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Staff Picks
Curious what the staff at Torn Light are listening to? Check out the titles we’ve been digging lately below.
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C.O.B. – Spirit Of Love
$22.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Weird little hippie folk relic” – Cleo Limited 2023 restock; LP version. “Prior to co-founding the Incredible String Band, Clive Palmer had [...]
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Non Band – S/T
$29.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Great experimental / no wave leaning, violin heavy post punk from Japan, 1982. Originally released as a 10″, now available via Tal as a […]
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Kali Malone – Living Torch
$24.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Another needed reissue in from GRM. One of the best Kali Malone releases IMO. Dive into some minimalism here. It’s dark and psyched out.” […]
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Coil – The Ape Of Naples
$40.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Their true final studio LP is a creative and meek electronic album that feels like chamber music for purgatory.” – Alex “Really glad to […]
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Einsturzende Neubauten – 1/2 Mensch
$30.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cart2023 repress; LP version. This is the third album by Einstürzende Neubauten, also known as Halber Mensch, originally released in 1985. The album opens with the startlingly oppressive, almost [...]
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V/A – Cease & Resist: Sonic Subversion & Anarcho Punk in the UK 1979-1986
$42.00 | 2xLP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “I don’t like punk music generally. This comp is an exception. Lots of strange macabre on here. Also one of those comps that feels […]
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Natural Information Society – Since Time Is Gravity
$43.00 | 2xLP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “The album that grew on us all. Seems to be playing at least once a day in the shop. Moody jazz album that sits […]
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La Monte Young / Marian Zazeela – 31 VII 69 10:26 – 10:49 PM / 23 VIII 64 2:50:45 – 3:11 AM The Volga Delta
$29.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “‘Composer La Monte Young Does Not Understand His Work’ – Tony Conrad, 1990” – Cleo “La Monte Young was born in Bern, Idaho in [...]
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Jeff Parker – Slight Freedom
$36.00 | LP Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “I know I’ve picked guitar records almost five weeks in a row, but here I go again. Parker brings chilled out, looping guitar compositions […]
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Nurse With Wound – Homotopy To Marie
$40.00 | 2xLP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Definitely my favorite Nurse With Wound release and probably one of my favorite pieces of experimental music. Frightening, funny, surreal and everything in [...]
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Henry Grimes Trio – The Call
$24.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “The near hidden Black General holding down the low end (bass) on countless essential Jazz recordings gets his ESP debut as a leader. Cult, […]
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Suburban Lawns – S/T
$25.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Everything else is irrelative.” – Cleo If your brain has a shortlist of bands that instantly evoke New Wave, Suburban Lawns deserve a slot […]
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Sand – Golem
$29.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “The spookiest acid-folk you can imagine.” – Cleo 2017 remastered edition, with new standard glossy jackets. Texture and feeling of 1974 with boosted [...]
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Mark Fry – Dreaming With Alice
$28.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Total classic of the acid folk underground, finally reissued direct from the original master tapes. Recorded in 1972, when he was only 19, this […]
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Günter Schickert – Überfällig
$26.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Great Berlin school without the use of heavy electronics. Flavors of Ash Ra Tempel.” – Jack Bureau B reissues Günter Schickert‘s album [...]
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Cluster & Eno – Cluster & Eno
$26.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Best Cluster. Best Eno. Beautifully frail and contemplative yet extremely intentional music. Piano, guitar, synth, ambient textures and micro rhythms all combine [...]
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Robert Ashley – Automatic Writing
$23.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Falling asleep to Automatic Writing, having a nightmare during Purposeful Lady Slow Afternoon, waking back up to She Was A Visitor and going about […]
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“Blue” Gene Tyranny – Out Of The Blue
$21.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Worth it just for A Letter From Home. ‘This train is lit by the luminescence of the town and the faint morning light, and […]
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Ernest Hood – Back to the Woodlands
$22.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Such an odd, charming album bringing together field recordings of the forest and kind of ambient, acid?, folk. This previously lost album continues on […]
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The Apartments – The Evening Visits…and Stays for Years (Expanded Edition)
$27.00 | 2xLP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Candlelit folk jams, my favorite genre for awhile. Captured Tracks with a great reissue includes first EPs & even some demos for the price […]
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Jason Molina – Let Me Go, Let Me Go, Let Me Go
$22.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “One of my favorite Jason Molina LPs. Comes back around to Jason’s deep and minimal ‘blues’ albums like The Pyramid Electric Co. Bleak, slow [...]
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Swell Maps – Jane From Occupied Europe
$20.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Truly mangled guitar music at its finest.” – Alex Noisy and experimental, Britain’s Swell Maps experienced little commercial success during the [...]
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Peter Jefferies – Closed Circuit
$25.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat 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!” – […]
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Dead C – Operation Of The Sonne
$25.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat 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 […]
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Dead C – The White House
$33.00 | 2xLP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “The pinnacle of rock n roll / noise rock – THE DEAD C. Thankfully Ba Da Bing! have brought these back around. Remastered by […]
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Vashti Bunyan – Just Another Diamond Day
$21.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Easy contender for best folk record. Never gets old.” – Jon Long overdue reissue and first-time available on CD as a domestic pressing, Vashti […]
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Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation
$29.00 | 2xLP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “I’m coming out of a busy week, and when times get hectic, my listening depends on the albums that I could listen to a […]
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Bratmobile – Pottymouth (Pink Vinyl)
$22.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Along with Bikini Kill’s Revolution Girl Style Now, Pottymouth is Riot Grrrl 101. FFO of The Shangri-Las, The Runaways, Beat Happening, and fast, loud, […]
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Twink – You Reached For The Stars: The Best Of Twink (Violet Vinyl)
$25.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Wild British psych from Twink, of Pretty Things and Pink Fairies. His Think Pink record is classic, and this combines a number of tracks […]
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Courtney Barnett – The Double EP: The Sea Of Split Peas
$29.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Some of my favorite Courtney Barnett songs are on this record, and some of my favorite lines, compelling turns of phrase delivered in her […]
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Bill Nace – Through A Room
$26.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Fever dream experimental guitar with an array of other instruments that are all completely abstracted. Uneasy listening.” – Hannah Using the [...]
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Silver Jews – American Water
$24.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “‘In 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection’ is probably the best opening statement of an indie rock album. RIP David Berman.” – Cleo […]
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Scott Walker – Tilt
$24.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cart“It’s been 25 years since Scott Walker released his dark masterpiece Tilt (8 May 1995). The album was met with positive reviews despite or maybe because of its arcane, unpleasant, […]
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John O’Brien – Leaving Las Vegas
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Forget the wack and overly sentimental movie, John O’Brien’s first novel is both a disturbing descent into hell and the best thing to come […]
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Bob Desper – New Sounds
$23.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “A quintessential lost record backstory for this record. The name drops in the album writeup are exactly right too, would definitely recommend FFO Bert […]
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Peter Jefferies – Electricity
$18.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “One of my favorite New Zealand artists. You can’t beat his solo stuff or his band This Kind Of Punishment.” – Jon Peter Jefferies […]
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German Shepherds – Music For Sick Queers
$18.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Go to weird out record. So so grimey and sick. I love it and it feels like the first time I’ve heard it every […]
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Gene Russell – New Direction
$18.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “First record from the legendary imprint Black Jazz. Can’t help but be put in a great mood while listening, the opening track is truly […]
