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Out of stockThe sixth album from the now-stripped-to-a-three-piece drift-off we call LABRADFORD Four extended tracks of gorgeous guitar, soothing keyboards and samples, and delicious bass rumble that stradles the compositional chasm between organic sound sources and digital processing Fixed::Context by...
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Out of stockThe first Kranky collaboration with LOW was released in the fall of 1997 The vinyl format for this has been out of print the longest of any of the band’s Kranky releases, and is finally available again for the analog...
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Out of stockWhile on the island of Syros in the Aegean Sea for a film festival performance, Christina Vantzou experienced what she characterized as “a moment of focus”—a specific vision for the sprawl of raw recordings she’d been amassing for her fifth album Upon relocating to the Cycladic island of Ano Koufonisi, she situated herself...
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Out of stock“Stars Of The Lid’s Adam Wiltzie presents a collection of drone compositions that he considered too aggressive for his parent band—which means they range somewhere between a whisper and a shout The sense of cathedral-like reverence is balanced with extreme intimacy” —Pitchfork “This is quite possibly the best music...
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The third full-length release for Portland, Oregon-based LIZ HARRIS Harris might have achieved a significant fan base thanks to the whispering, near-ambient vocal crusades of her debut album Way Their Crept and its follow-up Wide, but those with a careful ear would have heard slightly more trapped beneath her fuzzy chain of...
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Jacob Long’s third Earthen Sea outing for Kranky, Ghost Poems, further refines his fragile, fractured palette into fluttering arrythmias of dust, percussion, and yearning Composed during the first wave of lockdowns in New York, the pieces took shape patiently from samples of piano, texture, and domestic sounds (sink splashing,...
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The glacial distillation of Pan•American aka Mark Nelson’s “romantic minimalism” achieves unique fruition on his latest Kranky collection, The Patience Fader A suite of solo guitar instrumentals accented with lap steel, harmonica, and twilit atmospherics, the strings smear and sparkle in elegant, windswept swells, a guitar...
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Out of stock“Ruins was made in Aljezur, Portugal in 2011 on a residency set up by Galeria Zé dos Bois I recorded everything there except the last song, which I did at mother's house in 2004 Iʼm still surprised by what I wound up with It was the first time Iʼd sat still for a few years; processed a lot of political anger and emotional...
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Out of stockBACK IN PRINT!!! The ninth full-length album from slo-mo beauty dealers LOW, and the band's most assertive and expansive release to date Thirteen tracks recorded in Minneapolis with TOM HERBERT and mixed in London by TCHAD BLAKE (Latin Playboys, Lisa Germano, Pearl Jam), and featuring guest vocals on two tracks by GERRY BECKLEY of...
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Twelve new tracks of morphinous, skeletal drift-sound wonders from the combined voices, guitars and percussion of ALAN SPARHAWK, MIMI PARKER and ZAK SALLY Diverse and painless songs that cut simply but effectively through heart-strings and nervous systems, leaving an absorbed and beautiful corpse in their wake Features added...
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Out of stockThe sixth full-length offering from these heavens-soaring, super-sonic, gargantuan sound explorers A massive blend of treated strings, organs, backwards tubular bell runs, field recordings, and much more, expertly layered and crafted into a relentlessly uplifting symphony of hymnal beauty Gracious, me "Their relentless...
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Out of stockThe 12th full-length by Pacific Northwest artist Liz Harris aka Grouper is a collection of songs spanning fifteen years She characterizes Shade as an album about respite, and the coast, poetically and literally How one frames themselves in a landscape, how in turn it frames themselves; memories and experiences carried forward...
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Out of stockStars Of The Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline...
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"Canadian composer Scott Morgan's 12th long-player as loscil takes its title from an influential series of early 20th century photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, abstracting clouds into miasmic, painterly canvases of smoke and shadowplay It's a deeply fitting analog for Morgan's own musical process across the past two decades,...
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It's a sign of creative maturity and marks a welcome move away from the Fennesz-style layered glitchscapes that have dominated his back-catalogue It's hard to tell exactly how these drone tapestries are woven together; the granular laptop trickery of old is virtually undetectable and the source instruments detuned and dissolved...