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  • Liars ? S/T (Colored Vinyl)
    Liars ? S/T (Colored Vinyl)
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    Liars was recorded on the heels of 2006’s Drum’s not Dead somewhere between LA and Berlin. Liars’ fourth album marks another bold transition for Angus Andrew, Aaron Hemphill and [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Masaki Batoh ? Smile Jesus Loves YOU!
    Masaki Batoh ? Smile Jesus Loves YOU!
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    Batoh is back! Solo again after last fall’s new Silence album, the Japanese psychedelic guru makes some solo cuts, with others featuring Ghost and Silence family members, including free drumming [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • A Certain Ratio ? Loco Remezclada
    A Certain Ratio ? Loco Remezclada
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    This ACR release compiles remixes of tracks from the band’s highly acclaimed 2020 studio album ACR Loco. Featuring all new remixes from Lonelady, Skream, Maps, Number, Lounge Society and more. [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Roger Eno – The Turning Year
    Roger Eno – The Turning Year
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    Roger Eno is a British composer and musician whose distinctive style as a recording artist has attracted a cult following. Last year he made his debut on Deutsche Grammophon with […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Love – Revisited
    Love – Revisited
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    In four short years from 1966-1970, Love released four albums of increasingly adventurous rock and, mainly due to their hesitance to tour, remained an enigma to most music listeners beyond […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Lee Ranaldo & Ra?l Refree ? Names Of North End Women
    Lee Ranaldo & Ra?l Refree ? Names Of North End Women
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    Ranaldo and Refree worked together Ranaldo’s last solo album, Electric Trim (Mute, 2017), and soon after the pair returned to the studio to record the follow up they realised that […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Mekons ? Deserted
    Mekons ? Deserted
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    This legendary group from Leeds, have written contemporary music history for the last 40 years as radical innovators of both first generation punk and insurgent roots music. Their new album […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The Pyramids – Birth/Speed/Merging
    The Pyramids – Birth/Speed/Merging
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    Birth/Speed/Merging was recorded in 1976 after the band’s move to San Francisco. The album closes the Pyramids’ 70s trilogy and makes more use of studio technology: adding overdubs [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • V/A – Gritty ’60s Garage & Punk
    V/A – Gritty ’60s Garage & Punk
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    Early punk, garage rock, & psych monsters! Rare & originally unissued artifacts from the unstoppable ‘60s infestation of teenagers with guitars & drums that took over their [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • V/A – Soul Love Now: The Black Fire Records Story 1975-1993
    V/A – Soul Love Now: The Black Fire Records Story 1975-1993
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    Strut present the rst ever compilation bringing together classics and rarities from the seminal spiritual jazz and conscious soul label Black Fire, covering 1975 to 1993.

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Alabaster DePlume – Come With Fierce Grace
    Alabaster DePlume – Come With Fierce Grace
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    When we are boldly and sincerely requested as ourselves, as whoever we may be, we can, in response to one-another, create naturally, things that no-one could have ever specifically demanded […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Doug Carn, Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge – Doug Carn
    Doug Carn, Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge – Doug Carn
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    Doug Carn’s newest project, his entry in the Jazz Is Dead album series helmed by Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad, takes his unique and timeless art and places it […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Ripple – S/T
    Ripple – S/T
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    Seminal rare groove funk and deep soul album originally released in 1973 on GRC Records now released 50 years later on Soul Jazz Records in this fully remastered edition of […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
    Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
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    Merriweather Post Pavilion, Animal Collective’s ninth studio album, sees the American art-rock collective in heartwarmingly baffling form, combining upbeat indietronica with mind-warping [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Juju – A Message From Mozambique
    Juju – A Message From Mozambique
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    The roots of Juju started in San Francisco after Plunky had met his musical mentor, Zulu musician Ndikho Xaba, helping to form his band Ndikho and The Natives. Three members […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Full Moon Ensemble – Crowded With Loneliness
    Full Moon Ensemble – Crowded With Loneliness
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    Reissue of this French spiritual free jazz masterpiece, includes the killer poetry jazz tune ʻSamba Miaouʼ! Crowded with Loneliness by Full Moon Ensemble was produced by Claude Delcloo, check the [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Holger Hiller – Ein Bundel Faulnis in der Grube
    Holger Hiller – Ein Bundel Faulnis in der Grube
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    With Ein Bündel Fäulnis in der Grube, Holger Hiller presented his solo debut having left Palais Schaumburg. Originally released in 1983 on the Düsseldorf scene label Ata Tak, an international [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Os Mutantes – A Divina Comedia Ou Ando Meio Desligado (White Vinyl)
    Os Mutantes – A Divina Comedia Ou Ando Meio Desligado (White Vinyl)
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    2023 repress. Originally released in 1970 this was the third album from Os Mutantes, the geniuses of wacked out Brazilian psychedelic rock. They may have been trying to pay homage […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, International
  • 75 Dollar Bill – Wood/Metal/Plastic/Pattern/Rhythm/Rock
    75 Dollar Bill – Wood/Metal/Plastic/Pattern/Rhythm/Rock
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    2023 repress! 75 Dollar Bill, a project by Che Chen and Rick Brown present Wood/Metal/Plastic/Pattern/Rhythm/Rock. “Che’s interest in the Arabic modes of Mauritanian music has marked [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Sven Torstenson – Drugs
    Sven Torstenson – Drugs
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    Sven Torstenson‘s notorious Drugs is a loopdigga’s fever dream, bursting with breaks for days and featuring possibly the most iconic cover of all library music’s cult classics. [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Soundtracks / Library Music
  • V/A – Echo Neuklang (Neo-Kraut-Sounds 1981-2023)
    V/A – Echo Neuklang (Neo-Kraut-Sounds 1981-2023)
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    Double LP version. Christoph Dallach, Andreas Dorau, and Daniel Jahn present Echo Neuklang, a compilation which explores the question of how krautrock has influenced generation after generation [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Philippe Doray & Les Asociaux Associes – Le Composant Compositeur
    Philippe Doray & Les Asociaux Associes – Le Composant Compositeur
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    Having dynamited the end of the ’70s with two radical albums — Ramasse-Miettes Nucléaires (FFL 058LP) in 1976 and Nouveaux Modes Industriels (FFL 059LP) in 1978, both reissued by [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Sonic Youth – Walls Have Ears
    Sonic Youth – Walls Have Ears
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    Release date: 2/9/24 Will ship around this date   “Culled from three 1985 gigs in the UK during a transitional and transcendent time in the band’s story, Sonic Youth’s The […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Chai – S/T (Loser Edition – Colored Vinyl)
    Chai – S/T (Loser Edition – Colored Vinyl)
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    The Japanese band CHAI cast a spell on the world in 2017, when they released their debut album, PINK, a collection of songs that introduced us to their singular brand […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Marnie Stern – The Comeback Kid
    Marnie Stern – The Comeback Kid
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    It’s been a decade since we last heard from Marnie Stern, but when her guitar bursts in like a shower of stardust on The Comeback Kid, the follow-up to 2013’s […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • John Bender – Pop Surgery
    John Bender – Pop Surgery
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    Following the release of lo-fi electronic masterpiece I Don’t Remember Now / I Don’t Want To Talk About It and his brilliant follow-up Plaster Falling, Cincinnati-based artist John Bender began [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Kevin Morby ? More Photographs (A Continuum)
    Kevin Morby ? More Photographs (A Continuum)
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    Kevin Morby writes (and records, and imagines) at an almost incomparable clip, and his most recent album, This Is A Photograph, studies life, time and mortality through myriad lenses. It’s [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • John Coltrane – Kulu Se Mama
    John Coltrane – Kulu Se Mama
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    Reissue of John Coltrane’s classic album Kulu Sé Mama from 1967 on Orange Impulse Rec. Considered to be the last Coltrane’s lifetime release it includes the all-time classic [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Archie Shepp – Derailleur: The 1964 Demo
    Archie Shepp – Derailleur: The 1964 Demo
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    Archie Shepp’s world has always been filled with fire music, and eventually Fire Music. Before that landmark LP, Shepp made Four for Trane — his August 1964 beachhead with Impulse. [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Les Rallizes Denudes – Acid Psychedelic King Go To The East
    Les Rallizes Denudes – Acid Psychedelic King Go To The East
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    Rare 1975 live and studio recordings by the Japanese psychedelic noise legends Les Rallizes Dénudés.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Tiny Vipers ? Hands Across The Void
    Tiny Vipers ? Hands Across The Void
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    What our staff has to say: “Achingly beautiful, sparse, acoustic singer-songwriter tracks with occasional noise moments, situated somewhere in the Cat Power, Adrianne Lenker, and even [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Helm – Axis (Clear Purple Vinyl)
    Helm – Axis (Clear Purple Vinyl)
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    London exploratory industrialist Luke Younger characterizes the creation of his latest collection, Axis, as a liberating return to roots: “It felt like going back to the beginning, it felt [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Efterklang ? Windflowers
    Efterklang ? Windflowers
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    Every year as spring arrives, a sea of tiny flowers blossom across the Danish forest floor. They’re an explosion of color, a symbol of hope and change, disappearing as quickly […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Ty Segall ? Whirlybird (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
    Ty Segall ? Whirlybird (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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    Ty Segall meets a new non-rock challenge head-on; soundtrack music for the documentary film Whirlybird. A variety of synth sounds, electric keyboards, drums, percussion and saxophone (and yeah, a [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Soundtracks / Library Music
  • Lothar And The Hand People – Come Along: The Exodus 1966 (White Vinyl)
    Lothar And The Hand People – Come Along: The Exodus 1966 (White Vinyl)
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    Lothar And The Hand People emerged as one of the earliest pioneers to mix electronics into rock, incorporating theremin and synthesizers into their sonic onslaught. Led by Lothar (a theremin) [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Sarah Davachi & Ariel Kalma ? Intemporel
    Sarah Davachi & Ariel Kalma ? Intemporel
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    If there is a single feature that makes the context of experimental music so exciting, it is arguably the willingness of artists to freely converse and collaborate. This is made […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • No Age – People Helping People
    No Age – People Helping People
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    No Age’s ethos sings to us from beyond the clouds, with words and without, a conceptual boost to everyone helping everyone. Ensconced in Randy’s Garage without a clock to spit […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Tashi Dorji ? Stateless
    Tashi Dorji ? Stateless
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    Guitar improviser Tashi Dorji takes acoustic in hand, recording in a rare studio setting with extra focus and balance. In a set of songs that travel through our bleak modern […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Dirty Projectors ? Sing The Melody
    Dirty Projectors ? Sing The Melody
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    Sing The Melody, the third installment in the Domino Documents series, captures Dirty Projectors at a peak in their touring powers. It sees the band head into New York City’s […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Small Sur – Attic Room
    Small Sur – Attic Room
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    Attic Room is Bob Keal’s fifth full-length album as Small Sur and first since his daughter’s birth in 2014. In this collection of songs, Keal meditates on the rhythms of […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Ralph E. White – Something About Dreaming
    Ralph E. White – Something About Dreaming
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    Recorded in Austin, Texas in March of 2020, just days before the city and the rest of the world shut down, Ralph White spent two days with producer, Jerry David […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Fucked Up – Rivoli (Transparent Magenta & Opaque Black Vinyl)
    Fucked Up – Rivoli (Transparent Magenta & Opaque Black Vinyl)
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    2xLP LP recorded live at the Rivoli Club in June 2014, 6 days after the release of “Glass Boys”. This release gives you Fucked Up at their peak, bringing you […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • V/A – Mehme Aslan presents Senza Decoro
    V/A – Mehme Aslan presents Senza Decoro
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    A new compilation explores the far reaches of the post-punk, experimental and electronic landscape in Switzerland on Senza Decoro: Liebe & Anarchia in Switzerland 1980-1990 curated by [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Thandi Ntuli with Carlos Ni?o – Rainbow Revisited
    Thandi Ntuli with Carlos Ni?o – Rainbow Revisited
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    South African pianist Thandi Ntuli traveled to Los Angeles in 2019, where she recorded this album of bare, explorative piano and voice pieces at a Venice Beach studio with International […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Scritti Politti – Early
    Scritti Politti – Early
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    What our staff has to say: “Been jamming a lot of the early Rough Trade singles lately, so gotta throw on these early Scritti Politti one’s included on this comp.” […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Bar Italia – The Twits
    Bar Italia – The Twits
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    ‘The Twits’ was recorded by the trio over eight weeks from February 2023 in a makeshift home studio in Mallorca, and was mixed by Marta Salogni. It finds bar italia’s […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • GUB – GUB
    GUB – GUB
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    “GUB” — debut full-length from the two-headed beast of Beau Wanzer / Champagne Mirrors — is a low-boiling cauldron aswirl with glurpy synthscapes, hypnotized rhythms and eerily dubbed-out [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Minor Threat – Out Of Step
    Minor Threat – Out Of Step
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    ***BACK IN PRINT ON BRAND NEW WHITE VINYL!!! MINOR THREAT’s classic 1983 Out of Step album remastered and re-released.

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Cuticles – Major Works
    Cuticles – Major Works
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    Oamaru, located about 80 miles north of Dunedin on New Zealand’s south island, might seem like the last place you expect to find a prodigious racket like Cuticles, but ain’t […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Emily Robb – If I Am Misery Then Give Me Affection
    Emily Robb – If I Am Misery Then Give Me Affection
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    The fantastic new album from tireless seeker Emily Robb. It’s a no-frills, high-minded celebration of guitar and sound and tone and string and amp and adventure committed to tape at […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Indie / Alternative
  • Love Cry Want – S/T
    Love Cry Want – S/T
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    What our staff has to say: “Wild record on many levels, recorded at an anti-war rally in DC in ’72, featuring organist Larry Young and percussionist Joe Gallivan. Organ heavy, […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Low – Trust
    Low – Trust
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    BACK IN PRINT!!! The ninth full-length album from slo-mo beauty dealers LOW, and the band’s most assertive and expansive release to date. Thirteen tracks recorded in Minneapolis with TOM [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • MC5 – Kick Out The Jams
    MC5 – Kick Out The Jams
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    Kick Out The Jams still sounds astonishingly powerful after almost 30 years. Recorded live at Detroit’s Grande Ballroom in 1968, this relentless, aggressive set offers the frenzy of [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Rock / Pop
  • Osmo Lindeman – Electronic Works
    Osmo Lindeman – Electronic Works
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    What our staff has to say: “Incredible works from Finnish electronic music composer. Fits right in with the Sahko catalog.” – Alex *includes a CD featuring all tracks from the [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Habitat Ensemble – S/T
    Habitat Ensemble – S/T
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    Self-titled debut album of Habitat Ensemble, a new musical collective headed up by musician Marius Houschyar. The collective originates deep in the south of the Czech Republic, on the border […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • V/A – Radio Familia Volume 1 (Compiled By Arp Frique)
    V/A – Radio Familia Volume 1 (Compiled By Arp Frique)
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    Four essential cuts from Ghana & Cape Verde, compiled by Arp Frique… Music is a great connector, bringing people together in many ways. On his journey in music so far, […]

    GENRE: International
  • Nigel Rolfe – Island Stories
    Nigel Rolfe – Island Stories
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    Nigel Rolfe’s “Island Stories” is a unique record for 80’s Ireland. An unusually experimental electronic and abstract record for the time, it was originally released to little fanfare on Reekus [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Stano – Anthology
    Stano – Anthology
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    Following on from our 2018 repress of his debut album “Content to Write in I Dine Weathercraft “ we’re delighted to present an Anthology of Stano’s productions spanning the start […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Thee Retail Simps – Live On Cool St.
    Thee Retail Simps – Live On Cool St.
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    “After countless hours of data driven market research it was determined that the wild success of the first Retail Simps album, Reverberant Scratch was 82.6% due to the cheeky and […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • V/A– So You Wanna Be A Rock ‘N’ Roll Star Volume 2 (The Psychedelic Years Of Australian Rock 1967-70)
    V/A– So You Wanna Be A Rock ‘N’ Roll Star Volume 2 (The Psychedelic Years Of Australian Rock 1967-70)
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    Australian psych-pop compilation. Some fun cuts. Label: Festival Records – L45705/6 Series: So You You Wanna Be A Rock ‘N’ Roll Star Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych