New Releases

Dungan, Jason / Johan Carøe

Routine

Tonal Union

Copenhagen-based multi-instrumentalists Jason Dungan (Blue Lake) and Johan Carøe didn’t set out to make an album. Instead, as the title ‘Routine’ suggests, they found their way there through a process of habitual making and listening, developing an intuitive musical language to reflect the dreamlike meanderings and creative play of life's quiet moments. ‘Routine’ blends pop orientated sounds, Avant-garde minimalism, folk and new age with the emotive depth of film-score.Their meeting was not entirely coincidental. Previously in bands such as Squares and Triangles, Jason Dungan has since recorded multiple albums under the moniker Blue Lake, including the lauded Sun Arcs, pursuing his passion for self-built percussion and multi-string instruments. Johan Carøe meanwhile is a composer whose film soundtrack work has seen him collaborate with Angelo Badalamenti, Arp, and Sofie Birch, at whose Andersabo residency (curated by Dungan) the pair first met, resulting in the highly praised album ‘Repair Techniques’ written by Birch and Carøe.‘Routine’ emerged organically over many years against the backdrop of great personal change. As Carøe said goodbye to his father and welcomed his first child, the pair sent each other fragments of melodies and patterns, working up responses when time allowed to assemble a sonic palette that combined acoustic instrumentation of zither, clarinet, cello, saxophone (among others) with the textures of tape, drum machine and Yamaha DX7 synth. Inspired by the vulnerability and DIY ethos of Arthur Russell’s home recordings, the vision of labels like Disques de Crepescule, and the art pop, experimentation inherent to late ‘70s and...

This Heat

Health And Efficiency

Superior Viaduct

"For some fans, Health And Efficiency is This Heat's peak achievement – their most concentrated blast of visceral intensity and wayward experimentalism. Featuring two long pieces, the EP came out in September 1980. It was released on Piano, the imprint founded by David Cunningham of Flying Lizards, and distributed by Rough Trade, home of the burgeoning post-punk movement and fellow travelers like The Raincoats, Scritti Politti, Cabaret Voltaire and The Red Crayola. "Lead track 'Health And Efficiency' combines fierce angular rock that fully lives up to Cunningham's belief that This Heat could become a post-punk King Crimson, with a multi-part babble of vocals, clattering percussive timbres and found sounds. In a large outdoor space, one of the group played with sounds 'a bit like children,’ drummer Charles Hayward told one interviewer. 'Milk bottles, melodicas, woodblocks, little shouts. And just outside across the wall was an infant and junior school. So we put a microphone by the wall and recorded the kids at playtime.' "Flipside 'Graphic/Varispeed' is more subdued and hypnotic: a wavering tonescape whose duration depends on whether you play it at 45 RPM or 33 1/3. This reissue reproduces the original release's striking cover image of a human figure painted in blue by Pete Cobb, along with the cryptic flipside of text in many different languages. "The EP title Health And Efficiency sounds like it's mocking bureaucratic language or the jargon of self-optimization. Some reckon it's a sly nod to Health & Efficiency, the long-running British magazine about nudism...

Hickli, Laura

Stranger To Myself

Ba Da Bing!

“The world just kept spinning. We hit the ground again—I thought I had died. Everything went black for a second. And then, suddenly, the van stopped. The g-forces vanished, but inside me, the spinning didn’t. My body was still. But inside, I kept tumbling.”That’s Laura Hickli, describing the car accident that changed her life and nearly shattered her relationship with music. Stranger To Myself, Hickli’s full-length debut moves through her journey from fracture to revival.“What’s the point of being alive when it can all be taken away so quickly?”Hickli’s unfiltered recollections are shaped by fear, shock, and survivor’s guilt. They appear in Stranger To Myself’s darkest passages, grounding the album in raw, unguarded vulnerability.During a 2023 U.S. tour, Hickli’s van skidded on ice and flew off the road, spun 180 degrees into oncoming traffic, careening backwards off the highway and rolling three times down a 50 foot hill. As it tumbled down the hillside, Hickli felt everything slow down, watching her belongings rise around her, suspended in eerie stillness, time stretching the space between life and death. It was just twenty-four seconds, and although there were no severe injuries, Hickli was painfully affected. In the months that followed, writing music unpacked what her body had survived yet her mind could not accept.Stranger To Myself is a sonic journey towards healing. Music holds immense power for Hickli; it’s how she processes, how she connects, how she survives. Across the album, she confronts grief, fear, and dissociation on her path to acceptance...

Mother Of Graves

The Light That Keeps Us

Profound Lore

After two years of meticulous crafting and the lasting impact left behind from their sophomore offering The Periapt of Absence, which claimed a #11 spot on Decibel Magazine’s Top 40 AOTY and tore through countless year-end lists, Indianapolis death-doom titans Mother of Graves return alongside Profound Lore Records with The Light that Keeps Us. Here, it is evident that Mother of Graves have no intention of slowing their evolution into fully realized territory as a quintet. The album is driven by the sharpened songwriting of guitarists Chris Morrison and Ben Sandman, the unrelenting foundation of bassist Corey Clark and drummer Don Curtis, and the expressive, poetic cadence of vocalist/keyboardist Brandon Howe. Seamlessly forging the aggression and power of death metal with the melancholic and romantic edge of melodic doom, The Light that Keeps Us is crushing, hauntingly human, and a true showcase of the band’s authenticity in their expression and care for the genre. Each track serving as a hand to guide the listener through the introspective journey of mortality, sorrow, love and resilience. The band’s dynamic continues to grow under the production of guitarist Ben Sandman, whose work behind the console keeps personal touch prevalent within their music, stripping away the excess and amplifying the things that matter. At the helm of visual depictions, fine artist Larisa Brechun perfectly captures the weight and depth of the music in her cover painting, providing evocative imagery to accompany the band’s bleak yet uplifting nature. It has become a standard throughout their...

Lyons, Chris

New Love for the Old Flame

Nudie Records

***New Love For The Old Flame finds the CHRIS LYONS (SILVER SYNTHETIC) estranged and mystified, unearthing a pathway to a space where music and magic prevail. Shimmering acoustic guitars, sweeping harmonies, and euphoric synthetic strings recorded live to an Otari MX70 in New Orleans. These are odes to love lapsed, balancing misery and ecstasy; reuniting the dark with a thread of light.

Lugubrious Garment

In The Wide Vale Of Uncreated Night

20 Buck Spin

Following the ferocious declaration of intent laid down by 2025’s Demo MMXXV, Milan-based musician Gabriele Gramaglia offers the first full-length manifestation of Lugubrious Garment, In The Wide Vale Of Uncreated Night. Known for his work with Cosmic Putrefaction, Vertebra Atlantis and numerous other entities operating within the more adventurous reaches of extreme metal, Gramaglia established Lugubrious Garment as an outlet for a more ravenous and instinctive strain of death metal; one driven by brute momentum, frenzied aggression and an uncompromising rawness. On In The Wide Vale Of Uncreated Night that initial impulse erupts into a considerably more formidable and fully developed beast. While retaining the layered, multifaceted songwriting characteristic of Gramaglia’s broader body of work, Lugubrious Garment directs that complexity toward outright pandemonium. Gritty, abrasive guitars churn through pummeling and intricate rhythmic contortions as tortured vocals howl from within the tumult and cascades of shrieking lead guitar slash across the album’s fractured landscape. Yet beneath its seemingly unrestrained violence lies a meticulously engineered attack: riffs twist and collide at excessive velocity, tempos lurch between hammering force and sudden acceleration, and flashes of classic heavy and speed metal emerge through the wreckage before being swallowed by the surrounding maelstrom. In The Wide Vale Of Uncreated Night thrives upon this collision of precision and savagery, harnessing technical ability as another weapon in an arsenal built for maximum destructive force. Lugubrious Garment channels the restless imagination behind Gramaglia’s other work into something noticeably more feral and antagonistic; a sustained barrage of serrated riffing,...

Ramsey, Willis Alan

S/t

Antarctica Starts Here

Singer-songwriter Willis Alan Ramsey was 20 years old when he became the third signing to Leon Russell and Denny Cordell's Shelter Records – after Russell himself and the legendary J.J. Cale. The result was Ramsey's 1972 eponymous debut, a masterpiece of laid-back Texas country-rock, blues-inflected folk and outlaw ballads. As a child, Ramsey was an obsessive radio listener – from Elvis and the Beatles to Delta blues, country and even classical music. By middle school, he had formed his first garage band and started writing songs. After a brief stint at the University of Texas, he took to the burgeoning coffeehouse circuit where he toured alongside folks like Townes Van Zandt, Jerry Jeff Walker and Keith Sykes. It was during these shows that Ramsey developed much of the material for his LP, a diverse yet coherent mix that revealed his varied influences. Recorded in Memphis, Nashville and at Russell's home studio in the Hollywood Hills, the album features some of the era's greatest session musicians: Eddie Hinton on guitar, Red Rhodes on pedal steel and the rhythm section of Leland Sklar and Jim Keltner. A true songwriter's songwriter album, its tunes have been covered by Waylon Jennings ("Satin Sheets"), Jimmy Buffett ("The Ballad of Spider John") and, most famously, Captain & Tennille ("Muskrat Love"), but no cover can beat the originals from the wise-beyond-his-years Ramsey. Though Willis Alan Ramsey has continued to perform regularly and write new songs, a second album is yet to be released. For years, whenever someone...

Sacred Blade

Hammerhead Demoz + Battleaxe Echoez (1981-1985)

Supreme Echo

***From Beyond The Realmz Of The Barrier Plainz. A comprehensive retrospective of Western Canada’s progressive metal pioneers, Sacred Blade. Deluxe LP + 7” package collecting all three demos recorded before their debut album, plus outtakes and rare recordings from 1981–85. Fifteen songs spanning 60 minutes, remastered by Brad Boatright. Large-format 8-page booklet with their story, unseen photos, artwork, posters, and lyrics.

Great Falls

The Bite That Grows Up

Neurot Recordings

When GREAT FALLS released their NEUROT RECORDINGS debut OBJECTS WITHOUT PAIN in 2023, it sounded like a nuclear explosion, one of the most crushing and despondent albums ever to come out of the Pacific Northwest. Drawing favorable comparisons to artists like KEN MODE, CHAT PILE and OLD MAN GLOOM, it showed clear influence from seminal artists throughout its history, alongside a progression all their own.  Between legendary live performances at Roadburn in 2025, Northwest Terror Fest in 2026, direct support on BOTCH’s final European tour and a recent US stint with heavyweight juggernauts PRIMITIVE MAN, the band reteamed with Scott Evans (NEUROSIS, SUMAC, SHEARLING) for their follow-up. Before going into the studio, they aimed for a tamer counterpart to their previous record, like the fallout after an atom bomb. The result, their new album THE BITE THAT GROWS UP, turned out to be one of the most vicious, brutal, and uncompromising albums of the year. 

Brain Pills

Goatshead Part 2

Creepy Crawl

***Hot on the heels of the well received Brain Pills Goatshead I LP is the cunningly titled Goatshead II - the line up is the same:Mike Vest is a one man musical tour de force known for his extensive work with such bands as Bong, Drunk in Hell, 11 Paranoias, Blown Out and Mienakunaru to name a few releasing records on many underground labels such as Riot Season, Ritual Productions and Cardinal Fuzz etcFor Brain Pills Mike has teamed up with Adam Stone from the excellent Poundland on vocals and Nick Raybould from Thought Bubble on drums and art — the result is very impressive indeed — primitive but deadly drums, pulverizingly heavy riffs — lots of fuzz and distortion going on coupled with Adam Stones demented and haunting vocal style all topped off by the excellent and disturbing artwork courtesy of Nick Raybould.Could Goatshead have been a double LP? Of course — but Mike opted for two stand alone 12" records — and Creepy Crawl was happy to accommodateThe record has again been mastered for this vinyl release by crust punk legend Bri Doom, in house engineer for Creepy Crawl, known for his work with Sore Throat, Doom, Lazarus Blackstar and most recently with the excellent Disciple BC — the sound is massive, just what you would expect.

Slater, J.D.

Elbow Deep In The Hoopla

Dark Entries

Dark Entries is Elbow Deep in the Hoopla thanks to J.D. Slater. Legendary actor, director, and composer J.D. Slater is sometimes known as “the Lou Reed of gay porn.” Slater cut his teeth in the New York punk scene, even opening for the Talking Heads and Blondie at CBGB with his project Frenzy. A true polymath of the erotic, he co-founded Raging Stallion Studios with Chris Ward in 1999, which has remained a prolific outlet in the world of gay pornography. Elbow Deep collects the scores from three late 1990s fisting-focused Club Inferno films: At Arm’s Length, Hand Over Fist, and Heads or Tails. Never before released, these works show Slater digging deeper into the electronic music production techniques that were blossoming in that era, like loop-based sampling. Says Slater, “Suddenly I could have access to every instrument in the world. My whole concept of sound and structure evolved with the technology.” The works here are trance-inducing groovers, laced with acid and dosed with brooding ambience. Check out the Gregorian vibes on “Grand Fuck,” the legato lurch of “Stallion Funk,” or the frosty atmospheres of “At Arm’s Length.” Elbow Deep in the Hoopla comes with an insert featuring an interview with J.D. Slater. Starkly sexy, these tracks remind us of Slater’s creed: “The main rule for writing a porn score is to remember what you are writing for.”

Slater, J.D.

Filling Your Silence

Dark Entries

Dark Entries is Filling Your Silence with the help of J.D. Slater. Legendary actor, director, and composer J.D. Slater is sometimes known as “the Lou Reed of gay porn.” Slater cut his teeth in the New York punk scene, even opening for the Talking Heads and Blondie at CBGB with his project Frenzy. A true polymath of the erotic, he co-founded Raging Stallion Studios with Chris Ward in 1999, which has remained a prolific outlet in the world of gay pornography. Having spent years in front of and behind the camera, 1999’s Filling Your Silence was his debut as maestro. This album collects the soundtracks from the first two Raging Stallion films - Sexpack One and Sexpack Two - to bring us nine tracks of sleazy beats and trance-like moments of pure ecstasy. Album opener “Seduction” begins with the iconic synthetic pan flute, one of the defining sounds of the 1990s, before pulling us along with its wild grooves. Halfway through its nine-and-a-half- minute course, it breaks down to bust out a jazzy electric piano vamp. “Running with Scissors” ups the tempo with some crunchy breakbeats to undergird its portamento-laced lead synth. Elsewhere, like on “Mercy” and “Mercy (2nd Movement),” we see Slater embracing a bleep-adjacent sound close to early Nightmares on Wax or 808 State. Filling Your Silence’s endless grooves pursue that oceanic feeling. This record comes with a one-sided insert that includes archival Raging Stallion press materials. In the words of the Bay Area Reporter, Filling Your Silence...

Rude Films

Rude Films

Rude Films

Straddling the boundary between discordance and serenity, Rude Films contrast light and dark to craft alt rock that is foreboding yet hopeful. Since 2018 they’ve occupied the dank mills of Manchester, heavily inspired by their precursors but determined to carve out their own sound. In early 2025 this fourpiece delivered their debut album, a self financed, self titled underground masterpiece! Initially a self pressed vinyl only release, sold only at shows and via their local record shop, Piccadilly Records, it was released as CD version later in the year to help get their music further afield. A wise decision. From the opening brooding moments of "Where Have You Been Lately?", the Manchester quartet explode into a cacophony of shoegaze infused noise-rock on "Mort Subite". From there, things don't even begin to slightly let up as Rude Films then slam into the monster that is "Death Hex". Pummelling walls of sound that act as the perfect statement of what this band is capable of. A statement of which carries on with the fuzzed out and driving "Religion" and the sprawling and frenetic "Serenity". Elsewhere, tracks like "Blood On The Tracks", "Wide-Eyed Boy" and "A Lonely Moon" take a more atmospheric and textually rich route, whilst the jangly and anthemic "You're The Image I Can't Forget" sets its sights on your heart. Closing up on "Black Snow", the entirety of the record comes to a cataclysmic crescendo with frontman Aaron Hill-Southern spitting his guts out over the Deafheaven-esque finale.

Soroche

Asesinostalgia

Electric Cowbell

***Soroche returns with Asesinostalgia, their highly anticipated debut LP, out October 9, 2026 on Electric Cowbell Records.Over two years in the making, Asesinostalgia fuses cumbia, punk, ska and psychedelic textures into a singular, electrifying sound. With reverb-drenched guitars, Farfisa, accordion, percussion and theremin, the band channels both urgency and atmosphere, creating music that's danceable, raw and deeply felt.Across ten songs, Soroche explores working-class existentialism ("Espera"), sacrifice ("Bala Perdida"), immigration ("El Desierto") and the pull of history and memory ("Leyenda"). The album title Asesinostalgia refers to the "call of the void" that comes from looking too deeply into the past—becoming so consumed by nostalgia that you forget to live in the present.Pressed on yellow vinyl.

Windy & Carl

Portal

Kranky

Long overdue reissue of the first Windy & Carl album and first ever vinyl pressing. Originally self-released by the duo as a cassette in 1994, Portal set the template for their singular sonic explorations to come.“…ethereal soundscapes that will transport the listener to other plains of reality.” —Acid Test!“Carl layers willowy guitar arpeggios, foggy keyboards, and chimes over Windy’s murmured intonations and rippling basswork. Everything sounds fresh and unaffected in the careful hands of these two gentle souls. Pick it up, lie back, and allow it to lull you into an undisturbed reverie.” —Big Takeover“Expansive, daydream enhancing music.” —CMJ

Unheard Ones, The

Stories and Songs

Handstand

***Baltimore, Maryland’s The Unheard Ones were a mid-1990s emo trio whose brief but memorable run left a lasting impression on the city’s DIY scene. Between 1995 and 1997, the band played just 13 shows alongside groups including the Great Unraveling, Plunger, Harriet the Spy, Monorchid, and the Crownhate Ruin. Though their time together was short, their self-titled EP earned praise from Baltimore City Paper, which described the record as a “ménage à trois of feeling, force, and fragility.” Yet despite their impact, The Unheard Ones’ studio and demo recordings have largely remained... well, unheard for nearly three decades.That changes now with Stories and Songs, a collection assembled through the efforts of Colin Seven from hardcore band Universal Order of Armageddon, who championed the reissue project and connected DIY label Handstand Records with surviving members Tim Kabara and Lisa Starace. Together, they brought these recordings back into the light while honoring the legacy of late drummer Eli Jones, with a portion of proceeds benefiting MusiCares, a nonprofit organization providing health care, mental health care, addiction recovery services, and financial assistance to musicians.Blending indie-punk urgency with the depth and experimentation of 1990s emo, Stories and Songs captures The Unheard Ones’ ability to balance tension and melody, shifting between the dissonant and the bittersweet. If the demo was the band’s energetic childhood, the studio session was young adulthood. A little awkward, a bit self-conscious, and a little more mature, revealing the trio’s sharp songwriting instincts. Tim Kabara’s expressive vocals and textural guitar work...

Animal Piss, It's Everywhere

III

Sophomore Lounge

***ANIMAL PISS, IT'S EVERYWHERE started in 2018 when Clark Griffin and Shannon Ketch started writing songs about cheap wine, themes on Jesus, tributes to bands like the Fugs and Boa Constrictor and the Natural Vine.A tape was released by Tony Pasquarosa's 4th Eye Musick that circulated among hardcore scene ramblers and record heads across the US. It seemed like interest was growing, so Griffin and Ketch started to ask the hot players around Western Mass and New York if they wanted to lend a hand and the band then started with members of Rhyton, Pigeons, Bunwinkies, Gluebag, Wet Tuna, Salvation Alley Band and BLAMMO!Soon enough, in 2022, they decided to record their first record with Mike Fellows behind the board. That record came out on the Half A Million label in late summer 2023 and sold out quickly, so they put together short tours where songs like 'Hot Sewage,' 'Naked' and 'Pink Dolphin' seemed to get people off their feet and out their minds.Then they decided "well, fuck it, let's record a second record!" This one, to be titled "Grace," had some beach'ier vibes while poking a little more at class warfare; Mike Fellows engineering again. It came out dual-released on Half A Million and Sophomore Lounge. 'The Beach Song' and 'Pay The Dues' got people up and bobbing at shows yet again, Tony Pasquarosa throwing himself all over the stage and Clark Griffin looking like a crazed wildebeest with a pair of maracas. It was fun!So now, they decide...

Bed Maker

The Mark

Dischord

***Two new tightly wound songs that represent Bed Maker's uncompromising dynamic in the studio as well as on stage. Recorded & mixed at Tonal Park by Don Godwin and Ian MacKaye in October 2025. Layout by Jason Farrell and cover art by Luna Novara.

Scream / Soulside

Soulside / Scream - Split

Dischord

***Scream and Soulside first played together at the Cubby Bear in Chicago in July 1988. After a few more shows together that year, they didn’t share a stage again until July 2022, at the Inne Brzmienia festival in Lublin, Poland. There in Poland the two bands met minds, and a match was struck. Soulside and Scream soon released new albums on Dischord Records, then toured together in the US and Europe in 2023 and 2024. This 7" is a gathering of forces and musical admiration to spread a message of love and a lifelong commitment to the struggle for true American justice. “Laissez-Faire” was written by Scream and first appeared on Still Screaming (Dischord, 1983). This version is performed by Soulside and was recorded and mixed in June 2025. “Reconstruction” was written by Soulside and first appeared on A Brief Moment in the Sun (Dischord, 2022). This version is performed by Scream and was recorded in September 2024.

Shudder To Think

Thirst Walk

Dischord

***Released in 2025, the “Thirst Walk” 7” features the first new music released by post-hardcore art rock pioneers Shudder to Think since the late ‘90s. This pressing of the 7" is on opaque pink vinyl and is available to stores for the first time.

Giffoni, Carlos & Chris Corsano

Eat The Rich

Gilgongo

***Eat The Rich is an eclectic intersection of two serial collaborators: Giffoni (No Fun Fest / No Fun Productions) continues to explore new dimensions in sound, primarily using modular / synths (with recent full lengths on Ideologic Organ and Room40), paired here with the instinctually abstract percussion of Corsano (known from working with everyone from Bill Orcutt to Richard Bishop to Bjork but with literally 100's of appearances under his belt since the turn of the century). Produced by David Scott Stone & Giffoni, mastered by Lasse Marhaug.

Taylor Unit, Cecil

Live at the KiMo Theatre Albuquerque 1979

Black Editions Archive

***"Black Editions Archives presents Live at the KiMo Theater Albuquerque 1979, a major new archival work by the late Cecil Taylor (1929-2018). Pianist, composer and bandleader Cecil Taylor's capacious and audacious originality reshaped twentieth-century music. In an astounding act of artistic forbearance spanning sixty years of performing and recording, Taylor didn't win over so much as wear down the jazz establishment through the force and brilliant execution of his ideas. His methodologies and language, if studied at all, remain unassimilated by the twenty-first century jazz mainstream and its institutions. Lincoln Center turned the house lights on during Taylor's first performance there (2007), a stark reminder that in spite of Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships and increased respect among some of his tradition-minded peers, the shock of his music had not diminished and he was still an outlier, if not an outlaw, presence. Live at the KiMo Theater Albuquerque 1979 captures Taylor on November 20, 1979, during a rare tour of the American West with a then newly reconstituted quintet formation of his Unit. An ensemble in regular flux from the mid-1970s onward, only two members of Taylor's 1978 Unit, violinist Ramsey Ameen (1945-2019) and alto saxophonist Jimmy Lyons (1931-1986) — the bel canto voice of every Cecil Taylor band since 1961 —made the trip with Taylor to Albuquerque. Re-entering the fold on bass and cello after a decade-long absence was prime mover extraordinaire Alan Silva (1939-), with drummer Jerome Cooper (1946-2015) making his Cecil Taylor Unit performance debut. Each historical incarnation...

Stoltz, Kelley

Writing The Thread

Dandy Boy

***San Francisco songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Kelley Stoltz returns with Writing the Thread, his 21st album and his second full-length release of 2026. Coming just months after May’s If You Don't Know Me, Buy Now, Writing the Thread captures Stoltz in an especially prolific stretch, still chasing songs, sounds and unexpected turns more than twenty albums into his career.Writing the Thread finds the melodic immediacy of Stoltz’s earliest recordings meeting the sharper edges, strange textures and restless experimentation that have increasingly colored his work.LP pressed on turquoise vinyl.

Javelosa, David

Modern Works Vol. Two

Hyperspace Communications

***Composer and New Wave veteran David Javelosa combines classic Euro and West Coast Synth Wave styles in this second volume, a 2xLP collection of his Modern Work series. Jacket and insert images feature original painting by the artist. Titled by date of completion for each track, the approach has been to capture the live in-studio improvisation in it's purest form.David Javelosa is a composer, producer, former Poshboy recording artist, and technologist based in Mar Vista, California. Performing on modular, electronic instruments, he has created soundtracks for many of the major game platforms, served as music director for Sega, was a founding member of the bands Los Microwaves and Baby Buddha, and most recently has been performing as Microwave Buddha, featuring a retrospective of his synth pop work in the 1980's.

Javelosa, David

War & Sex

Hyperspace Communications

***First time on vinyl, packaged together for as the 2xLP set War & Sex. Originally recorded and digitally published in 2004 as two albums: Collateral Damage and G-Spot.Collateral Damage is an electronic instrumental portrait of the middle east oil wars that have continued since the turn of the 21st century and beyond. Informed both by the atrocity of 9/11 and the anesthetic media coverage of the ongoing conflict in the region. 10 tracks.G-Spot is a collection of domestic impressions looking inward from the chaos of modern life. A more whimsical list of avant synth and ironic musical languages, including a live-in-studio track with guitarist Charles Hornaday. 9 tracks.David Javelosa is a composer, producer, former Poshboy recording artist, and technologist based in Mar Vista, California. Performing on modular, electronic instruments, he has created soundtracks for many of the major game platforms, served as music director for Sega, was a founding member of the bands Los Microwaves and Baby Buddha, and most recently has been performing as Microwave Buddha, featuring a retrospective of his synth pop work in the 1980's.

V/a

Next World Sound Vol. 6

Hyperspace Communications

***Hyperspace instrumental ambient series continues the line of experimental compilations featuring two artists (one side each) exploring their individual take on the ambient genre. Pressed on orange vinyl. Steve Thomsen: His stream-of-conciousness soundscapes, free of conventional instrumentation and structure, kaleidescope through time and space amalgamating the conceptual strengths of music one finds the most intriguing: the entrainment drones of ambient music, the factory-noise barrage of shoe-gazer bands, the dissonant tone-clustering of Ligeti, the impressionistic narrative of symphonic tone-poems, the inscrutable bleep-blorp satellite telemetry of 1960s-era "computer" music, the haunted Forteana of his former bands Monitor and, of course, the improvisational chaotica of Solid Eye, among others. Caveat Emptor are Kirk Hellie & Edward Giles Southgate performing on custom built electronics, SIEMENS crosswave system analyzer, circuit bent effect pedals. All tracks were originally recorded in 1997 in North Hollywood, California through a 24 track soundboard directly to a ADAT digital recorder. No overdubs or editing were used on these recordings. Some ultra high and low frequencies below 15 hertz were lost due to equalization and compression to avoid digital clipping.

M.O.T.O.

Gangway for Miracles

Nuthin'

***(Most of) the 1997 cassette-album ‘Gangway for Miracles’ — crunchily remastered by Garret Hammond, with 3 stragglers from the ‘Wall of Phlegm’ cassette [also 1997] that didn’t quite fit-in on the LP reissue of that.Many future hits within — “Dance Dance Dance Dance Dance to the Radio”, “I Hate My Fucking Job”, “World of Fuzz”, “Till We Blow the Speakers Out”, “Let’s Nail It to the Moon”, “Primeval”, “Suburban Fighting Crest”, “If Nobody Else Will” and a dozen more somewhat unheard tunes/versions. Darkthrone’s Fenriz-on-the-radio raves on about M.O.T.O. on the vinyl-exclusive outro!Edition of 300 copies.

Templars

Effossus: 1993-1999

Templecombe

***What, you thought TKO was all done reissuing the TEMPLARS’ back catalog? Oh, ye of little faith. As long as there are deep cuts to unearth, we’ll keep digging. Enter Effossus: 1993-1999.Effossus is an "all killer, no filler" collection of long out-of-print Templars rarities forged in the same mold as the Reconquista series. All four tracks from the 1994 Beauseant EP are finally back on wax for the first time in over 20 years, not to mention the first time ever stateside. True-blue fanatics are well aware that this is some of the best early Templars material. Now even Johhny-Come-Latelys can act like they always knew.Also collected are rare alternate versions of staples “Right To Work” and “New York”, raucous renditions of classics by Cockney Rejects and the Oppressed and two previously ultra-rare bonus tracks that only the most devoted Templars scholars have heard.Like an archeological dig-site replete with bomber jackets and oxblood DMs, the Templars’ discography is a deep well of priceless history ripe for rediscovery. And just as great leaders of antiquity are immortalized in stone, Effossus is another brick in the monument to North American Oi’s undeniable kings.Edition of 666 copies on black vinyl.

Pan-Amerikan Native Front

Howling Piercing Darkness

Profound Lore

Today Oct 12 on Indigenous People’s Day and with support from Profound Lore Records, PAN-AMERIKAN NATIVE FRONT brings forth a new onslaught of tenacious indigenous resistance; a new EP titled Howling Piercing Darkness!After 20 years since the Fall, the Nations of the western North take arms in a clash that became the Mixton War of 1540! Here, we hear the rising indignation of the Caxcan people. Rage and fury lead to an outbreak of war in the foothills of a new frontier. Four new arrows iuerce through the night sky!We remember the arrow militia! Tenacious spirited resistance! Long live Franisco Tenamaxtli!

Le Motel

Pozo de Agua

Constellation Tatsu

***Brussels-based producer, composer, and field recordist Le Motel has developed a distinct body of work rooted in environmental sound, collage, and immersive electronic composition. Across releases, collaborations, and audiovisual projects, his music blends ambient textures, rhythmic experimentation, field recordings, and downtempo electronics into transportive listeningexperiences.Le Motel is also the founder of the Brussels label Maloca Records and has become known for projects that incorporate recordings gathered through travel and collaboration. His acclaimed release Odd Numbers / Số Lẻ drew from recordings made in Vietnam and explored the intersection of ambient composition, documentary sound, and experimental electronic music. Pozo de Agua continues Le Motel’s exploration of atmosphere, texture, and place through a fluid palette of ambient electronics, organic detail, and layered sonic environments. Most of the tracks were created outdoors or in transit, primarily on trains, emerging from what Le Motel describes as “a very natural and emotional process” of translating feelings, memories, and passing thoughts into sound. The album treats environmental sounds — ripples, water drops, movement, and air — with the same importance as traditional instruments, allowing elements to drift in and out like ocean waves while forming subtle polyrhythms and overlapping textures.Working at the intersection of ambient, experimental electronic music, balearic downtempo, and new age-inspired sound design, Le Motel creates music that feels both intimate and expansive. His approach combines processed acoustic elements, environmental recordings, and soft electronic structures into compositions that reward deep listening while maintaining an understated emotional pull.For listeners drawn to exploratory ambient music, environmental...

Adult DVD

Adult DVD

Fat Possum

***The debut album from 6 piece Leeds band, Adult DVD. Simmering with boredom, wasted time, scams and a preoccupation with death and sex, the Adult DVD universe is a place to escape to and also get lost. These are songs that untangle the complicated ways in which people find themselves living, mining both laughter and energy from thinking.

Buckets

Horse To Water

Slouch

***Horse To Water is the long-awaited full length sophomore album from Los Angeles-based indie punk outfit, Buckets. The fearsome foursome are back with a track list of 13 songs that not only elevate their signature highly dynamic, raw and emotive sound, but bring a whole new life to the band. Horse To Water no doubt expands the band’s universe when it comes to instrumentational variety, sonic depth, and the boundaries of the indie punk genre.

Girl Pusher

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Slouch

***Debut physical release from the Los Angeles-based noise punk duo. Includes a lyric zine. Seven tracks.

Lackey

10 Big Ones

Slouch

***Killer LA synth punk (members of Freakees, Rearranged Face). Featured in See Saw's Best Punk Albums of the Week.

Plastic Nancy

Perpetual Now

Slouch

***The latest from these Los Angeles psychedelic skull crushers. Drugs.

Ughh

Little Angels

Slouch

***Born of smoke. Born of ooze. Tremble all who live in the age of UGHH. Hide in the shadows! Do not leave your home. It will find you. Calamity and terror bearer, eclipse delivered, sink you wretch! Stand and be struck down, kneel and be brought low, the final shadow covers all. UGHH the ender, UGHH the final collector of debts, UGHH the pillaging despoiler. Hard crossover thrash and punk.

Homework

Bang Here If Stuck

Meritorio

***Homework are a quintessential Glasgow band—overstimulated and a little rough round the edges, but with a pretty streak and a big, sentimental heart. They make fuzzy 90s-indebted indie rock that's bursting with ideas and sounds like home.Twin songwriters Michael Newton and Santiago Taberna trade off driving lopsided anthems and fuzzy baroque pop experiments, their voices and guitars tangled together in a way that feels less like a band and more like a shared language. Rhythm section Lizzie Quirke and Andrew Gordon provide a loping centre of gravity—steady enough to hold everything together, loose enough to let it breatheBang Here if Stuck, their debut album, delivers a kind of enthusiastic chaos where everything fits exactly where it should. Recorded at Chime Studios in Glasgow with Melissa Brisbane, the band tracked the core of the album live to best capture the playful spontaneity of their gigs. Drawing from the likes of Pavement, Teenage Fanclub, The Vaselines and Urusei Yatsura, it offers a familiar sound that's easy to love, punctuated by oddball diversions that lead somewhere unpredictable and unique.

Noothgrush

Violations of Consensual Reality

Transylvanian Recordings

***The definitive collection of the DINO SOMMESE / DYSTOPIAN era of NOOTHGRUSH. A culmination of more than 30 years of friendship in the metal & punk underground. Recorded by GREG WILKINSON and featuring the final track recorded together that was unreleased until now! Presented on multi-color vinyl.

Loose Lips

Love You

Dig! Records

**Newly recorded 4-song EP from Melbourne's most benevolent punk thruple, the Loose Lips —Nadine Miller from The Prize on drums, Josh Hardy from the Chats & the Unknowns on guitar, and Ethan Stahl from The Prize and Chubby & The Gang on bass—everyone sings!

V/a

Aliens, Psychos & Wild Things Vol. 5

Arcania International

Fifteen sides of unreleased sixties punk, surf and psychedelia from Virginia and beyond. No kings here, only garage punk princes on this, the fifth volume of Arcania International's seminal series. This latest and gravest installment is built for our troubled times. Roil in the teen-beat torment today!. This is the sound for garage lovers of every stripe, now, for a better tomorrow. Features tracks from: Mid City Shadows, The Mods, Thursdays Children, The Unknowns, Hampton Sit-Ins, Rise, The Second Coming, and Morning Disaster.