a new foreword by Bruce Welch and detailed sleeve-notes from long-time Shadows admirer and expert Rob Bradford.
May 28 street date. Foreigner vocalist Lou Gramm released his debut solo album, "Ready Or Not", in 1987. Produced by Pat Moran with Lou Gramm, it featured the hits ‘Midnight Blue’ and ‘Ready Or Not’ among a collection of songs that wouldn't have sounded out of place on a Foreigner record. 1989's "Long Hard Look" followed in 1989. Capitalising on the success of his debut, the track ‘Just Between You And Me‘ was another huge smash, making No. 6 in the U.S. A third disc in this collection gathers together some of his Atlantic-era rarities, including two versions of ‘Lost In The Shadows (The Lost Boys)‘ from the soundtrack. Also included are various remixes of singles from the two albums and the rare "Questions And Answers" interview promotional album.
May 28 street date. After independently leaving The Spencer Davis Group in late 1968, organist and singer Eddie Hardin and drummer Pete York got back together a few months later to work as that most intriguing of late 1960s rock music concepts: the power duo. Hardin & York's two-man brand of rock, blues, jazz and soul - not a million miles away from the likes of Traffic or Procol Harum - was hugely popular on the Continent. Indeed, they had such a following in Germany that one show was surreptitiously taped, becoming one of the earliest European vinyl bootlegs when it was sneaked out in 1970. Naturally enough, that live set is included on this definitive 6-CD anthology, together with further live performances (including a 1972 show for the BBC now gaining its first-ever commercial release), their trio of 1969-71 albums, various studio out-takes and even a non-UK 1974 reunion LP that was recorded with former Taste bassist Charlie McCracken.
May 28 street date. Esoteric Recordings is pleased to announce the release of "Give It All Away: The Albums 1970 -1973", a remastered four-disc clamshell box set of the four albums recorded by the legendary band Patto. One of the truly great bands of the early 1970s, Patto featured a line-up comprising Mike Patto (vocals), Ollie Halsall (guitar, vibes, keyboards, vocals), Clive Griffiths (bass) and John Halsey (drums). The band arose from the ashes of the group Timebox and were graced by the presence of the stunning guitar playing of Ollie Halsall and a highly original and unique musical style that set them aside from their Progressive Rock contemporaries of the era.
May 28 street date. Cherry Red is delighted to announce the newly remastered and expanded release of Toyah's 1980 album "The Blue Meaning", the second in a reissue programme of Toyah's entire Safari Records catalogue. This expanded edition features 27 remastered bonus tracks including single mixes, live tracks, rarities and unheard demos. Amongst the 20 previously unreleased tracks are the final recordings made by this band line-up. Includes a DVD containing three brand new features with Toyah Willcox; an interview about the album/period, a track-by-track album commentary plus an exclusive acoustic three-song session of songs from the era - all filmed October 2020.
May 28 street date. Strictly limited edition neon pink coloured vinyl echoing Toyah's hair colour from the back sleeve and the colourful glow surrounding the gothic mansion, Wykehurst Place in Sussex on the LP's front cover artwork.
May 21 street date. The classic 1971 album by UK band Tractor, appearing under a different name. Originally issued on Dandelion, the album is now expanded and remastered. A truly beautiful progressive/space rock album, it mixes the epic quality of Led Zep with a spacey Pink Floyd feel and the mushroom weirdness of The Pink Fairies and Hawkwind. "Willow" is a masterpiece of UK underground rock and it's easy to see why John Peel signed this band way back in the early 1970s. Original album, plus a bonus single sided 12 inch with two extra tracks from The Way We Live era in a deluxe triple gatefold sleeve with 180g green coloured vinyl.
May 28 street date. "A Revolution In Sound" looks at the influence of modern classical music, the avant-garde and free jazz on pop and pop culture, during the second half of the 20th century. In the mid-1960s, as pop music acquired a greater sophistication and maturity, artists began to make more ambitious musical and conceptual statements. In the search for new ideas, pop began to find inspiration along the spectrum of classical music - from Stockhausen to Sibelius - and from artists who inhabited the outer reaches of jazz, drawing even on the classical music of Northern India with its roots in the antique past. In the realm of electronics and musique concrète, the tireless experiments in tape-manipulation by Daphne Oram and Pierre Henry found expression in radio, television and on stage. In cinema, Stanley Kubrick's masterful use of Bartok and Liszt vindicated his stated preference for the use of pre-existing music over original score. This 4CD set includes works by the above as well as Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Erik Satie, Charles Ives, Ravi Shankar & Ali Akbar Khan, and many more.
May 28 street date. From a musical perspective, the 1970s didn't really begin until 1972, when the sudden appearance of pioneering art-rock adventurers Roxy Music saw them spearhead a new generation of bands making the first genuinely post-60s music. But 1972 was also a year in which established blues and progressive rock bands found a new level of popularity. Boasting four hours of music and a lavishly annotated and illustrated 40-page booklet housed in a stylish clamshell box, "Beyond The Pale Horizon" features big names (Yes, Uriah Heep,Free, Thin Lizzy, Slade) as well as the usual array of cult bands and obscure studio creations. Included are a significant number of UK Top Ten singles, some glorious misses, a few turntable hits (including much-loved 45s by Pagliaro and Mike Hugg), superior B-sides and several key album tracks, together with a handful of cuts that didn't appear at the time or were only issued as limited edition private pressings.
May 14 street date. Back in print on vinyl! The second of two electric-blues albums released on Chess Records and the Cadet Concept imprint in the late 60s, Muddy Waters' "After the Rain" has achieved cult-like status amongst blues fans in the years since his death in 1983. After taking a backlash from critics with first attempt at adopting psychedelic influences on "Electric Mud", Muddy made adjustments for the follow-up, despite keeping a majority of the same session players. This time, he toned down the psychedelic elements and put them in balance with his classic Chicago blues sound, and the results yield some vintage tracks that glow with fuzzy guitars and bass.
May 14 street date. Back in print on vinyl! The second of two electric-blues albums released on Chess Records and the Cadet Concept imprint in the late 60s, Muddy Waters' "After the Rain" has achieved cult-like status amongst blues fans in the years since his death in 1983. After taking a backlash from critics with first attempt at adopting psychedelic influences on "Electric Mud", Muddy made adjustments for the follow-up, despite keeping a majority of the same session players. This time, he toned down the psychedelic elements and put them in balance with his classic Chicago blues sound, and the results yield some vintage tracks that glow with fuzzy guitars and bass.
May 14 street date. Groundbreaking studio session recorded with a 7 piece live band. Pressed on 2LP vinyl with OBI strip and full colour insert with lyrics.
April 30 street date. With his debut recording as a bandleader, Daniel Thatcher not only assembles an ensemble brimming with exceptional musicianship, but also puts forth his distinct voice as a fresh and thoughtful composer. This release features Daniel's band Waterwheel, a quartet consisting of guitarists John Kregor and Matt Gold, and drummer Devin Drobka. Together they weave a musical tapestry which exemplifies qualities that define Daniel and his bandmates both musically and personally: supportive, creative, selfless, and open.
