Rock
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A smash of jazz and rock, Second Time Around spawned two top 20 R&B singles but more importantly, landed Etta James on the Pop charts with three separate singles: the devastating lead-off track “Don’t Cry Baby,” the slow burn of “Fool That I Am” and the swing from the rafters/twist...
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Following the success of ‘The Original Sound of Mali’ compilation, we return with another explorative delve into the wonders of Malian music compiled by French writer, journalist and Grammy-nominated compiler Florent Mazzoleni and Mr Bongo’s very own David Buttle. Restoring, reissuing and contextualising iconic tracks from Ousmane Kouyaté & Ambassadeurs...
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The debut album from New Order, originally produced by Martin Hannett, who had previously collaborated with Joy Division, features eight original tracks all written after the sudden death of Joy Division’s Ian Curtis, including ‘Dreams Never End’ and ‘Truth’ which were both penned very shortly in a writing session in...
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More than a year after the release of the original track 'Fly Away' on my album 'Cherry' Sam / Deetron got in touch and sent me this remix that he'd made uncommissioned to play in his sets. I've been a fan of Sam's for years and I couldn't believe my...
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A Silver Mt Zion (as the band was first known) was formed by Efrim, Thierry and Sophie (all of GY!BE) at the beginning of 1999, and after a debut performance at Constellation’s Musique Fragile concert series, the trio recorded this sublime debut record on 8-track at the original...
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This is the second full-length by the six-piece Tra-La-La-Band, along with guest drummers Eric Craven (who would eventually fill the drum seat for a spell) and Howard Bilerman (who also recorded the album, at the original Hotel2Tango). The band also brought in a couple dozen folks for mass choral duty...
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U.F.O.F., F standing for ‘Friend’, is the name of the highly anticipated third record by Big Thief, set to be released on 3rd May 2019 via 4AD. U.F.O.F. was recorded in rural western Washington at Bear Creek Studios. In a large cabin-like room, the band set up their gear to...
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Big Thief’s music, rooted in the songs of Adrianne Lenker, paints in vivid tones “the process of harnessing pain, loss, and love, while simultaneously letting go, looking into your own eyes through someone else’s, and being okay with the inevitability of death.” says Adrianne. Masterpiece, Big Thief’s debut album, is...
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4AD reissue of this classic album. The trails that Brooklyn’s Big Thief - Adrianne Lenker (guitar, vocals), Buck Meek (guitar), Max Oleartchik (bass), and James Krivchenia (drums) - take us down on 2017’s Capacity, the band’s highly critically acclaimed sophomore album, are overgrown with the wilderness of pumping souls. After...
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Budgie was an uncompromising, all-out heavy rock band. At the height of their popularity, in the early '70s, they matched and rivalled groups like Black Sabbath, Stray and the Groundhogs. Originally formed in Cardiff, Wales in 1967 by Burke Shelley (vocals, bass), Tony Bourge (guitar), and Raymond Phillips (drums), relatively...
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Reissue of 1971 album featuring the Cardiff trio — not particularly subtle, not progressive (whatever you understand that to mean), but a "freaking good rock band" says Rodger Bain. Includes "Guts," "Nude Disintegrating Parachutist Woman" and "Rape Of the Locks."...
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YES, BELIEVE IT! The highly prized Immediate treasure finally gets an official worldwide release almost sixty years after the 100 advance promotional copies landed on radio station desks. Charly records, kick-off their Immediate Records 60th Anniversary celebrations with this landmark album by the then teenager, and still little-known, Billy Nicholls....
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By the early 1990s, multidisciplinary thinker, philosopher and mystic Terrence McKenna had found himself to be one of the darlings of the burgeoning rave scene - going on to become one of the most sampled voices in dance music to this day. However, the very high point of...
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NATURAL INFORMATION SOCIETY, like their partners in time BITCHIN BAJAS, live their days in flow motion. Rhythms come and go, instruments sound as a means to a greater end. Their debut convergence, Automaginary, feels as natural as it does inevitable. Both groups were first heard in 2010, both emerging from...
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Cross Record’s new album, Crush Me, is steeped in the pressures and wonders of existence—a profound statement, especially coming from artist and death doula Emily Cross. A two-and-a-half-year gestation period offered challenges, disappointments, and joys reflected in the cramped space of the album, which explores how we handle the weights...
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Two euphoric and crushing live sets from Vancouver Island's experimental rock demolition unit Earthball, featuring improv legends Steve Beresford and Chris Corsano. Pressing of 500 copies worldwide on 180gm black vinyl. Actual Earth Music: Volume 1 & 2 presents two caustic, yet alluringly unreal live sets from Canadian noise-rock entropy...
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Anika channels her frustration, anger, and confusion with the world into her third album, Abyss. Recorded live to tape at Berlin's legendary Hansa Studios, the album captures raw energy with minimal overdubs, resulting in a visceral and urgent 10-track journey fueled by intense emotions. The recording process, done in just...
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The jaded daughter of a dead preacher-man caught in an exodus, Ethel Cain winds her way through a dizzying attempt at escape from her suffocating upbringing only to find herself crushed within its jaws in the end. Hayden Anhedönia, the woman behind the curtain, serves as the architect for the...
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On her first album of alt-pop anthems - 2022’s gorgeous, folk-infused When I’m Alone - girlpuppy (neé Becca Harvey) often felt like she was working in the shadow of her collaborators. Made on the other side of a relationship where she often felt marginalized, Sweetness felt like the right project...
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Charlie Megira’s self-reflexive final album found him far from his Beth She’an Valley home and surrounded by a new cast of Hillbillies. After spending 15 years toying with goth, sound collage, grunge, and dark wave, Boom Chaka Boom Boom is a sprawling mix of plunking country blues, Black Lodge terror,...
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The long-awaited new record was produced by James Ford (Fontaines D.C., Arctic Monkeys, Depeche Mode, Blur) and sees Black Country, New Road settled into a new shape in which vocal duties – and most of the song writing – is split between Tyler Hyde, Georgia Ellery, and May Kershaw. “It...
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Widely regarded as “one of the best songwriters of her generation” (Rolling Stone), Lucy Dacus returns with Forever Is A Feeling. Following a career defining run with boygenius that earned her three Grammy® Awards, her fourth solo studio album explores falling in and out of love, the tumult of desire,...
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The sounds, songs, and passages within Power Sucker are the very reason that Young Widows are still a band after an 11-year creative pause; they remain masters at making music with equal parts sonic and emotional weight. Young Widows have inspired scores of underground artists across the globe with their...
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First vinyl reissue for this rare and sought after LP originally released by C/Z Records in 1985, featuring Green River, Melvins, Malfunkshun, Skin Yard, Soundgarden and U-Men. Limited edition of 500 copies!...
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"Donald Duck, kill Minnie!" These words, ordered with urgency against a circular series of drum strikes and manipulated guitar/electronic textures, come over three fourths of the way through the album known as SYR 5 (aka "Olive's Horn"). While the words and sounds taken on their own may shock, their appearance...
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Smashing Pumpkins have announced a new vinyl reissue of their second album Siamese Dream. The Chicago band’s influential record will be back on shelves this April, on 180-gram black vinyl complete with original 1993 packaging and limited RSD Essentials Edition Red Smoke Vinyl. After releasing 1991 debut Gish, Smashing Pumpkins—frontman...
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On Chrystia Cabral’s fourth album as SPELLLING, the Bay Area artist transforms her acclaimed avant-pop project into a mirror. Cabral’s lyrics for Portrait of My Heart tackle love, intimacy, anxiety, and alienation, trading the allegorical approach of much of her previous work for something pointed into her human heart. The...
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Bowing out at their creative peak, Perfect Teeth is the wonderful final album by American 90s indie rock greats Unrest. Having just clocked 30 years, 4AD and the band are revisiting it to present the limited, celebratory double album of Perfect Teeth + Extra Teeth; the album remastered plus a...
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When not gazing out windows into the stormy Manhattan skyline, Margo Guryan spent her thirties banging out earworms for the likes of Bobbie Gentry, Jackie DeShannon, Claudine Longet, Carmen McCrae, and Julie London at CBS’s April Blackwood Music. Guryan’s timeless musings on love, Sundays, earthquakes, crying, and boys named Timothy...
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Katy Lied, Steely Dan's fourth studio album, originally released in 1975 by ABC Records, was certified gold-selling and peaked at No. 13 on the U.S. charts. The single "Black Friday" also charted at No. 37. Showcasing the band's blend of jazz, rock and pop music, its songs explore themes of...
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"Ingénue was originally released March 17,1992 and is k.d. lang’s second solo album. Upon release the album charted at #18 in the US, #13 in Canada, #3 in the UK and Australia and #1 in New Zealand. Nominated for 6 Grammy Awards with the breakout single ""Constant Craving"" winning a...
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Hard-Hitting Women and Children First Is Loaded with 'Works of High-Volume Art' and Eddie Van Halen's Six-String Pyrotechnics: Includes "Everybody Wants Some!!" Pressed on MoFi SuperVinyl and Strictly Limited to 7,500 Copies: Mobile Fidelity's UltraDisc One-Step 180g 45RPM 2LP Box Set Plays with Explosive Dynamics 1/4" / 30 IPS analog...
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The name implies the diverse nature of the music, the substantial genre blending throughout, and the general psychedelic vibe of the songs. It's a cross-continental trip across time, styles, languages, and rhythms. In just five years, BALTHVS has carved out a unique space in the global music scene, emerging as...
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The second Silver Mt Zion album featured an expanded band, with a similarly expanded band name. The addition of cello, second violin and second guitar allowed SMZ to develop richer, denser arrangements while preserving live ensemble playing. The opening instrumental pieces picked up where the debut left off, with found-sound...
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The 19 tracks on THE LANGLEY SCHOOLS MUSIC PROJECT document a 60-voice chorus of rural Canadian school children, age 9-12, recorded in 1976-1977. Technically untrained but mesmerized by melodic magic, the students sing from-the-heart renditions of tunes by the Beach Boys, Paul McCartney, David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac, The Bay City...
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The Magnetic Fields’ first two albums, The Wayward Bus and Distant Plastic Trees, make their debut appearance on vinyl, packaged together as a two-LP set. Distant Plastic Trees, the Magnetic Fields’ first album, was originally released in England and Japan in 1991. Merritt’s accordion player, the novelist Daniel Handler, later...
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Neu! 75 is the third album originally released in February 1975 on Brain Records. It was recorded and mixed at Conny Plank's studio. The album oscillates between Michael Rother's more ambient, minimalist approach and Klaus Dinger's rock infused abrasiveness that predates punk by a year. In fact, when Neu!'75 was...
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Both individually and collectively, the members of The Band (Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson and Richard Manuel) had had a decade’s experience cutting their teeth on the live circuit before releasing their debut album, Music From Big Pink, in 1968. Initially coming together as The Hawks, backing...
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Anthology Recordings is proud to make 'Ode To A Rainy Day' available once again on the 10th anniversary of its original release. 'Ode' is the first collection of unearthed, unheard material from Georgia's favorite folk hero Robert Lester Folsom. Fans of his 1976 private press grail 'Music and Dreams' will...
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The enigmatic Sault return with album number 10. The collective, who include bandleader and producer Inflo and singer Cleo Soul have dropped surprise albums since 2019. The album offers a thought-provoking perspective on the journey toward emotional well-being and self-discovery, built on tracks with locked in bass and grooves....
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PRICE TBD Following the release of their triumphant breakthrough album ‘Cartwheel’, which gained widespread critical acclaim from the likes of Pitchfork (8.4/10 Best New Music) and Stereogum (Top 10 Albums of 2023 - “riveting, restless shoegaze packed with massive hooks”), NYC’s Hotline TNT are back with their best album yet,...
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'Glory' has a pristine surface and a tender, roiling underside. Mike Hadreas’ seventh album is muscular, filled out by his partner in life and songcraft Alan Wyffels and longtime producer Blake Mills alongside the fiercest band Perfume Genius has ever assembled: guitarists Meg Duffy and Greg Uhlmann, drummers Tim Carr...
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The band Unknown Mortal Orchestra sometimes enjoys making purely instrumental music. In addition to the vocal-based records they’re more well-known for, they’ve also begun to make an instrumental series called the IC where they spend time in a chosen city and improvise and collaborate on non-vocal music. Recently...
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For the first time on vinyl, Yo La Tengo’s understated, lonesome score to Kelly Reichardt’s classic “Old Joy.” Recorded in a single afternoon at Yo La Tengo’s studio in Hoboken, Old Joy is a drifting, improvisatory journey, born out of years-long friendship between the band and the film’s director. The...
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Yukimi, the celebrated vocalist and co-founder of Grammy-nominated outfit Little Dragon, announces the release of her debut album For You, which is set for release on March 28th on Ninja Tune. Alongside the album announcement, Yukimi shares two new singles, “Sad Makeup” and “Winter Is Not Dead,” both reflecting Yukimi’s...
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In June 1990, Kramer and Dean Wareham made Galaxie 500’s final album, This Is Our Music. “Things were tense in the band,” recalls Dean, “but there were exciting moments too. Kramer would suggest things like playing up high on the neck for ‘Fourth of July.’ I also remember taking a...
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Dan’s Boogie is, in true Destroyer fashion, a contradiction: a breakthrough album for Dan Bejar that began its life as a disappearing act and, as such, does things no Destroyer album to this point has ever done. Its nine songs imagine Bejar as a lounge singer, a hustler, and, at...
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Lonely People With Power is the metal band’s follow-up to 2021’s Infinite Granite, with Justin Meldal-Johnsen returning as producer. It’s Deafheaven’s first album for Roadrunner Records; their previous albums arrived via Deathwish, Anti-, and Sargent House. The band - featuring vocalist George Clarke, guitarists Kerry McCoy and Shiv Mehra, bassist...
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