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  • Tashi Dorji – We Will Be Wherever The Fires Are Lit
    Tashi Dorji – We Will Be Wherever The Fires Are Lit
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    begin form here… begin from here…our world lives when their world ceases to exist begin from here…with hopes, between silent skies, while world breathes again and the fever [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Bill Callahan – The Holy Grail: Bill Callahan’s “Smog” Dec. 10 2001 Peel Session
    Bill Callahan – The Holy Grail: Bill Callahan’s “Smog” Dec. 10 2001 Peel Session
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    “December 2001, Maida Vale: Bill Callahan’s “Smog” perform with demonstrative zeal for their British witness at the BBC, shimmering and hissing with a Lynchian vibe of U.S. darkness in the [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Papa M – Ballads Of Harry Houdini
    Papa M – Ballads Of Harry Houdini
    $29.00 | , Add to cart

    “The “Great Escape Artist” is back! No, not THAT one – dude’s dead! We’re talking about Papa M. And HE’s talking ‘bout Harry Houdini – in the album title, anyway, […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Jessica Pratt – On Your Own Love Again
    Jessica Pratt – On Your Own Love Again
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    Seeing the world through a Pratt’s eyes is a surpassingly beautiful thing. But subtly, oh so subtly, and with such sweet flakes of humor falling. Tunes and vibe to the […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Jill Fraser – Earthly Pleasures
    Jill Fraser – Earthly Pleasures
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    Veteran electronic music composer Jill Fraser’s new work takes stock of generations and lifetimes of memory, speculating on how the spirit of our songs might be interpreted after we’re gone. […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Matchess – Stena
    Matchess – Stena
    $15.00 | , Add to cart

    Whitney Johnson, alter-ego of pyschoacoustic voyager Matchess, crafts an encompassing work of psychoacoustic music with two separate releases. On Hav, an LP under her own name, Whitney [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Whitney Johnson – Hav
    Whitney Johnson – Hav
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    Whitney Johnson, alter-ego of psychoacoustic voyager Matchess, debuts with a new composition that meditates on the duality of the human body. An instrument that collates awesome sensory [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Dirty Three ? Toward The Low Sun
    Dirty Three ? Toward The Low Sun
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    Sticking us with something that won’t go away, the Dirty Three are back. It’s been awhile, but that just means that the music here is heavy with seven years in […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Laetitia Sadier _? Silencio
    Laetitia Sadier _? Silencio
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    It’s 2012 — do you know where your government is tonight? Occupy yourselves — and let’s get busy with the music in our minds.

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Six Organs Of Admittance _? Companion Rises (Twig Harper Remix)
    Six Organs Of Admittance _? Companion Rises (Twig Harper Remix)
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    6OOA’s 2020 opus is reunmanaged by sound composer Twig Harper, whose REMIX goes places no other remix record could dare under his unlimited brief. In the process, it affords the […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • L?titia Sadier _? Something Shines
    L?titia Sadier _? Something Shines
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    The Earth, the sky and the earth again — plus another trip through “La Soci é t é du Spectacle.” Something between a riveting caress and an invigorating shake. Elevated […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Gastr Del Sol _? We Have Dozens Of Titles 3LP boxset
    Gastr Del Sol _? We Have Dozens Of Titles 3LP boxset
    $66.00 | , Add to cart

    Nearly twenty-five years after disbanding, Gastr del Sol have unpacked their archive, stringing together an alternative view to their genre-melting 1993-1998 run. This assembly of previously [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Sings Greatest Palace Music
    Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Sings Greatest Palace Music
    $34.00 | , Add to cart

    The master Bonnie comes to terms with his past and takes it to Nashville for some serious revamping. The greatest release from the greatest Prince in the greatest Palace- historically […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Dean Spunt – Basic Editions
    Dean Spunt – Basic Editions
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    An excursion in electronic sound instrumentally unpacking Dean Spunt’s fascination with language – in this instance, the syntax of the systems and processes of various 64-voice E-mu modules [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • 781484078418
    781484078418
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    Bill MacKay and Nathan Bowles’ debut is well titled: keys are what they play and keys unlock things too. Their trad bonafides are balanced with inquisitive playing that adds surprise […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Masaki Batoh ? Smile Jesus Loves YOU!
    Masaki Batoh ? Smile Jesus Loves YOU!
    $16.00 | , Add to cart

    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
  • 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
  • No Age – People Helping People
    No Age – People Helping People
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    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
  • Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You
    Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You is a tale as old as time. It’s an album. Its songs and music are by and for people together. For listening together. Before it […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Bill Nace – Through A Room
    Bill Nace – Through A Room
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Fever dream experimental guitar with an array of other instruments that are all completely abstracted. Uneasy listening.” – Hannah Using the [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Bill Nace – Both
    Bill Nace – Both
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    Free guitar for the new age: improv with intention, construction and destruction, all with the grain and air of performance captured and telescoped in a sonic particle collider. Makes sense, […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Bill Callahn – Shephard In Sheepskin Vest
    Bill Callahn – Shephard In Sheepskin Vest
    $31.00 | Add to cart

    The voice murmuring in our ear, with shaggy-dog and other kinds of stories, is an old friend so fine to hear from again. Bill’s gentle, spacey take on folk and […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Bill Callahan – YTilaeR
    Bill Callahan – YTilaeR
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    From the beautiful to the jarring, intrepid explorer Callahan charts a passage through all kinds of territory, pitting dreams of dreams against dreams of reality. When he makes it back […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Ty Segall – Hello, Hi
    Ty Segall – Hello, Hi
    $17.00 | , Add to cart

    Tossing down straight acoustic shots with electric guitar back, Hello, Hi rides through the valley of yer ol’ Canyon legends, finding an isolated place to unspool Ty’s copious [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Circuits Des Yeux – Reaching For Indigo
    Circuits Des Yeux – Reaching For Indigo
    $24.00 | , Add to cart

    A moment that fell down in the life of Haley Fohr on January 22, 2016 – now in album form! Redefining and realizing the goals that were set to allow […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Jim O’Rourke _? Simple Songs
    Jim O’Rourke _? Simple Songs
    $24.00 | , Add to cart

    There ARE no simple songs — only simple people. And since guns don’t kill people, “Simple Songs” will have to do. Super-sweet terrorism from our very own latter-day Spector!

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Kamikaze Palm Tree – Mint Chip
    Kamikaze Palm Tree – Mint Chip
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    For their sophomore effort/Drag City debut, the enigmatic duo expand into eight-armed wonder; all the better to reach ever-deeper into their bag o’ tricks. Slinky and sliding elegantly, the [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Dean Spunt, John Wiese ? The Echoing Shell
    Dean Spunt, John Wiese ? The Echoing Shell
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    Veteran noisemakers Spunt & Wiese debut as collaborators by drawing from the rumble and crash of Dean’s drumkit, finding dimensions of hiss and crunch on beyond his No Age style. […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Bill MacKay & Katinka Kleijn – STIR
    Bill MacKay & Katinka Kleijn – STIR
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    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
  • Royal Trux “Live” ‎– Platinum Tips + Ice Cream
    Royal Trux “Live” ‎– Platinum Tips + Ice Cream
    $8.00 | , Add to cart

    Platinum Tips + Ice Cream is the first release from Royal Trux in 17 years, culled from two live sets recently recorded in New York and Los Angeles. It is […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Royal Trux ‎– Hand Of Glory
    Royal Trux ‎– Hand Of Glory
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    Royal Trux’s 1990 four-song album Twin Infinitives holds an odd position in the canon of drug music. Neil “Michael” Hagerty and Jennifer Herrema have said that although the [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Royal Trux ‎– Pound For Pound
    Royal Trux ‎– Pound For Pound
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    On Pound for Pound, Royal Trux’s second album within a year, the increasingly prolific group revisits the laid-back, scuzzy sound of albums like Thank You and Sweet Sixteen — albeit [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Bill MacKay – Fountain Fire
    Bill MacKay – Fountain Fire
    $19.00 | , Add to cart

    In and out of focus in a hallucinogenic haze, Bill’s conversations with himself follow a travel-worn map copied over and over again. The picker journeys sonically from familiar to unknown [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • No Age – Goons Be Gone
    No Age – Goons Be Gone
    $9.00 | , Add to cart

    Summer 2020, and No Age are back out on the street! Effortlessly raw and extravagantly indulgent in one practiced swoop, they set their live/bedroom internal clock and get out early […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Gary Higgins ‎– Seconds
    Gary Higgins ‎– Seconds
    $9.00 | , Add to cart

    “The music business is full of funny stories — and some of them aren’t that funny at all. Take Gary Higgins. In the early 70s, he made a great record, […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Father Yod And The Spirit Of ’76 ‎– Kohoutek
    Father Yod And The Spirit Of ’76 ‎– Kohoutek
    $10.00 | , Add to cart

      “….the second coming of Kohoutek. This was the first spontaneous release that was made into a record, credited to Father Yod and The Spirit of ’76. It came out […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych