Shifting Sounds Vinyl, CD & Tape 16 Items

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Shifting Sounds)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Debut album from Texas' STARTOGRAPHERS on Opaque Purple Vinyl!Startographers are a brandnew alternative rock band from Austin, Texas featuring members of Magnet School, Honeyrude and Schatzi. With an array of influences including indie rock, dream pop, post-punk, shoegaze, post-rock, and even britpop - they have a unique sound that's driving & vibrant but also full of lush guitar textures and captivating vocal melodies. This is the Statographers' debut album.Produced & Recorded by Ian Lund & Brandon Tucker at The Slab - Vocals recorded by Christian Kyle - Mixed & Mastered by Kevin Butler at Test Tube Audio - Austin, TXRIYL Independent/Shoegaze/Alternative

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The Ex-Optimists

Drowned In Moonlight

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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"The indie rockers take your ears on a journey for those first moments where they add shoegaze, Britpop, and psych elements to their signature sound. Pop heavy hooks, catchy lyrics, and a fuzzy guitar with snappy drums are all over. The way in which this band mixes multiple hooks with pop melodies without coming off soft, is pretty damn magical." - David Garrick - Free Press HoustonCritics have compared the band to Husker Du, Ride, Swervedriver, The Posies, Superchunk, Sebadoh, and Dinosaur Jr. The Texas alt-indie rock band have been playing pop songs too loud with guitars cranked up since 2008. This most recent LP "Drowned In Moonlight" was released Sept 28th 2018 in the States via Shifting Sounds. The album was mixed and mastered by Kevin Butler (Quiet Company, Honeyrude, Magnet School, Black Books). It is now available in the EU via Cargo Records.

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Tonight We Drink... Tomorrow We Battle The Evil At

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Shifting Sounds)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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... HAND- OPAQUE RED VINYLThis amazing debut gem was originally released back in Nov 2007 to an incredible reception and tons of stellar reviews and high praise. The buzz soon led them to tour the UK and also do direct support for The Life and Times in the States. In January 2018 Shifting Sounds and Arclight Records teamed up to re-issue the album on 12" vinyl for the 10 year anniversary. Press: "Buzzcatcher, under the radar and blasting from our offices: Four Austinites infuse their bar-band anthems with tangy rhythmic flourishes and slather on the psychedelia like it was barbecue sauce. For fans of Secret Machines, Dinosaur Jr." -- SPIN Magazine "Herin lay an album chock full of catchy alternative rock tunes that would've enlightened the hell outta the 120 Minutes crowd in ye olden days. Magnet School is my kinda thing, chain'm up and throw'm in the trunk! C'mon they cover a Sweredriver tune! This frankly amazes and inspires me. Throbbing bassy dream rock, oceanic and enveloping. -- Lollipop Magazine"Glazing muscular space rock with dream-pop pastels, this Texas ensemble perform their chemistry at full throttle" - Earmilk

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Tonight We Drink... Tomorrow We Battle The Evil At

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Shifting Sounds)

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Shifting Sounds)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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... HAND - BLACK VINYL VERSIONThis amazing debut gem was originally released back in Nov 2007 to an incredible reception and tons of stellar reviews and high praise. The buzz soon led them to tour the UK and also do direct support for The Life and Times in the States. In January 2018 Shifting Sounds and Arclight Records teamed up to re-issue the album on 12" vinyl for the 10 year anniversary. Press: "Buzzcatcher, under the radar and blasting from our offices: Four Austinites infuse their bar-band anthems with tangy rhythmic flourishes and slather on the psychedelia like it was barbecue sauce. For fans of Secret Machines, Dinosaur Jr." -- SPIN Magazine "Herin lay an album chock full of catchy alternative rock tunes that would've enlightened the hell outta the 120 Minutes crowd in ye olden days. Magnet School is my kinda thing, chain'm up and throw'm in the trunk! C'mon they cover a Sweredriver tune! This frankly amazes and inspires me. Throbbing bassy dream rock, oceanic and enveloping. -- Lollipop Magazine"Glazing muscular space rock with dream-pop pastels, this Texas ensemble perform their chemistry at full throttle" - Earmilk

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Black Books

Can't Even

Magnet School / Dead Twins

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Austin, Texas-based band Black Books will be releasing their powerful sophomore LP Can't Even in Europe in Winter via Shifting Sounds / Cargo Records Germany.Can't Even thrives in dualities - debilitating sadness and exalting joy, bitter endings and expectant beginnings, lostlove and new hope. Since their eponymous debut LP released in 2013 by UK-based Believe Recordings - and asubsequent tour opening for The Flaming Lips - the band has experienced monumental changes: births and deaths,marriages and divorces, losing and gaining members. The result of this tumultuous but transformative period is thestunning and potent sophomore effort, Can't Even.Can't Even is a poignant record brimming with dreamy melancholia, punctuated by moments of pure elation. Thealbum can be defiant and bold, and at other times plaintive and searching. The resultant songs highlight a moremature band that continues to explore expansive soundscapes. Yet each of the 11 songs on Can't Even have diversetraits: confessional but guarded, scintillating but deep and dark. The songs carry listeners through the depths of grief,the fog of coping and the light and transcendence of moving on. Lyrically, the songs on Can't Even are romantic andbrooding. We listen to a narrator pushing against the life forces he can't - or won't - understand as he struggleswith the very idea of his world coming undone. The combination of clever, thoughtful lyrics that plead, exhort and jokewith the album's sonically expansive instrumentation and hooky melodies.The result is a richness in dynamics and texture.Over the span of several years, the band spent countless late nights developing the 11 songs showcased on Can'tEven. Black Books has crafted an extraordinarily agile record that accomplishes so much musically, from strippeddown, heart-rending songs like "Heaven Help Us" to driving dream pop songs like "Really Nice To See You." Much ofthe music was recorded, mixed and mastered at the band's long-time home studio and refuge...

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Mysterious

7" | 2010 | EU | Original (Shifting Sounds)

10,99 €*

The Colour Blue White Vinyl Edition

Release: 2010 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Limited Edition Solid White 7 inch vinyl!Two great bands from Texas, USA have united to put together this excellent split 7" single. The riffs and hooks are big and mysterious on this guitar soaked outing-both bands give you a big indie-psych hug while crushing you with their rock power at the same time!! A some run of limited edition copies on 7" white vinyl available so you will have to get one quick or you will miss out.

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Honeyrude

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Shifting Sounds)

Gentlemen Rogues Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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- solid white vinylReverbed out rock and roll - Adam Franklin wearing Robert Smith's socks on a date with PJ Harvey. Lovely and loud, Honeyrude is a melding of time and influences. Guitarist and founding member Ian Lund first met Billy Kunath (bass guitar) asleep in a van in his driveway in Chicago back in 1994. Kunath was playing in a punk band that Lund was recording at the time. The two became friends and were in and out of contact over the years yet both landed in Austin and became bandmates in 2013. A year and 3 singers later, Jess Ledbetter (singer, guitarist) joined the band upon moving from Brooklyn, NY back to Texas. The project came recommended to her by an ex-boyfriend and bandmate. Honeyrude came to their present line-up in March of 2016 when Paul Goetz agreed to sit in on drums for a tribute show celebrating The Cure. They met each other by learning Deep Green Sea and quickly asked Goetz to join. The four began recording demos and in the fall of 2016 they self-recorded The Color Blue to be released on vinyl August 2017 via Shifting Sounds.For fans of: The Cure, PJ Harvey, Teenage Fanclub, Swervedriver, Sonic Youth, MBV Having dribbled a debut single last fall exuding big promise, Austin's Honeyrude bags the EP they promised, acing an LP instead with the potency of a Porsche 968 Convertible purring down the parkway. As he was on "Roger McLain" (included), Ian Lund is a guitar mastermind, gusting Black Swan Lane, Scenic, "Language of Flowers" Pale Saints, Harry Dingman, and Johnny Marr-ish gales into hard shards that flash and fizz, careen, wail, crash, and sputter-pretty dazzling. And with blonde bastion Jess Ledbetter adding lulling, stout vocals that sound much like Long Blondes' Kate Jackson, the Pale Saints comparison (perhaps tracks that Meriel Barham sang) gets exciting. American bands rarely use effects this powerfully and reverberating, loudly-beautiful; compatibly, there's post-punk thwack in the attack: bassist Billy Kunath and drummer Paul Goetz turn quickly from spo...

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Gentlemen Rogues

10" | 2013 | EU | Original (Shifting Sounds)

15,99 €*

Release: 2013 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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- opaque blue vinylSince 2010, Austin TX-based Gentlemen Rogues have celebrated aggressive guitar pop, with punk-inflected energy, polished, precise songwriting, and hooks as sharp and sleek as the Rickenbackers they bang them out on. Gentlemen Rogues self titled debut EP proves they can crank out catchy, amplified treble kickers, mixing powder keg intensity, classic melodies, and brash theatrics into a 200-proof distillation of brazen rock 'n' roll. Consistently winning over audiences with their vital and urgent live shows, Gentlemen Rogues have shared the stage with such diverse musical outfits as the Lemonheads, Smoking Popes, Field Music, Future of the Left, Theophilus London, and The Dandy Warhols. The self title debut EP is now available on 10" Opaque Blue Vinyl w/ Digital Download via Cargo Records. For fans of: Jawbreaker, Superchunk, The Jam, Archers of Loaf

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The Art Of Telling The Truth Oxblood Vinyl Edition

LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Shifting Sounds)

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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* 180gram on oxblood vinyl* 100 copies only!Magnet School are an American alternative rock band from Austin, TXWith a distinct sonic style that stands alone in a sea of underground music, Magnet School's unique tunings and approach to songwriting have earned them a place in Texas & Worldwide as a class act. With an EP, 2x Albums, and UK 7" vinyl release under their belt all with stellar reviews, Magnet School have garnered lots of at...

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The Art Of Telling The Truth Gold Vinyl Edition

LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Shifting Sounds)

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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* 180 gram on golden vinyl* 100 copies only!Magnet School are an American alternative rock band from Austin, TXWith a distinct sonic style that stands alone in a sea of underground music, Magnet School's unique tunings and approach to songwriting have earned them a place in Texas & Worldwide as a class act. With an EP, 2x Albums, and UK 7" vinyl release under their belt all with stellar reviews, Magnet School have garnered lots of att...

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The Art Of Telling The Truth

LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Shifting Sounds)

Eyes On The Mirror, Head In The Clouds Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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* 200 gram super audiophile wax* 350 copies only!Magnet School are an American alternative rock band from Austin, TXWith a distinct sonic style that stands alone in a sea of underground music, Magnet School's unique tunings and approach to songwriting have earned them a place in Texas & Worldwide as a class act. With an EP, 2x Albums, and UK 7" vinyl release under their belt all with stellar reviews, Magnet School have garnered...

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Black Books

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Shifting Sounds)

10" | 2024 | EU | Original (Shifting Sounds)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The third full-length album from Black Books "Eyes on the Mirror, Head in the Clouds" is the culmination of four years of writing, playing and recording at their home base of guitarist and producer Kevin Butler's recording studio, Test Tube Audio. Eyes on the Mirror, Head in the Clouds showcases the band's enduring ability to marry loudness, depth and dreamy textures without losing sight of creating a great song. This is the band wandering into the deep end, toes barely touching the bottom, stretching out and enjoying the new space. Songs like "Why Do I Bother," "All I Need" and "Let Your Hair Down" delve into navigating adulthood in a mad and wonderful world, and all of the distractions, discrepancies and beauty that comes with it. You may hear fatherly advice, musings on finding clarity in the chaos of life, or gentle reminders not to lose yourself on the way to becoming yourself. Black Books is 15 years into honing their sound, and their time together on and off the stage has developed an easy confidence. While music venues have closed, reopened and changed names, the band continues to show up and play. From its humble beginnings in an orange garage in Manor, Black Books has opened for The Flaming Lips at the famed Roundhouse in London, toured England and New York, played numerous SXSW Music Festival showcases, and garnered hundreds of thousands of fans from across the globe. Their songs steadily been playing on digital music services across the U.S., United Kingdom and Europe. The vinyl colour is called Grey Matter!

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Nim

Mushy EP

21,99 €*

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Shifting Sounds)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Japanese emo rockers nim have released their latest EP "Mushy" via Austin, TX label Shifting Sounds Records (Magnet School, Startographers, Gentlemen Rogues, Swallow The Rat). The style of nim is based in emo-rock, but the songs are unconventional and full of melodies. The band mixes male and female vocals to perform a gentle but overwhelming live performance with their sound. nim has grown in harmony with the independent scene both domestically and internationally. So far, they have released 3 full-length albums and many other singles, and have also conducted large-scale overseas tours in Australia, China, and South Korea. Their new EP "Mushy" is being released by Shifting Sounds on 10" Classic Black Vinyl.On their new EP "Mushy" the band further their emotionally charged alternative rock with a melodic and dreamy landscape. The songs are driven by chiming layered guitars and clean vocal harmonies under an indie pop song structure with lots of quiet to loud dynamics, often ending in climatic guitar explosions while sounding beautiful all at once. The band clearly draws inspiration from 90s sounding emo, shoegaze, dream pop, and jangly indie/emo rock are are not afraid to showcase these influences in their songwriting on the new EP.Japan has a number of up and coming bands paying homage to 90s emo, shoegaze and dream pop and nim should definitely be in the discussion.

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Gentlemen Rogues

Surface Noise

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Surface Noise, a brand new LP of well-turned guitar pop, complete with roaring chords and propulsive rhythms behind Dunlap's clever and cultured lyrics.Austin, Texas quartet Gentlemen Rogues celebrate aggressive guitar pop anthems _ bearing the influences of The Replacements, Superdrag, Jawbreaker, and similar visionaries _ and have been gaining momentum and increased attention. Since their debut in 2011, the band _ Danny Dunlap (guitar/vocals), Josh Power (drums), John Christoffel (guitar), and Dave Hawkins (bass, vocals) _ have honed their hooks over numerous singles, EPs, and the 2022 full-length collection, A History of Fatalism.Gentlemen Rogues have supported diverse acts like the Lemonheads, Smoking Popes, the Dandy Warhols, Mrs Magician, and Riverboat Gamblers on stages across the U.S. and the UK. In 2021 Gentlemen Rogues opened for both indie-punk icons Superchunk and Bob Mould, who personally selected the band to provide sole support on the Texas leg of his Distortion and Blue Hearts tour. Little Steve Van Zandt, Springsteen's steady side-kick, has been strong supporter, Pressed on Transparent Electric Blue vinyl! Includes hand-numbered obi-strip and download card.

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The Raven Ep Bloodred Transparent Vinyl Edition

12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Shifting Sounds)

23,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Shifting Sounds)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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New 5-track EP The Raven by Austin's MAGNET SCHOOL in February 2024!Magnet School formed in 2004 in Austin, TX With a distinct sonic alternative rock style that stands alone in a sea of underground music, their unique tunings and approach to songwriting have earned them a place in Texas & Worldwide as a class act. Chosen as a Buzz-catcher Band by Spin Magazine in 07' for their amazing debut "Tonight!", toured the UK/Europe 08', & toured Japan in 2018.

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Swallow The Rat

South Locust