Maltese falcon Rudi Agius aka Jupiter Jax’s latest collection is stoned, cold, classic, and conceptual: a 40-minute ode to and odyssey of smoky basement jack and melancholic warehouse anthems crafted from the psychic crates of short-lived, lost-to-time house imprint Dee-Life Records. Credited to a cast of forgotten label staples – LifeLess, Hush Hush, Brad K, and beyond – the tracks weave from magic hour to midnight, Chicago moods and Detroit mirages, heady and hypnotized. Deep cuts dug from a dusty DJ bag found behind fog machines in a long-shuttered club, the disco sleeves shredded, the vinyl thrashed, peeling center labels scrawled with BPMs. Dee-Life Mix serves as both portal and party, parallel universe vintage club gems transported to the here and now. All tracks produced by Jupiter Jax.
MC $7.75
05/22/2020
MP3 $5.99
05/08/2020
FLAC $6.99
05/08/2020
***Since 2012, Buzz Kull has emerged as a defining force in the international underground, merging the emotional gravity of darkwave with the precision of industrial dance. His new work here bridges pop structure and shadowed intensity, evoking the spirit of Black Celebration era Depeche Mode and the body rhythms of Front 242, reimagined through a modern lens and tours in direct support of Cold Cave, Boy Harsher and Molchat Doma. Deep Hate is a four-song statement of intent: relentless, cinematic, and charged with nocturnal electricity. These tracks mark Buzz Kull’s most focused and ferocious work to date,a document of emotional clarity and mechanical pulse that embodies Heartworm Press’s devotion to beauty, severity, and the ecstatic void.The CD version of Deep Hate contains the four songs from the 12" plus four remixes by PIG, Kontravoid, Cold Cave and Spike Hellis. 12-inch pressed on half black half white vinyl.
CD $13.00
02/14/2026
12" $29.35
02/14/2026
***Recorded and produced by Bradford Krieger at Big Nice Studio, Deeper speaks to the complexity of desire, its erotic absences and desperations, its thrills. With songs originating deep in the shuddering heart of the band, most tracks pull from Muggs Fogarty’s language and Rafay Rashid’s musical instincts. Animal was sparked by Florence Wallis in response to Sinead O’Connor’s "I Want Your (Hands On Me)." Taking the listener with them on a journey through hungry nights in the dirty scenes of Providence, Lookers pulls you across the grit of old mill bricks and into the studio with assertively tight grooves, dynamic vocals and guitar riffs that urge you to move. For all its moments of frenetic brutality, Deeper demands relation, bringing you ultimately into a physical intimacy, a plea for skin to skin contact.
LP $21.95
04/25/2025
***BACK IN STOCK!!! The second full-length outing from Atlanta’s DEERHUNTER, and their first for Kranky. Twelve tracks recorded during two very different one-day sessions that explore the hypnotic states induced by ambient and minimalist music via the klang and propulsion of garage rock. “...a massive, psych-heavy, art-damaged five-piece, and one of the most inspired new bands we’ve heard in quite a while. Deerhunter’s forthcoming Kranky debut is likely to make them one of the most talked-about bands of 2007. 8.9/10 ”—Pitchfork
CD $16.00
01/29/2007
Dark Entries has raided the bathhouse to bring us Deep Entries: Gay Electronic Excursions 1979-1985, 10 tracks of obscure queer synth bliss. One of Dark Entries’ most important missions has been illuminating neglected facets of gay musical history, with crucial archival works by legends like Patrick Cowley, Sylvester, and Man Parrish. On Deep Entries, the label spans 6 years of gay electronics—from sultry to angsty to camp, these songs are overflowing with snappy 808 snares and sinewy analog synth leads. The ’80s were a difficult period for many in the gay community as they grappled with the horrors of the HIV/AIDS crisis. The 10 tracks on Deep Entries, varied in genre and vibe, are united in their portraiture of 1980s gay life, and the hope for love or fleeting romance. Previously unreleased cruising soundtracks come courtesy of Patrick Cowley’s “Love Me Hot” featuring vocalist Paul Parker and Boytronic’s “Tonight (Alternate Mix)” set on Hamburg’s famous “Mile of Sin.” Brisbane-based Megamen deliver the proto-electroclash number “Designed for Living,” which prefigures Madonna’s Marlene Dietrich rap in “Vogue.” Trans vocalist Paula “Ula” Villagrá declares, “Everyone is gay!” on Muzak’s “Happy Song,” a skittering tecnopop anthem. Dereck Higgins’ “This Was Something” rings like a lost Joy Division cut draped in bizarre effects, and Polar Praxis’ “(I Want) To Be Different” is a seething ode to alterity. Nightmoves’ “Nightdrive,” is best known as the brooding instrumental B-side to their epochal “Transdance.” Transistor Jet’s “Master Of The Universe (BW’s f-w)”, Maxx Mann’s “Just Like a Razor”...
LP $22.00
12/01/2024
***Deef, forming in 1979 in Sapporo City, Japan evolved from a school-age free jazz group into a raw hardcore band influenced by the global explosion of political punk and hardcore, as well as Japanese bands like The Stalin. During the early era, their Anti-Emperor gig series “Ten-Nou” was targeted by right wing groups, facilitating a change to the more clandestine “Nou-Ten” Gig, a phonetic play on words changing it’s meaning at face value. Keeping in mind their first cassette, 脳, was released before the Outsider Omnibus LP (GISM, Gauze, Comes, etc) when there were very few points of reference for DIY hardcore in Japan, the tracks on this LP show Deef pushing the envelope with the sound and intensity of their music comparative to their peers. This LP version of 脳 includes the first cassette in its entirety, tracks from the infamous, and almost non-existent Nouten Rockers omnibus from 1982, a completely unreleased studio EP session, and a furious live set from their earliest era, which shows some of the earliest influence of Discharge on Japanese hardcore. The audio has been specifically remastered for vinyl and sourced from the original master tapes. The LP includes a booklet with color and black and white photos, flyers, and liner notes and history in both English and Japanese.
LP $21.95
11/15/2024
***Documenting the band’s final era, when hardcore gigs in Sapporo were banned, and still had to be organized in private recording studios with seating. Before bands like Gai and Confuse existed on the opposite end of Japan, Real Control shows Deef diving into a totally raw and abrasive hardcore style, issuing a challenge for bands to leave the typical sounds of their peers in the dust, and replace it with something more fitting of the anger and frustration of cold war era, and if you weren’t going to, their opening salvo chanting the mantra “We Kill All Punk Rock Heroes” proved that they would. Real Control contains the second tape in its entirety, as well as their unreleased 1983 session recorded live at Studio Puff, which shows the band at their rawest, most unhinged, and most furiously hardcore, and at the time, rawer than most any band on the planet. The audio has been specifically remastered for vinyl and sourced from the original master tapes. The LP includes a booklet with color photos, flyers, and liner notes and history in both English and Japanese.
LP $21.95
11/15/2024
***A CD option containing both of the Deef LPs released by General Speech on one CD. Still with the full liner notes in both English and Japanese, some photos, and flyers, but not quite as deluxe as the presentation of archival material in the LP versions. The audio has been specifically remastered for the CD format, separately from the vinyl master, and is still sourced from the original master tapes.
CD $21.95
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***"Prairiewolf make easy listening music for an age of fracture. They almost do it in spite of themselves. No one can seriously question the head music bona fides of the members of this Colorado-based trio. Guitarist Stefan Beck has already assembled a formidable discography of jewel-toned guitar zone-outs under his Golden Brown moniker. And keyboardist and guitarist Jeremy Erwin and bassist Tyler Wilcox have both made their reputations as chroniclers of the vast world of out music. Erwin helms the indispensable Heat Warps blog, a performance-by-performance archive of Miles Davis’s labyrinthine electric period. And Wilcox has been covering the ragged edges of psychedelia and experimental rock at Aquarium Drunkard and other publications, not to mention his own virtual basement for heads, the great bootleg blog Doom and Gloom from the Tomb. These guys come by it honestly. And yet, given their backgrounds, Prairiewolf’s self-titled debut last spring was remarkably free of face-melters, brown acid blowouts, and ascendant spiritual jazz odysseys. Instead, they dropped a record of beautiful, elegant, low-key cosmic groovers that sounded like the piped-in background music to a resort hotel on Jupiter. It was an unlikely psychedelia, brocaded with mid-twentieth century sonic threading from the hi-fi era: vintage synthesizers, smears of spaghetti western, luxe tropical details, the faint schmaltz of space age pop. Imagine something like a Harmonia residency in the airport lounge. And yet somehow it all worked brilliantly. Prairiewolf became last summer’s cool-down standard. After a year woodshedding around Colorado’s Front Range region, the Prairiewolf boys...
LP $25.50
10/25/2024
Peter Zummo, known for his work alongside Arthur Russell shares a new sonic exploration titled Deep Drive 2+, a revisit of his 2014 album Deep Drive. The record exudes a magisterial air of calm and also boasts what can be described as an elemental quality. Diving deep and soaring high, Deep Drive 2+ can float equally effectively through air and water. This new take on the Deep Drive material feels utterly different. One which—to use a nautical metaphor—finds itself in balmier waters and much more pleasingly adrift from its moorings. The album showcases the talents of Peter Broderick (violin, drums, synthesizer), Joe Carvell (acoustic and electric bass), Mabe Fratti (cello) and Sebastian Rojas (synthesizer and electric organ).
LP $28.00
03/08/2024
***To mark this milestone in their 20 year career DeeCRACKS are releasing A Frantic Effort, a massive triple 10" colored vinyl retrospective compendium of their favorite songs from the past two decades. But don't think for a second that DeeCRACKS would try to sell you a stodgy, frozen-in-amber "Greatest Hits" collection. "We decided to revisit our career and re-recorded our favorites and what we think are the band's classics, as well as two completely new songs," says Mike. "This way, we have songs from 2003 up until 2023 on one album... and in one great sounding production."
3X10 $28.75
11/17/2023
***BACK IN STOCK!!! The highly anticipated follow-up to 2007’s Cryptograms album which launched DEERHUNTER into the stratosphere of hype. Whether or not that was or is deserved is entirely subjective. Microcastle was recorded over the course of a week at Rare Book Studios in Brooklyn, New York with NICOLAS VERHES in April of this year. The album was recorded as a four-piece consisting of BRADFORD COX, LOCKETT PUNDT, JOSHUA FAUVER and MOSES ARCHULETA. "Saved by Old Times" features a vocal collage by COLE ALEXANDER of the BLACK LIPS, and the album also features two songs with lead vocals by guitarist Pundt— "Agoraphobia" and "Neither of Us, Uncertainly." Includes a bonus LP with an entire second album of material titled Weird Era Cont.
2XCD $16.00
12/07/2010
2XLP $30.00
02/23/2009
***NOW AVAILABLE ON VINYL AGAIN!!! Certainly not a group to rest on their laurels (especially difficult when they have new songs burning a hole in their collective back pockets), DEERHUNTER delivers five new tracks on this extended play. This is not some stop-gap release between albums, or mere leftovers from their most recent Microcastle album, but an all new session. The band loves the EP format and thinks it does not get the respect it deserves. Hell, some bands arguably work best in the EP format, think Cocteau Twins or My Bloody Valentine, and now maybe we should add Deerhunter to that list. That's certainly not to say their albums aren't great, but with 2007's Fluorescent Grey EP and this new one, a lucid argument can be made that minute for minute, and hook for hook, their two EP's can't be matched for visceral energy and pop smarts.
CD $9.25
06/08/2009
12" $12.00
06/23/2009
***NOW AVAILABLE!!! COFFINS have racked up quite the reputation for a consistently excellent output of utterly filthy and punishing death metal that flirts with the same smattering of skullcrushing doom that launched early greats of death like Autopsy and Asphyx into the zombified stratosphere. Ancient Torture is a wide-ranging compilation of a whole mess of non-album material taken from splits and compilations spanning the years 2005-2009, with the bulk of the material culled from ’07-’08, splayed out on either side of Coffins’ third full-length, the tremendous Buried Death. This 2CD contains the tracks from the Split 7″ with Lobomized, the Split 7″ with Spun In Darkness, the Split 7″ with Skullhog, the Split LP with XXX Maniak, the Split LP with The Arm And the Sword Of A Bastard God, the Split CD with Anatomia and Grudge, the Split 7″ with Cianide, the Split LP with Otesanek, the Split 10″ with Mala Suerte and the tracks from the Warhead 7″, plus compilation tracks.
2XCD $14.50
01/31/2020
***Oakland's SO WHAT is back with a bang with a hit single to follow-up their late 2016 long-player Hard Gum! We detect a heavy whiff of hard-nut Antipodean style grit on the stellar A-side, "Deep Freeze," A steady diet of '70s Australia's finest—and we mean all things Vanda and Young related—will do that. Pure, no nonsense knuckle-dragger Rock n Roll that definitely carries on the spirit of early AC/DC, Marcus Hook Roll Band, Coloured Balls, etc. Exclusive B-side scorcher, "Razor Blade," a long-time live fave that is equals parts terrace stomper and Slade-esque boogie, has finally been committed to vinyl.
7" $9.25
10/19/2018
***BACK IN STOCK!!! Received a 7.1 rating from Pitchfork. Stanley Kubrick has a troubled past with DEERHOOF. An argument over whether Eyes Wide Shut was good almost broke up the band in 1999 and again in 2003. When Famous Class suggested a 7" of music from The Shining, the band waffled for three years about whether they thought they could do it justice. But once a Halloween release date was proposed, Deerhoof couldn't resist. They got the score to Bartok's "Music For Strings, Percussion and Celesta" out of the library, and transcribed one of the 20s songs straight from the closing credits. Music that in the movie echoed from some ghostly, gilded past takes on a more urgent character in Deerhoof's versions, as if to underscore that the horrors of white supremacy, oligarchy, and domestic abuse are alive and well in 2018 America.
7" $9.25
10/26/2018
7" $9.25
10/26/2018
MP3 $9.90
10/26/2018
FLAC $9.90
10/26/2018
Deep Frosty bandleader Steve Ruecker is a legend to some, a much loved participant in the California rock scene who often hosts barnburning jams at his house in Encinitas. Enlisting Ben Flashman from Los Angeles and Utrillo Kushner from Oakland (Noel Von Harmonson and Ben Chasny guest) of Comets on Fire, Blues Band could be 2017's great rock record. Guitar progressions undergo a classic Quicksilver treatment, as Ruecker's sincere, Roky-esque vocals make testament to the plight of the indigenous, the horror of modern times, and the hopeless beauty of heartbreak. The band’s pure enthusiasm coupled with a distaste for complacency seeps through like blood on fabric, making Blues Band a raw and rocking joy to hear.
MC $6.75
12/01/2017
MP3 $5.99
12/01/2017
FLAC $6.99
12/01/2017
“Deep breath: It’s been nearly 20 years of high marks for Mr. Lars Aldric Finberg, shocking as that calculation may be to make. Whether a basher in A-Frames and Thee Oh Sees, secret weapon of Wounded Lion, architect of Puberty and administrator of The Intelligence, his whirlwind presence has been a reliable one; that of an artist whom people look for and look toward. With outlets as varied (be they casual or all-consuming) as this, what, oh what, then prompted the emergence of a solo offering? In truth, In The Red’s outta-nowhere green-lighting of the concept sent Finberg’s brain bubbling toward Moonlight Over Bakersfield, a statement of entirely his own concoction… A truly swirling step from a guy who’s always movin’ diagonally. “Followers of Finberg’s recording history will immediately detect a plume of confidence around this album, an air that each successive offering has inched toward but now, at long last, has taken full bloom. It’s legitimately wonderful to witness Finberg ordering off the top shelf across every aspect of the album, recognizing this as a collection of experiments and bangers deserving of such treatment. This assuredness carries over thematically, as he tackles both personal and political obsessions with equal honesty and sophistication. “The favors called in for this occasion bolster the offering as a whole. Frequent collaborators now stew with notable heavies from La Luz and Melvins / Big Business, creating Finberg’s Whole New Sound. The great Mikal Cronin even guests on sax, offering sophisticated bleat as needed. Ty...
LP $16.00
11/24/2017
CD $12.00
11/24/2017
MP3 $9.90
12/01/2017
FLAC $11.99
12/01/2017
***Deep, hypnotic, trance-like music from BAHRU KEGNE, a legendary Azmari, who was even a private court player under Haile Selassie, then the "free newspaper" of Ethiopia in the communist days. He recorded some amazing "modern" cassettes in the last years of his life. CD comes with 44-page booklet with interviews, photos, lyrics, stories, histories, etc. No Export outside of North America.
CD $9.75
12/10/2013
Wayfaring American producer / DJ Deeper Kenz named his project in homage to the “cinematically intense” Northeast Philly hood where he resided intermittently for nearly eight years. Surrounded by dive bars and decrepit lots, he turned inward and crafted a set of recordings “designed as tools to light up a small but intimate community of dancers and lovers.” The A side skews lean and linear, crisp percussion laced with shaded bass and violet textures, while the flip goes more mirror ball delirium, sweat and heat and disco samples “chained up and grooving to the unceasing rhythms of the big city machine.” Indulge, internalize; motion is meaning. Recorded in Kensington, Philadelphia, 2013-2016. Illustrations by Mariah Welch. Mastered by John Flynn at Balance Mastering, UK and Eric Hanson at Maven Mastering, Los Angeles.
MC $7.75
05/19/2017
MP3 $5.99
05/19/2017
FLAC $6.99
05/19/2017
***DEERHOOF returns just 4 months after their magnificent new LP The Magic with a brand new 45rpm heatseeker. “I thought We Were Friends” was born between tour dates, self-recorded, mixed, and mastered in the band's Brooklyn practice space and GREG's basement. On the A-side we have the mesmeric pop gem “Risk Free” featuring the vocal duet of SATOMI and Greg. The flip side gives us “Delight,” Deerhoof’s own victory march. Think the “Brass Bonanza” pumped through the nastiest, most shredded PA system you’ve ever heard. It all comes housed in a beautiful screen printed jacket featuring art from Satomi and a poly-lined inner sleeve. (STREET DATE – 11/18/2016)
7" $9.25
11/18/2016
MP3 $9.90
11/18/2016
FLAC $9.90
11/18/2016
MP3 $9.90
06/10/2016
FLAC $11.99
06/10/2016
“I was a kid, I took mushrooms to help me ‘ease into things.’ It was a perfect SF night [circa 1999]—warm and dimly lit, shit-and-piss-smelling Clarion Alley. A band took the eye-level built-that-afternoon stage. I had peeked up gender-bent punk’s chicken-leather skirt and into eternity. How old were they? Who were they? How were they so fascinating? “They were blowing my young mind. I remember a show where, for some reason I can’t recall, but probably the cops had shut a party down, they got moved to a friend’s backyard down on 3rd Street. They played in front of a halogen work light on cement and somebody threw a bucket of yellow latex paint into the sky. The show was incredible and unstoppable (until the bikers next door called the cops and broke up the party). I’m not sure how I made it home but the next morning I woke up to strangers sleeping on my living room floor and yellow-paint footsteps covering my joint. I spent the next day gagging on my hands and knees scrubbing paint off the hardwood floor (even the shitty flats in SF have nice floors). Drugs, violence; general snottiness; elastic paranoid guitar; SRO drum kit; coke-bottle specs, sharp bass sounds. “An abstract guitar dance that still I can’t rip off without feeling guilty. Smirking medicated bass player whose heavy glasses slid down his sweating beak. Hot-as-hell and unapproachable drum master Sugar, whose boyfriend at the time I remember as like an extra from Warriors...
LP $19.00
02/26/2016
MP3 $9.90
02/26/2016
FLAC $11.99
02/26/2016
***Expanded deluxe edition of THE DEEP's one and only album, originally released in 1966 and now well-established as a psychedelic classic. One night in a darkened Philadelphia studio, the Deep (RUSTY EVANS, songwriting partner and producer MARK BARKAN, the legendary DAVD BROMBERG, whose credits include playing with Bob Dylan and many others, plus a bevy of talented musicians) laid down tempestuous garage punkers, sweetly-twisted ballads and ambiguous weirdness, all rife with hyper-psychedelic lyrical flashes of a rolling midnight expressway through the subconscious mind. A perfect representation of the psychedelic sound: free-form poetry, infectious drum beats, fuzzed out guitar, and playfully plucked bass (and vibes and tympani and so on), swirl together, coalescing into some of the most impressive psychedelic rock you'll hear. Remastered from the original four-track tapes, including three sides of alternates. "The best Nuggets-era garage album ever."—www.lysergia.com
3XLP $44.95
10/13/2015
When their debut album was released in 2013, Vhol was a surprise to many with preconceived notions of what a new band comprised of two ex-Ludicra members would sound like. The project began when John Cobbett of Hammers of Misfortune and Aesop Dekker of Agalloch reunited with the desire to make music again, and the lineup gelled with the addition of bassist Sigrid Sheie (also of Hammers of Misfortune / ex-Amber Asylum) and YOB mastermind Mike Scheidt on vocals. Despite an extensive history of past projects, Vhol is a unique new musical group in which each member re-discovers their old-school metal roots. With their new album Deeper Than Sky, Vhol present something totally next-level, taking the sounds of their debut even further into the outer realms of sonic exploration yet remaining within the old-school speed metal paradigm. Of particular note is Scheidt, known as one of metal’s premiere vocalists today, who delivers his best vocal performance to date on this new album.
CD $12.00
10/23/2015
MP3 $7.99
10/23/2015
FLAC $8.99
10/23/2015
***BACK IN STOCK!!! The fourth in Famous Class’ LAMC split series featuring an unreleased A-side track from one of the label’s favorite band’s, backed with a B-side track from a lesser-known artist handpicked by the A-side group. The series gets its name from the epic Less Artists More Condos concerts that the late ARIEL PANERO threw in New York, showcasing amazing bands in some strange and unique venues. Ariel’s driving force was a desire to get the bands he believed in the recognition he felt they deserved. This series simply tries to honor that idea.
7" $7.25
03/18/2014
***Armageddon Shop is proud to announce the release of a legitimate reissue of this classic USHC classic available again on vinyl. DEEP WOUND were one of a handful of great punk bands from the outer regions of Massachusetts who have been largely overlooked by HC history in favor of the "Boston Crew" bands who put out records on XClaim! or Modern Method. The four-piece recorded their one and only single with Lou Giordano and Frank Michaels (Proletariat) and released it on the Radiobeat label in 1982. The record is snotty teenage punk rock but played at lightning speed with totally manic singing. Drummer J MASCIS and guitarist LOU BARLOW went on to further greatness by forming the seminal indie rock band DINOSAUR JR., and bassist SCOTT HELLAND played in the OUTPATIENTS until their breakup in 1995. The Deep Wound material is all amazing and essential. It has been released in many forms, including several vinyl bootlegs, and an authorized Discography via Damaged Goods several years ago.
7" $6.75
12/31/2013
Deep in the graveyard of San Francisco, a young hand with black and cracked nails is pushing up through a broken pile of e-slag. Bitter teeth tear through server cables and motherboards, desperate to be free from the ever-deepening sludge of tech waste… the iPhone is the new styrofoam cup. Stepping over them—eyes glazed, feet dragging, blank face aglow in the eerie luminescence of smart phones—is the inspiration for these songs. San Francisco has long attracted newcomers… but now the city faces the most dangerous, the most egregious and blandest of them all—people with lots of money. In the vacuum that is now expanding, there is a ragged, determined sound vibrating out of the dirty underground. This is POW! Deep ’80s synth bass percolates under the circuit-swamp-fried-egg guitar. The drums, a teenage tiger’s heartbeat, underpin vocals delivered like a deadpan face-slap from a kid half your age. The recording is simple and dense, and it has a natural Doppler effect on headphones. It’s perfectly poppy and rough at the same time, and it has a message, so dig in, ear-wise. Heed the warning bells echoing down the streets of San Francisco clogged with the cholesterol of normals. Next they could be knocking at your door… —John Dwyer
LP $19.00
01/21/2014
CD $12.00
01/21/2014
MP3 $9.90
01/21/2014
FLAC $11.99
01/21/2014
Now available on CD! Deep Thuds is the debut album from Spacin’, the newly formed Philadelphia act that’s bringing together kick-flippers, arm-wrestlers, and hackey-sackers in head-nodding, beer-swilling unity. Inhale the same fumes that fueled the Velvets’ workout at the Gymnasium, the Stooges’ sleazy-fuzz with Asheton on guitar, and the groovy zen of Nigeria ’70. “Originally a basement-only solo thing consisting of [Jason] Killinger playing guitar through a pyramid of amps accompanied by a drum machine, Spacin’ has started to squeak itself above ground and into the barrooms of the city with a fully functioning lineup. The dude doesn’t even need the drum machine anymore; he’s got his wife Eva pounding the skins! Previews of their upcoming debut full-length Deep Thuds shows a unit who knows the economic gain to be had from a good, hypnotic riff. For those who have ever gotten lost for days in the strains of the Velvet Underground’s ‘Sister Ray,’ Jonathan Richman’s ‘Roadrunner,’ Hawkwind’s ‘Silver Machine’ or even Deep Purple’s ‘Space Truckin’,’ repeated listening to Spacin’ is required in excessive doses.” —Tony Rettman, Philadelphia Weekly
CD $13.00
06/11/2013
Maurice Deebank recorded his instrumental solo debut for the seminal Cherry Red imprint in 1984 while still the guitarist in Felt, the pastoral English pop group led by the notorious eccentric Lawrence Hayward (best known simply as Lawrence). Felt’s early albums Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty, The Splendour of Fear and Ignite the Seven Cannons and Set Sail for the Sun were marked by melancholy guitar interplay and a lofty pop sensibility, but Inner Thought Zone illustrates how significant Deebank’s role was in crafting Felt’s signature sound. Seven-minute album centerpiece “Silver Fountain of Paradise Square” and “Study No. 1” make beautiful use of supple arpeggios whimsically bent into cyclical structures in and around which Deebank weaves solos. His performance is nuanced and dynamic, undermining his own technical skill for the sake of expression, and it’s easy to hear Inner Thought Zone as an exposition of the increasing introspection that led to his departure from Felt. Glistening chords, synthesizer flourishes and breezy plateaus of exaltation collide with the sense of loss and isolation generally explored by Deebank’s peers in the post-punk era, but rarely with as much impeccable grace and finesse.
LP $16.00
08/06/2013
CD $13.00
06/11/2013
***BACK IN PRINT!!! Note new price. The second full-length outing from Atlanta’s DEERHUNTER, and their first for Kranky. Twelve tracks recorded during two very different one-day sessions that explore the hypnotic states induced by ambient and minimalist music via the klang and propulsion of garage rock. Also included is the tracks from the brand new four-track Fluorescent Grey EP. Both releases scored Best New Music on Pitchfork.
2XLP $24.00
04/17/2007
***BACK IN PRINT WITH NEW ARTWORK!!! Received a 7.8 rating from Pitchfork. Debut LP from SPACIN', the newly formed Philadelphia act that's bringing together kick-flippers, arm-wrestlers, and hackey-sackers in head-nodding, beer swilling unity. Inhales the same fumes that fuel the Velvets workout at the gymnasium, the Stooges sleazy-fuzz with Asheton on guitar, and the groovy zen of Nigeria '70. “The first pearl bestowed upon us in the form of a side project from Philadelphia’s finest gnarled-out Psych trio BIRDS OF MAYA was guitarist Mike Polizzes’ Purling Hiss, and now we have bass player JASON KILLINGER with his very killer and very screwy new project, SPACIN’. Originally a basement-only solo thing consisting of Killinger playing guitar through a pyramid of amps accompanied by a drum machine, Spacin’ has started to squeak itself above ground and into the barrooms of the city with a fully functioning lineup. The dude doesn’t even need the drum machine anymore; he’s got his wife EVA pounding the skins! Sneak previews of their upcoming debut full-length Deep Thuds, shows a unit who knows the economic gain to be had from a good, hypnotic riff. For those who have ever gotten lost for days in the strains of the Velvet Undergrounds’ ‘Sister Ray,’ Jonathan Richmans’ ‘Roadrunner,’ Hawkwinds’ ‘Silver Machine’ or even Deep Purples’ ‘Space Truckin,’’ repeated listening to Spacin’ is required in excessive doses.”—Tony Rettman (Philadelphia Weekly) Empty Mind...
LP $13.00
12/04/2012
MP3 $5.99
04/17/2012
***Even in Columbus, where it’s hard not to spit without hitting an independent musician who is carving out a luxuriously hardscrabble existence, the Lindsay are still an anomaly. They’re nowhere near as experimental or lo-fidelity driven as you’d imagine coming out of this city. In fact, of all the bands living here (of which there are quite a few), the Lindsay ply closest to actual “rock music.” Deep in the Queue is a uniquely American album -- inventive and complex, full of sonically robust riffs and feedback, but underneath it all there’s a very terrestrial base (to suppose Dragged Out was their love letter to British nuggets). In the band’s own words it’s akin to “R.E.M. moving from Mumur to Reckoning.” I’ve never been able to hear Peter Buck in the guitars of Schmidt and Olexovitch, but the influence makes sense when you step into the homespun quality of the record. What I hear, in the epic moments of “Bang a Left” and “Power Auger,” are arena-ready blasts resembling those transcendent epiphanies that came in 10th grade, wearing a cassette of Siamese Dream thin in the dashboard deck. Or maybe even Wings in the pomp and piano that comes to the surface of finale “Don’t Get Uptight.” The Lindsay may be of the street (and in your wildest fantasies, the basement) but they shoot for the stars here – they shoot for moon landings and galaxies – and it pays off. At the heart Deep in the Queue is...
LP+CD $13.00
09/20/2011
MP3 $7.92
09/20/2011
***“POWER-VIOLENCE. These guys from Texas also play in WEEKEND NACHOS, but here they stick to the old-school power-violence of the '90s. This is their 1st release including 9 hardcore smashers between crude fastcore and maniac hardcore. Similair to Infest, Spazz and Crossed Out.”
7" $4.50
07/19/2011
Deepchord Presents: Echospace
Vibrational Studies (In Echospace) / Symbolism In Transition
Modern Love
"Rod Modell and Steve Hitchell return to Modern Love with this new twelve and soon to be released album 'Liumin'. In the years that have passed since their last album both artists have been busy with numerous projects, building their own Echospace imprint and recording under a number of different guises. Modell in particular has developed his longstanding fascination with location recordings, and some made in Tokyo over the last couple of years provide the source material for these new tracks. Although the vapor trails of dub still colour the essence of their recordings, 'Vibrational Studies' (an alternate version of album opener 'In Echospace) is a much more 'destroyed' experience than anything the pair have done before, deploying a relentless cycle of washed-out analogue loops layered around submerged field recordings and electric currents that somehow propel the track while at the same time immersing it in deep, murky waters. 'Symbolism In Transition', by sharp contrast, forms a padded configuration with a sort of late night shuffle so beloved of Move D, all squashed House vibes, sparkling melodic keys and bursts of barely there white noise - it's a gentle, beautiful thing."--Boomkat
MP3 $1.98
03/21/2011
"'Deepchord Presents Echospace' is the collaborative project of Rod Modell and Steve Hitchell, two veteran producers based in Chicago and Detroit, now returning for a second full album for the Modern Love label. In the years that have passed since their last album both artists have been busy with numerous projects, developing their own Echospace imprint and recording under a number of different guises. Modell in particular has developed his longstanding fascination with location recordings, and some made in Tokyo over the last couple of years provided the source material for what would eventually become this new album. Indeed, a bonus CD that comes with the first pressing of the CD features 80 minutes of these original field recordings. Although the vapor trails of dub still colour the essence of much of this new material, 'Liumin' is an altogether more 'destroyed' experience than its predecessor, opening with the washed-out, beatless sequence of 'In Echospace', a track that somehow manages to harness the disorientating experience of being a stranger in a strange land, with only the flickering glow of neon lights for company. The album unfurls with stretches of immersive techno and low-end treatments compressed with a growling, unstable focus that's in turn oppressive and soothing, re-creating the uniquely ambiguous euphoria/narcosis that comes with extended sleep deprivation. It's an effect that's perhaps encapsulated best on 'BCN Dub', a heaving warehouse thump that's entwined with shortwave radio transmissions bringing to life a disembodied horn-section from deep in the ether. There may well...
MP3 $9.90
03/21/2011
"After four sellout twelves and a barrage of critical acclaim - Deepchord's full length Echospace excursion "The Coldest Season" is at long last available on CD and Download - featuring material not featured on the EP's and different versions of familiar tracks - all expertly blended and mastered by Rod Modell for your enjoyment. Produced using nothing but vintage analog equipment : Roland Space Echo, Echoplex, Korg tape delay, vintage signal processors, noise generators, Sequential Circuits 8 bit samplers & numerous analog synthesizers - this project goes back to the heady days of Berlin-based proto dub/techno variations, recorded and produced in Detroit and Chicago. Three of the worlds most important Techno cities colliding to form a whole that perfectly bridges the gap between The Motor City's emotive arrangements, The Windy city's percussive robustness, and Berlin's life-altering Basic Channel continuum. Listened to in one sitting, "The Coldest Season" chooses a different arrangement and track selection to slowly build up momentum and space - taking in the muted steppers reduction of "Abraxas" and the icy soundscaping of "Ocean Of Emptiness" before reaching a crescendo of sorts with the radiant techno of "Elysian" and the majestic dub killer "Empyrean" - the most revered track on board bringing this 80 minute album to a perfect close. Where Echospace go from here only time will tell - but for the moment "The Coldest Season" is a perfect distillation of dub techno and BASS reductions for 2007 and beyond."--Boomkat
MP3 $9.90
03/21/2011
“June in Toronto is a beautiful thing so we might be biased but our one night there centered around a verdant open-air courtyard and a mesmerizing dusk-lit live performance by local beat/vocables duo The Deeep and it was obvious we had to hear more. And this is that, Life Light, the band’s debut release, starring six spellbound permutations of their synth-art choral chemistry. Soak the glow. The album dissolves from communal bass-loop/drum machine chant templates like “Mudd” into desolate cinematic ghost-choirs (“Abyssal Plain Pt. 1 & 2”) then spirals back into weirdo rubberized synthesizer sculptures (“Dream”) and closes with the 90s-vibed silk-groove chill-out single, “Slow Coaster.” The dynamic of Isla Craig’s flowing crushed velvet vocals and Wolfgang Nessel’s electric drift/rhythm methods is given ample room to slink, soar, and slow-dive, and the motion is magic.”--Not Not Fun
MP3 $5.94
02/08/2011
***The second release on the new Not Not Fun sister label, 100% Silk, is an extended reworked version of Toronto, ON beat/voice trip-hop dream duo THE DEEEP’s most divine/deluxe single, "Mudd" (featured on their NNF cassette debut, Life Light). The B-side features two syrupy sideways remixes.
12" $10.50
01/18/2011
MP3 $2.97
01/25/2011
***Raging, punk-fueled, female-fronted death metal from former members of UNRUH and SUICIDE NATION. If you're into the likes of Bolt Thrower, Carcass, and early Entombed, this is for you!
LP $11.25
06/29/2010
***NOW AVAILABLE ON VINYL!!! Make way for your new thrashcore heroes—Philly's sons of sonic mayhem are a fearsome foursome who deliver an aural anvil to the cranium with twenty blistering, high-speed anthems. After leveling every club, squat, and basement in America over the course of multiple tours, these ass-kickers have established a massive cult following. Imagine the Manson family with spiked hair, har har. Previous seven-inch releases (on such wholesome labels as Reactionary/11th Hour, Burrito Records, and Putrid Filth Conspiracy) and compilation appearances have laid additional groundwork for this ultimate crustcore epic.
LP $9.25
05/28/2002
Deep In Ocean Sunk The Lamp Of Light is the debut release from the trio of Stephen O'Malley (Sunn0))))), Daniel O'Sullivan (Guapo), and Vincent de Roguin (Shora). Taking its title from The Iliad, the music is deep, cosmic, and equally epic, completely unlike anything you'd expect from three such heavyweights. More in the tradition of Nurse With Wound's Spiral Insana or Klaus Schulze's Cyborg than any contemporary trend, the tracks float along in a masterful collage of activity, where careful scene changes highlight O'Sullivan's classic but artfully placed Rhodes bombs, de Roguin's organ, and O'Malley's guitar. Extraordinary effort has gone into editing, mastering, and shaping these pieces--they are not tossed off improvisations or "side-project" orphans. The group recently completed a small European tour with Jackie-O-Motherfucker's Alexander Tucker, playing dates with with Ulan Bator, The No Neck Blues Band and Netwerk. Both CD and LP editions are housed in beautiful, custom jackets hand-printed by Alan Sherry of SIWA.
LP $17.50
11/21/2006
CD $12.00
11/21/2006
MP3 $9.90
11/21/2006
Deep one-percenter scuzz damage from The Zodiacs (aka Zodiac Speedcreep), a group whose members -- Clay Ruby, Ezekiel Blackouts III (aka Keith Wood) and Grim Jim Gypsy (aka James Toth) -- are also involved in Hush Arbors, Sunburned Hand of the Man and Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice. Gone is full of l-o-n-g jams that bring to mind such wild ones as German Oak, Magic Muscle and foggy dreams of The Stooges moonlighting as a Hawkwind tribute band during the off season. Zodiacs burn a heavy trail to the days when outlaw biker clubs roasted and consumed whole horses in celebration of the wild life. Get your wings!
CD $12.00
02/27/2007
MP3 $9.90
02/27/2007
***CHECK STOCK!!! Received an 8.0 rating from Pitchfork. One of entertainment’s most flamboyant musical artistes of the last decade, BABY DEE is back with a new LP, Regifted Light, on Drag City Records. The album is not merely charming, nor simply enchanting and/or deeply touching—it is also an unusually arrayed album, scattering four vocal performances among eight smartly arranged, classically focused instrumentals, creating quintessential Baby Dee in all her unconventional glory. Baby Dee is an extraordinarily feeling talent on the keyboard, and while she can play anything put before her, her passion is for the concert grand: the Steinway D in particular, or, as she puts it, her “Rolls Royce of choice.” This album was composed on a very special Steinway D that has been living with Dee for the past few years and is as responsible as she is for the dynamic music and sounds of Regifted Light. Produced by ANDREW W.K. No Export to Europe.
LP $19.75
03/22/2011
CD $13.75
03/22/2011
***After seeing the overwhelming response to Safe Inside the Day in February 2008, the peerless BABY DEE returns with A Book of Songs For Anne Marie. What was overwhelming about the response was the pure reaction to the purity of expression in Dee’s music. That dizzying sense of self is again an essential feature of this new music. While the last album was lit with the production fire of Will Oldham and Matt Sweeney producing, A Book of Songs For Anne Marie glows softly with the calming presence of MAXIM MOSTON (arranger of some standing and part of Antony and the Johnsons’ touring band). In essence, this album is a prequel to Safe Inside the Day. The songs here were released in a different set of recordings and in a limited-edition book form (150 copies!) on David Tibet’s Durtro label back in 2004. For most listeners, this is its first outing. No Exports Outside of North America. Received a 7.9 rating from Pitchfork.
LP $19.75
04/20/2010
CD $13.85
04/20/2010
Baby Dee’s deluxe, double-CD retrospective set compiles all the music from her Little Window and Love’s Small Song albums, originally available in limited numbers via World Serpent and long out-of-print. Also included are the tracks from her limited, mailorder-only EP Made For Love. Baby Dee is a wonderfully distinctive performer, alternating between harp, accordion, and piano. Her voice harkens back to cabaret performers of old and appeals to fans of her friend Antony. Dee is also a member of Current 93 and is featured on the forthcoming Pantaleimon album. The new Baby Dee record is scheduled for late Fall and will be released by Drag City.
2XCD $17.50
11/13/2007
CD $13.00
11/23/2005
***Deep in Cyber Aztlán, Grupo Jejeje emerged in 2014 out of a shared fascination with the darker sonic undercurrents within cumbia. Mexican-American producer Turbo Sonidero, alongside Persian-British producer Arrabalero are Grupo Jejeje aka Los Místicos de la Kumbia digging deep into the cumbia universe in search of esoteric sounds from short-lived labels, synth-driven melodies from Puebla, and loop- and sample-based kumbias editadas from San Luis Potosi.Grupo Jejeje’s music filters these sounds through their own unique immigrant experiences. While Turbo Sonidero grew up as a Mexican-American in San José’s Latino East Side in the shadow of technophilic Silicon Valley, Arrabalero came of age in London surrounded by classical and popular Persian music. In Cyber Aztlán, a reimagination of the mythical Aztec ancestral land, Grupo Jejeje soundtracks cosmic encounters between Egyptian, Mesopotamian, and Meso-American cultures. After years of sharing song sketches and collaborating online, Turbo Sonidero and Arrabalero met in person in Oaxaca and Tepotzlán to work on and finalize their music together in 2018.In July 2018, Grupo Jejeje and Discos Rolas traveled to Mexico City and met with legendary artist Jamie Ruelas. Beginning in the early 1980s, Ruelas revolutionized flyer art and logos for the Mexico’s largest and most important sound systems—Polymarchs, La Changa among others. His hand-drawn imagery of space travel, sexy cyborgs, and massive sound systems defines the visual aesthetic of Mexico’s sound system culture. It is an honor to collaborate with Jaime Ruelas on the album artwork of our first release. 2019 release.
LP $25.50
03/13/2026
***"Van Zandt's subject matter had not changed much in the seven years between recordings, as was apparent only a few lines into the leadoff track, 'A Song For,' when Van Zandt spoke-sang, 'I'm weak and I'm weary of sorrow.' In fact, he wasn't weary of enumerating the causes of sorrow, as was proven especially in 'Marie,' sung in the voice of a derelict whose life gets worse and worse until his pregnant girlfriend dies. Songs like that were typical of Van Zandt, but this time he also displayed an unusual range, from the scary, calypso-like song of temptation 'The Hole' to the weird tall tale of 'Billy, Boney and Ma' in which a man and a skeleton turn to a life of crime, demonstrating Van Zandt's humorous side. Van Zandt even found room for two lullabies. Musically, the album, which was recorded in Ireland and produced by Philip Donnelly, who also played guitar, benefited from an unusually varied group of styles, from the Chicago blues of 'Goin' Down to Memphis' to the Memphis rockabilly of 'Gone Too Long,' with a strong complement of Irish-flavored tunes played on such traditional instruments as uilleann pipes and tin whistle. The diverse musical styles made the album Van Zandt's most listenable, even when the lyrics were at their most desperate. By 1994, after a stream of live re-recordings of his older material, Van Zandt had begun to seem like a songwriter whose best songs, good as they were, were behind him. No Deeper Blue...
LP $30.75
11/29/2024
Tokyo deep house master Soshi Takeda returns with a long-awaited six-song sequel to 2021’s landmark Floating Mountains, surfing deeper into mystery, motion, and liquid dreams: Secret Communication. Recorded across 2022 and 2023 at his home studio with a unique assemblage of 80’s and 90’s hardware, the tracks cruise through a latticework of skyways on lush pads, bubbling bass, and blissed BPMs, dusted in sunrise acid and cosmic piano. His is a dance music of idyllic emotions and inner worlds, yearning for new horizons. Dramatic events overlapped with the album’s creation: “Wars broke out. On the other hand, my child was born. There were sad and beautiful moments in my life.” Secret Communication contains vistas, valleys, glimpses of lives unled, swirling above the grey noise of the city. From the jazzy daydream of “Can Imagination Transcend Distance?” to the sleek starlight house of “Rainstorm” to the farewell ecstasy of the title track, Takeda’s music touches and transports, a portal to places beyond. Fantasy and feeling, intention and inspiration, all become one: “When I listen to beautiful deep house, I feel a mysterious atmosphere. Dreamy scenes come to mind. I aim to create that sound.”
LP $20.25
11/01/2024
MC $12.00
03/07/2025
MP3 $6.99
11/01/2024
FLAC $7.99
11/01/2024
***"Nestled deep in the forests of Mendocino County in Northern California, huddled under the protective shade of towering redwoods and within earshot of frothy waves crashing against the Pacific coastline, squats a geodesic dome that has served as crucible for the experimental genius of Carlton Melton. Nature and Man operate under different logics. But here, Carlton Melton wholly entrusts this idyllic environment with the task of inspiring + guiding their musical improvisations. The Dome has been the ideal setting to facilitate their creativity. Without forcing a specific dynamic or theme, the band inhabits its womb-like confines to improvise, explore, dream. Their music draws on psychedelia, stoner metal, krautrock, and ambient atmospherics to convey, above all else, a mood. A prickly guitar melody will float lazily, a wall of dissonant feedback will resolve into a hypnotic drone, or a colossal riff will exhume the soul of Jimi Hendrix. One hears Hawkwind or Spacemen 3 jamming with Pink Floyd at Pompeii."—Eric Bensel, Paris 2020
LP $20.50
10/28/2022
The deep archives of disco legend and synth wizard Patrick Cowley continue to prove inspirational for Dark Entries. Cowley, who passed away from AIDS-related illness in 1982, was the multi-faceted producer behind numerous disco anthems such as Sylvester’s “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)”. Since 2009, Dark Entries has been working with Cowley’s friends and family to shed light on the lesser known facets of this singular artist’s output. This has resulted in a string of celebrated archival albums, including Catholic (featuring Jorge Socarras), School Daze, Muscle Up, Afternooners, Mechanical Fantasy Box, and Some Funkettes. For the latest addition to this saga, White Trash Boom-Boom, Dark Entries has teamed up with The Stud to release four tracks culled from some of Cowley’s earliest rehearsal tapes. In 1972 Patrick was living in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood with Theresa McGinley and Janice Sukaitis, friends of his from New York. In 1973, Theresa and Janice formed White Trash Boom-Boom, an all-female avant-garde performance troupe. Reacting to the Angels of Light and the Cockettes, they captured the spirit of the times: camp, confrontational, and delirious. Theresa recalls, "We brewed a brand of performance that steered away from the doctrinaire and reveled in ambiguities." Patrick provided their theatrical experiments with appropriately zany musical accompaniment. Side A features two songs from the “Country and Western” skit, “Bride” and “Beer and a Pizza”, which were written by Janice and Karen Dunaway and produced by Cowley. The feminist skit tackled the issue of women’s limited life choices in society....
7" $12.75
07/02/2021
Steve Von Till has made a life’s work out of seeking the elemental. With a solo discography that stretches back more than two decades, he has toiled in a shadow realm, peeling back layers of reality in a never-ending search for true meaning and raw emotion. A Deep Voiceless Wilderness strips back the veil even further. An achingly beautiful ambient work with neo-classical leanings, the album is a hallucinatory and elegant rumination on our disconnect from the natural world, each other, and ultimately ourselves. For some listeners, the album may recall the work of modern composers like Jóhann Jóhannsson, Brian Eno or Gavin Bryars. For Von Till, it’s about surrendering to the spirit of place—and to the original intent behind his 2020 solo album, No Wilderness Deep Enough. That album marked a significant first for Von Till: it was his first solo record without a guitar in hand. Instead, Von Till intoned powerful and thought-provoking lyrics over piano, cello, mellotron and analog synthesizers. A Deep Voiceless Wilderness is that same album without Von Till’s words. “This is how I originally heard this piece of music,” he says. “Without the voice as an anchor or earthbound narrative, these pieces have a broader wingspan. They become something else entirely and unfold in a more expansive way. The depth of the synths, juxtaposed with the strings and French horn, have space to develop and allow the listener to imagine their own story.”
LP $22.00
06/11/2021
CD $13.00
04/30/2021
MP3 $6.99
04/30/2021
FLAC $7.99
04/30/2021
"Nestled deep in the forests of Mendocino County in Northern California, huddled under the protective shade of towering redwoods and within earshot of frothy waves crashing against the Pacific coastline, squats a geodesic dome that has served as crucible for the experimental genius of Carlton Melton. Nature and Man operate under different logics. But here, Carlton Melton wholly entrusts this idyllic environment with the task of inspiring and guiding their musical improvisations. The Dome has been the ideal setting to facilitate their creativity. Without forcing a specific dynamic or theme, the band inhabits its womb-like confines to improvise, explore, dream. Their music draws on psychedelia, stoner metal, krautrock, and ambient atmospherics to convey, above all else, a mood. A prickly guitar melody will float lazily, a wall of dissonant feedback will resolve into a hypnotic drone, or a colossal riff will exhume the soul of Jimi Hendrix. One hears Hawkwind or Spacemen 3 jamming with Pink Floyd at Pompeii. Indeed, Carlton Melton have one foot in the ancient world and one tentacle in deep space. They are both the pack of proto-humans drumming with femurs in Kubrick’s 2001 and the film’s inscrutable monolith hinting at the universe’s mysteries. The “Stoned Ape” theory holds that early hominids ingested psychedelic mushrooms that provided an evolutionary boost to their brains, helping them blossom into Homo Sapiens. Imagine such cavemen trippin’ balls, their nightmarish visions sending them into feverish bouts of rage and then gentle moments of introspection....
CD $16.00
12/11/2020
2XLP $27.00
12/11/2020
MP3 $9.90
10/30/2020
FLAC $11.99
10/30/2020
***A deeply personal album for bandleader ROB GROTE— all of the songs were written in his bedroom as a means of coping with struggles he was facing at the time with no intention of them putting them on a record. He wound up with 32 songs during that writing session, of which he and the band chose the 11 featured on the new record. The new album was produced by the band and frequent collaborator KEITH ABRAMS and mixed by DAVE FRIDMANN (The Flaming Lips, Spoon, MGMT, Tame Impala). Pressed on bubblegum colored vinyl.
LP $25.50
03/13/2020
***BACK IN STOCK!!! Note price increase.After the reckless barbarity of 2017’s Poisoned Blood 12-inch, Portland’s Witch Vomit dig deeper into the ground than ever before, disinterring Buried Deep In A Bottomless Grave, their second full length torrent of skullbashing wormridden horror from beyond. On this new album the band moves toward perfecting the surgical fusion of the driving Scandinavian-style violence and subconscious terror they’ve previously established, and a now gore-obsessed smashing of their American forbears. Subtlety is abolished for savage attack, imprinted on the listener’s withering mind like an impulsive stab to the throat from a crazed stranger, while all the while a dreadful sense of eerie melody rings throughout the album. With the permanent addition of second guitarist C.L., Witch Vomit achieve heightened levels of primal regression and blood-soaked madness. Buried Deep In A Bottomless Grave is a deadly addition to their growing catalog of atrocity.
LP $20.25
09/13/2019
CD $12.00
08/30/2019
MP3 $5.99
09/13/2019
FLAC $6.99
08/30/2019
Portland, Oregon resident Mary Sutton’s solo debut materialized in the wake of a performance she gave at a clothing-optional soaking-pool sauna: “I had never composed for synth before but wanted to make something people sitting motionless and naked in hot bubbly water would want to hear.” It was while in this headspace that she reconnected with Satie’s entrancing cyclical motifs, particularly the way “he subtly spins melodic fragments, and pivots harmonies and phrases so the repetitions feel new and surprising yet soothingly familiar, as if casting a spell.”The nine intuitive instrumentals comprising The Deep End accomplish exactly that, threading complementary shades of soft-hued hypnosis, dazed modal introspection, icy amusement park reverie, and lunar lullaby into a prismatic suite of contemplative melody and synthetic communion. Sutton’s songs are active rather than ambient yet their structure is more suggestive than scripted, full of lulls, asymmetries, and daydreams. Each track was written specifically to be played live on an analog synthesizer, with no overdubs or post-production wizardry. The sound of Saloli is one of warm-blooded wiring, turned on and tapped into, emotive and electric, storied machines speaking through all too human hands.
LP $19.00
10/26/2018
CD $16.00
10/26/2018
Digging deep into the Chicago Rave vaults to re-issue the debut EP from Billy Nightmare aka “Mystic Bill” Torres. Growing up in Miami, Bill was involved in various parts of the music industry, from working at Flamingo Record Pool, to playing guitar for the band Life In Sodom (80’s Synth/Goth band). His interest in both House & Industrial music inspired him to make his move to the Windy City. Bill quickly became involved in the night scene with residencies at clubs like Shelter, Crobar, & Smart Bar. His studio work began with a remix of Kay Ladrae's “Lack Of Love” with Vince Lawrence, followed by a string of releases, including an LP on Trax Records. He has recently relaunched two record labels and several releases and remixes out each year. ‘Reality Check’ was released in 1996 on Woody McBride’s label Sounds. Originally the project was to be titled " Billy's Nightmare", but to avoid being jinxed for life, Torres decided to switch it to Billy Nightmare. He put the Mystic Bill alias aside, got a hair cut, changed his sound and became this new persona. ‘Reality Check’ consists of 4 tracks, recorded at Mirage Studios in Chicago in 1996. Two tracks on the A-side are dark thumpers and will haunt your head for days. Side B has 2 versions of the same song, lighter and funkier in mood both show the diversity Mystic Bill is capable of producing. All songs have been remastered by George Horn at Fantasy...
12" $12.00
09/07/2018
***Dark Entries returns to the New Jersey basement studio of Smersh to unearth a 4-track selection from the ‘Deep House Anthems’ cassette. Smersh was the duo of Mike Mangino and Chris Shepard, who began making music together in 1978. They were uninterested in traditional notions of songwriting or live performance. Recording in a domestic setting necessitated the abandonment of live drums for rhythm machines, and the Smersh sound would gradually change with each new bit of gear they acquired. The Electro-Harmonic Rhythm 12 gave way to TR606, TB303, and SH-09. Most Monday nights, they would write a new song from scratch. A couple hours later, the song was recorded, never to be performed again. By 1988, they had already put out at least 16 different tapes on their own Atlas King imprint. They would be followed by as many more. “Some of those [subsequent] tapes there were less than 10 copies that got made because nobody wanted them. They couldn’t get reviewed,” says Mike Mangino. As these tapes traded their way across continents, Smersh developed a devoted following in places far beyond Piscataway, leading to releases on dozens of other labels from around the globe. Smersh’s sound is a lush hybrid of techno, industrial, dance, and experimental. Most songs revolve around driving EBM style beats, intricate industrial noise manipulation and synth melodies. For ‘Selected Deep House Anthems’ we selected 4 tracks of pulsating acid techno, which were recorded live, direct to DAT. All songs were originally recorded and released...
12" $12.00
11/15/2016
If you were a certain type of music fan in the mid-’90s, you may have heard tell of an incredible, incredibly hard-to-find double-album by The Garbage & The Flowers, Eyes Rind As If Beggars. Each jacket was hand-painted, and all 300 copies sold out in a flash. Thankfully, the great Bo’Weavil label reissued it in 2013. If you haven’t heard it, please do listen…OK, you heard it now? You’re welcome! The group was Helen Johnstone, Yuri Frusin and Paul Yates—an inspired trio who emphasized lyrical collaboration and sound manipulation as part and parcel to their melodies. They didn’t last long as a group, but luckily, they got a lot of their songs recorded. The Deep Niche is music they made before Eyes Rind and it is every bit as revelatory. Johnstone sings over raucous and raw instrumentation. It’s real rock, the real real thing. Torben Tilly joined just in time to contribute some keyboard to the track “29 Years,” although he mostly was their guitarist. Just in time, too, because The Deep Niche presents a band fresh to playing with some massive tools—The Tools Of Rock, natch. These songs are every bit as powerful as what you hear on Eyes Rind As If Beggars. Believe it.
LP $17.50
07/15/2016
CD $9.25
07/15/2016
MP3 $7.99
07/15/2016
FLAC $8.99
07/15/2016
Doll Food first emerged as a solo vehicle for Bri LaPelusa's bleached experiments in extended vocal improvisation layered with samples sourced from hypnosis videos and weight loss tapes, but the addition of multi-instrumentalist (and romantic foil) Brandon Volz roughly one year ago enriched the project's opaque, vaporous psychedelia with an extra dimension of enigmatic dread. Marrow Deep collects the Iowa City duo's six strangest slices of stained glass tone decay to date, basement choir loops unspooling under amber waves of gain and delay. In places LaPelusa's witchy, wordless voice tapestries evoke the cryptic basement weirdness of Inca Ore or early U.S. Girls, cracked American diviners singing through the psychic sludge of disappearing dreams. An inspired suite of haunted heartlandia, uniquely creeped and fully improvised (and, incidentally, recorded on Cuticle's 1/4 inch reel-to-reel machine following his recent relocation to Germany). That the group often performs in drag, dressed all in black, further feeds their murky mythos: "I Was Hungry And It Was Your World." Cut to the Marrow. Full-color double-sided J-cards designed by LaPelusa.
MC $6.75
07/01/2014
MP3 $5.99
06/17/2014
FLAC $6.99
06/17/2014
***One day in 1975, 19-year-old Aussie rocker MARK EVANS walked into a local bar to check out a band. His life would never be the same… Within days, he played his first show as bass player of AC/DC. A week later he was on national TV, alongside devious schoolboy ANGUS YOUNG and the wild singer BON SCOTT—dressed as a pigtailed, cigarette-smoking schoolgirl and waving a mallet. In the next few years Mark toured internationally, and appeared on the groundbreaking and platinum-selling AC/DC releases High Voltage, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, Let There Be Rock, and the ‘74 Jailbreak EP. Dirty Deeds: My Life Inside/Outside of AC/DC brings the gripping, laugh-out-loud tale of a band that lived fast and played harder than anyone else. The first bio by a band insider during the early years, the book details the struggles and personalities behind the rise of hard rock’s most successful group; with guest spots by rock n’ roll icons like George Harrison, Gene Simmons, Phil Lynott, and members of Metallica. In his honest and revealing memoir, mark evans contends with life’s many turns: A rough-as-nails upbringing, lucky breaks, soaring highs, and terrible personal loss and tragedy. It was a long way to the top…and he was just getting started. 288-page illustrated trade paperback, with 16-page color photo insert.
BK $18.65
12/13/2011
***BACK IN STOCK!!! Alternative Tentacles presents a long-awaited vinyl reissue of the out-of-print 1994 album Those Deep Buds by legendary post-punk skronkmeisters Dog Faced Hermans. This is a one-time LP pressing, on ebony vinyl, limited to 1000 copies. Some members carry on today as The Ex, still touring and recording. “… the group has the same questing spirit as bands like Wire, the Slits, or the Raincoats, but rather than simply recreating the work of those leaders of U.K. post-punk, the Hermans doggedly pursue their own distinct muse. Hints of Krautrock also crop up, both in trancy rhythms … and in the sudden shifts and stops in the music at many points.” —AllMusic.com “Those Deep Buds, the band’s final studio statement to date, is its masterpiece, an unbelievably powerful and resilient record with some of the best lyrics to ever appear on a rock album.” —Trouser Press
LP $13.00
05/31/2011
***NOW AVAILABLE!!! The Firm Stance EP from Bay Area blue collar hip hoppers CO-DEEZ (aka CO-DEFENDANTS). You get three tracks from the group’s Royalty full-length— “Firm Stance,” “Final Round,” and “Careful”—along with alternate mixes.
12" $5.25
04/25/2005
SUN ARAW (aka CAMERON STALLONES of MAGIC LANTERN) delivers a new album to coincide with an extensive European tour with Pocahaunted. CD includes the bonus track “Hey Mandala!,” and is limited to 500 copies. Vinyl is limited to 600 copies.
LP $14.00
08/24/2010
CD $13.75
06/22/2009
MP3 $9.90
06/22/2009
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...
7" $16.00
04/18/2026
***Forked tongue stuffed deep in their cheek and rubber baby masks stretched over their heads, Ty Segall & The Muggers (Mikal Cronin, King Tuff, Cory Hanson, and others) bottle the free spirits of the Emotional Mugger tour, then heave them into the audience on this stomping BBC performance from 2016. Gloriously guttural and blown-out sonics support Ty’s all-to-the-wall vocal performances on every song. "LIVE" "AT" "THE" "BBC" puts the ‘sick’ back into ‘satiric’ and the ‘the fuh!?!” back into ‘FUN!’ One-sided 12" with a super-cool etching on Side B.
12" $20.95
01/30/2026
HUUUUMANOIDS OF THE DEEP AND DARK WASTELAND, Here is a 2xLP of the Broad Museum show A bunch of Krauty jams we’ve never played live before and a couple old favs. Right in time for record store day delivery late Nov. Mixed by JPD Mastered by the guru JJ Golden . Here is a slab to burn one to while you jettison any garbage (good riddance) out the hatch…onward and upward.
CD $12.00
12/12/2025
2XLP $30.00
11/28/2025
2XLP COLOR $33.00
11/28/2025
15 years deep and still on the clock. Late Shift Silk toasts 100% Silk’s decade and a half anniversary in the backrooms of dance. From Tokyo to Wicklow, Russia to Florida, and up and down the West Coast, the tracks lay 11 more bricks along The SILK Road: monorail house, transistor acid, ASMR breaks, boombox 2-step, desert electro, sunset techno, lo-fi cruise, velvet groove, northern lights, aquatic dub, flatliner electronics. Most of the projects are new to the label; a few aren’t. Individual wavelengths diverge and re-align, but the collective flow is one of liquid rhythm and horizon moods, out late and outlasting. Music for inner circles under low lights, holding it down and holding together to the end of the end of the night.
MC $12.00
12/05/2025
MP3 $9.90
12/05/2025
FLAC $11.99
12/05/2025
***A compilation of DEEP gospel from the 1960's and 1970's. all culled from the vaults of DJ Jumbo and Pyramid Records. This is the real stuff—all guitar forward ballads that address existential issues. As healing a record as there ever could be. Cover art by the great Lonnie Holley!
LP $17.75
09/12/2025
***LOCKETT PUNDT’s (DEERHUNTER) first full-length is an expansive meditation on the modern history of the pop song with an obvious appreciation for the atmospheric vocal harmonies of the ‘50s, the Brill Building writers of the ‘60s, and the sounds of the early ‘80s postpunk UK scene. The production is multi-multi-layered with a seemingly endless amount of subtle detail in each track, while the vocals are generally low in the mix and add yet another layer to the sound. There are certainly references to Lockett's day job here, and it can be no other way as he is an integral part of that "other" group. But he clearly stakes a claim to his own sound here.Red Oak Way starts the album off with a drumbeat and a ringing guitar hook and we are off and away on a space age pop trip. Quicksand hits next with some bouncing big beats that would not sound out of place on a classic Shangri-Las' song, and spiced with a dash of west coast surf city. These Years is the most understated track on the album, a slow haze of introspective rumination. Different Mirrors tips the hat to Martin Hannett with the opening dry reverbed thwack of a one-two beat before soaring into the stratosphere, while Whiteout is an ethereal hot summer day of dripping guitars and shakers.Side 2 begins with What Grows, an unabashed rocker with snarling, spiraling guitars and a chugging undertow that clocks in at a perfect 3 minutes. Sunday Night slows...
CD $16.00
03/23/2009
Farmer and deep house producer Hiroyuki Tanaka aka Charles A.D. has been quietly cultivating his crop of live hardware dub techno and devotional acid since debuting with the 熱い海 (‘Hot Sea’) EP on Austria’s Dream Raw Recordings in 2017, followed by two long-form classics for Tokyo’s Umé label in 2019 (Inception) and 2021 (Dry Flower). His latest, West Pontoon Bridge, further refines Tanaka's composite of rhythm, repetition, and vanishing point electronics, shaded in what he calls “characteristic sadness.” Schemed and tracked across a half decade of studio explorations, the album moves through gradient landscapes of twilit trees, mossy waterfalls, and hidden temples shrouded in ocean mist. Named for a nearby Japanese landmark of boards laid across boats at the river mouth in place of a permanent bridge, the collection unfolds in a similarly improvised and panoramic sweep. Lean percussive systems crosshatched with bass, haze, liquid loops, and spatial FX, the album subtly accelerates as it advances, spiraling softly towards a strobing mythic dance floor in a sacred grove.
MC $12.00
09/06/2024
MP3 $9.90
09/06/2024
FLAC $11.99
09/06/2024
***A compilation of DEEP gospel from the 1960's and 1970's. all culled from the vaults of DJ Jumbo. This is the real stuff—all guitar forward ballads that address existential issues. limited edition with silver foil covers and artwork by Lonnie Holley!
LP $21.95
03/22/2024
***Triple LP of more deep soul hits and obscurities Powerful stuff! Full size color booklet included.
3XLP $39.50
02/09/2024
***We’re doing a deeper dive into fave LOBBY LOYDE’s oveure. “Do You Believe In Magic” is obviously not the famous hit by The Lovin’ Spoonful. It is a Lobby original and was in fact one of the earliest COLOURED BALLS tunes dating from early ‘72. The ‘Balls never ended up recording it. A few months after their split in early ‘75, Lobby recorded it with him on lead vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, JIMMY THOMPSON (ex- Vince Maloney Sect, Tony Worley & The Blue Jays and Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs on drums, plus PAUL DIXSON on sax. This single was issued in December 1975 on the Bootleg label and has never been reissued before. It is an honor and pleasure to keep Lobby’s music alive. Edition of 400 copies on black vinyl.
7" $12.00
12/22/2023
***ON LIMITED DEEP PURPLE W/ BABY BLUE SPLATTER VINYL!!! The up-and-coming Dallas, Texas based four-piece Bleed digitally self-released their debut EP Somebody’s Closer in 2021. With no label backing and only a handful of shows (thus far) the four track introduction left a huge impression on nearly all that happened upon it, racking up tens of thousands of streams simply by word of mouth. With seemingly effortless self-assurance Bleed’s music harkens back to a period of time when the ‘90s were going from mid- to late and grunge and more mainstream metal were converging in a flurry of credibly hard-hitting, melodic heaviness that played equally well on college and mainstream rock radio. Bleed’s songs hit with a visceral heavy impact and infectious alt-rock hooks, then are given further shape by singer Ryan Hughes, whose airy vocals glide fluidly overhead. As the band continue the work of crafting their full length album, to be eventually released by 20 Buck Spin, the label will first finally issue Somebody’s Closer in physical form. In the meantime the EP is streaming in full via all platforms and demanding repeat spins.
12" $19.75
08/26/2022
12 COLOR $20.25
09/16/2022
The tax scam label racket is certainly the most curious chapter of the record industry, retrospectively speaking. Tiger Lily-specifically, the S/T LP by Stonewall—might be the most famous, but there are many fanciful diamonds lurking in the undiscovered rough, not the least of which is this masterpiece of barbiturate haze from Frigate. Dreams Of The Deep was one of a dozen or so albums made “available” to an unsuspecting public by the elusive C.C. label in 1977, all of which are harder to find than a no leaf clover, with this being the holiest of grails in the discography. Rumors abound that Frigate wasn’t even the band's real name, just a front for the dodge. Regardless, the shroud of JIMI looms large on here & in the parlance of contemporary seance speak, the wails & moans of Eddie Hazel, Toiling Midgets & (original) Fushitsusha ooze audibly from beyond, sometimes all at once. For years the psychedelic mafia have tried to keep Dreams Of The Deep on the down low-original copies almost NEVER turn up-so it’s quite a coup for collectors that the D.Q. Records label has served up a tasty reissue for this long obscured blueprint of psychotropic bliss. One time edition of 300. Have at it now, or have at it not.
LP $22.00
08/13/2021
The latest by deep listening duo Amelia Besseny and Cooper Bowman aka Troth exists in the outer reaches of open air ritual and crouched quietude, born of the seclusion and slanted sunlight of their garden-shrouded shed studio in Newcastle, Australia. True to its title, Small Movements In Radiance unfolds gently and luminously, hushed ceremonies of haze, harp, glockenspiel, tuned metal, and field recordings, variously inspired by “sublime bushwalks in the Blue Mountains,” sonic sleep aids, and the notion of “ambient music for children.” There's a uniquely ageless, sacred feel to the album's five pieces, lulling but liminal, alluring resonances heard faintly from distant hillsides. Elements interweave across long, opaque arcs, then elusively re-isolate in stark tableaus of hiss and absence. Bowman cites a desire to resist “a world inhabited by far too many negative forces,” which these vulnerable but veiled environments softly do – carving out fragile terrain for escape, reflection, or renewal.
MC $9.25
04/30/2021
MP3 $7.99
04/30/2021
FLAC $8.99
04/30/2021
In eleven years of deep digging, Dark Entries has uncovered many curiosities, lone exemplars of the scarsest breeds. They are lurking in Croatia, on the streets of New York, maybe in the back of your own dusty closet—these odd-ball Italo and synth-wave monsters are too rare to live, too divine to die. Once-lost creatures now have a home with Dark Entries’ new Endangered Species series. The inaugural edition features five specimens previously deemed extinct, only mentioned passingly in lore and speculation, but now safely preserved on vinyl. The first cut on Endangered Species Vol. 1 is the previously unreleased electro-New Wave gem “Munich” by John King, an artist best known for his work as one half of the Dust Brothers, lauded producers of the Beastie Boys’ legendary Paul’s Boutique. “Munich,” a Danceteria-ready cut produced in 1983, sheds some light on King’s earlier interests, bridging between freestyle and emotive synthpop. Next up is a rare demo version of The Actor’s “Picture 210.” The Dutch duo here channel both the minimalism of Kraftwerk and the Surrealism of Throbbing Gristle to create one of the finest teary-eyed Goth club anthems. Brazil is a synthpop band from Croatia, and they feature with their 1990 cover of Tears for Fears’ “Mad World,” which is sure to turn some heads on the dancefloor. The eerily faithful production belies Brazil’s re-working of the song’s lyrics. “L'Étranger (Ana Gharib)” by Jamal Khe follows, a pearl originally only available on an impossibly rare French 7” from 1983. Khe is...
12" $13.75
09/18/2020
Over the course of recent time, an aching, growing void has developed where a normal way of life has resided. Uncertainty abounds, and Steve Von Till’s No Wilderness Deep Enough provides a voice of existential wisdom and experience to offer comfort and perspective in an era of uncharted territory. These six pieces of music shape a hallucinatory landscape of sound that plumbs the depths of the natural world’s mysteries and uncertainties—questions that have vexed humanity since the dawn of time, asked anew amidst a backdrop that’s as haunting as it is holistic. Von Till’s fifth solo album is a swirling and iridescent blend of ambient, neo-classical, and gothic Americana that swan-dives into the darkness of modern life, with the resulting emergence a sonic document of rural psychedelia that transcends the physical world—towards a greater spiritual acceptance that connects naturalism, spiritualism, and the corporeal form. Von Till has charted an extraordinary musical path over the last several decades, from his main duties as singer and guitarist of the boundary-breaking Neurosis to the psychedelic music of his Harvestman project and the unique folk songs he’s released under his own name. But No Wilderness Deep Enough is truly like nothing ever heard from him before—an album that’s devastatingly beautiful and overwhelming in its scope, reminiscent of the tragic ecstasy of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ recent work as well as the borderless ambient music pioneered by Brian Eno, late composer Jóhann Jóhannsson’s glacial compositions, and the electronic mutations of Coil.
LP $22.00
09/04/2020
CD $13.00
09/04/2020
MP3 $6.99
08/07/2020
FLAC $7.99
08/07/2020
***"Only after digging deep for years in European junkshops can one find this motor-rock rarity. Covered in dust and bound in a textured picture sleeve is this heavy slab of Flemish biker trash. Popularized on Bonehead Crunchers Vol. 4 and seemingly unbeknownst to those other than fuzz freaks, dust peddlers and the Belgian hard rock elite. Two songs of proto-metal made by motorcycle enthusiasts, most of which went on to form the longstanding band KILLER. Rare, tough, outlaw music from the streets in 1975. Now back for the first time in 45 years, offically." Limited to 500 copies including unreleased pictures, new artwork and poster.
7" $10.00
07/31/2020
***NOW ON BLOOD RED VINYL!!! After the reckless barbarity of 2017’s Poisoned Blood 12-inch, Portland’s Witch Vomit dig deeper into the ground than ever before, disinterring Buried Deep In A Bottomless Grave, their second full length torrent of skullbashing wormridden horror from beyond. On this new album the band moves toward perfecting the surgical fusion of the driving Scandinavian-style violence and subconscious terror they’ve previously established, and a now gore-obsessed smashing of their American forbears. Subtlety is abolished for savage attack, imprinted on the listener’s withering mind like an impulsive stab to the throat from a crazed stranger, while all the while a dreadful sense of eerie melody rings throughout the album. With the permanent addition of second guitarist C.L., Witch Vomit achieve heightened levels of primal regression and blood-soaked madness. Buried Deep In A Bottomless Grave is a deadly addition to their growing catalog of atrocity.
LP $22.00
12/13/2019
Sly smirks mingle with deep mental (chemical?) fogs on each side of Natural Disaster, the first non-tape release for Church Shuttle, and a nice intro to what his whole thing is about. As Church Shuttle, Chris Durham explores the relationships between Fluxus and the Midwest urban folk tradition of scrambled confusion music. Active the last several years, Durham’s playful and nihilistic compositional approach has gelled over the course of here & gone releases for Vitrine, Alien Passengers, All Gone and others. Natural Disaster offers another opportunity to revel in buried realities revealed.
7" $7.75
05/11/2018
MP3 $1.98
05/11/2018
FLAC $2.49
05/11/2018
***Six brand new, previously unreleased songs of complete hardcore destruction from members of LEFT FOR DEAD, ACRID and GRADE. Excrutiating, furious and mean. Packaged in an elaborate die-cut, fold-out pocket sleeve with a window that peers into a double-folded insert.
7" $6.75
01/08/2001
***TOTEM SKIN's shivering melodies were created in the deep forests in the outskirts of Borlänge, Sweden; conducted by six individuals who poured every drop of passion they could harvest from the bottom of their hearts. The band saw its dawn in the fall/winter of 2012 as a three piece, which produced and recorded two EPs themselves while adding members as recording went along. The full line-up was completed in March 2013, allowing the band to further expand on their musical horizons. Still Waters Run Deep is the band’s first full length and their first real documentation since the completed formation. Recorded at the Ranch Production House in Southampton, UK and engineered by LEWIS JOHNS (Goodtime Boys, ex-The Long Haul), the soundscape of the album ranges from raw aggression to doomy heaviness and unsettling guitar melodies. The vocals create an honest and desperate atmosphere, with the dual vocalists screaming themes of nature and problems in life. Intense grinding shares space with quiet and reverent moments, but the sonic landscape is always filled with emotion.
LP $14.75
06/03/2016
Dark Entries digs deeper in to the archives of Severed Heads, one of the longest surviving bands to emerge from the Australian post-punk independent music scene. They began in Sydney in 1979, incorporating elements of ‘industrial’ noise-generation, tape cutting & looping and electronic sound synthesis. As the project developed song-structures and vocals were employed in a more-or-less recognizable mutant electro pop style. In 1986 the band released the 12” single “Petrol” on Nettwerk Records. We’ve decided to shed light on the evolution of “Petrol” with this EP showcasing four earlier incarnations of what became an instant synth pop classic. “Petrol”, originally titled “Lamborghini”, was written by Garry Bradbury and Tom Ellard in 1981. The first version of the song featured vocals by Finoa Graham and music by Tom Ellard. “Lamborghini” was featured on a compilation of Experimental Australian bands titled “Entrave Et Étouffement, From Australia...” released by L'Invitation Au Suicide in April 1982. DJs in Chicago discovered the import compilation and “Lamborghini” became a proto-House secret weapon, traded on mix tapes. In July 1982, the band was invited to record several songs on Metro TV in Sydney to demonstrate the video synthesizer, a new piece of equipment played by Stephen Jones. The video synthesizer was installed into Metro's control room above the main studio to process the performance in real time on two cameras while recording to video. Tom Ellard and Garry Bradbury were using analog synths and tape recorders along with the screaming guitar work of Simon...
12" $13.75
11/06/2015
New England deep house patriot Octo Octa logged some real miles in 2013, flexing his live muscles, refining his crowd-vibe antennae and tracking a trio of fresh EPs to kick off the new year. Cause I Love You is the first—to be followed by 12-inches for Skylax and Argot—and it’s a real shot to the heart. “Cause I Love You” jacks out of the gate, a jubilant drag race of tumbling percussion, intestinal bass and slipstreaming vocal samples, a true banger to break the moody collective soul mold of Between Two Selves. It’s not all so raring though. Live staple “So Lux” lives up to the title, a creamy, serene slice of stereo software, while “Give” (featuring Raw Moans) coasts on a mesmerizing melody loop, filtered, flowing, and low to the ground. Closer “Mine (Second Chance Mix)” is classic Octo: lens-flared, high-stepping, turned on, turned loose. Though more of a variety pack than a linearly themed collection, these four cuts show a craftsman hot in the pocket, still picking up steam, alive with ideas.
12" $12.00
04/01/2014
MP3 $3.96
03/18/2014
FLAC $4.99
03/18/2014
***Bad Evolution inches CHASMS deeper into their bottomless pit of swirling doom. Choose your own adventure: a side of fuzzed out black metal guitar drone behind warm, sultry vocals that glide through meat-grinder bass and blistering industrial beats or flip it over for a dark, creeping, synth-driven, slit-your-wrists remix by THE SLEEP GENIUS. Either way, Bad Evolution is a slow ride through foggy San Francisco˙s shoegaze district ending at the corner of goth and doom. Edition of 250 hand-numbered copies pressed on blue vinyl. Includes download code.
12" $9.25
05/07/2013
With the country deep in recession and austerity cuts hitting the poorest in our society, where are the artistic responses? Where are the protest singers? ‘Greedy Magicians’, singer-songwriter Matt Hill aka Quiet Loner’s third album, is such a response – a collection of contemporary protest songs seething with disgust and shot through with melancholy at the state of our coalition-led nation. It’s an album which reflects on recent events and rewrites them as chapters in a long and historic struggle of the many against the few. ‘The Captain's Diseased’ is the second single to be taken from the album. Picking up on the oftheard mantra that 'we're all in the same boat', this rollicking sea shanty casts David Cameron as a deranged and syphilitic sea captain. The captain decides the sick and frail aren't working hard enough and casts them overboard. The allegory isn't subtle, at a time when the coalition is cutting billions from the benefits of disabled people and carers. Despite the serious subject, it pokes fun in the long tradition of satire, with its boozy accordion and cries of "he's syphilltic and riddled with fleas". Nevertheless it makes a powerful point.
MP3 $1.98
04/01/2013
***BACK IN STOCK!!! The third full-length release for Portland, Oregon-based LIZ HARRIS. Harris might have achieved a significant fan base thanks to the whispering, near-ambient vocal crusades of her debut album Way Their Crept and its follow-up Wide, but those with a careful ear would have heard slightly more trapped beneath her fuzzy chain of effects. Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill marks a departure of sorts for Liz, which sees her turn down the fuzz boxes which caged (and to some degree defined) her sound and allows her voice to ring out above everything else. It is an album steeped in the world of dream-pop and far from shying away from the reference, Liz has instead grabbed on with both hands, creating an album's worth of perfect, left-field pop songs. Using delicate song structures which are at once both familiar and somehow alien, her vocals cry out hauntingly over stripped-down guitar lines and looped environmental recordings. These are the future soundtracks to love, despair and ultimately, hope. “This remarkable album is actually what I personally always wanted 4AD records to sound like, only they never quite delivered the hazy pleasures their beautiful sleeve art promised.”—Pitchfork (8.2)
LP $20.25
02/05/2013
CD $16.00
02/05/2013
With the country deep in recession and austerity cuts hitting the poorest in our society, where are the artistic responses? Where are the protest singers? ‘Greedy Magicians’, singer-songwriter Matt Hill aka Quiet Loner’s third album, is such a response – a collection of contemporary protest songs seething with disgust and shot through with melancholy at the state of our coalition-led nation. It’s an album which responds both personally and politically, reflecting on recent events and rewriting them as chapters in a long and historic struggle of the many against the few. Rejecting the securities of a conventional recording studio, Hill instead recorded in an 18th century church in Salford, an area steeped in radicalism. Over a single evening in May 2012, Hill turned the recording process itself into a sixties style ‘happening’. Lit only by candles and fairy lights with around 100 people present to witness it, Hill and his fellow musicians (with members of Samson & Delilah and Last Harbour) recorded the songs totally live in single takes. These are songs of politics and protest. ‘Kneel and Comply’ is a satire on the excessive policing of protest and dissent and ‘The Captain’s Diseased’ a sea-shanty that casts David Cameron as a deranged syphilitic sea captain throwing the sick and disabled overboard. There are personal songs too. ‘The Ghost of Oswald Mosley’ laments the rise of the far right in the former coalfield communities where Hill grew up and ‘Unmarked grave’ is an anti-war song, a soldier’s tale inspired by...
MP3 $9.90
11/19/2012
Collaborations cut deepest when participants tease out the weirder spheres of their vibe venn diagram. The Integration LP meshes Maria Minerva’s alienated pop constructs with LA Vampires’ degraded Byronic house for a luxe long-player of moodswing motion and freaky feminine mystique, spanning new wave apocalypto, teutonic club dub, and Harajuku romance wave. The album began with hazed LA Vampires beats shaped by Maria’s echo vocal constructs, then were further articulated by multi-instrumentalist Nick Malkin’s synth leads and drum programming before being filtered through recordist extraordinaire Brian Foote’s masterboard for micro-edits and fine-tuning. The resultant collection is a composite of bleached day-glo rhythm, Shelley poetics, reverbed keys, extraterrestrial romance, seasonal meditation, and smeared studio experiments - unreal and unresolved. Recorded from 2010-2012 in Los Angeles and London. Mastered by Prairie Cat. Cover portrait painting by Katie Vonderheide; design and layout by Rohan Newman.
LP $13.00
10/30/2012
CD $12.00
11/20/2012
MP3 $9.90
10/30/2012
***“Jack this groove,” a deep voice persists in “Jack Rollin’,” the tour-de-four-on-the-floor force set opener of Kingdoms. Seedy deeds are done during FORT ROMEAU’s late-night lush, a frolic down London foggy fascination streets. Vinyl crackle on the hush-hush, Fort Romeau plays bass face-time and clap attacks through shadow jackin’ steam, muted mambas, and the sultry spiral of total texture. A feminine touch, soothing and somnolent, with a man’s musk, pounding, pursuing. Makes you teary, tearing down Romeau’s Row, as syncopated swishes, like woodwind winter winds, suck, sigh, and blow. It’s a sauna sound: hot gusts, warmer water jets, sensual shuffles, breathy and beautiful. “I need you,” a yearning voice persists as the album closes, that covetous caress you’ve got your heart set on, that Fort Romeau languishing lull you set your heartbeat by.
LP $14.00
03/06/2012
CD $12.25
03/06/2012
MP3 $6.99
03/06/2012
***Dark Entries digs deep into the UK Goth underground to unearth THE DANSE SOCIETY Demos Vol. 1. 1983 was The Danse Society’s year. Playing sold out tours and the success of Seduction won them a recording contract with Arista Records. Spending their advance on new equipment the band recorded an album’s worth of demos in one day at Greenhouse Studios, London in May 1983. Doom laden guitar riffs, swirling synthesizers, crushing drums, driving and disembodied vocals, characterize the distinctive Society sound. Demos Vol. 1 is the closest you’ll get to The Danse Society live experience. You can almost taste the dry ice, feel the power coming through the monitors, and become entranced by the strobe-induced madness this album embodies. The Danse Society operate in a raw, atmospheric realm less campy than many of their Goth Rock peers, unconcerned with pop charts or commercial appeal. These aren’t songs, they are commands. This eleven-track collection includes an early version of the single “Wake Up,” five demos that would make the cut for Heaven Is Waiting, songs that would later become B-sides and two unreleased instrumentals. All songs have been remastered from the original tapes for vinyl by GEORGE HORN at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, CA. Each LP includes a fold-out, double-sided newsprint poster with photos, lyrics and liner notes by original drummer PAUL GILMARTIN and music journalist MICK MERCER. 28 years later these demos capture a band at the height of their confident, powerful and haunting glory.
LP $20.25
11/01/2011
*Intensely lyrical and deeply grooving hip hop action from one of L.A.'s most diverse, and newest artists. Known for his wicked abilty to freestyle and drop club banging joints. SHOPWORN COPIES.
12" $1.50
01/08/2001
***Still waters run deep but wild waters run deeper. Both when fronting San Fran free-punk body-music trio MI AMI or performing angst-dance psycho-dramas under his solo alias, SEX WORKER, DANIEL MARTIN-MCCORMICK always succeeds in generating total motion (and emotion) and breaking the fourth wall. His vision of tranced/anguished rhythm questing hits an apex on The Labor Of Love, his LP debut under the Sex Worker guise. Pulsing, lo-fi kraut electronics bubble and sputter under hazy arcs of weirdo vocal smear. Escapist disco drum machines cruise into the horizon under a canopy of dubby accents and FX percussion, sometimes peaking in harsh frenzies of echo-scream meltdowns. All three pieces function as anthems or elegies or protest songs articulating Daniel’s heavy anti-sex trafficking/enslaved bodies activist agenda, but you don’t have to know the depths of the ethical framework to grasp the vibe. An intensely unique and hyper-personal statement from one of NNF’s favorite West Coast music-dreamers. Black vinyl LPs in jackets designed by the artist. Edition of 450.
LP $14.00
11/16/2009
MP3 $9.90
08/17/2010
Thirty-seven years after their debut LP, Sparks release Exotic Creatures of the Deep, their 21st studio album. Recorded in their Los Angeles studio, brothers Ron and Russell Mael once again display their extraordinary ability to create, to challenge, and to confound. Should it be possible for two people to be so fresh, so vital, so unpredictable, and so incomparably individual? The result of a year spent in near-isolation, Exotic Creatures of the Deep could, perhaps, be seen as a natural evolution from their last two records, on which pop-opera, rock, and high drama combined to redefine Sparks' sound. During these recent times, the cognoscenti have lauded and applauded Sparks while enjoying membership of an exclusive club. However, the remarkably exceptional and notably catchy creations on Exotic Creatures of the Deep are the key that enables many more, as Sparks have said, to "come and meet them."
CD $13.00
07/29/2008
***Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina...with a shimmering heap of home made percussion and a tall cool glass of squelchy tonal blur on the rocks. As promised, the South has risen again and seceded from the corporeal into the astral under the banner of ANAKRID. This SC-based trio forges with a metaphysical trigonometry, looking deep into the bowels of the ancient, long-form, experimental God-head, and yet turning in a full sixteen compositions, dumping the old skool “one drone per side” rule. The expansive anatomy of Rapture of the Deep becomes a feverishly writhing, shifting, irresistible and sexy NILF (Noise I’d Like To Fuck). And who doesn’t like to get it on when the moon is cascading in and throwing shapes that look like free jazz, while the air is hot with the stench of NWW and the cicadas are buzzing like old SPK? Limited edition pressing of 350 numbered copies.
LP $17.25
05/28/2007
***Double LP compilation of amazing deep Country Music. The most popular title in the Mississippi tape series—now on vinyl! This is the real stuff. Comes with a poster!
2XLP $29.45
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Stella Donnelly returns with a deeply personal and anchored album, a body of work that traces the journey back to herself after a period of profound change. Recorded in Naarm/Melbourne, the album carries the grounding energy of place, offering a sonic landscape that feels both intimate and expansive. Joining Donnelly on the record are longtime collaborators and friends Marcel Tussie, Sophie Ozard, Julia Wallace, Timothy Harvey, and Ellie Mason, whose playing brings a looseness and vitality to the music, holding space for Donnelly’s voice to shine in its most tender and unguarded forms.
CD $13.00
11/07/2025
LP $22.00
11/07/2025
LP COLOR $22.00
11/07/2025
MP3 $9.90
11/07/2025
FLAC $11.99
11/07/2025
"Jeff Goldblum takes a deep breath and initiates the teleportation sequence, unaware that lurking in the corner of the telepod are three greasy eighth grade boys quoting their favorite lines from Kids In The Hall sketches. The sequence initiates; a crack of static; a horrible flash of white hot light. Dramatically backlit and shrouded in fog, what emerges from the adjacent telepod is not so much man-child as teenage lobotomy. The camera jumps to a tight shot on the receding hairlines of three dumb assholes: “Look out world…” they whisper with an off-putting wink into the camera. “I’m eatin’ Arby’s.” This is the CITRIC DUMMIES and that is a reference to their song lyrics! Yes, you do not have to ask: this shit is dumb. Lyrics like “I'm driving a piece of shit because I am a piece of shit” dumb. I hear fear in their voices: this is both a reference to Lee Ving’s phlegm and the fact this band is naked and lost in a parking garage, “A traffic cone used for modesty (It’s not a giant orange dick, you see)”. But unlike FEAR, this band does not hate you, for they are too busy hating themselves. “Fuck you!” you yell at them, and they know why. When you see these Citric Dummies (and oh, you simply must!), you will notice their jackets—matching in satin, unique in color. A bassist in green satin, like a lime, and bald (not unlike a lime…). Guitarist? In lemon yellow; he...
7" $13.50
08/09/2024
MP3 $1.99
08/09/2024
FLAC $2.49
08/09/2024
Matthew De Gennaro is a deep listener & composer of unclassifiable esoterica that draws on folk music from around the globe. In recent years, his finger-picked, highlife imbued guitar playing has taken on more prominence in his pieces, and there’s been a proliferance of personal story songs as well. Ever present is his gorgeous, otherworldy viol, and melodies from an arcane organ or two. There’s no one out there quite like him, and Conversation with a Roadside Skull provides further proof of this. Joining Matthew on organ for one track is long-time friend and collaborator Scott Tuma. Enjoy the short ride.
MC $7.75
06/22/2018
MP3 $5.99
06/22/2018
FLAC $6.99
06/22/2018
White Manna returns to prove just how deep their thrust is. Dune Worship, the Arcata, California, group’s sophomore album, follows in the vein of last year’s self-titled debut, mining another batch of primal, outward-bound jams that reek of eternity. “Transformation” channels prime-time Hawkwind, evoking that sense of zooming headlong in endless flight with every atom buzzing. Like the best space-rock songs, it intensifies and ascends ever higher as it goes. The staunch, towering riffs of “X Ray” are as foreboding as the next report from the EPA. This is White Manna’s idea of a power ballad… until it accelerates in the last minute and leaves the listener blissfully charred. The speedy yet smooth “I’m Comin Home” could be the recurring theme for that impossible sequel to Easy Rider, while the ten-minute “Illusion of Illusion” simmers with astral, meditative menace—a massive, billowing specimen of rock that glows like the earth’s inner core. The epic finale, “Solar Returns,” is as majestic and momentous a climax as one would expect from these profound pros, whose singleness of purpose remains irrepressible and righteous.
LP $16.00
10/01/2013
CD $13.00
10/01/2013
MP3 $7.99
10/01/2013
***When you’ve been as deep in the scene for as long as BEN DAVIS has, you end up with some pretty bonkers stories. Road stories, recording stories, stories of things that have happened to you, your friends, and friends of your friends. Tales of addicts, cheats and liars with hearts of gold that are also doing their best to create, love and survive—yarns spun out of broken guitar strings, epic mishaps that must be retold in such a way that the actual persons involved are not mentioned by name, exactly. But, when the tale is told, those involved know exactly who they are, or the listener know friends of friends who fit the archetype, who have lived the same tale-worthy days, weeks, months, years. Charge It Up!, Davis’ third solo full-length (and the fourteenth album on which his solo work has appeared) is packed to the gills with the kind of frenetic, danceable, shoutable, undeniably beyond catchy hard pop that has flowed like a river of hot lava through his entire catalog. It is a tremendous, itch-scratching record that makes you jones to see Ben Davis & Co. live, asap. Everything’s there: Davis’ crunchy, fuzzed-out, sun-bright riffage, the unstoppable percussive energy, the soaring rock melodies that are so sick they should be in a hospital.
CD $11.25
11/24/2009
***A blend of shimmering drones and deep waves of sound composed on laptop computer from recordings of improvised acoustic and electric guitar tracks. Ring modulators, granular re-synthesis algorithms and banks of delays and special effects come together in a process that owes much to Terry Riley's Time Lag Accumulator setup and Steve Reich's Phase Pieces.
CD $16.00
10/29/2002
***Dick Spottswood is a legendary musicologist with deep knowledge of early jazz, blues, international, and vernacular American music from the first half of the 20th Century. He has contributed notes and transfers of records from his collection to hundreds of influential reissue albums on many labels over the decades. Spottswood teams up with Tompkins Square to offer a selective view of our favorite 78 rpm sides from 1925, a pivotal year in the development of jazz, blues and early country music. Includes a 32 page booklet wiht extensive notes by Grand Ole Opry photo archivist, guitarist and writer of books, Cameron Knowler.
2XCD $25.50
06/19/2026
Ethan Daniel Davidson’s second record of 2025 deepens the allegorical and reflective songcraft that he established on Cordelia earlier this year. Lear is a rich, legs-stretched companion to its counterpart where Davidson draws from his life’s experiences like water from a freshly tapped well. Lear’s eight songs possess a distinct ache akin to Neil Young’s On the Beach. Every lyric, a new road to be explored, and Davidson, the perfect guide to the journey. Davidson’s fourteenth studio album emerged from the same sessions that birthed Cordelia, in similar fashion to alt-country legends Lambchop’s 2004 sister albums Aw C’mon and You C’Mon. He’s accompanied by the same crackerjack team: producers David Katznelson and Luther Dickinson, bassist and Emmylou Harris collaborator Byron House, drummer Marco Giovino (Robert Plant, John Cale), and pedal steel legend Rayfield “Ray Ray” Holloman. At first blush, these tunes might appear more deceptively upbeat than the ruminations on Cordelia, but fear not—Davidson is still mining the dark corners of his own psyche to great aplomb. “It’s me trying to figure out what's happening inside of myself,” he explains, while reflecting on the lyrical headspace he inhabits throughout Lear. “I'm a positive person, but this is a part of my own psychological healing process, which we should all engage in. We're all wounded people, in some kind of way—and I've figured out how to confront that through music and storytelling.” Sometimes, that means confronting his own catalog, as “Count the Knives” revisits the original’s easy-shaking arrangement as captured on...
CD $13.00
11/14/2025
LP $22.00
11/28/2025
MP3 $7.99
11/28/2025
FLAC $8.99
11/14/2025
Los Angeles trio Faetooth sophomore album Labyrinthine is a deeply felt exploration of emotional weight: grief, memory, uncertainty, and the quiet work of growing around your own wounds.Following the band’s 2022 debut Remnants Of The Vessel, which introduced the band’s signature blend of heaviness and mysticism, Labyrinthine pushes further inward. True to its name, the album winds through a maze of feeling and form, where meaning is never handed over easily. It’s rooted in self-discovery through disorientation, the idea that understanding comes not from escape, but from getting lost.Ari May (guitars and vocals), Jenna Garcia (bass and vocals), and Rah Kanan (drums) manage to stay grounded in the immediate in parallel with fantasy themes of the band’s namesake. Labyrinthine holds space for this contradiction; tenderness and intensity, restraint and release. The band’s self-branded “fairy doom” sound fits between shoegaze, doom, and grunge. It isn’t just texture; it’s a framework for navigating the unsaid.Like the myth that inspired its title, Labyrinthine doesn’t end in victory, but in confrontation—not with escape, but with the Minotaur. Only here, the Minotaur isn’t a monster. It’s something quiet and more familiar: unresolved feelings, old memories, and sadness that refuse to stay buried. The album winds like a maze, sometimes heavy, sometimes hushed, always intentional.Faetooth isn’t chasing catharsis. They’re creating space to reflect, to feel, and maybe to get a little lost along the way.
CD $13.00
09/05/2025
2XLP $30.00
09/05/2025
2XLP COLOR $30.00
09/05/2025
MC $12.00
09/05/2025
***Woodstock 99 follows up 2022’s Super Gremlin with another deep dive into Cleveland’s hallucinogen-soaked hardcore underbelly. While Woodstock 99 typically delights in obliterating your expectations, you could get through almost the whole A side of 99 Ta Life thinking they’ve made a conventional (for them, at least) hardcore punk record. And their hardcore chops have only sharpened since Super Gremlin, with brilliant, memorable riffs, powerful and confident playing, and uniquely demented vocals. However, even at their most straightforward, you never know where Woodstock 99’s songs will go, darting between parts in ways that surprise you on the first listen, but sound perfectly natural once you’ve acclimated to the group’s cracked logic. While that logic colors the hardcore tracks on the A side, on the B side, Woodstock 99 charges headlong into the void. “99 Problems” is a psychedelic ramble that wanders through a succession of modes before a sudden explosion brings the track to an abrupt end. Closer “Za Rat King” is the masterpiece, though, an eight-minute journey composed and performed with the assistance of artificial intelligence where a hooky four-bar phrase haunts a glitched-out universe encompassing a dizzying parade of genres and musical traditions. Like a lot of Woodstock 99’s music, it really interrogates the boundary between genius and idiocy. So strap in, grab Woodstock 99’s hand, and follow as they lead us even further down the rabbit hole.
LP $21.95
05/17/2024
***High Llamas present Hey Panda—a modern pop music/deep listening experience that could only issue forth from their personal quadrant of the galaxy. Hey Panda projects soulfully through an enervating abstract of today’s popular music; the sound of the Llamas’ stately melodies and expressive ditties laid open—blissfully shattered—with drums and vocals hitting different, burning sounds and contemporary production twists pulling the ear at every turn. For the past few decades, High Llamas have trafficked in contemporary pop sounds directed toward the avant end of the spectrum as much as not. But here the message was clear. Llamas’ composer-in-residence Sean O’Hagan was determined to let go. Hey Panda does just that, with a set of tunes reflecting on multiple levels how definitions change over the course of a lifetime, radiating an optimism derived from the diverse conundrums of today.
CD $13.75
03/29/2024
LP $24.95
03/29/2024
Portland pianist Mary Sutton second’s full-length for Kranky delves deeper into her roots as a Cherokee Nation citizen (Saloli, pronounced like “slowly,” is the Cherokee word for “squirrel”). The album is intended to evoke “a day in the life of a bear in a canyon in the Smoky Mountains,” with each track channeling a different emotion or experience in its daily explorations. As with her 2018 debut, The Deep End, the entirety of Canyon was composed and performed live on a Sequential Circuits MultiTrak synthesizer—but this time routed through a delay pedal. This refraction adds a lyrical spatial quality, as though “echoing off canyon walls.” It’s music both gentle and adventurous, curiously rooting through soils and streams, in a sustained state of discovery. In Cherokee teachings, humans and animals are considered to have no essential difference—originally, all the creatures of the earth lived together in harmony. Canyon captures shades of this Edenic notion across eight elegant pieces, alternately meandering, pensive, playful, and pure. Sutton’s playing, as always, is dexterous and dimensional, mirroring the dazzled senses of its muse. Her father, the Cherokee painter and flute-maker Jerry Sutton, created the artwork. Its yellow lettering is from the Cherokee Syllabary and spells “Yona”, meaning “bear.”
LP $20.25
07/07/2023
***The Bedroom Witch In A Place of Hurt—deep evocative synths permeate the album with thumping, insistent percussion throughout. Nuanced layers of electronics seem at once ancient and timeless, blended with haunting vocal performances and romantically complicated sonic architecture "Sepehr Mashiahof, aka The Bedroom Witch, told us back in 2017 in no uncertain terms that she believes the dancefloor is a healing space and that she sees making music as a form of emotional connection. She’s spent years building metaphorical worlds that speak broadly to all of the identities she occupies—Iranian, American, trans woman—and the ways those identity categories are constructed and policed by society. On A Place of Hurt, she tunnels deeper into those themes, making them explicit without reducing their complexity. (On 'Crossing Over,' for example, she describes being hit by a car while crossing the street and having her death justified: 'You tell me that I’m crazy/ For thinking I could be like you and make it over safely.') All of this is set to precise and relentlessly catchy darkwave that weaves in aspects of other ‘80s club music (most notably freestyle, as on opener 'My Only,' but also the various offspring of New Order and the Factory sound). A polished producer and excellent songwriter, Mashiahof is able to bring us into her world so expertly because she has skill, vulnerability, and a keen eye for imagery. A Place of Hurt is, ultimately, a place of catharsis."—Jes Skolnik
LP $21.95
05/12/2023
***Portland post-punk act SHADOWHOUSE unleashes a hauntingly introspective and deeply reflective musical soundtrack: their second LP, Forsaken Forgotten. Shadowhouse blends dark alternative music and elements of goth and darkwave with spellbinding percussion, brooding bass, atmospheric guitar, and chilling synths. This album is a testament to perseverance: Shadowhouse saw multiple personnel overturns over the four years it took to create the album, which was created in five different studios. At the core lie SHANE MCCAULEY's poetic lyrics, which conjure up images of loss, longing, and childhood. McCauley’s distinctive vocals, reminiscent of Crispy Ambulance’s Alan Hampsall, and the band’s overall sound hearkens back to the Factory label sound of yore; we hear some whispers of The Damned, but overall Shadowhouse is decidedly modern. Forsaken Forgotten displays some new dark wave twists, expansive vocals, and icy guitars that swell with forlorn emotion.
LP $31.95
11/04/2022
San Francisco’s music scene has been driven deep underground but is still thriving like crazy, variations on dreamy guitar pop are turning into sold-out tapes and limited vinyl obsessions. Next up is The Telephone Numbers, a band led by SF native Thomas Rubenstein and made up of Inner Richmond neighborhood locals. Rubenstein writes lovely heartfelt songs, equal parts early ‘90s indie pop and ’80s Australian rock, while the band helps supply lush arrangements: 12-string guitars, harmonies, feedback and soaring violin. RIYL The Lemonheads, Teenage Fanclub, The Church.
7" $7.75
04/30/2021
MP3 $1.98
04/30/2021
FLAC $2.49
04/30/2021
The songs of Michael “O” Olivares (of The Mantles) get deeper and more beautiful as tears go by. With this new single he is teamed up again with producer Edmund Xavier, and with players from The Mantles and The Oilies, pulling off winding & jangling folk-rock ballads tinged with flecks of art rock and psychedelia. All songs land somewhere between Jacobites, The Pastels and Kevin Ayers for another klassic Fruits & Flowers unpopular pop hit single.
7" $7.75
10/26/2018
MP3 $2.97
10/26/2018
FLAC $3.99
10/26/2018
“Unexpected new album from Shinichi Atobe - an hour of deeply inspirational House music for the ages that could have been produced 20 years ago, could have been produced earlier this year - we’ll probably never know. RIYL DJ Sprinkles, good times! Heat is a surprise new double album from Shinichi Atobe for DDS. It follows on from last year’s “From The Heart, It’s A Start, A Work Of Art” set and continues a run of highly enigmatic, acclaimed and completely unparalleled productions that follow their own timeless logic. There’s no sonic fiction involved - this material really does just turn up on a CD sent by air mail from Japan to Manchester, sparse info, no messing, pure gold. What’s that cover art about? prob something to do with the balmy, slightly fuucked, sunstroked material within. So Good, So Right, the 10 minute opener, will force you to forget about all the shite around you for a while. There are also several tracks called Heat; they’re all killer. This music takes you elsewhere almost immediately; that fan on your desk is basically a summer breeze. In fact, this whole album is absurd; completely effortless; a total classic. Convince us that there’s a more life affirming electronic album this year and we’ll buy you an ice cream….”—Boomkat
MP3 $9.90
09/14/2018
FLAC $11.99
09/14/2018
The creatures known as Mondo Drag hailed from deep along the banks of the wild Mississippi River where they created ominous, spiritual, savage psychedelic revival sounds. Summoned to the edge of the Earth, they journeyed west, collecting new sounds reminiscent of desert scapes, acid dreams, all-night prog vinyl spinning and a dark galaxy of protometal swirls, exalting the band unto new, wickedly brilliant horizons. Now settled in the deep realms of Oakland, the ensemble continues to create cosmically proportioned, churning jams evocative of a rainbow of obvious inspirations but also numinous new sounds emerging from the organ - heavy riffs. If you love Blue Cheer, Black Sabbath, Can, Atomic Rooster, Hawkwind, Budgie, Uriah Heep, Deep Purple ,Italian prog, Krautrock in general, and heavy space-outs....get into Mondo Drag. They'll knock your socks off, let your hair down and take you on a mind's eye exploration you won't soon forget. Though they exude love for the spiraling tapestry of heavy psychedelia of the past, they are on a rock and roll mission all their own: an unearthed prog band, futuristic in their time capsule, rocketing forward through the depths, gathering the sounds of space itself.
LP $19.75
07/17/2015
CD $12.00
07/17/2015
*** Limited bonus cassette released in conjunction with The Deep Niche - contains live recordings of unreleased songs from the mid-nineties, the same time The Deep Niche was recorded.
MC $6.00
07/29/2016
***Chapter III of THE GEORGE EDWARDS GROUP archives draws from deep in the pockets of their sporadic later embodiment. With their grand ‘70s dreams of Hollywood stardom fading, EDWARD BALIAN and RAY GEORGE continued to track their winsome muse, perhaps a bit more aggro and with a bit more dolor than they had back in the 38:38 days. Although late-’60s Detroit was the seedbed for The George-Edwards Group, they had more in common with Silver Apples than the Amboy Dukes. Enamored of keyboard effects and sonic tomfoolery, they developed their sound away from the scene, slowly developing a spacily elegant pop music as the ‘70s passed by outside their basement lair. Scoring their melancholic melodies with bells, pianos and synthesizer led to something you might almost call ba-roque n roll (if someone hadn’t already said it about The Left Banke!), or perhaps like demos for Big Star’s Third. (STREET DATE - 10/21/2014)
LP $19.50
10/21/2014
***HOUSE REVERENDS are three mysterious bros from deepest South London. They were raised on a diet of Soul & Boogie 12's at 33rpm, hood rap, Disco, drum machine House, Dancehall 7”s, Black Metal tapes, Jungle tape packs, noise, RnB, champagne, mental illness-strength weed and are armed with a substantial collection of vintage electronics. Featuring a member of a prominent transatlantic noise collective, a well known producer/DJ from the UK Bass/What-Do-U-Call-It scene and a guy who is well good at keyboards. This release is a collection of their early, dubbed-out cassette jams: Equal parts Freddie Jackson, Suicide, DJ Screw, Sparks, Tascam & Roland. It was improvised and recorded to four-track, at night, using analogue and digital synthesizers, sampler, drum machine and vocoder during the cold and dark winter of 2010/11. Limited to a run of 300 LPs with pro screenprinted covers.
LP $17.50
11/20/2012
MP3 $9.90
10/30/2012
***Detroit atmospheric satelliters return with their first full transmission from deep space. Extensive and extended abstract electronic space-aways propelled by the gravitational forces of dub and jazz. Previous 12-inch on Rollin' Joe's Burnt Hair label left the solar system long ago.
CD $9.50
01/08/2001
MP3 $8.91
01/08/2001
***GIANT SQUID knows the dialect of rock only spoken in the deepest, darkest corners of the sea. Submerged industrial beats and Atlantis-powered amplification create an otherworldly and enticing rock sound for this, their first Birdman single. This is primitive genius worth a bow or two and many listenings.
7" $4.00
06/15/2004
The wooded stargate of Western Massachusetts can lay claim to one of modern times’ premiere “deep zones” dispensaries: Secret Places of the Lion. Via their Saturn Fern HQ, they’ve issued three full-lengths plus some scattered private documents. The Lion’s latest continues the project’s legacy of regal arcana: High Gardens. Mirage synths and oracle organ lockstep with bronze clanking and MIDI percussion across six (plus a digi-only bonus) marbled hall pageants of arch templar simulacrum. Cryptic psychedelia from a mystery school at the threshold of ascendant cyber-Babylon. The Secret is Kept. The Places Unnamed. High Gardens for a Low and Barren Age. Mastered by Jared Carrigan.
MC $9.75
08/01/2025
MP3 $7.99
08/01/2025
FLAC $8.99
08/01/2025
***A majority of the music Drew Gardner has made over the years has been deeply collaborative, in contexts where his skills with improvisation can shine: with Elkhorn, Jeffrey Alexander + The Heavy Lidders, and his own Flowers in Space band. Cygnus A, where Gardner is playing and multitracking all the instruments, marks a shift in his approach as well as his intention, drawing the audience closer for an inward listening experience. With an earthy yet cosmic vibe, this multi-instrumentalist solo foray explores themes of distance and nearness. The album title Cygnus A refers to a distant galaxy that is one of the brightest radio sources in the sky. Its broadcast from space comes from a supermassive black hole generating energy as it consumes material, causing electrons to emit radio waves as they spiral outward in magnetic fields. Recorded in Gardner’s home studio in Harlem, Cygnus A forms a suite of serene pieces that create a soothing, mesmerizing psychedelic flow. The songs are named for our closest stars, and the album is voiced using instruments best heard at an intimate range — the mbira and zither. And while his electric guitar still plays a role, Gardner has stepped away from guitar soloing on this effort in favor of celestial leads on the zither. Fittingly, Gardner’s ability to play a variety of instruments runs deep and serves him well in guiding listeners beyond this earthly sphere.
LP $27.35
06/14/2024
***NOW AVAILABLE ON CD!!! Excavating the deep recesses of the Polish extreme metal underground, NWN! has unearthed VEHEMENT THROWER, a band that released only a single demo and one superb full-length album in its short existence. In 1987, four teenagers—their ages ranged from 15-19 years old—began playing music in the small city of Żory, located in Górny Śląsk (Upper Silesia), a generally rural region of Poland. Although there were some punk bands in the area, no one else endeavored to create anything more extreme. After a few rehearsals (one of which was recorded but is now lost), they lost momentum. Three of the members reconvened in 1989 under the name EXHAUST DEATH. After recording two demos released in 1989 and 1990, respectively—the band dissolved once more, but following yet another reconstitution of the lineup, changed their name to Vehement Thrower in 1990. With this new incarnation, the band began writing and performing in earnest. Vehement Thrower surpassed most of their local peers in terms of the extremity and brutality of their sound. Recorded during a few late-night studio sessions in 1992 and released later that year as a cassette only on Baron Records, I Come in Peace is more complex and elaborate than their previous demo. The wretched, pulsing violence of the album is sculpted and sharp. The atmosphere of the album is frenzied and manic featuring songs crafted with the sophistication of death metal and delivered with the intensity and passion of hardcore punk and grindcore. CD version includes...
LP $19.95
02/07/2020
CD $11.00
03/06/2020
***WESLEY JOHNSON—aka WESDARULER—knows the highs of artistic and personal fulfillment and the deep lows of struggle and burden. Ocean Drive is more than likely the first exposure the world at large will have to Johnson and, coincidentally, it’s no small matter that it’s on Ocean Drive that we find him most exposed. The Athens, Ga., beatsmith has spent years making his distinctly idiosyncratic music which has included time spent making headphone heavy boom bap to collectively conscious psychedelia. It wasn’t until a couple of years ago that his voice was ever heard on his recordings and it surprised so many longtime listeners that he was asked more than once who the MC was. Once he unleashed his lyrics, though, there really was no turning back. Although deftly skilled in the lab and a solid producer for multiple collaborations, WesdaRuler is a man, paradoxically, transitioning while arriving. Ocean Drive is a journey across the full breadth of Johnson’s inner dialogue. His role as son, husband, and father are all explored in loving detail and confessional honesty. His alternating desires to bring the party or hibernate are on full display.
LP $17.75
09/13/2019
***KLEENEX GIRL WONDER's Vana Mundi is a gloriously melodic dive into the deep alienation of contemporary life, with lyrics so simply profound that they have to be heard in order to be felt. It’s the most wondrous, hopeful album of GRAHAM SMITH's career, and it feels absolutely necessary that everyone hear it. In Latin, the album’s title means ‘Empty World.’ In Esperanto, the title means ‘Vain World,’ vain as in wasted effort, or the inflated ego—all is vanity. Either way, Smith knows all about emptiness, wasted effort, and inflated egos. The album is an attempt to come to try and understand those qualities as they exist within himself and those around him. And so Vana Mundi ends up tracing a journey, from a frustrated cynic trapped by their own psychic ice/isolation to someone reaching out to offer understanding and something not unlike love for their fellow humans. For maybe the first time in his long career, Smith is more interested in helping the ‘you’ in his songs than scoring points off them.
LP $17.75
06/22/2018
“Billed as the "sonic and visual documentation of the journey of a lone astronaut into deep space, as imagined by a seven year old boy," there certainly is a lot of outer space imagery on Steve Fors' second release under the Aeronaut moniker. Conceptual trappings aside, this album is a strong piece of ambient noise that stands completely on its own as a slab of majestic tones and lush, beautiful textures. That is not to say that the conceptual nature of the album is irrelevant: the packaging, which resembles an early 1980s kids’ science book, drives this point home with its bright colors and minimal graphics. Even more so with the inclusion of old red/blue 3d glasses, which themselves feature some rather They Live subliminal messages on them, albeit seemingly unrelated to the album. All four 15 minute pieces do an exemplary job of constructing the narrative on their own, as well. "Preflight/Launch" is a bit overt at first, with its use of fuzzy mission control transmissions and requisite radio static, but built upon a slowly increasing bed of guitar feedback acting as a propulsive rocket engine. Eventually the noisiness retreats to allow the buried, soft tones to become the focus: a light, weightless near melody. "My First Space Walk" also begins with one of the other overt concessions to the conceptual storyline: a pulsing, radar beacon like tone. Past this it is a dramatic synth string-like melody that is just a bit wobbly and out of tune, like a...
MP3 $9.90
07/22/2013
FLAC $11.99
07/22/2013
***The vinyl debut by this Viennese rave abstractionist boils down pulsing LED beats and deep synth strobe FX into a cavernous laser-streaked fog. Packaged in blinding Alex Grey-style acid-body artwork by MR. CRUISE FAMILY himself.
12" $13.00
01/31/2012
MP3 $2.97
01/31/2012
***Since 1997 Italian brother duo MY CAT IS AN ALIEN has been documenting an ever deepening musical dreamscape, their massive body of work representing some of the most emotive and soulful improvised experimentalism in underground music. Recorded in a remote region of the Western Alps, this latest LP navigates especially tranquil territory as it builds blissed-out pastoral mirages, dappled just slightly with glimmers of an outer darkness. Like much of the duo's best work, Living On the Invisible Line aims for transcendence, leaving behind only spinning heads and zoned souls. Art by MCIAA. Edition of 500.
LP $13.50
11/22/2011
The Old Joe Clarks give the genre a good bit of haunting with some deep country soul stirrings delivered via guitar, banjo, fiddle, dobro, and occasional clarinet & melodica.
CD $1.50
01/08/2001
Brand new instrumental Shockout EP featuring some of our favorite artists delivering refreshingly deep and edgy beat-heavy tracks skittering the lines between Dubstep, Kuduro, Soca, House, Jungle, and UK Funky. On the darker side of the EP are tracks from UK's BADXMAN and San Francisco's Ghosts On Tape, best known for his blindingly good debut EP on Wireblock which was included in XLR8R, Bleep, and Boomkat's best of 2009 lists. The good summer vibes come from Barcelona's brightest light of forward thinking dubstep, Cardopusher, and his friends from Caracas, the production duo of Pacheko & Pocz. The idea behind their two tracks on the EP was to build some Kuduro type beats and give them an old school Jungle feel, with the sub-bass presence and depth of dubstep. Expect big things from this new team, as when Pacheko is flying solo he has kept busy with releases on LoDubs, Mashit, Murder Channel, Civil Music, Seclusiasis, and Senseless, he's been remixed by Starkey (LoDubs / Planet Mu), Brackles (Applepips / Rinse FM), and his tracks regularly get rinsed by the likes of Cardopusher, Untold, Timeblind, 6Blocc, Bunzer0, and BD1982.
MP3 $2.99
06/08/2010
Hall of Fame's third full-length album finds these NYC indoor miners forging even deeper into their secret cave of gems (financed with new picks'n'shovels on the Siltbreeze tab). Like their previous output on the Amish label, this one's a melange of tribal thump, eastern drone, raga concrète and melodious melancholia. Hall of Fame's unique, not easily identifiable sound has been compared to revered oufits such as Flies Inside the Sun and The Shadow Ring, sometimes even in English. If, like the young scribes from Hayfever magazine, your recollection and your record collection go back further than a time we like to call "the early '90s," it's okay to shout "king me!" and move on. But if you really wanna sit around the ol' checkerboard discussing strategy, then your next stop is a lower east side of the late '60s; Hall of Fame's healthy smattering of influences stretches back to Ludlow Street-era Velvet Underground, Prestige-era Moondog, The Godz and Angus Maclise. Recently the band played a series of shows with The Red Krayola, impressing the hell out of that old Quixotic Dadaist Mayo Thompson and his erstwhile Sancho Panza, David Grubbs. Señor Grubbs was so impressed that he enlisted HoF's Dan Brown to do some drumming for his forthcoming release of covers from various performances from the King Biscuit Flower Hour. Only in New York! o Samara is also a member of Tower Recordings, Metabolismus & Sonora Pine. Dan Brown has done time in Stratotanker & God Is My Co-Pilot. Theo...
LP $8.25
09/26/2000
CD $12.00
09/26/2000
***The long awaited debut full-length album from globetrotting New York female deejay MUTAMASSIK. A fifteen-track blend of Afro-oriental roots, hardstep syncopation, East Coast hip hop head-nod, and avant dance energy. Features guest appearances from 4TH PYRAMID (Def Jux), MORGAN CRAFT, and CYRE UNIQUE.
CD $15.50
08/01/2005
***American noise heavyweight BASTARD NOISE returns with anew album consisting of a single long form track of deep space with geographic attacks and dual vocals. Limited edition digipak of 500 copies. Includes a 4-panel pull-out lyric poster.
CD $13.25
06/05/2026
***From the perpetual fog of San Francisco Violet Thrones emerge. Drawing from the deepest wells of gothic tradition and the experimental underground their sound occupies a space between Gothic rock and dark jazz. The five points of this dark star sharpened into, Steve Jaeger (bass), Sammy Valentine (strings), Kaden Owens (drums), Doug Graves (keys), and Violet Basso’s voice fuel the bands eternal flame. Features the tracks "Dance Of Infinity" backed with "Forever In Bloom."
7" $13.75
05/08/2026
***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.
LP $24.35
04/24/2026
Amateur is the 12th studio album by Molly Nilsson. Deep in the teeth of a career that threatens to tip into something resembling a “legacy,” Nilsson celebrates with an album recorded instinctively, quickly and bursting with so many moments of emotional brilliance and clarity it may be her greatest yet. Hers has been a career spent reaching out, perennially powerful in her earnestness, a warrior ridiculously defenceless and armed with a glittering sincerity. Shearing herself of the machinations of the music industry, recording at home, writing direct to the heart.Amateur is a jubilee for losers. A treatise in thirteen songs, it states clearly that one should live their life with eternal curiosity, offering one an open hand of comradeship out of the rat race. The songs on the album are both some of the most personal of Nilsson’s career and the most anthemic. First single “How Much Is The World” asks to re-evaluate value in the face of a neoliberal system squeezing the life out of love. Pulsing opener “Die Cry Lie” satirizes the commercialisation of emotion in the form of a shout-along diss-track. With a pounding rhythm track held down by gorgeous chord changes, heartbreaker “Valhalla” carries the torch for the main themes of the album: never growing up, making mistakes with kindness, moving on.There are moments on Amateur shrouded in reverb, slightly out of focus, forcing the listener to step deeper into the Mollyverse. Nilsson’s open-armed beseeching to the world permeates every beat, every chord. These are songs...
CD $17.50
11/07/2025
LP $29.00
11/21/2025
***A short lived raw hardcore band from Sapporo City, fusing local influences like Deef and LSD with the noisy sounds of bands like Gai and Confuse. At times it feels like a bridge could be drawn to raw crust bands like Gloom or Frigora, but Excrement stays just rooted enough in noisy 80s hardcore to keep from a total overlap with that style. Still, Excrement would certainly appeal to both fans of 80s hardcore, and the more full tilt 90s Japanese raw crust sound as well. Fully remastered, with significant improvement over the original recordings, and includes an unreleased track.
LP $21.95
05/23/2025
***Back in the COOKIE JAR for a second helping of hip hard hitting tunes from the deep depths of the Music City underground. Cookie Jar II includes full unedited extended length versions of dance club singles "Liberty And Sunshine" and "Unlimited Love (Orig,)," plus four more funkalicious anthems stretched as far as the ear can hear. Recorded at Mushroom Studio, mixed at the Bombshelter and mastered by KRAMER. Features players from Cheap Time and Savoy Motel.
LP $21.95
TBD
Howlin Rain’s grand 3xLP archival statement and untold story, written over nearly two decades in invisible ink between the lines. Features never before heard songs from The Russian Wilds, The Dharma Wheel, The Alligator Bride, Mansion Songs, Live Rain and the lost Ethan Miller Band sessions. With a broad cast of musical characters including Rick Rubin (Producer/American Records), Luther Dickinson (North Mississippi Allstars), Scarlet Rivera (Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue), Joel Robinow (Once and Future Band), Isaiah Mitchell (Earthless/ The Black Crowes) and many more. Includes songs by The Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, Leon Russell and Neil Merryweather. “I wanted to compile the record so it would have impact like our grandest, wildest, most unabashed studio album. I left out home demos, and songs from quiet corners, sketches, etc, in favor of fully formed, fully finished, studio level tracks from front to back. Lost at Sea is intended to be something that you can pour yourself into and get swept away in.” —Ethan Miller (Founder, bandleader)
2XCD $17.50
11/29/2024
3XLP $46.00
11/29/2024
MP3 $19.99
11/29/2024
FLAC $20.99
11/29/2024
Military Genius (aka songwriter/producer Bryce Cloghesy) delivers the follow-up to his atmospheric 2020 debut Deep Web. Scarred For Life is a genre-flexing mix of bass-heavy R&B, spaced dub, and jazz that is newly grounded within a more traditional rock framework and centered on lyricism. Lead single “Darkest Hour” reflects a head first journey into the unknown. The starting point for Scarred For Life—written, recorded, engineered, and produced by Cloghesy—was to try and make sense of ‘the toll taken by a life lived, and the complex beauty of a reality that can never be repeated or replicated.’ Cloghesy faced his creative crosswords by embracing raw acoustic sounds and a ‘human-first’ approach to the recording process. Ideas were formulated and initially recorded onto cassette tape with minimal editing. Blemishes and artifacts were welcomed, adding to the record’s realism and personal character. Thematically, the album can be approached on a number of planes. The title refers to a gruesome episode in his life in 2012, when he had a near-death experience after falling through a window. Add a debilitating series of panic attacks and depressive episodes to the charge sheet—followed by several significant life changes like a move from Canada to California, getting married, and becoming a father—and it’s clear the record has a lot of heavy lifting to do. The Mojave Desert is maybe the key to the record's soul. Cloghesy has been living in Joshua Tree since 2023, shortly after the birth of his son. A lot of the music feels...
CD $16.00
TBD
LP $29.00
02/07/2025
LP COLOR $29.00
02/07/2025
***Hypnotic clouds. Ancient tones. Swirls of sound from deep within the Van Allen Radiation Belt. Hand printed jackets. Edition of 200 copies.
LP $21.95
07/26/2024
Forgive Too Slow, avant-garde artist Julia-Sophie’s deeply personal debut album is testament to her ability to transform adversity into raw beauty, combining her traditional songwriting roots with her own take on experimental electronica. It features her intimate voice backed by warm and precise electronic sounds whose free spirited explorations give body to the carefully written personal songs. Julia-Sophie comes off the drama of her 2010s rock band, Little Fish, which was signed to a major label. The surreal experiences (like being flown to Las Vegas in helicopters with a bag of slot machine money or given limousines for the day to go shopping), along with having to work in environments where she felt unsafe, drove her decision to leave the fame game. She turned down the offer to emigrate to America and engage with the machinations of the system as it did not feel “true or congruent with who I was.” Instead, she focused her attention on her hometown (Oxford, UK). She started recording lo-fi pop in her garage, using an old laptop, wonky microphones and hitting whatever was around for beats. Her band at the time, Candy Says, grew to be more of a collective than a band, and eventually co-wrote a film score for indie film Burn Burn Burn and recorded a cover of “Running Up That Hill” for the Netflix film Close (starring Noomi Rapace). Julia-Sophie soon started recording songs with her friend B, who had a studio stacked from wall-to-wall with analogue recording gear, vintage...
LP $22.00
07/26/2024
MP3 $7.99
07/26/2024
FLAC $8.99
07/26/2024
***Ty Segall follows 2022’s acoustic introspection opus Hello, Hi with a deeper, wilder journey to the center of the self. With Three Bells, he’s created a set of his most ambitious, elastic songs, using his musical vocabulary with ever-increasing sophistication. It’s an obsessive quest for an expression that answers back to the riptide always pulling him subconsciously into the depths. Questions we all ask in our own private mirrors are faced down here—and regardless of what the mysterious “Three Bells” mean in the context of the album’s libretto, you can be assured that Ty’s ringing them for himself, and for the rest of us in turn. It’s a growing up and out of your head parable, but the farther out you get, the farther in you go. The two-headed suggestion of 2012’s Twins has grown ever more complex, as the outside/inside world of perception dissolves into a greater world of the senses — all six or seven of them! Since Ty deals in sounds, Three Bells rings with them most of all: sounds signaling the next phase, ringing to keep you stuck, or to set you free, with guitars like voices, questioning and answering the others in their turn.
CD $13.75
01/26/2024
2XLP $31.25
01/26/2024
MC $12.75
01/26/2024
***Pushing past the submissive qualities of her debut, Silva captures a deep and deliberate pop-forward poignancy in her sophomore Dulce. Written in the wake of her relocation to Chicago, Silva contemplates new love, a listless fate, sobriety, and maternity all the while retaining the patience of her previous release, Eros. Temperate motifs aside, a freer, wilder intensity permeates Dulce. Silva shows her roots in both rock n’ roll and the romantic. The fabric of the album gives palpable hints to her experimental aspirations that make borderline frantic use of the world-class instrumentalists at her disposal. This no holds barred approach results in Silva's most modern statement to date, beginning with the lead single "Love, If It Is So." A perfect avant-pop song that captures Maria in full flight with her studio band featuring the legendary guitarist Marc Ribot and percussionist Stephen Hodges—reunited for the first time since the pair were part of Tom Waits' seminal Rain Dogs in 1985. Ribot enhances Silva's songs with characteristic inspiration, skill, and abandon—jumping between frenzied guitar arpeggios, Philly Soul electric sitar lines, and subtle nylon string acoustic.
LP $19.85
11/17/2023
***On Infinite Possible Futures, Bay Area psych-pop savant Mayya has gifted contemporary reality a deeply engrossing, mind-bending fantastical journey of a record. Deftly balancing jangly sparkle and fuzz-blast hooks, the record trundles along magically on licorice-whip dream-pop rails. Lacing together the freeform Jazzbo excursions and magical mystery psychedelia is Mayya’s heavy-lidded, pastel warble of a voice. Embracing Lo-Fi as a tonal palette (with levels balanced by the masterful Greg Saunier of Deerhoof), Infinite Possible Futures is one of the rare records that leaves the listener blissed out and grinning; wrapped in a warm glow, full-hearted, and just a touch disoriented. Mayya was born in St. Petersburg, Russia and grew up in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco. Inspired by anyone who is unapologetically themselves, she aspires to create a positive environment through her melodic, energetic music. Once she’d written the bones of the songs for Infinite Possible Future, she turned as always to her close- knit crew of compatriots to record; guitarist Spencer Owings (Juicebumps), bassist Jason Cirimele (Dust Collector, Indianna Hale) drummer Sam Jones (Mae Powell, Mild Universe), saxophonist Edan Mor, and violinist Sivan Lioncub (Everyone Is Dirty). The record was tracked and co-produced by Chris Daddio at Donut Time Audio in Oakland, CA, and mixed and mastered by Greg Saunier (Deerhoof). Fittingly, Infinite Possible Futures is a record that explores the eternal, internal struggle of being a good friend; both to oneself and to others. “There are infinite possible futures, as well as infinite possible presents” explains Mayya....
LP $27.00
08/21/2023
***"One of the most surprising things about the Madison noise rock group Coordinated Suicides’ agonized, deeply disturbing and remarkable new album, This Could Be Heaven, is that it was even completed and released at all. The recording of the album was pockmarked with personal, technical and logistical problems at different times throughout rigorous, though sporadic sessions. Then, the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic, alongside ever-increasing difficulties with the production of vinyl, added years of time to a battle to get the album out to a wider audience. But, after all of this perseverance, This Could Be Heaven will be released through the fearless Marquette label Temporal Records. Even more unexpectedly, it’s a bewilderingly good record—a demanding, completely uncompromising artistic work which fits our times far more harrowingly than the album’s creators could have ever guessed. Guitarist and singer M. Martin’s songwriting has developed considerably since the group’s brief, but explosive EP False Pleasure. The newfound reach, breadth and depth that characterizes the band’s latest music was barely hinted at in their catalog before, and the group has fully matured into a default sound and style pitched almost exactly between noise rock at its most intense and sludge metal at its most tormented. But none of this encapsulates Chris Joutras’ swollen, rotting bass lines, or the balance between rhythmic grace and brutality inherent within drummers Jonathan Brown and Tim Chandler’s frantic, yet pensive performances. It doesn’t capture Martin’s unsettling, tortured wail or carefully multitracked walls of guitar noise. And it also...
LP $26.95
07/21/2023
***REISSUED!!! The hypnotically thundering, deeply mystical, and sacrament-demanding Dopesmoker from Northern California's true godfathers of stoner rock glory SLEEP. Originally released in 1998 as the cleaned up and shortened (54 minutes) Jerusalem, Dopesmoker is the band's original 63-minute, single-track magnum opus, recorded live in the studio by BILLY ANDERSON (Melvins, Neurosis, Mr. Bungle, etc.). A cathartic single-tempo, trance-inducing groove of the heaviest order. One of the most important and influential albums of all time.
2XLP $31.95
02/24/2023
Following a run with Cherry Red Records that featured a potential major label jump, guitarist Maurice Deebank quitting and rejoining multiple times, several pop stardom carrots just out of reach, mixing battles with Robin Guthrie, and a shocking entry into the record charts, Lawrence (just “Lawrence”, like “Cher” or “Madonna” thank you very much) knew he would be making a change with his band Felt. He would be seeing out his plan of ten albums and ten singles in ten years alongside a new partner in Creation Records. This compilation beautifully captures those years. Creation was beginning a rapid ascent at the time, with Alan McGee serving as its hyperactive mouthpiece and focal point. McGee was all in on the band. “Lawrence achieved pop perfection, a breathless rush of sensitivity and intelligence. It was too understated to be commercial, too art to go pop, too pop to go art—in other words it was a perfect combination of all the music I loved at the time.” McGee was thrilled to have what he considered a real star on the label, and Lawrence was equally thrilled to have such an enthusiastic cheerleader. He funneled that enthusiasm into some of the most focused songwriting of his career, as well as some of his wildest experiments, all of which are on display here.
LP $27.00
03/17/2023
***"...The band deal in raw atmospheric presence and frosted melodic strength. The deep monstrous growls and some of the harsher riffs lend a brutal edge to the music in places, while the addition of serrated screams deliver sharper highlights. Lurid demonstrate an effective mix of crushing blackened heaviness and emotive melodic atmosphere. It’s a combination that suits them well and has helped the band to establish their own character early on in their existence. While the melodies are rich in feeling and very capably delivered, I’ll mention the riffs again, as Lurid apparently have an entire arsenal of them hidden away somewhere, deploying them with lethal tactical skill across the tracks. The songs are well-written and easy to enjoy. Each song is a winner, but I especially enjoy Burned at the Stake with its ferocious melodic attack."—Wonderbox Metal
LP $18.50
09/02/2022
***Fantastic Oakland, California-based ensemble ORCHESTRA GOLD offers up a kaleidoscope of sound deeply rooted in the Malian tradition while introducing a genre-bending nod to the future through their rare and artful fusion of African Psychedelic Rock. Spearheaded by the dynamic MARIAM DIAKITE, whose raw and hypnotic vocal stylings deliver heartfelt and thought-provoking lyrics in the highly symbolic Bambara language. While paying homage to Malian musical traditions, this fierce new sound is supported by heavy swinging rhythms, a funky fresh brass section and cosmic guitar licks. "Mali's musical heritage is vast... and Mariam's voice channels that history."—Banning Eyre, Senior Editor Afropop Worldwide.
LP $27.00
08/19/2022
***Featured on a diverse pedigree of splits with the likes of Noothgrush, Deerhoof, Volume 11, Suffering Luna, of course not to mention their seminal "Drome Triller..." LP, released on the highly revered, defunct Slap A Ham label; GASP has returned! Black Horizons is proud to release in a vinyl edition the out of print Ghost In Scow Out CDr. Supplemented and remastered into glorious fidelity for LP. Here the band, if possible, has only gotten even weirder; sounding not unlike the spaciest psych bands, however with a grind band sitting in to jam with. Which makes sense, as the band has taken to calling their sound "psych violence". A genre that one would expect layered with blast beats, howls and shrieks, tripped out tape loops and syrupy synths, a form the band has fully realized at this point. In a scene with many eccentric acts, GASP always managed to hold the title of the weirdest, and they haven't changed one bit in that regard. Each side in classic GASP fashion ends in a lock groove. Full color LP jackets with neon green internal flood print. 8 page full color half-size booklet insert. Plain black inner sleeves. Color center labels. Edition of 300 copies.
LP $22.95
03/05/2021
Since 2008, Denmark’s Undergang have been pursuing the deepest, darkest depths of total death metal. Steeped in the classics, the quartet aren’t so much “old school” like so many HM-2 worshippers nowadays as they are simply old-sounding, brazenly brandishing a sound that nods to early Finnish death metal and slimy doom-death as equally as timeless goregrind. It’s a sound that’s garnered the band a legion of devotees across the world, and justifiably so. And while it’s been three interminably long years since their last album, Misantropologi, at long last do Undergang arrive with their long-awaited fifth full-length: Aldrig I Livet. Simply put, this is Undergang at their very best, subtly striving for new twists on their characteristic sound whilst making that sound more engaging than ever before. Graced with utterly crushing production, Aldrig I Livet is undoubtedly the band’s most ominous record to date, rooting among the ruins of the most desolate doom-death committed to tape and warping that wreckage with slithering solos that seem to creep like tendrils across an inter-dimensional portal. It’s a sick and sickening slog through the sewers of the subconscious—forecasted by the cover art, once again courtesy of vocalist / guitarist David Mikkelsen—and the band effortlessly lumber forth with a swagger that’s startling to behold. Even this many years into their celebrated catalog, the quartet show no signs of relinquishing their crown as Denmark’s premier death metal champions, and Aldrig I Livet is disgusting proof.
CD $12.00
12/11/2020
MC $9.25
01/22/2021
MP3 $7.99
12/11/2020
FLAC $8.99
12/11/2020
The Swedish masters of aversion and forlorn Vanhelgd returns with an even darker aspect of death metal surpassing what is deemed traditional and into the realms of blackened doom metal with Temple Of Phobos. While still firmly locked into that unmistakable Vanhelgd sound, it is clear that on Temple Of Phobos they have steered into a much more despondent territory; very reminiscent of the early '90s doom. Vanhelgd have managed to capture the essence and vibe with such perfection on this album that perhaps this will go down in the band's history as one of their heaviest, gloomiest and blackest records ever. Recorded and mixed at Studio Underjord with Joona Hassinen (Year Of The Goat, Saturnalia Temple, Ocean Chief, etc) and mastering duties by Tore Stjerna at Necromorbus Studio (Watain, Repugnant, Desultory, etc) and once again gracing the ominous artwork by Vanhelgd frontman Mattias "Flesh" Frisk (Ghost, Entrapment, Vampire, etc).
CD $12.00
08/16/2019
With a certain maturity and poise, a sense of deep-set misery almost pushes the record into death-doom territory. Almost...but not quite. The sound remains tensely energetic, albeit with a sense of space, time and songcraft which is more impressive than ever. Gruesomely textured wraith-like melodies intertwine monstrously hammering double-bass rhythms, the delicate interplay of guitar harmonies threading a perfect line between devious subtlety and straight-ahead bludgeon. Perhaps above all else, the gasping tortured vocals imbue a horrific terror upon the listener. It is the sum of all parts which so masterfully elevate Ataraxy above their peers. Few others have scaled such heights; in this timeless classic we witness a band enter the pantheon of death metal royalty.
CD $12.00
08/16/2019
MC $9.25
08/16/2019
Prepare the mind, the body, the deepest recesses of the soul: the black gates that Dark Buddha Rising opened a decade ago with I open further in 2018: the band’s II EP continues to twist spiritual gyres and follow calls from beyond. For ten years, this Finnish band has convened in the now-famous Wastement—set below their home city of Tampere—to roil in the sounds of the underground, to meet dark spirits, to breathe in time with rhythmic pulses sent from the skies, the stars and the very dirt around. On its face, the band emits the blackest of psychedelia; deep down, theirs are sounds forged in the blue fires of the ancients—exhalations of gods, goddesses and demons alike. Of this new offering, V. Ajomo says: “To drain our sonic temple, we wanted to record the new material which was made for 2016 shows in order to proceed towards the unknown with open minds and hearts. After the cleansing, we initiated our chamber with ambient meditation and opened the portals of inspiration for our future work.” This EP sees the band returning to its purest incarnation: a three-piece rhythm section—J.Rämänen on drums, P. Rämänen on bass and V. Ajomo on guitar—and with J. Saarivuori on synths and M. Neuman on main vocals. “We have done a full cycle of the orbit and now is the time for gravitational slingshot towards the new dimensions in sound, deliverance and vision,” Ajomo adds.
CD $9.50
04/20/2018
12" $16.00
04/20/2018
MP3 $7.99
04/20/2018
FLAC $8.99
04/20/2018
***ELECTRIC SEWER AGE was conceived in 2006, a glowing spark in the imagination of JOHN DEEK of Divine Frequency. A brief, cryptic announcement in 2009, followed by a few rough tracks released online, heralded its birth. Announced with nothing more than the tagline “an Infinity of Sewers thrown open beneath the Threshold House”, little was known about this upcoming project other than it likely featured some involvement of former COIL legends PETER "SLEAZY" CHRISTOPHERSON and DANNY HYDE, and perhaps, it was rumored, with the posthumous contributions of JHONN BALANCE. Because Electric Sewer Age was intended to be an anonymous aural experiment meant to free the listeners mind of any preconceptions about who or what created it, little more was ever planned to be publicly revealed about the project, even after the first release. However, following the unexpected and untimely passing in 2010 of Christopherson, the first Electric Sewer Age EP became an epitaph to the loss of this peerless musician, for these were the last tracks he and his decades long collaborator and friend Danny Hyde ever completed together. The music, originally intended to conclude Coil’s Moon’s Milk series, was released on CD by Divine Frequency in 2012, and then on vinyl the next year by Danny Hyde. Both editions sold out quckly and have been unavailable until now. Moon’s Milk In Final Phase consists of four ambient-electronic instrumentals, reissued by Soleilmoon Recordings on CD and deluxe gatefold 12-inch, the latter in two colors—250 copies on moon green and 250...
LP $19.75
05/19/2017
CD $14.50
05/19/2017
Baseck is a Los Angeles based experimental electronic musician. His roots run deep in L.A.'s underground rave scene since the early 90s. Baseck’s fascination with sound brought him to turntablism at an early age. The attraction to hands-on hardware learned from scratching records lent its way to audio manipulation with small battery powered toys, drum machines, and then modular synthesizers. His unique style and mastery of a wide range of music hardware created a segue into music technology. Since 2013, Baseck has been working with synthesizer companies offering design concepts that will enhance user playability. Dave Smith’s analog drum machine, Tempest, is released with presets designed by Baseck. Variatic Basicus, a Eurorack module created by Noise Engineering, was built for his live performance needs. At the peak of his performance, Baseck's style builds on past musical experiments combining 80s drum machine sounds of Breakdance and Industrial, with a future approach to Drum & Bass and Braindance using analog/digital hardware.
MP3 $3.99
02/17/2017
FLAC $4.99
02/17/2017
Hot off the heels of their debut album for Trouble In Mind, delve deeper into the world of Atlanta trio Omni with this short, sharp single. “Fever Bass” and “Thesis” were both recorded by guitarist Frankie Broyles at his studio in Atlanta while they were making Deluxe last year. Let this hold you over until they finish touring Europe and America (again!) and, hopefully, write another album later this year. Edition of 200.
7" $6.75
03/10/2017
MP3 $1.98
02/14/2017
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02/14/2017
Marc Barreca’s seventh solo album for Palace of Lights extends his work with a broader and deeper palette of synthesized and sampled sound, including sources as diverse as prepared guitars, pianos, Indonesian metallophones and glass harmonica. The music of Aberrant Lens employs long MIDI delays, synced MIDI processing via MAX for Live and extreme warping of disparate looped sound sources driven into entirely new states. The results are new, coherent aural structures: music that questions traditional definitions of ambient and electronic forms. And, to the educated ear, within this search for innovation and experimentation Aberrant Lens reveals many of Barreca’s earliest influences. Even when integrated in thoroughly non-retro compositions, the hints of homage to Cluster and the first Fripp & Eno releases inhabit these twelve new settings. Marc Barreca has been creating and performing electronic music since the mid-1970s. His 1980 album, Twilight, was one of the earliest releases on Palace of Lights. His cassette-era album Music Works for Industry is being reissued by the RVNG spin-off Freedom To Spend, and his early cassette work is included in the upcoming VOD box set American Cassette Culture, which also features Marc’s early electronic music group Young Scientist. His work is included in the collection of The British Library.
CD $12.00
02/24/2017
MP3 $9.90
02/24/2017
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02/24/2017
back on the omni river with some cosmic covers, man overboard and gilded deep see/hear treasures…i acknowledged the masters and jacked into my home studios (maximum arousal farm & green extension studio B!) to tap the maple with an attempt to represent & scope. keep me "posted", no hunting here…just space fruit. this was C.O.M. 48, a tour disc only available at the merch table on the blazing bird road trip and right here while this magic button is UP. keep on pickin', be here now -> matt "mv" valentine guilford, VT late summer 2016
MP3 $8.99
08/26/2016
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08/26/2016
Circles of Upper and Lower Hell is the grandest, deepest work to date by Polish-born, Glasgow-based sound artist and composer Ela Orleans. From her beginnings inaugurating a lo-fi, homespun style that has since developed fully into a language uniquely her own, from tentative live outings featuring multiple instruments to a now-masterly command of sound, Orleans has become one of the most consistently surprising musicians of the global underground. The seventh album under her own name, this expansive vision, loosely based on Dante’s Inferno but infused with deep personal experience, incorporates sound art, orchestral textures, synth pop and electronic music to construct a world equally peppered with loss and inspiration. It pulls all the strands of Orleans’ previous work together into an epic depiction of turmoil wide in scope but reveling in detail. The album documents a far more personal approach to conventional songwriting. Previously, the artist’s sonic textures have relied on samples cleaved out of context, buried songs beneath warped aural gauze, but Circles blows every element of Orleans’s art upwards and further apart. It begins with a masterful, sparse composition, “The Gate,” before melting into “You Go Through Me” (featuring Stephen McRobbie and Katrina Mitchell from The Pastels), one of its most direct, aching pop moments. “Ghost and Whispers” is a hit from another universe, a sparkling propulsion light of touch and almost unbearably, ghostly human. Circles of Upper and Lower Hell is an honest portrayal of a descent—be it personal or metaphorical—and there are times, like on...
CD $16.00
10/07/2016
2XLP $27.00
07/29/2016
Los Angeles-based bonehead savants Zig Zags are no-nonsense ’80s style thrash with a magpie eye for deep-fried pop culture detritus. These guys give so few fucks while they are out ripping faces that it’s tough to say much about them that hasn’t been said before—they shred so that we may raise beers in non-ironic salute to their Voivod worship, to a world in which young heshers subscribe to Heavy Metal and practice early Slayer solos while watching daytime TV, to waking and baking as you watch the world burn. Running Out of Red is the soundtrack to getting high and driving around in your shitty car in your small town, occasionally getting laid…occasionally getting laid out at the local liquor store by an older dude. Gang vocals: check. 1-2 pit beat: on lock. Shredder solid state guitar heroics: ripping, and so should you, the bong is packed and I think there’s still pizza in the fridge. I can smell your pants from here, dude.
LP $19.00
05/20/2016
CD $12.00
05/20/2016
LP COLOR $20.25
01/13/2023
MP3 $9.90
05/20/2016
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05/20/2016
Came Down a Storm is an album that creates a world. Through Claire Cronin’s deep, intimate voice come songs of wreckage and redemption. A published poet and English Ph.D. student as well as a musician, Cronin uses images and symbols to craft songs that reach beyond the personal. She sings of death in a field, death at sea, dreams of dying, and a vision of a future where death is no longer allowed. Yet the music is not depressing; even in its darkest lines, these songs aim to float. The album is a collaboration between Cronin and Deerhoof guitarist John Dieterich, who met by chance at a Los Angeles show and began writing songs together long-distance. After sending recordings and ideas back and forth over email for a year, Cronin joined Dieterich at his house in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to record Came Down a Storm. It was mixed with Jay Pellici at New, Improved Recordings in Oakland, California, where the full instrumentation was put in place. The album features Pellici and Chris Vatalaro on drums and Ezra Buchla and Heather Trost on strings. The spare, melancholy style of Cronin’s previous self-released work is evident in this album, but the music created with Dieterich takes Came Down a Storm beyond the folk genre. Cronin’s voice recalls Karen Dalton or Jason Molina in its sincerity and ache—plaintive and burnished with a kind of dark gold throughout. The instruments build around her singing: breaking to crescendos, driving emotional currents, or providing lively...
LP $16.00
05/13/2016
CD $9.25
05/06/2016
MP3 $5.94
05/06/2016
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05/06/2016
*** The muse of BRONCO is Bronco Stephenson, a morally naïve cyber hedonist strutting ever deeper into the bowels of a dystopian capitalist arena called the Palace Interior, where he must eventually face a day of reckoning with “the true computer heart of the world.” The album acts as journey and destination, each piece reflecting his geography / mental state, from iridescent vape shops and electrode funkadelica into “the deeper, darker, questionably legal” inner sanctum of flickering fluorescent hallways and hacker pulse-programming. Conceived by Minneapolis musician and MJ MJ Records CEO Sasha Conda in collaboration with writer Patrick Scott-Walsh III, whose 24-page narrative accompanies the release, BRONCO maps its hero’s quest across a linear 7-song cycle of decadent casino fusion boogie, neon waterfall 2-step, sci-fi new wave, and spherical synthesizer dirge – fantasy-as-escape meets escape-as-fantasy. The text spills the story in ways both graphic and cryptic: “At street level, the lights of the overwhelming hyperterranean Palace Interior are temporarily denied. Bronco sprints, gun in hand, passed the line for the public multipurpose privacy stalls, fitting himself through the density of bodies, to the line of mirrors and sinks. He pulls his pants down … and puts cold water on the burn. The sound of pain/relief escapes through his gritted teeth, on top of the muffled sizzle of his flesh. The still bubbly lettering spelling EFFORTLESS is now adorned above his sheared pubic hair.” Pro-dubbed cassettes mastered by Neil Weir in oversized cases with artwork by Keith Rankin, plus...
MC $12.00
10/23/2015
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10/16/2015
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10/16/2015
In anticipation of Came Down A Storm, Claire Cronin's full band collaboration with John Dieterich (Deerhoof) which Ba Da Bing will release next Spring, we present this Best Of compiling her solo songs of the past few years. Cronin's songs are sparse, deep, and dark, and her gravelly voice reaches unexpected levels of emotional beauty. There's something Jason Molina going on here, by way of Karen Dalton and Neil Young. Cronin is currently working towards a PhD in poetry at University of Georgia, and her lyrics reflect the intelligence and insight of someone so devoted to the written word.
MC $6.00
10/09/2015
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10/09/2015
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10/09/2015
Throughout the history of mankind, the stories most often told through song are those of great deeds and fantastic adventures. ArnoCorps carries on the tradition by bringing to audiences original musical interpretations of ancient Austrian lore and mythology, such as Terminator, Commando, Predator, Total Recall and True Lies. In doing so, ArnoCorps has created a new genre of music: Action Adventure Hardcore Rock ’n’ Roll! Since their arrival in the burgeoning San Francisco Bay Area music scene in 2001, ArnoCorps have celebrated the principles of the action-adventure lifestyle through their music. Beyond the distinctively accented delivery of lead vocalist Holzfeuer, the dual guitars of Vielmehr Klampfe and Inzo der Barrakuda are counterbalanced by the backbone rhythm section of brothers Toten Adler on bass and Gellend Adler on drums. Their collective on-stage energy incites their crowds to join in the screaming of quotes from ancient lore, such as “Kill me now!” and “Get your ass to Mars!” and “Stick around!” In time for their fourth saga-inspiring tour of the United Kingdom in July 2014, following up epic adventures in 2006, 2008, and 2012, Alternative Tentacles releases The Greatest Band of All Time on vinyl for the first time ever. Originally released on CD in 2005, and out of physical print since 2009, the album originally sold 1,000 copies in the US, and 8,000 in the UK and Europe. Many listeners of this mighty tome claim to have experienced increased muscle mass, a better understanding of life’s mysteries, and feeling like...
LP $16.00
08/19/2014
CD $13.00
08/19/2014
MP3 $9.90
07/22/2014
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07/22/2014
In the autumn of 2012 MV & EE were roastin' venues across the great divide on the deep space circuit (and beyond). This memphis hoot was about 1/3 in on their major "coast to roast" tour, flyin' free(k) flag flutter, flannel amps and good ol' US blues with multitrack tapes/matrices to prove it. the duo exchanges on this ride were monumental demarcations and this one brings you SO THERE, it's like you were sitting with headphone monitors for a private showcase (literally) of their far reaching music, which at this point is now at a legendary peak. should you need an introduction, extended jams/exploratory tunes meet alien vocal contact and explosive fuzz drenched "acoustic" folk forms…then there is the raga off trail. this becomes the earth for them to jettison wings into what might seem like "no direction (home)" but actually is clear articulation & yet never played the same way twice. dig it…LISTEN to their live shows, they have to be heard to be believed. the deployment of the compositions on this HEROINE document a watershed period of MV & EE and they have moved beyond their early influences (help yourself/jerry garcia/charles plymell) to become unique masters. Matt & Erika flying on a general out of SOMEWHERE untouchable freedom rag with weirdness & execution that literally blows away most contempo units trying to mine the same sonic depths. no COMpetition. there's a vibe at this show that is totally outta time and once again proves that there can be...
MP3 $5.99
09/10/2013
***Recorded to tape at Emandee Studio in Brooklyn, On the Knife is a deeply personal take on love and loss, and was very much shaped by CHRISTIAN DEROECK’s departure from his previous bands. Like his earlier work with WOODS, the songwriting is earnest, and of course there are a few indulgent headphone tracks as well. Now joined by stand-up drummer PATTY CONWAY, LITTLE GOLD has begun to incorporate more improvisational and psychedelic sounds into their mellow, country-rock oeuvre, and in the process are becoming a notable live act around NYC.
12" $14.50
10/02/2012
"We've spent so long in the company of this magical album it's impossible to express our deep, unending love for it. Small and perfectly formed, 'Metanarrative' explores Mark Stewart's experiments with midnight techno variants, utilising a stylistic reduction that looks for warmth and detail in every nook and cranny. Of course, over the last couple of years Stewart has been best known for his 'Warehouse Sessions', a series of stripped twelves that make use of an astute line in reduction and a love of sonorous basslines to develop a sound best noted for its devastating production and frayed dub sequences. Metanarrative is a different beast altogether, built around 8 tracks that provide the backbone and emotive arc for the grand narrative alluded to in the title. Gone are the uncompromising percussive arrangements of the Warehouse Sessions, and instead the sound explores a more melodic, quietly euphoric display of opposites : sweet melodies and heavily padded bass frequencies, introspective conceits and propulsive percussion, and populist arrangements built with a deviant sound palette. Opening track "Operation" sums this process up perfectly, the arrangement building around a succession of chord progressions and shuffling percussion that develop sweet tension and momentum without ever breaking into the obvious - the breakdown just never comes. "Harsh Reality" tugs more openly at the heartstrings with an intro that gives you every reason to believe that what's to follow might be the most readily commercial material from this artist yet, but the eventual bassline inverts expectations and delivers...
MP3 $7.92
03/21/2011
"Mark Stewart returns with his first new transmission this year, an incredible study in deep, woozy narcotic / New York House through to relentless dub delayed shuffles. 'Chadderton' on the A-side is an astonishing slice of deep, slow and sleazy midnight House, complete with squashed chords and a frayed spine that's primed for peak-time narcosis. 'Above' opens the flip with relentless chords and a shuffling percussive line that never lets up, mixing the techno classicism of Rob Hood with Shed's inimitably shuffled patterns under his EQ'd alias, but when the bassline appears its just Claro through and through - deep and deadly. The final coda on the EP is a two minute beatless shift with echoes of Eno and AFX shimmering at its core, delivering a rare glimpse into Stewart's ambient operations and rounding off another indispensable EP beautifully mastered and cut by Dubplates & Mastering for added dancefloor pressure."--Boomkat
MP3 $2.97
03/21/2011
***AVAILABLE AGAIN!!! “With THE OUTSIDERS still spoken of in hushed tones in even the deepest circles, we’re thrilled to help shine some light on what might be one of the most underrated bands ever. Originally released in Holland in October 1968, CQ (pronounced “Seek You”) was the third and final album by Dutch garage punks The Outsiders. These rowdy teenagers from Amsterdam were part of the thriving ‘Nederbeat’ scene with the band taking their cues from British and Stateside garage acts of the day (including singing entirely in English). CQ spans R&B, spacey experimental numbers, folk rock and a revved-up kind of punk that pre-dates the angular moodiness of what would become the no wave/post punk sound a decade later. This unpredictable stylistic approach, when coupled with across-the-board amazing songs, make this one of the masterpieces of late ‘60s psychedelic garage rock, and a cornerstone album of the genre.” Pressed in a vinyl-only limited edition, this deluxe reissue is replicated precisely with gorgeous silver foil cover art. Extensive liner notes include a 2009 interview with lead guitarist RONNIE SPLINTER about the recording of the album and an exclusive introduction by MIKE STAX, editor of Ugly Things magazine. No export to Benelux.
LP $24.00
02/01/2011
Call of the Wild is a Southern party record--a tribute to all the insane theme bands that played the Deep South bar circuit back in the '70s. It mixes Stax-era dirty soul and rootsy garage punk with funky country rock and low country shag. Every song is about partying, being at a party or the characters you might meet at a party. Inspiration for these rowdy tunes comes from the Mar-Keys, Huey Smith and the Clowns, Swingin' Medallions, Doug Clark and His Hot Nuts, Southern Culture on the Skids, Mojo Nixon, Cowboy Mouth, Otis Day and the Nights, Archie Bell and the Drells and any other Southern band that has "and the" in their name. Singer / guitarist Bill Davis wrote the majority of the songs with primitive folk artist John Preble of UCM Museum ("Louisiana's Most Eccentric Museum") fame. They are studies in the art of Southern decadence and wild native abandon. In their 25 years of existence, Dash Rip Rock has played every imaginable sort of revel--house parties, pool parties, swamp parties, debutante parties, barn parties, farm parties, biker parties, cowboy parties, Mardi Gras balls, pot parties, ecstasy raves, LSD freakouts and beach blow-outs. Some were fun, wild and exciting, others creepy and terrifying. Through all the numerous days and nights of reckless drinking and excessive overindulgence, Dash never got around to making a "party record"--until now.
CD $12.00
08/03/2010
***PLEASE CHECK STOCK!!! This is the second solo album from DEERHUNTER frontman BRADFORD COX following his debut Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel from early 2008. The band’s track “Sheila” received a Best New Music tag from Pitchfork. The full album joined in on the BNM tag with an 8.2 rating. No Exports outside of North America.
LP $19.00
10/20/2009
CD $16.00
10/20/2009
Recorded in 1989 and 1990, Hiroyuki Usui's barely circulated masterpiece of deeply felt self-expression beautifully captures the spirit and substance of a half-dozen key sub-underground pillars of sound. Working with guitar, vocals, vibes, harmonium, bass, drums, cello, field recordings, digeridoo, and more, Usui blends delicate folk, psychedelia, and experimental sounds into a mostly subdued but undeniably glowing suite. The layered but careful instrumentation on the epic title track and "Troll" backs the alternately plain-spoken and crooning vocals perfectly. Odd touches like snatches of throat singing and bowed vibraphone leap out of the mix at just the right time. There are overt references to the blues (the first track is an oblique cover of "Cold Was The Ground", but other than the occasional slide guitar touch, the connection is overwhelmingly in the timeless feeling and atmosphere. For anyone who's into Richard Youngs, Popol Vuh, Six Organs of Admittance, Tim Buckley, acid-folk, or Japanese underground, this is an essential purchase. Holy Letters was self-released by Usui in the early '90s and primarily given away to friends, while a handful made it into shops in Tokyo and the U.S. before it disappeared completely. VHF's reissue includes the entire CD and seven-inch from the original package, plus a ten-minute bonus track from the original sessions. The gatefold folio with 20-page booklet includes previously unpublished photos and new liner notes by Usui and Ben Chasny (in both Japanese and English). Usui's name pops up in several intriguing places in the apparently still under-documented Japanese...
CD $12.00
11/09/2004
MP3 $9.90
11/09/2004
Sharron Kraus is a singer/musician/songwriter with a gift for beautiful and heartbreaking songs from a deep-seated storytelling mythology. Her music, rooted in the folk traditions of England and Appalachia, is characterized by soil-rich vocals, haunting banjo, fine acoustic guitar, and visionary word-craft. Kraus's songs are populated by a carnival array of fatally charismatic characters, telling tales of enslavement, perversion, incest, obsession, love and death, and her live performances are stark, compelling, and delicate. She is like the roving storyteller, bringing tales of terror, sadness and joy to a stranger's hearth on a dark and stormy night. The Fox's Wedding, Kraus's stunning new album, offers eleven original songs and a cover of "Trice Toss These Oaken Ashes" written by Thomas Campion. Kraus has been featured in The Wire, Dirty Linen, New Folk Sounds, Arthur Magazine, Ptolemaic Terrascope and Broken Face. She has been interviewed on BBC Radio 3 and recorded sessions for BBC Radio Scotland, Freakzone on Radio 6, and independent radio stations across the US. Her fanbase includes veteran folkies Shirley Collins and Archie Fisher as well as indie figureheads Michael Gira, David Tibet, and Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore.
CD $13.00
03/11/2008
MP3 $9.90
03/11/2008
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03/11/2008
***Members of the Pacific Northwest's OLDOMINION collective, emcees KARIM and DESTRO DESTRUCTO and deejay TRE, rock their debut full-length. Like their name implies, BBP brings the real deal to the heads with a pumped-up, head-boppin' sound. Nine tracks of stellar hip hop featuring guests L'RONEOUS, BLACK ANGER, PEP LOVE (HIEROGLYPHICS), KUTFATHER, SNAFU, JFK, and TONI HILL.
CD $13.75
07/10/2001
In 1975 five Bostonians with a shared obsession for '60s rock'n'roll and the Detroit sounds of The Stooges and the MC5 deemed the current musical landscape so bleak that they had to form their own band, with the sole objective of "fusing the sound of the Chocolate Watchband and The Stooges," according to their outspoken frontman, and notoriously obsessive record collector Jeff "Mono Man" Conolly. DMZ developed a strong local following in Boston and, in New York, became fast friends with The Ramones (with whom they would eventually share many bills). The band released an EP on Bomp! in early '77 and soon caught the eye of Sire Records, who snapped them up for the label's growing roster of "new wave" bands (which included the Ramones, Dead Boys, Richard Hell, The Saints, and Radio Birdman, to name a few). Flo & Eddie were chosen to produce the group's debut full length; the two former members of The Turtles turned out to be an appropriate production team for DMZ's smoldering batch of originals along side very well chosen covers by The Sonics, The Wailers and The Troggs. The album's release was greeted with a deafening silence when it came out in 1978. Their long-haired appearance in the current "new wave" climate and the lack of a single live show outside of the East Coast did not help. They split up shortly thereafter, and Mono Man started The Lyres, who relied even more heavily on a retro '60s sound than DMZ.
CD $12.00
02/03/2004
***A brand new mix from renowned producer THE ALCHEMIST. You get cuts from all-stars MOBB DEEP, CAM’RON, BOBBY CREEKWATER, AZ, OBIE TRICE, B-REAL, PRODIGY, HAVOC, TONY YAYO, 40 GLOCC & PRO, POET, and the Alchemist himself.
CD $16.35
04/25/2006
***27 was first issued by Cleopatra Records in the summer of 1992 and was THE ADICTS first new studio album since 1986's Fifth Overture. The band's core lineup of vocalist MONKEY, guitarist PETE DEE, drummer KID DEE, and bassist MEL remained intact. Much more in the traditional pop punk Adicts style than Fifth Overture, 27 featured 18 brand new tracks that are every bit as catchy as any the band has recorded.
LP $24.45
05/20/2022
Finally back in print, the seventh studio album by the veteran avant-garde band Kayo Dot. Meaning “lantern” or “lamp” in the Enochian language of 16th century magicians John Dee and Edward Kelley, Hubardo follows the epic and heartbreaking narrative of a meteor falling to earth and the alchemical transformation of a lonely poet observer. This album displays aspects of the band’s many forms, even moments that hark back to the act’s former identity, Maudlin of the Well (including an appearance by MOTW vocalist Jason Byron). It is a dizzying trip through genres and moods that blossoms in wild directions, an out-of-control chemical reaction. From beautiful post-rock passages and demented ballads to tripped-out 70s prog fusion, jazz and black metal, Hubardo masterfully incorporates just about every style imaginable during its nearly 100 minute run time. “After a decade of trying to live up to the precedent set by their debut, Kayo Dot has finally reached – and surpassed – the level of not only themselves, but of everyone else within their realm of music.” —Bearded Gentlemen Music
2XCD $16.00
04/21/2017
3XLP $31.00
06/16/2017
'Living With Damp' is the first release by John Arthur Webb (Male Bonding) under the Lifers moniker. 'Guns', which features Dee Dee (Dum Dum Girls), charts one man's confusion and embarrassment when he realises that murder is illegal , even though gun ownership isn't. With Webb and Dee Dee both swallowed by claustrophobic downer guitars, the song builds to a thrilling, homicidal end. 'Fear Without A Form' see Webb exploring the studio with looped instrumentation framing what sounds like a stalker's paranoia. 'Humdrum' is the tale of two young lovers who bury their town's joker, and ultimately each other, in snow covered woodlands in the shit hole where they live. The song takes Webb further from his roots in noise and punk groups and is all the better for it, a lush track full of hooks and melodrama not unlike a Cocteau Twins classic. 'Some Rise/Some Fight' closes the set as a lost voice wanders around doom town with scarce comfort from the crescendoes of guitar and synth.
7" $9.75
07/22/2014
MP3 $3.96
05/26/2014
FLAC $4.99
05/26/2014
Many years dreamt, one cold winter realized, Haunted Hearts is Dee Dee Penny (Dum Dum Girls) and Brandon Welchez (Crocodiles). It is not the melding of two bands; it is a true collaboration. The duo’s first full-length album, entitled Initiation, was written in the winter of 2012, holed up in their apartment, surrounded by a lot of books, Motown and krautrock. It was recorded by Jon Greene at Electric Orange Studios in San Diego, mixed by Jorge Elbrecht (Ariel Pink / Violens) at Static Recording in Brooklyn, and mastered by Joe La Porta at Sterling Sound in New York City. Johnny Jupiter by ZOO MUSIC
LP $16.00
05/27/2014
CD $12.00
05/27/2014
MP3 $7.99
05/27/2014
FLAC $9.90
05/27/2014
After releasing records on Sub Pop, Fat Possum, French Kiss, Souterrain, Captured Tracks, HoZac and Slumberland, Zoo Music label heads Dee Dee from the Dum Dum Girls and Brandon Welchez from Crocodiles return home for their new project. Haunted Hearts is sure to please fans of both members’ other bands as well as anyone who appreciates solid song writing and atmosphere. Recorded in San Diego at Electric Orange Studio, Something That Feels Bad Is Something That Feels Good is their debut single.
7" $6.00
02/05/2013
MP3 $1.98
01/28/2013
***“READING RAINBOW, aka the Philadelphia duo of ROB GARCIA and SARAH EVERTON, have a new 7-inch out now on one Zoo Music, the San Diego label run by DUM DUM GIRLS’ DEE DEE and BRANDON from the CROCODILES. The A-Side's the revved-up ‘Restless,’ which finds Reading Rainbow sounding more like an echoing noise-pop choir than a twosome. They do a cover of the Velvet Underground's ‘Stephanie Says’ on side B. For now, get hooked on this.”—Stereogum.
7" $7.00
08/30/2011
MP3 $2.97
08/30/2011
Mercy Oceans is the long-anticipated second full-length from Andria Degens. The album follows the critically acclaimed Cloudburst EP released earlier this year, and features Baby Dee, Isobel Campbell, Keith Wood (Hush Arbors), and John Contreras. Mercy Oceans is an album of exceptional beauty and depth. All ten tracks are stunningly captivating. The CD comes packaged in a beautiful digipak with a full-color booklet containing lyrics, along with artwork by Beth Carter and photography by Cam Archer. “Andria Degens is based in Hastings, southern England, but the sparse clarity of her music as Pantaleimon seems to exist in its own unique, indefinable space.... Its vivid simplicity is, in its own quiet way, quite stunning.” —Tom Ridge, The Wire “... Degens makes music which is so effortlessly gorgeous it almost defies belief. There is an icy simplicity to her compositions, a fragility or frailty maybe, and this gives them a soft, melancholy feel, which makes them almost impossible to forget. For some reason I am reminded of Jewelled Antler Collective man Steven R. Smith or possibly Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance), but what Degens has done is bring a feminine touch to the masses of male-dominated free folk.” —Boomkat
CD $13.00
11/13/2007
MP3 $9.90
11/13/2007
FLAC $11.99
11/13/2007
***NOW AVAILABLE ON VINYL!!! A bad-ass collection of remixes and rare B-sides from the PHARCYDE, many of which have never been released on CD prior. You get twenty-four tracks featuring production by JAY DEE, KENNY DOPE, DA BEATMINERZ, J-SWIFT, LA JAY, and more, along with remixers BRAND NEW HEAVIES, RAE & CHRISTIAN, FLY AS PIE, and others.
3XLP $18.95
12/05/2005
Originally released in 2012, Three by Flavor Crystals has steadily become a cult favorite within the modern psychedelic underground. Blending hypnotic guitars, immersive atmospheres, motorik rhythms, and deeply melodic songwriting, the album moves seamlessly between neo- psychedelia, dream pop, and space rock.With its warm production, shimmering textures, and expansive mood, Three creates a rich and transportive listening experience that continues to resonate far beyond its original release. Over the years, the album has developed a devoted following among collectors and fans of atmospheric, guitar-driven music, earning recognition as an essential modern psych title.This vinyl reissue reintroduces a sought-after underground classic with strong crossover appeal across psychedelic, indie, and dream pop audiences, offering excellent long-term catalogue value for retailers and distributors alike.Recommended For Fans Of The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Spiritualized, Spacemen 3, Mazzy Star, The Black Angels.
3XLP $48.00
07/10/2026
***Joseph Allred is a Tennessee-based guitarist, singer, multi-instrumental composer, and visual artist with deep roots in the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee and Kentucky. Their guitar playing draws from diverse musical styles including Appalachian folk, bluegrass, blues, flamenco, and classical guitar, as well as from folk iconoclasts John Fahey and Robbie Basho, figures of the 20th century avant-garde like Albert Ayler, Derek Bailey and Henry Flynt, and the musical traditions of India, Iran, and the Arab world. They have released music on Feeding Tube Records, Worried Songs, Scissor Tail Editions, AKTI, Island House, Blue Hole Recordings, Garden Portal, Reverb Worship / Future Grave, and their own Meliphonic Records imprint.
LP $29.45
05/29/2026
***Everything in Watercolour is a luminous and intimate ambient work from vocal artist and songwriter Anita Tatlow. Known for her instantly recognizable ethereal voice and immersive collaborations across the ambient and electronic spectrum, Tatlow crafts music that feels both weightless and deeply emotive.Blending soft vocal layers with gentle synthesis and spacious production, the album unfolds like a series of delicate washes, where tone and texture drift in slow motion. Rooted in her background in ambient music and her work across projects such as Salt of the Sound and Narrow Skies, Tatlow’s compositions evoke stillness, reflection, and a quiet sense of wonder. Subtle and immersive, Everything in Watercolour invites the listener into a meditative space shaped by light, memory, and atmosphere.
CD $7.50
05/01/2026
MC $7.50
05/01/2026
***Unconsciousness Silence is the latest ambient exploration from Japanese sound artist Chihei Hatakeyama. Known for his ethereal guitar drones and textured soundscapes, Hatakeyama creates immersive sonic environments that unfold slowly, inviting deep listening and introspection. This release continues his signature approach, blending delicate melodies, subtle electronics, and spacious ambient textures into a meditative journey.
CD $7.50
05/01/2026
MC $7.50
05/01/2026
***A two-headed, four-handed groove-and-space based understanding/alignment of purpose is written in the BCMC DNA. Cooper Crain and Bill MacKay’s guitar and keyboard duo make unbridled electro-ecstatic, intuitive assembly of deep and wide trans-hemispheric sounds. From the frontiers, judicious minimalist song flows.
LP $27.25
06/26/2026
MC $12.00
06/26/2026
Recent works by West Mass ritualist Secret Places of the Lion have explored a fusion of orphic synthetics and MIDI machinery, but Saturn Fern documents the project’s primordial origins in dosed tarot electric guitar. Recorded across 2012 and 2013 between a garage deep in the desolate woods of Belchertown and a New Haven apartment above a North African garden café, the process was acidic, smoky, nocturnal, and improvised. Long-form guitar traced in FX and braided into loose loops, dusted with keys, the collection’s nine tracks were captured in single takes straight to a field recorder. In the artist’s words: “Field recordings from the deep field.” Mastered by Jared Carrigan. Design by Britt Brown.
MC $12.00
06/05/2026
MP3 $7.99
06/05/2026
FLAC $8.99
06/05/2026
***Even as the primary torchbearers for Detroit’s underrepresented pop factions, Deadbeat Beat remain on a path apart. The band has evolved gradually, growing deeper musically and intellectually around a core of immediate songwriting and always landing outside of standard indie rock parameters. This difference and the growth within it are both in full view on From Here to Ohio, the group’s third album and first substantial work since 2020’s How Far. It’s a powerful wave of songs that hit instantaneously, even as the band takes new risks with composition, instrumentation, and the vulnerability of saying more.The things that have always been great about Deadbeat Beat are still great. Sprouting from a teenage friendship that grew into a musical practice between drummer/vocalist Maria Nuccilli and guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Alex Glendening, the band has long lived in the precarious and holy intersection of garage rock drive and indie pop catchiness. Rounded out by the understated melodic bass playing of Zak Frieling, the songs became their own brand of dualistic excitement; ragged and nervy enough to dance to mindlessly in the basement house show, but never far from the melancholia and neurotic jangle of the most introverted Flying Nun band. Those basic building blocks are still in place here. The guitars are still clean (but not too clean), the rhythms are still snappy and uncluttered, and tight vocal harmonies still beam out like unbroken lines on a freshly repaved highway to somewhere better. Even if heard from a muffled distance, From Here to Ohio would...
LP $27.75
06/12/2026
***Dubs From The Neighbourhood—from New Zealand super producer Christoph El Truentro—takes us on a musical journey inspired by road trips through small towns, sunshine, secluded beaches and lush green landscapes. This is deep dub in the most classic of forms; taking cues from those that have come before while adding flourishes of a sonic palette completely new. While the idyllic scenery invoked on the cover is typically associated with a carefree joy, the album adds details and textures that nod to the inevitable flipside of grief and loss that are experienced alongside life's journeys. Named one of the 10 Best Albums of the Year by Rolling Stone Australia.
LP $25.50
04/03/2026
Mabe Fratti is a Guatemalan cellist, vocalist, and composer based in Mexico City, celebrated for her experimental yet deeply melodic work. Blending cello, voice, synthesizers, and electroacoustic textures, she builds songs that move between improvisation, ambient soundscapes, and off-kilter pop forms. Emerging from Mexico City’s improvisational and experimental scene, she has become a key voice in contemporary avant-pop.Bill Orcutt is an American guitarist and composer known for his raw, highly individual approach to improvisation. A co-founder of the 1990s noise-rock duo Harry Pussy, he helped shape a fiercely abrasive aesthetic that drew from no wave, hardcore punk, and free jazz. Often playing a four-string guitar in unconventional tunings, he combines shards of melody, sudden silences, and surging rhythmic bursts, creating music that feels both primitive and structurally intricate. In parallel with his work as a guitarist, he runs the Palilalia and Fake Estates imprints and develops his own audio software, continuing to blur lines between avant-garde experimentation, song form, and DIY practice.Almost Waking:"I had known about Bill’s music for a while: since his 2017 release under his own name. I connected a lot with his music and I had no idea that years later we would be collaborating! It was a total surprise that we started chatting on the internet of collaborating!—we bounced ideas back and forth, all starting with a series of guitar solo stuff that Bill sent me. I had a great time with the pieces and in some of them had the honor to collaborate with I....
CD $17.50
06/12/2026
LP $30.00
06/26/2026
Saxophonist, producer and composer Brian Allen Simon explores darker hues, transposing waking and altered states under his studio veil Anenon. On the deeply evocative new album ‘Dream Temperature’, he shifts electronic processing to the foreground, introducing digitized wind instruments and unworldly atmospherics, not heard since his innovating mid-late 2010s output.A longtime Los Angeles resident, born and raised, Brian Allen Simon has expressively operated under the moniker Anenon, releasing the highly revered ‘Petrol’ (2016), ‘Tongue’ (2018) and the viscerally beautiful ‘Moons Melt Milk Light’ (2023), in a line of unwavering musical dialogues. While the penultimate album was a deliberate, reductive, entirely acoustic detour that was born out of a want to unplug, ‘Dream Temperature’ sees Brian primed with a newly discovered wind synthesizer as his central compositional tool, alongside acoustic piano and tenor saxophone. The entirety of the album’s electronics are triggered by Brian’s lungs, generating otherworldly synths modulated by expressive breath control, channelled through the laptop as the core processing chamber for added textural components and field recordings.A free floating and heavy emotional resonance marks 'Dream Temperature' from beginning to end, invoking the feeling of waking up, still heavy from a night of half-remembered dreams, and continuing one’s day in this state. Simon maps out the album's spatial voice early on the statement title track, a deep, yet compact cut, generated from digital saxophone rasps that whistle by in close proximity, along with haze filled textures and sub bass. There is a sonic oscillation of urban grit and pastoral drift...
LP CLEAR $29.00
05/01/2026
Like a black wind rising off peatlands long left to silence, Ireland’s Coscradh unearth their second album Carving The Causeway To The Otherworld, wrenching up the bog-roads of the dead through dread sorcery. An invocation of deep-rooted heritage and ancient mysticism the album resurrects the six-thousand-year-old oaken pathways raised by warring tribes under the cold eye of the druid, toward the realm beyond life, and conjuring these vanished labors with the memory of violence itself. Channeling the druid as both astronomer and war-seer, Coscradh invokes Mars as the god whose red light demands sacrifice, revealing Gaelic warriors hollowing themselves into vessels and letting the fury of Goac enter and devour them for battle. Guitars flare and burn like meteors knifing the horizon, letting loose riffs rusted with ancestral power. The blistering percussive onslaught crashes like hooves on dead earth as the band’s savage ferocity erupts like a war-cry cast into the heavens, crowned in ruinous splendor. Coscradh fully inhabits this domain between worlds, breathing into their work the fury and spiritual force of a people who carved truths into land, sky and grave. A communion of druidic science and blood, ritual aggression and linguistic resurrection, Carving The Causeway To The Otherworld compels a celestial reckoning where fate itself is flung upon the altar. Like gods that ride the firmament, Coscradh’s cold cruel radiance falls upon all who hear it. The record is a cosmic execution, binding together the bygone causeways, war gods, stone idols and star-born forces that the druids...
CD $12.00
02/20/2026
LP COLOR $24.00
02/20/2026
MP3 $7.99
02/20/2026
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02/20/2026
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...
12" $13.00
03/06/2026
***Eleventh Hour Recording Co. presents a remarkable reissue that gathers together a wealth of otherwise unreleased Bill Fox material, offering listeners a deeper glimpse into the songwriter’s singular world. This compilation showcases Fox at his most versatile, moving effortlessly between intimate folk balladry and sharp-edged power pop, while also highlighting his collaborative spirit through rare tracks with The Radio Flyers.The collection features standout folk songs that exemplify Fox’s plainspoken poetry and melodic instinct, including “Standing On Nothing Now,” “Greenlove,” “On The Way,” and the aching “Chain To Your Heart.” A cover of Peter Laughner’s “Baudelaire” is reimagined with Fox’s understated delivery, while two traditional folk numbers add texture, even if they feel less essential. The real revelation, however, comes with the inclusion of three Radio Flyers tracks: “I Only Did It Cuz I Felt So Lonely,” penned by Wally Bryson is pure power-pop brilliance; Fox’s own “Alienated” brims with urgency and bite; and “Whenever I” closes their contribution with another undeniable gem.What makes this reissue so compelling is its patchwork quality. Like much of Fox’s catalog, it embraces imperfection, balancing lo-fi intimacy with flashes of studio clarity. The sequencing allows the listener to move between hushed folk confessionals and full-band energy, creating a dynamic portrait of an artist who has always resisted easy categorization. For longtime admirers, the Radio Flyers tracks alone make this a must-have; for newcomers, the folk songs provide an accessible entry point into Fox’s enduring craft.This release is more than a stopgap or curiosity—it’s a vital...
LP $22.50
01/23/2026
Experience the new double album from Paul Riedl (hanging moss) that crystallizes the stargazing Kosmische drones, meditative Deep Space Ambience & wistful New Age/Folk melodicism of his myriad musical personalities into a compelling synthesis of gentle, cinematic starscapes & pastoral acoustic environments. 1.5 hours of Cosmic Music well suited for meditation or other astral travel. Limited edition gatefold 2LP set on 140g crystal clear vinyl, hand numbered out of 500.
2XCD $26.95
01/30/2026
2XLP $44.85
01/23/2026
***Forever’s spirit is high and tight, its sinews rumbling with communal joy as Glyders’ power-trio formation, in it “for life,” grooves deep into their own thing. Shuffling the deck with road-tested jams and a couple immaculate old-school tunes, Forever hits with the energy of a first album—which it kinda is, now that founders Joshua Condon and Eliza Weber have met their true other, the relentless traps-man Joe Seger. Forever starts now!
LP $24.65
11/21/2025
***Painters Street from Chris Lyons (Silver Synthetic) is a groovy meditation on transition and growth, an honest, earnest, warm and wistful dive into the deep. Whirling wurlitzer and gentle harmonies gather together with easy rolling rhythms and intimate words, a trip through a sweet hazy listening experience over 70s AM Gold. About the record, Chris says “The sound was really a result of our limitations. 16 tracks. 1 inch tape. Whole band crammed in a tiny room. Lots of bleed. Limitations are your guide! Clearly there are overdubs, but the majority of this record was cut live. I like records where the room is a sound that you hear. It feels more like you're in it. You are there. It feels human. Unpolished, imperfect, and graceful.”
LP $25.50
11/07/2025
***By the mid ‘90s Nuzzle had already released several EPs, completed a US tour with Fisticuffs Bluff, and had become staples in a loosely knit but deeply felt west coast scene anchored by Kill Rock Stars Records in Olympia (they performed at the first Yoyo A Go Go fest) and Gravity Records in San Diego (early EPs were recorded by Matt Anderson). The quartet of Nate Dalton (guitar), Simon Fabela (bass), Ricardo Reano (drums), and Andrew Dalton (vocals) started in Rosemead, CA and played venues like Jabberjaw and Macondo, eventually settling in Santa Cruz.The buzz Nuzzle generated from their frantic live shows helped them find their way onto bills with bands like Evergreen, Unwound, Lync, Bikini Kill, Modest Mouse, The VSS, Clikatat Ikatowi, and more. Nuzzle appeared on the Minutemen tribute compilation Our Band Could Be Your Life, as well as the first KXLU Live CD compilation.In 1995 they released their debut LP, Follow, For Now, on Drew Gilbert’s Youth Strike Chord label. Recorded in a sweaty flurry at a vital moment in the ‘90s post-hardcore scene, Follow, For Now is raw, loose, and fierce. Less than 1,000 copies were originally pressed and hard to track down with their screenprinted plastic outer sleeves. Songs like “The Sorting That Evens Things Out” and “Newfoundland,” became the band’s most lauded.Most of the band’s early work was remastered for the Junk of Myth CD in 2000 by Zum and Sound on Sound, but this is a new take digitized from the original reels.Remixed...
LP $25.50
10/17/2025
Extended play companion to René Najera’s recent Painted Life LP, cut from similar cloth but dyed a different shade of sky. From deep current downtempo and strings-of-life steppers to cloud-watcher breaks and tape-hazed disco, the collection captures Jared Carrigan’s project at its most elusive and elliptical. Music of mirrored streets and eroded coasts, flexing free and lean under sinking suns. Tokyo affiliate Precipitation lends a mix to “Conscious Living,” while Estonian ex-pat Maria Minerva played party host for the 18-minute hardware odyssey “Live At Maria’s,” but otherwise Inner Arrangements is a solo side quest, soaring and sidewinding through star maps of the mind.
MC $9.75
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09/05/2025
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09/05/2025
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(Vol. 2) We Were Living In Cincinnati - Punk and Underground Sounds from Ohio's Queen City (1982 - 1988)
Hozac
***Its finally here, Peter Aaron's anxiously-awaited second volume of Queen City punk underground history, and with an incredible array of wild noise from the farthest reaches of punk & new wave nomenclature. Veering deep into sub-obscure 7" and demo tracks of postpunk, power pop, hardcore, DIY noise, and spiky new wave, WWLICV2 is a testament to such a fertile scene in such a fertile state. Ohio—the true Mesopotamia of punk, really. Capturing the second wave punk era, up to right before grunge entered the bloodstream of America, when loose boundaries of styles enmeshed into new genres, and a freedom of direction meant punk had a mutation schedule to keep up with. Cincinnati may not have been huge but easy access to self-releasing 7" singes and cheap recording setups kept the city humming in productivity, as this pummeling second helping with a whopping TWENTY EIGHT bonus download tracks can attest.
LP $20.50
08/29/2025
***Huge stylistic changes are usually reserved for pop stars. Few bands have successfully waded into uncharted musical territory, yet AFI managed to take deep genre swings without alienating their fan base. Musical history is littered with the vestiges of bands brought down by their own success, yet AFI has avoided this fate for over thirty years.From MTV to MySpace, this book explores AFI's groundbreaking role in shaping online fan culture and their journey as musical chameleons. From their humble punk roots to their experimental electronic era, AFI's ability to reinvent themselves while maintaining their artistic integrity is a testament to their enduring influence. 138 page 5"x8" paperback
BK $14.00
07/25/2025
***Several years in the making, Lion can now finally deliver on our promise of another Groove Club volume dedicated to the deep and moving (and grooving) compositions of Sinn Sisamouth, sung by the Emperor of Khmer music himself, alone or duetting with the other legendary singer of those halcyon days in Cambodian music: Ros Sereysothea, the "Queen with the Golden Voice.”Groove Club Vol. 5 also includes a 16-page booklet featuring an exclusive interview with Mrs. Khav Thong Nhot, widow of Sinn Sisamouth, and Sin Sethsochhata, artist and granddaughter of Sinn Sisamouth, revealing more about Sinn Sisamouth than has ever been known before now. We hear directly from his wife about their courtship, their life together as Sinn Sisamouth became famous — and then what happened as the Khmer Rouge took control: the separation from her husband, and her own harrowing experiences trying to keep herself and their children alive. It’s not easy reading, yet stands as an important contribution (we feel) to a a story which until now has only been partially told. Sinn Sisamouth’s granddaughter, Sin Sethsochhata, a musical artist and also keeper of the family’s legacy, speaks of her own experiences in both realms.
LP $28.95
07/25/2025
On the heels of an album widely considered to be one of 2024’s best releases, Philadelphia’s Crypt Sermon presents Saturnian Appendices. A collection of b-sides taken from The Stygian Rose album sessions, the EP offers a deeper look into the psyche behind the story, extending the arc of its predecessor with a darker, more introspective lens. “Conceptually, the new tracks ‘Only Ash And Dust’ and ‘A Fool To Believe’ illuminate the shadowed thoughts of the narrator from The Stygian Rose, expanding on the tensions that arise as one confronts the conflicts between orthodoxy and occult,” offers vocalist Brooks Wilson. Sonically, Saturnian Appendices is firmly rooted in the band’s signature doom-laden dark heavy metal sound. Grandiose melodies wrap around a crushing volley of monolithic riffs for a commanding and epic performance. Featuring three, brand-new, original tracks and a transcendental revisioning of Mayhem’s “De Mysteriis Doom Sathanas” (first heard as part of Decibel Magazine’s flexi-disc series), Saturnian Appendices offers fans a compelling experience steeped in grandeur and philosophical unrest.
CD $12.00
09/05/2025
LP $22.00
08/08/2025
LP COLOR $24.00
08/08/2025
MP3 $3.99
08/08/2025
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08/08/2025
***Kenji Kihara is a Japanese composer and sound artist based in Hayama, a serene coastal town located between the mountains and the sea. Deeply connected to his environment, Kihara creates ambient works that blend field recordings with gentle tonal layers, crafting immersive soundscapes shaped by the natural world. His creative process often begins outdoors. With a sensitive ear for texture and space, he captures environmental sounds around his home—rustling leaves, ocean waves, bird calls—and incorporates them into compositions that unfold with patience and care. His music reflects the subtle rhythms of daily life and the gradual transitions of the seasons. Kenji Kihara’s music has found a home on labels such as Inner Islands, Home Normal, and Muzan Editions. His releases continue to resonate with listeners seeking a connection to nature, stillness, and subtle transformation.
MC $7.50
07/04/2025
French composer Sylvain Carel started life digging on the classics like Dvorak and Holst, and then he logically developed into a Prog-head. Thrilling to the expansive sounds of Van Der Graaf Generator and King Crimson, he would delve deeper into kosmische Krauters like Amon Düül and Tangerine Dream. His Strat-rocking 20s led him to studio work backing and writing for other performers and eventually, developing his own vision. With an early love of the ARP synthesizer, it was a natural move into soundtracks and evocative soundscapes. This would lead to a serious study of Musique Assistée par Ordinateur (Computer-Assisted Music), and Carel building his own studio to accommodate all his ideas.Carel also filled his head with the sounds of the globe, traveling to Africa, India, and the Middle East, and all these influences spilled out on his first solo Lp from 1982, tellingly titled Look Over the Nile. Like most sought-after private presses, the album displays a deceptively simple cover, masking a rich, even mystical tapestry of sonics that transcend time, place or waves (new? olde? the sea's?). Carel continues to create symphonic ambient works to this day, but Look Over the Nile might be his finest daze.LOUKSOHR is a nearly-misleading but brilliantly bloopy opener. It's one unique slice of wedding-band techno-funk from the Star Wars Cantina Band. Boasting an insanely primitive drum machine stammer, unexpected dubby key vamps, YMO melodiousness, and a constantly morphing sameness--it's simply not like anything you've ever heard.THE NEXT DUNE begins with ambient Cluster pulses...
LP $29.00
04/12/2025
Ethan Daniel Davidson’s thirteenth studio album finds the veteran singer-songwriter exploring new creative territory while continuing down the beguiling and wondrous road that his discography has charted thus far. Cordelia is as lush and deeply felt as Davidson’s music has ever been, with countrified balladry and unvarnished blues accompanying this journeyman’s philosophical explorations and ruminations on his past, present, and future. Cordelia follows 2022’s Stranger, which marked both a conclusion and a new beginning after a decade-plus of fruitful creative collaboration with Warren Defever of experimental rock legends His Name Is Alive (who Davidson is continuing to collaborate with on future projects as well). “I was overdue to start all over again with a bunch of new people,” he explains. But sometimes a change of scenery is needed for a spell, and so as Davidson was armed with an array of songs he had in his arsenal largely from a COVID-era songwriting span (the aching “Your Old Key” dating back more than a decade in terms of creative conception), he reached out to producer David Katznelson for some ideas on who to work with, who in turn recommended North Mississippi Allstars frontman Luther Dickinson as the perfect co-producer alongside Katznelson. Davidson headed down south to link up with the North Mississippi Allstars frontman to shape the seven songs that became Cordelia—a collection that takes a left-turn from the darkly shaded textures of Stranger and was sonically inspired by Davidson’s love for the raw blues records that storied label Fat Possum were releasing in the 1090s. “I’ve always been a fan...
LP $22.00
05/30/2025
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05/30/2025
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05/30/2025
***This is the first vinyl release of David Quinn's popular 2019 album Wanderin' Fool. These are story songs deeply rooted in traditional country instrumentation with a fresh authenticity connected to David’s midwestern upbringing.“Whether your question is where country music came from, or where it has gone, the answer is contained in this record.”—Saving Country Music
LP $25.50
04/25/2025
***Sweet reverberations of folk melodies circle the clear and timeless rock & roll rhythms layered through with echoes of country twang and deep blue storytelling. To the End is the lucid fever dream of someone bound to the city longing for a softer, sweeter, wide open sky.
LP $25.50
06/27/2025
***Released on Jim O'Rourke's Moikai imprint of Drag City, Mike's Box is a deep dive into the fifty-year career of anti-establishment performance artist Michael Smith. Its eight DVDs collect his performances, videos, installations, and collaborations, along with a 128-page book about his works, providing an even deep dive into his ideas.“In a manner befitting the everyday otherworld- liness of Michael Smith’s work, I was 13 when I first stumbled on his work through Public TV’s Image Union. His “Secret Horror” was a hilar- ious, deadpan and appropriately unflinching look into the abyss. This superimposition of states had a profound impact on my life and work, to this day. This boxset is the doorway into that world, Mike’s World, that will throw you for a loop, wild-eyed and helpless.”—Jim O’Rourke, 2025
8XDVD $65.95
05/30/2025
***CHECK STOCK!!! Received a 7.9 rating from Pitchfork. TARA JANE O’NEIL’s music is integrated and contextual, idiosyncratic and deeply psychedelic, akin to a lucid dream journal caught on magnetic tape. She appears to be interested in all sounds equally. In her tireless search for a music that mirrors and reflects her alchemical, deeply syncretic approach to sound, color, language, surface and texture, she has found herself in a somewhat singular category. Her concerns are free from fussing about form. Her albums posit some free space that owes more to improvisors and painters than singer-songwriters or new age synthesizer baths. She is still interested in songs, and she has always been a wordsmith, but her songs don't need to have words to signify. When words are utilized, she doesn't waste them. They are beautifully mystical outbursts of visionary poesis, but their narrative power is located within and informed by, the space, the harmonic color, the context in which they are sung. Choral voicings spread out across the stereo field like muted cloud formations split by sudden outbursts of vibrant color, verdant mosses on ancient stones, opal sized windows of clear blue set against a vast horizon. Pump organ drones swell and respirate, patient and slow, with softly resonant gongs from the roof of the world. This is music about healing, about listening, about surviving and transmuting the strange inheritance of language. Moving towards a direct perception of apparent reality through collaboration, breath, sound and song. TJO has always been a shapeshifter....
CD $16.00
01/28/2014
Tribunal returns with their sophomore album, In Pentinence And Ruin, an elegy most grievous and forlorn, descending deeper into the solemn abyss of woe. 2023’s debut The Weight Of Remembrance set a high bar for the Canadians becoming one of the year’s most notable and praised doom releases, leading Decibel Mag to include the band’s new album in their annual list of most anticipated releases. Tribunal took their time and crafted an opus of enormous scope to echo evermore through halls long abandoned.Having expanded into a fully fleshed out five piece band and live unit, In Penitence And Ruin has a wider lens of cohesion and maturity weaving together the widow’s wail of doleful strings, chilling keys and percussion that tolls like the iron bell of fate. These elements ornament the monolithic foundation of crushing dirge and funereal melodies hewn from the marrow of sorrow itself. The duality between the wistful, impassioned singing of vocalist / cellist Soren Morne and agonized growls from guitarist / vocalist Etinne Flinn bind with resolute tread and stride forth into darkness, traversing a path lit only by the pale glow of distant lament.Tribunal hath wrought a requiem most dire where beauty and ruin become one and in doing have forged a second album beyond expectations, progressive in its embrace of the penitent and eminently listenable as a scripture of loss. Like ivy upon the tombstone, In Penitence And Ruin winds slowly but inexorably towards spectral grandeur and eternal oblivion.
CD $12.00
04/18/2025
LP $22.00
04/18/2025
LP COLOR $24.00
04/18/2025
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04/18/2025
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04/18/2025
***Twisted cosmo acid punk from Cleveland, Ohio. Noah Depew laser beams his psycho destrukto synthesizer ooze and putrid electric guitar through the Helios Creed butthole. Janet Yellen plays machine-like humorless drum patterns conjuring deep robotic hypnosis. Steve Peffer hammers 3 bass strings like flies on shit and sings about stuff everyone can relate to: Whole Foods bathrooms, spying on neighbors, being stalked by physical therapists, belittled by psycho analysts, and the addictive allure of Glendale, California. It’s not RAMONES. It’s also not KRAUTROCK. Nothing really is. Are YOU a PEER PRESSURE ZOMBIE??? 100 copies. Screen printed jackets. Hand stamped labels. One swear word.
LP $21.95
04/04/2025
***Neutral is the no wave / anti-rock duo of Dan Johansson (Sewer Election, Ättestupa, Amateur Hour, etc.) and Sofie Herner (Leda, Enhet För Fri Musik), both with deep connections to the Swedish noise scene. As Neutral, the two smear voice, guitar, organ, and smoldering noise into narcoleptic songs that rewire the strategies of Dome by way of Gate and Mars. Lågliv translates to ‘lowlife,’ an apt metaphor for neutral’s subterranean murk and shambolic discontent that they languidly manifest as a punk dourness emptied of all rock ’n’ roll theatrics. Desperate, demolished, and dejected. Lågliv was originally published as part of the instantly out of print boxset, On Corrosion - a 10 cassette anthology from 2019 that was housed in a handcrafted wooden box and featuring full albums from Kleistwahr, Neutral, Pinkcourtesyphone, Alice Kemp, She Spread Sorrow, G*Park, Relay For Death, Francisco Meirino, Fossil Aerosol Mining Project, and Himukalt. The collection also stood as the 50th release for The Helen Scarsdale Agency.
LP $25.35
04/04/2025
MP3 $7.99
04/04/2025
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04/04/2025
Second VHF solo LP from the Pelt/Black Twigs mainstay, following 2022’s acclaimed “Evening Measures.” “April is Passing” builds on the striking solo Hardanger-style fiddle performances on the previous LP to take the music even further out, with deep drones and extended techniques defining a vocabulary that is Americana-adjacent, but a unique and special sound that Mike is pursuing almost alone. Joined on selected tracks by Cara Gangloff’s Sruti and Kaily Shenker’s sonorous Cello, the all-original, all-live performances are resonant with both overt melody and a cloud of thick string overtones, whether on the more upbeat tunes like “Ironto Dancer” or the epic 11+ minute LP closer “Helen’s Song.” “September Air” is a mournful slow build, the fiddle embroidering a minor-key melody over the drone of the Surti box and a low cello counter point. “A Fallen Palace of Snowville” is a solo performance where the additional sympathetic strings of the hardanger fiddle are strongly heard as a ghostly accompaniment, as Mike’s elegant melody switches back and forth from minor to major. “Helen’s Song” closes side 2 with a complex, ever-changing swirl of melodic and harmonic invention, with Mike’s keening, languorous bowing leading the way through multiple moods and sounds.
LP $20.25
02/21/2025
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02/21/2025
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02/21/2025
***"MEMORYLOOP is a transcendental and meditative band from Southern California that creates gorgeous Post-Rock and Shoegaze music. Their humble beginnings were deeply rooted in infectious emo/indie rock under their previous name Pedestrian but over the years they have shifted their sound into an otherworldly and hypnotizing dimension that is truly special. Being And Nothingness is a celebration of imaginative and beautiful rock music. Presented on a gorgeous marbled Blue/Black/Grey heavyweight vinyl. With a full color insert, a black dust sleeve and housed in a nice thick poly bag. The Vinyl version features an exclusive mix/master by Patrick Hills (Chrome Ghost, Chrch) that you will only be able to hear by purchasing the record. Highly recommended for fans of bands like Explosions In The Sky, Godspeed You Black Emperor & Sigur Ros."
LP $20.65
11/22/2024
***Back with a bang! The new single from Oakland's only rock n roll band. This comes hot on the heels of their triumphant return to Gonerfest. SO WHAT picks up right where they left off with their previous "Deep Freeze" single, another banger inspired by 70s Aussie Rock a la Bon Scott-era AC/DC and Coloured Balls. The lads even offered 'Hit The Bricks" to AC/DC, but they passed, saying, "No mates, it's simply too good. Everyone will know we didn't write it." Real rock n roll for real rock n roll people.
7" $12.00
12/06/2024
There is NO LIGHT at the end of this tunnel! BROWN ACID: The Nineteenth Trip fires ten more savage nails deep into the coffin of psychedelic idealism. These early local eruptions of heavy rock transform mind expanding ’60s love energy into toxic aggression right before your ears! The key element that makes this stuff so potent is that THEY, the bands, are in control, captured genuine with no compromise, right out of the gate. No doubt they had ambition, high hopes for the future and the moves to get up the ladder but if you take this stuff too ‘seriously’ you are utterly missing the point, it is beyond analysis, it is life itself! No amount of thinking will get you there quicker! SIDE ONE: DICK RABBIT “You Come On Like A Train” out of Bay City, Michigan in 1968 has cutting edge heavy fuzz sludge downer moves with killer invasive riff damage. Toxic to the max! Keeping it extra real, this band are three biological brothers, Gordon, Phil and Rich Thayer. Lyrics like “I can see things inside your brain” and “I can see things I can’t touch... give it to me!”... totally bypass romance, this is cut-to-the-chase girl grabber action with the cocky attitude only a young dude fresh on the hunt can get away with. To top it off the guitar break has full on echoey psychedelic Jimi moves. BLIZZARD “Be Myself” out of Oklahoma City 1974 makes the case for toughening up attitudes towards society, how...
CD $12.00
11/15/2024
LP $24.00
11/29/2024
Over two decades of toil have passed, the aeon of the end was declared, the parasitic wisdom gained, and the formula of undoing achieved. Mitochondrian awoke from a deep, dreamless slumber, and after eleven agonizing years, pried loose from the Cronian clutches to integrate the suffering once again. This singular death metal entity has prepared in cloistered meditation to ascend the peak and proselytize the harrowing word once more. Mitochondrian’s new album Vitriseptome, released almost fourteen years since the band’s last full-length Parasignosis, is an axe head the size of the known universe brought down with frightening force to sever the neck of all creation. Forged and fermented with the blood, sweat, and bile over a decade from conception to completion: this great work nearly took the life of all involved, leaving all to question the true meaning of death—enantiodromian obeisance to the Abraxan force under Saturn’s guise. This double album is overloaded and unbearable: pour in what little life you have remaining to be pulverized, conflagrated, calcified, fermented, and purified. Vitriseptome is eleven alchemical death metal works, split over seventeen tracks, to form a trilogy of three parts, in two phases, which elapses nearly ninety minutes in length.
2XCD $17.50
11/01/2024
2XLP $31.00
11/01/2024
MP3 $9.90
11/01/2024
FLAC $11.99
11/01/2024
***The absolute vile-force of Deathpunks DOLDREY is encroached in the group’s latest pièce de résistance Only Death Is Eternal, an EP featuring five tracks of cruel, glacial-piercing riffs akin to a rusty knife clutched deep into an infected stabwound. Only Death Is Eternal is a true manifestation of nefarious, show-no-mercy Death/Thrash Metal with the sensibilities of streetpunk, intricate but brilliantly arranged song structures further elevate the wicked and twisted DNA of Doldrey; Only Death Is Eternal is the sublime transition and a flawless emulsifier of the unadulterated lawless nature of Punk and the precision musicianship of traditional Metal.
MC $11.00
TBD
***Nearly 20 years after the release of their landmark collaboration Multiplication, and nearly 25 years since their first live partnership, Merzbow and John Wiese reunite for a deep immersion into chaotic, raging electronics. Recorded on stage at Koiwa Bush Bash, Tokyo, Japan, December 2023. Digipak CD presented by Helicopter and Troniks. Art and design by John Wiese.
CD $13.50
08/30/2024
MP3 $7.99
08/23/2024
FLAC $8.99
08/23/2024
Gabriele Gramaglia is back with his main solo output Cosmic Putrefaction for another chapter of his own tale under the banner Emerald Fires Atop The Farewell Mountains. Taking place right after Crepuscular Dirge For The Blessed Ones, this latest takes the listener to an even deeper and ineluctable journey. Now that the empyrean inhabitants have fallen down for good and all the debris of the physical worlds are scattered around, the main character of the tale has to walk his very last path, counting only on his very last strengths to face eternal solitude and death—a path exploring both the widest astral distances imaginable and the most twisted labyrinths of the inmost self. Musically speaking, the concept is depicted through an even broader palette of influences compared with its predecessor, ranging from the most hammering death metal riffs, to progressive veins and even shades of symphonic black metal, embraced through an almost omnipresent wide atmosphere and multilayered arrangements of distant guitars, cellos and synths. Giulio Galati (ex-Hideous Divinity, Nero di Marte) once again has teamed up with Gramaglia as a session drummer to complete his effort through an extremely powerful and dynamic performance behind the kit.
CD $13.00
10/18/2024
LP $22.00
10/18/2024
MP3 $7.99
10/04/2024
FLAC $8.99
10/04/2024
In The Perfect Discourse, Hermes Trismegistus and Asclepius discuss the imbuing of inanimate statues with the living power of a soul: “statues ensouled and conscious, filled with spirit and doing great deeds; statues that foreknow the future and predict it by lots, by prophecy, by dreams and by many other means; statues that make people ill and cure them, bringing them pain and pleasure as each deserves.” The frozen form of a statue still might contain a vibrancy, an energy directed by intention, which can elicit movement, both mental and physical, in those within its perceptual sphere. This very LP may well transmit a contradiction: a living moment from the past, a communique from isolation, that may yet reach others by oblique means. Theoxenia is a solo excursion for Dave Shuford, exploratory lifer and member of, among many others, No Neck Blues Band, Rhyton, and D. Charles Speer & the Helix. Two years on from its modest digital debut, (Adventures in) Stasis arrives in its physical form, a codex glinting at a specific recency that draws upon the promontory of an even earlier time. These pieces are built on repetitions: of behavior, brief phrases, reiterated modal forms, periodic routines of the household. In even static positions, dynamic cycles emerge. The heart surges forward in a moment of enthusiasm, with a slight rhythmic variant in the music being the gateway. The sources of these sounds align with those from the excellent Arghiledes LP (Thrill Jockey), a release also in thrall to...
LP $20.25
09/06/2024
MP3 $7.99
09/06/2024
FLAC $8.99
09/06/2024
***The third release in the highly acclaimed St. Albert’s Dream series once again brings you some of the rarest and most obscure underground psychedelic cuts from 1968-1972. This time 'round, the Alchemist has mixed a “phormula” to take you on a deep underground trip of fuzzed-out psychedelic intensity, by creating elixirs of chemical-based sounds to remedy your psychedelic needs. You’ll hear a morbid swirling organ and guitar-driven tale of love lost from Mississippi’s FLOWER POWER, heavy powerful drumming and guitar intensity from Missouri’s SOUND COMPANY—and an insane twelve minute+ fuzz and effect-laden acid freak out by THE OLIVERS from Indiana. The remaining six cuts are just as heavy, with as much fuzz, effects, psychedelic sounds and ‘acidity’ as you can handle. The nine cuts here have been remastered from micro-pressed 45’s, original unreleased master tapes, and one never-produced acetate. Includes a 12-page booklet with details, histories and rare pictures of the bands and the original 45’s. Limited vinyl pressing of 600 copies.
LP $23.95
08/16/2024
***A meditation from Ty Segall on love, played on his first love: the drums. Delving deep into the melodic and orchestral possibilities of a full array of percussion instruments, from the trap kit to timpani, vibraphone, xylophone, percussion and e-drums, Ty charts the waxing and waning of a love affair, to explore some of the most delicate space we know of—the private emotional location where only two can meet.
LP $28.50
08/30/2024
MC $13.25
08/30/2024
***BACK IN PRINT!!! Note new price. Sky Girl is a mysteriously unshakeable companion, a deeply melancholic and sentimental journey through folk-pop, new wave and art music micro presses that span 1961-1991. It's a DIY collection of different genres, from different countries across different decades, that are all bound by the same longing sentiment—deftly compiled by French collectors DJ SUNDAE and JULIEN DECHERY. From SCOTT SESKIND's adolescent musical road movie to KAREN MARKS' icy Oz-wave, the charming DIY storytelling of Italian-American go-getter JOE TOSSINI and the ethereal slow dance themes of Parisian artists NINI RAVIOLETTE and HUGO WERIS, Sky Girl resonates on a wide spectrum historically, geographically and stylistically. It unites in a singular, longing, almost intangible ambience. Other artists included are LINDA SMITH, BRUCE LANGHORNE, THE SERAPHIMS, SOME OF BEST FRIENDS ARE CANADIANS, THE RISING STORM, WARFIELD SPILLERS, JOYCE HEATH, ANGEL NORA GUTHRIE and ONCE.
2XLP $36.50
06/14/2024
***"LA synth-punk drippers Diode bubble to the surface with 2—the next level, off the rails sequel to their already unique, deeply wonky catalog of alienized post-punk. This well-seasoned troup of rockers comprise many great bands from the LA underground scene—including Advoids, Vaguess, and Seudo Youth. Diode is a supergroup of experimentally conscious and fiercely talented like-minded folks making warped, yet endlessly catchy, dystopian rock. With 2, Diode have fortified their DNA with layers of dense, radiating synthesizers, modulated guitars, freaky vocals, and tightly wound, speedy drums. Music to hack the freakin’ system to. After the release of their debut self-titled LP in 2020 and since playing a slew of stacked West Coast shows, Diode quickly gained local and online recognition from a widespread audience. After a few months of recent silence, the group has pulled an unlicensed weapon out of their Slash-sized tophat and shattered the silence with 2. This record is an untethered journey into a diverse landscape of synth-punk excellence. Songs like 'Diode' dive into jerky and aggressive progressions, while 'Card Dealer' and others are less jagged, and instead, are deeply infectious and prevailing heart-melters. The substantial 14 song record is captured on a decedent and triumphant mid-fi recording- the band now sounding more concrete and dialed than ever. This record is a wild, glitchy ride inside and out and has something for everyone- humans and droids alike. Diode should not be underestimated. They are rapidly mutating, becoming more powerful, and tearing through the frequencies of reality one...
LP $20.25
06/14/2024
***G Version III from Kyoto Japan arrives on Digital Sting via a correspondence going back a few years that grew out of mutual musical connections and a deep appreciation for the Jamaican sound system diaspora. G Version grew up with a love of Hip Hop, R&B, and Reggae and had a musical revelation at a Lake Biwako sound clash event as a teenager that was formative in spurring a deeper dive into Dancehall and soundsystem culture. After some time spent studying in the UK and returning to Japan, working at Jet Set records along with meeting heavyweight producer Element the beginnings of her future musical output began to take shape. Downtime during the pandemic provided the time to concentrate on production. G Version's sound has a retro futuristic feel, equal parts Dancehall history and esoteric dub leanings, particularly in tune with the more experimental branches of 80's-90's UK Dub and Steppers. Influences being stated G Versions sound is thoroughly distinct and imaginative, not content to conform to any obvious genre tropes. Also included in this release are two dubs of G Version tracks by Digital Sting mainstays Feel Free Hi Fi.
MC $11.25
05/03/2024
***NOW ON LIMITED METALLIC BLUE VINYL!! Witch Vomit’s two previous releases, Abhorrent Rapture and Buried Deep In A Bottomless Grave, solidified and elevated their position as one of current US death metal’s most potent and direct sources of expertly crafted cacophonous carnage. With a methodically relentless fervor and merciless aggression Witch Vomit have carved out a formidable reputation for barbarism with hooks so catchy they rend flesh from bone. On new album Funeral Sanctum, Witch Vomit expand the dark melodicism buried within the butchery of past releases, now sharpened into black obsidian and causticly fused with the band’s hallmark brutality. The DNA within tracks such as “Blood Of Abomination” and “Dominion Of A Darkened Realm” invoke not the upbeat harmonies one hears in typical melodic death metal, but something more akin to the demonic evil might of early Dissection, gleaming in frozen darkness. The gore-soaked USDM ferocity remains the rotted core of the band’s foundation. Witch Vomit’s dominant stretch of dynamic evolution within the scope of their concentrated stylistic framework has reached a new pinnacle with Funeral Sanctum. The album’s intense focus and ceaseless riff storm unleashes a wave of bloodfreezing gratification carved with permanence into the blackest depths.
CD $12.00
04/05/2024
LP $22.00
04/05/2024
LP COLOR $24.00
04/05/2024
MP3 $7.99
04/05/2024
FLAC $8.99
04/05/2024
***David Nance and the Mowed Sound, the first album by Nance to be released on Third Man Records, cuts deep. Memories sprout back, like the sounds of a great rock song blasting from the neighbor’s truck as it revs away into the night. There is a definite connection to the past, but the swinging guitar boogie and snarled blues you might expect from Nance and company sounds leaner and completely hypnotic. What remains are 10 tracks from a well-oiled group so rhythmically together that the songs on the album seem as connected as links in a chain.
LP $27.15
02/23/2024
***The follow-up/companion album to last month's 1901. Featuring contributions from GOAT and AL LOVER. Hailing from the vibrant musical enclave of Gothenburg, Sweden, MELODY FIELDS delve deeper into the realms of sonic experimentation, incorporating elements of electronic psychedelia and atmospheric soundscapes, as well as exploring themes of spirituality, faith, trust, and conviction. 1991 takes a different approach as a concept album that evolved from late-night jam sessions, experimental sounds, and danceable music. It presents four collaborations including contributions from fellow Swedish psychedelic compatriots GOAT and LA based DJ and musical artist Al Lover (Fuzz Club Records). These collaborations inject new life into the original composition ’Jesus’ from the previous album, 1901. The collaborations offer fresh perspectives and invigorating interpretations, breathing new energy into the music and allowing it to evolve further.
LP $21.95
11/24/2023
***Nehan is a Japanese free improvisation & avant-garde rock quintet formed in August 2022. Their performances are initiated by a 9hz brain wave emitted from a testee who has been brought into a deep meditative state via either hypnosis or acupuncture—a very relaxed but very alert state. nehan doesn’t begin until the testee has gotten into the state of “nothingness.” It is only then that the improvisation can begin. The role of improvisation has been key to all the musical projects of Masaki Batoh. In 2010, as Batoh was winding down the activity of his long-stand- ing “heavy chamber folk” group, Ghost, he became involved in the design of a machine to generate sonic data based on brain waves. An acupuncturist as well as a musician by trade, his interest was spurred by the rhythms of the body and the brain, and a desire to access the “pulses” of brain waves to initiate improvisations. Following the release of Brain Pulse Music, Batoh toured Japan and the US, making demonstrations of his process using a local volunteer and guest performers, when available. Today, nehan arrive at their performance space prepared with a Brain Pulse testee, bringing a wide array of instruments including gongs, timpani, tabla and other drums and percussion, Crumhorn, bagpipes, mellotron, oscillators and additional sound effects. Their performance is a transformative electro-acoustic display that passes through the prism of music styles, from east to west, from traditional folk and classical to rock, jazz, and avant electronic. For the personnel...
LP $34.65
01/26/2024
Picture it, New York in the late 70s...what if Bob Marley crossed paths with the Ramones at the CBGB counter and they decided to make a record together. Here is what could have been the result. Marley's voOne of the most deeply infectious albums of the last few years that burrows deeper every time you listen to it. To the point you won't be able to hear the originals the same way again. Dutch import on Green/Black splatter vinyl.
LP $22.00
10/13/2023
***Pathways is the new album by renowned electronic music artist Brendon Moeller. Known for his innovative fusion of deep techno, dub, and ambient sounds, Moeller once again pushes the boundaries of the genre. Brendon grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa. Throughout his childhood and teenage years, he learned piano and drums, finding particular inspiration in the music of artists such as Fela Kuti, My Bloody Valentine, De La Soul and Kraftwerk. However, it was not until 1993, when Brendon moved to New York City, that his own individual style began to develop. With NYC as his base, he has worked with several prominent labels and collaborated with artists like Mikey Dread, Speedy J, Mutabaruka and MATRiXXMAN. With dozens of EPs, singles and albums to his name, Brendon’s love for experimenting with sound has created an endless source of inspiration to continuously self-reflect and advance his music. Brendon is consistently striving to reinvent himself and skillfully influence the dub scene in the process.
MC $7.50
10/20/2023
Singularity. A quality that rarely reveals itself in the overloaded data and screen glow of the twenty-twenties. From deep in the heart of Texas - the trio known as Wet Dip are that jarring, lightning strike of sound like nothing before them. Sisters Sylvia and Erica Rodriguez grew up in the arid, isolated Panhandle region of Texas before making their way to Austin and forming Wet Dip with Daniel Doyle. After meeting Caufield Schnug and Lira Mondal of Sweeping Promises during their time in Austin, Wet Dip made plans to venture up to the Sweeps' new home studio in Lawrence, Kansas to record Smell Of Money, their debut album. These nine tracks scream something new. The stark honesty of Sylvia's lyrics and vocal delivery, alternating between English and Spanish, is something to behold. Underneath that, Wet Dip treat us to a no-wave ride into the future. No one else sounds like this. You'd even be hard pressed to notice the renditions of the Pixies "Silver" and Gloria Trevi's "Pelo Suelto" in the context of how Wet Dip operates. They reimagine the bland canvas of contemporary Austin into something new, exciting, and jarring. And that's the beauty of Wet Dip, because they do it seamlessly and with a belief in themselves that's not only something to be celebrated, but all their own.
LP $21.95
11/24/2023
MP3 $7.99
11/24/2023
FLAC $8.99
11/24/2023
***"Groundbreaking bands typically don't function as stars hanging in the night sky for all to gaze upon. Rare talent functions more accurately like tectonic plates, mutating their surroundings deep underground by bulldozing the pre existing turf. These kinds of musicians who regenerate and evolve our world by forging new creative languages that future artists will liberally borrow from and build upon. Richmond, Virginia may seem like a surprising location for seismic catalysts, but Hard Copy now joins an elite list of RVA bands moving sound in unexpected and earth shaking directions. Destruction! Invention! Rebirth! Once upon a time there was Honor Role who deconstructed midwest hardcore and carved out a path for what eventually would become mathrock. Combining empathy wrapped in anger, a following generation would use this template to birth post-hardcore and a 2nd wave emotional music. A bit later came Labradford who were atmospheric scientists creating pulsating soundscapes bathed in drone. Their music was so devastatingly unique that Kranky willed themselves into existence to release their debut for which this historic label was built upon and continues to lead the way in experimental music. I can't help but to include Hard Copy among this kind of revelatory innovation. They are subtle shapeshifters of synth driven post-punk. At their core, we find unorthodox art rock for which Talking Heads and Pere Ubu belong, but it is stretched taut like taffy into trance-inducing, long form motorik musings. Singular vocals act as a secondary percussion. Bass lines double as a metronome...
LP $21.95
10/27/2023
MP3 $7.99
10/20/2023
FLAC $8.99
10/20/2023
***With BCMC, Cooper Crain and Bill MacKay unite to create Foreign Smokes: provocalogues, equal parts east Africa, deep space, rock’s dreamy lyrical interior, soloed multi-track, remix, raga, new age fugue state, field recording, blues and beyond—gossamer-light avant-garde noir flowing into fire-and-icy jams, collecting bright shades and warm stretches of infinity drawn through the buzzy overdrive of this side of life’s strange and sunny days.
LP $24.25
10/06/2023
***NOW AVAILABLE ON NEW NEON VIOLET GLITTER VINYL!!! Fate In Seven Lessons is the new release by Cold Cave encompassing all of their past while moving deeper into the future. It’s their heaviest and most romantic yet with brooding and sexy synth driven neo-psychedelic goth and the epitome of dreary pop driven by synthesizers and poetry. Featuring the singles "Prayer From Nowhere", "Night Light", "Psalm 23" and "Promised Land", Fate is seven melancholy and emotional songs of love and longing. Mastered and cut for vinyl by Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering service. Pressed on cloudy clear neon and black splatter vinyl.
LP COLOR $31.95
06/02/2023
LP VIOLET $35.95
06/13/2025
Bristol cyber-brutalist Pleasure Model presents their 4th SILK set of blueprints for business techno technocracy: Multiplicative Gain. Recorded in the wake of a recent relocation to the eastern seaboard, the album leans deeper into the project’s cracked corporate ethos of stock synths, mechanized rhythm, and boardroom acid, buying low and selling high. BPMs trace the pulse of the markets, named for generative AI slogans not yet unveiled. Driving, delirious, devoid, decadent – it’s music as offshore shell account, housing subtexts and sleights of hand just out of reach, like fluctuating futures scrolling across a skyscraper in a city of dreams.
MC $9.75
07/07/2023
MP3 $7.99
07/07/2023
FLAC $9.90
07/07/2023
***As AL CISNEROS (SLEEP, OM) continues to move through the dub zone, a journey over a decade in length, his music and production continue to evolve and deepen. The sinew of the bass strings sets the pocket with ever-focused raw and relentless drive, while the rhythm section lays out an elaborate series of movements to roll in perfect accord with its multi-segmented melody. As melodies of the ancient world emerge prayerfully from the mist above the fray, all is right in all of the worlds that we can hope to know. On the “Akeldama” version, the mixing desk becomes its own instrument
7" $13.75
04/21/2023
***"On the Creekbeds On the Thrones is the second LP by XV, a limitless, fiery, deep-breath of a record. Where their 2019 debut had a startling, first-kiss energy, Creekbeds is reflective, momentous, poetic. Textures multiply, evoking both the endlessness of sky and the terror of a bottomless well. There’s a daring sort of faith in these songs, the way the three members trust in the resonance and persistence and joy built into each song and the way they trust in each other. This faith provides a tender, messy space for thoughts, feelings, outbursts, joys, and sadnesses. The observations made on this record—from petty irritations to existential crises—are articulated in a way that feels always like solidarity, never like whining. Paired with the tumbling snarl of the instruments, the songs project a kind of clumsy telepathy, a heartfelt exchange that is both confrontational and deeply welcoming."—Ethan Swan
LP $23.50
04/28/2023
***From the chaos and calm of the Australian bush, Grim Beazley’s Big World combines sounds and stories with deep evolutionary narratives. Meditative dreamscapes create an emotional connection with an environmental theme exploring house, trance, and meditation.
MC $6.00
03/10/2023
***One of the latest “true queer art punks” to emerge from the cracked pavement of Southern suburban sprawl, ATLAS SOUND is the solo moniker of DEERHUNTER frontman/provocateur BRADFORD COX. Here on his debut album, Cox/Sound moved out of dank nightclubs filled with eternal existential drone punk, and relaxed at home in his Grant Park, Atlanta bedroom. And this is, essentially, a bedroom album, a collage, mixing the garage rock and ambient electronic influences previously explored with Deerhunter in a new context, with newly explored recording techniques, mainly laptop based, learned with guidance from Kranky artist NUDGE’s BRIAN OOTE. The result is fourteen songs of melancholy and mania.
CD $16.00
02/19/2008
2XLP $30.00
02/16/2023
Adrian Borland and Graham Bailey might be better known as members of legendary post-punk group The Sound, but the two were childhood friends and had been playing together even earlier in The Outsiders, and continued their deep musical rapport as a duo, creating these intense and engaging songs as Second Layer at the same time as their higher profile band output. Combining their early recordings, including the 1979 Flesh As Property EP and 1980 State Of Emergency EP, Courts Or Wars takes its title from the first song that served as the pair’s introduction to listeners. Right from the beginning you are enveloped in what The Quietus described as, “a monochrome worldview morbidly obsessed with the dehumanizing effect of war, nuclear weapon annihilation, and the fracturing and negation of the self within an increasingly distorted and technologically mediated society.” Where The Sound fit snugly next to Echo And The Bunnymen, Second Layer had far more in common with the pulsing menace of Suicide. Borland’s familiar vocals and sense of melody hold a connection to his other songwriting, but within these songs he takes far more risks in his guitar work to suit the subject matter. What really drives everything is Bailey’s propulsive bedrock, formed by his homemade pre-drum machine rhythm generators, creating an innovative mechanical approach that somehow inserts a jittery neurotic touch that merges perfectly with his electronic layers driven by the wasp synth, various unique effects boxes or tape loops. Adding in Bailey’s own distinctive bass playing, the...
LP $22.00
01/20/2023
Goodbye, Asshole is the first studio album by San Francisco scuzz-wave merchants Fuckwolf—its a rat’s nest of deep grooves, lost ’70s rock riff intentions and art punk damage. These conundrums of time inform Goodbye, Asshole, but they are hardly romanticized in its music. The band, Eric Park (bass, vocals), Simon Phillips (drums) and Tomo Yasuda (guitar) sound blazing and scuzzy, a tight low-fi energy blasted onto tape at renowned Bay Area indie studios summarizing the last twenty years of San Francisco’s wild artistic soul – one that is now hard to find much evidence of in the city itself, but impossible to miss in the band’s sound. Fans of OSEES, Pink Fairies, late ’70s NYC, Emotional Rescue-era Stones, trashy post-punk dub and solvent-huffing rejoice!
LP $22.00
11/25/2022
LP COLOR $22.00
11/25/2022
MP3 $9.90
11/25/2022
FLAC $11.99
11/25/2022
Coming in hot for the final show of the crazy year of 2021 and with an impressive new line up, Howlin Rain hit Pappy & Harriet’s in Pioneertown California full of adrenalized confidence, deep grooves and their signature, expansive guitarmony-laden jams. Captured on multi-track, Live From Pioneertown is Howlin Rain’s highest fidelity live album since 2014’s Live Rain. This latest entry to the Under The Wheels live series showcases songs from The Dharma Wheel as well as two fan favorites from 2008’s Magnificent Fiend. Available in a vinyl one-time “handmade” edition of 500, all jackets screen-printed by Monolith Press and signed and numbered by Howlin Rain bandleader Ethan Miller, also available on CD and digital.
CD $12.00
11/25/2022
2XLP $27.00
11/11/2022
***Perpetual Doom proudly presents the new album from Earl Vallie: Ghost Approaches. Brandishing a new moniker and a reenergized spirit, Vallie teams up with producer and drummer Greg Saunier of Deerhoof to deliver a collection of boldly weird and defiantly life-affirming songs. Earl Vallie cordially invites you on a journey into the depths of the working-class artist, the neon-sludge pit where workaday drudgery mixes with outsized desires and jumbotron dreams. Ghost Approaches is a cry of resilience, what opener “Ready to Die” calls a “blood-curdled promise to set things right.” That song kicks off the record with a Springsteen-esque howl, with charging guitars and an echoing wail. It’s an appropriate sentiment for a record that begun with Vallie’s move from Joshua Tree to LA and the pandemic-borne worry that music might be behind him. But just like the burst of synths that lifts the dancefloor love affair of “Hollow Skies,” Ghost Approaches ascends with a new, bolder sound. Together with Saunier, whose drumming gives the album a gritty pulse, Vallie adds new heft to his desert-lean tunes until even the album’s darkest moments (“Reap the Seeds of Love”) exhibit a bioluminescent glow. But behind it all is Vallie’s unmistakable voice. Ghost Approaches features a remarkable range of musical contributions, from the chilling sax at the end of “My Babys Broomstick” to background vocals of Val Glenn on “Hollow Skies” and Heidi Alexander on the doo-wop inflected “Prom.” “My only goal,” Earl says, “is to uplift people with sounds and melodies...
LP $25.35
09/02/2022
Eisen-martin, Tongo
I Go To The Railroad Tracks And Follow Them To The Station Of My Enemies
Rocks In Your Head
"I came across Tongo saying something in passing in an interview with Mayor London Breed. It was so insightful, poetic and deeply felt I wanted to know who he was. I devoured the poetry books that were available and then set out to invite him to make a recording. I had no idea what the session would be like. We were strangers. He showed up, there was no small talk, and he went to the microphone. He then created a 22 minute poem, no notes in his hands, and I looked at the engineer, and our minds were blown. It was flawless, and it was meaningful, and it was channeled from some other place. I said, do you have anything else to say? And he began another piece that lasted another 22 minutes or so. And it was also flawless,and incredible. And so I looked at the engineer and I said, 'I think we have a record.' Now I’ve never seen a record cut in one sitting, I figured it was reserved for geniuses like Thelonious Monk or Robert Johnson or something. And so I realized Tongo is a genius too. The poetry is so loud and crisp and clear and fueled with energy. It has a connection back to Gil Scott Heron, The Last Poets, Langston Hughes but it is also not derivative in the least, but new and of it’s own time."—Sonny Smith, Rocks in your head records “Tongo’s words are bricks-with which he builds houses, breaks...
LP $22.00
06/17/2022
MP3 $9.90
06/17/2022
FLAC $11.99
06/17/2022
Companion offering to the recent LP, Aquarealm Mixtape interweaves an array of choice album tracks with a selection of discography deep cuts for a one-hour saga of shape-shifting aquatic bliss. Drawing on the classic X.Y.R. palette of Formanta Mini, Korg M1, FX, a loop station, and field recordings, the mix’s 16 songs slipstream seamlessly, despite being sourced from across a decade of work – testament to the constancy of its creator’s vision and the renewable vastness of his muse.
MC $9.75
06/03/2022
MP3 $7.99
07/01/2022
FLAC $8.99
07/01/2022
Moscow duo Forgiveness fuse tower block trip-hop with stargazer downtempo into a smeared Soviet Balearic haze, equal parts dust, dreams, and delirium. Collaborators Alexander Kalinin and Ilya Kasharokov share a history of deejaying, production, and party promotion in various guises (Michura, Ellipse) and vibes (lo-fi, breaks, beyond), but their debut was born from “bedroom jams” of MPC, synth, guitar, FX, and field recordings, seeking a smokier synergy. The album’s eight tracks float between quiet and cosmic, blissed and busted, a sleepwalker’s paradise of secret streets and low-hanging clouds. Loose but never lost, the songs sway, slip, and slouch through moonlit alleys of rhythm, echo, breeze, and melody, vivid vignettes for lone souls in the outer limits of the afterhours: “Judge nothing. Forgiveness is key.”
MC $9.75
04/15/2022
MP3 $7.92
04/15/2022
FLAC $8.99
04/15/2022
***Time Turns Everything is the first full-length LP from Mikayla McVey and her second studio collaboration with producer, arranger, multi-instrumentalist, & deep space explorer James Wallace aka SKYWAY MAN. The album is a staggering work of heartache & healing that takes a spiraling & personal pass at answering a very old question: where does love go when it dies? And furthermore… can love ever die? It looks at the heart, the lover, and the process through a range of musical kaleidoscopes, and ultimately delivers a meditation on the power of time to transform pure grief into melody, poetry, vibration, and medicine for the future. The sound and composition of Time Turns Everything was, in many ways, a result of the state of the world over the last 2 years - it was recorded in the “safety” of isolation booths, at several sessions in separate studios, and with a multitude of long-time friends & talented musicians that probably wouldn’t have been available had circumstances been different. Time Turns Everything was produced by James Wallace, engineered by Miles Lassi at Skyline Studios (Oakland, CA) & James Wallace at Huge Planet (Nashville, TN), mixed by Jake Davis at Seismic Sound (Nashville, TN), and mastered by JJ Golden at Golden Mastering (Ventura, CA). The album features performances by: Sam Doores (The Deslondes) on drums, Danny Vitali (Alex Bleeker, Kelly McFarling) on bass, Alan Parker (Spacebomb) on electric guitar, James Wallace on keyboards, guitars, & vibraphone, Mat Davidson (twain, Big Thief, Courtney Marie Andrews)...
LP $20.50
02/04/2022
***NOW AVAILABLE ON VINYL!!! Oakland CA-based apocalyptic black doom harbingers Abstracter re-emerge with their inhumanly crushing fourth full-length album Abominion, a ghastly forty-minute hellscape of lightless crush-depth deep inside the darkest abysses of the apocalypse. Extreme and devastating in every sense possible, the soul-crushing album sees the enigmatic American band elevate their long lasting apocalyptic concept to its scariest and most overwhelming extremes yet, coercing the harshest strains of black and doom metal with ravaging scarifications of noise and droning dark ambient into a bleak and suffocating sonic cataclysm of complete darkness and annihilation.
LP $24.95
02/04/2022
CD $13.75
10/01/2021
The folks at Castle Face dig a good trance. Hypnosis, mesmerization, and brain trickery are some of their favorite results of deep listening and it is a suggestive, ritualistic and dreamlike vibe that Bronze ooze like pheromones all over their excellent new record. Absolute Compliance is a truly hypnogogic group of tunes from Bronze on their best and weirdest behavior and it hits all Castle Face’s favorite things about them immediately and repeatedly: insistently strange synth voicings emanating from Miles Friction’s mad scientist’s lab worth of equipment, controlled by a homemade-looking oversized knob; Brian Hock’s throbbing, woolly, hall-of-mirror grooves; and above it all Rob Spector’s thousand yard croon, the vaguely familiar touchstone amongst these Lynchian, mutated surroundings—these are songs of dreams and nightmares, hidden rituals observed, futuristic coliseum entertainments displaced in time, sci-fi jams of an uncertain future. Bronze are one-of-a kind great and if unfamiliar, go find their other records (including their great live record for Castle Face) and get caught up. They are real-deal weirdo kings of San Francisco and their spell is not easily dissipated once cast.
LP $19.00
04/01/2022
CD $12.00
04/01/2022
MP3 $7.92
04/01/2022
FLAC $8.99
04/01/2022
***BACK IN STOCK ON LIMITED RED / BLACK / GRAY MERGE VINYL!!!A new level of barbaric mastery was achieved on 2019’s Buried Deep In A Bottomless Grave, Witch Vomit’s second full length from. It was now undeniable that the band was not merely another “OSDM” (stale terminology) band when they’d evolved a maximal and rarely achieved synthesis of European and American death metal styles into a flawless melange of horrific gore-soaked splendor. Though bands tend to simmer down as they evolve, Witch Vomit reverse this tendency, getting only more extreme with each release. This momentum continues on the band’s latest, Abhorrent Rapture. Like 2017’s Poisoned Blood, Abhorrent Rapture showcases the band in the more immediate and intense MLP format. Four tracks in roughly eighteen minutes of pure savagery but always with that eerie mood, creeping melodic sense and grisly intimidation essential to proper death metal. Though not a full length proper, Abhorrent Rapture will sate, temporarily, the cannibalistic appetite of the many clamoring for the next Witch Vomit burial mound to come.
LP $19.00
09/24/2021
CD $9.50
07/02/2021
LP COLOR $24.00
02/21/2025
MP3 $3.96
06/18/2021
FLAC $4.99
06/18/2021
***Between the late '80s and 2000, a fringe of the extreme heavy metal youth culture decided to secede from the contemporary scenes to express their deep disgust and hostility towards organized religions, democracies, human rights, the modern world, and humankind in general. Driven by hatred, misanthropy and Satanism, fueled by juvenile passion, and with very limited means, they produced myriads of home made Black Metal recordings which left no room whatsoever to tolerance, mercy, or any kind of positive energy. Some were spoiled brats in search for a reason to rebel, some were convicted murderers, arsonists, grave desecrators or rapists, others were merely incredibly talented artists with a sincere will to put their work in the service of a greater evil. Little consideration was given to sophisticated production, and given how much money was available in the scene, fancy options were not on the table anyway. Home-xeroxed duplicated tapes were spread hand-to-hand within local scenes, or worldwide, via snail mail, amongst a network of individuals all gathered around one idea : to remain an elite that stood alone against the modern world and prayed for its annihilation. A lot of them disappeared, a chosen few became legends—before falling into disgrace to represent the embarrassing circus that Black Metal mostly stands for a quarter of century later. 300 page hard bound book documenting over 370 bands and featuring 550 visual archives of black metal demo tapes.
BK $55.00
05/21/2021
A meetings of minds and cultures well-suited to the Alasdair Roberts’ syncretic fervor: responding to the invitation of Norwegian fiddler Hans Kjorstad, he found a group of musicians well-versed in folk, jazz and free-playing. Their diverse musics deeply inform this collection of Roberts’ originals and Scottish and Norwegian traditional song.
LP $24.50
07/23/2021
CD $13.75
07/23/2021
Portland duo Danielle Davis and Steven Whiteley aka Liila formed during a shared tenure at a Zen Buddhist monastery, bonding over mutual fascinations with deep listening and exploratory vibrational fields. Soundness Of Mind, their debut, was conceived on synthesizers, samplers, and laptops in “forgotten corners of the monastic grounds” as well with an array of acoustic instruments at their eclectic home studio, both before and during pandemic lockdown. Interlocking tiers of texture, echo, and fractal electronics coil and cascade in exquisite mosaics, equal parts voyaging ambient and “molecular dance.” They characterize the album as “an ode to myriad internal realms,” which manifests across the questing depths and hieroglyphic raptures of these unique hybrid-synthetic seances, as attuned to beauty as the beyond.
MC $9.75
06/25/2021
MP3 $5.99
06/25/2021
FLAC $6.99
06/25/2021
***Heavy “dosed” psychedelia where The Prophet takes you to the depths of the unknown Acid Land. Twelve tracks from some of the deepest underground acts in North America, from the years 1968-1972. Plenty of raw fuzz, swirling effects, deep lyrics, heavy beats, and cool hooks from these mostly unknown heroes of this long past era of musical creativity. Sourced from micro-pressed 45’s and unreleased master tapes, these songs have never been compiled on vinyl before. Hear wizardry from such acts as Osceola, Hindenburg Lyon, Ark, Merriday Park and others. The very detailed fantasy cover art evidently shows "The Prophet as he enters the mythical Valley Of The Stone Giants.” And why not? Created for and by lovers of the mega-heavy and the ultra obscure. Includes a booklet with bios and rare pictures of the bands. Limited vinyl pressing of 600 copies.
LP $24.95
03/26/2021
***Matt Sweeney and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy return with the follow-up to their Superwolf album from years back. The songs, then, go boldly into undreamed-of places, and go deep, as Matt and Bonny take all the musics they know to make songs that penetrate. In classic Garcia-Hunter style, Sweeney and the ‘Prince’ first work separately, finding a path to each other in their solitary imaginings. Bonnie lyric sets delivered to Matt spark Sweeney’s guitar brain; chords and a melody are shaped, recorded fast and loose and sent back to the Prince, then the two parties meet up to sing, stitch, strengthen and finally perform them together in front of a small unsuspecting audience. Then new sets of lyrics are sent, animated and played in a high wire style until the shared songs and experiences are ready to commit to record. This is just the beginning of their fusion process, as words imply vocalizations to counter and support, and guitar lines suggest harmonic fields to subtly push into. In this process, a new creature grows out of the old one. In this name of this partnership, the guitar shares an open and fluid space with the vocals, the voices sing with the guitars—every moment in the life of Superwolves is an extravaganza, guided only by its need.
LP $27.95
07/16/2021
CD $13.75
07/16/2021
MC $10.50
07/16/2021
With no touring in 2020, and possibly this year, Woods decided to take a deep dive into their archives and put together the first volume of their much discussed archival series, Reflections. Featuring rare and unreleased recordings from 2009 - 2013, including a ghost town desert jam off the side of the highway, their first live performance in Big Sur, the first recorded version of “Bend Beyond” and some shelved diamonds in the rough that were finished up during quarantine. Their hope is that it plays like a “lost record” from an extremely strange and fruitful period in Woods history.
LP $17.50
04/16/2021
MP3 $9.90
03/05/2021
FLAC $11.99
03/05/2021
With no touring in 2020, and possibly this year, Woods decided to take a deep dive into their archives and put together the first volume of their much discussed archival series, Reflections. Featuring rare and unreleased recordings from 2009 - 2013, including a ghost town desert jam off the side of the highway, their first live performance in Big Sur, the first recorded version of “Bend Beyond” and some shelved diamonds in the rough that were finished up during quarantine. Their hope is that it plays like a “lost record” from an extremely strange and fruitful period in Woods history.
LP $19.00
04/16/2021
***Swiss black metal void sculptors DSKNT are back with their immense sophomore LP "Vacuum γ-Noise Transition," a devouring nightmare of omnipotent sonic annihilation conceived at the most liminal edges of sanity. The reality-destroying album takes shape as a dark and multidimensional hallucination deep into reality's most cryptic and terrifying truths, a place where entropy and chaos assume near-corporeal and hyper-realist forms, becoming empirical laws and axioms of all manifestations therein, with the music serving as the abhorrent mathematical key that allows the listener to unlock this realm beyond and "see" the horrors that populate reality beyond the reach of the five senses and of the terrestrial dimension. Harrowingly evocative and devastating beyond comprehension, "Vacuum γ-Noise Transition" assumes its hideous form through a ravaging maze of managed guitar fractals, eviscerating compositional deconstructionism and an inhuman event horizon of decaying soundscapes and oppressive atmospheres that dismantle the listener piece by piece, forcing mind and soul apart to disintegrate in each other's reflection. Somewhat claiming the torch of absolute avant-garde violence and abhorrence from bands like Deathspell Omega and Portal, the devastating album is an all-encompassing and sensorially annihilating masterpiece that transitions this heritage of aural abominations into its most unavoidable future and inevitable conclusions, reshaping the DNA of surrealistic extreme metal as we know it and pulverizing all its known thresholds through a hideous out of body experience ritualized through total aural abandon.
LP $21.50
03/12/2021
CD $14.75
02/05/2021
***On their urgent new single, MIDNITE SNAXXX flex all the might that they’ve honed over the last decade-plus, charging more confidently than ever. Born outta deep frustration and recorded just as the planet entered lockdown, Snaxxx go fully hi-fi with this latest burst, laying down a pair of breathless punk bangers that perfectly soundtrack the swirl of madness and panic we collectively find ourselves grappling with. Expertly arranged and executed punk rock, shot straight from the heart. (STREET DATE - 1/08/2021).
7" $8.50
01/08/2021
The world has a way of tethering one down with its turmoil but there are keys to float free. It sometimes takes an equal and opposite reaction to snuff out the madness. Whether one’s destination is far out or deep within, a spark is needed to set these moves in motion. Thankfully, Gravité are here to help. Their heavy vision and sounds light the path and give weight to release.For Gravité’s self-titled debut album on Empty Cellar Records, synthesizer voyagers Matthew Riley and Aaron Diko have plugged in to get the vibratory field humming into infinite vision mode.These eight tracks—performed on a collection of classic and reissued analog equipment: Juno 60, Prodigy, Mono/Poly, Minimoog, SH-01A, MS20, Minilogue, Volcakeys, TR-08—are an introduction to a new creative collaboration.This is portal music for mortal metamorphosis, shaped and reshaped via endless improvisation and perhaps some psychedelics. So when the whirlwind world gets you blitzed out, it’s time to bliss out. Gravité will set you soaring.
LP $19.00
12/18/2020
CD $9.50
12/18/2020
MP3 $5.94
12/18/2020
FLAC $6.99
12/18/2020
“Shinichi Atobe’s fifth album for DDS, his first in two years. Deep and sublime, the classic Chain Reaction < > Chicago House vibe, but this time with a swarming Drexciyan undercurrent, somewhere between DJ Sprinkles, Dopplereffekt and The Other People Place, and yet still 100% Shinichi. It’s odd working with an artist without ongoing dialogue; no context or an exchange of ideas. It’s all conjecture. Here's another CD of material in the post from Shinichi, two years more or less since the last one. No words except for the track titles. Oh, a photo this time. ‘Yes’, positivity, hope. But the album starts with a dystopian vision; something like Dopplereffekt’s sound-chemistry experiments, a tense builder. Big optimistic chasms open up, the Piano House euphoria of the title track, beautiful sunset closer 'Ocean 1’. But there’s a noticeable change too. 'Lake 2’ is more fraught sci-fi, 'Lake 3’ a sort of percussive Chain Reaction monster, 'Loop 1’, on a Drexciyan tip. It’s all coated in that weird - some people say infuriating - toppy production, witnessed this time in a more tempered and different formation courtesy of an amazing Rashad Becker master, all precise but loosely swung arrangements. Everything slow to unfurl but, also, everything in exactly the right place.”—Boomkat
MP3 $8.99
07/17/2020
FLAC $9.90
07/17/2020
***Oakland black/death metal plague wielders Dearth finally debut with their long awaited and highly anticipated first full-length album "To Crown All Befoulment", a sonic reign of terror clawing deep into the most wretched, abominable, and hideous realms of human nature. Nihilistic beyond comprehension and sonically devastating, on the crushing debut LP Dearth explore incomprehensible thresholds of disgust and abjection through a sonic arsenal forged deep into in the most tormented circles of hell, unleashing a cataclysm of dark death metal horror that will leave the listener scarred and ravaged. Thorough an inescapable maze of oppressive death metal riffs and malefic atmospheres, the Oakland death-bringers have drawn influence from extreme metal titans like Dead Congregation, Deathspell Omega, Lucifyre, Demoncy, and Pseudogod to assemble a mortal weapon of mass extermination that symbolizes and glorifies the complete and implacable eradication of humanity in its every form and manifestation.
LP $21.25
07/10/2020
CD $14.75
12/10/2021
***FUTURE ISLANDS bassist WILLIAM CASHION collects postcards. Years in one of the country’s hardest-touring bands often find him rushing from destination to destination without time to take a deep breath, let alone be present in each locale’s sights and sounds. But bringing home postcards helps coalesce ephemeral moments into souvenirs he can return to and access again. In crafting his first solo record, Cashion experimented in the studio, driven by a potentially infinite riddle: “what is the sound of a song that has no beginning and no end?” Exploring music’s unique ability to distort our sense of the passage of time—or even take us outside it—Cashion welcomed elements of repetition and chance into his process. The sessions were also highly informed by meditation, a new regular practice Cashion introduced to his daily routine during this period. The resulting album builds upon the most intriguing results of months of exploratory writing sessions. Acclaimed UK designer CHRIS BIGG helped visualize the world of Postcard Music, and Cashion’s wife, visual artist ELENA JOHNSTON contributed a painting to the album's inner sleeve. Cashion and Johnston have previously worked together on a series of collaborative paintings and brightly colored, curved neon light sculptures. During downtime between projects, he retreats to the beaches of North Carolina near where Future Islands formed. The eleven songs here were recorded in sessions in the Outer Banks, the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and Cashion’s current hometown Baltimore.
LP $19.75
07/17/2020
***While much of Tuareg music has become more distorted, faster and bombastic as of late, Mdou Moctar's soundscapes are more traditionally sparse, polyrhythmic and deeply psychedelic, with lyrics sung in the style of Tuareg nomadic poets. His show on the Blue Stage at Third Man Records Cass Corridor was proof of how special all of this feels, especially in front of a Western audience, most of whom were seeing Mdou live for the first time. When Mdou took the stage with guitarist Ahmoudou Madassane and drummer Mahmoud Ahmed Jabra—only their faces exposed in their tunics and turbans—and began to play, there was a meditative intrigue that loomed heavy and thick in the room. Though hard to see clearly Mdou’s precise and rapid-fire fingerwork on his Fender, the audience was quickly and thoroughly transfixed by his left-handed virtuosity. By the end of the psychedelic-guitar-rock-groove-explosion that was their set, it was clear that this was a show that would be talked about for a very long time.
LP $17.00
06/19/2020
***Bill Callahan, fka Smog, is simultaneously a staple of strange American country, lo-fi, folk and independent music. His lyricism comes across as challenging and deeply autobiographical, equal parts “poetry leaning on true-to-life darkness” and “three chords and the truth.” So, it is fitting that Callahan’s live set would command the same sense of friendliness-with-difficulty that the recorded songs do. With brief, candid, and charming interludes between older and newer material, an outsider can hear that this performance was obviously a full-bodied (and multi-era) engagement, no space left for distraction.
LP $17.00
06/19/2020
***BACK IN STOCK!!! Circulating in the pits of the deepest underground for nearly seven years, Ramona, CA’s Voidceremony present their long awaited first full length album, Entropic Reflections Continuum: Dimensional Unravel. While earlier releases hinted at the band’s unique potential and frenzied imagination, on this it takes its most actualized form thus far, looking ahead to darker visions of indefinable cosmic obscurity. Furiously fragmented death metal rips though the reflective fabric of reality, sinking deep memory-hooks into the innermost cerebral chasms. Out of the technically warped twists and unpredictable turns emerge progressively skyward guitar leads and mercilessly precise percussion work. Concurrently, the fretless bass mastery on display permeates the entire framework with an otherworldly time-bending defiance. Voidceremony reach well beyond the confines of the typical to create a methodically accelerating chaos, an orchestral maelstrom of esoteric profundity. And while nowadays “technical death metal” has become synonymous with banal machine-like acrobatics for its own sake, Voidceremony instead maintain a principled continuum of arcane alchemy and increasing internal entropy.
LP $19.00
06/26/2020
CD $12.00
06/26/2020
MP3 $6.99
06/26/2020
FLAC $7.99
06/26/2020
***NOW ON LIMITED BONE INSIDE BLOOD RED W/ OLIVE GREEN, KELLY GREEN, CYAN SPLATTER VINYL!!! Circulating in the pits of the deepest underground for nearly seven years, Ramona, CA’s Voidceremony present their long awaited first full length album, Entropic Reflections Continuum: Dimensional Unravel. While earlier releases hinted at the band’s unique potential and frenzied imagination, on this it takes its most actualized form thus far, looking ahead to darker visions of indefinable cosmic obscurity. Furiously fragmented death metal rips though the reflective fabric of reality, sinking deep memory-hooks into the innermost cerebral chasms. Out of the technically warped twists and unpredictable turns emerge progressively skyward guitar leads and mercilessly precise percussion work. Concurrently, the fretless bass mastery on display permeates the entire framework with an otherworldly time-bending defiance. Voidceremony reach well beyond the confines of the typical to create a methodically accelerating chaos, an orchestral maelstrom of esoteric profundity. And while nowadays “technical death metal” has become synonymous with banal machine-like acrobatics for its own sake, Voidceremony instead maintain a principled continuum of arcane alchemy and increasing internal entropy.
LP $20.25
11/20/2020
***"'Sonny Vincent is a true punk pioneer, we all know that already. But did you know how deep this man's well of punk madness really goes?' Well, I guess it’s taken seven long years since we made that statement, but luckily, here we are with a full LP’s worth of those recordings we’d wondered about, providing a pivotal glimpse into one of NYC’s most shadowy figures of the underground. It’s almost incredulous that his rock’n roll lineage goes back this far, with his first recording made while home on leave from the Vietnam War, and yet he was still a part of the first wave of '70s Punk. If you remember the FURY 7” we released, along with THIS massive interview, it was apparent that there was more to dig up, and luckily our engineer was able to shine up these riveting primitive proto-punk monsters into reality. Distance were in a primordial heavy psych state on their earliest recording here from 1969, but the VOICE that you know so well is already in place, and cuts through the foggy throb like a knife’s edge. Distance was Sonny’s first active band, and were known to have opened for The Dogs & Suicide in 1973, as per the two incredible handmade flyers included on the back cover, and as the liner notes can attest, provided a real-life slice of shock-rock insanity.”
LP $17.75
02/21/2020
MP3 $9.90
02/21/2020
FLAC $11.99
02/21/2020
The Red Black Clan of Nox Formulae returns with their second sonic grimoire of Higher Black Magic, delving deeper into the Draconian Universe and the Shadow Current emanating from the hidden and relatively unexplored realms of the Qlipha of the Concealers, Satariel, Archon of which is the second face of Lucifer, the Mighty King Lucifuge Rofocale. Drakon Darshan Satan is based—music and lyric wise—on the grimoire At The Outskirts Of The Shadow Current: The Dark Initiation, in this lifetime by Daemon Gharrassielh, and all those Dark Traditions offered by the Red Dragon to humanity. This album is a musical outcome of actual experiences that took place both on the physical and spiritual planes during the time years 2015-2019. The Shadow Allies are here, welcome the Arrival of Noctifer.
LP $19.00
03/27/2020
CD $12.00
05/22/2020
MP3 $7.92
03/27/2020
FLAC $8.99
03/27/2020
Josh Mckay, one-man-band writer/producer known for a wide range of projects (most recently as bassplayer in Deerhunter), offers up the debut of a new incarnation, The Corsican, this month via a juicy Valentine’s 7” from Chunklet Industries. This irresistible little platter reveals a widescreen, almost bipolar range, in its bold pairing of sides. The Valentine’s A-side, “Fever Believer”, embodies a loose hi-energy collision of turn-of-the-70s rock splattered with copious redhot Moog freakouts and manic drumming. It’s all throbbing abandon and urgent emotion. The B-side, “Love at First Sight”, is a deeply reimagined cover of the first solo single by iconic Welsh pop innovator, Stuart Moxham, (fka Young Marble Giants), during his short-run incarnation as The Gist. It unfolds in a silky, subtle, slow-dance kind of way, smoldering as if in antidote to the howling swirl of the A-side. A complete Valentine’s package. A darkly sweet confection to counter the unromantic formalism of pop music today. Pressed on purple swirl vinyl with insert.
7" $6.75
03/13/2020
MP3 $1.98
02/07/2020
FLAC $2.49
02/07/2020
***Five years after Tangier Sessions, SIR RICHARD BISHOP, we presume, is back from his travels around the world. With Oneiric Formulary, he’s dug deeper into his bag of extra-musical gestures from the eternal and unknowable, along with a few sounds we might recognize, all transmuted for our mortal ears’ enjoyment. The last couple of Sir Richard Bishop releases on Drag City were genre exercises of sorts—The Freak of Araby explored the musical legacy of late Egyptian guitarist Omar Khorshid while Tangier Sessions explored the sound of an obscure 19th century guitar that Rick had acquired from a mysterious Swiss luthier. The title Oneiric Formulary, may sit contrarily on the tongue—but we may refer to it as representing “a collection of dream states”—which means we like it! With such a lofty goal in mind and at his fingertips, Sir Rick returns to the approach of his DC debut, Polytheistic Fragments—a different sound, a different instrument, for nearly every track, drawing from the music of all nations, including and especially that infamous republic with only one person on the census roll (initials SRB).
LP $21.50
07/24/2020
MC $10.50
07/24/2020
***Ultra clear w/ black smoke and red splatter version! New York’s Ruin Lust have spent the better part of the last decade spreading a drape of black violence across the dank basement corners of the deepest underground. Though temporarily dormant after their debut, the band returned with new music in 2019 with Sacrifice. Now in 2020 the third Ruin Lust atrocity, Choir Of Babel, marks the band’s 20 Buck Spin debut. Thoroughly uncompromising and bestial, Choir Of Babel squanders no time on subtlety, laying waste with barbaric ferocity via a ruthless attack crafted not to disappear in a blur of forgettable noise but devastate with jagged menace and complexity. Visions of blood, red bodies in mass graves, piles of broken skulls and decimated fields strewn with carrion pervades the war-like stench of death conducting this primal choir. Whether called death metal, black metal, war metal or something else, the suffocating savagery of Ruin Lust has no remorse for destruction left in its wake, only more cruelty.
LP $20.25
03/13/2020
New York’s Ruin Lust have spent the better part of the last decade spreading a drape of black violence across the dank basement corners of the deepest underground. Though temporarily dormant after their debut, the band returned with new music in 2019 with Sacrifice. Now in 2020 the third Ruin Lust atrocity, Choir Of Babel, marks the band’s 20 Buck Spin debut. Thoroughly uncompromising and bestial, Choir Of Babel squanders no time on subtlety, laying waste with barbaric ferocity via a ruthless attack crafted not to disappear in a blur of forgettable noise but devastate with jagged menace and complexity. Visions of blood, red bodies in mass graves, piles of broken skulls and decimated fields strewn with carrion pervades the war-like stench of death conducting this primal choir. Whether called death metal, black metal, war metal or something else, the suffocating savagery of Ruin Lust has no remorse for destruction left in its wake, only more cruelty.
LP $19.00
03/13/2020
CD $12.00
03/13/2020
MP3 $5.99
03/13/2020
FLAC $6.99
03/13/2020
The first physical media manifestation by Portland producer Dan Kirschner aka Well Being blurs the boundary between warehouse and wilderness, future and nature, free-flowing frameworks of deep house, relaxed acid, and dewdrop electronics: Pleasure Garden. From the sparkling windswept hang-glide of “Deep Sea Exploration” to the slinky forest path jack of “Moon Valley,” the EP encapsulates a spectrum of contemporary Cascadia eco-techno modes and moves: club cuts tricked with crickets, cloud bank pads above damp earth bass, rainforest rave rhythms filtered through studio skylights. Sequenced palindromically, side one is all originals, side two alternate mixes — including an elusive aerial “rebuild” by Pac Northwest peer Akasha System. Step off of the street; stray into the Garden. Mastered by Hunter Thompson.
MC $7.75
05/22/2020
MP3 $5.94
05/08/2020
FLAC $6.99
05/08/2020
Cult black metal band The Deathtrip have announced their new album Demon Solar Totem, their follow-up to 2014’s debut Deep Drone Master. Featuring the long-due return of Kvohst (Hexvessel, Grave Pleasures, ex-Dødheimsgard) on lyrics / vocals joining the cold, hypnotic riffs of Host (Thine), the primal drumming of Storm (ex-My Dying Bride, Blasphemer) and introducing the bass playing of Thomas Eriksen (Mork), The Deathtrip offer tickets to primeval possession and open portals to other dimensions. This album captures the spirit of ancient Darkthrone, Thorns and Beherit, imbued with old-English occultism and the chanting of sacred sound formulas—otherworld black metal eeriness for a deep dive into spectral realms.
LP $20.25
11/22/2019
CD $12.00
11/15/2019
MP3 $8.99
11/15/2019
FLAC $9.90
11/15/2019
Photonz is the alias of Marco Rodrigues a DJ, producer and driving force of Lisbon's underground scene. For little over a decade now, he's been crafting his own deeply personal style of Portuguese house and techno. As a DJ, Photonz grew a reputation for deep crates and intensely euphoric sets and in 2017, together with Violet (co-founder at his Radio Quantica) and Lisbon's own Rabbit Hole collective, he started the now infamous Mina parties - a monthly, sex-positive, queer and intersectional-feminist techno party aimed at using the dissociative potential of intense raving to create a temporary space of suspension away from patriarchal expectations. 'Nuit' is Photonz’s debut album and a simultaneous reference the Egyptian Goddess of the Stars or Night. Marco was really swept away by the concept of ‘freedom of form under the night sky’, the accepting embrace of Nuit. Ancestral, but also socially advanced and utopian; a deification of the night time. These ideas manifest themselves as eleven songs spread across two LPs that wax and wane like the moon. Photonz channels early techno, Drexciyan rhythms, balearic & atmospheric house; layering sounds, creating moments. All songs have been mastered by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. The vinyl comes housed in a royal blue and neon yellow jacket with duality/birth symbolism and trance-hieroglyphs designed by Eloise Leigh. Each copy includes a glow-in-the-dark sticker and a postcard with notes.
2XLP $22.25
10/18/2019
Wandering homebody Matthew De Gennaro has created a beautiful new opus titled What It Is ? The answer to the album's question: a moving set of deep and transcendental micro concertos, composed and performed almost entirely by the artist himself. De Gennaro summons sounds and styles from out-of-time frames of reference, a practice that separates him and his practice from most other known active performers. That said, a few active performers (friends) join him on What It Is ?, namely Scott Tuma and Stefan Neville, both adding new flavors to the pot.
MC $0.00
08/23/2019
MP3 $9.90
08/23/2019
FLAC $11.99
08/23/2019
Montreal's Phobocosm has returned from the abyss with another offering of oppressive and ambient death metal. The band's newest album, Bringer Of Drought, is an exploration into uncharted darkness. A deeper and more intense experience than its 2014 predecessor, Deprived, Bringer Of Drought features 35 minutes of soul-reaping, doom-infused death. Mixed and mastered by Colin Marston. Bringer Of Drought was unleashed May 13 on Dark Descent Records.
CD $12.00
08/02/2019
***For a decade, MAXINE FUNKE has cut an idiosyncratic path as a singer-songwriter, all the while avoiding the parochial retreads of that worn-out label. Funke's music is intimate and deeply intelligent, buoyed by a sense of effortlessness that belies a scrupulous attention to the smallest of details. Lace was originally released as a CD-R in 2008 on ALASTAIR GALBRAITH's Next Best Way label. Imagine the just-so arrangements of Josephine Foster and the knowing quotidian eye of Sibylle Baier meeting the realism of Funke's compatriots Turiiya or the acoustic textures of the Kiwi Animal and you're nearly there—but in that gap lies the undeniable pull of Funke's music. Short songs for nylon string guitar, violin, piano, incidental snippets of bird song and furniture creaks, brief instrumental interludes in the vein of Funke's regular collaborator Galbraith: this is the realest of deals. The metaphysic of "Second Hand Store" cuts to the uncompromised heart of this record, a rejection of the idea of ownership in favor of communal chance, the ragged comfort of things lived-in and passed on, a searching with no need to find, let alone possess.
LP $19.25
08/16/2019
***For a decade, MAXINE FUNKE has cut an idiosyncratic path as a singer-songwriter, all the while avoiding the parochial retreads of that worn-out label. Funke's music is intimate and deeply intelligent, buoyed by a sense of effortlessness that belies a scrupulous attention to the smallest of details. Felt appeared in 2012 in a vinyl edition of 100 on the Epic Sweep imprint. This album has an altogether more crepuscular feel, making slightly fuller use of the sonic palette—an increase in dissonance, errant drum rumbles, and nigh-ambient instrumental murmurings around which flow Funke's basically perfect songs. The brevity, yet fullness, of the tracks and Funke's unadorned if oblique arrangements lend a sense not of sketches but of fields of color, the sensation of late fall foliage glimpsed through the window of a quickly passing train.
LP $19.25
08/16/2019
It’s been fifteen years since Big Stick’s last proper record release. That’s an even longer period of time than some winged cicada bugs take to rise from the deep depths of earth and sing their noisy repertoire of songs. Their dynamic duo of John Gill and Yanna Trance are pleased to finally have a new album’s worth of material to share. This new release is simply titled LP. It’s a long playing collection of Big Stick selections cultivated over several years. This release is a joint effort between Big Stick’s new Drag Racing Underground record label and Forte Music Distribution. Gill and Trance performed most of the vocals and instrumentation on the album’s fifteen tracks. Some of their musician friends appear on select songs. Much of the recording was done at their own studio, using a vintage Otari MX-70 16-track analog tape machine. Big Stick are self-produced. Gill plays guitar and keyboard. Trance performs percussion, bass, and keyboards. Both of the duo write and compose. This new album includes a retrospective collage of photographs and images, along with photos of Gill’s and Trance’s artwork as well as liner notes describing curious facts and trivia related to the duo and the featured songs. Both formats include a special bonus Some Of The Best Of Big Stick EP CD with ten “classic” Big Stick tracks.
LP $19.00
08/16/2019
2XCD $16.00
07/26/2019
MP3 $9.90
07/05/2019
FLAC $11.99
07/05/2019
***Available again!!! The Darts (US) have exploded onto the scene with a fiercely classic sound that invests deeply in late ’60s garage, while incorporating tones of horror-punk and psych-rock. Live, they hurtle through their songs with the reckless abandon of a freight train about to run off the rails, while their calculated musicianship sets a seamless trajectory of grooving hooks and danceable boogie back beats. If Elvira and Wednesday Adams consumed the flesh of man, drank shots of snake venom, started a garage rock band, and played a sweet sixteen party for Rob Zombie’s daughter, it would probably sound exactly like The Darts. The band formed in early 2016, after vocalist / keyboardist Nicole Laurenne (The Love Me Nots, Motobunny, Zero Zero) and bassist Christina “Madcap” Nunez (The Love Me Nots, The Madcaps) decided, following the end of The Love Me Nots, to finally utilize the similarities in their creative ambitions to put together the all-girl band they had been talking about for years. Tapping some of their favorite players for the project, like drummer Rikki Styxx (The Two Tens, The Dollyrots, Thee Outta Sites), the band quickly wrote and self-released two debut EPs back-to-back. Soon after this, the singles “Running Through Your Lies” and“Revolution” found instant radio airplay. “Take What I Need” was selected by Sirius / XM’s Underground Garage channel as “The Coolest Song In The World,” while infamous horror author Stephen King personally tweeted about the band, professing his fandom to the world. Shortly thereafter,...
LP $16.00
06/21/2019
CD $13.00
05/31/2019
MP3 $9.90
05/24/2019
FLAC $11.99
05/24/2019
The Finklestein Universe expands! Upon releasing Finklestein last year, a theme album about a fictitious kingdom, Hamish Kilgour simultaneously put out Funklestein which saw two side-long tracks that delved deeper into Kilgour’s fairytale world. Now, the fairytale grows even more nuaced, as Ba Da Bing presents Franklestein—a series of radical remixes which use the Finklestein sessions as a starting point but, being “frank,” are new compositions. Each track is an orchestra in a teacup, sounding like the best Velvet Underground boots suffused with dance beats, allowing unexpected room for autoharp, vibraphone and glockenspiel.
LP $22.00
04/26/2019
MP3 $5.99
04/26/2019
FLAC $6.99
04/26/2019
***Formed in 1970, CARPE DIEM started out playing covers by the likes of East of Eden, King Crimson, Deep Purple, and Uriah Heep in clubs along the French Riviera. Original compositions made their way into the band's repertoire over the five years between their formation and the release of their debut album, En Regardent Passer Le Temps, in 1976. Little wonder then that the band sounds as magnificently tight, polished and mature on this classic debut, truly one of the gems of the French rock scene. The success of the album brought them dates with other major French bands like Magma and Ange, led to the recording of a second album, and then ultimately to the sort of nearly total obscurity which deserves to be undone with a reissue such as this one! “The album practically encompasses the diversity and inspiration of the French progressive rock underground. It is, easily, one of the finest albums to have emerged from that scene. At the risk of sounding like a raving fanboy, En Regardent Passer Le Temps is indeed a classic record for the ages.”—Greg Northrup, Progweed
LP $22.95
04/19/2019
***The seventh album from Chile's CHICOS DE NAZCA (members of LA HELL GANG, DELTA 21, MR. RAY and FOLLAKZOID) deepens into psych rock with anchors in those wonderful seventies and the great reminiscences of '90s lysergic ballads. Different soundscapes, lo-fi sludgy production and spacier songs that flow beautifully . Chicos deliver a warm sun-washed album that reflects several tours, long day jams and rock and roll living on their skin. Edition of 400 copies on black vinyl.
LP $17.75
03/01/2019
***BACK IN STOCK!!! "The fourth album by THE COWBOYS (from Bloomington, Indiana) is kinda like a modern Midwestern version of The Who Sell-Out or Something Else by The Kinks—a basic R&R band stretching its wings to embrace more varied musical elements and dig into deeper subject matter. The Cowboys grow up! And they grow in number too, with CHRIS KRAMER Kramer (NOBUNNY/SLUSHY) joining the brilliant MARK MCWHIRTER for a killer guitar team. Vocalist/songwriter KEITH HARMAN alters his whooping nasal-punk a bit, with a more naturalistic approach when it fits the mood. His songwriting skills are mighty. ZACKERY WORCEL (bass) and JORDAN TARANTINO (drums) provide a solid, relentless groove. There are 16 hooky gems in this new LP. To compare the Cowboys’ songs to Pete Townshend and Ray Davies was no casual thing up front. Check 'Doghouse Rag' for primo late-60s Kink-kwality pop. Then there’s the insanely hooky 'Some Things Never Change,' with its nod to early 70s Sparks. This song should be a smash hit RIGHT NOW! And dig 'Bodie, Don’t Jump' in all its bubblegum glory! The deceptively short 'Deuce' with its 70s-style pop exploding into VU-like noise, etc. It’s very cool to see a modern R&R band progress in the true sense of the word--to mature and seek new horizons. I’ve personally seen them when they opened the very first show by the reunited Gizmos in 2014, and then when they played with us again in Chicago 2017, to this new album. It’s an impressive climb. For anybody...
LP $21.95
03/01/2019
CD $9.75
03/01/2019
***Newly-minted LP from Philadelphia's long-tenured, unclassifiable STRAPPING FIELDHANDS. Recorded during the same session that produced the "Impossible To Say" single on Richie Records some years back, Alluvium Trinkets is the result of the Fieldhands being holed up deep underground on the south side of town for the cold months, stocked with resurrected instruments, archaic recording gear, affordably-priced beer, and BOB MALLOY's trademark sense of melody & arrangement. Released on the Fieldhands own Omphalos Records.
LP $23.50
12/28/2018
Photonz is the alias of Marco Rodrigues a DJ, producer and driving force of Lisbon's underground scene. For little over a decade now, he's been crafting his own deeply personal style of Portuguese house and techno for labels such as Créme Organization, 20:20 Vision, Don't Be Afraid, Skylax, Unknown To The Unknown and his own One Eyed Jacks. As a DJ, Photonz grew a reputation for deep crates and intensely euphoric sets and in 2017, together with Violet (co-founder at his Radio Quantica) and Lisbon's own Rabbit Hole collective, he started the now infamous Mina parties - a monthly, sex-positive, queer and intersectional-feminist techno party aimed at using the dissociative potential of intense raving to create a temporary space of suspension away from patriarchal expectations. Etheric Body Music is Photonz’s debut 6-track EP for Dark Entries and a simultaneous reference to hermeticism and EBM (Electronic Body Music). Marco loves that “aesthetic when 80s industrial and EBM bands split up and start to make trance in the early 90s and all the ritual magick pushes them to zen stuff and they do ecstasy.” There's this concept in theosophy and hermetic philosophy of the Etheric Body, which is an energy body superimposed and connected to the physical body, similar to the acupuncture idea of an energetic body. That idea manifests itself as six primal club cuts, which also channel early techno, Drexciyan rhythms, balearic & old school jack. Raw arpeggiated synth lines and bass blast jut against metallic stabs and highly percussive...
12" $12.00
11/23/2018
***NOW AVAILABLE ON CASSETTE!!! Do you have unexplained scars on your body, piercing eyes, an unquenchable thirst for intricately relentless hardcore punk music, deep compassion for the fate of mankind, a notion toward punishment by stoning or the capability to disrupt electrical appliances? If so, Feeding Frenzy will be your audio guide to unlocking the delicate depths of this confusing planet. Though you may have a keen sense of not belonging to the human race, it will help you to blend in and go unnoticed so you can quietly further your agenda. Enable yourself.
LP $17.75
10/05/2018
MC $7.75
05/17/2019
***BACK IN STOCK!!! FINALLY! After FIVE solid years of painstaking research and hard work, Rich Tupica's epic tome on the deep end of the BIG STAR story is ready. At 400 pages, stocked with a wealth of previously-unseen color photos, personal ephemera from the Bell family's archive, as well as everything Ardent Studios could jam in, breathtaking stuff! Starting with intense coverage of Bell's childhood bands and continuing deep into his post-Big Star solo work, this book delves into the details beyond the documentary, distilling countless hours of minutae into a riveting oral history of one of rock'n'roll's most beloved cult bands, and a trip through Memphis underground music history like no other. First edition of 500 copies. 400 pages. Paperback.
BK $42.75
09/07/2018
***PHAEDRUS is the monikor of Dutch DJ and producer JORIS KAMMA who currently resides in Seattle. Drawing from multiple techno and house influences in the early nineties, Joris developed his own unique aesthetic best described as deep and quirky sounds always combined with a strong groove. For this special Transfusions release, Joris has crafted 4 minimal yet powerful techno weapons that are sure to bend the minds and heighten the energy of the crowd in the way that only perfect techno can. Simply put, this is classic techno at it’s finest!
12" $15.00
09/07/2018
***First time on vinyl reissue (previously CD only) of MARK VAN HOEN's 1998 masterpiece presented on a deluxe 2xLP. Playing With Time perfectly showcases the lush and deep environments that can only arise from Van Hoen (LOCUST, SCALA, SEEFEEL). Melody Maker called it "A Mesh Of Loveliness". The Sunday Telegraph described it as "The perfect, spacey chill-out album", and The Sunday Times had this to say: "A sound that at it's best has a positively spiritual quality about it". Other accolades include Sleazenation—"At the cutting Edge" Computer Music "A melange of jerky, cut-up sounds, stretched out ambience... that owes more to Far-Eastern music than to Steve Reich". And lastly, HiFi World felt "The sound scape is so deep and diverse that it's accessible to anybody into laidback beats and soothing, beautiful noise". Contains a side long bonus track best described as a modal Eno-style classical ambient piece that was originally intended as a 'hidden' track at the end of the original 1999 CD release.
2XLP $27.95
07/20/2018
***MATT KARMIL's fourth album, Will, is released on the Norwegian Smalltown Supersound label—the home of Lindstrøm among others. Even more than before Matt has managed to combine his love of the graceful forward motion of minimal techno beats with the deeply granular textures and meditative chambers of reverb and delay. Mastered by the careful hand of RASHAD BECKER at the legendary Dubplates & Mastering plant, this driverless vehicle takes bumps and curves with ease, but passes through enough scuzzy neighborhoods to make the journey more memorable. Before you get to the long ambient closing track, "Maffé," Will contains its share of muted bangers like "Morals" and "Can’t Find It (The House Sound)." While these would vibrate well on the dancefloor, the experience for Matt is primarily a private domestic one. Recent years have seen a raft of new releases from Matt, remixing X-Press 2 for Skint, the albums idle 033 and ++++, as well as 12”s for Yumé Records, Idle Hands, Endless Flight and Studio Barnhus, received with great reviews in publications from The Wire to Resident Advisor and beyond.
LP $19.25
04/13/2018
***A teaser 7-inch to the upcoming debut album from Welsh multi-instrumentalist GWENIFER RAYMOND, who's been playing guitar since the age of eight. Includes the album track "Bleeding Finger Blues," backed with the non-LP B-side "Deep See Diver." Already buzzing via Uncut, Mojo and the like. Edition of 600 copies worldwide. (RECORD STORE DAY RELEASE - STREET DATE - 4/21/2018)
7" $7.25
04/21/2018
Following the release of SB The Moor's groundbreaking pop manifesto 'Toybox', he quickly released two digital only albums 'CYBR.pnk' and 'MNFST.dstnii' - both diving even deeper into an unprecedented era of digital experimentation for the artist. As with all of SB's output, these tracks obeyed no rules of genre. Any possible expectations were defied, combining a love for both masterful song crafting and off-the-cuff production. The home of the rich and dumpsters are raided in equal measure. Signor Benedick The Moor truly holds nothing back.
MP3 $9.90
04/27/2018
FLAC $11.99
04/27/2018
***BACK IN PRINT!!!! Received a 7.7 rating from Pitchfork. Two years deep and finally these beloved KC wingdings have blessed us with a debut album. WARM BODIES are quintessentially the Rush of late 2010s punk. Each member gets their due time to flex in almost every song and at their gigs you’ll get a headache if you try to figure out what they’re all doing. But damn it’s good. A real question mark band who can sure pen a tune. Electric.
LP $14.75
03/16/2018
MP3 $7.99
02/27/2018
FLAC $8.99
02/27/2018
***BACK IN STOCK!!! While Finland’s Ghastly may be a new name to many, those who delve deeply enough into the death metal underworld, as 20 Buck Spin often does, will recall the band’s debut album Carrion Of Time released a few years back on cult tastemaker label Me Saco Un Ojo (Morbus Chron, Undergang, Phrenelith). A few years have passed and the band now resurfaces with their masterfully executed second album Death Velour. While there’s no question this is a pure death metal album, it could hardly be confused with most of the current bands making the rounds. The nightmarish hallucinatory sound Ghastly invokes conjures the horror of rotting in incomprehensible obscurity, passing into oblivion guided by a many-colored specter of strange origin across the Styx. An air of psych-induced weirdness and shrieking dread permeates the decomposed palette throughout the album’s cryptic duration. Like discovering a forgotten relic of mysterious brilliance from the early Finnish death metal scene, this album is a phantasm of blinding light onto the foreboding darkness of this mortal coil.
LP $17.50
04/20/2018
CD $12.00
04/20/2018
MP3 $5.99
04/20/2018
FLAC $6.99
04/20/2018
***The triumphant reawakening of one of California's most obscure and best kept secrets. Thirty minutes of chaotic, vast and abyssal atmospheric black metal suspended between the boundless obsidian majesty of DarkSpace, the deep and cutting darkness of Ash Borer, and the grandiose progressive constructs of Weakling.
LP $16.35
02/02/2018
The second album by Istanbul’s clarinet virtuoso Cüneyt Sepetçi is an intense trip into modern Turkish wedding and party music. The foundations go deep into Turkey and the surrounding regions’ history, which each generation innovates and develops. These days, no wedding or circumcision party is complete without the sound of the micro-tonal keyboard. A new addition, these Turkish keyboardists can play between notes, and supply banging club rhythms in wide variety of time signatures. Sepetçi uses the bedrock of Volkan Sever’s synth insanity as a jumping off point for some truly crazy solos. His fluttering sheets of notes tie knots around the pulsating, fried synthesizer. For this recording session, Sepetçi brought in two drummers, Fatih Özden (tapan) and Samet Sertol (darabouka), to play along with the Turkish drum machine. A dense nest of rhythmic complexity is the result. And to further connect to this music’s rich past, the ancient double reed zurna of Ahmet Özden and Yaşar Uçar’s European violin weave ancient melodies and incredible solos throughout. These musicians are some of the best in Istanbul, and all of these songs are first takes, recorded live with very little planning. Sepetçi essentially leads the band through these complex arrangements as they play them. In Istanbul, one may see Sepetçi playing for change on Istiklal Caddesi, the famous Turkish walking street at the center of the city. Or one may see him on one of the TV stations, playing Anatolian songs in his inimitable style. He’s even begun touring...
LP $16.00
11/17/2017
MP3 $7.92
11/03/2017
FLAC $8.99
11/03/2017
***NICO VASCELLARI and NICOLO FORTUNI come out to play in the dark on their third and deadliest LP as NINOS DU BRASIL, taking their fascinations with ritual musics—from Brazilian Afro-Latin tribal rhythms to library music and freezing Scandinavian BM—deep into the festering undergrowth of their shared, exotic aesthetic. Where the cover of their first album for Hospital Productions, Novos Mistérios, depicted a naked man covered by a leopard pelt, MARVIN GAYE CHETWYND's oil painting of a screeching Chiroptera in flight on the Vida Eterna jacket makes a strong visual allegory for NDB's finer tuned spatial sensitivities inside, with their churning rhythms now embedded in fathoms of dread space and father shaded in layers of processed vocal chants, both punk, metal, and tribalistic. The big highlight is no doubt the closing cut, "Vagalumes Piralampos", where Arto Lindsay, the legendary founder of DNA, chimes in on a stygian, moonlit jag between the eyes of bossa nova, batacuda, and the sort of esoteric electronics also charted by Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement or Cienfuegos.
LP $28.75
10/06/2017
***BACK IN PRINT ON VINYL!!! Contrasts have always been deep and at the very heart of Amenra, who have been uttering prayers and holding masses for eighteen years. Tormented darkness has always coexisted alongside luminous beauty, and thunderous impacts instantly follow frail, delicate subtleties. Songs that engulf everyone in the world suddenly feel whispered inside a solitary womb. Mass VI is here, and more than any other album in the band’s past, it highlights those contrasts. The eerie quiet of the first couple minutes of “Children Of The Eye” announces the coming storm, and the nine explosive, cathartic minutes that follow hold all the striking disparate emotions one expects from the band. This album is an emotional rollercoaster until its very last second, when “Diaken” abruptly ends at its very climax. Every band member is stretched to their physical limits throughout: Colin H. Vaneeckhout (vocals) puts in the performance of a lifetime, but he is inextricably intertwined to the guitar-work of Mathieu J. Vandekerckhove; Lennart Bossu expresses unimaginable weight, both physical and spiritual, as well as weaving melodies of the utmost delicacy; the rhythm section of Levy Seynaeve and Bjorn J. Lebon rumbles like a consuming thunderstorm or retreat to the shadows with flowing spontaneity. No love without pain. No life without death. No light without darkness. That is the conflict at the heart of the album and at the heart of what it means to be human, and this music wrenches that ambivalence out. ...
LP $22.00
11/17/2017
CD $13.00
10/20/2017
MC $12.00
10/20/2017
MP3 $9.90
10/20/2017
FLAC $11.99
10/20/2017
***SALLY DIGE is a multidisciplinary artist known for her darkly poetic yet highly danceable electro-pop songs, DIY stylistic videos, design and visual art. Sally‘s deep and commanding voice, coupled with her analogue-visual-processes and overlapping artistic mediums has formed an identity that oscillates between the edges of aggression and fragility, old and new. Holding On was created during the time of intense inner turmoil. Despite being stretched to her emotional limits, Sally did not let the weight of her circumstances break her, instead channeling all of her pain and fears into the production of a series of incredibly powerful songs. Stunningly, Sally used only her voice and a single synth to create this album. Even with so little gear, the songs are anything but minimal. Each song has a minimum of 100 tracks and, for some songs, 100 tracks for just the drum section alone. Every audible sound has 20 other sounds swimming beneath it. These are songs written for dance floors but are sung about loneliness, death and the meaninglessness of existence. Sally‘s work tows the line between a blissful innocence and a heavy darkness. Think Gina X flavored post punk-disco rubbing against Twitch-era Ministry‘s lost Sade collab or Enya on LSD after a break up. Holding On is Sally‘s second album, following her debut Hard to Please, out on Avant! in Europe and DKA in North America, with two separate cover designs. LP comes in printed innersleeve with lyrics.
LP $17.75
09/15/2017
Stacian is Person L—Oakland resident, solo artist and academic Dania Luck. Beginning in the American Midwest, she has been an ongoing Bay Area concern since 2008, deeply involved in the minimal wave and underground electronic music scene. A dystopian vision of alienated humanity, broken communications and technoid mal-forms, this album is her most fully developed full length and a leap forward from 2012’s Songs For Cadets. Moving away from the primitive Cold Wave of previous work, it creates a bleak dystopia without relying on Ballardian cliché, though still invoking concrete prisons and urban disassociation—a throbbing, murky underworld that revels in imperfections; a submersive, digital swamp bleeding through the club.
LP $19.00
10/13/2017
MP3 $7.92
09/08/2017
FLAC $8.99
09/08/2017
Amir Abbey follows up Secret Pyramid’s previous album, Movements of Night, with Two Shadows Collide, an even deeper exploration of the sounds between consciousness and transcendence. Carefully built and fluidly performed, the record expands Abbey’s relationship with modern composition and abstract songcraft. Cosmic awe fuels exploratory immensity, basking in a dreamlike presence. These works move slowly, like shifting and morphing monoliths. Ligeti’s string works, combined with field recordings, inspire “Possession,” while the Badalamenti-esque “In Wind” pays cinematic homage to the Pacific Northwest. The singular ondes Martenot floats and glides through several tracks, including the hazy and beautiful title track. Each song’s main inspiration comes from the notion behind the album title, the intersection and attraction of forces and worlds, clashing of sounds, and the dualities within our lives. Such a meditative release built upon conflict is ironic, but therein lies the perfect way to listen.
LP $17.50
09/22/2017
MP3 $7.92
09/22/2017
FLAC $8.99
09/22/2017
For 2 decades, Mad-City madmen PACHINKO have been biding their time, collecting bad vibes and weirdness to unleash on unsuspecting audiences world-wide! Crowds who’ve been lulled into complacency will once again find themselves knee deep in the sweet sonic bile PACHINKO is spewing all over the clean floor. Not only is “State Your Grievances” their 1st record since 1999, JELLO BIAFRA calls it their best since their 1st Alternative Tentacles LP “Behind the Green Pachinko” from 1996! A frightening mix of the classic noise-rock sound (COWS, HALO OF FLIES), AC/DC, and the great years of BLACK FLAG, PACHINKO has returned, triumphant in their E85-guzzling hot rod of dirty chords, lyrical POV shenanigans, and lecherous musical muscle! 25 years after their feedback-drenched musical birth in Madison Wisconsin, PACHINKO’s new release “State Your Grievances” inflicts 11 grotesque screeds- er, songs- upon the world, including “Song Of The Infidels”, “My Husband Is A Corporate Lawyer”, the title track, and “Art Loverer”. Trust us, the songs are even more confusing and scuzzier than they sound on paper! These PACHINKO tunes, by the original members Brian Brech, Greg Norman, Matt Quigle, and Mike “Magma” Henry are guaranteed to wipe that smug smile off your face. They are once again churning out more of the great messed-up head shakers they paraded around way back when, careening into everything within striking distance. The critics have called Pachinko (amongst other flattering things) : “mean and unclean”, “a cross between a handgun, a remote control and a good 40-ounce”,...
MP3 $9.90
07/14/2017
FLAC $11.99
07/14/2017
***This is a compilation of the three Poems With Water releases. Monofonus did volume III Clear and Lies in June on cassette last year for a US tour. You've had to have gone pretty deep to own both Bard At Work and Get The Fucking Tories Out as they were on CDrs only available at live performances mostly in London. So as such some of these songs have been released by us on tape. This record combines great songs and also the more fucked parts of Ben's stuff. I love this release.
LP $17.75
07/28/2017
CD $11.00
07/28/2017
MP3 $9.90
07/28/2017
FLAC $11.99
07/28/2017
***Introducing In Mirrors From Vancouver, B.C. Their Debut LP "Escape From Berlin" was recorded in deep isolation on location at Nite Prison in Vancouver. Produced & mixed by Johnny Jewel, the album plays as a dizzying massive singular collage. Acutely focused on texture & the negative space between moments, composer & poet Jesse Taylor is the core member in a revolving cast of collaborators. For this LP, his partners in crime are Suzanne, Hiromi Inada (Japan), & Andrew Grosvenor on clarinet. As enigmatic & fleeting as reflections in a hall of mirrors, these themes are fractured & textural. Taylor ambitiously asks us to look beyond the mirror...through to the other side where we imagine Phillip Glass playing chess with William Burroughs while Klaus Schulze slaves over a droning synthesizer in the corner. Sonically, we hear vapor trails from Coltrane, Carpenter, & Amon Duul. This debut is a glance at one of the most varied artists on Italians Do It Better's roster. Johnny & Jesse have been collaborating behind the scenes since 2003. Distilled in a process strengthened by time from Portland to Montreal...Los Angeles to B.C. In Mirrors blurs the imaginary lines between genres opening with a sultry Stevie Nicks cover & closing with 14 minutes of expansive aural fusion. Perhaps Taylor's good friend, Joey Casio said it best..."Change the channel, this one is the mirror". On 180 Gram Blood Vinyl!
LP $25.95
06/30/2017
CD $6.00
06/09/2017
Mark McGuire reminds us why he is among the most beloved guitarists of our new age. McGuire returns to VDSQ with a beautiful album of fractal introspection, a succinct collection of deeply melodic and emotive themes. Ideas of Beginnings is a direct statement of modern guitar, running the gamut from brightly focused acoustic compositions to late night electric vapor trails. Ideas of Beginnings is another highlight from this iconic 21st Century guitarist.
MP3 $9.90
06/09/2017
FLAC $11.99
06/09/2017
Philippe Hallais aka Low Jack returns to Modern Love with a debut album under his own name, this time round unfurling a deeply seductive and opaque mixture of squashed dream pop and ambient shimmers, sounding something like Badalamenti/Lynch doing Shoegaze except a lot more weird and beautiful...It’s an album in the tradition of great records by Hype Williams, Leyland Kirby and, more recently, Yves Tumor; inhabiting a sonic world where not everything is quite what it seems. It offers familiarity and warmth one moment, dread and transformation the next, with an aesthetic that can basically be defined by that iconic image of the trophy cabinet in Twin Peaks, slowly zooming in on Laura Palmer’s framed face.Divided into four sides (and eleven tracks) acting as parts in a greek tragedy, the album delves into the dislocations of the mythology of sports and its achievement in mass entertainment; whereby the hero becomes a dispensable and mimetic body. It delves into this unusual portrayal of triviality and disaster, naivety and cynicism that make the real life and ordeals of the hero indistinguishable from their scripted form on TV. And so the narrative flows from the introspective ambient fizz of the opening Theme (Trophies) - sounding like the Cure’s All Cats are Grey as heard through the cracks, shrouded in several layers of auditory fog, through to the goosebump inducing Angela (Square), complete with punctuated snare/bassdrum crashes, to the Thriller-esque/Actress vibes on Fantasy (4U). Feel (Storm) is like Jóhann Jóhannsson’s brass masterpiece Virðulegu Forsetar...
MP3 $9.90
06/09/2017
FLAC $11.99
06/09/2017
Brand new single, from the Swedish band's new album coming out in July! For fans of BLACK SABBATH, CACTUS, GRAVEYARD, DEEP PURPLE.
7" $7.75
07/10/2015
Old Man's Will, as the name insinuates, brings back the instrumental feel of bands such as Deep Purple, Sir lord Baltimore, Cactus, Black Sabbath, mixed with soulful vocals from the Byske descent Benny. With the ambition to bring something new to the rock scene yet maintaining the elements of classic rock, Old Man's Will focuses on spreading their music through strong live performances. For fans of GRAVEYARD, LED ZEPPELIN, DEEP PURPLE, SIR LORD BALTIMORE, CACTUS, BLACK SABBATH.
LP $19.75
03/11/2014
CD $12.00
03/11/2014
***The second album from these hard-hitting Southern Californian's blasts past the more punk rock influence of their previous album and into a more post-rock domain. Eleven powerfully delivered songs charged with deep melodies, slower tempos and the strong conviction and intensity the band has always been known for.
CD $12.00
11/30/1999
MP3 $9.90
11/30/1999
FLAC $11.99
05/19/2017
***Based in Oslo, Norway, composer HELGE STEN has been crafting this music since the early '90s, a deeply atmospheric, grainy minimalism that slows time down and explores the very particles of sound itself. The DEATHPROD concept arose in 1991 when Sten realized his complex array of homemade electronics, samplers, sound processing and analogue effects—cumulatively known as the “Audio Virus”—could add a musical dimension above and beyond the merely technical. Almost obsolete samplers and playback devices distort and transform sounds into unrecognizable mutations of their former selves. The virus breeds layers of complex and overlapping sonic debris, creating a kind of cellular composition. Sten is a founder member of Norwegian improvising group SUPERSILENT and has produced records by Motorpsycho, Susanna, Jenny Hval, Arve Henriksen and others. In 1998, alongside Biosphere, he electronically transformed the music of Norway’s leading contemporary composer, Arne Nordheim. More recently he composed music for Harry Partch’s legendary invented instruments for the Cologne based Ensemble Musikfabrik. Now the core trilogy of Deathprod albums are released for the first time on vinyl. Cut to vinyl by Rashad Becker at Dubplates and Mastering in Berlin, they form Deathprod’s complete official canon.
LP $23.25
05/05/2017
***Based in Oslo, Norway, composer HELGE STEN has been crafting this music since the early '90s, a deeply atmospheric, grainy minimalism that slows time down and explores the very particles of sound itself. The DEATHPROD concept arose in 1991 when Sten realized his complex array of homemade electronics, samplers, sound processing and analogue effects—cumulatively known as the “Audio Virus”—could add a musical dimension above and beyond the merely technical. Almost obsolete samplers and playback devices distort and transform sounds into unrecognizable mutations of their former selves. The virus breeds layers of complex and overlapping sonic debris, creating a kind of cellular composition. Sten is a founder member of Norwegian improvising group SUPERSILENT and has produced records by Motorpsycho, Susanna, Jenny Hval, Arve Henriksen and others. In 1998, alongside Biosphere, he electronically transformed the music of Norway’s leading contemporary composer, Arne Nordheim. More recently he composed music for Harry Partch’s legendary invented instruments for the Cologne based Ensemble Musikfabrik. Now the core trilogy of Deathprod albums are released for the first time on vinyl. Cut to vinyl by Rashad Becker at Dubplates and Mastering in Berlin, they form Deathprod’s complete official canon.
LP $23.25
05/05/2017
***Based in Oslo, Norway, composer HELGE STEN has been crafting this music since the early '90s, a deeply atmospheric, grainy minimalism that slows time down and explores the very particles of sound itself. The DEATHPROD concept arose in 1991 when Sten realized his complex array of homemade electronics, samplers, sound processing and analogue effects—cumulatively known as the “Audio Virus”—could add a musical dimension above and beyond the merely technical. Almost obsolete samplers and playback devices distort and transform sounds into unrecognizable mutations of their former selves. The virus breeds layers of complex and overlapping sonic debris, creating a kind of cellular composition. Sten is a founder member of Norwegian improvising group SUPERSILENT and has produced records by Motorpsycho, Susanna, Jenny Hval, Arve Henriksen and others. In 1998, alongside Biosphere, he electronically transformed the music of Norway’s leading contemporary composer, Arne Nordheim. More recently he composed music for Harry Partch’s legendary invented instruments for the Cologne based Ensemble Musikfabrik. Now the core trilogy of Deathprod albums are released for the first time on vinyl. Cut to vinyl by Rashad Becker at Dubplates and Mastering in Berlin, they form Deathprod’s complete official canon.
LP $17.75
05/05/2017
***Unreleased underground Texas hard rock from 1975! First release anywhere, anytime! Heavy grooves with dense, layered guitars and Deep Purple / Black Sabbath style vocals from bassist T.J. SANDERS. HONEST JOHN was a band that meant business at a time when most bands were softening their sound for radio. Not these guys! Honest John did release an extremely rare 7" on the Baron label (BRN45006): slinky track 'Brighter Day' b/w the chunky and hard driving 'Face the Crowd;" but that was all that ever emerged from the sessions until now. It was in fact all the world knew of Honest John, aside from folks blown away by hearing them on tour in Texas playing frat parties, bars, military bases, and sleazy rock clubs in the early 1970s. Honest John's Sailor is a living, breathing tribute to OTTIS COLEMAN, who should have long ago been celebrated as a true Texas guitar great. Features Coleman's stellar guitar and engineered by future Mojave Audio honcho and key figure in 1970 rock in Houston, DUSTY WAKEMAN. Coleman and Wakeman both later joined Houston blues rockers BUZZ BONE, which featured Dan Mitchell and Tom Moore post-Moving Sidewalks. But it has always been the Honest John sessions that they longed to have released. We at Lion Productions are proud to present the album Honest John wanted to release, at long long last. A definitive statement of heaviness. Edition of 500 copies housed in gatefold jackets.
LP $22.75
04/07/2017
***An extremely limited edition 7-inch that originally served as a ticket for a show put on by the fine folks at Chunklet Magazine. Includes exclusive tracks from DEERHUNTER, THE CARBONAS, SELMANAIRES, and COATHANGERS.
7" $5.60
07/16/2007
MP3 $3.96
07/16/2007
FLAC $4.99
07/16/2007
***CHECK STOCK!!! Received a 7.9 rating from Pitchfork. TARA JANE O’NEIL’s music is integrated and contextual, idiosyncratic and deeply psychedelic, akin to a lucid dream journal caught on magnetic tape. She appears to be interested in all sounds equally. In her tireless search for a music that mirrors and reflects her alchemical, deeply syncretic approach to sound, color, language, surface and texture, she has found herself in a somewhat singular category. Her concerns are free from fussing about form. Her albums posit some free space that owes more to improvisors and painters than singer-songwriters or new age synthesizer baths. She is still interested in songs, and she has always been a wordsmith, but her songs don't need to have words to signify. When words are utilized, she doesn't waste them. They are beautifully mystical outbursts of visionary poesis, but their narrative power is located within and informed by, the space, the harmonic color, the context in which they are sung. Choral voicings spread out across the stereo field like muted cloud formations split by sudden outbursts of vibrant color, verdant mosses on ancient stones, opal sized windows of clear blue set against a vast horizon. Pump organ drones swell and respirate, patient and slow, with softly resonant gongs from the roof of the world. This is music about healing, about listening, about surviving and transmuting the strange inheritance of language. Moving towards a direct perception of apparent reality through collaboration, breath, sound and song. TJO has always been a shapeshifter....
LP $16.00
01/28/2014
CD $14.00
01/28/2014
*** On Land, Pumice lurches and spits through a series of dense, deep dirges built from chord organ, tape & occasionally voice, recorded to two-inch reel-to-reel by Stefan Neville. These blown-out meditations mark the first batch of songs made by Pumice in years, and find Neville alternately pushing the boundaries of his music further out while also peering further inside. Heavy & thick & transformative, Land marks a new chapter in the always-evolving world of Pumice.
MC $7.75
01/08/2001
MP3 $4.95
01/08/2001
FLAC $5.99
11/11/2014
***CHECK STOCK!!! Received an 8.1 rating from Pitchfork. Jacob Long’s newest recordings under the Earthen Sea moniker deepen his compelling synthesis of shadowy rhythms and opaque atmospherics, drawing on the most potent qualities of melancholic ambient and dub techno. An Act Of Love follows 2015’s Ink, released via Ital’s Lovers Rock imprint, and was inspired by internal tribulations and the experience of exploring an empty nocturnal metropolis.Careful waves of tones drift and decay; beats materialize and pulse across twilit landscapes; a noir mood reigns. Given Long’s background as bassist for revelatory tribalpunk trio MI AMI, this album showcases a musician in the midst of transcendent redefinition, crafting an immersive language of texture and motion.
LP $19.00
02/17/2017
CD $16.00
02/17/2017
Received a 7.5 rating from Pitchfork. With their third album What Graceless Dawn, Oakland’s Worm Ouroboros bring into existence their deepest and most moving work yet. On the follow-up to the band’s sophomore release, 2012’s Come The Thaw, bassist/vocalist Lorraine Rath (ex-The Gault / Amber Asylum), guitarist/vocalist Jessica Way (Barren Harvest), and drummer Aesop Dekker (Vhol, ex-Agalloch / Ludicra) take the band’s sound to a new level of sophistication through their amalgam of morose 4AD-esque doom, introspective death rock, dark ambient, and enchanting chamber goth. Replete with obsessive bass lines, ambient guitar layers and overtones, the alluring vocal inter-twinings between Rath and Way, and Dekker’s subtle yet procession-like percussion, this sonic vision of tragedy and despair brings the curtain down on the year with one of the most crippling and gut-wrenching releases in the realm.
CD $12.00
12/02/2016
2XLP $29.00
03/10/2017
MP3 $7.99
12/02/2016
FLAC $8.99
12/02/2016
Thor & Friends is the eponymous full length debut from the avant-chamber ensemble formed by polymath percussionist Thor Harris. It was recorded in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and produced by Jeremy Barnes and Heather Trost from A Hawk & A Hacksaw and Deerhoof’s John Dieterich. The three core members of the band are Peggy Ghorbani on marimba, Sarah “Goat” Gautier on marimba, vibraphone, xylophone, organ, voice, mellotron and piano, and Harris on sundry percussion and wind instruments including some of his own devising. They are joined Jeremy Barnes on accordion, drum, and mellotron; Heather Trost on violin, voice & marimba; John Dieterich on guitar, bass, castanets and special effects; and Raven on bone flute, and electronic sounds. The band was inaugurated after Harris toured for five years as the percussionist of iconic avant-rock ensemble Swans. As a vehicle for experimentation with American Minimalism with a rotating cast of Austin-based musicians, Harris draws on composers including Terry Riley and Steve Reich, but also such diverse influences as Brian Eno, Aphex Twin, Moondog and The Necks; the album centers around a polyrhythmic core of mallet-struck instruments—primarily marimba, xylophone and vibraphone. Circling these core motifs are shifting streams of everything from processed pedal steel and analog synthesizer to violin, viola, stand-up bass, clarinet, duduk and oboe. By rooting their art in both improvisation and the involvement of neighbors and friends in their process, Thor & Friends embody utopian optimism, making use of what and whom is around at any given moment to make music...
LP $16.00
10/07/2016
CD $9.25
10/07/2016
MP3 $7.99
10/07/2016
FLAC $8.99
10/07/2016
***NOW AVAILABLE ON CASSETTE!!! Los Angeles-based bonehead savants Zig Zags are no-nonsense ’80s style thrash with a magpie eye for deep-fried pop culture detritus. These guys give so few fucks while they are out ripping faces that it’s tough to say much about them that hasn’t been said before—they shred so that we may raise beers in non-ironic salute to their Voivod worship, to a world in which young heshers subscribe to Heavy Metal and practice early Slayer solos while watching daytime TV, to waking and baking as you watch the world burn. Running Out of Red is the soundtrack to getting high and driving around in your shitty car in your small town, occasionally getting laid…occasionally getting laid out at the local liquor store by an older dude. Gang vocals: check. 1-2 pit beat: on lock. Shredder solid state guitar heroics: ripping, and so should you, the bong is packed and I think there’s still pizza in the fridge. I can smell your pants from here, dude. (STREET DATE - 5/20/2016)
MC $7.75
05/20/2016
MC $7.75
05/20/2016
***A widescreen, cinematic vision for acoustic guitar composition from this classically trained Icelandic artist. From minimal tone poems to densely melodic ballads, VDSQ solo acoustic Volume 14 presents a deeply personal approach to modern guitar that takes us on a journey of unexpected beauty.
LP $18.75
05/27/2016
MP3 $7.92
05/02/2016
FLAC $9.90
05/02/2016
"Proscenium" is a subtle and remarkably controlled collection of atmospheres. The air of mystery, deliberate pacing, the deep tones and unidentified sounds of Recchion's 2006 album "Sweetly Doing Nothing" have been explored even further here. It's a logical development but the results are unexpected and strikingly original, sounding wholly unfamiliar and yet like no one's but Tom Recchion's. "Proscenium"'s six pieces mostly began life as music for filmmaker/puppeteer Janie Geiser's play "Invisible Glass," an adaptation of Poe's "William Wilson." The play's intricate beauty and the story's moody confusion have been perfectly mirrored and expanded on by Recchion who used that inspiration as a leaping off point for Proscenium's rich and surprising compositions. "It was an attempt to create a sound world for the viewer that started as they entered the theater and drenched them until they left in an ongoing series of atmospheres." Tom Recchion has been a sound and visual artist/composer/art director and graphic designer in California since the 1970s. He is the co-creator of the legendary Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS) and has collaborated with David Toop, Christian Marclay, Oren Ambarchi, Keiji Haino, and Max Eastley, among many others. Though Proscenium is only his sixth album as a solo artist, Recchion has had many recordings released by labels such as Birdman, Touch, PSF, RRR, Idea, Staubgold, and the Cortical Foundation. He has also written for The Wire magazine. Tom Recchion lives in California.
MP3 $9.90
07/24/2012
FLAC $11.99
07/24/2012
End of Mirrors is the new album from Oakland’s Alaric. Operating at height of their powers, the quartet delivers a claustrophobic, gloomy, epically grandiose work. Shane Baker’s lyrics are deeply personal and universal in scope. They reflect hard times in a fallen world at a time of monumental change in the lives of the band members. These are emotional and deeply physical journeys; inky, blackened stuff, but not without a glint of hope. It could be moonlight shining through a crack in the wall or maybe just a sickly glow visible out of the corner of one’s eye. Jason Willer pummels the drums, driving forward with power and finesse, and then dropping down into a roiling boil of tribal toms. Bassist Rick Jacobus’s woozy but solid lines carry the melody while filling out the sonic space with riding drone notes. “I am going for a ‘sheets of electric rain’ guitar sound,” says guitarist Russ Kent, a master of his craft. He creates scintillating, cascading moments of beauty that open into crushing and aggressive distortion. As with their previous efforts, the new LP was recorded and mixed by Skot Brown at his Kempton House studios. Brown’s contributions have been crucial to realizing the vision of the band, expanding on its creepy and complex soundscapes while giving the songs a chance to breathe and shine with exceptional clarity. The band also enlisted the sound artist and experimental electronic musician Thomas Dimuzio to contribute his unique atmospheric investigations to End of Mirrors. Dimuzio...
LP $16.00
05/06/2016
CD $13.00
05/06/2016
MP3 $8.99
05/06/2016
FLAC $9.90
05/06/2016
Killer “Algorithmic Body Music” from the canny cat behind that "For Promotional Use Only" 12" on Diagonal! Not Waving’s Ecstatic label grip a bendy-as-f**k live recording of (deep breath) “alternatively-tuned polyphonic multi-rhythmic live-mixed live-generated parameter based unrendered unsequenced spontaneous improvised electronic music” performed (?) by Novo Line at Berlin’s Sameheads club night in December, 2015. Using a software program on a 720kb floppy written in 1988, run on two x Atari ST PCs using only era-consistent hardware FM synthesis via MIDI, it’s nothing if not authentically retro, but also proves there’s latent, vital life in outmoded gear, provided you’re willing to look hard enough. Like his aforementioned For Promotional Use Only 12”, everything’s yoked to a mesmerisingly sluggish pace, which is perhaps necessary as the spiky, curdling, and discordant sequence of events carries so much repetitive - yet subtly morphing - information that it may be genuinely psychotomimetic at higher tempos. To be honest, we’re a bit baffled at mention of his current actions “reflecting research in the fringe fields of electrical theory with relation to pythagorean tuning systems”, but it should prompt some interesting wikipedia mooches later on. Ultimately, it sounds like something hypothesised by boffins at IPEM’s secret darkrooms circa ’88, and that cannot be a bad thing in any freak's estimations.
MP3 $5.99
03/18/2016
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03/18/2016
Psychic sisterhood and wistful wanderlust are the twin energies feeding lush ceremonial dream-pop duo Purple Pilgrims. Raised itinerantly in Hong Kong and on New Zealand’s South Island by Traveller parents with deep backgrounds in folk music (their great-grandfather was recorded by Alan Lomax), Valentine and Clementine Adams adapted by devising their own telepathic inner worlds. After the Christchurch earthquake of 2011 leveled their home they fled to the North Island, crashing with friends and sleeping in cars, eventually returning to China, where they began performing crouched sets of gauzy, angelic noise. Subsequent tours of Europe and America alongside Yek Koo, Gary War, and Ariel Pink helped hone their sprawling, choral haze into leaner, more mantric forms.To record Eternal Delight, their first full-length, they sequestered themselves in a family property in Tapu, on the western side of the Coromandel Peninsula of NZ, in a shed surrounded by native palms and birds. The isolation, stars, and river nightswimming evidently soaked into the music – all 10 tracks radiate spectral feeling and wide-eyed sensuality. From the processional-pop ritual of “Is You Real?” to the swooning ghost-choir of “Into Night (Brush My Hair, While I Cry)”, the album elegantly encapsulates Purple Pilgrims singular journey to date, adrift in moonlit guitar, whispered electricity, heavenly voice, and muted percussion. The songs float and flow and billow, echoing the spirit of the title’s origin, William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven & Hell: “Energy is Eternal Delight.” Mastered by Brian Pyle.
LP $13.00
03/11/2016
CD $12.00
02/26/2016
MP3 $9.90
02/26/2016
FLAC $11.99
02/26/2016
*** Last Good Tooth constructed their new album "And All Things On The Scales" from the ground up. They staked their plot deep out in the woods surrounding Hudson NY in the winter of 2014, dressed in misshapen, unnameable clothing, recently escaped from the Americana ghetto and looking for shelter. For construction materials they brought a small army of volunteers: string and horn sections, a haunting, clouded female voice (Morgan Eve Swain of Brown Bird), field recordings of a wintertime orgy and the Twin Towers falling on 9/11, and – importantly – an entire genre’s worth of complex (and beautiful) melody lines. Somehow the band itself, crambled together out of Penn Sultan (lead guitar, vocals), Alex Spoto (violin), Kevin Sullivan (electric bass), and Arthur Kapp (drums) managed to orchestrate the chaos – to build a house and then hide the nails – giving their music a ramshackle but composed feel which is structured without being overly reverent, and ambient without being lazy. "an incredible similarity to the great Lambchop, not only in the use of horns but especially when it comes to the crooning of guitarist Penn Sultan. Only with this band, they take the music into the darker corners of Americana." - PopMatters.com
CD $12.00
10/02/2015
MP3 $9.90
10/02/2015
FLAC $11.99
10/02/2015
Adrian Borland and Graham Bailey might be better known as members of legendary post-punk group The Sound, but the two were childhood friends and had been playing together even earlier in The Outsiders, and continued their deep musical rapport as a duo, creating these intense and engaging songs as Second Layer at the same time as their higher profile band output. Following the release of Courts Or Wars, combining their early material, 1972 is proud to reissue their only full length album, World Of Rubber. Fueled by experimentation in both song construction and recording techniques, the duo leave you enveloped in what The Quietus described as “a monochrome worldview morbidly obsessed with the dehumanizing effect of war, nuclear weapon annihilation, and the fracturing and negation of the self within an increasingly distorted and technologically mediated society.” Indeed, the goal had been to make each album a concept album, with this to be titled: Second Layer’s World Of Rubber. Alas, this was to be the first and last of those efforts. New detailed liner notes from Graham Bailey shed considerable light on the creation of this cold classic and its immediate aftermath. Bailey’s inventive construction and deconstruction of various electronics, effects boxes and tape loops form the propulsive base for these songs. Borland’s guitar playing is jagged and unleashed. Above it all is an undeniable sense of melody and Borland’s distinctive vocals. Soon, they would wonder where Second Layer ended and The Sound began, but World Of Rubber would stand as...
LP $22.00
10/27/2023
Diabolical in its minimalist approach, the new album from Tokyo-based duo Legion of Andromeda wormed its way deep into the brains behind Crucial Blast, unleashing a grinding nightmare of violent, industrial doomdeath. First released on vinyl by Unholy Anarchy (North America) and At War With False Noise (Europe), Iron Scorn is now reissued on CD to further the blast radius of this immense debut album. Iron Scorn has a strange effect upon certain listeners; as “Transuranic Ejaculation” bellows across the first moments of the album, the band’s primitive, bone-crushing riffage and minimal, mechanical tempo seem overly simplistic, even monotonous. Each song centers around little more than a pair of interchanging riffs circling endlessly over a mid-paced drumbeat that rarely deviates from a simple combination of metronomic crash cymbal and rumbling double bass. Keep listening, though, and Legion of Andromeda’s seemingly atavistic heaviness reveals a perversely hypnotic quality, the brutal repetition and savage, cyclical flow of these seven tracks turning into surprisingly infectious blasts of ravenous, concussive doomdeath. And it’s topped off with repulsively bestial vocals that frequently devolve into psychotic gibberish or rabid, snarling vocalizations, all of which lend an unhinged vibe to this rigid, skull-flattened dronedeath assault. Legion of Andromeda have hacked out a uniquely vicious sound, and share as much disgusting DNA with the grinding industrial metal of bands like Dead World, Skin Chamber and Streetcleaner-era Godflesh as they do with the putrescent doomdeath of Autopsy, Cianide and Asphyx, brilliantly fusing the devastating downtuned chug of...
CD $12.00
09/11/2015
***CHECK STOCK!!! Received a 7.5 rating from Pitchfork. The debut album from THE SILENCE (former GHOST members MASAKI BATHOH and OKANO) is at last available! Drawing deep into a collective musical soul that extends many eras into the past, the songs of The Silence fill the air with the richness of powerful rock and roll and the deep mystic resonance of the ancient traditional musics of the world. From the rich melodies of Silence originals, “Lemon Iro No Cannibis” and “Jewels In Tibet,” to their flute-and-power chord-laden version of “Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair,” to the flowing liquid psychdelia of “Triptycon,” the guttural cabaret mutterings of Can’s “Tango Whiskeyman” and the frantic, explosive dimensions of “Pesach,” The Silence runs through instrumental colors like passing thoughts in the mind, making each one of them music and making an incredible rock album for this century. (STREET DATE - 3/24/2015)
LP $23.75
03/24/2015
CD $9.65
03/24/2015
The CV on Aye Aye, the long-rumored self-titled debut by Philadelphia’s premier desert blues marsupials, runs deep through the beer-strewn underbelly of Philly rock. The Gibbons Bros’ unmistakable slow-motion, big-chord fuzz will be familiar to anyone who’s taken a plunge into the Bardo Pond soundpool over the last few decades, though a cultivated ear will note more grits and butts and less pedalboard worship here. Ben Leapheart retains his very official title of greatest drummer in Philadelphia—have you shmoes not heard Purling Hiss or Watery Love?—with his innate understanding that the drums lead, not merely keep time. And then there’s the high lonesome harp of Harmonica Dan Balcer, a record hound of profound depth. He’s been the public face of Boogie Witch, blown his harp on records by Jack Rose and Birds of Maya, blasted noise with the Megajam Booze Band, patiently schooled dingdongs from behind the counter at the Philadelphia Record Exchange, and devoted unhealthy decades to an insatiable thirst for true rock spirit. Yeah, yeah, cool, but what does it sound like? OK bub, how about terrestrial crunching rock drifting over a great expanse? Aye Aye is limited to 300 copies on vinyl and includes a complimentary digital download with purchase.
LP $17.50
03/17/2015
MP3 $5.94
03/17/2015
FLAC $6.99
03/17/2015
Tredici Bacci / Enpse
Vai! Vai! Vai! (Musica Dal Filmato Originale) / Concetti
Monofonus Press / Astral Spirits
Astral Spirits is incredibly proud to present the second release from Tredici Bacci following their incredible debut “The Thirteen Kisses” on NNA Tapes in April 2014. Here we find Tredici Bacci’s leader Simon Hanes and his 14 piece ensemble delving deeper into incredible homages to the late 60’s and 70’s Italian soundtrack zone with his own film score to “Vai! Vai! Vai!” (a fake film that will probably never exist) as well as a new sister group ENPSE (Ensemble for the Exploration of New Perspectives in Collective Sound Exploration) which explores the group improv sounds similar to Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza on their side of the tape, “Concetti.”On Vai! Vai! Vai!, we find Simon with the same 14 piece ensemble deeper into a more nuanced and evocative sound world. The pieces flow together more cohesively and suggest an actual story-arc. Sure there are the theme songs like opening track “Papa Schizzare” and 70’s surf influenced “Sesso in Futuro” but on tracks like “L’amore e la tragedia sul treno” and “Coda” Tredici Bacci hit on more subtle notes. “Coda” in particular is one of the more beautiful and evocative interludes of film music that I’ve heard since the days of Henry Mancini, Michel Legrand or Georges Delerue.On Concetti we are confronted with a very different beast from the opening scream. ENPSE is a brilliant homage to Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, from more direct references like “con un colpo discotecha” but also streches some of Gruppo’s original ideas into new...
MP3 $5.99
02/10/2015
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02/10/2015
Trin Tran: The one-man band without a plan, hurtling through the songiverse without a map or compass. For years now, Trin Tran has been creeping out from deep space (America’s Midwest) and bouncing songs off satellites. These transmissions are a testament to his lovely weirdness. This new EP is an injection of strange-pop—less garage than his recent full-length on Ty Segall’s imprint God? Records and more the bastard child of Duran Duran and Bruce Haack. Riskier vocal delivery, heavier synths. Stronger, swifter, silver-er. Mute Records would have licked their glossy lips over this meal in the early ’80s. Recorded by Eric Landmark of San Francisco scrap-synth alums Numbers and Ricky Reimer of Madison, WI, angularities Transformer Lootbag, mixed and mastered by John Dietrich of Deerhoof, Far Reaches truly harkens from the 6th Dimension. It’s a new era for the mask and its one-man armada.
CD $12.00
03/04/2014
12" $19.00
03/04/2014
MP3 $5.94
03/04/2014
FLAC $6.99
03/04/2014
***From the sun-bleached groves and terminal beaches of the Southland comes ERNEST GIBSON’s (NET SHAKER) debut LP—a weathered, mysteriously adorned block of sonic timber, soaked in watery reverb and awash in sinewy skeins of damaged tape. Island Records ventures ever deeper into dense primeval territory, only roughly intimated on his prior releases and further still from the scorched-earth urbanism of his group Net Shaker’s recent long-player. Trading those sputters of failing machinery and abstract paranoia for more hypnotic twilight vibrations, Gibson coaxes his own strain of mutant exotica from this suite of thirteen serpentine compositions. Trailing a procession of shadows across the dunes, Gibson moves at an oneiric pace worthy of Maya Deren—easing repeatedly at an enigmatic and sinister motif, whose full appearance never quite manifests beyond the glassy confines of the unconscious. Circular bass lines and loping rhythms crisscross the landscapes of these songs leaving wet footprints, while the album progresses with the indeterminate persistance of a febrile, paranormal pursuit. Occasional squalls of tremulous guitar burst forth, Poison Ivy-like, as on anti-anthemic opener “When You Get There,” while on tracks like “All Of Us Together,” incantatory verses hover just below an intelligible frequency—untold rites, issuing from an elusive cavern’s hidden entrance. For Gibson, each record acts as a field report from some newly imagined country—shorthand notes describing local rituals, glimpsed through the wary eyes of an itinerant stranger. Broadcast from this Delphic perspective, Island Records is a series of barely overheard conversations and half-remembered discoveries, staggering along the creeping...
LP $13.50
11/26/2013
***Portland, Oregon is the city with enough weird bands to fill its bridges and Portland has many bridges. MILLION BRAZILIANS sound like a corps not of this hemisphere, but one influenced by its discoveries via travel and/or scouring the deep web. Separated into nine untitled compositions, Wet Dry Jungala clings with a humidity mostly foreign to the North Americas. It’s not to be mistaken for the escapist brand of tropicalia—the sort that inspires relaxation and cabana service—but rather the hysteria of eight days in the desert, the spiritual exhaustion of following a shaman into a sweat lodge, and the endurance of trudging through a rainforest bog, swatting off mosquitos. Save for the ominous western Americana of “Untitled VI,” Million Brazilians transfix to the percussive drone of Eastern worship hymns, and an experimental flair for complicating their world music into claustrophobic depths of psychedelia.“Untitled V” mimics the bass groan of bullfrogs against rough transmissions of spoken word. Terrifying shrieks and yips like those of post-punk heroines past are pitted against free jazz skronk and tribal trance on “Untitled IV.” Once referred to as “dungeon jazz”, Million Brazilians’ Wet Dry Jungala denies pigeonholing with each untitled passage.
LP $14.00
11/12/2013
MP3 $8.91
11/12/2013
Painting a hypnotic swirl of lush vocals over down-tuned riffs and steady rhythms, Hollow Sunshine’s debut album brings together deep tuning with melodic undertones and a garage recording for a unique mix of warmly familiar elements. The balance of blown-out sludge, narcotic drone and pop sensibilities is an unlikely combination, yet the contrast between heaviness and catchiness, with mesmerizing vocals providing a calm and consistent drift throughout, sets the band well apart from contemporaries. Held Above is Hollow Sunshine’s first full-length and most realized vision after several EP releases. The album’s nine tracks were recorded by the band—vocalist Morgan Enos and guitarist / songwriter Reuben Sawyer—and mastered by James Plotkin, aiming for a soothing “lo” fidelity with clarity preserved. An artist renowned for his work via Rainbath Visual, Sawyer also conceived the stark imagery for the cover, which is screen-printed on colored paper by Broken Press. Initial press of 700 copies; includes a complimentary high-quality digital download.
LP $19.50
11/12/2013
MP3 $8.91
11/12/2013
Proceeding missions into the no-mans-land of noise and jungle, Demdike Stare adopt a typically schizoid stance at House and Techno tempos on the 3rd Testpressing. Their A-side 'Eulogy' is a square bass devotional to the soul of deep Chicago and Detroit house, most notably the magic of Mr Fingers and Terrence Dixon. A constantly morphing, Escher-like bassline folds in and out of itself, accented with offset kicks and washed out with effervescent, barely-there synth strokes. It's lip-smacking sunset/sunrise gear and a perfect set-up for the flipside shocker. Destined to become a classic in Demdike's canon, 'Dyslogy' comes off like an early 'Waveform Transmission' or H&M bomb spanked by Anthony Shakir; an evil, droning intro ratchets the tension for martial kicks and darkcore chords before a feral breakbeat romps loose like the spirit of '93 unchained. They really don't make 'em like this any more…
MP3 $1.98
08/26/2013
FLAC $2.99
08/26/2013
The Black Post Society embraces and accepts the depression of not having anything left to hunt. The mask without a face to hold. The depression of the hunter after the deer is killed. It is better to be hungry than to have eaten. As fantasy shatters under the whip of reality, erotic malaise settles in the nest of the mind inverting this dormant fuel to rekindle the endless cycle of sexual chaos.
MP3 $7.92
11/27/2008
Sometime in the winter of 1989-90, I wandered into New York City’s Midnight Records, a store famous for its deep catalog of ’60s garage and psychedelic music, as well as a strong selection of classic punk rock and a cantankerous French owner with ridiculous hair. On this visit, instead of hearing a puny French bootleg of The Standells or the Seeds, as I opened the door I was enveloped in the massive opening chords to the first song on the Cosmic Psychos’ then-new album Go the Hack. “She’s a lost cause / She’s a lost, lost cause!” blasted into the air at maximum volume. In a perfect cinematic moment, the drums announced my entry, the bass dictated my walk, the air became thick with guitar fuzz and wah-wah, and snarled vocals described perfectly a girl’s descent into a cause which was lost. Instead of record shopping, I felt like I’d stepped into a biker movie and was motoring down a long, straight Outback road on a Harley. This was my introduction to the Cosmic Psychos, and I was hooked. I loved that a band could be so powerful, sound so big and unapologetically simple, and incorporate so much of what I loved about music—well, basically the attitudes and sounds of The Stooges and Ramones: setting up songs with a good title or idea, matching it with a massive riff, then running it out with squeals of wah-wah and manly disregard for cleverness or adornment. And they called themselves the Cosmic Psychos!...
CD $12.00
09/17/2013
MP3 $9.90
09/17/2013
Sometime in the winter of 1989-90, I wandered into New York City’s Midnight Records, a store famous for its deep catalog of ’60s garage and psychedelic music, as well as a strong selection of classic punk rock and a cantankerous French owner with ridiculous hair. On this visit, instead of hearing a puny French bootleg of The Standells or the Seeds, as I opened the door I was enveloped in the massive opening chords to the first song on the Cosmic Psychos’ then-new album Go the Hack. “She’s a lost cause / She’s a lost, lost cause!” blasted into the air at maximum volume. In a perfect cinematic moment, the drums announced my entry, the bass dictated my walk, the air became thick with guitar fuzz and wah-wah, and snarled vocals described perfectly a girl’s descent into a cause which was lost. Instead of record shopping, I felt like I’d stepped into a biker movie and was motoring down a long, straight Outback road on a Harley. This was my introduction to the Cosmic Psychos, and I was hooked. I loved that a band could be so powerful, sound so big and unapologetically simple, and incorporate so much of what I loved about music—well, basically the attitudes and sounds of The Stooges and Ramones: setting up songs with a good title or idea, matching it with a massive riff, then running it out with squeals of wah-wah and manly disregard for cleverness or adornment. And they called themselves the Cosmic...
LP $16.00
10/01/2013
Sometime in the winter of 1989-90, I wandered into New York City’s Midnight Records, a store famous for its deep catalog of ’60s garage and psychedelic music, as well as a strong selection of classic punk rock and a cantankerous French owner with ridiculous hair. On this visit, instead of hearing a puny French bootleg of The Standells or the Seeds, as I opened the door I was enveloped in the massive opening chords to the first song on the Cosmic Psychos’ then-new album Go the Hack. “She’s a lost cause / She’s a lost, lost cause!” blasted into the air at maximum volume. In a perfect cinematic moment, the drums announced my entry, the bass dictated my walk, the air became thick with guitar fuzz and wah-wah, and snarled vocals described perfectly a girl’s descent into a cause which was lost. Instead of record shopping, I felt like I’d stepped into a biker movie and was motoring down a long, straight Outback road on a Harley. This was my introduction to the Cosmic Psychos, and I was hooked. I loved that a band could be so powerful, sound so big and unapologetically simple, and incorporate so much of what I loved about music—well, basically the attitudes and sounds of The Stooges and Ramones: setting up songs with a good title or idea, matching it with a massive riff, then running it out with squeals of wah-wah and manly disregard for cleverness or adornment. And they called themselves the Cosmic Psychos!...
LP $20.25
07/12/2024
CD $12.00
09/17/2013
MP3 $8.91
09/17/2013
Sometime in the winter of 1989-90, I wandered into New York City’s Midnight Records, a store famous for its deep catalog of ’60s garage and psychedelic music, as well as a strong selection of classic punk rock and a cantankerous French owner with ridiculous hair. On this visit, instead of hearing a puny French bootleg of The Standells or the Seeds, as I opened the door I was enveloped in the massive opening chords to the first song on the Cosmic Psychos’ then-new album Go the Hack. “She’s a lost cause / She’s a lost, lost cause!” blasted into the air at maximum volume. In a perfect cinematic moment, the drums announced my entry, the bass dictated my walk, the air became thick with guitar fuzz and wah-wah, and snarled vocals described perfectly a girl’s descent into a cause which was lost. Instead of record shopping, I felt like I’d stepped into a biker movie and was motoring down a long, straight Outback road on a Harley. This was my introduction to the Cosmic Psychos, and I was hooked. I loved that a band could be so powerful, sound so big and unapologetically simple, and incorporate so much of what I loved about music—well, basically the attitudes and sounds of The Stooges and Ramones: setting up songs with a good title or idea, matching it with a massive riff, then running it out with squeals of wah-wah and manly disregard for cleverness or adornment. And they called themselves the Cosmic...
12" $13.00
10/01/2013
Rife with themes of loss, mortality and rebirth, ‘Riser’ is the second EP from San Francisco’s Chasms. Carved out by damaged percussion and hypnotizing guitars, the duo dives deeper into a heavenly abyss, this time with haunting vocals at the forefront. ‘Riser’ wades through an expansive, ethereal haze with powerfully executed melodies that resonate as if from another realm.
MC $6.00
08/20/2013
MP3 $3.96
08/20/2013
Canada’s AMSG was born in 2007 after mastermind / black metal terrorist / crime lord Angelfukk Witchhammer put his previous cult band Ouroboros to rest and served a prison sentence for what the police deemed “Black Metal Terrorism.” His sinister and dangerous sonic rituals conjure the ancient black metal spirit of legendary bands such as Mortuary Drape, early Samael, early Rotting Christ and Necromantia. Demonstrating a twisted and deranged style that incorporates mid-paced, progressive black metal and dark, deathly melancholy, AMSG released their debut EP, The Principle of Evil Becomes the Ideal of the Promethean, in 2010. Debut full-length Anti Cosmic Tyranny is a testament of the real essence of black metal—the sonic interpretation of a Satanic ritual replete with layered whispers, chants and other subliminal sounds that honor the endless dark Aeon and the chaotic black light. Composed during Witchhammer’s most recent prison stint, the album will make black metal dangerous again. Not for the faint of heart or the weak of mind.
CD $12.00
08/20/2013
***“Best demo I heard in 2011 and here we finally have their debut record. For those who heard the demo (Fashionable Idiots just released the demo on vinyl), this is more of the same chaotic hardcore. A more snarly Deep Wound? Excellent.”—Deranged
7" $6.00
03/12/2013
Metro Detroit frisky/risky dreamer DJ Coyote Clean Up serves up a heart n’ hardbody emotional saga with 2 Hot 2 Wait, his deep-debut freaky full-length on 100% Silk. Hot-under-the-collar horniness (a woman simply counts to three on “Zebra Go Seek” and you start to undress), headphone-house grain (the fuzzy gut-bump on “The Least U Could Feel” is like warm breath whispering in your ear), skrewed RnB Freestyle strip-hop (stuttery layers give hopeful, life-affirming energy to the lover-lost “Awesome Luv”) and out-of-time mash-ups (“Double Dip” is a memory overlapping, with a classic ’95 dial-tone under and over contempo EDM knob-twists) blend blissfully, fashioning a sentimental journey through a sex-love-loss odyssey. 2 Hot 2 Wait is a sensua-stellar standout, beckoning, daring, colorful and celebratory in its exhibitionism and lust.
LP $13.00
05/14/2013
CD $12.00
04/30/2013
MP3 $6.93
04/30/2013
***CHECK STOCK!!! Received an 8.3 Best New Music from Pitchfork. What could be better than a reissue of GROUPER’s Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill? How about an entire album of unreleased material recorded at the same time that is equal in quality?
LP $20.25
02/05/2013
CD $16.00
02/05/2013
***Developing on the trance-induction and brainwave entrainment techniques explored on the first ETHERNET album 144 Pulsations Of Light, Opus 2 moves into deeper, more introspective and emotive territory. A stronger focus on melody and harmonic structure results in pieces that almost approach, but never quite arrive at, traditional song forms, while still leaving much to the imagination of the listener, evading mental categorization and revealing new sonic experiences with each listen. The bulk of recording took place during the darkest months of winter in the Pacific Northwest, between late-night shifts providing technical support for hospital operating rooms. The pieces on the album each formed gradually and spontaneously during extended improvised sonic meditations as part of the composer's own trancework (or self-hypnosis) practice, this in an effort to remove specific compositional intention from the process, instead just allowing them to "happen". If 144 Pulsations... was about expansion of awareness and opening to the light that surrounds us, Opus 2 is intended to induce inner contemplation and internalized focus on the light within us. It is also a statement on the gradual darkening and inexorable decay of our modern world, and the need to look within to find true support and sustenance from one's own energetic source. Patience and perseverance. (STREET DATE - 1/8/2013)
CD $16.00
01/08/2013
***As an artifact, a piece of archived music, this feels as if it belongs beyond the earth—or perhaps buried deep within it. What started as something of an ill-fated project, a split 12" with the ethereal forest-dweller Caethua, Acts Without Error took over a year and a half to finish. Spacing out through numerous edits and mixes, the final piece seems squelched straight from the cosmos, balancing itself down onto the earth via energy waves both yellow and neutral, black and beautiful. To say LAZY MAGNET created a sonic spectrum of sound and tone is to suggest they did not practice magic. Surely they did, however, and blessed us in our sleep. You hear a synth call and beckon the light to enter the room, but it's beyond a machine. Many artists push their noggin hard and strain to reach outside the world. They practice the scales and draw lines on paper, and ache for the sonics. Lazy Magnet wrings hands and nods heads—born from the soil is elegant rays, shifting pitch bends that lift your spine out of your body. Did you ever daydream as a child, looking into the clouds for shapes of dinosaurs or pig faced men? Did the clouds ever speak back? Now they do. Edition of 400 copies.
LP $16.35
12/11/2012
***In December 2010, members of ACID BABY JESUS and HELLSHOVEL collided in Athens, Greece, dug deep into their bottomless well of weirdness and crept forth with a ghostly experiment called VOYAGER 8. This landmark exercise in extraterrestrial psychedelia has manifested in a 10-inch vinyl 4 track maxi-EP dripping with delirious, synthesizer driven cosmos-rock. Massive, meteor crumbling riffs copulate with tribal Martian beats, vox swirls like the hypnotic eyes of Korla Pandit, and Voyager 8’s molecular vibration finally adds the missing sonic element to the final frontier. Two of the four songs on this EP are by Voyager 8—the other two are new songs from Acid Baby Jesus Jesus and Hellshovel, so put that in your pipe and puff it, asstronuts.
10" $15.50
11/20/2012
***HALLS is the solo project of 21 year old South London musician SAM HOWARD. Ark—his brooding debut album—draws from a palette of crystalline melodies, intense production and panoramic instrumentation to create a deeply personal, constructivist work of art. Evocative in sound and yet isolationist in sentiment, the album is an intense, dramatic and emotive study of loss and modern anxiety set to a strained electronic soundtrack. Howard's centrepiece tenor voice and his glitchy, scattered rhythms present Thom Yorke's The Eraser as an easy reference point, alongside other exponents of recent mutations in London's unique urban sound narrative such as The XX, Burial or Mount Kimbie. Ark, however, also hints at another world beyond this. One of loop innovator Jan Jelinek's cut-and-paste percussion; the abstracted, intricate instrumentation of Efterklang; the deep choral swells of Justin Vernon's Bon Iver; haunting ambient composers Tim Hecker or Thomas Köner; and cerebral, minimal modern classicist Nils Frahm. Openers 'I' and 'White Chalk' set the album's tone perfectly; Howard's piano chords and depth-charge kick and snare engulfed by mournful choir harmonies cloaked in cathedral-sized reverb. 'I'm Not There' and 'Roses For The Dead' pair devastating symphonic arrangements and heart-on-the-rocks strings with classic pop structure and melody, before short piano piece 'Ark' beautifully recalls 'White Chalks' spellbinding motif. From there, 'Funeral' channels the lost airwaves of early 2000s 2-step under a silhouetted, eerie vocal; album centrepiece 'Shadow Of The Colossus' masterly juxtaposes digital and analogue drums with punctuative negative space; and 'Reverie' pierces the album's overarching impressionism...
LP $15.50
11/06/2012
CD $13.50
11/06/2012
***“BUGSKULL, the solo project and sometimes band of Austin, Texas' SEAN BYRNE, returns with this stark and airy album of deeply personal songs born during the recent collapse of his marriage. It is a subdued and powerful album that I will not cheapen with anymore one sheet speak. It's honest music. We are honored to work with Sean again with his first new music in years, and happy to partner with our friends at Shrimper (who are releasing the cassette) and Almost Halloween Time (who are doing the limited vinyl). What else? There's a fantastic cover of Beck's ‘Lost Cause.’ Hey, we're all still alive!”—Scratch. CD version available on Scratch.
MC $9.50
11/13/2012
***The first single from L.A.’s SURGEONS comes out now on Total Punk. A nice follow up to the GG King, and Gary Wrong 7-inches, Total Punk delves deeper into the sludge filled abyss of black punk. Two short blast of sinister razor sharp punk covered in a eerie haze of ambient noise and low end thud.
7" $6.00
07/31/2012
***BACK IN STOCK!!! Received an 8.4 Best New Music rating from Pitchfork. This is the second album from LOTUS PLAZA, the solo nom de plume of LOCKETT PUNDT, better known as the guitarist in DEERHUNTER. Pundt has penned a number of the best songs on the last two Deerhunter albums, and his first album, The Floodlight Collective was a tour de force of guitar pop smarts. He has the uncanny ability to build soaring, melodic gems from simple musical phrases; a möbius strip of a guitar line and repeating clipped drum roll in “Strangers;” a tribal drum beat holding down the foundation on “Out of Touch;” two acoustic guitar chords and a slight bit of snare as the basis for “Dusty Rhodes;” a series of slowly descending piano chord scales on “Jet Out of the Tundra.” There is a wide variety of songs and moods here, from unabashed rockers such as “White Galactic One” and “Monoliths,” acoustic laced introspection on “Dusty Rhodes” and “Black Buzz,” to the lysergic electronics of “Remember Our Days.” Spooky Action at a Distance is a wide angle view of what should be the zeitgeist of contemporary guitar pop.
LP $19.00
04/03/2012
CD $16.00
04/03/2012
ANCIENT SKY's second LP, T.R.I.P.S., rips harder and dives deeper into the swirling psychedelic abyss hinted at on their self-titled debut. The bluesy, stoner riffs are less abundant, clearing room for some long, slow burning jams and tight rock songs that leap suddenly from beneath a thick layer of delay and feedback like alligators in a foggy swamp. Hypnotic and soothing, T.R.I.P.S. is a captivating and awesome psychedelic statement.
MP3 $8.91
01/17/2012
Going back to the mid-90’s, the obscure Austin, TX outfit Korperschwache (German for “organic decay”) has issued a steady stream of releases into the deep underground, landing somewhere between the early UK noise rock scene, the skull-rupturing power of Japan’s more extreme noise artists, the massive gravitational pull and formless guitar crush of bands like Earth and the Melvins at their most art-damaged, and, in more recent years, a filthy, blackened, low-fidelity underbelly that hints at the mutated black metal of bands like Abruptum, Necrofrost, and Vondur. The majority of these older releases have long been out of print, but now, in conjunction with the brand new Evil Walks album, Crucial Blast has assembled a series of reissues of early Korperschwache material, some of which has never been heard by anyone outside the band’s immediate circle. 2001’s Tumescent Love Songs for Psychotic Drifters was recorded during the band’s descent to a new level of heaviness. Mixing the harsh noise aspects of the earlier material with more Skullflower-style guitar and ultra-distorted industrial sludge, it marks the beginnings of the crushing assault that RKF has maintained all the way up to the latest album Evil Walks. Opening with a skull-rupturing din of roaring psych-guitar overload and blown-out amplifier buzz, these seven dirges are made up of heavily wrecked riffs, jittery electronics and sludgy chords awash in massive amounts of distortion and feedback.
MP3 $4.99
11/08/2011
Going back to the mid-90’s, the obscure Austin, TX outfit Korperschwache (German for “organic decay”) has issued a steady stream of releases into the deep underground, landing somewhere between the early UK noise rock scene, the skull-rupturing power of Japan’s more extreme noise artists, the massive gravitational pull and formless guitar crush of bands like Earth and the Melvins at their most art-damaged, and, in more recent years, a filthy, blackened, low-fidelity underbelly that hints at the mutated black metal of bands like Abruptum, Necrofrost, and Vondur. The majority of these older releases have long been out of print, but now, in conjunction with the brand new Evil Walks album, Crucial Blast has assembled a series of reissues of early Korperschwache material, some of which has never been heard by anyone outside the band’s immediate circle. The 1997 cassette Mywomanmywomanmyslave delivers loop-heavy industrial doom-guitar and walls of abrasive noise of the highest order, ranking it as one of the band’s darkest and heaviest. From howling maelstroms of harsh noise, roaring walls of distortion, psychedelic electronics and locomotive guitar-grind loops to brief passages of pounding drum-machine rhythms and sped-up chipmunk pop music warped, stretched and run backwards, Mywoman blasts off into vicious storms of apocalyptic noise. This digital version adds bonus track “Sinister Maggot,” closing the album with the constant death-pulse of an iron lung heaving within a blizzard of static.
MP3 $4.99
11/22/2011
***CARLOS PAREDES was once almost hit by the famed Fado singer Amália Rodrigues, while performing at her home. Rumor has it that this was her reaction whenever she was deeply moved by someone’s artistry. Paredes was one of the greatest Portuguese guitarists, and a symbol of the Portuguese culture—not simply a great composer, but one of the men behind the world-wide understanding of his instrument and his country. The Portuguese guitar is an instrument that dates back several hundred years. It was built according to different standards around the country, but by the time Paredes began playing it, it had been generally agreed upon the construction: a short-necked, wide-bodied instrument with twelve-strings strung in six courses comprising two steel strings each. It has a distinctive tuning mechanism and it is most notably associated with the traditional Portuguese popular music known as fado. Carlos Paredes, “the Man with the ousand Fingers,” passed away in 2004, after a long, ten-year fight with a disease that tragically prevented him from playing his instrument in those final years of his life. His musical voice has never really been stilled—but this reissue of the Guitarra Portuguesa and Movimento Perpétuo LPs marks the first time they have ever been released in the United States and the first time they have been repressed anywhere, since 1983. The artwork for both records is a near-perfect copy of the 1967 and 1971 originals, complete with original Portuguese liner notes (and English translations for the unfortunates among us who do...
LP $20.85
11/08/2011
***BACK IN PRINT!!! First official vinyl reissue of this timeless, heavy UK hard rock album from 1972, produced by DEEP PURPLE’s legendary frontman, IAN GILLAN, originally released on the Decca/Deram label. It was Gillan who said of them: “Not many bands really excite me. But this one’s so raw and completely unpretentious. They make the biggest, bloodiest noise you can imagine, tempered with moments of extreme emotion.” And, of course, he’s right—the music is a menacing combination of over-the-top vocals and screaming lead guitars that could easily pass for something from the early British heavy metal scene. A favorite among vinyl collectors, the album is presented here in its ultimate glory, with all tracks taken from the original master tapes Rough, raw, and doomy! New pressing on purple vinyl packaged in deluxe tip-on gatefold jackets with insert.
LP $28.50
10/07/2016
***Finally! Part two of the SHEARING PINX epic masterwork of scuzz guitar worship. Night Danger drills even deeper into the sonic chasm opened up with Weaponry—abstract visions of punk, noise, and aural violence of all sorts stabbing through the psychic crust. Far underground, the Shearing Pinx once again carve out a brave musical universe to disfigure and rule. Art by RICK WHITE. Co-released with Isolated Now Waves.
LP $13.50
05/17/2011
"Following impressive entries for Kranky and Kraak, San Franciscan synthesist, Jonas Reinhardt offers the synaesthetic salve of 'Music For The Tactile' on NNF. This is deepest, learned Kosmiche/Krautrock terrain, assisted by Diego Gonzalez (Bass) and Damon Palermo (Drums/Rhythm Programming) in his quest for the stars and some kind of trance truth. Quite brilliantly, their revelations are far more concise than many of their fellow explorers, like short stories as opposed to light year-long sagas. The titular opener takes longest to reach its destination, powered by harmonised energy sources and a tired kick drum engine which has carried them thus far. Both 'Smokey Jotus' and 'Hander Zader' are more space/psyche rockin', pushed by crashing drums and squealing synth chatter, but our favourites have to be the dramatic symphonics of the alien aquatic 'Headband Harvest' or the glistening 3D sim-space of 'Neukoln'. Impressive." --Boomkat
LP $14.00
05/10/2011
Going back to the mid-90’s, the obscure Austin, TX outfit Korperschwache (German for “organic decay”) has issued a steady stream of releases into the deep underground, landing somewhere between the early UK noise rock scene, the skull-rupturing power of Japan’s more extreme noise artists, the massive gravitational pull and formless guitar crush of bands like Earth and the Melvins at their most art-damaged, and, in more recent years, a filthy, blackened, low-fidelity underbelly that hints at the mutated black metal of bands like Abruptum, Necrofrost, and Vondur. The majority of these older releases have long been out of print, but now, in conjunction with the brand new Evil Walks album, Crucial Blast has assembled a series of reissues of early Korperschwache material, some of which has never been heard by anyone outside the band’s immediate circle. 1996’s Blood Everywhere takes the band into more regions of harsh noise, but with masses of blasted, blackened activity lurking beneath each track. The half-hour “Castration on the Installment Plan” blends vicious black noise with ultra-distorted vokills and crumbling walls of blown-out distortion into a hellish blast that sounds like Canadian band Wold. “Godfucked” is of similar length but even noisier, starting with warped melodic noise, chirping feedback and earthshaking bass frequencies that resembles the likes of Incapacitants or Government Alpha. The closing deathvision “Maggots Feeding at the Bottom of the Deathpile” is a fusion of overmodulated synth arpeggios and blackened noise that’s structured into a menacing, futuristic groove.
MP3 $4.99
05/17/2011
Going back to the mid-90’s, the obscure Austin, TX outfit Korperschwache (German for “organic decay”) has issued a steady stream of releases into the deep underground, landing somewhere between the early UK noise rock scene, the skull-rupturing power of Japan’s more extreme noise artists, the massive gravitational pull and formless guitar crush of bands like Earth and the Melvins at their most art-damaged, and, in more recent years, a filthy, blackened, low-fidelity underbelly that hints at the mutated black metal of bands like Abruptum, Necrofrost, and Vondur. The majority of these older releases have long been out of print, but now, in conjunction with the brand new Evil Walks album, Crucial Blast has assembled a series of reissues of early Korperschwache material, some of which has never been heard by anyone outside the band’s immediate circle. The 1996 Monotremata cassette A Fistful of Nihilism is the third release from Korperschwache’s early devastating guitar-noise / power electronics mode, remastered for maximum skull-blasting power. The band erects more crushing monoliths of amp abuse here, starting with the churning black furnace of “Waiting for the Number Five,” forged of swirling oceanic distortion, crackling bass frequencies, howling feedback and titanic drones—part Total, part The Rita. The bleak onslaught continue as Korperschwache wades through four more tracks of high-pitched feedback, monstrous waves of distortion and brain-drilling drones. Included with this reissue is the delicately titled bonus track “Fistfuking Hippies.”
MP3 $4.99
05/31/2011
"Andy Stott has had a very good year, imbuing his effortlessly cool productions with the kind of restless attention deficit that is rarely associated with Techno's typically icy reserve. And so we went from the deep string-laden padded 4/4 of his debut 'Replace' EP to the fierce, driving Basic-Channelisms of the mighty "Ceramics" 12", the warehouse mangle of "Demon in the Attic" and the squashed broken sublow of "Choke". Whilst all this was going on, an album was being very slowly assembled from over 100 tracks eating up valuable space on the reliable Modern Love hard drive. "Merciless" bears the fruit of almost a year's worth of relentless compiling, at one point or another this album could have taken any number of possible shapes and flavours, though the spacious narrative and emotive pulse of the final selection seems destined to have occupied the tracklisting that's infront of us now. Bar "choke" every track here is totally exclusive and previously unreleased, ranging from the suggestive 4/4 romance of album-opener "Florence" to the crushing percussive flutter of Detroit anthem Hi-Rise, to the harrowing simplicity of the title track itself. The end-note comes with a cover-version of Claro Intelecto's classic "Peace of Mind" - a version so wildly inventive and unexpected that it has caused what can only be described as an email frenzy from those lucky enough to have had promo copies of this album in recent weeks. As the track slowly slips "Merciless" into its final, cinematic crescendo, the promise of...
MP3 $9.90
03/21/2011
"First new twelve from Mark Stewart in over six months - and it's an out and out KILLER. "When The Time Is Right" is just one of the deepest, deadliest tracks we've heard in some time, all sumptuous pads and midnight chords capturing that intangible thread between narcotic House at one end and Berlin Dub at the other. Over almost 9 minutes the textures gradually shift until a point of transition halfway that channels in those shimmering, barely conscious keys that mess with your mind and take you into balmy, impossibly glamorous climes. No producer we know is quite as able to offset bass weight with so much emotive subtlety without ever getting lost in self indulgence or schmaltz - it's a truly truly amazing piece of future Techno. Over to the flipside and the much more edgy proposition of 'Round & Round', a gargantuan, modified square-bassline jacker built on multi-layered percussion and an intensifying wall of chords that edges its way into the mix with every sequence only to once again drop out into the ether, leaving nothing but that endlessly spacious arrangement of snares and bass to well and truly topple the dance. Immense."--Boomkat
MP3 $1.98
03/21/2011
Going back to the mid-’90s, the obscure Austin, TX outfit Korperschwache (German for “organic decay”) has issued a steady stream of releases into the deep underground, landing somewhere between the early UK noise rock scene, the skull-rupturing power of Japan’s more extreme noise artists, the massive gravitational pull and formless guitar crush of bands like Earth and the Melvins at their most art-damaged, and, in more recent years, a filthy, blackened, low-fidelity underbelly that hints at the mutated black metal of bands like Abruptum, Necrofrost, and Vondur. The majority of these older releases have long been out of print, but now, in conjunction with the brand new Evil Walks album, Crucial Blast has assembled a series of reissues of early Korperschwache material, some of which has never been heard by anyone outside the band’s immediate circle. The earliest release featured here is the Ovencleaner full-length, originally released as a sixty-minute cassette in 1995. Like all their early stuff, this is an orgy of harsh, grating noise, similar to much of the underground industrial slime that crept out of the mid ’90s. Heavily distorted psych guitar crawls through a mass of amp rumble on opener “Your Shattered Spine,” the slow-motion riffs and skittering percussion awash in swarming hiss and fuzz, the drum machine sputtering out fractured percussive fills and tinny, scrabbly faster-paced beats. “Sand Swallower” follows with more monstrous, harsh noise à la Incapacitants or Pain Jerk, a raging black maelstrom of distortion and feedback stretching across fourteen minutes. The avalanche continues...
MP3 $4.99
04/12/2011
Going back to the mid-’90s, the obscure Austin, TX outfit Korperschwache (German for “organic decay”) has issued a steady stream of releases into the deep underground, landing somewhere between the early UK noise rock scene, the skull-rupturing power of Japan’s more extreme noise artists, the massive gravitational pull and formless guitar crush of bands like Earth and the Melvins at their most art-damaged, and, in more recent years, a filthy, blackened, low-fidelity underbelly that hints at the mutated black metal of bands like Abruptum, Necrofrost, and Vondur. The majority of these older releases have long been out of print, but now, in conjunction with the brand new Evil Walks album, Crucial Blast has assembled a series of reissues of early Korperschwache material, some of which has never been heard by anyone outside the band’s immediate circle. The 1995 cassette Fangs of an Angry God originally featured five lengthy tracks of psychedelic harsh noise and brutal feedback ecstasy from Korperschwache; this reissue adds on a sixth bonus track that was recorded in 1996. The tape continues to move the band’s sound further into a grueling smashup of grinding amp abuse, industrial noise and psych-guitar meltdown, unleashing clanging chords that ring out over smoldering black lava flows and brutal clank and screech. Songs like “The Drowning Pool” and “Hands of Stone” are formless masses of squirming guitar slime and crackling, distorted filth, the sound moving slowly, like sputtering magma waves of incinerating speaker vomit, flesh-rending cable noise and sheet-metal drag. Other tracks paint...
MP3 $4.99
04/26/2011
***Farmer’s market zen learner LEYNA NOE channels the swaggering lust of Jimi’s finest hour via stumbling drum machines and amplifier howls while her beau SEX WORKER mines Debbie Harry’s telephonic anxieties for deeper fears, darker secrets: “I can’t control myself.” Sleeve art by JULIEN LANGENDORFF.
7" $6.30
11/23/2010
In late 2009, The Octopus Project took time off from touring to write new material and tinker with electronics. In order to achieve their vision for a deeper, more enveloping sonic experience, they needed more than the standard two-channel stereo audio and single projection, and decided to arrange eight speakers in a circle surrounding the audience, who in turn surrounded the band at the center. Overhead were eight synchronized video projections. The performance required an integrated eight-channel audio and eight-channel video system (built by the band themselves), hence the term "hexadecagon," the geometrical name for a sixteen-sided object--in this case, a sixteen-sided audiovisual panorama. The Octopus Project performed Hexadecagon twice for over-capacity crowds during SXSW 2010 to emphatically positive reception. Paste Magazine said, "if there's a such thing as a happiness seizure, be prepared to have one," while The Austin American Statesman described the event as "the trippiest, most elaborate thing The Octopus Project have ever done, and that's a very tall order." USA Today ranked the performance one of its top five shows of SXSW. Buzzing from the success, the band dove head-first into putting the songs to tape. After two months of recording in their home studio, they took everything to Dallas to finish and mix with John Congleton (St. Vincent, Explosions In the Sky, Clinic, The Walkmen), who then blew it up into a high-definition, ultra-widescreen sonic universe. The music is written to work in layers--originally for an audio canvas of eight channels, but here rearranged and re-orchestrated for...
CD $12.00
10/26/2010
2XLP $20.25
11/09/2010
MP3 $9.90
10/26/2010
***MIKE SIMONETTI is the head of Italians Do It Better, a world traveling DJ, dance remixer and record collector. His latest edit 12-inch finds him digging deep into his collection for super obscure house tracks from the early 1990s. The A-side is a little known NYC house gem from the early ‘90s. Mike extends the intro for what seems an eternity, building slowly until it drops and explodes the dancefloor. insane! The B-side features two unknown early house gems that few have ever heard. Some killer tracks. Edition of 500 copies, no repress.
12" $9.25
08/17/2010
***BACK IN STOCK!!! King of the Beach, the new WAVVES album is an adventurous and ambitious record. It cuts deeper into the bleeding throat catharsis and ’60s sunshine soul that Wavves is known for. It also unexpectedly flips out with elements of primitive electronics and psychedelic studio experimentation. Unlike Wavves’ previously released material, recorded in haphazard bursts on NATHAN WILLIAMS’ laptop, King of the Beach was toiled over for three months at Sweet Tea Recording, a world-renowned studio in Oxford, Mississippi. Sweet Tea is also the home of DENNIS HERRING, producer of the last two Modest Mouse albums, and the man who dismantled and re-assembled the sound on this record. Received an 8.4 Best New Music Rating from Pitchfork. (STREET DATE 8/03/2010)
LP $26.95
08/03/2010
CD $14.25
08/03/2010
***As long as there's still hips to shake and asses to move, MICKEY will be there to rub it in deep and smother your world with their ineffable concoction of punk brilliance. The most promising new Chicago pop band since the Smith Westerns, these five individual odd fellows have unearthed the primal lunacy and indescribable glam irresistibility that has turned anyone who's seen them into blathering idiots, ready to swallow every stray flung drop of slimy sweat dripping from their guitar necks. After last year's impeccable debut 7-inch on HoZac and their devastating trip through the wilderness of South by Southwest's seedy underbelly, they turned enough heads and converted so many people, that I finally felt like it wasn't just us that was crazy for their inebriated, yet exasperatingly unique undulating glitter-pop formula. First pressing with a limited edition die cut LP cover limited to 500 copies.
12" $15.50
07/20/2010
***Number six in the acclaimed beats series gets your routine more than battle ready with ten strokin' and smokin' classic break tracks. All beats are not created equal, and serious deejays always buy two.
LP $1.00
01/08/2001
***The duo of GEORGE CHEN and STEVEN SANTA MARIA document another phase in their half-decade collaboration of improvised sonic experiments. This co-release with 333 (7" single series that has worked with Deerhoof, Girltalk, Crack: We Are Rock) captures the band playing with rhythmic elements recorded with BRIAN RESTER (BULBS, TRIANGLE) in pastoral Berkeley, CA. The pedals and effects used for this recording were stolen shortly afterward so this is the last of this type of sound, not by choice but necessity. Having toured Europe and UK in Spring 2010 (opening for Mount Eerie, High Places, Talk Normal, and Weasel Walter), CSM continues with its California campaign for the Governor's seat in tribute to the fallen Gary Coleman. Members of KIT, COMMON EIDER KING EIDER, SISSY SPACEK 15-TET, LOVE CHAINS and FUN SANTA MARIA. Edition of 250.
7" $6.45
06/29/2010
***WOVEN BONES need no announcement to herald their arrival, but as their irresistibly iridescent hazy pop grime drills itself deeper into your soft skull, it's best to just stand back and experience them exploding out of your speakers. Like the eardrum-shattering noise pop icons that came before them, Woven Bones blaze their own trail of lascivious loudness and controlled snarl that's just what the world needs right now, and the perfect soundtrack to your screwed-up summer. The debut album, In and Out and Back Again delivers nine heart-stabbing hits that just keep hitting back, so without further hesitation, we give you the debut album that explodes heads on contact, by your new favorite band, Woven Bones.
LP $13.50
06/08/2010
CD $11.25
06/08/2010
MP3 $8.91
06/08/2010
***On Patrol is a double album in two parts, and the fourth full length album from SUN ARAW, following 2009’s Heavy Deeds. An album for heavy-steamin' late nights in the city, inter-dimensional back alleys, ghost cabs, and midnight-sweat locker rooms, it creeps and tunes in on a much darker, sparser, and more classically minded channel than its predecessors: dark and deep steam-vent ruminations on Philip Cohran, lenticular objects, and fried Hot 92.3 R&B slow-jams. Eschewing liner notes, Sun Araw has subtitled each track to let the listener know exactly where they are in hopes of recruiting more explorers as would-be enforcers. UK import. Received an 8.1 rating from Pitchfork.
CD $12.25
05/11/2010
2XLP $30.25
11/23/2010
MP3 $9.90
05/11/2010
***WORN IN RED hail from the long-standing promised land of thick, blistering hardcore; Virginia. They share hometowns in both Richmond and Charlottesville, drinking deep from a rich history of since-fallen bands like Sleepytime Trio, Hoover, Four Hundred Years, Maximillian Colby, Action Patrol, and Frodus, while also paying tribute to contemporary titans Planes Mistaken For Stars, Glass and Ashes, and Hot Water Music. "Considering how nice these guys are, they sure do yell a lot. They feel like family. Their songs gnawed their way into my brain over the last year, and being involved in this record was not an option: it became an imperative. Heavy and pummeling locks in with a melodic, open groove. Duality in tandem. Good hair too."—Var / No Idea.
LP $12.25
12/01/2009
CD $13.00
12/08/2009
***GOLDEN ANIMALS have completed their debut album, Free Your Mind And Win A Pony. The album is eleven tracks deep, entrenched with pre-war blues influenced, classic rock and roll. Fans of their sold out EP will dig the sonic transition of this mystical, desert dwelling, rock and roll duo. Their song-craft: savant, their sound: dynamic, their songs: timeless. Produced by CHRIS COADY (Yeah Yeah Yeah's, T.V On The Radio, Entrance) and mixed by TOM MONAHAM (Devendra Banhart, Vetiver) with additional support from NADAV EISENMAN (RTX) Golden Animals' debut has a solid long player sound that will stand the test of time. Prepare to get loaded on quality, rhythm and blues.
CD $12.00
08/18/2008
MP3 $9.90
08/18/2008
***"The tenth full length QUINTRON record and the first to be released on legendary Memphis label Goner Records. It's about fucking time. This album was recorded entirely live in a bizarre 2-track studio set deep in the heart of New Orleans’ now famous 9th Ward. The live tracks were then played back and sung over. Lets call this the ‘6th grade bedroom style’ of multi-tracking. For any interested equipment nerds, the Spellcaster Lodge studio consists of 4 microphones, one custom Neotek Series 1 board, and a 2 track tape deck. And a corkscrew. Quintron's musical partner MISS PUSSYCAT plays maracas and sings backup as well as entertaining all age groups with her highly amusing technicolor puppet shows. She has just recently finished filming a 10-episode puppet drama called Trixie And The Tree Trunks for VBS (Vice) TV.”
LP $13.00
10/21/2008
CD $12.00
10/21/2008
MP3 $9.90
10/21/2008
Deep in the bowels of Europe, well past the architecture and schnitzel hauses, past the sweating line-ups roped away from already packed clubs, past the throbbing mass on the dance floor itself, deep in the hot flashes of stages across Europe and Canada, slamming her beats, strapped into her bass, playing every note like her last, this is where you will find Randy Twigg. Her new album "Undone" is a feverish blend of influences extending back to her rock and punk roots in Canada as the driving force behind Toronto's infamous Fuck Puppets (BugEyed Records), followed by a relocation to Berlin where she has played and collaborated with the likes of Mt. Sims (Hungry Eye, Gigolo Records), Kid Congo Powers (The Gun Club, The Cramps), Toby Dammit (Iggy Pop, Jessie Evans), Stereo Total, T. Raumschmiere, and where our girl has been fanning her fire with guitars, beats, electronics, and the asses of the masses. "Undone" is a bold, catchy, lyric driven collision of pop consciousness and dance floor balls served hot with plenty of molton rock and analogue bubbles to keep things niiiiice and slippery. And it's loud as fuck. Slapping us with monster beat and synth combos while her signature distorted bass guitar sound ties us up and cuts the phone lines. Randy lays it out and you take it, big fella. She sticks that round sound right where we want it over acoustic drums (performed by Berlin born and thoroughbred, André Lange) and screaming bass. "Looking for love...
MP3 $9.90
10/20/2009
***A few things have changed for ADAM FORKNER since his last WHITE RAINBOW album from 2007, Prism of Eternal Now. The success of Prism… finally catapulted Forkner's White Rainbow project from the deep semi-obscure trenches of the West Coast psychedelic/noise underground into the fickle arms of a slightly wider audience. In a perhaps misguided reaction to the ever-widening trend of musicians trading in a pound of adventurousness for an ounce of "accessibility", Forkner has turned White Rainbow into an even more spontaneous and open-ended musical project and has shaped this new double album into a dense, lengthy exploration of the relationship between hypnotic, circular, fourth-world drum rhythms, acid-boogie guitar, and drifting sheets of fuzzy psychedelic drone. The tracks on New Clouds are a tug-of-war between stasis and change, the desire to meld the meditative effects of a near static drone with the uplifting trip of free-flowing compositions. Slowly melting fluorescent sunsets morph into drapes of psychedelic fog, rumbling over cacophonous rhythms. (STREET DATE - 10/20/2009)
CD $16.00
10/20/2009
2XLP $24.00
10/20/2009
***The second album from these dynamic Virginia-based post-something rocksmiths. Well-crafted songs jump from the speakers with innovative structures, contrasting intensities, and deeply-thought lyrics that even at their quietest, still rock harder than most.
CD $11.00
06/20/2000
***The third full-length album under the BONNIE PRINCE BILLY moniker from roots-absorbed singer/songwriter WILL OLDHAM (PALACE). Ten deeply introspective songs of self-love, emotional struggle, and complex relationships, featuring backing from friends TONY CROW, WILLIAM TYLER, MATT SWANSON, MARTY SLAYTON, and brother PAUL OLDHAM.
LP $21.50
02/04/2003
CD $13.75
02/04/2003
Previously released through Appease Me (the label run by members of Blut Aus Nord), Born Again is the latest full-length from French sludge band Overmars, a single album-long piece that descends deep into themes of horror, self-immolation, and rebirth. Overmars has already established their atmospheric, electronically tainted sludge-metal sound on splits with Donefor, Iscariote, Fuguee, and Icos as well as on their excellent 2005 album Affliction, Endocrine...Vertigo, but Born Again is something entirely new for the band. This 40-minute epic moves from pulverizing, industrial dirge blanketed with heavily textured layers of guitar to passages of dark, haunting ambience and bottom-heavy churn, while fearsome, guttural roars alternate with captivating female vocals. A magesterial finale stretches gloom-ridden, moody riffage, vaporous electronics, and dramatic singing over the song's last fifteen minutes, building into an earth-shaking crescendo. Immensely bleak and heavy, Born Again brings together elements of death metal, black metal, psychedelia, Godflesh's industrial pummel, and the crushing nihilism of Swans for an austere sound of their own, moving Overmars even further from the Neurosis comparisons garnered by their past releases. This special US edition has different packaging than the original Appease Me CD.
CD $9.50
09/22/2009
MP3 $7.99
09/22/2009
INUI 4 is the fourth volume in Makoto Kawabata’s series of solo releases for VHF. While widely and rightly known for earsplitting Deep Purple-style guitar demolition with Acid Mother’s Temple, Gong, etc., Kawabata’s INUI works are highly personal and introspective, with lots of room given to cosmic atmosphere and acoustic instruments. INUI 4 is a single 68 minute track, a slow-building and evolving multi-layered swath of acoustic and electric guitars, electronics, and hurdy gurdy. The final 20 minutes feature prominent “glissando” guitar, à la Daevid Allen - a very fine sound to be lost in. Like the other INUI volumes, this includes great photos and design by Makoto and Sachiko Kawabata.
CD $12.00
09/18/2007
MP3 $9.90
09/18/2007
Betimes Black Cloudmasses is the highly-anticipated second album from Vincent De Roguin (Shora), Stephen O'Malley (SUNN0))), KTL), and Daniel O'Sullivan (Guapo). Like their genre- and audience-confounding debut Deep In Ocean Sunk the Lamp of Light, Betimes is an atmospheric, constantly changing piece that encompasses a mind-boggling array of different performance and processing techniques. The deeply psychedelic and moving results present a soundstage that is continually evolving, with new elements entering and leaving the fray every couple of seconds. Betimes includes significant contributions from free percussionists Nicolas Field and Alex Babel, who sprinkle the sound field with an almost FMP-style rush of splattering drum sound, raising the intensity of the music (without resorting to bashing). The album also features a brief but affecting vocal from Ulver mastermind Kristoffer Rygg, who will make his first live appearance in over a decade when Aethenor plays the Roadburn Festival in April 2008. Aethenor's third LP, featuring vocals and lyrics by David Tibet, will be released in Autumn 2008. "Musically, Aethenor summon the most somnolent examples of Bernard Parmegiani, Organum, Nurse with Wound, Klaus Schulze, Igor Wakhevitch, Coil, Iancu Dumitrescu, and Charlemagne Palestine. Acousmatic drones ebb and flow into crackling and bubbling sonic clusters. Lulling piano motifs and lamenting chants shimmer into distant lunar horizons while oscillators spin and drove serenely into unchartered audial regions. Sometimes as calm as a silvery sea, so that every gentle cat's-paw and lapping wave is deafening. Sometimes as tempestuous as a fuming lava beach, spitting and popping at the surface." --Daniel...
LP $13.00
04/22/2008
CD $12.00
04/22/2008
MP3 $9.90
04/22/2008
United Jnana’s Nurse With Wound reissue series continues with Salt Marie Celeste, perhaps the most radical album in the band’s catalog. Similar in spirit to Gavin Bryars’s “The Sinking of the Titanic,” the album’s sixty-plus-minute title track delves deep into the themes of unknown darkness and ultimate demise. Recorded in 2002 by Steven Stapleton and electronic studio wizard Colin Potter, this is a landmark recording in the field of contemporary electronic music. Best known for founding the legendary UK cassette only label, ICR, Potter has also recorded with Current 93, Organum, Jonathan Coleclough, and Ora. The piece was originally intended to provide aural ambience to an exhibit at London’s Horse Hospital gallery, and a truncated version appeared on the Music for the Horse Hospital CD compilation. Restored here to its hour-plus running time, the music becomes much more of a foreground-listening experience. Orchestral-like chords flutter back and forth like ships lost at sea while the sounds of passing cars, boat horns, and creaking doors slowly gather momentum in the background. At around the fifty-minute mark all the extraneous sounds are cut short, leaving only the droning chords and the sound of water. It’s a stunning effect and quite different than the dense maximalism of earlier albums. The reissue is packaged in a lavish new digipak featuring the artwork of Ruby Wallis and Babs Santini.
CD $13.00
11/22/2005
MP3 $0.00
11/22/2005
Riding a subway train circa '97, Colombian-born John Wolfington inexplicably decided to switch cars at the 14th Street station, to one in which Thurston Moore happened to be sitting, deep into a novel. At the time Wolfington had in his possession a tape containing "Coney Island Freak," a song of his that talks about a trip to the freakshow and references SY in its lyric. Feeling like he had somehow been "urged" to switch cars, he handed the tape to Thurston, who politely accepted it, just like he always does every other day of the week when a complete stranger hands him a tape. Although this encounter had little to do with the recording of this album, it now seems like it was a step along the way. Summer of '99, and Two Dollar Guitar man Tim Foljahn has a five-song demo in his hand, sent to him by someone he'd never heard of. Still, he was floored by the quality of the songs and the sparseness of the production. Most of the material had been recorded in Wolfington's bathroom, using simple drum machine patterns or brushes on a live drum. Foljahn passed the tape on to Steve Shelley, and the two of them agreed to work with Wolfington on recording his debut. Production, begun at Hoboken's Jolly Roger Recording with Gene Holder and finished at Brooklyn's Rare Book Room with Nicolas Vernhes, took place over the following six months. Shelley and Foljahn play on over half the songs,...
CD $9.50
01/23/2001
MP3 $9.90
01/23/2001
Los Angeles art-punk pioneers Savage Republic have come roaring out of obscurity with 1938, their first full-length album of new material in 18 years—hot on the heels of this spring’s powerful Siam EP—both on Neurot Records. Throughout the ’80s Savage Republic was a deep-underground phenomenon, playing highly unorthodox shows in remote desert locations, abandoned factories, skid-row parking lots, and grimy bars across the US and Europe with such luminaries as Einstürzende Neubaten, Minutemen, Sonic Youth, and Live Skull as well as hardcore-punk slugfests with the likes of Bad Religion, Angry Samoans, and Final Conflict. Known for their oddly tuned guitars, tribal beats, shouted vocals, metal percussion (typically 55-gallon oil drums and items gleaned from dumpsters and junkyards), and Morricone-meets-Dick Dale melodies, their performances were at times ritualistic and occassionally involved fire and explosives. In their current incarnation, Savage Republic core members Thom Fuhmann, Ethan Port and Greg Grunke are joined by UK punk-rock veteran Val Haller, whose resume includes stints with Wayne County, Flying Lizards, Lords of The New Church, and X-Ray Spex, and noted drummer and percussionist Alan Waddington, known for his tenure with The Unforgiven as well as live and studio work with everyone from Willie Nelson to Gwen Stefani. The album also features contributions by guest artists including multi-instrumentalist Tara T. Tavi, classical violinist Julia Zuker, and drummer Bryan Taylor. While staying true to their roots, Savage Republic have updated and expanded their singular Mediterranean-surf-soundtrack-folk-noise blend into a musical hybrid both contemporary and timeless....
CD $13.00
10/23/2007
MP3 $9.90
10/23/2007
Zdrastvootie 2 is a perplexing album. It folds the far corners of some of the world’s most out-there progressive rock with deep, deliberate singer-songwriter type vocals and lyrics. It is both a collection of confusing, dark and fragmented meditations and defiantly odd music, yet it is far more accessible and playful than one would expect. The recorded debut of Drew Adam’s vocals is imposing and grand — he sings like a crooner. Zdrastvootie 2 is still marked by the group’s gifts as songwriters and players as the songs are disjointed and the arrangements abrasive. The material is achingly beautiful, and lovely melodies appear throughout the album. This new album will sound, to most, like no other music on Earth.
CD $12.00
09/20/2005
MP3 $7.92
09/20/2005
La Otracina was formed in Brooklyn, NY, in the summer of 2003 by drummer Adam Kriney and guitarist Joshua Anzano (now of Tee Pee Records’ Titan) to penetrate the deepest and most surreal realms of psychedelia, prog, and krautrock, with an emphasis on exploration. Taking heavy nods from psychedelic forefathers (Flower Travelin’ Band, Guru Guru, King Crimson, Neu!, Yes, Agitation Free, Blue Cheer, Amon Duul, etc.), their music is also rooted in a deep understanding and appreciation of free-jazz/improvisation and the wizardry of minimalism - not to mention the extreme sounds of the Japanese underground. La Otracina’s brew of cosmic music is a ride across the galaxy, a slice of magical lemon wedges, a rainbow of crystallized comet dust. La Otracina is Adam Kriney on drums, Ninni Morgia on electric guitar, and Jordon Schranz on electric bass. KindaMusik listed La Otracina’s Love Love Love 2 CD as one of the top 20 best psychedelic albums of the new millennium, along with releases by Six Organs of Admittance, Bardo Pond, Ghost, and Tower Recordings.
CD $12.00
06/12/2007
MP3 $9.90
06/12/2007
***The second album and first domestic release from Irish songwriter ADRIAN CROWLEY. A bittersweet collection of disparate songs, touching ballads, and sensitive tunes, done with Crowley's deep, gentle voice. Recorded in Chicago by STEVE ALBINI, and featuring Crowley's backing group KATE ELLIS on cello and THOMAS HAUGH on drums.
CD $9.50
02/12/2002
***US issue of Crowley's first album from 1999, A Strange Kind is a folk masterpiece of minimal and sparse playing. Crowley's voice has a deep, steady brogue that anchors his minor-keyed compositions.
CD $9.50
02/12/2002
***The newest release by Dublin's ADRIAN CROWLEY , A Northern Country captures the lush melancholy Crowley has always worked to achieve on record. The deep vocals, sparse guitar and drums, and enrapturing cello create a serene and unique beauty that's evocative and heart-rendering. Absolutely enchanting.
CD $12.00
11/09/2004
Echtra is the solo project of one-half of the apocalyptic atavist black metal duo Fauna. Originating from the green forests of Cascadia, Echtra's music reflects the deep sense of reverence that emanates from the surrounding rich natural landscape. Steeped in live ritual, Echtra transmutes betrayal and abandonment into wisdom on A War of Wonder, conjuring visions of the soul achieving its ultimate reintegration into the corpus of Spirit. Conceived in 2004 and utilized for ritual performance two years later, A War for Wonder chronicles an experimental aural landscape, eschewing allegiance to the strict confines of black metal in the relentless pursuit of personal mastery. Consciousness is immersed in a musicality wherein the abstractions of "genre" drift away as the sound deepens and swirls, engaging the emotional and etheric bodies in tandem with the intellect. As the wooden timelessness of the acoustic melds with the distorted vibration of electricity, a new gnosis is reached, shielded from the reductive eyes of reason and allowed to loosen the bonds of the true being within. Containing this liberation is the seed of Echtra, the heroic journey of the Self from the shadows. "This is how performances should be. A dance that engages your senses, sight and sound, smell and touch. This was a dance that evoked pure visceral emotion. This was a journey that brought the viewer from the temporal world to a primordial consciousness within their self-being. It was an honor to be present at this event, and I know...
CD $12.00
05/26/2009
MP3 $9.90
05/26/2009
***LAST COPIES, WHEN THEY’RE GONE, THEY’RE GONE!!! The sophomore album from experimental out-folk troubadours 7 YEAR RABBIT CYCLE. Led by ROB FISK (ex-DEERHOOF), and featuring current and former members of BROTHER JT, OLD TIME RELIJUN, THETEETHE, and ECONOMY, the band delivers ten tracks of super-psychedelic, no wave, beard-core, folk explosion, including two songs featuring JAMIE STEWART of XIU XIU. Packaged in silk-screened triple-gatefold sleeves with 16-page booklets with drawings by Fisk and JEFF NERKUMM of NOISE NOMADS.
CD $13.00
01/08/2001
Goddamn the Midnite Snake! Like a bat out of hell, these heavy psych-metal stalwarts are back with a sophomore release that might just erupt Mount Olympus. This fresh slab of digital drudgery presents songs that are longer and deeper than anything the Snake has done before. It possesses the richness of a dark and deathly metal, but now adds layers of wandering prowess, like a lost soul in Young Goodman Brown’s devil-riding forest, looking for his Faith upon which to rest his head. But none is to be found. Midnite Snake’s instrumental intensity would make a late-era Coltrane and current-era Acid Mother’s Temple want to get back on the road again, just so they could check out the band night after night and steal all their secrets. Shaving the Angel is bigger and more powerful than their debut—complex, sexually bombastic metallic rock and roll—with a hint of forest acoustic darkness breaking through the wall of whiteness. Evil like the naked, mask-covered ritual sacrifice on the cover. Modey Lemon drum king Paul Quattrone unleashes a beat that frees guitar god Alexei Plotnicov from the brimstone of Pittsburgh, riffing hard in heaven with Hendrix. This record plays loud at a soft volume, and is sure to cement their place in the hearts and souls of all the stoned rockers foreverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
CD $13.00
05/29/2007
***The Great Gaylord is absolutely correct: Darrell Banks' "Open the Door to Your Heart" is exemplary, significant soul music. "It is," says the WFMU deejay, "two-and-a-half minutes of flawlessness [that] cuts directly to the essence of soul." It's got the beat, it's got the sound, but what's more, it's got the expressive, pleading voice of Darrell Banks. He doesn't overdo it - he does it just enough, and wham! hits the listener with a wallop of rhythm & blues at its finest. The song debuted on the Cashbox Black Contemporary Chart at Number 45 on July 2, 1966. Six weeks later it was Number One for two weeks, knocked off by a Stevie Wonder record for a week before returning to the top spot again. This time The Supremes' "You Can't Hurry Love" brought it down for good. Late in 1967, Atco originally issued Darrell Banks Is Here! LP, consisting of Banks' four singles, their B-sides, and two new tracks. The album is one of soul music's best, though it never achieved the cult status of Howard Tate's Get It While You Can or Edwin Starr's Soul Master, but collectors of Detroit soul music have long treasured this obscure gem. The album starts with a fine ballad, "Here Come the Tears," written by Chicago songwriter Gerald Simms, who worked at such labels as Chess, Brunswick and OKeh as an arranger and producer. The second song, "I've Got That Feelin'," another tough Detroit production with punchy horns and a...
CD $12.00
04/02/2002
***A crash-and-smash goodtime of brutal improvisation mixed with stark, crushing melodies for a world ruled by giant owls and bitter rabbits from former DEERHOOF guitarist ROB FISK, along with MIYA OSAKI, STEVE GIGANTE (TINY BIRD MOUTHS, THETEETHE) and KELLY GOODEFISK (also ex-DEERHOOF). Packaged with hand painted covers.
CD $13.00
03/04/2003
***Combining the classic trappings of '60s psychedelic guitar rock with an eccentric spirituality, lysergic high priest BROTHER JT's records are deep, penetrable and seek to entertain. He has racked up a multitude of impeccable releases on a multitude of independent record labels with impeccable taste. His palette expands with each passing release. Heavy pop, thick with guitars, thumping drums and stoned, tremulous melodies take the listener on a trip through the complex patterns and designs that are unique to the mind of JT. From stretched-out zoner wail to agile, psychedelic strum, his body of work is singular, odd, outstanding and unimpeachable. It's a pretty tall order to name a contemporary artist with enough panache to carry on the legacy of wrecked pop and what writer BYRON COLEY would call "Blieb Alien rock" left behind by the likes of Syd Barrett, Roky Erickson, Skip Spence and sandbox-era Brian Wilson, but Brother JT is the only name worthy to stand alongside.
CD $12.00
01/22/2002
***Japan's cosmic-freaked and herb-riddled space punks return with another lungfull of whacked-out psycho shit. Seven spliff-pulling and adventruous tracks loaded with sci-fi beats and ganja-fueled sonic dub that range from deep and meditative chillouts to hard and furious sound assaults. Includes mix action from ADRIAN SHERWOOD and SHOOTING CRACK with BROTHER WAY, as well as an CD enhancement that will allow computer users to smoke up their latest video. Previous collaborations with I ROY and ASIAN DUB FOUNDATION.
CD $6.75
04/11/2000
***Recorded after an insane Euro tour in 22 with the Autobahns which repeatedly brought "THE BOX" to the edge of heartattack, they recorded this hot mess of a debut LP almost immediately afterwards. This direct, tight power really comes through especially via the rythmsection who are just the most handsome and nicest guys in rpck today—FELIX of POKY and AMBULANZ and "MANGEL-ANGEL" DENES aka DEE BEE RICH who plays in every band in Germany including LIIEK and ONKELZ. An eager Youtube troll commented "this sounds exactly like the people who play in this band.", which either means LAFFF BOX sounds like 4 white cis-dudes from East Germany or refers to the other bands they play with, which on top of the ones above are EX-WHITE & VERRÄTER for JOANS and LASSIE for MARIAN. Well make of it what you want it's fast and modern ( but without synths ) Punk with rocking sometimes Thin Lizzy style double guitars. Lots of crew shout double vocals also. Let it melt ya face off buddy.
LP $25.50
07/21/2023
***Available on vinyl for the first time anywhere, The Revelons are known to punk prevaricators one of best “lost bands” of the CBGB era who simply released one earth-moving 7” single on Ork Records in 1979, didn’t get signed to a major, and shuffled back into the shadows of an ever-growing scene. Fronted by Gregory Lee Pickard, the band dug into the trenches of New York City’s seedy Bowery life and were frequent players alongside most of the top-tier punk bands of the time, becoming mainstays at not only CBGB but Mudd Club, Danceteria, Hurrah’s and Max’s as well as incorporating a rotating cast of members that, at times featured Richard Lloyd of Television and Jay Dee Dougherty of the Patti Smith Group in the lineup. Incorporating a brash and aggressive pop sound with a vicious edge, The Revelons teetered between Television-like sparkling minimal artistic flourishes, but with more raw & primitive delivery. To which, they solidified their street-level prowess with a tenderized toughness not many other bands could match. The Revelons also were pretty hard to pigeonhole sound-wise then as they are now, with Talking Heads comparisons generally falling short, but there were some genuine Doo Wop moments that sneak in as well, showing their deeper roots to the NYC of days long past. But the real crime here is that this previously unreleased collection of recordings has never appeared in the vinyl LP format, as it surely would have escalated The Revelons’ profile much higher in the timeline...
LP $17.75
12/09/2022
***Arising from the ashes of THE POPPEES, a four-piece Merseybeat/Brit Invasion “Pop Revival” band, the core of the BOYFRIENDS began to coalesce around the emerging Cavern Club of the Bowery: Hilly Krystal’s CBGB’s. Inspired by the heavier sounds of the Heartbreakers and Ramones, vocalist and rhythm guitarist PADDY LORENZO and lead guitarist BOBBY DEE WAXMAN ditched their mohair suits for a more austere look and a more stripped-down, street-level sound. Adding JAY NAP on bass and LEE CRYSTAL on drums, the original line-up of the Boyfriends was set. Thankfully, This criminally underrated group may now finally be getting the break that they’ve been waiting over forty years for as this compilation collects the band’s two singles as well as studio material and demos, remastered from the original tapes and available on vinyl for the very first time. With the talent, songwriting ability and pop craftmanship on display, The Boyfriends hopefully will finally now assume their rightful place in the New York City punk and new wave pantheon.
LP $25.35
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***“Reminder leaps into now-time with the debut EP from TUXEDO CATS, a crisp NYC unit possessing an almost cartoonish punky pedigree. This brand-new clowder, comprised of heroes from APACHE, TOUGH SHITS, DANCER and HUMAN BEING LAWNMOWER artiste AVI SPIVAK, takes absolutely no shit, wastes zero time and flat-out rules from the jump. Recalling their dandiest Dancer moments, tuff-guy gurus DEE DEE and OMAR trade vocals across four dripping tongue-in-cheek odes to fast living, each delivered with an authentic dual-guitar pump that’s expertly welded with hooks. It’s a charged-up re-channeling of so many classic greats: Heartbreakers, Rubber City Rebels, Zeros, the elite league. Out The Bag has that certified scuzz, strategically sweetened for your pleasure. Get ready to punk out with the passion, in the highest fashion!”—Mitch Cardwell
7" $11.00
09/09/2022
Do you remember when Rock was young? Do you remember when Rock was fun? It seems some folks still do cuz some bad bad Bananas did a heist on the Buddha vault, lifted the hooks from Shakin' Street, & opened up the Joey Johnny Dee Dee Tommy throttle and let 'er rip. Five years on from their debut album of stompin' Bubblegrunge covers of Garage Rock staples by Paul Revere, The Monkees, Chocolate Watch Band, 1910 Fruitgum Company, Flipper et al ("Pebbles 2000" on Agitated Records, folks) the five-piece from the western shores of Granadaland return with a new album of all-original hip-shakin' nuggets to make your feet move and your head spin! That's right! That's right! 14 tasty trips tailor made for rock'n'roll radio, plus 4 hidden midget gems of post-punk junk for ya ta chew on—plus 4 hidden Midget Gems of Post-Punk junk for ya ta chew on! It's greasy! It's freaky! It's insane! And never forget: "Bubblegrunge Music Is The Naked Truth". For fans of having a good time, all the time! Stack up your heels and party Hard with these hardcore funsters.. Limited edition LP comes with CD. Limited to 500 worldwide.
LP $20.25
05/10/2019
CD $16.00
04/19/2019
MP3 $9.90
04/05/2019
FLAC $11.99
04/05/2019
***We’re Catchy, the debut LP from East Bay punk supergroup THE PATHOGENS, explodes out of your speakers at top intensity for 14 unforgettable tunes. Hailing from bands including ECONOCHRIST, FRACAS, UNDEAD BOYS, ZBS, DIVVYS, STRYCHNINE, the band blasts catchy-yet-tough melodies that complement the cutting, clever lyrics of CINDER BLOCK (TILT, RETCHING RED) and JESSE LUSCIOUS (BLATZ, CRIMINALS). Additional lyrics come from MISKI DEE (CITY MOUSE), MATT FREEMAN (OP IVY, RANCID) and AMY WINEHOUSE (no, really!). From politics to relationships to addiction to law enforcement to fun odes to being punk/weird/odd, there’s a song for everyone. This release marks the revival of Zafio Records, the record label that brought you the classic This Is Berkeley Not West Bay comp. Packaged with lyric sheet and download card, and pressed on limited edition blue vinyl.
LP $15.50
03/15/2019
***Atlanta’s SUBSONICS are a gutter-glam, minimal rock’n’roll trio. This is their 8th album and it’s called Flesh Colored Paint. Like all their previous works, this is a distilled hodgepodge of decades of popular culture and classic literature culminating in a collection of short and groovy shambolar: Chuck Berry, Albert Camus, AM radio rock jocks, Bo Diddley, Golden Age TV, surrealism, Mad Magazine, kung-fu flicks, Herman Melville, Little Richard, self-negating philosophy, David Johansen, The Bible, Dee Dee Ramone, Lee Van Cleef, Cornell Woolrich, advertising jingles, Dada, Carole King, Bugs Bunny, and Casablanca; the poem, not the film. This is a gorgeous mess of an record, and it’s cool. REAL COOL, KILLER. We hope you’ll find something within to make you think, or at the very least, dance, if it’s too deep. (STREET DATE - 4/20/2018)
LP $15.50
04/20/2018
CD $10.25
04/20/2018
N’awlins dah’lin Sir Stephen knows why the Cajun bird sings. The time-trippin’, style-hoppin’ virtual reality fantasy zone that is House of Regalia delivers eight flava profiles to drop on yr tongue, from the Brand New Heavies-inspired “One x One” (featuring N’Dea-diva vocals by Fleur de Lis) to the Cooltempo / rare groove take on New Order of “Dance for Life,” to the Underworld-weary born-and-raised slippy ripper “Get Wet.” House of Regalia is a lux-layer cake of sister-soul mantras (“I’ll be pushin’ on!”), acid jazz latte lounge breaks, jackin’-the-Black Box piano house holds, thrown shades, fashion plates and dizzy dancefloor dee-lites. This is music for dancers, pure ’n’ sample.
LP $13.00
10/30/2012
MP3 $7.92
10/30/2012
***Ad Marginem began life as a collaboration between filmmaker LIAM YATES and MUGSTAR, created outside a traditional framework whereby a filmscore is added to a completed film. Members of the band were equal partners in writing, directing, editing as well as acting; the on screen drama was shaped to complement the musical form. Ad Marginem is both tightly controlled and claustrophobic.; though is not without a supersonic, dark and dense explosiveness, echoing Slint and Pink Floyd. Visually, the stark black and white photography of the cover pays homage to classic world cinema. The entire project (interiors and exteriors) was filmed within a stone's throw of the coast and contrasts post-industrial urban landscapes with some of the most beautiful Merseyside locations: the Sefton coast of Liverpool Bay and Hilbre Island, where the Dee Estuary meets the Irish Sea. A tale of obsession and betrayal, it takes as a theme physical and social marginality: a cult on the margins of society, a man on the margins of the cult. In case you’ve not heard of them before, Mugstar are an instrumental rock band all the way from Liverpool, influenced by krautrock, Pink Floyd, Neu!, Sonic Youth and Oneida. 500 COPIES ONLY. LP AND DVD
LP+DVD $17.00
09/18/2012
MP3 $6.93
09/03/2012
Last November, Maria Minerva accepted the invitation of a close friend to flee the grey brainwash of yet another East London winter for a temporary retreat amid the seaside serenities of Lisbon. The life oasis of the experience freed her up to hibernate with lyrics, loops, echo pedals and emotions, and she holed up at an empty exhibition space nearby to craft the eleven mercurial mysteries that comprise her brave sophomore color wheel, Will Happiness Find Me? An impressively individualist mix-tape channeling the 360º spectrum of Minerva’s diverse obsessions, Will Happiness Find Me? connects the avant-pop dots between future-shock pirate radio singles, hermetic tone studies, late-night wanderlust lullabies, tape-faded club dee-lights, sampladelic vocal exploratoriums, private-press art pranks and even ambient hip-hop melancholia. Given that most contempo aesthetic arcs ebb from the raw and odd to the polished and accessible, it’s rad and uplifting to hear Minerva swimming so soulfully the other direction. “My heart is like a microphone / Just talk into it.” Never give up.
LP $13.00
08/28/2012
CD $13.00
08/28/2012
MP3 $9.90
08/28/2012
***We visualize the music of BACHELORETTE beaming through distant star systems, gliding and bouncing through a matrix of coolly illuminated neural pathways. Yet, all the songs on her new album were written on Earth: Radley, UK; Tripoli, Libya; Millwood, VA; Brooklyn, NYC and back home in Auckland, NZ. ANNABEL ALPERS (the heart behind Bachelorette’s machine) is no sky-bound jet-trash. Her new, self-titled album has a corporeal, sensual tangibility. If you were a fan of the wildly under-heard Isolation Loops and My Electric Family, you will be touched and torched once again by her deep-space solitude and the soulful ache that radiates from her best songs. Annabel Alpers dreams the trappings of her electro psych pop—her melodies, her minimal lines of synth and harmony vocal—and then brings the complex shades of this vision into our world through her music. All the traveling done in the last year or so of Bachelorette’s life has seeped into her rich-toned amalgamation of sounds. When organic waves enter her work—as cathedral chimes did in Oxford—they return swathed in a lunar halo. Bachelorette is epic from its very genesis. Hovering over a fluttering blanket of voices, a ghostly vision of the future is distilled with the same seductive inevitability of a Greek oracle in “Grow Old With Me.” With the controls to her destiny thus programmed, Annabel gestures toward an alien visitation—or is it an all-too-human introspection? Her metaphors are a strong tonic, entertaining with their surfaces while the sounds race to your heart. Bachelorette’s great...
LP $19.75
05/17/2011
CD $13.75
05/17/2011
NOW AVAILABLE ON VINYL!!! Honeysuckle Æons is the new album by hallucinatory gnostic supergroup Current 93, following hot and hard on the heels of their recent trilogy (Black Ships Ate the Sky, Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain and Baalstorm, Sing Omega). The CD comes in a black and white digi-pack and contains a 16-page booklet with all the lyrics plus photos of the C93 family. Current 93, who were as cool as flies and as real as rainbows, are now as perfect as planets: Eliot Bates, Baby Dee, Andrew Liles, Lisa Pizzighella, Armen Ra and David Tibet.
LP $16.00
07/05/2011
CD $13.00
04/12/2011
MP3 $9.90
04/12/2011
***A collection of exclusive, rare readings recorded in 1992 in New York's Greenwich Village from Beat legends GREGORY CORSO, ALLEN GINSBERG, and PETER ORLOVSKY. Released on the BBE label, noted for releases by Pete Rock, Jay Dee, Dr. Bob Jones, Dimitri From Paris and others. SHOPWORN COPIES.
2XLP $3.00
01/08/2001
***Coptic Cat present a reissue of CURRENT 93's BaalStorm, Sing Omega, originally released in 2010. Spinning in the Baalstorm as Current 93 were and weren't: ELIOT BATES, JAMES BLACKSHAW, JOHN CONTRERAS, BABY DEE, ANDREW LILES, MELON LILES, ALEX NEILSON, BEA TAYLOR, ISABEL TAYLOR, and DAVID TIBET. Includes a four-page 12" booklet with photos of the band and lyrics; Color sleeve with artwork by David Tibet; Edition of 500.The CD comes in a full-color digi-pack with a booklet including all the lyrics and photos of the banned band.
LP $32.75
01/27/2017
CD $13.00
07/06/2010
MP3 $8.91
07/06/2010
***For years, this Chicago scuzz-punk psychedelic prog machine has been turning heads as the Midwest's answer to Hawkwind, Can and other mind-expanding primordial brain-fryers. At long last, and after years of preparation, HoZac is proud to unleash the quintessential 7-inch single from PLASTIC CRIMEWAVE SOUND as they obliterate the blistering biker-psych formula, blasting the shrapnel deep into the innerspace of your mind. Presented here is their epic "Shockwave Rider," edited down from its 6-plus-minute format for maximum loudness and divinity. Featuring a lead guitar line from VEE DEE’s NICK D’VYNE that will turn your hair white and stir up your endorphins before it even hits the first chorus, all while displaying the gnarly heaviness that PCWS have made all their own.
7" $5.40
10/26/2009
MP3 $1.98
10/26/2009
Birth Canal Blues is the first CD release on Coptic Cat, the new label started by David Tibet and Current 93. The album consists of one 20-minute song in four movements that sets the basic narrative structure of Anok Pe Current 93's new Hallucinatory Mountain trilogy, whose first part, Invocation of Hallucinatory Mountain, is due in January 2009. Birth Canal Blues was recorded by Tibet, Baby Dee, John Contreras, and Andrew Liles. The packaging includes an 8-page color booklet with photographs from Egypt by Tibet.
CD $9.50
12/09/2008
MP3 $3.96
12/09/2008
FLAC $4.99
12/09/2008
The long-awaited Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain is Current 93's first album in three years, following their double-platinum-selling Black Ships Ate the Sky. Spinning around epic series of verses written by Current 93 founder David Tibet, the new album sees Tibet back with a new 1972-style supergroup comprised of himself on vocals and July and Gorgon guitars; guitar hero James Blackshaw on 12-string guitar and piano; counter-culture guru William Breeze on electric viola and viola-controlled sampler; Cyclobe and Coil's Ossian Brown on synthesizers, treated organ, and electronics; heavenly musician John Contreras on cello and synthesizers; haunting chanteuse and composer Baby Dee on piano, Hammond organ, and throat song; Pantalemon's enchanted Andria Degens on vocals; world famous porn star Sasha Grey on vocals; Andrew Liles (Nurse With Wound) on electronics and guitars; extraordinary percussionist supreme Alex Neilson (Red Krayola, Trembling Bells, Bonnie "Prince" Billy) on drums and percussion; Grammy award-winning genius Rickie Lee Jones on vocals; Alice and Henry Rousham on vocals; Steven Stapleton on electronics and glands; NYC legend Matt Sweeney (Zwan, Neil Diamond, Superwolf, ZZ Top) on electric guitar and vocals; rock god phenomenon Andrew WK on bass, piano, finger-bells, and vocals; and the beautiful Hush Arbor's Keith Wood on electric guitar, acoustic guitar, slide guitar, and bass. Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain is the most unique, unpredictable, and powerful release yet from Current 93. Tibet has brought together an amazing and bizarre array of talents and created an album unlike any other.
CD $13.00
05/26/2009
2XLP $20.25
05/26/2009
MP3 $9.90
05/26/2009
***A collection of rare and previously unreleased interviews by and with journalist and twenty-year Pennsylvania death row resident MUMIA ABU-JAMAL. Produced by ANITA JOHNSON of Hardknock Radio in association with WEYLAND SOUTHON and NOELLE HANRAHAN of Prison Radio. Includes essays recorded in prison, excerpts of interviews conducted between 1979-1981 (when Mumia was a Philadelphia radio reporter) with BOB MARLEY, HUGH MASEKA, OSSIE DAVIS, RUBY DEE, the first president of Nigeria DR. NNAMDI AZIKIWE, Philly mayors WILLIAM GREEN and WILSON GOODE, MOVE prisoners, and much more.
CD $13.00
07/10/2001
MP3 $9.90
07/10/2001
Featured artists: Vashti Bunyan, William Basinski, Bill Fay, Simon Finn, Six Organs of Admittance, Angels of Light, Antony, Baby Dee, Ghost, The Hafler Trio, Pearls Before Swine, Jarboe, Devendra Banhart, Pantaleimon, Faun Fables, Nurse With Wound, Sundial, Current 93, irr. app. (ext.), Thighpaulsandra, srmeixner, Little Annie Anxiety, Jim O’Rourke, Lynn Jackson, Small Creatures, Michael Yonkers, Mirror, Jad Fair, Linda Perhacs, Edward Ka-Spel, Teenage Fanclub, Richard Buckner, Mary 5E, Anomoanon, L, Isobel Campbell, Allen Ginsberg, David Surkamp, Bonnie Prince Billy, Marc Almond, Damon and Naomi, Mount Vernon Arts Lab, Unveiled, James William Hindle, Rose McDowall, John Maslen, Larsen, Mr Durt, Shannon Lyon, John Contreras, Brett Smiley, Cyclobe, Blue Eyed Black, Stephanie Volkmar, Howie B, Bevis Frond, Thurston Moore, Shockheaded Peters, John Terrill, Max Richter, Colin Potter, AUBE, Keiji Haino, Jeremy Reed, The Hollowings, Tom Recchion, Fursaxa, Amy Curl, Joolie Wood, Genesis P-Orridge, Suishou no Fune, Coil, Eric Lanzillotta, Scott Stapleton, Shirley Collins, Ghostigital, Charlemagne Palestine, and Matmos.
5XCD $25.00
04/04/2006
***"Jimbo & Timbo are geniuses. This is an irrefutable fact. Brethren in arms. Michigan mutants. Heroically inspiring and uncompromising punks. Craftsmen of magnificent, mind-shattering art [visual, performance, musical, corporal, unclassifiable] for several decades and counting. This release is the latest in their infrequent joint offering series, recalling the collaborative GARBAGE RIVER and their respective semi-spontaneous Terror Trash 7” dispatches from yesteryear. Vulgar’s side contains two deep-space antagonist guitar barbs and an ode to toad-licking with tentacles reaching toward in electro-dance, UK folk, disco and maybe even hip-hop. Easter’s side swiggles from unknown origins, containing 6 maddening miniature poetic disturbance collages, a circus of sound. There is hope and clarity to the universe when realizing these two found each other so long ago. That they both continue to create, separately and together, from impulse to emission, so freely is a gift to all. Celebrate them or remain foolish."—Mitch Cardwell
7" $11.00
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***American hallucinatory bestial occult metal sorcerers Diabolic Oath return with their brand new “Unholy Barbaric Hymns” EP, four new tracks of their staple and unprecedented fretless sonic destruction. Swathed in dissonance and liquefying into free-form chaos, the band's esoteric and ritual-like psychedelic extreme metal keeps evolving beyond new thresholds of aural mind-devourement, further transitioning their cryptic dogma of musical transformation through absolute technical tyranny into formal aberrations rarely observed before in the underground. Those familiar with the band’s personal sphere are well aware of the musical mastery harbored within this mystical human nuclear trident. Conventional stringed instruments hand-stripped of frets and transformed into psychedelic mind-weapons for sensorial depredation, percussions transformed into tribal war drums through the use of massively deep and bellowing shells that deflagrate like wrathful thunder shattering through the celestial vaults, and a triple, simultaneous vocal attack slithering through the cacophony like an infernal trifecta of interwoven snakes spitting venom and hissing obscenities from beyond the shreds of sanity. An absolute mind-war of psychedelic terror and primitive warmongering violence creating a tyrannical unison in which the mind is perpetually disarmed and deceived to submit the corporeal realm into an infinite sequence of chaos and destruction.
CD $12.25
06/05/2026
LP $25.35
06/05/2026
After five years of gestation Thætas return with an auditory statement for their moment in time, the new album The Irredeemable Age on Profound Lore Records.The Irredeemable Age shows the band both refining and intensifying the brutal death metal approach from their debut album, Shrines to Absurdity, while deepening their explorations into the bizarre, the uncharted and even the avant-garde. The result is a dynamic mosaic of obsessively dark, organic, off-kilter and kinetic death metal.The four-piece band hail from the New York region, consisting of drummer Nick Crifo, guitarists Terrell Grannum (Reeking Aura, Buckshot Facelift, Squelching Flesh) & Pat Hawkins (Asystole, Needlepusher, Kyrios, Aberrated) and vocalist / bassist Cory Peterson (37564 Recordings). The album was tracked independently then mixed and mastered by the inimitable Colin Marston.
CD $12.00
06/26/2026
LP $22.00
06/26/2026
MP3 $7.99
06/26/2026
FLAC $8.99
06/26/2026
***"Absolute[ly] two new and fresh tunes from Oneida—the original, pioneering [please find less fraught term], Brooklyn DIY band now via Boston, Brooklyn and Queens (NYC real estate keeps 'em guessing). Recorded during a recent session at their new-ish rehearsal studio named (not by them) MALVINA PARTY JAIL (with additional recording at Deep Dive in Flatbush), these two stout, emotive and pungent [insert fragrant?] jams behold a band acting very much their age (almost 30) but also not really acting their age, because they are still at it and somehow have not become cynical and/or unpleasant to be around. So perhaps they are tunes that sound as if they are performed by fresh-faced 30 year olds with a few more things to prove.'I Can't Stand You (single version)' originated as a seed planted by the one and only Baby Jane and brought to redolent and chaotic fruition during an early take. It's rough, ready but also well mannered enough to appear on your neighborhood pirate radio station.We forget the name of the B-side b/c it's taken from an almost hour long jam from the same session (actually it's called 'Steel' b/c Barry plays steel guitar on it!)—and there are no lyrics (any ideas? please write the band care of Ernest Jenning)—but it is as robust and hard charging as the best of this band's storied catalog.Just because they're old doesn't mean they're good!"Beautiful artwork by the band's long suffering and talented designer of choice—Dan Schechter."
7" $11.25
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***Here In The Valley is the debut full-length release from helllhound, the intimate sonic collaboration of life partners Cadmar Fitzhugh and Nailah Hunter. Born out of a seismic shift from urban Los Angeles to a remote mountain town in the Sierra National Forest, the record reflects a period of profound transition—into the wilderness, into parenthood, and into a deeper communion with self.Woven together through acoustic guitar, harp, voice, and gentle electronics, Here In The Valleyevokes the textures of the natural world and the unseen dimensions of ancestral memory. It moves like mist through tall pines and echoes like a fireside tale overheard from across a moonlitmeadow. Tracing the arc from conception to early motherhood, the album celebrates the beautyand impermanence of life on Earth, the mysticism of matrescence, and the long journey home tooneself.With tracks written before, during, and after pregnancy, the album unfolds like a handmade mapof a spirit-led pilgrimage—through waterways, starfields, and golden hills. Each song is a milestone, a myth. From the harmonic murmurs of “downstream” to the ancestral chant of “by sea,” the stargazing restfulness of “the pleiades,” and the gentle nighttime balm of “lullaby,” Here In The Valley is a love letter to new life, old stories, and the sacred quiet in between.The pair’s shared creative language finds expression in ethereal ambient and folk sounds. Nurtured in the stillness of California’s high country, their music conjures pastoral dreamscapes that hum with the mystery of birth, the longing of memory, and the wild devotion of partnership....
MC $7.50
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***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.
LP $22.75
04/24/2026
“While performing at an early Twentieth Century steam driven power plant and imagining what its industrial ambiance might have been, an outline of ‘A Penchant for the Useless’ emerged. Like many of my projects, the album started with a search for the kinds of unique, amusical sounds I wanted to work with. And credit is also due to a rereading of Nicolas Collins’ ‘Handmade Electronic Music.’” Using a collection of electric guitar pickups, contact microphones, and transducers that would vibrate random metallic and wooden objects, Barreca built a library of loop recordings. Also recorded were the electronic buzzes and bleeps of a computer and various home appliances. Granular effect processing and layering with a sampler and a physical modeling synth transformed this largely atonal source material into deep, harmonious assemblages.These long chains of sonic transformations fused with the dark beauty of their industrial steam-era inspiration, and resonate throughout the music. Only rarely will these pieces hint at their now obsolete and decaying source materials. ‘A Penchant for the Useless’ is Marc Barreca’s 15th solo album, adding to a catalog of constantly evolving and refining experimentation and compositional innovation that now spans more than four decades.Barreca has also collaborated with Three Point Circle, Young Scientist, Savant, and K. Leimer. Mastered by Taylor Deupree at 12K Mastering.
CD $12.00
05/01/2026
MP3 $9.90
05/01/2026
FLAC $11.99
05/01/2026
Since exploding on the improvised music scene a couple of years ago Tennessee native Zoh Amba has found herself engaging with an ever-widening group of collaborators as she tours across the US and Europe. She’s forged some enduring partnerships, working regularly with drummer Chris Corsano, bassist Thomas Morgan, and pianist Micah Thomas, among others, but one of the deep pleasures of improvised music is when a first- time meeting produces sparks. Indeed, that’s certainly the case with The Flower School, which bottles some serious lightning. In March of 2023 Amba and Corsano had finished up a duo tour of the west coast with an explosive performance in San Francisco. The next day the duo entered the studio with guitarist Bill Orcutt—a trusted collaborator of the drummer stretching back a decade. It was the first time Orcutt and Amba had ever played together, but it sure doesn’t seem that way.Although Amba has often recorded a bunch of tune-oriented albums for Tzadik she’s a free improviser at heart, and this trio arguably provides the most effective, elastic context for her playing yet. Yet what’s most astonishing about The Flower School is how it elevates and transforms the playing of all three participants. It appears that there was more than enough trust in the room to allow each player to push-and-pull. Anyone who pays attention already knows that Orcutt and Corsano are mercurial figures, perpetually adapting, adjusting, and challenging one another so that every performance by their duo seems to spring from a...
CD $13.00
04/17/2026
The journey of Spirit Adrift has come full circle. With their sixth album in a decade, mastermind Nathan Garrett is ready to unleash the band’s final chapter. Infinite Illumination, the Spirit Adrift swansong, is a return to the wellspring that first inspired it all and testament to a band that in the last ten years has crafted an impeccable signature thoroughly their own, molded from the elemental matter of more than a half century of heavy metal exaltation. Infinite Illumination has a directness to it, a sense of urgency and raw intensity. The songs feel inevitable, like they had to be driven out from deep within during a time of great upheaval. The fatalistic “Born in a Bad Way” summons a vengeful “broken relic from another age” that must “live again and make them pay” via Garrett’s swaggering snarl, while “White Death” impugns “God shined on a chosen few, we must kill the rest of you”. These songs have a palpable sense of malaise both spiritual and terrestrial, personal and universal, inflicted via crushing traditional doom riffs, thunderous mid-tempo marches and Garrett’s impassioned vocal delivery. Long after the band is gone fans will continue to discover the Spirit Adrift catalog and witness the breadth of greatness they delivered in just a decade’s time. Every melodic, epic and emotionally charged thread that defines the band’s legacy honors the animating force behind pure creative ambition. And at its core Infinite Illumination carries both the weight of conclusion and the troubling realization that...
CD $12.00
05/15/2026
LP COLOR $24.00
05/15/2026
MP3 $7.99
04/10/2026
FLAC $8.99
04/10/2026
***With more than 70 years of history, Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto are among the most influential traditional music ensembles in Latin America and are recognized as a Living Cultural Heritage of Colombia.En Vivo Desde Le Guess Who? captures the group performing live at the internationally celebrated festival in the Netherlands, presenting the powerful rhythms and ancestral spirit of gaita and cumbia from Colombia’s Montes de María region to an ecstatic European audience.This recording documents a rare and vibrant cultural exchange—traditional Caribbean music resonating on an international stage while remaining deeply rooted in centuries-old musical traditions.Pressed on limited blue vinyl.
LP $32.85
05/22/2026
***Corum’s Web of Midnight traces an astral cartography and psychic linkage between the psychosexual laboratories of Wilhelm Reich’s Orgonon in Rangely, Maine all the way to the Mount Teide Volcano on the Canary Islands. Different facets of the album were recorded in these charged locations causing the music to erupt with an orgasmic and volcanic force, a subconscious blast and discharge of etheric earth energy channeled through shimmering electronica.Babbling voices that speak in the babel tongues of diverse holy spirits bring the listener into a sacred communion with the spiders of the void, spiders who weave their webs beyond the mauve zone in a realm of outerplanetary darkness. As the record spins so does the silk. Translucent sonic threads connect across vast distances in the dreamtime where they each receive stellar vibrations, now penetrating the earth from the deepest recesses of space.This space music could be considered dark ambient or kosmiche, and like the distant cosmic reaches of the universe it is suitably “out there” to please the discerning tastes of brave psychonautic listeners. Seekers who have previously used Corum’s music as fuel for their own remote viewing reconnaissance missions will find this outing as entrancing as his other explorations. Web of Midnight is a soundtrack for inward travel, destinations unknown.Even as the music voyages across the celestial empyrean of space, he opens up new territory, diving downwards into the underworld where the mysteries of Orpheus (poet, musician, prophet) are encountered in their cavernous depths. Here the Orphic lyre is...
LP $37.95
04/17/2026
Overjoyed to announce the release of this monumental record featuring two very different sides of the free-improv coin. This intergenerational, wide-minded split LP blurs the hedges of national borders and the traditions of composition, marking a niche interzone inhabited solely by the uncles of punk and their experimental stepchildren. Canadian noise pioneers, Nihilist Spasm Band, deliver a ripping side-long opus rife with their singular blend of hi-octane kazoo, invented instruments and propulsive, arrhythmic drumming. This deep cut is likely to be the final NSB recording released featuring the late great vocalist Bill Exley, who passed away in 2025 after performing as a Nihilist for exactly 60 years. On the flipside, K/S/R screw the tempo down to their patented desert crawl pulse and lock the door behind them. Departing from the interstellar density of the trio’s 2025 Already in Heaven LP, the side-long treatise of An American Sonnet brandishes the group’s minimalist approach heard during recent performances across the United States. A plein air structure of ascetic interplay locates K/S/R carving sonic terrane from the space between notes, where each gesture is ascertained both as an individual voice and a building block of the collective. 180-gram mixed color vinyl, edition of 245. Co-released with Physical.
LP $23.95
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***Knock Knock is a celebrated Sacramento indie-pop/rock band known for their infectious, sunny 1970s-AM-radio-inspired sound, often described as a mix of folky acoustic rhythms, sharp surf-rock guitars (think Pixies), and danceable beats. Active for over twenty years, the group became a staple of the local Sacramento scene, often releasing new material every few years between weddings, child births, and divorces. Knock Knock is lead by “cool youth pastor” turned NPR donor Allen Maxwell (Vocals / Bass). Compromising this man’s vision are the married guitar duo Mike Cinciripino (Lead Guitar) and Heather Conway (Vocals / Rhythm Guitar). Every band needs a at least one actual musician. Knock Knock does better than one and provides two: Christine Shelly (Drums) and Dylan Barnes (Keys). Knock Knock's music is often marked by upbeat melodies that contrast with deeper, sometimes existential themes in their lyrics, described as "apocalyptic musings" that deal with personal, emotional crises. Night School / Night Shift is Knock Knock’s 4th long play record and is released by Sacramento Records. Recorded by Pat Hill’s (Bastards of Young; Earthtone Studios) and Ted Angel (Mr. T Experience). All tracks were mastered by the late and great Patrick Haight.
LP $18.50
04/03/2026
Finnish multi-instrumentalist Simo Hakalisto makes mosaic music of strings, bowls, bells, reeds, wind, water, and obscure electronics, threaded in subtle currents of color and texture. The title of his latest, Toinen Luonto (Finnish for “second nature”), alludes equally to Shakali’s earthen, tactile soundworld and Hakalisto’s deepening comfort with his craft. The album’s eight songs feel coaxed as much as composed, a web of resonances set in motion and allowed to simmer, build, or billow. Vibrations and silences unspool and intertwine, alternately pointillist and diffuse, attuned to some hidden harmony of the spheres. In addition to his own repertoire of rare instruments (including a 36-string kantele, built by Hakalisto’s grand-uncle), several notable collaborators contributed to Toinen Luonto: saxophonist Julian Overall; Hakalisto’s partner in the duo Lunar Horns, Timo Juntunen, playing udu and percussion; American experimentalist Roy Werner; and Belgian ambient flute samplist Les Halles.
LP $20.25
07/03/2026
MP3 $7.99
07/03/2026
FLAC $8.99
07/03/2026
***BACK IN PRINT!!! Received an 8.3 Best New Reissue rating from Pitchfork. Black Editions present the first ever vinyl edition of Tokyo Flashback, the legendary 1991 compilation that defined the Tokyo psychedelic movement and first brought it to the outside world. Tokyo Flashback is one of the most iconic compilations in the history of underground music. Originally released by Japan's P.S.F. Records, Tokyo Flashback defined the breathtakingly unique and previously obscured musical movement that had been developing in Japan since the late 1970s. The compilation features some of the earliest released recordings by KEIJI HAINO, HIGH RISE, MASAKI BATOH's GHOST, WHITE HEAVEN, FUSHITSUSHA , KOUSOKUYA, and MARBLE SHEEP. It captures the excitement and energy of a Tokyo awash in Technicolor and deep blacks; the music echoing krautrock, psychedelic freak-outs, garage, and no wave. At the same time it reveals astonishing, totally idiosyncratic expansions of rock music. In time, Tokyo Flashback expanded to a synonymous nine volume series that, over the following two decades, unveiled Japan's ever evolving soundscapes to the rest of the world. Tokyo Flashback is a defining statement of late 20th century Japanese psychedelic music and an essential primer to the world of P.S.F. All tracks are exclusive, this edition features the first time translation of the original liner notes. Black Editions' deluxe edition is entirely re-mastered and marks the first release of Tokyo Flashback outside of Japan and it's first ever vinyl issue. Also features VERZERK. Newly created artwork and design expanding on the original by ROB...
2XLP $41.75
04/03/2026
***This album, Ethio Jazz, by MULATU ASTATKE is a jewel of the modern Ethiopian music and a mythical album. An album incredibly groovy recorded between 1969 in 1972. A record of Ethio groove in which we find some US soul, the jazz, the Latin accents and especially the oriental rhythms. A real jewel of the Ethiopian modern instrumental music, which illustrates perfectly the symbiosis of the strong rhythms and the quality arrangements with the Ethiopian subtle and deep melodies. A best for all the music lovers of ‘70s sound! In the Ethiopian musical landscape, Mulatu Astatke is a unique musician, a composer, an arranger. His real contribution lives in its action for the instrumental music, in a country where the orchestral traditions did not exist. For more than 30 years, he is the door flag of the Ethiopian music. Pressed on 180-gram vinyl and packaged in heavy cardboard jackets.
LP $29.85
03/20/2026
***Les Rallizes Dénudés returns with Disque 4 -’76 Studio et Live-, the latest in the ongoing series of official archival releases from the celebrated Japanese underground band.In 1991, Les Rallizes Dénudés released what would become the only official albums issued during the band’s lifetime: ’67-’69 STUDIO et LIVE, MIZUTANI / Les Rallizes Dénudés, and ’77 LIVE. What no one knew at the time was that Takashi Mizutani was already deep into preparing another record.Disque 4 reconstructs the track list Mizutani had put together for that fourth album. This includes the single “White Awakening," recorded in 1976 at the studio in Takadanobaba BIG BOX as part of the sessions that would become known among collectors as the “Virgin Demos.” Production and mastering of this archival release were handled once again by Makoto Kubota, assembling the album from the masters left behind by Mizutani, utilizing newly discovered tapes as additional sources.Prepared by Mizutani using a variety of formats, including U-Matic, open reel, and DAT, the tracks were originally labeled with working titles such as “Disque 4” and “Record No. 4,” indicating that Mizutani intended them for inclusion on a possible fourth album. The recordings were taken primarily from studio sessions that all seemed to have taken place around 1976, which aligns with the claim that Mizutani himself once made that “there exists an album of studio recordings made with the same members as ‘77 LIVE.” His notes also suggest an attempt to sequence the tracks as a vinyl LP, splitting them into...
LP $28.95
06/05/2026
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.
CD $12.00
04/24/2026
LP COLOR $24.00
04/17/2026
***In a world filled with noise and chaos, Harlan’s music offers a restoration to peace. Music for Stillness unfolds slowly, inviting rest and quiet presence. The bansuri flute leads the sound, its vocal-like quality weaving melody atop cello and ambient textures. Influenced by Indian classical music, Japanese environmental music, and Western ambient music, the album leaves space for the listener to choose how deeply to engage. The music offers a single question: What might peace sound like?
LP $23.25
03/20/2026
Lessons is the new record from bobbie. This is their first release with Orindal Records. bobbie lives in Western Massachusetts, where they alchemize dream pop ethereality, twinkly ambient abstraction and intimate vocal clarity into their unmistakable sound. Distorted Omnichord autoharp looping, layers of drone-y synthesizers and low, reverberating guitar crack open into a wide sonic landscape. bobbie architects this atmosphere then introduces rhythm (often just Omnichord pre-set drum beats but also live drums from Lessons engineer, Felix Walworth) and then adds the lyrical presence. The songs are deeply layered and spatial but with a clear vocal throughline. There is harmony and dimensionality to this assemblage. bobbie evokes the ambient qualities of Enya, Brian Eno and Cocteau Twins as well as the pop-y poetic vibes of Dear Nora and Frankie Cosmos. Influences range widely from artists such as Laraaji, Beach House, Arthur Russell, Bill Callahan, Beverly-Glenn Copeland, Alice Coltrane, Astrud Gilberto, to projects like Plantasia and to recurring dreams + visions. When they wake up in the morning, bobbie often records themself dictating and attempting to make meaning of the previous night’s dream. Much of their album’s imagery comes from this practice.
LP $14.95
03/20/2026
MC $11.25
03/20/2026
***CRYPTID SPAWN’S initial offering to the black metal canon is a polarizing but influential mini album comprised of primitive, atmospheric, and evil sounds. ‘Black Phosphorous Dungeon’ punishes the ear-to-brain pipeline with slow, bludgeoning riffs, minimalist drumming, and distorted, bestial vocals. The lyrics point to the bleak moments lived in this modern era of genocide and warfare such as Palestinians, Rohingya, Uyghur, Sudanese and this list goes on etc. Though some may find its production muddy and vocals alienating, they have created a divisive but revered experience for dedicated underground metal fans by blending raw black metal with death/doom, hardcore punk and ambient textures. ‘Black Phosphorous Dungeon’ stands out for its unique, ritualistic atmosphere and deep-tuned, fuzzed guitars that create a crushing, immersive feel.500 on black 140gr vinyl housed in a 24pt jacket with lyrics insert included. Recorded and mixed at Dungeon 416 by Cryptic Spawn themselves. Mastered at Dead Air Studios by Will Killingsworth. Art by Sarcofagore.FFO: Beherit, Blasphemy, Doldrey, Innumerable Forms, Mortiferum, Sarcofago, Hellhammer, Effigy.
LP $27.75
03/13/2026
MP3 $3.99
03/13/2026
FLAC $4.99
03/13/2026
The long‑awaited sophomore release and first full‑length LP from San Francisco’s hybrid psychedelic Latin blues rock explorers, Bolero! has risen—an unapologetically primal expression of human music.The album unfolds as a guided journey through the spiritual and mortal realms, bridging past, present, and future through dynamic, richly layered compositions. Drawing inspiration from the San Francisco Sound of the late ’60s and ’70s while reframing it through a contemporary lens, the record moves fluidly between groove, ritual, and reflection.The journey opens with “Greetings,” an acknowledgment and welcome to our planet spoken in fourteen languages by friends and family of the band, layered over a deep, funky instrumental jam that ignites the album’s momentum.A drum hit snaps into motion the next track, “Espíritu,” beginning in a hypnotic trance with ghostly vocals inviting listeners to commune and dance with the spirits. The piece steadily builds into a powerful groove, featuring percussion breaks and soaring guitar and organ harmonies. Wind chimes drift in as a deep, tribal rhythm emerges, leading seamlessly into the final track of Side A, “Bathala.” Inspired by the ancient Tagalog deity said to have created the universe, the song erupts like a volcanic war cry—thunderous, cathartic, and elemental.Side B opens with “U.A.V.” a bluesy, fuzz‑drenched anti‑war anthem featuring vivid, incisive lyrics delivered in a dark, Morrison‑esque baritone over a crushing, Sabbath‑inspired musical assault. As the smoke clears, “Simply Livin” rolls in like the ignition of a classic car. Rooted in California sweet soul, the track pairs everyday imagery with soothing vocal...
LP $22.00
03/20/2026
***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.
LP $27.95
03/06/2026
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.
CD $13.00
04/17/2026
LP SERENITY $22.00
04/17/2026
LP BLIZZARD $22.00
04/17/2026
MP3 $7.99
04/17/2026
FLAC $8.99
04/17/2026
The album opens at dusk with an imagined final stop before departure, a roadside gas station just as daylight fades. This introductory scene, conceived as “Last Gas Station Before the Horizon,” places the listener amid passing cars, distant seagulls, and the low hum of anticipation. The idea is to frame the record as part of a radio program, potentially guided by a radio announcer’s voice drifting in and out of the soundscape.From there, the journey moves fully into night. Tracks progress like signals picked up along the drive, calm, reflective, and gently nostalgic, until the album’s closing moment. “Peaceful Blue” represents arrival at the final destination at dawn, when the sky shifts into a deep blue and the listener waits quietly for the sun to rise and a new day to begin.
CD $7.50
02/20/2026
MC $7.50
02/20/2026
***A Visitor's Soundtrack is the first glimpse into the world of Sleep Paralysis. Instantaneous Expressive Music. Single-take free improvisation featuring Moog synthesizer and drums in the forefront of the mix, accented with an array of strange percussion instruments such as the Walaphone. Sleep Paralysis share a conceptual foundation with free jazz and early experimental electronica, creating an abstract / surrealistic painting with live sound. The album flashes between minimalist drone and frenzied bursts of avant-garde percussion and electronics. Sleep Paralysis invite the listener to a deep and free soundscape on A Visitor's Soundtrack.
LP $21.95
03/20/2026
MP3 $7.99
03/20/2026
FLAC $8.99
03/20/2026
Here we find ourselves, among the Canadian miscreants Egregore whereupon they return from whence the wind howls like a damned choir and the Earth knows no master, to chart a broader sonic wilderness via It Echoes In The Wild. And much as sea-rogues and freebooters sought fortune upon blackened waters, so too does Egregore venture musically into diabolic and ungoverned lands.Presenting something more expansive, elemental and untamed on It Echoes In The Wild, the early occult black death metal lunacy embraces atmospheric breadth equally alongside primitive force to delve deep into not only geographic wilds, but the psychological, esoteric and spiritual hinterlands at the edges of complete madness. Dark invocations and secret tongues draw forth echoes from forest and fen, cave and cliff, tempting the temporally tethered to receive the curse, all the while driven by a primal, unknowable sardonic menace.Though the voyage be perilous, to succumb to It Echoes In The Wild is to become ensconced in a lawless dominion of the soul in service of a higher call. Mirroring nature’s unbridled forces and the hidden echoes that dwell within, Egregore’s second album takes the band’s mystical insanity and magickal perversion to the edge of the abyss and plunges forward.
CD $12.00
03/20/2026
LP COLOR $24.00
03/20/2026
MP3 $7.99
03/20/2026
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03/20/2026
***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.
CD $13.50
04/17/2026
LP $25.35
04/17/2026
***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.
LP $22.50
04/17/2026
Gutvoid was formed in Toronto, Ontario by Daniel Bonofiglio (Guitar) and Brendan Dean (Guitar and Vocals), soon followed by Justin Boehm (Bass) and D. W. Lee (Drums). Blending modern death and doom soundscapes with progressive rock and metal songwriting foundations, Gutvoid creates a monster seething with gut-wrenching riffs, cavernous vocals and prog virtuosity. With the release of the “Astral Bestiary” EP in 2019, the debut album “Durance of Lightless Horizons” in 2022 and their latest output, the “Breathing Obelisk” EP in 2024, Gutvoid has continued to build on their sound, focusing on more elaborate yet intentional song structures while deepening the depth of their aggressiveness and technicality. The upcoming full length album “Liminal Shrines”, the first half of a two-part concept, showcases the band at their most intricate, aggressive, and creative thus far, further expanding and building on their cosmic horror infused atmospheres and origins. “Liminal Shrines” was recorded at Boxcar Sound Recording, Mount Wexler Studio and Dystonic Sounds, mixed and mastered by Greg Dawson and BWC Studios and features cover art by Kjell � ge Meland.
CD $13.00
03/20/2026
LP SOLAR $22.00
03/20/2026
LP CRIMSON $22.00
03/20/2026
MP3 $7.99
03/20/2026
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03/20/2026
"At long last a chance to wander behind the sky. In the chaos of the momentary and the infinity of the image, the room hums among the countless reverberations of voice and body in which, for the most part, we remain unseen. Belgrado, a ring of keys chiming through an empty prison hallway liberating every iron door as it approaches in countless careful celebrations of its passage. El Encuentro, meaning “The Meeting” or “The Encounter” pulses in cool kindness and high energy reverie, probing the same moment from a thousand angles as if Alain Resnais photographed their own private hallucinations and burnt them into song. That moment, THE moment is so elegantly woven into lyrical silk on El Encuentro as an exploration of dreams and reality, deep personal reflection, and acceptance of the end. It is the search, and the crossroads of the ethereal science of the imaginary. It sounds like being led into the back room of a tiny club in an imaginary city lost in time - intimidating whirring machinery drawing you in as if to lure you into wrecking on the rocks in a spume of Last Year at Hacienda-bad, dizzy on Righeira punch, and burnt by the Balearic sun.15 years after their debut, Belgrado continue their journey of musical development from the immediacy and directness of their guitar driven post punk sounds all those years ago into an ever evolving musical project which has spanned four LPs ranging from minimal wave and dub influences all the...
12" $26.50
02/20/2026
***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.
LP $24.75
03/06/2026
***LP version. Abdou El Omari was born in 1945 in Tafraout, south of Agadir—a village suspended between the pink granite peaks of the Anti-Atlas and the waves of the Atlantic. A landscape already musical in itself. He grew up in the dry mountain light, surrounded by the rhythms of nature and Berber's culture. Very little is known about the man—a veil of mystery still surrounds his life, only deepening the fascination. In the 1970s, as Morocco was transforming, Abdou El Omari shaped a sound of his own—a visionary blend of spiritual jazz, psychedelic funk, Moroccan traditions, and early electronic experimentation. Today, his work is resurfacing, rediscovered by a new generation of listeners in search of lost horizons. This record stands among its rarest and most precious fragments. At twenty-two, he founded his first group, Les Fugitifs, which gained him local fame. Soon after, he released records and cassettes on labels such as Cléopâtre, Hassania, Boussiphone, Hilali, and his own, Al Awtar, while performing on RTM (national radio and television). He also composed for artists like Naima Samih, Laila Ghofran, and Aicha El Waad. In 1976, through the label Gam, he released his only vinyl album, Nuits d'été—a record that would become cult decades later, reissued in 2017 by Radio Martiko. In the 1980s, his music grew quieter, more secret. He tried to recover his old tapes from the studios he had recorded in, but gradually withdrew from the scene and returned to hairdressing. A pioneer of musical fusion, he opened...
LP $27.95
03/13/2026
Can’t go over it. Can’t go under it. Gotta go through it. And somewhere out there in the Pitch black beyond all darkness lies Peace & Purpose. The horizon you never quite crest until the inevitable end. Breathe deep — this fearful moment is the most alive you’re ever gonna feel.For the last decade, Crack Cloud’s vision has grown ever more expansive, more cinematic. Last go around, they dropped from The Heavens and then performed with their bare backs to an endless darkening desert. Now they’ve crammed all that life into some metallic and strange object called Peace & Purpose.All the terror of living. All the helplessness. All the raw human will. All glued and screwed and locked into this impossible tactile shape of dungeon dub; sour milk vox; Avant-protest music.Music armwrestling itself to the ground. Far afield of beauty. The discordant symphony of factory farming and grim timber of the meat processing plant. The grinding din of the cogs. And yet, never giving up in spite of all good sense. Even in death, we are a coterie of survivors. Look now: There’s Terry Fox on his one-legged Marathon of Hope across The Great White North while cancer spreads through his lungs. A self-annihilating drive to feel alive. Rage against the dying of the light, they say. Well, how ‘bout it then!??!Peace & Purpose is not in any way some art project meditation on Punk Rock. It is Punk Rock. Terrifying, inspiring, vital, invigorating and most importantly, utterly unexpected. Every...
CD $16.00
06/26/2026
2XLP $40.00
06/26/2026
***80% of the planet’s oceans remain unexplored by humans. The vastness, extreme pressure, cold temperatures and darkness of the underwater depths make it incredibly difficult to explore. New York independent record label Ever/Never Records has a solution—send Split Apex to traverse and survey the liquid expanse that covers the greater part of the Earth. What could go wrong? Unlike the crew who manned the ill- fated Titan submersible, the two members of Split Apex—Jussi Palmusaari (guitar, electronics, percussion) and Peter Blundell (voice, bass)—will navigate the oceanic abyss as if they were born to it. Split Apex makes music that thrives under pressure, a sonar- equipped manta ray that plunges so deep it emerges into an alien landscape few humans have witnessed. In other words, Split Apex leads listeners into unchartered waters and reveals sounds yet unheard.Split Apex formed in Autumn 2024 and quickly entered a sustained period of rehearsing and recording in Croydon, South London. Palmusaari came to London from his native Finland, where he played with Preesens during the late ‘90s and early 2000s. As for Blundell, Split Apex exists in a continuum that began with innovative beyond-rock trio Mosquitoes which led to his current work in Komare with Dominic Goodman (also from Mosquitoes). Following a self-released cassette earlier in 2025, Ever/Never commits Split Apex’s vinyl debut—Thoughts In 3D—to wax and it’s a late-breaking entry into the best album of the year conversation. Across five extended tracks, Split Apex roams the depths with unerring grace, sending up transmissions as...
LP $30.95
01/16/2026
***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...
LP $32.85
03/06/2026
***My Days of 58 is the eighth Bill Callahan album, his first since 2022. The twelve tunes here open uncanny depths of expression as Bill continues to blaze one of the most original songwriting-and-performance trails out there. With My Days of 58, he applies the living, breathing energies of his live shows to the studio process, sharpening his slice-of-life portraiture to cut deeper than ever before.The core musicians featured on My Days of 58 is the group that toured for 2022’s REALITY: guitarist Matt Kinsey, saxophonist Dustin Laurenzi and drummer Jim White, whose synergy was evident in 2024’s live Resuscitate!. This showed Bill, as he puts it, “that they could handle anything I threw at them,” adding: “Improv/unpredictability/the unknown is the thing that keeps me motivated to keep making music. It’s all about listening to yourself and others. A lot of the best parts of a recording are the mistakes — making them into strengths, using them as springboards into something human.”With this in mind, Bill prepared the songs with each player separately. Taking a note from songwriter, fan and friend Jerry DeCicca, he recorded the basic tracks for all but one song in a duo with Jim White. Meanwhile, he rehearsed with Matt, guitar to guitar, while asking Dustin to make horn charts for a few songs.Features guest appearances from Richard Bowden on fiddle, pianist Pat Thrasher, bassist Chris Vreeland, trombonist Mike St. Clair, and pedal steel player Bill McCullough.
CD $14.75
02/27/2026
2XLP $31.75
02/27/2026
MC $13.50
02/27/2026
***Nobody Jones, a five-piece space-country band composed of West Philly style migrants and D.I.Y. scene veterans follow up their debut album Missing Person with Love From a Distant Star, a collection of their most beloved songs from shows, all never released till now. Drawn from a swirling well of half-remembered, half-imagined genre sitting somewhere on the county line between Townes Van Zandt, Vic Chesnutt and the Meat Puppets, Nobody Jones's sound ranges from the cinematic to the raucous to the intimate. Using plain-spoken songwriting, they navigate contemporary alienation and affection, sharing with the listener a few scraps of the deeply personal in hopes of charting a collective map of the soul.
LP $22.25
11/21/2025
MP3 $9.90
11/21/2025
FLAC $11.99
11/21/2025
***The latest from this darkwave / post-punk trio from Minsk, Belarus. Dlina Volny’s music vaporizes on the event horizon where Eastern European Post-Punk collides with Western Synthwave. The album balances mystical narratives & dreamlike fantasies sourced deep in the trio’s subconscious. Walking the tightrope that separates pain & euphoria, the lyrics wrestle with polarity. Anxiety vs passion, & hope vs the deep despair that surrounds negative space.
LP $27.75
11/14/2025
The sprawling expanse of the American heartland is many things: picturesque as it is desolate, familiar as it is alien. Very few settings manage to capture such contrasting characteristics in equal measure, so it’s no wonder that the endless roads and forgotten towns of the deep countryside are practically synonymous with the general concept of a “post-apocalypse”. Although there’s a bleak horror to the rural decay of “Flyover Country,” there’s a tragic beauty in its stillness, something which OKC noise rockers Chat Pile and Texas-raised, Oklahoma-based fingerpicking guitarist and composer Hayden Pedigo masterfully capture on the collaborative LP- In the Earth Again.Despite their works occupying what seems like completely opposite ends of the genre and tonal spectrum, Hayden Pedigo and Chat Pile’s Captain Ron, Luther Manhole, Raygun Busch, and Stin radiate a genuine synergy with one another that extends far beyond their music. Rather than alternating between moments where either the quartet’s signature sludgy beatdown of noise rock and Hayden’s Fahey-esque guitar soundscapes individually shine, In the Earth Again sees both Chat Pile and Hayden Pedigo explore latent yet previously untapped aspects of their sounds. For Chat Pile, this meant an opportunity to explore moodier arrangements, indulge in sample and tape manipulation, and pen among the most sincere and personal lyrics in their entire discography. In Hayden’s case, this collaboration enabled the visionary guitarist to translate the masterful craft of his typically tranquil, deep country soundscapes into something more sinister, tinged with a visceral, metallic grit that is no less...
LP $27.00
11/21/2025
LP COLOR $29.00
11/21/2025
LP BEER SPLATTER $29.00
11/21/2025
With her first album Undertow, London-based composer/singer-songwriter Sophia Hansen-Knarhoi reveals stark venerability in a world of sound that is intimate and expansive. Voice and cello entwine to provide a cinematic intensity to songs that tell stories of memory, growth, and the raw, often dark, textures of emotion. with cinematic intensity.. ‘Undertow’ tethers intimacy to the corporeal, spanning violation and deep trust.. It deals with the fallout of the victims of violence against women, voyaging through fear and pain to absolution.Born in Perth, Western Australia, Hansen-Knarhoi grew up surrounded by the natural world. ‘Undertow’ draws on the stark landscapes of Western Australia. At moments, field recordings are woven into the work, while at others, arrangements reflect its beautiful barren environment through memory. “Engulfing myself in nature has always been a way for me to process the world, to bring me back into my body and my senses”. ‘Undertow’ revels in this remote sonic landscapeHer 2023 debut EP, Wildflowers, explores the transition from childhood to adulthood, blending ethereal, delicate vocals with graceful and tender instrumentation to embody memory, trauma, and the moments that shape us. This time, with the skilled Brooklyn producer Randall Dunn as a collaborator, Undertow pushes further into the abstract, a dark and dissociative space. Dunn carves intricate space around the lyrics, etching into the soundscape with tension. Cello and voice interact as dual narrators, layering hypnotic drones, gritty textures and raw emotive vocals.Undertow frames Hansen-Knarhoi in a caught moment, continuing her evolution, and all the sharp objects in...
LP $22.00
11/21/2025
MP3 $7.99
11/21/2025
FLAC $8.99
11/21/2025
***Fiery debut power pop LP from a Bay Area underground mainstay! Though you, dear reader, may not know it, Joel Cusumano has played a huge role in the Bay Area underground scene for years—as songwriter and/or lead guitarist in a wide-ranging lineup of bands such as Sob Stories, R.E. Seraphin, and Body Double. Cusumano began writing the music that would become his first solo album, Waxworld, after a stint in a mental hospital treating his debilitating OCD: “It was bleak. For a year I could barely function, barely leave the house. After [the hospital] I recovered pretty rapidly. But instead of feeling relief, there was dread, like, ‘Well, what now’? You spend over a year falling off the deep end and you’re a different person when you hit the ground … I needed to write differently than I had before. I was looking around the world and not recognizing what I saw. The songs had to reflect that alienation. I was done with the ‘angry young man’ jilted lover stuff I’d been doing in Sob Stories. I was bored with that kind of boilerplate rock’n’roll topography.” A painful breakup at the end of writing process further sharpened Cusumano’s eye towards material reflecting his growing unease in a world in unrelenting flux. But despite weighty origins, Waxworld sound is, like all of Cusumano’s work, instantly fun, catchy, and accessible, if a little moody. Waxworld effortlessly weaves between guitar pop styles from bubblegum (“Push Push”) and post-punk (“Death-Wax Girl”), to straight power...
LP $20.50
11/07/2025
MP3 $9.90
11/07/2025
FLAC $9.90
11/07/2025
***Spontaneous and genuine yet undeniably within the canon of extreme metal, Araphel wear no masks nor offer no mysticism. Full-length proof: The Endchanter, which follows last year's introductory Old Comet Transition EP. Across the record's seven-song / 39-minute runtime, one will hear the honest voice of a musician speaking about his experiences and point of view—in this case, prolific Italian musician Santo alongside a lineup made up of veteran musicians of the Italian underground scene—sharing a critique of society and the dullness of our lives and rules we are forced to live by. The music is rooted in black metal, with a clear METAL aesthetic, and has deep ties to the best of the underground and classic metal tradition, but it's the heartfelt synthesis of form and content where The Endchanter creates its own poignant landscape. To be sure, sonic signposts are aplenty on The Endchanter—from old-school Greek black metal to the culter likes of Poland's Xantotol and Colombia's Nebiros to the spirit of Bathory, Dissection, Immortal, and Desaster among others—but where Araphel excel is narrative songwriting, rooted in sincerity and personal truth rather than fantasy. To immerse oneself in the album's lyrics is as engrossing as the music itself. There are no devils, messiahs, or sacrificial horrors here—just reality, resulting in an experience brimming with tragedy and triumph. A raw-yet-poetic reflection on the END—not just of individual existence, but of an entire belief system—Araphel's debut album seeks authenticity in a fragmented era, offering a perspective that is clear-eyed, disenchanted,...
LP $25.50
11/14/2025
***"Out of Barcelona, but with the relentless weight of India’s history, Shakti’s debut is a declaration and a provocation. This is punk refracted through childhood memories of Bollywood soundtracks on corner-store TVs, mafia dons scheming on-screen, the rich exploiting the poor - a nostalgia for the times when class consciousness still pulsed through India’s popular culture. There are echoes of Hindustani classical, 80’s Indian disco and garage, but ultimately this is a punk record that molds itself and takes space between expansive post punk and the rowdy tongue-in-cheek hardcore of bands like the Electric Deads or Tozibabe.Shakti’s wall of noise is full of contradictions. There’s gorgeous, deeply danceable bass lines and earworm guitars dueling against Crass-records-like snares and harsh vocals delivered in Marathi - sometimes as whispered curses, sometimes screams and manic laughter, lurching from song to song with a touch of mischievous glee. There’s a playfulness at the core of this record, a sarcasm built into lyrics about idiots coopting slogans like Inquilab Zindabad ('Long live the revolution'), or requests for the British to bring back the Koh-i-noor not to India as a whole but to 'me', personally, because sometimes punks are just broke like that.There’s film transitions that set time and place, holding within themselves inside jokes understood by 1.3 billion people, and a grooviness that builds towards dance before suddenly collapsing on itself to bite back. And yet Shakti is most powerful at its most furious, when carrying the specific weight of immigrant rage shaped by that...
LP $26.50
11/14/2025
For starters, we have a solid foundation for the stomach: cheese puffs made with aged Comté. Den have mastered this opening bite, an amusing and gentle snack. Yes, you’ve heard: Den moved out of the darkness and the chilly cold and have moved inside The Restaurant. They’ve commandeered the kitchen and present a greater depth of flavour and culinary nuance. You might remember them first as a food track in a Marrickville back alley where they served a damaged blend of salty post punk and psychedelic hardcore, salt in the hair and salt on the skin, and then a delivery service of ultra minute, dense bites on their Deep Cell LP. Years of experimenting and balancing flavours have encouraged them to embrace a restraint and subtlety with Post Pink, a truly new sound and direction for the band that honours their culinary legacy. Post Pink infers a certain kind of comfort that you might not anticipate in the wake of their previous output. By this I mean, the ears do not bleed! There is a similar density to the new album, but in place of the sharpened rapier poking deep in your head and puncturing your eardrum, Post Pink has an ethereal quality much like you’d love about Wire’s 154. The weight and solemnity of Deep Cell has lifted, the weightless lyrics will hit you with a brilliant mash of imagery in a way that you love about Brian Eno’s lyricism, some silly moments with words like “happenstance”, copulating jellyfish,...
LP $22.00
11/14/2025
***"With this self-titled debut, Permanent Opposite presents a narrative approach to exploring themes of alienation, depression, love, loss and the lifelong pursuit to find one's way. We're led through that pursuit as longtime Austin songwriter Jared Leibowich plays with a dissonant combination of lyrical melancholy and rhythmic guitar pop. With each track we move back in time, witnessing pivotal scenes in a protagonist's life. Point of view shifts as we come to know this character and circumstances that bring us to the first track's scene—loved ones grappling with his unexpected death.This record examines the innermost experience of a person struggling with identity, encountering glimmers of hope and inspiration before and after hitting rock-bottom. With help from engineer John Dieterich (Deerhoof), Leibowich recorded all parts solo in-studio—in some ways this is fitting, as this narrative is a highly personal look at coping, the meaning of life, the unfairness of reality."—Allison Error (Dial Error)
LP $22.50
10/31/2025
MP3 $7.99
10/31/2025
FLAC $8.99
10/31/2025
Feeling So Good sinks into the hazy world of ’90s self-help and spiritual ephemera - a half-remembered dream of cassette tapes, echoing mantras, and the warm hiss of analog decay. The voices of godmen and gurus dissolve into layers of modular synths, tape loops, and haunting textures. The project began as a one-off live improv set between ambient musician Shiv Ahuja (Songs for a Tired City) and music archivist Nishant Mittal (Digging in India) but it quickly grew into something deeper. With a nudge from Purplish Records and a series of late-night sessions, the project evolved into a full-length album treading a thin line between healing and hallucination.
MP3 $7.99
10/10/2025
FLAC $8.99
10/10/2025
GRANICUS transcends the genre of early ‘70s progressive hard rock, they will thrill somebody hungry for a killer in that department but are so creatively explosive anybody into any brand of hard rock from classic, metal, punk, prog up into the wild beyond will get caught up in the band’s whirlpool of manic energy. You get to relax here and there but most of the time they come at you so decisively you gotta hang on to your brain. For my money these guys delivered an LP on level with the best famous bands of the day, contemporaries like Led Zep, Rush, Deep Purple, Sabbath... based on the power and variety captured here it is clearly only a lack of promotion that kept Granicus off the charts. It has hard prog moves in spades but also over the top energy with outrageous vocal moves powerful enough to have scored a big bullseye in teenage wasteland America 1973.As the liner notes on the sleeve declare... “Granicus puts forward a musically cohesive, emotionally compelling vision of growing up wasted in America, searching desperately for and occasionally glimpsing spiritual truth, in a climate foreshadowing Armageddon”. Granicus is named after a battle in 334 BC where Alexander The Great defeated the Persian Empire. This album has more than enough ammo to defeat your head right now, they take you deep down into the sordid demonic underbelly of America 1973, ending the LP with an ultimate rock and roll exorcism. Appropriate to say fasten your...
LP $29.00
11/07/2025
Bézier ripples their way back to Dark Entries with Decompose, an LP of doomed spa music. Multi-instrumentalist Robert Yang has made numerous appearances on Dark Entries for more than a decade, with releases spanning the stylistic gamut from hi-NRG disco floor-fillers to lush ambient epics. Decompose, Bézier’s second LP, is perhaps his most introspective work yet. It is an album almost ten years in the making, a deep investigation of life, loss, and the struggle of knowing oneself. If one were to pull a tarot deck for this album it would be the Nine of Swords. The album honors the lives of the fallen victims of Pulse Nightclub. It honors lives lost or suffering through the ongoing genocide in Gaza. The title track takes the form of a Buddhist chant, a brooding synth-driven meditation that scales steadily until breaking into John Carpenter-esque arpeggios halfway through. Tracks like “Egg,” “Marionette,” and “A Fading Citadel Atop Black Sand Bluffs” build on this soundworld, one in which intricate melodies and cavernous reverb induce in the listener feelings of both claustrophobia and free-fall. The album’s dancefloor-leaning moments, like “Codebreaking” and “Split a Path Towards the Thicket” are spartan, tunnel-vision techno tracks speeding towards ego-death. Decompose chronicles Yang’s journey to find peace with himself, as a gay Asian American. During this process, they learned to “repot” long-lost parts of their identity so they could grow forth in wholesome fashion. The sleeve for Decompose was designed by Eloise Shir-Juen Leigh, and features a photograph by Frankie...
LP $22.00
11/14/2025
***Swedish composer Johan Agebjörn (best known for his work with Sally Shapiro and releases on labels like Paper Bag and Spotted Peccary) returns with Southern Forest, his first solo album of new material in ten years, since 2015’s Notes. A collection of nature-themed electronic ambient music, Southern Forest is built around analog synths, sparse rhythms, and a cinematic tone. Inspired by the deep forests of Sweden, the album feels grounded yet expansive, earthy, melodic, and emotionally immersive. The album features collaborations with ambient legend Dr. Atmo (known for the classic Silence series with Pete Namlook), Cate Brooks (The Advisory Circle), synthwave queen NINA, and fellow Swedes Miranda Magdalena and Mikael Ögren, each adding unique tonal shades and emotional depth to the record’s layered narrative. The result is a highly textured work that blends ambient, downtempo, and gentle electro into something transportive and cohesive. Agebjörn's signature melodic sensibility is present, but here it’s more restrained, letting tone and space do the storytelling. Fans of his earlier ambient work (Mossebo, The Mountain Lake) will feel at home, while new listeners will discover a refined voice in contemporary ambient.RIYL: Steve Roach, Tangerine Dream, Suzanne Ciani, Gigi Masin, Huerco S.
MC $7.50
10/17/2025
***Discostan presents the first vinyl release by young legends Sireesha and Sreeusha—better known to both classical Indian fans and to musical fans of improvisation around the world as the Mandolin Sisters. On their first album released to a global audience, the Sisters showcase an upstart energy, revitalizing centuries-old songs with a fast and furious playing on electrified mandolin. Mandolin Sisters: Odysseys in Electric Carnatic is a deep immersion into the Sisters' virtuosic playing style, weaving intricate lines and sophisticated harmonies that will appeal to fans of genre-expanding experimental guitar sounds and improvised music. But the pair is also deeply steeped in historical tradition and spent years dedicated to study and practice of these sonorities. Even before the two sisters could read, the duo were singularly devoted to the expression of Carnatic music through an instrument that is still relatively new to South Indian classical music. ]Across the seven songs in this album, the Mandolin Sisters imbue their signature sound onto raga compositions drawn from the deep well of the Carnatic tradition. Because of the amount of improvisation in Carnatic music, no song is ever played the same twice. Each person adjusts the song every time to create an all-new version, even playing them for years.
LP $31.95
10/10/2025
Over four years in the making, Yell At Cloud is the follow up to the PLOSIVS critically hailed debut (RollingStone.biz said “best new release of the week” in 2021). Why so long between releases, you ask? Nov. 2020 the band was invited to be the first guinea pigs at No Fun Club recording studio in Winnipeg, Canada and baptize the brand new facility. The band would live and record in the studio and be densely immersed in the forming of this new record. It was still during the days of COVID lockdowns and the earliest stages of permitted, international travel. Producer, engineer and studio designer Mike Bridavsky (Deerhoof, Magnolia Electric Co., The Cowboys, Durand Jones & The Indications, Half Japanese, The Residents) welcomed us with open arms and helmed the controls. Unfortunately, a massive Arctic storm (even by Winnipeg standards) descended. The compound was without power for the first five days. Using generators running on diesel and heat powered by sheep tallow, the band had to resort to using as little electricity as possible. Most of what you hear on Yell At Cloud was recorded in the dark or by candlelight in below freezing conditions. It wasn’t as romantic as it sounds. Due to Canada’s regulations for foreign travelers during the pandemic, we had to forge out on foot once a day in blizzard-like conditions to a clinic a mile away where we had to be swabbed nasally, between the toes and in the groin area in order to be...
CD $13.00
11/28/2025
LP $24.00
11/28/2025
MP3 $7.99
11/28/2025
FLAC $8.99
11/28/2025
***First ever reissue! This rare LP has been out of print for over 50 years. This is COLOURED BALLS' legendary 1973 LP recorded live at their breakout appearance at the iconic Sunbury '73 Pop Festival. The Sunbury Pop Festival ran from 1972-1975 and featured a who's who of Aussie groups such as Coloured Balls, Wild Cherries, Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs, Skyhooks, etc. plus imported acts such as Queen and Deep Purple. The sound is huge and phenomenal. Guest appearances by fellow Aussie legends BILLY THORPE and LEO CASTRO. This features their iconic masterpiece "G.O.D." (Guitar OverDrive), a 16 minute hypnotic and pulverizing journey in sound. All-analog pressing using the original 1973 master tapes for the highest quality possible. Mastered by LOBBY LOYDE's close friend and bandmate in Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs, GIL MATTHEWS.
LP $27.95
10/17/2025
***An established devotee of dark weirdness, Greg Jamie brings forth his second solo album on Orindal: Across a Violet Pasture. Across ten new songs recorded with his longtime collaborator Colby Nathan, Jamie journeys to the strange, enchanted center of his personal vision. This is a space between sleeping and waking, where Jamie’s woodsy, weary voice guides us forward.It’s no surprise that the latest from the Maine-based musician and visual artist aims to haunt, but this experimental folk pop does it in a way that’s more playful than funereal. It lays a shimmering floor over the abyss.The strength of Across a Violet Pasture is its intuitive rawness. It’s art made at home; the product of a deep inner life and a personal mythology. And like Greg Jamie’s uncanny watercolor paintings, this record juxtaposes muted, dark backgrounds with shocks of vibrant color. The “violet pasture” of the title evokes a mix of passionate red and cool, sorrowful blue. The resulting purple is mystical and a little extravagant. It’s a color hardly found in nature. And when it is, like the violet flower, it survives only in dappled forest shade. Admired by hermits, fauns, and idealistic weirdos, there’s a secretive, melancholy, and ephemeral beauty to this work."it's really, really good – in all of its dark weirdness and more."—GoldFlakePaint
LP $22.25
10/10/2025
MC $11.25
10/10/2025
Pastor Chris Congregation
West Virginia Snake Handler Revival "The Shall Take Up Serpents"
Sublime Frequencies
***West Virginia Snake Handler Revival "They Shall Take Up Serpents" marks the arrival of a landmark record, documenting the last, snake handling church in Appalachia. Featuring hillbilly rock guitars, trance-like rhythms, and howling vocals, this album was recorded 100% live and without overdubs by Grammy-award winning producer and author, Ian Brennan (Tinariwen, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Zomba Prison Project). The first release of American music ever by Sublime Frequencies, Brennan states, "As much as I've traveled around the globe to remote areas such as Comoros, the southeast Sahara or up-river in Suriname, few places have felt more foreign or 'exotic' than this part of Appalachia. The recording represents in many ways a companion and counterpoint—the other side of the Deep South, so to speak—to the music that was explored on the Parchman Prison Prayer albums. The Snake Handler album was an attempt to listen across that divide—a divide that's never fully healed and continues to haunt and imperil the USA to this day." The recording took place during a two-plus hour Sunday service in the West Virginia mountains. Brennan states, "I'd sworn to stay far away from the snakes at the service, but instead they were waved in my face as they coiled in the preachers' hands, and I crouched down at the foot of the altar tending to the equipment. The pastor soon was bitten and blood splattered, pooling on the floor. The female parishioners hurriedly came to wipe up the mess, and it instantly became clear just what the...
LP $32.50
10/24/2025
White Boy and the Average Rat Band was formed in the unlikely small mountain town of Richlands, Virginia in late 1979 by guitarist and songwriter Michael Matney. Fresh out of high school in 1979, Matney would venture over the mountain to neighboring Tennessee to try his luck in the music Mecca of Nashville. There Matney would join Kriss Famous’ longtime established local act “Tabu”, replacing Ron Keel as lead guitarist. It was in this arrangement that Matney would be christened with the name “White Boy”.His time with “Tabu” and in Nashville would be brief before returning back to Virginia. Once back home, Matney would take a job with a local record store and recording studio owner who would grant him recording time in exchange for employment. There Matney would helm his own project deemed White Boy and the Average Rat Band; writing, composing and producing the self-titled debut. On the project, Matney played all the instruments, in exception to the two separate drummers used to complete the album. Musicians were then assembled in order to represent a band on the album and in live performances.In 1980 the White Boy and the Average Rat Band self-titled debut album would be released in a limited number of 300 copies, of which 50 would be lost. They would see very limited distribution, which only added to the curiosity the album would become. The band in the early 1980’s would have a short life-span that would well be surpassed by their reputation on into...
LP $27.00
10/03/2025
***Folk rhythms woven with acoustic guitar and harmonica melodies, rich shimmering keys, syncopated percussion, and yearning vocals make up the latest self-titled LP from Travesura. A musical convergence that evokes a stranger in a strange land taking shelter to tell his tales of love and woe through a dark night.Roaming from clear eyed love to anguished loneliness and back to blithe tales of traversing a desolate landscape without skipping a beat, Travesura is a signal fire sent up from a singular voice with a deep well of stories to tell.
LP $25.50
10/03/2025
***Like an apparition Las Animas Del Cuarto Obscuro emerged in the Mexican underground scene of the late 80’s and vanished quickly after leaving a couple of coveted artefacts. Before them there were just a few Mexican bands experimenting with those brand-new rhythms. The ill-fated attempts to play this style of music, rooted in the simplicity of punk mixed with melancholy and sombre chords that we nowadays call post-punk. While bands like Size or Silueta Palida flirted with darker music and aesthetics, the path of Las Animas Del Cuarto Obscurowas different.Las Animas Del Cuarto Obscuro and Toño Sánchez, the brains behind these spectral sounds, had a deep commitment to doom and gloom, at least in their first recording. Songs about the decay you could breathe in the air of Mexico City: Police brutality, urban ghost stories, suicidal notes, and the loneliness and sadness a sensible person suffers in an environment that keeps driving you to desensitization and madness. A true Chilango gothic masterpiece, Las Animas Del Cuarto Obscuro's first record is an ode to Mexican youthfulness. It’s the emotional journey of a youngster who fights for their existence in a country where tradition rules and difference is loathed. Originally self-released by the band in 1988 and officially reissued for the first time since its original inception.
LP $30.85
10/17/2025
***Vse po Kolu, Znovu (All in a circle, again) is the fourth studio album by Morwan, marking the culmination of years of creative exploration. The collection features eight tracks recorded between 2023 and 2024, except for the title track, "Vse po Kolu, Znovu", which was written back in 2020. The new album delivers a heavier, more aggressive sound, representing a noticeable departure from the band’s earlier works. Genre-wise, it drifts from post-punk to avangard rock and even shoegaze. Combined with deeper and more personal lyrics, this makes it Alex AShTAUI’s most emotional and honest work to date. Vse po Kolu, Znovu is a story about fears tearing you apart from within and conflicts that give you no peace. It’s about the endless cycle of existence, pulling you into the vortex of inevitable dread. It tells of the moment when control over yourself slips away, and you become a helpless observer, forced to watch your life crumble before your very eyes. It’s about the rejection of oneself, about the desperate desire to escape your own essence and return to the beginning, just to feel something real once again.
LP $21.95
10/17/2025
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10/17/2025
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10/17/2025
“HOME FRONT from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, have been blasting out of everyone’s stereos for the past 3 years with their unique combination of The Cure, Blitz, Eurythmics and Suicide wrapped up with modern production and tightly wound hooks. Unrelenting 2nd LP Watch It Die soars high and reaches deep with frayed punk edges wrapping around canonic pop luxury. A record about moving through life while acknowledging death, about humanity, rebirth, dreams and community—all powered by vintage drum machines, analog synths and screaming guitars. A punk pop crossover treat like no other”
CD $17.00
11/14/2025
LP $26.50
11/14/2025
LP COLOR $30.85
11/14/2025
With their boldest release to date, Orchestra Gold unveils Dakan — a transcendent new album exploring the intertwined forces of destiny and passion. Guided by the visionary vocals of Malian singer Mariam Diakité, [Dakan] is a sonic and spiritual journey: rooted in tradition, driven by intuition, and lit ablaze with psychedelic energy. Mariam’s lyrics draw deeply from her devotion to the baye fall tradition — a mystical branch of West African sufism that favors direct experience of the divine over doctrine. Her voice doesn’t just sing — it **channels.** "This song is an homage to my teacher in the Baye Fall tradition, Baye ass n’diaye. He taught me that religion must be rooted in the direct experience of the divine. To truly love God, we must experience God." -Mariam Diakite, singer Psychedelic rock collides with Malian soul in a sonic ritual where fate dances with free will.
LP $27.00
10/03/2025
***Hellshock are nothing short of a stenchcore institution. For 25 years, this Portland band has been shaping apocalyptic crust with unrelenting conviction, and their new record XXV stands as both a celebration of their legacy and a bold step forward.Across six new tracks, Hellshock return to the raw, filthy roots of classic stenchcore while simultaneously pushing their sound into darker, heavier, and even more triumphant territory. Crushing Bolt Thrower-style riffing collides with grim, somber melodies and the occasional synth flourish, creating an oppressive, almost funereal atmosphere. The result is six anthems of rage and despair, delivered with massive production, visceral vocals, and a rhythm section that hits like a collapsing world.With the addition of Todd Burdette (Tragedy) on second guitar, XXV connects deeply to Portland’s DIY hardcore lineage while evoking the spirit of legends like Hellbastard, Axegrinder, and Deviated Instinct. Still, this is no mere throwback – Hellshock reinvent the wheel with a sound that can only be described as progressive darkened stenchcore.
LP $23.95
10/17/2025
***Deranged Canadian goregrind sociopath Bone Fetish brings you its first self-titled full-length perversion, a career-spanning compilation atrocity containing all of the project's recordings up to this date, including 2021's "Buried" demo, 2022's "Convergence" demo, 2024's "Mummified" demo, and five more brand new and never before released aberrations, all remastered and resequenced by Will Killingsworth into a cohesive and gut-wrenching monstrosity of utter nihilism and destruction. The twenty five-minute, seventeen-track gore-infested death and grind onslaught is a deep dive into a deranged mind slipping off the edge and being consumed by its most inverse and unutterable delusions, ranging from hallucinatory corpse-fucking fantasies, to rotten-flesh eating impulses, all the way to violent sodomy, necrophilia, and self-dismemberment idealization. A harrowing sonic depiction of an unfortunate human mind erratically coded and wired on the completely wrong values and interests, resulting in some of the most vile and inhuman deviancies conceivable. Shreds of early Carcass, Impetigo, Haemorrhage, Pathologist, Disgorge and Necronist reverberate throughout the torture dungeons, the entrails spattered sewers and the robbed sepulchers, unfolding a rabid and frantic assault of cruelty and perversions that is attempting to violently destroy itself just as fast as it can destroy every other breathing thing around it in the most inefficient, sadistic, and irrational way possible.
CD $10.50
09/12/2025
LP $22.25
09/12/2025
***I Made My House is the new album by composer and songwriter Eliot Krimsky, a journey through grief, memory, and time. Sparked by the unexpected passing of his father in 2022, the album evokes a liminal space of loss where dreams, memories and the afterlife drift in and out of focus. Known as the lead singer and co-founder of the art-pop band Glass Ghost, Krimsky brings a deeply personal sonic palette to this work: intimate harp-like piano, tape-styled manipulations, layered trumpet & sax improvisations and his distinctive falsetto. At the heart of the album is an archival cassette tape; a conversation between Krimsky and his father from the 1980s. This fragile recording pulses and weaves throughout the album, grounding songs that tell a story of emotions through love, impermanence, and the passage of time. Using techniques like re-amping his father’s voice in the house he grew up in, tape delays, and recording his childhood piano from three floors above, Krimsky creates sonic spaces that stretch across time. What began as a way to process profound loss became a house built from sound, memory, and the transformative power of music.
LP $23.95
08/28/2025
As Carlton Melton celebrate 17 years together and Was Ist Das? 20 years of existence,we finally come together for an LP, only 13 years since we first worked together on the Hebden Bridge show on their 2012 European tour. Just 250 copies on gorgeous red vinyl. Please don't miss out. This LP cherry picks the sonic highlights of the bands 2023 European tour, drawing from deep sets in Enschede, Holland and Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire. Opening with a freewheeling, lysergic "Smoke Drip" before hammering down for a raging take on "March of the Cicadas" which seems to throb with more bass than ever. You can tell the room must have heated up during that one. Flip over to side 2 and we have "Vanquished" from their latest album and the gloves are off and the shredding is on the Richter scale. The sort of song that makes you want to drive a car over a big gap in slow motion. FFS don't play this while driving. It all ends with the Jimi Hendrix joins Neu! headmangler that is "Prescribed Skies" just to leave you floored and wanting more. I know I was. We really must do this again sometime soon!
LP $20.50
08/15/2025
***Haino sings. Hasunuma plays. It’s a minimal framework, but what emerges is a boundary-blurring sonic exploration. Across the album, Haino’s voice threads through Hasunuma’s layered soundscapes built from analog synths, electric guitar, piano, field recordings, and more. Haino entered the studio with only lyrics in hand, improvising melodies in response to Hasunuma’s evolving arrangements. The result is a work of deep trust, intuition, and sonic tension.Keiji Haino and Shuta Hasunuma’’s creative connection began in 2017 with an impromptu performance in Shibuya—Hasunuma on a Buchla modular synthesizer, Haino responding with the Japanese national anthem, “Kimigayo.” That moment sparked their unlikely collaboration. A mutual trust developed through performances over the following years, culminating with this album.For the recording of U TA, Haino entered the studio with only the lyrics in hand, with no knowledge of what sounds Hasunuma would produce. Responding to Hasunuma’s music in real time, Haino composed the melodies and layered in his voice on the spot. With additional sessions at Hasunuma’s private studio and Haino’s preferred studio, the album was completed.
LP $27.35
10/17/2025