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Spell Blanket - Collected Demos 2006-2009 comprises songs and sketches drawn from Trish's extensive archive of 4-track tapes and MiniDiscs. The recordings lay the groundwork for what would have been Broadcast’s fifth album, offering a window into Trish and James’ creative process during the post-Tender Buttons period from 2006-2009. Photography...
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"I wish I could turn or turn back" "Sometimes it’s hard to resist the feeling that there was a crucial turn in life out of which everything else flowed. Maybe in our more reasonable frames of mind we can dismiss that thought and take our plans and intentions very seriously....
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"An even deeper pass through the archives of The Cat’s Miaow, Skipping Stones is a welcome follow-up to 2022’s Songs ’94-’98, which pulled together material from seven-inch singles and compilations. Diving into the four cassettes that the group released over a two-year period, Skipping Stones is full of surprises, rich...
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Paige Emery is an ecological artist interweaving music, painting, and plants through healing rituals to explore ways of remembering the Earth. She catalyzes ritual to illuminate the way our practices co-write our cosmologies and to find cyclical resonances that bring us back home. Works such as sound pieces to guide...
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A stunning display of powerful emotion shines from the post-hardcore glory that defines The Appleseed Cast. The End Of The Ring Wars is a moving story about tragic loss and the battle to overcome the sorrow that lingers on. Disturbingly honest and passionately-realized, The Appleseed Cast reminds us that sometimes...
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The debut solo ablum from Annie-Claude Deschenes (of the Montreal bands Duchess Says and PyPy). Inspired by the pioneers of electronic music, Les Manieres de Table is as danceable and melodic as it is disquieting and dystopian. The album proposes to set the table differently by deconstructing the social codes...
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The Fire Theft was an alternative rock band from Seattle, formed in 2001 from the ashes of legendary emo band Sunny Day Real Estate. The lineup consisted of vocalist/guitarist Jeremy Enigk, bassist Nate Mendel and drummer William Goldsmith. Mendel is also famous for being the full-time bassist in the Foo...
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Following the release of Everything Harmony, which garnered acclaim from Questlove, Iggy Pop, Anthony Fantano, The Guardian, and countless others, The Lemon Twigs—the New York City rock band fronted by brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario—have once again captured the attention of the music listening public. They are in their premature...
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Hyperdrama is the fourth studio album by French duo Justice, and it is their first new album since 2016's Woman. The album features the singles "One Night/All Night" featuring Tame Impala and "Generator." Hyperdrama also includes collaborations with Miguel, Thundercat, Connan Mockasin, The Flints and Rimon....
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“But into my miserable brain, always concerned with looking for noon at two o’clock" - Charles Baudelaire (1869) The Foreign Department is the second album by Astrel K, the solo project helmed by Stockholm-based British ex-pat, Rhys Edwards. Those already familiar with Edwards’ work will likely know him for fronting...
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The purest a band can aim for is to present their milieu as a time capsule from the morning of. April Magazine deals deep in the hypnagogic charm of their surroundings. Since the 2018 release of “Shirley Don’t”— a sneaky classic that first turned ears outside their SF Bay Area...
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You get older, you have a family, and you start to slow down—that’s how things are supposed to go, right? Not for Montreal band Corridor, who have returned on their fourth album, Mimi, with a sound and style that’s more widescreen and expansive than anything that’s preceded it. The follow-up...
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“All our dreamers lose to the light” - from “Angels Go Home” When the pandemic began, and the world shut down, so did the process of creating for Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam. In its place was a domesticity that the singer hadn’t felt in a long time, and although...
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"With Time is Glass, Six Organs of Admittance is captured once again in the intricate tangle of the fretboards, soaring in open skies above. Like lens flare cutting through the speakers; spiderwebs cracking the windshield that holds back all the onrushing reality. Blowing the dust away, cutting a new path...
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This is the 2009 reissue of Sunny Day Real Estate’s 1995 sophomore album, commonly, and largely unofficially, referred to as either LP2 or The Pink Album. We’ve been going with LP2 for a while now and plan to stick with it. This 2009 edition has been re-mastered and includes the...
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Pearl vinyl edition, limited to 1500 copies. Sunny Day Real Estate and Sub Pop celebrate the 30th anniversary of the band's landmark album Diary with a new pearl-vinyl edition of the remastered double LP. This new version coincides with the band's 2024 US tour commemorating the anniversary of the album....
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Tracked in the decade after Duster went on hiatus, Canaan Amber's debut solo EP CA demonstrates the California-born guitarist's affection for San Francisco jangle and Santa Cruz surf. Crawling at a banana slug's pace, Canaan wraps the loneliest one-string guitar solos around a cluster of hollow rhythms and ghostly mumbles....
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Joseph Shabason, Matthew Sage, and Nicholas Krgovich form a pretty perfect triangle, musically and geographically. Based out of Toronto, Colorado, and Vancouver respectively, the three convened at Sage’s converted barn studio at the foot of the Rockies to diagram their kindred ability to extract grandeur from the most passable of...
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From the depths of the DFA vault (really just an assortment of poorly organized hard drives of varying vintages), we found this gem, a version of “pow pow” made all squirrely by master squirrels the Idjut Boys. Why we kept this a secret for 14 years will forever remain a...
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Spaceman In a Satin Suit was released in 1994 and it is one of the best and most mature works in Celibate Rifles´ discography, and now for the first time on vinyl since its initial release. The 14 songs of the Celibate Rifles introduce you to an electric storm, oppressively...
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Another classic of THE CELIBATE RIFLES, this time a wild live album. A sample of the guitar machinery that deployed this band of Australian high energy punk, raw guitars, wild solos and catchy melodies. Recorded live at CBGB in 1986, the band is in top form and shows in each...
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In many ways, the music of Writhing Squares could have only originated in Philadelphia; the city itself is a microcosm of creatives, go-getters, freaks & weirdos that have coalesced into a supportive & boundary-pushing crew. Former Purling Hiss bassist Daniel Provenzano & Ecstatic Vision sax-player & vocalist Kevin Nickles’ first...
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Recalibrating her singular journey in the British musical landscape with her most open-hearted, direct and intimate collection of material yet. Love In Constant Spectacle evokes spectacular imagery and distills the artists’ vision in its purest form, elevating her inimitable sound and poetic vision to new heights. Recapturing the melancholy of...
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Recorded in Paris at Maison de la Radio studio March 2, 1993. Nine urgent Dinosaur Jr classics performed at arguably the band's 90s peak as a live outfit. Remastered from the original tapes. On colored Vinyl....
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Celebrating the 15-year anniversary of “Nite Versions” original release, Soulwax re-released a new digital version of the album including a Soulwax-reworked ‘NY Lipps,’ featuring a spoken-word performance by LCD Soundsystem’s Nancy Whang. Originally released on [PIAS] in 2005, “Nite Versions” is a collection of remixes of songs off the 2004’s...
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The debut album from the Feelies. Originally released in 1980, Crazy Rhythms was the New Jersey-based bands first ever release and a response to the burgeoning punk scene at the time. The jangly, alt-pop sound found here would be hugely influential to the alternative rock genre with bands like R.E.M....
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Spacemen 3’s second album is a remarkable departure from the band’s 1986 debut, Sound Of Confusion. Reduced to a trio (guitarists/keyboardists Pete “Sonic Boom” Kember, Jason “Spaceman” Pierce, and bassist Pete Bassman) following the departure of the first album’s drummer, Spacemen 3 makes an asset out of the newfound lack...
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A landmark publication celebrating the life and work of American musician and composer Arthur Russell, the man the Guardian called 'One of the 20th century's true musical visionaries'. The music of Arthur Russell defies classification. Across a twenty-year career he created a body of work which ranged from his pioneering...
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"Volume, repetition, volume, repetition, volume and repetition, this is the sonic mantra of Austin, Texas's Water Damage. On their new record In E, Water Damage continues to scorch the earth with walls of punishing sound. It's no secret that something truly special can happen to the psyche when you are...
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Audiopile Review - After a string of digital-only singles (compiled recently by Tough Love), impossible to find cassettes and a highly limited lathe cut 7”, San Francisco group April Magazine issue what amounts to their debut album proper. Despite being a part of the seemingly never-ending supply of great bands...
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Young Ginns began in November 1991 when Unwound was staying at The Embassy house where Nation Of Ulysses guitarist Tim Green lived. Somehow around the coffee table, an idea was conceived to have a “jam band” in the vein of the instrumental songs of Black Flag and other SST artists....
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Old Pride is the debut full-length from Baltimore MD’s Pianos Become the Teeth. Atmospheric, relentless, and enrapturing, Old Pride represents a crucial moment in the history of punk and hardcore with its climactic and raw screamo passages strung together with unpredictable structure and elements of post-rock. Songs barrel through...
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Audiopile Review - After a 5 month wait since being sent into orbit upon hearing the digital-only release of ML Buch’s Suntub, we’re beyond ecstatic to have finally gripped the physical incarnation of this stunning album. Technically her second album, Skinned, the 2020 digital-only debut, got the ball rolling with...
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Audiopile Review - Nearly lost to time, the short-live San Jose outfit Ozean only issued a three track cassette in 1993 and played two live shows. The cassette may have been a nearly forgotten footnote in shoegaze if it wasn’t for Moon Sounds Records, who reissued the cassette as a...
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Audiopile Review - You’d be forgiven for missing the string of digital-only singles from Helen Island last year, one of the many projects of the somewhat mysterious Parisian producer Léopold Collin. The bottomless depths of Bandcamp and streaming outlets can make it difficult to find those artists who refuse to...
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Audiopile Review - Glenn Donaldson, the hardest working man in DIY indie rock, gifts us a new album under his beloved Reds, Pinks And Purples guise, his first of the year and likely not his last. For fans of Donaldson’s prolific project (8 full lengths in 5 years, plus a...
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Immerse yourself in the genre-defying brilliance of The Triffids' "Born Sandy Devotional." This 1986 masterpiece seamlessly blends folk, rock, and post-punk, creating an unforgettable sonic experience. The haunting vocals of David McComb, coupled with lush instrumentals, make each track a journey through atmospheric landscapes....
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Scottish and Danish composer Clarissa Connelly’s debut album on Warp Records, “World of Work”, is set to be released. Over the years Clarissa has explored sacred sites and mythology, finding inspiration in Celtic and Nordic culture. For her most recent album, “The Voyager”, Clarissa walked the Scandinavian landscape, channelling melodies...
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With time, we come to understand the way the joy of connection is mirrored by the void of loss, how the constancy of love is matched only by the impermanence of life, the simple idea that we could not create light if we did not risk the dark—we’d never need...
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In the 1990s, Chicago was at the center of indie rock, propelling bands like the Smashing Pumpkins and Liz Phair to the national stage. The musical ecosystem from which these bands emerged, though, was expansive and diverse. Grunge players comingled with the electronic, jazz, psychedelic, and ambient music communities, and...
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Mute celebrates the 25th Anniversary Edition of Looper’s debut 1999 album, Up A Tree, featuring never-before-released songs. LOOPER [Stuart and Karn David], originally recorded for the Sub Pop label in 1999, this anniversary edition include remixes, reworks, new sleeve notes and alternative artwork, and is out on transparent green vinyl...
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The Soft Bulletin is the most accessible album that psychedelic-noise-pop stalwarts The Flaming Lips have ever released. The album is different and new, courageous and accomplished, as unique as ever and yet more listenable than ever. Rhythmic, piano-laden, exploding with intelligence and sonic texture, The Soft Bulletin, the band's ninth...
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Either/Or is widely regarded as Elliott’s best album, and remains his best-selling. To commemorate the 20th Anniversary of this masterpiece, Kill Rock Stars proudly presents Either/Or: Expanded Edition. This album features the original tracks carefully remastered from original tapes under the supervision of Larry Crane, owner of Jackpot!...
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1998 debut album from the French postmodernist duo. Air raid every aspect of retro pop music, from the sublime to the ridiculous, in fashioning their sonic bricolage. Everything from Krautrock-inspired electronics to 1960s lounge music is incorporated into the work of Nicolas Godin and J.B. Dunckel. Moon Safari earned massive...
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The official debut album from gifted singer, songwriter, and harpist JOANNA NEWSOM. Twelve engaging tracks rooted in the folk of the 1960s and the current bluegrass revival, but on a plane all its own. Whimsical themes meet with a playful approach, the harp's plucked beauty and Newsom's one-of-a-kind vocal delivery....
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In 1996, Joey Burns and John Convertino formed Calexico as a side project to pursue while they had time off from Giant Sand. Calexico eventually grew into a full-time pursuit, recording and releasing multiple excellent full-length albums and EP's for Quarterstick Records. Originally released in 2003, "Feast Of Wire" is...
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Adult Contemporary singer-songwriter BILL CALLAHAN returns with another love-and-loss classic. Rain On Lens is a unique soundtrack for the new depression and SMOG's strongest effort since 1993'sWild Love....
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The acclaimed 1998 album featuring Chan Marshall backed by two-thirds of the Dirty Three (the two-thirds that don't play violin). A breathtakingly beautiful, hypnotic record. If Cat Power were Van Morrison, this would be her "Astral Weeks."...
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