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  • Bill MacKay And Nathan Bowles – Keys
    Bill MacKay And Nathan Bowles – Keys
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    Bill MacKay and Nathan Bowles’ debut is well titled: keys are what they play and keys unlock things too. Their trad bonafides are balanced with inquisitive playing that adds surprise […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Liars – S/T (Colored Vinyl)
    Liars – S/T (Colored Vinyl)
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    Liars was recorded on the heels of 2006’s Drum’s not Dead somewhere between LA and Berlin. Liars’ fourth album marks another bold transition for Angus Andrew, Aaron Hemphill and [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The Knife – Live At Terminal 5
    The Knife – Live At Terminal 5
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    This release captures the joyous and confrontational performance ‘Shaking the Habitual: Live at Terminal 5’ by the pioneering experimental electronic-pop outfit The Knife. After a [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Masaki Batoh – Smile Jesus Loves YOU!
    Masaki Batoh – Smile Jesus Loves YOU!
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    Batoh is back! Solo again after last fall’s new Silence album, the Japanese psychedelic guru makes some solo cuts, with others featuring Ghost and Silence family members, including free drumming [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Eli Winter – S/T
    Eli Winter – S/T
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    Chicago-based guitarist / composer Eli Winter’s new self-titled album finds him building on the promise of his recent records—like 2020’s Unbecoming and his 2021 collaboration with Cameron [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • The Reds, Pinks & Purples – You Might Be Happy Someday (Blue Pastel Vinyl)
    The Reds, Pinks & Purples – You Might Be Happy Someday (Blue Pastel Vinyl)
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    Deep amidst San Francisco’s Richmond neighborhood misty air and washed-out pastel blocks, Glenn Donaldson has been diligently creating minor masterpieces with rudimentary home technology for some [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Mekons – Deserted
    Mekons – Deserted
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    This legendary group from Leeds, have written contemporary music history for the last 40 years as radical innovators of both first generation punk and insurgent roots music. Their new album […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Girls In Synthesis – The Rest Is Distraction
    Girls In Synthesis – The Rest Is Distraction
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    Experimental post-punk outfit GIRLS IN SYNTHESIS are set to release the eagerly anticipated follow-up to 2020’s incendiary debut, ‘Now Here’s An Echo From Your Future’. Entitled ‘The Rest Is [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Lee Ranaldo & Raül Refree – Names Of North End Women
    Lee Ranaldo & Raül Refree – Names Of North End Women
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    Ranaldo and Refree worked together Ranaldo’s last solo album, Electric Trim (Mute, 2017), and soon after the pair returned to the studio to record the follow up they realised that […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Toro y Moi – Anything In Return
    Toro y Moi – Anything In Return
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    The product of a move from South Carolina to Berkeley, CA and the subsequent extended separation from loved ones, Toro y Moi’s third full-length, Anything in Return, puts Chaz Bundick […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • My Bloody Valentine – M B V
    My Bloody Valentine – M B V
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    m b v is the highly anticipated and long awaited 2013 album from the British Alt-Rock icons led by the esteemed Kevin Shields. MBV is the follow-up to their genre-defining […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The Chills – Brave Words (Expanded Edition, Mint Vinyl)
    The Chills – Brave Words (Expanded Edition, Mint Vinyl)
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    Remixed and remastered under the supervision of Martin Phillipps, this expanded edition of The Chills’ debut album is reissued for the first time in over 35 years. The newly mixed […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
    Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
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    Merriweather Post Pavilion, Animal Collective’s ninth studio album, sees the American art-rock collective in heartwarmingly baffling form, combining upbeat indietronica with mind-warping [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • 75 Dollar Bill – Wood/Metal/Plastic/Pattern/Rhythm/Rock
    75 Dollar Bill – Wood/Metal/Plastic/Pattern/Rhythm/Rock
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    2023 repress! 75 Dollar Bill, a project by Che Chen and Rick Brown present Wood/Metal/Plastic/Pattern/Rhythm/Rock. “Che’s interest in the Arabic modes of Mauritanian music has marked [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Sonic Youth – Walls Have Ears
    Sonic Youth – Walls Have Ears
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    Release date: 2/9/24 Will ship around this date   “Culled from three 1985 gigs in the UK during a transitional and transcendent time in the band’s story, Sonic Youth’s The […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Chai – S/T (Loser Edition – Colored Vinyl)
    Chai – S/T (Loser Edition – Colored Vinyl)
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    The Japanese band CHAI cast a spell on the world in 2017, when they released their debut album, PINK, a collection of songs that introduced us to their singular brand […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Marnie Stern – The Comeback Kid
    Marnie Stern – The Comeback Kid
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    It’s been a decade since we last heard from Marnie Stern, but when her guitar bursts in like a shower of stardust on The Comeback Kid, the follow-up to 2013’s […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Kevin Morby – More Photographs (A Continuum)
    Kevin Morby – More Photographs (A Continuum)
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    Kevin Morby writes (and records, and imagines) at an almost incomparable clip, and his most recent album, This Is A Photograph, studies life, time and mortality through myriad lenses. It’s [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Tyvek – Overground
    Tyvek – Overground
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    Tyvek is an evolving meditation on the bizarre world we’ve created. While the format of a blistering punk group might not scream subtlety, the introspective lyrics and recurring themes of […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Loop – Sonancy
    Loop – Sonancy
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    Formed in South London in the mid-1980s, Loop blazed a trail with their potent mix of motorik beats and heavy guitar riffs, recording a trio of brilliant albums that set […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Tiny Vipers – Hands Across The Void
    Tiny Vipers – Hands Across The Void
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    What our staff has to say: “Achingly beautiful, sparse, acoustic singer-songwriter tracks with occasional noise moments, situated somewhere in the Cat Power, Adrianne Lenker, and even [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Efterklang – Windflowers
    Efterklang – Windflowers
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    Every year as spring arrives, a sea of tiny flowers blossom across the Danish forest floor. They’re an explosion of color, a symbol of hope and change, disappearing as quickly […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Ty Segall – Whirlybird (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
    Ty Segall – Whirlybird (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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    Ty Segall meets a new non-rock challenge head-on; soundtrack music for the documentary film Whirlybird. A variety of synth sounds, electric keyboards, drums, percussion and saxophone (and yeah, a [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Soundtracks / Library Music
  • Gun Outfit – Dream All Over
    Gun Outfit – Dream All Over
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    What our staff has to say: “From the class of early 2000’s Olympia WA heroes including bands like Milk Music, Sex Vid, and Broken Water. I really love Gun Outfit. […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Sebadoh – Act Surprised (Orange Vinyl)
    Sebadoh – Act Surprised (Orange Vinyl)
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    Indie-rock pioneers Sebadoh return with their first new studio album in more than six years Act Surprised. “The first line of this song: ‘I get the feeling you don’t feel [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Dirty Projectors – Sing The Melody
    Dirty Projectors – Sing The Melody
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    Sing The Melody, the third installment in the Domino Documents series, captures Dirty Projectors at a peak in their touring powers. It sees the band head into New York City’s […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • No Age – People Helping People
    No Age – People Helping People
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    No Age’s ethos sings to us from beyond the clouds, with words and without, a conceptual boost to everyone helping everyone. Ensconced in Randy’s Garage without a clock to spit […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Kurt Vile – Walkin On A Pretty Daze (10th Anniversary, Yellow Vinyl)
    Kurt Vile – Walkin On A Pretty Daze (10th Anniversary, Yellow Vinyl)
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    In 2023, Kurt Vile is making numbers count. Just last month, Matador Records presented the iconic Philadelphia songwriter with a (vegan) cheesesteak trophy to commemorate the 100-millionth stream [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The Chills – Kaleidoscope World (Expanded Edition, Blue Vinyl)
    The Chills – Kaleidoscope World (Expanded Edition, Blue Vinyl)
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    “This is what a living legend looks and sounds like” – Rolling Stone. The Chills reissue their celebrated early singles compilation, this 24-track expanded version of Kaleidoscope World [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Bar Italia – The Twits
    Bar Italia – The Twits
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    ‘The Twits’ was recorded by the trio over eight weeks from February 2023 in a makeshift home studio in Mallorca, and was mixed by Marta Salogni. It finds bar italia’s […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Bar Italia – Tracey Denim
    Bar Italia – Tracey Denim
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    bar italia, the London trio of Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton, have announced details of their new album ‘Tracey Denim’, which will be released digitally and on […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Cuticles – Major Works
    Cuticles – Major Works
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    Oamaru, located about 80 miles north of Dunedin on New Zealand’s south island, might seem like the last place you expect to find a prodigious racket like Cuticles, but ain’t […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Emily Robb – If I Am Misery Then Give Me Affection
    Emily Robb – If I Am Misery Then Give Me Affection
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    The fantastic new album from tireless seeker Emily Robb. It’s a no-frills, high-minded celebration of guitar and sound and tone and string and amp and adventure committed to tape at […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Indie / Alternative
  • Dead C – Tusk
    Dead C – Tusk
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    What our staff has to say: “Ba Da Bing! dropping the heat with three Dead C reissues from their mid 90’s period, The Operation of the Sonne, White House, and […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Indie / Alternative
  • Felt – Gold Mine Trash
    Felt – Gold Mine Trash
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    Lawrence Hayward knew that he wanted to be a pop star as a teen, and he devised a plan to release ten albums and ten singles over ten years to […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Low – Trust
    Low – Trust
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    BACK IN PRINT!!! The ninth full-length album from slo-mo beauty dealers LOW, and the band’s most assertive and expansive release to date. Thirteen tracks recorded in Minneapolis with TOM [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Galaxie 500 – This Is Our Music
    Galaxie 500 – This Is Our Music
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    After producing two albums celebrated by a thirsty underground network of fans, Galaxie 500 released what turned out to be their unexpected swansong, This Is Our Music. The title is […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The Smiths – Meat Is Murder
    The Smiths – Meat Is Murder
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    What our staff has to say: “Still one of the best, haters be damned” – Cleo Vinyl LP pressing. Digitally remastered edition of this 1985 album from the legendary British […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Philipp Otterbach – The Dahlem Diaries
    Philipp Otterbach – The Dahlem Diaries
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    The new LP by Krefeld-born, Berlin-based artist Philipp Otterbach entitled ‘The Dahlem Diaries’. Recorded in a little-visited corner of the German capital, ‘The Dahlem [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Föllakzoid – V (Clear Vinyl)
    Föllakzoid – V (Clear Vinyl)
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    Föllakzoid grows via depuration, aiming with each record to fill longer spaces of time with fewer and fewer elements. And like the best techno, kraut, and psychedelia have proven throughout […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Shadow Ring – City Lights
    Shadow Ring – City Lights
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    Recorded and self-released by The Shadow Ring’s own Dry Leaf Discs in 1993, City Lights is the debut record of the then duo Graham Lambkin and Darren Harris—an assured arrival […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Indie / Alternative
  • Codeine – What About The Lonely?
    Codeine – What About The Lonely?
