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  • Erez Dessel – Pro Fake No Reject
    Erez Dessel – Pro Fake No Reject
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    “Corbett vs. Dempsey presents the release of PRO FAKE NO REJECT by pianist Erez Dessel. This is Dessel’s first solo CD. One of the most astonishing young musicians to emerge […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Alice – Châteaux Faibles
    Alice – Châteaux Faibles
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    “Alice is a vocal harmony trio made up of three persons, joined by a cheap synth and limited virtuosity. Together, they craft a kind of future folklore that’s part funny, […]

    GENRE: International
  • Silver Jews – Tanglewood Numbers
    Silver Jews – Tanglewood Numbers
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    “David Berman and Co. tear through 10 more numbers, loving you to the max the whole time. Jews fans rejoice, your master is back.”

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Silver Jews – Early Times
    Silver Jews – Early Times
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    “Well, “Salad Days” was taken and “Wild Turkey” sounds like an insult. These field recordings capture the birth of the Jews, from way back in the days of the Silver [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Silver Jews – American Water
    Silver Jews – American Water
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    “The other night a snow storm left some suburban friends stranded at our place. With bourbons and beers in hand, we caught up and listened to records. It had probably […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Major Stars – Return To Form
    Major Stars – Return To Form
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    “On their seventh album, Return to Form, acid rockers Major Stars make a journey back to their fuzzier, more psychedelic roots. Sandra Barrett is still holding down the vocal duties, but [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Major Stars – Mirror/Messenger
    Major Stars – Mirror/Messenger
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    “New school psych freak-outs from the Northeast. Three guitars slice at your ears with knives of all sizes while Sandra Barrett belts out her vocals, drawing the songs tight before […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Indie / Alternative
  • Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me
    Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me
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    “2010 three CD release from the acclaimed singer/songwriter, the long-awaited follow-up to her album the Y’s. Featuring Ryan Francesconi and Neal Morgan from Joanna’s Ys Street [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Joanna Newsom – The Milk-Eyed Mender
    Joanna Newsom – The Milk-Eyed Mender
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    “Soul-enhancing dynamic range, the voice of a old one in a young one’s body with a harp of gold. J-New’s hulloa to the world at large.”

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Jim White – Inner Day
    Jim White – Inner Day
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    “For his second solo album, master drummer Jim White travels further into expressionist landscapes of private meditation; his vehicle, an evocative duet of keyboards and drums alongside his [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Dirty Three – Toward The Low Sun
    Dirty Three – Toward The Low Sun
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    “Sticking us with something that won’t go away, the Dirty Three are back. It’s been awhile, but that just means that the music here is heavy with seven years in […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – What The Brothers Sang
    Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – What The Broth…
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    “Another chapter of The Great American Songbook written back in the 1950s — the publisher’s catalogs that fed The Everly Brothers and their brethren and led, at the greatest moment, [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Ease Down The Road
    Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Ease Down The Road
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    “The palace halls are rocking with new music! Take heart- our Bonnie “Prince” has lived to sing another day.”

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Bonnie Prince Billy – Beware
    Bonnie Prince Billy – Beware
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    “Hark, the Prince returns! Dark and mysterious, yet occasionally jovial – that’s the man you remember. Here he brings some of the classic country sound mixed with his own honest [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Singer’s Grave A Sea Of Tongues
    Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Singer’s Grave A Sea Of Tong…
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    “At the locus of five corners, mythos is in the wind; a sea of tongues boils forth, mountains spurting forth from the magma. Bonny sings for who he was and […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Bonnie Prince Billy – Cursed Sleep
    Bonnie Prince Billy – Cursed Sleep
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    3track EP.

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Master And Everyone
    Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Master And Everyone
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    “Ain’t you wealthy? Ain’t you wise? BPB’s 3rd album.”

