Merge Vinyl, CD & Tape 162 Items

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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12" | 1981 | EU | Reissue (Merge)

Boodle Boodle Boodle

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Teen Babes From Monsanto Limited Peak Edition

Redd Kross

LP | 1984 | EU | Reissue (Merge)

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Neurotica Turquoise & Orange Vinyl Edition

Release: 1984 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Translucent Pink Vinyl! A little drums, a little atmosphere, and it wails like this! Hotter than anything printed by a Hearst daily, the 12-song Version Especial of Redd Kross' Teen Babes from Monsanto - all art, no filler, direct from the source, pure from the tap - reissued by Merge Records. The album features specially designed packaging that allows you to choose between two different front covers with just a flip of the wrist! Experience vintage teenaged Redd Kross as presented by Monsanto: 100% genuine, chemically inspired brilliance fueled by processed junk food.

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Redd Kross

LP | 1987 | US | Reissue (Merge)

Polvo Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 1987 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Merge Records is thrilled to release the 35th anniversary edition of Neurotica, the 1987 power pop and alternative rock opus by Redd Kross. This reissue includes the original album, remastered by JJ Golden (Pearl Jam, Thee Oh Sees), as well as 12 previously unreleased demos from the era (rediscovered recently in the archives of the band's original A&R guy, Geoffrey Weiss). The double vinyl edition-the album on translucent turquoise, the demos on translucent orange-arrives in a slick gatefold jacket.For Neurotica, brothers Jeff and Steven McDonald enlisted a grand crew of musicians that included guitarist Robert Hecker, keyboardist Paul Roessler (Screamers, Nervous Gender), and Roy McDonald (The Muffs) on drums. And in the producer's chair guiding the young bucks? Tommy Erdelyi, aka Tommy Ramone, one of the originators of punk rock melody. Unshakeable hooks on tracks like "Peach Kelli Pop" and title track "Neurotica" would inspire rave reviews at the time of the album's original release in 1987. The L.A. Times' Craig Lee wrote: "In an age when too many bands base their music either on calculated career moves or heavy-handed pretensions, Redd Kross is as breezy as a kiss in the wind, a band born to rock in a world that forgot how." Decades later, Pitchfork would revisit the album with a glowing write-up: "Pop culture nostalgia was to Redd Kross what LSD was to the Butthole Surfers; their music was delivered with just as furious a passion, but their love for Beatles-esque pop harmony shone through as much as any punk sensibility, and their Kinks influences, entirely free of irony, served as lyrical substance over their powerful, hi-octane hooks." Plain and simple, Neurotica is just a fantastic piece of art.

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Polvo

LP | 1990 | US | Reissue (Merge)

Release: 1990 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Check out the first 18 or so seconds of "Can I Ride," the title trackon the first release by Polvo, the two-guitar juggernaut thatrepresented the other side of Chapel Hill indie rock (more on that ina moment). That two-note riff, and the guitar twang that follows,recalls the opening notes on another monster song: "The Sprawl," akey track on Sonic Youth's epochal Daydream Nation, an albumreleased in October 1988, less than two years before Polvo formed.This compilation's nine tunes_the first seven from the Can I Ridedouble 7-inch EP (1990), the last two from the "Vibracobra" b/w"The Drill" 7-inch (1991)_are not quite the sound of a torch beingpassed, but they were a sign that Sonic Youth's weird tunings, thehardcore punk and proto-indie rock on SST Records, and R.E.M.'shazy rock (three big influences on this era of Polvo) were changinglives.Even back then, the impossibly catchy roar from Merge's flagshipact Superchunk was known to outsiders as the sound of Chapel Hill.But Polvo was something different from the same region. While theband never cottoned to the "math rock" tag (and it's hard to disagreewith them), there is no question that there was a distinct "how canwe make guitar rock sound different from all the other guitar rock"vibe going on in the mid-Atlantic, from Richmond (math rock's truehome, don't @ me) to the North Carolina Triangle over to Louisvilleand down almost to Atlanta. (If the Mastodon dudes aren't downwith Polvo, I'll eat your shoe.)No, Polvo were their own brand of squall, not afraid of big hooks("Leaf "), odd tempos and textures ("Lull") and rolling thunder ("Totemic"), and answers to the musical question, "What if the Feeliesgrew up on Dinosaur Jr.?" ("Tread on Me").Indie rock? Not the 2019 kind. Math rock? Eh, not really. This wasthe sound of a new Southern rock, of a pre-internet g

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The House Of Tomorrow EP30th Anniversary Black Vinyl Edition

12" | 1992 | US | Reissue (Merge)

16,09 €* 22,99 € -30%

Release: 1992 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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30th anniversary remastered edition - pressed 45 RPM - Side B vinyl etching - first time released as a 12-inch - includes the track "Alien Being" not previously available on the original 7" vinyl release - The House of Tomorrow EP marks the first release introducing vocals by Stephin Merritt // Cast your mind back to notable landmarks of 1992. Outside the Twin Cities, Mall of America opened to the public. Frank Gehry's enormous golden fish sculpture, El Peix, welcomed Barcelona Olympians. And The House of Tomorrow, a four-song 7-inch on a small indie label, ushered in a new era for The Magnetic Fields. When Susan Anway, who sang on early albums Distant Plastic Trees and The Wayward Bus, left the group, Stephin Merritt stepped up to the microphone. "This was my first time singing on record," he recalls. He sought to sound simple, subtle, and unobtrusive, à la the Japanese concept of shibusa. "But now, listening back, I hear a little too much vocal influence from the Jesus and Mary Chain. (I really should move to Scotland. I belong there.)" Likewise, the arrangements and production of The House of Tomorrow felt less polished overall than on its predecessors, even as the band's sound was evolving. "I wanted to have rock instrumentation, plus cello (so ELO without keyboards), but everyone was tracked separately so there was no question of sounding like we were playing together," explains Stephin. Instead, he chose to highlight the artifice. Voilà! "The drums are like Tusk only more so, the cello sounds like a synth, and the guitars might as well be programmed." The House of Tomorrow rose in stature upon re-release on compact disc in 1996, with a new addition, "Alien Being" (previously relegated to the flip of the "Long Vermont Roads" single), boosting its modest track list from four songs to five. The limits of technology had stymied plans the first time: "You can't fit five two-and-a-half-minute songs on a 7" record, even at 33rpm." From World's Fairs and Disneyland to Tex Avery and Hanna-Barbera cartoons, visions of the home of the future have long been popular. Although this new vinyl edition of The House of Tomorrow includes an etching of Buckminster Fuller's visionary D.I.Y. Dymaxion House, Stephin laments the sluggish pace of architectural innovation. What is his dream home? "I want to live in Barbarella's spaceship, with my neighbors being the Jetsons, floating defiantly over Edinburgh Castle."

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The House Of Tomorrow EP 30th Anniversary Green Vinyl Edition

12" | 1992 | US | Reissue (Merge)

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Manos Limited Peak Edition

Release: 1992 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Spinanes

LP | 1993 | EU | Reissue (Merge)

LP | 1994 | US | Reissue (Merge)

Release: 1993 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Peak edition is opaque yellow vinyl and includes a photo booklet of ephemera of the era! The Spinanes were Portland OGs singer-guitarist Rebecca Gates and drummer Scott Plouf and were snapped up by Sub Pop in the post-Nirvana feeding frenzy. Gates was a guitar manipulator more artful and poetic and sensual than her peers, with a voice full of emotion and warmth_a deep, distinct standout among the samey girly-girls. Plouf was a powerhouse drummer, exact and on-point, with a giant collection of shades and enough mod swagger to make Paul Weller proud. Their urgency was soft but they pummeled us hard. When they recorded their debut album, Manos, with Brian Paulson at AmRep in Minneapolis, they brought a ridiculous amount of energy: Few acts manage to capture that live spark in the studio. A college radio hit, "Manos" was characterized as indiepop or indie rock or alternative, but also had a touch of art rock, folk, emo, math rock, postrock, even jazz, nearing the same spiritual space as '90s bands like Unrest, Sebadoh, and Versus. Gates told our zine (chickfactor) in 1993 what kind of record she wanted to make: She wanted it to be really magical - the way the first Verlaines record is or a Replacements record - things that you can put on when you feel horrible. Named after a misheard Jesus Lizard lyric, "Manos" is just that: It sounds like smoky venues and dance parties at punk houses: woozy, tight, fraught, wrought, tense, intense, swoony, breathy, fast, worldly/weary -?sophisticated and primitive, stressful and soothing. Twelve songs and nary a dud: "Noel, Jonah and Me", the epic title track (a hip-swayer full of lust and longing), the rifftastic "Grand Prize", the catchy "Sunday". "Manos" was an original in a crowded market in 1993, and the Spinanes seemed to be everywhere. All hail its reissue, one quarter century later. - Gail O'Hara

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Richard Buckner

Bloomed

Release: 1994 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 1996 | US | Reissue (Merge)

Unknown Country

LP | 1998 | US | Reissue (Merge)

Release: 1996 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Merge reissue of The Clean's "Unknown Country" on vinyl, originally released in 1996. In 1978, The Clean were the seeds of New Zealand punk. In the years since, they have carved out a big sandbox for everyone to play in, and their influence resonates not only in NZ but around the world. A group that thrives when free of Expectations, The Clean's Robert Scott, Hamish Kilgour, and David Kilgour are, as Tape Op described, "a casually wonderful band." Pitchfork writes: "The Clean have always exuded a casual grace that suggests they'd still be making the same records even if no one was listening, employing the same set of devices _ ramshackle locomotive rhythms, buoyant basslines, swirling organ lines, and wide-smile melodies_irrespective of prevailing fashions, technological developments, or geopolitical unrest. And yet, the Clean's periodic resurgences serve as a reminder that, in a world of uncertainty, there are still some things you can rely on."

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Destroyer

Thief

Release: 1998 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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In the hallowed Destroyer discography, the early trinity of City Of Daughters / Thief /
Streethawk: A Seduction holds an important place; for not only does it document Dan
Bejar's evolution from lo-fi bedroom tyro to bona fide master of the rock album, it also
contains a massive percentage of superlative Destroyer "classics." 1998's City of Daughters
features some of the first steps out of the demo-tapey experimentation of earlier recordings,
with songs like "Comments On The World As Will" refining the sound of that strippeddown
earlier work, and the seminal "No Cease Fires" offering us the first taste of just what a
full-band Destroyer might conjure.

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69 Love Songs 25th Anniversary Silver Vinyl Edition

6x10" | 1998 | US | Reissue (Merge)

150,99 €*

Release: 1998 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Limited edition silver vinyl anniversary reissue of the Magnetic Fields' classic 1999 rumination on, of course, love. Funny, smart, dark, memorable, and a lifetime's worth of listening. Stephin Merritt solidifies his songwriting genius on his "most ambitious and fully realized work". (amg) This vinyl reissue is remastered for vinyl and beautifully packaged in a 10" slipcase box with three double gatefold sleeves and a 24 page booklet!

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LP | 1999 | US | Reissue (Merge)

Duets For Guitar #2

Release: 1999 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Duet for Guitars #2 introduced us to M. Ward's characteristic rasp andfingerpicking prowess. More minimal in scope than future records, the songsrun the gamut from lullabies to rocking declarations of love. Released onCo-Dependent Records in 1999, one of the initial 1,000 copies found its wayto Howe Gelb, who re-released it in 2000 on Ow Om. It went out of print andremained a hard-to-find piece of the M. Ward catalog until 2007, when it wasreissued on Merge with three new tracks. More than an origin story, Duet forGuitars #2 is a beautiful, assured album that is sure to make lo-fi andAmericana aficionados swoon, to say nothing of M. Ward fans new and old.

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Duets For Guitar #2 Opaque Beige Vinyl Edition

LP | 1999 | US | Reissue (Merge)

Release: 1999 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2000 | US | Reissue (Merge)

Lambchop

Nixon

LP+CD | 2000 | US | Reissue (Merge)

Release: 2000 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Receives a 8.3 rating from Pitchfork and calls it best reissue.

To celebrate their 25th anniversary as a label, Merge are reissuing albums from their back catalog throughout 2014. First up is Lambchop's 2000 album Nixon on 180g vinyl.

Nixon was one of the final Lambchop albums to feature several members?their subsequent records had fewer people joining Wagner. "Nixon might've been the peak of the 14-person Lambchop," Kurt Wagner said in a press release. It was also the last Lambchop album to be recorded almost entirely analog.

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The Clientele

Suburban Light

LP | 2001 | EU | Reissue (Merge)

Release: 2000 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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180gm LP+CD set features not only the album in its original European tracklisting but also a revelatory set of covers, rehearsals & B-sides
that reveal the earliest iterations of the group. And there's the previously unreleased "Sarah's Prelude," too, the lovely, lonely & abandoned opener of an album that stuns, even without the strings.

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Superchunk

Here's To Shutting Up

Release: 2001 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Black Vinyl In Jacket W/ Vellum Overwrap + Bonus Cd "Bestial Warning" (Acoustic Demos For "Here's To Shutting Up").To Write The Songs For Here's To Shutting Up, We Gathered In Jim's Garage (He Lived Way Out In The Woods) A Couple Times A Week For What Seemed Like Months. We Started From Actual Scratch With No Demos Or Concepts, Just Playing Instrumental Music With Our Usual Gear Plus A Casio. Sometimes One Of Us Would Play The Keys Instead Of Our Normal Instrument, Or Jon Would Hop On Guitar And We'd Use The Casio Drum Machine For The Beat. We Ended Up With A Lot Of Ideas And Plenty Of Good Names For Them_"Frank's Bath," "There's Something About Marvin," And"Bestial Warning" To Name A Few. We Recorded Practice Onto Minidisc Or Cassette, And I Would Ride Around Listening To These Demos And Thinking Of Words. The Subject Matter, In Retrospect, Has A Lot To Do With Touring And Travel ("Out On The Wing," "What Do You Look Forward To?"), Coming Home ("Rainy Streets," "Act Surprised"), The 2000 Election ("Florida's On Fire"), And Late-Stage Capitalism ("Late-Century Dream," "The Animal Has Left Its Shell"). Once We Wrangled The Songs Into Recognizable And Playable Shapes, We Re-Created Them In Acoustic Form And Recorded These "Demos" At My House So We Wouldn't Forget How They Went And So We Could Learn How To Play Them. Some Have The Whole Band, Some Are Me Learning Jim's And Laura's Parts From The Practice Tapes And Playing Them On Acoustic Guitar.We Recorded The Album In The Cabbagetown Neighborhood Of Atlanta At Zero Return, The Studio Built By Brian And Rob (Aka Birdstuff And Coco The Electronic Monkey Wizard) Of Man Or Astro-Man? Brian Paulson Came With Us To Produce It. The Studio Itself Was Amazing. We Also Slept There In A Dorm-Like Setting And Stayed Up Too Late. We Had Some Great Guest Players On The Record Including The First Appearance Of A Pedal Steel On A Superchunk Album, Played By John Neff Of Athens Band Japancakes. Local Chris Lopez (The Rock*A*Teens) Came Over To Sing Backup Vocals...

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Transfiguration Of Vincent Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 2003 | UK | Reissue (Merge)

Release: 2003 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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In 2003, everything broke open for Ward with the release of Transfiguration of Vincent. Critically lauded and long beloved, Pitchfork hailed it as an album that “broadcasts timelessness and defies genre constraints,” and Slant placed it on their list of the best albums of the 2000s. On Transfiguration of Vincent, Ward’s elegant fingerpicking, evocative croon, and heartrending lyricism came into full bloom, casting a spell so powerful that even a song as universal as David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” felt not only new but irrevocably his. One of the most cherished albums in the Merge catalog, Transfiguration of Vin- cent is both a great place to begin your love affair with M. Ward and a deep, stunningly realized work that listeners have returned to over and over again for 20 years.

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Transfiguration Of Vincent Clear W/ Gold Swirl Vinyl Edition

LP | 2003 | UK | Reissue (Merge)

Release: 2003 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Transfiguration Of Vincent Clear W/ Gold Swirl Vinyl Edition

LP | 2003 | US | Reissue (Merge)

Release: 2003 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

Neutral Milk Hotel

LP | 2005 | US | Reissue (Merge)

Release: 2005 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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180g Vinyl! Neutral Milk Hotel waren Elephant 6 Mitbegründer Jeff Mangum, Julian Koster (Music Tapes), Scott Spillane (The Gerbils) und
Jeremy Barnes (Beirut, A Hawk And A Hacksaw). "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" wurde 1998 veröffentlicht und vom Magnet Magazine
zum besten Album der 90er Jahre gewählt. Bei der Neuauflage im Jahr 2005 wurde das Album bei Pitchfork mit 10,0 bewertet. ,In The
Aeroplane Over the Sea" ist einer der meistverkauften Merge-Titel aller Zeiten. "Jeff Mangum's masterpiece mixes hushed folk, explosive
brass, and unforgettable vocals that touch on pain, loss, memory, and hope." – Pitchfork

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LP | 2006 | US | Reissue (Merge)

Post-War

Release: 2006 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Post-War: the fifth M. Ward album. Its songs unravel their world-wearied tales of life, love, and human kindness with an innate and special grace, helped in part by the very talented friends who join him on this record, such as Neko Case and Mike Mogis, as well as old Monsters of Folk touring buddy Jim James (My Morning Jacket).

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Post-War Opaque Brown Vinyl Edition

LP | 2006 | US | Reissue (Merge)

Release: 2006 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2007 | US | Original (Merge)

Caribou

Andorra

29,99 €*

Release: 2007 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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180 gram incl. free digital download!

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LP | 2008 | US | Reissue (Merge)

Volume One

Release: 2008 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Zooey Deschanel And Matt Ward, Aka She & Him, Are As Comfortable And Complementary A Musical Pair As Les Paul And Mary Ford. Matt And Zooey Make Music For An Eternal Springtime, When The Temperature Is Warm Enough To Go Riding With The Top (Or At Least The Windows) Rolled Down And The Radio Turned Up.They Were Paired Together By Director Martin Hynes To Perform The Richard And Linda Thompson Tune "When I Get To The Border" For His Film The Go-Getter Which Sparked The Idea For "Volume One".

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2LP | 2009 | US | Reissue (Merge)

Mister Pop

In Prism Opaque Yellow Vinyl Edition

Release: 2009 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Merge reissue of The Clean's "Mister Pop" on vinyl, originally released in 2009. In 1978, The Clean were the seeds of New Zealand punk. In the years since, they have carved out a big sandbox for everyone to play in, and their influence resonates not only in NZ but around the world. A group that thrives when free of Expectations, The Clean's Robert Scott, Hamish Kilgour, and David Kilgour are, as Tape Op described, "a casually wonderful band." Pitchfork writes: "The Clean have always exuded a casual grace that suggests they'd still be making the same records even if no one was listening, employing the same set of devices _ ramshackle locomotive rhythms, buoyant basslines, swirling organ lines, and wide-smile melodies_irrespective of prevailing fashions, technological developments, or geopolitical unrest. And yet, the Clean's periodic resurgences serve as a reminder that, in a world of uncertainty, there are still some things you can rely on."

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Polvo

2LP | 2009 | US | Reissue (Merge)

32,99 €*

In Prism Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2009 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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In Prism is the best Polvo record even before you get to the majestic "A Link in the Chain," serene and tempestuous like few other things you'll hear. The album was recorded with Brian Paulson, and Polvo has never sounded better. Polvo spent 1990-98 giving voice to a chorus of discrete rock & roll ideas that really hadn't been heard before. While there was nothing wrong before, it's now so much more right-perhaps because after ten years, after other bands and their tours and records and worries (if they had any), none of the peripheral stuff matters anymore. -Mike Wolf, NYC, June 2009

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Polvo

2LP | 2009 | US | Reissue (Merge)

30,99 €*

Release: 2009 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2009 | US | Reissue (Merge)

Hold Time

Release: 2009 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2010 | US | Original (Merge)

Caribou

Swim

41,99 €*

Release: 2010 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Incredible new LP by Caribou. Similar to Four Tet, this one is more pulsating and dancefloor-oriented than his previous work, while keeping the experimental folksy edge we all love. Looooovely!

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LP | 2010 | US | Reissue (Merge)

Volume Two

Izanna / S.Paul & Fish Brown

Release: 2010 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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She & Him Released Their Sophomore Album, Volume Two, On March 23, 2011. Written By Zooey Deschanel (She) And Produced By M. Ward (Him), Volume Two Is The Follow Up To The Duo's Critically Acclaimed Debut, Volume One. The Album Includes Eleven Original Tracks And Two Covers: "Ridin' In My Car" By Nrbq And Skeeter Davis' "Gonna Get Along Without You Now."Described By Zooey As A "Feel-Good Album," Volume Two Is Bolstered By Rich Harmonies, Sweet-As-Sugar Melodies, And Brill Building Choruses. From Sweeping Opener "Thieves" And First Single "In The Sun" (Featuring Guest Vocals By Tilly And The Wall) To The Tempo And Mood Shifts Of "Home" And The Vocals-Only, Hymn-Like Closer "If You Can't Sleep," Volume Two Shimmers From Start To Finish.

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Know Jah / Dem Nuh Know Dub

7" | 2010 (Merge)

8,99 €*

Release: 2010

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Year Of The Ox Light Blue & Emerald Vinyl Edition

Fucked Up

LP | 2010 | US | Reissue (Merge)

LP | 2011 | US | Original (Merge)

Release: 2010 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Recorded over 6 months by Jon Drew at Giant Studios in Toronto, Year of the Ox is the band's fourth record in the continuing 12-year cycle and adds to its evolving retinue of guest musicians. The patient and building Year of the Ox features Nika Rosa Danilova of Zola Jesus for a guest vocal passage and Toronto's string quartet, New Strings Old Puppets. B-side "Solomon's Song," a gothic vampire love tribute to Twilight, features a 5-minute saxophone solo from Aerin Fogel of the Bitters and heavy synthing from Trust.

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Wye Oak

Civilian

Release: 2011 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A Very She & Him Christmas

LP | 2011 | US | Reissue (Merge)

25,64 €* 26,99 € -5%

Abdication ... For Your Love

Release: 2011 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Repress of A Very She & Him Christmas, the wonderful collection of tunes from two of music's most beloved artists _ Zooey Deschanel (She) & M. Ward (Him)! Recorded and originally released in 2011, Deschanel and Ward let the songs speak for themselves, oftentimes recording them with only acoustic guitar and vocals. The result is an intimate holiday recording that deserves a place in your collection next to seminal Christmas albums by the likes of The Carpenters, Vince Guaraldi, The Beach Boys, and Elvis Presley. A portion of all proceeds from A Very She & Him Christmas are donated to 826 National, a non-profit for young people to ignite and channel their creativity, explore identity, advocate for themselves and their community, and achieve academic and professional success.

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Reigning Sound

LP | 2011 | US | Reissue (Merge)

20,99 €*

Release: 2011 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Collected Works Of Neutral Milk Hotel

Neutral Milk Hotel

Box Set | 2011 | US | Reissue (Merge)

163,99 €*

Release: 2011 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The two full-length records that Jeff Mangum made as Neutral Milk Hotel sound both in and out of time. Like translations of a shared subconscious, 1996's On Avery Island and 1998's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea give voice to the perennial spirit of youthful epiphany, of beginning to see the world clearly, to process and express it-no matter when you encounter them. With lo-fi indie rock, accordion, singing saw, tape collages, the so-called "zanzithophone" and beyond, Neutral Milk Hotel created an eternal entry into their Elephant 6 scene and an enduring feeling of possibility. Mangum was born in the small city of Ruston, Louisiana, in 1970, coming of age within the '80s and '90s indie and punk undergrounds, a movement of teenagers recording in their bedrooms, sharing zines and trading tapes, listening to hardcore and experimental music on college radio. For all the mythology Mangum's elusive persona has accrued-particularly during the 15 years immediately following Aeroplane, when he abruptly left the band behind-it's the beguiling songs themselves that have resonated so deeply for generations. In 2011, Mangum collected nearly all of the band's recorded output in a limited-edition box set (self-released under Neutral Milk Hotel Records, a small operation helmed by Mangum and his mother) which is now re-pressed by Merge.

Black matte box is a 2-piece telescoping casewrapped package. Outer shrink-wrap includes a front sticker with "Neutral Milk Hotel," and a back sticker listing box contents. The box set includes 2 folded posters, each printed one side and each 24 x 24 inches when flat, and 1 postcard, printed front and back with box set information and sized 3.75 x 5 inches. Vinyl records: 1. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea: LP is 11 tracks pressed 33rpm to black vinyl in a gatefold jacket + printed insert for full album download. --- 2. On Avery Island: 2-lp is 12 tracks pressed to double black vinyl in a gatefold jacket + 11 x 11 printed insert + printed insert for full album download. Sides A, B and C pressed 45rpm. Side D pressed 33rpm. --- 3. Live at Jittery Joe's: 12-inch picture disc is 11 tracks pressed 33rpm to a full color picture disc in a heavyweight poly jacket + printed insert for full album download. --- 4. Ferris Wheel on Fire: 10-inch is 8 tracks pressed 45rpm to black vinyl in a printed jacket + postcard insert + printed insert for full album download. --- 5. Everything Is: 10-inch is 7 tracks pressed 45rpm to black vinyl in a printed jacket + postcard insert + printed insert for full album download --- 6. "Little Birds": 7-inch is 2 tracks pressed 45rpm to black vinyl in a printed jacket + printed insert for full album download 7-inch housed in a heavy-weight poly jacket. --- 7. "You've Passed": 7-inch is 2 tracks pressed 45rpm to black vinyl in a printed jacket + printed insert for full album download. 7-inch housed in a heavy-weight poly jacket. --- 8. "Holland, 1945": 7-inch is 2 tracks pressed 45rpm to black vinyl in a printed jacket + printed insert for full album download. 7-inch housed in a heavyweight poly jacket.

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LP | 2011 | US | Reissue (Merge)

All Eternals Deck

Release: 2011 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Mountain Goats are a trio from the mid-Atlantic and points north, helmed by John Darnielle ("one of America's most startling lyricist/poets" _Boston Herald) and kept honest by Peter Hughes and Jon Wurster. Though the Mountain Goats have been making records since the battle of Little Big Horn, All Eternals Deck is their third following the ratification by unanimous vote of their trio lineup (the bill, known as the Jon Wurster Mountain Goats Drummer Act of 2007, passed 2-0 with zero abstentions).Having taken to the open road as soon as the act was signed into law and consolidated their powers into a focused triune weapon, the three spent 2010 making commando raids on studios up the seaboard from Tampa to Boston, recording along the way with producers John Congleton, Brandon Eggleston, Erik Rutan and Scott Solter. Gravitating toward images and stories of doomed people or tribes trying to leave a scratch mark or two on some visible surface before their brief moment in the sun has slipped by forever, All Eternals Deck continues Darnielle's career-long quest to find hard-won moments of joy in the momentary resolve of people who have recognized, in the glare of a train's oncoming head lamp, their fate.

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LP | 2012 | US | Original (Merge)

Silver Age

Release: 2012 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Fight Green Vinyl Edition

A Giant Dog

LP | 2012 | US | Reissue (Merge)

Release: 2012 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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This summer, Merge will reissue A Giant Dog's first two full-lengths_2012's Fight and 2013's Bone_worldwide on limited-edition colored vinyl, reintroducing the world to the quintetSpoon's Britt Daniel calls "the greatest American rock and roll / punk band since I don't know when."Celebrating its tenth birthday in 2022 is A Giant DogFight , the Texas group's hard-to-find debut album, remixed, remastered, and pressed on green vinyl just for the occasion. All thetrademark tenets of AGD lore are on display at the jump:monstrously adorable album art and punny title, whip-smartsongwriting dolled up in denim and leather, boiled down to thesweetest moments and blown out to the masses with bravadoto spare. Upon Fight's original release, the local Austin Chronicle raved: "The raucous, low-rent squall quakes with affirmative abandon, while a just-right dose of pop girds the buzz and yowl.

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LP | 2012 | US | Reissue (Merge)

Transcendental Youth

Release: 2012 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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"Transcendental Youth is full of songs about people who madly, stupidly, blessedly won't stop surviving, no matter who gives up on them. I can report that it is a very good album and has many more instruments on it than his early cassette tapes, including Peter Hughes on bass, Jon Wurster on drums, and, for the first time, a full horn section. And all of this makes a very joyous noise." - John Hodgman

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LP | 2012 | US | Reissue (Merge)

A Wasteland Companion

Release: 2012 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2013 | US | Reissue (Merge)

Volume Three

LP | 2013 | US | Reissue (Merge)

Release: 2013 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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She & Him, Aka Zooey Deschanel And M. Ward, Released Their Third Album Of Original Material, Entitled Volume 3, On May 7, 2013.With Fourteen Songs_11 Deschanel Originals And Three Covers_volume 3 Is An Effortlessly Effervescent, Bleached-Out-In-The-Sun Pop Record. The Album Features Some Of The Most Dynamic, Complex Songs Deschanel Has Ever Written, Allowing For Tempo Shifts, Disco Grooves, String Arrangements On Multiple Tracks, And Horn Flourishes That Perfectly Suit The She & Him Sound. Written By Deschanel During Downtime While Filming New Girl, And Produced By M. Ward, Volume 3 Features Guest Contributions From Nrbq's Joey Spampinato, Mike Watt, Tilly And The Wall, Pierre De Reeder From Rilo Kiley, And Tom Hagerman From Devotchka.

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King Khan & The Shrines

Idle No More

23,99 €*

Release: 2013 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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“It has been a lengthy hiatus, but we have finally finished our latest ‘masterpiece’ and named it after an incredible indigenous-rights movement that is happening right now called Idle No More. I was born and raised in Montreal and spent a lot of time on the Kahnawake Mohawk Indian reservation. Idle No More is probably the most refined piece of music we have made to date. The songs are about the state of the world we live in today. Originally, I was going to call the album Of Madness I Dream, but then I became very enthused about the amazing work of the Idle No More movement. Everyone I asked had never heard of it, so I contacted the leaders of the movement and, with their permission, decided to rename the album Idle No More in hopes that it would increase the world’s awareness of this miracle that is taking place for the indigenous peoples of the world. If you are not familiar with Idle No More, look it up and GET Involved! It took a long time to make, but we are very proud and pleased to bring you this album. I hope that the future will brighten up every time it is played. Ultimately, John and Yoko were absolutely right: Love IS ALL YOU Need! Peace and Love.”—King Bama Lama Khan Emperor of RnB.

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4LP | 2014 | US | Original (Merge)

Anthology

65,99 €*

LP | 2014 | US | Original (Merge)

Release: 2014 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Anthology serves as a celebration of The Clean, a band whose influence extends so far beyond their New Zealand home that even if you have never heard of The Clean before, you have surely heard of some of the bands (Pavement, Yo La Tengo, and Superchunk, to name a few) who have been influenced by their unique blend of homemade garage rock, hook-filled melodies, and psychedelic experimentalism.

The album is a compilation of songs from across The Clean’s legendary musical career, which began in 1981 and continues today.

The Clean’s story is on-again/off-again purely by design. It suits the trio’s creative desires and keeps them clear of the machinery that threatened to interfere with that process from the moment they threatened to get awfully popular awfully quickly over thirty years ago. The Clean’s modern age has seen them splitting time and hemispheres: David Kilgour has a reputable solo catalog; Robert Scott has The Bats; and Hamish Kilgour has been an endearing and enduring fixture in New York City, playing with assorted combos.

180g vinyl.

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The Reigning Sound

Shattered

31,99 €*

LP | 2014 | US | Original (Merge)

Release: 2014 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Shattered will be Reigning Sound's first album for Merge and the first full LP by the group since 2009's Love and Curses. The band?s principal songwriter/member is Greg Cartwright, who's been leading the shifting cast of characters since 2001. The album was recorded at Daptone's Brooklyn studio (where drummer Mikey works in the office) and masterfully engineered by Wayne Douglas. The recordings are warm and punchy, a mixed bag of rockers, ballads, and something in between. There are only 11 songs on the album, but the band reckons it's just right.

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Teenage Fanclub

Shadows

LP | 2014 | US | Original (Merge)

Release: 2014 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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1st time pressed to vinyl. Originally released in 2010, this picks up on the introspective, world-weary quality of Man-Made but also delivers a bit of the classic bright pop the band is known for.

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Teenage Fanclub

Man-Made

Release: 2014 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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1st time pressed to vinyl. Originally released in 2005, this is a classic Fanclub record in tone & arrangement, & handsomely demonstrates the "less is more" maxim -- it is both airier & more light of touch than it's immediate predecessors.

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Transistor Radio Green Swirl Vinyl Edition

LP | 2014 | US | Reissue (Merge)

29,99 €*

Release: 2014 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Will Butler of Arcade Fire

Policy

LP | 2015 | US | Original (Merge)

LP | 2015 | US | Original (Merge)

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Will Butler has been a member of the band Arcade Fire for over 10 years. This is his first release under his own name.

Policy is American music—in the tradition of the Violent Femmes, The Breeders, The Modern Lovers, Bob Dylan, Smokey Robinson, The Magnetic Fields, Ghostface Killah. And John Lennon (I know, but it counts). Music where the holy fool runs afoul of the casual world.

Policy was recorded in one week in Jimi Hendrix’s old living room (upstairs at Electric Lady Studios). Jeremy Gara played drums; other musicians contributed woodwinds and backing vocals. Most everything else was played by Will.

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Waxahatchee

Ivy Tripp

30,99 €*

3LP | 2015 | US | Original (Merge)

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Waxahatchee, the solo musical project of Katie Crutchfield, is named after a creek not far from her childhood home in Alabama and seems to represent both where she came from and where she’s going. Ivy Tripp drifts confidently from its predecessors and brings forth a more informed and powerful recognition of where Crutchfield has currently found herself. The lament and grieving for her youth seem to have been replaced with control and sheer self-honesty. “My life has changed a lot in the last two years, and it’s been hard for me to process my feelings other than by writing songs,” says Crutchfield. “I think a running theme [of Ivy Tripp] is steadying yourself on shaky ground and reminding yourself that you have control in situations that seem overwhelming, or just being cognizant in moments of deep confusion or sadness, and learning to really feel emotions and to grow from that.”

Recorded and engineered by Kyle Gilbride of Wherever Audio at Crutchfield’s home on New York’s Long Island—with drums recorded in the gym of a local elementary school—Ivy Tripp presents a more developed and aged version of Waxahatchee. “The title Ivy Tripp is really just a term I made up for directionless-ness, specifically of the 20-something, 30-something, 40-something of today, lacking regard for the complaisant life path of our parents and grandparents. I have thought of it like this: [Waxahatchee’s last album] Cerulean Salt is a solid and Ivy Tripp is a gas.”

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Titus Andronicus

Most Lamentable Tragedy

57,99 €*

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Received an 8.1 rating from Pitchfork.

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6x10" | 2015 | US | Reissue (Merge)

69 Love Songs

91,99 €*

LP | 2016 | US | Original (Merge)

Release: 2015 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Limited edition deluxe 6x10 inch vinyl box. This vinyl reissue is beautifully packaged in a 10 inch slip case box with 3 double gatefold sleeves & the original booklet in 10 inch size.

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A Giant Dog

Pile

31,99 €*

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Raucous ear candy culled from the hook-driven melodies of Slade, the glammy swagger of Marc Bolan, the morbid fantasy of Killer-era Alice Cooper & the unpredictable wit of Sparks.

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LP | 2016 | US | Original (Merge)

Modern Country

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2016 | US | Original (Merge)

Hiss Golden Messenger

Heart Like A Levee

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2017 | US | Original (Merge)

Waxahatchee

Out In The Storm

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP+7" | 2017 | US | Original (Merge)

Destroyer

Ken Deluxe Edition

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Vessel Of Love Black Vinyl Edition

Hollie Cook

LP | 2018 | US | Original (Merge)

The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Hollie Cook combines her unique vocal talent and charisma to craft a dynamic strand of lovers rock with enduring tropical vibes, weaving a path from her West London roots to an arena of diverse collaborations, critically acclaimed records, and iconic live appearances around the world. Cook’s ability to surprise, delight, and progress solidifies her position as one of the most exciting voices in reggae, and this is clear on her third full-length and Merge debut, Vessel of Love. Cook’s music career commenced at age 19, when family friend and punk trailblazer Ari Up asked Cook to join the raucous ’70s post-punk outfit The Slits for their reformation in 2006. Thrown into the deep end she thrived, and quickly cut her teeth with four years of back-to-back shows around the globe. Her talents recognized and nurtured, she then released her first solo album Hollie Cook in 2011, with a revered 2012 dub album follow-up, while singles such as “Milk & Honey” and “That Very Night” gained support from influential radio stations across Europe. Cook's latest, Vessel of Love was produced MARTIN "YOUTH" GLOVER (Killing Joke), who describes Cook’s songs as “sharp lyrical observations and clever word play combined with an exquisite and informed pop sensibility.” Special Indie Store version pressed on limited edition pink vinyl.

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Wye Oak

LP | 2018 | US | Original (Merge)

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tracyanne & Danny Peak Edition

Tracyanne & Danny

LP+7" | 2018 | US | Original (Merge)

LP | 2018 | US | Original (Merge)

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Peak Edition LP is double gatefold jacket & poly sleeve + opaque red vinyl + black 7-inch + LP3 coupon. Qty ltd to 3,000 worldwide. Tracyanne & Danny is a new collaborative project between singer-songwriters Tracyanne Campbell (Camera Obscura) and Danny Coughlan (Crybaby). Tracyanne hails from Glasgow, Scotland. London-born Danny is based in Bristol, England. Their paths first crossed in 2013 when introduced by mutual music industry pals. Tracyanne dug Danny's Crybaby album (released on Helium Records) and invited him to open some Camera Obscura shows in the UK. Mutual artistic respect led to the swapping of song ideas, but tentative plans to work together were set aside while Camera Obscura wrote, recorded, released, and promoted their fifth album Desire Lines. Following the death of Camera Obscura's Carey Lander, all band activity stopped. Time passed. Tracyanne and Danny revisited the idea of collaborating. A pool of songs were honed and crafted. On the suggestion of their manager (and Teenage Fanclub drummer) Francis Macdonald, they recorded at Clashnarrow, a studio in Helmsdale in the highlands of Scotland owned by the esteemed Edwyn Collins. Sessions took place throughout 2016 and 2017. Edwyn co-produced along with engineer and multi-instrumentalist Sean Read (Dexys). They had the use of Edwyn's vintage gear (including the guitar pedal which features on his global hit "A Girl Like You") as they invoked a range of shared influences: The Roches, Dion, Lou Reed, The Flamingos, Serge Gainsbourg, Santo & Johnny, and The Style Council. Edywn pops up with a guest vocal on first single "Alabama," an intentionally "joyous" tribute to Tracyanne's late friend and band mate Carey Lander. Tracyanne & Danny is not a diverting curio or a wee stop on the road to someplace else. It is a shared artistic aesthetic, forged over time. They have figured out how to fit round each other and work together, creating a rewarding musical synergy. There will be more songs.

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Essex Green

Hardly Electronic

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Devotion: Songs About Rivers & Spirits & Chil

Hiss Golden Messenger

4LP | 2018 | US | Original (Merge)

93,99 €*

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Merge)

Mike Krol

Power Chords

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Goes West

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Sunshine Rock

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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It's Real Black Vinyl Edition

Ex Hex

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Merge)

Fruit Bats

Gold Past Life

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Hiss Golden Messenger

Terms Of Surrender

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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David Kilgour And The Heavy Eights

Bobbie's A Girl

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Merge)

Superchunk

Acoustic Foolish

Silver Tongue Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Our original idea for an all-acoustic album was for it to be a selection of songs from all our albums, played in the style of an acoustic performance in a record store or a radio station, which we have done quite a bit of over the years (and documented on the first of our "Clambake" series in 2001). But with 2019 being the 25th anniversary of the Foolish album, it seemed weirder and more interesting to record an acoustic version of one whole album. I didn't want this to sound like "acoustic demos recorded 25 years after the fact" or a band trying to "rock out" except on acoustic guitars, though to be fair we do some rocking out. Once we got into the process of learning how to play the songs on acoustic guitars_some of which we had never performed at all_it made sense to make this record its own thing altogether. We are lucky to have Allison Crutchfield, Matt Douglas, Peter Holsapple, Owen Pallett, and Jenn Wasner lend their great talents to the record and also lucky that Jon has an arsenal of small bells and a vibraslap.

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Torres

Have We Met Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A person whose words are so potent that they cause the people and beings around them to vibrate is said to have a "silver tongue." It's apt, then, that Mackenzie Scott_who has spent the 2010s making boundarypushing pop music under her TORRES moniker_has chosen to call her fourth album, and first release on Merge, just that. Recorded at O'Deer in Brooklyn, New York, Silver Tongue is a full-scale realization of the world Scott has created over TORRES' last few albums. Even when singing in more subdued tones, Scott's voice is fervent, her lyrics stirring and unyielding as she draws from both the divine and the everyday. It's also the first TORRES record produced solely by Scott. After having shared production duties on her first three albums, the latter two alongside PJ Harvey collaborator Rob Ellis, she found the process liberating: "I made exactly the record I want, and it feels very `me.'" Silver Tongue fastidiously chronicles the impulses that make up desire_ from the dreamy first blushes of infatuation through the slightly terrifying wonder that accompanies connection with another. In between, Scott wrestles with the highs and lows of what "being in love" might mean over heady guitars and swirling synths. While potent vocal hooks punctuate songs like the sparkling "Dressing America," which combines New Wave glitter with hovering frustration, and the brooding "Good Grief," which gently pokes at the idea of fetishized sadness, the knottiness lurking underneath reflects Scott's realtime processing of her emotions while making the record. Silver Tongue's musical world is vast and at times seemingly infinite. Edge-of-the-world synths add gravity to the vulnerability of "Two of Everything," and refracted guitars offer a gnarled counterpoint to Scott's increased determination at the end of "Last Forest." On "Gracious Day," one of TORRES' most forthright love songs, Scott's voice hovers over a starlit landscape in a way that transcends the mundane and enters the otherworldly as she sings. TORRES' music has long navigated the space between the physical and the metaphysical, and Silver Tongue faces that conflict head-on, examining the ways in which the actions of others can stir up deep-seated feelings and seemingly alter the space in which one exists.

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Destroyer

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Caribou

Suddenly

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Pop

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Saint Cloud Black Vinyl Edition

Waxahatchee

Far Enough Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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What do we hold on to from our past? What must we let go of to truly move forward? Waxahatchee's Katie Crutchfield spent much of 2018 reckoning with these questions and revisiting her roots for answers. The result is Saint Cloud, an intimate journey through the places she's been, filled with the people she's loved. Written immediately in the period following her decision to get sober, the album is an unflinching self-examination. This raw, exposed narrative terrain is aided by a shift in sonic arrangements as well. While her last two records featured the kind of big guitars, well-honed noise, and battering sounds that characterized her Philadelphia scene and strongly influenced a burgeoning new class of singer-songwriters, Saint Cloud strips back those layers to create space for Crutchfield's voice and lyrics. The result is a classic Americana sound with modern touches befitting an artist who has emerged as one of the signature storytellers of her time. Many of the narratives on Saint Cloud concern addiction and the havoc it wreaks on ourselves and our loved ones, as Crutchfield comes to a deeper understanding of love not only for those around her but for herself. This coalesces most clearly on "Fire," which she says was literally written in transit, during a drive over the Mississippi River into West Memphis, and serves as a love song to herself, a paean to moving past shame into a place of unconditional self-acceptance. Over the course of Saint Cloud, which was recorded the summer of 2019 and produced by Brad Cook (Bon Iver), Crutchfield peels back the distortion of electric guitars to create a wider sonic palette than on any previous Waxahatchee album. It is a record filled with nods to classic country, folk-inspired tones, and distinctly modern touches. To bolster her vision, Crutchfield enlisted Bobby Colombo and Bill Lennox, both of the Detroit band Bonny Doon, to serve as backing band on the record, along with Josh Kaufman (Hiss Golden Messenger, Bon Iver) on guitar and keyboards and Nick Kinsey (Kevin Morby) on drums and percussion. Saint Cloud marks the beginning of a journey for Crutchfield, one that sees her leaving behind past vices and the comfortable environs of her Philadelphia scene to head south in search of something new. If on her previous work Crutchfield was out in the storm, she's now firmly in the eye of it, taking stock of her past with a clear perspective and gathering the strength to carry onward.

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Cable Ties

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Merge)

Redd Kross

Red Cross EP

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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This special 40th anniversary edition of the Red Cross EP, which includes the band's six-song eponymous debut and adds five contemporaneous extra tracks, is the most comprehensive document to date of the extraordinary birth of Redd Kross.Redd Kross incubated alongside such SoCal luminaries as Black Flag, Descendents, and the Minutemen, and this new 11-song collection_which includes rare and unreleased demos plus a live track recorded in 1979 at "The Church," the infamous Black Flag birthplace in Hermosa Beach, CA_puts in proper perspective the McDonald brothers' contribution, at the ridiculously precocious ages of 12 and 16, to that area's punk scene.

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Merge)

Music From First Cow

H.C. McEntire of Mount Moriah

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Soundtracks

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William Tyler composed the music for First Cow, the new A24 film directed by Kelly Reichardt, almost entirely on several of his guitars and a dulcimer. In First Cow, Kelly Reichardt once again trains her perceptive and patient eye on the Pacific Northwest, this time evoking an authentically hardscrabble early nineteenth century way of life. A taciturn loner and skilled cook (John Magaro) has traveled west and joined a group of fur trappers in Oregon Territory, though he only finds true connection with a Chinese immigrant (Orion Lee) also seeking his fortune; soon the two collaborate on a successful business, although its longevity is reliant upon the clandestine participation of a nearby wealthy landowner's prized milking cow. Reichardt again shows her distinct talent for depicting the peculiar rhythms of daily living and ability to capture the immense, unsettling quietude of rural America.

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Eno Axis Copper Swirl Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Narratively, H.C. McEntire's Eno Axis is about finding direction in the natural world, and following love. Sonically, it's an album shaped enormously by the atmosphere it was recorded in_the crew's synergy and positivity, the proximity and presence of a band in a room playing with intention. Structurally, it's a group of songs inspired by the colors and tones of open tunings, by the sacrality of space and instinct. Stylistically, it's folk-rock leaning into its curious experimental side and moved by the spiritual rawness of classic soul and the simplicity of earnest pop. Eno Axis feels like a confident and mature step forward from her debut album LIONHEART_in tone, arrangement, production, and spirit.

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Sneaks

Happy Birthday

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Blue Hearts Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Generations Red Splatter On Milky Vinyl Edition

Will Butler

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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In the five years since Will Butler released his debut album, Policy, he's toured the world both solo and as a member of Arcade Fire, released the Friday Night live album, recorded and released Arcade Fire's international #1 album Everything Now, earned his master's degree in public policy from Harvard, hosted a series of touring town halls on local issues (police contracts, prison reform, municipal paid sick leave, voting rights), and spent time raising his three children. He also found the time and inspiration to write and record a new album, Generations. "My first record, Policy, was a book of short stories," Butler says. "Generations is more of a novel_despairing, funny, a little bit epic_ A big chunk of this record is asking: What's my place in American history? What's my place in America's present? Both in general_as a participant, as we all are, in the shit that's going down_but, also extremely particularly: me as Will Butler, rich person, white person, Mormon, Yankee, parent, musician of some sort, I guess. What do I do? What can I do? The record asks that question over and over, even if it's not much for answers." While the songs on Generations contain their fair share of dread and regret, there is ultimately a lightness that shines through Butler's music. That brightness is at its most intense when he and his solo band_Miles Francis, Sara Dobbs, and Julie and Jenny Shore_perform on stage. Their electricity is palpable throughout Generations, with the bulk of the new songs having been worked out live. Wild synth production_gnarly bass synths with live drums_and anthemic backing vocals as on first single "Surrender" are punctuated by intimate, direct moments: Butler's voice cracking on "Fine" as he conjures his ancestors, and "Promised," a meditation on friendship, how lives are built together, and how and why they drift apart. Generations was recorded and produced by Butler in the basement of his home in Brooklyn. Tracking finished in March 2020, as New York closed down for the pandemic. Half the record was mixed in Montreal by longtime Arcade Fire engineer Mark Lawson, the other half by Brooklyn-based producer Shiftee (who is, incidentally, bandmate Julie Shore's husband and Will's brother-in-law). Generations opens a dialogue with the world. It posits answers_and deals with those answers being refuted. Ultimately, it navigates the conversation as a way to find the truth_ or at least a way forward.

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Getting Into Knives Metallic Gold Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2020 | US | Original (Merge)

30,99 €*

Trip Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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On the first of March, 2020, John Darnielle, Peter Hughes, Matt Douglas, and Jon Wurster, aka the Mountain Goats band, visited legendary studio Sam Phillips Recording in Memphis, TN. Darnielle armed his band with new songs and reunited with producer Matt Ross-Spang who engineered last year's In League with Dragons. In the same room where the Cramps tracked their 1980 debut album, the Mountain Goats spent a week capturing the magic of a band at the top of its game. The result is Getting Into Knives, the perfect album for the millions of us who have spent many idle hours contemplating whether we ought to be honest with ourselves and just get massively into knives.

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Lambchop

25,99 €*

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Getting Into Knives Transparent Salmon Vinyl Edition

32,99 €*

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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CD | 2020 | US | Original (Merge)

Blue Hearts

16,99 €*

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2020 | US | Reissue (Merge)

Music From First Cow

The Pet Parade Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / US – Reissue

Genre: Soundtracks

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Fruit Bats

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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"The Pet Parade," The Title Track To Fruit Bats' Newest Album, Might Be A Surprising Opening Track For Longtime Fans Of Eric D. Johnson's Beloved Indie Folk-Rock Project. The Six-And-A-Half-Minute Tone Poem Smolders And Drones Over Just Two Chords, Inspired By The Strange And Silly Community Events That He Saw Growing Up Outside Of Chicago, In La Grange, Illinois, In Which People Dressed...

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Songs For Pierre Chuvin Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A surprise cassette released April 2020, Songs for Pierre Chuvin is the Mountain Goats' first all-boombox album since 2002's All Hail West Texas. After selling over 4000 cassettes in a matter of minutes, the avid Mountain Goats fanbase has demanded more and Merge is happy to acquiesce. "Recording on the same boombox that launched his career, John Darnielle returns to his lo-fi roots for an album of alienation, ancient pagans, and making it through the year together." _Pitchfork / "Full of images fit for these dismal times and slogans suited to surviving them, Pierre Chuvin is an inspiring reminder of how much each of us has left to learn." _npr / "Songs for Pierre Chuvin is exactly what we've come to expect: big-hearted songs full of warmth and smarts, custom-built to comfort and to inspire." _Bandcamp

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Dawn Richard

Second Line

A Little More Time With Reigning Sound

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Pop

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Much like the New Orleans-born artist who created it, Second Line is an unapologetic genre bender that pushes boundaries, expands possibilities, and shatters expectations. It's more than just an album: Second Line is a cohesive sensory experience that questions traditional ideas of sound, production, and visual aesthetics as they relate to music. Its interlocking parts tell an epic story about the quest for artistic expression, with Dawn describing her project as "a movement to bring pioneering Black women in electronic music to the forefront." She elaborates: "You never see women appreciated as producers and artists alike _ especially Black women in the electronic space. The time is now for us to start recognizing their talent, not only in electronic music but in all genres. I wanna be the reason why a young Black girl from the South can be whoever she wants to be musically, visually, and artistically." Second Line cuts to the chase with its opening suite of dancefloor bangers, immediately displaying Dawn's mastery of layered production and melodic hooks. Second Line treats Louisiana Creole culture, New Orleans bounce, and Southern Swag as elemental, allowing Dawn to weave in and out of house, footwork, R&B, and more. As she says, "I am the genre." The story of Second Line centers on Dawn's persona King Creole, assassin of stereotypes, a Black girl from the South at a crossroads in her artistic career. To move forward, she decides to look back, but where previous album New Breed took influence from her father, Second Line is illuminated by Dawn's mother. Her proud repeated proclamation of "I'm a Creole Girl" introduces the ecstatic dancehall pop of "Jacuzzi," and later, on the cinematic album centerpiece "Mornin | Streetlights," she answers Dawn's question of how many times she has been in love. Intimate conversations like this between the two are interlaced throughout Second Line, giving credence to how the protagonist came to be, and direction to build a lane forward. It's no surprise that King Creole's story parallels Dawn Richard's. As a founding member of Danity Kane, and later with Diddy's Dirty Money, Dawn was able to explore the ins and outs of commercial pop music. As a solo artist, she opted to selfrelease her music. Over the span of five critically acclaimed full-length albums, Dawn has made the message clear that she will not bow down or bend to industry norms. All the while, she's built her resume with enough extracurriculars to make your head spin: Cheerleader for the New Orleans Hornets? Check. Animator for Adult Swim? Check. Owner-operator of a vegan pop-up food truck? Check. Martial arts expert? Check! Second Line embodies the heritage of soul music and the roots of New Orleans, all surrounded by the influences of electronic futurism. "The definition of a Second Line in New Orleans is a celebration of someone's homecoming," says Dawn. "In death and in life, we celebrate the impact of a person's legacy through dance and music. I'm celebrating the death of old views in the industry. The death of boxes and limits. I'm celebrating the homecoming of the Future. The homecoming to the new wave of artists. The emergence of all the King Creoles to come." Dawn Richard is bold, confident, purposeful, and a King throughout Second Line. Are you ready to dance?

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Reigning Sound

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Lp In Gateflod Sleeve.A Little More Time, Reigning Sound's Seventh Proper Full-Length, Is The Original Lineup's First In-Studio Collaboration Since 2005's Home For Orphans Lp, Which Merge Reissued Last Year. Ultimately, That 2020 Reissue Laid The Groundwork For The Outfit's Reunification. Cartwright Explains, "When Merge Reissued Home For Orphans, We Booked A Little String Of Shows With The Original Lineup. We Still Love To Get Together And Play Every Couple Years." The Short Reunion Tour Wrapped Just As Pandemic Hit The United States. Soon After,Cartwright Found Himself With A Batch Of New Songs. With Reigning Sound's Current Lineup Based In New York City, Then A Covid-19 Hotspot, Cartwright Made The Decision To Produce The New Record Back In Memphis_though He Did Regret Not Being Able To Work With The Players Behind 2014's Daptone-Recorded Shattered. "It Was...

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New Vanitas Record Store Day 2021 Edition

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Merge)

Dark In Here Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Record Store Day 2021 Release.
Limitation: 1500 copies.

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Mountain Goats

2LP | 2021 | US | Original (Merge)