Rock & Indie Vinyl 27861 Items

7" | 2022 | US | Original (Merge)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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With live music in jeopardy during the COVID pandemic, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong retreated to Wright WayStudios in their hometown of Baltimore, MD to record their sixth studio album and remind themselves of the healing power of music. Perspective's twelve-song tracklist runs the gamut of their eclectic sound, from the explosive new single, "Elephante," featuring the funk-fueled force of Here Come The Mummies' horns section, to "Indiglo," a decade-old groovy track that finally got the studio treatment it deserves alongside silky smoothaccompaniment by keyboardist Zach Gill of ALO. The national lockdown afforded them the opportunity to collaborate with otherwise busy musicians, including percussionist Jason Hann of The String Cheese Incidenton the danceable track, "Move Like That," and to add some extra textures including their first use of strings onthe go-with-the-flow anthem, "Su Casa." Singer/Guitarist Greg Ormont adds, "Most of all, recording Perspective kept our hearts full, spirits inspired and eyes on the prize. Now, we're finally back on a national tour with a slew of new songs and a renewed appreciation for live music and life on the road."

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Bio Ritmo

Piraguero / Asia Minor

11,99 €*

Mellow Moon White / Violet Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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

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Alfie Templeman

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Chess Club)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Relapse)

Absent In Body

Plague God

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tremulant Transparent Vinyl Edition

The Mars Volta

12" | 2022 | EU | Reissue (Clouds Hill)

16,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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On Hold Lime Vinyl Edition

Fenne Lily

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Dead Oceans)

Tall Hours In The Glowstream Light Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Fenne was born in London and moved to Dorset as a toddler, where she grew up in the picturesque English countryside. She was a "free range kid," as she calls it, after her parents took her out of school for a period at the age of seven. Over the following year, they taught her while the family travelled Europe in a live-in bus. Even after she returned to traditional school at 9, her home education never ended, extending to music. Her mother gifted Fenne with her old record collection, through which she discovered her love for T-Rex and the Velvet Underground and Nico. Soon after she fell for the strange genius of PJ Harvey and came to worship Nick Drake, Joni Mitchell, and the richly crafted worlds of Feist, which inspired Fenne to pick up a guitar. "On Hold," a tender collection of expressive, open-hearted songs, was Fenne's first foray into songwriting, written during her teenage years. Writing her own songs was initially a "therapy exercise" for Fenne, who is normally reserved when it comes to talking about her feelings. The album, self-released in 2018, organically found a large audience online, which grew after she opened for Lucy Dacus and Andy Shauf's North American tours last spring. Surrounding its release, The Line of Best Fit deemed Fenne "a new and extraordinary voice capable of wringing profound and resonant moments out of loss." In Fenne's words, "To have this record physically rereleased is a big deal for me and the person I was when I made it. A lot's changed since then but these songs and what they've given me will remain dependable reminders of beginnings and endings that shaped me as a teenager. For an album whose title is half `hold', it makes sense that now whoever wants to can finally do that again."

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Cotton Jones

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Suicide Squeeze)

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Sahel Sounds)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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REISSUE OF 2010 ALBUM.The music of Cotton Jones speaks of transition: the passage from one form, state of mind, style or place to another. Songs become doorways to the past, or windows that open on some unnamed future, where innocence can still exist and perfection is thrown to the wind.The Glowstream is a place centered between North and South Cumberland. It's not really called the Glowstream - just a stream that rolls to a dead end by the train tracks downtown. A place to sit, undisturbed in the cool shade, and see the interstate bend around glowing steeples, as cars and trucks break their speed - it's beautiful - how the city materializes, an oasis, after driving many miles through the mountains along I-68 - to this private spot, where it's possible to witness all the paces change.Michael Nau & Whitney McGraw skipped town months ago, leaving the old haunts in Cumberland behind... To sift through the old noise, they walked off the edge of their world... To sound the depths, the songwriters relocated, to Georgia, far south of the Glowstream."We spent a lot of time on the bank of that stream - alone, together, gathered like a flock of birds, examining the next move," said Nau. "Many of the tunes on this record feel like Cumberland to me. When I'm there, it's like a dream - all familiar sound and light, where the factories and birds sing the same song."The duo settled fast after the move, halted their incessant touring and festival appearances, and began the process of selecting a new cycle of songs to follow their acclaimed Suicide Squeeze debut, "Paranoid Cocoon."Cotton Jones, as always, rests in arms of Nau and McGraw. "Tall Hours in the Glowstream," is the title of their new album. Some of the songs that made the final cut were tracked in northern States, while the majority were recorded and mixed in Winterville, Georgia, as a revolving cast of players, thinkers, and singers were invited to hang in the band's living-room studio.The resulting sounds are both rich and charmingly lo-f...

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Etran De L'Air

Agadez

A Tear In The Fabric Of Life

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Etran de L'Aïr (or "stars of the Aïr region") welcomes you to Agadez, the capital city of Saharan rock. Playing for over 25 years, Etran has emerged as stars of the local wedding circuit. Beloved for their dynamic repertoire of hypnotic solos and sun schlazed melodies, Etran stakes out a place for Agadez guitar music. Playing a sound that invokes the desert metropolis, Agadez celebrates the sounds of all the dynamism of a hometown wedding. Etran is a family band composed of brothers and cousins, all born and raised in the small neighborhood of Abalane, just in the shadow of the grand mosque. Sons of nomadic families that settled here in the 1970s fleeing the droughts, they all grew up in Agadez. The band was formed in 1995 when current band leader Moussa "Abindi" Ibra was only 9 years old. "We only had one acoustic guitar," he explains, "and for percussion, we hit a calabash with a sandal." Over the decades, the band painstakingly pieced together gear to form their band and built an audience by playing everywhere, for everyone. "It was difficult. We would walk to gigs by foot, lugging all our equipment, carrying a small PA and guitars on our backs, 25 kilometers into the bush, to play for free_ there's nowhere in Agadez we haven't played." Whereas other Tuareg guitarists look to Western rock, Etran de L'Aïr play in a pan-African style that is emblematic of their hometown, citing a myriad of cultural influences, from Northern Malian blues, Hausa bar bands, to Congolese Soukous. It's perhaps this quality that makes them so beloved in Agadez. "We play for the Tuareg, the Toubou, the Zarma, the Hausa," Abindi explains. "When you invite us, we come and play." Their music is rooted in celebration, and invokes the exuberance of an Agadez wedding, with an overwhelming abundance of guitars, as simultaneous solos playfully pass over one another with a restrained precision, forceful yet never overindulgent.

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Knocked Loose

LP | 2021 | EU (Pure Noise)

Release: 2021 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Melenas Dagger Danger Vinyl Edition

Melenas

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Trouble In Mind)

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Secret)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Limited "Dagger Danger" Clear Vinyl With Wisps Of Red "Blood Splatter" Mixed In.Pamplona, Spain's Melenas 2017 Debut Album Came Like A Shot In The Dark! A Breath Of Fresh Air Upon Its Release In Spain, The Album Went On To Sell Through Two Pressings, With Copies Barely Making Outside Of Europe (Much Less Their Home Country Of Spain). Trouble In Mind Is Honored To Be Reissuing Melenas' Eponymous Debut Album For A Fresh New Audience Wowed By The Group's 2020 Sophomore Effort "Dias Raros". Kicking Off With The Buzzing Bassline Of "Cartel De Neón", Melenas Debut Aimsstraight For The Indie Rock Pleasure Centers; Guitars Jangle, Synths Buzz & Drums Pound, Hitting The Listener Like A Ray Of Sunshine Piercing The Clouds. The Quartet Has A Knack For Catchy Tunes That Straddle The Line Between Joyous Rapture Andpoignant Melancholy Without Ever Seeming Rote Or Cliché, Be It Either In A Rousing Chorus Or A Hummable Melody (See The Melancholic "Gira" Or The Yearning "Una Tras Otra"). Tunes Like "Tú Me Haces Lo Mismo" Or The Boisterous "Sales" Inject Ashot Of Adrenalin Into Their Pop Narcotics, It's Garagey Organ Soaking The Song In Sound, While Others Like Side Two's "¿Dónde Estás?" Skip Along Like A Lost Go-Betweens Track & Closing Tune "Una Voz" Rolls In Like The Triumphant Closing Credits Toa Lost Indie Film, Showcasing The Group's Transcendant Vocal Harmonies. Melenas' Debut Album Showcases A Band Fully-Formed From Note One; United In Vision & Execution, "Melenas" Is A Stirring And Vital Debut From A Group Just Getting Started. Expect More From Melenas In 2022, But For Now Revel In The Joythat Is Their Introduction To The World!

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Andy Fairweather-Low

Lockdown Live

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2018 | US | Original (Numero Group)

Unwound

Leaves Turn Inside You

33,99 €*

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Dagar Gyil Ensemble Of Lawra

Dagara- Gyil Music Of Ghana's Upper West Region

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Sublime Frequencies)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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LP | 2014 | EU | Reissue (Glitterhouse)

Woven Hand

Refractory Obdurate

Release: 2014 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Other You Black Vinyl Edition

Steve Gunn

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Matador)

30,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Relapse)

Amenra

De Doorn

30,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs Of John Prine

V.A.

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Oh Boy)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Russian Spider Dump Red Vinyl Edition

Adolescents

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Cleopatra)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Undiscovered Lotus Record Store Day 2021 Edition

Soen

LP | 2021 (Silver Lining)

Thirstier Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Record Store Day 2021 Release. The provocative, imperious, and engaging Swedish-based metal group Soen will celebrate Record Store Day on June 12th by unveiling The Undiscovered Lotus. This beauty is presented on limited edition 12” black vinyl, with two

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Torres

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Merge)

2LP | 2012 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Torres' fifth album Thirstier pumps the miraculous into the mundane. It is in open revolt against the gray drag of time, a searing and life-affirming eruption of an album that wonders what could happen if we found a way to make our fantasies inexhaustible. What if we got whatever we wanted and still wanted it, endlessly, with no threat of boredom and no danger of depletion? What could we become if we let ourselves grow incandescent with eternally renewing desire? Since releasing her self-titled debut album in 2013, Torres_the stage name of Brooklyn-based rock musician Mackenzie Scott_has used her pointed lyricism and disarming vocal presence to seek openings in the everyday, prying apart the walls of the real in search of escape. After a pandemic year that toggled relentlessly between numbing dread and active terror, Thirstier explodes the borders of imaginative possibility. It is Scott's most exuberant and daring record to date, showcasing her in thrilling freefall. Recorded in the fall of 2020 at Middle Farm Studios in Devon, UK, Thirstier marks a turn towards a bigger, more bombastic sound for Torres. The anxious hush that fell over much of Scott's previous music gets turned inside-out in songs tailored for post-plague celebration. Scott co-produced the album with Rob Ellis and Peter Miles, drawing on her experience self-producing the acclaimed 2020 LP Silver Tongue to push her music onto an even broader scale. Guitar-driven walls of sound, reminiscent of producer Butch Vig's work with Garbage and Nirvana, surge and dissipate like surf in high winds, carrying Scott's commanding voice to the fore. "I wanted to channel my intensity into something that felt positive and constructive, as opposed to being intense in a destructive or eviscerating way," Scott notes. "I love the idea that intensity can actually be something life-saving or something joyous." From the sparkling country romp of "Don't Go Puttin Wishes in My Head" to the sour grunge bite of "Keep the Devil Out" and the unabashed, overflowing devotion of the album's title track, Thirstier clasps together love songs from all angles. Romantic love, platonic love, familial love, self-love, and freeing spiritual love all commingle, all feeding one another and vaulting toward the horizon. Scott sings of love that never knows scarcity. "The more of you I drink / The thirstier I get," she pronounces on the title track's chorus_a thesis statement for the album as a whole, and its resolute striving toward abundance. "Keep me in your fantasies / Even though you live with me," she sings at the song's climax, enclosing transportive, alchemizing desire inside the pedestrian without dulling any of its glow. "We're always fantasizing about something that's out of reach. That's what a fantasy is. It's something you can't have. But I wanted to turn that idea around and ask, `What if your fantasy was the thing that you have, this endless loop of fantasy?'" Scott says. "It's a way to be in this fantastical, magical realm forever. I want to make that space for myself. I want to create a reality where my day-to-day is actually my fantasy. That's what I want more than anything." With Thirstier, Torres clears the way to that wellspring and invites others to follow her there. "I've been conjuring this deep, deep joy that I honestly didn't feel for most of my life," she says. "I feel like a rock within myself. And I've started to feel that I have what it takes to help other people conjure their joy, too."

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Hooverphonic

With Orchestra Live

33,99 €*

Release: 2012 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Structure Colored Vinyl Edition

Water From Your Eyes

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Wharf Cat)

Ice Melt Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Water From Your Eyes' Rachel Brown and Nate Amos are no strangers to contradiction, with Pitchfork making note of their "confidence in splicing different genres and feels from acoustic twee to indie-electronica" in their review of 2019's Somebody Else's Songs. So, upon first listen, Structure - with its tendency to turn on a dime from the buzzsaw synths and string arrangements that sonically bookend tracks like "My Love's," to the subtle, almost Squarepusher-esque rhythms that round out electronic compositions like ""Quotations"" - may just seem like a further refinement of the duo's idiosyncratic approach to making music. However, repeat listens will reveal that, even though the album zigs and zags in a manner consistent with WFYE's prior releases, its line of best fit trends in a very clear direction away from the quaint affectations of their prior work and towards something more deliberate and half a shade darker. Even on ostensibly cheery tracks like album opener "When You're Around," which, with its saccharine melodicism sounds like it could be a lost song from The Apples in Stereo or one of their Elephant 6-era labelmates, there's an underlying eeriness that's not immediately apparent until the song is listened to in the context of the full album. Amos' advice for navigating Structure's sonic terrain is to "remember that this is weed music," while his counterpart Brown offers that that the album is like "solving a puzzle with a ton of different answers." Although these varied descriptions of how to approach listening to Structure may accurately reveal it to be another exercise in contradictions, the clear intent with which the pair approached creating the album can only be appreciated with repeat listens, and is likely what makes it, by far, their most compelling entry to date.

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Crumb

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Crumb)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Between The Richness White & Blue Galaxy Swirl Vinyl Edition

Fiddlehead

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Run For Cover)

At Pioneer Works Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Fiddlehead wasn't supposed to make a second record. But, if we're being totally honest, they weren't supposed to make their first record either. Formed in what singer Pat Flynn describes as "a deeply, deeply, laughably depressing part of my life," Fiddlehead was born with modest intentions. Flynn and his then-roommate, guitarist Alex Dow, decided to work on some songs, and with Basement having just broken up, guitarist Alex Henery entered the fold. Drummer Shawn Costa and bassist Adam Gonsalves_who has since been replaced by Casey Nealon_linked up with them and, all together, they wrote what would become the Out Of The Bloom EP. Those five songs established what Fiddlehead would be, a band that merged elements of post-hardcore, post-punk, and classic `80s emo into something that felt distinctly theirs. Between The Richness effectively picks up where Springtime & Blind left off, as Flynn dives headfirst into that same subject. But astute listeners will notice a major difference this time: Flynn is singing about himself. "These massive things happened in my life between the first record and this record. It just so happened that I ended up getting married, I had a child, and it was around the 10-year anniversary of my father's passing. So what if I want to write another record about how I feel about the loss of my father? Will people be like, `Pick another topic, dude.' So, the opening track is called `Grief Motif' because it's the idea that this is an eternal struggle that will never go away. Take it or leave it, but it will be part of this dude as long as he's got a pen in the hand." Between The Richness explodes with an energy that usurps that of Springtime & Blind. The guitar riffs of Dow and Henery are their most anthemic and combustive yet, making songs like "The Years," "Get My Mind Right," and "Down University" not just serve as the backbone for Flynn's personal ruminations, but empathetic, emotional musical stabs that hit the listener just as hard. Meanwhile, Costa and Nealon give the songs a propulsive heft, allowing a track like "Million Times" to dart into unexpected territories without ever feeling alien.

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Les Filles De Illighadad

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Sahel Sounds)

Rude Movements-The Remixes

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The first new album from Les Filles de Illighadad in four years At Pioneer Works is the highly anticipated new album by the Tuareg Avant-rock group. Les Filles de Illighadad recorded the album in Brooklyn at the tail end of a two-year-long world tour. At Pioneer Works finds Les Filles at the height of their powers, creating a sound that transcends all known genres. This is a heavy and meditative set of music from one of the world's most exciting bands. "If you listen long enough, and make yourself open enough, it is possible to reach a kind of holy place while experiencing the music of the Tuareg quartet." - The New Yorker // "Les Filles de Illighadad are taking the world by storm" - The Guardian // "Les Filles de Illighadad is Revolutionizing Traditional Tuareg Music" - She Shreds

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Sunpalace

LP | 2021 | UK | Original (BBE)

43,99 €*

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Curation)

Gospelbeach

Jam Jam EP

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Sauna White Vinyl Edition

LP | 2015 | US | Reissue (P.W. Elverum & Sun)

Jubilee Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2015 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Now on white vinyl.

From the press release:

The sauna that this album was inspired by is not a sauna that actually exists anywhere. It is about the idea of a small man-made wooden room crushed beneath a universe’s worth of bad weather; a concentration of extreme heat within a vast tough world. Inside this deliberate space a transformation occurs. The exaggerated atmosphere of flames, steam, smoke and dim light obliterate the usual sensations and new kinds of perception are exposed. Then the shocking plunge under cold water and the razor sword through sky.

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Japanese Breakfast

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Dead Oceans)

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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From the moment she began writing her new album, Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner knew that she wanted to call it Julibee, After all, a jubilee is a celebration of the passage of time-a festival to usher in the hope of a new era in brilliant technicolor. Zauner's first two albums garnered acclaim for the way they grappled with anguish; Psychopomp was written as her mother underwent cancer treatment, while Soft Sounds From Another Planet took the grief she held from her mother's death and used it as a conduit to explore the cosmos. Now, at the start of a new decade, Japanese Breakfast is ready to fight for happiness, an all-too-scarce resource in our seemingly crumbling world. How does she do it? With a joyful noise. Jubilee bursts with the most wide-ranging arrangements of Zauner's career. Each song unfurls a new aspect of her artistry. In the years leading up to Jubilee, Zauner also took theory lessons and studied piano in earnest for the first time, in an effort to improve her range as a songwriter: "I've never wanted to rest on any laurels. I wanted to push it as far as it could go, inviting more people in and pushing myself as a composer, a producer, an arranger." Jubilee is an album about processing life and love in the quest for happiness, and how that process sometimes requires us to step outside of ourselves. Throughout Jubilee, Zauner is hardly fictionalizing her lyrics, instead pouring her own life into the universe of each song to tell real stories, and allowing those universes, in turn, to fill in the details. Joy, change, evolution-these things take real time, and real effort. And Japanese Breakfast is here for it.

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Teenage Gizzard Yellow / Red Marbled Vinyl Edition

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (MY45)

17,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Stinking Cesspool Of Liquified Human Remnants

Ingested

10" | 2021 | EU | Original (Unique Leader)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2013 | EU | Reissue (Damaged Goods)

Talulah Gosh

Was It Just A Dream?

Clean Ultra Clear With Purple And Black Splatter Vinyl Edition

Release: 2013 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Complete Story Of Talulah Gosh! 29 Tracks!Double Gatefold Lp!First Time Available Since The 90's!Sleeve Notes / New Interview By Everett True (The Legend!)!Talulah Gosh Were A Indiepop Group From Oxford And One Of The Leading Bands Of The Twee Pop Movement/C86, Taking Their Name From The Headline Of An Nme Interview With Clare Grogan. They Supposedly Formed When Amelia Fletcher And Elizabeth Price, Both Wearing Pastels Badges, Met At A Club In Oxford. Formed In 1986, Their Original Line-Up Comprised Amelia Fletcher (Vocals...

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Whores.

LP | 2013 | EU | Reissue (Pelagic)

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Release: 2013 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Ultra clear vinyl with purple and black splatter!Since their inception in 2010, Whores. has laid waste to both presumption and audial functioning.Natives of Atlanta, Georgia, members Christian Lembach (vocals/guitars), Donnie Adkinson (drums), and Casey Maxwell (bass) have spent the last six years establishing Whores. as one of heavy music's most distinctive acts thanks to the formidable combination of the group's punk ethos and the ferocity of their sound.Beginning with 2011's Ruiner EP, Whores. brought a welcomed new vision to the often-tired "extreme music" scene. Two years later saw the release of the Clean. EP, a six-track musical display of visceral rancor and songwriting brilliance. Highly anticipated by critics and fans alike, Clean. sold out within a month, prompting the group to release a second pressing. Touted by Spin as one of 2013's best Metal Albums', Clean. simply reaffirmed what listeners had suspected all along. Whores. isn't here to fuck around.For Whores., the cavalcade of anticipation provides no pressure or expectation as Lembach states: "We don't just want to fill in the blanks." The only pressure here is to maintain authenticity, and to that end, Whores. are the quintessential example of genuine malice. "You have to bring a sense of realness to [the music], otherwise it's fake, and it sounds fake. You have to be honest about it, and it's about getting to the really ugly stuff inside of you, and that's what we do." Whores. has eagerly shared that ugliness with their audience having crisscrossed the US four times on separate tours, including headlining shows and stops at festivals like Sxsw, Spillover Fest, Fun Fun Fun Fest, as well as a tour supporting Cult OF Luna. To that end, the band's tireless dedication to the road is simply a mirrored image of their music's relentless power, an attribute that has undoubtedly resulted in their most unforgiving effort yet, proof that good and heavy things come to those who wait.

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Polygondwanaland Random Colored Vinyl Edition

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (MY45)

15,99 €*

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Tiger Bay)

The Wilde Flowers

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Rhino)

Fleetwood Mac

The Dance

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2 Remixes By Wolves In The Throne Room Picture Disc Edition

7" | 2018 | US | Original (P.W. Elverum & Sun)

13,99 €*

The Beta Band Deluxe Vinyl Edition

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Two raw and unmixed songs from Wind’s Poem were transferred from the original analog tape masters into the ProTools HDX system at Owl Lodge. The studio is situated in the woods near Olympia, WA and is the headquarters of Wolves in the Throne Room. A single vocal track from “Lost Wisdom" was layered with newly recorded digital synths and a heavy bass from a vintage Korg MS-20. Wisps of the original organ and guitar appear in a heavily processed form. “Mouth of Sky” was created using techniques inspired by Lee Perry. In this case, the original tracks were routed to a variety of analog and digital FX units via the faders on the studio’s Harrison PP1 console. The mix was performed in real time.

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The Beta Band

3LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Because Music)

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Constellation)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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This is a Deluxe 3LP+2CD edition with double black vinyl album in gatefold sleeve with printed inner-sleeves and CD included, plus a single black bonus EP vinyl in single sleeve with 3mm spine, printed inner-sleeve and CD included. Both vinyl sleeves are held together with an obi stripe. Arguably one of the most acclaimed and loved bands of the past 20 years, by both fans and their musical peers alike, The Beta Band formed in St. Andrews, Scotland, in 1996. Innovative and singular, their unique musical and aesthetic approach to everything they did set them far apart from their musical contemporaries. Together for a relatively short period of time, the three albums and three EPs they released between 1996 and 2004 would nonetheless help define them as one of the most exciting and cherished bands of their generation. After acquiring the Beta Band’s catalogue last year, Because Music will reissue their releases, starting on September 14th with a deluxe vinyl edition gathering in a slipcase the EPs ‘Champion Versions’, ‘The Patty Patty Sound’ and ‘Los Amigos Del Beta Bandidos’ with remastered tracks and Colored Vinyls, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the 1998 compilation. Because Music will release at the same time a double CD Best-Of compiling all their best hits and a live show recorded at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire (London) in 2004.

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Sandro Perri

In Another Life

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Come On Pilgrim-It's Surfer Rosa Gold Vinyl Edition

Pixies

3LP | 2018 | UK | Original (4AD)

48,99 €*

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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"(after)" : Singing And Guitar At Jacobikerk, Utrecht, Netherlands, Nov. 10th, 2017 At Le Guess Who? Festival

2LP | 2018 | US | Original (P.W. Elverum & Sun)

34,99 €*

Alopecia 10th Anniversary Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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This is a live album of songs from “A Crow Looked At Me” and “Now Only”, eleven songs recorded in a huge church on spare acoustic guitar and singing.

The jackets are the usual high-standard heavy gatefold beautiful ones, with copper foil stamping and multiple paper textures, great printing. This is an object worth owning, a concept which becomes more absurd in the context of the words of these songs.

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Why?

LP | 2018 | US | Original (Joyful Noise)

Stranger Fruit Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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"I'll go unknown by torpedo or Crohn's / Only those evil live to see their own likeness in stone." It's the kind of couplet you'd carve into a wall whilst savoring the irony at hand, but when Yoni Wolf spit the line ten years ago he was blissfully, broodily unaware that he and his band WHY? were creating a career-defining album—one so fan-adored that it would go out of print, and so influential that the art-pop heroine Lorde herself would lovingly steal the very lyric quoted above. When it dropped in 2008, Alopecia not only marked WHY?'s evolution from a sonically collaged mostly solo project to a live-recorded powerhouse band of badass multi-instrumentalists. It also minted a genre of one: wryly written, poignantly posed, simultaneously swaggering and heart-rending song-rap that jangles like folk, bursts like psych-rock, and sways like chamber pop. To this day, there is no other group in the known universe that sounds or feels like WHY? does on Alopecia. The album's 2018 reissue cheekily etches that aural likeness into our musical history.

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Zeal & Ardor

2LP | 2018 | EU | Original (MVKA)

31,99 €*

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Destiny)

Acht Eimer Hühnerherzen

S/T

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | US | Original (P.W. Elverum & Sun)

Now Only

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A sequel or continuation down the path that began with “A Crow Looked At Me”. 6 word-filled songs about the raw strangeness of the present moment, waking up in wreckage, living with pervasive echoing real ghosts and a growing young child. Autobiographical.

contains: 6 songs, 44 minutes, heavy old style gatefold tip-on jacket with special subtle blue paper on the inner liner sheet, all the lyrics, free download card

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LP | 2013 | US | Original (P.W. Elverum & Sun)

Pre-Human Ideas

Release: 2013 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A Collection Of Great Dance Songs

Pink Floyd

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Parlophone)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A Deeper Understanding Coke Bottle Clear Vinyl Edition

The War On Drugs

2LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Atlantic)

52,99 €*

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Soft Sounds From Another Planet Black Vinyl Edition

Japanese Breakfast

LP | 2017 | US | Original (Dead Oceans)

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Mental Experience)

Cozmic Corridors

LP | 2017 | US | Original (Drag City)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Underground Kraut-Kosmische monster, recorded / produced circa 1972-73 in Cologne by Toby “The Mad Twiddler” Robinson for his Pyramid label. Apparently released as an ultra-limited handmade edition back at the time, but no original copies have ever surfaced.

Featuring Mythos drummer Hans-Jürgen Pütz on percussion & effects, alongside synth / keyboard freak Alex Meyer, poet / vocalist Pauline Fund and mysterious guitarist Peter Förster.

Tripped out electronic ambient soundscapes, dark atmosphere, drones, plenty of MiniMoog, gothic Hammond organ, Rhodes, electric & 12-string acoustic guitars, ritual chants, effects, horror cinematic vibe…

WARNING: DON’T LISTEN TO THIS ALONE IN THE DARK!!

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Ty Segall

LP | 2016 | UK | Original (MVKA)

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A clean flow; something real for a world that doesn't know what it's holding. Ty keeps us guessing while splashing our collective face with no shortage of astringent tunes of all colors.

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Zeal & Ardor

Devil Is Fine

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP+CD | 2013 | EU | Reissue (Trocadero)

Messer

Die Unsichtbaren

11,99 €*

Release: 2013 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2016 | US | Original (Deathwish)

Converge

You Fail Me Redux

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2016 | US | Original (Matador)

Steve Gunn

Eyes On The Lines

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Singing Saw Black Vinyl Edition

Kevin Morby

LP | 2016 | US | Original (Dead Oceans)

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2015 | US | Original (Reprise)

Green Day

American Idiot

43,99 €*

LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Warner)

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Limited edition for Black Friday RSD 2015! Red, White & Black Colored Vinyl, limited to 5000

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Foals

What Went Down

34,99 €*

2LP | 2014 | EU | Original (Angrr)

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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It's the fourth studio album of the five-piece dance-rock band. Insiders described it as “primal, intense and sometimes harrowing."

With the help of critically acclaimed producer James Ford (known for his work with Simian Mobile Disco, The Last Shadow Puppets and Arctic Monkeys amongst others), the follow-up to their successful 2013 LP Holy Fire was recorded in a rural, 19th Century mill in Southern France.

Frontman Yannis Philippakis stated:"I wanted to tap into my inner madman and feel like I was channeling some sort of fevered creature."

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Secret Chiefs 3

Book M

39,99 €*

LP | 2014 | US | Original (God?)

Release: 2014 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Third album of the seminal experimental instrumental orchestra SECRET CHIEFS 3. For the very first time on vinyl. Originally released on CD in 2001. Licensed from the label of Trey Spruance, Web Of Mimicry. Limited to 1000 copies. 45 rpm 2LP.

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Wand

Ganglion Reef

4LP | 2014 | US | Original (Merge)

Release: 2014 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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With the release of Wand's Ganglion Reef, GOD? continues to highlight the expansive sounds of new music currently altering minds from east of west to west of east. Recently, Jack Name, David Novick and White Fence were called upon for long players to travel into the heart of the flaming orb of un-/non/(ultimate)-realities (they're out there)...and now, from GOD?'s hand-lips to your head-hand, Wand! The fluctuating gravity of their sound achieves total Wand-hood by jamming senses, sounds and vibes through the circuits?-?and like magic: plays of light and dark (and heavy!) for today's (and tomorrow's) mind-ears. From beneath the glassine surface dost emerge: Ganglion Reef.

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The Clean

Anthology

65,99 €*

FRKWYS Volume 11 - Contos De Lisboa

Release: 2014 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Anthology serves as a celebration of The Clean, a band whose influence extends so far beyond their New Zealand home that even if you have never heard of The Clean before, you have surely heard of some of the bands (Pavement, Yo La Tengo, and Superchunk, to name a few) who have been influenced by their unique blend of homemade garage rock, hook-filled melodies, and psychedelic experimentalism.

The album is a compilation of songs from across The Clean’s legendary musical career, which began in 1981 and continues today.

The Clean’s story is on-again/off-again purely by design. It suits the trio’s creative desires and keeps them clear of the machinery that threatened to interfere with that process from the moment they threatened to get awfully popular awfully quickly over thirty years ago. The Clean’s modern age has seen them splitting time and hemispheres: David Kilgour has a reputable solo catalog; Robert Scott has The Bats; and Hamish Kilgour has been an endearing and enduring fixture in New York City, playing with assorted combos.

180g vinyl.

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Mike Cooper & Steve Gunn

LP | 2014 | US | Original (Rvng Intl.)

12" | 2014 | US | Original (Joyful Noise)

Release: 2014 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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For the the eleventh volume of FRKWYS, an unrestricted series pairing contemporary artists with their influential predecessors, gifted guitar squire Steve Gunn meets roving, radiating legend Mike Cooper in Lisbon, Portugal.

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Son Lux

Alternate Worlds

2LP | 2014 | EU | Original (Nuclar Blast)

Release: 2014 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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The EP reimagines four songs from Lanterns, and includes a collaboration with Lorde. These exquisite reinventions traverse unfamiliar terrain within remembered landscapes. Their world is both alien and familiar.

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Behemoth

The Satanist

37,99 €*

Release: 2014 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2013 | US | Original (Secretly Canadian)

Suuns

Images Du Futur

Release: 2013 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2012 | EU | Original (Reprise)

Deftones

Koi No Yokan

LP | 2018 | EU | Reissue (Memphis Industries)

Release: 2012 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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On their seventh studio album, Deftones prove that they don't need to compromise aggression for ambition. Koi No Yokan ranges from brutal, blunt-force trauma ("Gauze") to epic prog-rock atmospherics ("Tempest"). Opener "Swerve City" sets the tone immediately with a bludgeoning riff, but Deftones also take nuanced approaches to angsty tension, weaving meticulously crafted cosmic rock on "Entombed" and wading through murky, jagged textures on "Rosemary."

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Haley

Pleasureland

Release: 2018 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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7" | 2018 | EU | Original (Memphis Industries)

Haley

Bratt

8,99 €*

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Open Here(Ltd Indie Vinyl)

LP | 2018 | EU | Reissue (Memphis Industries)

Release: 2018 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | EU | Reissue (Memphis Industries)

Open Here

Release: 2018 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2017 | EU | Reissue (Memphis Industries)

Weaves

Wide Open

Release: 2017 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2017 | EU | Reissue (Memphis Industries)

Tones Of Town

Release: 2017 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2017 | EU | Reissue (Memphis Industries)

Dutch Uncles

Big Balloon

Release: 2017 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2016 | EU | Reissue (Memphis Industries)

Weaves

Release: 2016 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2015 | EU | Reissue (Memphis Industries)

Slug

Ripe

Release: 2015 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Music For Drifters (Silver Color Vinyl)

LP | 2015 | EU | Reissue (Memphis Industries)

Release: 2015 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2014 | EU | Reissue (Memphis Industries)

Papercuts

Life Among The Savages

Release: 2014 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | Original (Rhino)

Crosby, Stills & Nash

Csn

34,99 €*

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Small Victories Colored Vinyl Edition

Chaser

LP | 2024 | Original (Sbäm)

31,99 €*

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Frank Bleibt Frank Limited White Vinyl Edition

Flomb!

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Rilrec)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A Virtual World Limited Clear Orange Vinyl Edition

Metalite

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Afm)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Lex)

Zzzahara

Tender

25,99 €*

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | Original (Simone / Baco)

Alias

Embrace Chaos

31,99 €*

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Death's-Head Hawkmoth White Vinyl Edition

Lonely Kamel

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Stickman)

25,99 €*

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Sony Music/Metal Blade)

Sacred Reich

Heal Ri Incl. Track

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (High Roller)

Mayhemic

Toba Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Mere Desire Is Not Enough

S.A.T.I.N. / Urin

12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Never Sleep)

Now Yearbook 1993 Pink Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Urin one of the most sought after arcana bands in Berlin, having broke barriers down and represent hard with a core so unyielding for the true punk anima. Szybciej (speedy) showcases the outrageous rapture and Sama Chęć NIE Wystarczy equalize the EP with guitar thrashed out beyond the curtain call fuckery.

S.A.T.I.N, the new project by Infinity Division & Ireen Amnes, brings doom-electronics, squeezing out post rock sensibilities in the short form is no mean feat but the duo all chemicalize for a creation of experiential motifs. 'Dirt' leads the charge with perpetual drum programming sliced beside thashed vox, 'Nothing is real' blows the walls off with complex ambienta and doom metal.

ART by Stachu Szumski & Ash Luk

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V.A.

LP | 2024 | WW | Original (Now)

43,99 €*

Release: 2024 / WW – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Trance Gnawa Music From Morocco

Nass El Ghiwane

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Elmir)

25,99 €*

LP | 2024 | Original (Skeletal)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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In North Africa, a ziara is a spiritual ceremony where people come to exorcise demons, purify their bodies and loudly reaffirm their attachment to God, the prophet and the deities who claim to embody him. On this occasion, there are uncontrolled outbursts from the audience, but this has nothing to do with Roman orgies, as it lacks ostensible debauchery, aphrodisiacs or saturnalia - it is merely a blurring of the line between the religious and the superstitious. In a shrill parable, cries erupt from chests, twisting through vertical space and setting everything ablaze; a delirious chorus is chanted, ending in syncopation, and the litany, whose leitmotif Ya Chai, Ya Afi (O Healer...), shouted in unison, builds to a crescendo until the body is totally exhausted. An intoxicating ecstasy reminiscent of a voodoo ritual. What mystics call "union in God", a God who would multiply himself.

The most brilliant performers of this type of ceremony are called the Gnawa. Originally from black Africa, mainly Sudan and Senegal, they were forcibly implanted in southern Maghreb by Tuareg raiders seeking to use them as slaves. After several decades of servitude, they managed to emerge from their painful condition, which they evoke in some of their songs, and - as a result of cross-fertilization - to form a mixed race known as the hormis (the reddish). They then grouped together in mystical brotherhoods, the most important of which were based in Morocco, and devoted themselves to rituals through which, while attesting to the greatness and omnipotence of Allah, they pursued their fatal liaisons with the djins or djenoun, genie-like spirits that may be either benevolent or hostile.

But above all, the Gnawa, who never abjured their faith in animist divinities, distinguish themselves by their bewitching music, dance and rhythms, which are believed to hold therapeutic virtues. During the festivities, all movements are orchestrated and staged by the maâlem, or master (one of the most famous is Si Mohamed Chaouki), for he alone knows all the rules. He is a master of the instrument that aids healing, the guembri, a kind of acoustic bass strummed with three gut strings, and knows which melody-remedy matches each patient possessed by a particular spirit. All this is accompanied by dekka (frenzied hand-clapping) and animal sacrifices (chickens, goats and, on rare occasions, bulls).

In recent years in particular, the Gnawa musical and rhythmic tradition, which borrows from both Middle Eastern arabesques and African percussion, has enjoyed a marked revival among Moroccan artists of the new generation. But until now, only the very popular group Nass El Ghiwane has been able, with talent, faithfulness and authenticity, to reconstitute the Gnawa spirit, as witnessed by this album. So join them, and get into the trance.

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Skeletal Family

Light From The Dark

32,99 €*

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Everything Is Alive HHV Exclusive Transculent Tan Vinyl Edition

Slowdive

LP | 2024 | US | Reissue (Dead Oceans)

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Joyful Noise)

Release: 2024 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Colorway exclusive to HHV and limited to 500 copies.

Everything is alive, slowdive's 5th record, is exactly what the title suggests: an exploration into the shimmering nature of life and the universal touch points within it. While there are parts of this record that could sit neatly next to the atmospheric quality of 1995's Pygmalion; everything is alive also manages to break down the boundaries of what's come before it. Spanning psychedelic soundscapes, pulsating 80's electronic elements and John Cale inspired journeys, the album lands immediately as something made for 2023 and beyond. For a genre that is often thought of as divisive, and often warrants introspection, here slowdive show their craft as the masters of it by pushing it outwards, beyond the singular; the end result being a record which feels as emotional and cathartic as it is hopeful.

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Oneida

Expensive Air