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  • Null Mutants – Syncing Feeling
    Null Mutants – Syncing Feeling
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    THE FINAL RELEASE ON TORN LIGHT RECORDS Null Mutants is the Chicago-based duo of Todd Irwin and Nick Butcher. Accomplished graphic artists, the project finds the pair mixing deep reverence […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk, Reggae / Dub
  • Equipment Pointed Ankh – Eggs A Little Late
    Equipment Pointed Ankh – Eggs A Little Late
    $22.00 | ,

    In a time when cleverness is prized over belly-busting fun, in a musical landscape that worships genre over invention, and in a world increasingly begging computers to think on our […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • John And Yoko ‎– Wedding Album (with all inserts/posters!)
    John And Yoko ‎– Wedding Album (with all inserts/posters!)
    $125.00 | , ,

    A document and labor of love. Label: Apple Records – SMAX-3361 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Box Set Country: US Released: 1969 VG+/VG+. Includes all inserts! Disc in great shape. Outer […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • William Hooker ‎– Big Moon
    William Hooker ‎– Big Moon
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    “Over 70 releases and 44 years into his career as a jazz drummer and composer, William Hooker has made (arguably) his best album yet during the pandemic in 2020, a […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Unwound ‎– Kid Is Gone
    Unwound ‎– Kid Is Gone
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    “Kid Is Gone is the unquiet portrait of primal Unwound. Before 1993’s Fake Train ripped through, they’d been Giant Henry, Supertanker, and Cygnus X-1, short-lived black holes gathering dark [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Gillian Welch & David Rawlings ‎– All The Good Times (Are Past & Gone)
    Gillian Welch & David Rawlings ‎– All The Good Times (Are Past &#…
    $120.00 | , ,

    Gillian Welch & David Rawlings’ sixth studio album, consisting of covers and new arrangements of traditional folk songs Label: Acony Records – ACNY-2015 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Drab Majesty ‎– Careless (Pink Vinyl)
    Drab Majesty ‎– Careless (Pink Vinyl)
    $40.00 | , ,

    “In the smoggy orange light of a new millennium, the young Deb Demure would take the bus, once a week, from his home in crumbling Hollywood to his grandmother’s apartment, […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Doug Snyder & Bob Thompson – Daily Dance
    Doug Snyder & Bob Thompson – Daily Dance
    $17.00 | , ,

    “Less often than not, a sound recording will reach your ears that turns speculation into confirmation and leaves you wondering if it all really happened. TWS is usually the case […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Alva Noto Feat. Martin L. Gore & William Basinski ‎– Subterraneans
    Alva Noto Feat. Martin L. Gore & William Basinski ‎– Subterranean…
    $19.00 | , ,

    “NOTON is pleased to announce the release of Subterraneans, a collaborative EP featuring Alva Noto, Depeche Mode’s Martin L. Gore and William Basinski’s cover of David Bowie’s homonymous [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Bob Dylan & The Band ‎– The Basement Tapes (Mobile Fidelity Pressing)
    Bob Dylan & The Band ‎– The Basement Tapes (Mobile Fidelity Pressi…
    $80.00 | , ,

    “The official release of The Basement Tapes — which were first heard on a 1968 bootleg called The Great White Wonder — plays with history somewhat, as Robbie Robertson [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Laszlo Krasznahorkai – Seiobo There Below
    Laszlo Krasznahorkai – Seiobo There Below
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    Beauty, in László Krasznahorkai’s new novel, reflects, however fleeting, the sacred – even if we are mostly unable to bear it. In Seiobo There Below we see the Japanese goddess […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • J.G Ballard – Crash
    J.G Ballard – Crash
    $14.00 | ,

    The definitive cult, post-modern novel – a shocking blend of violence, transgression and eroticism – reissued with an introduction from Zadie Smith. After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • J.G Ballard – The Atrocity Exhibition
    J.G Ballard – The Atrocity Exhibition
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    A prophetic and experimental masterpiece by J. G. Ballard, the acclaimed author of ‘Crash’ and ‘Super-Cannes’, featuring an introduction by Hari Kunzru. The human organism is an atrocity [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • James Tiptree Jr – Warm Worlds and Otherwise
    James Tiptree Jr – Warm Worlds and Otherwise
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    ‘Tiptree’s narratives of alien worlds and alienation make up one of science fiction’s most vivid and influential bodies of work’ The New York TimesThis landmark collection [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • James Tiptree Jr. – Ten Thousand Light-Years From Home
    James Tiptree Jr. – Ten Thousand Light-Years From Home
    $13.00 | ,

    ‘Unquestionably one of the brightest-burning talents in the constellation of science fiction’ The New York Times. Written under the pseudonym James Tiptree Jr., the pioneering and [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Andreas Eschbach – The Hair Carpet Weavers
    Andreas Eschbach – The Hair Carpet Weavers
    $14.00 | ,

    In a distant universe, since the beginning of time, workers have spent their lives weaving intricate carpets from the hair of women and girls. But why? Andreas Eschbach’s mysterious, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Kobo Abe – The Ark Sakura
    Kobo Abe – The Ark Sakura
    $14.00 | ,

    ‘One of Japan’s most venerated writers’ David MitchellIn this unnerving fable from one of Japan’s greatest novelists, a recluse known as ‘Mole’ retreats to a [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Dorothy B Hughes – In a Lonely Place
    Dorothy B Hughes – In a Lonely Place
    $14.00 | ,

    ‘The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect’ Daily TelegraphLos Angeles, the late 1940’s. A serial killer stalks the foggy [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ingeborg Bachmann – Malina
    Ingeborg Bachmann – Malina
    $14.00 | ,

    Part detective novel, part love story, part psychoanalytic case study, Malina is a staggering portrait of a writer trying to tell her own story in a world dominated by men. […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Russell Hoban – Turtle Diary
    Russell Hoban – Turtle Diary
    $14.00 | ,

    Born to swim thousands of miles in the ocean, the giant sea turtles are now trapped in a tank of golden-green water at London Zoo. But not for much longer. […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Russell Hoban – Riddley Walker
    Russell Hoban – Riddley Walker
    $16.00 | ,

    Wandering a desolate post-apocalyptic landscape, speaking a broken-down English lost after the end of civilization, Riddley Walker sets out to find out what brought humanity here. This is his [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Russell Hoban – Mr Rinyo-Clacton’s Offer
    Russell Hoban – Mr Rinyo-Clacton’s Offer
    $14.00 | ,

    You want to buy my death for a million pounds!’ Piccadilly Circus tube station is an unlikely location for a pact with the Devil, but this is where Jonathan Fitch […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Russell Hoban – The Medusa Frequency
    Russell Hoban – The Medusa Frequency
    $14.00 | ,

    It all begins the night a leaflet comes through the door of unsuccessful novelist Herman Orff, promising a magical cure for writer’s block. The strange treatment plunges him into a […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Russell Hoban – Kleinzeit
    Russell Hoban – Kleinzeit
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    On an ordinary day in a strangely unfamiliar London, Kleinzeit is fired from his advertising job and told he must go to hospital with a skewed hypotenuse. There on Ward […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Russell Hoban – Fremder
    Russell Hoban – Fremder
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    On 4 November 2052, Fremder Gorn is discovered drifting in deep space. He has no spacesuit, no helmet, no oxygen, but he is still alive: the sole survivor from the […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Kobo Abe – The Ruined Map
    Kobo Abe – The Ruined Map
    $14.00 | ,

    A private detective is hired to find a missing person, but nothing is normal about this case. Why has the beautiful, alcoholic wife of the vanished salesman waited over half […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Georges Bataille – Blue of Noon
    Georges Bataille – Blue of Noon
    $16.00 | ,

    Set against the backdrop of Europe’s slide into Fascism, Blue of Noon is a blackly compelling account of depravity and violence. As its narrator lurches despairingly from city to city […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • The Psychedelic Experience : A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead
    The Psychedelic Experience : A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the…
    $14.00 | ,

    The Psychedelic Experience, created by the prophetic shaman-professors Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzer and Richard Alpert, is a foundational text that serves as a model and a guide for all subsequent [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Georges Bataille – Story of the Eye
    Georges Bataille – Story of the Eye
    $14.00 | ,

    A masterpiece of transgressive, surrealist erotica, George Bataille’s Story of the Eye was the Fifty Shades of Grey of its era. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated by Joachim [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jorge Luis Borges – Labyrinths
    Jorge Luis Borges – Labyrinths
    $16.00 | ,

    Jorge Luis Borges’s Labyrinths is a collection of short stories and essays showcasing one of Latin America’s most influential and imaginative writers. This Penguin Modern Classics [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Susan Sontag – On Photography
    Susan Sontag – On Photography
    $16.00 | ,

    Susan Sontag’s On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject. Susan Sontag’s groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • G.I. Gurdjieff – Meetings with Remarkable Men
    G.I. Gurdjieff – Meetings with Remarkable Men
    $16.00 |

    The exhilarating, life-affirming call to spiritual arms from world-renowned spiritual teacher G. I. Gurdjieff’Gurdjieff’s voice is heard as a call. He calls because he suffers from [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Liam Gillick – Five or Six
    Liam Gillick – Five or Six
    $9.00 | ,

    five or six contains texts selected from more than 100 reviews, articles, and catalogue essays published by Liam Gillick since 1989. The book includes some of the formal, social, and […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Thomas Moynihan – X-Risk: How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinction
    Thomas Moynihan – X-Risk: How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinc…
    $10.00 | ,

