New Releases

White Fence

Orange

Drag City

***Orange is an unstill life, a bowlful of new White Fence concepts for guitar band, grown larger through thoughts, feelings/SONGS. Rock ‘n balladry play with genre in uncrowded space. Orange is KILLER POP thru clean lines of power, outlined with an emphatic/unalterable (minimalist) frame. Dark magik at its most bright! A trance-like chronology of consciousness/SONGS captained by producer Ty Segall in opalescent diamond tightness and ice fidelity.

Bach Artillerie

s/t

Ernest Jenning Record Co.

***Curt Sydnor (Animal, Surrender!) and Greg Saunier (Deerhoof) play the Goldberg canons of J.S. Bach. Bach Artillerie is an absurdist take on the nine canons from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations and his Brandenburg concerto no. 5. Inspired by 20th century Bach interpreters like Wendy Carlos and the Swingle Singers, the canons are arranged for live synthesizers and drums while the concerto movements are reimagined and rendered via MIDI technology, showing the potential for fully human and fully computer-based reimaginings of these peak musical compositions.Sydnor and Saunier tracked the album on March 31, 2025 immediately following the Big Ears Music Festival at the Knoxville studio of engineer Jake Smith. Saunier created his parts using only Bach’s keyboard notation and later created the MIDI arrangements of Brandenburg Concerto no. 5 to complete the album. Musical introductions and transitions were supplied by Sydnor who recorded his parts live on analog synthesizers. Some arrangements were crafted in the studio and some minor overdubs were added later.

Prism Shores

Softest Attack

Meritorio

*** Montreal janglers Prism Shores return with Softest Attack, a sharper, more immediate follow-up to their acclaimed 2025 breakthrough Out From Underneath. While the previous record leaned into atmosphere, this new album doubles down on hooks, maximalist guitars, and the pure strength of their melancholic songwriting.Produced by Scott “Monty” Munro (Preoccupations) and mixed by René Wilson, Softest Attack blends jangle pop, ‘90s power pop, and shoegaze with clear echoes of The Wedding Present, Teenage Fanclub, and My Bloody Valentine — all filtered through the band’s Dunedin-inspired indiepop sensibility. For the first time, all four members contribute lyrics and lead vocals, marking their most collaborative and ambitious effort yet. Softest Attack is Prism Shores’ boldest attempt to craft a top-tier indiepop record: bigger, brighter, and overflowing with guitars, but always anchored by undeniable melody.

Lupo Citta

Inverno

12xu

***The title track for Lupo Città’s second LP, Inverno (‘winter’ in Italian), was born in January 2023. Written in waking sleep at 4 am. Looking out the window at the winter world below when it's too quiet, no one is around, but anything and everything feels possible. Lupo Città wrote the songs for Inverno by instinct: each song, in viscera, a life and personality of its own. Chris, Jenn, and Sarah each brought in songs at different stages, in different forms and moods. Some came together fast, others took long. Some songs had to be stripped, slowed down or sped up, while others were completely gutted and rebuilt. A hard coming out of post-COVID lockdown, trying to relearn to live outside of isolation. Moving from the dark of winter into light, a jarring shift, the world was changing so fast in such stark contrast between the quiet isolation we settled into with close friends and family. We couldn’t look away anymore, in the light of day, escalating political and social chaos happening outside, now rapidly closing in.While Lupo Città’s debut was melodic, energetic, world-weary, sometimes chaotic, Inverno is out on a limb, taking a risk, and not caring at all how it turns out. Inverno is a snapshot of the bad and good, trying to stay awake and be present, fighting off the sleep of winter and the lure of time standing still, so we can create the world we want instead of trying to survive the world we're in....

Gentilesky

Dream

Slovenly

***It’s 2026 and the world is coming to the end it deserves. In a post-world world, the soundtrack should be post-what-fucking-ever, and it needs to careen at light speed with piles upon piles of noise and tension. What remains of Sardinia and Turkey? GENTILESKY is there, and there, and HERE, bonding over a common goal of survival. “Dream” is their second album, and its ferocity was carefully designed to stop you dead in your tracks, but it’s not like you have anywhere left to run anyway. The nightmare continues on Slovenly Recordings this Spring. Stick around for it... We need you more than you realize.

Twenty-One Children

After The Storm

Slovenly

***Malaria infected mosquitos everywhere need to watch their backs. The most ferocious TWENTY ONE CHILDREN of Soweto are geared to exterminate all filth but their own, as they again join forces with Slovenly Recordings for an exercise in max irritability, and a structured plan with which to execute it. Immediately following the shockwaves of their explosive debut 7inch, the ‘Children return with a mini album’s worth of heavy distortion and a shit ton of bad attitude.Twenty One Children are the riotous punk pulse of Johannesburg — a fearless trio tearing up South Africa’s alt-music rulebook. Formed by friends Thula and Abdula with drummer Biko, they fuse U.S. skate punk grit with Soweto’s heartbeat in a storm of noise, soul, and defiance. Combining the insolent attacks of Suicidal Tendencies & Reagan Youth with the crude, rural thud of Ngozi Family, the 'Children are much more than just another punk band. Fueled by wit and DIY spirit, they’re a movement — building skate parks, hosting benefit shows, and igniting stages from Joburg to Kenya to the UK. In 2025 they toured the UK, shared the stage with proto-punk legends DEATH at We're Loud Fest in Kenya, and played loads of packed DIY gigs in South Africa… and they’re just getting started. 2026 ain’t just another year — it’s the Year of Twenty One.

Optic Sink

Relentless Metamorphosis

Dig! Records

***Natalie Hoffmann, Ben Bauermeister and Keith Cooper are back after their benchmark third album, Lucky Number (for FEEL IT RECORDS) with this long-percolating project of original compositions for the short films of mid-20th century filmmaker, Maya Deren (also an adroit dancer, writer, and general badass.) Experience over 40 minutes of aural and visual mind fry, translated sonically for the body and soul, as only this southern post-punk trio dare deliver. "I was fortunate to have two of my favorite professors at Memphis College of Art, Mary Molinary and Jill Wissmiller, show me Maya Deren’s work while I was a student. I was in a poetry class with Mary and an experimental cinema class with Jill. Both perfect and very different contexts to see and discuss Deren’s work. Meshes of the Afternoon redefined how I thought about both film and poetry. The framing, the pace, the repetition, and her strong use of the body and its contrasting movements were all so new and revolutionary to me. Her films were poems, they were choreographed dances, and they were hugely avant-garde and experimental, especially for the time she was making them. (Meshes of the Afternoon came out in 1943!) Crosstown Arts asked Optic Sink to score her films in 2022, and we were honored to be part of bringing her work to a bigger crowd in Memphis. After the show, people from the crowd enthusiastically discussed how incredible her work was and questioned why they had never heard of her, even though she...

Dragging An Ox Through Water

Whole Earth Cataloged

Mississippi

***Twelve years in the making, a new record by Portland's idiosyncratic master of ultra modern folk music Dragging An Ox Through Water. Old school electronic oscillations and blips meet solid guitar playing and singing. The lyrics alone are worth the price of admission. Nothing obvious is ever said and every word gleens with layers of meaning. Dragging An Ox Through Water is Brian Mumfords' cult long running art music project. Beloved in Portland. Willfully underground. The real stuff. A modern masterpiece.

Rats, The

RATS

Mississippi

***BACK IN PRINT!!! This is it! Fred and Toody Cole (of Dead Moon, The Range Rats, Pierced Arrows, etc) first ever record together! A primitive punk masterpiece. The perfect mix of sophisticated songwriting mixed with the rawest rock imaginable. Ground zero for Portland punk, remastered but still lo fi.

Bikini Kill

I Like Fucking / I Hate Danger

Bikini Kill Records

***Originally released in 1995 this single has been out of print for 13 years. To celebrate it's 30th year anniversary we've brought it back on clear pink vinyl

Bikini Kill

The Anti-Pleasure Dissertation

Bikini Kill Records

***Originally released in 1995 this single has been out of print for 13 years. To celebrate it's 30th year anniversary we've brought it back on baby blue vinyl.

V/a

As Time Draws Near

Cairo

***An austere and dialed compilation of 1920's and 1930's ballads. All plaintive solo vocals accompanied by the banjo. No dance songs. Instead you get intense very American tunes about existential angst, murder, love, mystical happenings and so on. The manna.As far as we know, this is the first record to compile purely hard hitting banjo ballads from the golden 78 era. A treasure....

V/a

Field Recordings From Michael Hurley's Memorial

Mississippi

***A recording of some of the best musical moments from Michael Hurley's memorial celebration. Unlike most compilations of covers, all the musicians on this one knew the artist their covering up close and personal. Here, they worked up the courage to publicly perform his songs a month after his passing. It's all no bullshit performances. The musicians range in age from eleven to eighty years old. The songs are raw and emotional as they come.It's a beautiful record!Comes in an old school folkways style wraparound cover and includes a ten page booklet featuring testimonials from the artists, a poem Michael liked, a transcription of a speech Michael made and other rants and raves.

El Colmo

Las Babirusas

Slouch

***El Colmo is a Los Angeles trio of veterans—members with history in Detroit Cobras, The Starlite Desperation, Neighborhood Brats, Gestapo Khazi, and Frontier Club. Their Spanish-language punk rock is raw, jangly, and cathartic: art-damaged garage with deep roots and zero pretension. Las Babirusas is the band's debut full- length on Slouch Records, building on the momentum of the La Casa Invisible 7" and years of being fxtures of the LA underground.

Oog Bogo

Video Life / I Want You Around

Slouch

***Oog Bogo is the Los Angeles project of Kevin Boog—former bassist of Meatbodies and a fixture of the Ty Segall orbit. Having released records on Ty Segall's God? Records and In The Red, Boog has built a devoted following across the underground with his homespun, lo-fi approach to psych-punk and post-wave weirdness.Here Oog Bogo turns to two unlikely standards and reframes them without sentimentality. Side A revisits “Video Life,” originally written and recorded by Chris Spedding in 1977—a song about image, mediation, and the strange performance of modern life.Side B takes on “I Want You Around” by The Ramones— ne of the band’s most direct expressions of longing, first released in 1978.Rather than updating or modernizing the material, Oog Bogo places both songs in the present tense. Two late-70s statements about desire—one filtered through media, one stripped to devotion—pressed back into circulation.

Street Fruit

Strange Tanks

Slouch

***Street Fruit is a Los Angeles quartet with roots going back to 1991: Hans Dobbratz (vocals), Philipp Minnig (guitar/vocals), Tiffanie Lanmon (drums/vocals), and Cyrus Gengras (bass/vocals). Strange Tanks is their sophomore album—recorded on 2" tape by Jimmy Dixon at 64 Sound and Homestead Studios—and fnds the band at their most dynamic and unpredictable. Equal parts garage rock, post-punk, and freak-pop, the record slithers between seediness and melody with near-telepathic band chemistry and a dark, surreal wit.

Harris, Jody / Robert Quine

Escape

Sorcerer

***Sorcerer Records present the first reissue of Jody Harris and Robert Quine's Escape, originally released on the New York based No Wave label Infidelity (Lust/Unlust subsidiary) label in 1981. Jody made his name on the NY scene mainly through his work with the legendary avant-funksters, The Contortions, while Robert Quine, who sadly passed away in 2004, was one of the most acclaimed guitarists of his day, noted for his work with Richard Hell & The Voidoids, Lou Reed, Tom Waits, John Zorn, Matthew Sweet, and many more. The two recorded Escape in Quine's apartment with a whopping budget of $7 (that's what it cost Quine for the tape). The album sees them both engaging in guitar duels over a primitive drum machine, a kind of skeletal minimal-synth with avant-guitar excursions overhead. Outward-bound yet wholly listenable, the five tracks represent a great lost gem of the NYC underground scene of the day. Recommended to fans of No Wave, Rhys Chatham, Suicide, and the music of Robert Quine and Jody Harris, of course. This edition also comes with an inner sleeve featuring liner notes from Jody Harris detailing the recording, as well as exclusive photographs of the two. Remastered by Mikey Young and fully authorized by Jody Harris and Robert's brother, Van. Edition of 600.

Total Control

Henge Beat

Iron Lung

***REPRESSED!!! Note new price. TOTAL CONTROL's 2011 debut album, Henge Beat, changed the way people thought about Australian music forever. Out of print since 2020 but now it's back and better sounding than ever. The combination of all their previous work and a steady live band has come together to form the great Henge Beat LP. These guys have outdone themselves with this one. Musically it rests somewhere between late ‘70s UK new wave a-la Ha Ha Ha-era Ultravox and the "now sound" Eddy Current Suppression Ring. Aussie garage that we all know and love. Add a dash of hopeful Krautrock flavor and the recipe is a smashing success. We could not be happier to offer this perfect execution to you.  2026 pressing: 1,000 copies on black 150gr vinyl housed in a 24pt jacket with huge newsprint poster included. Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Mikey Young. Lacquers cut by JJ Golden. Art by Rasmus Emanuel Svensson.

Grupo Jejeje

Grupo Jejeje Rebajadas Por Sonido Dueñez

Discos Rolas

***Discos Rolas presents Gabriel Dueñez aka Sonido Dueñez’s rebajada mix Grupo Jejeje’s debut eponymous album. Dueñez (born 1947) began DJing as a sonidero at age 13 and is the creator of Monterrey, Mexico’s unique cumbia sound. He is a well-known collector of vallenata, Colombian cumbia, and sonidero records. Dueñez invented cumbia rebajada—dramatically slowed down cumbia—by accident when his turntable’s motor malfunctioned and pitched down the records. After his fans asked for more “rebajadas,” Dueñez modified his turntable to slow down the records and began making rebajada compilations on cassette. Despite being a pioneer of the genre, Dueñez humbly continues to make his rebajada cassettes from home and sell tapes from his stand on the Bridge del Papa over the Río Santa Catarina in Monterrey.Dueñez has releases on Peerless label’s gold and platinum compilation LPs and is featured in Mirjam Wirz’ Ojos Suaves, Amanda Watkins’ Cholombianos, Vice’s “The Evolution of Cumbia Music in Monterrey,” and elsewhere.At Discos Rolas’ invitation, Dueñez made his first trip to the United States to perform at the label launch and Grupo Jejeje release party and participate in an artist conversation with Grupo Jejeje in Los Angeles. Dueñez created the first rebajada of an entire album. 2020 release.

Beathoven

Live At Pascoe Vale High School 1977

Grown Up Wrong

Previously unheard live recording from '77 of legendary Aussie power pop pioneers Beathoven, who were described by Kim Fowley as 'the Tasmanian Bay City Rollers'.Huge in their home state, Beathoven failed to break nationally (despite multiple TV appearances and a Best New Band' nomination at the 1978 Countdown Awards) and eventually morphed into the Innocents, who are also much loved in power pop circles.Recorded live to two track, this album captures the mania surrounding the band and captures the band at their early Beatles best and sounds like The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl reenacted in a Melbourne highschool in the '70s! Includes great versions of fan faves like "Please Don't Go", "Darlin'" and "Shy Girl" and plenty of songs never before released.Includes liner notes by the band's David Minchin, with plenty of cool pix and memorabilia.Both Beathoven and the Innocents have been recently names as favorites by The Lemon Twigs.For Fans Of: Lemon Twigs, Sharp Pins, the Gnomes, early BEATLES!, Swinging Blue Jeans, Bay City Rollers, Rockin' Horse, the Poppees, the Innocents, the Nerves, the Scruffs, the Spongetones, Shake Some Action-era Flamin' Groovies, Utopia's Deface the Music, the Rutles!Edition of 500 copies on sold blue vinyl.

Breakers, The

Night After Night

Grown Up Wrong

Long lost Sydney power pop band circa '79-80 whose two main players came together at the urging of legendary LA svengali/producer (Runaways, Hollywood Stars, Candy etc) and songwriter (Kiss, Van Halen etc.) Kim Fowley after he 'discovered' them both during his Australian sojourn of Xmas '78/79. Those two main players were Jarryl Wirth, guitarist of now iconic and oft-bootlegged early Melbourne punks Babeez/News (Jarryl recorded solo tracks for Fowley under the name the Lonely Boys) and Jimmy Manzie, songwriter/bass player for hugely popular Sydney band Ol' 55 (Aus's answer to Sha Na Na/Flash Cadillac) who previously had a #1 album and multiple Top 10 hits (and who can still sell out theatres). Manzie is also known amongst power pop fans as the producer of the classic single 'Sooner or Later' by Fowley's other Aussie power pop proteges, the Innocents, and is known to Ausrock fans as the producer of the Choirboys.Edition of 500 copies on hot pink vinyl.

Eastern Dark, The

Johnny and Dee Dee / Julie Is A Junkie

Grown Up Wrong

To commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the passing of James Darroch, singer / songwriter / guitarist for Sydney's incredible The Eastern Dark, Grown Up Wrong! is thrilled to announce a long-awaited reissue of the band's classic single "Johnny and Dee Dee / Julie Is A Junkie".Heavily influenced by the Ramones—the band opened their first live show with 'Blitzkrieg Bop' and from then on opened with a new Ramones song every time they played, working through the band's complete catalogue in chronological order—as all manner of hyper-melodic and high energy rock. The Eastern Dark were a classic trio powered by former Celibate Rifles bassplayer James Darroch's blazing guitar and anchored by former Lime Spiders backing vocalist Bill Gibson's hard driving and melodic bass playing (and supreme backing vocals) and Geoff Milne's untouchable beat keeping. They set Sydney's Radio Birdman influenced scene alight in 1984 and quickly built an international following on the back of their classic single. Sadly, just hours after completing what would become their next release - the mini-LP Long Live the New Flesh— the band's life, and that of 26-year old James Darroch, was brutally ended in a road accident whilst the band was on its way to Melbourne.On the back of the tragedy, the band's music lived on and it's global impact was reflected in the influence it bore on numerous bands, from Boston's the Lemoneads to Tokyo's Teengenenete, and obviously a succession of Australian bands from the Hard-Ons through to God and the Meanies and beyond.After...

Akusmi

Fleeting Future

Tonal Union

Akusmi is the new project moniker of French-born, London based composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer Pascal Bideau, who signs to the new Tonal Union imprint for the release of his album ‘Fleeting Future.’ With its hallucinatory, genre-defying blend of minimalism, cosmic jazz and Fourth World influences, and in its quest for optimism in the face of unknown and limitless possibility. ‘Fleeting Future’ stands apart as an inventive and inspirational debut. The creation of the album’s richly colourful and multi-layered sound world was originally inspired by Bideau’s journey to Indonesia, where he immersed himself in traditional Gamelan and gong music. Many of the themes, motifs and melodies on ‘Fleeting Future’ seed from the ‘Slendro’ scale, one of the essential tuning systems used in Gamelan. However it is not musical scales, but scales as in the size or extent of things that most fascinates Bideau, specifically he explains; “the compelling way things dramatically change when you shift from any given scale to another.” The album connects directly to nature and the wider world in its evocation of perceptive shifts and transitions from microscopic to macro scale, as evidenced by the opening title track ‘Fleeting Future’, on which a simple dotted saxophone line morphs and billows into synths, brass and strings, indicating the musical voyage that lies ahead. Like the start of a journey or adventure it is full of anticipation, its arborescent growth conveying the optimism of the unknown and of limitless possibility. The album centrepiece ‘Neo Tokyo’ is a vibrating, ebullient...

Vectors

Death To Disco

PNV

***Complete early discography from this short lived, stellar Fullerton, CA punk rock outfit. This top rate collection features the group's debut 1979 single, the certified KBD classic "Death to Disco," their 1981 12" EP and some odds and ends from that era. Far from a paint by numbers snotty punk rock outfit, The Vectors had a musicality and tension colored with shades of post punk, while retaining the proto-HC energy expected of a SoCal outfit from their era. In a sense they bridged the gap from the Anglo Skids/Ruts sound to the Americanized iteration in groups like Big Boys, Effigies, Minutemen, etc. This collection features a ton of photos and artwork exclusive to this release; a fitting presentation for this collection of top rate punk tunes.

Lew, Hannah

Hannah Lew

Night School

“One foot out the door, another in the otherworld...” So begins Hannah Lew’s debut, self-titled solo record, soaked in imperious, wide-eyed pop songwriting and a girl-group/post punk aesthetic that belies the artist’s history in the U.S. underground. A towering, hook-laden album, it’s infused with an optimism and surrealism that conversely deals with the times we find ourselves in. Recorded at home in Richmond, CA and in The Best House studio with Maryam Qudus in Oakland CA, with the assistance of a crack team of West Coast musicians, this album sees Hannah Lew stepping out from behind the legacy of her two groups Grass Widow and Cold Beat. While musically bearing similarities with her previous work, Hannah Lew is a bold leap into direct pop territory, making ample use of a vocal style that teases out the inherent melancholy in her melodies. Mastered by Sarah Register, each song is a perfectly honed nugget that frequently pulls the heart in two directions at once. Themes of change, breaking up, shattering old ways of being are shot through the record. For the front cover, a photograph of the artist’s face was printed, ripped up and re-assembled, resembling the creative process embarked upon by Lew for her first “solo” material. The album feels instinctual, almost dream-like in its assemblage of sweeping synths and pulsating, propulsive drum machine beat patterns with Lew’s vocal performances sensitive and caressing over the top. Increasingly relying on the subconscious and dreams to guide her creative process, Hannah Lew frequently...

Motorists

Never Sing Alone

We Are Time

***Driving is a huge part of rock and roll’s enduring mythology. Images of cruising down the highway with friends and lovers while basking in the freedom of the open road pervade pop music’s lyrical canon. Yet, so often, these idealized images clash with the everyday drudgery of being a motorist: traffic jams, detours, and bad news on the radio.This tension is central to Motorists’ sound—as much about the colourful possibilities of life as it is about the way those possibilities are boxed in by technologies. It’s clear that, for the band, creative collaboration is the only way to break the tension. In a world where everyone’s been in their own bubble, Motorists have pushed theirs together and worked through feelings of isolation as a group, to the tune of jangly guitars, infectious power pop hooks, and a steady motorik beat. The result is an album (the band's third) full of revelations about what it means to be together, and how bad you want it when you’re being torn apart.

Plummer, Bill And The Cosmic Brotherhood

s/t

Jackpot

Welcome to the mind-expanding 1968 jazz recording of Bill Plummer and The Cosmic Brotherhood—where Eastern and psychedelic influences meld together to produce one of the trippiest jazz albums on Impulse Records.This LP is a much-sought-after sonic travelogue, with the pop-psych spoken-word sitar freakout of “Journey To The East” to Bill Plummer’s swinging, rapid fire/cool jazz compositions, tohis covers that go straight to the heart of any 60’s genre-crossing jazz fans.Featuring an incredible who's who of the high-caliber talent bubbling over in the Los Angeles music scene at the time:• Carol Kaye (legendary bass player of The Wrecking Crew)• Maurice Miller (drummer in The Jazz Corps)• Dennis Budimir (guitarist with Chico Hamilton Quintet, Ravi Shankar & Frank Zappa)• Mike Lang (Piano with Flamin’ Groovies & Hal Blaine)• Tom Scott (Saxophone with Gabor Szabo & Thelonious Monk)• Ray Neopolitan (Bass for The Doors & Leonard Cohen)• Milt Holland (Percussionist with The Wrecking Crew & Captain Beefheart)• Bill Goodwin (Drums for Mose Allison & Tom Waits)Housed in a beautiful gatefold sleeve with iconic liner notes by Frank Kofsky, who comes out swinging hard in favor of the album, while shaking the dust off any jazz snobs left in the '60s who still were not ready to embrace the future of jazz.Produced by Bob Thiele who produced everyone from John Coltrane, Art Blakey to Charles Mingus, this sonic rarity is yet another impressive vinyl reissue from the folks at Jackpot Records

Novoa, Eva

Solo (I)

577 Records

***Brooklyn-based pianist and composer Eva Novoa presents Eva Novoa Solo (I), her first solo piano recording and seventh album with 577 Records. Recorded at the legendary Sear Sound Studios in Manhattan, the album captures Novoa alone in the studio, embracing the artistic challenge of vulnerability, introspection, and creative freedom that defines the solo piano format. After several years working primarily within piano trio settings and other ensemble configurations, Novoa turned inward, embarking on a deeply personal sonic journey. Solo (I) marks a pivotal moment in her artistic evolution and establishes the foundation for a new series of solo recordings. On Solo (I), Novoa expands the traditional piano vocabulary. While the grand piano remains her primary instrument, she also performs on Fender Rhodes and electric harpsichord (the latter to be explored further in upcoming volumes), incorporating Chinese gongs, additional percussion, vocals, and even whistling on select tracks. The result is an intensely intimate and sonorous experience—raw, cinematic, and emotionally charged.

MORS.VOID.DISCIPLINE

Txketh)ëké

Sentient Ruin Laboratories

***Chilean bestial goregrind terror-cult Mors.Void.Discipline emerge from the bottomless dungeons of the South American extreme metal underground with their debut full-length monstrosity "Txketh)ëké", a twenty-minute inhuman assault of terror-spawning bestial war metal destruction swathed in the grinding rot and maggot-infested putridity of 90's goregrind.

Rotting Sky

Sedation

Sentient Ruin Laboratories

***REISSUED ON VINYL - FIRST TIME ON CD!!! Masterminded by Portland, Oregon-based musician T. Messing (Rohit, Nux Vomica) and taking its name from a Khanate song, Rotting Sky's 2014 masterpiece and sole full-length album "Sedation" still towers grandiose and inscrutable as defiant testament of a vision that remains unrivaled and unprecedented to this day, over a decade after it was first conceived. A swarming and sweeping creative tour de force conquering expressive totality from deep within the most tense and concealed folds of inner turmoil and personal struggle, "Sedation" plumbs the darkest depths of torment as a massive cathartic deflagration, immortalized into the present as one of the most enduring, moving and soul-shattering underground experimental black metal creations of the past decade. Adhering religiously to its foundational principles of withdrawal, isolation, confinement, and frugal self-empowerment, "Sedation" accretes from a myriad of field recordings, samples, guitar pedal layering, and home-made DIY recording tactics, to embody a massive colorless monolith of industrialized sonic ruin. A majestic convergence of dungeon-creeping raw black metal, disembodied power electronics, industrial noise and dirging funeral doom, ascending and spiraling into an obsidian maelstrom of despair. The foundational seclusion driving other recluse experimental and industrial leaning black metal projects such as Nortt, Gnaw Their Tongues, Murmuüre, Emanation and Paysage d'Hiver has convergently evolved similar stylistic traits in Rotting Sky, materializing a majestic and impenetrable aural specter in which the artist's unique personal.

Mohr, Kathryn

Carve

Flenser

Carve is the second full-length by Bay Area artist Kathryn Mohr. Written over the course of five years and recorded over several weeks in a rural singlewide in the Mojave Desert, the album centers on love experienced as a form of grief, not as an aftermath of loss, but as a condition of intimacy itself.Mohr describes Carve as an album about how memory exists outside the body, embedded in places and landscapes. It is shaped by her first return to the American Southwest since a childhood road trip at age five, and by the experience of moving through terrain that holds emotional weight long after its origins fade. The record considers how intimacy feels after years of isolation, and what it takes to carve out a life that allows for trust, presence, and feeling rather than mere survival.The project took form after a difficult tour that ended in Joshua Tree. Mohr pointed her car into the desert and drove alone, crisscrossing the Mojave on dirt roads. Months later, she returned to record the album, working alone with an acoustic guitar, a field recorder, and limited supplies.Following that period, Mohr began to allow for intimacy and connection. The time she spent recording Carve in the desert did not create isolation so much as mirror it. Working alone out of an old, western-themed jail Airbnb, the physical enclosure reflected the emotional conditions under which much of the record had been written: distance, restraint, and long stretches of stillness. In that context, love...

Flipper

Generic Flipper

Superior Viaduct

Generic Flipper, the debut album by Flipper, remains the most absorbing full-length LP to emerge from the early San Francisco punk scene. A constant source of imitation for so-called “noise rock” bands, it has yet to be surpassed in its nihilistic glee.Recorded between October 1980 and August 1981 and released in 1982 on the indispensable Subterranean Records, this album functions as a chaotic, sticky mass of individual personalities: the magma-like bass eruptions and dual vocals of Will Shatter and Bruce Loose, Ted Falconi’s icy guitar scraping and the relentless beat of drummer Steve DePace. At times playful and taciturn, paranoid and absurd, Generic charts a deliberate path that willfully chances destruction.In early ’80s punk, when the hardening default was “faster-shorter-louder,” Generic subverts the nascent hardcore scene with a strictly applied regimen of turgid-slower-heavier. The lyrics are bleak, yet unnervingly beautiful. “Ever” sets the tone with trademark restraint—“Ever wish the human race didn’t exist? And then realize you’re one too?”—while closer “Sex Bomb” is a churning, 8-minute epic with looping bass, saxophone accompaniment and electronic effects of dropping bombs.Tons of indie bands have attempted to recreate Flipper’s mix of acidic guitar, metallic bass sludge and sardonically brilliant lyricism, using the seemingly effortless template they pioneered; however, the effect usually drives listeners right back to Generic. While most of their contemporaries wilt under direct comparison, No Trend, the Butthole Surfers, feedtime and Church Police are a few who can stand the frigid heat.

Magus

Music for Mandrax

Language Of Stone

A magus is a wizard…a sorcerer. Magus, the band, is certainly interested in such things (who isn’t), but the name is especially apt due to the band’s approach to alchemy, the blending of rock, gothic, proto metal, and psychedelic styles to create a sound that is, ultimately, unique. Part of that uniqueness comes from the instrumentation. While guitar is often a dominant instrument of the rock oeuvre, the Fender Rhodes generally plays a supportive role. Not so here, where Jessica Weeks’ deft use of the keyboard dovetails with Greg Weeks’ more standard six-string approach. Not standard is the band’s sound. Doomy yet inspirational, dour yet vibrant, the duo’s tunes map sinister realms whose subjects span metaphysical creatures to enigmatic portals. You know, the typical stuff that rubs elbows with a magus. Formed in late 2024, Magus sprung from a desire by both artists to experiment with darker, heavier sounds. Long enamored of artists like Flower Travelling Band,, Black Sabbath, and Deep Purple, the duo delved deeply into trance like riffs and euphoric solos to create the backbone of what has become their debut album, Music for Mandrax. This thirteenth Language of Stone offering features grounded, metronomic grooves, organic, lugubrious synth lines, and tandem vocals (supplied by both Weekses) that, in total, weave a heavy, trance-like spell sure to entice fans of bands as disparate as Sabbath is to Pink Floyd. Recorded at Weeks’ Hexham Head studio (to analog tape, of course), the band enlisted long-time counterparts Jesse Sparhawk (bass) and...

Reeking Aura

On the Promise of the Moon

Profound Lore

Reeking Aura, a five piece death metal group made of seasoned veterans from the NY/NJ underground scene, returns in 2026 with their second album On the Promise of the Moon. Tracked at OK Studios in Kinderhook, NY then mixed and mastered by the legendary Dan Swano, On the Promise of the Moon builds on the "Fires in Deep Frost" EP released in 2025 with a dark, melodic atmosphere that does not compromise their brutal, guttural NY roots.Returning from the first album are guitarists Terrell Grannum (Thaetas), and Rick Habeeb (Grey Skies Fallen) as well as vocalist William Smith (Afterbirth). Drummer Hudson Barth and bassist TJ Coon (both also in Trog) round out the lineup and bring fresh blood to the band, with all members having contributed to the writing process.The album also features contributions from guest vocalists Eston Browne (Vulnificus) and Jon Berg (The Path) as well as string arrangements by Ben Karas (Slaughtersun).Reeking Aura began in 2019 and promptly recorded their debut EP "Beneath the Canopy of Compost" and first album "Blood and Bonemeal" with Colin Marston in Queens, NYC. In addition to NY and NJ gigs supporting Malevolent Creation, Horrendous, Crypt Sermon and Mortician, they have toured the North and Southeast U.S. with such acts as Replicant, Atoll, Pyrexia, Hath, Animals Killing People, False Gods and Carrion Vael.

Choncy

Trademark

Feel It

Trademark is the third LP from Cincinnati punk quartet Choncy. Within genres that have been recycled, revitalized, and pushed to their limits for over fifty years, the group is constantly dancing around their signature sound. References of alternative music motifs stretched from bustling British megalopolises to rust-covered Midwest neighborhoods displays Choncy’s desire to play punk music but refuses to pick an era to pull from. Is there anything left to say? Are we all playing the same three chords? If we are, who owns the rights to them?Known for their “kitchen sink” style, Choncy has cleaned off the plates this time around; loosening up on their hardcore roots and taking a step further towards the estranged and angular corners of punk. Unpredictable dances between demented dissonance and craggy punches parallel a constant shift in power, resulting in a record that demands attention more than ever before.Since the release of their sophomore LP, Choncy has been ping-ponging phone demos as a full-time Ohio to New York remote effort. In similar fashion, the group elected to record these ten tracks on their own between their respective practice spaces and bedrooms in Cincinnati and Brooklyn. Even with hundreds of miles between them, Choncy continues to refine and deliver their trademark style and sound.

Abdul-Rauf, Leila

Andros Insidium

20 Buck Spin

Through her work across five Vastum albums, Leila Abdul-Rauf has been a sonorous contributor to 20 Buck Spin’s discography for more than fifteen years now. Concurrent to that she’s also amassed an impressive body of solo work whereby she could showcase the full range of her multi-instrumental artistic and vocal talents. We now bring that part of Leila’s output to 20 Buck Spin showcasing her darkest and most confrontational material to date with new album Andros Insidium.On Andros Insidium Leila draws us into a ceremonial descent, through the architecture of shadow itself. Unfolding like a ritual text etched in obsidian, each movement traces the violent and sacred geometry of transformation. The presence and wisdom of the feminine divine looms throughout, as an ancient and uncompromising force, in conflict with everything buried, exiled and made monstrous by the machinery of societal pressures and unrealistic expectations. The album delves deep into the dark vastness of the psyche of woman: wild, ugly, vulnerable and powerful.Sonically Andros Insidium is a mutation of the cinematic dark-ambient, industrial and ritual folk expressed in prior releases, now sharpened into something far darker, more narrative and intimate. Leila’s vocal work becomes a new focus with a wider variety of styles and characters, exorcising the demons of patriarchal fragmentation and revenge fantasy as lived myth. In its most potent moments, Andros Insidium suggests that wholeness is not purity or light, but the terrifying act of reclaiming everything that was discarded, and learning to speak with its voice.

C.I.A. Debutante

Trespass

Siltbreeze

Can you believe there are now four CIA Debutante lp's in the world? That's right, this newest one, 'Trespass' is batting in the cleanup spot & it is very to task; the strongest, most focused effort put forth yet. Narrator/guitarist Nathan Roche is at the peak of his oratory & string mangling prowess. His recitation over flared fret work, conjoined with Paul Bonnet's alchemical electronic stitchery (don't forget that clarinet!-Woodwinds ed.) summons forth a promethean tableau that's inexplicably both gothic & futuristic. Imagine if Mary Shelley had created Roxy Music instead of Frankenstein? 'Trespass' burns with a demanding urgency, its majesty sweeping across time from the charnel houses of Ingolstadt, Barvaria, to the Offworld shoulders of Orion....frontiers! Whatever you thought of their previous three albums, those are now but tears in the rain. With 'Trespass', could CIA Debutante be approaching the pinnacle of Godhead? The Fates whisper only, "perhaps."

Kumo 99

Body N. Will

Going Underground

***Kumo 99 is an electronic duo whose unique music and art direction speaks for itself, appealing to a wide variety of audiences. Post-national, apocalypse-adjacent, lo-tech love songs for the digital native.Vinyl edition includes lyric insert and 33" x 23" fold-out poster housed in a laminated tip-on jacket.

Kumo 99

Headplate

Going Underground

***Kumo 99 is an electronic duo whose unique music and art direction speaks for itself, appealing to a wide variety of audiences. Headplate reaches out from the window of a passing car and it all makes sense. You know exactly what you have to do.Vinyl edition includes lyric insert and 33" x 23" fold-out poster housed in a laminated tip-on jacket.

Pine, The

Lead Blocks for Feet

Going Underground

***Lead Blocks For Feet captures The Pine in a formative moment, pushing outward while beginning to settle into a sound that feels distinctly their own. While previous releases drew heavily from the California emo landscape, the band takes a darker turn here, experimenting with folk-inspired songwriting and introducing the character-driven storytelling that would help define their sound: fast, loud, distorted, and heartfelt.Back in print for the first time in over twenty years, this edition is packaged in a gatefold sleeve and remastered with care.