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Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2015 | US | Original (Sinderlyn)

Homeshake

Midnight Snack

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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3LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Editions Mego)

Thighpaulsandra

Golden Communion

34,99 €*

Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld of Arcade Fire

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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September 2015 will see the release of Thighpaulsandra's 7th full length album "The Golden Communion", his first since 2006's "The Lepore Extrusion". Well over a decade in the making, this is his debut for Editions Mego. It comprises 10 new songs, running well over two hours with individual pieces clocking in between 4 and 28 minutes. Featured musicians on the album include regular collaborators Martin Schellard and Sion Orgon, plus the odd guest/ghost from bands Thighpaulsandra has worked with in the past.

If you have heard any of Thighpaulsandra's previous albums, you will know that you'd best approach this record with no fixed set of expectations, because once again he changes genres and defies easy classification, sometimes more than once within one song. Drawing on his long-time background as a key member in such diverse groups as Coil, Spiritualized and Julian Cope's band (in each case arguably at the height of their creative prowess) and his work as producer and sound engineer for an even larger variety of customers, you'll find classical passages next to hard rock riffing, krauty experimental work-outs turning into super catchy, almost radio-friendly songs and more.

Many adjectives have been used to describe Thighpaulsandra’s work: epic, challenging, timeless, idiosyncratic, but certainly never predictable or boring.

Possibly his most rewarding album yet and a welcome and unusual entry, in the Mego catalogue, which will entertain and astonish listeners who are fond of having their mind severely altered by sound.

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Never Were The Way She Was

LP | 2015 | CA | Original (Constellation)

Release: 2015 / CA – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Night Flight | Exit The Loop

Mirrorism

7" | 2013 | US | Reissue (Trouble In Mind)

You're Wrong | You Can't Hide

Release: 2013 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Sometimes the best bands are just out in the world - waiting for you to discover them. Mirrorism formed nary a year ago in Ferrara, Italy & posted up some songs from their self-released cassette onto a message board late last year. The band's TiM debut snags two tunes from that blast of hot air & slaps 'em onto wax - where they belong! In their own words, Mirrorism are: "a philosophical, artistic and political movement based on chaos, disunity, multiple personality disorder and the refusal to make sense of any kind of artistic output." One gets a very real sense of the chaos lurking beneath these jagged stabs of post-punk fury - "Night Flight" kicks of the A-side with a rhythmic ticking of the drums, perhaps a warning of the musical time bomb about to explode thru your speakers! Short & sweet - it's over before it even began. "Exit The Loop" closes out the single with a ragged cacophany of garage scree & trebly guitar sirens! An exciting debut from this promising new band! The first edition of this single is pressed on randomly mixedvinyl & includes a download code!

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Proto Idiot

7" | 2013 | US | Reissue (Trouble In Mind)

LP | 2013 | US | Reissue (Felte)

Release: 2013 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Andrew Anderson is a prolific guy, having recorded two albums of dumb-punk ferocity with his band, Hipshakes & released three albums & a number of singles under his solo project moniker, "Proto Idiot". Proto Idiot's previous output has had one foot firmly planted in the Hipshakes school of frenzied, nervousgaragepunk intensity, & the other in a rickety, Kinks-ian,English-countryside gallop. His debut for TiM however is a step in a new direction, delivering smart & urgent pop tunes having more in common with the DIY smarts of bands like Television Personalities, Wire & The Soft Boys than The Oblivians or The Gories. "You're Wrong" yearns with the strummy confections of a lost classic & it's earworm melody will have a hard timegetting unstuck from your brain! "You Can't Hide" burns with the loping maudlin of guitars & careens into a head-bopper of sugary pop-perfection. The first edition of this single is pressed on randomly-mixed vinyl & includes a download code!RIYL: Wire, The Soft Boys, TVP, Tyvek, Hipshakes

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Standish/Carlyon

Deleted Scenes

LP | 2013 | US | Reissue (Paradise Of Bachelors)

Release: 2013 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Deleted Scenes is the debut album by futurist dub pop duo Standish/Carlyon, comprising bassist/vocalist ConradStandish and guitarist Tom Carlyon, both formerly of noir rock group Devastations. Deleted Scenes continues the process begun on the final Devastations album Yes, U, moving away from full-band arrangements towards submerged electronic rhythms and late-night altered states. The atmosphere throughout is oneof surreal chic. In rich baritone or impressive falsetto, Standish intones dark, absurdist lyrics over the band'sshimmering take on dub, a sensual, ultramodern gloss disturbed by deep vibrations. There's the pulse-quickening progression of Moves, Moves, the spectral faux-soul of "Feb Love" (featuring vocals from Standish's wife Jonnine, one-half of HTRK), the icy grind of "Gucci Mountain", the synthetic fractured funk of "Nono/Yoyo" or the deviant denouement that is 2 5 1 1, a collaboration with Benjamin John Power of Blanck Mass and FuckButtons. The album was recorded in London with Aaron Cupples and mastered by the iconic Denis Blackham, who has workedwith everyone from Brian Eno to Pan Sonic. Standish/Carlyon have played Belgium's Sonic City Festival (curated by Liars) alongside Chris & Cosey and Rhythm & Sound, as well as All Tomorrow's Parties' new Australian incarnation I'll Be Your Mirror, alongside the likes of My Bloody Valentine, Pere Ubu and Einsturzende Neubauten.FIYL: Twin Shadow, Coil, White Car, HTRK

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Steve Gunn

Time Off

Where Shall You Take Me (Deluxe Reissue)

Release: 2013 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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- Steve Gunn's first album with a band, featuring John Truscinski and Justin Tripp- His most affecting, accessible, and articulate work of pure songcraft to date, with a new emphasis on vocals- Available on virgin vinyl, in a deluxe, limited edition, as well as on CD and digital formats- Vinyl edition features matte, tip-on jacket, full-color inner sleeve, and digital download coupon- CD housed in heavy matte gatefold wallet- Package features artwork by Anthony Campuzano, Constance Mensh, and Justin TrippIn the city we're all angling for Quittin' Time, laboring along and among the hours, searching and scheming for the sweet sound of those two easy words: Time Off. It's something you take-or sometimes steal, like a thief or a baserunner-but seems you can never get enough of it. It's regulated, rationed, and billed by volume, like water or electricity or ice cream. Sometimes you have to beg the boss for more, or even for a trifling taste. So let's make time! Let's roll the dice and get these old bones out on the road again. Steve Gunn's new album imagines the fugitive moments afforded us during time off, out, and away as occasions for dilatory investigations into our immediate environments and interiors. Time Off (PoB-08) showcases the virtuosic guitarist and songwriter's oblique character sketches and story-songs, some of which, like "Lurker" and "Street Keeper," portray specific denizens of his Brooklyn neighborhood. "Old Strange" celebrates Jack Rose, a dear and departed friend and muse. Those contemplative studies frame Gunn's most affecting, accessible and articulate work of pure songcraft to date. His definitive statement as a songwriter, Time Off represents the culmination of nearly fifteen years of stylistic experimentation as a solo artist, a member of GHQ and the Gunn-Truscinski Duo, and more recently, as a guitarist in fellow Philadelphia-bred troubadour Kurt Vile's touring band the Violators. Gunn's first eponymous album with a full band, Time Off harnesses a core trio format to...

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Damien Jurado

2LP | 2013 | US | Reissue (Secretly Canadian)

LP | 2013 | US | Reissue (Dead Oceans)

Release: 2013 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Damien Jurado is the sort of songwriter who straddles rock's past and future, and with each record contributes a new chapter to an ever-fruitful body of work. Before we move onto the nextchapter, we look back at his first album with Secretly Canadian. An instant classic when released in 2003, "Where Shall You Take Me?" was his fifth full-length, and is a beautiful collection of ten Raymond Carver-esque vignettes terror and bliss inMiddle America. Arriving two decades afterSpringsteen's "Nebraska", Jurado put the darker, more complicated side of the heartland back on the map with his tales of young love (some requited; some not), innoc...

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Brazos

Saltwater

I Thought It Was Us But It Was All Of Us

Release: 2013 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Martin McNulty Crane V comes from a long line of exceptional Martins. There's an orphan who became attorney general of Texas and fought the KKK, a lieutenant who fought in WWI, an airline pilot who raised his family in Iran, and a scient...

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Saltland

LP | 2013 | Reissue (Constellation)

Vision Crimes / Monomania

Release: 2013 / Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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180gLP AUDIOPHILE PRESSING INCLUDES ART PRINT POSTER!SALTLAND is the new project led by Montreal-based cellist Rebecca Foon, best known as a founding member of contemporary chamber group ESMERINE and a former member of THEE SILVER MT. ZION and SET FIRE TO FLAMES. Foon began composing solo work in 2010, featuring multi-layered cello and hushed vocals at the intersection of drone, no-wave, improv, dream-pop and minimalism. Joined by Jamie Thompson (UNICORNS, ESMERINE) on miniature percussion, programming and signal processing, Foon's live performances in Montreal and abroad over the past two years have seen her sound progress towards...

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Child Bite

LP | 2013 | US | Reissue (Joyful Noise)

7" | 2013 | US | Reissue (Suicide Squeeze)

Release: 2013 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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This album collects CHILD BITE's recent two sibling EP's into one brutal package. For years,...

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Numerators

Dead

9,99 €*

LP | 2013 | Reissue (Western Vinyl)

Release: 2013 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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George W. Bush. Cormac McCarthy novels. Chainsaw massacres. Texas has a reputation for being a grim place. Sure, there's the rock n' roll haven of Austin, the metropolitan hubs of Dallas and Houston, and the weird art commune of Marfa. But by and large, it's a land of dry counties and conservatism. Which makes the demented psych garage of Lubbock's the Numerators all the more compelling. Northeastern Texas is perhaps the most inhospitable region of the state for a young band of misfits to combine a love of David Lynch's twisted take on the 50s with a requisite dash of Lone Star homage to 13th Floor Elevators, yet somehow the Numerators have managed to thrive under such stark conditions. Now based in Brooklyn, the trio continues to belt out their hallucinatory brand of reverb-drenched garage rock on their latest single for Suicide Squeeze. The "Dead" b/w "Finally Sees" 7" is limited to 500 copies.

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Luxury Liners

They're Flowers

Arrington De Dionyso's Malakait Dan Singa

Release: 2013 / Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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After releasing "Freeclouds" in 2011 under his own name, CARTER TANTON toured the US with The War on Drugs and then joined Lower Dens. While on tour with Lower Dens, Carter had plenty of time to experiment with new ways of crafting songs using samples and other electronics. The resulting album, "They're Flowers", is his first release und...

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Open The Crown

LP | 2013 | US | Reissue (K)

LP | 2013 | US | Reissue (Merge)

Release: 2013 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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You may have experienced ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO'S MALAIKAT DAN SINGA as an unexpected live force, pushing up through the earth like daffodils in late winter; or maybe you're familiar with their previous exploits in the studio, "Malaikat dan Singa" [KLP215] and "Suara Naga" [KLP226], which burn clean with fragrant traumas. "Open the Crown" is similarly passion-filled, with new vistas (channeled hallucinations) exploring English (previously only the Indonesian language was employed) as their stomping ground to expand parallel themes anew. Open the Crown conveys tendrils of raw energy emanating from the head - dream visions translated directly to audio outrage. Heavy. And sexy. To be expected from ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO and his molten collection of MALAIKAT DAN SINGA who manipulate the "form'd and the formless" to create from within this broken system.

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Mikal Cronin

Mcii

LP | 2013 | US | Reissue (Secretly Canadian)

Release: 2013 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP includes download coupon.Mikal Cronin's self-titled debut from 2011 was all about endings: the end of college, the end of a serious relationship, and the end of his time in Los Angeles, where he grew up. So it's no surprise that his sophomore release "MCII"- and first disc for Merge Records - is all about new beginnings. "Since the first record came out, my life has changed quite a bit", Cronin says, referencing his move to San Francisco and tourswith Ty Segall as well as with his own band. "I was presented with a whole new slew of problems and situations that I was trying to work through". "Am I Wrong" and "Shout It Out" dissect his fears over a new relationship, while "I'm Done Running from You" and "Weight" find him freaking out about what...

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Cayucas

Bigfoot

LP | 2013 | US | Reissue (Sacred Bones)

Release: 2013 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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CAYUCAS: Pronounced "ky-yook-us", is the monikered homage to a sleepy little seaside town in San Luis Obispo County, California. That town, Cayucos, has hardly changed in the las...

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The Men

New Moon

12" | 2013 | US | Reissue (Sacred Bones)

Release: 2013 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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With their fourth full-length album to be released in as many years, THE MEN proudly present the sweeping ,New Moon", the most intensely personal and immersive installment yet. Never content to draw on the same methods twice, nor to recline under the heel of expectation, THE MEN quit the city in early 2012 to head for Big Indian, NY - transforming a remote Catskills locale into a full-fledged stray dog studio home. Entering with only the most skeletal sketches, the house was selected as an incubator for its technical limitations. Familiar faces remain, the core of guitarists Nick Chiericozzi and Mark Perro, with drummer Rich Samis all returning from last year's much-acclaimed ,Open Your Heart". However, inr...

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Lust For Youth

Chasing The Light

12,99 €*

LP | 2013 | EU | Reissue (Ppm)

Release: 2013 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Swedish electronic producer, Hannes Norrvide (aka LUST FOR YOUTH) has been inconspicuously hinting at his brighter side throughout his last couple of releases. What began as a lo-fi, atonal, bedroom drone-synth project in 2009 has slowly but surely been evolving into a full frontal synth-pop assault. The Quietus quite aptly caught on to these genres' overlapping breeding ground in his review of ,Growing Seeds" for The Quiteus "If you take the two musical genres of noise and synth pop and trace them back, back through Wolf Eyes and La Roux, all the way back to Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire and The Normal, you reach a point where the two lines wind together and fuse...In the last few years, a number of groups have emerged who, whether by intention or not, are working to reconcile these two paths of noise and synth-pop."

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Regal Degal

Veritable Whose Who

16,99 €*

LP | 2011 | US | Reissue (Trouble In Mind)

Release: 2013 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Regal Degal is a power trio consisting of Josh da Costa [Gemini] on guitars and vocals, Josiah Wolfson [Libra] on bass, and Jamen Whitelock [Virgo] on drums. Formed in Brooklyn in late 2009, the group recently relocated to Los Angeles. The group's sound pulls omnidirectionally from across the musical spectrum, drawing from post-punk, krautrock, 60's psychedelic/ freakbeat, 80's new wave and indie, German minimal house, and the music of Africa. The music could be described as hyper rhythm conscious, melodic, atmospheric, and kinetic, with one foot firmly in the past and an eye fixed towards the future. In the center resides Regal Degal, channeling and reinterpreting all individual and shared inspirations into a sound best referred to as deep rock.

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Wax Museums

Eye Times

Release: 2011 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Gravel / Selector Dub Narcotic

Lake

12,99 €*

Release: 2011 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The second album LAKE recorded for K, Let's Build a Roof [KLP213], included a song by drummer/multi-instrumentalist Lindsay Schief many consider one of its highlights, "Gravel". When the band returned from their U.S. tour following the release of Let's Build a Roof "Gravel" had a new fluid soulful feel to it that struck resident Dub Narcotic Studio producer Selector Dub Narcotic (aka Calvin Johnson) as a ripe candidate for the Dub Narcotic Disco Plate series of 7" 45 rpm phonograph records.

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White Rainbow

The Making Of Thriller

LP | 2011 | US | Reissue (Jagjaguwar)

Release: 2011 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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FROM THE DEPTHS OF DUB COMES THE CULTURE CLASH CLASSIC STEPPER, Adam Forkner, with his latest piece of hot wax [DBN125] White Rainbow - "The Making of Thriller" b/w Selector Dub Narcotic - "The Making of Star Wars." This marks a home-coming of sorts, with Forkner returning to Dub Narcotic Studio to work with life-long friend and one time studio-mentor Calvin Johnson.

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Pterodactyl

Spills Out

12" | 2011 | Reissue (Acephale)

Release: 2011 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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On third album Spills Out, Brooklyn noise-punk mischief-makers Pterodactyl have mutated from their abrasive loft-show roots into a glorious, broken-pop juggernaut. The band's squealing, sweat-soaked art-bustle had rapidly put them alongside contemporaries like Oneida, These Are Powers and Parts & Labor; but Spills Out gently leads the trio towards the uplifting, wistful harmonies of '60s rockers like The Zombies, CSNY and the pre-acid Beatles. Pterodactyl's onomatopoetic barks have been replaced by a luxurious three-part croon; their adenoidal squawk has been expanded to include Spectoria...

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Korallreven

As Young As Yesterday

12,99 €*

LP | 2011 | Reissue (Constellation)

Release: 2011 / Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Returning for her second collaboration with the duo is Victoria Bergsman who previously contributed her dulcet tones to Honey Mine. As Young triumphs with glittering bombast - a true Balearic anthem. Cascading 808 fills mingle with steely acoustic guitar and chipmunked vocals while deep kettledrums and pulsing strings balance things out. It's a glorious celebration of Summer's fade, a song that looks forward by glancing back. Animal Collective's Panda Bear, fresh off the tremendous success of Person Pitch, delivers a reinterpretation that is at times frenetic and jarring, and at others meditative and soothing. London's Girl Unit revisits the pitched vocals and builds a sprawling epic that erupts into a throbbing payoff before subsiding to begin anew. Finally, the Korallreven boys wrap things up with a massive expansion of their original - an evolving, layered rhythm section lays the foundation for ecstatic builds of shimmering, hazy synths.

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Siskiyou

Keep Away The Dead

Lynch The Swan / Dub The Swan

Release: 2011 / Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Most of the tunes on Keep Away The Dead were born at Mara Hall in Mara, BC (pop. 350) where bed tracks were laid down in the crisp air during the depth of winter. The arctic atmosphere of that empty, cavernous, hardwood structure was the perfect complement to Huebert's sensibility: a tense and acute restraint; a shivering, biting, sometimes bitter rending of barebones, folk-inflected rock music.Siskiyou's debut was a stunning little scrapbook of short, sharp tunes; Keep Away The Dead ramps up with subtle care and clarity - something closer to a sonic novella. The resulting song cycle yields a strikingly cold-eyed, warm-hearted album, marked by quiet defiance and desperation, where each tune feels like another precious log thrown on a lone campfire burning in the cold night.

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The Hive Dwellers

LP | 2011 | US | Reissue (Temporary Residence)

Release: 2011 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Hive Dwellers are a small grouping of Pacific Northwest natives, led by the large sound of one Calvin Johnson. On their latest musical effort, [DBN126] - "Lynch the Swan" b/w Selector Dub Narcotic - "Dub the Swan" - Johnson and his alternating collection of collaborators fuse baritone vocals with melodica for an awkwardly peppy groove sensation.

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The Drift

Blue Hour

LP | 2011 | US | Reissue (Captured Tracks)

Release: 2011 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Without a doubt their most meditative release since their Travels In Constants debut, Blue Hour eases off the jazz and dub influences that had become a trademark of The Drift's sound, and instead focuses on hypnotic repetition and subtle, textural layering of guitars, keyboards, electric bass and drums. Beautiful, fragile melodies descend into sheets of noise atop an unwavering lockstep groove, and the near-silence of a single bass note becomes alternately haunting and near transcendent. It is a cathartic memorial to a dear friend and invaluable collaborator, and the perfect beginning to a new chapter in The Drift's resilient story.

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Soft Metals

Release: 2011 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2011 | US | Reissue (K)

Angelo Spencer

World Garage

LP | 2011 | US | Reissue (Jagjaguwar)

Release: 2011 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Inspired by Bollywood, a trip to Morocco, and SergeGainsbourg, Angelo Spencer's second full-length WorldGarage [KLP235] brings armloads of new instruments and theflavor of exotic locations to a compilation of songs that amount to more than just an album, but an experience of wildness. Hearing Spencer transition from English to French, from guitar to hand percussion, and from soft singing to autotuned screaming, it's easy to close your eyes and imagine that you're running barefoot through the soft grass of, somewhere. Somewhere else. Backed by local musicians Ben Kapp, Karl Blau, Clyde Petersen, with guest vocals by Rebecca Redman (from the band Watercolor paintings), World Garage began as a bundle of unfinished songs that Spencer played for everyone, along with a mixtape of Algerian, Moroccan, and Bollywood selections meant to serve as inspiration for how he wanted the finished album to sound; from the sounds of it, it did the trick.

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Richard Youngs

Amplifying Host

12" | 2011 | US | Reissue (Captured Tracks)

Release: 2011 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Amplifying Host finds Richard Youngs wandering the guitar desert somewhere between Ry Cooder's Paris, Texas score and Neil Young's work on Dead Man. Yet, the randomly determined chord movements and Youngs' stretched-out vocal passes across the record are, perhaps, more akin to Jandek's Six And Six - here, removed from its gauze and dipped in a dark gold.When Youngs bends strings in this anglo-americana vision, it's like he's bending spoons. For more than 20 years, the UK's Richard Youngs has been at the forefront of progressive minimalism, through solo home recording projects and collaborations with the likes of Simon Wickham-Smith and Makoto Kawabata (of Acid Mothers Temple). Leaving a very human fingerprint on even the most far-reaching experimentations, Youngs has built an extensive, intriguing catalogue that just begs one to go deep. Youngs is joined on Amplifying Host by Damon Krukowski (Galaxie 500, Damon and Naomi), whose subtle, free-form drums sizzle and scatter around Youngs' lunar dust bowl compositions.

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The Fresh & Onlys

August In My Mind EP

12" | 2011 | US | Reissue (Captured Tracks)

Release: 2011 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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"...the San Francisco crew's releasing a great six-song EP on Captured Tracks early next month called August In My Mind... they kick up an excellent, hazy dust storm with the standout opener "Diamond In The Dark." (Really, people should pay more attention to these folks.)" -Stereogum

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Silk Flowers

Silk Flowers EP

12" | 2011 | US | Reissue (Captured Tracks)

Release: 2011 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Six track EP by this current NYC live staple. Eerie and experimental electronic pop.

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Girls Names

Don't Let Me In

LP | 2011 | US | Reissue (Captured Tracks)

Release: 2011 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Formed in January 2009 with their first gig booked before even playing together, Belfast 's Girls Names unabashedly hark back to the early/mid eighties shadow world of Beat Happening, Black Tambourine, Felt, C86 and the Sound of Young Scotland. In their short existence they have quickly honed their craft in creating their own self-styled "disposable noise pop", masking subdued bittersweet vocals and melodic hooks with reverb drenched guitars and Mary Chain primal drums. Having sold out of their debut home taped demos on Cass/Flick (Belfast) last summer and after a string of support slots with the likes of Sic Alps, Wavves, Times New Viking, Lovvers and Gary War, Girls Names are set for their first release 'proper', with a 12" EP on Brooklyn's much talked about Captured Tracks label and a full UK tour with label buddies, La La Vasquez in the spring."

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Aias

A La Piscina

Don't Walk Away / Dub Walk

Release: 2011 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Aias are Gaia, Laia and Miriam. Gaia sings and plays guitar. Laia sings and plays drums and Miriam sings and plays bass. And the three together they try to make songs for anyone else to sing. Pop with distortion, lots of "oooos" and vocal harmonies in in a cave with endless ceilings sung in their native Catalan (not Spanish, mind you!) Aias began as a birthday party band and by surprise ended up being a band for real, or at least that's their current intention. The desire to win in the fight against the instrument itself, the need to shout a bit during the week, a Vivian Girls concert during the Primavera Sound Festival and the providential intervention of Cristian Pallejà (Nisei, Sedaiós) lead to a home made recording in a village lost in Catalonia and an unexpected winter signing with the New York Label, Captured tracks.

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Bobby Birdman

At The Same Time / The Same Version

Release: 2011 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Bobby Birdman is the ultraego of west coast musician Rob Kieswetter and he graces us with his musical interludes on "Don't Walk Away" b/w "Dub Walk". Born in San Diego, raised in Nevada City, braised in San Luis Obispo, grazed in Portland, OR, Bobby Birdman is currently living aloha in Los Angeles.Bobby Birdman has released music with Fryk Beat, States Rights Records, Not Not Fun and HUSH. He appears on records by K-related artists GIGI, Little Wings, Adam Forkner and YACHT. Lately, Bobby Birdman has been ripe with many musical projects. He remixed Young M.C.'s "Fastest Rhyme", released on Delicious Vinyl, produced music for L.A.'s Guy Fantastico and Nevada City's Golden Shoulders and composed music and sound installations for visual artist Geo_ McFetridge. He also contributed to new albums by YACHT, Ben Butler and Mousepad.

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Kendl Winter

Release: 2011 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Kendl Winter is constantly on tour, so it's amazing that she somehow found the time to record her new 7" At the Same Time [DBN121;] But we're so glad she did! During a weekend stop-over in her hometown of Olympia, Kendl stopped in at Dub Narcotic to record this 7" that features Kendl, Joe Capoccia on bass, and Austin Cooper on Drums. Selector Dub Narcotic created a remix for the B Side of the album called "The Same Version," and both sides together create the perfect little snack pack to hold us over until she releases her next full-length! Both of these songs stay true to what we've come to love from Kendl; they're homegrown, feet in the dirt, clothes on the drying line in the front yard, sugary country.

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Generifus

In My Cave / I Know

LP | 2011 | US | Reissue (Temporary Residence)

Release: 2011 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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For his first release on K, "In My Cave" b/w "I Know" - 7" Generifus, aka, Spencer Sult, delivers a love song to comfort and personal growth. In his own words: "These two songs are connected through an ongoing narrative and also bookend aloose period of about two years of songwriting. "InMy Cave," written first, explores a time of desperationand a need for familiar comfort. Emerging out fromthis safe place becomes a priority as the realizationemerges that an individual stuck in a place ofendless restful warmth can't progress any furtherinternally. In "I Know," written around a year and ahalf later, independence is found through maternalwisdom, intense experiences and learning outside ofthe previous song's "cave."

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Explosions In The Sky

Those Who Tell The Truth

LP | 2013 | EU | Reissue (Guruguru Brain)

Release: 2011 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2020 REPRESS!"Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever" is the second album recorded by post-rock band Explosions in the Sky, released on September 4, 2001. It is their first album released on the Temporary Residence label. The artwork for the album, by David Logan, was inspired by the Angels of Mons.

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Kikagaku Moyo

29,99 €*

2LP | 2011 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Release: 2013 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Kikagaku Moyo 1st self-titled album reissue. Originally released by Cosmic Eye Records in Sep 2013. Kikagaku Moyo's debut album exerts an elemental power. Enlivening their sound with sitars, percussive drums, theremins, wind instruments and ethereal vocals, the band manages to sound powerfully spacious and lazily serene all at once. Their songs can be light as air, or heavy as earth. comes with digital download Many evolve out of intense experiences of engagement with the natural world. The album’s first track, “Can You Imagine Nothing?” was written over a night spent jamming on a suspended footbridge in remote mountains. As the song progressed the bridge began to sway, making band members feel as though they were floating weightless in midair. =Band Description= Kikagaku Moyo started in the summer of 2012 busking on the streets of Tokyo.

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Within Temptation

Unforgiving

Release: 2011 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Sanctuary)

Uriah Heep

Abominog

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2011 | US | Reissue (Matador)

Kurt Vile

Smoke Ring For My Halo

Release: 2011 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2013 | UK | Reissue (4AD)

The National

Trouble Will Find Me

Release: 2013 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Sippenhaft Purple Marbled Vinyl Edition

Herrenmagazin

LP | 2015 | EU | Reissue (Grand Hotel Van Cleef)

Release: 2015 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Sunbather Bone / Gold & Pink / Red Swirl Vinyl Edition

Deafheaven

2LP | 2013 | EU | Reissue (Deathwish)

Release: 2013 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2013 | US | Reissue (Captured Tracks)

Wild Nothing

Empty Estate

Anything In Return Picture Disc Edition

Release: 2013 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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`Empty Estate' is the follow-up EP to the critically acclaimed "Nocturne",which received several year-end accolades including album of the yearin Under The Radar and iTunes. The 7-song EP was recorded in Brooklynat Gary's Electric by Al Carlson in January.

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Toro Y Moi

2LP | 2013 | US | Reissue (Carpark)

LP | 2015 | EU | Original (6131)

Release: 2013 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Since his first offerings began making the Internet rounds in 2009, Toro y Moi has proven himself to be not just a prolific musician, but a diverse one as well, letting each successive release broaden the scope of his oeuvre. Amassing nearly 150,000 copies sold, Toro y Moi’s third full-length album, Anything in Return, sees Chaz Bear blending funk, psych-pop and colorful, glitchy electronic sampling, locking in his unique sound that would push him to the forefront of alternative and chillwave music in the 2010s. To celebrate its 10-year anniversary, Anything in Return will be released for the first time on picture disc.

But the product of a move he made almost a decade ago, from South Carolina to Berkeley, CA and the subsequent extended separation from loved ones, is what put Anything in Return right in the middle of the producer/songwriter dichotomy that his first two albums established. There’s a pervasive sense of peace with Bundick’s tendency to dabble in both sides of the modern music-making spectrum, and he sounds comfortable engaging in intuitive pop production and putting forth the impression of unmediated id. The producer’s hand is prominent — not least in the sampled “yeah”s and “uh”s that give the album a hip-hop-indebted confidence — and many of the songs feature the 4/4 beats and deftly employed effects usually associated with house music. Tracks like “High Living” and “Day One” show a considerably Californian influence, their languid funk redolent of a West Coast temperament, and elsewhere — not least on lead single, “So Many Details” — the record plays with darker atmospheres than we’re used to hearing from Toro y Moi. Sounding quite assured in what some may call this songwriter’s return to producerhood, Anything in Return is Bear uninhibited by issues of genre, an album that feels like the artist’s essence.

Since his earlier releases, Toro y Moi has continued to make big waves across the music landscape — headlining international tours in the US, Europe, and Asia, producing tracks for major artists like SZA, performing on national television shows like Jimmy Kimmel Live and The Ellen Show, joining festival lineups like Coachella and Fuji Rock, and much more.

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Julien Baker

Sprained Ankle

3LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Music On Vinyl)

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Sometimes, things just seem to happen for a reason. The pieces fall into place in unexpected ways, and life takes a turn no one could have predicted. This rings strikingly true for the solo career of Memphis, Tennessee’s Julien Baker. To call Sprained Ankle a happy accident would be misleading as to the nature of these poignant, emotive songs. Yet no one, least of all Baker, could have predicted she’d be releasing an album, especially as a solo artist. Thankfully, now the world will be able to share in her passion and sorrow. For years, Baker and a group of close friends have performed as the band Forrister (formerly The Star Killers), but when college took her four hours away, her need to continue creating found an outlet through solo work. The intent was never to make these songs her main focus, yet the process proved to be startlingly cathartic.

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J.J. Cale

Collected

LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Sanctuary)

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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This American cult legend has turned his laidback style into a trademark. J.J. Cale has forged an inspiring career that spans four decades. Collected is an essential J.J. Cale compilation on three 180 gram LPs chock full of rootsy Americana songs that will stay in the back of your head long after you turned off the record player.

180g vinyl.

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The Damned

Strawberries

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Rarest Previously Unreleased 1970s Live And Studio Tracks Green Vinyl Edition

Captain Beefheart

LP | 2013 | UK | Original (Ozit / Dandelion)

Foot Village / Super Khoumeissa

Release: 2013 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Previously unreleased live and studio recordings mainly from the Spotlight Kid and Clearspot album and tour eras together with a gatefold album sleeve inner double spread of many previously unpublished rare photographs of Don and the Magic Band.

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Split Series #21

12" | 2011 | UK | Original (Fat Cat)

Release: 2011 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2011 | US | Original (Metal Blade)

Amon Amarth

Surtur Rising

Release: 2011 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2011 | US | Reissue (Dead Oceans)

Gauntlet Hair

7" | 2011 | Original (Gaphals)

Release: 2011 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Written and recorded in Spring 2011 at Andy's grandmother's Chicago-area house while she was away on vacation, Gauntlet Hair is a subtle refinement of the sounds we've come to associate with the band - the trunk-rattling bass; the ecstatic, tinny post-punk guitar; the din of ecstasy. But what was once simply jarring in its audacity is now also bursting with new colors. It's music made with the sole purpose of losing yourself - both mind and body - inside of it. They take the listener into the red, evoking that unmistakable feeling of being squarely in front of the speaker as it is screaming blissfully loud melodies.

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Rosvo

Ticks And Ants

Release: 2011 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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In Their Darkened Shrines

Nile

2LP | 2015 | EU | Reissue (Relapse)

Release: 2015 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2013 | CZ | Reissue (Universal)

Fall Out Boy

From Under The Cork Tree

LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Vertigo)

Release: 2013 / CZ – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Fall Out Boy is an American rock band formed in Wilmette, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, in 2001. The band consists of lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Patrick Stump, bassist Pete Wentz, lead guitarist Joe Trohman, and drummer Andy Hurley. The band originated from Chicago's hardcore punk scene, with which all members were involved at one point. The group was formed by Wentz and Trohman as a pop punk side project of the members' respective hardcore bands, and Stump joined shortly thereafter. The group went through a succession of drummers before landing Hurley and recording the group's debut album, “Take This to Your Grave” (2003). The album became an underground success and helped the band gain a dedicated fanbase through heavy touring, as well as some moderate commercial success. “Take This to Your Grave” has commonly been cited as an influential blueprint for pop punk music in the 2000s.
Now, their album “From Under The Cork Tree” is finally back in print on limited vinyl.

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Wanda

Bussi

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2013 | EU | Original (Born Bad)

La Femme

Psycho Tropical Berlin

Release: 2013 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2011 | US | Original (Sony)

Pearl Jam

34,99 €*

Release: 2011 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2013 | EU | Original (Virgin Music Las)

Born Of Osiris

The New Reign

Release: 2013 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2015 | US | Original (Ipecac)

Faith No More

Sol Invictus

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2011 | US | Original (Hardly Art)

Hunx And His Punx

Too Young To Be In Love

Release: 2011 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Made In Stoke 24711 Intl.

Slash

3LP | 2011 | EU | Reissue (Earmusic Classics)

Release: 2011 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Dead Magick Clear Vinyl Edition

Dead Skeletons

2LP | 2011 | UK | Reissue (Fuzz Club)

36,99 €*

Release: 2011 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Darling Arithmetic Red Vinyl Edition

Villagers

LP | 2015 | UK | Reissue (Domino)

Release: 2015 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Violeta I Remastered Yellow Vinyl Edition

Kaizers Orchestra

LP | 2011 | EU | Reissue (Kaizers Orchestra)

Release: 2011 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2015 | US | Original (Mercury)

Chris Stapleton

Traveller

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2013 | EU | Original (Napalm)

Monster Magnet

Last Patrol

Release: 2013 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2013 | EU | Reissue (Sportfreunde Stiller)

Sportfreunde Stiller

New York, Rio, Rosenheim

Release: 2013 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2011 | EU | Reissue (Grand Hotel Van Cleef)

Thees Uhlmann

Release: 2011 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2011 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Tony Bennett

Duets II

Release: 2011 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Somewhere Between Heaven And Hell

Social Distortion

LP | 2011 | EU | Original (Music On Vinyl)

28,99 €*

Release: 2011 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2011 | EU | Original (RCA)

Foo Fighters

Wasting Light

Collide With The Sky Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2011 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Foo is back in R.O.C.K. and by far the hardest licks from the Fighters so far. Pretty much in demand album that will please, for sure!

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Pierce The Veil

LP | 2013 | US | Original (Fearless)

35,99 €*

Release: 2013 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2011 | EU | Reissue (Sings)

Benny Sings

Art

20,99 €*

Release: 2011 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2011 | EU | Original (Music On Vinyl)

Wolfmother

35,99 €*

2LP | 2015 | US | Original (Mobile Fidelity)

Release: 2011 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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180 gram audiophile vinyl.

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Santana

73,99 €*

2LP | 2011 | EU | Original (Sony)

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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180 Gram 45RPM Audiophile Vinyl, Numbered Limited-Edition

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Scorpions

Comeblack

Release: 2011 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2011 | UK | Original (Asylum)

Ed Sheeran

Release: 2011 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Pop

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Sprinter Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Torres

LP | 2015 | US | Original (Vinyl Me, Please)

LP | 2015 | EU | Reissue (Balloon Ranger)

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Why you'll love it...
We’ve been following Mackenzie’s career since she came out of nowhere with her incredible debut album in 2013. Since then, we’ve gotten to watch as she’s come into her own as an artist both on stage and in the studio. After diving deep into Sprinter we feel like we’re witnessing the emergence of one of the great artists of our generation... someone who combines the emotional intensity of PJ Harvey with the melodic sophistication of St. Vincent.

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Ane Brun

When I'm Free

20,99 €*

Release: 2015 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2015 | EU | Reissue (Mnrk Music Group)

High On Fire

Luminiferous

32,99 €*

Release: 2015 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2015 | US | Reissue (Don Giovanni)

Worriers

Imaginary Life

Release: 2015 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2013 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Jeff Beck

Guitar Shop

28,99 €*

Release: 2013 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2015 | US | Original (Interscope)

Imagine Dragons

Smoke + Mirrors

43,99 €*

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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II 10th Anniversary Aluminium Vinyl Edition

Unknown Mortal Orchestra

2LP | 2013 | US | Reissue (Jagjaguwar)

37,99 €*

Major Arcana 10th Anniversary Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2013 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Unknown Mortal Orchestra came to life in basements and bedrooms, the musical vision of Portlander-via-New Zealand Ruban Nielson that fused guitar-god riffs, choppy percussion, soul and funk. II, the sophomore album from UMO, emerged in an era rampant hedonism and isolationism and became the blueprint for everything Nielson has become renowned for. It was, and is, the solidification of Unknown Mortal Orchestra as an endlessly intriguing, brave and addictive band. Ten years on, it's back with an expanded edition. Written during a punishing, debauched touring schedule during which Nielson feared for both his sanity and health, II illustrates the emotional turmoil of life on the road, painting surrealist, cartoonish portraits of loneliness, love and despair. These conflicting themes are evident immediately; on the album's sleeve is an unnerving image of Janet Farrar, the famous British witch, Wiccan, author and teacher of witchcraft. The chilling refrain of opener "Into The Sun" sees Nielson deliver the line "Isolation can put a gun in your hand," softly, his words starkly intelligible above a warm, slow-burning melody that quickly brands itself onto your brain. His playful imagery ("I'm so lonely I've gotta eat my popcorn all alone") mirrors the melody, before a solo that borders on psychotropic ends II`s introduction. UMO is unafraid to dig deeper than the rest, their intoxicating, opiate groove bringing rock'n'roll's exaggerated myths to life. And as it unfolds, II does find Nielson reenergized. "One At A Time" and "Faded In The Morning" boast dizzying choruses and instrumentals; these crusty hunks could have been excavated from a lost 1960s treasure trove. "Monki" unravels over seven minutes like the yarn from a stoner's cardigan with an eye-frying pattern. "Dawn" is a minute of disconcerting noise that stands out between the nooks and crannies of the choruses, guitar solos, groove-heavy bass and drums that were recorded live by newly-recruited drummer Greg Rogove and Kody Nielson in a move away from the electronic percussion employed on album one. II closes with "Secret Xtians," a tender observational puzzle that fizzes to a satisfied end. In celebration of the album's 10th anniversary Nielson's complete collection from the II era is finally available in one compilation, and features the five acoustic tracks from the Blue EP as well as two additional B-sides. Unknown Mortal Orchestra was once Nielson's closeted concern. With an album that uses his singular musical imagination and extraordinary talent to parade his emotions with unyielding honesty, it is now a fully realized band operating at the peak of its powers ten years on.

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Speedy Ortiz

LP | 2013 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)