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  • Richard Brautigan – In Watermelon Sugar
    Richard Brautigan – In Watermelon Sugar
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    “iDEATH is a place where the sun shines a different colour every day and where people travel to the length of their dreams. Rejecting the violence and hate of the […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Natsume Soseki – The Three Cornered World
    Natsume Soseki – The Three Cornered World
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    “An artist abandons city life to wander into the mountains to meditate, but when he decides to stay at a near-deserted inn he soon finds himself drawn to the daughter […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Title TK
    Title TK
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    “Comprised of the artists and musicians Cory Arcangel, Howie Chen and Alan Licht, Title TK is a “band” that performs in music or art contexts. While they appear on stage […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Heinz Helle – Superabundance
    Heinz Helle – Superabundance
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    “Alone in New York, separated from his girlfriend by the Atlantic Ocean, the nameless narrator of Heinz Helle’s electric debut novel is sinking slowly into an invisible crisis. He [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Georges Perec – Species Of Spaces And Other Pieces
    Georges Perec – Species Of Spaces And Other Pieces
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    “Georges Perec, author of the highly acclaimed Life: A User’s Manual, was only forty-six when he died in 1982. Despite a tragic childhood, during which his mother was deported to […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Dennis Covington – Salvation On Sand Mountain
    Dennis Covington – Salvation On Sand Mountain
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    “For New York Times reporter Dennis Covington, what began as a journalistic assignment-covering the trial of an Alabama pastor convicted of attempting to murder his wife with poisonous [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • James Baldwin – Another Country
    James Baldwin – Another Country
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    “When Another Country appeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin”s masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Apollianire – The Poet Assassinated
    Apollianire – The Poet Assassinated
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    “Apollinaire was Modernism’s first champion, and after his early death in 1918, he became its first saint. Lying in a hospital bed in 1915, recovering from combat wounds suffered in [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Elfriede Jelinek – Wonderful, Wonderful Times
    Elfriede Jelinek – Wonderful, Wonderful Times
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    “‘That’s brutal violence on a defenceless person, and quite unnecessary, declares Sophie, and she pulls with an audible tearing sound at the hair of the man lying in an untidy [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Claude Simon – The Invitation
    Claude Simon – The Invitation
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    “This 1987 novel by Nobel Prize-winner Claude Simon is a sardonic look at glasnost Russia, where recent reforms and improvements carry all the conviction of rouge on a corpse. The […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Anais Nin – Collages
    Anais Nin – Collages
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    “Collages explores a world of fantasy and dreams through an eccentric young painter. A radical work in its time (1964), Anais Nin dispensed with normal structural convention and allowed her [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Junichiro Tanizaki – The Secret History & Arrowroot
    Junichiro Tanizaki – The Secret History & Arrowroot
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    “From a Japanese master of romantic and sexual obsession come two novels that treat traditional themes with sly wit and startling psychological sophistication. In The Secret History of the [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Matthew McNaught – Immanuel
    Matthew McNaught – Immanuel
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    “At what point does faith turn into tyranny? In Immanuel, winner of the inaugural Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, Matthew McNaught explores his upbringing in an evangelical Christian [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Celine – Guignol’s Band
    Celine – Guignol’s Band
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    “In Guignol’s Band, first published in France in 1943, Céline explores the horror of a disordered world. The hero, the semi-autobiographical Ferdinand, moves through the nightmare of [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Mike Davis – Late Victorian Holocausts
    Mike Davis – Late Victorian Holocausts
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    “Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Samuel Beckett – Watt
    Samuel Beckett – Watt
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    “In prose possessed of the radically stripped-down beauty and ferocious wit that characterize his work, this early novel by Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett recounts the grotesque and [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Samuel Beckett – More Pricks Than Kicks
    Samuel Beckett – More Pricks Than Kicks
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    “Samuel Beckett, the recipient of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature and one of the greatest writers of our century, first published these ten short stories in 1934; they originally […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Samuel Beckett – Endgame: A Play in One Act followed by Act Without Words: A Mime for One Player
    Samuel Beckett – Endgame: A Play in One Act followed by Act Without Words: A Mime for One Player
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    “Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, novels, stories and poetry has earned him an uncontested place as one of the […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ricahrd Brautigan – Sombrero Fallout
    Ricahrd Brautigan – Sombrero Fallout
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    “Concerns a writer trying to cope with the break-up of a relationship. Trying to escape his misery, he begins a story about a sombrero that falls out of the sky […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Richard Brautigan – Revenge Of The Lawn
    Richard Brautigan – Revenge Of The Lawn
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    “A collection of 62 very short stories set in 1960s California, particularly around the author’s home town of San Francisco.” Pocket Books, 1972 Mass-Market Paperback edition. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Richard Brautigan – Dreaming of Babylon
    Richard Brautigan – Dreaming of Babylon
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    “You are in San Francisco, and you need a private eye. Nobody’s left but C. Card. When you hire C. Card, you have scraped the bottom of the private eye […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Raymond Queneau – The Sunday of Life
    Raymond Queneau – The Sunday of Life
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    “The Sunday of Life, the late Raymond Queneau’s tenth novel, was first published in French by Gallimard in 1951 and is now appearing for the first time in this country. […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Raymond Queneau – The Flight of Icarus
    Raymond Queneau – The Flight of Icarus
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    “Called by some the French Borges, by others the creator of le nouveau roman a generation ahead of its time, Raymond Queneau’s work in fiction continues to defy strict categorization. […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Raymond Queneau – The Blue Flowers
    Raymond Queneau – The Blue Flowers
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    “The Blue Flowers follows two unlikely characters: Cidrolin, who alternates between drinking and napping on a barge parked along the Seine in the 1960s, and the Duke d’Auge as he […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Raymond Queneau – The Bark Tree
    Raymond Queneau – The Bark Tree
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    “Seated in a Paris café, a man glimpses another man, a shadowy figure hurrying for the train: Who is he? he wonders, How does he live? And instantly the shadow […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Raymond Queneau – Pierrot Mon Ami
    Raymond Queneau – Pierrot Mon Ami
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    “Pierrot Mon Ami, considered by many to be one of Raymond Queneau’s finest achievements, is a quirky coming-of-age novel concerning a young man’s initiation into a world filled with deceit, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Askold Melnyczuk – Ambassador Of The Dead
    Askold Melnyczuk – Ambassador Of The Dead
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    “One Sunday morning, Nick Blud, a successful Boston physician, is home in bed when he receives a phone call from Ada Kruk, the mother of a boyhood friend. Ada summons […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Rainer Maria Rilke – Duino Elegies
    Rainer Maria Rilke – Duino Elegies
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    “We have a marvelous, almost legendary image of the circumstances in which the composition of this great poem began. Rainer Maria Rilke was staying at Duino Castle, on a rocky […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Arnost Lustig – Night and Hope
    Arnost Lustig – Night and Hope
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    “Stories about young people in the unique concentration-camp ghetto organized by the Nazis in the Czech city of Terezin are based on the author’s own childhood experiences and [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Stiff Little Fingers – Gotta Gettaway
    Stiff Little Fingers – Gotta Gettaway
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    Featuring Gotta Gettaway from Nobody’s Heroes, and Bloody Sunday Label: Rough Trade – RT 015 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single Country: UK Released: 1979 VG+/VG+. Name Written on [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Half Japanese – Volume Three: 1990-1995
    Half Japanese – Volume Three: 1990-1995
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    Includes We Are Those Who Ache With Amorous Love, Fire In The Sky & Hot. Label: Fire Records – FIRELP309/310/312 Format: 3xVinyl, LP, Box Set Country: US Released: 2015 VG+/VG+.

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Sean McCann, Matthew Sullivan, Alex Twomey – Saturday Night
    Sean McCann, Matthew Sullivan, Alex Twomey – Saturday Night
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    “Saturday Night is the debut LP by old friends and collaborators Alex Twomey, Matthew Sullivan, and Sean McCann. Recorded over numerous evenings at the artists’ homes, and completed just [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • CRASS – Who Dunnit? (1983 Brown Vinyl)
    CRASS – Who Dunnit? (1983 Brown Vinyl)
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    “This is more of a novelty record than a punk record per se. The song gets to the core of British life, both thematically and structurally, since it’s in the […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • ‘Fatal’ Microbes – Violence Grows
    ‘Fatal’ Microbes – Violence Grows
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    Written when lead singer Honey Bane was only 14 years old, Violence Grows is a snotty burst of late 70’s UK punk. Label: Small Wonder Records – small twenty Format: […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Discharge – Fight Back (1981 Repress)
    Discharge – Fight Back (1981 Repress)
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    Discharge’s second 7″ showcases them at their rawest. Label: Clay Records – CLAY 3 Format: Vinyl, 7″, EP, 45 RPM, Repress Country: UK Released:1981 VG+/VG+. Name Written on [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Morton Subotnick – Silver Apples Of The Moon For Electronic Music Synthesizer
    Morton Subotnick – Silver Apples Of The Moon For Electronic Music Synthesizer
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    “Morton Subotnick helped bring the modular voltage-controlled synthesizer to a state of readiness for performance and recording and was the first composer to take advantage of the new [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Ramones – Rock N’ Roll Radio (UK PRESS)
    Ramones – Rock N’ Roll Radio (UK PRESS)
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    Do You Remember Rock N’ Roll Radio from End Of The Century and I Want You Around from the Rock N’ Roll High School Soundtrack, respectively. Label: Sire – SIR […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Flux Of Pink Indians – Neu Smell
    Flux Of Pink Indians – Neu Smell
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    “Flux of Pink Indians were an iconic anarcho-punk band active from 1980-1986. In 1981 the band signed to Crass Records, releasing their debut EP ‘Neu Smell’ the same year, featuring […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Zounds – More Trouble Coming Every Day
    Zounds – More Trouble Coming Every Day
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    “I (Steve Lake) wrote ‘More Trouble…’ during the riots that were taking place in London and other English towns at the time. I nicked the title from Frank Zappa (who […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Zounds – Dancing
    Zounds – Dancing
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    “Joseph walked out of the studio half way through when Lawrence had the bright idea of recording all the drums on ‘Dancing’ one at a time. He also hated ‘True […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Gism* – Anarchy Violence (white vinyl)
    Gism* – Anarchy Violence (white vinyl)
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    “Originally released as a bootleg in 1991 which was hand-numbered to 100 copies. This reissue is on white vinyl & hand-numbered to 200 copies.” Label: no label/no cat number [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Mikan Mukku – Chindan
    Mikan Mukku – Chindan
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    “Bitter Lake Recordings is proud to present the first proper independent release of cult Japanese new wave duo Mikan Mukku, comprised of multi-instrumentalist Kotobuki Hikaru and vocalist [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Nikki Sudden – Back To The Start
    Nikki Sudden – Back To The Start
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    Back To The Start/Ringing On My Train from the Swell Maps founder’s solo album, Waiting On Egypt. Label: Numero Group – NUM 1229.5 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Single, Reissue Country: US […]

    GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk
  • Rupa – Moja Bhari Moja b/w East West Shuffle
    Rupa – Moja Bhari Moja b/w East West Shuffle
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    The first two cuts from Rupa’s Indian Disco/Soul classic, Disco Jazz. Label: Numero Group – ES078 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single, Stereo, Clear Pink Country: US Released: 2022 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: International, Soul / Funk / Disco
  • The Feelies ‎– The Boy With The Perpetual Nervousness / My Little Red Book
    The Feelies ‎– The Boy With The Perpetual Nervousness / My Little Red Book
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    “Exclusive Ork Records: New York, New York bonus 45, featuring two previously unreleased tracks by the Feelies. “The Boy With The Perpetual Nervousness” is an unreleased studio cut from [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Cabaret Voltaire ‎– Seconds Too Late
    Cabaret Voltaire ‎– Seconds Too Late
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    Cabaret Voltaire’s 5th single for Rough Trade Label: Rough Trade – RT US 003 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM Country: US Released: 1981 VG+/VG.

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Con-Dom / Militia / Laura Maes – Familiedrama / Pain
    Con-Dom / Militia / Laura Maes – Familiedrama / Pain
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    Two track 7″ by Belgian industrial band Militia featuring Con-Dom on side 1 and Laura Maes on side 2. Label: Praxis Dr. Bearmann – TH-17 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 33 ⅓ […]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • The Velvet Underground & Nico – S/T (1968 Stereo West Coast Press)
    The Velvet Underground & Nico – S/T (1968 Stereo West Coast Press)
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    What else can be said about The Velvet Underground’s debut album? Changed the course of music history as we know it and still sounds fresh nearly 60 years later. Label: […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Sandy Bull With Billy Higgins – Fantasias For Guitar And Banjo
    Sandy Bull With Billy Higgins – Fantasias For Guitar And Banjo
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    “Sandy Bull should be a household name, as he was a true musical visionary who was clearly ahead of his time. This, his first album, is a truly auspicious debut. […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Minutemen ‎– “Bean-Spill” E. P.
    Minutemen ‎– “Bean-Spill” E. P.
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    “The Minutemen’s second LP, What Makes a Man Start Fires?, was recorded in the summer of 1982 but the release was delayed due to SST’s lawsuit with Unicorn Records. To […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Karen Dalton – Recording Is The Trip Karen Dalton Archives
    Karen Dalton – Recording Is The Trip Karen Dalton Archives
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    “Recording is the Trip – The Karen Dalton Archives is a three-LP, three-CD box set, including a download card and a shirt. Three LPs: Includes for the first-time ever on […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Z’EV / Zerfall_Gebiete – Untitled
    Z’EV / Zerfall_Gebiete – Untitled
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    “Four exclusive tracks. Released in conjunction with a live performance at the Lagerhaus Bremen on 17. April 2004. Record One features two very dynamic untitled tracks by legendary [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Don Dietrich – Chinese Root Letter / Tabulae Sex
    Don Dietrich – Chinese Root Letter / Tabulae Sex
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    Free Sax Madness from the Borbetomagus member. Label: Ecstatic Peace! – E#25 Format: Vinyl, 7″ Country: US Released: 1995 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Elyse Weinberg – Greasepaint Smile
    Elyse Weinberg – Greasepaint Smile
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    “The unreleased second album by an original lady from the canyon. Recorded and recanted in 1969, Greasepaint Smile is more assured than its self-titled, Tetragrammaton-issued predecessor. [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Burning Witch – Crippled Lucifer (4LP+DVD)
    Burning Witch – Crippled Lucifer (4LP+DVD)
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    Includes: Towers, Rift Canyon Dreams, The Bleeder/Rift Canyon Dreams 12″, Live At The China Club 1996 and a DVD of two live sets from 1997. . Label: Southern Lord – […]

    GENRE: Metal
  • MinuteFlag ‎– MinuteFlag
    MinuteFlag ‎– MinuteFlag
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    “Minuteflag was an experimental jam band collaboration between members of the American punk bands Minutemen and Black Flag. Their only release, an EP, consists entirely of instrumentals [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Various ‎– Hipsville 29 B.C.
    Various ‎– Hipsville 29 B.C.
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    Compilation of rare Garage 45s, featuring The Vagrants & The Fantastic Dee-Jays. Label: Kramden Records – KR 101 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Repress Country: US Released: 1996 VG/VG. [...]

    GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk
  • Joy Division ‎– Substance [1988 pressing]
    Joy Division ‎– Substance [1988 pressing]
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    “After New Order released their own Substance compilation in 1987, it was perhaps inevitable that a similar and long-overdue collection would apply to Joy Division, especially given the [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Gillian Welch ‎– Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs (Vol. 1 | 2 | 3)
    Gillian Welch ‎– Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs (Vol. 1 | 2 | 3)
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    “Unearthed from a cache of home demos and reel-to-reel recordings, Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs is the second release of archival music from the vault of Gillian Welch and David [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • John Prine ‎– The Asylum Albums [3LP box]
    John Prine ‎– The Asylum Albums [3LP box]
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    Includes Bruised Orange, Pink Cadillac and Storm Windows Label: Rhino Records – R1 565271 Format: 3xVinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Box Set, 180g Vinyl Country: US Released: 2020 NM/NM

    GENRE: Folk / Country