Vendor: Lasgo
Type: Indie / Alternative
Price:
46.99
Condition: New
Label: Virgin
Vendor: Lasgo
Type: Indie / Alternative
Price:
46.99
Condition: New
Label: Virgin
Vendor: SRD
Type: Indie / Alternative
Price:
22.99
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Beer coloured vinyl.
Grails don’t mince words. Awesomely communicative but entirely instrumental, this dynamic band’s violin, guitars, piano, and drums collide with sober melodies and massive emotion. At alternate moments, Grails can sound vaguely classical, Eastern European, Irish, like the lost tapes of Pauline Oliveros, and, you know, rock. They’re not really like anything else on the Neurot roster, but they’ve got something in common with all the Neurot bands: a commitment to intense music that forges new paths and, yeah, communicates in the most real way possible.
Grails have their fair share of ambient noise - shivery violins, a trickle of a high-hat, the amplified scrape of a guitar string - but their music is based on strong, narrative melodies that resonate in the heart. At times it sounds delicate, but they never cower; Grails Roar, even when they’re being quiet. The Burden of Hope is the debut LP, following a pair of self-released, eponymous ep’s in 2000 and 2002. The LP is the culmination of a year’s worth of recordings, including a reinterpretation of Sun City Girls’ classic “Space Prophet Dogon".
Catalogue number: NR029LP
Condition: New
Label: Neurot
Vendor: Shellshock
Type: Indie / Alternative
Price:
31.49
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Silver vinyl.
Nearly ten years in the making, The Task Has Overwhelmed Us is the long-awaited fourth volume in The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project series. Conceived in 2006 by the late Gun Club titan’s guitarist Cypress Grove, the Project has always aimed to highlight Pierce as one of America’s most fascinatingly influential singer-songwriters of the last century while propelling his outpourings into modern times by placing it in the hands of former collaborators, friends and fans. Following 2009’s We Are Only Riders, 2012’s The Journey Is Long and 2014’s Axels and Sockets, The Task Has Overwhelmed Us presents stellar interpretations of tracks from Pierce’s Gun Club and solo canons along with fresh works constructed from rehearsal skeletons, previously unheard lyrics, songs only performed live. Taking song ideas without lyrics and words looking for musical settings gave rise to what Cypress Grove calls “Frankenstein songs”.
The stellar roll-call of contributors features the Project’s original recurring core including Nick Cave, Debbie Harry, Mark Lanegan, Lydia Lunch, Youth, Jim Jones, Warren Ellis, Mark Stewart, Hugo Race, Cypress himself plus Mick Harvey and J.P. Shilo as The Amber Lights, even Jeffrey himself from original tapes. These are joined by new bloods including Dave Gahan, Suzie Stapleton, Duke Garwood, Pam Hogg, The Coathangers, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club’s Peter Hayes and Leah Shapiro, Humanist, The Walkabouts’ Chris Eckman, Jozef van Wissem, Jim Jarmusch, Chantal Acda and Welsh space-rockers Sendelica with US vocalists Wonder and Dynamax Roberts.
Like Pierce’s beloved jazz, the cast often spill into each other’s tracks. The mood throughout the eighteen tracks is of rare gems crafted with love, respect and the energy of committed fans, even obsessives channeling whatever facet or fragment of Pierce’s unruly muse fires their creative juices. It’s pretty much carved in legend how Jeffrey Lee Pierce roared out of post-punk LA brandishing an incendiary genius that flamed in the spotlight for just fifteen years before his untimely death in 1996. Despite the impact of the Gun Club and resonance of Pierce’s back catalogue, his legacy seemed in danger of shrinking to eternal cult status earlier this century, fading against modern blandness yet ever-radiating for a gaggle of core diehards he’d touched with his supernatural muse (quite possibly in a blizzard of chaos).
Catalogue number: GRLP1087LTD
Condition: New
Label: Glitterhouse
Vendor: Universal
Type: Hip Hop
Price:
39.99
Catalogue number: 5579636
Condition: New
Label: UMC
Vendor: Universal
Type: Hip Hop
Price:
34.99
Catalogue number: 5509364
Condition: New
Label: UMC
Vendor: Universal
Type: Classic Rock & Pop
Price:
25.99
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Remastered reissue.
Tracklist:
A1 Sympathy For The Devil
A2 No Expectations
A3 Dear Doctor
A4 Parachute Woman
A5 Jig-Saw Puzzle
B1 Street Fighting Man
B2 Prodigal Son Written-By – Rev. Wilkins
B3 Stray Cat Blues
B4 Factory Girl
B5 Salt Of The Earth
Catalogue number: 7120481
Condition: New
Label: UMC
Vendor: forte
Type: electronic
Price:
19.99
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Catalogue number: SNDREC002
Condition: New
Label: Sound Records
Vendor: forte
Type: Heavy Metal / Extreme Metal / Doom
Price:
24.99
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Catalogue number: EZRDR147LP
Condition: New
Label: Riding Easy
Vendor: PIAS / Cinram
Type: Folk
Price:
19.99
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Recorded in 1995 and 1996, mostly in John Fahey’s room at a Salem, Oregon boarding house, the performances on ‘Proofs & Refutations’ prefigure the ornery turn of the page that marked Fahey’s final years, drawing another enigmatic rabbit from his seemingly bottomless musical hat.
Cloaked in the language of dogma - what is he proving? refuting? - this is Fahey dancing a jig in the Duchampian gap, jester cap bells a-jingling. True believers? He’s got something for you: an uncompromising vision that you can sneer at (“guy can’t play anymore and refuses to concede!”) or embrace as evidence of his genius (“the reinventor does it again!”). Skeptics? He’s there with you, too: sending up the fallacy of certitudes altogether. Institutions, systems, accepted wisdoms. Heroes. Alternative facts, indeed.
Right out the gate, Fahey re-materializes before us, somewhere between Oracle of Delphi and Clown Prince at Olympus. Mounting a thundering dialectic from on high, ‘All the Rains’ resembles nothing else in his extensive discography - betraying roots in everything from Dada to Episcopal liturgical chant - and contains nary a plucked guitar note. You can’t fool him! When the lap steel of yore appears on ‘F for Fake’, it serves more as soundbed for an extended sequence of vocal improvisations, running the gamut from wordless Bashoian caterwauling to free-form (but decidedly fake) Tuvan, even revealing a burnished falsetto in the process.
Fahey takes on a different kind of provocation in the two acoustic guitar- based tracks closing Side 1 - ‘Morning’ parts 1 and 2 - the first of four recordings in this session that have him wrestling with the ghost of Skip James, perhaps Fahey’s effort to wrench the “bitter, hateful old creep” (his words) back into the grave.
Anchoring Side 2 is the two-part ‘Evening, Not Night’, the second half of his extended cathexis on James (and the latter’s avowed castration complex - another story for another day, perhaps). Bit of a chill in the air – where’s the impish Fahey from earlier? Unmistakably working through some psychic wounds here, we might think: the unheimlich rendered in glistening viscera. Or is he playing with our notions of authenticity, of his reputation as troubadour of raw emotional states, a pilgrim of the ominous, the simmering unconscious? These cards are kept decidedly close to the vest. The opening and closing pieces again feature Fahey’s guitar as drone soundbed - employing distortion, oscillation, and an altogether absurd quotient of reverb to create texture and harmonics that are - if we want to go there - not dissimilar to the sustained tonic clusters of Tibetan singing bowls, the hurdy gurdy, Hindustani classical music, or La Monte freaking Young.
Portions of this material appeared on obscure late 1990s vinyl in the 7” or double-78 rpm format, but as a ‘session’ it has lain dormant more than a quarter century now. Taken together, we can now see these tracks as secret blueprints to latter-day Fahey provocations, several years prior to records like 1997’s ‘City of Refuge’ and ‘Womblife’.
Catalogue number: DC759
Condition: New
Label: Drag City
Vendor: SRD
Type: Avant Garde / Experimental
Price:
63.99
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Nocturnal lullabye giants Stars of the Lid finds Brian McBride and Adam Wiltzie expanding their sound palette to include strings, horns and piano in addition to guitars and field recordings. "The Tired Sounds of..." shows a continued trend toward more overt melodic structures seen on their previous Avec Laudenum album.
Six suites stretch across six sides of vinyl combining atmosphere, texture and melody. Neo-psychedelia, contemporary classical, ambient, minimalist, maximalist, drug enhancer, drug substitute. Stars of the Lid are all these things. Stars of the Lid are none of these things. Stars of the Lid are not about outer space, they are about inner space.
Catalogue number: KRANK050LP
Condition: New
Label: Kranky
Vendor: SRD
Type: Avant Garde / Experimental
Price:
63.99
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*"I simply feel that they are making the most important music of the 21st
century." Ivo Watts-Russell - 4AD label founder.
*The long awaited new album from Stars of the Lid is finally ready for your
sonic immersion, and it's truly outstanding.
*Painstakingly recorded, processed and assembled over the last five years,
SOTL once again deliver a massive work filling two compact discs and three
vinyl albums, clocking in at over two hours.
*On this new record SOTL have placed an emphasis on melodic development, moving their epic soundscapes beyond mere drone and subsequently frustrating all the typical ambient cliches associated with their music.
*Perhaps the best references for this current work would be found in the score
of the film Le Mepris by Georges Delerue, the orchetral works of Zbigniew
Preisner, or the 1958 CSO/Fritz Reiner recording of Hovhaness' Mysterious
Mountain, specifically the third movement.
*But in the final analysis, such comparisons are superfluous at best, as Stars
of the Lid have created a musical universe in which they are the sole inhabitant. Simply put, this album is a masterpiece.
Catalogue number: KRANK100LP
Condition: New
Label: Kranky
Vendor: Warner
Type: Classic Rock & Pop
Price:
29.99
Vendor: SRD
Type: Soul & Funk
Price:
35.99
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Condition: New
Label: Light In The Attic
Vendor: SRD
Type: Soul & Funk
Price:
35.99
Pre-order. Due 29th September.
Condition: New
Label: Light In The Attic
Vendor: SRD
Type: Indie / Alternative
Price:
38.99
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Opaque Blue Vinyl.
Modern Classic Recordings, an imprint of Light in the Attic Records, proudly announces the deluxe vinyl reissue of Morphine’s 1997 album Like Swimming, marking the very first availability of the title on wax.
The album has been lovingly remastered by Pete Weiss at Boston’s Jade Cow Music, with lacquers cut by John Golden. The record was pressed at Austin, TX’s Gold Rush Vinyl and is available in two colourways. The 1xLP Like Swimming (which features such favorites as “Early to Bed,” “French Fries with Pepper,” and “Eleven O’Clock”) can be found on 180-gram opaque blue or translucent red wax.
Rounding out the package is a 20-page booklet, featuring rare and never-before-seen images from the band’s archives, including photos by Lana Z. Caplan and Danny Clinch, artifacts from Morphine’s career, and unseen art by the band’s late frontman, Mark Sandman. A major highlight is the insightful new liner notes by Ryan H. Walsh—a Boston-based journalist, musician, visual artist, and author of the acclaimed 2018 book Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968. Walsh’s notes include a handful of new interviews detailing the band’s career, including one of the final interviews with Morphine drummer Billy Conway, who played drums in Sandman’s previous band, Treat Her Right. The album is housed in a deluxe gatefold jacket, featuring gorgeous art direction and design by Darryl Norsen at D. Norsen Design, also of Boston.
Dedicated to the memories of Sandman and late drummer Billy Conway, both albums were produced with the full support of Morphine’s surviving members (drummer Jerome Deupree and saxophonist Dana Colley), as well as the band’s friends, family members, and collaborators—many of whom shared their memories with Walsh.
Catalogue number: MCR92911
Condition: New
Label: Modern Classics
Vendor: SRD
Type: Indie / Alternative
Price:
49.99
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Purple Hue Vinyl.
Modern Classic Recordings, an imprint of Light in the Attic Records, proudly announce the deluxe vinyl reissue of Morphine’s final album: The Night (2000), marking the very first availability on vinyl.
The album has been lovingly remastered by Pete Weiss at Boston’s Jade Cow Music, with lacquers cut by John Golden. The 2xLP, 45-RPM edition of The Night (featuring “Rope on Fire,” “Top Floor, Bottom Buzzer,” and “The Night,”) is available on orange translucent or purplish hue vinyl.
Rounding out the package is a 20-page booklet, featuring rare and never-before-seen images from the band’s archives, including photos by Lana Z. Caplan and Danny Clinch, artifacts from Morphine’s career, and unseen art by the band’s late frontman, Mark Sandman. A major highlight of both packages are the insightful new liner notes by Ryan H. Walsh—a Boston-based journalist, musician, visual artist, and author of the acclaimed 2018 book Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968. Walsh’s notes include a handful of new interviews detailing the band’s career, including one of the final interviews with Morphine drummer Billy Conway, who sadly passed away in 2021 following a battle with cancer. Both albums are housed in deluxe gatefold jackets, featuring gorgeous art direction and design by Darryl Norsen at D. Norsen Design, also of Boston.
Dedicated to the memories of Sandman and late drummer Billy Conway, both albums were produced with the full support of Morphine’s surviving members (drummer Jerome Deupree and saxophonist Dana Colley), as well as the band’s friends, family members, and collaborators—many of whom shared their memories with Walsh.
Catalogue number: MCR93012
Condition: New
Label: Modern Classics
Vendor: Cargo
Type: Electronic
Price:
11.99
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Almost thirty years after its initial release, Tresor Records is proud to present a new pressing of Robert Hood’s essential Master Builder.
The ongoing importance of this single and its adjacent album is indisputable, essential both to techno and to Tresor. It is a history intertwined. This work elevates its maker as master, and remain a cherished moment in the Tresor story, sharing an irrefutable singular magic, sounding as present and indispensable as when first created. To understand this work fully is to stand back and celebrate its impact.
Originally released in 1994, Internal Empire marks a point of transition for Robert Hood moving on from his previous collaborations within Underground Resistance. Robert Hood advanced uncovering the power of true minimalism. Deep soul through a simplicity that showed how much could be done with so little. The devastating rhythms of this album forge the unmatched spirit of this sound, influencing generations to come.
Catalogue number: TRESOR032
Condition: New
Label: Tresor
Vendor: SRD
Type: Indie / Alternative
Price:
34.99
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At the same time, Kranky is making the CD version available once again for the first time in many years, with the Drop EP tracks also included.
The debut album from New York City’s Bowery Electric was released by Kranky in late summer 1995 after they came to the label’s attention via their self-released 2x7-inch Drop EP from the year previous. The first in a trio of albums released by the core duo of Lawrence Chandler and Martha Schwendener finds them in their most raw form.
Catalogue number: KRANK007LP
Condition: New
Label: Kranky
Vendor: Sony
Type: Electronic
Price:
24.99
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Condition: New
Label: Sony
Vendor: PIAS / Cinram
Type: Soul & Funk
Price:
38.49
Pre-order. Due 29th September.
The female-led discodelic soul band Say She She, named as a silent nod to Nile Rodgers (C’est chi-chi!: It's Chic!”), release their sophomore album Silver on the heels of an epic break-out year that grows brighter by the day.
The three strong voices of Piya Malik (El Michels Affair staple feature, and former backing singer for Chicano Batman), Sabrina Mileo Cunningham and Nya Gazelle Brown front the band. This harmonizing trio was formed in a classic New York tale of friends that met by following the music: the downtown dancefloors, through the Lower East Side floorboards and up to the rooftops of Harlem.
Silver was entirely written and recorded live to tape at Killion Sound studio in North Hollywood earlier this year and produced by Sergio Rios (of Orgone). While these analog recording techniques help root Say She She’s sound in a bedrock of tonal warmth that only tape can achieve, it is also their process of cutting the track in the moment and capturing the magic of communal creativity that has seen their sound described as “a glorious overload of joyful elation and spiritual elevation” (MOJO) and “infused with the wonky post-disco spirit of early '80s NYC” (The Guardian).
Silver, the element, is known as the metal of self-confidence and the mirror of the soul. With that, the 16-song double-LP projects not only their growth in writing with confidence, but also reflects a deeper exploration into their punk-chic, femmeforward sensibility.
Ultimately, Silver oozes with quirk and adventure and embraces the multifaceted nature of what it means to be a modern femme. The She She's fully embrace their role as beauticians, actively reminding people of the inherent beauty in the world. They skillfully employ double entendres and humor to encourage open dialogue and fearlessly address important matters that demand attention.
For Fans Of... Clairo, Khruangbin, Lady Wray, Thee Sacred Souls, Chicano Batman, El Michels Affair, Lee Fields and the Expressions.
Condition: New
Label: Karma Chief Records / Colemine Records
Vendor: CARGO
Type: Indie / Alternative
Price:
22.49
Pre-order. Due 29th September.
Red Vinyl.
South London ne-er-do-wells Meatraffle make huge strides forward with this third album of funky trumpet-laced street pop combining a caustic wit with a tender heart. “The best band in the country bar none!” 4 Fat White Family
“A collective of individuals who refuse to be pigeonholed…..they conjure a rich, imaginative and often simply funny world” The Quietus
“Humorous alt-punk…potent…surreal” CLASH
“Their direct and confrontational attitude has not been seen since punk really grabbed England by the balls” FAR OUT
“Your mind will be liberated” Louder Than War
Meatraffle are thrilled to announce they will be releasing 'Base and Superstructure', their third studio album on Blang Records on 29.09.2023. Recorded during lockdown, produced & mixed by Meatraffle keyboardist Chris OC, Dante Traynor (SWEAT, Fat White Family 'Feet'), additional mix ing by Angelica Björnsson (Hi - Texas feat. Wu Tang Clan) and mastered by Dean Honer (Eccentronic Research Council, I Monster, The Moonlandingz), ‘Base and Superstructure’ marks a new sonic departure for the band rightly acknowledged as godfathers of the n ow infamous South London scene, centred around the Windmill in Brixton. The band will be touring in support of the new album later in the year. Founded in 2014, Meatraffle have toured extensively across the UK and Europe as both a headline act and support to the likes of Fat White Family, Sleaford Mods and Warmduscher. Festival appearances include SXSW, Green Man and Liverpool Psych Fest. In addition to their previous two LPs ('Hi Fi Classics' and 'Bastard Music'), the band have released singles on Dan Carey's Speedy Wunderground and Moshi Moshi, plus numerous remixes including 'Meatraffle on the Moon' by the one and only Andrew Weatherall. The band have also played sessions for Marc Riley (BBC 6Music) plus regular plays from other 6Music DJs including Iggy Po p, Gideon Coe and Amy Lamé. “We were looking for labels for a while, sending out demos to small ‘indie’ labels to which we often had the response, “we really like it but we’re not signing anyone at the moment”, which feels like the new “don’t call us we’ll call you!”... We knew we had a good record so didn’t get knocked back and knew it would be a climb as many of these small and large ‘indie’ or ‘alternative’ labels can be even more conservative than the mainstream, I guess having less money and therefore having to ‘play it safe’. We bumped into Blang one night at The George Tavern and instantly had a good feeling about them…and guess what? They loved the music!” - Meatraffle frontman, Zsa Zsa Sapien. Genre-bending independent label Blang Records is a wildly non-commercial label firmly rooted in the DIY/anything goes attitude of punk and antifolk, and has remained consistent in its commitment to releasing outsider music by the likes of David Cronenberg's Wife, Jack Medley's Secure Men, Brix & The Extricated, Milk Kan, Thomas Truax and many more
Catalogue number: BLANG105LPRED
Condition: New
Label: Blang Records
Vendor: Essential
Type: Heavy Metal / Extreme Metal / Doom
Price:
22.99
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Black and Oxblood Galaxy Merge Vinyl.
Originally released in 1993, DISEMBOWELMENT cemented their status as one of the underground's most unique and enigmatic Doom/Death Metal bands with their landmark full length Transcendence into the Peripheral. Crushing, atmospheric, and wholly engrossing, Transcendence...is essential listening for fans of negative music.
Condition: New
Label: Relapse
Vendor: Essential
Type: Heavy Metal / Extreme Metal / Doom
Price:
22.99
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Ultra Clear with Black and Gold Smoke and Silver Splatter // LP2:Ultra Clear with Black and Gold Smoke and Gold Splatter Vinyl.
Condition: New
Label: Relapse
Vendor: Essential
Type: Heavy Metal / Extreme Metal / Doom
Price:
18.99
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Orange Krush with Black Ice Spinners and Halloween Orange, Silver and Red Splatter Vinyl.
Condition: New
Label: Relapse
Vendor: Essential
Type: Heavy Metal / Extreme Metal / Doom
Price:
18.99
Pre-order. Due 29th September.
Highlighter Yellow with Orange Krush Spinners and Black, Silver and Red Splatter Highlighter Yellow with Orange Krush Spinners and Black, Silver and Red Splatterinyl.
Condition: New
Label: Relapse