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Audiopile Review: With a helping hand from Diego Herrera (aka Suzanne Kraft), Aiden Ayers, fellow Pender Street Stepper Liam Butler and official Mood Hut saxophonist Linda Fox, Jack J doubles down on the sun-kissed sophisticated pop of his debut with a followup that just might best it. Across Blue Desert...
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Audiopile Review: In the early 90s, Sebadoh quickly grew from lo-fi beginnings to something resembling alt rock stardom. At the same time, Lou Barlow and pals were never afraid to scream “WE WILL BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS” before launching into some weird tape collage. Still, there’s...
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Audiopile Review: For those who were taken aback by the Sternpost’s Ulrika, which we had highlighted earlier this year, prepare yourself for the newest release from Testbild!, the long-running project spearheaded by Petter Herbertsson, who also doubles as Sternpost. With the recent underground success of Ulrika (the original pressing now...
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Audiopile Review: Music From Memory chase recent full length debuts from Contours, Tim Koh & Sun An and Total Blue with another premier transmission, this one courtesy of Dead Sound, a duo comprised of a pair of MFM mainstays—vocalist John Moods, who last collab’d with The Zenmenn, and Young Marco,...
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What does it mean to be perfectly blue? Perhaps it means swimming contently in the waters of deep, complex emotions, or simply learning to spin low moments into casual days. For Luka Seifert, who makes music as RIP Swirl, the idea of being fine with not being happy all the...
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Crystal Dorval’s dream-pop journey as White Poppy spans over a decade, the last half of which has centered on a song-writing cycle called ‘Paradise Gardens,’ documented across a trilogy of LPs: Paradise Gardens (2020), Sound Of Blue (2023), and Ataraxia (2024). Its muse is a fusion of bedroom shoegaze and...
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2024 repress. "You've got to listen to this band, you'll really like them, I know." A Colourful Storm presents the first-time vinyl issue of Blueboy's The Bank Of England, originally released in 1998. The group of Paul Stewart, Keith Girdler, Cath Close, Ian Gardner, and James Neville are Sarah Records...
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If Wishes Were Horses, Blueboy's first and now legendary album is finally reissued by Australian label A Colourful Storm. Presented for the first time on vinyl since its release in 1992, the recording by Keith Girdler, Gemma Townley, Paul Stewart, Lloyd Armstrong, and Mark Andes is immortalized in Sarah Records'...
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A Colourful Storm's reissue project of Blueboy's Sarah Records albums culminates with Unisex, arguably the finest moment of the trio of Keith Girdler, Paul Stewart, and Gemma Townley. A bona fide indie-pop classic. The first vinyl issue since 1994, the album has gained an immense cult following in all corners...
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For the first time this century, two missed masterpieces are coming available on vinyl. The band Souled American formed in Chicago in 1986 and recorded a total of sixty-six songs between 1988 and 1996. Though not ever popular themselves, their evolving hybrid of roots / rock music heavily influenced many...
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"For the first time this century, two missed masterpieces are coming available on vinyl. The band Souled American formed in Chicago in 1986 and recorded a total of sixty-six songs between 1988 and 1996. Though not ever popular themselves, their evolving hybrid of roots/rock music heavily influenced many more popular...
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Along with the record’s original 10 tracks – including all-time Spoon classics “Inside Out,” “Do You,” and “Rent I Pay” – ‘They Want My Soul: Deluxe More Soul Edition’ features 11 demos and alternate versions, almost all of them previously unreleased. The reissue underlines the album’s vaunted place amid one...
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Secretly Canadian is proud to reissue a limited run of Songs: Ohia’s Protection Spells, a collection of some of the most precious time capsules in the greater Molina Vaults. Protection Spells has a spotty release history, with long periods out of print and limited formats. It returns to print now...
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Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of TV On The Radio's Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes. Originally released in 2004, TV on the Radio’s debut album is nine songs about (in no particular order) — discordant living, misrepresentation, how nothing nothing can be, life, afterlife, love and love “after hours.” These are...
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Bill Direen is a legend of the New Zealand underground. He has given us poetry, novels and a catalog of important and challenging underground music. Weaned on a garage band youth in the late 60's, Direen started producing 7" records in the early 80's, all of them total stunners. These...
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"'I never wanted to ever start a record label. Ever. But there is something about her voice I couldn't let go of. It's an actual voice. An actual beautiful voice. This one's a classic sounding voice. Not to mention her song writing, recording and guitar playing. Jessica Pratt's music feels...
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Robert Pollard’s amazing collages in a full-color 238-page book...
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Trees Speak return with TimeFold, their sixth release on Soul Jazz Records, further expanding their ever-evolving sonic universe. This new album builds on their signature blend of hypnotic krautrock rhythms, post-punk angularity, and experimental soundscapes while venturing into new terrain, blending influences from avant-garde electronics to ceremonial sound forms. On...
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Haruomi Hosono is the legendary artist best known for his tenure in the seminal band Yellow Magic Orchestra. Hosono House Revisited is compilation of reworks of Haruomi Hosono’s iconic solo debut, Hosono House, celebrating 50 years since its release. This compilation sees musicians from the Stones Throw roster and beyond...
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Audiopile Review: The Japanese underground is often portrayed as a place of extremes. On the one hand, you have the mind melting Japanoise of Merzbow and Aube. On the other, the ramshackle indie pop of Maher Shalal Hash Baz and Nagisa Ni Te. But there seems to be a spot...
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Audiopile Review: Phil Elverum faced a daunting task following The Microphones in 2020, his masterful 40+ minute autobiographical return to a long-abandoned name. Now, pivoting back to his Mount Eerie alias, Elverum draws us closer to the varied untethered experimental spirit of his early work as The Microphones, contrasting with...
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Cindy is to release a new six song EP called Swan Lake on 4th October via Tough Love. The title isn’t a nod to the folktale or ballet in any real way, but to the fact that it all has ended up in the collective imagination as an object, vaguely...
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"In 2010 I was falling in love and making a record for Asthmatic Kitty in Sufjan Steven’s studio, recording it all by myself, and i’ll admit- singing into the laptop at times- ha! the feeling was akin to the magical feeling I felt when i would crawl under the big...
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Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Hallowed Ground, the 1984 follow up to the Violent Femmes legendary self-titled debut album. Similar to the first album, all of the songs were written by lead singer Gordon Gano while still in high school. The band’s sophomore title, however, pushed the band in new...
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Recorded as part of the same daydreaming puzzle as Unwishing Well, Still Clouds at Noon brings out the slowcore/sadcore elements that drift through The Reds, Pinks & Purples’ melancholy catalog. Donaldson names '90s hometown San Francisco acts such as American Music Club and the more obscure Timco as pivotal to...
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Originally released in late August 2001, this version was assembled and re-mastered in the summer of 2007, and released as "KLP190" later that year by K. Sides A to D recorded between May 23rd, 2000 and March 23rd, 2001 at Dub Narcotic, Olympia, Wash. (Most of the "Recorded By" names...
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The band's first effort for Capitol Records was an album which was recorded before Come Down called The Black Album, which was rejected by Capitol for, according to frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor, containing "no hit songs". It was later released as a double album in 2004 with Come On Feel the...
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Formed in 1994 in Portland, Oregon, The Dandy Warhols have carved out a niche with their unique blend of garage rock, psychedelia, and indie vibes. Celebrating their iconic sound, [PIAS] has unveiled special 2LP reissues: the self-titled album on striking Red Vinyl and "...The Dandy Warhols Come Down" on vibrant...
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After quietly releasing their self-titled debut album in 1999 while still in college, American Football disbanded after the album's release to focus on other projects, only to reunite 15 years later to a fanbase that had been consistently growing throughout the underground/emo scene. The album later appeared on Rolling Stone's...
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The Mid Spiral suites see BADBADNOTGOOD return to their roots of instrumental jazz while once again pushing the boundaries of how they cross pollinate genres, incorporating their love of hip-hop, neo-soul, psychedelic, funk and more. For the Mid Spiral sessions, the trio incorporated additional musicians to add more voices of...
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Celebrate the 30th anniversary of Up To Our Hips by The Charlatans, with this expanded edition of the album. It includes a second LP of alternate takes and bonus tracks and features reimagined album art. The album was released following the arrest of their keyboardist after an armed robbery attempt,...
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Crack Cloud has always been something beyond a rock band: both profound and grand, vaporous and elusive. The first iteration of Crack Cloud was formed nearly a decade ago as a proxy-rehab outlet on the fringes of Calgary. Over time, two EPs and accompanying visual pieces were produced out of...
