Merge Rock & Indie 167 Items

Bite Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Bite Green Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Fight Green Vinyl Edition

LP | 2012 | US | Reissue (Merge)

Release: 2012 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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This summer, Merge will reissue A Giant Dog's first two full-lengths_2012's Fight and 2013's Bone_worldwide on limited-edition colored vinyl, reintroducing the world to the quintetSpoon's Britt Daniel calls "the greatest American rock and roll / punk band since I don't know when."Celebrating its tenth birthday in 2022 is A Giant DogFight , the Texas group's hard-to-find debut album, remixed, remastered, and pressed on green vinyl just for the occasion. All thetrademark tenets of AGD lore are on display at the jump:monstrously adorable album art and punny title, whip-smartsongwriting dolled up in denim and leather, boiled down to thesweetest moments and blown out to the masses with bravadoto spare. Upon Fight's original release, the local Austin Chronicle raved: "The raucous, low-rent squall quakes with affirmative abandon, while a just-right dose of pop girds the buzz and yowl.

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LP | 2016 | US | Original (Merge)

Pile

31,99 €*

LP | 2013 | US | Reissue (Merge)

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Raucous ear candy culled from the hook-driven melodies of Slade, the glammy swagger of Marc Bolan, the morbid fantasy of Killer-era Alice Cooper & the unpredictable wit of Sparks.

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Amor De Dias

The House At Sea

2LP | 2013 | UK | Reissue (Merge)

Release: 2013 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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AMOR DE DIAS, the long-term collaboration between Alasdair MacLean (THE CLIENTELE) and Lupe Núñez-Fernández (PIPAS), release their sophomore album "The House at Sea" on Merge Records. While their debut album ,Street of the Love of Days" took three years to make, "The House at Sea" was recorded and mixed in only nine days. As a result, the sessions centered around a smaller band-the twin Spanish guitars and voices of Núñez-Fernández and MacLean, and an occasional rhythm section of James Hornsey and Howard Monk, both formerly of THE CLIENTELE. The fast pace of the sessions resulted in a rawer, more urgent album, recorded by Brian O'Shaughnessy (MY BLOODY VALENTINE, PRIMAL SCREAM, DENIM, BIRDIE) on 1970s valve equipment with a feeling for space and a deliberately limited palette, all the elements of which had to count. ,The House at Sea" is a snapshot of a y...

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Arcade Fire

Reflektor

54,99 €*

Release: 2013 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Reason In Decline Black Vinyl Edition

Archers Of Loaf

Reason In Decline White With Purple & Red Swirl Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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As sculpted shards of guitar-tumbling, tolling, squalling-shower the jittery bounce of a piano on opener "Human," it's obvious that Reason in Decline, Archers of Loaf's first album in 24 years, will be more than a nostalgic, low-impact reboot. When they emerged from North Carolina's '90s indie-punk incubator, the Archers' hurtling, sly, gloriously dissonant roar was a mythologized touchstone of slacker-era refusal. But this, the distilled shudder of "Human" (as in "It's hard to be human / When only death can set you free"), is an entirely different noise. In fact, it's a startling revelation. In short, this is not your father's Archers of Loaf, even if you're a father now who was a fan then. (If that's the case, congrats on surviving the Plague and getting to hear this fearlessly poignant record, you alt-geezer!) Otherwise, thank your youthful fucking lucky stars, kids! Enjoy Reason in Decline with fresh ears and do as the Archers have been doing: Stay humble, stay informed, express yourself creatively, and try not to lose your goddamned mind while the polar ice caps melt. Peace.

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Archers Of Loaf

7" | 2022 | US | Original (Merge)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Bio Ritmo

Piraguero / Asia Minor

11,99 €*

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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To commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of Virginian salsa veterans Bio Ritmo, esteemed indie Merge is reissuing their debut 7" `Piragüero' which it originally released back in 1996. This impassioned, funky original is backed with a cover of `Asia Minor', a song popularised in the Fifties by Cuban maestro Machito, himself a cited influence on Bio Ritmo.

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CD | 2020 | US | Original (Merge)

Blue Hearts

16,99 €*

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Blue Hearts Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Sunshine Rock

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

Yellow and red swirl Vinyl! Still in shrink, but opened, with hype sticker

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Sunshine Rock

20,99 €*

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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All Her Plans Black Vinyl Edition

Cable Ties

All Her Plans Metalic Blue Ice Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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All Her Plans, the third album from Melbourne, Australia's Cable Ties, finds the trio of Jenny McKechnie, Shauna Boyle, and Nick Brown at their punchiest and most assured. The ferocious, kraut-influenced blend of post-punk and garage rock of Merge debut Far Enough remains, but McKechnie's lyrics invite the listener closer than ever before. The urgency and fury that have marked Cable Ties' output thus far is more nuanced on All Her Plans. The unfettered rage of their calls to action endures tackling subjects like broken mental healthcare systems and the burden of familial care that is largely placed on women…while holding space for gratitude, love, and acceptance. All Her Plans is a breakthrough moment for Cable Ties. It is the sound of a group that is exhilarated to be making music together again, both a celebration of their resilience and a massive step forward into a future they can finally claim as their own.

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Cable Ties

Far Enough Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Cable Ties

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Look To The East, Look To The West Black Vinyl Edition

Camera Obscura

LP | 2007 | US | Original (Merge)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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"Look to the East, Look to the West", das neue Album von Camera Obscura, ist eine Offenbarung. Die von Tracyanne Campbell geleitete Band hat sich wieder mit dem Produzenten Jari Haapalainen zusammengetan und ein Album geschaffen, das daran erinnert, warum die langjährigen Fans sie seit Jahrzehnten heiß und innig lieben, und das gleichzeitig ihr bisher anspruchsvollstes Werk ist. Es ist auch das am härtesten umkämpfte Album in der Karriere von Camera Obscura. Nach dem Tod von Gründungsmitglied, Keyboarder und Freund Carey Lander im Jahr 2015 (an den der vorletzte Track "Sugar Almond" gerichtet ist), ging die Band in eine längere Pause. Sie blieben in Kontakt, aber ihr Status war ungewiss. Nachdem sie eingeladen worden waren, im Rahmen von Belle & Sebastians Kreuzfahrtfestival Boaty Weekender 2019 aufzutreten, kündigten sie ihre Rückkehr an. Donna Maciocia (Keyboards und Gesang) stieß bei diesen Shows zu den Gründungsmitgliedern Kenny McKeeve (Gitarre und Gesang), Gavin Dunbar (Bass) und Lee Thomson (Schlagzeug und Perkussion) und ist seitdem Songwriting-Partnerin von Campbell. Aufgenommen im selben Raum, in dem Queen "Bohemian Rhapsody" schrieb, fühlt sich "Look to the East, Look to the West" groß an, eine Breitwand-Neuinterpretation des Camera Obscura-Sounds, bei der die Band paradoxerweise zu den Grundlagen zurückkehrte - es gibt keine Streicher- oder Bläserarrangements, der Schwerpunkt liegt auf Klavier, Synthesizern, Hammond-Orgel und Drumcomputern, und, was vielleicht am auffälligsten ist, die Gruppe hat den Hallschleier fallen lassen, der ihre früheren Alben charakterisierte. Der Hauch von Country und Soul, der Camera Obscuras barocke Interpretation von Popmusik so bittersüß macht, war noch nie so offensichtlich - die Gitarren schimmern in die Ferne, die Tasten spuken, und Campbells Stimme sucht nach dem Herzen, reflektiert über Liebe, Verlust und den Lauf der Zeit. "Look to the East, Look to the West" ist Camera Obscura in seiner besten und eindrucksvollsten Form, ein Album, das den emotionalen Kern des Hörers völlig neu ordnet und ihn gleichzeitig traurig und beschwingt zurücklässt. Der Katalog von Camera Obscura ist voll von Liedern, die Menschen als lebensverändernd bezeichnen, Lieder, die sie ihr ganzes Leben lang begleiten werden. "Look to the East, Look to the West" hat 11 davon zu bieten.

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Caribou

Andorra

28,99 €*

2LP | 2010 | US | Original (Merge)

Release: 2007 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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180 gram incl. free digital download!

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Caribou

Swim

40,99 €*

Release: 2010 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Incredible new LP by Caribou. Similar to Four Tet, this one is more pulsating and dancefloor-oriented than his previous work, while keeping the experimental folksy edge we all love. Looooovely!

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David Kilgour

A Feather In The Engine

David Kilgour And The Heavy Eights

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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On 9 August, 2024, Merge Records reissues David Kilgour's A Feather in theEngine, remastered and pressed on vinyl for the very first time. Originallyreleased in 2002, A Feather in the Engine followed two full-bandefforts_1997's David Kilgour & the Heavy Eights and The Clean's 2001 albumGetaway_and is thus almost startling in its intimacy.Recorded at home and mostly alone (The Verlaines' Graeme Downesprovides lush string arrangements), Kilgour once called A Feather in theEngine "the most solo LP I've made." Interpolating his genius for guitar popthrough acoustic guitars and gorgeous instrumentals, its melodies unfoldgently, suggesting that the 13 songs here, written over the course of fouryears, were searching Kilgour as much as he was searching them.The dichotomy between A Feather in the Engine's pop songs and instrumentalsfascinates the ear, drawing the listener closer and closer to Kilgour's virtuosicguitar playing when his lyrics aren't imparting his breezy charm. The depthof style he achieves_the psych pop of "Today IsGonna Be Mine," the Velvet Underground-esque churn of "All the Rest,"the chamber folk of "The Perfect Watch"_is daunting; listening to it now,every song feels capable of generating a dozen playlists, or like the spawningpoint of a new microgenre.Perhaps anomalous upon release, it's A Feather in the Engine's instrumentalsthat feel weightiest in this regard now. "Sept. 98" and "Backwards Forwards,"respectively the opening and closing tracks of the album, are elegant,pastoral epics that call out into the yawning expanse, presaging the simmeringambient country of William Tyler and SUSS, while "Instra 2" pushes outthe boundaries of Eastern-influenced psychedelia.Lovingly remastered (and in some cases remixed) from the original tapes byTom Bell at Port Chalmers Recording Services, the vinyl reissue of A Featherin the Engine is a crucial opportunity to rediscover one of David Kilgour'sbest records, a handcrafted gem that perfects guitar pop's p...

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Bobbie's A Girl

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn

Pigments Baby Blue Vinyl Edition

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Merge)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Have We Met Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP+7" | 2017 | US | Original (Merge)

Ken Deluxe Edition

22,99 €*

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2010 | US | Original (Merge)

Streethawk: A Seduction

Release: 2010 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1998 | US | Reissue (Merge)

Thief

LP | 2018 | US | Original (Merge)

Release: 1998 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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In the hallowed Destroyer discography, the early trinity of City Of Daughters / Thief /
Streethawk: A Seduction holds an important place; for not only does it document Dan
Bejar's evolution from lo-fi bedroom tyro to bona fide master of the rock album, it also
contains a massive percentage of superlative Destroyer "classics." 1998's City of Daughters
features some of the first steps out of the demo-tapey experimentation of earlier recordings,
with songs like "Comments On The World As Will" refining the sound of that strippeddown
earlier work, and the seminal "No Cease Fires" offering us the first taste of just what a
full-band Destroyer might conjure.

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Essex Green

Hardly Electronic

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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It's Real Black Vinyl Edition

Ex Hex

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Love The Stranger Black Vinyl Edition

Friendship

Love The Stranger Blue & White Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Friendship's Merge debut, Love the Stranger, moves like a country record skipping in just the right spot, leaving its fellow travelers longing for a place they've only visited in their dreams. Guitarist Peter Gill, drummer Michael Cormier-O'Leary, bassist Jon Samuels, and hawkeyed balladeer Dan Wriggins map out the group's particular, breathtaking landscape and invite the listener to share in its glory. Between instrumental pit stops at "Kum & Go" and "Quickchek," local references in Love the Stranger create a catalog of human perception, presented as roadside attractions. From grape jelly residue ("Ramekin") to the site of a demolished cathedral ("St. Bonaventure") to King of the Hill quotations ("Smooth Pursuit"), the record's images craft a symbolic language of high and low Americana, both evocative and consistently accessible. Spending time with Love the Stranger creates a community _ one in which the window between the listener and the musicmaker shatters in full, until all that remains are the fragments you decide to pick up together. Like its sprawling lyrical references, Love the Stranger's production is both familiar and capacious enough for pedal steel, synth strings, airy folk guitar field recordings, and Midi pad exploration to work in vital harmony. Influenced by Friendship's punk and indie peers as much as road-star forebears like Lucinda Williams and Lambchop, Wriggins says of the recording sessions: "I wanted the album to sound like Emmylou Harris and the Hot Band in the '70s. Pete wanted it to sound like a semi full of spent fuel rods, barreling towards a runaway truck ramp. Jon kept reminding us that the studio is an instrument, and Michael wanted it to sound like the breakdown two-and-a-half minutes into Shuggie Otis' `Strawberry Letter 23.'" Friendship is probably already your favorite band's favorite band, a long-revered Iykyk of DIY with a devoted cult following from Wawa to In-N-Out. With Love the Stranger, the Friendship universe only continues to expand and grow more open-hearted, more inviting, with every passing note. It's a record that locates the listener exactly where the listener is, and wherever that may be, makes a friend out of them, too.

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Friendship

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A River Running To Your Heart Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Eric D. Johnson rarely lingers at one location too long. As a kid growing up in the Midwest, Johnson's family moved around a lot, but it wasn't until he became a touring musician years later that motion became a central part of his identity. That transient lifestyle stoked an enduring reverence for the world he watched pass by through a van window. A sense of place is a unifying theme he's revisited with Fruit Bats throughout its many lives. From the project's origins in the late '90s as a vehicle for Johnson's lo-fi tinkering to the more sonically ambitious work of recent years, Fruit Bats has often showcased love songs where people and locations meld into one. It's a loose song structure that navigates what he calls "the geography of the heart." "The songs exist in a world that you can sort of travel from one to another," says Johnson. "There are roads and rivers between these songs." Those pathways extend straight through the newest Fruit Bats album, aptly titled A River Running to Your Heart . Self-produced by Johnson, a first for Fruit Bats, with Jeremy Harris at Panoramic House just north of San Francisco, it's Fruit Bats' tenth full-length release and one that finds the project in the middle of a creative resurgence. After two decades of making music, hard-earned emotional maturity has seeped into Johnson's songs, resulting in a more complex sound that's connected with audiences like no other previous version of Fruit Bats. A River Running to Your Heart represents the fullest realization of that creative vision to date. It's a sonically diverse effort that largely explores the importance of what it means to be home, both physically and spiritually. And while that might seem like a peculiar focus for an artist who's constantly in motion, for Fruit Bats, home can take many forms, from the obvious to the obscure. Lead single "Rushin' River Valley" is a self-propelled love song written about Johnson's wife that clings to the borrowed imagery of the place where she grew up in northern California. Then, there's the gentle and unfussy acoustic ballad "We Used to Live Here," which looks back to a time of youthful promise and cheap rent. But the wistful "It All Comes Back" is perhaps the most stunning and surprising track on the album, Johnson's production skills on full display. Built upon intricate layers of synths, keyboards, and guitars, it's a pitch-perfect blend of tone and lyricism that taps into our shared apprehensions and hopes for a post-pandemic life. "We lost some time / But we can make it back / Let's take it easy on ourselves, okay?" sings a world-weary but ultimately reassuring Johnson in the song's opening lines It's the kind of performance that makes you hope Fruit Bats stays in this one place, at least for a little while longer.

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A River Running To Your Heart Blue & Bone Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Merge)

Gold Past Life

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Sometimes A Cloud Is Just A Cloud: Slow Growers, Sleeper Hits And Lost Songs 2001-2021 Pink & Violet Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2022 | US | Original (Merge)

33,99 €*

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP is pink & violet vinyl pressed to Side A / Side B effect in a gatefold jacket. Eric D. Johnson, the creative force behind Fruit Bats, doesn't spend a lot of time looking in the rearview mirror. "Maybe it speaks to some Midwest thing," he says. "Don't be overly reflective or navel-gazing. And as a songwriter, you always want to be looking forward, not backward." But with the 20th anniversary of his first Fruit Bats release (2001's Echolocation) on his mind, it seemed as good a time as any to take stock of his work_and he's doing so in the form of Sometimes a Cloud Is Just a Cloud: Slow Growers, Sleeper Hits and Lost Songs (2001-2021), a two-disc collection that tracks the history of Fruit Bats from its earliest days to right now. Thoughtfully compiled by Johnson himself, this set is split in two distinct halves. Set in reverse chronological order, the first disc cherry-picks from Fruit Bats' official releases, including fan favorites _ "Humbug Mountain Song" from 2016's Absolute Loser and "The Bottom of It" from his 2019 Merge debut Gold Past Life _ alongside some of Johnson's more personal choices like "Glass in Your Feet" from Echolocation. If the first disc of this set is "the collection that you buy for your friend that's Fruit Bats-curious," according to Johnson, the second disc is for longtime fans that want a deeper dive into Fruit Bats lore. To put this half of Sometimes a Cloud Is Just a Cloud together, Johnson dug into several hard drives' worth of material. Included here are lovely early versions of "Rainbow Sign" and "The Old Black Hole," recorded to a Tascam 4-track just as Fruit Bats was becoming a reality. There's also a rambling take on the Steve Miller Band's classic rock mainstay "The Joker," and some wonderful never-before-heard original tunes.

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The Pet Parade Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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"The Pet Parade," The Title Track To Fruit Bats' Newest Album, Might Be A Surprising Opening Track For Longtime Fans Of Eric D. Johnson's Beloved Indie Folk-Rock Project. The Six-And-A-Half-Minute Tone Poem Smolders And Drones Over Just Two Chords, Inspired By The Strange And Silly Community Events That He Saw Growing Up Outside Of Chicago, In La Grange, Illinois, In Which People Dressed...

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One Day

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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With One Day, Fucked Up have delivered one of the most energizing and intricate albums of their entire career, a massive-sounding record that arrives in deceptively small confines. The Canadian hardcore legends have been known for their epic scale in the past, from towering concept albums to 12-hour performances-so it might be a surprise that Fucked Up's sixth studio album is their shortest to date, written and recorded in the confines of one literal day (hence the title). Don't mistake size for substance, though: The band's sound has only gotten bigger, more hard-charging, with even denser thickets of melody. If that sounds like a study in contrasts, well, that's Fucked Up for you-and you shouldn't expect, or want, anything different. The result is a record that sounds full-bodied and immediate, with music that burns brutally and passionately in a way that only Fucked Up can evoke. The guitars sound like ziggurats reaching to the sky, reaching dizzying levels of melodic interplay while always maintaining a tuneful clarity-and the musical adventurousness that marked 2018's epic, lush Dose Your Dreams is plenty present here, too. One Day is an undeniable work of confidence from a band that continues to operate at the top of their game, making music that's guaranteed to last a lifetime and beyond.

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One Day Blue In Milky Clear Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Blue in milky clear vinyl pressed color-in-color! With One Day, Fucked Up have delivered one of the most energizing and intricate albums of their entire career, a massive-sounding record that arrives in deceptively small confines. The Canadian hardcore legends have been known for their epic scale in the past, from towering concept albums to 12-hour performances-so it might be a surprise that Fucked Up's sixth studio album is their shortest to date, written and recorded in the confines of one literal day (hence the title). Don't mistake size for substance, though: The band's sound has only gotten bigger, more hard-charging, with even denser thickets of melody. If that sounds like a study in contrasts, well, that's Fucked Up for you-and you shouldn't expect, or want, anything different. The result is a record that sounds full-bodied and immediate, with music that burns brutally and passionately in a way that only Fucked Up can evoke. The guitars sound like ziggurats reaching to the sky, reaching dizzying levels of melodic interplay while always maintaining a tuneful clarity-and the musical adventurousness that marked 2018's epic, lush Dose Your Dreams is plenty present here, too. One Day is an undeniable work of confidence from a band that continues to operate at the top of their game, making music that's guaranteed to last a lifetime and beyond.

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One Day Blue In Milky Clear Vinyl Edition

25,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

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Year Of The Ox Light Blue & Emerald Vinyl Edition

LP | 2010 | US | Reissue (Merge)

Memories Of Love, Eternal Youth, Partygoing

Release: 2010 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Recorded over 6 months by Jon Drew at Giant Studios in Toronto, Year of the Ox is the band's fourth record in the continuing 12-year cycle and adds to its evolving retinue of guest musicians. The patient and building Year of the Ox features Nika Rosa Danilova of Zola Jesus for a guest vocal passage and Toronto's string quartet, New Strings Old Puppets. B-side "Solomon's Song," a gothic vampire love tribute to Twilight, features a 5-minute saxophone solo from Aerin Fogel of the Bitters and heavy synthing from Trust.

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Future Bible Heroes

3LP | 2013 | US | Reissue (Merge)

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Every Acre Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2013 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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3LP is a triple gatefold + full downloadFUTURE BIBLE HEROES are comprised of celebrated songwriter Stephin Merritt (THE MAGNETIC FIELDS, THE 6THS, THE GOTHIC ARCHIES), longtime friend and collaborator Christopher Ewen (FIGURES ON A BEACH, THE HIDDEN VARIABLE) and MAGNETIC FIELDS pianist-singer-manager Claudia Gonson. The band released two albums, "Memories of Love" (1997) and "Eternal Youth" (2002), and three EPs, all of which they are repackaging as one large collection for simultaneous release via Merge, along with their new album, "Partygoing". For vinyl, The EPs is digital-only content.

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H.C. Mcentire

Every Acre Orange Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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If naming is a form of claiming, of being claimed, how is one tethered to both the physical landscape that surrounds us, as well as our own internal emotional landscape_at times calm, at times turbulent, and ever changing? H.C. McEntire's new album Every Acre grapples with those themes_themes that encompass grief, loss, and links to land and loved ones. And naming_claiming land, claiming self, being claimed by ancestry and heritage_permeates the hauntingly beautiful landscape that is this poignant collection of songs. The songs straddle the line between music and poetry. In "New View," McEntire cites poets "Day, Ada, and Laux, Berry, and Olds"_fixtures in the world of writing, whose works are beacons of light over bleak horizons. The beginning of the song is backed by soft guitar plucks that fall on the downbeat and spangle like stars, and, throughout, guitar, bass, and drums swell together gently, mimicking ebbing and flowing tides under the moon. McEntire's voice (at once tender and fierce) intones the truth of both giving and taking, releasing and claiming: "Bend me, break me, split me right in two. Mend me, make me_I'll take more of you." Permeated by heartbeat-like drums, "Shadows" develops quiet ruminations on surrender and loss_reminiscing, moving on. This ponderous, dreamlike song asks the question of how "to make room." How does one make room, for self and for renewal and surrender, when it is so difficult to leave what you know behind? Playing with slivers of descending chromatics, along with the occasional downward-stepping bass, here McEntire yearns for home, and for nesting. Perhaps one of the more grief-stricken songs, "Rows of Clover" is a lamentation, one that touches on the loss of a "steadfast hound." The lone piano in the beginning of the song is rhythmically hymn-like. The stark verse arrangement gradually leads to a chorus that reads like a moody exhale, swollen with lush guitar strums and a Bill Withers-esque understated soul groove. But what stands out the most is an image of being "down on your knees, clawing at the garden"_the only explicit mention of a person in the song. "It ain't the easy kind of healing," sings McEntire, seemingly from further and further away as her voice echoes; and healing ta;kes time, time takes time_truths that linger painfully. "Dovetail" is a song that tells of various women. The song moves back and forth between solo piano and the addition of bass and drums under vocals. McEntire's gentle, trembling vibrato_harmonized in thirds in a celebratory manner_calls to mind a rejoicing psalm and shines through these images, leaving the listener cuttingly fraught with emotions_such as wonder, sadness, nostalgia_that can only arise with these juxtapositions. Gracious (and graceful) with its lilting melodies and lush harmonies, Every Acre ex - plores the acres of our physical and emotional homes. These songs are reaching for the kind of home that we all seek: one where we can rest and lay down (or tuck away) our burdens of loss. And maybe, moving through every acre of a world that often tries to tear our sense of identity and heritage down, McEntire sheds light on what it is to be human in this life_both stingy and gracious, both hurtful and kind.

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H.C. Mcentire

H.C. McEntire of Mount Moriah

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Eno Axis Copper Swirl Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Narratively, H.C. McEntire's Eno Axis is about finding direction in the natural world, and following love. Sonically, it's an album shaped enormously by the atmosphere it was recorded in_the crew's synergy and positivity, the proximity and presence of a band in a room playing with intention. Structurally, it's a group of songs inspired by the colors and tones of open tunings, by the sacrality of space and instinct. Stylistically, it's folk-rock leaning into its curious experimental side and moved by the spiritual rawness of classic soul and the simplicity of earnest pop. Eno Axis feels like a confident and mature step forward from her debut album LIONHEART_in tone, arrangement, production, and spirit.

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Devotion: Songs About Rivers & Spirits & Chil

4LP | 2018 | US | Original (Merge)

93,99 €*

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP+LP | 2016 | US | Original (Merge)

Heart Like A Levee

46,99 €*

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2016 | US | Original (Merge)

Heart Like A Levee

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Jump For Joy Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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It's spring of 2023 in the North Carolina Piedmont, and songwriter and singer M.C. Taylor_leader of the band Hiss Golden Messenger_is feeling alive. Joyful. Eternal,he might say. For the Grammy-nominated musician, whose albums have traced an internal path through adulthood, fatherhood, spirituality, and depression for well overa decade, this is something new. "The tunes onJump for Joy were composed in freemoments throughout 2022, a year during which Hiss was on the road more or less constantly," explains Taylor. "And perhaps because the post-pandemic energy out in the world felt so chaotic and uncertain, I found myself thinking a lot abo...

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Jump For Joy Orange & Black Swirl Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Indie exclusive Peak Edition on Orange & Black Swirl Vinyl, in a gatefold cover + poster.

It's spring of 2023 in the North Carolina Piedmont, and songwriter and singer M.C. Taylor - leader of the band Hiss Golden Messenger - is feeling alive. Joyful. Eternal, he might say. For the Grammy-nominated musician, whose albums have traced an internal path through adulthood, fatherhood, spirituality, and depression for well over a decade, this is something new. "The tunes on Jump for Joy were composed in free moments throughout 2022, a year during which Hiss was on the road more or less constantly," explains Taylor. "And perhaps because the post-pandemic energy out in the world felt so chaotic and uncertain, I found myself thinking a lot about the role that music has played in my life and how exactly I ended up in the rarefied position of leading a band and crew all over the globe through dingy graffiti-scrawled green rooms, venerated music halls, dust-blown roadside motels. Sometimes playing in front of 5,000; sometimes 200. Sleeping sitting up. Laughing until my stomach hurts. Not being able to fall asleep at 3 a.m. in some anonymous bed because my mind is spinning with anxiety or depression or adrenaline, or because my ears are still ringing. Robbing Peter to pay Paul, then robbing Paul to pay Peter back. Over and over again. It's an outlaw life but one, I'm coming to realize, that makes me happy." The songs that make up Jump for Joy - the sharpest and most autobiographical that Taylor has written under the Hiss name - read as a sort of epistolary, postcards between the present-day songwriter and his alias Michael Crow, a teenaged dreamer very much like Taylor himself, who trips his way through the 14 tunes that make up the record. In this way, Jump for Joy is a meditation on a life lived with art, and the ways that our hopes and dreams and decisions bump up against_ and, with a little bit of luck, occasionally merge with real life. "Creating this character became the way that I could explore these vulnerable, tender moments that were so decisive in my life, even if I didn't know it at the time," explains Taylor. Produced by Taylor and engineered by longtime Hiss compatriot Scott Hirsch over two weeks in the late fall of 2022 at the fabled Sonic Ranch studio in Tornillo, TX, just a short walk from the Mexican border, Jump for Joy dances with joyful, spontaneous energy that feels like a fresh chapter in the Hiss Golden Messenger oeuvre. Taylor is accompanied throughout the album by his crack live band: guitarist Chris Boerner, bassist Alex Bingham, keyboardist Sam Fribush, and drummer Nick Falk, a collection of musicians that have helped make Hiss Golden Messenger's live performances legendary affairs.

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CD | 2014 | US | Original (Merge)

Lateness Of Dancers

5,99 €*

Release: 2014 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Quietly Blowing It

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Terms Of Surrender

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2019 | Original (Merge)

Terms Of Surrender

Release: 2019 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Jade Hairpins

Get Me The Good Stuff

LP | 2000 | US | Reissue (Merge)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Jade Hairpins waste no time fulfilling their second album's titular demand. From itsharmony-drenched opening note to its baroque-anthemic conclusion, Get Me the GoodStuff is positively loaded with musical ideas, an absurdist buffet of sound andaesthetic that comes with one hell of a floorshow as the Hairpins stack thoseideas higher and higher, almost daring them to crash to the floor. Instead, thoseelements_punksploitation, power pop, baggy, funk, and Italo disco are just sometouchstones_are not only held aloft, they defy gravity and convention.These pyrotechnics are, in true Jade Hairpins fashion, something of a sleight ofhand. While the music swaggers and gallops, Get Me the Good Stuff grapples withanxiety and self-doubt, obfuscating pain and alienation with sparkling wit and somestraight-up ravers. Get Me the Good Stuff opens with one of those, "Let It Be Me," inwhich Jonah Falco shouts lyrics about being alone with one's shortcomings againstguitars, synths, and harmonized vocals that are on the verge of closing in. The songis just over 90 seconds long, hitting with the gnarled-barb ferocity of punk and thegleeful insanity of theatrical art rock.It is, in other words, overwhelming. Or it would be if Jade Hairpins_Jonah Falcoand Mike Haliechuk_weren't remarkably nimble in their ability to bring unity tosounds by placing them in competition against each other. When those sounds areadjacent, like the glam and disco that saturate "Drifting Superstition," the thrill ofthose universes colliding in the heat of an absolutely filthy clavichord line turns itslyrics, about the habit of solving personal problems by ignoring them, into a winner'santhem on the order of Bowie or Hot Chocolate.Get Me the Good Stuff arcs towards unequivocal joy as Falco, Jade Hairpins' primarylyricist, breaks these cycles and attempts to run away with his dreams. The arc isroughly analogous to how the album came to fruition. Four years removed fromHarmony Avenue, an album of material that pr...

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Lambchop

Nixon

Trip Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2000 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Receives a 8.3 rating from Pitchfork and calls it best reissue.

To celebrate their 25th anniversary as a label, Merge are reissuing albums from their back catalog throughout 2014. First up is Lambchop's 2000 album Nixon on 180g vinyl.

Nixon was one of the final Lambchop albums to feature several members?their subsequent records had fewer people joining Wagner. "Nixon might've been the peak of the 14-person Lambchop," Kurt Wagner said in a press release. It was also the last Lambchop album to be recorded almost entirely analog.

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Lambchop

25,99 €*

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2012 | US | Reissue (Merge)

A Wasteland Companion

Release: 2012 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2012 | US | Original (Merge)

A Wasteland Companion

Release: 2012 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1999 | US | Reissue (Merge)

Duets For Guitar #2

Release: 1999 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Duet for Guitars #2 introduced us to M. Ward's characteristic rasp andfingerpicking prowess. More minimal in scope than future records, the songsrun the gamut from lullabies to rocking declarations of love. Released onCo-Dependent Records in 1999, one of the initial 1,000 copies found its wayto Howe Gelb, who re-released it in 2000 on Ow Om. It went out of print andremained a hard-to-find piece of the M. Ward catalog until 2007, when it wasreissued on Merge with three new tracks. More than an origin story, Duet forGuitars #2 is a beautiful, assured album that is sure to make lo-fi andAmericana aficionados swoon, to say nothing of M. Ward fans new and old.

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Duets For Guitar #2 Opaque Beige Vinyl Edition

LP | 1999 | US | Reissue (Merge)

Release: 1999 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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For Beginners: The Best Of M. Ward

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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For Beginners: The Best of M. Ward is a collection for M. Ward fans of anyvintage. Gathering together 14 tracks from across his Merge Recordsdiscography, including the newly recorded song "Cry," For Beginners is botha primer and a mixtape of favorites sequenced in a way that gives them newlife.Beginning with "Chinese Translation" and "Poison Cup" from 2006's Post-War, For Beginners drops in on Ward as he expands his prowess in the studio.His singular cover of David Bowie's "Let's Dance," from 2003'sTransfiguration of Vincent, breaks out into the exuberant "Never HadNobody Like You" from 2009's Hold Time. Rather than the neat evolutionaryline suggested by a chronological arrangement, what holds For Beginnerstogether is Ward's impeccable skill as a songwriter, which remains in focusas his sound expands from low-fi home recordings to electric, radio-readystompers.Serendipitously timed for release during Merge Records' 35-year anniversary,this celebration of one of the label's most beloved artists includes "Cry"_his first new recording on Merge since 2018_a stripped-down cover of theGodley & Creme pop classic featuring Melbourne, Australia's Folk BitchTrio.M. Ward on "Cry":"Cry" was recorded in a Tasmanian modern art museum called MONA. I sat at theend of a long hallway a few feet away from Anselm Kiefer's sculpture of a 20-foot-highstack of lead books, and standing to my left and right around a single microphone wereMelbourne's Folk Bitch Trio; we rehearsed and recorded "Cry" in about 30 minutes. Apleasure to add this song to a collection of some of my favorite memories of music-makingduring the first decade of record-creating with my friends at Merge.The song is the perfect capstone for a collection of this nature, summing upmuch of Ward's power as a musician: the richness he's capable ofachieving in sparse recordings, his knack for collaboration, and his abilityto see through to the soul of a meticulously crafted pop song_as mucha means of looking forw...

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LP | 2009 | US | Reissue (Merge)

Hold Time

Release: 2009 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2006 | US | Reissue (Merge)

Post-War

Release: 2006 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Post-War: the fifth M. Ward album. Its songs unravel their world-wearied tales of life, love, and human kindness with an innate and special grace, helped in part by the very talented friends who join him on this record, such as Neko Case and Mike Mogis, as well as old Monsters of Folk touring buddy Jim James (My Morning Jacket).

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Post-War Opaque Brown Vinyl Edition

LP | 2006 | US | Reissue (Merge)

Release: 2006 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Transfiguration Of Vincent Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 2003 | UK | Reissue (Merge)

Release: 2003 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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In 2003, everything broke open for Ward with the release of Transfiguration of Vincent. Critically lauded and long beloved, Pitchfork hailed it as an album that “broadcasts timelessness and defies genre constraints,” and Slant placed it on their list of the best albums of the 2000s. On Transfiguration of Vincent, Ward’s elegant fingerpicking, evocative croon, and heartrending lyricism came into full bloom, casting a spell so powerful that even a song as universal as David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” felt not only new but irrevocably his. One of the most cherished albums in the Merge catalog, Transfiguration of Vin- cent is both a great place to begin your love affair with M. Ward and a deep, stunningly realized work that listeners have returned to over and over again for 20 years.

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Transfiguration Of Vincent Clear W/ Gold Swirl Vinyl Edition

LP | 2003 | US | Reissue (Merge)

Release: 2003 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Transfiguration Of Vincent Clear W/ Gold Swirl Vinyl Edition

LP | 2003 | UK | Reissue (Merge)

Release: 2003 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | US | Reissue (Merge)

Transistor Radio

Release: 2024 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Transistor Radio:the fourth M. Ward album. Listening to M. Ward's breezy ode toradio's forgotten heydays is a lot like taking in a huge breath of dust-bowl wind --however, its charms are rooted in the hazy lemonade-sipping of summer rather thanthe great depression-obsession of the post-O Brother, Where Art Thou? mainstream.

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Transistor Radio Green Swirl Vinyl Edition

LP | 2014 | US | Reissue (Merge)

Release: 2014 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Sound Of Yourself Pink / Orange Swirl Vinyl Edition

Mac Maccaughan

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Throughout his career fronting Superchunk and Portastatic, Mac McCaughan has channeled more than his share of angst into a microphone, resulting in undeniable rock anthems. So how can a voice so familiar to others still seem foreign to its owner? On The Sound of Yourself, McCaughan's second release under his own name, he explores that question fully, shooting his voice through a prism and refracting it across these songs in new and rewarding ways. In January 2021, McCaughan found himself at his home studio in Chapel Hill North Carolina staring down a clean slate after wrapping a film score and several other music projects. His thought process was simple: "Each day is blurring into the next, so what are we doing today? How can I disrupt this? I think what resulted was a theme of subdued_ `joy' is the wrong word, but it's at least comforting if not propulsive to have something open-ended to work on every day without any kind of structure or deadline or rules." McCaughan leaned into allowing randomness and accidents to catalyze his compositions. Where a guitar riff might typically start a Superchunk song, an indistinguishable loop found on an old sampler dictates the mood on "Found Cricket," and simply opening up his studio to the woods outside channels Another Green World on "36 and Rain." Instrumentals make up nearly half of The Sound of Yourself, and are integral to the album's atmosphere. While the pop-oriented tracks hint at sounds explored on Non-Believers, McCaughan's recent scoring work and frequent excursions with synthesizers and sequencers (see: the Moogfestcommissioned Poms and his ambient project with Mary Lattimore) add a particularly crystalline spaciness akin to The Durutti Column and Bowie's Berlin trilogy. A sloping new wave bassline grounds the catchy "Circling Around" as McCaughan rejects rumination with cleverly cyclical lyrics and a few strategically placed "whoa"s. The warbled synthetic voices emanating from the Mellotron on "Sleep Donor" are already singing isolation blues well before McCaughan frets, "I hear a footstep in the hall when there should be no one there at all_" These could be the same ghostly sounds "softer than the light, under the door" he describes in "I Hear a Radio," a track on which Michael Benjamin Lerner (Telekinesis) and Annie Hayden (Spent) provide shimmering vocal harmonies. For a record titled The Sound of Yourself, the irony in having many contributions from friends is not lost on McCaughan: "I'm constantly inspired by the work of my peers. I feel lucky to be able to collaborate with them despite the distances between us. Sending off a song into the ether and having it returned greatly improved and in often surprising and moving ways was one of the most satisfying aspects of making this record." Additional guest appearances include Sabrina Ellis (A Giant Dog, Sweet Spirit), Mackenzie Scott of Torres, plus three moody saxophone tracks that Matt Douglas of the Mountain Goats offered McCaughan, layered on top of one another. Mary Lattimore introduces and concludes The Sound of Yourself with her singular harp playing. The bittersweet single "Dawn Bends" is bolstered not only by Superchunk drummer Jon Wurster but the esteemed trio of Yo La Tengo on bass, organ, guitar, and vocals. The album's title track asks, "Do you ever get used to the sound of yourself?" For an artist like Mac McCaughan, the answer lies in experimentation_testing his voice in a different light, deconstructing it, sometimes relegating it elsewhere or removing it altogether as the piece dictates. He knows that within the creative pursuit of an album as illuminating as The Sound of Yourself, familiarity reveals itself in the unknown.

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Mac McCaughan

The Sound Of Yourself

LP | 2013 | US | Original (Merge)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Mikal Cronin

MCII

18,99 €*

Dark In Here Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2013 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Pop

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Mountain Goats

2LP | 2021 | US | Original (Merge)

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Jenny From Thebes Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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When the Mountain Goats got together in March 2020, it was to make not one album, but two. The idea was to again work with Matt Ross-Spang, the dashing Memphis wunderkind. Matt pitched we spend a week at Sam Phillips Recording, his home base in Memphis, followed by another at the storied Fame Recording Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, a plan that dovetailed nicely with John's notion of corralling these songs into two complementary batches: one light, one dark. The Memphis album_Getting Into Knives, would be brighter, bolder, marked by rich and vibrant hues; the Muscle Shoals album _ Dark in Here, is quieter, smokier, but more deeply textured and intense. We were all aware of the mythos surrounding Fame. The second you step inside you transport to its early '60s heyday and its louche mid-'70s denouement. The room we set up in is the room where Percy Sledge sang "When a Man Loves a Woman" and where Aretha Franklin recorded "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)." The Wurlitzer with which Spooner Oldham opens the last? It's sitting right there. Spooner is living musical history, having played with everyone from Bob Dylan and Neil Young to Linda Ronstadt and Liberace, for crying out loud. And Spooner is all over Dark in Here_any time you hear a bit of Hammond organ or electric piano chiming in without repeating a phrase. We tracked the album's one outright banger, "The Destruction of the Kola Superdeep Borehole Tower," live with Spooner, and "Mobile" and "Dark in Here" with guitarist Will McFarlane_another local veteran who played with Bonnie Raitt for years. We only had Spooner for two afternoons, though, and Will for just one. After it was just the four of us: John playing acoustic guitar and occasional piano, the rhythm section of drummer Jon Wurster and myself, and our jack-of-all-trades Matt Douglas picking up everything else. The result is something more stripped down and intimate than the lush arrangements of Getting Into Knives. Of "The Slow Parts on Death Metal Albums," John concedes that the song is autobiographical. While the lines, "In a new universe / trying to find the mask that fits me" would take on a newly literal connotation in the weeks to come, the song is about going to late `80s metal shows at Fender's Ballroom in Long Beach, and about seeking a sense of identity and community in strange and occasionally forbidding places. This theme _ feeling at once conspicuous and invisible, the frustrated craving for acceptance _ is echoed elsewhere. Then there are elegies to lost causes, some big and institutional ("The Destruction of the Kola Superdeep Borehole Tower"), some small and personal ("Arguing With the Ghost of Peter Laughner About His Coney Island Baby Review," a tribute to David Berman, whose return from self-imposed musical exile had been cause for huge celebration in our camp). "Before I Got There" neglects to identify its victims, or the tragedy that's befallen them. John writes in the liner notes that "if you're looking for a governing theme here, it's calamity, as all the songs are either anticipating one or reflecting one that's already happened." - Peter Hughes, Rochester, March 2021

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Mountain Goats

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Mountain Goats

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Collected Works Of Neutral Milk Hotel

Neutral Milk Hotel

Box Set | 2011 | US | Reissue (Merge)

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The Collected Works Of Neutral Milk Hotel

Release: 2011 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The two full-length records that Jeff Mangum made as Neutral Milk Hotel sound both in and out of time. Like translations of a shared subconscious, 1996's On Avery Island and 1998's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea give voice to the perennial spirit of youthful epiphany, of beginning to see the world clearly, to process and express it-no matter when you encounter them. With lo-fi indie rock, accordion, singing saw, tape collages, the so-called "zanzithophone" and beyond, Neutral Milk Hotel created an eternal entry into their Elephant 6 scene and an enduring feeling of possibility. Mangum was born in the small city of Ruston, Louisiana, in 1970, coming of age within the '80s and '90s indie and punk undergrounds, a movement of teenagers recording in their bedrooms, sharing zines and trading tapes, listening to hardcore and experimental music on college radio. For all the mythology Mangum's elusive persona has accrued-particularly during the 15 years immediately following Aeroplane, when he abruptly left the band behind-it's the beguiling songs themselves that have resonated so deeply for generations. In 2011, Mangum collected nearly all of the band's recorded output in a limited-edition box set (self-released under Neutral Milk Hotel Records, a small operation helmed by Mangum and his mother) which is now re-pressed by Merge.

Black matte box is a 2-piece telescoping casewrapped package. Outer shrink-wrap includes a front sticker with "Neutral Milk Hotel," and a back sticker listing box contents. The box set includes 2 folded posters, each printed one side and each 24 x 24 inches when flat, and 1 postcard, printed front and back with box set information and sized 3.75 x 5 inches. Vinyl records: 1. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea: LP is 11 tracks pressed 33rpm to black vinyl in a gatefold jacket + printed insert for full album download. --- 2. On Avery Island: 2-lp is 12 tracks pressed to double black vinyl in a gatefold jacket + 11 x 11 printed insert + printed insert for full album download. Sides A, B and C pressed 45rpm. Side D pressed 33rpm. --- 3. Live at Jittery Joe's: 12-inch picture disc is 11 tracks pressed 33rpm to a full color picture disc in a heavyweight poly jacket + printed insert for full album download. --- 4. Ferris Wheel on Fire: 10-inch is 8 tracks pressed 45rpm to black vinyl in a printed jacket + postcard insert + printed insert for full album download. --- 5. Everything Is: 10-inch is 7 tracks pressed 45rpm to black vinyl in a printed jacket + postcard insert + printed insert for full album download --- 6. "Little Birds": 7-inch is 2 tracks pressed 45rpm to black vinyl in a printed jacket + printed insert for full album download 7-inch housed in a heavy-weight poly jacket. --- 7. "You've Passed": 7-inch is 2 tracks pressed 45rpm to black vinyl in a printed jacket + printed insert for full album download. 7-inch housed in a heavy-weight poly jacket. --- 8. "Holland, 1945": 7-inch is 2 tracks pressed 45rpm to black vinyl in a printed jacket + printed insert for full album download. 7-inch housed in a heavyweight poly jacket.

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Neutral Milk Hotel

| 2023 | Reissue (Merge)

159,99 €*

Quartet Plus Two Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Orbiting Human Circus

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Merge)

28,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Orbiting Human Circus

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Merge)

28,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | US | Original (Merge)

Ought

Room Inside The World

13,99 €*

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Polvo

2LP | 2009 | US | Reissue (Merge)

30,99 €*

In Prism Opaque Yellow Vinyl Edition

Release: 2009 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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In Prism is the best Polvo record even before you get to the majestic "A Link in the Chain," serene and tempestuous like few other things you'll hear. The album was recorded with Brian Paulson, and Polvo has never sounded better. Polvo spent 1990-98 giving voice to a chorus of discrete rock & roll ideas that really hadn't been heard before. While there was nothing wrong before, it's now so much more right-perhaps because after ten years, after other bands and their tours and records and worries (if they had any), none of the peripheral stuff matters anymore. -Mike Wolf, NYC, June 2009

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Polvo

2LP | 2009 | US | Reissue (Merge)

32,99 €*

Polvo Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2009 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Polvo

LP | 1990 | US | Reissue (Merge)

Release: 1990 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Check out the first 18 or so seconds of "Can I Ride," the title trackon the first release by Polvo, the two-guitar juggernaut thatrepresented the other side of Chapel Hill indie rock (more on that ina moment). That two-note riff, and the guitar twang that follows,recalls the opening notes on another monster song: "The Sprawl," akey track on Sonic Youth's epochal Daydream Nation, an albumreleased in October 1988, less than two years before Polvo formed.This compilation's nine tunes_the first seven from the Can I Ridedouble 7-inch EP (1990), the last two from the "Vibracobra" b/w"The Drill" 7-inch (1991)_are not quite the sound of a torch beingpassed, but they were a sign that Sonic Youth's weird tunings, thehardcore punk and proto-indie rock on SST Records, and R.E.M.'shazy rock (three big influences on this era of Polvo) were changinglives.Even back then, the impossibly catchy roar from Merge's flagshipact Superchunk was known to outsiders as the sound of Chapel Hill.But Polvo was something different from the same region. While theband never cottoned to the "math rock" tag (and it's hard to disagreewith them), there is no question that there was a distinct "how canwe make guitar rock sound different from all the other guitar rock"vibe going on in the mid-Atlantic, from Richmond (math rock's truehome, don't @ me) to the North Carolina Triangle over to Louisvilleand down almost to Atlanta. (If the Mastodon dudes aren't downwith Polvo, I'll eat your shoe.)No, Polvo were their own brand of squall, not afraid of big hooks("Leaf "), odd tempos and textures ("Lull") and rolling thunder ("Totemic"), and answers to the musical question, "What if the Feeliesgrew up on Dinosaur Jr.?" ("Tread on Me").Indie rock? Not the 2019 kind. Math rock? Eh, not really. This wasthe sound of a new Southern rock, of a pre-internet g

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Quivers

Oyster Cuts

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2013 | US | Reissue (Merge)

Radar Brothers

Eight

Neurotica Turquoise & Orange Vinyl Edition

Release: 2013 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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RADAR BROTHERS return with "Eight", a very special new release. Featuring an expanded band of brothers including Stevie Triechel and Be Hussey from THE ILLUSTRATED GARDEN as well as new members Dan Iead (formerly of THE BROKEN WEST) on guitar/pedal steel, Brian Cleary on keyboards and Ethan Walter on piano and synthesizers. Between the two keyboards and Iead and Putnam's guitars, the band orchestrates a swirling fervor that glides over Triechel and Hussey's rhythmic aggressions. The band called the record "Eight" (being their eighth), and it may well be RADAR BROTHERS' darkest, hardest rocking, most psychedelic, and yet most intensely personal album to date. From Putnam's tribute to Joni Mitchell's cover art (,The Hissing of Summer Lawns") to the surreal, picturesque lyrics to the unidentifiable textures and sounds that pour from your speakers like liquid paintings-this may also be the band's most visual album to...

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Redd Kross

LP | 1987 | US | Reissue (Merge)

34,99 €*

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Merge)

Release: 1987 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Merge Records is thrilled to release the 35th anniversary edition of Neurotica, the 1987 power pop and alternative rock opus by Redd Kross. This reissue includes the original album, remastered by JJ Golden (Pearl Jam, Thee Oh Sees), as well as 12 previously unreleased demos from the era (rediscovered recently in the archives of the band's original A&R guy, Geoffrey Weiss). The double vinyl edition-the album on translucent turquoise, the demos on translucent orange-arrives in a slick gatefold jacket.For Neurotica, brothers Jeff and Steven McDonald enlisted a grand crew of musicians that included guitarist Robert Hecker, keyboardist Paul Roessler (Screamers, Nervous Gender), and Roy McDonald (The Muffs) on drums. And in the producer's chair guiding the young bucks? Tommy Erdelyi, aka Tommy Ramone, one of the originators of punk rock melody. Unshakeable hooks on tracks like "Peach Kelli Pop" and title track "Neurotica" would inspire rave reviews at the time of the album's original release in 1987. The L.A. Times' Craig Lee wrote: "In an age when too many bands base their music either on calculated career moves or heavy-handed pretensions, Redd Kross is as breezy as a kiss in the wind, a band born to rock in a world that forgot how." Decades later, Pitchfork would revisit the album with a glowing write-up: "Pop culture nostalgia was to Redd Kross what LSD was to the Butthole Surfers; their music was delivered with just as furious a passion, but their love for Beatles-esque pop harmony shone through as much as any punk sensibility, and their Kinks influences, entirely free of irony, served as lyrical substance over their powerful, hi-octane hooks." Plain and simple, Neurotica is just a fantastic piece of art.

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Redd Kross

Red Cross EP

Teen Babes From Monsanto Limited Peak Edition

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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This special 40th anniversary edition of the Red Cross EP, which includes the band's six-song eponymous debut and adds five contemporaneous extra tracks, is the most comprehensive document to date of the extraordinary birth of Redd Kross.Redd Kross incubated alongside such SoCal luminaries as Black Flag, Descendents, and the Minutemen, and this new 11-song collection_which includes rare and unreleased demos plus a live track recorded in 1979 at "The Church," the infamous Black Flag birthplace in Hermosa Beach, CA_puts in proper perspective the McDonald brothers' contribution, at the ridiculously precocious ages of 12 and 16, to that area's punk scene.

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Redd Kross

LP | 1984 | EU | Reissue (Merge)

A Little More Time With Reigning Sound

Release: 1984 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Translucent Pink Vinyl! A little drums, a little atmosphere, and it wails like this! Hotter than anything printed by a Hearst daily, the 12-song Version Especial of Redd Kross' Teen Babes from Monsanto - all art, no filler, direct from the source, pure from the tap - reissued by Merge Records. The album features specially designed packaging that allows you to choose between two different front covers with just a flip of the wrist! Experience vintage teenaged Redd Kross as presented by Monsanto: 100% genuine, chemically inspired brilliance fueled by processed junk food.

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Reigning Sound

Abdication ... For Your Love

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Lp In Gateflod Sleeve.A Little More Time, Reigning Sound's Seventh Proper Full-Length, Is The Original Lineup's First In-Studio Collaboration Since 2005's Home For Orphans Lp, Which Merge Reissued Last Year. Ultimately, That 2020 Reissue Laid The Groundwork For The Outfit's Reunification. Cartwright Explains, "When Merge Reissued Home For Orphans, We Booked A Little String Of Shows With The Original Lineup. We Still Love To Get Together And Play Every Couple Years." The Short Reunion Tour Wrapped Just As Pandemic Hit The United States. Soon After,Cartwright Found Himself With A Batch Of New Songs. With Reigning Sound's Current Lineup Based In New York City, Then A Covid-19 Hotspot, Cartwright Made The Decision To Produce The New Record Back In Memphis_though He Did Regret Not Being Able To Work With The Players Behind 2014's Daptone-Recorded Shattered. "It Was...

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Reigning Sound

LP | 2011 | US | Reissue (Merge)

20,99 €*

Release: 2011 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Memphis In June Record Store Day 2022 Vinyl Edition

Reigning Sound

LP | 1994 | US | Reissue (Merge)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Limited Edition for Record Store Day 2022.

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Richard Buckner

Bloomed

34,99 €*

Release: 1994 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Richard, Dawn & Zahn, Spencer

Quiet In A World Full Of Noise

Bite Down Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn share a common collaborative ethos, a genuinesense of musical curiosity, and a cosmopolitan eagerness to escape the conventionsof genre. That shared vision first brought them together on 2022's Pigments_icy andwarm, stripped-down and grand, familiar and otherworldly_and now it has reunitedthem for Quiet in a World Full of Noise.By turns intimate, soul-baring, spectral, and startling, Quiet in a World Full of Noiseblends atmospheric and orchestral soundscapes with mellifluous soul, jazz, andjournalistic vocalizing_driving it all home with stark, confessional lyricism. Thenew album finds Richard at her most raw and exposed. This year, Richard's musicianfather experienced mini strokes while being diagnosed with cancer; and last year,her cousin Cisco was fatally shot seven times in New Orleans. Richard channels theemotional impact of these traumatic experiences of loss into her lyrics and vocalperformances, which are left bare and human here, raw and unprocessed across thealbum. Quiet expands the definitions of what constitutes progressive, avant-gardeR&B by rewriting them altogether.On paper, Richard and Zahn's audacious, impressionistic musical collaborations feellike a surprising match. Richard, a New Orleans-reared visionary, has had an improbablejourney from late 2000s reality television and mainstream pop with girl groupDanity Kane to become one of the most prolific, experimental, and visible indieR&B singer-songwriters of the last decade and a half, with seven solo albums underher belt. Zahn is an East Coast-raised multi-instrumentalist and composer workingat the intersections of jazz, Americana, classical, and ambient pop. His growing solodiscography includes People of the Dawn, Sunday Painter, Pale Horizon, and Statues I & II,as well as the duo's first release, Pigments. "Pigments was one of the best projects I'veever made," Richard says, "and the furthest I've ever been pushed as an artist." Thealbum was a critical hit, haile...

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Rosali

Bite Down Pink Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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It's hard to talk about Rosali's music. Songs that reach outward like this, but then constantly disarm with their intimacy. What do you call such inner searching that is hellbent on rollicking? Songs that long for a sense of peace and songs that want romance, all on equal footing in the same plot of earth? Performed wild, but always centered around the incredible lyrical calm that is Rosali's voice. Bite Down makes me think about singers and bands that throw themselves hard into the storm, the way the Rosali quartet does. (Jim captures the tone of this perfectly, again!) The calm of her voice over top of the band's raging - it is the emblem of songs that live to put themselves in harm's way. But it's not harm. It's just that you have to play hard to get at these goods. The calm of Rosali's voice, the straight talk of her inner search vs. the wildness of the band, the sonic storm she rides in on. That's their sound. The Mowed Sound. It's hard to talk about these last couple Rosali albums without talking about them. They play free and wild and relentlessly melodious. They rip and create space and fill it up with what seems like reckless abandon, but listen carefully or listen for a while and you'll find them paying real close attention to each other and exactly what the song demands. Maybe Fairport did this, maybe VU. It's a strange telepathic brew. Breezier songs like "On Tonight" and "Rewind" sound like they've fought their way to get to that sense of ease. Maybe that's the Mowed Sound "sound"_hard-won ease. Then add to that Ted Bois' patented Rhodes sleaze (see sinuous title track "Bite Down") steering the record into late-night corners; the incredible "Hills on Fire" (maybe the centerpiece of the album), the guitar-ripping and the singing taking turns in reaching new levels of intimacy. It feels listened-in on, exposed and invented on the spot. It is also simply a staggeringly beautiful song. There are a few of those on the album. In contrast, "My Kind" is a raucous, hand-delivered classic; the band throws tables over. For the most part, this is a moodier record than No Medium. It has the same sound of "I've traveled through fire to deliver you these songs," but it is also quieter, more nocturnal. The quiet dread of staring down an open road, and the excitement of that. By the final track, "May It Be on Offer," it is the prayer uttered as you hand yourself over to the world.” - Dan Bejar (of Destroyer)

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Rosali

A Very She & Him Christmas

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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She & Him

LP | 2011 | US | Reissue (Merge)

LP | 2008 | US | Reissue (Merge)

Release: 2011 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Repress of A Very She & Him Christmas, the wonderful collection of tunes from two of music's most beloved artists _ Zooey Deschanel (She) & M. Ward (Him)! Recorded and originally released in 2011, Deschanel and Ward let the songs speak for themselves, oftentimes recording them with only acoustic guitar and vocals. The result is an intimate holiday recording that deserves a place in your collection next to seminal Christmas albums by the likes of The Carpenters, Vince Guaraldi, The Beach Boys, and Elvis Presley. A portion of all proceeds from A Very She & Him Christmas are donated to 826 National, a non-profit for young people to ignite and channel their creativity, explore identity, advocate for themselves and their community, and achieve academic and professional success.

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She & Him

Volume One