Pedestrian Deposit – The Architector

The culmination of five years of obsessive work — fits and starts of ongoing perfectionism that spawned two solo projects and two additional records. Beginning with crude and unfamiliar source [...]

Enon – Long Play

First ever vinyl pressing of Enon’s 1998 Instrumental debut album. Originally issued as a band made CDR this version has been given a fresh remaster by John Schmersal and a […]

Junior Kimbrough – All Night Long

A beautifully packaged edition of Junior Kimbrough’s first album, recorded live in the converted church that replaced Kimbrough’s original wooden shack juke joint. The lineup is [...]

Curtis Mayfield – Roots (Orange Vinyl)

Roots is Curtis Mayfield’s visionary album, a landmark creation every bit as compelling and far-reaching in its musical and extra-musical goals as Marvin Gaye’s contemporary What’s Goin’ On. [...]

VA ‎– Los Angeles Modern Kent Northern Soul

YIA Talent Hunt Winners

Big Crown Records is proud to present the reissue of one of Brooklyn’s most sought after “holy grail” soul records, YIA Talent Hunt Winners. Youth in Action, Inc. (YIA) was […]

VA ‎– Brunswick Northern Soul

From the mod 60s the legendary Brunswick label had the cream of Chicago soul, with the hits by Jackie Wilson and The Chi Lites to go with it. But beyond […]

Shuggie Otis – Here Comes Shuggie Otis

‘here comes shuggie otis’ was released when the guitarist and songwriter was only 14. his father, johnny otis, produced the recording, and co-wrote the album with his son. some of [...]

Lady Wray – Queen Alone

Virginia-born singer/songwriter Nicole Wray has everything you’d want in a singer: an infectious Jackson-5-family-member flare, a range like Aretha’s, and a church upbringing that’s brought a [...]

Khruangbin – Mordechai

Khruangbin has always been multilingual, weaving far-flung musical languages like East Asian surf-rock, Persian funk, and Jamaican dub into mellifluous harmony. But on its third album, it’s [...]

Screamin Jay Hawkins – The Bizarre Years

You can have your Big Jay McNeely, Wynonie Harris, even your Little Richard…cuz when it comes to R&B wildmen, we’ll see you and raise you with Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, the […]

Ernie Hines – Electrified

Although Mississippi-born Ernie Hines made his first recordings in Chicago for the USA label, it was when he returned south that he was signed to Stax’s We Produce label by […]

Lee Fields – Big Crown Vaults Vol 1

We are always sitting on a handful of unreleased songs that didn’t make their way to albums. Listening back to these gems we decided to launch a new series entitled […]

Doris Duke ‎– I’m A Loser

The classic 1969 deep soul album produced by Swamp Dogg and recorded in Macon GA. Featuring two tracks with Duane Allman on guitar.

24 Carat Black – Gone: The Promises Of Yesterday

Embraced in the early ’90s by Britain’s rare groove scene and later sampled by Digable Planets and Jay-Z, Ghetto: Misfortune’s Wealth has since been known as 24-Carat Black’s first and […]

R Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders No.2 – Persian Rug, Crying My Blues Away, Moana March and Other Favorites

Floating Spectrum – A Point Between

Floating Spectrum is the moniker for Taiwan-born, Berlin-based composer and audio technologist, Mei-Fang Liau. Her debut album as Floating Spectrum, A Point Between – crafted from a combination [...]

Vampire Can’t – Key Cutter

“This 2005 recording collaboration of Vampire Belt, the long running Western Massachusetts duo of Chris Corsano (frequent YOD associate and collaborator with Jandek, John Olson, and Paul [...]

JH1.FS3 – Trials And Tribulations

Emotional exploration through sound can become so indulgent that it overshadows the journey. JH1.FS3 eschews mining the human condition as mediation, opting for nuanced analysis rather than [...]

R Girardin-Emotional Music

R. Girardin – Emotional Music is a collaborative release from Palto Flats and Zero Grow, a contemporary rendering of synthetic midi-fusion and DAW experimentalism. Drawing links between Rashad [...]

Flanger Magazine

“A set of spry, pastoral Aecoustic Guitar and errant Electronic pieces that harken back to libraries by Teisco, Vittorio Marino, and the like, yet mapped in an alien manner unlike […]

Mikey Young – You Feelin Me?

The path is finally revealed by a splash of light, and it is dazzling. You cover your eye bones with a claw and can make out a reflection of the […]

Yacht – Chain Tripping

“We wanted to find a way to interrogate technology more deeply,” explains Claire L. Evans, one-third of the pop group YACHT. “From the ground up,” adds her partner and YACHT […]

X – More Fun In The New World

The anthemic album opener “The New World” is still powerful years later, as is the absolutely beautiful ballad “I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts,” which perfectly captures the paranoid feeling […]

Wolfram – Amadeus

Wolfram makes his triumphant return to DFA with Amadeus, a newly refined take on the Euro-disco pop he’s become known for over the past several years. Released by Public Possession […]

Why?-AOKOHIO

Yoni Wolf has spent the last two decades traveling the remote sonic terrain where underground hip hop, avant-pop, and psych-rock meet. Some of Yoni’s most compelling and critically-praised [...]

Wax Chattels – s/t

The inception of Wax Chattels occurred rather rapidly. Several years after completing jazz school together, Peter Ruddell and Amanda Cheng reconnected at a Preoccupations show in 2016 at [...]

Joni Void – Mise En Abyme

Mise En Abyme is the second full-length by Joni Void, the plunderphonic electronica project of France/Canada producer Jean Cousin, following his acutely accomplished and acclaimed 2017 debut [...]

Vivian Girls – Memory

While a reunion record titled Memory may conjure images of a band waxing nostalgic about the halcyon days of yore, Vivian Girls’ newest record is anything but a pleasant reminiscence. […]