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  • Varsity – Fine Forever
    Varsity – Fine Forever
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    From the very start of β€œRunaway,” the opening track on Varsity’s third album Fine Forever, it’s clear that the Chicago quintet has morphed into something new. While still working in […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Sunwatchers – Brave Rats
    Sunwatchers – Brave Rats
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    SUNWATCHERS’Β Brave Rats EP (AMI 051) is the band’s third Amish-related release (also see: 3 Characters with Eugene Chadbourne and Arthur Doyle’s First House).Β  Quick on the heels of [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Zola Jesus – Arkhon
    Zola Jesus – Arkhon
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    There is a way a voice can cut through the fascia of reality, cleaving through habit into the raw nerve of experience. Nika Roza Danilova, the singer, songwriter, and producer […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Kanye West – Donda
    Kanye West – Donda
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    What our staff has to say: “Donda is the nexus of Kanye’s genius and mania. Praising god, remembering his mother and grieving the breakup of his family. It is easy […]

    GENRE: Hip Hop / Rap / Neo Soul
  • Joan Shelley – The Spur
    Joan Shelley – The Spur
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    I want to explain these songs / I want to leave them unexplained. We’ve all been working with a lot of silence. I was tired from touring, remembering the long […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Iggy & The Stooges – Metallic K.O.
    Iggy & The Stooges – Metallic K.O.
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    What our staff has to say: “Absolutely beyond Raw, Stooges at their best.” – Cleo IGGY and the STOOGES ‘METALLIC K.O.’ The Original 1976 Album – the notorious [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore, Rock / Pop
  • Rostam ? Changephobia
    Rostam ? Changephobia
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    Changephobia is the 2nd full-length solo record from Grammy Award-winning songwriter, producer, and composer Rostam Batmanglij. An adventurous new direction for Rostam, the songs collected on [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Reigning Sound – Abdication
    Reigning Sound – Abdication
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    Produced by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys and Reigning Sound frontman Greg Cartwright, Abdication… For Your Love was originally available solely as a promotional giveaway. This 2019 reissue [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Palberta – Palberta5000
    Palberta – Palberta5000
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    β€œWhile punk music was our first love, pop music has become our fixation. Throughout the making of ‘Palberta5000,’ we were focused on making music that people could not only sing […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • No Joy – Motherhood LP
    No Joy – Motherhood LP
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    No Joy’s relentless sonic permutations are evidence of frontperson and principal songwriter Jasamine White-Gluz’s insatiable desire to grow. The MontrΓ©al-based project began a decade ago as [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Boys Next Door – Lost And Brave Exhibition (Rarities / Demos)
    Boys Next Door – Lost And Brave Exhibition (Rarities / Demos)
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    Fan Club Edition

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Malcria – El Reino De Lo Falso
    Malcria – El Reino De Lo Falso
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    Pointed, chaotic and forceful hardcore from Mexico City. MALCRÍA underlines their odd brand of precise punk with dark urgency and pained screams without a drop of reference or a borrowed […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Bill MacKay & Katinka Kleijn – STIR
    Bill MacKay & Katinka Kleijn – STIR
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    The combustive guitar/cello chemistry of MacKay and Kleijn is drawn from avant-rock, classical and experimental inspirations, forged through years of live performance. The freedom-cum-new [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Lower Dens – Competition
    Lower Dens – Competition
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    The fourth album from Lower Dens, The Competition is a pop album with a concept both emotionally and politically urgent, dealing with modern capitalism and its psychotic effects. Its 11 […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Christiane F. – Gesundheit! (RSD)
    Christiane F. – Gesundheit! (RSD)
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  • Otto Kentrol – No Mistakes (RSD)
    Otto Kentrol – No Mistakes (RSD)
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    What our staff has to say: “Not often mentioned when people discuss New York’s no wave scene, Otto Kentrol aka Bill Yitalo, finally gets his dues with a 2xLP archival […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • V/A – Go Ahead Punk: Make My Day (Orange Splatter VInyl) (RSD)
    V/A – Go Ahead Punk: Make My Day (Orange Splatter VInyl) (RSD)
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    Any ’90s punk fan will surely remember coveting a copy of Go Ahead Punk… Make My Day – a classic CD sampler from Nitro Records. Originally released in 1996, the […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Tangerine Dream – Alpha Centauri (Clear Vinyl, Bonus 12″) (RSD)
    Tangerine Dream – Alpha Centauri (Clear Vinyl, Bonus 12″) (RSD)
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    Limited edtion clear vinyl pressing. Esoteric Recordings are pleased to announce the release of an exclusive Record Store Day 2022 limited gatefold clear vinyl edition of Tangerine Dream’s [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Album Leaf – Past & Future
    The Album Leaf – Past & Future
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    Three long ou-of-print EPs, two available for the first time on vinyl. Packaged together with an EP of brand new material. Pressed on opaque galaxy vinyl with four album-sized art […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • V/A – The Soul Sides (RSD)
    V/A – The Soul Sides (RSD)
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    First ever compilation of the deep ’60s soul from Jetstar, including Alder Ray Mathis’ Northern Soul stepper ‘Take Me Baby’! Featuring previously unissued tracks from [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Miles Davis – What It Is: Montreal 7/7/83 (RSD)
    Miles Davis – What It Is: Montreal 7/7/83 (RSD)
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    This double LP release includes one of Miles Davis’ final great bands including John Scofield on guitar, Bill “The Other Bill Evans” Evans on saxophones, flute and electric [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Peter Hook & The Light – Closer Live 2011
    Peter Hook & The Light – Closer Live 2011
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    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Itasca – Spring
    Itasca – Spring
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    What our staff has to say: “One of my favorite folk albums of the past 10 years. Laurel Canyon styled folk. Joni Mitchell – breezy afternoon. Heavy southwest vibe. Bitchin […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Half Japanese – Crazy Hearts
    Half Japanese – Crazy Hearts
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    Half Japanese return with another thrilling ride into unknown charters encountering beasts, celebrities, and menaces. Purveyors of noise and indie rock for over four decades, Half Japanese have [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Half-Handed Cloud – Gathered Out Of Thin Air
    Half-Handed Cloud – Gathered Out Of Thin Air
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    “Gathered Out Of Thin Air” is a new Half-handed Cloud (John Ringhofer) double LP compilation of sixty freshly mastered, non-LP singles, EPs, and rarities, recorded throughout the [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Larry Gus – Subservient
    Larry Gus – Subservient
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    Larry Gus (real name Panagiotis Melidis) returns to DFA with Subservient, his fourth release for the label. More pop-oriented than his previous albums, Subservient is a lush combination of [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Foxygen – Seeing Other People
    Foxygen – Seeing Other People
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    Seeing Other People is curiously positioned as Foxygen’s most recent last-ever album. With every album the band dies; with every album the band is reborn. But unlike the last-ever Foxygen […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Essaie Pas – Earth
    Essaie Pas – Earth
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    Montreal duo Essaie pas return to DFA with a 12-inch that picks up where their 2018 album New Path left off. “Earth” is a blistering ride through the rave, an […]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • EMA – Exile In The Outer Ring
    EMA – Exile In The Outer Ring
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    EMA – the project of South Dakota native and Portland, OR-based artist Erika M. Anderson – has announced her third albumΒ Exile In The Outer RingΒ for release onΒ August 25, 2017Β via City Slang. [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Dominant Force – Cosmic Denial
    Dominant Force – Cosmic Denial
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    Debut 12″ from Aloma Hardcore’s own DOMINANT FORCE

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Cold Sweat – Blinded
    Cold Sweat – Blinded
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    Hugely influential and genre defining trashy hardcore punk from these Washington weirdos. With influences like Gauze, No Comment, Coltrane, Sabbath and Siege as a starting point, Cold Sweat set [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Martin Newell – The Off White Album
    Martin Newell – The Off White Album
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    The title of Martin Newell’s second solo album comes from a cheeky riff on the Beatles’ White Album: if 1993’s critically-acclaimed The Greatest Living Englishman was Newell’s Sgt. Pepper’s, then [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The Building – Reconciliation
    The Building – Reconciliation
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    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The Building – Just For Once
    The Building – Just For Once
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    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • PJ Bond – Brother Bones
    PJ Bond – Brother Bones
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    This is an 8 song split record with brothers PJ and Brian Bond, who each wrote the songs on their respective sides.

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Animal Collective – Crestone LP
    Animal Collective – Crestone LP
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    The debut feature written, produced and directed by Marnie Ellen Hertzler. Set in the desert of Crestone, Colorado over the course of eight days and set to an original score […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Soundtracks / Library Music
  • Courtney Marie Andrews – May Your Kindness Remain
    Courtney Marie Andrews – May Your Kindness Remain
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    After breaking through with a batch of restless, itinerant songs on Honest Life in 2016, Courtney Marie Andrews longs for something more permanent on the follow-up. The Seattle singer spends […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Blanck Mass – Ted K Original Score (Opaque Red Vinyl)
    Blanck Mass – Ted K Original Score (Opaque Red Vinyl)
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    This February the story of the infamous Unabomber Ted Kaczynski will receive its theatrical debut in a new Tony Stone directed film, Ted K. Kaczynski is notorious for both tragically […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Soundtracks / Library Music, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Ndikho Xaba and the Natives – S/T
    Ndikho Xaba and the Natives – S/T
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    What our staff has to say: “South African pianist / percussionist with a crew of San Francisco & Chicago players, including Plunky Nkabinde and Lon Moshe from Oneness Of Juju. […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • The Wire – #459 May 2022
    The Wire – #459 May 2022
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    “On the cover: Reynols. As one of the most singular groups in all of rock release their first western album in two decades, following drummer Miguel Tomasin’s Henry Viscardi Award [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • V/A – New Tape
    V/A – New Tape
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    Founded in early ’70s by historical RAI TV trumpeter and composer Cicci Santucci (Looking Around (1971), On The Underground Road (1971)), New Tape grew up during the golden period of […]

    GENRE: Soundtracks / Library Music
  • Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Endless Rooms
    Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Endless Rooms
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    While initial ideas for Endless Rooms were traded online during long spells spent separated by Australia’s strict lockdowns, the album was truly born during small windows of freedom in which […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Angel Olsen – Big Time CD
    Angel Olsen – Big Time CD
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    Fresh grief, like fresh love, has a way of sharpening our vision and bringing on painful clarifications. No matter how temporary we know these states to be, the vulnerability and […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Merzbow & Lawrence English – Eternal Stalker
    Merzbow & Lawrence English – Eternal Stalker
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    On their first official collaboration, Japanese noise pioneer Masami Akita aka Merzbow and Australian sound sculptor Lawrence English present a harrowing, surrealist portrait of nocturnal [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Takeda – Psychedelic Minimalism Vol 1
    Takeda – Psychedelic Minimalism Vol 1
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    Psychedelic Minimalism Vol​.​1 is a collection of previously, and very limited, released material. These 4 long-form tracks were recorded on a Tascam 4-track from the beginning to late 2000’s. [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Cecil Taylor ? What’s New
    Cecil Taylor ? What’s New
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    Originally issued as Nefertiti, The Beautiful One Has Come. Recorded live at the Montmartre Jazzhus, Copenhagen, 23rd November 1962. Freedom – FLP 40124 Media Condition – VG+, nice [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Joanna Russ – How To Suppress Women’s Writing
    Joanna Russ – How To Suppress Women’s Writing
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    Are women able to achieve anything they set their minds to? In How to Suppress Women’s Writing, award-winning novelist and scholar Joanna Russ lays bare the subtle–and not so [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • William T Vollmann – Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means
    William T Vollmann – Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means
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    Twenty-three years in the making, Rising Up and Rising Down (the original, published by McSweeney’s in October 2003, spans seven volumes) is a rich amalgam of historical analysis, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ingeborg Bachmann – Malina
    Ingeborg Bachmann – Malina
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    In Malina, originally published in German in 1971, Ingeborg Bachmann invites the reader into a world stretched to the very limits of language. An unnamed narrator, a writer in Vienna, […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Harmony Korine – A Crackup At The Race Riots
    Harmony Korine – A Crackup At The Race Riots
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    Originally published by Mainstreet/Doubleday in 1998, this debut novel from an underground filmmaker uses print, photographs, drawings, news clippings, handwriting, a poem, attempted diagrams, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • A Bernadette Mayer Reader
    A Bernadette Mayer Reader
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    β€œShe writes as if Everything were still possible in the work of a lifetime at the coincidence of all the turvy moments. Better that she’s read without a thought to […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Birth! – I Will
    Birth! – I Will
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    What our staff has to say: “Revisited this Midwest classic after hearing of Doug’s passing. An album ahead of its time – and even though it has been years since […]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Alie – Whole
    Alie – Whole
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    𝐼𝑛 π‘‘β„Žπ‘’ π‘π‘œπ‘’π‘›π‘‘π‘™π‘’π‘ π‘  π‘œπ‘π‘’π‘Žπ‘› π‘œπ‘“ π‘šπ‘¦ 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 π‘‘β„Žπ‘’ 𝑀𝑖𝑛𝑑 π‘œπ‘“ π‘‘β„Žπ‘’ π‘šπ‘–π‘›π‘‘ 𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑠 π‘‘π‘œπ‘€π‘› For π‘Šβ„Žπ‘œπ‘™π‘’, Berlin-based Alie illustrates a selection from the Ashtavakra Gita with a sprawling excursion of […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Geklaper – Penitent Judge
    Geklaper – Penitent Judge
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    A rich, introspective journey towards the deep zone of repentance. The newest effort by Russian artist Geklaper is a broken, tape flutter-stained affair, retaining some moments of hopefulness but [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Doris Dana – Sentimental Atmospheres
    Doris Dana – Sentimental Atmospheres
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    Thought forms arranged on a timeline swept along by the dusty cacophony of emotional debris. Radiating vibrations trapped in memory vessels, existing in our constantly rotating loop of life. [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Albert Mangelsdorff, Pierre Favre, Joachim K?hn, Gunter Hampel _? Solo Now
    Albert Mangelsdorff, Pierre Favre, Joachim K?hn, Gunter Hampel _? Solo Now
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    Solo tracks showcasing the abilities of these frequent collaborators MPS Records – 5D 064-60205 Media Condition – VG+, light wear on both sides Sleeve Condition – VG, has some [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Alan Braufman – The Fire Still Burns
    Alan Braufman – The Fire Still Burns
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    45 years after his debut album Valley of Search (1975/India Navigation), jazz saxophonist Alan Braufman returns. The Fire Still Burns has that gritty, forthright sensibility we hope to hear in [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Ranking Slackness _? Slackest LP (’79 Jamaican Pressing)
    Ranking Slackness _? Slackest LP (’79 Jamaican Pressing)
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    Rude “adult-oriented” reggae/dancehall. Techniques 1979 Jamaican Pressing Media Condition – VG+, very light wear. Sleeve Condition – VG, has some fading and ring wear.

    GENRE: Reggae / Dub
  • Tarkamt – 1100dB
    Tarkamt – 1100dB
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    Tarkamt, the solo project of Egyptian artist Cherif El-Masri (The Invisible Hands), unfolds its second release 1100 dB. A deluge of mass psychotropic soundscapes, churning crude spurts of coarse [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • pnl(a) – Compulsion Fabric
    pnl(a) – Compulsion Fabric
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    The first cassette release by pnl(a), a project conceived by Brandon Auger (Halifax, NS) in 1995 and now highly active after some torpid years. Compulsion Fabric droops sentimental tones tangled [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
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