New Releases

Funereal Moon

Beneath the Cursed Light of a Spectral Moon

Nuclear War Now

***Cult classic Mexican black metal/black ambient debut album from 1995 that was originally released only on CD format by Guttural Records (Xibalba, Avzhia, Deinonychus etc.). NWN is proud to release this classic on vinyl for the first time with the original layout and artwork scanned from the actual painting. For fans of Xibalba, Avzhia and early Mortiis.

Coil

Backwards

Cold Spring

***Cold Spring marks a decade since the label first released COIL's landmark album Backwards, with a special 10-year anniversary vinyl reissue. After the groundbreaking release of 1990's Love's Secret Domain album, Coil were not dormant; their main project was Backwards, which was started in 1992, updated considerably between 1993 and 1995, and transferred in 1996 to New Orleans, where it was finished in the magic of the Nothing Studios of TRENT REZNOR (Nine Inch Nails). The album saw the fruition of JHONN BALANCE's recent vocal-coaching, which produced haunting, passionate vocals while reaching new heights. Now, in 2015, 23 years after its initiation, these tracks have been beautifully preserved by DANNY HYDE and are finally available in highest quality audio. Differing substantially from the later, remixed incarnation, The New Backwards (2008), Backwards contains the original versions of Coil's much-loved tracks "A Cold Cell" and "Fire of the Mind," which have appeared on various compilations over the years, and are now presented as originally intended. This album is the essential bridge between LSD and the later Musick to Play in the Dark series. It is an essential conduit, to understand the journey that was taken. 180g heavyweight vinyl in a gatefold matte-laminate sleeve with silver detail.

Asahito, Nanjo

M

Black Editions / La Musica Records

***A collection of intimate songs traced from the spectral darkness by Nanjo Asahito, the notorious leader of some of Japan's key underground psychedelic units (High Rise, Mainliner, Musica Transonic, Toho Sara, etc.) Recorded between 1980 and 1988 and previously only available in a cassette micro-edition released by his La Musica Records label in the mid-1990s. Remastered and available for the first time on vinyl and digital. From the original La Musica cassette notes: "A compilation of secret projects recorded over a period of twenty years. Deeply personal music that achieves a strange balance between beat folk balladry and off-key mumbling. Suggestive self-celebratory music conceived as a confirmation of existence." A lesser-known side of Nanjo Asahito—if all you know of his work is the overloaded, intensified psych-rock and free-sound of his group projects then the solo songs on M gently redraw the contours of Nanjo's private universe. There's something gem-like in the way these five songs are formed, even as they accrue grit and dirt while drifting out of the speakers. Here, Nanjo grabs handfuls of gentle chord changes, allows them to rotate in the air, suspended in reverb, flickering in half-light, as he murmurs drowsy melodies. The closing "Eucharist" pushes everything through a thin layer of distortion; elsewhere, tinkling piano, from guest Matsuoka Takashi, who also performed with Keiji Haino's Nijiumu, disturbs dust molecules to dance through hazy air. LP is housed in die-cut "Uni-Pak" style gatefold with metallic gold ink and soft touch finishes with printed inner sleeve. Vinyl...

Immortals

Judge, Jury, Executioner - 1983 Demo

PNV

***Scarcely heard 1983 demo from this obscure LA hardcore punk outfit. Not much is known about Immortals, beyond a few flyer appearances, but they played a brash, hard hitting brand of punk clearly influenced by British punk imports of the time. Thick guitars and a distinctively Colin GBH style vocal delivery coat the fist pumping motorcharged rhythms on this raw demo recording. Listening to a cut like "OK To Kill," you'd think this group could have built a legacy a la fellow Britcore obsessed Southern Californian groups like Final Conflict or Dr. Know, but alas, all we have to remember this group is this in-your-face recording.

Nean

Doo Dah Nean

Black Editions / La Musica Records

***A bizarrely entrancing jewel from the depths of the Japanese underground, Doo Dah Nean was originally released in small run of hand assembled cassettes by the La Musica label in the late '90s. The album is the sole release and evidence of Nean, an entirely under-the-radar trio that crossed the sensual, disassociated female vocals of Japanese iroke kayōkyoku music with off-balance shamanic rhythm and echoing electronic rumble. Nean were the trio of Yui on bass and electronics, Naoko on voice, and Non on drums. Both Yui and Non were also part of Holy Angels, and Yui played with Ohkami No Jikan and Mauduit Nuit. Vocalist Naoko, in her lone recorded appearance anywhere, elevates the proceedings to peak outsider strangeness. Her ultra-repetitive chants and sighs balance childlike innocence with sinister knowing. Alternately distracted and humming to herself or delivering breathy, near field whispers, the simple juxtaposition of her vocalizations with Non's stumble-drunk drums, and the amorphous blobs and gloops of tone unleashed from Yui's instruments lands like an avant garde, proto-ASMR incantation. A truly confounding release in a La Musica catalogue that's not exactly thin on the ground for such form. Housed in die-cut "Uni-Pak" style gatefold with metallic gold ink and soft touch finishes with printed inner sleeve. Vinyl pressed at RTI. Additional mastering by Timothy Stollenwerk, Stereophonic mastering lacquers by Phillip S. Rodriguez. Elysian masters executive produced by Peter Kolovos.

Bezier

Contraption

Körperspannung

From the same recording sessions as Bézier’s first EP on Körperspannung records Negative Velocity, Contraption channels a few moods and scenarios.On the A-side "Contraption" is an insignificant droplet darting through the sky. Soon it joins a disarray of objects positioned above the atmosphere, maneuvers in formation to reveal randomized, decentralized nodes packed for mayhem.On the B-side Bézier shows a slice of his lived experience. Back in 2004 he used to go to house parties around East LA with friends they grew up with every weekend to listen to music. Winding through the Southern Californian roadway sprawl they’d drive 1/2 an hour to 1 hour on the I-10 (sometimes diverting to Route 60 if gridlock is expected) to get to the location, usually in a residential neighborhood. Being respectful of the communities and the struggle of the progenitors of this music, Bézier presents "Blue Halo" as an homage to that sound with a twist: Cumbia-Synth to provide a little sauce for your ears. Dave Easlick joins the milieu to provide a percussive framework for this tune.Lastly, "Bit by an Electric Wire" showcases Easlick’s drumming with an overlay from Bézier. As Dave rips and shreds through his drum kit the OCD machine living inside Yang’s brain switches on and organizes, collates and files that dataset into a hardcore rhythm track.

Bezier

Negative Velocity

Körperspannung

The EP by Bézier Negative Velocity sees the Californian artist (now for a few years a Berlin resident) initiate the launch of their new German-based record label Körperspannung.Bézier, whose career (since the early 00’s) spans close to two decades of focused, ground laying work: from lighting up the Honey Soundsystem collective’s bulbs to generating a steady pulse of releases on Josh Cheon’s Dark Entries records, has built a dynamic repertoire weaving a mosaic of influences across cultures, generations and spaces. A lifelong learner of music from an early age Robert Yang has been under constant calling to deploy music in an artful, stylish and meaningful way.For ‘Negative Velocity’, Bézier collaborated with Bay Area drummer and avant-garde musician Dave Easlick taking live recordings of him on a drum kit warping and wrapping his parts into curves and ellipses that project mappings outward into the atmosphere. From Easlick’s source material Bézier generates a technological, multi-dimensional landscape through mental manipulation of sound waves bending the fabric of time and space. For both the title track and on the B-side ‘Diabolical Embroidery’ the lattice work here involved sampling and resampling every hit and puncture from Easlick to atomize, pressurize, polish and disintegrate into fine particulate matter while reassembling parts back together fortifying the sonic tapestry further and further and further…‘Deep Sea State’ is an exercise showcasing the raw form of Easlick’s drumming but laced with an adamantium frame. Melodies from Bézier’s musical training past haunt the entire interlude.

Len.Leo

Echolocation

Körperspannung

The EP Echolocation sees the debut of a new German artist: Len.Leo.Originally from his hometown of Mainz, and now for a few years a Berlin resident, Len.Leo's Echolocation comes to Bézier's recently launched record label Körperspannung.In their shared concrete home inside Friedrichshain, Bézier and Len.Leo have built an immense production studio, in the heart of their apartment, around which they organize salons with friends and fam to cultivate dreams, new vocabulary to express wishes for the collective queer musical mosaic.Cut right from the cloth of a post-punk lineage, "Echolocation" burns and welds tracks into rails fitted for a high-speed lysergic bullet."Corrugation" is a subversive adventure into the wells of imagination weaving pulsating artifacts from an unknown era to craft sounds through atmospheric needlepoint.In "Radio Silence" cascading wings flutter through the diagrams of a sunken underground compound only to be discovered to be long abandoned, cut off from receiving transmissions for who knows how long?

Ramos, Juan

Hard Bois

Körperspannung

Juan Ramos is up to bat for the next Körperspannung release with the four-track stunner EP Hard Bois. Deeply connected to the ongoing pursuit of gay excellence and endeavors, Juan honors those who have come before us and touches us deeply in our soft spots at all the right moments.Across Hard Bois EP, the Berlin resident and behind the scenes operator (IYKYK) shows precisely why he’s one of dance music’s most exciting and dependable prospects. Opening the release, "Hard Bois" combines snaking drums in a melange of samples with bff Kris Baha vocalizing sizzling and snaking lyrics winding around this propulsive club cut that could easily be a snapshot right out of a scene from Chicago’s iconic Medusa Club."Saviour Sound" is music that makes iron pipes sweat with hedonistic abandon. Exposed steel modulates to a hardcore beat. Gears interlock to move the whole building into autonomous shuffle. Conduits of electricity pulsate to the drama unfolding in a dim lit factory with dank corridors leading us on a path to a flowerbed growing and thriving in a subterranean hydroponic garden.On the flip, the alarm strikes and it’s (shout it out): "Werk Day"! This is your call to get buttoned up and ready to make dreams reality. Head to the gym, pump those guns and then house your body. Technological funk winding through a sturdy and rock hard kick that helps you ride through the chasms of pleasure and pain.Rounding out the release is your "Acid BB" rocking and roaring through the...

Bosse-De-Nage

Hidden Fires Burn Hottest

Flenser

There's a tendency in metal to mistake aggression for honesty, volume for depth. To confuse the performance of darkness with its actual weight. Hidden Fires Burn Hottest, the new album from San Francisco-based post-black metal band Bosse-de-Nage, sidesteps this entirely. It’s the group’s most fully realized work yet, precisely because it refuses to be pinned down.Bosse-de-Nage have been working with The Flenser for over fifteen years. They were one of the first bands the label ever partnered with and have the longest active relationship in the label's history. But unlike most bands who build momentum through constant touring and visibility, Bosse-de-Nage has largely existed apart from the music world's usual machinery. They've evolved on their own terms, in relative isolation, allowing the work to develop without outside pressure or influence. What began rooted in black metal anonymity has mutated into something that actively defies categorization. The aggression is still there, but it's no longer the point.Hidden Fires Burn Hottest finds the band treating emotions like physical objects, feelings with spatial properties. “No Such Place" describes a space that can't exist but does anyway, somewhere between thought and location. "Immortality Project" examines infinite possibility not as promise but as problem, endless options collapsing under their own weight. These songs don't use metaphor to describe emotion. They make emotion into something you could theoretically touch.Tracked by Jack Shirley (Deafheaven, Oathbreaker) at Atomic Garden East and mixed and mastered by Richard Chowenhill of Agriculture, Hidden Fires Burn Hottest was years in development, with...

Fort Not

You On Repeat

Meritorio

***Fort Not, the Swedish songwriting duo of Robert Carlsson and Fredrik Söderström, return with their new album You On Repeat on Meritorio Records. Joined by bandmates Philip Gates, David Hansson, and Joakim Björnberg, the group recorded the album over a hot summer weekend in a barn near Sweden’s west coast—an environment that left its mark on the record’s warmth, immediacy, and unfiltered charm.You On Repeat is a bittersweet indie pop record where jangly and distorted guitars, lo-fi textures, and disarming melodies meet. Rooted in a DIY spirit inspired by ’90s indie rock and classic pop songwriting, the album moves fluidly between noise and tenderness, urgency and ease, capturing a band equally attuned to raw emotion and crafted hooks. Long regarded as one of Sweden’s best-kept indie secrets—as praised by Swedish music magazine GAFFA—Fort Not are ready to step fully into the light. With You On Repeat, that secret is finally revealed.

R.E. Seraphin

Tiny Shapes / A Room Forever

Take A Turn

***A reissue of the first two solo records from R.E. SERAPHIN on one LP.Tiny Shapes is paisley pop meets guitar-centric post-punk. R.E. Seraphin’s lyrical point-of-view is both cynical and sentimental—falling somewhere between The Replacements and The Feelies circa The Good Earth. Musically, jangly yet sturdy instrumentation collide with hushed vocals. This approach is best heard in opening cut “Today Will Be Kind”—a tune that offers a hopeful view of love gone sour. Engineered and co-produced by JASPER LEACH (Tony Molina) and mastered by MATT BULLIMORE (The Mantles), Tiny Shapes was written following a move from Austin to the Bay Area. While re-acclimating to life back in his hometown, Seraphin enlisted original Talkies rhythm section, OWEN KELLEY (SLEEPY SUN) and PHIL LANTZ (NEUTRALS, COCKTAILS) to help develop his songs.A Room Forever, featuring six acoustic-driven, but deeply melodic songs (including a cover by Luna), is every bit the small-scale rock triumph as its predecessor. Inspired by the southern gothic vignettes of Breece Pancake and the melodic guitar interplay of The La’s and Television, Seraphin recorded these songs in his home in one short spurt. Long-distance contributions from co-conspirators Owen Adair Kelley (Sleepy Sun), Matt Bullimore (The Mantles), and YEA-MING CHEN (YEA-MING & THE RUMORS) help elevate the tunes from homey demos to top notch pop. Edition of 100 copies.

Special Forces

World Domination And 8 Songs To Kill By

PNV

***First ever reissue of the Berkeley CA hardcore batallion Special Forces' 1984 World Domination 12" EP coupled with 1983's 8 Songs To Kill By demo. Special Forces were a staple of Bay Area hardcore in the early 80s, gigging with all the major acts who came through town, such as Discharge, DRI, Misfits, Crucifucks, Fang... The list goes on. The group played a no frills, brash brand of USHC, perhaps most distinguished by their frantic, razor wire guitar strumming reminiscent of Feederz, Dead Kennedys or Italy's Peggio Punx. With sardonic lyrics taking aim at American militarism, Special Forces are a complete package for any early 80s USHC aficionado. And speaking of complete packages, this reissue includes tons of unseen photos and flyers, and of course the vinyl debut of the group's 1983 demo. What are you waiting for? Enlist today!

Disket

Running / Vamos A Ganar

General Speech

***Debut 7” from NYC’s Disket. Formed by members of Baby Shakes, Mala Vista, and Vaxine, Disket fuses the sounds of punk and powerpop to make an infectious and anthemic hook filled single. Harkening back to the late 70s era when punk records had no fat on them, a trimmed down double A side 7” you absolutely had to have before the album came out just in case that fantastic B-side didn’t end up on it.

Cilio, Luciano

Dialoghi Del Presente

Superior Viaduct

Luciano Cilio was born in Naples, Italy, in 1950. He studied music and architecture and, in the late ’60s, collaborated with local artist Alan Sorrenti, American expat Shawn Phillips and various avant-garde theater groups. A virtuoso guitarist and self-taught composer, Cilio released only one LP before his untimely death at the age of 33. Dialoghi Del Presente (1977) is a work like no other, one that sounds both ancient and ahead of its time. Produced by Renato Marengo, it features a series of muted tableaux for strings, woodwinds, guitar, chorus, piano and percussion. Cilio carves out a space where subtle, repetitive phrases yield—almost imperceptibly—to breathtaking silence. As Jim O’Rourke writes, “These recordings sound as if they were to please no one but himself; they feel self-contained, introspective, and determined ... You can feel in the music a sort of necessity that can be rarely found, like in This Heat’s debut or Nick Drake’s Pink Moon.” While each subsequent “quadro” grows more abstract, Cilio draws the listener into an expansive, pastoral soundscape. The closing piece, “Interludio,” begins with a plaintive guitar, which is joined by haunting strings and woodwinds before concluding, poignantly, as the album began, with Cilio and his guitar, alone once more. Superior Viaduct's edition reproduces the original sleeve design. Sourced from the original master tapes. Recommended for fans of Johann Johannsson, Talk Talk's Spirit of Eden, Arvo Part and Popol Vuh.

Shine

Wrathcult

Dark Descent

Born from the grips of the pandemic, Shine are the newest brainchild of Hazael’s Tomasz Dobrzeniecki, and their first album Wrathcult leaves no doubt that a new force in Polish extreme metal has awakened.Inspired by the likes of Emperor, Bathory, Morbid Angel, Entombed and Dismember, Dobrzeniecki’s new outfit channels that lineage into something raw, relentless, and unmistakably its own.“‘Shine’ for me is a sheen of a sword's blade, the last thing that your foes see in their lives. You can also relate it to the Promethean light given to people that enlightens or sometimes blinds us. It can also be a glare of rage stemming from the resistance towards the unnatural rules forced upon us,” explains Dobrzeniecki when asked about his new unit’s name. “Our music is full of references to ancient rules and rituals and times when people lived in accordance with nature and cosmos using the primeval knowledge.”Dark Descent Records will handle the release, having previously collaborated with Dobrzeniecki on the reissue of Hazael’s classic opus. Wrathcult continues in similar thematic territory, invoking forgotten ancestral knowledge and tapping into primal forces, and mythic echoes of a pre-Christian world.“Lyrics for the album are mainly inspired by the pre-Christian spirituality and mythology of our forefathers and based on such books as Bestiariusz Słowiański, Mitologia Słowiańska by J. Bobrowski and M. Wrona, and Słowiańska Czarownica (Slavic Bestiary, Slavic Mythology, Slavic Witch). The lyrics pay homage to nature and higher powers in order to upkeep the memories of the beliefs that once...

Phobocosm

Gateway

Dark Descent

***ON OLIVE GREEN WITH ULTRA CLEAR MERGE VINYL!!! Montréal’s Phobocosm return with “Gateway”, an unrelenting and eldritch death metal opus that seals one chapter while unveiling the next. The album includes material from every songwriting period of the band, some of it dating back to the “Deprived” and “Bringer of Drought” eras, as well as “Foreordained”, of course,” explains guitarist Samuel Dufour. “Gateway” was recorded, mixed, and mastered by long-time collaborator Xavier Berthiaume (Gevurah, Sanctvs) during the same session as Foreordained, giving the two records a consistent sonic throughline, while allowing “Gateway” to close established narratives. “We view it as the closing of a chapter for the band,” Dufour continues. “Not that our future material will be completely different fr­om our existing material, far from it, but we have decided to do things a little differently next time around by adding new elements that haven’t appeared in our music before, exploring different dynamics and experimenting with a new tuning. Thematically “Gateway” grows from ideas first explored on Foreordained: “The song ‘Revival’ from Foreordained inspired the album’s theme, which is the fact that humans have been trying to live forever — or to unnaturally prolong life — since the dawn of time, often for reasons even more absurd than the pursuit of eternal life itself,” elaborates Dufour. “We used this as the main theme and pushed the concept further, exploring the most repulsive forms of cruelty humans are capable of — even when using science as a means to prolong barbarity...

DMZ

Lost Studio Sessions 1978

Crypt

***13 ripping songs totaling 33 minutes from the original 20-song 65 minute master reel tapes, recorded in early February 1978 for producers Flo & Eddie, the night before DMZ (the raw-assed pre-Lyres outfit that never made it!) spent 3 days trapped by a blizzard recording their Sire album. Includes a 4-page insert with info, pics and Rick Coraccio’s ultra-detailed journal on how it all went down!

Takaat

Is Noise Vol. 3

Purplish Records

"With bass drones cranked way past 11, frantic guitar shredding passages, and blown out drum machines, TAKAAT’s ‘Is Noise Vol. 3’ poses the question, ‘what if the Tuareg songwriting legends Tinariwen started a band with drone-lords Sunn O)))? Well, that might be what ‘Is Noise Vol. 3’ kinda sounds like.Drawing from sonic inspiration of blown out Takamba recordings of the Sahel, slinky drum machines of Hausa pop mp3s, and manipulated field recordings collected in Agadez, Niger, ‘Is Noise Vol. 3’ is yet another exciting musical departure from its prior volume.TAKAAT was birthed from the idea of always evolving concepts and taking risks, seeing each volume as an opportunity to explore noisy futures steeped in a shared language of DIY. Through chronological limited 10” EPs you too can take the noise home. Play it loud." -Mikey Coltun

Hemphill, Julius

Dogon A.D.

Superior Viaduct

"Julius Hemphill's debut record, 1972's Dogon A.D., was self-produced for his Mbari imprint, and it was issued with a beautiful black-and-white cover. Very DIY. The label's name writ large along the bottom edge, like it was the band's name. It's a quartet record featuring Hemphill on alto and flute, with Baikida Carroll on trumpet, Abdul Wadud on cello, and Phillip Wilson on drums – a classic jazz front line/rhythm section format, but nothing conventional about the way the music sounds."The long track – from where the LP takes its title – is one of the key epic statements of new jazz in the era. Among its remarkable distinctions, it manages to draw on Wilson's schizoid experience having been a member of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and the first drummer for the Art Ensemble of Chicago, in making an 11/8 rhythm into a staggeringly funky thing of joy. Over the course of fourteen and a half minutes, Hemphill builds a nearly continuous solo, his spiritual blood brother Wadud sawing the cello with a deep blues soulfulness that is raw and mantra-like in its repetitive incantation. It feels right and wrong in equal measure, the theme carrying its own piquancy with honked barnyard dissonances and some contrary motion between the horns and string. Most of all, it takes its own sweet time, in no hurry to get anywhere in particular, but out for a righteous stroll."– John Corbett (excerpt from the liner notes)

Howard, Noah

The Black Ark

Superior Viaduct

In the pantheon of classic free jazz, Noah Howard’s The Black Ark looms large. Recorded at Bell Sound Studios in New York City in 1969—just prior to the alto saxophonist’s relocation to Europe—the album was eventually released in 1972.The Black Ark exhibits not only the power and imagination of Howard’s playing, but also his breadth as a composer and bandleader. Listeners expecting unrelenting blasts of “energy music” might be surprised to find a cohesion atypical of free jazz; amidst the wild, impassioned solos, Howard weaves in Latin rhythms and fat-bottomed grooves.The first side, consisting of “Domiabra” and “Ole Negro,” sets the album’s tone. Both tracks sound as if they could have appeared on some of Blue Note’s proto-spiritual jazz, groove-heavy releases—evoking the likes of Horace Silver or Bobby Hutcherson—before ceding the floor to the horn players’ anarchic firepower.As John Corbett writes in the liner notes, “Two players stand out. Bassist Norris Jones—who would soon consolidate his name into a one-word reversed amalgamation/permutation of the two, Sirone—is given ample room, largely unaccompanied; his corporal approach foreshadows later work with the Revolutionary Ensemble. But the secret weapon on The Black Ark is Arthur Doyle. Straight from basement rehearsal sessions with Milford Graves, whose ensemble he had joined and who remained a favorite of the drummer for decades, Doyle is a human flamethrower.”Trumpeter Earl Cross’ guttural, vocal effects complement Doyle’s take-no-prisoners approach, while the estimable combination of Muhammad Ali (Rashied’s brother) on drums and Juma Sultan on congas adds an ever-shifting propulsion. The...

Anderson, Bentley

Valence

Cost Of Living

A hurricane, an ice storm, radio transmissions from the underworld. Going to the theatre to watch a block of ice melt, at top volume. Playing ping-pong in the asteroid belt. Fallen arches and future horizons. —Lee Ranaldo, NYC, Dec 2025

Scott, Robert

The Green House

Ally Records

Coming just on the heels of the release of The Bats new LP, Corner Coming Up (Flying Nun), earlier this year, we at Ally Records are incredibly excited to be releasing a remastered version of Robert Scott's (Electric Blood, The Clean, The Bats, The Magick Heads) stellar solo LP The Green House. Originally released by Flying Nun in 2014, but out of print on vinyl for several years and not widely available in the US, we felt it was time. Ideally, we were targeting a 10th anniversary release, but 11-12 years works just as well, and the results are worth the wait due largely to Carl Saff's skillful work on the remaster.Upon the initial release of The Green House, seasoned veteran NZ musical journalist Graham Reid described it as capturing Robert "at yet another career peak in melodic songs which only rarely allude to the acoustic or rock chug of his other bands but mostly turns attention towards deftly tuneful songs" with descriptions ranging from dreamy to ethereal to timeless. We'd add haunting, beautiful, and folk-inspired at times to that range, and songs like "Lights Are Low” and "Lazy Boy" are some of his best. Tristan Dingemans (of NZ psych outfit High Dependency Unit) adds a subtle, but menacing guitar texture to balance out the comforting elements of the lead-off track "Lights Are Low," a song which establishes the mood for the rest of the record perfectly. We also agree with Reid's assessment of the closing song "Right From Wrong"--...

Incandescence

Hors Temps

Profound Lore

Incandescence return with more powerful and passionate Quebecois black metal with their fifth album Hors Temps. Featuring acclaimed multi-instrumentalist Philippe Boucher (Beyond Creation, Chthe’ilist) who handles all instruments and songwriting alongside vocalist Louis-Paul Gauvreau, Incandescence follow-up 2022’s Le Coeur De L’homme with their most dominant and immense album yet. Featuring even more commanding and prominent epic melancholic moments along with the traditional sorrowful melodies that ennobles Hors Temps to that higher aura amongst the punishing and unrelenting black metal savagery herein.

Kan Kan / Pocket Full Of Crumbs

Pocket Full Of Crumbs / Kan Kan - Split

Cherub Dream

***An epic split of indie magic from SF's Pocket Full Of Crumbs and San Diego's Kan Kan. Two cuts each.

Wife

The Importance of Daydreaming

Cherub Dream

***SF's best punk band on their first studio record. I think this one would get some traction! available in both CD and Cassette. both come shrinkwrapped.

False Figure

Incarnate

Cruel Subordination Records

***Conceived in 2016 in the depths of San Francisco, False Figure exploded onto the Bay Area's burgeoning modern deathrock scene as a loud and driving three-piece. Distinguishing themselves with tribalistic tom beats and screeching guitars a la Killing Joke, this became the hallmark of early releases as swirling feedback gave way to drippingly saccharine melody. Toying with a dichotomy of tension building verses only to be released by lush melodic choruses. Andres Ruiz's haunting vocals blend together a rich chemistry of melancholic, desperate crooning alongside harmonious guitars. 2002's release Castigations, saw the band take a step towards traditional gothic rock and further from traditional punk sounds while retaining their own alchemy. Now the band releases its newest iteration, departing headfirst into luscious early dream pop ecstasy while maintaining a deep beautiful melancholy radiating throughout the record. With influences from the French cold-wave scene, Spain's La Movida and British shoegaze, this newest release includes an entirely new line-up with Kevin DeFranco (Super Unison, Boy Problems) on second guitar and Kienan Hamilton (Cartilage) on bass explore a deeper concept of what modern post-punk could sound like.

Bleakness

Blurred Visions

Black Water

***Blurred Visions, the new album from Parisian trio Bleakness. The band draws its influences from English post-punk and Californian 80s death rock, blending them with the intensity and urgency of today’s punk/hardcore scene. The result is a dark post-punk sound, both energetic and melancholic, that revisits the atmosphere and rebellious spirit of the pre-goth scenes while injecting a solid dose of punk rage.In 2025, Bleakness crossed the Atlantic for a US tour on the East Coast and throughout the Midwest, and took the opportunity to record their third album at House of Foto Studio in Louisville, Kentucky, produced by Ryan Patterson (Fotocrime, Coliseum). An intense week spent in the Germantown neighborhood refining the band’s sound and identity.

Reek Minds

Eternal Rot

Black Water

***Continuing right where they left off, REEK MINDS bring us this short ripper of disgusting depraved hardcore. Six blasts of fast maniacal shredding to punch a hole in your wall to. Tighter than ever. Really awesome guitar leads bringing to mind Alienator, who they actually share members with. Tyler sounds like a man who just crawled out of a dumpster in a dark alley, beat the shit out of some asshole, and grabbed a mic to vomit his hatred on to our undeserving eardrums. This shit is about as hardcore punk as it gets. Don’t worry, there are also enough breakdowns to stomp around your bedroom and break shit to as well. In a world that has been progressively getting worse and worse over the last 8 years, at least we’ve had Reek Minds (with this being their fourth vinyl release in that time frame) continuing with a vengeance as our collective soundtrack to everything that is completely fucked. The catharsis we need in this timeline is real with Reek Minds, and it fucking hits hard. Includes a poster.

Siphon

Stark Raving Mad

Black Water

***From Richmond Virginia, SIPHON comes out swinging hard on their first release, Stark Raving Mad. That might be the best way to describe these four heaters they cooked up on this platter. Hectic and raw, they bring their own take on international hardcore (specifically Japan by way of Sweden) through an American filter. You can hear the similarities of East Coast contemporaries such as Ultimate Disaster, Destruct, et al. with the urgency and brutality of the riffs. If this short sharp shock of a hardcore punk 7” is any indication, Siphon is going to be destroying ear drums across the planet in no time. The limited record comes with a huge fold out poster with artwork by Joe B of Subversive Rite, Question, and a billion other bands you love.

False Flag

Gun Time

FYJFY

***False Flag is a female fronted San Francisco punk band formed in 2021 who gained recognition over the years for their crazy DIY punk shows in San Francisco with their mission to create a space for women in a male-dominated scene. False Flag is well known for teaming up with Surprise Privilege (another San Francisco band) to throw punk shows in unconventional spaces, such as moving BART trains, abandoned factories, Chinese restaurants and many historical street corners throughout San Francisco."Gun Time" is the fifth release on "F.Y.J.F.Y.", a local label co-founded by Pretty Sims, singer and bassist of False Flag. Limited run of 200 on opaque yellow vinyl. This album combines a mix of power violence, hardcore and punk which creates a heavy and fast moving flow. It includes a featured track titled "Getaway" which has a more of a post punk influence, which adds a refreshing creative touch to the album.False Flag aims to keep the San Francisco punk scene alive through hosting DIY shows throughout the city as well as establishing community spaces such as "I Hate Records," a volunteer-run record store in the Lower Haight neighborhood of San Francisco. False Flag has a lot of plans for the future, and their dedication to keeping the San Francisco punk scene alive is a major part of it. Stay tuned, you don't want to miss out on what's coming next from False Flag!

False Flag

One Million Tons

FYJFY

***False Flag is a female fronted San Francisco punk band formed in 2021 who gained recognition over the years for their crazy DIY punk shows in San Francisco with their mission to create a space for women in a male-dominated scene. False Flag is well known for teaming up with Surprise Privilege (another San Francisco band) to throw punk shows in unconventional spaces, such as moving BART trains, abandoned factories, Chinese restaurants and many historical street corners throughout San Francisco.One Million Tons is the first album they released on vinyl through "F.Y.J.F.Y.", a local label co-founded by Pretty Sims, singer and bassist of False Flag. This is False Flag's third album which leans into a more hardcore direction while still keeping the punk attitude displayed in their two previous releases. Limited to 200 on marbled purple vinyl.False Flag aims to keep the San Francisco punk scene alive through hosting DIY shows throughout the city as well as establishing community spaces such as "I Hate Records," a volunteer-run record store in the Lower Haight neighborhood of San Francisco. False Flag has a lot of plans for the future, and their dedication to keeping the San Francisco punk scene alive is a major part of it. Stay tuned, you don't want to miss out on what's coming next from False Flag!

Surprise Privilege

100 Songs

FYJFY

***Surprise Privilege is a 3-piece San Francisco punk band formed in 2021. Surprise Privilege gained a reputation in the Bay Area for their high-energy, fun spirited DIY shows, playing in various places such as Golden Gate Park, Chinese restaurants, San Francisco landmarks, and most notoriously, on a moving BART train (the Bay Area's heavy-rail public transit system) in 2023 alongside their sister band False Flag.SPOILER ALERT: this release only contains six songs. However, each song holds more than it's own weight due to sheer quality so if you do some math and mental gymnastics it'll all make sense. "100 Songs" carries Surprise Privilege's typical high-octane punk energy but also a couple of more melodic tunes in "Millipede" and "Mahavira". The music is very danceable, catchy, and fun with Surprise Privilege's signature brand of tongue-in-cheek lyrical subject matter. "100 Songs" is the fourth release from "F.Y.J.F.Y.", a San Francisco label focused on keeping the San Francisco punk scene alive and well. Limited to 200 on black vinyl.After playing sold out shows throughout the years and a series of successful tours across the US, mostly covering the West Coast, Surprise Privilege took a small hiatus to focus on opening a community-run punk record store located in the Lower Haight of San Francisco with other members of their label. Despite their small break, Surprise Privilege is back and has a lot of plans for the future to uplift and maintain the spirit of San Francisco punk.

Surprise Privilege

Feed Me

FYJFY

***Surprise Privilege is a 3-piece San Francisco punk band formed in 2021. Surprise Privilege gained a reputation in the Bay Area for their high-energy, fun spirited DIY shows, playing in various places such as Golden Gate Park, Chinese restaurants, San Francisco landmarks, and most notoriously, on a moving BART train (the Bay Area's heavy-rail public transit system) in 2023 alongside their sister band False Flag.Every release Surprise Privilege puts out is a little bit different but always keeps the tongue-in-cheek, attitude they started out with. "Feed Me" is their first professional studio recording and vinyl release, a limited run of 250 on translucent red vinyl. It blends a furious combination of both power violence and hardcore punk, giving it a heavier feel relative to their other releases. "Feed Me" is the first release on "F.Y.J.F.Y.", a label co-founded by Cody Azumi of Surprise Privilege which focuses on keeping the San Francisco punk scene alive and well.After playing sold out shows throughout the years and a series of successful tours across the US, mostly covering the West Coast, Surprise Privilege took a small hiatus to focus on opening a community-run punk record store located in the Lower Haight of San Francisco with other members of their label. Despite their small break, Surprise Privilege is back and has a lot of plans for the future to uplift and maintain the spirit of San Francisco punk.

Kraftwerk

Radio, Live Transmission: Live At Muziekcentrum Vredenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands, December 10, 1981 - FM Broadcast

Dear Boss

***Color vinyl. Kraftwerk FM radio broadcast, live at Muziekcentrum Vredenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands. Recorded December 10, 1981.

Planet Asia

The Medicine

ABB Records

***Fresno Rapper known as one half of the Hip Hop duo Cali Agents. Production was handled by Evidence, Alchemist and others while featuring guest appearances from Black Thought, Cali Agents, Defari, Dilated Peoples, and many more. Brand new sealed copies, originally released in 2006.

Saafir

Good Game: The Transition

ABB Records

***Oakland legend, founding member of Hobo Junction and member of Digital Underground. RIP November 2024. Brand new sealed copies, originally released in 2006.

V/a

Hall Of Justus Presents: Soldiers Of Fortune

ABB Records

***Centered around Little Brother's Rapper Big Pooh and Phonte with several tracks from their inner circle, including Skyzoo, L.E.G.A.C.Y., Chaundon, Joe Scudda, and more. Brand new sealed copies, originally released in 2006.

Brockington, Darien

Somebody To Love

ABB Soul

***"DARIEN BROCKINGTON Regarded as one of R&B’s most identifiable voices, Darien Brockington is most known for his collaborations with The Foreign Exchange and Little Brother. After a 14-year hiatus, Darien released his latest album Where Love Grows in 2024, which topped the Apple Music R&B chart."Brand new sealed copies, originally released in 2006.

Everett, Peven

Studio Confessions

ABB Soul

***Debut LP from singer, multi-instrumentalist and producer from Harvey (near Chicago), Illinois. Brand new sealed copies, originally released on 2002.