Drag City HHV Records 157 Items

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Drag City)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Espers' self-titled first release appeared in 2004, heralding an era in which there was a perception of back-to-the-roots in the underground; kids making new music that spoke strongly of folk traditions and psychedelia, in the process setting themselves apart from latter-day sounds and approaches. Espers didn't shy away from this image, projecting a collective air, almost like a rural outpost, out of time and place in the urban environs of Philadelphia. The staid harmonies of Meg Baird and Greg Weeks, the 6- and 12-string guitars and percussion of Brooke Sietinsons, the full-bodied arrangements rife with traditional and classical details and the regular intervention of acid-toned guitar leads formed, along with the mystic and melancholy cast to their songwriting, a galvanizing identity for them among other like-minded music players of the day. Espers, existing in between places, were a part of a flow of ideation that has as much to do with revelations from the 70s or 60s - with all the decades of the last century, really - as it does with the current expressions in favor of selfhood and safety that are struggled over today. Their music has retained a mysterious, unknowable vitality that, in the name of their original intention, continues to express Espers' individualism, optimism and deeply empathetic soul.

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Six Organs Of Admittance

Companion Rises

30,99 €*

2x10" | 2019 | US | Original (Drag City)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Six Organs of Admittance is back after 3 years with a new record, new techniques in sound generation, and a new attitude. Companion Rises has a driving force only hinted at with previous releases. Manipulating the rhythmic DNA from songs such as the bass-dominated "Taken by Ascent" (on his last record, Burning the Threshold), Ben Chasny has grown a new sound creature in his lab that is as welcoming as it is terrifying and as fun to listen to as it provocative and intriguing.
Methodologically, Companion Rises sometimes recalls the early-mid low-fi work of Six Organs, with modern techniques swapping digital processes in for the analog ways of the early days, and algorithmic programs creating the rhythms rather than Ben's overdubbed hand percussion.
Sonically, Ben's songs are bursting with ideas, harmonically rich, gorgeously arranged; often presenting two versions at once, overlaying electric and acoustic treatments that interlock like two shards that form a single key.
Companion Rises plays like a mutant joining of avant and good-time forces, as if Faust produced The Revolution instead of Prince, or This Heat recorded on top of Amon DüüI's classic "Paramechanical World," but left a few of the original tracks to bleed through.
With Companion Rises, Ben has created a Sci-Folk record that feels totally in the right place welcoming in the new decade.

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BBC Radio 1

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The mighty OM recorded live on BBC Radio 1, Maida Vale, May 13, 2019. The songs continue to evolve; two each from the classic OM releases Advaitic Songs and God Is Good, encompassingly recorded and mixed with the pristine quality that BBC engineers (and OM) bring to recorded sound. Please see the attached appendix for a full list of available OM titles.

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Tape | 2019 | US | Original (Drag City)

First Taste

18,99 €*

Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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First Taste is, as the title implies, a visceral shot of new flavor from Ty Segall. The followup to last January's extroverted Freedom's Goblin, First Taste cross-fertilizes Ty's antisocial side (think: Emotional Mugger) with the wide-ranging humanism of Manipulator and the pop zazz of the aforementioned Goblin. This means an immaculate sequence of sides with Ty playing multiple parts with and without contributions from the Freedom Band. Ty's songwriting confidence is at an apex, and he moves from style to style, evoking directions in rock, lite pop, experimental, alternative and even afrobeat! Ty at 12 (albums) = his best yet?

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Bill Callahan

2LP | 2019 | US | Original (Drag City)

40,99 €*

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2019 | US | Original (Drag City)

First Taste

30,99 €*

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2019 | US | Original (Drag City)

Ty Segall & The Freedom

Deforming Lobes

13,99 €*

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | US | Original (Drag City)

Pearls Before Swine

Balaklava

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Bill Callahan

Dream River

24,99 €*

A Child In The Sun: Radio Sessions 1969-1970

Release: 2013 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: Near Mint

Cover has tiny wear. Original inner sleeve.

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Ed Askew

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Mark Fosson

Solo Guitar

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Bill MacKay

Esker

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2003 | US | Reissue (Drag City)

Smog

Supper

Release: 2003 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2014 | US | Original (Drag City)

Ambarchi, O'Malley, Dunn

Shade Themes From Kairos

Release: 2014 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2014 | US | Original (Drag City)

Woo

When The Past Arrives

17,27 €* 26,99 € -36%

Release: 2014 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2014 | US | Original (Drag City)

Michael Yonkers

Michael Lee Yonkers

29,99 €*

Release: 2014 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2014 | US | Original (Drag City)

Bill Callahan

Have Fun With God

Release: 2014 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Dub is a spiritual, abstract, visceral, mystical thing. Finite and Infinite at the same time. Deeply rooted in the earth and embracing outer space. Don't be fooled by names, Dub has come and gone. Dub is a ghost, a duppy. A duppy of a childhood guppy. Flushed and thriving in the sewers and the swamps. Here you will find versions of the Dream River songs that have been killed and resurrected, spilling tales of the other side of life in a language conceivable only if you let yourself be taken there.

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Magik Markers

Surrender To The Fantasy

26,99 €*

Release: 2013 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Received a 7.9 rating from Pitchfork.

Back working as a trio Magik Markers return with their first new album since 2009’s Balf Quarry. Surrender To The Fantasy kicks off with that hoary old trope of punk records, the song about the Chesapeake Valley Runoff and the mating cycle of crabs. After that kind of in-your-face Attenborough- core, where could the record go? Nowhere but everywhere, all the creepy outposts of American detritus from other times, when hitchhiking and h-bombs were still hot, viable new ideas, and on beyond zed-bra. “Acts of Desperation” is Shaggs-meets-Stones color commentary on driveway laying, your mom’s Merit Ultra-Light 100’s and the lengths we’ll go to filch a feel of some arcane notion of greatness. Here Pete Nolan has nixed his kit and Straps Field Handily into a galvanic psych lead. No lame attempt to smoke nutmeg for this jam; it scored real weed.

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Cave

Threace

Release: 2013 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Scout Niblett

It's Up To Emma

Release: 2013 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2012 | US | Original (Drag City)

Sun Araw

The Inner Treaty

Release: 2012 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2012 | US | Original (Drag City)

Silver Jews

Early Times 1990-1

Release: 2012 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2011 | EU | Original (Drag City)

Goodbye Bread

Release: 2011 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2009 | US | Original (Drag City)

Spoils

Release: 2009 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea

Silver Jews

LP | 2008 | US | Original (Drag City)

29,69 €* 32,99 € -10%

Release: 2008 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Corky's debt to his father

Mayo Thompson

LP | 2008 | EU | Original (Drag City)

12" | 2007 | US | Original (Drag City)

Release: 2008 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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incl. bonus 7"!

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White Magic

Dark stars EP

Release: 2007 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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12" | 2009 | US | Original (Drag City)

The Wyrd Meme

14,99 €*

Release: 2009 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2019 | US | Original (Drag City)

Stumpwater

Motel In Saginaw

21,99 €*

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2020 | US | Reissue (Drag City)

Espers

The Weed Tree

Release: 2020 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

Includes original inner sleeve. Vinyl with a couple of light scuffs

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Grief In The Kitchen And Mirth In The Hall

28,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A River Ain't Too Much To

Smog

LP | 2016 | US | Reissue (Drag City)

Release: 2016 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2024 | US | Original (Drag City)

Bill MacKay

Locust Land

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Bill MacKay and Drag City are delirious with pride to announce the discovery of a new territory: Locust Land, a record which seeks to reflect the nerve-shredding consciousness run amok in our world today - and somehow allay it with sound. Bill"s music is a visceral crackling where it meets the air, and Locust Land can"t help but reflect its era more than any other in his discography.It"s been five years since the release of Fountain Fire - but in the interim, Bill has barely stopped moving, collaborating with artists across the spectrum, including cellist Katinka Kleijn, banjo player Nathan Bowles and keyboardist Cooper Crain. He"s also contributed to recordings by Steve Gunn, Ryley Walker, Bill Callahan & Bonnie Prince Billy (Blind Date Party), and Black Duck (on their self-titled record featuring Douglas McCombs and Charles Rumback). Forget five years - how"d he even get Locust Land squeezed out of his temporal lobes?Bill"s sense of music as art is constantly modulating - lifting off from where it is found and naturally migrating to some other place. Sometimes, that"s elsewhere - others, it"s simply to be found deeper inside the starting point. And so, the action of moving on informs the landscape of Locust Land. This manifests in several different ways.A restless energy and urgency is repeatedly felt - in the driving momentum of "Keeping in Time," "Glow Drift," and "When I Was Here" - while a dogged persistence radiates from the tone colors and percussion of "Oh, Pearl." Mating a dirge-like desolation with sparkling guitars, "Radiator" adds darkness and depth. The sense of searching, displacement and longing in vocal tracks "Keeping in Time," "Half of You," and "When I Was Here" speak literally to the tumult of current vibrations. Within the arrangements, there"s also departure from previous norms - in addition to the brilliant guitar work for which he is known, Bill plays a variety of keyboards, from piano to organ to synth, extending his music with the available voicings, while enri...

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Chris Gantry

At The House Of Cash

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2014 | US | Original (Drag City)

Manipulator

19,99 €*

Release: 2014 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

Temple Stone Clear Green Vinyl Edition

Ghost

LP | 1994 | US | Reissue (Drag City)

32,29 €* 33,99 € -5%

Release: 1994 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Second Time Around Clear Blue Vinyl

Ghost

LP | 1992 | US | Reissue (Drag City)

Release: 1992 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | US | Original (Drag City)

Nehan

An Evening With Nehan

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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nehan is a Japanese free improvisation & avant-garde rock quintet formed in August 2022. Their performances are initiated by a 9hz brain wave emitted from a testee who has been brought into a deep meditative state via either hypnosis or acupuncture - a very relaxed but very alert state. nehan doesn"t begin until the testee has gotten into the state of "nothingness." It is only then that the improvisation can begin.The role of improvisation has been key to all the musical projects of Masaki Batoh. In 2010, as Batoh was winding down the activity of his long-standing "heavy chamber folk" group, Ghost, he became involved in the design of a machine to generate sonic data based on brain waves. An acupuncturist as well as a musician by trade, his interest was spurred by the rhythms of the body and the brain, and a desire to access the "pulses" of brain waves to initiate improvisations. Following the release of Brain Pulse Music, Batoh toured Japan, the US and Europe, making demonstrations of his process using a local volunteer and guest performers, when available. Today, nehan arrive at their performance space prepared with a Brain Pulse testee, bringing a wide array of instruments including gongs, timpani, tabla and other drums and percussion, Crumhorn, bagpipes, mellotron, oscillators and additional sound effects. Their performance is a transformative electro-acoustic display that passes through the prism of music styles, from east to west, from traditional folk and classical to rock, jazz, and avant electronic.While nehan"s performance presentation invokes a sense of ritual, they understand their process as being far removed from any type of spiritual endeavor - it has nothing to do with eastern thinking or any kind of religious ceremony - this is an action of improvisation, occurring in reality between the five musicians on stage, in response to the brain waves of an individual.For the personnel of nehan, Masaki Batoh asked players with whom he had good previous experiences in improvisation: Fu...

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Grief In The Kitchen And Mirth In The Hall

26,99 €*

CD | 1997 | US | Original (Drag City)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Critically-acclaimed, criminally-overachieving Glasgow-based singer and guitarist Alasdair Roberts is known as a superlative original songwriter as well as an interpreter of traditional songs from Scotland and beyond. For the past twenty years, his recordings have alternated between these two complimentary poles, with "pop" records such as The Amber Gatherers and A Wonder Working Stone nestling in his expansive back catalogue alongside "folk" albums such as No Earthly Man and What News (with Amble Skuse and David McGuinness). Additionally, all of these records possess a further dimension, derived from their collation of songs together into one album-length statement. This is part of Alasdair"s great achievement in his career - for him, this thing of music and song hasn"t come the eons it"s travelled to simply entertain.These impulses fully present and well honed, Alasdair returns to his roots with Grief in the Kitchen and Mirth in the Hall, his fifth full-length collection of traditional song. Recorded live in the studio, it is an entirely solo collection of twelve traditional ballads and songs sparsely arranged for acoustic guitar, piano and voice. The majority of the songs originate in Alasdair"s homeland of Scotland, with a couple from Ireland and one from Prince Edward Island on Canada"s eastern seaboard too.The record takes its title from a line in the final verse of one of its songs, "The Baron o" Brackley" - a ballad of feuding clans and matrimonial betrayal from the north-east of Scotland. Grief in the Kitchen and Mirth in the Hall: it"s a title which goes some way towards encapsulating many of the record"s themes. Collectively the songs treat of various conflicts and tensions - those of gender; of class, status and position; and of geography and tribal belonging - and the roles and responsibilities expected at the various intersections of these constructs. That we should never forget!As with many of Alasdair"s recordings, Grief in the Kitchen and Mirth in the Hall contains ballads aplenty...

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Jim O'Rourke

Bad Timing

14,99 €*

LP | 2018 | US | Original (Drag City)

Release: 1997 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

CD comes in a soft case, instead of the original crystal case. All booklets included.

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John Renbourn

Live In Kyoto 1978

19,99 €*

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2024 | US | Original (Drag City)

Three Bells

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Ty Segall follows 2022"s acoustic introspection opus "Hello, Hi" with a deeper, wilder journey to the center of the self. With Three Bells, he"s created a set of his most ambitious, elastic songs, using his musical vocabulary with ever-increasing sophistication. It"s an obsessive quest for an expression that answers back to the riptide always pulling him subconsciously into the depths. Questions we all ask in our own private mirrors are faced down here - and regardless of what the mysterious "Three Bells" mean in the context of the album"s libretto, you can be assured that Ty"s ringing them for himself, and for the rest of us in turn.

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CD | 2009 | US | Original (Drag City)

Spoils

3,99 €*

Release: 2009 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

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CD | 2013 | US | Original (Drag City)

A Wonder Working Stone

4,99 €*

Seasonal Depression Suite

Release: 2013 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Neil Hamburger Presents

Francois J. Bonnet & Stephen O'Malley

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Pop

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Neil Hamburger presents a new work from the songwriting team of Gregg Turkington and Erik Paparozzi. Seasonal Depression Suite is an album-based musical, sung by an all-star cast whose voices embody various guests stuck in a perfectly average chain-hotel, wallowing in self-pity and paranoia, re-living personal catastrophes both real and imagined, or simply trying to use the hotel vending machine. Expert music played by an all-star band, to boot!To sing these parts, a once-in-a-lifetime all-star cast was assembled - including Neil Finn (Split Enz, Crowded House, Fleetwood Mac), Annabella Lwin (Bow Wow Wow), Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls), Bonnie Prince Billy, acclaimed singer/performance artist Puddles Pity Party, voice actress Natalie Peyser, J.P. Hasson (Pleaseeasaur), enigmatic vocalist (and Frank Sinatra"s granddaughter) A.J. Lambert, Paparozzi himself and, of course, Neil Hamburger.Among the many musicians accompanying the cast were Scarlet Rivera (Bob Dylan"s Rolling Thunder Revue), Danny Heifetz (Mr Bungle), Bär McKinnon (Mr Bungle), Prairie Prince (The Tubes), Atom Ellis (Dieselhed), Jason Schimmel (Secret Chiefs 3), and Alex Jules (The Monkees band) - an international assemblage whose talents give Seasonal Depression Suite its epic sweep.With all hands on board, Turkington and Paparozzi created their own kind of masterpiece, like Sinatra"s late-period concept album Watertown fused with the misfit comedy of Neil Hamburger - a work that looks at a cast of characters both ordinary and bizarre, as they make their way from one grievance to another, traveling from place to place, hoping to live, while waiting to die.

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Cylene Ii

38,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Cylene II is the new materialization of the collaboration between François J. Bonnet & Stephen O"Malley, initiated in 2018 and continued without interruption since then, taking form in a myriad of contexts ranging from common practice to recording sessions, concerts and tours.Cylene II bears witness to these different contexts, offering a multifaceted sound signature developed on different occasions (artist residencies in La Becque, Switzerland and Modena, Italy, live performance excerpts, a studio session at INA-GRM Studios in Paris).The epic opening track "Four Rays (Anti Divide)" welcomes, for the first time, other musicians - in this case a wind quintet - expanding the duo"s sonic palette without betraying the fundamental component of their music, namely the driving of sonic energy. Elsewhere, Bonnet and O"Malley propel the energy between themselves, extending the singular climate that has characterized their musical development over the past five years. Among their minimal presentation of tones and resonances, as glacial harmonic intersections slowly elevate with massive physicality to an orchestral degree, new refinements become evident: the music"s relationship to silence, and a brightening of the fine metallic edge glowing at its core.For the listener, Cylene II is a sound that reaches from the deep and scales up to the far firmament in its careful motion, drawing emotions viscerally from the chest, giving rise to the suggestibility of the soul. A séance of sorts for all who witness it, whether playing or listening.

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Tashi Dorji

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The initial cassette-only releases of Tashi Dorji turned lots of heads, including Six Organs of Admittance and Hermit Hut - now over a decade later, this release makes its full-album debut on vinyl."It really was a formative time for me because it felt like everything opened, as far as the possibilities of what music-making meant. Like improvisation walked in and then there was a volcanic eruption" - Tashi Dorji"The self-titled session was recorded at a nice studio at the local university here in Asheville. I had some friends that were studying music there and had access to studio time. This session focused more on extended/prepared guitar ideas. My interest in percussive elements of sounds, timbre, harmonics, and dynamics plays a lot in this recording." - Tashi Dorji

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Tashi Dorji

Guitar Improvisations

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The initial cassette-only releases of Tashi Dorji turned lots of heads, including Six Organs of Admittance and Hermit Hut - now over a decade later, this release makes its full-album debut on vinyl."Guitar Improvisation and Tashi Dorji are the first physical releases of my guitar improvisations. They were put out by a small local, now defunct, label called Headway Recording in 2012 and 2013.The friends who ran the label had heard some of my guitar music and reached out to me about doing a cassette release.Guitar Improvisations was really my first recording of improvisation - in a semi-studio setting at my friend"s basement space. It really was a formative time for me because it felt like everything opened, as far as the possibilities of what music-making meant. Like improvisation walked in and then there was a volcanic eruption . . ." - Tashi Dorji

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CD | 2021 | US | Original (Drag City)

Harmonizer

14,99 €*

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2023 | US | Original (Drag City)

Bcmc

Foreign Smokes

14,39 €* 17,99 € -20%

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Drag City)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Moments of eternity: the first plucks at the strings, a bass note cementing the drift into place a little more than a minute in. The organ drones, iterating unrelivable ancient history, a chiming note of the church. Guitars strings, climbing that stairway to heaven. Gossamer-light when viewed from a distance; up close, the gears grind with a visceral physicality. With Bcmc, Cooper Crain and Bill MacKay unite to create Foreign Smokes: provocalogues, equal parts avant-garde noir and fire-and-icy jams to recall bright shades and warm stretches of infinity drawn through the buzzy overdrive of this side of life"s strange and sunny days. Cooper"s organ and synths and Bill"s guitar draw songs from spontaneous statements and elegiac scraps, floating closer, then farther, and closer again to the sounds of the other. Starting with a melody, as set of progressions or even as little as a scale or just a key, gives room for either one of "em to take the lead, depending on where they are or are going at any given time. The reigning motif most often seems to be, to melt and wind around each other"s sound, part of a singular undulation, handed back and forth, a slowly emerging trip up into and through an ideal of exuberance.

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Bcmc

Foreign Smokes

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Meets The Mighty Flashlight

Mike Donovan

31,34 €* 32,99 € -5%

LP | 1995 | Reissue (Drag City)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Since 2011, Mike"s been a Drag City stalwart, first with Sic Alps, then as a solo and with The Peacers - but Mike "The Mighty Flashlight" Fellows has been a behind-the-scenes figure at Drag City since the early early days, playing live and on record with Royal Trux, Silver Jews and Will Oldham. Mike D"s music, in all phases, takes the form of a next-phase roots-pop: soaked in the traditional waters of rock and roll and passed through a variety of after-punk sonic sieves, highlighted with DIY and lo-fi values, and making a jolly hallucinatory racket, at that! He prefers a particular density of obtuse angles colliding sweet and hot noise, an arrangement he has perfected over all his Sic Alps/solo/The Peacers years; his innate understanding of the mechanics of a pop song wends purposefully through the junk-strewn landscape, sharing secrets with cipher in hand. Playing in this cracked kingdom of sound/garden of verse, Mighty Flashlight alternately accents and balances Mike"s eccentricities with his playing and knob-spinning - and with the Flashlight shining bright upon him, Donovan"s serpentine path becomes ever so much more elastic, heightened from line to line, change to change, its motility creating different shapes in our ears. Mighty"s own kind of stereo imagining informs Donovan"s smoky subterranea with additional depth of field, while still allowing all the wayward details within the arrangement to diverge as one. Mike and Mighty wind it all together: art punk utterance and top 40 radio junk of yore, the primitivity that formed recorded music in its youth, honkytonk romanticism, liminal chamber-folk and ever-present disassociated psychedelia, transformed via self-medication into a gleeful, extramusical ennui while giving the listener impetus to sing along with Mike"s patented unlikely combos of melody and lyric.

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Smog

Wild Love

29,99 €*

Release: 1995 / Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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P.G. Six

Murmurs & Whispers

2LP | 2023 | US | Original (Drag City)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Whispers is the first proper P.G. Six album since 2011"s Starry Mind. Time passes slowly, as they"ve been known to say out in the country, and before you know it, there"s a bunch of it behind you. After five releases in the first decade of P.G. Six, it may seem a bit of a surprise to have not heard something new in the past twelve years - but a cursory listen to Murmurs & Whispers will answer why, as the deep acoustic focus of the tracks imply an investment of the type of compassion and understanding that takes time and concentrated effort to conjure. Additionally, Pat Gubler"s always got a few pots going at once in his ever-expanding musical universe. He"s been active since the mid-90s, first with Memphis Luxure and Tower Recordings, then as P.G. Six, and as a member of Metal Mountains, Wet Tuna, Garcia Peoples and Weeping Bong Band. Additionally, some time was spent making collaborative records with Dan Melchior (in 2019) and Louise Bock (in 2021). Pat"s been playing the harp for more years than he"s been in bands, but when he realized that he was writing a set of songs centered around harp compositions, he spent some time in the woodshed with his instrument, a late 80s model Triplett Celtic 34 String Harp (which replaced a lovely Paraguayan harp he"d played for years previously). After the previous P.G. albums of electric band arrangements, he was in a place of writing songs with more silence in them. He ended up playing a lot of the parts himself on Murmurs & Whispers, adding guitar, bass, keyboards, recorder and hurdy gurdy, in addition to his harp and vocals. Clark Griffin and Wednesday Knudson, who Pat plays with in Weeping Bong Band, played and sang a bit themselves, and the record was recorded piece by piece in houses around upstate New York by Mike Fellows. Returning to the quiet acoustic sound of the first couple of P.G. Six albums, Parlor Tricks and Porch Favorites (which has seen a much-needed reissue in the past year after too many years Oop) and The Well of Memory, Murmurs & Whispers is more straightforward in expressing its vision of rural celestial wonder. Bucolic and comfortably lived in, Murmurs & Whispers nonetheless projects the transcendent heart of P.G. Six once again, and as ever, it is magnificent to hear it passing through us.

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Prison

Upstate

46,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Straight outta Rockaway Beach, Queens, New York City, USA, THE World, Prison is a state of mind, an experience, a loose collective, a band, a jam band and a bunch of psychedelic dudes who aren"t your average bunch of jambanders. All that, all at once, ALL THE Time. You get what you"re dealing with here? No...you don"t. The only way to Really get it is to go to Prison -- and if you"re not from greater NYC and haven"t showed at any of the shows, here"s your best bet: their breakout album, Upstate. And whatta breakout! So high, you can"t get under it; so wide, you can"t get over it! How wide? Every song has two titles, that"s how wide. And almost everybody sings, like, all the time. That wide. Sure, you can break down the numbers -- five guys, five songs and four sides of vinyl in one gatefold sleeve -- but that won"t get you Upstate, either. Prison is the sound of everybody in the room figuring out where to go, individually and collectively. As they go through it, the meaning changes, the destination changes, the words mean something different. It"s meaning and no meaning, rising and falling, sinking and flying on the back of something massive cacophonized by three guitars, four vocals, a bass and drums. A lot of information bouncing around and enough time to really get you out of yourself! Take a look at the titles: each one a dichotomous inquest that the assembled Prison-ers march upon with fervor, glee, vengeance -- a whole spectrum of feels and perspectives woven into the jam for you to see. The Prison population changes with the seasons, and during the season this album was recorded, Sarim Al-Rawi, Mike Fellows, Sam Jayne, Matt Lilly and Paul Major were in Prison. Sarim you might know from Liquor Store, Mike"s made a bunch of scenes and records as Mighty Flashlight, Sam, who passed away in 2020 (R.I.P., brother) was in Love as Laughter -- and Paul Major you know from Endless Boogie, who Matt had roadied for -- and despite being "just a skateboarder who loves music" with no previous experience on the drums, he and Sarim inaugurated the Prison experience, like, seven years ago. Since then, it just fell together and it keeps doing so. A free thing called Prison.

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Emil Amos

Zone Black

Tape | 2023 | Original (Drag City)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Emil Amos (Grails, OM and podcaster plus) decommissions pieces originally bound for the KPM library. A personal interpolation of "music for films (& television)" expounds upon diverse sounds: synthy 80s soundtracks, contemporary hip-hop beatmaking, ambient music, and The Hulk"s "Lonely Man Theme". Emil"s dark visions are full of noirish shadows and eerie neon glow - mood music for drug trips spent dreaming up new soundtracks to take drugs to! Emil Amos" forthcoming Zone Black album is a fully inhabitable world, its episodic narrative divided into an improbable balance between morbid ambient anthems and insouciant hip-hop instrumentals. Emil hadn"t heard it done quite this way before, so he took it upon himself And it sounds real! Straight out of Madlib"s kitchen sink, and with a sense of brooding dread, "Jealous Gods" features throbbing beats, low synth paired with high vocal melody, layered together into something even more impossibly bizarre than the sum of their parts - like say, monks singing from on high, over a battleground littered with remnants of the old guard. Emil warps evocative tones, taking familiar sounds into new dimensions, reaching for the kind of depth and resonance that defines moments with an almost invisible touch.

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Cory Hanson

Western Cum

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Will Oldham & Lori Damiano

Shorty's Ark

24,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Drag City)

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Shorty’s Ark is a book for young readers, a collaborative effort between singer Will Oldham and graphic artist Lori Damiano, based on work by Oldham and musician Matt Sweeney. Drawing inspiration from the story of Noah, Shorty’s Ark names and pictures a wild variety of species to inform and engage an equal variety of young minds with the diversity that can be found around this great planet of ours. The flood stands as metaphor for current impending changes in our planet, and the story works as a springboard for understanding concepts of interdependency, diversity and extinction. Colorfully illustrating as many creatures and their places as possible, Shorty’s Ark is an earth-affirmative vision meant to stimulate the curiosity and passion of those who encounter it.

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Cory Hanson

Western Cum

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Drag City)

The Fucking Champs

III Reissue

46,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Drag City)

Matt Espy

Hawksworth

26,99 €*