April 19th Newsletter
4
Torn Light Records
1855 N Milwaukee
Chicago, IL 60647
312.955.0614
Open Everyday
10AM-7PM

FILTERS

Filter by

Filter by

Filter by

  • Earthgasm – World Wide Gasm
    Earthgasm – World Wide Gasm
    $10.00 | , Add to cart

    “All energy music by Earthgasm and A.G. Seedhair recorded at Gemini Unity by Jonny Wulf 2018” Label: Double Dogging – DD07 Format: CS, EP Country: US Released: 2018 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • A Comedy Of Errors Volume 2
    A Comedy Of Errors Volume 2
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    “EVAPORATED PEOPLE-S/T 14 SONGS 1 HOUR AND SOME MINS. L.I.E.S. STALWART STEVE SUMMERS COMES TO THE LABEL WITH A NEW ALIAS. THE EVER PROLIFIC ARTIST ONCE AGAIN SHOWS HIS VERSATILITY […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Angels 4 Carrots – Frog Bone
    Angels 4 Carrots – Frog Bone
    $4.00 | , Add to cart

    circular poems carved in a rock below a windswept coastal bog in 10,000 years. consciousness emerging through cracks of stone, satellites falling from the sky, bugs composting the wires, listen, [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Samuel Beckett – Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamable
    Samuel Beckett – Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamable
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    Few works of contemporary literature are so universally acclaimed as central to our understanding of the human experience as Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett’s famous trilogy. Molloy, the [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • N.H Pritchard – The Mundus
    N.H Pritchard – The Mundus
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    N.H. Pritchard’s magnum opus, The Mundus is a work that is both visual and poetic, literary and mystical. It was composed between 1965 until at least July 1971: a six-year […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Alfred Kubin – The Other Side
    Alfred Kubin – The Other Side
    $16.00 | , Add to cart

    called it, ‘a sort of Baedeker for those lands which are half known to us’. Written in 1908, and more or less half way between Meyrink and Kafka, it was […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Amy Ireland – Cute Accelerationism
    Amy Ireland – Cute Accelerationism
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    Involuntarily sucked into the forcefield of Cute, Amy Ireland and Maya B. Kronic decided to let go, give in, let the demon ride them, and make an accelerationism out of […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Bloodiest Thing That Ever Happened in Front of a Camera: Conservative Politics, ‘Porno Chic’ and Snuff
    The Bloodiest Thing That Ever Happened in Front of a Camera: Conservative Politics, ‘Porno Chic’ and Snuff
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    In the early 1970s, outrageous claims were made of a new blood-spattered cinematic extreme. This was the legend of the ‘snuff movie’, which promoted the inhuman notion that a woman [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Mac Blackout – Revelation on the Beach
    Mac Blackout – Revelation on the Beach
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    Micro pressing of 100 copies on “Crystal Mist” vinyl available from Torn Light: Avant-Garde soundscapes envelop the listener in sonic waves of emotion. A synesthetic journey and [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Todd Tamanend Clark – The Deathguard Remnants
    Todd Tamanend Clark – The Deathguard Remnants
    $35.00 | , Add to cart

    “The Deathguard Remnants contains rare lo-fi recordings that were left off of legendary underground poet and composer Todd Tamanend Clark’s best-known album Nova Psychedelia 1975-1985 due [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Sham 69 ‎– The Game
    Sham 69 ‎– The Game
    $17.00 | , , Add to cart

    Sham 69’s last & most underrated album Label: Polydor – POLD 5033 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: UK Released: 1980 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Nekropolis, Peter Frohmader – Cultes Des Goules (Ballett Of Death)
    Nekropolis, Peter Frohmader – Cultes Des Goules (Ballett Of Death)
    $35.00 | , , Add to cart

    “A strange album this, one I’ve found very hard to come to terms with. Very fragmented, diverse; an amalgam of a whole range of styles from ECM style classical-jazz (i.e. […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Neuronium – Vuelo Químico
    Neuronium – Vuelo Químico
    $13.00 | , , Add to cart

    Electronic-tinged psych rock Label: Harvest – 10C 064-021.523 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold Country: Spain Released: 1978 VG/VG

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Beautiful Losers – Nobody Knows the Heaven
    Beautiful Losers – Nobody Knows the Heaven
    $28.00 | , , Add to cart

    “To set the scene: it’s 1974, it’s Paris, two young guys in their bed-sit (one of whom is French music maven/famous producer JAY ALANSKI) are dreaming of counter-culture, and their […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Swans – My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky
    Swans – My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    “After years of pursuing Angels of Light and recording and producing a diverse roster of artists for his Young God label, Michael Gira has decided to reconvene his legendary group […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Pussy Galore – Right Now!
    Pussy Galore – Right Now!
    $20.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Making their intentions clear with the indescribably manic garage stomper “Pig Sweat,” which kicks off this 1987 album, Pussy Galore proceeds to mash it up dumpster style with [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • V/A  ‎– Son Of Oi !
    V/A ‎– Son Of Oi !
    $32.00 | , , Add to cart

    5th in the series of classic Oi compilation albums Label: Syndicate Records – synLP3 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: UK Released: 1983 VG+/VG+. Large corner crease on upper left corner [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Rats – In A Desperate Red
    The Rats – In A Desperate Red
    $25.00 | , , Add to cart

    “At last! Fred and Toody Cole (Dead Moon, Pierced Arrows) and drummer Louis Samora’s ultimate pop masterpiece – In A Desperate Red. This is the last record by the Portland […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Louis Armand – The Garden (Director’s Cut)
    Louis Armand – The Garden (Director’s Cut)
    $15.00 | , Add to cart

    In 1994, in the company of Italian anarchist & photographer “Dekaro,” the author travelled across Morocco & the disputed Western Sahara. The notebooks from that journey [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Kenji Siratori – Blood Electric
    Kenji Siratori – Blood Electric
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    2024 redux edition of the long out-of-print 2002 cyberpunk cult classic «A Finnegans Wake for the postdigital millennium, Kenji Siratori’s Blood Electric is probably the foundational text of the [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • The Pyramids – Lalibela (2013 press)
    The Pyramids – Lalibela (2013 press)
    $19.00 | , , Add to cart

    “The debut album by the Pyramids was inspired by the group’s visit to the Lalibela monastery in Egypt, and was recorded in Yellow Springs Ohio in early 1973. Drawing on […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Plasmatics – Meet The Plasmatics
    Plasmatics – Meet The Plasmatics
    $25.00 | , , Add to cart

    An early EP from the chaotic punk band. Label: Vice Squad – VS-106ESP Format: Vinyl, 12″ Country: US Released: 1979 VG/VG

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Saint Abdullah, Jason Nazary – Evicted In The Morning
    Saint Abdullah, Jason Nazary – Evicted In The Morning
    $18.00 | , , Add to cart

    “A unique dialogue between the electronic textures of Saint Abdullah with the live drums of Jason Nazary (Anteloper). Saint Abdullah consists of Tehran-born brothers Mohammad and Mehdi [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • The Hatch Expansion – Texas Edition
    The Hatch Expansion – Texas Edition
    $20.00 | , , Add to cart

    This release is an orchestral expansion of the vocabulary of The Hatch. The duo work of Desprez and Rasmussen extrapolating into two local scenes in Texas. Label: Sonic Transmissions Records […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Madelaine ‎– Who Is She..
    Madelaine ‎– Who Is She..
    $40.00 | , , Add to cart

    Amazing rewrite/cover of the Bill Withers track “Who Is He?”. Absolute smoker. Label: Chi Sound Records – CH-LA863H Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1978 VG+/VG+. [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • The 4 Skins* ‎– The Good, The Bad & The 4 Skins
    The 4 Skins* ‎– The Good, The Bad & The 4 Skins
    $36.00 | , , Add to cart

    ” Recorded with the first stable line-up after numerous changes, fronted by legendary vocalist Panther (who stepped in after the original singer Gary Hodges’ defection), this is violent, [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Nihilistics ‎– Nihilistics
    Nihilistics ‎– Nihilistics
    $55.00 | , , Add to cart

    The NYC hardcore band’s hard-hitting debut album Label: Brain Eater – EATER 1 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released:1983 VG+/VG. Sleeve shows some noticeable edgwear and corner [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Personal Best Issue 8
    Personal Best Issue 8
    $16.00 | , Add to cart

    Finally here from Lasse Marhaug: Personal Best 8. My favorite zine around. Always a worldwide affair, a zine that felt familiar to me the first time I picked up a […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Ira Cohen – A Certain Kind of Wizard
    Ira Cohen – A Certain Kind of Wizard
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    Poet, photographer, filmmaker, publisher, and dauntless world traveler, Ira Cohen was a mythic figure of boundless energy who was a catalyst for creative scenes in New York, Tangier, Kathmandu, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Non-Fiction
  • Gabriel de Foigny – The Known Southern Land
    Gabriel de Foigny – The Known Southern Land
    $19.00 | , Add to cart

    In 1676, a century before the British colonized Australia, a defrocked French monk named Gabriel de Foigny published a novel imagining what the land was like. The work is told […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • John Trefry – Plats
    John Trefry – Plats
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    Plats is the ornate debut novel by John Trefry. A hallucinatory meditation on life in Los Angeles by a schizophrenic consciousness, Plats turns a funhouse mirror on the banality of […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Michael Salu – Red Earth
    Michael Salu – Red Earth
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    Conversing with Dante, Yoruba metaphysics and probabilistic computation, Red Earth is an expansive text and the source material for Michael Salu’s broader interdisciplinary artistic study, where [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Rédoine Faïd – Outlaw
    Rédoine Faïd – Outlaw
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    Memoirs of celebrated criminals purvey vivid personal stories while spawning sharp questions about the cultures that produced them. In Outlaw: Author Armed & Dangerous, Rédoine Faïd, of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Raymond Pettibon – The Frontier Index
    Raymond Pettibon – The Frontier Index
    $16.00 | , Add to cart

    Guiding readers across the desiccated landscape of twenty-first century America in The Frontier Index is the cult duo of Raymond Pettibon and Mike Topp, two of contemporary art and [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Sarah Falkner – Animal Sanctuary
    Sarah Falkner – Animal Sanctuary
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    Booklist review: In a stealthily affecting reportorial voice, debut novelist Falkner tells the story of tepidly successful 1960s movie actress Kitty Dawson via interviews, critiques, press [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jake Reber – ZER000 Excess
    Jake Reber – ZER000 Excess
    $19.00 | , Add to cart

    ZER000 EXCESS is a work of ambient body horror. Depicting the birth and growth of strange organisms–creatures spawned from the maw of the text. Watch as they fester in the […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Joanna Walsh – Autobiology
    Joanna Walsh – Autobiology
    $19.00 | , Add to cart

    “The Labour of Reading is at the heart of AUTOBIOLOGY. Readership as authorship, authorship as readership – and all of it consequently as thinkership. Questions on ‘work’ and ‘value’ abound. […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Christopher Norris – Hunchback ’88
    Christopher Norris – Hunchback ’88
    $20.00 | , , Add to cart

    Hunchback ‘88 is a book… or a novel mirror of haunted house ferox… or a puzzle in no rush to be solved… or a plot dug in ocean mist… or […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • T.H.M. Gellar-Goad – Masks
    T.H.M. Gellar-Goad – Masks
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    The mask is the classic disguise. But as alter ego, it reveals as much as it conceals. Why are masks so often creepy, even outside of horror movies? Can a […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Grant Maierhofer – Works
    Grant Maierhofer – Works
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    Works is a collection, but also something new: it is a conversation between Maierhofer’s early and contemporary writings that shares its title with Édouard Levé’s masterful experimental Works. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Louse – Passions Like Tar
    Louse – Passions Like Tar
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    “Like some mutated phantom lurking in the shadows, Cincinnati based new-wave punks Louse emerge into light with their debut LP Passions Like Tar- a heady and sullen collection of post-punk [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Disintegration – Shiver In A Weak Light
    Disintegration – Shiver In A Weak Light
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    The first full-length release from Cleveland’s Disintegration brings their intricate circuitry of nocturnal synthwave and noise-saturated post-punk to a new plateau. Sharper, leaner, and more [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Corker – Hallways Of Grey (Clear / Smoke Vinyl)
    Corker – Hallways Of Grey (Clear / Smoke Vinyl)
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    CLEAR VINYL “Fragments of the past intersect with a dynamic sonic vision on Hallways of Grey, the second full length from Corker. Expanding upon the dense, rhythmic post-punk of their […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • The Drin – Elude The Torch
    The Drin – Elude The Torch
    $19.00 | Add to cart

    The Drin forge further into their own captivating world of sound on their fourth album, ‘Elude the Torch’. Since 2021, the Cincinnati group has released one strikingly original album [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • The Drin – Today My Friend You Drunk the Venom
    The Drin – Today My Friend You Drunk the Venom
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    Way out there. From up in the attic, in the village of Cincinnati – the third album from the Drin has arrived to commence 2023. Cold rhythms reverberate through the […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Bravo 20: The Bombing of the American West
    Bravo 20: The Bombing of the American West
    $20.00 | , , Add to cart

    “In 1952, the U.S. Navy began illegally testing high-explosive bombs on an enormous expanse of public land near Fallon, in northwestern Nevada. The land had long been sacred to the […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Whole Spy Catalog: A Resource Encyclopedia for Researchers, Pi’S, Spies, and Generally Nosy People
    Whole Spy Catalog: A Resource Encyclopedia for Researchers, Pi’S, Spies, and Generally Nosy People
    $10.00 | , , Add to cart

    “A resource encyclopedia for Researchers, PI’s, Spies, and Generally Nosy People. The ultimate guide for finding information and intelligence on anything.” Lapin, 1995 Softcover [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The CIA’s Secret Operations: Espionage, Counterespionage, And Covert Action (scarce)
    The CIA’s Secret Operations: Espionage, Counterespionage, And Covert Action (scarce)
    $25.00 | , , , Add to cart

    A guidebook to the inner and outer workings of the CIA throughout history. Westview Press, 1988 Softcover edition. Light general wear, some scuffing along bottom edge of pages.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ryu Murakami – Almost Transparent Blue (1st Edition)
    Ryu Murakami – Almost Transparent Blue (1st Edition)
    $275.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Almost Transparent Blue is a brutal tale of lost youth in a Japanese port town close to an American military base. Murakami’s image-intensive narrative paints a portrait of a group [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Dianne Lake – Member Of The Family
    Dianne Lake – Member Of The Family
    $8.00 | , , Add to cart

    “At fourteen Dianne Lake—with little more than a note in her pocket from her hippie parents granting her permission to leave them—became one of “Charlie’s girls,” a devoted [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction