June 14th Newsletter

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  • Unrest – Perfect Teeth (30th Anniversary Edition) (2xCD)
    Unrest – Perfect Teeth (30th Anniversary Edition) (2xCD)
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    Bowing out at their creative peak, Perfect Teeth is the wonderful final album by American 90s indie rock greats Unrest. Having just clocked 30 years, 4AD and the band are […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Pulp – More. (Green Vinyl)
    Pulp – More. (Green Vinyl)
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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
  • Pulp – More. (Blue Vinyl)
    Pulp – More. (Blue Vinyl)
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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
  • 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
  • Nourished By Time – Erotic Probiotic 2
    Nourished By Time – Erotic Probiotic 2
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    Nourished By Time’s debut album, Erotic Probiotic 2, tells his transformative story through impeccable songwriting, infectious ear worm melodies, vivid storytelling and intimate DIY [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Maria Somerville – Luster
    Maria Somerville – Luster
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    By the time Irish musician Maria Somerville started writing Luster, her landmark label debut for 4AD, she had lived away from her native Connemara for quite some time. Having grown […]

    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
  • 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
  • Horsegirl – Phonetics On And On
    Horsegirl – Phonetics On And On
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    There is something about the bitter cold in Chicago that unites the city in January— the two weeks in 2024 that Horsegirl spent recording Phonetics On and On were some […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Electrelane – BBC Radio Sessions Vol. 1
    Electrelane – BBC Radio Sessions Vol. 1
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    Recorded in 2003, this powerful session from the Brighton feminist alt-indie group Electrelane captures their intricate melodies, captivating rhythms, and ethereal yet commanding presence.

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Caroline – Caroline 2
    Caroline – Caroline 2
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    Returning with ‘caroline 2’, the eight-piece collective embrace a bolder, more expansive sound. Going beyond their debut’s explorations of repetition, slowness and space, the [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Circuit Des Yeux – Halo On The Inside
    Circuit Des Yeux – Halo On The Inside
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    Last fall, when Circuit des Yeux (aka CdY, aka Haley Fohr) released the stand-alone single “God Dick,” she described the song as a passage leading from the past toward things […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Caroline – Caroline 2
    Caroline – Caroline 2
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    Returning with ‘caroline 2’, the eight-piece collective embrace a bolder, more expansive sound. Going beyond their debut’s explorations of repetition, slowness and space, the [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Big Thief – Capacity (Eco-Vinyl)
    Big Thief – Capacity (Eco-Vinyl)
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    The trails that Brooklyn’s Big Thief — Adrianne Lenker (guitar, vocals), Buck Meek (guitar), Max Oleartchik (bass), and James Krivchenia (drums) — take us down on 2017’s Capacity, the [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Horsegirl– Phonetics On And On
    Horsegirl– Phonetics On And On
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    There is something about the bitter cold in Chicago that unites the city in January— the two weeks in 2024 that Horsegirl spent recording Phonetics On and On were some […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Frank Black – Teenager Of The Year (30th Anniversary Tour Edition)
    Frank Black – Teenager Of The Year (30th Anniversary Tour Edition)
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    To celebrate Frank Black’s landmark solo album, Teenager Of The Year turning 30, 4AD release a one-time vinyl pressing, to accompany a tour of North America plus Paris and London, […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Stereolab – Instant Holograms On Metal Film
    Stereolab – Instant Holograms On Metal Film
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    Are you having Aerial Troubles with your Colour TV? We can’t help with the technical issues, but we are able to take your minds off the problem with news of […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Stereolab – Instant Holograms On Metal Film
    Stereolab – Instant Holograms On Metal Film
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    Are you having Aerial Troubles with your Colour TV? We can’t help with the technical issues, but we are able to take your minds off the problem with news of […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Bardo Pond – Volumes 4 & 5
    Bardo Pond – Volumes 4 & 5
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    A double LP package from Bardo Pond, combining two of their super rare jam volumes on vinyl for the first time. A further edition in this celebrated series, ‘Volume 4’ […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Indie / Alternative
  • TWÏNS – Healing Dreams (Recycled Vinyl)
    TWÏNS – Healing Dreams (Recycled Vinyl)
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    Following their 2022 debut album “The Human Jazz”, Berlin based artist Twïns returns to Earth Libraries with “Healing Dreams”, their second LP. After exploring the nature of loss and grief […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Rilo Kiley – That’s How We Choose To Remember It
    Rilo Kiley – That’s How We Choose To Remember It
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    After a long absence, Rilo Kiley—Jenny Lewis, Blake Sennett, Jason Boesel, and Pierre “Duke” de Reeder— are back, with arms outstretched. Over the years, a reunion “felt like a possibility, […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Sarah Mary Chadwick – Take Me Out To A Bar / What Am I, Gatsby? (Violet Vinyl)
    Sarah Mary Chadwick – Take Me Out To A Bar / What Am I, Gatsby? (Violet Vinyl)
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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
  • V/A – Secret Superstar Sounds: Scraping Bubblegum Off My Soul 1977-80
    V/A – Secret Superstar Sounds: Scraping Bubblegum Off My Soul 1977-80
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    Soul Jazz Records’ new Secret Superstar Sounds brings together a wealth of incredibly catchy tunes from late-70s/early-80s British groups that you have probably never heard of! Powerpop mixed [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Punk / Hardcore
  • Poison Idea – Kings Of Punk
    Poison Idea – Kings Of Punk
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    Kings of Punk is a barely contained blast of rage and animosity, which is all the more effective for the fact it lasts a mere 26 minutes. Whatever you can […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Stereolab – Cobra And Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night
    Stereolab – Cobra And Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night
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    On February 28, 2025, Stereolab are making seven of their studio albums available again as 2LP editions. These utilise the same remasters as the 2019 expanded album editions, cut from […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Stereolab – Dots And Loops
    Stereolab – Dots And Loops
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    On February 28, 2025, Stereolab are making seven of their studio albums available again as 2LP editions. These utilise the same remasters as the 2019 expanded album editions, cut from […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Stereolab – Emperor Tomato Ketchup
    Stereolab – Emperor Tomato Ketchup
    $33.00 | , Add to cart

    On February 28, 2025, Stereolab are making seven of their studio albums available again as 2LP editions. These utilise the same remasters as the 2019 expanded album editions, cut from […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Stereolab – Mars Audiac Quintet
    Stereolab – Mars Audiac Quintet
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    On February 28, 2025, Stereolab are making seven of their studio albums available again as 2LP editions. These utilise the same remasters as the 2019 expanded album editions, cut from […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Magdalena Bay – Imaginal Disk
    Magdalena Bay – Imaginal Disk
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    Magdalena Bay, the Los Angeles-based duo of Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin, create magical pop music that floats in the ether of our collective social cosmos. While they call California […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Elliott Smith – Either / Or (Red Vinyl)
    Elliott Smith – Either / Or (Red Vinyl)
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    Heart sewn firmly to his sleeve, Elliott continues his tuneful dissection of life & what makes it difficult.

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Elliott Smith – New Moon (Metallic Silver Vinyl)
    Elliott Smith – New Moon (Metallic Silver Vinyl)
    $37.00 | , Add to cart

    “I kept recording more songs with no regard whether or not they were gonna be on anything. That’s what I’m used to doing, recording all the time and not going, […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Cowboy Junkies – Lay It Down
    Cowboy Junkies – Lay It Down
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    Every Cowboy Junkies album is a sonic treat, full of gorgeous guitar tones from Michael Timmins, haunting vocals from Margo Timmins, and beautiful arrangements, and 1996’s Lay it Down is […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • The Donnas – American Teenage Rock ‘N’ Roll Machine
    The Donnas – American Teenage Rock ‘N’ Roll Machine
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    Better production? Check. Better musicianship? Check. A more mature attitude? $#@! no! Released just a year after The Donnas’ first, self-titled record, American Teenage Rock ‘N’ Roll Machine [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The Lemonheads – Come On Feel The Lemonheads
    The Lemonheads – Come On Feel The Lemonheads
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    Expanded 30th anniversary re-issue of The Lemonheads’ classic 1993 album. The breakthrough record that took American alt rock global and catapulted Evan Dando into the hearts of a generation. [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • V/A  – Punk 45: I’m A Mess! D-I-Y Or Die! Art, Trash & Neon – Punk 45s In The UK 1977-78
    V/A – Punk 45: I’m A Mess! D-I-Y Or Die! Art, Trash & Neon – Punk 45s In The UK 1977-78
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    Initially released in a deluxe vinyl-only edition (totally sold out), Soul Jazz Records’ ‘PUNK 45: I’m A Mess’ is now being released in standard double album vinyl. Soul Jazz [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Habibi – Anywhere But Here (Clear Vinyl)
    Habibi – Anywhere But Here (Clear Vinyl)
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    Brooklyn’s Habibi brought an explosive and celebratory fun to their self-titled 2014 debut. That brief collection was overflowing with bubblegum melodies, upbeat pop, and the kind of giddy [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Habibi – Habibi (Red Vinyl)
    Habibi – Habibi (Red Vinyl)
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    A cursory listen to Brooklyn indie act Habibi’s self-titled debut album would initially seem to suggest a straightforward punk approach to the classic girl group template. Front-loaded with [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Habibi – Habibi
    Habibi – Habibi
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    A cursory listen to Brooklyn indie act Habibi’s self-titled debut album would initially seem to suggest a straightforward punk approach to the classic girl group template. Front-loaded with [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Elliott Smith – Elliott Smith (Purple Vinyl)
    Elliott Smith – Elliott Smith (Purple Vinyl)
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    When you hear it Elliott’s way you know it to be true. “Everything is exactly right when I walk around here drunk every night with an open container from 7-11, […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Stereolab – The Groop Played “Space Age Batchelor Pad Music”
    Stereolab – The Groop Played “Space Age Batchelor Pad Music”
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    The Groop Played Space Age Batchelor Pad Music is an 8-track mini-LP, released in 1993. Often noted as being one of the most influential and original bands of the 90s, […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Drugdealer – The End Of Comedy
    Drugdealer – The End Of Comedy
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    The End of Comedy is a collection of vignettes – lucid, lysergic and organic – featuring homespun explorations of Carole King­-esque piano ballads, spun-out psych­ folk and even New [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Indie / Alternative
  • Stereolab – Peng!
    Stereolab – Peng!
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    Often noted as being one of the most influential and original bands of the 90s Stereolab were formed by Tim Gane and Laetitia Sadier in London in 1990 and released […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Stereolab – Switched On Volume 1
    Stereolab – Switched On Volume 1
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    Remastered edition of a compilation of Stereolabs first three singles, first issued in 1992. Includes download card. Reissued alongside new vinyl editions of the companion volumes Refried [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Rocket From The Tombs – Black Record
    Rocket From The Tombs – Black Record
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    Rocket From The Tombs is back. ‘Black Record’ delivers eight new tracks, as well as definitive recordings of Rocket classics ‘Sonic Reducer’ and ‘Read It And Weep’ and a cover […]

    GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk, Punk / Hardcore
  • Elliott Smith – New Moon (2CD)
    Elliott Smith – New Moon (2CD)
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    “I kept recording more songs with no regard whether or not they were gonna be on anything. That’s what I’m used to doing, recording all the time and not going, […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Danse Macabre – Danse Macabre
    Danse Macabre – Danse Macabre
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    Forming out of the ashes of the legendary Japanese punk band Zouo, Danse Macabre are their equally cult, and spiritual successor walking a path filled with even more haunting darkness. […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Ejaculators – Wank Generation
    Ejaculators – Wank Generation
    $8.00 | , Add to cart

    7″ vinyl pressing of the quickly sold out tape release on General Speech. Degenerate and irreverent synth punk from Chicago, featuring members of Ignorantes and Mock Execution. There’s not [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Excrement – Excrement
    Excrement – Excrement
    $19.00 | , Add to cart

    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 […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Stalin – Kubi Dake Atsureki
    The Stalin – Kubi Dake Atsureki
    $10.00 | , Add to cart

    4 track unreleased studio EP recording from their Mushi era. The fact these tracks exist, and are as good and as high quality as they are truly the stuff dreams […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore