Drag City
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"Years past the space time of Automaginary, Bitchin Bajas and Natural Information Society have reported back at last from beyond. If the new title doesn't clue you, Totality brings good news. Since their first collaboration, the path ways that lead from Natural Information Society's ecstatic all-world jazz to Bitchin Bajas'...
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Originally released 1997, the first O'Rourke album for Drag City. "Make no mistake, Bad Timing is not a pop album by any standards. But it is a musing on popular standards and uses much of the same instrumentation that many of our country's most popular records have. Yes, Bad Timing...
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The first studio full-length from David Berman’s Silver Jews’ project, 1994’s Starlite Walker found the Virginia native’s poetry paired with languid, lived-in instrumentation provided largely by his friends in Pavement: Stephen Malkmus, Bob Nastanovich, and Steve West. The loose experimentalism that marked Berman’s earlier recordings is still there in parts...
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For Translucence is the first team-up record by Chicago-based experimental sound artists Whitney Johnson (who also records and performs as Matchess) and Lia Kohl. It's a beautiful, heady, electoacoustic journey made up of viola and cello, synth drones, and field recordings....
$36.99
Audiopile Review: It’s possible to be a fan of an artist while simply missing a significant portion of their artistry. Plenty of MFs worship the godlike Peter Hammill as a prog deity for his work with Van der Graaf Generator, without even knowing that his late 70s solo...
$42.99
Bag People were Chicagoans who outgrew their home in the maelstrom of the early 80s NYC post-punk/ no-wave scene. They weren’t around long, but their compulsive noise-rock sound, unearthed from tapes lost for 40 years, looms large and stands tall next to the efforts of better-known contemporaries like Sonic Youth...
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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...
$36.99
This one to me is a time capsule more than most any of my recordings. All music is a time trapped in time that preaches timelessness—preaching either convincingly or not. But with a radio session such as this, there is a different aspect. It’s all live, all first take, no...
$39.99
Edith Frost breaks a very long silence with her first album since 2005! In Space revitalizes the timeless luminescence of her voice and songcraft with twelve new songs that take measure of isolation beyond the horizon of memory. Freezing time, then cracking it into crystalline shards, Edith discovers space everywhere...
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This is David's first solo release in seven years, and first straight-up DC release in over a decade (Blue Chopstocks have done the honors in our absence), but it's a record built on the concept of collaborative duos and other small groups. Here, David's working with combinations involving Rhodri Davies,...
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Audiopile Review: Chicago-based duo Gastr Del Sol had an extraordinary avant rock pedigree. David Grubbs was a member of Squirrel Bait and Bastro before forming Gastr around 1993 to focus on the avoidance of anything vaguely resembling a rock cliché. He was soon joined by Jim O’Rourke, who was and...
$49.99
DAVID PAJO returns with his ongoing "M" recordings (AERIAL M, M, PAPA M, mmmm M). Eleven tracks that fall somewhere in the blue guitar-based, dreamy rock music thing, but also feature things like found sounds, intriguing instrumental passages and even vocals just to add to the ongoing mystery (misery?) of...
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Geologist and D.S. meet in an expanding sonic field built up from a handful of pieces posted online. Lovingly reordering a few short minutes of music featuring the fine folk guitar chops and magic vibe of Sleepy Doug Shaw, Brian Weitz (Animal Collective’s Geologist) works a variety of loops and...
$36.99
New waves are breaking, upon which it is our choice, chance and challenge, to ride. The new collaboration Source Ensemble brings fresh percolations, energy and air to Laetitia's humanized community-politic. Geometric composition made with a belief that permeates and intimately binds all things - requesting free love and...
$49.99
"The High Llamas' classic '90s output comes back to life on vinyl for the first time in over twenty years. The vibrant and colorful sweep of their remarkable six-album arc shines in new pressings of the original masters, which include the first-ever vinyl pressing for their debut album, Santa Barbara....
$36.99
Fourth full length Palace album, from 1996. "...refines and streamlines old values, like an evisceration of dirt-bound roots... the music glints more sharply than before. The sounds are more recognizably beautiful. The songs are more intimate than we've heard in awhile, harder to see 'cause they're closer to home."...
$52.99
"The High Llamas' classic '90s output comes back to life on vinyl for the first time in over twenty years. The vibrant and colorful sweep of their remarkable six-album arc shines in new pressings of the original masters, which include the first-ever vinyl pressing for their debut album, Santa Barbara....
$36.99
"The High Llamas' classic '90s output comes back to life on vinyl for the first time in over twenty years. The vibrant and colorful sweep of their remarkable six-album arc shines in new pressings of the original masters, which include the first-ever vinyl pressing for their debut album, Santa Barbara....
$49.99
Audiopile Review: Oh yeah, that bit of the 90s where people were into 50s exotica records, Beach Boys-related west coast 60s pop, and 70s soft rock. What was all that about, and how would it stand up today? Well, in the case of Sean O’Hagan’s High Llamas, extraordinarily well. O’Hagan...
$36.99
Audiopile Review: Oh yeah, that bit of the 90s where people were into 50s exotica records, Beach Boys-related west coast 60s pop, and 70s soft rock. What was all that about, and how would it stand up today? Well, in the case of Sean O’Hagan’s High Llamas, extraordinarily well. O’Hagan...
$32.99
Four years separate the release of Stateless and we will be wherever the fires are lit. In the interim, Tashi Dorji has seldom stood still, playing and touring almost constantly, continuing to record both as a solo and in collaboration with artists including Susie Ibarra, Alex Zhang Hungtai, Bill Orcutt,...
$36.99
"The High Llamas' classic '90s output comes back to life on vinyl for the first time in over twenty years. The vibrant and colorful sweep of their remarkable six-album arc shines in new pressings of the original masters, which include the first-ever vinyl pressing for their debut album, Santa Barbara....
$36.99
Anthony’s post-Slapp Happy output, for years an underrated-to-outright unknown quantity, achieves a new dimensional plane with this third archival release from his personal tape library. Home of the Demo triangulates upon the art-pop qualities found in his previously unreleased 1976 LP OUT, and ‘79’s new wave-adjacent Flying Doesn’t Help, finding...
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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...
$44.99
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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Back in 1997, DAVID PAJO was a little over a half decade removed from the future sensation known as SLINT. Their second album had been released in 1991 when the band themselves were already defunct. During the next five years, David worked with PALACE BROTHERS, KING KONG TORTOISE, THE FOR...
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The original cream of the singles crop from the Palace of Brothers, Songs and Music—covering the terrain from “Ohio River Boat Song” to “West Palm Beach,” and adding alternate takes of “Riding” and “Trudy Dies,” a live version of Hope’s “Untitled,” and this album’s title track, which doesn’t appear in...
$39.99
A meditation from Ty Segall on love, played on his first love: the drums. Delving deep into the melodic and orchestral possibilities of a full array of percussion instruments, from the trap kit to timpani, vibraphone, xylophone, percussion and e-drums, Ty charts the waxing and waning of a love affair,...
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Audiopile Review: Musical worlds collide in strange and unexpected ways. In the 70s and 80s, there was a weird confluence of psychedelic folk, new age music, and the avant-garde. This was epitomized by new age icon Constance Demby. But you’ll find even more strange collisions if you trace the career...
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Unearthed from the neolithic tar that eventually swathes all history, Aerial M’s early-1998 Peel Session is once again among us. Compared to the studio takes, played strictly and singly by Aerial / Papa M-astermind David Pajo, these versions swing from the necks of road-burned players, breathing more bestially than their...
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Are Possible is a spark-throwing, undulating fusion of styles played (mainly) on banjo, upright bass and drums, made possible by the individual perspectives of Nathan Bowles, double-bassist Casey Toll (Jake Xerxes Fussell, Mt. Moriah) and drummer Rex McMurry (CAVE) work together in an easy-rolling manner, but one that contains an...
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First new Wand in five years—we almost forgot how it feels! Like sliding between the bodies in the street, cutting across the contrails that bisect our sky, Wand find melody and the anxiety beats as they hum the soundtrack for a new gravitational center. Seeking connections against the plan of...
$46.99
Callahan comes alive in Chicago, with Jim White, Matt Kinsey and special guests Nick Mazzarella, Pascal Kerong'A, Nathaniel Ballinger and Natural Information Society’s Joshua Abrams & Lisa Alvarado. Why, Bill? “Songs tend to mutate after they've been recorded. These songs were mutating faster than usual. Like whatever happened to Bruce...
$36.99
2024 repress; gatefold LP version. ""What makes On Your Own Love Again new? Everything, and yet everything woven so subtly into the presentation leaves you unaware that you have been modulated upon. The album was recorded entirely by Jessica in the fashion of 'Night Faces' and 'Dreams,' from her first...
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Essentially an ensemble recorded live in the studio, BILL CALLAHAN’s Apocalypse is the corpus delecti. Something happened here! If tape is like meat, this record is the whole hog! No cuts! Delectables and guts! In the opening salvo “Drover,” the cattle is herded. Everyone is in this roundup—this is the...
$34.99
Audiopile Review: Over the last few years, Japanese composer, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and electronics experimenter Eiko Ishibashi has emerged as a distinctly distinct musical voice. Given the world’s penchant for pigeonholing musicians (especially, let’s face it, female-identifying musicians) it’s particularly impressive that this emergence has happened largely without reference to her...
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Dirty Three Ahoy! Appropriately disheveled, the Three—Warren Ellis, Mick Turner and Jim White—emerge from the unending waves of time to pick up their guitar drum and viola / violin / piano / synthesizer / loops / percussion for their first album in a decade. Their playing encompasses ALL—from the original...
$44.99
Guitarist Lee Underwood’s syncretic blend of jazz, folk, and blues was a tremendous force behind Tim Buckley’s genre-stretching late 60s/early 70s music—but his 1988 acoustic guitar opus California Sigh has remained a unsung footnote to his story. Until now! This first time vinyl-edition reveals Lee’s free-floating acoustic moods, with synths...
$36.99
A feverish essay of transcendent drumming: Chris’ solo approach, rooted in the exploration of elements of extended technique, sought another level, via possibilities facilitated by a self-made string drum! The Key (Became The Important Thing [& Then Just Faded Away]) brings his encompassing focus on free improvisation and noise into...
$34.99
What you remember: the upside-down crosses on your girlfriend's jean jacket. Always drawn with magic marker. Always smeared in the wash.
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$89.99
Audiopile Review: Gastr del Sol was very much a part of the late-80s-early-90s stream of leftfield American rock that came out of Louisville, Kentucky, and made its home in Chicago. The band grew from David Grubbs’s power trio Bastro. When the rhythm section left to concentrate on inventing Tortoise, Grubbs...
$29.99
Audiopile Review: With 2022’s ‘Ghosted’, Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling, and Andreas Werliin struck upon a magnificent formula. Ambarchi took his cues from The Necks (fellow Australians, after all), to oversee the creation of a potent brew mixing repetition with improvisation. The result was an eternal-sounding music that felt like it...
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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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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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“Classic proto-punk from 1970s Detroit. Raw with little polish, the record showcases the organic power relationships within the trio of brothers. The HACKNEY’s were first influenced by soul and funk music but it all changed when they saw Iggy and the Stooges. Inspired by The Who, Alice Cooper & Led...
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"This is long overdue. I mean, looooooonnnnnng overdue. A solo album by Jim. The trap kit—so straightforward, so mysterious. What’s inside those things? Air and light—from which century? Which continent? Which planet? Depending on how and when you hit them it can be a vibration sent through a prehistoric breath,...
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Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier issues a call to the traumatized civilizations of Earth: we’re urged to finally evolve past our countless millennia of suffering and alienation. Her songs score the complexities and harmonies within this directive: organ, guitar, bass, synth, trombone, vibraphone, live and programmed drums, and a vocal assembly of...
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