Rock & Indie Tape 836 Items

Musica Para 10m2 De Relva Sintetica

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Born and raised in small Texas towns, the members of Good Looks met and began playing together in Austin. Songwriter Tyler Jordan grew up in a South Texas coastal town dominated by the petrochemical industry, his childhood steeped in the tension between nature and industry, exploitation abundantly present and the wealth gap on full display. His father's church, described by Tyler as "cult-like in its intensity," was homebase and where he learned to sing. Tyler eventually met lead guitarist Jake Ames in the late-night song-swap circles of the Kerrville Folk Festival campground (where they would also meet Buck Meek and Adrienne Lenker pre-Big Thief). They shared their mutual love of the Texas hill country canon (Blaze Foley, Townes Van Zandt, and Willie Nelson), a love of cheap diner food, thrift store baseball caps, and a healthy dose of harmless shit-talking. They began playing in bands together, backing up other songwriters and taking turns in the spotlight. They sought out producer Dan Duszynski (Loma, RF Shannon, Jess Williamson) to engineer their debut album. What would form was Good Looks, a blue-collar political indie-rock band with healthy doses of Replacements swagger and shimmering, desert rock riffs not unlike The War On Drugs.

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Niagara

Tape | 2024 | EU | Original (Sucata Tapes)

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Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2023 | EU | Original (Phantom)

Nowaves

Odd Secrets

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Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2022 | US | Original (Ramp Local)

Turbo World

My Challenger

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Tape | 2022 | US | Original (Joyful Noise)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Turbo World is the sunny and shady brainchild of co-conspirators Stephe Cooper and Caroline Bennett. Best known as the mastermind behind avant-prog boppers Cloud Becomes Your Hand and a member of Guerilla Toss, Cooper continues to stand out for his madcap compositions that embody the spirit and ethos of avant rock groups Aksak Maboul & Slapp Happy. Joining forces with Bennett, the manic scribe, singer, and multimedia wizard of digital hardcore duo Stice, their debut album, My Challenger, is an experimental prog-opera that leads listeners on a surreal, animated jaunt through the world of organized crime. The album’s north star is Joey the Hitman aka Max Kurschner, whose 1973 interview on The David Susskind Show, forever immortalized on YouTube, serves as inspiration and source material.

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Cedric Noel

Hang Time

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My Heart Is An Open Field

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The newest longplayer from Tio'tiá:ke/Montreal staple Cedric Noel lands with a stunning sense of surety and self. Hang Time stands as a high water mark for a songwriter who's spent the past decade quietly expanding the borders of his music. Longtime fans will recognize the fluid elements of the album's open-ended rock formations: reflective strumming, soaring choruses, searing guitar lines, subtle bass grooves; all occasionally dissolving into pools of pure ambience. New listeners will find surprises throughout: threads of folk pop, ambient and sound collage fasten the foundations of this expressive whole. However, what's most striking on Hang Time is Noel's newfound sense of voice, both literal and metaphorical. Written primarily in 2017-18 during an intense period of self-reflection, this collection of songs finds Noel wrestling profoundly with his sense of identity, self and place. Born in Niger, adopted by Canadian and Mozambican/Belgian parents, he spent his youth moving around the globe with his adoptive, multi-racial family, eventually landing in Fredericton, Canada for university. While studying, Noel embedded himself in a predominantly white indie rock community that left him feeling, as a Black man, both seen and unseen in complicated ways; both welcome and not. This tension would follow Noel through a move to Montreal in 2016 wherein he found himself again moving within predominantly white music communities. This (dis)placement would encourage Noel to find respite in Ottawa, holed up temporarily in a family home, studying the pieces of himself and putting them to place in music. Listening to Hang Time, one can feel the tensions of this process being held and released, as if being allowed to breathe for the first time: forms open and close, surfaces are seen through, feelings go supernova. The album's material was captured faithfully at The Pines, a beloved downtown Montreal studio whose doors shuttered shortly after amidst the strain of the pandemic. Noel worked closely and patiently with friend and engineer Steve Newton, ensuring the songs had the time and space needed to come fully to fruition. Hang Time features subtle rhythm work from drummer Liam O'Neill (suuns) and guest spots from Brigitte Naggar (Common Holly), Ella Williams (Squirrel Flower) and Tim Crabtree (Paper Beat Scissors) among others.

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Tenci

Tape | 2020 | US | Original (Keeled Scales)

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Tape | 2020 | US | Reissue (Sacred Bones)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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My Heart Is An Open Field is a confident, deeply beautiful debut album from Chicago four-piece Tenci. These songs are filled with nuance-- breaths of saxophone and flute, and touches of cello, piano, and pedal steel are hung on the sturdy folk songs of Jess Shoman, whose voice and range cuts through these dreams like a loved one's voice. There is enough new rawness to separate the music of Tenci from other artists working in similar genres. Ultimately these songs feel magically formed, the hazy post-snakebite psychedelia of "Serpent," the childlike wonder and xylophone on "Joy," the heartbreaking imagery within "Forgot My Horse's Name." Even the recording of Shoman's grandmother at the end of "Blue Spring" is something achingly refreshing.

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Molchat Doma

Monument

Constant Cold Compilation

Release: 2020 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Monument is a fitting title for the third album by Belarusian trio Molchat Doma. Indeed, it stands as a monument to everything they've achieved in their short time as a band, from whispered-about unknowns, to enigmatic underground icons, to legitimate viral sensations with hundreds of thousands of TikTok videos using their music. Monument sees them return as conquering heroes, expanding on the minimalist greatness of S Krysh Nashikh Domov and Etazhi to fully realize a more maximalist vision of their crystalline post-punk sound.Written and recorded while the band was quarantined in their hometown of Minsk during the COVID-19 pandemic, Monument is a conscious step up in songwriting and fidelity, and it reveals a band preternaturally comfortable in its own skin. Whether playing to the dancefloor, as they do on the synthpop anthem "Discoteque," or working more introspectively on pre-pandemic live favorites "Otveta Net" and "Ne Smeshno," Molchat Doma are in complete control. Their greatest strength has always been their songwriting, and they've only gotten better.As the band's arrangements have grown more sophisticated, so too have the sounds they use to bring them to life. Roman Komogortsev and Pavel Kozlov's gear arsenal has grown to include an extensive range of synthesizers and drum machines, all of which they deploy with precision. Egor Shkutko's vocals move fluidly between his familiar deadpan monotone and an expressive croon, his beautifully delivered Russian lyrics at turns bleak and romantic. Shkutko has often been compared to Ian Curtis, but here, he outgrows the comparison. With Monument, Molchat Doma have done one of the hardest things to do as a band. They've greatly expanded the scope of their music while retaining everything that made them great in the first place.

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Churchgoers

Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Static Shock)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Better Noise)

Five Finger Death Punch

Afterlife

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Rumble Of Thunder Colored Tape Edition

The Hu

Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Sony Music)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Leaving)

Francesca Heart

Eurybia

We Green Cassette Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Eurybia is the second solo album by Italian artist Francesca Heart. The result of a compositional process that began in summer 2020.

The work is the product of a series of intimate imaginary projections and aural engagements with a number of geographical sites scattered across the Italian landscape. Places which have resonated with Francesca during various personal travels and pilgrimages, due to their extramundane and often even mystic significance. The most outstanding / iconic being the cloisters and gardens of San Gregorio Armeno’s monastery in Naples and the Nympheum of Villa Giulia in Rome.

Indeed the whole record seems to bring the listener constantly together with the overwhelming, tender presence of the surrounding environment. Seemingly permeated with a feeling of refreshing musky moistures or textured with soft, wet soil, Eurybia reminds us of walking barefoot near the lush architecture of some ancient, overflowing fountain or amidst the continuous flows of shallow rivers’ bedrocks informing the album with strong physical, sensory qualities. Myth, senses, and imagination become anchors of artistic and healing expression as well as forms of romantic escapism from an ever complex world.

On the whole, Eurybia’s seven tracks alternate dense enmeshment of sounds and melodies with sparse, forthright single-instrumental devotional hymns, working as a personal cartography of ephemeral audio monuments to human, transcendental, and mythographic landscapes. Influences connected by means of nuanced ascendance going from classical New Age music and Video Game soundtracks to digital phone ringtones. The fluttering arpeggios used as the main compositional device coalesce together into an experience of relaxing trance which is yet a glaring, audacious work.

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Arcade Fire

Tape | 2022 | UK | Original (Columbia)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2022 | US | Original (Orindal)

Karima Walker

Demos

Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Bayonet)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tucson, AZ singer, songwriter & sound designer shares early, home-recorded versions of songs, alongside illuminating sketches and ambient pieces. The demo versions feature alternate lyrics and intimate acoustic arrangements that highlight the power of Walker’s voice and musicianship, while ambient pieces plumb deeper depths of tension.

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Bloomsday

Place To Land

Tape | EU | Original (Relax-In)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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'Place to Land' showcases Bloomsday's talent as writers,producers, and players. Iris James Garrison and Alex Harwoodused the downtime of 2020 to hone their sound and create analbum that walks a tightrope of, in their words, of "tenderness, darkness, and fun stuff." Brooklyn-based and embedded securely in the DIY music community, this record is a tender contemplative journey. Iris's singing is gorgeously legible and as Alex's guitar licks echo and sing back, an effortlessly elegant arrangement. The solid friendship between these two musicians establishes the building blocks for each song. Bloomsday delivers an emotional debut - a confident new voice emerging after a period of loss and transformation.For Fans of Big Thief, Kevin Krauter, Snail Mail, Hand Habits, Slow Pulp,Tomberlin, Alex G, Phoebe Bridgers.

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Magida El Roumi

And The Children

Release: EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | EU | Original (Relax-In)

Walid Toufik

Release: EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | EU | Original (Relax-In)

George Wassouf

Release: EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Warda

Dein Ayamak

Release: EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Warda

Tabahn Ahbab

Release: EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Maiyada El Henawy

Amr El Hawa

Release: EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Samira Saeed

Kol De Eshaat

Release: EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Mayada El Henawy

Ana Baashaak (Syria)

Release: EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Aziza Galal

Mestaneyak (Morocco)

Release: EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 1993 | EU | Original (Alam El Phan)

Mayada El Henawy

Gayart Hauate (Syria)

Release: 1993 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Live 7th St. Entry Minneapolis 1984

Impaler

Tape | 2022 | EU (Les Cassettes)

Release: 2022 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2021 | US | Original (Sacred Bones)

Molchat Doma

S Krysh Nashikh Domov

Tape | 2020 | EU (Radiation)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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When S Krysh Nashikh Domov The Debut Album By Molchat Doma, Was Released In 2017, It Announced A Bold New Voice In Underground Music. The Album Found A Passionate Audience On Bandcamp And Other Streaming Services And Was Released On Cd And Cassette. Sacred Bones Records Is Proud To Present The Album On Vinyl For The First Time. Molchat Doma (Translated As "Houses Are Silent"), Founded In 2017 In Minsk, Belarus, Stands At The Intersection Of Post-Punk, New-Wave And Synth-Pop. Dark Yet Danceable, And With A Heavy Dose Of Goth Ethos, Their Music Is Reminiscent Of The Masters That Predate Them, But Make No Mistake: Molchat Doma Creates A Sound And Meaning That Is Immediately Recognizable As All Their Own. The Band Is Comprised Of Egor Shkutko, Who Sings The Russian Lyrics In His Deep Monotone, Roman Komogortsev On Guitar, Synths, And Drum Machine, And Pavel Kozlov On Bass And Synths.Riyl: Depeche Mode, New Order, Drab Majesty, Black Marble

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Dinosaur Jr

Where You Been

Tape | 2020 | EU | Original (Innovative Leisure)

Release: 2020 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Limited edition of 350 only copies on cassette! Formed in 1984, Dinosaur Jr carved a singular path through the latter half of the 1980s and early 1990s, issuing a number of highly influential albums in the process before finding a home with Sire Records. “Where You Been”, their fifth record, emerged in 1993, at the height of enthusiasm for grunge and the alternative American rock scene the band had long been part of. Produced by a new line-up of the group (longtime drummer Murph and new bassist Mike Johnson completing the three-piece), the album became the band’s most successful up to that point, reaching #50 in the US (where it sold over a quarter of a million copies) and #10 in the UK album charts, and spawning the hit single ‘Start Choppin’. Released to unanimously positive reviews, and containing many tracks that would become staples and fan favourites, “Where You Been” continued Dinosaur Jr’s global ascent, being issued simultaneously across the US, Europe, Australasia, Asia and South America.

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Jonah Yano

souvenir

The Process Of Weeding Out

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Meet Jonah Yano, the Toronto based singer, songwriter, whose journey into
music began with recording music using his cellphone in 2016. Having played
piano and guitar as a child, it wasn’t until Yano moved from Vancouver to
Toronto in 2016 that he began putting his songs online, catching the eyes of
Toronto’s thriving local music scene. Spending the next couple of years obsessively songwriting and practicing vocals, and learning technical skills, he
collaborated with Toronto duo MONEYPHONE on the 2018 song “On Lock”
which became an underground success. Shortly after, Yano released his first
solo single “Rolex, the Ocean'' with producer Joseph L'etranger. Once he
began writing his full EP, he was introduced to frequent collaborators
BADBADNOTGOOD, who are featured on the EP’s title track, “nervous.” Yano’s
work has garnered praise in major music publications like The Fader,
Billboard, Complex, and Exclaim and the attention of Virgil Abloh and Gilles
Peterson along with millions of streams on Spotify and Apple Music. Most
recently, Yano released a highly praised cover of the Majestic’s “Key to Love
(Is Understanding)” also with BADBADNOTGOOD, finding himself in the
natural position of writing the feature length album, 2020’s souvenir.
Following a highly acclaimed 2019 which included the release of an EP
nervous, collaborations with BADBADNOTGOOD, MONEYPHONE, and Nono;
industry praise from The Fader, Billboard, High Snobiety, NME, KCRW and
Exclaim — it’s not a stretch to say Jonah Yano’s highly anticipated debut
feature album souvenir took a lifetime to make.
Yano’s souvenir, mixes his soulful, genre blurring vocals with searing, personal
lyrics. With collaborations from talents like producers Monsune ("strawberry!," "delicate"), Leland Whitty of BADBADNOTGOOD ("poor me," "monarch,"
"anywhere"), and Jacques Greene ("what i can do to help"), souvenir touches
on themes of family separation, healing, and reconciling with the past.
With each track delving into Yano’s personal history, the album tells the story
of his parents separation and absence of his father from his life through the
perspective of each of his family members. Following the separation of his
parents in 1998 in Hiroshima and subsequent move to Vancouver, Yano spent
years with very little connection to his father beyond occasional calls and
birthday presents.
Having not seen each other in 15 years, Yano visited his father in Nagato in the
fall of 2019 with the goal of making sense of their complicated relationship
through music. Both being avid musicians, Yano then incorporated some of
his father’s earlier recordings into his own, while making peace with their
past. The result — the album’s final track, “shoes,” featuring his father Tatsuya
Muraoka and written by him about a pair of shoes he purchased for Yano as a
child. Most of the track was recorded live at some point in the 1990’s in
Hiroshima, with Yano’s own vocals filling gaps between his father’s vocals.
Recording the album in Tokyo’s Red Bull studios, a log cabin in Nagato, Toronto’s Studio 69, and his own home — the intensely personal album incorporates
Yano’s unique sound with a deeply relatable concept, making it the natural
follow-up to an already impressive catalogue.

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The Grand Astoria

Tape | 2020 | EU | Original (Smash)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2020 | EU | Original (Smash)

Inca Babies

Live At The Hacienda

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2018 | US | Original (Innovative Leisure)

The Molochs

Flowers In The Spring

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2024 | EU | Original (Tanz auf Ruinen)

Yuppiescheuche

Astreiner Techno

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2024 | US | Original (Chunklet / Primordial Void)

Limbo District

Sin-Gles! (Plus Live)

Tape | 2024 | UK | Original (Heart Swells)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Esoteric, yet oddly vivacious, Athens legends Limbo District never released any music during their 25 month career from April 1981 until their less-than-ceremonious dissolution in May 1983. They did several tours up and down the east coast in addition to playing local haunts like 688, TV Dinner, the I&I, the Last Resort, Tyrone’s and, of course, the 40 Watt. Over the past year, Chunklet has released four singles and restored the apparition of Limbo District to where the world can now experience their unique take on no-wave. Primordial Void, in tandem with Chunklet, is proud to release a cassette compilation of their singles along with never before heard live material from the Nitery in 1982. Sin-Gles! (Plus Live) sheds a spotlight on an ignored (yet pivotal!) band from Athens’ golden-age. Cuts such as “Encased” and “Factory Margo” have a distinctly Beefheart-y, Branca-esque flavor to them, yet their murky take on the classic punk ethos, combined with their innovative visual elements (more on that below), frame Limbo District as early pioneers of a rather clever aesthetic later adopted by groups such as Hype Williams, Pocahaunted, and Immaterial Possession. “They were one of the greatest bands on Earth.”—Michael Stipe, R.E.M.

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Los Campensinos!

All Hell

Nerver Use The Same Door Twice

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Los Campesinos! have become one of the most important and influential cult acts in the UK since they formed in the mid-2000s. Starting out in the Cardiff indie scene and soundtracking Budweiser adverts, the seven-piece’s musical evolution since then has been slow, steady and remarkable. From the frenzied chaos of debut album Hold On Now, Youngster… (2008) through 2010 breakthrough Romance is Boring and the self-mythologising of latter day highlights NO Blues (2013) and Sick Scenes (2017), their discography is an interconnected web of niche references, big swings and unflinching honesty.

Making self-professed sleeper hits for weeping dipshits, they’re as influenced by The Beautiful South as they are US emo, with emotional intensity and connection always at the core. Their lyrics are a treasure trove of football references, tales of romantic woe and painfully frank exorcisms, which have been tattooed across hundreds of fans’ bodies and served as comfort and insight during that break-up you had (there’s a reason the band’s tagline is “your ex-girlfriend’s favourite band”).

Now with the release of All Hell, Los Camp! approach their third decade as a band more brilliant, more potent and more vital than ever.

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Corum

Tape | 2024 | US | Original (Psychic Sounds)

(Live) Never Use The Same Door Twice

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Corum's work avoids the mere emulation of exotica and it's tropes through the sense of adventure that his landscapes present. This is most evident on Never Use The Same Door Twice, originally released prior to the Beguiling Isles trilogy in 2011. Comprised of six parts, these pieces are heavy with slow-moving tension and fuzzy as though scathed by repeated replication. A compelling listen and an engaging early piece of the Psychic Sounds puzzle."—Spenser Thompson, Wire Magazine

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Corum

Tape | 2024 | US | Original (Psychic Sounds)

Tape | 2024 | EU | Original (Irrlicht)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A newly unvaulted Fake Hospital Group Operators band performing Never Use the Same Door Twice in a live transmission celebrating the 10th anniversary release of album by the same. Recorded live & transmitted on radio in Los Altos, California by Kfjc 89.7.

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Mats Erlandsson

28/4/23 Cs

Tape | 2017 | Original (Zeitstrafe)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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"28/4/23" captures the atmospheric live performance of Swedish composer Mats Erlandsson at Fylkingen, Stockholm on the 28th of April, 2023. With exceptional delicacy, Erlandsson guides the audience through his signature electro-gothic soundscape of continuous tension; 40 minutes of processed field recordings, zither, feedback and Serge modular synthesizer.

Cyanotype prints and woodcut by Håkan Jonson. Released in an edition of 90 copies.

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Belgrad

Release: 2017 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2023 | US | Original (Iron Lung)

Dimension

Dimension Demo

Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Grand Jury)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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In proper Massachusetts fashion, this demo is a frantic, loud guitar driven chaos machine fully loaded with power chord whips, throbbing distortion, concussive battery and gravel shouts. Over before you know it but leaves a nice scar to remind you just exactly whose dimension you’re in. No filler, no nonsense and no time for lackeys, buffoons or charlatans. Dimension is ripping hardcore punk… the way nature intended.

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Toledo

How It Ends

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Grand Jury)

Jordana

Face The Wall

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Glassnote)

Jade Bird

Different Kinds Of Light

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Glassnote)

Jade Bird

Different Kinds Of Light

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2019 | EU | Original (Glassnote)

Jade Bird

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2018 | EU | Original (Deathwish)

Cult Leader

Patient Man

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Deathwish)

Super Unison

Stella

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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We Already Lost The World

Birds In Row

Tape | 2018 | EU | Original (Deathwish)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Planes Mistaken For Stars

Prey

Tape | 2016 | EU | Original (Deathwish)

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Reverend Beat-Man And The New Wave

Blues Trash

Tape | 2018 | EU | Reissue (Voodoo Rhythm)

Tape | 2023 | EU | Original (Zeitstrafe)

Release: 2018 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Born in 1967 and former Wrestling Rock'n'Roll One Man Band Activist Lightning Beat-Man (1992-1999) turned into a Primitive Rock'n'Roll Blues Preacher in the Millenium Change and released countless recordings on several labels. 2017 he had a hand full of songs to record this album, the idea was to record it with several musicians and not showing them the songs, they went to the studio and Reverend Beat-Man played the songs on the guitar one time, then they had 2 takes for recording without rehearsal to keep it fresh. Anyway the idea was Free Style and so is that whole Album, the result was a mix of Blues Trash, New Wave Folk and Dark No Wave Garage Punk and Rock'n'Roll. He selected the NEW WAVE from musicians he loved the most at the momentNICOLE IZOBEL GARCIA is From Los Angeles with Mexian roots, a singer that has the gift to connect her voice direct with your heart, she plays an unorthodox organ and plays part of drums and percussion like the devil itself. With her, Reverend Beat-Man plays the most shows as a duet.MARIO BATKOVIC is a classical and kraut avantgarde accordionist. He creates film and game music and has a one man band himself he's a total genius (prodused by Geoff Barrow of Portishead).JULIAN SARTORIUS another Bern original, he's probably one of europs or even worlds most extraordinary drummers these days, he is one of the few drummers that can play his drums as an instrument not just as a machine, he plays a lot of free jazzand improvisation (sophie hunger, colin vallon trio, manuel troller, hans koch, bruno spoerri etc). RESLI BURRI is a legendary Bern musician who has a jam-band together with Mario and Beat-Man - he is a multi instrumentalist who plays in the Dead Brothers, Patent Ochsner , and is a film and circus music writer.

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Captain Planet

Come On, Cat

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2019 | EU | Original (Target)

Mike Tramp

Stray From The Flock

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (The Liquid Label)

Life

North East Coastal Town

12,74 €* 14,99 € -15%

Tape | 2024 | EU | Original (Stroom)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LIFE are anchored by their hometown; the geography, history and community has always been the inspiration behind their creativity and on their third LP, North East Coastal Town, the band pay homage to Hull and its folk. North East Coastal Town is mature; it finds the band at the height of their powers as they carve-up a wide-screen, brooding body of work that is drenched in a sense of belonging and reflection but still impressively maintains their trademark swagger and ear for pop sensibilities and guitar hooks."Hull and the surrounding area runs through our DNA and has shaped us, weathered us, empowered us, embraced us and made us feel accepted. North East Coastal Town is our love letter to the city. The album is an ode to kinship and relationship with its musical and lyrical spine picking out themes of love, desire, beauty, horror, chaos, pride and most importantly the sense of belonging. Upon writing and recording this album it was important to us that this sense of belonging was also reflected in the album's craft and therefore we used locally based studios, equipment, gear, and the community around us to establish what it means to belong in a North East Coastal Town."When the pandemic gripped the world in March 2020, LIFE were in the midst of promoting their acclaimed second album - A Picture Of Good Health (Sept 2019); they had just completed an arena support tour with Kaiser Chiefs in the UK, a triumphant main stage appearance at Rockaway Beach and flown to New York for New Colossus Festival ahead of a packed SXSW and a US tour with IDLES. They scrambled home on the last plane back from New York on 17th March.The album was BBC 6 Music's Album Of The Day, BBC Radio 1's Album Of The Weekend and was one of BBC 6Music's Albums of The Year; all four singles from the album were play-listed at 6Music, and the band were nominated for two AIM Awards 2020 - Best Live Act and Best (Difficult) Second Album and they played major UK festivals including Glastonbury, Latitude, Reading Festiva...

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Temir Alcy

12,74 €* 14,99 € -15%

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Xtra Mile)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Temir Alcy (producer Enir Da - Dali Muru & The Polyphonic Swarm and multi-instrumentalist Charles Lmx) is at the junction of spherical textures of acoustic clouds and shapeshifting forms of immersive electronic percussive patterns. By intertwining etherionic atmospheres and organic moods to magnetic and hypnotic rhythms, Temir Alcy explores the mysteries of the future and the unknown through a journey of sensory trance, where whispers and melodies of voices strike a vivid contrast between emotions’ fragility and sound’s solidity enhanced by a downtempo, leftfield and erratic kraut’s feel.

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Skinny Lister

A Matter Of Life & Love

12,74 €* 16,99 € -25%

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Class

But Who's Reading Me?

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Choncy

Community Chest

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Phobia)

War//Plague

Manifest Ruination

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Why Bother?

There Are Such Things

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Private Lives

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Pleasant Mob

Irene / Trees & Flowers

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2023 | EU (Radiation Reissues)

Agent Orange

Living In Darkness

Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables

Release: 2023 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Adventurous southern California punk trio Agent Orange was the first band to mix surf rock with punk. The group was formed in 1979 in Placentia, a small town close to Fullerton and Anaheim, by frontman Mike Palm on guitar and lead vocals, Steve Soto on bass and Scott Miller on drums. That early line up recorded the classic version of "Bloodstains" in 1979 as a demo produced by Daniel R. van Patten (of the group Berlin). A year later it was included on the seminal Rodney On The Roq compilation album released by Posh Boy Records. Meanwhile James Levesque had replaced Steve Soto (Adolescents) and the new line up released their own self produced and self released 7" ep in 1980. A year later, the group signed with Robbie Fields' Posh Boy Records for their debut LP Living In Darkness, co-produced by Fields and former Simpletones guitarist Jay Lansford. The album was recorded at Brian Elliott’s store front studio in North Hollywood (a few years before Elliott struck gold writing Madonna’s “Papa Don’t Preach”).

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Dead Kennedys

Tape | 2023 | EU (Radiation Reissues)

Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes

Release: 2023 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Dead Kennedys’ incendiary debut still screams some of the most brilliant cynical songs the genre has ever seen. It’s not wholly consistent, but it’s manic, rapid-fire approach retains momentum throughout. It’s an absolute riot: the sound of true rebellion.

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Sticky

Tape | 2021 | EU | Original (International Death Cult)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2023 | CA | Original (Return To Analog)

Jordann

Safe Space

Release: 2023 / CA – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2023 | EU (Dirt Tapes)

Bachi Da Pietra

Necroide

Tape | 2023 | EU (Dirt Tapes)

Release: 2023 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The latest album by Bachi Da Pietra in duo; the most extreme (and also the most pop) and champion of paradoxes: memorable songs that form a concept dedicated to early eighties Metal hybridized with black music, obsessively tribal. For a concept like "Necroide" ending up on cassette is its death, or its new life.

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Bologna Violenta

Il Nuovissimo Mondo

Tape | 2023 | EU | Original (Winspear)

Release: 2023 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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"The New World" is the second album by Bologna Violenta. Released for the first time in 2010 by Bar La Muerte, it is a record that in just over 20 minutes tells in a grotesque way the atrocities of the world in which we live. The extreme sound is underlined by samplings that bring to mind the narratives that accompanied the much reviled world movies of the 60s in which the oddities of the human being followed one another on the screen between the serious and the humorous, between the horror and the eroticism, between news and fiction, seamlessly.

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V.A.

Winspear Volume 01

Too Loud To Live,Too Drunk To Die

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Winspear is pleased to announce the release of their first label compilation, Winspear Volume 01. This collection features a selection of the label's most notable tracks from their catalog, songs by Barrie, Divino Niño, Slow Pulp, Video Age, and others.

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Gehennah

Tape | 2023 | EU (Chainsaw Distro)

Tape | 2023 | EU (Chainsaw Distro)

Release: 2023 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Sweden’s Gehennah is back to stink up the scene once again, with their fourth full length album Too Loud To Live, Too Drunk To Die. This marks the bands album-debut on Metal Blade Records, and the first full length album by Gehennah since 1997's Decibel Rebel. The album contains 13 tracks of dirty and raw street-metal, destined to please the hardcore filth hounds of the scene, and annoy the ponytailed internet-snobs who prefer their metal clean and polished.

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Disfear

Live The Storm

Tape | 2023 | EU (Chainsaw Distro)

Release: 2023 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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D-beat defenders Disfear strike back with its full-length Live The Storm. The legendary Swedes, led by Tomas Lindberg's infamous vocal howl, power through 10 burners with new-found ferocity and intensity captured by engineer Kurt Ballou (converge, Coliseum, Doomriders, Animosity). As "Get It Off", "The Furnace", "Deadweight" and their ilk prove, Disfear are the undisputed kings of crust-core.

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Disfear

Misanthropic Generation

Alone With The Sound The Mind Makes

Release: 2023 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Scandinavian hardcore assault of Disfear utilizes blistering distortion, nihilistic rage and a scorching metallic powerload to bleed the Earth and burn its skies. On Misanthropic Generation, detonating power chords collide with raging rhythms, while the merciless vocals of Tomas Lindberg (At the Gates) explode through the heart of the band's sonic architecture.

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Kolezanka

Tape | 2023 | EU | Original (Bar None)

Eritrea's Guitar Pioneer, 1970-73

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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While kolezanka's previous album, "Place Is," was aboutlife on the road and the people you meet living out of asuitcase, the new album is all about being alone at home.The voices that you hear in your head when you rememberwhat it was like to hang out with friends; the drinks sharedand the stories remembered. Recorded at Pulp Arts (Pearl and the Oysters, Quintron and Miss Pussycat) and mixed/ mastered by Jonathan Schenke (Parquet Courts, The Drums, Snail Mail). FOR FANS OF: Broadcast, Stereolab, Cate Le Bon, Cocteau Twins..."This album deserves to make kole¿anka one of the most talkedabout names in new music today." - Secret Meeting //"Moore's vocals are spellbinding over a dream-pop concotion"- Stereogum

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Tewolde Redda

Tape | 2022 | US | Original (Domino Sound)

Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Teleskop)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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From Asmara, Eritrea (formerly Ethiopia) Tewolde Redda revolutionized the sounds of traditional Eritrean music by amplifying his kirar, playing his Eko electric guitar, and recording six singles in the first part of the 1970s. Including the first Eritrean songs to use a horn section, traditional songs reworked into his new sound, and originals influenced by radio broadcasts from the United States military base in Asmara, Kagnew Station, these ten songs originally released on the Philips, Amha, and Yared labels show off his talents with stringed instruments, a talented back up band, and often the hand clapped beat shifting into double time near the song’s end. Tewolde’s thick, deep voice sings songs of love over somber and joyous tunes. Comes in a tip-on sleeve with extensive liner notes, lyrical translations, and unpublished photos. A co-release with Mitmitta Musika of Addis Abeba, Ethiopia.

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Oh No Noh

Kanzi

Tape | 2018 | US | Original (Topshelf)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Finding beauty, where one wouldn’t suspect it in the first place. Discovering music, where there used to be only sound a moment before. Forming an orchestra out of everyday surroundings, the main thing out of the incidental, the fulfilling momentary situation out of the profane togetherness. All of this is part of the goal, meaning and sense of Oh No Noh, the project of Leipzig based guitarist, robot programmer, magnetic tape crumpler and composer Markus Rom. All of this floats and shines through "Kanzi", the second Oh No Noh album to be released on November 18th, 2022.

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Toe

Our Latest Number

Tape | 2022 | US | Original (Tapeheadcity)

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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There's a kinetic energy about anything this band does: a level of care, precision and attention to detail that nearly twenty years into their existence, continues to elevate and set them apart. This four-song offering is no different—from the self-recorded and produced songs down to the design and packaging.

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Clown Sounds

Born On A Bad Sigh

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2022 | US | Original (That What Of Whom)

Thelma & The Sleaze

Fuck Marry Kill

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2022 | US | Original (Tapeheadcity)

Thelma & The Sleaze

Heart Like A Fist

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2022 | US | Original (Tapeheadcity)

The Abstructors

The Source

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2012 | EU | Reissue (Urok)

Tribes

Baby

Release: 2012 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Twintoe)

Ryskinder

Rak Lhitim

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2022 | UK | Original (Too)

The Driver Era

Summer Mixtape

Tape | 2022 | US | Original (Jagjaguwar)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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For The Driver Era, music can't and shouldn't be forced. The band, formed by brothers Ross and Rocky Lynch in 2018 while on tour with their former group R5, aims to embrace the present moment, creating songs that reflect each experience and feeling as it comes.

It's a philosophy that pervades all of the duo's releases, from their debut Summer Mixtape (expected to release later this summer) features the band's two new tracks - the Rolling Stone- backed 'Keep Moving Forward' and lead single 'Malibu', inspired by summertime escapism.

In between polishing off the new songs and hitting the road, Ross is also a critically acclaimed actor (he drew rave reviews for his title role in the serial killer biopic My Friend Dahmer and recently starred in Netflix's The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina).

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Okay Kaya

Sap

Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Sucata Tapes)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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"Even my subconscious is self-conscious," Okay Kaya sings on "Inside Of A Plum", giving us a sense of the mental state she entered while making SAP, an album she wrote, performed, engineered, and produced alone, sometimes spending weeks at a time without social interaction. This is a concept album about consciousness in which Okay Kaya focuses her trademark combination of abstraction and wit on what happens to her mind unaccompanied, on her tendency to feel less like a human and more like the sticky secretion of a tree. After releasing her Spellemann Award winning album Watch This Liquid Pour Itself in January of 2020, Kaya left her home in New York and moved to Europe to create and show her various interdisciplinary exhibitions. Among others, she made an installation that amplified music made underwater and an interactive sculpture based on Jungian sandplay therapy for children. Between her exhibits, Kaya recorded through lockdowns by herself in the loaned studios of generous friends. SAP first grew from the first single "Spinal Tap" about Kaya wandering in Berlin, tree-touching. "Sap reminds me of the bodily functions I need to remember to do, like sleep. One might say it `resinates.'" The album was further inspired by Ketamine Therapy which is discussed in "The Inside Of A Plum." Kaya explains, "The doctor said this treatment grows literal physical branches in your brain." As she experimented with ego death, the subject of her song "Jazzercise", Kaya found herself writing in the voices of fictional characters she'd encountered in other people's stories. In `Jolene From Her Own Perspective,' she imagines Dolly Parton's nemesis responding to her song. In `Origin Story,' Kaya writes as a mythical goddess frustrated with her creation myth. In `I've Spent Forever Planning A Crisis,' Kaya responds to Cassavetes' film A Woman Under The Influence writing from the perspective of the story's children. Okay Kaya's investigations of mind-body come along with sexy dance beats, unpredictable interlocking synths, delicate soft guitars, and close-to-the-mike R&B whispering. But Kaya likes her falsettos cracking and her soul-inspired hooks careening wildly, a beautiful chaos that somehow fits together. When she returned to New York, Kaya was excited to collaborate again, to get friends to "bless the record." She invited friends to Gaia Studios in Greenpoint, Brooklyn to sing or play an instrument. Most songs on the album unfold with guest performances from artists as varied as deem spencer, Taja Cheek of L'Rain and Adam Green of The Moldy Peaches. Just as the recording process began with isolation and ended with friends, SAP starts with the internal and leads outside to romance, to lovers who serve as funhouse mirrors, reflecting Kaya back to herself from different angles. In "Pearl Gurl" Kaya harmonizes with her multi-tracked second self and sings her uncertain conclusion: "If love is not the answer, it's one hell of a question."

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Babau

Stock Fantasy Zone

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Organic Music Tapes Volume 1

Tiago Sousa

Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Sucata Tapes)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2022 | US | Original (Forward Music Group)

Motherhood

Winded

Tape | 2022 | US | Original (Topshelf)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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"Motherhood’s newest LP, Winded, dives headlong into a narrative that explores the natural world as it mirrors human suffering. The avant-punk trio spin a yarn about navigating a straight line through a storm, “persevering—perhaps for no good reason.” With colourful, hip-hop influenced lyrics floating over relentless, complex rhythms, Motherhood tackles heady metaphors with ease, whipping through sweet fuzz-pop, sludgy stomps and ragged breakneck punk to deliver a 9-track album that pulses, stings and washes over the listener. It was written in empty spaces, too—in shuttered local haunts during the pandemic lockdowns of 2020. Recorded in a small analog studio, Winded was mixed by Deerhoof’s Greg Saunier, and features guest vocals from Les Hay Babies’ Julie Aubé and Katrine Noël. Motherhood has been setting deep thoughts to rippin’ music since they were kids, and their tireless boundary-pushing has built a catalogue brimming with bold experimental work. Winded, for all its turbulence, marks an evolutionary bloom for the band, and proves that, although they continue to shapeshift, they remain unmistakably and unwaveringly Motherhood."

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Supernowhere

Skinless Takes A Flight

Tape | 2022 | US | Original (Secretly Canadian)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The majority of the nine slithery songs that comprise supernowhere’s Skinless Takes A Flight were originally cuts that didn’t make their debut Gestalt. But after collectively moving across the country from Burlington, VT to Seattle, WA, the scrapped tracks transformed substantially into florid, at times entrancing compositions. The pulsating “Circles” opens the album with lilted reflections on empathy, breathing in midtempo syncopation with subdued guitar tip-toeing around melodic drumming. supernowhere’s cast of Meredith Davey (bass, vocals), Kurt Pacing (guitar, vocals), and Matt Anderson (drums) share a collective ambition for maximum interplay and collaborative writing, materializing cleanly knotted compositions that evoke vivid dreamscapes and the profound epiphanies drawn from them (“The Hand”, “Ecdysis”). On upbeat “Dirty Tangle” Davey’s voice glides through Pacing’s angular arpeggiations, carving her own rhythmic lane with her distinctive, descanting singing style. "Skinless Takes A Flight" notably would not have come to fruition without the help of engineer Dylan Hanwright (mix. Gulfer, mem. Great Grandpa, I Kill Giants), whom the band met shortly after relocating to Seattle. Hanwright offered up the studio where the album was recorded as a temporary rehearsal and writing space during the pandemic, which in turn gave him intimate familiarity with the music, resulting in an album that was recorded as intimately as it was written. Hanwright helped make the little moments shine too, as heard in the fleeting vocal harmonies on "Augury", or the spiraling chaos in "Basement Window," a further testament to the collaborative, everyone’s-input-matters nature that characterizes supernowhere’s dizzying yet meditative sophomore record.

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Whitney

Spark

Tape | 2022 | US | Original (Sub Pop)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Julien Ehrlich and Max Kakacek could hear the staggering differences in the songs they were writing for their third album as Whitney, Spark _ the buoyant drum loops, the effortless falsetto hooks, the coruscant keyboard lines. They suddenly sounded like a band reimagined, their once-ramshackle folk-pop now brimming with unprecedented gusto and sheen. But could they see it, too? So in the ad hoc studio the Chicago duo built in the living room of their rented Portland bungalow, a shared 2020 escape hatch amid breakups and lockdowns, Julien and Max decided to find out. Somewhere between midnight and dawn every night, their brains refracted by the late hour and light psychedelics, they'd play their latest creations while a hardware store disco ball spun overhead and slowed-down music videos from megastars spooled silently on YouTube. Did their own pop songs _ so much more immediate and modern than their hazy origins _ fit such big-budget reels? "We'd come to the conclusion we weren't going to be filming Super 8 videos to this stuff anymore," Julien remembers with a grin. "How about something more hi-fi, cinematic?" When the footage and the tunes linked, Julien and Max knew they had done it, that they'd finally found Whitney's sound. Spark reintroduces Whitney as a contemporary syndicate of classic pop, its dozen imaginative and endearing tracks wrapping fetching melodies around paisley-print Dilla beats and luxuriant electronics. What's more, Whitney reduces three years of extreme emotional highs and lows into 38 brisk but deep minutes, each of these 12 tracks a singable lesson in what it is they (and, really, we) have all survived. The recalcitrant ennui of opener "nothing REMAINS," the devastating loss of "TERMINAL," the sun-streaked renewal of "real Love": However surprising it may sound, Spark is less a radical reinvention for Whitney than an honest accounting of how it feels when you move out of your past and into your present, when you take the next steps of your lives and careers at once and without apology. Spark maintains the warmth and ease of Whitney's early work; these songs glow with the newness of now. Listen closely, and you'll notice frequent references to smoke and fire throughout Spark, itself a double entendre for inspiring something new or burning down the old. Max and Julien were indeed in Portland for the Fall of 2020, when smoke from nearby fires choked the city at record levels. It was terrifying and tragic, but they pressed on. "We found a way to live while the world was burning/Real life was caving in," Julien sings almost merrily during "back THEN," an anthem for finding out what's on the other side of hardship. In these dire days, scientists speak increasingly of serotiny, an evolutionary miracle that causes some trees to release seeds only amid a season of fire. That is how Spark often feels _ Whitney's circumstances were so fraught on so many levels that they hung "the past_out to dry" and began again, finding a fresh version of themselves, their relationship, and their band after the blaze. Max and Julien are back in Chicago now, sharing a cozy walkup with a little studio, where they're already building songs for the next Whitney album. They're both in happy romances, too. Now that they let the past burn, everything is new for Max and Julien. Spark is not only Whitney's best album; it is an inspiring testament to perseverance and renewal, to best friends trusting each another enough to carry one another to the other side of this season of woe.

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Kiwi Jr.

Chopper

Tape | 2022 | US | Original (Secretly Canadian)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Smash cut to Kiwi Jr.'s third album, Chopper, overseen by trusted pilot Dan Boeckner (Wolf Parade, Handsome Furs) on storied Sub Pop Records. Turning nocturnal with necks mock turtle, our Local Kiwi Jr. takes neon flight off the digital cliff - like The Monkees starring in Blade Runner; like Michael Mann directs Encino Man. Ten songs with synth shimmer, zen gongs with yard strimmer. The signs along the highway read "less BAR, More Noir AHEAD." Ah, those late summer, Joe Strummer, Home on the Range Rover Blues. There's a melancholy to all forms of flight, and the view out the Chopper is as hazy as it gets: mission-oriented, both stealth and self-realized. This album is decidedly (yet almost secretly) anti-patio-sunscreen-Beach Boys bachelor cruise sing-a-long. Sure, these songs let a little light through the blinds, but they sting insomnia, corrupt mayors, Kennedy Curses, sex tapes, and deer rifles. Chopper is the bird's eye view of the big event - a real nighttime character of oil stain, film grain, search light, night flight. It is muscular and fragile; loud yet quiet: both an observer and somehow the observed spectacle itself. What was slack in the slacker phase, got tauter, with lacquer glaze. Slick gloss, rightened wrongs; murdered boss, promoted pawns. With Boeckner transmitting high-voltage shocks upon every reach for a familiar instrument, Kiwi Jr. expands the palette with string machine song, synthesizered oblong, and Dentyne Classic Menthol vocals from area soprano Dorothea Paas (US Girls, Badge Epoch Ensemble) like the missing piece all along. Kiwi Jr. brings the Chopper to a new space, demilitarizing the technology just like flasks, aviators, and cargo shorts. Graceful in the air above, but when the Chopper lands, there's chaos on the ground. Kiwi Jr. shout, "Look Out!" When it gets close, it'll blow the hat right off of your head. Hold onto your hats, Babies. Kiwi Jr. is Jeremy Gaudet vocals and guitar, Brian Murphy guitar, Mike Walker bass, Brohan Moore drums, and everybody played a little bit of keyboard.

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Stella Donnelly

Flood

Tape | 2022 | EU (Radiation Reissues)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Like the many Banded Stilts that spread across the cover of her newest album Flood, Stella Donnelly is wading into uncharted territory. Here, she finds herself discovering who she is as an artist among the flock, and how abundant one individual can be. Flood is Donnelly's record of this rediscovery: the product of months of risky experimentation, hard moments of introspection, and a lot of moving around. Donnelly's early reflections on the relationship between the individual and the many can be traced back to her time in the rainforests of Bellingen, where she took to birdwatching as both a hobby and an escape in a borderrestricted world. By paying closer attention to the natural world around her, Donnelly recalls "I was able to lose that feeling of anyone's reaction to me. I forgot who I was as a musician, which was a humbling experience of just being; being my small self." Reconnecting with this `small self' allowed Donnelly to tap into creative wells she didn't know existed. Soon songs were coming to her in a way she could not control and over the coming months, Donnelly accumulated 43 tracks as she moved out of Bellingen and around the country, often finding herself displaced due to border restrictions and a tough rental market. Though the writing of Flood was an intensely personal undertaking, Donnelly still saw the recording process as one of her most collaborative projects yet. Along with her band members, co-producing the record beside Anna Laverty and Methyl Ethyl's Jake Webb helped to foster an important spontaneity in the studio. With Webb, Donnelly could "dig in" and discover a "forward-leaning sound" she'd been searching for, while Laverty's ability to "capture the piano" and discern the "perfect take" allowed the songwriter to take risks, many of which have clearly paid off. Looking back at the Banded Stilt, Donnelly ultimately appreciates how when "seen in a crowd they create an optical illusion, but on its own it's this singular piece of art." While each song in Flood is a singular artwork unto itself, the collective shares all of Stella Donnelly in abundance: her inner child, her nurturing self, her nightmare self; all of herself has gone into the making of this record, and although it would take an ocean to fathom everything she feels, it's well worth diving in.

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The Exploited

Troops Of Tomorrow

Tape | 2022 | EU (Radiation Reissues)

Release: 2022 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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In the early '80s, British punk took a turn toward hardcore and the Exploited (along with G.B.H, Disorder, etc.) led the charge. The beat was fast and furious, the politics ferocious, and the magenta mohawk became state of the art. This album is blessed with great production, something many hardcore albums lack, meaning the froth and fury don't come across as a total muddle. Moreover, the machine gun beat comes with hooks that leave you humming along with the tunes. It's raw, loud, and a downright classic. This is a crucial album in the evolution of The Exploited.

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The Exploited

Punks Not Dead

Tape | 2022 | US | Original (Jagjaguwar)

Release: 2022 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Born of working class roots in Edinburgh, Scotland, The Exploited emerged from the punk underground in 1981 with the release of their debut LP, Punk's Not Dead. A direct reaction to Crass' "Punk Is Dead", The Exploited brought to the early 80s all the fire, speed and attitude of 1977's first wave, with an street/Oi! swagger that was fresh. Peaking at #20 on the UK charts, Punk's Not Dead was the best selling independent record of 1981. Another essential piece of the UK Oi! scene of the early 1980s.

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Angel Olsen

Big Time

Tape | 2021 | US | Original (Fixation Music)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Fresh grief, like fresh love, has a way of sharpening our vision and bringing on painful clarifications. No matter how temporary we know these states to be, the vulnerability and transformation they demand can overpower the strongest among us. Then there are the rare, fertile moments when both occur, when mourning and limerence heighten, complicate and explain each other; the songs that comprise Angel Olsen's Big Time were forged in such a whiplash. Big Time is an album about the expansive power of new love, but this brightness and optimism is tempered by a profound and layered sense of loss. During Olsen's process of coming to terms with her queerness and confronting the traumas that had been keeping her from fully accepting herself, she felt it was time to come out to her parents, a hurdle she'd been avoiding for some time. "Finally, at the ripe age of 34, I was free to be me," she said. Three days later, her father died and shortly after her mother passed away. The shards of this grief - the shortening of her chance to finally be seen more fully by her parents - are scattered throughout the album. Three weeks after her mother's funeral she was in the studio, recording this incredibly wise and tender new album. Loss has long been a subject of Olsen's elegiac songs, but few can write elegies with quite the reckless energy as she. If that bursting-at-the-seams, running downhill energy has come to seem intractable to her work, this album proves Olsen is now writing from a more rooted place of clarity. She's working with an elastic, expansive mastery of her voice - both sonically and artistically. These are songs not just about transformational mourning, but of finding freedom and joy in the privations as they come.

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Robert Ellis Orrall

467 Surf And Gun Club

In My Own Time 50th Anniversary Edition

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A return to 80's form, along with his original RCA band (1980-19840), Orrall's 10th album is a love letter to his favorite dive bar, Nahsville's 467 Surf And Gun Club.

'Very sophisticated and relentlessly appealing sunny SoCal folk pop a la Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks, the guys who invented it. Fully realized. Absolutely joyful.' - John Hiatt

'Melodic, colorful, emotional. A fun and bubbly trip through our dad's cosmic mind'. - Jeff The Brotherhood

'I've always been inspired by other recording artist's work. Robert Ellis Orrall is a composer who always says something we need to hear. In that way he remains relevant and timeless. His latest offering is no less.' - Michael McDonald

'If there's been a better record to come out of Nashville in the past few years let us know, cause we haven't heard it' - Diarrhea Planet

'reo has proved once again that he's one of the best songwriters in Nashville. This album encapsulates the warm nostalgia of summers spent with friends at 467.' - Daddy Issues

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Karen Dalton

Tape | 1972 | US | Reissue (Light In The Attic)

Tape | 2021 | US | Original (Slumberland)

Release: 1972 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Karen Dalton’s 1971 album, In My Own Time, stands as a true masterpiece by one of music’s most mysterious, enigmatic, and enduringly influential artists. Celebrating the album’s 50th anniversary, Light in the Attic is honored to present a newly remastered (2021) edition of the album on LP, CD, cassette, and 8-Track.

Both the CD and cassette editions feature 9 bonus tracks, including 3 alternate takes from the In My Own Time album sessions, along with 6 previously unreleased tracks captured during Karen’s 1971 European tour, including live at The Montreux Golden Rose Pop Festival and Germany’s Beat Club.

All audio has been newly remastered by Dave Cooley, while lacquers were cut by Phil Rodriguez at Elysian Masters.

The Oklahoma-raised Karen Dalton (1937-1993) brought a range of influences to her work. As Lenny Kaye writes in the liner notes, one can hear “the jazz of Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, the immersion of Nina Simone, the Appalachian keen of Jean Ritchie, [and] the R&B and country that had to seep in as she made her way to New York."

Armed with a long-necked banjo and a 12-stringed guitar, Dalton set herself apart from her peers with her distinctive, world-weary vocals. In the early ‘60s, she became a fixture in the Greenwich Village folk scene, interpreting traditional material, blues standards, and the songs of her contemporaries, including Tim Hardin, Fred Neil, and Richard Tucker, whom she later married. Bob Dylan, meanwhile, was instantly taken with her artistry. “My favorite singer in the place was Karen Dalton,” he recalled in Chronicles: Volume One (Simon & Schuster, 2004). “Karen had a voice like Billie Holiday and played the guitar like Jimmy Reed.”

Those who knew Dalton understood that she was not interested in bowing to the whims of the record industry. On stage, she rarely interacted with audience members. In the studio, she was equally as uncomfortable with the recording process. Her 1969 debut, It’s So Hard to Tell Who’s Going To Love You The Best, reissued by Light in the Attic in 2009, was captured on the sly when Dalton assumed that she was rehearsing songs. When Woodstock co-promoter Michael Lang approached Dalton about recording a follow-up for his new imprint, Just Sunshine, she was dubious, to say the least. The album would have to be made on her own terms, in her own time. That turned out to be a six-month period at Bearsville Studios in Woodstock, NY.

Producing the album was bassist Harvey Brooks, who played alongside Dalton on It’s So Hard to Tell Who’s Going To Love You The Best. Brooks, who prided himself on being “simple, solid and supportive,” understood Dalton’s process, but was also willing to offer gentle encouragement, and challenge the artist to push her creative bounds. “I tried to present her with a flexible situation,” he told Kaye. “I left the decisions to her, to determine the tempo, feel. She was very quiet, and I brought all of it to her; if she needed more, I’d present options. Everyone was sensitive to her. She was the leader.”

Dalton, who rarely performed her own compositions, selected a range of material to interpret—from traditionals like “Katie Cruel” and “Same Old Man” to Paul Butterfield’s “In My Own Dream” and Richard Tucker’s “Are You Leaving For The Country.” She also expanded upon her typical repertoire, peppering in such R&B hits as “When a Man Loves a Woman” and “How Sweet It Is.” In a departure from her previous LP, Dalton’s new recording offered fuller, more pop-forward arrangements, featuring a slew of talented studio musicians.

While ‘70s audiences may not have been ready for Dalton’s music, a new generation was about to discover her work. In the decades following her death, a slew of artists would name Karen Dalton as an influence, including Lucinda Williams, Joanna Newsom, Nick Cave, Angel Olsen, Devendra Banhart, Sharon Van Etten, Courtney Barnett, and Adele. In the recent acclaimed film documentary Karen Dalton: In My Own Time, Cave muses on Dalton’s unique appeal: “There’s a sort of demand made upon the listener,” he explains. “Whether you like it or not, you have to enter her world. And it’s a despairing world.” Peter Walker, who also appears in the film, elaborates on this idea: “If she can feel a certain way in her music and play it in such a way that you feel that way, then that’s really the most magical thing [one] can do.” He adds, “She had a deep and profound and loving soul…you can hear it in her music.”

1–10: Originally released as Just Sunshine – PAS 6008, 1971 11–13: Alternate Takes from album sessions, 1970/71 14–15: Recorded live at Beat Club, Germany, April 21, 1971 16–19: Recorded live at The Montreux Golden Rose Pop Festival, May 1, 1972

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Kids On A Crime Spree

We Love You So Bad

Tape | 2022 | US | Original (Slumberland)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Amazing Spector-ian power pop from this great Oakland group helmed by Mario out of From Bubblegum To Sky/Ciao Bella. Bandmates Bill and Becky add plenty of punky punch, and the tunes are pure hand-clapping, foot-stomping pop perfection. Excellent!

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Artsick

Fingers Crossed