Kranky Rock & Indie 18 Items

Stars Of The Lid & Their Refinement Of The Decline

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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This is the first vinyl issue of Temple IV, arguably Roy Montgomery’s finest solo album, originally released in 1996 on CD. The original album has been enhanced with two newer tracks that constitute side four of the album. Montgomery states: “The two new tracks recorded in 2018 were about asking the question “Can you step into the same river twice?” Heraclitus said you cannot. I say you can…”

From the original press release:

Few recording artists have aligned the quantity and quality of their releases as well as New Zealand singer /guitarist Roy Montgomery has in 1995. Beginning with kranky’s release of the soundtrack for an imaginary film That That Is...Is(Not) by Montgomery’s duo Dissolve early in the year, a series of superb albums and singles have been issued by a variety of labels across the world. Each one of them is a must have. Most recently, the Drunken Fish label released a collection of pastoral drones entitled Scenes From The South Island, singles have appeared on the Roof Bolt and gyttja labels, and further singles are scheduled with Ajax, Siltbreeze and others.

Temple IV is the first solo recording by Roy Montgomery on kranky. The album was recorded by Montgomery on a four-track tape deck and then thickened up with monophonic moog. The tracks on the album are thick with interwoven guitar lines and moog drone, inspired by the Guatemalan rain forests and the mysterious ruins of the temple and ruins Montgomery visited there.

Roy Montgomery spent the past year in New York, Chicago and London before returning to New Zealand. While in the UK he played live with Flying Saucer Attack and collaborated with spoken word performer Kirk Lake. A brief tour across the United States in September saw him performing before enraptured audiences in New York, Boston, Chicago, Detroit and Los Angeles.

The long overdue recognition of Roy Montgomery as a crucial figure in New Zealand’s musical history as a member of The Pin Group, Shallows and Dadamah, is now augmented by his new recordings. Temple IV will serve to extend and deepen that appreciation.

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Stars Of The Lid

3LP | 2007 | US | Reissue (Kranky)

79,99 €*

Cryptograms / Flourescent Grey

Release: 2007 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Back in print for the 1st time in 5 years! "I simply feel that they are making the most important music of the 21st century." - Ivo Watts Russell (4AD label founder). "Crushingly sad, lightly melancholic, or even uplifting, depending on the state of mind of the hearer...a sound divorced from intention & its ambiguity is its strength." - Pitchfork.

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Deerhunter

2LP | 2007 | US | Original (Kranky)

Release: 2007 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2010 | US | Reissue (Kranky)

Low

Christmas

28,99 €*

2CD | 2004 | US | Original (Kranky)

Release: 2010 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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First time vinyl release for this classic LOW holiday recording. We would suggest that few bands from an ostensibly "indie rock" background should release Christmas music, if not out of respect for the holiday or material then at least out of a sense of self-esteem. Low, however, were made for this. Their attention to musical detail combined with the heavenly vocal harmonies of Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker are perfectly attuned to both traditional carols like “Silent Night” and more contemporary tunes such as “Blue Christmas.” Christmas contains a selection of seasonal songs, including four originals by the band, mostly recorded at Lowʼs 20º Below studio in Duluth, MN. “If You Were Born Today” and “Blue Christmas” were released as a 7-inch single in 1997 on the English Wurlitzer Jukebox label, while “Taking Down The Tree” is taken from a 1998 compilation of live recordings issue by the Dutch Vpro radio station.

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V.A.

Kompilation

3,99 €*

Release: 2004 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

The Man Who Died In His Boat

LP | 2013 | US | Original (Kranky)

21,99 €*

Release: 2013 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG

Vinyl with a couple of light scuffs. Cover with beginning of seam splits on all spines

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LP | 2011 | US | Reissue (Kranky)

Aia: Alien Observer

LP | 2019 | US | Original (Kranky)

Release: 2011 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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“This sound / synapse transposition is as haunting as it is beautiful—surely Grouper’s best.” -Tiny Mix Tapes

“If past Grouper releases have inhabited abyssal trenches and damp backwoods, here Harris takes us journeying across constellations and stars. Two of the most beguiling albums of the year, exquisitely realized and singularly evocative.” - The Quietus

“This music feels both spacey and expansive and also oddly intimate and grounded, the work of someone who has mastered her tools and knows how to get the most out of them.” - Pitchfork

“Harris finds a way to dive deeper in simple and unassuming ways.” - NPR

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Loscil

Equivalents

30,99 €*

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Canadian composer Scott Morgan’s 12th long-player as loscil takes its title from an influential series of early 20th century photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, abstracting clouds into miasmic, painterly canvases of smoke and shadowplay. It’s a deeply fitting analog for Morgan’s own musical process across the past two decades, fraying forms and tones into widescreen mirages of opaque texture and negative space. The name Equivalents referred to Stieglitz’s notion of the photographs as being equivalent to his “philosophical or emotional states of mind;” the same could be said of these eight weighty, shivering chiaroscuros of sound. Each piece unfolds and evolves enigmatically, adrift in low oxygen atmospheres, shifting dramatically from pockets of density to dissipated streaks of moonlit vapor.
The entirety of the record was created specifically for the album with the exception of “Equivalent 7,” which began as a dance score for frequent collaborator Vanessa Goodman. The album version of this track was reworked with Vancouver musician Amir Abbey aka Secret Pyramid. Cloud photographs taken by Scott Morgan at various locations throughout Cascadia in 2018.

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LP | 2018 | US | Original (Kranky)

Grid Of Points

20,99 €*

LP | 2015 | US | Original (Kranky)

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Not long after recording her 10th album, Ruins, Liz Harris traveled to Wyoming to work on art and record music. She found herself drawn towards the pairing of skeletal piano phrasing with spare, rich bursts of vocal harmony. From Liz Harris: Grid Of Points is a set of songs for piano and voice. I wrote these songs over a week and a half; they stopped abruptly when I was interrupted by a high fever. Though brief, it is complete. The intimacy and abbreviation of this music allude to an essence that the songs lyrics speak more directly of. The space left after matter has departed, a stage after the characters have gone, the hollow of some central column, missing.

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Helen

The Original Faces

The Tired Sounds Of Stars Of The Lid

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Helen is a pop group from Oregon. Liz Harris (vocals/ lead guitar - aka Grouper), Jed Bindeman (drums/ tambourine), Scott Simmons (bass/ guitar), & Helen (back up vocals). "The Original Faces" was recorded over a period of several years in Portland by the band members, their friends Nick, Chris &, largely, Justin Higgins. Written together, some songs based on Liz & Scott's demos.

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Stars Of The Lid

3LP | 2001 | US | Reissue (Kranky)

79,99 €*

Release: 2001 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Back in print for the 1st time in 5 years! "Their relentless commitment to subtlety sets them apart, as does their masterful hand with tone...dissonance is doled out in small portions, perfectly coloring the sculpted fields of sound." - Pitchfork.

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Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill 2023 Vinyl Repress

LP | 2008 | US | Reissue (Kranky)

31,99 €*

LP | 2012 | US | Original (Kranky)

Release: 2008 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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REISSUED!!! The third full-length release for Portland, Oregon-based LIZ HARRIS. Harris might have achieved a significant fan base thanks to the whispering, near-ambient vocal crusades of her debut album Way Their Crept and its follow-up Wide, but those with a careful ear would have heard slightly more trapped beneath her fuzzy chain of effects. Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill marks a departure of sorts for Liz, which sees her turn down the fuzz boxes which caged (and to some degree defined) her sound and allows her voice to ring out above everything else. It is an album steeped in the world of dream-pop and far from shying away from the reference, Liz has instead grabbed on with both hands, creating an album's worth of perfect, left-field pop songs. Using delicate song structures which are at once both familiar and somehow alien, her vocals cry out hauntingly over stripped-down guitar lines and looped environmental recordings. These are the future soundtracks to love, despair and ultimately, hope.

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Mirrorring

Foreign Body

24,99 €*

Release: 2012 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance, Classical Music

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Rainwater Cassette Exchange

Deerhunter

12" | 2009 | US | Original (Kranky)

14,24 €* 14,99 € -5%

Release: 2009 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2008 | US | Original (Kranky)

Deerhunter

Microcastle

39,99 €*

Release: 2008 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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CD | 2006 | US | Original (Kranky)

Benoit Pioulard

Précis

7,99 €*

Release: 2006 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill

LP | 2013 | US | Reissue (Kranky)

CD | 2023 | UK | Original (Kranky)

Release: 2013 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Vinyl with a couple of light scuffs. Cover with beginning of seam split on top spine

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Bowery Electric

Beat 2023 Repress

28,99 €*