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Released in 2004, Antics cemented Interpol's position as one of the most influential bands of their generation. The album's dark, atmospheric soundscapes and frontman Paul Banks' signature vocals spawned iconic tracks such as ‘Slow Hands,’ ‘Evil,’ and ‘C’mere’ and Antics continues to resonate with fans worldwide, solidifying its place as...
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A collection of early, previously unreleased music recorded at Jason Quever's apartment at 924 Fulton in San Francisco while McCombs was living in Berkeley between 1999-2000. The Bay Area in the late '90s housed a special community of artists including Papercuts, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Chris Cohen’s Curtains, and...
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To say that the vinyl release of Ostraaly's 'Misery Guests' has overcome monumental challenges isn't hyperbole, but fact. The label had been in cahoots w/principal band members Katharine Daly & Leonie Brialey as far back as the 'Luggs' cdr in 2016. Initially this release was to see vinyl action, but...
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"The French psycho-indie-rock band La Femme presents Teatro Lucido, their 2022 studio album sung entirely in Spanish. During their time touring in Latin America and Spain, La Femme wrote a Spanish song called 'Le Jardin' for their previous album Paradigmes. This track led them down the path toward creating Teatro...
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The Charleston, South Carolina artist Contour's body of work is evidence of a restless curiosity that culminates on his latest album and debut for Mexican Summer, Take Off from Mercy. Starting off as a beatmaker, Khari's vision has broadened over releases like Onwards (2022, Touching Bass), Love Suite...
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Body Meπa is the New York-based quartet of Greg Fox (drums), Sasha Frere-Jones (guitar), Melvin Gibbs (bass), and Grey McMurray (guitar). As luminaries in the intersecting traditions of improvised music, rock, jazz, fusion, and contemporary classical music, the four artists have each spent decades building diverse practices that extend beyond...
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Demos and unreleased songs from Wand’s salad days, the time of the immortal Ganglion Reef. Available for download since 2017, In a Capsule Underground is at last firmly sunk into vinyl grooves that realize its fullest potential in a listener’s ears. These light, fizzy versions have distinctive, gleaming magic energies...
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Purple Pinwheel vinyl limited to 700 units! On her second full-length record as Waxahatchee, former P.S. Eliot singer Katie Crutchfield’s compelling hyper-personal poetry is continuously crushing. Cerulean Salt follows American Weekend -- a collection of minimal acoustic-guitar pop written and recorded in a week at her family’s Birmingham home. On...
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2024 repress. "Hold your breath -- now let it go. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's Greatest Palace Music is back on vinyl for the first time in a generation. In 2005, it followed the release of Bonny's Master and Everyone. It may have seemed a novel idea at the time, but the...
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"The Clean broke up (for the first time) in 1982. After a break, the Kilgour brothers pursued a new aesthetic and started recording on a four-track at home. Poking fun at their past, they called themselves The Great Unwashed. Clean Out Of Our Minds was made in two months at...
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Grandeza is an album about the natural gesture of love and the softness of the human body. It’s also about my love for Brazilian music and its many shapes and colors. I like to think that it exists somewhere among the rituals that celebrate life. It’s a reminder that amongst...
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This 1986 album by The Primates remains as the only recording ever released by these four '60s R&B and garage fans. Combining great originals and versions, We Are The Primates remains as a wild, raw, party album that every fan of garage music should own. Originally published on Greg Shaw's...
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To Celebrate its 25th anniversary, Cardinal Fuzz and Feeding Tube Records present the lost classic that is Outrageous Cherry's Out There In The Dark, presented for the very first time on vinyl. Originally released via the DF2K (the contemporary sister label of Del-Fi), one of the classic labels of the...
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Audiopile Review: Slint’s Tweez hits the 35 year mark and slams back into the world with this newly remastered edition. An album ripe for reappraisal, Tweez has lived in the shadow of Spiderland for much of the last three decades, suffering a similar fate as albums like Isn’t Anything,...
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Audiopile Review: Well timed reissue of Rodan’s lone studio album, a record that surely wouldn’t have existed if it wasn’t for the dust kicked up prior by fellow Kentuckians Slint, who also celebrate an anniversary this week of their debut LP. Borrowing just as much from Tweez as they would...
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Audiopile Review: Slint’s Tweez hits the 35 year mark and slams back into the world with this newly remastered edition. An album ripe for reappraisal, Tweez has lived in the shadow of Spiderland for much of the last three decades, suffering a similar fate as albums like Isn’t Anything, Pod,...
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