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Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Nice One Deluxe Colored Vinyl Edition

Catbite

LP | 2024 | Original

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Good News For People Who Love Deluxe Colored Vinyl Edition

Modest Mouse

2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Sony Music Catalog)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | US | Original (Ripple Music)

Vitskar Suden

Vessel

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Neon Pill Milky Clear Vinyl Edition

Cage The Elephant

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (RCA International)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Neon Pill Black Vinyl Edition

Cage The Elephant

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (RCA International)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Hammerheart Rec.)

Oppressor

Solstice Of Oppression

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Napalm)

Elvellon

Ascending In Synergy

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Napalm)

Jinjer

Live In Los Angeles

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Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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3LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Napalm)

Jinjer

Live In Los Angeles

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Amber Of Memory Black Vinyl Edition

Tommy Guerrero

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Too Good)

Anthronomicon Hot Pink / Black Merge Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Brand new album, released digitally in September of 2023 - now on vinyl. Black vinyl.

"The idea was to make something that would diminish the heavy times we were all experiencing in 2020/21.
Something perhaps uplifting with a hint of beauty... or at least a respite from the ugliness outside.
Not sure any of this was achieved but it’s a bit of a departure from my normal mode/style… which is necessary from time to time.

70’s drum machines, tremmed-out baritone guitars, verbed-out synth pads, warbly keys, and a slight 80’s sensibility add up to what I have coined, “Surf Goth”.

Yes, I joke but it might be on point. Who knows?
Thank you all for the continued support!!
Big Love"
TG

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Ulthar

LP | 2023 | US | Reissue (20 Buck Spin)

Release: 2023 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Providence Baby Pink/ Black Merge Vinyl Edition

Ulthar

LP | 2020 | US | Reissue (20 Buck Spin)

Release: 2020 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Cosmovore Orange / Aqua Blue Merge Vinyl Edition

Ulthar

LP | 2018 | US | Reissue (20 Buck Spin)

Release: 2018 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Flotsam And Jetsam Limited Clear Vinyl Edition

Flotsam And Jetsam

2LP | 2016 | EU | Reissue (Afm)

Release: 2016 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | FR | Original (Beast)

The Stabbing Jabs

2LP | 2024 | Original (Profound Lore)

Release: 2024 / FR – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Stabbing Jabs - vocalist Peter Aaron (Chrome Cranks), guitarists William G. Weber (Chrome Cranks, GG Allin & the Murder Junkies) and Chris Donnelly (Gang Green), drummer Andrew Jody (Barrence Whitfield & the Savages), and bassist Jamie Morrison - breathe fiery life into the type of tough, timeless rock 'n' roll a generation had left for dead. Here it is, ready to make your life a living hell: an arsenal of hard, hammering tunes built on thick, cinder-block guitars. Blood-flecked screams. Dirty, fuzzy low end. Drums that swing as hard as they bash. And RIFFS. Riffs, riffs, and more riffs. Did we mention the riffs?

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Nocturnus AD

Unicursal Jacket Winsert

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Black Leather Bomb Live At Wwwx

Guitarwolf

LP | 2024 | JP | Original (Musicmine)

The Avett Brothers Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Guitarwolf's last live album recorded on March 11th, 2023 at WWWX in Shibuya, Tokyo is finally read to roll! An album, truly worthy to be preserved permanently in all rock'n roll households!

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The Avett Brothers

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Ramseur)

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Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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From Hell I Rise Dark Red Orange Marble Vinyl Edition

Kerry King

LP | 2024 | Original (Reigning Phoenix Music)

35,99 €*

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | CA | Original (Audiogram Canada)

Marc Dery

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Release: 2024 / CA – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Nashazphone)

Regler + Courtis

Regel #13 [Noise Rock]

33,99 €*

LP | 2024 | Original (Micropal / Tp9)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Mattin and Anders Bryngelsson are joined by Reynols' Anla Courtis on this fuzzed-out celebration of noise rock, their most furious exercise yet, burning down the genre to its embers, leaving a mess of distorted riffs, motorik rhythms and hypnotic, swirling feedback. Heavy as fuck!

Regler have already spent 12 volumes of their Regel series putting their grubby thumbprints on metal, techno, classical music, ambient and just about everything else you can think of, but it's here where they really hit their stride. They've roped in Argentinian original Courtis - co-founder of Reynols, no less - to assist, and it sounds as if they're truly relishing the opportunity to let loose. On the first side, a severe, almost hollow-sounding motorik beat provides the backbone, and the trio show their literacy with the sound by twisting blown-out riffs into fizzing, acidic fractals. If there's any low-end, it's swallowed whole by slashed amps and hoarse groans, but Mattin, Bryngelsson and Courtis offer us a breather, cutting to eerie, black hole rumbles at the 11-minute mark before raging towards relentless, searing feedback.

On the flip, the drums are eviscerated, leaving plenty of space for Regler + Courtis to push their gargling textures centre stage. Anyone familiar with Bryngelsson's tenure with Brainbombs is gonna be beaming at this one - it's a noise education, rubbing bubbling hotwired oscillators against strangulated axe screams and brickwall distortion. Even the feedback doesn't fully get a chance to flower until the third act, and when you can eventually make out the drums, they're drowned by razor-sharp, brittle nails-on-chalkboard groans and synthesized whirrs. Somehow, the trio keep building the intensity, the final few minutes sound as if they're physically burning through the speakers, foregrounding the kind of blistering, in-the-red grot that rarely makes it to wax these days.

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The Truffauts

Refrain

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | Original (Pulverised)

House By The Cemetery

The Mortuary Hauntings

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Generation Rock'n'roll Limited Edition

The Nut Jumpers

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Rhythm Bomb)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Rockstar)

Max Merritt

Get A Haircut

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To Clear Vinyl Edition

Knocked Loose

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Pure Noise)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Domain Of Death Orange Krush With Splatter Vinyl Edition

Mortician

LP | 2024 | US | Original (One Haven)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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When No Birds Sang Gold Vinyl Edition

Full Of Hell & Nothing

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Closed Casket Activities)

Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Ambitious in scope and concept, When No Birds Sang not only showcases the bands' creative highs, but also some of humanity's woeful lows- and they introduce this body of work with "Spend The Grace." An unnerving melody gives way to cathartic growls atop a sparse beat, and guitars buzz beneath gritty vocals only to spiral out into trudging distorted crescendo.

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Nancy & Lee Gold Colored Vinyl Edition

LP | 1968 | US | Reissue (Light In The Attic)

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Bamboo Shows)

Release: 1968 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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First ever official reissue of Nancy & Lee’s classic 1968 duet album
Definitive reissue with Nancy’s involvement
Includes the bonus tracks, “Tired Of Waiting for You” and “Love Is Strange,” from the album sessions
Newly remastered from the original analog tapes by GRAMMY®-nominated engineer John Baldwin
Vinyl pressed at RTI
Q&A with Nancy & GRAMMY®-nominated reissue co-producer Hunter Lea
Never-before-seen photos from Nancy Sinatra’s personal archive
Beautifully packaged and expanded gatefold LP featuring a 20-page booklet

Light in the Attic is thrilled to announce the first official reissue of Nancy & Lee: the highly-influential 1968 duet album from Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood. This definitive edition of Nancy & Lee features newly-remastered audio by the GRAMMY®-nominated engineer John Baldwin and includes an array of exclusive content, including a new interview with Nancy, never-before-seen photos, and two bonus tracks from the album sessions: an ethereal cover of The Kinks’ “Tired of Waiting for You” and an uptempo version of “Love Is Strange” (first made famous by Mickey & Sylvia in 1956). This release marks the official debut on vinyl for both tracks.

Nancy & Lee can be found in a variety of formats, including vinyl, cassette tape, CD, 8-track, and digital. The vinyl LP, pressed at Record Technology, Inc. (RTI), is presented in an expanded gatefold jacket and features the iconic, original cover photo by Ron Joy. Inside, a 20-page booklet offers an array of photos from the legendary singer, actress, and activist’s personal collection, as well as an in-depth Q&A with Sinatra, conducted by the reissue’s GRAMMY®-nominated co-producer, Hunter Lea (also available in the CD package). In addition to the classic black vinyl pressing, a selection of colorful variants can be found exclusively at NancySinatra.com, LightInTheAttic.net, independent record stores and select online retailers.

In celebration of the release, Nancy Sinatra and fellow musician and longtime friend Don Randi (The Wrecking Crew) visited Record Technology, Inc. (RTI) in Camarillo, CA to take a tour of the plant and get a sneak peek at the Bootique-exclusive pressing of Nancy and Lee. A short video piece documenting the day, including new interviews with Sinatra, Randi, and RTI plant manager, Rick Hashimoto is available here.

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When Nancy – the eldest daughter of Frank Sinatra – first met Lee Hazlewood in 1965, she was a demure, 25-year-old divorcée, who was struggling to find her place as an artist amid the changing musical landscape. At the urging of her label, she was introduced to the Oklahoma-born songwriter, Lee Hazlewood, who had found success working with guitarist Duane Eddy. While Sinatra and Hazlewood hailed from vastly different worlds, they were about to embark on a partnership that would change the course of their lives. Just months after meeting, Sinatra scored her first No.1 hit with “These Boots Are Made For Walkin’.” Written and produced by Hazlewood, the song became Sinatra’s signature tune – transforming her into a confident and commanding feminist icon.

Initially, Hazlewood maintained a behind-the-scenes role with Sinatra, enlisting arranger and composer Billy Strange, as well as other members of The Wrecking Crew (the famed Los Angeles session musicians) for the singer’s best-selling 1966 debut LP, Boots. But when they returned to the studio later that year for Sinatra’s sophomore effort, How Does That Grab You?, Hazlewood joined the singer for a duet of his song, “Sand.” Over the next year, as Sinatra’s star rose, the artists continued to collaborate in the vocal booth, finding success with “Summer Wine,” “Lady Bird,” and the cinematic “Some Velvet Morning” (all penned by Hazlewood). In 1967, just months after Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash scored a country hit with “Jackson,” Sinatra and Hazlewood released a pop version of the offbeat song, landing in the Top Ten across Europe and peaking at No.14 in the US.

Recalling her duets with Hazlewood, Sinatra laughs, “we used to call it beauty and the beast!” Voices with no blend.” Indeed, no one could have predicted that these two contrasting voices (and personalities) would work together quite so well. Praising the duo’s “sonic alchemy,” Hunter Lea writes, “rarely in music has there been such an unlikely collaboration: Nancy, the sassy and sweet songstress contrasted by Lee, the gruff, psychedelic cowboy. A harmonic partnership that defies conventional logic yet yields so much beauty.”

Before long, it seemed only natural for the artists to release an entire album together. In addition to compiling their recent duets (many of which appeared on Sinatra’s solo LPs), the duo recorded several new covers and Hazlewood originals. Billy Strange and The Wrecking Crew provided lush orchestral arrangements, as the two artists performed a range of material, including folk, pop, and country songs, with a twist of psychedelia.

Throughout the album, a palpable chemistry can be heard between Sinatra and Hazlewood – from the frisky banter on “Greenwich Village Folk Song Salesman” to the tongue-in-cheek delivery of “I’ve Been Down So Long (It Looks Up To Me).” But the artists also reveal their softer sides – particularly in the romantic balladry of “Sand.” Their languid rendition of “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling,” meanwhile, is downright erotic, despite the lyrics. But, as Sinatra asserts, her decades-long relationship with Hazlewood was always platonic. “We had sort of a love/hate relationship,” she explains. “Maybe it was a sexual tension because we never had any kind of affair. I don’t know exactly what it was, but it worked.”

That je ne sais quoi certainly did work. Upon its release in the spring of 1968, Nancy & Lee became a critical and commercial hit on both sides of the Atlantic, peaking at No.13 on the Billboard 200 and No.17 in the UK. By 1970, the album was certified Gold by the RIAA. Over the decades, however, the appeal of Nancy & Lee has only grown, while the album has amassed an enduring cult status that few titles achieve. Multiple generations of artists, including Sonic Youth, Lana Del Rey, and the Jesus & Mary Chain, have cited Nancy & Lee as an influence.

In recent years, Nancy & Lee has also inspired a groundswell of recognition from such outlets as Rolling Stone, which ranked the pair at No.9 on their 20 Greatest Duos of All Time list. Pitchfork included Nancy & Lee in their “Best Albums of the 1960s” roundup, hailing the record as “a document of a flawless collaboration.” The UK’s Far Out Magazine declared Nancy & Lee to be “a masterpiece that still ripples in the sonic waves today.” NPR, meanwhile, noted that “Sinatra and Hazlewood masterfully marry sunshiny orchestral elements with lyrics that dig at something darker about the human condition.” They went on to praise Sinatra’s work on Nancy & Lee as “some of the best that she’s ever recorded…it proved that she would hardly allow herself to be pigeonholed into one-hit wonder territory. Here, she made it clear that she was capable of so much more.”

Today, Sinatra reflects fondly on her time with Hazlewood. “The most fun was when there were two mics in the studio, and Lee was on one and I was on one,” she recalls. When asked about the lasting appeal of Nancy & Lee, the artist credits much of its success to her partner. “Lee has a following that continues to this day. He’s beloved; people love him all over the world.”

Sinatra’s legacy, meanwhile, continues to grow, as new generations discover her impressive catalog (which boasts nearly 20 studio albums – her duets with Hazlewood among them – and dozens of charting singles, including the theme song to the 1967 James Bond film, You Only Live Twice). In 2020, Sinatra was recognized by her peers when “These Boots Are Made For Walkin’” was inducted into the GRAMMY® Hall of Fame. That same year, Sinatra partnered with Light in the Attic Records for Nancy Sinatra: Start Walkin’ 1965-1976, a definitive survey of her most prolific period. At the end of 2021, LITA reissued Sinatra’s classic debut, Boots, while the label will continue to celebrate Sinatra with a variety of special releases, exclusive merch, and more.

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Jonquera (of Pilotwings)

La Croix Des Cros

LP | 2022 | US | Original (The Flenser)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Two years after his acclaimed ‘Darkos LP’, Jonquera is back to Charlieu’s surrounding vales for his second album on Bamboo Shows.

Through ‘La Croix des Cros’, the French Musician delivers a loner-folk eclogue about the fantasized inner demons of a country dweller. Just like clay, audio recordings here are a malleable substance, slowly reworked over a year, following a sinuous production process where all mishaps are welcomed as breaches to step into.

Far from the spaghetti western myth of the reckless bounty hunter, riding his faithful horse in the great outdoors to spill blood; this 14-track album is the grieving lament of a wistful cowboy, longing for a simple patch of peace where one’s free to cultivate the earth and noodle on the guitar.

Heldon’s cosmic space-rock, Badalamenti’s Twin-Peaksesque foggy jazz or Morricone’s glorious soundtracks, so many references to portray another fertile imprint by Jonquera, available from February 13, 2023 on a 12” vinyl.

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Chat Pile

God's Country

All Tomorrow's Shadows Ultra-Clear Vinyl 2024 Repress Edition

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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There’s a sick irony to how a country that extols rhetoric of individual freedom, in the same gasp, has no problem commodifying human life as if it were meat to feed the insatiable hunger of capitalism. If this is American nihilism taken to its absolute zenith, then God’s Country, the first full length record from Oklahoma City noise rock quartet Chat Pile is the aural embodiment of such a concept.

Having lived alongside the heaps of toxic refuse that the band derives its name from, the fatalism of daily life in the American Midwest permeates throughout the works of Chat Pile, and especially so on its debut album. Exasperated by the pandemic, the hopelessness of climate change, the cattle shoot of global capitalism, and fueled by “...lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of THC,” God’s Country is as much of an acknowledgement of the Earth’s most assured demise as it is a snarling violent act of defiance against it. Within its over forty minute runtime, the album displays both Chat Pile’s most aggressively unhinged and contemplatively nuanced moments to date, drawing from its preceding two EPs and its score for the 2021 film, Tenkiller. In the band’s own words, the album is, at its heart, “Oklahoma’s specific brand of misery.” A misery intent on taking all down with it and its cacophonous chaos on its own terms as opposed to idly accepting its otherwise assured fall. This is what the end of the world sounds like.

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The Third Sound

LP | 2018 | UK | Reissue (Fuzz Club)

Sing For Very Important People Splatter Vinyl Edition

Release: 2018 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Third Sound is the solo project of Icelandic singer-songwriter Hákon Aðalsteinsson, formerly of Singapore Sling and currently touring in Brian Jonestown Massacre. Now residing in Berlin with a fleshed-out live line-up, The Third Sound are gearing up for the release of their fourth album ‘All Tomorrow’s Shadows’ - arriving via Fuzz Club Records on May 11th. Recorded by the band themselves over the harsh Berlin winter, the new record is their most refined yet – offering an expansive exploration into krautrock-tainted post-punk and dark psychedelia.

Following on from their 2016 LP ‘Gospels of Degeneration’, the new album takes a much more sparse and rhythmic approach than we’ve seen before, combining hypnotic guitar drones, motorik rhythms and haunting vocals – the last track boasting a guest feature from Anton Newcombe, who released the band’s debut album on his own imprint A Recordings.

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The Free Design

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Light In The Attic)

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In My Own Time Super Deluxe 50th Anniversary Edition

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Back In Stock After 15 Years On Pink Splatter Wax!The Free Design Make Childhood A Bit More Psychedelic With This 1970's Children's Album, Featuring Many Of The Group's Classic Favorites, Plus A Number Of New Cuts!Excerpt From Cd Liner Notes (By The Free Design's Bruce Dedrick):Back In 1969, We Were All Big Fans Of Ppm And When Mary Travers Became A Mother, They Released The Peter, Paul And Mommy Album. I Think It Was One Of The Seeds That Resulted In The Germination Of The Free Design Sings For Very Important People Album. Other Contributing Factors Included The Fact That We Were All Parents By Then And That Several ("Bubbles", "Kites", "Daniel Dolphin") Of Our Songs Already On Our Other Albums Were Ideal For A Children's Album. Our Father, Art Dedrick, A Prolific Composer Of Concert Band, Jazz Band And Choral Music Had A Song He Had Written Years Before Called "Little Cowboy" That Was Perfect For The Album And Sandy's "Love You" Fit Right In. Sesame Street The Tv Program Was In Full Swing And That Theme Was One We Had Fun Within The Studio. The Album Is Full Of Lyrical References Either To Our Childhood Or That Of Our Own Children.

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Karen Dalton

Box | 1972 | US | Reissue (Light In The Attic)

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LP | 1996 | US | Reissue (Modern Classics)

Release: 1972 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Definitive edition of Karen Dalton’s 1971 Masterpiece
Two 180-gram, 45 RPM LPs cut from new 2021 transfers and pressed at RTI, featuring bonus tracks from the original album sessions 12” 180-gram, 45 RPM EP: Live at The Montreux Golden Rose Pop Festival (May 1971), newly remastered (2021) and previously unreleased in any format. B-side includes a beautiful etching of Karen, illustrated by renowned artist Jess Rotter. Previously unreleased 7” single: Live at Beat Club, Germany (April 1971) Repro of 1971 French edition 7” single: Something On Your Mind b/w One Night Of Love Both 7” singles pressed at Third Man Pressing and housed in old-style tip-on jackets 20-page booklet featuring unseen photos and liner notes by Lenny Kaye, plus contributions from Nick Cave and Devendra Banhart Replica Playbill for Montreux performance, CD of all tracks. Housed in a special, expanded trifold jacket Limited to 2,000 sequentially foil numbered copies worldwide

Featuring Dalton’s interpretations of songs like “Are You Leaving for the Country,” “When a Man Loves a Woman,” “Katie Cruel,” and her posthumously recognized signature performance, “Something On Your Mind,” will be available in a variety of formats, including a bonus-filled, 50th anniversary Super Deluxe Edition, which expands exponentially upon Light in the Attic’s 2006 reissue of the album, co-produced by Nicholas Hill.

The 50th Anniversary Super-Deluxe Edition features the newly remastered (2021) In My Own Time album, presented on three sides of 45-rpm, 180-gram vinyl pressed at Record Technology Inc. (rti), with the fourth side showcasing alternate takes from the album sessions. The Super Deluxe package also includes the previously unreleased audio from her rare, captivating performance, Live at The Montreux Golden Rose Pop Festival, May 1st, 1971. This is the first time this audio has been made available in any physical format — presented on 180-gram 12-inch vinyl, pressed at Third Man Record Pressing, and featuring a stunning etching of Dalton by acclaimed artist Jess Rotter on the B-Side. Accompanying the bonus record is a replica playbill from The Montreux Golden Rose Pop Festival, 1971, meticulously arranged and compiled from vintage source material by Darryl Norsen. In addition to the bonus 12”, the set contains a CD of all tracks included in the package and two 7-inch singles, featuring previously-unreleased live recordings captured at Germany’s Beat Club in 1971, both pressed at Third Man Record Pressing and housed in tip-on jackets. All audio has been newly remastered by Dave Cooley, while lacquers were cut by Phil Rodriguez at Elysian Masters. A 20-page booklet—featuring rarely seen photos, liner notes from musician and writer Lenny Kaye, and contributions from Nick Cave and Devendra Banhart—rounds out the package, which comes housed in a special trifold jacket, individually foil-stamped and numbered in a strictly limited worldwide edition of 2,000 copies.

The Oklahoma-raised Karen Dalton (1937-1993) brought a range of influences to her work. As Lenny Kaye writes in the liner notes, one can hear “the jazz of Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, the immersion of Nina Simone, the Appalachian keen of Jean Ritchie, [and] the R&B and country that had to seep in as she made her way to New York."

Armed with a long-necked banjo and a 12-stringed guitar, Dalton set herself apart from her peers with her distinctive, world-weary vocals. In the early ‘60s, she became a fixture in the Greenwich Village folk scene, interpreting traditional material, blues standards, and the songs of her contemporaries, including Tim Hardin, Fred Neil, and Richard Tucker, whom she later married. Bob Dylan, meanwhile, was instantly taken with her artistry. “My favorite singer in the place was Karen Dalton,” he recalled in Chronicles: Volume One (Simon & Schuster, 2004). “Karen had a voice like Billie Holiday and played the guitar like Jimmy Reed.”

Those who knew Dalton understood that she was not interested in bowing to the whims of the record industry. On stage, she rarely interacted with audience members. In the studio, she was equally as uncomfortable with the recording process. Her 1969 debut, It’s So Hard to Tell Who’s Going To Love You The Best, reissued by Light in the Attic in 2009, was captured on the sly when Dalton assumed that she was rehearsing songs. When Woodstock co-promoter Michael Lang approached Dalton about recording a follow-up for his new imprint, Just Sunshine, she was dubious, to say the least. The album would have to be made on her own terms, in her own time. That turned out to be a six-month period at Bearsville Studios in Woodstock, NY.

Producing the album was bassist Harvey Brooks, who played alongside Dalton on It’s So Hard to Tell Who’s Going To Love You The Best. Brooks, who prided himself on being “simple, solid and supportive,” understood Dalton’s process, but was also willing to offer gentle encouragement, and challenge the artist to push her creative bounds. “I tried to present her with a flexible situation,” he told Kaye. “I left the decisions to her, to determine the tempo, feel. She was very quiet, and I brought all of it to her; if she needed more, I’d present options. Everyone was sensitive to her. She was the leader.”

Dalton, who rarely performed her own compositions, selected a range of material to interpret—from traditionals like “Katie Cruel” and “Same Old Man” to Paul Butterfield’s “In My Own Dream” and Richard Tucker’s “Are You Leaving For The Country.” She also expanded upon her typical repertoire, peppering in such R&B hits as “When a Man Loves a Woman” and “How Sweet It Is.” In a departure from her previous LP, Dalton’s new recording offered fuller, more pop-forward arrangements, featuring a slew of talented studio musicians.

While ‘70s audiences may not have been ready for Dalton’s music, a new generation was about to discover her work. In the decades following her death, a slew of artists would name Karen Dalton as an influence, including Lucinda Williams, Joanna Newsom, Nick Cave, Angel Olsen, Devendra Banhart, Sharon Van Etten, Courtney Barnett, and Adele. In the recent acclaimed film documentary Karen Dalton: In My Own Time, Cave muses on Dalton’s unique appeal: “There’s a sort of demand made upon the listener,” he explains. “Whether you like it or not, you have to enter her world. And it’s a despairing world.” Peter Walker, who also appears in the film, elaborates on this idea: “If she can feel a certain way in her music and play it in such a way that you feel that way, then that’s really the most magical thing [one] can do.” He adds, “She had a deep and profound and loving soul…you can hear it in her music.”

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Willie Nelson

Spirit

16,99 €*

Release: 1996 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1968 | EU (Survival Research)

Apryl Fool

20,99 €*

Automatic Thrill Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 1968 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The story of Japanese psychedelic band Apryl Fool and their eponymous debut album is simply extraordinary. It was the vehicle by which bassist Haroumi Hosono first came to prominence, years before he became known as the “Godfather of Japanese electronica” as the founding member and leader of Yellow Magic Orchestra, though this musical titan had work released prior to the group’s 1968 founding, such as the song “The Sea Of Summer Day,” recorded with Yuko Okuyama and released by King Records the year before. Drummer Takashi “Rei” Matsumoto was a Beatles maniac that had covered songs by Them and Sam & Dave in his earlier group, Burns, while pioneering prog-rock keyboardist Hiroyoshi Yanagida and guitarists Chu Kosaka and Eiji Kikuchi had all been part of a group called The Floral, formed in 1967 through the Japanese wing of the official fan club of The Monkees (whom they supported during a Japanese tour enacted in October 1968). In September 1969, Apryl Fool played behind musical theatre group Tokyo Kid Brothers, the recording issued in minute quantity as the Love & Banana EP, issued on Columbia Japan’s Musicolor subsidiary; Apryl Fool’s own LP, also issued on Musicolor that year, had extended spacey psychedelic freak jams in the form of “Tanger” and “Pledging My Time,” marathon blues-rock tracks such as “April Blues” and “Honky Tonk Jam,” with the employed English sounding fairly credible, though both parts of epic opus “The Last Mother Land” feature Japanese lyrics. Of course, the day that the LP was actually released is reportedly the day that Apryl Fool announced their termination, giving this scarce release another level of legend for connoisseurs.

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Gluecifer

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Suburban)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2010 | EU | Reissue (Secret City)

Basia Bulat

Heart Of My Own

Release: 2010 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (K / Perennial)

Daisies

Great Big Open Sky

I Saw A Star Behind Your Eyes, Don't Let It Die Away

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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"How often at night, when the heavens are bright,With the lights from the glitterin' stars,Have I stood here amazed, and asked as I gazedIf their glory exceeds that of ours?"Sweet boy made a promise and tied it with a stringSweet boy can't afford a ring.winter returns but spring followsBlue cowboys just need to take a trip sometimesIs It Any Wonder?8 tracks 33RPMFrom the minds that brought you CCFX, "What Are YouWaiting For?", and Daisies "2" comes the7th release from the purveyors of the electronic paisleyunderground, "Great Big Sky"Originally self released on the prolific JGAP label,now widely available on wax throughperennial and k records.This release continues the rich tradition of DIY bands crafting instant pop hits entirely ontheir own terms, which has long been the hallmark of the Olympia Underground.Look for the video for singles "Is it Any Wonder?" And a show or two....Whateverhappens it is quite assuring that whatever these times may bring bands can still put outmusic as good as this LP.400 vinyl copies.

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Bennett Wilson Poole

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Bwp)

19,99 €*

2LP | 2003 | US | Reissue (Tokuma Japan Communications)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Nearly five years on from their acclaimed debut, Bennett Wilson Poole reveal the follow up. It's been a long time coming, but... That eponymous first album was only ever intended as a one-off collaborative project — a serendipitous series of events which began with a late evening session where the trio wrote ‘Hate Won't Win’. A response to the murder of MP Jo Cox, it was something of a fresh take on Crosby Stills Nash and Young’s classic protest song ‘Ohio’. The release saw Bennett Wilson Poole embraced by the Americana community, playing live on the Andrew Marr show and crowned as ‘UK Artist of the Year’ at the 2019 UK Americana Awards, in front of a watching crowd including Graham Nash himself. The new album came together in similar fashion; Robin (Bennett) and Danny (Wilson) started writing new songs late into the night whilst on tour to promote the first record — a tour which unfolded from a three-night residency in a London pub into a year-long odyssey culminating in a headline show in Hall One at King’s Place — and before they knew it, there were enough songs to begin recording an unplanned second album. Where the first record drank deep from 70s US west coast folk-rock, the second has been heavily spiked with 1960s British psychedelia, even featuring a cover by legendary counterculture artist John Hurford (whose credits include 60s artwork for Oz Magazine and International Times).* Tony Poole’s meticulous and inspired production has spun Robin and Danny’s fresh batch of songs into a delicate web of musical delight. Fans of the ‘spot the reference’ game Tony started on the first record won’t be disappointed this time either, as there are plenty more to be found here. As with the first album, the lyrics don’t shy away from current affairs – by the end of that year of touring, the band were already playing “I Wanna Love You (But I Can’t Right Now)”, reflecting on the state of US politics, yet optimistic that the problems are only temporary. Many of the tracks on the new album feature live rhythm section Fin Kenny (drums) and Joe Bennett

(bass) for the first time on a BWP record.

The title of the album comes from the lyrics of ‘Help Me See My Way’, the first single, a prayer for strength in difficult times, the trippy animated video for which was originally issued during lockdown. The dreamy positivity of the line "I saw a star behind your eyes" is tempered with the plea "don't let it die away", a message which feels as important as ever two years on.

All three collaborators have had critical acclaim in their own right. Danny Wilson’s credentials go back to his days in Grand Drive with brother Julian, and his consistent high calibre output with his Champions of the World led them to sweeping the board at the first UK Americana Awards with Album, Artist and Song of the year awards richly deserved; Tony Poole’s Starry Eyed and Laughing were hailed as “the English Byrds” on the back of their two CBS-released albums in the mid-seventies and he has since built an enviable reputation as producer and engineer; Robin Bennett has been relentlessly turning out timeless songs from his Oxfordshire base in bands from Goldrush to The Dreaming Spires

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Ningen Isu

Shurabayashi

67,99 €*

Stone Garden 2020 Repress

Release: 2003 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Fantastic Japanese heavy metal originally released in 2003! Finally being reissued after several requests.

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Kikagaku Moyo

LP | 2017 | EU | Reissue (Guruguru Brain)

Skeletal Lamping Green & Black Vinyl Edition Edition

Release: 2017 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2020 repress, single jacket version

Stone Garden started in a basement studio in Prague with a nearly continuous session over several days and nights. The original concept was influenced by the raw and seemingly endless jams of psychedelic pioneers. The freeform songs that emerged from these sessions were refined over several months at the band's home in Tokyo where each song was sculpted into an uncommon form.

Compared to the relatively song-based House In The Tall Grass (2016), Stone Garden is a window into Kikagaku Moyo’s more experimental side. While improvisation is essential to their songwriting process it can take on many forms. This record enabled the band to experiment not only with instrumentation but also atonality and a playful approach to mixing. The unexpected results have become five unique songs each woven together through the same process.

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Of Montreal

2LP | 2008 | US | Reissue (Polyvinyl)

41,99 €*

Release: 2008 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Casual Intimacy Red Vinyl Edition

Fantasy Camp

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Memory Music / Run For Cover)

12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Yew)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Jonah David has been creating and releasing music as Fantasy Camp since 2012, when he began producing and making beat tapes at age 16 in small-town Pennsylvania. Now based in Wilkes-Barre, and 10 years older, David has built Fantasy Camp into a gothic dream pop powerhouse, celebrating his first label release with Casual Intimacy on Memory Music.The record comprises seven tracks of bedroom-produced, universe-sized dream pop, lo-fi R&B, indie rock, and electro-pop that document the aftermath of a long-term relationship's dissolution, and the complexities of dating outside of the parameters of traditional, long-haul partnership. Casual Intimacy captures that weirdness.

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Y U QT

All Nyt

21,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Transgressive)

Julia Jacklin

Pre Pleasure

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2023 | EU | Original (Mute)

A Certain Ratio

1982

12,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Heavenly Record)

H. Hawkline

Milk For Flowers

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Bella Union)

A.A. Williams

Forever Blue

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Prosthetic)

Sermon

Of Golden Verse

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Born In The Basement Neon Violet / White Galaxy Vinyl Edition

Groovie Ghoulies

LP | 1994 | US | Reissue (Pirates Press)

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Target)

Release: 1994 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Born in the Basement, the 1994 second LP from horror-pop-punk mainstays the Groovie Ghoulies, in many ways marked a pivotal transition point for the band that would set the course for the rest of their career. After the first LP, the band had moved from Los Angeles to Sacramento, the city that would remain their home base for the duration of the band. The title of the record is more factual than one might assume: at the time, the Ghoulies' lineup of Kepi (bass/vocals), Roach (guitar), and Wendy (drums) were all co-habitating in a house by the city cemetery, practicing in the basement, where the record was indeed "born"! This lineup would remain together for the follow-up World Contact Day, which became the best-selling Ghoulies record! They also found themselves working with a prestigious new producer, recording at Seattle's Egg Studios with Conrad Uno (Mudhoney, The Presidents of the United States of America, The Ergs!). This relationship, too, would continue for World Contact Day. Fuelled by fan-favourite Ghoulies staples such as "The Beast with Five Hands," "I Wanna Have Fun," and "Back to the, Garage," the album was a self-released sell-out through two pressings, attracting the attention of legendary Bay Area punk label Lookout Records, who would work with the band through the year 2000, releasing 4 LPs and re-releasing 2, including Born in the Basement. Having already re-released the best-selling classic World Contact Day, Pirates Press Records is proud to present the album that paved the way for it and the long & storied career of the Groovie Ghoulies, Born in the Basement!

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Tygers Of Pan Tang

Bloodlines

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Archipelago Pink Vinyl Edition

Vulture Party

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Lnfg Komponist)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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In Contact Blue & Green Marbled Vinyl Edition

Caligula's Horse

2LP | 2017 | EU | Reissue (Svart)

33,99 €*

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Under The Gun)

Release: 2017 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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An official reissue of the 2017 double album by Caligula's Horse, originally issued on Inside/Out Records.

Caligula's Horse are among the vanguard of the new generation of progressive rock artists. The Australian band has been often compared to the likes of Opeth, Haken and Porcupine Tree, and original copies of In Bloom on vinyl have already reached high prices on the collector's market.

The Svart reissue comes with a gatefold jacket and the 1000 copy pressing is split into two color variants, the more serene clear vinyl option and the more expressive blue and green marble edition.

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1-800 Mikey

Plushy

Tell Me How You Really Feel

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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We love 1-800-mikey the lo-fi bedroom garage punk project of Eora/Sydney musician Michael Barker, who also plays in the live line-ups of R.M.F.C. and GEE TEE. Latest album Plushy is 'for all the cuties', sunny, full of infectious hooks and features KEL from Gee Tee and TEE VEE Repairman (ishka) sharing drumming duties. If you want an album to make you smile and brighten your day—this is it!"—Gimmiezine

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Courtney Barnett

LP | 2018 | EU | Reissue (Marathon Artists)

Release: 2018 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Minna Tanoshiku Shonen Knife

Shonen Knife

LP | 1982 | JP | Reissue (P-Vine)

35,99 €*

LP | 1973 | US | Reissue (Friday Music)

Release: 1982 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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After the release of their world debut Catch A Fire, Bob Marley & The Wailers would embark on a U.S. tour supporting the legendary Sly And The Family Stone. Yet after five dates, they were fired from the tour, supposedly for upstaging the main acts! Left with no money and nowhere to go, they performed one legendary show at San Francisco's The Matrix! These recordings, taken from a studio session before their legendary performance, find Bob Marley and The Wailers at their best. Featuring the classic lineup of Bob Marley (vo/gt.), Peter Tosh (vo/gt), Joe Higgs (per.), Earl Lindo (pf.), Family Man Barrett (b.), and Carlton Barrett (ds.), the Wailers are imbued with the kind of Rock and Roll energy that could only come from outshining Sly Stone! Even sweet rocksteady ballads such as “Stir It Up” take on the form of a rock and roll anthem in this session. Discovered and released on CD by P-vine in 2005, these mythical studio recordings are finally getting a long deserved analog release! The double LP on black vinyl comes complete with an obi-strip! Don’t miss this reggae gem from Bob Marley and The Wailers!

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Doobie Brothers

Captain And Me

40,99 €*

Release: 1973 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Krater / Myra Yellow Vinyl Edition

Purified In Blood

7" | 2023 | EU | Original (Indie)

13,99 €*

The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent And Depraved

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Norwegian underground legends Purified in Blood dropped some long-awaited new music online in 2022 with their gut wrenching and explosive tracks Krater and Myrå. Purified in Blood’s aggressive and unique take on metal has ripped through the scene since 2003, influencing several of contemporary metal and punk acts. Their raw and uncompromising sound, blending furious guitar riffs with driving rhythms and powerful and menacing vocals, paired with their assailing and dominant live shows, put them in class of their own. The result is fierce extreme metal, mixing the best of thrash, hard metal and death metal into their own unique sound. The band was instantly renowned for their brutal live performances, which in course would send them on extensive tours worldwide with gigs in cities like Seattle and New Delhi and have had them play the same events as icons in Slayer, Mastodon, Gojira, Madball and Meshuggah.

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Hunter S. Thompson

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Shimmy Disc)

LP | 2020 | US | Reissue (New West)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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For the frst time ever released on vinyl, this brilliant2012 LP features an all-star cast of musicians andactors lead by Tim Robbins, Dr. John, Bill Frisell,Ralph Steadman, Annie Ross, John Joyce III and WillForte. Hunter S. Thompson's classic Gonzo reportage on the 1970 Kentucky Derby is summoned brilliantly to life through spoken word and musicalcomposition. Conceived by executive producerMichael Minzer for his Paris Records label, the project was produced by Hal Willner, who brought BillFrisell in as composer/arranger/conductor. Bill thenasesmbled a stellar group of musicians includingCurtis Fowlkes (trombone), Ron Miles (trumpet),Eyvind Kang (viola), Doug Weiselman (woodwinds),Jenny Scheinman (violin), Hank Roberts (cello) andKenny Wolleson (drums, percussion). Ralph Steadman does double duty portraying himself in the narration and contributing original artwork for the project. In 2021, Kramer re-Mastered the original audiofor this historic re-release on limited-edition'Horse-Shit Brown' vinyl for his Shimmy-Disc label.

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John Hiatt

Crossing Muddy Waters

Release: 2020 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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7" | 2022 | US | Original (Beach Impediment)

The Chisel / Mess

Split

14,99 €*

Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Bloody fucking hell! Two of modern Oi's finest together on a slab, you say?! You bet your ass! THE Chisel (London, England) and Mess (Guadalajara, Mexico) have teamed up to deliver quite the sonic melee of a split 7" featuring two new ones from each group that showcase the balance of proficient songwriting and brute force that both bands have gained a well deserved reputation for over the past couple years. And as the The Chisel Boys' reiterative chorus resounds through the speakers while you're spinning this platter, you'll know that it's true—you truly ain't seen nothing yet as this is but a taste of what's to come from both of these stalwarts of the genre. Featuring art and layout by the great Nicky RAT, this record is a one time pressing so snag it while ya can or don't!

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Velvets In The Dark / Koala Bears

7" | 2023 | UK | Original (Violette)

11,99 €*

The Golden Pond Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A very rare jewel in the Michael Head canon of work. A two-song project recorded in 2014, pressed in France and packaged in a hand-made sleeve. This is a unique and original artefact, not a re-press. With no band name on the sleeve , this was a personal project exquisitely packaged.

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Upupayama

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Cardinal Fuzz)

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Crypt Of The Wizard)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Upupayāma is the musical persona of Alessio Ferrari, an Italian multi-instrumentalist and songwriter who lives in a small mountain village above the city of Parma. Upupayāma’s music is rooted strongly in Eastern and Western folk traditions, an approach that Ferrari blends with his own modern sensibilities and style. In addition to playing guitar, bass, keyboards, and drums, Ferrari himself also incorporates a number of other instruments into his sound, including sitar, erhu, flute, and a variety of percussion instruments. Artist: Upupayama Title: THE Golden Pond Labels: Cardinal Fuzz (Europe), Centripetal Force (usa), Release Date: 25th November 22 For Ferrari, Upupayāma's 2020 debut was all about the journey. The album served a series of musical vignettes that visited and weaved its way through a succession magical settings. The Golden Pond, conversely, is all about location. Inspired by his frequent visits to a small lake near his mountain home, Ferrari intentionally focused on the details of the place he inhabited, a practice he decided would translate well with his approach to writing music. This is something Ferrari feels is best exemplified with the album's opening companion pieces, "Cuckoos from the House of Golden Tin" and "Entering the Time of Wilderness." The Golden Pond also continues Ferrari's practice of using "invented language" in his lyrics. Ferrari wants his voice to be heard as if it were an additional instrument, a tool that does not convey specific messages. His goal is to allow the listener to assign personal meaning to the music. He says, "I want my incorporating invented language is a way of breaking down the barriers that are sometimes created by language, by having to define something at all costs. Ferrari adds, "I think one of my unconscious dreams is not to have to define any[1]thing, but just to be carried away by our feelings." Earlier this year Ferrari put together a group of musicians to help him deliver his live vision of Upupayāma. They made their debut in Rome in May, and they will play a couple of shows in advance of the album being released. Both dates will be in October, one in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland and the other in Esslingen, Germany. Plans to tour throughout Eu[1]rope in the spring of 2023 are currently in the works via El Borracho Booking. The Golden Pond will be Upupayāma's second album with Centripetal Force and Cardinal Fuzz, the first being the well-received self-titled debut in 2021, which is being repressed to coincide with the release of The Golden Pond in November.

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Riders Of Rohan

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Crypt Of The Wizard)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Crypt of the Wizard is proud to announce the debut LP from Riders of Rohan. Arise now, arise, and listen to these here ballads of courage, kinship, gracious good and ultimate evil heralded by Sweden's Riders of Rohan. This power trio of epic proportions was forged in the dark smithies of Gothenburg and founded of black steel by Marcus Ferreira Larsen at No Master's Voice studio in Copenhagen. Our heroes play an enchanted breed of heavy adventure-rock, where KISS-like melodies merge with the punk rock 'n' roll delivery of Dead Moon to tell tales written for the love of Tolkien. Don't miss out on the first release from this fine fellowship. Stream it now or look out for it on cassette and vinyl later on this year. Ride now, ride now, ride! Ride for ruin and the world's ending! Death! Death! Death! Forth Eorlingas!

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Parish

A Journal Of The Plague Year

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Welcome to the Parish. Come, gather round dear lambs, as today's sermon is about to begin. Crypt of the Wizard proudly presents the highly anticipated debut LP from pastoral proto-metal power trio Parish, available to pre-order on vinyl now. The two years since the release of their EP God's Right Hand have proved to be no fallow period for the band, who used the time to write and hone the 10 songs laid out on their self-titled debut. They returned to the majestic Holy Mountain to record the album. Making use of the studio's bumper crop of vintage equipment, Parish were able to unearth a sound that draws on the roots of heavy metal. The band's lyrics continue to revel in notions of the pastoral. Themes concerning the works of witches and the changing of the seasons are explored with economic and elegant storytelling. Songs of villagers besieged by strange travellers and poor wretches locked away in gaol conjure up a feeling of uncanny dread. Elsewhere, other songs suggest a sacerdotal attitude towards the earth and those who walk it. Parish stir up sweet memories of those subtle moments of perfection found deep in the discographies of heavy metal's historic luminaries. Their sound reaches into places previously ventured by the likes of Wishbone Ash, Pagan Altar and Budgie, as well as folk revivalists Fairport Convention - a less obvious resource for heaviness, but a fine repository for musical depth. With any luck, Parish will in time join the aforementioned bands whose records will be played on repeat, locked in the unchangeable hearts of those unbothered by novelty and changes in musical fashions. Now our sermon has come to a close, peace be with you, and go forth in glory.

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Tom Rapp

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Blue Matter)

Time Flies + Rats Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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What a privilege to start a new record label with an album of such quality. As we're sure most of you will know, Tom was the front man of the legendary US psychedelic/folk band PEARLS BEFORE SWINE. Recording for the ESP label in the 60s, then moving to Reprise, PBS left us a legacy of strange, beautiful music. In the early 70s Tom went solo, recording more albums for Reprise and Blue Thumb. As a schoolkid he came third in a talent show in which fellow schoolboy, Bobby Zimmerman (yes, that Bobby Zimmerman), came fifth! He played gigs with Pink Floyd, Crazy Horse, Patti Smith and many more before calling time in 1976, and becoming a Civil Rights lawyer. Renewed interest in Tom and PBS in the late 90s led to him making some staggeringly good live appearances. Then in 1999 he released his first album for over 25 years. The prophetically titled 'A Journal Of The Plague Year'. Featuring appearances from Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang (of Galaxie 500 fame) and Masakai Batoh of Japanese band Ghost, came out on the British label Woronzow to great acclaim. This is the first ever reissue of 'Plague Year' and it comes with the original artwork and lyric insert, as a limited vinyl edition of 400 and a CD version of just 200. Tragically, Tom died in 2018 aged 70. It was a joy to count him as a friend. Blue Matter would like to thank Lynn Madison-Rapp & Ade Shaw for their help with making this reissue a reality.

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Subhumans

LP | 1983 | US | Reissue (Pirates Press)

Release: 1983 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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EP-LP Black Vinyl Edition

Subhumans

LP | 1985 | US | Reissue (Pirates Press)

Release: 1985 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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29:29 Split Vision Black Vinyl Edition

Subhumans

LP | 1986 | US | Reissue (Pirates Press)

Release: 1986 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2000 | US | Reissue (Mississippi)

Dead Moon

Trash & Burn

21,99 €*

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Quality Control HQ)

Release: 2000 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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One of their harder to find and more perfect records. An absolute monster of a rocker. Killer high energy songs. Once again Dead Moon deliver a record of all hits with no misses. Pure as can be. Lovingly remastered by Timothy Stollenwerk.

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T.S. Warspite

Stop The Rot

CD | 2022 | UK | Original (Mr Bongo)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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T.S. Warspite channel their message through a unique musical recipe that answers the question no one asked: What if Bad Religion grew up in Manchester in the 2000s? Made up of some long standing and productive members of the local scene, this sounds like friendship and experience, and some refreshing as fuck hardcore. Singer Marco Abbatiello weaves expertly through scenes of pulp reality where everything is fleeting and only some things stick. What's left is a farcical montage of things that have rushed past you with no real sense of direction. Personally and politically, it's all the same wretched soup of societal collapse and the rise of the technocracies.. Members of Violent Reaction, Payday, Firearm, Arms Race, Rated X. T.S. Warspite is Paul Morgan, Tom Howard, Marco Abbatiello, Tom Pimlott and Miles Livingstone-Todd.:

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Modulo 1000

Nao Fale Com Paredes

13,99 €*

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Rural Tapes Ings)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Módulo 1000 were not messing around when they made 'Não Fale Com Paredes’. It holds its own, not just as a raw, heavy, experimental “Brazilian” psychedelic rock album, but as a raw, heavy, experimental psychedelic rock album, full-stop!

Formed in Rio de Janeiro in 1969, Módulo 1000 honed their craft as the house band in clubs and resorts in São Paulo where they predominantly covered American artists such as Jimmy Hendrix as well as British giants, Led Zeppelin. After acquiring a taste for fame following the performance of one of their tracks at the Rio International Song Festival, the band focussed their attention on composing original material. Their manager, Marinaldo Guimarães, encouraged the band to explore their experimental and creative sides. This, in parallel with the explosion of experimental music in Brazil, resulted in the band performing alongside heavyweights such as O Têrço; there was a happening in the air.

Módulo 1000 recorded just one album. Released on Top Tape records in 1972, it featured Eduardo Leal on bass, Candido Faria on drums, Daniel Cardone on guitar, violin and vocals, and Luiz Paulo Simas on organ, piano, and vocals. 'Não Fale Com Paredes' was produced by the popular DJ, Ademir Lemos, and came housed in a fold-out cover featuring tripped-out artwork and design by Wander Borges. However, due the uncompromising nature of its wild, heavy psychedelic rock sound, the album was destined not to be played on the radio in Brazil. Rumours suggest that the label didn't understand the album, and as a result, it wasn't promoted or marketed. Thus, like many other underground cult classics, it was lost in the ether, only later to be rediscovered by a new audience at a different time.

One thing is certain, you definitely know when you've heard Módulo 1000. The sound is raw, heavy and at points quite aggressive, more Black Sabbath than Os Mutantes. It floats between psychedelic rock, prog rock, early metal, and dare we say, displays elements of proto-math-rock.

The band’s discography includes a 7" single, as well as their music being featured on several compilations for Odeon Records, additionally they released a 7" single under their alias 'Love Machine' for Top Tape Records. These compositions are included as bonus tracks on the CD version of our reissue.

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Rural Tapes

Inner Space Music

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Give Praise)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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On November 18th, Rural Tapes is back with a follow-up to the highly acclaimed debut album "Rural Tapes" from 2021. A year and a half ago, Arne Kjelsrud Mathisen was declared a genius by Mojo, who described his music as a hybrid between Kraftwerk, Air, Tortoise and Serge Gainsbourg. While the debut album was created over a period of almost 10 years, the music on "Inner space music" has been composed and recorded during one intense month in January 2022 in Mathisens own studio in the countryside of Grimstad, Norway. Again, a number of high-profile musicians have left their mark on Rural Tapes' music, including The Dream Syndicate frontman Steve Wynn, PJ Harvey saxophonist Terry Edwards and REM guitarist Peter Buck and Scott McCaughey, both of whom are Mathisen's bandmates in the psychedelic jangle pop group The No Ones. ACCLAIM FOR RURAL TAPES: "A level of its very own" MOJO "Rural Tapes delights in the unexpected. At every turn, you encounter something new, something to be marvelled over. Kjelsrud Mathisen has said he wants this music to stand the test of time. It will." The Independent "A dreamy self-titled debut full of broad soundscapes... Melding smooth jazz with floaty puffs of synth, the album is both meditative and uplifting, the sort of soundtrack you might expect from a dream sequence in a 1970s film." GQ Magazine "From the first notes of this debut album from respected Norwegian producer Arne Kjelsrud Mathisen, you know you're in for a treat. As Rural Tapes he makes rich, warm technicolour soundtracks_ it really is delightful stuff." Electronic Sound "This is an excellent debut album." Prog Magazine "Mathisen's musical pedigree makes Rural Tapes an intriguing musical journey of an album that takes in pulsating Krautrock, neo-classical moods and dreamy, proggy pop, all formed through an intuitive composition process."

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Caca De Luna

Züchtigungstheater

20,99 €*

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Subexotic)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Real angry grindcore from Germany. No messing around, no pauses, no breaks, just pure anger. You can hear it in their voice! The world right now is pissing everyone off, which is a good thing! Raw, and unadulterated grindcore.

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Ethan James Startzman

Shamanic Verse

Notes From The Past Re-Issue 2022

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Ethan James Startzman is a synesthete with chromesthesia, meaning his brain converts sounds to colours and shapes, and this album is an attempt into the use of sounds to "paint" a picture. Shamanic Verse is an audio journey through dark forests, cold lonely mountains, and bustling cities using Eurorack modular synthesis and the meditative technique of following the sounds to their next evolutionary destination to create a film score-like atmosphere. Ethan began as a dancer, working his way up to professional ballet dancer and later found music after an injury ended his career. Originally a bassist, who has played in every style of music from country to rock to salsa, he also works as a film composer in his native New York City. His film work is primarily orchestral and experimental electronic. Shamanic Verse will be released on 4th November, via digital platforms and limited edition pressed vinyl.

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Kaipa

3LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Insideoutmusic Catalog)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Sister 9)

Kill Your Boyfriend

Voodoo

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Bronson)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Treviso, Italy-based two piece Kill Your Boyfriend release their fourth album 'Voodoo'. A frantic and hypnothising bacchanalia of Psych & Industrial tinged soundwaves, the new album is a collection of reverb laden necromantic charms, summoning the souls and bones of the greats in the Rock & Roll pantheon of the 1950s. The duo delivers such glittery dark enchantment via 7 hoodoo hymns, travelling with a crumbling, ghostly and magically whizzing Rocket 88, in the company of Marie Laveau and madame Lalaurie. It's a relentless whirl of Voodoo-Psych, Industrial-Billy, Electro-GrisGris, which you can dance to. With 'Voodoo', Matteo Scarpa and Antonio Angeli, explore new genres and expand the sonic borders, without losing their original intent. They replace the synth bass with a bass-guitar, adding more fluidity and weight to a renewed and punchier rhythmic section. Electronic and acoustic percussion are fuller and heavier, and the band's new stomp-machine is a hyper-convulsive version of the saturated Rock & Roll and R&B drumming, from the cheap garage studios of 1950s indie labels.

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Leatherette

Fiesta

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (On The Camper)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The group are based in Bologna, but all hail from different towns in Italy. These five young men - singer/guitarist Michele, bassist Marco, drummer Francesco, guitarist Andrea and saxophonist Jacopo - bonded over wildly differing influences - everything from midwestern emo gods American Football, to Berlin-era Bowie, to James Chance & The Contortions, to rap and electronic music - to create a dense, passionate, articulate sound of their own. You can file them near fiery post-punk kindreds like Shame and Squid, or unhinged 90s noisers like Unwound or Hoover, or squalling No Wavers like James Chance, but the truth is there are few bands like Leatherette that walk this Earth. The songs on first full-length, Fiesta precede the Covid era, though the group spent the pandemic rewriting and overhauling their maiden batch of songs at leisure. The result is an astonishing and remarkable debut: poetic, caterwauling, broken and beautiful.

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Peter Kernel

Perservance

Relaxing With The Heads Silver Jubilee Edition

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Perseverance, originally released in 2020, is not a new Peter Kernel album. Rather, it"s a collection of songs which didn"t find their place on official albums throughout the years but, one way or another, shaped the duo and brought them where they are today. These tracks are like them: funny, sad, too much, not enough, flawed and simply human! Twelve demos, alternative takes and rarities that come with twelve additional tracks available on a digital download card.

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The Heads

2LP | 1996 | UK | Reissue (Rooster)

34,99 €*

2LP | 2023 | EU | Reissue (Atlantic)

Release: 1996 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A special 25th anniversary edition of THE Heads’ debut album, first released in 1996 and housed in new gatefold jackets with updated art and bonus material. Amidst a world suffocating in Britpop smarm, The Heads' debut cut a timely swath of unkempt psychedelic rock into the face of the English underground. Featuring ten tracks of guitar-driven, amp-destroying jams, Relaxing With... takes its cues from the US--Stooges, MC5, Mudhoney, Pussy Galore, early Monster Magnet--but adds a distinctly British stamp with the drone and fuzz of Loop / Spacemen 3, the attitude of The Fall, Pink Fairies and Walking Seeds and the spaced rock of early Hawkwind. It is obvious that the four members of The Heads are music obsessives. Bonus LP includes the remastered tracks from the band's Radio 1 sessions from November '95, March and May 1996, along with "Jellystoned Park" (the B-side of their "Television" 7-inch). Jacket art has been embellished with new silver foiling and bordering.

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Matchbox Twenty

Exile On Mainstream

41,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Alchemy Project Clear / Red / Black Marbled Vinyl Edition

Epica

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Atomic Fire)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Floret Orange Vinyl Edition

Lucid Express

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Kanine)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Golden Ass Gold Vinyl Edition

Fauness

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Cascine)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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10" | 2022 | US | Original (Get Better)

Dazey And The Scouts

Maggot

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Clarinet & Oiano: Selected Works 2 Milky Clear Vinyl Edition

Group Listening

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Prah)

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Mono-Tone)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Group Listening"s brilliant first album, Clarinet & Piano: Selected Works, Vol.1, was a haunting, meditative and lovingly considered selection box of musical reworkings. It featured rearranged tracks by the likes of Arthur Russell, Brian Eno and Robert Wyatt. But it was also much more than that. In making this record of reimagined musical works, Stephen Black [Clarinet] and Paul Jones [Piano] were two musicians doing what all music fans do: comparing favourite tracks, turning each piece over for new meaning and developing a musical understanding of each other in the process.

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Paper Lips

The Sound Of Sound

Magnificent Sounds Records

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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First psyché solo album from The Baron Four's Mike Whittaker, nine original songs and a cover of the 13th Floor Elevators' Splash 1!Mike Whittaker from The Baron Four's new solo project. Far from his previous English "Rhythm' n' Beat" à la Milkshakes, early Kinks, he dwells here into the spaced-out sound of the Spaceman 3/Spiritualized/ Brian Jonestown Massacre. Slow motion tremolo and psyched fuzz guitar, languid vocals and floating drones.

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A Chant About The Beauty Of The Moon At Night: Hawaiian Steel Guitar Masters 1913-1921

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Magnificent Sounds)

LP | 2020 | US | Reissue (Acrophase)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A collection of rare original recordings, unheard for over a century, of captivating Hawaiian steel guitar music that influenced the first generation of Delta blues and country artists, changing the sound of music forever. Ghostly transmissions from paradise, beamed across time from a lost century, carefully remastered and restored with extensive historical notes & rare photos.

Predating the craze for kitschy Westernized “hot” Hawaiian music, the raw recordings here represent the original sounds of the Hawaiian islands that took America by storm in the early years of the 20th century. In 1893 the native Hawaiian monarchy was overthrown by US-backed business interests. Fleeing a repressive regime that even banned the Hawaiian language itself, hundreds of native Hawaiian musicians emigrated to the United States. In a few short years they had conquered America, as audiences flocked by the millions to hear native Hawaiian musicians perform anti-colonial protest songs of Hawaiian independence while playing a unique new Hawaiian invention: the steel guitar.

By 1916 Hawaiian music was the bestselling genre of recorded music in United States. From the biggest cities to the most isolated rural towns, millions of Americans flocked to see touring Hawaiian steel guitarists perform using never-before-seen sliding techniques that produced strange new sounds which audiences found electrifying. It was in some of these isolated Southern towns that pioneering black musicians like Leadbelly, Son House, and Tampa Red first heard Hawaiian guitarists playing steel guitar and began to imitate their slide techniques, bringing a new style of guitar playing to bear on blues music and changing the sound of America forever.

While to Western ears these songs sound jovial and romantic, they also carry other layers of meaning. By celebrating the Hawaiian language, landscape, and people, the music gave voice to a resistance against the white colonial interests that had seized the Hawaiian government. Other songs openly critical of the regime and called for the restoration of native rule, and many were even written by the deposed royal family. Just beneath the surface of these beautiful melodies that spoke of soft waves, warm breezes, and moonlight were political messages about colonialism and white supremacy that resonated deeply with Hawaiian listeners.

Too often, indigenous stories are written out of American history, particularly when it comes to music. This release seeks to bring new attention to the groundbreaking contributions of pioneering Hawaiian artists to the sound of American popular music, as well as transport listeners back to a now-forgotten period of American history when millions of Americans, of every color and walk of life, were obsessed with the innovative, stridently-political, deeply-evocative sounds of native Hawaiian steel guitar music.

All of these tracks have been lovingly restored from original 78rpm releases. Most of them have been unissued in any format since their original release over 100 years ago.

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Ginger Root

Rikki

36,99 €*

Release: 2020 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2x7" | 2022 | US | Original (Ever / Never)

Stefan Christensen

Ruby