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Fruit LoOops – Everything Is Clear To Me Now
    Fruit LoOops – Everything Is Clear To Me Now
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    Torn Light Records recording artists Fruit Looops lastest EP released via Orange Milk Records. Mental & fried 4 track CD of their stripped down vocal/synth/drum line up of art punk/electronic [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Punk / Hardcore, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Shredded Nerve / Form Hunter – Shredded Nerve / Form Hunter
    Shredded Nerve / Form Hunter – Shredded Nerve / Form Hunter
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    In the summer of 2023 Shredded Nerve and Form Hunter embarked on an east coast tour that culminated at the Initial Shock festival in Montreal. This CD is a reissue […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Form Hunter – Dread Harvest
    Form Hunter – Dread Harvest
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    Form Hunter returns with their first full-length album since 2021’s “Violent Adaptation” (Troniks / Helicopter). Dread Harvest refines their signature blend of in-the-red tape [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Debashish Bhattacharya – Legacy
    Debashish Bhattacharya – Legacy
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    Legacy, crafted by the illustrious World Music Hall of Fame inductee and Grammy-nominated maestro Debashish Bhattacharya, stands as a resplendent testament to India’s rich musical heritage [...]

    GENRE: Hindustani
  • Irreversible Entanglements – Open The Gates
    Irreversible Entanglements – Open The Gates
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    Ethereal, dynamic & expansive free jazz meditations manifest coruscating portals of aqueous regeneration; a collectivist ultra-sonic healing conveyance.

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Satori ‎– Infect
    Satori ‎– Infect
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    “Featuring tracks first released on the legendary Broken Flag label. Retrospective CD “Infect” was released on Trident Music International as a limited edition in 1993. [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • William Basinski ‎– The Garden Of Brokenness
    William Basinski ‎– The Garden Of Brokenness
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    “The main loop in this piece is one of the original piano and tape experiments from my early days as a composer. A few of the derivative piano variations have […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • William Basinski ‎– Nocturnes
    William Basinski ‎– Nocturnes
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    1. Nocturnes 41:33 dark, suspended and formal early prepared piano and tape composition from San Francisco period c. 1979-80. 2. The Trail of Tears 28:03 tape loop and delay recording […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Broadcast – Distant Call – Collected Demos
    Broadcast – Distant Call – Collected Demos
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    Distant Call is a collection of early demos of songs that would subsequently appear as finished productions on the albums Haha Sound, Tender Buttons and The Future Crayon. The album […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Matmos – Metallic Life Review
    Matmos – Metallic Life Review
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    Matmos’ singular compositional approach resembles the creation of sculpture. The incredibly detailed pieces that make up each album are created with carefully selected sounds that adhere to a [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Plunky & Oneness – Made Through Ritual
    Plunky & Oneness – Made Through Ritual
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    Strut present the first international release in over 30 years by legendary Afro-jazz group Oneness Of Juju with their new album Made Through Ritual on 4th July 2025. In 1975, […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • V/A – 300% Dynamite!
    V/A – 300% Dynamite!
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    Special new 25th anniversary edition of this most popular and highly-acclaimed of all Soul Jazz Records’ Dynamite! series – 300% Dynamite is jam-packed with reggae tunes that [...]

    GENRE: Reggae / Dub
  • Hamid Al-Saadi – Maqam Al-Iraq
    Hamid Al-Saadi – Maqam Al-Iraq
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    Hamid Al-Saadi (b.1958, Iraq), is the only living singer who has mastered the entire Iraqi Maqam repertoire. Inscribed on UNESCO’s Intangible Heritage list, the Iraqi Maqam is a repertoire of [...]

  • Perez Prado – Voodoo Suite / Exotic Suite Of The Americas
    Perez Prado – Voodoo Suite / Exotic Suite Of The Americas
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    “In reissues, this “inspired 16-minute tone poem” has been paired with its monaural predecessor, “Voodoo Suite.” The format is the same, but the success is greater. [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Latin
  • Ghost – Hypnotic Underworld
    Ghost – Hypnotic Underworld
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    “Five years after releasing both Snuffbox Immanence and Tune In, Turn On, Free Tibet, Ghost returned with Hypnotic Underworld, and there were some changes in the band. Cellist Hiromichi [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Ramones – Subterranean Jungle
    Ramones – Subterranean Jungle
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    “Tentatively returning toward punk, or at least new wave, the Ramones turned in their most enjoyable record since Rocket to Russia with Subterranean Jungle. Producers Ritchie Cordell and [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Dumisani Abraham Maraire – The African Mbira – Music Of The Shona People Of Rhodesia
    Dumisani Abraham Maraire – The African Mbira – Music Of The Shon…
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    “Much of the instrumental and vocal music of East Africa has been described as repetitive and monotonous; apologists counter that the music is quite varied and exacting. Yet freed of […]

    GENRE: International
  • Klaus Schulze – “X”. Vol.2
    Klaus Schulze – “X”. Vol.2
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    “Each track on X or “Ten” (since it’s Schulze’s tenth release ) is titled after famous German personalities, but it’s the provocative electronic music within [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • The Flesh Eaters – A Hard Road To Follow
    The Flesh Eaters – A Hard Road To Follow
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    “Although it was not the last album to be issued under the name of The Flesh Eaters, Hard Road to Follow occupies a unique and special place in the band’s […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • John Cale – Vintage Violence
    John Cale – Vintage Violence
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    “John Cale had the strongest avant-garde credentials of anyone in the Velvet Underground, but he was also the Velvet whose solo career was the least strongly defined by his work […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Goatsnake – I + Dog Days
    Goatsnake – I + Dog Days
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    “Late 90s stoner/doom from Label: Southern Lord – sunn³⁴ Format: CD, Album, Compilation Country: US Released: 2004 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Metal
  • The Fall – The Less You Look, The More You Find
    The Fall – The Less You Look, The More You Find
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    “This is a 2-disc distillation of tracks from the Receiver Records compilations: The Fall – Sinister Waltz The Fall – Fiend With A Violin The Fall – Oswald Defence Lawyer [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Hawkwind – Acid Daze Volume 1
    Hawkwind – Acid Daze Volume 1
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    “A compilation of tracks recorded by Hawkwind between 1977-1982, Acid Daze, Vol. 1 does a solid, if unexceptional, job of summarizing a difficult period for the band. In marked contrast [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • X – More Fun In The New World
    X – More Fun In The New World
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    “Coming off their 1982 masterpiece Under the Big Black Sun, X offered their follow-up More Fun in the New World one year later. While its predecessor won the band a […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Fall – The Real New Fall LP (Formerly ‘Country On The Click’)
    The Fall – The Real New Fall LP (Formerly ‘Country On The Click&…
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    “Two years and 32 compilations, box sets, books, DVDs, and so on, since their last studio album (the lukewarm Are You Are Missing Winner), the Fall returned as a hungry, […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • V/A – Mystic Sampler 1 & 2
    V/A – Mystic Sampler 1 & 2
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    “Collecting both classic punk/hxc comp LPs into one disc” Label: Mystic Records – MCD 126, Format: CD, Compilation Country: US Released: 2006 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Royal Trux – 3-Song EP
    Royal Trux – 3-Song EP
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    “This EP might have a title that borders on generic, but that’s the only simple or straightforward thing about it. After spending a few ill-advised years with Virgin Records, Royal [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Shona – Africa: Zimbabwe – Shona Mbira Music
    Shona – Africa: Zimbabwe – Shona Mbira Music
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    “Mbira music is one of the most popular traditional arts of black Africa, and the Shona musicians of Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) are among the instrument’s most distinguished players. This [...]

    GENRE: International
  • Sarah Mary Chadwick – Take Me Out To A Bar / What Am I, Gatsby?
    Sarah Mary Chadwick – Take Me Out To A Bar / What Am I, Gatsby?
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    Take Me Out To a Bar / What Am I, Gatsby? marks a deliberate pivot. The album’s open, introductory chords evoke seem fit to score a scene in a Michael […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Primitive Motion – Lost Frequencies
    Primitive Motion – Lost Frequencies
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    Over the past fifteen years, Primitive Motion, the Meanjin / Brisbane duo of musicians and visual artists Sandra Selig and Leighton Craig, have quietly, consistently, insistently, released a [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Pulp – More.
    Pulp – More.
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    WORDS FROM JARVIS ON “MORE”: “This is the first Pulp album since “We Love Life” in 2001. Yes: the first Pulp album for almost 24 years. How did that happen? […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Pale Saints – Slow Buildings 30th Anniversary Re:Masters (2xCD)
    Pale Saints – Slow Buildings 30th Anniversary Re:Masters (2xCD)
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    The Pale Saints complete their series of 30th anniversary reissues with the release of an expanded edition of their third and final album, Slow Buildings.By 1994 they were the quartet […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Lifeguard – Ripped And Torn
    Lifeguard – Ripped And Torn
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    Ripped and Torn on June 6. The youthful trio of Asher Case, Isaac Lowenstein, and Kai Slater have been making music together since they were in high school, nearly a […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative