M. Ward Vinyl, CD & Tape 19 Items

M. Ward - End Of Amnesia 20th Anniversary Remastered Edition

2LP | 2001 | US | Reissue (Jealous Butcher)

31,99 €*

Release: 2001 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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20th anniversary remastered reissue of M. Ward's sophomore album. M.Ward's second solo enterprise verifies the artist as one of those few songwriters who stand between the cracks of time, where he spins a hallucinatory, new universe out of old-world roots. Indeed, there's a real down-home, unpolished luster to End of Amnesia, both in execution and in songwriting, that gives it a timeless, old-fashioned pallor. And yet there's also something just slightly off in the songs, a strange, disembodied quality that seems to come at least partly from an ulterior place, be it real or imagined. That attribute is precisely what gives the music such a singular, distinctive sound and vision.

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Anti)

Think Of Spring

24,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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"I first heard Lady In Satin in a mega-shopping mall somewhere in San Francisco. I was about 20 years old and didn't know much about Billie's records or her life or how her voice changed over the years. Anyway, the sound was coming from the other side of the mall and I remember mistaking her voice for a beautiful perfectly distorted electric guitar - some other-world thing floating there on this strange mournful ocean of strings and I was hooked for life. Ten years later in 2006 I recorded an electric guitar instrumental version of "I'm A Fool To Want You" for my album Post-War. In 2018 I performed a concert in LA. of all the songs from Lady In Satin as a quintet and began preparing guitar arrangements for the recordings compiled on this record - Think of Spring. The title comes from a poem written in 1924 by Jane Brown-Thompson that eventually became "I Get Along Without You Very Well" in 1938 - the first song here. The conceit of Think of Spring is to filter the songs and strings from Lady In Satin through a single acoustic guitar using various alternate tunings and a minimal amount of textures and studio manipulation. most of the songs were recorded on an analog Tascam four track. Think of Spring is inspired by Billie Holiday, Ray Ellis, J.J. Johnson, John Fahey and Robert Johnson. Proceeds from this record will benefit Inner-City Arts & Donors Choose via PLUS1 for Black Lives Fund." - M. Ward

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Duet For Guitars Indie Exclusive Clear Vinyl Edition

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Jealous Butcher)

26,99 €*

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Originally released on CD in 1999, M. Ward's debut is a sparse, mostly live affair recorded with pal and engineer Adam Selzer of Norfolk & Western at Type Foundry Studio in Portland, OR. Listeners who are already accustomed to Ward\'s breathy, conversational vocal delivery and soft-picked, West Coast Americana melodies will find much to love here. Duet for Guitars #2 is peppered with instrumentals in the John Fahey and Bad Timing-era Jim O\'Rourke vein, and Ward\'s lackadaisical picking sounds just as lazily precise here as it does on future recordings. There\'s a real warmth to the sessions that transcends the often bare-bones production. For the most part, it sound like most takes were done live with two microphones, with the occasional overdub, and that style suits Ward\'s dreamy tales of molasses-slow teenage summers (\Beautiful Car\") and oddball parables like ""Fishing Boat Song."" It's also interesting to hear him shedding the inflections of some of his more obvious heroes like Neil Young (""Who May Be Lazy"") and Bob Dylan (""It Won\'t Happen Twice""). This limited edition is an indie record store exclusive and pressed on clear vinyl!"

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Anti)

Migration Stories

26,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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"It was in winter 18/19 - I flew to Montreal to meet with Tim Kingsbury, Richard Reed Parry, Craig Silvey and Teddy Impakt at Le Studio Du Arcade Fire. It was a fine time with a dream team in a city I love. Winter in beautiful Quebec. Les semaines les plus froides de ma vie. I had a bunch of demos that were inspired by migration stories I had heard from friends or read in newspapers while on tour in Europe and North America. I remember being struck by the similarities of the stories I heard from both continents and how really only the names of the powerful and the powerless had changed - thinking, "Is this the future? Is this our future?" Some time went by, the stories wove together and I remember them now closer to characters in a dream of how people could treat each other than any kind of front-page news realism. I think music subconsciously - whether writing or listening - is a filter for me - helping to process all the bad news into something new to build from - some recordsto me are like self-fulfilling prophecies - visualizing change to wish something into being - those records inspired this one."- M. Ward winter 19/20

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Transfiguration Of Vincent

LP | 2003 | US | Reissue (Jealous Butcher)

30,99 €*

Release: 2003 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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M. Ward's third album is clearly progressive while simultaneously sounding regressive, feeling dusty with age, and manifesting a genius that is pure and untempered. His music defies description except to say it is coming from somewhere seeped in the early blues w/ a Neil Young overlay and the feel of country, blues, pop, and folk.

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For Beginners: The Best Of M. Ward

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Merge)

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 | 2012 | US | Reissue (Merge)

A Wasteland Companion

Release: 2012 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Consisting of 12 stunning tracks, A Wasteland Companion was made with 18 musicians and recorded in eight different studios in Portland, Omaha, New York City, Los Angeles, Austin and Bristol (UK). Ward's honey-soaked vocals, deft finger-picking, innate sense of melody and beguiling lyrics have already cemented his reputation as one of America's true musical treasures and A Wasteland Companion features some of the finest songwriting and most striking delivery of his career. With each and every recording Ward finds new ways to make the colors of his songwriting palate sparkle and his dexterous skills as producer, arranger, guitarist and singer seem to burst into even brighter bloom on each release.

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LP | 2009 | US | Reissue (Merge)

Hold Time

Release: 2009 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Hold Time is M. Ward's amazing follow-up to 2006's brilliant Post-War.Available on CD and LP, Hold Time is an eloquent and startlingly beautiful album. While past critics have compared him to everyone from John Fahey to Tom Waits to his old friend Howe Gelb, with Hold Time it's clear that M. Ward, with his brilliant guitar playing and innate sense of melody, is one of those rare and special talents who defy comparisons and compartmentalization.

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

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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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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 verytalented friends who join him on this record, such as Neko Case and Mike Mogis, aswell as old Monsters of Folk touring buddy Jim James (My Morning Jacket).

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Transistor Radio Green Swirl Vinyl Edition

LP | 2014 | US | Reissue (Merge)

29,99 €*

Release: 2014 / 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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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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In 2003, everything broke open for Ward with the release of Transfiguration ofVincent. Critically lauded and long beloved, Pitchfork hailed it as an albumthat "broadcasts timelessness and defies genre constraints," and Slant placedit on their list of the best albums of the 2000s. On Transfiguration of Vincent,Ward's elegant fingerpicking, evocative croon, and heartrending lyricismcame into full bloom, casting a spell so powerful that even a song as universalas David Bowie's "Let's Dance" felt not only new but irrevocably his. Oneof the most cherished albums in the Merge catalog, Transfiguration of Vincentis 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 againfor 20 years.

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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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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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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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Transfiguration Of Vincent Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 2003 | UK | Reissue (Merge)

26,99 €*

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 | UK | Reissue (Merge)

Release: 2003 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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CD | 2012 | Original (Bella Union)

A Wasteland Companion

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Release: 2012 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

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Supernatural Thing Eco Mixed Colored Vinyl Edition

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Anti)