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Tyvek is an evolving meditation on the bizarre world we’ve created. While the format of a blistering punk group might not scream subtlety, the introspective lyrics and recurring themes of the group provide a far greater dividend than one might initially expect. Laying down the defensive wall of...
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North London’s midnight man tumbles out his treehouse to deliver twelve potions of minor healing in “Iron Day”, his questing, soul-salvaging songbook. Brimming with majesty and maraud in equal parts, Genghis Cohn synthesises trad. English folk and woe with surrealist dream sequences on this debut long-player. A romance of two...
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Late Night Tales reissues the classic and hard-to-find ‘Late Night Tales: Jamiroquai’, compiled by none other than Jay Kay himself. The 10th edition of what is now a classic series of compilations was originally released 20 years ago, and hasn’t been available on vinyl for over 15 years. A blissful...
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The most striking thing about Sampha has always been that voice. It's soul-wrenchingly beautiful. The kind of effortless, wavering tone that pulls at heart-strings, making each word brim over with emotion. It's stood out in his releases alongside SBTRKT, his previous EP for Young Turks back in 2010, and his...
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"Pavement is in transition here—CRCR is a California album recorded on 32nd Street and Ninth Avenue in Manhattan...It’s the sound of a great band gaining ambition, confidence, ability.” - Joe Levy, Village Voice “An...
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‘Terror Twilight: Farewell Horizontal’ is 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 unreleased tracks. Today, you can listen to the never...
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Westing (By Musket and Sextant) is a compilation of the early EPs and singles by the band Pavement. It features all the tracks from their first three EPs, Slay Tracks (1933–1969), Demolition Plot J-7, and Perfect Sound Forever, as well as the single mix of "Summer Babe," its B-sides, and...
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'The Lioness' is the first Jason Molina project to fully turn away from the battlefield folk and deconstructed Americana of earlier Songs: Ohia recordings. At the dawn of the 21st century, the album felt modern. It aligned Molina with a new set of peers — Low, Gastr del Sol, Red...
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The hallmark of Jason Molina's career, 'Magnolia Electric Co.', is both a confluence of all he would create and a line in the sand to mark a shift in his songwriting approach. It was the last statement under his iconic Songs: Ohia moniker, and the moment before he began making...
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First Utterance is the debut album of the progressive folk band Comus. It was released in 1971, with the opening song "Diana" being released as a single. The album was notable for its unique blend of progressive rock, folk, psychedelia, with elements of paganism and the macabre. The overall thematic...
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Vinyl LP repressing of this iconic album. The Velvet Underground was the third album by Lou Reed and his cohorts. It was their first record to feature Doug Yule, John Cale's replacement. The album's sound - consisting largely of ballads and straight-forward rock songs - marked a notable shift in...
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The Groop Played Space Age Batchelor Pad Music is an 8-track mini album, released in 1993. Odd and hypnotic, it shows their twin influences, Neu-style trance-rock and easy-listening pop. It sounds smooth and assured, with the charm and confidence of a group well aware they've hit on the kind of...
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Some albums hold the blueprint for something bigger than can be contained on twelve inches of vinyl; the self-titled debut album by The Stone Roses is one of them. Despite clocking in at less than fifty minutes long, it’s a record that shaped the next two-and-a-half decades of British music....
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Disintegration is the eighth studio album by English rock band the Cure, released on 2 May 1989 by Fiction Records. The record marks a return to the introspective gothic rock style the band had established in the early 1980s. As he neared the age of 30, vocalist and guitarist Robert...
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Factory Records owner Tony Wilson gambled label profits and his life savings on the recording of Joy Division's debut album. With producer Martin Hannett at the helm, the band crafted a stark musical statement that would endure as a milestone. 1979's Unknown Pleasures charted a confident course through grim personal...
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The critically acclaimed debut album from New York legends Television! The album features the singles "See No Evil", "Venus" and "Marquee Moon". Where their predecessors in the New York punk scene, most notably the Velvet Underground, had fused blues structures with avant-garde flourishes, Television completely strip away any sense of...
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Formed in 1984, Dinosaur Jr carved a singular path through the latter half of the 1980s and early 1990s, issuing a number of highly influential albums in the process before finding a home with Sire Records. 'Without A Sound', their sixth record, emerged in the summer of 1994, in the...
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Holiday is the fourth studio album by American indie pop band The Magnetic Fields. The album was the band’s third to be recorded and was intended to be release prior to The Charm of the Highway Strip through the label Feel Good All Over, but due to the label delaying...
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Audiopile Review: After an incredible run of 11 full length albums all issued on Simon Joyner’s Grapefruit Records, the NZ underground master of gloomy guitar dirges lands with ease on Discreet Records, who have reached out of their usual stable of Gothenburg experimentalists for this special release. The pairing is...
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Re-issue of Kuni's second album with his former heavy friends Flower Travelling Band, originally released in 1972. Dreamy and psychedelic flavor here, a Japanese early '70s underground rock masterpiece! Kawachi plays piano, celesta, Hammond organ, Rocksichord, Harpsichord, various percussions, and sings. Kimio Mizutani (A Path Through Haze, Love Live Life...
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In September 1968, Amon Düül played the "International Essener Songtage," Germany's first rock festival of five days duration, which was initiated by the later OHR label boss Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser. The Berlin hit producer Peter Meisel heard and saw the band there and spontaneously signed them, along with Tangerine Dream and...
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Vintage garage rock is only one of the many tributaries of popular music that the maverick Gary S. Paxton recorded and produced in his 1960s heyday, and compared to other genres, the off-kilter genius behind "Alley Oop" and "Monster Mash" was hardly prolific with it. But for a producer-engineer of...
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The album E-Numbers by Embassy was released by Dream On. This album features a unique blend of electronic and alternative rock music, creating a captivating and immersive listening experience. E-Numbers showcases Embassy's talent for crafting intricate and dynamic soundscapes. Each track on the album is carefully composed, with layers of...
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A collection of previously unreleased live recordings and acetate demos from in 1968-1970. Featuring recordings from The Matrix (San Francisco, 1969), The End of Cole Avenue (Dallas, 1969), The Boston Tea Party (Boston, 1969), Hilltop Festival (New Hampshire, 1969), La Cave (Cleveland, 1968), and Max's Rehearsal (New York, 1969). Includes...
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2xLP Expanded Edition of the legendary final concerts with Lou Reed recorded in 1970. Limited Edition Purple and Magenta Vinyl. Includes “I’m Waiting for the Man”, “Sweet Jane”, “Pale Blue Eyes”, “Femme Fatale” and more. Exclusive ORCHID & MAGENTA vinyl produced by Atlantic Records in celebration of Rhino's 2024 'Start...
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Alice in Chains' "Rainier Fog" is a haunting auditory journey that immerses listeners in a dense atmosphere of introspection and melancholy. Released in 2018, the album's title track, "Rainier Fog," encapsulates the band's signature grunge sound, blending gritty guitar riffs with Layne Staley's successor William DuVall's soulful vocals. The...
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Murray Street is Sonic Youth's twelfth full-length studio effort and first to feature the all-out collaboration (writing, playing and production) of the great Jim O'Rourke. Named after the New York street where the band's studio was situated and where a plane engine landed on September 11, 2001, Murray Street finds...
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Terrapin Station is one of the deepest, densest, most ambitious album in the entire Grateful Dead catalog. With Fleetwood Mac producer Keith Olson, they created an album unlike anything they'd ever made before, filled with strings, horns, a choir, and countless other new sounds in the Dead world. The record...
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The penultimate studio album from the Grateful Dead, released in 1987, In The Dark was their first Top 10 album, with their first Top 10 hit song, "Touch Of Grey". The record also includes the bona fide classics, "Throwing Stones", "West L.A. Fadeaway", "Hell In A Bucket", and the beautiful...
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Described by Uncut magazine as “One of the most charismatic and eccentric pop craftsmen of the past twenty years”, Liam Hayes has been making critically acclaimed records since the 90’s. His first single “Three-Quarters Blind Eyes b/w Found a Little Baby” released under the moniker Plush, was cited by the...
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2024 repress. Produced by the Young Marble Giant's leader Stuart Moxham, Lazy Ways is the second and last album by the seminal post-punk band from Hatfield (UK), the Marine Girls. Despite the short life of the band, Alice Fox, Jane Fox, and Tracey Thorn (Everything But The Girl) have left...
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This is the first vinyl issue of Temple IV, arguably Roy Montgomery’s finest solo album, originally released in 1996 on CD. The original album has been enhanced with two newer tracks that constitute side four of the album. Montgomery states: “The two new tracks recorded in 2018 were about asking...
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Driving is Sam Wilkes’ Indie Rock record. Out October 6th, 2023, it is the first release on Wilkes Records, an imprint borne of the artist’s emergent need to self-release. The songs presented here exist comfortably within the ever-expanding Wilkesian cosmos, characterized as they are by virtuosity, torqued experimentalism, and collaboration...
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je prie pour que la goutte ne tombe pas je prie pour que la goutte ne tombe pas (I pray that the drop does not fall) is the first international release by Japanese trio Chi To Shizuku. While they have released five albums and a 7” in Japan, their spectral,...
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Singer, songwriter and author Ali Sethi had been entranced by Jaar's music long before they began collaborating. He'd absorbed the sounds over a number of years, listening casually and taking in their subtleties in bars and rooftop parties across Lahore and London. So when the two were finally introduced by...
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If you were an audiophile in the late 1970s, you owned Aja. Rolling Stone, which ranks 1977's Aja at No. 63 on its latest 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list, says "this was Walter Becker and Donald Fagen's no-holds barred stab at becoming a huge mainstream jazz-pop success. "And...
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Arena rock heroes Foreigner crushed with their 1977 self-titled album debut, spawning some of the biggest FM hits of that year, including the anthemic "Feels Like the First Time" and "Cold as Ice," both of which were anchored — like most of Foreigner's songs — by the muscular but traditional...
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The Chills reissue their celebrated early singles compilation, this 24-track expanded version of Kaleidoscope World gathers together tracks from the ‘Dunedin Double’ compilation, live recordings, ‘Doledrums’ single and the band’s seminal ‘Pink Frost’. The collection also contains ‘The Lost EP’, with early takes on their groundbreaking ‘Submarine Bells’ album, alongside...
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The Chills reveal legendary debut Brave Words (Expanded and Remastered) will be exapandedly released with unheard extras. Remixed and remastered under the supervision of Martin Phillipps, this special release will feature brand new reimagined artwork by Martin. "The songwriter that helped kick off indie rock as we know it" NPR_...
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The Vaselines have long been celebrated by musicians and music enthusiasts across genres and across the globe, including super-fan Kurt Cobain. Emerging in the mid-eighties under the wing of The Pastels’s Stephen McRobbie, The Vaselines came to define the sly wit and irresistible pop hooks of the era’s...
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For Forever, The American Analog Set's 7th full length (and their first album in 18 years) has arrived after nearly a decade of writing and recording. For Forever folds time and space. While the sounds and stories will be recognizable to fans, they arrive with considerable bruises incurred on the...
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Essential '60s British beat, R&B, mod album from 1966 by this band fronted by Art Wood (elder brother of Birds/Rolling Stones/Faces guitarist Ronnie) and featuring a young, pre-Deep Purple Jon Lord on organ, plus Keef Hartley (John Mayall's Bluesbreakers) on drums, Derek Griffiths on guitar and Malcolm Pool on bass....
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Essential comp including all the non-LP single and EP tracks for Decca, Parlophone and Fontana (in original mono mixes) by London's favorite beat/R&B/mod band, featuring a pre-Deep Purple Jon Lord on organ. From mod classics like "Big City," "I Take What I Want," "What Shall I Do," or "I'm Looking...
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Avant-garde kraut ensemble Supersempfft laid the foundation for its own brand of techno-tropical pop music in 1979 with the debut-album 'Roboterwerke'. In 1981 the group returned with the outstanding album 'Metaluna', which now sees a deserved re-release. Supersempfft fused global influences, experimental sonic landscapes, and surreal lyrics into a unique...
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Of all of the groups to emerge in Britain in the latter half of the 1960s, The Move was arguably one of the finest. A powerful act on stage, the group were blessed with one of the most imaginative songwriters of his generation in Roy Wood. ‘Shazam’ is regarded by...
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Legendary US garage band The Seeds are best known for their evergreen classics ‘Pushin’ Too Hard’ and ‘Can’t Seem To Make You Mine’ that detonated in the US charts in late 1966 and early 1967. Whilst ‘Pushin’ Too Hard’ was their only top 40 hit, this song has been discovered...
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A deluxe 50th anniversary limited edition double LP release of Hawkwind's legendary live album ‘Space Ritual’, recorded on the band's UK tour of December 1972, which followed the release of their studio album ‘Doremi Fasol Latido’. The live show was a continuous performance linked by poetry recitation by Robert Calvert...
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Mixing fuzzed-out hard-rock with tinges of psychedelia, Majic Ship's only album from 1970 is a classic from the US private press/psych scene. Raw fuzz guitars, organ, and soulful-melodic vocals on nine original tracks plus their homage to Neil Young/Stephen Stills on the 11-minute cover of "Down by the river"/"For what...
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