AIMS Marketing Program/ Featured Titles Promoted This Week:
Elvis Costello – Kings Of America & Other Realms 2xCD/6xCD/LP (UMe)
Elvis Costello returned to his folk-rock and pub rock roots with King Of America, creating one of his most affecting and personal records with the hit single “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” and other popular songs such as “Brilliant Mistake,” “American Without Tears,” and “Indoor Fireworks.” The double-CD version is anchored by CD1: a new 2024 remaster of the album King Of America from the original master tapes. CD2: a collection of songs featuring studio recordings, previously unreleased demos, outtakes and live recordings from this wild and wonderfully odd odyssey. The Super Deluxe 6xCD version adds a 3-CD digest of Costello’s studio recordings, previously unreleased demos, outtakes and live recordings from this wild and wonderfully odd odyssey.
The Cure – Songs Of A Lost World CD/2xCD+Blu-ray/LP (Capitol)
After 16 years, The Cure is back with their 14th studio album, Songs Of A Lost World. Songs from the record were previewed during their 90-date, 33-country ‘Shows Of A Lost World’ tour for more than 1.3 million people to overwhelming fan and critical acclaim. Speaking about “Alone,” the opening track on the album, Robert Smith says, “It’s the track that unlocked the record; as soon as we had that piece of music recorded, I knew it was the opening song and I felt the whole album come into focus… that was the moment when I knew the song – and the album – were real.” [Deluxe Edition in 6-panel digisleeve includes the album and instrumentals on two CDs, plus a Blu-ray with Hi-Res stereo and Dolby Atmos mixes. An indie store exclusive marble grey color vinyl pressing is also available.]
Illiterate Light – Arches LP (Thirty Tigers/Red Book)
It’s dangerous to put Illiterate Light in a box, especially with the release of their new album, Arches. Are they a guitar-driven indie rock duo? Kaleidoscopic neo-psychedelia? Synth-kissed, harmony-laden folk? What does one do with an album beginning with “fake tits and diet coke,” then pivoting to train derailments in rural Ohio and never-ending black holes? These prolific farmers-turned-rockers have captured the energy of their live shows – fans crowd-surfing, moshing, crying, and crooning-and infused it into their latest release. Illiterate Light’s third album, Arches, is not a passageway but an arrival. “We’re no longer striving to define a sound,” said drummer Jake Cochran. “We’re leaning into sides of ourselves that have felt off-limits, sticking to what feels right rather than concerning ourselves with comparison.” Turquoise colorway.
Lil Peep – Lil Peep; Part One CD/LP (Death Note Music)
Lil Peep; Part One was Lil Peep’s first major project, created in his bedroom in Long Island, New York. It marks a significant moment in Peep’s career as it laid the foundation for his unique blend of emo, punk, and hip-hop. The project features raw, emotionally charged lyrics paired with haunting melodies, reflecting Peep’s struggles with mental health, heartbreak, and substance abuse. The project features some of his most popular songs, including “Praying To the Sky” and “The Way I See Things.” It also includes unique samples from artists such as Thirty Seconds to Mars, Flyleaf, Lil B, and the theme song of Fullmetal Alchemist. [A purple pantone with glitter color vinyl pressing is available.]
Skillet – Revolution CD/LP (Hear It Loud)
Skillet rally around ten insurgent, infectious, and inimitable anthems on their aptly titled twelfth full-length offering and first-ever independent album, Revolution. The band serve up their signature arena-shaking rock uplifted by soaring guitar solos, hard-hitting riffs, cinematic strings, and some of the catchiest and most confident choruses of their storied career to date. From the tongue-in-cheek, barnstorming first single “Unpopular,” the unpredictable and undeniable dynamics of “Ash In The Wind,” and fist-pumping clarion call of “Not Afraid” to the swaggering opener “Show Time” and tender ballad “Happy Wedding Day (Alex’s Song),” this is Skillet reignited, re-energized, and ready for revolution. [A red in black color vinyl pressing is available.]
Weezer – Blue 30th CD/LP (Geffen)
Often revered as one of the most important debut albums of all-time, Weezer’s “blue” album celebrates 30 years with two extensive editions: Deluxe 3xCD and Super Deluxe 4xLP+10”+7”. The album has been newly remastered from the original analog tapes and the set includes 50 total tracks with 36 previously unreleased, including 8 Kitchen Tape Demos, 22 early practices & live recordings, 6 BBC radio recordings (2 never broadcasted) and 4 tracks from their LMU sessions. Karl Koch updates the history on the album with new liner notes in issue #18 of the weezine, along with laying out all the artwork throughout the boxset filled with unreleased photos. [An indie store exclusive (single disc) ghostly blue/clear color vinyl pressing is also available.]
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Drive-By Truckers – American Band (Deluxe Edition) 2xLP (ATO)
American Band is the 11th studio album by Drive-By Truckers and was released during the tumultuous year of 2016, its politically charged lyrics reflecting those troubled times. The Chicago Tribune called it “one of the band’s strongest front-to-back albums.” Rolling Stone and NPR deemed it one of the best albums of that year. It is reissued here, in another election year, with a bonus LP of live recordings, updated liners from Patterson Hood and repackaged with archival artwork from Wes Freed. Shadow wave/frosted silver colorway.
Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez, Christophe Beck and Michael Paraskevas – Music From Agatha All Along LP (Hollywood)
Hollywood Records presents all your favorite tracks featured in the Disney+ series, Agatha All Along, featuring Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez, Christophe Beck and Michael Paraskevas.
CDs + Vinyl:
Chris Acker – Famous Lunch CD/LP (Gar Hole)
Chris Acker’s latest collection of songs, Famous Lunch is, in his words, a “growing pains album.” When writing the record, Acker found himself hunting for a voice that wasn’t just an imitation of the one he’d been using on the last 30 songs he’d made. “At the same time, I worked hard to find a certain voice for myself over the previous three records and I didn’t want to abandon that.” [A blue color vinyl pressing is available.]
Jeremie Albino – Our Time In The Sun CD/LP (Easy Eye Sound)
Jeremie Albino, the magnetic Canadian singer-songwriter, presents his Easy Eye Sound debut, Our Time In The Sun. Produced by Dan Auerbach, this album melds the rich textures of soulful folk, Americana, and gritty blues, showcasing Albino’s evocative voice and sincere storytelling. Deeply personal, grounded in his own history and infused with a palpable, raw energy, the collection is an intimate and powerful listening experience, affirming Albino’s place as a resonant force in contemporary music.
Arctis – Arctis CD (Napalm)
Finnish modern metal force Arctis release their eponymous debut album. With ferocious talent and a groundbreaking sound, Arctis draws inspiration from the mythical winters and mystical summers of the North, navigating their futuristic battleship through a treacherous ocean where metal crashes with reefs of rock and pop, resulting in a sonic assault of epic proportions.
Arxx – Good Boy CD/LP (Submarine Cat)
Arxx are on a mission to spread queer joy: the sort that they longed to see when they were younger, and that they’ve been increasingly visible champions of since emerging with their first material. It’s a message that’s always been a core tenet of the Brighton band, formed of vocalist Hanni Pidduck and drummer Clara Townsend, but that’s become progressively more loud and proud as the duo have explored and embraced their own identities. And, following a concentrated period of monumental growth – both as a musical unit and, crucially, as people – second album ‘Good Boy’ arrives as a bright and brilliant testament to this journey. [A color vinyl pressing is available.]
Beardfish – Songs For Beating Hearts CD/LP (Inside Out)
After nearly nine years apart, Swedish prog rock legends Beardfish are back.
Bellamy Brothers – Double Dog Dare CD (Bellamy Brothers)
An album of great new songs and some classic duets.
Sarah Blasko – I Just Need To Conquer This Mountain CD/LP (Mvka Music)
I Just Need to Conquer This Mountain finds one of Australia’s most revered songwriters more reflective and more personal than ever before. It is a record about both the heartbreak and quiet calm that comes with letting go of your younger self, how thin the line between tragedy and comedy becomes the older we get, and the way time changes ourselves, our hopes and our dreams. [A yellow color vinyl pressing is available.]
Brothers Of Metal – Fimbulvinter CD/LP (AFM)
Swedish power metal heavyweights Brothers of Metal are back with their new album. [Multiple colorways are available on vinyl.]
Jennifer Castle – Camelot CD/LP (A Paradise Of Bachelors)
“Castle’s songs are vibrant and bountiful landscapes, and even in their quietest, darkest moments, they thrum and glow. [She] has a stunning capacity for crafting lines rich with nuance, humor and devastating beauty.” – CBC
Hugh Cornwell – All Of The Fun Of The Fair CD/LP (His)
When future historians of music draw up a list of the movers and shakers who changed the modern musical landscape, there will be no doubt that Hugh Cornwell’s name will be prominent amongst them. As a pioneering musician, songwriter, and performer his pervasive influence persists in the record collections of music aficionados, across this spinning globe’s radio waves, and on stages around the world. As leader of The Stranglers, Hugh was the main songwriter of all the band’s most memorable songs across ten stellar albums.
Elvis Costello – Kings Of America & Other Realms 2xCD/6xCD/LP (UMe)
Elvis Costello returned to his folk-rock and pub rock roots with King Of America, creating one of his most affecting and personal records with the hit single “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” and other popular songs such as “Brilliant Mistake,” “American Without Tears,” and “Indoor Fireworks.” The double-CD version is anchored by CD1: a new 2024 remaster of the album King Of America from the original master tapes. CD2: a collection of songs featuring studio recordings, previously unreleased demos, outtakes and live recordings from this wild and wonderfully odd odyssey. The Super Deluxe 6xCD version adds a 3-CD digest of Costello’s studio recordings, previously unreleased demos, outtakes and live recordings from this wild and wonderfully odd odyssey.
The Cure – Songs Of A Lost World CD/2xCD+Blu-ray/LP (Capitol)
After 16 years, The Cure is back with their 14th studio album, Songs Of A Lost World. Songs from the record were previewed during their 90-date, 33-country ‘Shows Of A Lost World’ tour for more than 1.3 million people to overwhelming fan and critical acclaim. Speaking about “Alone,” the opening track on the album, Robert Smith says, “It’s the track that unlocked the record; as soon as we had that piece of music recorded, I knew it was the opening song and I felt the whole album come into focus… that was the moment when I knew the song – and the album – were real.” [Deluxe Edition in 6-panel digisleeve includes the album and instrumentals on two CDs, plus a Blu-ray with Hi-Res stereo and Dolby Atmos mixes. An indie store exclusive marble grey color vinyl pressing is also available.]
Dom Sensitive – Leather Trim CD/LP (Dinosaur City)
Equally inspired by patchwork hip-hop production, autobiographical fiction and heart-on-ya-sleeve psychedelia, Leather Trim is laden with streams of sentimental sentences, loopy mechanical junk-yard rhythms, wacky samples, wayward pianos, abundant studio trickery and oceans of tape echo; it’s an extravagant and highly spirited journey from start to finish.
The Fleshtones – It’s Getting Late (…And More Songs About Werewolves) CD/LP (Yep Roc)
Unlike their contemporaries, The Fleshtones have not dialed down the tempos to compensate for osteoporosis, they have not lost anything on their fastball and continue to throw it for strikes. The hardest working band in garage rock has never sounded better, and now you see why they’ve been your favorite band’s favorite band for decades.
Warren Haynes – Million Voice Whisper CD/2xCD/2xLP (Fantasy)
Million Voices Whisper is the third Fantasy solo album (following Man in Motion and Ashes & Dust) by the remarkable musician/songwriter Warren Haynes. Enlisting an all-star core of support, including New Orleans-native Terence Higgins on drums, organist and keyboard wiz John Medeski, Mule bassist Kevin Scott, and genius guitarist Derek Trucks, Haynes has been inspired to craft his best work, eleven original songs that establish a high bar in a genre that could easily be termed modern classic rock. [An indie store exclusive canary yellow color vinyl pressing is available. The deluxe 2xCD edition includes four bonus tracks.]
Catherine Christer Hennix – Further Selections From The Electric Harpsichord CD/LP (Blank Forms)
Rediscovered and compiled for release shortly before her death in November 2023, Further Selections From The Electric Harpsichord presents a never-before-heard recording of composer and artist Catherine Christer Hennix’s early magnum opus. Originally debuted in 1976 at the festival Brouwer’s Lattice at Stockholm’s Moderna Museet, The Electric Harpsichord has steadily mystified fans and students of Western minimalist music for its implacable, transformative qualities, and the long-held, relative obscurity of its creator. Like the work of Hennix’s close friend La Monte Young, the piece is set in just intonation and focuses on the transcendental potentials of precise tuning, inspired by their studies with Pandit Pran Nath. Composed of bursts of oscillating, synthetic tones using a carefully retuned synthesizer and a tape-based system for feedback delay, the sounds swirl, twinkle, and appear to bend time, space, and perception.
Steve Hill – Hanging On A String CD/LP (Idla)
Award-winning and critically acclaimed Canadian blues rock one-man band, guitarist and singer-songwriter, Steve Hill imagines his newest album Hanging On A String will feel like a concept album, set in a dystopian world where music is the only salvation.
King Diamond – Graveyard [Reissue/1996] CD/2xLP (Metal Blade)
King Diamond – Voodoo [Reissue/1998] CD/2xLP (Metal Blade)
King Diamond – House Of God [Reissue/2000] CD/2xLP (Metal Blade)
King Diamond – Abigail II: The Revenge [Reissue/2002] CD/2xLP (Metal Blade)
King Diamond – Puppet Master [Reissue/2003] CD/2xLP (Metal Blade)
King Diamond – Give Me Your Soul…Please [Reissue/2007] CD/2xLP (Metal Blade)
CD and color vinyl reissues of the seventh through twelfth albums by the Danish heavy metal band.
Lil Peep – Lil Peep; Part One CD/LP (Death Note Music)
Lil Peep; Part One was Lil Peep’s first major project, created in his bedroom in Long Island, New York. It marks a significant moment in Peep’s career as it laid the foundation for his unique blend of emo, punk, and hip-hop. The project features raw, emotionally charged lyrics paired with haunting melodies, reflecting Peep’s struggles with mental health, heartbreak, and substance abuse. The project features some of his most popular songs, including “Praying To the Sky” and “The Way I See Things.” It also includes unique samples from artists such as Thirty Seconds to Mars, Flyleaf, Lil B, and the theme song of Fullmetal Alchemist. [A purple pantone with glitter color vinyl pressing is available.]
Machine Girl – MG Ultra CD/LP (Future Classics)
Anthemic and fast-paced, the new studio album MG Ultra is Machine Girl’s heaviest music to date and offers a boiling-the-frog intro to MG for new fans. MG lore juxtaposes whether the picture painted is that of reality, a fantastical escape or a jarring future. Infamous for cathartic, unpredictable performances and genre-agnostic catalog, Machine Girl’s vitriolic, organic following has developed through sonic maximalism and anime/B-horror visual flair. [An indie store exclusive translucent green color vinyl pressing is available.]
Mitochondrion – Vitriseptome CD/2xLP (Profound Lore)
Over two decades of toil have passed, the aeon of the end was declared, the parasitic wisdom gained, and the formula of undoing achieved. Mitochondrian awoke from a deep, dreamless slumber, and after eleven agonizing years, pried loose from the Cronian clutches to integrate the suffering once again. This singular death metal entity has prepared in cloistered meditation to ascend the peak and proselytize the harrowing word once more.
mxmtoon – liminal space CD/LP (Turtle Girl)
Since she was 17 years old, mxmtoon has made exquisitely catchy pop songs that capture the kind of complex and tender feelings we often keep hidden from the world. Now 24, mxmtoon found her relationship to songwriting profoundly transformed in the making of her third album liminal space, a body of work informed by a period of major upheaval and uncertainty in her family life. When met with a bigger and bolder sound threaded with elements of country and folk and indie-rock—achieved thanks to her all-female lineup of collaborators—the result is an up-close exploration of what she sums up as “the messy, dark, complicated, and also very beautiful chaos inherent in mother-daughter relationships.” [A galaxy marble green color vinyl pressing is available.]
Nachtmystium – Blight Privilege CD/LP (Prophecy)
With their ninth studio album Blight Privilege, Nachtmystium are once again presenting a masterpiece that can even compete with the trilogy of albums that many view as the peak of the earlier career of the American black metal (USBM) trailblazers: Instinct: Decay (2006), Assassins: Black Meddle Pt. I (2008), and Addicts: Black Meddle Pt. II (2010). [A deluxe CD version and a blue w/ black smoke color vinyl pressing are available.]
Willie Nelson – Last Leaf On The Tree CD/2xLP (Sony Legacy)
Lovingly curated and produced by his son Micah Nelson, Last Leaf On The Tree finds Willie covering songs from moody indie rock (Beck), psych alt-pop (The Flaming Lips) and punk-informed folk (Sunny War, Micah’s Particle Kid) to thought-provoking soul jazz (Nina Simone) and lesser-known gems from legends like Tom Waits, Neil Young, Keith Richards, and Warren Zevon. In addition, the album features new takes on one of Willie’s oldest songs (“The Ghost” from 1962) plus a new one penned with Micah (“The Color Of Sound”) that joins Willie’s collection of Zen-soaked classics. In addition to producing, Micah Nelson plays many of the instruments and even designed the album cover. He is joined by a host of celebrated musicians plus guest spots from legendary producer and musician Daniel Lanois, John Densmore of The Doors and harmonica master Mickey Raphael, who has played alongside Willie for over 50 years. [A gold w/ smoke color vinyl pressing is available.]
Nena – Nena [Reissue/1983] CD/2xLP (BMG)
This comprehensive and stylishly compiled anniversary edition gives old and new fans the opportunity to rediscover the magic of this legendary album. In addition to the remastered Nena album, the anniversary edition contains a second LP with further unreleased material – including “Amour Candide,” a version of the song “Nur Geträumt” in French from 1983 that appeared in the rock ‘n’ roll archives, energetic and previously unheard live tracks from Nena’s 1984 concerts, as well as rare demos and B-sides.
Peter Perrett – The Cleansing CD/LP (Domino)
The Cleansing doesn’t only match Peter Perrett’s best work but expands it: an ambitious double album comprising 20 songs, with his uniquely narcotic and alluring melodies, gorgeous South London drawl and ravishing rock dynamic now allied to a wider span of musical arrangements and lyrical concerns. Alongside his trusted team of sons Jamie (guitar / production) and Peter Jr (bass) plus members of his live band, Perrett is assisted by a roster of starry guests including Johnny Marr, Bobby Gillespie and Fontaines DC’s Carlos O’Connell.
Skillet – Revolution CD/LP (Hear It Loud)
Skillet rally around ten insurgent, infectious, and inimitable anthems on their aptly titled twelfth full-length offering and first-ever independent album, Revolution. The band serve up their signature arena-shaking rock uplifted by soaring guitar solos, hard-hitting riffs, cinematic strings, and some of the catchiest and most confident choruses of their storied career to date. From the tongue-in-cheek, barnstorming first single “Unpopular,” the unpredictable and undeniable dynamics of “Ash In The Wind,” and fist-pumping clarion call of “Not Afraid” to the swaggering opener “Show Time” and tender ballad “Happy Wedding Day (Alex’s Song),” this is Skillet reignited, re-energized, and ready for revolution. [A red in black color vinyl pressing is available.]
Elliott Smith – From A Basement On The Hill [Reissue/2004] CD (Kill Rock Stars)
Brand new digital transfers from the original 1/4” tape mixes by Rob Schnapf & Joanna Bolme. Remastered by the official Elliott Smith archival team of Larry Crane (Jackpot! Studio/Tape Op) and Adam Gonsalves (Telegraph Mastering). From A Basement On The Hill is Smiths final recording and finds Smith returning to an edgier, guitar-driven sound, alongside his trademark heart-rending balladry.
J Spaceman & John Coxon – Music For Wiliam Eggletson’s Stranded In Canton CD/LP (Fat Possum)
Stranded In Canton is a black-and-white film portrait of Memphis in 1974, shot in bars and on street corners, showing Eggleston’s friends carousing, playing music and firing pistols into the night sky. It is raw, greasy, Quaalude-y and hot. Jagged and intimate, the film is a handheld window into a different world; “Hogarth on Beale Street” as writer Richard Williams describes it in the album’s liner notes. Restored and re-edited by Eggleston in collaboration with the author Robert Gordon, the 77-minute film was screened in 2015 as part of Doug Aitken’s Station to Station, a 30-day arts festival in London and Aitken recruited J Spaceman to provide a live score.
Texas Hippie Coalition – Gunsmoke CD/LP (MNRK Heavy)
A collective of tried-and-true rabble rousers and dyed-in-the-wool storytellers, the Texas quintet spike ass-whopping hard rock with a kick of country swagger and a whole lot of Texas grit and gusto. [A red w/ orange and black splatter color vinyl pressing is available.]
Thus Love – All Pleasure CD/LP (Captured Tracks)
Stimulation is easy to come by these days. Streaming platforms and social media offer us endless fleeting moments of diversion that keep what we call the “pleasure zones” of our brains lit up morning till night. But for such a supposedly hedonistic time, real pleasure-the kind that feeds our soul rather than draining it, that makes us feel good instead of just distracting us from the fact that we feel bad-is in shockingly short supply. The second LP by Brattleboro, Vermont’s Thus Love is full of that kind of nourishing euphoria. It swoons, shakes, and swaggers with a combination of grit and sensuality that’s been hard to locate in music lately. It fills your brain with barbed melodic hooks that once they sink in don’t budge. [A silver color vinyl pressing is available.]
Uncle Walt’s Band – Thought Youd Never Ask: The Complete 1975 Armadillo Records Recordings CD (Omnivore Recordings)
Collection containing 22 tracks (19 previously unissued) from the Americana music pioneers. Formed in Spartanburg, SC around 1970, Uncle Walt’s Band – David Ball, Deschamps Hood, and Walter Hyatt – established themselves in the area before relocating to Nashville (garnering a following a recording/publishing deal with Buzz Cason), and eventually Austin (per the invite of Willis Alan Ramsey who was anxious to record them.) The band played steadily around Austin in clubs including Castle Creek, Saxon Pub, and Armadillo World Headquarters-where live albums from New Riders Of The Purple Sage, Waylon Jennings, Frank Zappa/Captain Beefheart, Commander Cody, and more were recorded.
VOLA – Friend Of A Phantom CD/LP (Mascot)
Danish-Swedish quartet VOLA continues to defy conventions by combining electronic elements with a progressive and pop-infused metal sound.
Weezer – Blue 30th CD/LP (Geffen)
Often revered as one of the most important debut albums of all-time, Weezer’s “blue” album celebrates 30 years with two extensive editions: Deluxe 3xCD and Super Deluxe 4xLP+10”+7”. The album has been newly remastered from the original analog tapes and the set includes 50 total tracks with 36 previously unreleased, including 8 Kitchen Tape Demos, 22 early practices & live recordings, 6 BBC radio recordings (2 never broadcasted) and 4 tracks from their LMU sessions. Karl Koch updates the history on the album with new liner notes in issue #18 of the weezine, along with laying out all the artwork throughout the boxset filled with unreleased photos. [An indie store exclusive (single disc) ghostly blue/clear color vinyl pressing is also available.]
DVDs + Blu-ray:
The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Blu-ray Audio (WB)
The Flaming Lips’ 2002 best-selling album, available for the first time on Blu-ray in Dolby ATMOS, 5.1 Mix & Hi-Res Stereo. Also includes four remastered videos & Bleep Bops. Featuring one of the band’s most iconic songs – “Do You Realize?” – plus “Fight Test”, “Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell” and more.
This Week’s Vinyl Exclusives:
4Am Kru – Incognito Truth 3xLP (Embrace The Real)
London’s jungle pioneers 4Am Kru drop their highly anticipated debut album Incognito Rhythm featuring all the tracks that have cemented their reputation as the go-to act for raw, live jungle music.
American Football – American Football [Reissue/1999] 2xLP (Polyvinyl)
Silver colorway. After quietly releasing their self-titled debut album in 1999 while still in college, American Football disbanded after the album’s release to focus on other projects, only to reunite 15 years later to a fanbase that had been consistently growing throughout the underground / emo scene. The album later appeared on Rolling Stone’s “40 Greatest Emo Albums of All Time” list at #6, with Pitchfork giving its deluxe reissue the “Best New Reissue” title, calling it the “most influential album in the genre.” To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the album’s release, Polyvinyl is thrilled to announce a new remastered edition of the album with re-imagined artwork and packaging.
Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez, Christophe Beck and Michael Paraskevas – Music From Agatha All Along LP (Hollywood)
Hollywood Records presents all your favorite tracks featured in the Disney+ series, Agatha All Along, featuring Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez, Christophe Beck and Michael Paraskevas.
Chet Baker – Baker’s Holiday [Reissue/1965] LP (Verve)
Recorded in 1965 and showcasing a number of songs he’d never recorded before, Baker’s Holiday is Chet’s tribute to Billie Holiday and features his instantly identifiable trumpet along with four trademark vocals. Backed by a full sax section and a four-piece rhythm section that includes pianist Hank Jones, this classic album highlights colorful Jimmy Mundy arrangements.
Julianna Barwick – The Magic Place [Reissue/2011] LP (Florine)
Originally released in 2011, Julianna Barwick’s debut full length The Magic Place is a nine-piece full-length album of magic and solace, bursting joy, and healing tones. Julianna’s mostly a cappella music is built from her multi-tracked and looped voice, with backing instrumentation, but it’s the vocals-soaring high in reverb-drenched, wordless harmonies-that matter most here. Layered fragments and pieces become an intricate pattern through electronics; it’s the sound of a rising thing, a big group harmony as a splash of sunlight through a car window, a sound that feels like hope and ascendance and patience and intimacy.
Jello Biafra with D.O.A. – Last Scream Of The Missing Neighbors [Reissue/1989] LP (Alternative Tentacles)
Biafra’s first post-Dead Kennedys solo album. Killer hard edged 1989 collaboration with the Canadian punk band DOA. [A limited color vinyl pressing is available.]
The Boxer Rebellion – Exits [Reissue/2005] LP (Absentee)
The Boxer Rebellion – Union [Reissue/2009] LP (Absentee)
The Boxer Rebellion – The Cold Still [Reissue/2010] LP (Absentee)
The Boxer Rebellion – Promises [Reissue/2013] LP (Absentee)
Color vinyl reissues of the British indie rock band’s first four albums.
Cosmic Tones Research Trio – All Is Sound LP (Mississippi)
Portland’s finest practitioners of Great Black Music offering to the planet! All Is Sound could not be a more apt title for this. Through saxophone, cello, piano, and flutes The Cosmic Tones Research Trio created a truly beautiful record. All Is Sound breaks new ground. At its heart, it’s healing/meditation music, but the gospel and blues roots are in there too… as well as hints of forward-looking spiritual jazz. As sincere a record as you could ever hope for. Music is indeed the healing force of the universe.
Doctor Bionic – Tune In LP (Chiefdom)
Color vinyl pressing. A carefully curated collection of instrumental fusion, designed to serve as the perfect radio mix for fans of jazz, hip hop, funk, soul, reggae and beyond. It’s the latest release from Cincinnati based executive producer Doctor Bionic (Jason Grimez).
Marcus Drake – Save Point 1 LP (Sooper)
After years of preparation, Marcus Drake emerges from the basement networks of the resistance underground to claim the first save point along his quest ahead. Welcome to Save Point 1, a universe where popular forms of the past collide at warp speed with Marcus’s mutant inspirations to produce sounds and genres hitherto unknown. Save Point 1 is a visionary and singular Debut work of avant rock & pop alchemy, blown apart and reassembled under the laws of quantum musical mechanics. Written, Produced & Performed by Marcus Drake, the album eludes classification, but sounds like a sci-fi fusion of musical DNA from Nine Inch Nails, Prefab Sprout, Nobuo Uematsu (the Final Fantasy video game composer), Animal Collective, Prince, Mr. Bungle, Liars, The Mars Volta, and Lil Ugly Mane. [A color vinyl pressing is available.]
Drive-By Truckers – American Band (Deluxe Edition) 2xLP (ATO)
American Band is the 11th studio album by Drive-By Truckers and was released during the tumultuous year of 2016, its politically charged lyrics reflecting those troubled times. The Chicago Tribune called it “one of the band’s strongest front-to-back albums.” Rolling Stone and NPR deemed it one of the best albums of that year. It is reissued here, in another election year, with a bonus LP of live recordings, updated liners from Patterson Hood and repackaged with archival artwork from Wes Freed. Shadow wave/frosted silver colorway.
- Savage – Mafia Musik LP (D Savage Ent.)
Translucent purple colorway. Mafia Musik is the fourth studio album from mercurial Los Angeles rapper, D. Savage. Initially breaking out in the SoundCloud rap scene in 2016 with the track, “30 Round Clip,” D. Savage has blossomed from underground icon to full-fledged star, with Mafia Musik serving as his magnum opus.
Lupe Fiasco – Tesuo & Youth [Reissue/2015] LP (Atlantic)
Translucent grape colorway. “Tetsuo & Youth glistens with imagination. Where the Judo Master of Juxtaposition has grown more challenging lyrically.”—Justin Hunte (Hip-Hop DX)
Firewind – Allegiance [Reissue/2006] LP (Limited Run Vinyl)
Firewind is a power metal band from Greece, founded in 1998 by virtuoso guitarist Gus G. Melodic hooks, intricate guitar work, and powerful vocals made Firewind a prominent force in the European power metal scene.
Five Green Moons – Moon 1 LP (Pamela)
Five Green Moons is a slinky dubwise entity with tentacles enveloping many influences, merging them into a single pulsating organism. Hints of P.I.L, On-U-Sound, elastic post punk, and angular basement electric sounds intermingle with haunting vocal motifs that conjure up comparisons with Current 93 or some arcane invocation straight out of a folk horror film classic.
Peter Gabriel – Peter Gabriel 1: Car [Reissue/1977] LP+MP3 (Real World)
Peter Gabriel – Peter Gabriel 2: Scratch [Reissue/1978] LP+MP3 (Real World)
Peter Gabriel – Peter Gabriel 4: Melt [Reissue/1980] LP+MP3 (Real World)
Peter Gabriel – Peter Gabriel 4: Security [Reissue/1982] LP+MP3 (Real World)
Peter Gabriel – So [Reissue/1986] LP+MP3 (Real World)
New color vinyl reissues of Peter Gabriel’s first five solo albums.
Gold Connections – Fortune LP (Well Kept Secret)
“A conversation between old Virginia and the buzzy psychedelic world of post-COVID New Orleans”, according to Gold Connection’s Will Marsh. The eleven tracks on Fortune deftly navigate a geographical and spiritual journey: remorse, intoxication, anger, mystery, destruction, and regeneration, delivered with the same approach that NPR hailed as “undeniably catchy” and Sterogum claimed was “an animal of it’s own”.
The Goo Goo Dolls – Greatest Hits Volume One – The Singles [Reissue/2007] LP (WB)
Coke bottle clear pressing. Spanning an incredibly productive and successful era for the band, the 14-track album includes all their hit singles from 1995 to 2006, including “Name”, “Slide”, “Iris”, and “Black Balloon”. During this period, the band released the hugely popular albums A Boy Named Goo, Dizzy Up The Girl, Gutterflower and Let Love In that established the band as a major player in alternative rock.
Bobby Hutcherson – Dialogue [Reissue/1965] LP (Blue Note)
1965’s Dialogue was the debut by vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, who had already proven himself a versatile sideman on albums from Idle Moments to Out To Lunch. Dialogue showcased his more adventurous leanings with a sextet featuring Freddie Hubbard, Sam Rivers, Andrew Hill, Richard Davis and Joe Chambers.
Cliff Jordan – Cliff Jordan [Reissue/1957] LP (Blue Note)
Under-recognized tenor Clifford Jordan blew in from Chicago with a trio of excellent Blue Note sessions in 1957, including this self-titled release featuring a septet with Lee Morgan (trumpet), Curtis Fuller (trombone), John Jenkins (alto sax), Ray Bryant (piano), Paul Chambers (bass) and Art Taylor (drums).
Illiterate Light – Arches LP (Thirty Tigers/Red Book)
It’s dangerous to put Illiterate Light in a box, especially with the release of their new album, Arches. Are they a guitar-driven indie rock duo? Kaleidoscopic neo-psychedelia? Synth-kissed, harmony-laden folk? What does one do with an album beginning with “fake tits and diet coke,” then pivoting to train derailments in rural Ohio and never-ending black holes? These prolific farmers-turned-rockers have captured the energy of their live shows – fans crowd-surfing, moshing, crying, and crooning-and infused it into their latest release. Illiterate Light’s third album, Arches, is not a passageway but an arrival. “We’re no longer striving to define a sound,” said drummer Jake Cochran. “We’re leaning into sides of ourselves that have felt off-limits, sticking to what feels right rather than concerning ourselves with comparison.” Turquoise colorway.
Ivy – Log Distance [Reissue/2000] LP (Bar/None)
Originally released in November 2000 Ivy’s third studio album, Long Distance, is considered by many to be their breakthrough album. It’s heavily influenced by trip-hop and new wave while maintaining the blend of indie pop and rock they had become known for. Long Distance includes some of Ivy’s most recognizable songs like “Worry About You,” “Undertow” and their signature song “Edge of the Ocean.”
Little Big Town – Greatest Hits LP (Capitol Nashville)
Translucent white colorway. Over two decades of chart-busting country smashes on one definitive body of work, ranging from the Grammy Award-winning “Pontoon,” “Boondocks” and “Better Man” to massively influential anthems such as “Girl Crush.” It traces the quartet’s unbelievable journey from humble beginnings to country royalty.
Loose Cattle – Someone’s Monster LP (Single Lock)
Loose Cattle, the five-piece roots rock outfit declared “favorite Americana cowpunks in New Orleans” by OffBeat Magazine work to make music that matters, aligning themselves with, and advocating for, people at the margins of our society. In the band’s mind, if “Americana” is to mean anything, it should mean inclusion and a diverse music scene populated by the people the American Dream crushed. The misfits and outcasts are who they sing for and choose to dance with.
Los Campesinos! – All Hell 2xLP (Many Hats)
Lunar rays color vinyl pressing. New album by the UK emo band. In their words, All Hell is an album about “Drinking for fun and drinking for misery // adult acne // adult friendship // football // death and dying // love and sex // late-stage capitalism // Orpheus // day dreaming // night terrors // the heart as an organ and as a burden // Tears of the Kingdom // the punks on the playlist // increments of time // climate apocalypse // the moon the moon the moon///”
Market – Well, I Asked You A Question LP (Western Vinyl)
The reliably inventive songwriting project Market is an outlet for producer Nate Mendelsohn’s obsessive questions and answers, recollections of conversation and interior monologues. Well I Asked You A Question is a giant leap inward; it brims with a humorous, neurotic candor only ever outmatched by a wide and colorful sonic palette. Calling the album “a personal vision of pop music,” Mendelsohn blends internet eclecticism, adventurous orchestration, and hyper-focused production to build a cohesive whole from the fragments of his curiosity.
Dean Martin – Greatest Hits LP (Capitol)
13 of Dino’s biggest hits and signature songs, including “That’s Amore,” “Ain’t That a Kick in the Head,” “Volare,” “Sway,” and many more.
Mazur, Bley, Mikkelborg, Jensen & Hazama – XL-LX 5xLP (Storyville)
This ambitious collection features five commissioned compositions from five diverse composers, showcasing the versatility and modernity of large jazz ensemble music. Spanning nearly two hours of music, XL-LX illustrates the dynamic and distinctive voices within the Danish Radio Big Band. Recorded over the past eight years, the collection emphasizes the band’s role as the unifying element amidst diverse compositions.
Tim McGraw – Not A Moment Too Soon [Reissue/1994] LP (Curb)
Not A Moment To Soon launched Tim McGraw as a country music superstar as the album reached #1 on the Billboard Top 200 chart and it stayed at the #1 spot on the Billboard Country Album chart for 26 weeks.
George Michael – Careless Whisper [Reissue/1984] 12” (Sony Legacy)
Instrumental and extended mixes of George Michael’s iconic pop song and a previously unreleased live version recorded at Madison Square Garden, New York. This EP was cut at 45rpm at half speed and on pressed on 180g red marbled color vinyl.
Ronnie Milsap – The Best Of Ronnie Milsap LP (Craft Recordings)
12 timeless classics from the Country Music Hall of Fame inductee, Ronnie Milsap, comprise this collection. Featuring tracks such as “I Wouldn’t Have Missed It For The World,” “(There’s) No Getting’ Over Me,” “Smoky Mountain Rain” and other favorites, this album showcases the six-time Grammy Award-winner’s signature crossover style.
Mother Of Graves – The Periapt Of Absence LP (Profound Lore)
After the success and lasting impact of their debut 2022 full-length, Where The Shadows Adorn, Indianapolis melodic death-doom purveyors Mother Of Graves return to the surface with a new and prolific dose of melancholy.
New Street Adventure – No Hard Feelings [Reissue/2014] LP (Acid Jazz)
New Street Adventure mark the 10th Anniversary of their debut, No Hard Feelings, with a special edition color vinyl reissue. One of the most beloved Acid Jazz releases of the last decade, the original pressing fetches large sums on record collector sites; a measure of the enduring quality of the songs, and the continued popularity of the band. The album is pressed on distinctive transparent olive green vinyl with printed inner sleeve, adorned by unseen candid and live photographs (including by leading UK music photographer Dean Chalkley), with newly remastered audio.
Nickelus F – MMCHT LP/Cassette (Trick Dice)
A must-have for all hip-hop fans, this album combines top-tier lyricism, captivating production, and introspective storytelling.
Planes Mistaken For Stars – Do You Still Love Me? LP (Deathwish Inc.)
A harrowing document of life, death and transcendence, Do You Still Love Me? is the fifth album from Planes Mistaken for Stars (PMFS), the band’s first new music since 2016. It is also the first PMFS release since the death of frontman Gared O’Donnell, whose cancer diagnosis loomed heavily over the recording and whose ghost guided the mix. Chemo and radiation would not stop him from making this masterpiece, in which the band finds itself reeling from the gut-wrenching horrors of their leader’s unimaginable absence. [Two colorways are available: translucent blue and indie store exclusive blue/black galaxy.]
Nick Power / Mark McKowski – Throat LP (Deltasonic)
Throat consists of two artists on sabbatical from their day jobs – Nick Power from The Coral, and McKowski as one half of The Lost Brothers, film score composer, screenwriter and touring musician (Jolie Holland, Howe Gelb, M. Ward). Recorded in the period of 2021 and 2024 between Omagh, Northern Ireland and Merseyside, Throat is a journey through McKowski and Power’s shared imaginations, at times reminiscent of the rumbling darkness of Nick Cave & Warren Ellis’ movie scores; poetry readings held in the middle of stone circles just before dawn light; the bleaker moments of The Wicker Man soundtrack or spending time at a lock-in at a haunted folk club where the beer’s been spiked.
The Residents – Dookietown LP (Cryptic Corporation)
In acknowledgement of the 2024 US election and the increasingly pressing question Where do clowns go when the show is over? The Residents present a brand new six track EP. Produced in secret during a pause in recording their next magnum opus album, the Dookietown concept originates way back in the 1990s. For reasons that may or may not be relevant to the here and now depending on whose legal team are asking, the group were recently reminded of the project, and quickly revisited and recorded those songs as best they could remember them.
Rival Schools – Pedals [Reissue/2011] LP (Run For Cover)
Rival Schools – Found [Reissue/2013] LP (Run For Cover)
Pink and green (respectively) colorways. Rival Schools started as the once-new project of vocalist/guitarist Walter Schreifels, who as a member of Youth of Today, Gorilla Biscuits and Quicksand routinely reinvented the sound of hardcore. In Rival Schools he was joined by bandmates Ian Love, Cache Tolman and Sammy Siegler, whose other projects at the time include Iceburn, CIV and Glassjaw. Pedals continued the legacy of blending pop melodies with hardcore ethos that the band cemented 10 years before on their debut album United By Fate; Found is a collection of rarities, demos and alternate takes of songs collected in the years following that album.
Roots Manuva – Brand New Second Hand [Reissue/1999] 2xLP+MP3 (Big Dada)
Double smoke color vinyl LP pressing. Includes digital download with bonus tracks. Rodney Smith aka Roots Manuva is one of the titans of Black British music, known for his distinctive voice, complex lyricism, and genre-blending production. His innovative sound being one that merges hip-hop with reggae, dub, and electronic influences which established him as seminal figure in the UK music scene. Smith’s career began in the early 1990s, gaining attention with his debut album Brand New Second Hand (1999). The body of work was a critical success due to its introspective lyrics and avant-garde beats and showcased his ability to merge social commentary with personal introspection.
Sathanas – Into The Nocturne LP (Moribund)
Delivering 666 fistfuls of pure old-school extreme heavy metal, Into the Nocturne runs the gamut of true Metal genres and is sure to satiate even the most discriminating metal fan with their merciless old-school black thrashing death style. [A color vinyl pressing is available.]
Richard Swift – 4 Hits & A Miss – The Essential Richard Swift LP (Secretly Canadian)
Devotees of Richard Swift know that his catalog is sprawly and imaginative, packed with as many finely-honed stone cold classics as one-take, madman experiments. The gems take all shapes and sizes, and while it doesn’t phase the diehard, it does make Swift’s music tricky to introduce to the newcomer: Where to start? What makes the cut? How many crooners? How many wild ones? It’s with this in mind that Secretly Canadian presents 4 Hits & A Miss, a humble swing at gathering the forty-seven minutes and fourteen songs that can initiate the uninitiated.
SYML – Infinity LP (Nettwerk)
Black ice w/ white splatter colorway. SYML – Welsh for “simple” – makes music that taps into the instincts that drive us to places of sanctuary, whether that be a place or a person. Born and raised in Seattle, Fennell studied piano and became a self-taught producer, programmer, and guitarist.
Fred Thomas – Window In The Rhythm LP (Polyvinyl)
White sand colorway. The past becomes part of the future on Window In The Rhythm, a career-defining double album statement from singer, songwriter, and producer Fred Thomas as he delivers a compelling inspection on memory and reflection, looking back on the past as a way of moving forward. Featuring contributions from friends like drummer Quin Kirchner, harpist Mary Lattimore, and frequent collaborative co-producer Drew Vandenberg, the album takes the next step in an artistic progression Thomas began with a trilogy of solo records that included 2015’s All Are Saved, 2017’s Changer, and 2018’s Aftering.
Thy Art Is Murder – Dear Desolation [Reissue/2017] LP (Nuclear Blast)
Thy Art Is Murder – Human Target [Reissue/2019] LP (Nuclear Blast)
Silver and yellow (respectively) colorways of the Australian deathcore band’s fourth and fifth albums.
Johnny Tobin – Steppin’ Out LP (Austin Boogie Crew)
Canadian artist Jonny Tobin’s new modern funk album Steppin’ Out on Austin Boogie Crew Records shines with its catchy songwriting, stellar production and synth wizardry.
Tuxedo – Tuxedo IV LP (Funk On Sight)
Bonding over a shared love of Parliament, Zapp and other signs in the greater funk Zodiac, Mayer Hawthorne (Aquarius) and Jake One (Taurus), collectively known as Tuxedo, return with their fourth studio album, Tuxedo IV. Their powers combined have yet again yielded a bevy of absolute slappers that are packaged perfectly for dance floors in 2024. [An indie store exclusive gold dust colorway is available.]
Uboa – Impossible Light LP (The Flenser)
Uboa’s fifth album Impossible Light almost never made it out of the dark. From its initial conception in 2018, this record went to hell and back, dragging it’s immensity and too-big-to-hold emotion through the torturous process of translation to sound and returned triumphantly as a full-bodied record in a distinct new style. While Uboa’s signature style of highly polished, cinematic “hypernoise” is front and center in Impossible Light, there is also a daring departure into the genres of industrial metal/rock, setting it apart from any other Uboa release thus far and distinguishing it from other contemporary noise records. [A sea blue colorway is available.]
Usher – Confessions [Reissue/2004] 2xLP (Sony Legacy)
Confessions 20th Anniversary Edition contains alternative album artwork and orchestral versions of “Burn” and “Superstar” as bonus tracks.
Hank Williams III – Risin’ Outlaw [Reissue/1999] LP (Curb)
Limited color vinyl pressing. 25th Anniversary of Hank Williams III’s debut album Risin’ Outlaw that presents 13 tracks that show Williams’ affection for authentic, rough around the edges country. From the catchy, driving album opener “I Don’t Know” to his honky tonk vocals on “You’re the Reason,” Hank III blends his famous heritage with his own musical outlook.
Flora Yin Wong / Sébastien Roux – 50 frequency & amplitude modulated sine waves describing a landscape / Trigram for Earth LP (Shelter Press)
Flora Yin Wong invites us to embark on a multi-faceted investigation of sound, a journey through the meanders of liberated sonic forces, an auscultation of her own listening and a portal, at last, ajar to a fragmented and forever mysterious inner world. Exploring the abstract space of pure sounds between two naturalistic tableaux, Sébastien Roux offers us a fascinating meditation on the world of synthesis, revealing, with an economy of means and great formal elegance, the magic of sonic simulacrum (deepl propose simulacra, mais là je suis pas assez calé…) and the strange beauty of the artificial, in a gesture that is ultimately as poetic as it is musical.
Cassettes:
Nickelus F – MMCHT (Trick Dice)
A must-have for all hip-hop fans, this album combines top-tier lyricism, captivating production, and introspective storytelling.
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