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  • Adam Wingard – Past Life Regression
    Adam Wingard – Past Life Regression
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    Death Waltz Originals is proud to present Adam Wingard’s album PAST LIFE REGRESSION. Who were you in a past life? Many have thought about this. Director Adam Wingard (THE GUEST, […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • BABii – HiiDE
    BABii – HiiDE
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    This is the debut album by electronic producer BABii, co-produced by Adrian Sherwood (On-U-Sound system). BABii produces incredibly forward thinking electro tinged pop/R&B which features [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Christopher Young – Pet Sematary OST (“Church” Colored Vinyl)
    Christopher Young – Pet Sematary OST (“Church” Colored Vinyl)
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    Waxwork Records is proud to present PET SEMATARY Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Christopher Young. Directed by Dennis Widmyer and Kevin Kölsch (Starry Eyes), Pet Sematary is a 2019 [...]

    GENRE: Soundtracks / Library Music
  • Eels – Eels – Extreme Witchcraft (See My Engine Gleam) (LP, Album) (NM or M-)
    Eels – Eels – Extreme Witchcraft (See My Engine Gleam) (LP, Album) (NM or M-)
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    One evening in the fall of 1998 EELS were taping their second appearance on the British television show Top of the Pops, performing “Last Stop: This Town” from their about […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Florian T M Zeisig – Slow Bench Flexi
    Florian T M Zeisig – Slow Bench Flexi
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    Description Languid washes of warming tones punctuated by untreated piano, glittering glissandos, and delicate droplets welcome us into Florian T M Zeisig’s 𝑆𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝐵𝑒𝑛𝑐ℎ. Like icicles drifting [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Mass Marriage – Restless CD
    Mass Marriage – Restless CD
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    After a series of highly regarded tapes releases New Forces is proud to unleash the much-anticipated debut full-length CD “Restless” by Mass Marriage. Across these five tracks [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Dream Dance: The Art Of Ed Emshwiller
    Dream Dance: The Art Of Ed Emshwiller
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    Dream Dance: The Art of Ed Emshwiller is a catalog released in conjunction with the artist’s first major monographic exhibition at Lightbox Film Center and the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery in [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Phillip K Dick – Vintage PKD
    Phillip K Dick – Vintage PKD
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    A master of science fiction, a voice of the changing counterculture, and a genuine visionary, Philip K. Dick now joins the elite ranks of authors included in the Vintage Readers […]

    GENRE: Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena
  • Brett Naucke – Mirror Ensemble
    Brett Naucke – Mirror Ensemble
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    “I guess this is my indie rock record,” jokes Chicago electronic musician and composer Brett Naucke – he’s referring to his new LP Mirror Ensemble, created in conjunction with Windy […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Blue Lick – Hold On, Hold Fast
    Blue Lick – Hold On, Hold Fast
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    “I was trying to express the aggression I was feeling without sounding like I had a chip on my shoulder.” That’s Havadine Stone of experimental electronic project Blue Lick, a […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Josephine Foster – Godmother
    Josephine Foster – Godmother
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    A beautifully observed baroque masterpiece, part dream pop, part futuristic psych-folk with ambient synths and Josephine Foster’s plaintive guitar. Godmother is a slowly unfolding song cycle that [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Fenne Lily ‎– On Hold
    Fenne Lily ‎– On Hold
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    On 6th April, 2018, Bristol-based musician Fenne Lily self-released her debut album On Hold – a break-up record uncompromising in its intimacy and vulnerability. With songs written as young as [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • So Pitted – Neo
    So Pitted – Neo
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    Nathan Rodriguez, of Seattle’s So Pitted, is referring to a viral clip of a surfer, standing on the shore in front of mountainous morning waves, relaying to a reporter the […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • 2.1E+12
    2.1E+12
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    On her second full-length record, Head of Roses, Jenn Wasner follows a winding thread of intuition into the unknown and into healing, led by gut feelings and the near-spiritual experience […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • M//R – Anxious Meditation LP
    M//R – Anxious Meditation LP
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    Description With a steady drip of releases from labels such as Great Circles, L.I.E.S., and Jack Dept., Philadephia-based M//R (Billy Werner) has carved out a uniquely penumbral club zone. [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Dexter Gordon – Clubhouse
    Dexter Gordon – Clubhouse
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    One of the enduring mysteries of Blue Note history is that superb sessions such as Dexter Gordon’s Clubhouse (recorded in 1965) remained unreleased until the late 1970s. Recorded during [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Jackie McLean – Destination Out
    Jackie McLean – Destination Out
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    he innovative hard bop of Jackie McLean evolved as the `60s progressed. Inspired by Ornette Coleman, the saxophonist ventured into the avant-garde but never let go of a soulful sense […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Jon Mueller – Family Secret
    Jon Mueller – Family Secret
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    Wisconsin musician Jon Mueller is inquisitive. Open to pushing his experience and his limits, he’s demonstrated the many sides of himself both as a solo performer and as a key […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • The Little Bits – Girl Give Me Love (Orange Vinyl)
    The Little Bits – Girl Give Me Love (Orange Vinyl)
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    Wailing and thrashing around the melody like candy-fueled maniacs, The Little Bits pack a punch so savage it makes appropriately aged teen rockers hopped up on testosterone and intoxicants sound [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Alan Licht – Currents
    Alan Licht – Currents
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    What our staff has to say: “Gorgeous acoustic guitar instrumentals, melodies are hidden everywhere within Alan Licht’s thick strumming style. This record will excite you and put you at [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • Donald Miller – Transgression!!!
    Donald Miller – Transgression!!!
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    On Transgression!!!, Donald Miller, guitar icon known for destroying worlds in the great Borbetomagus, takes the listener on an unexpected journey through the 12-string acoustic guitar. Utilizing [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • Che-Shizu – A Journey
    Che-Shizu – A Journey
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    Ché-SHIZU is one of the most original and mystifying groups to ever emerge from Japan’s musical underground. Founded by master improviser Chie Mukai in 1981 the group has been guided […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Ztuped – Are You Stupid?
    Ztuped – Are You Stupid?
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    ARE YOU STUPID? Get ready to find out! This DC group of young guns are taking the IQ lower than a limbo pole. Playing punk hardcore inspired by greats such […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Signal Decay – Derelict (Pump Song) CS
    Signal Decay – Derelict (Pump Song) CS
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    Label Description: Signal Decay – Derelict (Pump Song) Here: Cassette plus 1 Digi Track (Excerpt) Industrial Coast Big Cartel: Cassette Only An ill-at-ease musing on home and place. [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Paul Nouge – The Subversion Of Images
    Paul Nouge – The Subversion Of Images
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    This classic surrealist photobook pioneered the imagery of the domestic uncanny First edited and published by Marcel Marien in 1968 in a limited edition of 230 copies, half a year […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • N.H Pritchard – Echoes
    N.H Pritchard – Echoes
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    An exacting facsimile of Umbra protagonist Norman H. Pritchard’s long-rare 1971 collection of visually kinetic poetry American poet Norman H. Pritchard’s second and final book, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • John O’Neill – Cine/Hollywood Tow
    John O’Neill – Cine/Hollywood Tow
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    After years of receiving many of his excellent recordings in my inbox, I’m excited to finally be involved in the materialization of the first proper release by Los Angeles-based artist […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Chucha – What Remains
    Chucha – What Remains
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    Laura Muñoz’s Chucha project has been responsible for a healthy chunk of the freshest, most mind-bending live sets I’ve seen since she began playing live in 2016; each performance [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Mr Dibbs x Brett Fullerton – Everything Burns Everybody Bleeds LP
    Mr Dibbs x Brett Fullerton – Everything Burns Everybody Bleeds LP
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    NO DONKEYS, NO ELEPHANTS… NO GODS, NO MASTERS…

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • The Dodos – Grizzly Peak (Light Pink Vinyl)
    The Dodos – Grizzly Peak (Light Pink Vinyl)
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    For over 15 years, The Dodos have been careening, almost recklessly, towards some perfect ideal of how The Dodos should sound. First formed with the intention of creating a record […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Pedro The Lion – Phoenix
    Pedro The Lion – Phoenix
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    Pedro the Lion has always been David Bazan, but it took a long time to get back there. In August 2016, during what he now recognizes as his lowest point, […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Xiu Xiu – OH NO (Cream & Scarlet Vinyl)
    Xiu Xiu – OH NO (Cream & Scarlet Vinyl)
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    Xiu Xiu makes beautiful music for hard times. For nearly 20 years, the band has a track record of crafting experimental music for moments when life’s harsh realities meet its […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Deerhoof – Reveille (Light Blue Vinyl)
    Deerhoof – Reveille (Light Blue Vinyl)
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    Reveille, Deerhoof‘s fourth full-length, is the first to feature guitarist John Dieterich, joining existing members Satomi Matsuzaki and Greg Saunier. This re-issue of Reveille features a [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Eric Chenaux – Say Laura
    Eric Chenaux – Say Laura
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    The new record by Eric Chenaux is his most immaculate and pristine. Say Laura perfectly incarnates the counter-intuitive interplay of instrument and voice that Chenaux has been revealing and [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • James Purdy – In A Shallow Grave
    James Purdy – In A Shallow Grave
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    What our staff has to say: “James Purdy is one of the most underrated american writers of the last 100 years. His writing is grotesque, funny and heartbreaking, often in […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Autumn Casey – Your Own Entertainment Channel
    Autumn Casey – Your Own Entertainment Channel
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    Currently based out Miami FL Autumn Casey is an Artist in the truest sense, using multiple different mediums to express her inspirations. On the A.side of “Your Own Entertainment [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Indie / Alternative
  • Endless Boogie – Admonitions
    Endless Boogie – Admonitions
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    Endless Boogie rejoins with its fifth proper studio album for No Quarter. It contains and is called ADMONITIONS. Seven tracks of unrefined wisdom, mostly put to tape in improvised fashion […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Ryley Walker ‎– Course In Fable
    Ryley Walker ‎– Course In Fable
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    released April 2, 2021 Ryley Walker- Guitar/Vocals Andrew Scott Young – Bass/Piano Bill MacKay – Guitar/Piano Ryan Jewell – Drums/Percussion John McEntire – [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • The Wire: #454 December 2021
    The Wire: #454 December 2021
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    “Laraaji: New York’s mystic sage of healing vibrations talks the power of sound and new album Circle Of Celebration with collaborators Arji OceAnanda, Greg Fox and Shahzad Ismaily. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Discreet Music Mag #2
    Discreet Music Mag #2
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    Second issue of Discreet Music Mag, featuring interviews with Greymouth and Jon Collin and a long piece on IDDB 001-044. Full colour, written in English. Discreet Music, 2021

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Bob Dylan – John Wesley Harding (Mono)
    Bob Dylan – John Wesley Harding (Mono)
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    In the year of psychedelia, Dylan bucked the trend with this rootsy classic. All Along the Watchtower is the highlight on an album packed with amazing tracks like I Dreamed […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Barn
    Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Barn
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    10 new songs that capture the raw, idiosyncratic rock and roll spirit and lyrical beauty that epitomizes a classic NYCH collaboration. Recorded this summer under a full moon, in a […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Tor Lundvall – Beautiful Illusions
    Tor Lundvall – Beautiful Illusions
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    New York painter and musician Tor Lundvall initially envisioned his 14th album, Beautiful Illusions, as an entirely instrumental affair, “inspired by memories of sitting in a church or cathedral [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Riki – Gold
    Riki – Gold
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    West coast new romantic icon Riki returns with her 2nd simulacrum of pitch-perfect synth-pop, aptly titled for the precious substance it is: Gold. Inspired by notions of symbolic power, letting [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Constant Smiles – Paragons
    Constant Smiles – Paragons
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    Typically, a band’s big indie label debut doesn’t come 15 albums into its career, but with Constant Smiles’ Paragons, here we are. Primary songwriter and sole “constant” member Ben [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Ryann Donnelly – Justify My Love
    Ryann Donnelly – Justify My Love
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    An analysis of sex and gender in music videos, covering everyone from Beyonce to Madonna, Nine Inch Nails to Mykki Blanco. In Justify My Love, Ryann Donnelly explores sex and […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Joan Lindsay – Picnic at Hanging Rock
    Joan Lindsay – Picnic at Hanging Rock
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    A 50th-anniversary edition of the haunting novel about the disappearance of three boarding school girls that inspired the acclaimed film It was a cloudless summer day in the year 1900. […]

    GENRE: Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena
  • Bunkur Vs. Mordor ‎–S/T
    Bunkur Vs. Mordor ‎–S/T
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    After several years in the making, it is Nuclear War Now’s honor to finally present this split album from Bunkur and Mordor, two of the most extreme and unorthodox bands […]

    GENRE: Metal
  • Glenn Danzig – Who Killed Marilyn? (1989 boot)
    Glenn Danzig – Who Killed Marilyn? (1989 boot)
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    1989 boot Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition – VG+, a little creasing

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Advance Base – Live At Home
    Advance Base – Live At Home
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    The last Advance Base show in front of a live audience was in Portland, Oregon on March 11, 2020, four days into a west coast tour with Claire Cronin & […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative