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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 its...
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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 12”...
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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 be...
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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 handful...
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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 from...
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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...
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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 (accompanied...
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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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Triumphant tenth album explores wintry landscapes of love, relationships and life.
While their colossal sonic achievements are well-documented, Yo La Tengo’s 2000 classic album is more In A Silent Way than Interstellar Space: a quietly intense melange of pulsing beats, acoustic guitar strum, ringing vibraphone and organ washes. Add electric guitar...
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Vinyl LP pressing. Digitally remastered edition of this 1987 compilation from the legendary British quartet. The World Won't Listen was a collection of singles, B-sides, album tracks, and BBC sessions and was assembled for the UK market at the same time that the U.S. collection, Louder Than Bombs was compiled...
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Several months after releasing their first album, The Smiths issued this collection of singles and rarities, several of which are BBC versions of songs from their debut. The Smiths treated singles as individual entities, not just ways to promote an album, and therefore many of there finest songs were never...
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Digitally remastered 180 gram vinyl edition of the classic 1987 collection from the legendary quartet. Compiling singles, B-sides, album tracks, and BBC sessions, LOUDER THAN BOMBS boasts a wealth of brilliant material including "Ask," "You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby" and "Unlovable." LOUDER THAN BOMBS is a necessary purchase...
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New Order formed in Manchester, U.K. in 1980, rising from the ashes of Joy Division after lead singer Ian Curtis' tragic suicide. Guitarist Bernard Sumner took over on vocals, and with drummer Stephen Morris, bassist Peter Hook and keyboardist Gillian Gilbert, the group became one of the biggest British acts...
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“Enormous full length debut from Home Front who have managed to fix truth to the beautiful and borderline mythical threadneedle moment in which punk, new wave, pop, indie and rock and roll all descend upon a single source. We may have only dreamed that Tears for Fears might have been...
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Audiopile Review: Look, we’re going to level with you. We kinda lost track of Mount Kimbie after their delightfully danceable, dubstep-influenced debut ‘Crooks & Lovers’. These things happen. Maybe it was just impossible to imagine this UK duo maintaining the youthful verve of that debut. The rough edges of these...
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Audiopile Review: Keplar is doing a phenomenal job of getting early-2000s glitch classics back into print. It was only a matter of time before the label turned its attention to Osaka’s Tujiko Noriko. And here’s a reissue of 2003’s ‘From Tokyo to Naiagara’. During the noughties, Tujiko was extremely productive,...
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Celebrated new wave compilation from Japan reissued for the first time on Glossy Mistakes. A much-cherished gem from the 1980s underground Japanese music scene returns, as Soft Selection 84 is reissued by Glossy Mistakes for its 40th anniversary. Originally released on DIY label Soft, the compilation sees 13 tracks from...
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Beginning in the late 1970s as an offshoot of disco and punk, dance-punk is difficult to define. Also sometimes referred to as disco-punk and funk-punk, it skirts, overlaps, and blurs into other genres including post-punk, post-disco, new wave, mutant disco, and synthpop.
This book explores the historical and cultural conditions of...
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Khruangbin’s fourth studio album, A La Sala (“To the Room” in Spanish), is an exercise in returning in order to go further, and doing so on your own terms. It continues the mystery and sanctity that is the key to how bassist Laura Lee Ochoa, drummer Donald “DJ” Johnson, Jr....
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Only God Was Above Us covers universal themes from the urge to question the world in which we live, to the quest for peace that can only be found through acceptance. The album is equal parts as direct yet complex as anything the band has ever released, as beautiful and...
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Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad musical genre that emerged in 1977 in the wake of punk rock. Post-punk musicians moved away from punk's traditional elements and raw simplicity, adopting instead a broader, more experimental approach that included a variety of avant-garde sensibilities and non-rock influences. Inspired by...
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Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad musical genre that emerged in 1977 in the wake of punk rock. Post-punk musicians moved away from punk's traditional elements and raw simplicity, adopting instead a broader, more experimental approach that included a variety of avant-garde sensibilities and non-rock influences. Inspired by...
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Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad musical genre that emerged in 1977 in the wake of punk rock. Post-punk musicians moved away from punk's traditional elements and raw simplicity, adopting instead a broader, more experimental approach that included a variety of avant-garde sensibilities and non-rock influences. Inspired by...
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I dipped my comb in shochu and ran it through the hair of the night is the brand new release from the intriguing trio 番長 Taste, consisting of Mark Anderson (Greymouth/Mysteries of Love, New Zealand), Anthony Guerra (Love Chants/Mysteries of Love, Australia) and mysterious rocker ‘Mariyo’ (Japan). The name 番長...
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The Sea and Cake are back with Everybody, the band’s first full length in just over four years. The record finds the band continuing to perfect their singular brand of dreamlike, hot-buttered pop music that sounds delicately handcrafted, yet effortless all the same. Sheets of glowing guitar tones skip along...
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This reissue features the original album, now on 2xLP for improved sound, along with the band’s pre-Sub Pop, self-titled EPs (released in 2003 and 2004), both of which are making their vinyl debut. The package also includes the previously unreleased track “Snakes on the Ladder” from the Apologies sessions. The...
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The Replacements' 1984 record Let It Be is widely hailed as not just one of the group's career best, but one the decade's best alt-rock masterpieces. After three releases of endearingly loud, fast rock and roll, the Replacements took a giant step forward without surrendering their raucous edge on Let...
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Audiopile Review: Astrid Sonne, the Danish-born, London-based experimental composer, has deviated from the path of her prior three albums and landed with this extraordinary and idiosyncratic vision of pop music. While those previous albums (also new in stock this week) explored the textural collision between her eerie viola work, haunted...
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Remastered edition of a compilation of Stereolab singles and rarities, first issued in 1998. Screenprinted gatefold sleeve. Includes download card. Reissued alongside new vinyl editions of the companion volumes Switched On, Refried Ectoplasm [Switched On Volume 2], and a CD anthology of all 3 volumes....
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Driven by lust-fueled limerence and drifting far from conformity, Butterflies Don’t Go Away captures Majesty Crush’s transient, yet subversive mark on the landscape of American shoegaze to come. Tracked between 1991-1995, the quartet reimagined the collapse of the American rust belt as a late-night, nail biting fever dream/revenge fantasy. This...
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This delightful 2016 full-length by the singer, songwriter, guitarist and painter from Blackpool, UK will definitely delight fans of tasteful indie/alternative folk music....
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With nods to their earlier work, Ride’s 7th album contains some of the best songs they have ever written. It is a record in the old-school sense, a rich listen that flows from start to finish, at times urgent and formidable, at others wistful and melancholic. It’s a record about...
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"Heroin Man stands as both the chronological center of the Cherubs catalog, and it's defining moment. As one of noise rock's finest moments, Heroin Man is both a delicate, tragic statement and send-off to a friend who had OD'd, and a bellowing, roaring, over-amped screwball masterpiece of Butthole Surfers mayhem...
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The band returned to being a trio in 1984 with guitarist Simon Raymonde joining their ranks in time for third album, Treasure.
Produced by Robin Guthrie and featuring tracks ‘Lorelei’, ‘Ivo’ and ‘Persephone’, Treasure is often celebrated as one of the band’s finest works. As Pitchfork put it when including the...
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Members of Jawbreaker, Texas is the Reason, and Handsome hash out one of the most riveting debut records we’ve ever heard, braiding punk rock bravado with a pop consciousness, post-modern style, and the poetic literary flair that hurled Blake Schwarzenbach into the songwriting elite. Worth it alone to wallow in...
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TV On The Radio's story is one of synchronicity, of serendipity, of epiphany. TVOTR began with Tunde Adebimpe (vocals) and David Sitek (multi-instrumentalist and production kingpin) being roommates, drinking way too much coffee, making art: comics, movies, paintings. They started trading tapes of each other's four track recordings and thought...
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"The untitled EP consisted of a single 18-minute song – performed live by Jason Molina in his living room, recorded directly to 4-track cassette as the sounds of a typical Chicago night bled through the air. Built solely from an acoustic guitar and Molina's familiar melancholy croon, it's a hauntingly...
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Audiopile Review: Marcus Brown, the unique voice and producer behind the Nourished by Time moniker, is back with his XL Recordings debut to prove that the explosive success of 2023’s "Erotic Probiotic 2" wasn't a one time deal. Much like its predecessor, "Catching Chickens" forges elements of 90s R&B, pop,...
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Between 1988 and 1991 – during the band’s 4AD years – Pixies recorded six sessions for the BBC, five for John Peel and one for Mark Goodier. Catching the raw energy of the band’s live performances, these sessions felt immediately noteworthy, timestamping a moment when Black Francis, Kim Deal, Joey...
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