***BACK IN STOCK!!! Received an 8.4 Best New Music rating from Pitchfork. SOPHIE ALLISON got her start in the local Nashville DIY scene, going to shows and hanging out with other musicians, though she kept her own songwriting secret. All that changed the summer before Allison left for college at New York University. She bought a Tascam digital recorder and began to experiment with production, pushing the quality and craft of her songs to new heights. Allison decided to start releasing her songs for free on Bandcamp under the name SOCCER MOMMY in 2015. A buzz began to grow, leading to live shows, a record deal, and 2017’s critically acclaimed bedroom-recorded compilation Collection. The higher production values Soccer Mommy chose to incorporate on Clean play to Allison’s strengths, highlighting the maturity and growth of her songwriting. The music gains clarity and power, losing none of the trademark intimacy of her Bandcamp work, something Allison credits to days spent recording in Wax’s home studio. Clean is an emotional album, heavy on themes of growth, isolation, and change, but balanced by a lightness of touch, and with hooks to spare.
LP $26.95
03/23/2018
***BACK IN STOCK!!! “Originally released by Sundown, a tiny Austin indie with limited distribution, the 17-song set finds Van Zandt in fine form -- upbeat, gracious, apparently sober -- and in good company, with fiddler Owen Cody and guitarist Danny Rowland adding a dimension of musical enhancement that never overwhelms the nuances of the material. As anyone who ever saw Van Zandt fall off a stool recognizes, there was no such thing as a typical Townes performance, but when he was good, no one working in the Texas troubadour tradition has ever been better.”—No Depression
CD $14.25
02/18/2008
2XLP $33.95
11/24/2017
***At just 16 years old, COURTNEY MARIE ANDREWS left home in Arizona for her first tour. She traveled up and down the West Coast, busking and playing any bars or cafés that would have her. Soon after, she took a Greyhound bus four nights straight from Phoenix to New York to do the same on the East Coast. For a decade or so since, Courtney’s been a session and backup singer and guitarist for nearly 40 artists, from Jimmy Eat World to Damien Jurado. She never stopped writing her own material, though. Picking up admirers like Jurado and Ryan Adams along the way, she has quietly earned a reputation as a songwriter’s songwriter. With plans to settle down for a bit and focus on her own songs, Courtney moved to the Northwest in 2011 to record her last full-length record On My Page. However, the record had hardly been released before she was on the road again performing other artists’ songs, eventually leading her overseas to play guitar and sing with Belgian star Milow. At the tour’s end, though, the other session players joined her to record her 2014 EP Leuven Letters in one take. It was during this time that Courtney also wrote many of the songs on Honest Life. She found herself realizing the impact of growing up on the road and this constant reconciling between her and other’s art and identity. "...there's no getting around that Honest Life is the standout album of the year."—No...
LP $25.45
09/29/2017
***It’s not uncommon for musicians to grow and evolve between releases—but even by those standards, THE DISTRICTS’ Popular Manipulations is stunning. The Pennsylvania-borne band’s third full-length represents an exponential leap in sound and cohesion, an impressive and impassioned burn with a wide scope that threatens to swallow everything else surrounding it. Perhaps it’s a cliché to say so, but while listening, you might find yourself wondering why people don’t make indie rock like this anymore. The distinctly intense sound of Popular Manipulations—charging guitars, thunderous drumming, and ROB GROTE's searing vocals—was brought on by a few cited influences, from shoegaze’s aggressive swirl to the Velvet Underground’s impeccable drone-rock sound. But don’t mistake easy comparisons for a lack of originality: on Popular Manipulations, the District are in a lane entirely their own, exploring lyrical themes of isolation and abandonment in a way that ups the music’s already highly charged emotional quotient.
LP $25.45
08/18/2017
CD $14.50
08/18/2017
***“Passed you on a side street / Brushed across your wrist like a razorblade.” Those are the first lines from ‘Try,’ the second track off SOCCER MOMMY's Fat Possum debut, Collection. It’s also a perfect encapsulation of the band itself: quietly catchy, surprisingly confrontational, the kind of music that sneaks up on you and makes a permanent first impression. Soccer Mommy is the project of SOPHIE ALLISON, a nineteen-year-old Nashville native and musical wunderkind. Sophie built her reputation as a DIY artist, recording her own songs and releasing them for free on Bandcamp over the last few years. Collection compiles the best of Sophie’s Bandcamp work as well as a few new songs, written, mixed and produced herself. The songs portray an artist fully-formed, mature far beyond her age. Sophie sings of toxic relationships, infatuations, and all the experiences of being a teenage girl. There’s a playfulness to the music that belies the sophisticated nature of the songcraft. The songs can be sweet, they can be happily melancholic or melancholically happy, but they always cut deep. They belong on playlists and mixes, to be shared among friends and belted out during road trips. Collection is destined to be a favorite record. These perfect pop gems have power.
LP $25.45
08/04/2017
***The anticipated new album from Mali's SONGHOY BLUES. "Definitely the album of the summer. We've been jamming on this hard here at Fat Possum and we're super antsy for y'all to peep. It's a crazy cocktail of desert punk, hill country blues, tropicalia, and rock 'n roll featuring appearances from Iggy Pop and Elf Kid." "A skittering disco-tinged guitar vamp slinks through the track alongside spaced-out synth lines and brassy horn blasts while singer Aliou Touré delivers a punchy vocal performance." (Rolling Stone)
LP $25.45
06/30/2017
***BACK IN STOCK!!! Repressing of the 1979 Memphis classic pressed in Memphis for the first time in a very very very long time. This soul-funk banger is a perfect groove machine for a crawfish boil or raging catfish fry.
LP $25.45
06/02/2017
***A reissue of the 1975 Sweet Blood Call album from blues guitarist, harmonica player and singer LOUISIANA RED (IVERSON MINTER). With over 50 albums to his name and a recording career that began with Chess in 1949, Louisiana Red is best known for his song “Sweet Blood Call.”
LP $25.45
05/19/2017
***Red recorded numerous songs throughout the 1960s, though he might be best known for his Billboard singles hit "I'm Too Poor To Die" in 1964. His Louisiana Red Sings The Blues album released in 1972 on that label's Atco Records subsidiary didn't sell well, and Red was subsequently dropped by the label. After the death of his beloved first wife, Red recorded two highly-regarded acoustic albums for the Blue Labor Records label, 1975's Sweet Blood Call and this album, 1976's Dead Stray Dog, both receiving widespread critical acclaim for their introspective and intimate performances.
LP $25.45
05/19/2017
CD $14.25
12/24/2013
***BACK IN STOCK!!! Memphis soul original and Hi Records hit man, DON BRYANT, has announced his return to music with Don’t Give Up On Love, recorded in honor of his wife of 43 years, the soul legend Ann Peebles. The collection is Don’s first release in decades.
LP $25.45
05/19/2017
CD $14.50
05/19/2017
***BACK IN STOCK!!! Received a 7.0 rating from Pitchfork. “Hoops know the power of dream-pop...Hoops can deliver a polished product and they become more and more irresistible.” - Pitchfork "expressive, shoegazey guitar work, ’80s-leaning production, and a steady beat that keeps the track’s dreamy qualities" - Entertainment Weekly “[Routines] can’t come soon enough.” - Paste
LP $25.45
05/05/2017
CD $14.50
05/05/2017
***REISSUED ON VINYL!!! “It's Dance Time begins with an introductory run-through of the days popular steps, a brief warm-up for the listener. From there, WILLIE MITCHELL delivers his usual solid set of instrumentals. While the album doesn't quite match up to Mitchell's best album, That Driving Beat, it does have plenty of highlights, including the swaggering ‘Buster Browne’ and ‘Shake’-styled ‘When My Dreamboat Comes Home,’ complete with a lively fuzz-guitar and nice drum breaks. As with most Mitchell albums, most of the songs are over in two minutes' time, quickly moving on to the next dance craze, and the tracks include many tasteful cover versions. Those on It's Dance Time include ‘Twine Time,’ ‘Fever,’ and a bluesy ‘Since I Met You Baby.’"—Kurt Edwards
LP $25.45
04/28/2017
***REISSUED ON VINYL!!! WILLIE MITCHELL may have best been known as the man who signed AL Green to Hi Records, a Memphis based soul label who’s impact is still felt around the world today, but Willie recorded a number of albums before the Hi Records days. Robbin's Nest was originally released in 1970.
LP $25.45
04/28/2017
***REISSUED ON VINYL!!! WILLIE MITCHELL may have best been known as the man who signed AL Green to Hi Records, a Memphis based soul label who’s impact is still felt around the world today, but Willie recorded a number of albums before the Hi Records days.
LP $25.45
04/28/2017
***NOW AVAILABLE ON VINYL!!! "Late in life, Arkansas-born pianist ROOSEVELT SYKES (1906-1983) had a remarkable comeback, performing at music festivals and participating in numerous up-to-date recording projects. Here are sixteen tracks recorded at the session that took place on September 17, 1975. The grand old blues and boogie pianist is heard performing solo (always a treat!), in the company of guitarists JOHNNY SHINES and LOUISIANA RED, and harmonica handler SUGAR BLUE. Roosevelt Sykes is always worth experiencing."—Arwulf Arwulf (Allmusic.com)
LP $25.45
03/24/2017
CD $14.25
12/24/2013
***TEMPLES—JAMES BAGSHAW (vocals, guitar), TOM WARMSELY (bass, backing vocals), SAM TOMS (drums) and ADAM SMITH (keys)—release their new album, Volcano, on March 3rd via Fat Possum. All the elements people loved with Temples’ debut, Sun Structures, remain intact, but this time, there is a noticeable evolution presented from the outset. It’s clear Volcano is the sound of Temples squaring up to their potential, immediately evident with “Certainty.” Its beefed-up beats reveal an expanded sonic firmament, one in which bright synth hooks and insistent choruses circle around each other over chord sequences that strike just the right balance between nice and queasy. Entirely self-produced and written by all four members of the band, Temples’ melodies seem to come effortlessly. There are sun-dazed numbers and lysergic dream-pop songs and those where synth and mellotron interweave to beguiling effect. One thing is certain; it’s harder to spot the influences this time around. Mystical language has been supplanted by something more direct. They’ve been broken down and blended together—fossilized into a single source of creative fuel, resulting in a sound that is undoubtedly Temples.
LP $25.45
03/03/2017
CD $14.50
03/03/2017
***Reissued on vinyl for the first time in almost 10 years as part of Fat Possum's 25th anniversary series. ROBERT CAGE plays the North Mississippi Blues akin to T-Model Ford: fast and a little unhinged almost like punk rock.
LP $25.50
11/11/2016
***If Steely Dan backed Mac Demarco you'd arrive at HOOPS. In a good way. This young band out of Bloomington, Indiana have packed serious chops and great hooks into an effortless, laid back '70s-California-via-chillwave sound. They've been blazing a chill trail the past year garnering praise from Gorilla v Bear, Fader, and the like, and playing with fellow indie dynamos like Whitney and Porches.
LP $14.25
08/12/2016
CD $11.00
11/11/2016
***AVAILABLE AGAIN!!! Should-be legend and blues mysterian R. L. BURNSIDE avenges his own birth once again with more songs of loss and regret, perhaps his strongest work to date.
LP $26.95
10/21/2016
CD $14.25
10/24/2000
***REISSUED ON VINYL!!! Fourteen great tracks featuring remix work from SCOTT BENZEL, JIM WATERS, and members of GIANT SAND and CALEXICO.
LP $25.50
09/23/2016
CD $14.25
03/12/2002
***REISSUED ON VINYL!!! The first ever album from hypnotic Mississippi bluesman and childhood friend of the late Junior Kimbrough, ROBERT BELFOUR. Nine strong and fluid tracks that should appeal to blues fans from B.B. to Burnside. "The record is a stone marvel"-- Chris Morris, Billboard Magazine
LP $23.75
09/23/2016
CD $14.25
05/30/2000
***BACK IN STOCK!!! PAUL "WINE" JONES was born in Flora, Mississippi, and learned to play guitar by the age of four. In his teens he played at house parties, and later worked with James "Son" Thomas and harmonica player Little Willy Foster. However, Jones played music mainly as a pastime, He also worked with local musicians such as Bob and Sid Cobb, George Sheldon, Craig Collins, Tommy Hollis, Bill Abel, Tommy Warren, Zach Kiker, Goat Hill Productions, Pickle Byest and many others while working on farms up to 1971, when he became a welder in Belzoni, Mississippi. In 1995 and 1996, Jones performed outside of Mississippi, when he was a member of Fat Possum's "Mississippi Juke Joint Caravan.
LP $25.50
09/23/2016
***REISSUED ON VINYL!!! PAUL "WINE" JONES was born in Flora, Mississippi, and learned to play guitar by the age of four. In his teens he played at house parties, and later worked with James "Son" Thomas and harmonica player Little Willy Foster. However, Jones played music mainly as a pastime, He also worked with local musicians such as Bob and Sid Cobb, George Sheldon, Craig Collins, Tommy Hollis, Bill Abel, Tommy Warren, Zach Kiker, Goat Hill Productions, Pickle Byest and many others while working on farms up to 1971, when he became a welder in Belzoni, Mississippi. In 1995 and 1996, Jones performed outside of Mississippi, when he was a member of Fat Possum's "Mississippi Juke Joint Caravan.
LP $23.75
09/23/2016
***REISSUED ON VINYL!!! A collection of live tracks ranging from the 1993 Sunflower Blues Fest to vintage early '70s recordings from JUNIOR KIMBROUGH's home and juke joint. Includes the songs "Junior's Place" and "Baby, Please Don't Leave Me," and features Junior's son Kenny Malone on drums and R.L. Burnside's son GARY BURNSIDE on guitar. A posthumous release from one of the 20th Century's most important blues figures.
LP $25.45
08/12/2016
CD $14.25
09/28/1999
***Burnside is Burnside. This bad man of the Delta Blues recorded these traditional acoustic versions of some of his best know songs between 1967-82. Here it is for the first time on vinyl (180 gram) for Fat Possum's 25th anniversary series.
LP $26.95
06/03/2016
CD $14.25
05/15/2001
***MINOR VICTORIES is a new band comprised of JUSTIN LOCKEY (EDITORS), RACHEL GOSWELL (SLOWDIVE), STUART BRAITHWAITE (MOGWAI), and JAMES LOCKEY (BEF) with appearances from MARK KOZELEK, and JAMES GRAHAM from THE TWILIGHT SAD. LP pressed on limited edition green vinyl. “The tired old 'supergroup' concept finally has more potential to be super... Minor Victories' synth-pop is stylishly dusky, with lush orchestral touches, motorik persistence, and a closing guitar cacophony.”—Pitchfork (Best New Track)
LP $25.45
06/03/2016
CD $14.25
06/03/2016
***One of the maestros of Delta blues recorded at his live performances at Hunter College. Split into two volumes on vinyl. Includes liner notes by ROBERT PALMER.
LP $25.45
05/20/2016
***“BACK IN STOCK!!! Note new price. When BLAZE FOLEY, who was still Depty Dawg to us, sang at our dining table back in ’76 and ’78, he would be of a temper that was still juicy and ripe from his time in Whitesburg, GA., when he fell in love with his muse SYBIL ROSEN, and they had lived in a tree in the woods. To me, these songs you have here are the summary of his time of rediscovering a happy innocence in Sybil’s arms. Our baby son is lovingly included at the table. Here, also, you find his innocent curiosity taking him to the threshold of the Dark World that he was beginning to discover and would soon get lost in. Our portable Uher tape recorder, an excellent machine for field work, was brought out by my wife for those occasions. I would never have thought of it, because I only wanted to be washed in the live moment. Oh, we all thank you Margery! In my life there’ve been many occasions when I experienced intense and wonderful live moments. Depty Dawg, at this time in his life, could create the best such moments, like a warming flame. With extreme and loving care, we are honored to bring him home to you.”—Billy, Margery, and Basil Bouris.
LP $26.95
02/12/2016
CD $14.25
07/06/2010
***SUNFLOWER BEAN find magic within friction. The New York trio’s full-length debut album, Human Ceremony, emerges at the intersection of dreamy modern psychedelica and urgent fuzzed-out bliss. That push-and-pull colors the aural tapestry of these three musicians—Jacob Faber [drums], Julia Cumming [vocals/bass], and Nick Kivlen [vocals/guitars].
LP $26.95
02/05/2016
CD $12.75
02/05/2016
***BACK IN STOCK!!! A delicate, slinky figure with a powerhouse voice, ANN PEEBLES occupied a special place among the many great talents that roamed the halls of Memphis' iconic Hi Records in the 1960s and 1970s. While producer Willie Mitchell was the company's heart, musicians the Hodges Brothers its soul, and Al Green its top star, it was Peebles who gave the label its first national success, and a lasting female identity. Over the course of seven albums and dozens of singles for Hi, Peebles expressed a complex range of moods and emotions in her music. Her songs were alternately pleading and defiant and destructive, but always, utterly soulful.
LP $26.95
10/02/2015
CD $14.25
10/02/2015
***Received a 7.2 rating from Pitchfork. TREVOR POWERS, the Idaho musician known as YOUTH LAGOON, has found what used to be destructive is now what gives him life. While on tour throughout Europe, Powers received a phone call from home informing him that one of his closest friends had drowned in the local river. After canceling the tour and flying home for the funeral, the following months marked a defining shift in Powers’ approach to songwriting. “Just how entwined we are never truly hit me before that,” claims Powers. “We are all connected. Even strangers. Our existence is one dazzling pattern that repeats itself endlessly. What makes us distinct is our flaws. In our defects lies something great.” Youth Lagoon’s third album Savage Hills Ballroom is rooted in discomfort, rather than avoiding it. Influenced by society’s desire to exude a flawless existence, the album’s musical direction and visual aspects were conceived on Powers’ late-night walks through Idaho’s suburbs... (STREET DATE - 9/25/2015)
LP $26.95
09/25/2015
CD $14.25
09/25/2015
2XLP $30.50
09/25/2015
***REISSUED ON VINYL!!! A Fat Possum compilation sampler of pain, redemption and just plain rocking brought to you by some of the label's greatest blues artists. Features eleven tracks from T-MODEL FORD, JUNIOR KIMBROUGH, 20 MILES, R.L. BURNSIDE, NECKBONES, CECIL DAVIS, JELLY ROLL KINGS, ELMO WILLIAMS, ROBERT CAGE and HASIL ADKINS.
LP $23.75
07/28/2015
CD $4.50
02/17/1998
***NOW AVAILABLE ON VINYL!!! Scotland-via-Missouri’s AMERICAN WRESTLERS unleash their self-titled debut full-length. The music of American Wrestlers is familiar. It recalls first love, twilight as the day turns to night, and the feeling of discovery that was, at one point, so precious to us; that moment when we are first shocked and beguiled by a melody that strikes us so acutely that our stomachs jump for joy into our chests.
LP $23.75
04/28/2015
CD $14.25
04/07/2015
***BACK IN STOCK!!! There were so many competent records coming out of Memphis that any burgeoning greatness can only be detected by a careful listening. ANN PEEBLES deserves that kind of extra care. Her style is so subtle and economical that the finer qualities of her talents might be passed over as being merely competent. This would be a crime because little Ann has so very much to offer. Ann stresses the melody (rather than rhythm for its own sake). This is not to say she can’t sing funky; she can and does very effectively. It just means Ann shines extra brightly on the slower bluesy numbers. For example “Give Me Some Credit” is such a moving lament, filtering faint traces of early Smokey Robinson and the album’s two most tender cuts, “I Still Love You” and “Steal Away” are the places where Ann Peebles makes such a great impression. These are the kinds of song that become “personal” classics. Ann sings seven up-tempo numbers on which she illustrates her tight, full-bodied voice and shows why she’s presently way up on R&B charts all over the country. Her renditions of “It’s Your Thing,” “Part Time Love,” and “Make Me Yours” are unfettered delights. Ann Peebles goes past the apparent and into the sublime. She stands beyond the predictably competent. And you know that’s where it’s at.
LP $26.95
04/28/2015
CD $14.25
08/03/2009
***The Hi recordings of CHARLIE RICH are in many ways the most reckless and adventurous of his career. In 1966 and 1967, Hi, a small Memphis label that hosted acts such as Willie Mitchell (and later Al Green) and the Bill Black Combo believed, like Sun, RCA , and Mercury before them, in Rich’s prodigious talent but had no idea where to put him categorically. Mostly here are the songs associated with Hank Williams. They are revelatory in that they reveal just how wide-ranging Rich’s vision was. Beginning with Williams’ own “My Heart Would Know,” Rich takes the songs deep into his own musical soul and, like Ray Charles before him with Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, makes them his own, turning them into timeless pop classics. Among Rich’s recordings, these 12 songs are some of the most enduring. This collection is essential for Rich fans, and something to consider for any fan of timeless, restless country-soul from the 1960s.
LP $25.45
04/07/2015
CD $14.25
04/28/2015
***THE DISTRICTS deliver raw, rollicking power on A Flourish And A Spoil. JOHN CONGLETON (St. Vincent, Angel Olsen, Swans) produced/engineered/mixed the album at Seedy Underbelly Studio (formerly Pachyderm Studio) in Cannon Falls, MN. The resulting 10 tracks capture the boisterous live performances from the quartet, who are all between 19 and 20 years old. The Guardian UK says, “The Districts will be your new favourite band.” The four-piece band formed in 2009 while the members were still in high school in Lancaster County, PA. A Flourish And A Spoil features singer/guitarist ROB GROTE’s vocals front and center, combining equal parts ferocity and yearning as when he reflects on leaving behind suburban childhood on “Suburban Smell.” The Districts have toured with bands including Deer Tick, White Denim, Dr. Dog and Temples and won over fans on both sides of the pond with 2014 sets at Lollapalooza, ACL and Reading Festival, among others.
LP $26.95
03/03/2015
CD $14.25
03/03/2015
***BACK IN STOCK!!! Released in 1979, The Handwriting Is On The Wall boasted some high-powered funk backdrops, but for the most part the album finds ANN PEEBLES taking on a set of straight-ahead soul numbers in which she was usually either taking a man away from some woman who didn’t know how to hold on to him, or was warning the ladies why they should stay away from her signifi ant other. Peebles is a tower of defiant sass on “I Didn’t Take Your Man” and “You’ve Got the Papers (I’ve Got the Man),” she leaves no doubt about why she’s dating outside her age group on “Old Man with Young Ideas,” and “Bip Bam Thank You Mam” alerts listeners to the consequences of not pleasing Ms. Peebles. WILLIE MITCHELL pairs Peebles up with some full-bodied soul and funk arrangements for these songs, and while unfortunately most of the great Hi Rhythm Section were unavailable for this record, the players on board do fine work, even if the groove lacks the ineffable touch of Peebles’ finest work. The Handwriting Is on the Wall was Ann Peebles’ last album for Hi, and the last new set she would release until 1988, but it captures one of the great R&B singers of the 1970s doing what she does best, and here she bows out on a high point.
LP $26.95
03/03/2015
CD $14.25
08/03/2009
***BACK IN STOCK!!! “O.V. WRIGHT’s secular career started off in 1964 with ‘That’s How Strong My Love Is.’ It was written by Roosevelt Jamison initially responsible for discovering gospel group the Harmony Echoes, which brought forth both Wright and James ‘Dark End of the Street’ Carr. Originally a B-side, it’s included on this album as the closing third of a searing medley. And again, Wright’s delivery proves to be in the same league as the more famous version by Otis Redding. Nothing much was gained though by Wright’s association with the song. Redding’s success awakened Backbeat owner Don Robey, who claimed Wright as his ‘property.’ Credits to all the artists’ later recordings invariably mention a certain ‘D. Malone.’ Since it’s the same Robey under a false name, it stands as a painful reminder of just how ‘protective’ the label owner was. After a few short spells in jail for narcotic offenses during the mid-’70s, Wright re-emerged in 1977 with Into Something (Can’t Shake Loose). It was his first album for Hi, although producer Willie Mitchell had overseen many of his Backbeat sides from the earlier days. For this comeback, the producer made sure Wright was supported by nothing but the best, from the Memphis Horns and Strings via the rhythm section of Grimes and all three Hodgeses to the background vocals of Rhodes-Chalmers-Rhodes. Even James Brown turned up for piano duties, but let’s assume he’s just a namesake. Obviously not as strong as the Hi albums Mitchell made with Al...
LP $25.45
08/19/2014
CD $14.25
08/19/2014
***BACK IN STOCK!!! ROWLAND S. HOWARD started playing in teenage bands in late ‘70s Melbourne. Whilst still a callow youth he wrote “Shivers,” an undisputed classic. The song was recorded by his band THE BOYS NEXT DOOR who mutated into the BIRTHDAY PARTY and then relocated to Europe to wage a guerrilla campaign against the trivialities of the ‘80s, until they turned their fire upon themselves and disintegrated mid-decade. Whilst his former associates have moved on to weekend color supplement acceptability, Rowland has commonly been perceived as the banished wastrel prince... exiled to a squalid garret on the colder edges of the kingdom, accompanied only by his dreams and inclinations. His demeanour (pale, gaunt, stick thin, sickly, dark humorred, fatalistic) has perhaps inadvertently added far too much credence to this interpretation of events. The shadow of this myth has seemingly obscured the sheer volume of his creativity and the singularity of his musical vision. Always respected by his peers, a scan through Rowland’s catalog of work sees him allied with the likes of Lydia Lunch, Thurston Moore, Wim Wenders, Barry Adamson, The Gun Club, Nikki Sudden, the Beasts Of Bourbon, the Hungry Ghosts and HTRK. Rowland’s own ensemble THESE IMMORTAL SOULS gun their engines in the ill-lit background and the legacy of his work with The Birthday Party scores the skin of successive generations of musicians and fans. But it’s a history Rowland would gleefully put a match to. With or without it Rowland S. Howard would make tense, beautiful...
LP $26.95
08/05/2014
CD $14.25
08/05/2014
***BACK IN STOCK!!! Made in Kettering UK, TEMPLES’ first recording arrived in one Technicolor burst in July 2012. JAMES BAGSHAW and TOM WARMSLEY recorded Shelter Song, put it on the Internet, and set into motion an unstoppable chain of events that eventually saw them signed to Fat Possum Records. That same track, a bouncy, psychedelic romp, was issued as their debut single on Heavenly Recordings—and quickly became as sought after as any of the vintage vinyl they individually lusted over. Their latest, Sun Structures, is a record that’s destined to set out the band’s stall as Britain’s premier retro-futurists, with influences ranging from ‘60s psychedelia to Motown, glam, Krautrock and baggy, all viewed through a very modern kaleidoscope—and always keeping the song at the heart of it all.
LP $26.95
03/04/2014
CD $14.25
02/11/2014