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  • Bar Italia – The Twits
    Bar Italia – The Twits
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    bar italia are the London based three-piece of Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton. They will release their second full length of 2023, ‘The Twits’, on November 3, […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Buck Meek – Haunted Mountain (clear green vinyl)
    Buck Meek – Haunted Mountain (clear green vinyl)
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    For his latest solo album, Buck Meek, lead guitarist of Big Thief, went back to Texas with his band – Adam Brisbin (guitar), Austin Vaughn (drums), Ken Woodward (bass), Mat […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Buck Meek – Haunted Mountain (black vinyl)
    Buck Meek – Haunted Mountain (black vinyl)
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    For his latest solo album, Buck Meek, lead guitarist of Big Thief, went back to Texas with his band – Adam Brisbin (guitar), Austin Vaughn (drums), Ken Woodward (bass), Mat […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Oneohtrix Point Never – Good Time (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
    Oneohtrix Point Never – Good Time (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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    Oneohtrix Point Never returns with his new album Good Time Original Motion Picture Soundtrack out August 11 on Warp Records. Rapturously received by Cannes’ film critics, Good Time is directed [...]

    GENRE: Soundtracks / Library Music, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Oneohtrix Point Never ? Age Of
    Oneohtrix Point Never ? Age Of
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    Oneohtrix Point Never’s Age Of is an album of new music from the renowned musician, out June 1st on Warp Records. It’s Daniel Lopatin’s most cohesive and richly composed work […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Techno / House / Electronic
  • DJ Speedsick – You People Make Me Fucking Sick CDr
    DJ Speedsick – You People Make Me Fucking Sick CDr
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    New sixteen-minute piece by DJ Speedsick of cut-up style harsh noise and claustrated blues guitar entrails descending into a vortex; comprised largely of archival recordings and audio extracted [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Karen Constance / Dylan Nyoukis ? Day Music / Night Music
    Karen Constance / Dylan Nyoukis ? Day Music / Night Music
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    Constance the insomniac presents us with Day Music. Heavy processed electronics, field recordings, mangled voices and tape wrangle constructed late at night in bed. Fend off the darkness fears [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • tik///tik / Salt Swan ? KCPC / Musk Lust
    tik///tik / Salt Swan ? KCPC / Musk Lust
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    Amerige Records takes pride in reviving an overlooked classic, now reissued on vinyl and widely accessible for the first time. Originally distributed on cassette among friends in 2011, this [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Leslie Keffer ? Represents: Live 2005
    Leslie Keffer ? Represents: Live 2005
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    “Vocals, Radios.” As line items on record sleeves go, that’s fairly cryptic – it could mean anything. But that’s what Ohioan noise artist Leslie Keffer was working with on the […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Baphomet Sex – All Ancestors Standing Beside Your Bed
    Baphomet Sex – All Ancestors Standing Beside Your Bed
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    Baphomet Sex is V. Jasper Fairbanks 4 track cassette player with looping cassette 10 channel mixer Genthalz C.U.N.T Earthquaker Organizer, Arpanoid, Astral Destiny Donner loop pedal Edition of 50

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Leslie Keffer – She-Wolf
    Leslie Keffer – She-Wolf
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    Leslie Keffer: vocals, radios Previously unreleased material written and recorded in 2006 Edition of 50

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Slacking ? Roundhouse A Bootlicker
    Slacking ? Roundhouse A Bootlicker
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    Debut vinyl release from Slacking. New American harsh noise. Mastered by Grant Richardson at Hex Audio Labs. Side B is an excerpt of a live collaboration with Mallard Theory.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • K2 ? Hybrid Dub Metal Musik
    K2 ? Hybrid Dub Metal Musik
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    K2 / “Hybrid Dub Metal Musik” A-1: Tokyo Would Be Carthago (12’32”)* A-2: Trade Friction in Medieval (7’57”)* B-1: Love To The Extent to Biting My Hands (20’42”)** *Recorded at […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Hell And Back
    Hell And Back
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    “A document of life events. Last Day With My Garbage, Share The Wealth, Confounder, Ozymandias & Joe Roemer, Dead Door Unit”

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Rock Candy – Swimming In
    Rock Candy – Swimming In
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    Delve into Rock Candy’s first ever released recordings – enter their universe of far out features, including sounds from the electric guitar, organ, drum machine and “vintage” keyboard. An [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Will Veeder – The Lost And Found
    Will Veeder – The Lost And Found
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    A combination of finger-picking acoustic and electric guitar with percussion. American-primitive psych. Will Veeder is a master at conjuring up vivid images and emotions, using a combination of [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Ethan WL – Blood Farm (American Primitive playing – amazing)
    Ethan WL – Blood Farm (American Primitive playing – amazing)
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    “This is my latest album, about 40 straight minutes of acoustic guitar. All originals, live takes, and no overdubs. Filmmaker and Journalist Bill Lichtenstein told me that it ‘sounds like […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Grant / McGuire / Flaherty – 10″
    Grant / McGuire / Flaherty – 10″
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    “It’s like a fever dream at a fiddlers convention when you wake up sweating in your tent at 4 in the morning. And the music outside, you can’t tell if […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Bitter Wish – Candle Finger
    Bitter Wish – Candle Finger
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    Formed in Philadelphia during the COVID days of fall 2021, Bitter Wish is a psychedelic power trio comprising guitarist John Comune, bassist Clint Takeda (Bardo Pond/Double Wig) and percussionist [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • TASTE – I dipped my comb… (Loud experimental rock)
    TASTE – I dipped my comb… (Loud experimental rock)
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    I dipped my comb in shochu and ran it through the hair of the night is the brand new release from the intriguing trio 番長 Taste, consisting of Mark Anderson […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Guru Guru / Uli Trepte – Live 1972/1974
    Guru Guru / Uli Trepte – Live 1972/1974
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    In from Nagrania Cukiernicze, Polish label. Bassist Uli Trepte was one of the founders of the seminal space rock Krautrock group Guru Guru, and this CD, a reissue of a […]

    GENRE:
  • The Pink Fairies – Live 1971 / 1973
    The Pink Fairies – Live 1971 / 1973
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    In from Nagrania Cukiernicze, Polish label. Pink Fairies at their absolute best. Remarkable psych freaks make loud noise.

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  • Mulatu Astatke – Ethiopian Modern Instrumental Hits
    Mulatu Astatke – Ethiopian Modern Instrumental Hits
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    In from Nagrania Cukiernicze, Polish label. This work is a masterpiece compilation released from Ethiopia’s in 1972 on the eve of the release of Mulatu Astatke’s masterpiece [...]

    GENRE:
  • King Tubby – At The Grass Roots Of Dub
    King Tubby – At The Grass Roots Of Dub
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    In from Nagrania Cukiernicze, Polish label. Seminal dub album produced by Winston Edwards.  In 1974 Edwards left Jamaica to reside in the UK and through his strong connections with such […]

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  • King Tubby – Shalom
    King Tubby – Shalom
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    In from Nagrania Cukiernicze, Polish label. Originally released in 1975, King Tubby And The Aggrovators ‘Shalom Dub’ stands as one of the earliest and most cherished dub albums in [...]

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  • Bunny Lee & King Tubby Present The Aggravators – Brass Rockers
    Bunny Lee & King Tubby Present The Aggravators – Brass Rockers
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    In from Nagrania Cukiernicze, Polish label. King Tubby and producer Bunny ‘striker’ Lee are intertwined in the birth of dub music. After discovering a mistake that made a [...]

    GENRE:
  • Conduit Gold – s/t
    Conduit Gold – s/t
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    Electric guitar duo musings from Kelly MacDonald & Alex York. Released in tape edition of 30 copies & given away for free at our first gig opening for Ned Collette […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Fania All Stars – Live at the Cheetah: Vol. 2
    Fania All Stars – Live at the Cheetah: Vol. 2
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    On August 26, 1971, the Fania All Stars electrified the Cheetah Club stage in New York, causing a salsa-induced delirium that not only defined their career, but the salsa genre. […]

    GENRE: International
  • Willie Colon – The Hustler
    Willie Colon – The Hustler
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    In 1964, a young musician from the Dominican Republic by the name of Johnny Pacheco teamed up with ambitious Italian-American lawyer Jerry Masucci for the creation of a record label […]

    GENRE: International
  • Ralfi Pagan – With Love
    Ralfi Pagan – With Love
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    Craft Recordings present a remastered vinyl reissue of With Love, one of the most transcendental Latin Soul LPs in the history of the genre. Released in 1971, just as Latin […]

    GENRE: International
  • Fania All Stars – Live at the Cheetah: Vol. 1 (Colored Vinyl)
    Fania All Stars – Live at the Cheetah: Vol. 1 (Colored Vinyl)
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    On August 26, 1971, the Fania All Stars electrified the Cheetah Club stage in New York, causing a salsa-induced delirium that not only defined their career, but also the salsa […]

    GENRE: International
  • David Axelrod – Heavy Axe
    David Axelrod – Heavy Axe
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    For the dusty-fingered deep diggers who have a sixth sense for sample-worthy sounds and unique headnodders, the name David Axelrod is gospel. An arranger with A-list credits a mile long, […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Bernard Purdie – Purdie Good!
    Bernard Purdie – Purdie Good!
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    In between being one of the most recorded studio drummers of all time (the “Purdie Shuffle” graced everything from Aretha to Steely Dan), Bernard Purdie squeezed in a few sessions [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Violent Femmes – Add It Up (1981-1993) 2LP
    Violent Femmes – Add It Up (1981-1993) 2LP
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    As Violent Femmes celebrate their 40th year together, Craft Recordings honors the band’s enduring catalog of cult classics with the long out-of-print vinyl reissue of the popular 1993 [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Ray Barretto – Que Viva La Musica
    Ray Barretto – Que Viva La Musica
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    Que Viva La Música just turned 50 and features Ray Barretto at his peak of the “Hard Salsa” era. The album contains the track “Cocinando” from the famed documentary Our [...]

    GENRE: International
  • The Wire Primers: A Guide to Modern Music
    The Wire Primers: A Guide to Modern Music
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    Since it was founded in 1982, The Wire magazine has covered a vast range of alternative, experimental, underground and non-mainstream music. Now some of that knowledge has been distilled into [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda
    A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda
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    The first major biography of the French filmmaker hailed by Martin Scorsese as “one of the Gods of cinema.” Over the course of her sixty-five-year career, the longest of any […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Kathy Acker & Paul Buck: Spread Wide
    Kathy Acker & Paul Buck: Spread Wide
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    In this collaborative volume, the writer and artist Paul Buck works with the late Kathy Acker. Using as source the raw materials of their correspondence from the early 80s, a […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Giallo Fantastique
    Giallo Fantastique
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    An anthology of original strange stories at the intersection of crime, terror, and supernatural fiction. Inspired by and drawing from the highly stylized cinematic thrillers of Argento, Bava, and [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Blake Butler – Aannex
    Blake Butler – Aannex
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    Incorporating hundreds of characters and cultural entities, spanning innumerable locations and billions of years, Aannex is a future-hacker’s maze-map meant to have already been [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Adam Pendleton – Pasts, Futures, and Aftermaths: Revisiting the Black Dada Reader
    Adam Pendleton – Pasts, Futures, and Aftermaths: Revisiting the Black Dada Reader
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    The sequel to Pendleton’s acclaimed Black Dada Reader, compiling an anti-canon of radical experimentation and thought In 2011, artist Adam Pendleton (born 1984) assembled Black Dada Reader, [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Emiliana Torrini – Miss Flower
    Emiliana Torrini – Miss Flower
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    Emilíana Torrini emerges from hiatus with a brand new album, MISS FLOWER. Returning to an illustrious career, spanning chart-topping hits like ‘Sunny Road’ and ‘Jungle Drum’ from acclaimed albums [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Michael Rother – Sterntaler
    Michael Rother – Sterntaler
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    Digitally remastered reissue of 1978 solo debut by this bassist/ guitarist/ keyboardist for Krautrock duo Neu & early member of electronic pioneers Kraftwerk.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • SUSS – Birds & Beasts
    SUSS – Birds & Beasts
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    SUSS’ fifth release, Birds & Beasts, on Northern Spy Records, finds the New York-based ambient trio digging deeper, populating its stark, ethereal soundscapes with primal currents of sound [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • DAF – Fur Immer
    DAF – Fur Immer
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    Many things have been said about this band: they were called the godfathers of techno, the pioneers of EBM and the forefathers of electropunk. Yet they only laugh coolly and […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Harmonia – Live 1974
    Harmonia – Live 1974
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    a previously unavailable concert recording from the German super-group made up of Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius (of Cluster) and Michael Rother (of Neu!). They re-defined not only the [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Birdie – Some Dusty
    Birdie – Some Dusty
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    Birdie’s debut album, 1999’s “Some Dusty,” is the culmination of a series of fortuitous events, set in motion in 1992 when members Debsey Wykes (Dolly Mixture) and Paul [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Various – The Conny Plank Rework Sessions
    Various – The Conny Plank Rework Sessions
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    12″ containing remixes of Eurythmics, NEU! And Moebius & Plank

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Sissy Spacek – Mirror Aggressor State
    Sissy Spacek – Mirror Aggressor State
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    Sissy Spacek Mirror Aggressor State CD Helicopter HEL 99099 On the heels of their F.O.A.D. LP and mid-west/east coast tour, a new full-length album from the Isaac Horne/Charlie Mumma/John Wiese [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • DJ Speedsick – Samples and Loops
    DJ Speedsick – Samples and Loops
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    Undistributed DJ Speedsick business card CDr of samples & loops. Tracks 1, 7-9, 33: samples Tracks 2-6: drum shots Tracks 10-32: loops

    GENRE: Soundtracks / Library Music, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Spacemen 3 – Live in Koln
    Spacemen 3 – Live in Koln
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    Screen printed LP jackets, riso inserts. Recorded live 11th January 1988 at The Rose Club in Koln, Germany. Excerpt from Nov 19, 1988 Melody Marker interview: The red room is […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Spacemen 3 – Revolution or Heroin
    Spacemen 3 – Revolution or Heroin
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    Screen printed LP jackets, riso inserts. Recorded live in The Mean Fiddler, London – 22.10.1987. Against all predictions, the fight to release these recordings has finally been won. We [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Golden Rain – Balinese Gamelan Music
    Golden Rain – Balinese Gamelan Music
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    Nowhere is the richness of Balinese art more evident than in the glitteringly brilliant music and dance of gamelan gong kebjar, which uses a 25-piece orchestra of xylophone-like bronze-keyed [...]

    GENRE: International
  • Diptych / Ohnive Plamene – split cassette
    Diptych / Ohnive Plamene – split cassette
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    Czech split cassette from Happy Families. “When I heard the Diptych / Ohnive plamene split tape I felt alive for the first time in a long while. What is going […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth, Punk / Hardcore
  • Factultad de Medicina – de vez en cuando
    Factultad de Medicina – de vez en cuando
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    New Argentinean tape in from Happy Families: “Originally released in 2019 by Facultad de Medicina in Buenos Aires, Argentina – Slacker core genius. Sleepy indie pop from underground [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Swedish Meatballs Vol 2 – The Psychedelic Hard Rock Underground 1970-1977
    Swedish Meatballs Vol 2 – The Psychedelic Hard Rock Underground 1970-1977
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    Way-out heavy psych mindblowers with blistering guitars and pounding drums! Sweden – heaven and hell. Strictly limited edition of 500 copies only. Comes with a striking day-glow coloured sleeve [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Ritmo Fantasía: Balearic Spanish Synth​-​Pop, Boogie & House (1982​-​1992)
    Ritmo Fantasía: Balearic Spanish Synth​-​Pop, Boogie & House (1982​-​1992)
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    The 21 track selection curated by Trujillo, a Venezuelan producer, DJ and record collector based in Berlin, explores the forgotten corners of the 1980s and early 90s Spanish music scene. […]

    GENRE: International
  • Kvartetten Som Sprängde – Kattvals (DELUXE EDITION, PSYCHEDELIC SPLATTER VINYL)
    Kvartetten Som Sprängde – Kattvals (DELUXE EDITION, PSYCHEDELIC SPLATTER VINYL)
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    Finally available again – in a special new psychedelic splatter vinyl limited edition of 600 copies! Kvartetten Som Sprängde (The Quartet That Exploded) “Kattvals” (“Cat Waltz”). A reissue of one [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Kleenex/Liliput – First Songs (DEEP PURPLE VINYL)
    Kleenex/Liliput – First Songs (DEEP PURPLE VINYL)
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    Legendary Swiss punk band from the late 70s. “You can’t dispute Liliput’s status as pioneers of feminist art-punk. Along with fellow travelers like the Slits and the Raincoats, this [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • John Cale – POPtical Illusion (INDIE EXCLUSIVE, TRANSLUCENT ORANGE VINYL)
    John Cale – POPtical Illusion (INDIE EXCLUSIVE, TRANSLUCENT ORANGE VINYL)
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    Despite the album’s playful title, Cale’s second album in just over a year still contains the same feelings of fierce and inquisitive rage that were present in 2023 album MERCY. […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych