Asthmatic Kitty Rock & Indie 28 Items

Javelin Lemonade Colored Vinyl Edition

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Asthmatic Kitty)

29,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Sufjan Stevens Invites You To: Come On Feel The Illinoise

2LP | 2005 | US | Reissue (Asthmatic Kitty)

Release: 2005 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Like the self-proclaimed “Spiderman” who climbed Chicago’s Sears Tower with no harness, Sufjan Stevens scales dusty prairies, steel factories, and two hundred years of history in the second installment of his 50 State Project, “ILLINOIS”, a 22-track anthematic tone poem to The Prairie State.

An engrossing musical road trip, “Illinois” takes you through ghost towns, grain mills, hospital rooms, and the City of Broad Shoulders, with guest appearances by a poet, a president, a serial murderer, UFOs, Superman, the goat that cursed the Cubs, and Decatur’s famous Chickenmobile. Sufjan weaves variegated musical styles (jazz, funk, pop, folk, and Rodgers and Hammerstein-like flourishes) and the textures of 25 instruments into a tapestry of persons and places famous, infamous, iconic and anonymous. Invoking the muse of poet Carl Sandburg, “Illinois” ushers in trumpets on parade, string quartets, female choruses and ambient piano scales arranged around Stevens’ emerging falsetto.

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LP | 2015 | US | Reissue (Asthmatic Kitty)

Carrie & Lowell

27,99 €*

Release: 2015 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Blue Bucket Of Gold / Hotline Bling Feat. Gallant

12" | 2017 | US | Original (Asthmatic Kitty)

18,99 €*

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Limited edition for Record Store Day 2017!

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LP | 2010 | US | Original (Asthmatic Kitty)

Age Of Adz

35,99 €*

Release: 2010 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Javelin Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Asthmatic Kitty)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Esther Pink Vinyl Edition

The Welcome Wagon

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Esther, the latest effort from Brooklyn duo Welcome Wagon is as much about homecoming as it is about making peace with-and a home in-uncertainty. The project had its beginnings in the summer of 2017, when the family took a two-month sabbatical to California. In reflecting upon that time, Pastor Vito Aiuto says "It felt like we had been changed, and so to go home was going to be alright." Shortly after returning to Brooklyn, he found himself holding his guitar and allowing his fingers to play a few notes that just felt_right. Then the pandemic hit, and Vito's strumming, lyrics, and thoughts became the soundtrack of the family's lockdown lives. Though Monique had given up painting a decade prior, she felt an urge to go home as well, to reconnect not just with an artistic identity but with her midwestern family. She began using pieces from a collection of her late grandmother Esther's treasures to create large-scale collages, beautiful, evocative, and almost haunting in their pastiche of the past.Esther was born out of this wellspring of creativity and homecoming, exploring the profound knowing and equally profound mystery in both family and faith. In Esther, the questioning is the destination, and it is one where peace can be found and home-and art-can be made. There's a salve there. There is music. There are moments of grace, large and small. Welcome.

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A Beginner's Mind Artprint Bundle

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Flutterama Brown Vinyl Edition

Half-Handed Cloud

American Foursquare Translucent Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Flutterama, the seventh album from Half-handed Cloud is a record of 18 jubilant indie-pop songs by John Ringhofer, investigating spiritual incompetence with lively arrangements and radiant melodies that skillfully dissolve into deterioration using herky-jerky tape manipulation, analog wow-and-flutter, and an animated orchestra of home-recorded sound effects. Ringhofer's work on Flutterama was mainly inspired by late '50s/early '60s pre-synthesizer academic tape music (Henk Badings, Tod Dockstader, Ilhan Mimaroglu, Malcolm Pointon), along with Frances Mary Hunter Gordon's adolescent liturgies (recorded at Abbey Road during The Beatles era), turbid sights and sounds in Guy Maddin films, R. Stevie Moore's home-taped pop universe, Alberto Burri's stitched wound burlap assemblages, Lou Barlow/Dinosaur Jr's lo-fi "Poledo" sound collage (which name-checks Jesus), Julie Canlis book A Theology of the Ordinary, Wallace Berman's visual collage, and The Raincoats' magnificently shaky D.I.Y. aesthetic.The tape machine itself plays a vital role in the album's drive, interrupting moments of ecstasy and revelation with varispeed pitch shifts and grainy decay. These tape-fiddled tunes - recorded on a 16-track reel-to-reel recorder - employ surprisingly little synthesizer ("it felt like cheating," says Ringhofer). He preferred to craft most of the album's effects the long way, frequently going behind the back of rock instrumentation by hand-feeding 1/2" magnetic open reel recordings of deflating balloons, chord organs, tablecloth swipes, piano (occasionally tracked with a baby on his lap), brass, some guitars, and a quickly-cranked half-speed music box. Ringhofer was assisted by long-time Half-handed Cloud contributor Brandon Buckner on drums, and single-song backing vocals from Anacortes, WA songsmith John Van Deusen.

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Denison Witmer

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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American Foursquare, Denison Witmer's 10th - and best - album finally receives its long-awaited physical release. Written after relocating his family to his hometown of Lancaster, PA, it's a response to these major life changes - a meditation on empathy, on love and on the meaning of home.The CD version includes a bonus disc of simplified arrangements and a brand new song, Lancaster County."An album of extraordinary beauty and emotional force_ His Songs are like exquisite miniatures" The Sunday Times"American Foursquare' is a breathtaking, humble outpouring of reflection capturing growth, change, longing, and contentment: In other words, it's the soundtrack to a life lived." Atwood Magazine

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Tape | 2021 | EU | Original (Asthmatic Kitty)

A Beginner's Mind

13,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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It’s been said that writing about music is like dancing about architecture (impossible and absurd). But what about singing about movies?

Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine have paired up for a collaborative project that does just that. A Beginner’s Mind is their debut album that contains 14 songs (loosely) based on (mostly) popular films. The source material is highbrow, lowbrow, and everything in between. The music is folksy, sweet, sincere and harmonically effervescent—Simon & Garfunkel with New Age flourishes. This album runs the gamut and has fun with it, even while its songwriters remain fully rooted in the melancholy folk idioms they are known for.

Daniel Anum Jasper, a pioneer of Ghanian movie poster painting, was commissioned to paint a series of new works for A Beginner’s Mind. His paintings are a graphic simulacrum for the same sense of wonder, wordplay, and intrigue that shape A Beginner’s Mind. By transforming old films into vital new songs, Stevens and De Augustine ask us to consider ourselves from a previously unconsidered vantage point — a new way of seeing and hearing — an exercise that’s as necessary and relevant now as it’s ever been.

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A Beginner's Mind Back To Oz Emerald City Green Vinyl Edition

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Asthmatic Kitty)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A Beginner's Mind Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Asthmatic Kitty)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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12" | 2021 | US | Original (Asthmatic Kitty)

America

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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5LP | 2021 | US | Original (Asthmatic Kitty)

Convocations

78,99 €*

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Convocations, the new instrumental album from Sufjan Stevens, moves like a two-and-a-half-hour electronic/ambient mass for our present age of anxiety and dread; its 49 tracks work through the stages of grief and gladness with emotional mood music that is dreamy, dissonant, vertiginous, rhythmic, repetitive, urgent, and calm_that is, all the things we undergo when we inevitably live through isolation, uncertainty, and loss. Its five sonic cycles (Meditations, Lamentations, Revelations, Celebrations, and Incantations) replicate different stages of mourning, healing and catharsis, working both to soothe our unease while savoring a renewed sense of awe and wonder for being alive in these unprecedented times. Stevens initiated Convocations in response to (and as an homage to) the life and death of his father, who died in September last year, two days following the release of The Ascension. It is, then, ultimately an album about death, and an album that reflects a year in which we have all lost so much. That said, this is not a personal record, but a universal one. Convocations is built on a shared experience that seeks to be honest about how complicated grief can be in these difficult times_the pain and separation, the anxiety, the unknown, the absolute joy of memory. This is also an album made in lockdown, when we were all cloistered in whatever space we had. Convocations arrives just as we begin to emerge from a year whose losses we will calculate for a lifetime. It is, then, right on time, as we begin to process our grief and try to carry on with it.

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The Ascention Clear Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2020 | US | Original (Asthmatic Kitty)

32,99 €*

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Ascention Black Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2020 | US | Original (Asthmatic Kitty)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Sufjan Stevens & Lowell Brams

Aporia Limited Vinyl Edition

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Asthmatic Kitty)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Love Yourself / With My Whole Heart

7" | 2019 | EU | Original (Asthmatic Kitty)

16,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2019 | US | Original (Asthmatic Kitty)

Angelo De Augustine

Tomb Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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5LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Asthmatic Kitty)

Songs For Christmas

65,54 €* 68,99 € -5%

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Avalanche Black Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2018 | US | Original (Asthmatic Kitty)

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Greatest Gift Colored Vinyl Edition

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Asthmatic Kitty)

28,99 €*

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2004 | US | Reissue (Asthmatic Kitty)

Seven Swans

Release: 2004 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Seven Swans is the fourth official studio album by American recording artist Sufjan Stevens. Originally released in 2004, the album is comprised of “lush acoustic compositions” paired with lyrics infused with Bible tales and Christian imagery. Don’t let that dissuade you, though – it’s a truly brilliant album, religious or not.

The album name is an apparent reference to the Book of Revelation, the final book of the Bible, in which the people of Earth are judged and the righteous ascend to heaven.

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2LP | 2010 | US | Reissue (Asthmatic Kitty)

The Age Of Adz

Release: 2010 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Greetings From Michigan: The Great Lake State

2LP | 2004 | US | Reissue (Asthmatic Kitty)

Release: 2004 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A collection of songs for his birth-state, Michigan, “The Great Lake State.”

Composed as a geographical tone poem, Michigan follows a metaphysical expedition through the idiosyncrasies of middle America. Drawing from personal anecdote, regional history, and state heritage, Stevens mixes social and political grievances with songs about snowmobiles, Henry Ford, the Detroit race riots, and love.

The songs on Michigan resonate with a range of sources-Vince Guaraldi, Terry Riley, and Nick Drake as accompanied by Stereolab and The Sea & Cake-in executing Stevens’ peculiar palette that is simultaneously rock and blue-grass, jazz and pop, a style The Village Voice appraises as “Arthur Lee meets the Book of Psalms.”

In Michigan, Stevens combines intimate, soft-spoken songwriting with the dense compositional complexity displayed on his previous release Enjoy Your Rabbit, which XLR8R called “…a transgressive, majestic album conjuring an academic jam session of Stereolab and Luke Vibert conducted by Steve Reich.”

Guest artists include Elin, Megan, and Daniel Smith (of The Danielson Famile), and John Ringhofer (Half-handed Cloud). Album art features original hand-paintings by Martha Stewart crafts editor Laura Normandin.

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Fourth Of July Limited Red Vinyl Edition

7" | 2023 | US | Original (Asthmatic Kitty)

16,99 €*

Toil And Trouble Gold Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Limited Red Vinyl.On July 1, his birthday, Sufjan Stevens is releasing two alternate versions of his song, "Fourth of July." Both versions were recorded around 2014: "Fourth of July (April Base Version)" was recorded in Eau Claire, WI at Justin Vernon's April Base studio, and "Fourth of July (DUMBO Version)" was recorded in Sufjan's old studio in Brooklyn, NY. The original version of "Fourth of July" appeared on Sufjan's 2015 album, Carrie & Lowell. As is (and was) his custom, Sufjan would often rework different versions of his songs while recording an album, and "Fourth of July" was no exception. (Other versions & remixes of the song were released on "The Greatest Gift" mixtape and on the "Exploding Whale" 7" single.) These two latest versions were recently found on old harddrives. The refrain of the song, "We're all gonna die," invokes a meditation on human mortality and fragility, even as it acts as an anchor of stoic hope. Its solemnity invites listeners to feel comfort, connection _ even joy _ wrought from great pain and loss. The song has recently had a resurgence with listeners _ which may speak to a deep national grief and sense of loss.This 7-inch in red will ship in December 2022, which marks the 10-year anniversary of Carrie's death.

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Angelo De Augustine

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Asthmatic Kitty)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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