    How humanity came to contemplate its possible extinction. From forecasts of disastrous climate change to prophecies of evil AI superintelligences and the impending perils of genome editing, our [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and Documents
    Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and Documents
    $18.00 | ,

    An exploration of the unsettling collisions of art and culture in Georges Bataille’s revolutionary journal and a new consideration of twentieth-century masterpieces by Picasso, Miró, Dalí, [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Wayne Koestenbaum – The Cheerful Scapegoat: Fables
    Wayne Koestenbaum – The Cheerful Scapegoat: Fables
    $7.00 | ,

    In his first book of short fiction–a collection of whimsical, surreal, baroque, ribald, and heartbreaking fables–Wayne Koestenbaum takes the gloom and melancholy of our own terrifying [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Revisions: Essays by Apollo Musagète, Yvonne Rainer, and Others
    Revisions: Essays by Apollo Musagète, Yvonne Rainer, and Others
    $12.00 | ,

    The final iteration of Rainer’s dance rant A Truncated History of the Universe for Dummies, accompanied by texts offering a real-time account of Rainer’s creative process. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Presence: A Conversation at Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich
    Presence: A Conversation at Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich
    $10.00 | ,

    Recently, the idea of “presence” has returned to the arts, humanities, and social sciences. In February 2013, in Zurich’s historical Cabaret Voltaire, which was central to the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ben Ware – On Extinction: Beginning Again At The End
    Ben Ware – On Extinction: Beginning Again At The End
    $10.00 | ,

    On Extinction takes us on a breathtaking philosophical journey through desperate territory. As we face ‘the end of all things’, Ben Ware argues we must face our apocalyptic future without […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Moscow Symposium: Conceptualism Revisited
    Moscow Symposium: Conceptualism Revisited
    $10.00 | ,

    Beyond the view that multiple, globally dispersed conceptual art practices provide a heterogeneity of cultural references, Andrei Monastyrski and Collective Actions propose much more: other [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Medium of Contingency (Urbanomic / Redactions)
    The Medium of Contingency (Urbanomic / Redactions)
    $8.00 | ,

    An unprecedented meeting of philosophical thought, financial markets, and the art world. Why has the concept of contingency taken on a marked importance both in contemporary philosophy and in [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Elliott Sharp – IrRational Music
    Elliott Sharp – IrRational Music
    $10.00 | ,

    A memoir and manifesto by a pivotal figure at the junction of rock, the avant-garde, and an ever-widening spiral of art, theater, film, and dance. For over five decades, Elliott […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Karl Ove Knausgaard – In The Land Of The Cyclops
    Karl Ove Knausgaard – In The Land Of The Cyclops
    $11.00 | ,

    In his first essay collection to be published in English, the New York Times bestselling author of the My Struggle series Karl Ove Knausgaard explores art, philosophy, and literature with […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Hydroplutonic Kernow (Urbanomic / Redactions)
    Hydroplutonic Kernow (Urbanomic / Redactions)
    $9.00 | ,

    A geophilosophical odyssey through the remains of Cornwall’s industrial past offers a historical portrait of geotrauma in action. This unique document provides a pioneering case study in [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • French Theory and American Art
    French Theory and American Art
    $10.00 | ,

    Many postwar American artists were influenced by French philosophy, literary studies, and social sciences. Accordingly, a number of French authors gathered under the label “French [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Charles Harrison – Essays on Art and Language
    Charles Harrison – Essays on Art and Language
    $10.00 | ,

    These essays by art historian and critic Charles Harrison are based on the premise that making art and talking about art are related enterprises. They are written from the point […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Jacques Rancière – The Emancipated Spectator
    Jacques Rancière – The Emancipated Spectator
    $8.00 | ,

    The foremost philosopher of art argues for a new politics of looking The theorists of art and film commonly depict the modern audience as aesthetically and politically passive. In response, […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Robert Gluck – Communal Nude
    Robert Gluck – Communal Nude
    $9.00 | ,

    Since cofounding San Francisco’s influential New Narrative circle in 1979, Robert Glück has been one of America’s finest prose stylists of innovative fiction, bending narrative into the service [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ewa Lajer-Burcharth – Chardin Material
    Ewa Lajer-Burcharth – Chardin Material
    $9.00 | ,

    Adapted from the lecture she delivered at the Institut für Kunstkritik, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth’s essay explores the dimension of self-reflexivity in the work of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Algiers, Third World Capital: Freedom Fighters, Revolutionaries, Black Panthers
    Algiers, Third World Capital: Freedom Fighters, Revolutionaries, Black…
    $8.00 | ,

    The life of an unexpected revolutionary with the Black Panthers in Algiers Mokhtefi (née Klein), a Jewish American from Long Island, has had an exhilarating life. In the 1960s, she […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction