Torn Light Records › Shop

Dali – Les Diners De Gala

$40.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart

“Les diners de Gala is uniquely devoted to the pleasures of taste … If you are a disciple of one of those calorie-counters who turn the joys of eating into […]

GENRE: Art/Photography

Brian Doherty – Dirty Pictures

$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart

“In the 1950s, comics meant POW!BAM! superheroes, family-friendly gags, and Sunday funnies, but in the 1960s, inspired by these strips and the satire of MAD magazine, a new generation of [...]

GENRE: Non-Fiction

Dommer – Cemetary Bread

$14.00 | 7", Vinyl Add to cart

DIY self released 7″ single of indie rock perfection. Jam the track here.

GENRE: Indie / Alternative

United Forces: An Archive Of Brazil’s Raw Metal Attack 1986-1991

$48.00 | Book, Print Add to cart

In 1986, São Paulo teenager Marcelo R. Batista channeled his love of pure, wild heavy metal into the self-produced fanzine United Forces. Over the next five years, his homemade publication […]

GENRE: Art/Photography, Metal, Non-Fiction

Texas Is The Reason: The Mavericks Of Lone Star Punk

$35.00 | Book, Print Add to cart

Arriving in 1978, hitched to the back of the Sex Pistols tour bus, punk soon became as mythic in Texas as the state’s devotion to football, cattle, and prayer. Confrontational […]

GENRE: Art/Photography, Punk / Hardcore

Zero Magazine – Volume One (Japanese HC Photo book)

$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cart

What our staff has to say: “Insane document of Japanese 80s punk & hardcore. Unreal spreads of punks & skins and grind freaks. Flyers & photos that will make you […]

GENRE:

BADBADNOTGOOD – Mid Spiral

$29.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cart

At the start of 2024 BADBADNOTGOOD were brimming with new creative energy. Having just come off a run of one-off international tour dates and a series of sessions for projects […]

GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco

Gang Of Four – Songs Of The Free

$24.00 | Uncategorized Add to cart

Gang of Four was formed in Leeds in 1976 by bassist Dave Allen, drummer Hugo Burnham, guitarist Andy Gill, and singer Jon King. The band pioneered a style of music […]

GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth

Yuma Abe – Hotel New Yuma

$35.00 | LP, Vinyl Ships on/around Dec 27, 2024 Add to cart

I have recently been watching a lot of Japanese popular movies from the 50s and 60s. I loved the vibrant Japan of this era. After the war, Japan was rapidly changing […]

GENRE: Rock / Pop, Soul / Funk / Disco

Kafka’s Ibiki – Shiminkai

$35.00 | LP, Vinyl Ships on/around Dec 27, 2024 Add to cart

New album “Shiminkai” by Kafka’s Ibiki, a three-piece band comprised of Jim O’Rourke, Eiko Ishibashi, and Tatsuhisa Yamamoto. Recorded live performance in Tokyo in 2023 by [...]

GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz

Deef – Nou

$18.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cart

Deef, forming in 1979 in Sapporo City, Japan evolved from a school-age free jazz group into a raw hardcore band influenced by the global explosion of political punk and hardcore, […]

GENRE: Punk / Hardcore

Deef – Real Control

$18.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cart

Documenting the band’s final era, when hardcore gigs in Sapporo were banned, and still had to be organized in private recording studios with seating. Before bands like Gai and Confuse […]

GENRE: Punk / Hardcore

Die Öwan – Mikawa Ken-Ichi

$18.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cart

Die Öwan’s final cassette release, 1983’s Mikawa Ken-Ichi, shows the band at their most focused, crafting a full on album’s worth of music in their trademark style of DIY experimental […]

GENRE: Punk / Hardcore

Die Öwan – Öwannibalism

$18.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cart

A cult teenage Japanese punk group which existed from 1979-1983, and during that time managed to release the rarest punk record in Japan, operate their own cassette label, organize house […]

GENRE: Punk / Hardcore

Deef – Real Control 1982-1983

$18.00 | CD Add to cart

A more affordable pro-CD option containing both of the Deef LPs released by General Speech on one CD. Still with the full liner notes in both English and Japanese, some […]

GENRE: Punk / Hardcore

Puncture – Mucky Pup / You Can’t Rock And Roll

$8.00 | 7", Vinyl Add to cart

Official reissue of the very first single on the revolutionary Small Wonder Records from 1977. Puncture deliver one of the absolute best, and most unique singles from the 77 punk […]

GENRE: Punk / Hardcore

The Legion Of Parasites* – Undesirable Guests

$17.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cart

Long overdue official reissue of one of the most absolutely raging UK hardcore punk records. The first 12″ from 1984 by this cult band took the ferocity, and raw sound […]

GENRE: Punk / Hardcore

The Swanky’s* – The Very Best Of Hero

$28.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cart

The first ever official vinyl reissue of this 80s Japanese punk masterpiece. This record defined the “Kyushu Punk” sound, and spawned countless fans and imitators in Japan, and across the […]

GENRE: Punk / Hardcore

Crass: A Pictorial History 621984 – 4022024

$80.00 | Book, Print Add to cart

After working on this book, on and off for over 30 years, trying to gather and piece together the Crass jigsaw puzzle, it finally became time to say ‘it’s finished’. […]

GENRE: Art/Photography, Punk / Hardcore

V/A – The Key To Our Love Vol. 2

$27.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cart

The follow up to last years initial release, The Key To Our Love Vol.2 continues to highlight the rarer side of Sweet Soul by recording artists from the late 60s […]

GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco

Joyce Mansour – In the Glittering Maw

$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cart

The first English-language collection focused on the later works of Joyce Mansour, an Arab-Jewish Surrealist poet who was exiled from Egypt in the 1950s and settled in Paris. Mansour’s late […]

GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive

Written in the Dark: Five Poets in the Siege of Leningrad

$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cart

This anthology presents a group of writers and a literary phenomenon that has been unknown even to Russian readers for 70 years, obfuscated by historical amnesia. Gennady Gor, Pavel Zaltsman, [...]

GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive

Matt Longabucco – M/W: An Essay on Jean Eustache’s “La maman et la putain”

$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cart

Jean Eustache came of age as a director in the aftermath of the French New Wave, and made La maman et la putain (The Mother and the Whore) already disillusioned […]

GENRE: Non-Fiction

Lynne Tillman – Weird Fucks

$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cart

A brilliant novella from a legendary figure in American fiction A young woman drifts through dimly lit bars and rented rooms, reporting from the erogenous zones of New York and […]

GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive

Constant Stranger: After Frank Stanford

$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cart

Constant Stranger spotlights the accomplishments and enduring influence of the poet Frank Stanford (1948-1978). The book comprises a mix of republished and brand-new tributes, translations, [...]

GENRE: Non-Fiction

Downstream from Trout Fishing in America: A Memoir Of Richard Brautigan

$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cart

In Downstream From Trout Fishing In America: A Memoir of Richard Brautigan, Keith Abbott paints a portrait of Richard Brautigan as a lovable and whimsical friend. Abbott explains the [...]

GENRE: Non-Fiction

Bruno K. Ӧijer – The Trilogy

$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cart

Bruno K. Öijer, bestselling author and fierce social critic, has reached an iconic status in Sweden. He broke through as a rebellious young poet in the early 1970s with a […]

GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive

Manon: Feathers

$33.00 | Book, Print Add to cart

Memories and observations from the five-decade career of feminist installation artist Manon Swiss artist Manon (born 1940) came to prominence in the 1970s with her installation The Salmon [...]

GENRE: Art/Photography

Pedro Almodóvar – The Last Dream

$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cart

Making his English language debut, the iconoclastic, two-time Academy award-winning writer and director reveals his singular mind as never before in this collection of twelve remarkable stories [...]

GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive

Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending, Revised and Expanded Edition: An Incredible String Band Compendium

$35.00 | Book, Print Add to cart

A wide-ranging collection of interviews, anecdotes, essays, and ephemera concerning one of the most enigmatic bands to emerge from the 1960s hippy scene. “Encyclopaedic in scope, passionate [...]

GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction

The Golden Bough: A Study In Magic And Religion

$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cart

The landmark study of world myth and culture Draws on myths, rituals, totems and taboos of ancient European and primitive cultures throughout the world. The third edition of this monumental […]

GENRE: Non-Fiction

Severed + Said – End Time Loop

$9.00 | Cassette, CS Add to cart

Floridian synthesist John Touchton aka Severed+Said returns with his most cinematic suite yet of witching hour electronics, spidery rhythm, and macabre clockwork: End Time Loop. A 10-track [...]

GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic

David Edren – Relativiteit Van de Omgeving

$9.00 | Cassette, CS Add to cart

Antwerp synthesist David Edren describes his latest solo collection in conceptual terms: a harmony of space and time, elements and environments, perception and impermanence. Conceived in the [...]

GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic

White Poppy – Ataraxia

$19.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cart

The concept for and palette of Crystal Dorval aka White Poppy’s ‘Paradise Gardens’ trilogy first germinated in 2016 as a notion of “paradise music” combining new age, bedroom shoegaze, and […]

GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic

The Chills – Scatterbrain LP

$28.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cart

New studio album from the Dunedin (NZ) songsmiths helmed by the enigmatic Martin Phillipps with artwork by Trees’ David Costa. Dunedin’s finest, The Chills release their seventh studio album [...]

GENRE: Indie / Alternative

Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works Vol 2 – 4LP

$50.00 | 4xLP Add to cart

Selected Ambient Works Volume II (Expanded Edition) releases on Oct 4, 2024, celebrating the original album’s 30th anniversary. Written when Aphex Twin (Richard D. James) was in his early 20s, [...]

GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic

Bratmobile – Ladies, Women and Girls CD

$15.00 | CD Add to cart

Bratmobile’s sophomore LP finds Allison Wolfe’s singsong delivery of her trademark barbed-wire lyrics center stage – each line catching the ear and cutting with truth. Backed by Molly [...]

GENRE: Punk / Hardcore

Bratmobile – Ladies, Women and Girls LP (Red vinyl)

$25.00 | LP Add to cart

Bratmobile’s sophomore LP finds Allison Wolfe’s singsong delivery of her trademark barbed-wire lyrics center stage – each line catching the ear and cutting with truth. Backed by Molly [...]

GENRE: Punk / Hardcore

Bratmobile – Girls Get Busy CD

$15.00 | CD Add to cart

Equal parts sass, snark and surf-punk infused guitar, Bratmobile’s third album bursts with catchy hooks and thought-provoking critiques of their scene, consumerism and the patriarchy. [...]

GENRE: Punk / Hardcore

Bratmobile – Girls Get Busy LP (Evergreen vinyl)

$25.00 | LP Add to cart

Equal parts sass, snark and surf-punk infused guitar, Bratmobile’s third album bursts with catchy hooks and thought-provoking critiques of their scene, consumerism and the patriarchy. It’s [...]

GENRE: Punk / Hardcore

Bratmobile – Pottymouth CD

$15.00 | CD Add to cart

Along with Bikini Kill, Bratmobile spearheaded the riot grrrl revolution of the early 1990s, battling the long-standing dominance of men within the punk rock community to help empower a new […]

GENRE: Punk / Hardcore

Bratmobile – Pottymouth LP (Lemon vinyl)

$25.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cart

Along with Bikini Kill, Bratmobile spearheaded the riot grrrl revolution of the early 1990s, battling the long-standing dominance of men within the punk rock community to help empower a new […]

GENRE: Punk / Hardcore

A place To Bury Strangers – Synthesizer CD

$17.00 | CD Add to cart

Synthesizer is the title of A Place to Bury Strangers’ seventh album. It is also a physical entity, a synthesizer made specifically for A Place to Bury Strangers’ seventh album. […]

GENRE: Indie / Alternative

A Place To Bury Strangers – Synthesizer LP (Functional circuit board cover)

$38.00 | LP Add to cart

Synthesizer is the title of A Place to Bury Strangers’ seventh album. It is also a physical entity, a synthesizer made specifically for A Place to Bury Strangers’ seventh album. […]

GENRE: Indie / Alternative

Suzanne Doucet – Reflecting Light Vol. II

$16.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cart

Suzanne Doucet was born in Tuebingen, Germany where as a three year old, Doucet discovered her innate artistic gifts. Instinctively, she was always drawing, playing music, singing, and writing. [...]

GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic

William Wichman – Suzanne Doucet – Brilliance

$16.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cart

Suzanne Doucet was born in Tuebingen, Germany where as a three year old, Doucet discovered her innate artistic gifts. Instinctively, she was always drawing, playing music, singing, and writing. [...]

GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic

Ike Yard – 1982

$18.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cart

Dark Entries flashes back to the grimy streets of New York City circa 1982 to bring us an unreleased album from cult outfit Ike Yard. Comprised of Stuart Argabright, Michael […]

GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth

Nervous Gender – Music From Hell

$25.00 | 2xLP, Vinyl Add to cart

Nervous Gender’s legendary synthpunk LP Music From Hell burbles up from infernal depths to resurface on Dark Entries! Confrontational, unhinged, and unabashedly queer, Music from Hell is an [...]

GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth

V/A – Rock Rendez Vous: Música Moderna Portuguesa 1985-1986

$20.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cart

The seductive sounds of Portugal swing to Dark Entries on Rock Rendez Vous: Música Moderna Portuguesa 1985-1986, a compilation of vintage Iberian synth, wave, and postpunk gems. The legendary [...]

GENRE: International, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth, Techno / House / Electronic

Ghostwriters – Objects In Mirrors Are Closer Than They Appear

$20.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cart

Dark Entries calls on Philadelphia experimental duo The Ghostwriters to resurrect their 1981 LP of minimalist mayhem, Objects In Mirrors Are Closer Than They Appear. The late Buchla maestro [...]

GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic

The Ghostwriters – Remote Dreaming

$27.00 | 2xLP, Vinyl Add to cart

Dark Entries summons Philadelphia synthesizer scribes The Ghostwriters to rouse their ambient masterwork Remote Dreaming. The late Buchla maestro Charles Cohen and multi-instrumentalist Jeff Cain [...]

GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Polygondwanaland

$10.00 | Cassette, CS Add to cart

*Part of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s Bootlegger series* Limited cassette release – pro-dubbed tapes with full color j-cards & printed labels. Low editions under 30 of [...]