Rock & Indie Tape 813 Items

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2024 | Original (Darkness Shall Rise Production)

Cold Prophet

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Ancient Armors And Fogotten Hymns

Burgonet

Tape | 2024 | EU | Original (Darkness Shall Rise Production)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2024 | EU | Original (Alma Mater)

The Troops Of Doom

A Mass To The Grotesque

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2024 | US | Original (The Flenser)

Mamaleek

Vida Blue

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Time is a slippery fish.

Loss has inspired Mamaleek’s latest full-length album, titled Vida Blue. This marks the San Francisco Bay Area metal deconstructionists’ eighth album and their third as a full lineup.

Tragedy struck in March of 2023 when the band lost a longtime friend and member, keyboardist Eric Livingston, leaving the group, which began as a duo of two brothers and later expanded to a five-piece, now with only four members. Despite this profound loss, Mamaleek persevered, performing as a quartet at various festivals, including the 2023 edition of Tilburg.

The band returned to the studio to create new material that appropriately reflects their journey through loss and honors their fallen comrade. The resulting album draws inspiration from the legacy of Oakland A’s baseball legend Vida Blue, whose former team coincidentally announced its relocation to Las Vegas that same year. The band members themselves describe this poignant chapter in their own words:

“Time is a slippery fish. Maybe only someone like Vida could grasp it. Although he’s left time behind, his image and that lefty heat remain in the memories of many. Eventually they’ll be forgotten, and hopefully replaced with even more exultant ones. This musical recording is a reflection on loss and its acceptance. We explore several examples for each song, including the loss of pride, of money, of glory, of country, of sanity, of a favorite sports team, of significant others, and, every day, one’s self. It also explores various associated moods—fear, panic, reverence, stoicism, and steadfastness—to arrive at a resolution: Loss is only a test, the glue that holds and erodes each memory, the connection that binds and loosens us all, pitch by pitch, inning by inning. This is your celebration.”

Vida Blue is a person, moment, and memory, together the crystallization of apocalypse: “unveiling,” “disclosure.”

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Nonagon Infinity Live

Tape | 2024 | US | Original (Needlejuice)

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Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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This live compilation attempts to replicate the seamless, infinite loop of the original Nonagon Infinity album.

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Transilvania

Of Sleep And Death

Release: 2024 / IE – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tempter's Sacrament

Temptation Steel Scourge

Release: 2024 / IE – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Qrixkuor

Zoetrope

Release: 2024 / IE – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Qrixkuor

Poison Palinopsia

Release: 2024 / IE – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Omegavortex

Black Abomination Spawn

Release: 2024 / IE – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Naddred

Sluagh

Release: 2024 / IE – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2024 | EU | Original (Osmose)

Mütiilation

Black Metal Cult

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Malicious

Deranged Hexes

Release: 2024 / IE – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Flame Keeper

We Who Light The Fire

Release: 2024 / IE – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Deathwards

Mmxx Rehearsal Cassette

Release: 2024 / IE – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Bones

Sombre Opulence

Release: 2024 / IE – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Avlivad

Release: 2024 / IE – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Antiversum

Cosmos Comedenti

Release: 2024 / IE – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Akatechism

Dripping Flames

Release: 2024 / IE – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2024 | EU | Original (Indie)

Seigmen

Resonans

18,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2024 | US | Original (Ba Da Bing!)

Sea Urchin

Destroy

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My Greatest Revenge: Flamenco Recordings, 1904-1938

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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SEA Urchin announces its debut album. Created straight from leader Matt STRICKLAND’s painful, awful break up, and co-produced by Katie VON Schleicher, Destroy! embodies the agony, rage, love and tragedy of love gone sour. “I got really really sad. Like so sad. Like so so so sad,” Strickland says. It took rock and roll’s toolbox for him to work out his feelings. Sea Urchin makes operatic rock drama that incorporates ‘50s style garage punk, hardcore punk, pop punk, Frogwave and maybe even sad punk, as the original goal was to have “sad” in every song title. Strickland, known for his videos for Katie Von Schleicher and Market, assembled an all-star team to back him up. Among the players are Katie Von Schleicher adding vocals and piano, Nick Jost (baroness) on bass, Julian Fader (ava Luna) on drums, and Nate Mendelsohn (market) on saxophone.

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V.A.

Tape | 2023 | UK | Reissue (Death Is Not The End)

Tape | 2024 | Original (Glassnote Music Llc)

Release: 2023 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Death Is Not The End presents a limited LP pressing of their collection of haunted, brooding flamenco recordings taken from the early 1900s through to the late 1930s. Focussing in on the cante jondo (or "deep song") style, seen as the original manifestation of flamenco singing - from which other elements emerged, such as dancing and playing - this survey captures and documents tracks from the form's earliest recorded stars.

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Tors

Miracle

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2024 | US | Original (The Flenser)

Scarcity

The Promise Of Rain

Through Force Of Will (2024 Edition)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Promise Of Rain, the sophomore album of the experimental black metal band Scarcity, is an embodiment of the hard-to-believe truth that burdens are easier to bear when distributed, a realization Brendon Randall-Myers (conductor of the Glenn Branca Ensemble) grappled with extensively while writing this record. This is a sweat-drenched album about dispersion, about spreading, about the collective relieving of burdens through shared experience: one doesn’t have to go through everything alone.

When Scarcity’s debut album Aveilut was written in early 2020, Randall-Myers and vocalist Doug Moore (Pyrrhon, Weeping Sores, Glorious Depravity, and Seputus) never expected to be able to play their songs live. The cathartic experience of playing something that came from a place of isolation out to people in a live setting is the root of the intensity in The Promise Of Rain. The Promise Of Rain begins where the craziest climaxes of Aveilut end, and is the first Scarcity record to include Tristan Kasten-Krause (Sigur Ros, Steve Reich, Leya) on bass, Dylan Dilella (Pyrrhon) on guitar and Lev Weinstein (Krallice) on drums. Rather than building density with the quasi-orchestral layering on Aveilut, Scarcity challenged themselves to document what five people in a room could do, recording most of The Promise Of Rain in one or two takes, capturing the physical effort and urgency of a live performance.

Scarcity forges a completely fresh sound in The Promise Of Rain with their alarming guitar work and melodic arpeggiating, shedding dead skin and breaking ground with sheer vulnerability. The lyrics for The Promise Of Rain were inspired by a trip Moore took to the high deserts of southern Utah in 2023. “To thrive in the desert is an act of abnegation—” he observes, “you do right by the land and receive its gifts, or it does away with you.” The necessity of adaptation is as evident in the desert as it is to the landscape of the human experience. The transformation of ideas and beliefs, the grief of losing relationships that had to end, and the fear involved in forming new ones under the grip of mental illness is conjured over and over again on this panoramic album.

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Torn Hawk

Tape | 2024 | US | Original (Not Not Fun)

2Tape | 2024 | US | Original (Not Not Fun)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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New York musician Luke Wyatt describes his instrumental hypnagogic guitar guise Torn Hawk as “music of a noble fabric whose weave is flawed and frayed.” With a decade of hindsight, the looping beats, smeared synths, and grainy hooks of 2014’s Through Force Of Will have taken on a richer cast, like closing credits anthems to heroic 80’s films long since forgotten.

From widescreen new wave (“I Am Returning”) and baggy psychedelia (“Palace Racket”) to shredded New Romanticism (“Streets On Fire”) and glassy shoegaze (“Blindsided”), the songs fuse victory and vulnerability, soaring solos and tape hiss. Wyatt characterizes the songs’ low fidelities and “distressed edges” as “intentional lace,” smudging outlines and degrading surfaces to carve out “more room to dream.”

This 2024 memorial edition adds 25 minutes of unreleased vintage bonus material, expanding Torn Hawk's vision of “error and compression” across echo-soaked riffs, smoky synth fugues, and blazing technoid rock. Throughout, the music surges, yearns, and burns, unrestrained and undefeated, forever in pursuit of Wyatt’s mission to lift the listener from “the cave of loneliness to the amphitheater of self-love.”

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New Mexican Stargazers

Casino 2223

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Tape | 2024 | US | Original (Bayonet)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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New 90-minute brainbath by rogue cosmic bookie New Mexican Stargazers takes as its muse a surreal, smoke-soaked gambler’s paradise two centuries in the future: Casino 2223. Part soundtrack and part summoning, the collection sprawls and stumbles through sparkling caverns of slots, neon, video portals, and tape hiss, alternately devotional and desolate. Cracked astral keys slipstream over cheap metronomes, zoned voids, and decayed haze, disappearing into outer reaches, backrooms, and nights that never end.

Nnf’s expanded edition also includes five outtakes from the C2223 sessions (originally digitally self-released in 2023), capturing NMS at their most sublime and subliminal, away from the noise, tracing ancient dunes lit by spheres and pyramids beaming columns of light straight into the stars.

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Bloomsday

Heart Of The Artichoke

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Tape | 2024 | UK | Original (Partisan)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The way Bloomsday's Iris James Garrison writes songs feels like somewhere between a mirror and a memory. Spacious, full-bodied folk songs, they are an ode to things that are good no matter how small; they sometimes feel like the ghost of a Mary Oliver poem. Bloomsday's new record, 'Heart of the Artichoke', is a relic of unfettered creativity and community. They recount the miracles of the mundane, the memories that become sacred, an ode to all that is holy: nightswimming, songs plucked from the ether, the ways friendship can endure. Like earlier Bloomsday songs, the work here is threaded with warmth; it's simmering, crisp and deeply human, an encapsulation of the present moment. Recorded across 10 days in June 2023 in upstate New York at duo Babehoven's studio and co-produced by Babehoven's Ryan Albert, with mixing by Henry Stoehr of Slow Pulp. The record was built out with a wideranging group of collaborators, including inventive drumming from Andrew Stevens (Lomelda, Hovvdy), Alex Harwood, Richard Orofino, Babehoven's Maya Bon, Hannah Pruzinsky (h.pruz, Sister.), and Chris Daley. It was an insulated and collaborative experience: all family dinners on the back porch, bonfires, feeling a full sense of joy, of friendship, of purity in the artistic self. Collaboration is an integral part of Bloomsday's musical process. Garrison is malleable in the studio, their songwriting generous and spacious. But in listening to the record, there's a sense that Garrison leaves room for the players, for the listener; for songs to find the shapes they're meant to take. Garrison's role as maestro is crucial, singular - it's a collaborative, exploratory spirit harnessed by Garrison's intuition, and by an honest commitment to carve out creative space for play, to delve into what's known - or pushing past that, into unknown. "The ghosts of the past still come up and haunt me," Garrison says, "but I sit in what I have and see it. All of these songs are about loved ones, about personal struggles with getting out of my head and being present." Heart of the Artichoke was written from a healed, matured place - written in a moment of safety from chaos. It's a prayer for the present, an appreciation of tenderness and what happens once we give ourselves the space to really see, and really feel - becoming free and whole - an ode to the way healing allows us to bloom.

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Cigarettes After Sex

X's

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Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2022 | US | Reissue (Needlejuice)

Tally Hall

Good & Evil

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Papercuts Singles Collection 2000-2023

Release: 2022 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Good & Evil finds Tally Hall entering a stripped-back, grittier sonic universe. Transcendental melodies guide them through a mind-bending journey of duality. Available for the first time since 2011, this cult classic is now on vinyl containing an all-new poster, CD & tape, along with a companion 7'' single.

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Linkin Park

CD | 2024 | EU | Original (Warner Bros.)

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Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2024 | US | Original (Winspear)

Wishy

Mana

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Tape | 2024 | US | Original (Knife Hits)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Second EP from Wishy, the new band from celebrated Indiana songwriters Kevin Krauter and Nina Pitchkites. "Mana" follows and continues their debut, "Paradise", which put on full display the songwriters' musical fluency while tastefully blending shoegaze, dreampop, and alt-rock into a heavenly haze and delivered a strong introduction that was dense with melodic earworms and stirring sentiment.

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Black Gaff

Heads

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Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2024 | EU | Original (Bayonet)

Mei Semones

Kabutomushi

Stefano Pilia / Alessandra Novaga / Adrien Utley

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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'Mei Semones' sweetly evocative blend of jazz, bossa nova and math-y indie rock is notonly a way for her to find solace in her favorite genres, but is an intuitive means ofcatharsis. "Blending everything that I like together and trying to make something new -that's what feels most natural to me," says the 23-year-old Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter and guitarist. "It's what feels most true to who I am as an artist."Plinking guitar tones and asymmetrical time signatures exemplify her forays intoangular indie rock more now than ever before, especially on her debut Bayonet Recordssingle "Wakare no Kotoba"_its wide-interval arpeggios in odd meters being some ofthe most technically difficult guitar work Mei has ever implemented in her songwriting.Translated to "parting words'' in English, the self-described "anti-love song" serves as afarewell to a toxic friendship, complete with orchestral swells and crashing guitars.Originally from Ann Arbor, Michigan, Semones began playing music at a young age,starting out on piano at age four before moving to electric guitar at age eleven. Afterplaying jazz guitar in high school, she went on to study guitar performance with a jazzfocus at Berklee College of Music. College is where she met her current bandmates,including string players Noah Leong and Claudius Agrippa, whose respective viola andviolin add softness and multidimensionality to Mei's intricate guitar work. After releasinga slew of singles and an EP in 2022, coinciding with her move to New York City, Mei andher band have since gone on to collaborate with post-bossa balladeer John Roseboroand embark on their first-ever tour with the melodic rock outfit Raavi.Semones chronicles infatuation, devotion, and vulnerability in her songs, complete withsweeping strings, virtuosic guitar-playing and heartfelt lyrics sung in both English andJapanese, that have all become part of her sonic trademark: ornately catchy, genre-fusing compositions serving as the backdrop to tender lyrics touching on theuniversalities of human em...

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Spiralis Aurea Trio

Tape | 2023 | EU | Original (Maple Death)

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Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Everything about Stefano Pilia’s spiritual journey always seemed to point directly towards ‘Spiralis Aurea’, his astounding 2022 release for Die Schachtel, a deeply resonating piece of art that intertwines traces of sacred geometry, collective experience and elusive connections between nature and human kind. ‘Spiralis Aurea Trio’ adds an extra layer, an opera of sheer beauty and execution, will, force and composure. The original cycle of compositions live and breath, adapted and transformed, taking their initial meaning and depth to new heights, while maintaining the concepts of ‘divine geometry’ and their sacred mystique intact, displaying a deep resonance with works by La Monte Young, Arvo Pärt, Pauline Oliveros, Eliane Radigue, Krzysztof Penderecki, and Terry Riley.

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The Sound Of Perseverance

Tape | 2024 | Original (Relapse)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2024 | US | Original (Secretly Canadian)

Gglum

The Graden Dream

Tape | 2024 | Original (Cleopatra)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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As she's gotten older, Ella Smoker has found that her subconscious has been trying to tell her "some pretty wacky stuff". Thoughts will come to the 21-year-old singer-songwriter in dreams, or as she writes lyrics in studio sessions, words floating onto the page before she's really had a moment to realise what they are. "As soon as we start making the music, my brain sort of turns off," she explains. "I'll be sitting there, writing all this stuff that feels like a load of nonsense, and a month later, I'll look back and be like `oh'. It all comes from a place I didn't even realise was there." In learning how to open up to herself, gglum ended up finding a kindred spirit in producer Karma Kid (Maisie Peters, Shygirl, Connie Constance), pushing past her natural bedroom-pop introversion to find joy in the process of collaboration. Whether it's the ragged radio-rock of `SPLAT!' ("basically about realising that somebody you held up very highly is actually just a massive shambles of a person") or the riotous, industrial energy of `Easy Fun', Smoker is able to reshape her vocal around the mood, creating a record which expertly balances light and shade. "I've never really done anything in like that vocal style before," she says of `Easy Fun's near-spoken delivery. "I love that song because it's not something I would have come up with on my own, but Karma Kid was great at pushing me out of my comfort zone. I just thought like, look: I can be a little silly with this." The release of `The Garden Dream' will offer gglum plenty more opportunity to get both silly and serious, to be bold in her exploration of new ideas and sounds But it will also offer the opportunity to further accept herself as the dreamlike artist she always wanted to be; confidently embellishing acoustic worlds that her listeners can burrow safely within. "I feel like I naturally gravitate towards wanting to make musical spaces that you can feel like you're living in, rather than trying to make songs", she says. "That's something I really wanted to solidify with this album: I basically want to make music that feels like when you're looking out the window and it's the end of the film and you're imagining what comes next. That's the sound of what I want to be doing."

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Danzig

Danzig 5: Blackacidevil

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2016 | Reissue (Relapse)

Scream Bloody Gore

Release: 2016 / Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2014 | Reissue (Relapse)

Spiritual Healing

Release: 2014 / Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 1988 | Reissue (Relapse)

Leprosy

Release: 1988 / Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2024 | EU | Original (Captain Oi)

Cock Sparrer

Hand On Heart

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2023 | US | Original (Tompkins Square)

Muireann Bradley

I Kept The Old Blues

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Tape | 2023 | EU | Original (Six Shooter)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Muireann Bradley is a young blues, ragtime, roots and folk guitarist and singer based in Ballybofey in County Donegal Ireland. Tompkins Square actually signed her when she was 13, but because of Covid and just “growing up", the process of recording took place over three years. She will be 17 in December, 2023. "This is my first album. Most of these tunes were originally recorded by the great blues men and women who were making records from the 1920s and 1930s right up in some cases to the early 1970s. I have also found inspiration for the renditions recorded here in the playing of some of the musicians who began recording this music in the 1960s and later, and who in some cases learned at the feet of the greats. Many of these guitarists played pivotal roles in the 1960s blues revival and subsequent 'rediscovery' of many of the greats of country blues. I grew up steeped in these old blues in the hills overlooking the valley of the River Finn just outside the town of Ballybofey in County Donegal. My father would play this music constantly at home and wherever we went in the car and talk about it endlessly whether anyone was listening or not, telling stories about the lives of these musicians as if they were legend, mythology or the evening news. My father could of course play all this stuff on guitar, I remember watching him when I was very young and thinking 'I want to be able to do that'. When I was nine he agreed to teach me and bought me my first little travel guitar. I worked hard to learn how to play but as time wore on I seemed to have less and less time to practice as I became more and more invested in the combat sports I was regularly training and competing in. Then in March 2020 the first Covid lockdowns happened and all contact sports were shut down. I was lost for a while but soon found my way back to the guitar. I was now listening, playing and practicing with a new intensity and focus. In a very serious moment I wrote out a list of tunes I was going to learn. The first tune on that list was Blind Blake’s 'Police Dog Blues'. I’m not sure now how long it took to get that arrangement together but when it was ready we videoed me performing it and posted it on YouTube. It ended up getting a lot of attention, I remember my parents being quite shocked and soon after that Josh Rosenthal got in touch… and here we are! Each individual track on this album was recorded live in the studio and represents one entire take with me singing and backing myself up on guitar simultaneously. Most are either first or second takes. Nothing has been added or taken away, no overdubs or modern recording tricks of any kind have been used at all so at least in some respects this album has been recorded in the same way as those classics of the 1920s and 1930s. I hope you enjoy the record."—Muireann Bradley May 2023

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Boy Golden

Church Of Better Daze

11,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Chaos Takes The Wheel And I Am A Passenger Blue Cassette Edition

Awakebutstillinbed

Tape | 2023 | US | Original (Tiny Engines)