May 28 street date. "Connection" is the new ten song LP from Los Angeles powerhouse Orgone featuring collaborations with Cyril Neville, Kelly Finnigan, Pimps of Joytime, and more. The album is the inaugural release on 3 Palm Records, distributed by Colemine Records. A spiritual follow up to fan favorite "Bacano", "Connection" is gritty, lean, and tight soul and funk at its best. It explores the invisible threads that bind us all, spiritually, emotionally, and artistically. Much like the collage that adorns the cover, this hard hitting collection of songs illuminates the essence of Orgone: a musical pastiche of different vocalists, heavy riffs, vintage production, and a core rhythm section that never disappoints. The synergy created in these songs demonstrates that the whole is truly greater than the sum of all the individual parts and players.
May 21 street date. "Happy Again" isn't exactly happy. But the delightfully deadpan new album from roots mainstays Bill & The Belles is full of life, humour, and tongue-in-cheek explorations of love and loss. The album marks a new chapter for the group by featuring all original music penned by founding member Kris Truelsen. There's no dancing around it: this album is about his divorce. However, this personal loss turned out to be a creative boon for the band. Tucked amongst the grief and jubilation are some jingle-worthy oddballs for which the band is well known. This raw songcraft along with the deft production touch of Teddy Thompson, who encouraged using only first or second takes, gives "Happy Again" an emotional punch that deepens with each listen.
May 28 street date. There are few artists in country music more highly praised, or influential, as Lefty Frizzell. With a vocal styling often imitated but never matched, he found one of his greater advocates in Merle Haggard though many others also acknowledged his influence on their work. In a 25 year recording career, he gave country some of its most iconic recordings, adding a highly distinctive, vowel-bending singing style to the honky-tonk sounds of his native Texas. But with success came the demons and Lefty Frizzell was also one of the music's most tragic figures. He paid the price for the years of heavy drinking and this, combined with high blood pressure, led to him suffering a massive stroke and passing away in 1975. He was just 47 years old. In 1964 the "Saginaw Michigan" album reached No. 2 in the country album charts and the title track spent four weeks at No. 1 in the singles chart remaining there for 26 weeks. "The Sad Side of Love" (1965) and "Puttin’ On'" (1967) appear on a UK CD for the first time. This fabulous release also features 16 bonus tracks that were released as singles between 1964 and 1971.
April 23 street date. It's always illuminating to ask an artist how they understand music, but Eli West's perspective is nothing short of ground-breaking. A trained designer, he sees music architecturally, visualizing his compositions spatially. It's a highly unusual way to think about music, tied to his home in the verdant natural world of the Pacific Northwest. On his new album, 'Tapered Point of Stone', West lays out original songs and tunes like houses built by hand, weaving their melodies into the setting of acoustic roots music that first inspired him. The album brings together West's favored quartet of musicians: Andrew Marlin (Mandolin Orange) on mandolin, Christian Sedelmeyer (Jerry Douglas) on fiddle, himself on mandolin, guitar, and banjo, and Clint Mullican (Mandolin Orange) on bass. Over the 13 songs and instrumental tunes, West explores the joy of communal music making and the grief of his father's recent passing. It's an intimate snapshot of a time before the world went dark and we all turned inward, and a bit of light at the end of the tunnel.
May 28 street date. HIDE's third album, "Interior Terror" further abandons traditional concepts of song structure in favor of splintered rhythms and fevered, immediate release. Expanding on previous themes of autonomy and empowerment, "Interior Terror" addresses and questions the corporeal and immaterial body in a physical and metaphysical sense. Turning to the dread inside, reflecting on the world around us, HIDE gives voice to the power of destruction as a catalyst for hope, and to the collective experiences of those who've come before us as a wellspring of our own power. Raw vocal delivery of mantra-like prose issued forth yields a raging, plaintive wail that lulls, mocks, questions, proclaims and decries. A dearth of collected field recordings give way to more fluid arrangements while retaining a scathing urgency. The result is minimal, spacious, and jarring; a distant knocking grown into the pulse of a hypnotic dirge, drones emerge from shards of decomposed sound, bending, seething their way through your body.
May 21 street date. Nairobi-based electronic musician/sound-artist Joseph Kamaru - KMRU - signs to Injazero for the release of his beautiful compendium album "Logue", comprising works from his past years of self-releasing. KMRU is uniquely positioned between the rarely-married cultures of ambient and African musics, entwining his compositions with field recordings from his native Kenya and the surrounding countries of East Africa. Though the deep, tectonic slowness of his music can be compared to the work of Lawrence English, William Basinski, Stars of the Lid (i.e. Western musicians), Kamaru's core culture shines through in a pure and singular way. Found within Logue's pieces are radiant melodic antiphony commonplace in African music, and huge, spacious drones that reveal his love for ambient soundscapes, held effortlessly together by field recordings and analogue synthesis.
May 14 street date. Now available on vinyl. When Flee Lord and 38 Spesh dropped "Loyalty + Trust" in the summer of 2019, they caught heads off guard. The street certified classic helped build the buzz both artists are currently enjoying. Flee went on to spark 2020 by announcing he was going to drop a project every month. What at first seemed like a bold claim quickly became an impressive body of work. His tenth album of the year was the eagerly anticipated follow-up to "Loyalty + Trust". Spesh once again served up exactly the type of beats that bring the best out of the Lord. The guest line-up includes the late great Fred The Godson, the mic giant G4 Jag, and queenpin Che Noir. Produced by 38 Spesh.
May 28 street date. 81355 (pronounced 'bless') is a meeting of the minds between three pillars of the Indianapolis music scene; Sirius Blvck, Oreo Jones, and Sedcairn Archives. While the three have worked together in the past, this is their first start-to-finish collaboration, and the result is the stunning and distinctive debut "This Time I'll Be of Use". Simultaneously mystical and stark, somber and danceable, the project grapples with hard-wired truths and imagines alternate realities with better futures. These lucid wanderings amongst the street fires sound like a cross between the ghost of progressive electronic music of the 70s with its innovative eccentricities, and acrobatic wordplay delivered with sharp resolve. While surrealist in its metaphors and abstraction, it doesn't betray a present awareness. Reflecting on Black struggle in the pandemic ridden and democracy faltering landscape of 2020, each member arrived from a synchronistic space, and the recording process ended up being largely intuitive.
May 28 street date. 81355 (pronounced 'bless') is a meeting of the minds between three pillars of the Indianapolis music scene; Sirius Blvck, Oreo Jones, and Sedcairn Archives. While the three have worked together in the past, this is their first start-to-finish collaboration, and the result is the stunning and distinctive debut "This Time I'll Be of Use". Simultaneously mystical and stark, somber and danceable, the project grapples with hard-wired truths and imagines alternate realities with better futures. These lucid wanderings amongst the street fires sound like a cross between the ghost of progressive electronic music of the 70s with its innovative eccentricities, and acrobatic wordplay delivered with sharp resolve. While surrealist in its metaphors and abstraction, it doesn't betray a present awareness. Reflecting on Black struggle in the pandemic ridden and democracy faltering landscape of 2020, each member arrived from a synchronistic space, and the recording process ended up being largely intuitive.
May 14 street date. Griselda's young gun ElCamino has become known for his gritty street tales and melodious hooks. And on "Block Work" he's at his most grimy and at the same time his most melodic. His honesty about his activities in the streets is so unfiltered that it verges on incriminating. The only guest on "Block Work" is Camino's longtime associate and fellow Buffalo Kids member Billie Essco, who brings his high fashion sensibilities to the standout track "Good Ol' Days." Camino will be dropping upwards of a half dozen projects in 2021 and "Block Work" sets the standard for the kind of quality fans can expect going forward.
May 14 street date. Anthony Cruz, better known by his stage name AZ, is a rapper from Brooklyn. He is known for being a longtime and frequent music partner of East Coast rapper Nas and also a member of hip hop group The Firm alongside Nas, Foxy Brown, Cormega and Nature. In a countdown of the 10 Most Underappreciated Rappers - Most Underrated Rappers of All Time, the editors of About.com listed AZ as #1 on the list. He was also included on About.com's list of the Top 50 MCs of Our Time (1987-2007), where he was described as "arguably the most underrated lyricist ever". "S.O.S.A. (Save Our Streets AZ)" is a companion album made to promote AZ's then-upcoming album "9 Lives". It features ten tracks, and has songs that are not found on AZ's other. It was distributed in the streets, as AZ was a free agent at the time and was in the process of finding a new label after his deal with Noo Trybe Records ended.
May 14 street date. Mere months after releasing an undisputed AOTY contender for 2020 with "Burden Of Proof" and only three months after being shot, Benny is back on his feet (way ahead of schedule) and re-immersed in his element. While he has separated himself from his peers, Benny from Montana Ave knows the game is to be sold and never told and he has put all of these accolades in his rearview mirror to focus on his next lick; "The Plugs I Met 2". Produced entirely by Harry Fraud, the Brooklyn bred producer describes "The Plugs I Met 2" as "the story of a hustler who's realized success but understands how fragile it is. Lyrically the album shows Benny reflecting on what he's sacrificed to get here and what he'll need to do to continue his rise to the top. With this project we set out to transport the listener into a world that was lush but still gritty, triumphant but still emotional and sonically diverse across the board".
May 14 street date. Griselda's young gun ElCamino has become known for his gritty street tales and melodious hooks. And on "Block Work" he's at his most grimy and at the same time his most melodic. His honesty about his activities in the streets is so unfiltered that it verges on incriminating. The only guest on "Block Work" is Camino's longtime associate and fellow Buffalo Kids member Billie Essco, who brings his high fashion sensibilities to the standout track "Good Ol' Days." Camino will be dropping upwards of a half dozen projects in 2021 and "Block Work" sets the standard for the kind of quality fans can expect going forward.
May 28 street date. Two of the hardest working veterans in the game, legendary MC Jim Jones has teamed up with cult favorite producer Harry Fraud for the new project, "The Fraud Department". Pairing Jones' iconic delivery with Fraud's knack for cloud-like production, "The Fraud Department" elevates the duo's best attributes and showcases how their chemistry is undeniable. The album features appearances from Belly, Dave East, Trav, French Montana, Curren$y, Jay Worthy, Conway the Machine, Marc Scibilia, Big Body Bes, Maino, and Kenny Sway.
May 21 street date. Dakota Days are three consciously experimental musicians seeking comfort outside their comfort zone. "All Rivers" is the result of twelve shamelessly balanced tracks, if you think to the load of ideas they packed in here. The rhythmic gears, the melodic curves, the electronic layers are woven like kilims with deliberately frayed edges, open to future weaves. There is thunder, there are caresses, there is life that happens in the meantime, teacher of music.
May 28 street date. The latest collection by Cascadian resident loscil aka Scott Morgan is a stunning meditation on light, shade, and decay, sourced from a single three-minute composition performed by a 22-piece string orchestra in Budapest. The subsequent recording was lathe-cut on to a 7-inch, then "scratched and abused to add texture and colour," from which the entirety of "Clara" was sampled, shape-shifted, and sculpted. Despite their limited palette, the compositions summon a sense of the infinite, swelling and swimming through luminous depths. Certain tracks percolate over narcoleptic metronomes while others slowdive in shimmering shadowplay, sounding at times like some noir music of the spheres. Although Morgan's compositional premise for "Clara" was quite defined, the resultant work is wonderfully opaque and spatial, equal parts lush and lurking, traced in fine-grained gradients and radiant silences.
May 28 street date. The latest collection by Cascadian resident loscil aka Scott Morgan is a stunning meditation on light, shade, and decay, sourced from a single three-minute composition performed by a 22-piece string orchestra in Budapest. The subsequent recording was lathe-cut on to a 7-inch, then "scratched and abused to add texture and colour," from which the entirety of "Clara" was sampled, shape-shifted, and sculpted. Despite their limited palette, the compositions summon a sense of the infinite, swelling and swimming through luminous depths. Certain tracks percolate over narcoleptic metronomes while others slowdive in shimmering shadowplay, sounding at times like some noir music of the spheres. Although Morgan's compositional premise for "Clara" was quite defined, the resultant work is wonderfully opaque and spatial, equal parts lush and lurking, traced in fine-grained gradients and radiant silences.
May 28 street date. Produced with The Cryptic Corporation using archival tapes supplied by the group themselves, this package explores and expands The Residents' classic 1994 album "Gingerbread Man" - another series of character studies, as first explored on the Freak Show project - alongside the contemporary "Hunters" OST recording, an instrumental suite composed to accompany the 1995 TV show of the same name. Disc Two also includes, in full, the previously unreleased "Fat Boy" tape, a collection of material compiled by the group in early 1994 and either adapted and incorporated into "Gingerbread Man" and "Hunters" or quickly forgotten - until now. Remastered, expanded, packed with previously unheard music and pREServed for future generations - this is The Residents as we've always wanted to hear them, and the latest in a series of archival reissues that will continue throughout 2021 and beyond.
May 28 street date. Multi-instrumentalist and classical violinist Darryl Way resumes his wanderlust with this sublime travelling companion to 2019's critically acclaimed "Destinations" album. This exquisite 12-track travelogue captures in beautiful cinemascope a vista to some of our planet's most breath-taking scenery. Each piece is accompanied by Darryl's written synopsis offering the listener an insight into the stories and musical ideas behind each track. "Destinations 2" is sure to build upon its predecessor's critical achievement of reaching #3 in Goldmine magazine's Top 100 albums of 2020.
June 12 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. Mochilla's Timeless series reignites for RSD 2021 housed in full colour gatefold jackets with the vinyl housed in printed inner sleeves. In 2009, Brian Cross (aka B+) organized a series of live events at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex in Los Angles. The Timeless series captured the lasting impact of several artists on the world of Hip Hop and beyond. Live fully orchestrated performances by Ethiopia's Mulatu Astatke and Brazil's Arthur Verocai bookended the incredible Suite For Ma Dukes, a tribute to James "Dilla" Yancey, by Miguel Atwood-Ferguson. These superb quality live recordings, now long out of print, are back in effect for RSD 2021. On "Mochilla Presents Timeless: Mulatu Astatke", the sold out crowd at the Luckman witnessed the famed Ethiopian artist perform with veterans of the Los Angeles jazz community including Bennie Maupin, Azar Lawrence, Phil Ranelin and more.
June 12 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. Seattle's High Pulp returns with a brand new instalment of covers on "Mutual Attraction Vol. 2". A spiritual jazz journey, interpreting arrangements by Arthur Verocai, Cortex and Casiopea. The 8-piece fusion band pays homage to tracks and artists that have woven themselves into the DNA of their band. Rich textures and cinematic grooves alongside trippy guitars, lush Rhodes keys, and soulful horns. Covering tunes that may have flown under the radar, but have impacted the group immensely. High Pulp's signature sound is a Psychedelic fusion of Hip-Hop, Funk, Jazz, and Soul which come together with complex, well thought out arrangements and progressive style.
June 12 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. On June 16th, 2018, the adventurous UK avant-garde act Renaldo & The Loaf (first introduced to the world by The Residents through their label Ralph Records) took to the stage to perform their music live for the first time in their then thirty-eight year career. An audience of 250 lucky fans witnessed this at Replugged, a club on Lerchenfelder Strasse in Vienna, Austria. For Record Store Day 2021, blocGLOBAL presents this impeccably recorded and mastered double live album for the first time on vinyl! Red/black splatter vinyl for record 1 and white/black splatter vinyl for record 2. Features a full color OBI. Pressed at 45 RPM for superior sound.
June 12 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. The highly sought after self-titled album by Round Robin and Brimstone typically changes collector's hands for hundreds of dollars and has been on the radar of modern soul/boogie fans for some time, with featured cuts on Kon and Amir's "Off Track Vol. 1" and the "Groove Merchant Turns 20" compilation. Deep Funk/Soul enthusiasts also know "The Round Robin Monopoly" band which is another project by band leader Robin Lloyd.
July 17 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. Limited edition of 1400 copies. Includes an insert of 1 of 2 limited edition signed photo cards. April March: "On Christmas eve, I received an email from Tony Allen's manager telling me that Tony would be delighted to record with me the first week of February in Paris. So naturally, I called Mehdi Zannad and asked him if he'd like to be in on that. '"Of course!" said Mehdi. The recording sessions began with Tony declaring, "this is white man's music", and ended with Tony smiling and declaring, "I don't know what this music is, it's so creative, I love it!".
July 17 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. First time on vinyl for the debut from Howe Gelb's one-off project that features members or Arcade Fire, Grandaddy, Scout Niblett and M. Ward, among others. Featuring extensive notes and interviews with the collaborators, exploring how the whole thing was put together. Double transparent violet coloured vinyl and download card. 1000 copies pressed.
July 17 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. A new instrumental EP from actor, comedian, writer, producer, musician and RSD 2021 Ambassador Fred Armisen. The music was recorded and produced by Ty Segall at his Los Angeles studio. The vinyl comes with three songs on one side, and a custom artwork etching on the flip side.
July 17 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. Back in June of 2017, Sheffield rock beasts Black Spiders waved goodbye to an army of loyal fans with some sonically charged shows before retreating into the shadows. The seeds of the Black Spiders return were planted last summer, when singer and guitarist Pete Spiby began taking to guitarist Ozzy Lister to start writing new material and before they knew it, they had amassed the best part of 40 songs in a very short period of time which they whittled down. With former drummer ‘Tiger’ Si Atkinson unavailable to play, with a week or two of grooming, the band took a chance on Planet Rock DJ Wyatt Wendel to occupy the drum stool. Black Spiders have crafted an album that features 13 tracks of high-energy, feel-good rock 'n' roll contrasted by demonic doom that despite the disjointed, isolated way it was recorded, sounds like a band firing on all cylinders. And ‘Wizard Shall Not Kill Wizard’ is perhaps the song title of the year!
July 17 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. Having teased working together numerous times in the past, Boosie Badazz and MO3 finally link up for the album Badazz MO3, shortly before MO3's untimely passing. Featuring the hit single "Errybody (Remix)," the album is classic trap music from the pre-cap era.
July 17 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. In celebration of its 10th anniversary, the debut of this 2LP deluxe vinyl edition of "The Sea Of Memories" comes for RSD Drops. Pressed on 180g color in colour vinyl (opaque white inside translucent cobalt); the first three sides contain the original 12 song 2011 album (including the smash hit "Sound of Winter") and side four contains the vinyl debut of four bonus tracks: "The Year of Danger", "Ghost", "Lay Down Your Guns", and "All Night Doctors" (remixed by renholder). ncludes a custom RSD hype sticker, download card and is limited to 1800 copies.
July 17 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. Del Casher may not be a household name, but you've undoubtedly heard his music. As a member of the famous Wrecking Crew, he's played on many hundreds of recordings that have provided the soundtrack to our lives. He played on the Lawrence Welk Show, recorded Frank Zappa's first demo, backed Elvis Presley, and built guitars with Les Paul. His many inventions include the Wah-Wah pedal and the Ecco-Fonic, influencing the development of electric guitar playing. In 1976, Casher was commissioned to write and record a soundtrack for "Italian Stallion", a re-branding of the 1970 softcore porn film "The Party at Kitty and Stud's", which saw Sylvester Stallone's first on-screen appearance. While even Stallone called the film "horrendous", the soundtrack for "Italian Stallion" stands on its own as a musical masterpiece. Casher recruited some of the best musicians around, including fellow members of the Wrecking Crew, to lay down one of the funkiest, grooviest movie soundtracks of the 1970s. Over 40 years later, with the help of ORG Music, Del Casher dug up his original master tapes and assembled a record's worth of material for the soundtrack's first ever release.
July 17 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. 35 year anniversary re-issue of The Dream Syndicate's 1986 album ‘Out of the Grey’, back on vinyl for the first time in 24 years. Deliciously remastered with new liner notes that feature interviews with Steve Wynn, Mark Walton, Paul Cutler and Dennis Duck along with rare photos and eight rarities from the era. 1000 black vinyl copies pressed. Includes download card with bonus tracks.
July 17 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. Cult legend, avant-roots, and rock 'n' roll raconteur Tav Falco is back at it again with some notable partners in crime, including bass legend Mike Watt and drummer Larry Mullins (Stooges, Bad Seeds, Swans) among others. Written and recorded during the global pandemic of 2020, Falco's latest release blends tango, fuzz, and his signature roots sound, and includes a surprising electric folk treatment of "House Of The Rising Sun". Mastered at 45 RPM, pressed on colour vinyl, and limited to 1000 copies worldwide.
July 17 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. The debut album from Willie Jones features the singles "Windows Down", "Bachelorettes on Broadway", and his latest, "Down For It" featuring T.I. - an updated rendition of the original.
July 17 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. First time on vinyl for this singles compilation originally released on Rock Action in 2006. The singles are long out of print. "Pounding Krautrock inspired Motorik beat, like Neu! welded to incessant Phillip Glass keyboard riffs on acid, but somehow creating their own authentic style. Their recordings still sound amazing, and like no other band that I have heard before or since" - Andy Mccluskey, OMD.
July 17 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. The Lillingtons are best known for their catchy tunes about the paranormal, but 20 years ago they surprised us all with the release of "The Backchannel Broadcast", an album of high adventure with songs about the Wild West and Russian Spies. The vinyl for this masterpiece has been out of print for 15+ years, so Red Scare Industries figured Record Store Day 2021 was the ideal time to celebrate the anniversary. This limited release is pressed on coloured vinyl, including a retro tour poster, and the band mysteriously requested the label make 641 copies of this special record. 641? It's probably some cryptic message to the mothership.
July 17 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. Long before bedroom recording became an aesthetic choice, R. Stevie Moore built a legend of pop experimentalism, home recording, and mystic curmudgeonry. Equal parts songwriter, improviser, composer, producer, filmmaker, artist, and comedy writer, the self-taught Tennessean polymath has released hundreds of homemade albums since the 1960s - and inspired a thousand times more. "On Earth" stands as a powerful statement, an intimate companion, and a goofy guide through a storied career. Ranging all the way back to 1976's classic "Phonography", the double-disc retrospective collects a full suite of dazzling power pop, psychedelia, and indie rock, and opens the gateway to the ultimate cult DIY hero. Limited to 500 copies.
July 17 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. This project brings together the sophisticated songcraft of singer-songwriter Johnny O'Donnell, the iconoclastic arrangements of Van Dyke Parks, and the genial production touch of Lewis Pesacov into a refreshing and rewarding musical package that deserves the focus that only a 45RPM single provides. Built upon a relationship formed in Los Angeles over a nearly 20 year period, the songs, penned by O'Donnell, are explorations in harmony, straddling the line between familiar and freakish. The arrangements and production are cinematic and full of drama which befits a production born of the belly of Hollywood. Romance, intrigue, and a touch of the unreal is where the tripartite of musical craftsmen have brewed this potion of melodies. The two unreleased songs will be available for the first time as a 7" single, exclusively as part of RSD Drops.
July 17 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. Originally released on Ghetto Records in 1971, this long out of print rare Salsa/Soul gem was produced by Joe Bataan. Vocals by Papo Felix. Remastered off original analog tapes. Limited to 500 units - splatter vinyl.
July 17 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. Formed in 1991, Shades of Culture are pioneers of the burgeoning Montreal hip hop scene of the 1990s. "A Little Bit About Us" is a compilation of long out-of-print material, first issued on CD in 2000, that has since been highly sought after by collectors and aficionados. Bearing witness to the sheer musical talent, deft wordplay and storytelling prowess that brought the trio worldwide acclaim, this record is a must-have for any true hip hop fan. Formé en 1991, le trio Shades of Culture figure parmi les pionniers de la scène hip hop naissante de Montréal. Rassemblant plusieurs enregistrements inédits, "A Little Bit About Us", paru sur CD en 2000, est devenu un objet de convoitise pour les collectionneurs et les connaisseurs. Témoignant du talent musical et des habiletés linguistiques et narratives qui ont suscité la renommée mondiale du trio, cet album est un incontournable pour les amateurs de hip hop.
July 17 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. Never officially released before now, the eight songs on this album were recorded in 1978 on a 2-track stereo Revox A77 tape recorder. The recordings are unashamedly analogue, using one microphone and guitars plugged directly into the tape recorder. Bouncing down tracks irreversibly as they went on, forced to make creative decisions that could not be undone. Some hard choices had to be made with the mix, but with no record company meant no record company agenda. TV Smith and Richard Strange could write and record whatever they wanted - and did! 500 pressed on transparent red vinyl, gatefold sleeve with lyric inner sleeve and download card.
July 17 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. Smoke DZA gained more noteriety after working on "Don't Smoke Rock" with producer Pete Rock. Features Schoolboy Q, Action Bronson, Sean Price, Curren$y & Domo Genesis. Long out of print and now reissued on smoke filled colored vinyl.
July 17 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. First official release of the soundtrack to the award winning multi-platform horror game "Dead By Daylight".
July 17 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. Since 1995, the Squirrel Nut Zippers have sacked and plundered the old, weird America then sailed off to further distant lands. They have used New Orleans as their hideout and base of operations. In 2020, fans were able to gaze into the tea leaves that make up their brand new album: "Lost Songs of Doc Souchon" to see if they can discern their own destiny. Now, on the heels of the successful reunion album from SNZ members Jimbo Mathus, "13 Stories", "Lost Songs of Doc Souchon " is finally available on limited edition vinyl for RSD 2021.
July 17 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. Since 1995, the Squirrel Nut Zippers have sacked and plundered the old, weird America then sailed off to further distant lands. They have used New Orleans as their hideout and base of operations. In 2020, fans were able to gaze into the tea leaves that make up their brand new album: "Lost Songs of Doc Souchon" to see if they can discern their own destiny. Now, on the heels of the successful reunion album from SNZ members Jimbo Mathus, "13 Stories", "Lost Songs of Doc Souchon " is finally available on limited edition vinyl for RSD 2021.
July 17 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. I remember the heat that day burning through my JC Penney's suit that I bought just the day before for our show at Avondale Brewing Company in Birmingham. 100 degree temperature outside in the dead of summer in Alabama is not uncommon. I was pouring sweat alongside people who had just met that day for the first time to play a show under the name St. Paul & The Broken Bones. The first moment we had to play a socially distanced show, I knew exactly what we should do. Play a show at Avondale Brewery and do our debut album in full. Something I would never had done if the pandemic had not happened" - Paul.
July 17 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. 900 copies on splatter vinyl, exclusively for RSD 2021. Unreleased live recording of the post "Raw Power" Stooges in Hollywood. Deluxe gold mirror board gatefold sleeve. Speed corrected, audio cleaned, and mastered for vinyl.
July 17 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. Styles P is one of the hardest emcees to ever to touch a microphone, a founding member of The LOX and, in recent years, one of hip-hop's most prolific solo artists. Scram Jones is a Grammy-nominated producer who has worked with the likes of Fat Joe, Lloyd Banks, Dipset, Raekwon, The Clipse, and many more. Now, Styles and Scram are joining forces for the full-length album "Float". With guest appearances from Jadakiss, Sheek Louch, N.O.R.E., and Raekwon, it's an unapologetically East Coast affair. As Scram puts it: "the whole project is some classic New York hip hop".
July 17 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. Styles P is one of the hardest emcees to ever to touch a microphone, a founding member of The LOX and, in recent years, one of hip-hop's most prolific solo artists. Scram Jones is a Grammy-nominated producer who has worked with the likes of Fat Joe, Lloyd Banks, Dipset, Raekwon, The Clipse, and many more. Now, Styles and Scram are joining forces for the full-length album "Float". With guest appearances from Jadakiss, Sheek Louch, N.O.R.E., and Raekwon, it's an unapologetically East Coast affair. As Scram puts it: "the whole project is some classic New York hip hop".
July 17 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. Mochilla's Timeless series reignites for RSD 2021 housed in full colour gatefold jackets with the vinyl housed in printed inner sleeves. On "Mochilla Presents Timeless: Suite for Ma Dukes", Miguel Atwood-Ferguson pays tribute to Dilla by interpreting his music for a 60-piece orchestra featuring special guests Bilal, Dwele, Posdnuos, Talib Kweli, Karriem Riggins, and more. This premiere performance left many in the sold out crowd in tears. In attendance that night was Common, who commented "to hear J Dilla's music expressed in that form just let me know once again how great he is. It moved me for real" with famed BBC personality Giles Petersen saying "that's just about the most powerful thing I've heard. Brilliant".
July 17 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. The 15th anniversary of this release of "VSQ Performs My Chemical Romance" is being celbrated with this Record Store Day exclusive LP! This is the first time the album has ever been put out on vinyl and it's been loaded up with a download card, coloured wax and a bonus track just for the occasion.
July 17 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. The second volume of a series started by the RSD Black Friday release of "The River Flows Vol. 1", which completely sold out and garnered a lot of positive reviews. This deluxe Vol. 2 package features Jorma Kaukonen and John Hurlbut performing their versions of songs by Bob Dylan, Gram Parsons and more, with an original from John Hurlbut as well. The deluxe package, designed by Kevin Morgan, features an OBI side spine on a gatefold jacket, an inner sleeve with celebrity pictures from Jorma's Fur Peace Ranch. The record itself is clear vinyl with five-colour splatter.
July 17 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. First-ever vinyl release of O.A.R.'s fifth studio album, featuring singles "Loves and Memories," "Heard The World" and "Lay Down." 2LP set pressed on coloured vinyl.
May 21 street date. Superb collection from hardcore punk/metal legends Anti-Cimex, who were the forefathers of the Scandinavian scene. Includes the classics "Anarkist Attack" (1982), "Victims Of The Bomb Raid" (1984) and "Raped Ass" (1983).
May 7 street date. "The Bright Lights of America" is the seventh album released by Anti-Flag. Released in 2008, the album marked a change in the band's sound: although still very much punk, the album is their first to feature a string section and child choirs. Produced by Tony Visconti, Anti-Flag sounds as fiery and angry as ever on this album. This is a limited edition of 500 individually numbered copies on solid red vinyl. The LP's are housed in a gatefold sleeve with a deluxe leather laminate finish, and contains a double-sided poster with lyrics and liner notes.
May 7 street date. Back-On, one of the most popular Japanese rock bands overseas, will celebrate their 15th anniversary with 2CD album "Flip-Sound". Disc one features 15 of the band's biggest and most recognised global hits re-recorded, giving new and old fans the chance to hear classic tunes reborn with a modern edge - plus a completely new song exclusively available on CD in this edition. Disc two features 3 of the band's digital only EPs put to disc for the first time. Amongst the tracks is anime anthem ‘Strike Back’, which has been streamed over 12 million times on Spotify and featured as the theme song to popular Japanese animated series "Fairy Tail". Also included are tracks used in Japan’s iconic Gundam franchise, as well as Back-On's songs from video games, such as "Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2" on PlayStation Portable. This is Japanese positive rock energy, fuelled by anime spirit, hip hop flavours and pop-punk power.
April 30 street date. Debut full length from this shoegaze "supergroup" featuring Christian and Rachel from Slowdive, Matt from The Flaming Lips, Steve from The Soft Cavalry and Ryan Graveface from The Casket Girls/Dreamend.
May 21 street date. "Alpha Omega" is the third album by New York hardcore legends Cro-Mags, originally released in 1992. The album gave us "The Other Side of Madness", arguably one of the band's most well-known songs beyond its dedicated following.
May 21 street date. "Near Death Experience" is the fourth album by New York hardcore legends Cro-Mags, originally released in 1993. It is, to date, the last album to feature iconic vocalist John Joseph. The songs on the album deal with topics such as environmentalism, anti-abortion, and spirituality. After its release, the Cro-Mags had gone on hiatus for some time, experienced more line-up changes, and would not release their next album, "Revenge", until seven years later.
May 21 street date. With striking immediacy and anthemic power-pop riffs, indie-rock four-piece Fightmilk return with their second album "Contender". Marking a maturing of their sound, the singles already drawn from it have garnered comparisons to "Remote Part"-era Idlewild, The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, Diet Cig, and Wolf Alice from publications including Secret Meeting, Louder Than War and For The Rabbits along with 6Music and Radio X (John Kennedy). "Contender" shows a band adept at blending wry humour and big emotions with alt-rock riffs and harmonies that is ready to take their music to the next level, growing their audience further. Eco vinyl (lucky dip colour) in full colour printed card sleeve, colour printed inner sleeve.
June 4 street date. The debut CD from Japanese rock band One Eye Closed ,who broke out of Japan when their track ‘Low’ became the ending song to music-based video game ‘No Straight Roads’ on PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. The band mix nu-metal, J-rock fury with a funk, R&B groove. The CD includes all of the band's songs in one place for the first time, and features lyrics sung entirely in English and one brand new, never-before-released track, "No Fakes".
May 21 street date. "The Wicked Symphony" is the fourth full-length album by Tobias Sammet's rock opera project Avantasia, released in 2010. Sammet has been doing his part to keep 1970s/80s-style power metal alive - not only as the frontman for Edguy, but also with Avantasia, the side project he started in 1999. "The Wicked Symphony" came 11 years after Sammet founded Avantasia, but there are no attempts to sound modern by 21st century standards. Oblivious to punk-influenced styles like alternative metal, death metal, black metal, metalcore, and rap-metal, this release underscores Avantasia's firm commitment to power metal as it sounded 25 years earlier. "The Wicked Symphony" is metal neo-classicism in action!
June 11 street date. Death Dealers was formed by vocalists Dean and Phil from Extreme Noise Terror and Anti-Cimex drummer Charlie Claesson. Buzzsaw crust riffs with an underlying glimmer of melody, that hummable, super slick Swedish sound that Anti-Cimex nailed and the likes of Disfear, Wolfbrigade layered with ripping grindcore. Prepare for an ultra-extreme, brutal-bulldozing crustcore attack!
May 7 street date. Current Riot V vocalist Todd Michael Hall is gearing up to release his first-ever solo album. Todd received national attention when he appeared on the 18th season of NBC's hit television show The Voice. After being selected by judge Blake Shelton for his version of Foreigner's "Juke Box Hero," the success from the show would drive him to explore the idea of a solo album. Todd connected with Metal Church guitarist Kurdt Vanderhoof to write the tracks that would become "Sonic Healing". Todd's multi-octave voice and Kurdt's riff writing capabilities create memorable songs that are reminiscent of the artists that inspired them to pursue a career in music. With thought provoking lyrics and rock solid guitar riffs, "Sonic Healing" delivers all the power and punch that one would expect from these high-level players.
May 7 street date. Samurai grooves, impossible time signature and a good slice of ninja funk. Kari-Band was originally formed by three Japanese session musicians, all of whom are probably best known international as the live band members of global phenomenon Babymetal. In January 2018 its guitarist Mikio Fujioka suddenly passed away. A year later the remaining members, BOH on bass and Yuya Maeta on drums, restarted the project and drafted in friends and students of Fujioka to be guests on their second EP. Now these students, friends and musicians record tracks from both EPs, plus an array of extras, live.