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Jackie Mclean – Capuchin Swing
$18.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “McLean is the man. 1960 bebop chiller, and a good starting point for his vast catalog. He’s well worth diving into deeply, mid to […]
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David Axelrod – Earth Rot
$18.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “My favorite of Axelrod’s works. The Warning Talk Pt. 1 starts the record off with a bright opening, it feels like the sun is […]
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Magnus Jäverling – Bowdark
$28.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Feels and sounds like a real movie score. For fans of electronic music sounds.” – Jack Bowdark is the name of a fictitious town […]
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Blod – Där Ska Barnet Vara
$26.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Great record from Discreet Music. Has that wobbly sound that pervades most if not all of the albums they put out. Fits many moods […]
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Franciska – Tryghed
$26.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Another Discreet pick for me this week. This record crafts the ultimate comfort sound, dropping you into a soundscape that feels like laying on […]
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V/A – Space, Energy & Light: Experimental Electronic And Acoustic Soundscapes 1961-88 (YELLOW VINYL)
$50.00 | Box Set, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Constant listen here in the shop. Great mix of Berlin school type music. One thing about Soul Jazz comps, the track selection always beats […]
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Equipment Pointed Ankh – Downtown! LP
$22.00 | LP Add to cartShips prior to release date of 9/29/2023. What our staff has to say: “‘Kentucky Kraut Rock’ If you are not yet familiar with EPA, please make it a point to […]
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Juma – Selected Works 2LP
$33.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Unearthed a few copies while moving Fantastique out of here. Incredible gamut of K. Yoshimatsu material from 81-82. Varied from industrial to new wave, […]
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Cat Power – Moon Pix
$20.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “My favorite Christian indie rock record. ‘The earth started shaking, and dark spirits were smashing up against every window of my house. I woke […]
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J Dilla – Donuts
$30.00 | 2xLP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “A minimalist masterpiece that gives more and more, the more you listen to it.” – Cleo Donuts began simply enough as an idea to […]
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International Submarine Band – Safe At Home (Analog Mono Edition)
$29.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Gram Parsons first stab at country rock. Fantastic Lee Hazlewood Industries LP reissued from Sundazed, much more a straight up country rock album than […]
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Soul Jazz Records Presents: Cold Wave I
$37.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Great comp compiled by Soul Jazz. This one and the second are both top notch. An insert is included giving a brief synopsis of […]
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Broadcast- Tender Buttons
$25.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartBroadcast will have their long out of print albums made available again through Warp Records on LP and CD. This seminal catalogue encompasses the albums Work And Non Work, The […]
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Colin Andrew Sheffield – Images
$20.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Gorgeous ambient soundscapes through manipulated samples of jazz records. While the source material is mostly unrecognizable, completely repurposed into amorphous [...]
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David Axelrod – Heavy Axe
$30.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Can’t get more ‘heady’ of a name then David Axelrod, He’s the king of modern composers. Excited to see this new deluxe reissue of […]
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Alice Coltrane – Ptah The El Daoud (Verve By Request Series)
$30.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “A must have for all. Her true magic is shown all throughout this record.” – Kobe Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Recorded in the […]
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Donald Byrd – Places And Spaces
$30.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “One of my favorite jazz-funk records, you can’t really go wrong having this Donald Byrd on your shelf. Clocking in only a little over […]
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Herbie Hancock – Takin’ Off (Blue Note 80th Anniversary Edition)
$28.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Early Hancock album. His first acoustic version of Watermelon Man. A 1962 Blue note album through and through.” – Jack In honor of Blue […]
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West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – Vol. 3
$25.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “60s psych rock core” – Jack Released in July 1968 on Reprise Records, Vol.3: A Child’s Guide To Good & Evil is considered to […]
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West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – Vol. 2
$27.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “A psych record with a little something for everybody. Across the record, there are tinges of folk, art rock, and Hendrix-style shredding, each track […]
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Sonic Youth – EVOL
$20.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “‘Mystery train/three-way plane/expressway to your skull.’ Enough said.” – Cleo Released in May 1986 on SST Records and Blast First! in the UK, EVOL [...]
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Echo & The Bunnymen – Crocodiles
$22.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartDebut LP from Echo & The Bunnymen