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Out of stockA Bit of Previous is a classic Belle and Sebastian album preoccupied with songs and melodies that won’t leave your head and lyrics that can make you smile and ponder and sometimes be melancholic It’s an album self-produced and recorded by Belle and Sebastian (with contributions from Brian McNeil, Matt Wiggins, Kevin Burleigh...
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"A Bit of Previous" is the ninth studio album by Belle and Sebastian and their first full-length in seven years So what is a "A Bit of Previous" It's a bit of everything, and a lot of what makes Belle and Sebastian so special and enduring It's a band with humour, irreverence, lyrical exactitude and musical bravado tackling the...
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Matador will release ‘Terror Twilight: Farewell Horizontal’, an exhaustive 45-track set compiling the remastered original album, B-sides, home demos, rehearsal tapes, era-appropriate live recordings, and even the rough tracks from Pavement’s scrapped session at Sonic Youth’s Echo Canyon studio Altogether, it features 28...
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An expanded edition of Pavement’s Spit On A Stranger EP On vinyl for the first time, the EP coincides with the long-awaited release of the 5xLP box Terror Twilight: Farewell Horizontal and the announcement of several months of North American and European touring Spit On A Stranger includes the viral phenomenon “Harness Your...
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Spoon’s tenth album, Lucifer on the Sofa, is the band’s purest rock ’n roll record to date Texas-made, it is the first set of songs that the quintet has put to tape in its hometown of Austin in more than a decade Written and recorded over the last two years –both in and out of lockdown –these songs mark a shift toward...
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Out of stockThe third album from Vancouver pop maestros The New Pornographers continues to feature Neko Case and Dan Bejar (Destroyer) as well as new vocalists Kathryn Calder and Nora O'Connor Fans of Mass Romantics kinkiness will find immediate appeal, as will those partial to Electric Version's drive Yet the songs on Twin Cinema veer more...
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Mere weeks before the world went into lockdown, groundbreaking songwriter and vocalist King Krule performed a handful of concerts following the release of his critically acclaimed third album ‘Man Alive!’ Recorded during those final shows, the new live album, You Heat Me Up, You Cool Me Down offers fans a glimpse into a tour...
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Matador Records celebrates the 25th anniversary of Bardo Pond’s long out-of-print second album and label debut, Amanita, with a newly remastered 2xLP reissue Formed in 1991, Philadelphia’s Bardo Pond have spent some thirty years mapping guitar music’s outer limits – dialing into extremes of noise, chaos, and harmony in...
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Out of stockThis fall, we celebrate the 21st anniversary of The New Pornographers’ debut record and breakout, Mass Romantic (2000), with a limited-edition red vinyl LP reissue The album – clocking three singers and 12 effervescent and undeniable power-pop gems – will return on red vinyl and will include a bonus 7”, “Letter From An...
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Valentine was written and produced by Lindsey Jordan and co-produced by Brad Cook (Bon Iver, Waxahatchee) Written in 2019-2020 the album is filled with romance, heartbreak, blood, sweat and tears The sonic leap forward can be heard from the first moments of the title track – the whispered voice and eerie synths erupting into a...
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Circuit des Yeux’s first studio album since 2017, -io, and her first for Matador Records The sky over -io is Florida’s strange, radiant orange It’s a built environment, unnatural, made from concrete and glass, with skyscrapers that stretch to the vanishing point as you gaze up at them It’s crumbling and suffocating, a...
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Other You is the sixth studio album by American singer Steve Gunn Recorded during two visits to Los Angeles in late 2020 and early 2021, the album was made with veteran producer Rob Schnapf (Beck, Elliott Smith, Cass McCombs, Kurt Vile) at his Mant Studios alongside musician and longtime friend and collaborator Justin Tripp, whose...
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DARKSIDE is an American rock band formed in Providence, Rhode Island in 2011 The group consists of Chilean electronic musician & vocalist Nicolás Jaar and American multi-instrumentalist Dave Harrington Jaar and Harrington first met while studying in Providence through their com- mon friend and saxophonist Will Epstein In the...
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Out of stockSince forming in high school, Brisbane band The Goon Sax—the trio of Riley Jones, Louis Forster, and James Harrison, best friends who take turns writing, singing, and playing each instrument— have been celebrated for their unpretentious, kinetic homemade pop Mirror ll, The Goon Sax’s first album for Matador, is something...
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This new gift from Dacus, her third album, was built on an interrogation of her coming-of-age years in Richmond, VA Many songs start the way a memoir might—"In the summer of ‘07 I was sure I’d go to heaven, but I was hedging my bets at VBS”—and all of them have the compassion, humor, and honesty of the best...
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Little Oblivions is the third studio album by Julien Baker Recorded in Memphis, TN, the record weaves together unflinching autobiography with assimilated experience and hard-won observations from the past few years, taking Baker’s capacity for storytelling to new heights It also marks a sonic shift, with the songwriter's...
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This year Matador’s Revisionist History series concludes with Bailter Space’s ‘Wammo’, now celebrating its 25th anniversary ‘Wammo’ has been remastered from the original tapes and returns to us pressed on translucent orange vinyl Formed in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1987 as Nelsh Bailter Space, the band’s...
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Out of stockKurt Vile’s Speed, Sound, Lonely KV (ep) was recorded and mixed in sporadic sessions that spanned four years at The Butcher Shoppe studio in Nashville, TN It includes five songs — covers of John Prine and “Cowboy” Jack Clement as well as two originals — and was recorded alongside a cast of local heavies like Bobby Wood,...
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Out of stockBelle and Sebastian present twenty-two live performances featuring songs from across their 25 year career The recordings showcase the Scottish septet at the height of their power during their 2019 tour, including tracks performed on the band's own Mediterranean cruise, "The Boaty...
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Remastered by Bob Weston, Mountains comes back to us as a gold foil-embossed gatefold 2xLP and will include the previously unreleased original takes of “Return to Pirates,” “Poison Moon,” and “Killed by the Telephone,” which were delivered along with the original master tapes 20 years ago, but were omitted from the...
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Matador Records will release Yo La Tengo’s Sleepless Night -- a six-song EP with one new tune (“Bleeding”) plus covers of songs by The Byrds, The Delmore Brothers, Bob Dylan, Ronnie Lane, and The Flying Machine The tracks on Sleepless Night were initially released as one side of an LP included within a limited-edition...
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Out of stockSet My Heart On Fire Immediately is the fifth studio album from Perfume Genius on Matador Records It sees artist and musician Mike Hadreas re-teaming with Grammy-nominated producer Blake Mills and features contributions from musicians Jim Keltner, Pino Palladino and Matt Chamberlin It was recorded in Los Angeles, where Perfume...