New Releases
Youth Lagoon “The Year Of Hibernation” (Fat Possum)
Youth Lagoon released its debut album The Year of Hibernation in September of 2011. Youth Lagoon is the brain child of twenty-two year old Trevor Powers. The reference to hibernation in the album title is attributed to Trevor's feeling of ...
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Brian Blade “Brian Blade Fellowship” (Blue Note)
Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band is one of the most distinctive and long-running bands in Jazz in the 21st Century. The Fellowship first formed in 1997, helmed by drummer Brian Blade and defined by the tight bond among the ...
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Banoffee “Look At Us Now Dad” (Cascine)
Look At Us Now Dad, Banoffee’s debut album, is an uplifting, optimistic journey that celebrates survival in the face of abuse and adversity. Featuring collaborations with SOPHIE, Empress Of, CupcakKe and umru, and co-produced by Banoffee and Yves Rothman, the ...
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The Donnas “Gold Medal” (Real Gone)
Famously formed in 8th grade for a school talent show, The Donnas began as a self-styled co-ed answer to The Ramones, each taking the first name of Donna (as opposed to the last name of Ramone), and playing gleefully unapologetic, ...
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Various Artists “Cadence Revolution: Disques Debs International Vol. 2” (Strut)
Strut present the second volume in a series of compilations taken from the archives of Disques Debs International, the longest-running and most prolific label of the French Caribbean. Set up by the late Henri Debs in the late '50s, the ...
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Alabaster DePlume “To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1” (International Anthem)
Alabaster DePlume is a London-based bandleader, composer, saxophonist, activist and orator. Whilst much of his music contains vocals, this is a collection of instrumentals. The music of To Cy & Lee... contains naturally elegant orchestration wrapped around something visceral and ...
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Jeremy Cunningham “The Weather Up There” (Northern Spy)
Chicago drummer and composer Jeremy Cunningham wrote The Weather Up There in response to the loss of his brother Andrew, who died in a home invasion robbery in 2008. Co-produced by Jeff Parker and Paul Bryan, and engineered by Paul ...
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Tycho “Simulcast” (Mom + Pop)
Simulcast follows the highly anticipated release of Tycho's fifth studio album Weather earlier in the year. Simulcast features instrumental versions of the album tracks. Tycho are the double Grammy nominated, electronic music project led by Scott Hansen as primary composer, ...
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Eric’s Trip “Warm Girl” (Blue Fog)
Never before released on vinyl. The December 1991 indie cassette album that started all the hype over Eric's Trip. Remixed and remastered from the original 4-track master tapes and sounding better than ever. Also includes two bonus live tracks and ...
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Leo Takami “Felis Catus And Silence” (Unseen Worlds)
Felis Catus and Silence is a breakthrough release for Tokyo composer-guitarist Leo Takami, following the milestone albums Children’s Song (2012) and Tree of Life (2017). Takami counterpoints the soothing aesthetics of prime-era Windham Hill New Age guitar-heroism with meditative, intellectual ...
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Broken Social Scene “Live At Third Man Records” (Third Man)
Third Man Records had the pleasure of hosting the inimitable Broken Social Scene, carefully absorbing and recording their magnetic and unforgettable live set on the Blue Room stage. Epic, panoramic, and intimate all at the same time, the legendary Toronto ...
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Sign Libra “Sea To Sea” (RVNG Intl)
On Sea to Sea, Sign Libra drifts between the cerebral and celestial, arranging, and then rearranging, the complex and magnificent systems of our immediate and greater cosmos into her own graceful and eccentric sound patterns. As the moon appears in ...
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Masumi Hara “4 X A Dream” (Numero)
A seamless mix of the organic and inorganic, the recent past and distant future, and the possible and impossible, Japanese multi-media artist Masumi Hara’s sophomore album arrived like a fish on the moon in 1984. An album filled with contradiction ...
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Soccer Mommy “Color Theory” (Loma Vista)
Confronting the ongoing mental health and familial trials that have plagued Allison since pre-pubescence, color theory explores three central themes: blue, representing sadness and depression; yellow, symbolizing physical and emotional illness; and, finally, gray, representing darkness, emptiness and loss. Written ...
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Chet Baker Chet Baker Sings (Tone Poet)” (Blue Note)
There are several Chet Baker albums with the title Chet Baker Sings, but this one recorded for Pacific Jazz in 1954 and 1956 is the original, and arguably, the best. The album features Chet’s indelible vocals and sterling trumpet playing ...
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Grant Green “Nigeria (Tone Poet)”(Blue Note)
Grant Green’s Nigeria is an under-recognized gem in the guitarist’s remarkable Blue Note catalog. Recorded in 1962, but not first released until 1980, the album features a top-shelf band with Sonny Clark on piano, Sam Jones on bass, and, in ...
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Bread Love And Dreams “Amaryllis” (Magic Box)
The last album by this Scottish act (consisting of David McNiven and Angela Rew) is one of the best and most collectable acid folk albums ever made. As well as the epic title track, it features four superb shorter songs, ...
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Armoros “Pieces” (High Roller)
At last available to the world, the previously unissued 1989 ...
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Ayyuka “Sömestr” (Shalgam)
BACK IN PRINT! Turkish collective Ayyuka delivers an exciting mixture of genres such as Anatolian Rock, arabesque, Afrorock, surf, punk, spaghetti western, psychedelia and funk. This is the band's third studio album, originally released in 2015 ...
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Buena Vista Social Club “Buena Vista Social Club At Carnegie Hall” (World Circuit)
Buena Vista Social Club, the album produced by Ry Cooder, is the biggest selling world music album ever, with over 8 million records sold. Now for the first time comes the recording of the historic performance at New York's famous ...
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Doors “Soft Parade (50th Anniversary)” (Rhino)
The Doors’ fourth studio album, The Soft Parade, became the band’s fourth straight Top Ten album when it was released 50 years ago on July 18, 1969. Despite featuring one of the group’s biggest hits – “Touch Me” – it ...
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Smoke Fairies “Darkness Brings The Wonders Home” (Year Seven)
In the making of their new album Darkness Brings The Wonders Home, Smoke Fairies drew inspiration from mysteries both real and imagined: sea monsters, flocks of crows taking flight in extravagant formation, strange creatures dwelling in the mud near their ...
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K-Solo “Times Up” (Music On Vinyl)
K-Solo is an American rapper who was part of the Hit Squad in the 1990s. He released two albums under his moniker K-Solo. His second album 'Times Up' was released in 1992. K-Solo rapping style is slightly aggressive and the ...
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Hazemaze “Hymns Of The Damned” (Cursed Tongue)
Repress on orange vinyl. 'Hymns Of The Dead' is so much heavier than its predecessor. It is darker and much more into the heavy crushing doom field, losing part of the eerie fuzzy rhythm and the stoner smoke. The crushing ...
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