April 30 street date. For over 20 years now, Odal have been a pillar of Germany's richly varied black metal scene. At once staunchly traditional but never blinkered by self-imposed boundaries, Odal breathe the essence of the ancients whilst exhibiting a vibrancy that's refreshingly youthful. Their discography is deep and full of gems, beginning in the very underground days when black metal had gained traction with the mainstream as the 1990s plugged on and a new movement began in earnest to uphold the genre's core values. The momentum continues stronger than ever with "Welten Mutter", Odal's fifth full-length overall. Equal turns triumphant and tragic, "Welten Mutter" is proud 'n' pure black metal at its poignant best, ripp(l)ing with a melodicism that's graceful and heartstrings-pulling but never overwrought.
May 14 street date. Toxik is an American thrash metal band, formed in 1985. They released two studio albums before breaking up in 1992, and reforming in 2013. Their first album, "World Circus", was released in 1987 through Roadrunner Records. It was one of the first albums to introduce progressive thrash metal, and ended up on College Music Journal's "Best New Metal Album of the Year" list. The album, featuring the original tracklisting of the 1987 edition, is available as a limited edition of 1500 individually numbered copies on light green coloured vinyl, and contains an insert.
May 14 street date. As the opening track of the new album proclaims, ‘BTKOR’ (Big Truck Keeps on Rollin!) nothing can keep Trucker Diablo down! "Tail End of a Hurricane" takes a few diversions off the main road that the Big Truck normally drives on, the almost punk attitude and feel to ‘Insects’ with its social commentary on how we're all just worker insects feeding everything to the corporate machine for them to steal our being. The one thing you do expect from Trucker is big riffs, big choruses and big performances, and this album doesn't disappoint.
May 7 street date. Switzerland's Ungfell have established themselves as an unstoppable force of intricate, yet undeniably immersive riff fury in a scene that frequently replaces memorable songwriting with pseudo-intellectual gibberish. Affiliated with the formidable Helvetic Underground Committee, Ungfell has provided the unsuspecting masses with music that is undeniably engaging and yet challenging, delving into local lore and legends with a depth and a knack for wit that is rarely seen in contemporary extreme metal music. On their third full-length album, "Es grauet", Ungfell abducts listeners on a sonic journey detailing moral ambivalence and treachery. "Es grauet" shows Ungfell at their most ambitious and most audacious, featuring incredibly dynamic and warm production values, emphasizing atmosphere even more than previous releases and managing to compliment the story being told.
May 21 street date. Shpritsz (derived from a colloquial German word for "syringe") is the second studio album by Dutch rock and roll and blues group Herman Brood & His Wild Romance. The album's second single "Saturday Night" ended up becoming one of his biggest hits, charting in Europe as well as the United States. "Shpritsz" remains one of Brood's most critically and commercially successful albums. In a 2008 poll by leading Dutch music magazine OOR, "Shpritz" was voted the fourth-best Dutch album of all time. This limited edition of 500 individually numbered copies on yellow vinyl includes a 4-page insert with lyrics and pictures.
May 21 street date. Adam Faith was an English teen idol, singer, actor and financial journalist. He was one of the most charted acts of the 1960s. He became the first UK artist to lodge his initial seven hits in the Top 5. He was also one of the first UK acts to record original songs regularly.
May 14 street date. "Jumpin' In The Night" is The Flamin' Groovies' sixth studio album, released in 1979. Although it initially didn't fare well commercially and eventually led to a change in personnel, the album was a critical success and still is received well among music critics and fans. Mark Deming of AllMusic called the album tighter and tougher than its predecessor. The production by Roger Bechirian and vocalist/guitarist Cyril Jordan flatters the guitars and emphasises the band's "wall of guitars", ultimately making it an excellent pop rock effort. Limited edition of 1000 individually numbered copies on translucent green coloured vinyl, and it contains an insert.
May 28 street date. Buddy Guy released his eighth studio album "Feels Like Rain" in 1993. It was produced by John Porter, whom had previously worked with The Smiths, Bryan Ferry, and Killing Joke. The album features Guy's take on songs written by the likes of John Hiatt, John Fogerty, James Brown, Ray Charles and Guy's frequent collaborator Junior Wells. He also collaborated with some renowned musicians: John Mayall, Bonnie Raitt, Paul Rodgers, and Travis Tritt can all be heard on this album.
May 14 street date. Chicago blues exponent George "Buddy" Guy released multiple albums with renowned vocalist Junior Wells. One of those albums is this live acoustic album, "Last Time Around: Live at Legends". The sessions were recorded in 1993 at Buddy's world-famous Chicago blues mecca Legends. Originally recorded in 1993, the album was released in 1998, the same year that Wells passed away. It is now available on vinyl for the very first time.
May 21 street date. ‘Silver Tones’ features 14 cuts culled from John Mayall's three Silvertone albums dating from 1993 to 1997, and two previously unreleased songs.
May 7 street date. When Memphis Slim first visited Europe in 1960, he was already a twenty year veteran recording artist, with many US 78 rpm releases behind him and a very solid reputation leading small bands in the 1940s and 50s. It's no wonder that he was able to captivate an entirely new kind of audience when he crossed the Atlantic, first as a visitor, then as a permanent resident, settling in Paris from 1962. The studios and concert halls of Europe were very different from the juke joints of the South or the nightclubs of Chicago, but it was all the same to Memphis Slim, who could grab and hold his listeners' attention wherever he played. Recordings such as the ones on this disc should help to restore him to his rightful place, as they capture him at the very start of that new era of his career, still sounding fresh, his rich and expressive voice still in its prime, still full of enthusiasm for sharing his own personal heritage of blues and boogie piano.
May 28 street date. Dan Penn has southern soul running through his veins. Penn started out in the early 1960s as band leader of various soul combos in Alabama, but he remained out of the limelight for most of his career, instead choosing to write hit songs for other artists. He has been responsible for songs including "Do Right Woman Do Right Man" by Aretha Franklin, "The Letter" by The Box Tops, "I'm Your Puppet" by Bobby & James Purify, "You Left The Water Running" by Wilson Pickett and Otis Redding and many more. In 1994 Dan finally picked up the guitar and recorded these songs himself for the first time and to great effect: his renditions add fragile and beautiful magic to these already great songs. This incredible collection of songs is available as a limited edition of 1000 individually numbered copies on gold coloured vinyl.
May 14 street date. Hailing from The Hague, Shocking Blue became the first Dutch band ever to reach the top spot on the American Billboard Hot 100 in 1970 with "Venus". Though they failed to score any other hits on our shores, their influence reached well beyond their generation; even bands like Nirvana and The Prodigy used Shocking Blue's ‘Love Buzz’. "3rd Album" is, strangely enough, their fourth album, originally released in 1971. This reissue comes with six bonus tracks consisting of singles and b-sides. Limited edition of 1500 individually numbered copies on turquoise coloured vinyl.
Available now. A stunning 2LP collection of music documented during Alan Lomax's final American field recording sessions from 1978 to 1983. A completely overlooked and underrepresented period in American folk and blues history, this album includes legendary performances by RL Burnside, Napoleon Strickland, Boyd Rivers, Tommy Jarrell, and many more, newly remastered and released on vinyl for the first time! From 1978 to 1983, Lomax and a video-crew travelled through the American South and Southwest, documenting its traditional music - miners, moonshiners, and Primitive Baptists in Kentucky; flat-footers, string bands, and Piedmont blues in North Carolina; Cajun cowboys, fiddlers, and zydeco stompers in French-speaking Louisiana; and fife-and-drum ensembles, gospel quartets, former railroad track-liners, levee-camp muleskinners, and players on the pre-war blues circuit in Mississippi. This footage ultimately totaled some 350 hours and was edited into Lomax's "American Patchwork" series, which aired on American public television in 1991. But given the strictures of the form, hundreds of discrete performances and compelling scenes were left unseen and unheard. This set brings together some of the standout recordings Lomax made in his attempt to document the last vestiges of the "local surround" in Mississippi, Appalachia, and Louisiana. Album includes extensive liner notes by Nathan Salsburg of the Alan Lomax Archive. Cover art by Joe Light.
May 7 street date. If there existed a common thread binding the music of London together in 1966 it was the blues. Whether you were an R&B fan or a modern jazz follower, this was a sound that continued to constitute the bedrock of your taste. And there was no individual better suited to allying these superficially disparate camps than the veteran American blues singer Jimmy Witherspoon, who spent an extended stay in the capital that year, performing with contemporary jazzmen and R&B combos alike. Dick Morrissey's quartet (with Harry South, Phil Seamen and Phil Bates) provides the backing on these live recordings, many of which are previously unissued. For anyone wanting to know just how the Sixties ‘swung’, this album is a must!
May 7 street date. Folk music legend Judy Collins hand-picked this selection of her most treasured recent recordings. Features a brand new, never before released cover of "White Bird," the 1969 gem from San Francisco hippie rock group It's A Beautiful Day along with includes superb new versions of Joni Mitchell's "Chelsea Morning," The Byrds' "Turn! Turn! Turn!," and Randy Newman's "I Think It's Going To Rain Today". Special guests include Stephen Stills, Willie Nelson, and Joan Baez.
May 28 street date. In 1993, Desmond Dekker released the collaborative album "King of Kings" with The Specials through the famous reggae label Trojan Records. "King of Kings" consists of songs by Dekker's musical heroes including Byron Lee, Theophilus Beckford, Jimmy Cliff, and his friend and fellow Kong label artist, Derrick Morgan. Limited edition of 1000 individually numbered copies on orange coloured vinyl.
May 21 street date. Black vinyl repress. "Cloak & Dagger" is the 1973 studio album by Lee "Scratch The Upsetter" Perry. In that year, as Perry entered a period of heavy dub output, he recorded "Cloak & Dagger". This early dub outing is a testament to Perry's lo-fi mastery as he utilized his four-track soundcraft board, tape delays, phasers, reverb and any other ambient sounds he could get this hands on as an instrument rather than just to record instruments.
May 21 street date. Newly revamped reissue of the 2002 album from former Specials vocalist Neville Staple. Includes 4 demo recordings which later became Specials songs, including "Rude Boy Goes To Jail," and "Johnny Too Bad".
May 21 street date. "Daughters Of Darkness" is a 1971 English-language Belgian horror film. Directed by Harry Kümel, this cult erotic vampire film stars Delphine Seyrig, Danielle Ouimet, John Karlen, and Andrea Rau. The film was well received, and a retrospective poll by Time Out in the early 2010s placed the film at number 90 in their top 100 horror films. Its score was created by multiple award winning composer François de Roubaix. It has long been a much sought after title, with De Roubaix' son Benjamin commenting that the "composer achieves a perfect balance and the result is a bleak and eerie soundtrack that stands on a par with the music of Ennio Morricone on "A Lizard in a Woman's Skin" or - in a different style - that of Isaac Hayes for "Shaft"".. Parts of score would eventually be sampled by several hip-hop artists, including American rapper Lil Wayne on his song "President Carter". This 50th anniversary edition of 666 numbered copies is pressed on blue vinyl and contains an exclusive poster as well as a printed innersleeve. Plus, the package includes a 7 inch single (on red vinyl) featuring "Les Lèvres Rouges" and "Les Dunes D'Ostende, Flagellation".
May 28 street date. Henry Cavill stars as Napoleon Solo opposite Armie Hammer as Illya Kuryakin in director Guy Ritchie's "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.", a fresh take on the hugely popular 1960s television series. Ivor Novello-winning and multi-BAFTA nominated composer Daniel Pemberton (known for "The Awakening" and the Sundance Jury winning "Enemies Of The People") created an exciting soundtrack with relaxing lounge instrumentals full of Jazz and Swing elements. Moreover, the soundtrack contains seven original classics like "Compared To What" by Roberta Flack and "Take Care Of Business" by Nina Simone. The 2 LP package contains a 4 page booklet and is now available on solid yellow vinyl. Don’t hesitate, as this is a limited edition of only 1000 numbered copies.
May 21 street date. "The Place Beyond The Pines" is Derek Cianfrance's 2012 crime drama film. Mike Patton, best known as the lead singer of Faith No More and Mr. Bungle, delivers a sweeping and brooding score. Like a red thread, his music guides the audience through this multi-generational story often linking characters and locations. In addition to Patton's score, the album features an eclectic selection of music by the likes of Bon Iver, Ennio Morricone, and The Cryin' Shames. This is a limited edition of 1000 individually numbered copies on translucent green vinyl. There are some secret inscriptions in the run-out groove.
May 7 street date. Delve into the dark side of the occult with this special collection of tracks featuring the the voice of the Beast himself, famed occultist Aleister Crowley. All new remixes feature the production talents of witch house artists Ritualz and ?aimon plus dark synth act NewSlave, Alan Davey's Hawkestrel, internationally renowned instrumentalist Jozef Van Wissem, and lots more. Also features all-new sonically de-noised and remastered versions of the famous wax cylinder recordings Crowley made from 1910 to 1914.
May 14 street date. When "A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular" was originally released in 1996, Hoover ran into a bit of legal trouble with the famous vacuum company and had to change their moniker to Hooverphonic. Luckily, it didn’t have any effect on their success. In fact, it could be said that the dreamily experimental symphonic pop of Hooverphonic is one of Belgium's most important exports in the musical field. The album was a critical and commercial success. The hit single "2Wicky" has appeared in numerous movies, including I Know What You Did Last Summer, Stealing Beauty and The Interview and during an episode of CSI, giving the band a lot of international exposure. This is a limited 25th anniversary edition of 1500 numbered copies on transparent blue vinyl. Included are a printed innersleeve plus an insert.
May 21 street date. "Black Crows Cyborg" is the first collaboration from noise titans Merzbow and Prurient. With more than seven hundred releases between them, this LP finds new ways to traverse the empty cities and navigate the cylinders. These two side-length tracks of cryptic dissonance are underscored by the slightest hint of deconstructed computer synthesis and cyborg vocals. Ravens remember actions from specific humans, and can warn them of impending danger - or choose not to. As the conspiracy of crows overwhelms mankind's encampment and integrates with the industrial leftovers, "Black Crows Cyborg" is the soundtrack for the overwhelming embrace under dark mechanical wings. Deluxe embossed cover with mini poster.
May 14 street date. Cover goes back in black with the albums Nico made in the late 1960s and early 70s. Plus Steve Cropper on the final period of Booker T & The MG's, The Association, The Who talks about their 1967 opus The Who Sell Out, and much more!
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