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    Following on the somnambulant heels of When I See The Sun, our massive, near-complete Codeine overview, comes What About The Lonely?, an eight-track LP recorded at the group’s live zenith. […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Martin Frawley – The Wannabe (Colored Vinyl)
    Martin Frawley – The Wannabe (Colored Vinyl)
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    “Workin’ all day, trying to forget about the old me.” Like most of us, Martin Frawley is busy trying to work himself out. He lives alongside the long shadow of […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Melenas – Ahora LP (Red Vinyl)
    Melenas – Ahora LP (Red Vinyl)
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    ‘Ahora’, the new record by Melenas is the exact opposite of “that difficult third album”. While other bands might be suffering from a lack of inspiration typical of that [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Chlorine – Wait For The Light To Shine
    Chlorine – Wait For The Light To Shine
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    What our staff has to say: “The instrumentals on this record are fantastic – super hazy synths, steady drum machine, all creating this surreal wash of sound. Perfect for lonely […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Allison Lorenzen – Tender (Baby Blue Vinyl Repress)
    Allison Lorenzen – Tender (Baby Blue Vinyl Repress)
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    Still reeling from the gut-punch of the distortion filled lead single “Vale” released earlier this year, many of us wondered what a full-length LP by the Denver based artist would […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • T.V. Star – Hallucinate Me
    T.V. Star – Hallucinate Me
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    What our staff has to say: “Seattle’s TV Star Hallucinate Me is a short but sweet 12″ EP. 6 songs of killer Alt Country Twangy Psych Rock.” – Dan The […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The  Beths – Future Me Hates Me (Deep Blue Vinyl)
    The Beths – Future Me Hates Me (Deep Blue Vinyl)
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    The Beths occupy a warm, energetic sonic space between joyful hooks, sun-soaked harmonies, and acerbic lyrics. Their debut album Future Me Hates Me, produced by guitarist Jonathan Pearce and [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Sarah Mary Chadwick – Messages To God (Translucent Pink Vinyl)
    Sarah Mary Chadwick – Messages To God (Translucent Pink Vinyl)
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    New Zealand born, Melbourne-based Sarah Mary Chadwick has announced her eighth studio record Messages to God due out September 15 on Kill Rock Stars and executive produced by award winning […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Animal Collective – Isn’t It Now?
    Animal Collective – Isn’t It Now?
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    At this point, it is almost impossible to say what makes for a classic Animal Collective album; the standard fluctuates with the weather, your temperament, whatever chemicals may or may […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Brainiac – Attic Tapes
    Brainiac – Attic Tapes
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    The music of Brainiac ended with the death of frontman Tim Taylor in 1997. Offered here is a glimpse into the working mind of Taylor as he susses out tunes […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Kelly Lee Owens – LP.8 (White Vinyl)
    Kelly Lee Owens – LP.8 (White Vinyl)
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    Born out of a series of studio sessions, LP.8 was created with no preconceptions or expectations: an unbridled exploration into the creative subconscious. After releasing her sophomore album [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Woods – Perennial
    Woods – Perennial
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    Woods are in bloom again, inviting you to disappear into a new spectrum of colors and sounds and dreams on Perennial. “Formed in Brooklyn in 2004, Woods have matured into […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Peter Jefferies – Closed Circuit
    Peter Jefferies – Closed Circuit
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    What our staff has to say: “New Zealand’s best! Keep the Peter Jefferies reissues coming, and for the love of god someone reissue the damn Plagal Grind EP already!” – […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Dead C – Operation Of The Sonne
    Dead C – Operation Of The Sonne
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    What our staff has to say: “The weird, undersung cousin of Tusk & The White House. Operation Of The Sonne is the closest Dead C’s gotten to touching on the […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Indie / Alternative
  • Alex G – Beach Music
    Alex G – Beach Music
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    Beach Music was the first occasion on which (Sandy) Alex G (Alex Giannascoli) did not write all of the album’s songs in one sharp burst. Instead, he wrote the songs […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Hayden Pedigo – The Happiest Times I Ever Ignored
    Hayden Pedigo – The Happiest Times I Ever Ignored
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    What our staff has to say: “Beautiful instrumental acoustic guitar for late-summer relaxing. Hayden Pedigo has a great touch for crafting melodies and setting atmospheres.” – [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Kurt Vile – God Is Saying This To You
    Kurt Vile – God Is Saying This To You
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    More than a mere odds-n-ends collection, Kurt Vile’s God Is Saying This To You… is a compilation of tracks from Overnite KV, a tour-only CDR, along with a handful of […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Protomaryr – Ultimate Success Today
    Protomaryr – Ultimate Success Today
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    There is a sting in the summer blossom of Ultimate Success Today, Protomartyr’ new album. Arriving after Relatives In Descent, Protomartyr’s headlong dive into the morass of American life in […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Dan Deacon – Mystic Familiar
    Dan Deacon – Mystic Familiar
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    Dan Deacon’s most emotionally open record and his most transcendent, Mystic Familiar is the result of obsessive work, play, and self-discovery. The album’s 11 kaleidoscopic tracks of majestic [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative