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  • Clear Cut 3 – Summer Place
    Clear Cut 3 – Summer Place
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    The sole reggae compilation from Rough Trade’s Clear Cut series Label: Rough Trade – RTL-24 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: Japan Released: 1982 VG+/VG+  

    GENRE: Reggae / Dub
  • John Di Stefano ? For the Moment
    John Di Stefano ? For the Moment
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    Label: Concentric Circles Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 2019 VG+/VG+ Akin to the electronic kraut forefathers Moebius & Roedelius – “For the Moment” [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Frank W. Becker / Michiko Akao ? Incantation
    Frank W. Becker / Michiko Akao ? Incantation
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    Haunting soundscapes from the synthesizer pioneer and flutist duo. Label: Toshiba Records – TP-72321 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: Japan Released: 1979 VG+/VG  

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Cecil Taylor ? Nuits De La Fondation Maeght Vol. 1
    Cecil Taylor ? Nuits De La Fondation Maeght Vol. 1
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    An intense live set from Taylor backed by an all-star lineup including Jimmy Lyons & Sam Rivers. Label: RCA – RCA-6085 M Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono Country: Japan Released: […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • The Cecil Taylor Quartet ? Looking Ahead!
    The Cecil Taylor Quartet ? Looking Ahead!
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    “Looking Ahead! does just that while still keeping several toes in the tradition. It’s an amazing document of a talent fairly straining at the reins, a meteor about to burst […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Hawkwind ? Live Seventy Nine
    Hawkwind ? Live Seventy Nine
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    First live album from the third era of Hawkwind, featuring a more aggressive & metal influenced sound than eras prior. Label: Bronze – VIP-6745 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Japan […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Cure – Pornography Demos
    The Cure – Pornography Demos
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    An collection of demos from The Cure’s dark fourth album, Pornography. fan club edition

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • The Cure – Faith Demos
    The Cure – Faith Demos
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    Collection of demos from The Cure’s third album, Faith. fan club edition.

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Joy Division – The European Radio Broadcasts
    Joy Division – The European Radio Broadcasts
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    A selection of broadcast sessions from throughout Joy Division’s career. Previously released in the Heart & Soul boxset and under the title Autosuggestion.

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • G.B.H. – City Baby Attacked By Rats
    G.B.H. – City Baby Attacked By Rats
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    Street punk pioneers Charged G.B.H. formed in Birmingham in 1978, the name referencing original bassist Sean McCarthy’s trial for grievous bodily harm. The in-your-face hardcore of EP “Leather, [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Pale Saints – In Ribbons (30th anniversary)
    Pale Saints – In Ribbons (30th anniversary)
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    Pale Saints second album In Ribbons is finally getting the 30th Anniversary celebration it deserves after covid and production delays, with a special double LP / CD release – the […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • 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 ? 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • MC5 ? Back In The USA
    MC5 ? Back In The USA
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    The second MC5 record, cementing their status as proto-punk stalwarts Label: Atlantic – SD 8247 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1970 VG+/VG. Drillhole, some moisture damage and [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Carver Area High School* Presents The Carver Area High School Seniors ? Get Live ’83 (The Senior Rap)
    Carver Area High School* Presents The Carver Area High School Seniors ? Get Live ’83 (The Senior Rap)
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    “Unbelievably rare private press disco/rap bomb tune! Absolutely stunning very rare old school party disco rap 12” performed by members of the Chicago public high-school Carver High. [...]

    GENRE: Hip Hop / Rap / Neo Soul
  • 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
  • Kleistwahr ‎– Winter
    Kleistwahr ‎– Winter
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    “kleistwahr is the solo project of gary mundy, the legendary power electronic and noise-rock musician who is a founding member of ramleh and runs the highly influential broken flag label. [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Lumumba – Lumumba
    Lumumba – Lumumba
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    Heavy & underrated afrobeat dancefloor jammer. Label: A & M Records – SP-3610 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1974 VG+/VG+  

    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
  • 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
  • John Cale – MERCY
    John Cale – MERCY
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    What does John Cale have that the rest of us don’t—some gene that engenders infinite restlessness, a rapacious mind that is never satisfied? For nearly 60 years, or at least […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Raspberry Bulbs – The World Is Empty, The Heart Is Full
    Raspberry Bulbs – The World Is Empty, The Heart Is Full
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    Label: Hospital Productions – HOS-879 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: Worldwide Released: Oct 6, 2023   VG+/VG+ – Limited Picture Disc Version

    GENRE:
  • Butthole Surfers – Creamed Corn From The Socket Of Davis 12″EP
    Butthole Surfers – Creamed Corn From The Socket Of Davis 12″EP
    $22.00 | Ships on/around Sep 20, 2024 Add to cart

    The second part of Matador’s reissues of the essential early records by Texas’s Butthole Surfers continues with three of their most insane slabs — 1985’s ‘Cream Corn from the Socket […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Butthole Surfers – Locust Abortion Technician LP
    Butthole Surfers – Locust Abortion Technician LP
    $26.00 | Ships on/around Sep 20, 2024 Add to cart

    The second part of Matador’s reissues of the essential early records by Texas’s Butthole Surfers continues with three of their most insane slabs — 1985’s ‘Cream Corn from the Socket […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Butthole Surfers – Hairway To Steven LP
    Butthole Surfers – Hairway To Steven LP
    $26.00 | Ships on/around Sep 20, 2024 Add to cart

    This Is A Preorder

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Max Jaffe – Reduction of Man LP
    Max Jaffe – Reduction of Man LP
    $25.00 | Ships on/around Sep 13, 2024 Add to cart

    Max Jaffe wasn’t planning on creating an album commemorating the decade-plus he spent living in New York City while recording Reduction of Man. Operating as a preemptive elegy, Reduction of […]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Amelia Courthouse – Broken Things LP
    Amelia Courthouse – Broken Things LP
    $22.00 | Ships on/around Sep 06, 2024 Add to cart

    On her first album since ruby glass (SPINSTER, 2019), sound artist and composer amelia courthouse (aka Leah Toth) builds on her previous album’s textures, moods, and evocations of memory, adding [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • The Doug Carn Trio – The Doug Carn Trio LP
    The Doug Carn Trio – The Doug Carn Trio LP
    $33.00 | Ships on/around Sep 06, 2024 Add to cart

    Keyboardist/composer Doug Carn was the biggest star on the legendary Black Jazz Records label, with four releases to his credit (all reissued by us at Real Gone Music), and remains […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Nina Simone – In Concert LP
    Nina Simone – In Concert LP
    $39.00 | Ships on/around Sep 06, 2024 Add to cart

    Nina Simone’s In Concert on 180g LP. Mastered by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound from the Original Analog Tapes, Pressed at QRP and Packaged in a Stoughton Printing Gatefold Old-Style [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Dr. John – The Brightest Smile In Town LP
    Dr. John – The Brightest Smile In Town LP
    $37.00 | Ships on/around Aug 30, 2024 Add to cart

    Trying to define what it is that makes Dr. John special is much like trying to define the word “soul’—you can surround it. But nailing it down is a whole […]

    GENRE: Blues, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Nigeria 70: The Definitive Guide to 1970’s Funky Lagos 3LP
    Nigeria 70: The Definitive Guide to 1970’s Funky Lagos 3LP
    $40.00 | Ships on/around Aug 30, 2024 Add to cart

    Strut repress one of the all-time classic compilations of Afro-funk and Afrobeat for 2016, the first volume of the mighty Nigeria 70 series. Originally released in 2001, the album followed […]

    GENRE: African
  • Asher Gamedze & The Black Lungs – Constitution LP
    Asher Gamedze & The Black Lungs – Constitution LP
    $30.00 | Ships on/around Aug 30, 2024 Add to cart

    “Members of the dispossessed, won’t you lend me your ears!” This is the repeated call and the rallying chorus of the nearly 40-minute centerpiece to composer and percussionist Asher Gamedze’s [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Seefeel – Everything Squared 12″EP
    Seefeel – Everything Squared 12″EP
    $27.00 | Ships on/around Aug 30, 2024 Add to cart

    Seefeel’s Everything Squared on 12″ EP. Their First New Music Since 2011. Mastered by Berlin-Based Engineer Stefan Betke, AKA Pole at Scape Mastering. After critically acclaimed [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Throbbing Gristle – The Third Mind Movements 2LP
    Throbbing Gristle – The Third Mind Movements 2LP
    $36.00 | Add to cart

    Throbbing Gristle unveils a brand new reissue of The Third Mind Movements, released commercially for the first time on CD and vinyl via Mute. Formed in 1975, Throbbing Gristle, aka […]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Lee Morgan – The Gigilo LP Tone Poets Series
    Lee Morgan – The Gigilo LP Tone Poets Series
    $28.00 | Ships on/around Aug 16, 2024 Add to cart

    Blue Note Classic Vinyl Reissue Series Edition of Lee Morgan’s The Gigolo on All-Analog 180g LP. Mastered by Kevin Gray Directly from the Original Master Tapes and Manufactured at Optimal [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Wayne Shorter – Juju LP Tone Poets Series
    Wayne Shorter – Juju LP Tone Poets Series
    $28.00 | Ships on/around Aug 16, 2024 Add to cart

    Blue Note Classic Vinyl Reissue Series Edition of Wayne Shorter’s Juju on All-Analog 180g LP. Mastered by Kevin Gray Directly from the Original Master Tapes and Manufactured at Optimal in [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Possessed – The Eyes Of Horror
    Possessed – The Eyes Of Horror
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    The third and final release from Possessed Label: Combat – 88561-8168-1 Format: Vinyl, 12″ EP Country: US Released: 1987 VG+/VG. Vinyl is in great shape. Jacket has minor ring/edge/corner [...]

    GENRE: Metal
  • John Coltrane Quartet – Ballads(1965 Mono)
    John Coltrane Quartet – Ballads(1965 Mono)
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    “They arrived with music-store sheet music of the songs” and just before the recordings, they “would discuss each tune, write out copies of the changes they’d use, [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • John Coltrane – Coltrane (1958 Mono!)
    John Coltrane – Coltrane (1958 Mono!)
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    John Coltrane’s debut album, heralding one of the most celebrated careers in jazz history. Label: Prestige – LP 7105 Format: Vinyl, LP, Repress Country: US Released: 1958 VG/VG+. Record is [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Discharge – Grave New World (Netherlands Pressing)
    Discharge – Grave New World (Netherlands Pressing)
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    The very controversial and much maligned “metal” album from the punk band. “It’s their best one”-cleo Label: Roadrunner Records – RR 9692 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: [...]

    GENRE: Metal
  • Sun Araw – Beach Head
    Sun Araw – Beach Head
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    “The four tracks of Beach Head, like much of Sun Araw’s work, capture Cameron Stallones at a certain place and time; its re-release some years after its first limited run […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Indie / Alternative
  • Nightshift _? Homosapien
    Nightshift _? Homosapien
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    It’s been three years since Glasgow musical collective NIGHTSHIFT’s last album (“Zöe”, 2021) & aside form an odds & sods tape compilation “Made Of The Earth”, the group has remained […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative