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Congratulations to a Melbourne group of Dickhead's - Singa, Joel and Liam - collectively responsible for The Old Bar, the finest dive bar and favourite haunt of ours for many years. Having been there, done that - 10 years is no mean feat and you blokes should feel immensely proud of the integral part you play in making Melbourne's live music scene as internationally-recognised as it is...
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NEW ARRIVALS
(all LP unless otherwise noted)
3 TEENS KILL 4 - No Motive (Dark Entries)
Reissue of their debut 7-song mini-album "No Motive"which was self-released in 1983. Contains 3 bonus tracks. Underground NY act 3 Teens Kill 4 was groundbreaking, to say the least. This visionary collage of elements of new-wave, the electronic scene, hip-hop, funk and punk predates trip-hop, Beck's splatter and post-rock by over a decade. Not just about style, the record was fun and relevant.
AEOLUS – A Retrospective 2LP (Aloha Got Soul)
Limited to 500 copies only.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
This double LP brings to light the music of Robert ÆOLUS Myers, featuring recordings from 1982 to 2006 that were previously available only on cassette or CD. The music within A Retrospective tells the story of a man whose music elevates its listeners to a place of inspiration and enlightenment. Often ethereal, ÆOLUS’ music is driven by synthesizers, melodic flutes, sweeping patterns, and subtle rhythms to seed inspiration from deep within the listener. One might assume that ÆOLUS carved a new path for electronic music in Hawai‘i, but the islands never quite fully embraced the burgeoning New Age scene that ÆOLUS found himself a part of during the 1980s and the early 1990s. Few artists in Hawaii have produced a body of work, let alone embarked on a musical journey, such as the one that ÆOLUS has created.
AFGHAN WHIGS – In Spades (Sub Pop)
Includes download code.
Loser edition colour vinyl. Gatefold sleeve.
Greg Dulli’s veteran alt-rock outfit The Afghan Whigs have a brand new album to share with the world. In Spades offers up a fresh angle on the much-loved soulful hard’n’punky Whigs sound, with even a bit of brass sneaking into the mix.
ALISON’S HALO – Eyedazzler 2LP (Manufactured Recordings)
An expanded 2xLP reissue of Alison’s Halo’s Eyedazzler – a retrospective of the band’s recordings originally compiled in 1998. Available for the first time on vinyl, this criminally overlooked Tempe, AZ outfit is one of the premiere American shoegaze bands.
ALL OF THEM WITCHES – The Coven (Burning Witches)
Includes download code.
Limited to 250 hand-numbered copies on 180-gram black vinyl.
'The Coven' brings you ambient and dark creeping synth delight, with the usual nods to Carpenter and synth scores of the '80s, but it also has a really playful side (listen to 'Music Box') that sets it apart.
ANTISEEN - Honour Among Thieves (TKO)
Limited edition colour vinyl. Includes 24"x20" poster.
A stunning reissue of the 1985 debut album from notorious hate-rock tormentors ANTISEEN. Remastered to bring their songs of hate, drunkeness, debauchery, violence, incest and murder to their full glory.
ARAGORN – Night Is Burning (Sommor)
There are few bands who can claim to have built their reputation on one single, but such is the situation for Aragorn, formed in Chesire in 1978. They were one of the first acts to sign to Neat Records as the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal erupted, but fate conspired to ensure that they only ever released one single, the killer ’Black Ice’ / ’Noonday’, which has definitely become something of a cult 45 among aficionados of the genre. Here it is along with 12 tracks taken from their not released at the time album from 1982/3. A must for anyone into obscure, 70s styled hard–rock and early metal.
RIYL: NWOBHM, ANGEL WITCH, MOTÖRHEAD, WITCHFYNDE, BLACK SABBATH
ARCADEA – s/t (Relapse)
Includes download code.
Insert with lyrics.
Otherworldly psych-electric, synth-driven, metallic madness led by Brann Dailor of Mastodon!
ASHLEY, GREG – Pictures of Saint Paul Street (Trouble In Mind)
Includes download code. Inner sleeve with lyrics.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
One of the finest releases of 2017 by a LONG stretch.
Oakland songwriter Greg Ashley's ruminations on alcohol, society, the women in his life (a previous album was called 'Death of a Ladies Man' ferchrissakes!), criminals and drugs have us swooning along and the lines (both kinds) sinking deep into our subconscious.
Greg Cartwright gets all the accolades but to be honest, we prefer Ashley's darker subject matter...
ASHLEY, GREG & THE WESTERN PLAYBOYS – s/t (Third Man)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Together with the Western Playboys, you can hear the dusty technicolor Rio Grande flowing in the veins of these new recordings. Many of these songs are Greg's indomitable take on waltz, country swing and golden honky-tonk greats like Stonewall Jackson and Charlie Walker, but lest we forget the cover of Estrus records' finest garage rock nihilists The Makers. This 12” EP plays out from start to finish like a band in a washed out juke joint at a desert outpost from a Barry Gifford novel - strung out, sharp-witted and never dull.
ASIMOV – Truth (New)
New album by this incredible heavy–psych duo from Portugal, famous for their storming live shows at famous festivals like Reverence Valada and Barreiro Rocks and for supporting big neo–psych names like The Cosmic Dead, Pink Mountaintops and Endless Boogie. You won’t believe how just two guys can create such a brutal sound. Echoes of Blue Cheer, Hawkwind, Tractor, Black Sabbath, Iron Butterfly and Pink Fairies spiced with doses of Kraut, Doom, Drone and Space–Rock.
AURA – s/t (Aloha Got Soul)
“Raw funk… honey-coated soul… grooves and big smiles… lavish Hayes-level horns… dynamic and luxurious full spectrum harmonies. Stunning.”
BABY SHAKES – Turn It Up (Lil Chewy)
Includes download code.
The 2017 album by the rock'n'roll-punk band from New York City featuring Mary on lead vocals and guitar, Judy on lead guitar and vocals, Claudia on bass and vocals, and Ryan on drums. With catchy melodic vocals over dirty guitars and a killer rhythm section, their influences range from The Ramones and Slade to Chuck Berry and '60s Motown girl groups.
[AUST / NZ] BAD//DREEMS – Gutful (Ivy League)
Includes download code.
There’s nothing subtle about this Adelaide rock band’s second album, with a meaty sound and choruses made to shout back from the mosh pit.
BAD BOYFRIENDS – Cut In Line 7” (Goodbye Boozy)
Limited to 255 copies only.
From Little Rock, Arkansas with 2 Punk cuts on a single sided 7". Tracks: " Cut in Line" and "Dirt Cheap" Fast - Rock'n'Roll - Punk !!!
BAD POSTURE - C/S (Mono)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Includes insert with band history and fliers.
Limited to 500 copies only.
First time available since first pressing, lacquers cut by GEZA X from original 1983 Irresponsible records test press, originally mastered by TED FALCONI of FLIPPER. These guys hung around and shared members with Flipper. They started in SF and ended the band in NYC shortly after this release. Eight tracks including the classic "G.D.M.F.S.O.B." featured on the 1982 MRR Not So Quiet On The Western Front compilation.
BALDRUIN - Biotische Verwitterung (Black Horizons)
Includes download code.
Limited hand-numbered edition of 200 copies.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
A disquieting record to accompany the nightmare of now. BALDRUIN documents this darkness, finding some hope in the helplessness. Buried within these grooves, lies a dizzying array of crepuscular sonics. Barely alive, it drips with dread. Rachitic loops return to us, like traumas. A sticky submission. My goodness, these earworms are infectious. "As dystopian as records come, Biotische Verwitterung is right up there—an angst-ridden German stab that's bleached in narcotic punk. This record seems lost in a lo-fi nightmare, swirling in black whole and destined for nothing but pain. Some call it 'Hauntology'; Baldruin call it 'Bavarian Gothic'." - Norman Records
BANFI, J.B. – Galaxy My Dear (Wah Wah)
Limited to 500 copies only.
Original artwork and liner notes by Baffo Banfi.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Reissue of his first solo LP from 1978. A strong kraut / cosmiche appeal that links the album's sound to that of the early Tangerine Dream or Ash Ra Tempel
BARDO POND – Under The Pines (Fire)
Includes download code.
So complex and substance-affected was their evolution, Bardo Pond have been creating their dreamy riffs for 26 years alongside a myriad of side projects. Returning with a career defining album, ‘Under The Pines’ sees them delve into the subconscious with their transcending cosmic post-rock.
[AUST / NZ] BATPISS – Rest In Piss (Poison City)
Includes download code.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Melbourne sludge-lords deliver yet again, no more evident than on "Weatherboard Man". Discordant and dissonant, 'Rest in Piss' is Batpiss's third LP. Recorded and produced by Gareth Liddiard of The Drones & mastered by Bob Weston (a match made in gritty rock heaven), 'Rest in Piss' traverses with gigantic, purposeful leaps, this record delves deep into the darkest, dankest parts of the Australian psyche.
"...blunt and brutal, unfiltered social commentary that cut through with gut-punching clarity." - Rolling Stone
B BOYS – Dada (Captured Tracks)
Includes download code.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
B Boys’ sound takes elements of taut post punk and goofy punk and blends them together for a sound that falls somewhere in-between Wire and The Spits. Dada is a fun summer album, focusing on being a catchy and energetic collection of quasi post-punk songs.
BEACH HOUSE – B-Sides And Rarities (Sub Pop)
Includes download code.
The collected footnotes from the Baltimore band's decade-long career plays almost as smoothly as a proper album, showing the meticulous construction behind some of Beach House’s spells.
BEELEY, WILL - Gallivantin' (Tompkins Square)
BEELEY, WILL - Passing Dream (Tompkins Square)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Tompkins Square reissues two albums by Texas singer/songwriter WILL BEELEY—the self-released mega-rare (only 200 copies) private press LP Gallivantin' from 1971, and Passing Dream, originally released by Malaco Records in 1979. Recorded in Jackson, Mississippi, Passing Dream reveals the shifting musical direction of opposite sides of the '70s—a tougher, huskier, more alt-country sound emerging, presaging modern day troubadours like Chris Stapleton and Jamey Johnson. Released by Malaco Records in 1979, the album features the very first studio credit by guitarist LARRY CAMPBELL (Bob Dylan, Levon Helm), along with drummer JAMES STROUD (Marshall Tucker Band, Eddie Rabbitt), keyboardist CARSON WHITSETT (Paul Simon, Tony Joe White) and other crack studio players.
[AUST / NZ] BENT - Mattress Springs 7” (Emotional Response)
Angular, post punk trio hailing from Brisbane, Australia. Swift on the heels of their startling debut CD Snakes and Shapes (Emotional Response), the band have a cracking dynamic follow up. Four tracks of inspired and skewed pop—raw and beautiful. Comparisons are inevitable, though potentially lazy, masking the bands originality. (However, The Raincoats, Kleenex and early Slits may give you a suggestion of the bands sonic intent).
BIG FRENCH - Stone Fish (Wharf Cat)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Assembled primarily from tracks recorded to tape at Phillip’s Manual FX Studio in Brooklyn circa 2015 / 2016, the sonic framework of Stone Fish swerves through the gamut of emotions while being united by kinetic arrangements of layered madness revolving around Moore’s instinctive, delicate vocal melodies and his asymmetrical guitar leads. Virtuosic grooving and free-improv rooted leads power the songs forward. Rocking hits like “I Wanna New Rome”, “Words Appear”, and “Rush Morgue” speed by, (nearly every cut is less than 3 minutes long) striking the listener with concise declarations, intended to both be familiar and at the same time to shock and to never resolve vis-a-vis the expected trope. Tracks the likes of “The Troll”, “Fly Like A Bird”, or “My Angel” gracefully deliver subdued melodic content over stream of consciousness harmonic turns. Throughout the record musical ideas jump in and out of focus redirecting the ever-changing cacophony of plucked guitars and jarring rhythms: Zach Phillips Wurlitzer might creep in with an enharmonic lick, reel-to-reel manipulation may distort the drums, sending a noisy crash through the channels. With multiple listens, Stone Fish revels itself as more detailed and exciting each time, existing as smart reorientation of the boundaries of pop music’s comfort zone.
[AUST / NZ] BIKINI COPS – Number Two 7”EP (Goodbye Boozy)
Limited to 300 copies only.
From Perth, Australia, the second Bikini Cops amazing EP. The Australian guys play a punk rock original by Eddie Cochran, bypasses the UK circa 77, jumps to 1981 Damaged-era Black Flag remaining
finally caught in the dark network of KBD!
BIKINI KILL - New Radio 7” (Bikini Kill)
Includes download code.
Red vinyl.
A reissue of BIKINI KILL's New Radio 7" EP. The single features the most well known version of their song "Rebel Girl" as well as the title track and "Demirep." The songs were recorded in April 1993 at Avast Studios in Seattle, WA.
BIOSPHERE - The Petrified Forest (Biophon)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
BIOSPHERE is the main recording name of GEIR JENSSEN - a Norwegian musician who has released a notable catalogue of ambient electronic music. He is well known for his works on ambient techno and arctic themed pieces, his use of music loops, and peculiar samples from sci-fi sources. His 1997 album Substrata was voted by the users of the Hyperreal website in 2001 as the best all-time classic ambient album. The Petrified Forest is inspired by the movie of the same name, released in 1936 and directed by Archie Mayo.
[AUST / NZ] BLACKEYED SUSANS – Close Your Eyes And See (Teardrop)
The Blackeyed Susans release their seventh album, ‘Close Your Eyes and See’ masterfully arranged and performed by a band with over 25 years experience together. Led by chief songwriter Phil Kakulas and producer Dan Luscombe, ‘Close Your Eyes and See’ combines the honeyed vocals of singer Rob Snarski with long, reverby trails of pedal steel, tremolo guitar, violin and keyboards. The result is a meticulously crafted album of dreamlike torch songs, bruised ballads and atmospheric rockers that sounds both classic and contemporary.
BLACK LIPS – Satan’s Graffiti Or God’s Art? (Vice)
Includes download code.
Gatefold sleeve, double LP.
8th studio album sees the Black Lips emerge with a grimy masterpiece that brings their sound back to their pissing-in-their-own-mouths chaotic heyday. If Underneath the Rainbow scared you away, Satan's Graffiti should bring you right back.
BLACKOUT - The Horse (Riding Easy)
NYC trio Blackouts take on doom and stoner rock is filled with a gritty, mechanistic heft unlike bands of their ilk from anywhere else.
Subsumed within the greasy grooves of The Horse there are echoes of NYC heavy legends like Helmet, Cro-Mags, Judge, Prong and others not as intentional homage, but rather a vibe that permeates and inadvertently gives its bands a unique power that few can match.
BLOWN OUT – Superior Venus (Riot Season)
Powerdrive Power Trio (from Newcastle, UK), heavy rolling basslines, waster infused guitar freakouts held together with steady freeform rhythms. Made up from members of BONG, Drunk In Hell, Haikai No Ku, 11Paranoias, Khunnt and pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs.
BOCQUET, DIDIER – Voyage Cerebral (Wah Wah)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Second effort by French synthetist Didier Bocquet. In-your-face sequenced electronic music that sounds both spacy and violent at the same time whilst keeping a certain lo-fi, self produced vibe. Recommended to fans of all things “kosmische” and synth music in general. Like his first album, it was recorded on his own private studio and self-released.
[AUST / NZ] BOMBAY ROYALE – Run Kitty Run (Hopestreet)
Includes download code.
Cult band return with their third studio masterpiece 'Run Kitty Run'. A Retro Bollywood fuelled rampage through Psyche-Surf, 80's Electro-Pop and Desert Rock, 'Run Kitty Run' is, like its predecessors, conceived as the soundtrack to a lost film.
BORIS – Dear 2LP (Sargent House)
Includes download code.
Double LP housed in heavy duty gatefold sleeve.
'Dear' ultimately feels like a love-letter to the fans who who have stuck by Boris since their inception. Whilst their experimental works outside of the Metal realm have been very commendable, 'Dear' is absolutely that back to basics, all out Metal album that fans have been waiting for, and they have done it in true style. Boris very much still know their way around a wall of amps and an array of fuzz pedals, and they continue to prove why they are one of the best in the business. 'Dear' is very much the successor to albums such as 'Pink' and 'Altar'. Not only that, it is genuinely one of the heaviest albums of 2017.
BOYWONDERS - LUV (Resurrection)
Boywonders feature Andrew Loomis (pre-DEAD MOON). This is quite good unreleased live recordings taken from the soundboard at Satyricon, Portland in 1984 and 1988. Punchy rock 'n roll recorded by Greg Sage.
BRAINBOMBS - Singles Collection 2 2LP (Armageddon)
Includes download code.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
A double-LP domestic pressing of the CD released a few years ago in Europe. Includes the single that came out on tUMULt, the "Stinking Memory" 7" on Anthem, as well as the Wabana Gun Court single, the Ken Rock single and the Big Brothel single. A collection of totally killer tracks, "Stigma Of The Ripper,” "The Grinder," "I Need Speed" and more. All in classic BRAINBOMBS style, One killer riff punctuated by deadpan vocal delivery of their fucked up lyrics, and repeat... Also included are some rare live tracks, including "Urge To Kill" among them, recorded live in Norway way back in 1993, They sound raw, and distorted in proper style.
BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE – Hug Of Thunder 2LP (Arts & Crafts)
Includes download code.
Gatefold sleeve, printed inners and and a 28 page booklet with stitched spine affixed to jacket.
Seven years removed from their last release, BSS return with an album that's both big and beautiful, but also thoughtful and intimate. Filled with brilliantly orchestrated songwriting and socially charged topical lyrics, the group wastes no time protesting against the current social and political environment, and God knows there's plenty to talk about.
BRYANT, DON - Don't Give Up On Love (Fat Possum)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Memphis soul original and Hi Records hit man, DON BRYANT, has announced his return to music with Don’t Give Up On Love, recorded in honor of his wife of 43 years, the soul legend Ann Peebles. The collection is Don’s first release in decades.
BUFFALO TOM – Let Me Come Over 2LP (Beggars Banquet)
Third album by American alternative rock band Buffalo Tom. Released March 1992.
Bonus LP included "Live From London Ulu 1992"
BUILDERS AND THE BUTCHERS - Dead Reckoning (Jealous Butcher)
Colour vinyl.
Limited to 500 copies only.
Reissue of acclaimed third album by Portland boot-stomping folk rockers, out-of-print for many years.
“Dead Reckoning begs for foot stomping while Sollee bemoans our miserable world; if we’re all going to hell, we might as well enjoy the ride down.” — Benjamin Opipari, Washington Post
[AUST / NZ] BURIED FEATHER – Mind of the Swarm (Cobra Snake Necktie)
Includes download code.
Poster insert.
Melbourne kaleidoscopic psych rockers follow-up their 2013 debut with a sound built on fuzzy drone and swirling keyboards, Buried Feather’s live shows have built a loyal following, drawing regular comparisons to the likes of Dead Meadow and Spacemen 3.
CAN – The Singles 3LP (Spoon)
The Singles, a new triple LP anthology that traces Can's esteemed history through all of their singles released between 1967 and 1990.
Beloved songs such as "Vitamin C", "Mushroom" and "She Brings The Rain" are featured alongside more obscure tracks such as "Silent Night" and "Turtles Have Short Legs. The latter was released in 1971 (from the Tago Mago sessions) and never appeared on a studio album.
Once again, Can reaffirm their status as one of the greatest Kosmische bands.
CASTLE, LYNN – Rose Colored Corner (Light In The Attic)
Liner notes by Hunter Lea with Lynn Castle interview.
Includes Lynn’s sole LHI 45 produced by Lee Hazlewood.
Unseen photos, press shots and handwritten lyric sheets.
LP housed in a deluxe gatefold Stoughton tip-on jacket.
Though most of the world may not know the songs of Lynn Castle, she is an artist whose work stretches across seven decades. She has created a diverse and vast (albeit mostly unreleased) discography of pop, folk, country, gothic, rock, punk, blues, and children’s songs. Light In The Attic Records is very excited to continue its Lee Hazlewood Archive Series with Rose Colored Corner, a collection of intimate recordings Lynn Castle made with Jack Nitzsche in 1966 and her complete recorded output with Lee Hazlewood on LHI Records.
[AUST / NZ] CAVEMEN – Dog On A Chain 7” EP (Slovenly)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Auckland, NZ outta control garage savages THE CAVEMEN new 7-inch EP! The title track is brutal shit—the sickest they’ve knocked out since their debut “Juvenile Delinquent” single from 2014. When PAUL CAVEMAN snarls “PLAY SOME GOD DAMN ROCK’N’ROLL” on the opener “Death Row” you do what he says! More semen-soaked shockwaves on the flipside with “Dog on a Chain” and “Killing Myself to Live” are as primal and damaged as your better judgement.
CARTWRIGHT, GREG - Tin Ten 7” (Dusty Medical)
For the 50th Dusty Medical Records release, we are proud to present "Tin Ten"—a postcard from that sunny afternoon—showcasing just two of the many sides of the Greg Cartwright Songwriting Canon. On the A-side, we have a stripped down and menacing take on "Come A Little Closer" (from the Oblivians 2013 LP Desperation), paired on the flip with the high lonesome "Love Won't Leave You A Song" (from Reigning Sound's 2009 LP Love And Curses).
CHAIN & THE GANG - Best Of Crime Rock (In The Red)
Includes download code.
Limited edition clear vinyl.
Chain & the Gang are different than the rest. You won’t see their name on the garbage heap of hyped bands pushed by paid-off web-zine tastemakers. They’re not “jingle-core,” tattooed onto your subconscious via Madison Avenue mind-control ad campaigns. They’re not middle brow NPR indie listening for Prius owning cubicle rockers or a tiresome teenage retread of ‘90s surrender sludge.
No. Chain & the Gang are singular, terrifying, unparalleled. Not only the most ferocious live combo ever witnessed but also the world’s ONLY anti-liberty rock ’n’ roll group. Their motto? “Down with Liberty … Up with Chains!”
Chain & the Gang don’t care about grades, likes, traffic or hits. They don’t petition publicists for goofy hype or pander to the corrupt institutions who molest rock ’n’ roll and use it as their plaything. Chain & Co. don’t play that game. They want total destruction of the insipid rock ’n’ roll status quo and the foul system it purports to offer relief from –- but in fact keeps afloat.
Chain & the Gang have released five uncompromising records, each one a brilliant tossed off sketchbook of insolence and provocation.
CHANY, PHILIPPE - Rive Gauche (Dark Entries)
Philippe was inspired by experimental film composers Michel Magne, Ennio Morricone, Lalo Schifrin. Songs are a fusion of Chanson synth pop, experimental Italo funk, majestic balearic disco and arabesque instrumentals. He enjoyed making blends, combining rhythms with scratches, utilizing a Roland TR-808, Jupiter 8 and various Akai samplers. All the songs are recited in French and English and revolve around themes of love and mysticism plus a passage read from Antonin Artaud’s 1925 poem “L’ombilic des Limbes”.
CHILTON, ALEX - Take Me Home And Make Me Like It
Comprises unrehearsed, first-take recordings from 1975. Notes by Alex Chilton and producer Jon Tiven; 180 gram vinyl.
"This is music performed with some of the most callous abandon ever to have been allowed in a recording studio. Many of these tracks have a raw cinéma vérité atmosphere applied to recorded rock and roll. My own performances seem to be either obnoxious or attempting an insufferable cuteness, but often they achieve a compelling electricity in their spontaneous excitement. We recorded over a few days in the fall of 1975. I was very into a loose, unrehearsed first take sort of approach to recording music. I learned from producer Jim Dickinson the method of throwing a very impromptu rendering of a song onto tape. . . . This method gives a fresh, sometimes anarchistic quality to the performances. The first day of the sessions was approached in this way. The second day went according to the producer's more conservative method of planning and rehearsal. All in all there is some hot, untamed rock and roll on this disc." - Alex Chilton, 1992.
CLIENTELE – God Save The Clientele (Merge)
Includes download code.
If you like heavy reverb, twinkling guitars, airy British vocals, all wrapped up somewhere between 60’s pop and shoegaze: The Clientele is probably your band.
CLUSTER – Konzerte 1972/1977 (Bureau B)
LP includes CD with same content.
Printed inner sleeve featuring liner notes by Asmus Tietchens.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
The two authorized recordings presented here vividly conjure up the atmosphere, perhaps even the magic, of a Cluster performance back in the day. One took place in 1977 during a science fiction festival in Metz (France). The other dates back to an earlier show in Hamburg's Fabrik venue.
COATHANGERS – Parasite 12” (Suicide Squeeze)
Includes download code, single sided 12" with etching on b-side.
More output from prolific Atlanta garage punkers.
COCHRAN, EDDIE – My Way (Vinyl Lovers)
Mono reissue of this classic.
COLTRANE, ALICE – The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda 2LP (Luaka Bop)
Includes download code.
Gatefold sleeve with extensive liner notes. Includes insert with lyrics and translation, two additional large format pamphlet-style booklets of liner notes and photos.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
In a world gone mad, this, "the beautiful legacy of Mrs Coltrane," sounds like heaven itself...
Beautifully remastered and packaged, with informative booklets, photos and lyrics.
And the music... Literally, it's from another place. Unless you've got tin-ears and a stone-heart, you'll be brought to the point of tears, or at the very least, your hairs will be standing up.
COLTRANE, JOHN / ALICE COLTRANE - Cosmic Music (Superior Viaduct)
Cosmic Music, originally self-released by Alice Coltrane in 1968, features two tracks (“Manifestation” and “Rev. King”) by John Coltrane’s legendary final quintet that were recorded in San Francisco on February 2nd, 1966 and two more (“Lord Help Me To Be” and “The Sun”) from Alice Coltrane’s very first session as a bandleader, recorded six months after her husband’s passing.
“Manifestation” opens with the group already in mid-flight: Trane’s fierce tenor leads the way with Pharoah Sanders’ blistering sax and Alice’s powerful chords hearing his call. On “Rev. King,” Trane introduces a lyrical theme and then the composition erupts into fiery incantations, while Jimmy Garrison’s bass throbs alongside the propulsive, gravity-defying drumming of Rashied Ali.
Foreshadowing her majestic debut, A Monastic Trio, “Lord Help Me To Be” brings Alice’s celestial piano playing and inspired improvisations to the foreground with Sanders, Garrison and drummer Ben Riley rumbling in tow. “The Sun,” a meditative ballad with subtle urgency, perfectly closes the album’s contemplative circle.
COME ON – 1976-1980 (Manufactured Recordings)
Includes 20 page booklet full of archival images and liner notes by noted biographer Chris O'Leary.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
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Essential NYC 1976-80 nervous and jittery art rock / geek rock but cool as hell.
RIYL: Talking Heads, Pere Ubu, Devo
COMPLEX – The Way We Feel (Guerssen)
Second Complex album released in 1971 in a edition of 99 copies, one of the rarest private pressings from the UK along with their debut album. Another set of Swingin’ London styled psychedelic pop and underground psychedelia featuring some of the best tracks the band ever recorded like the Zombies sounding "Hey girl, you’ve got style" and the killer psych number "We don’t exist". Carefully remastered sound, 180 gr vinyl, insert with rare pictures and extensive liner notes by David Wells.
CONE, MARK - Now Showing (Neck Chop)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
This might get my vote as the best non-demo-put-to-vinyl Neck Chop release yet. Jackie Boy from Urochromes goes full-on synth freakout.
"Do me a favor. Think of your favorite synth punk band, or, assuming you hate everything the subgenre stands for, think of the one you hate the least. Pretty much anything that’s got a keyboard and a lot of yelling involved, since it’s practically all the same shit anyways. Now, imagine yourself holding a physical release from said band; either a record, cassette, CD, LaserDisc, or what have you. Just imagine it in your hands. Alright, now imagine yourself breaking it right over your fucking knee – MARK CONE is your favorite now. It’s up to you whether or not that last part should be left to your imagination, but for those with an inherent affinity for keyboard-infused punk, minimal exposure to Cone’s dissonant, hyperactive keystrokes, masterfully programmed drum beats, and throaty, maniacal roars are needed to realize the undercurrent of brilliance that runs beneath this darkened display of unfledged synth glory. Mark Cone – a snide, hysterical character conceived by one of the two founders of Massachusetts’s Urochromes, Jackie M. – not only epitomizes the essence of keyboard-oriented punk, but does so in a line-up devoid of instruments typically associated with the subgenre; mainly centering on a substandard Casio keyboard, an 8-bit drum machine, and a harsh set of pipes, Mark Cone has created a melodic, energetic, riveting score of punk with discernible post-like tinges in this 10-track LP. As a successor to his original 7” EP (Nicey Music), this record is a true mindmelter."
CONRAD, TONY - Ten Years Alive On The Infinite Plain 2LP (Superior Viaduct)
Die-cut cover.
Previously unreleased. Breathtaking performance from 1972, featuring the filmmaker / composer with Rhys Chatham and Laurie Spiegel.
CONTROL FREAKS – Mindless Entertainment (Slovenly)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Greg Lowery of The Rip Offs, Supercharger and some other jerky combos finally granted our wish and slapped Slovenly silly with this LP from his latest no-count crew CONTROL FREAKS. Be careful what you wish for, indeed! This is snot-caked Bay Area slime by abusive maniacs with the teen-beat on lockdown, and they will C.O.N.T.R.O.L. your last remaining brain cells! “Mindless Entertainment” got all the obnoxious pop you can handle: “Hollywood” is classic Lowery retardation, and guitarist Natalie Sweet is making us itch sharing vocal doodies all over the album in her best Edith Bunker impression.
[AUST / NZ] COOKIN' ON 3 BURNERS – Lab Experiments Vol.1 (Soul Messin)
Includes download code.
Australian funk, soul, boogaloo & jazz organ trio.
COSMIC DEAD – Eccie Bam Yas, E? (Monorail)
"Buckfast and psych rock. A delicious concoction if ever I did taste one. If the Cosmic Dead have been putting back buckie then I can completely understand how they’ve managed to be both as prolific and ridiculous as they have over the past few, though I also want to accuse them of lying since two weeks ago I reviewed one by them called ‘Psych is Dead’. For what? This? They celebrate their genre’s Easter-esque revival with more improvisation that hints at the noisier, dronier avenues currently exciting them." - NORMAN RECORDS
CRASH COURSE IN SCIENCE - Signals From Pier Thirteen 12” (Dark Entries)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Post punk band that formed in 1979 in Philadelphia. The songs 'Cardboard Lamb' and 'Flying Turns' quickly became club favorites during the early ‘80s. This EP's raw, percussive sound influenced both techno and industrial music in later years.
CRESCENT – Resin Pockets (Geographic)
Includes download code.
What is lo-fi? Is it a genre? Is it a recording style? Is it a necessity? Perhaps it's all three. Or maybe it’s something else entirely. Bristolian trio Crescent have been making music that can only be labeled as lo-fi for the best part of two decades. Their 6th effort, Resin Pockets, sees the group go back to the well once again to deliver nine tracks of that sweet, sweet late summer pop that sounds exactly like the smell of freshly laid tarmac.
CROOKED BANGS – II (Nervous Intent)
Includes download code.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
II, the second full length from Austin, Texas trio Crooked Bangs, shuns the warmth of the sun in favour of a cold, disparate world in itself that begs to be misjudged and mislabeled. The album is an altogether unsettling—and at times puzzling—witches brew of searing primal sounds, discordant genre shifts, and also focused, practically poppy arrangements and vocal lines.
Singer/Bassist Leda Ginestra’s voice is a stygian, clairvoyant force waging war on multiple fronts across the album’s 9 tracks, deftly juggling English and French, while the drums —generally dominating the coarse, boorish sounding mix— lead the band deeper into the hellscape forming around them as the album progresses.
Crooked Bangs are hacking through interesting, visceral territory, and the record is a dark departure from their tighter, decidedly more-punk-than-post debut.
DANCER - I'm Not Giving Up / Teenage Punk 7” (Dig!)
Here with an anthemic scorcher of an A-Side: “I’m Not Giving Up,” channels equal parts Cheap Trick & Thin Lizzy, delivering the ROCK GOD goods so convincingly its time to THROW your Kiss records out! Flip it over for “Teenage Punk,” a swirling synth punk slice of misfit solace with words to live by (“all our friends, we don’t have friends”). Six singles in, and Dancer proves there are sick new moves comin’ from the crew responsible for APACHE, GLITZ and SLICK!
DAPPLED CITIES - IIIII (MGM)
Sydney indie pop group’s fifth, and most accomplished record. Established fans of Dappled Cities will find much to celebrate across the eleven tracks of this new release. Tapping into the timeless qualities of ’70s mavericks like David Bowie and Roxy Music and recorded in the serene surrounds of Byron Bay, the loved and celebrated statesmen of Australian Indie pop have created a soundtrack to life that reflects a mature Dappled Cities.
DEDEKIND CUT - American Zen 2LP (Special Edition)
Following a strictly limited tape edition of American Zen, LEE BANNON, aka DEDEKIND CUT, links with Hospital Productions for an expanded new vinyl edition, clasping a sublime bonus single collaboration with ALEX ZHANG HUNGTAI, who's better known for his maudlin pop moniker, DIRTY BEACHES. If you like your ambient music intangible and synaesthetically olfactory, huffable... American Zen finds its center in quivering, pensive drones and fractured small sounds, but is rent with an oceanic sense of scale, deploying splashes of distant percussion, extreme panned vocal snippets, and slowly escalating harmonic space perfused by crackling radio-waves and that intangible timbre of an old TV turned on somewhere, but you can't quite pick out its location.
DEMEN – Nektyr (Kranky)
Hermetic gothic swan songs conjured from funereal piano, twilit ambience, minimalist percussion, and spellbinding vocals. The mood is lulling and lush but lost in sorrow, stark grey structures looming in the night. Majestic open spaces between notes heighten the melancholic grandeur of Orm’s arrangements, blurring the line between lament and lullaby. The songs don’t end so much as ebb away, succumbing to their own downcast beauty. Strong Cocteau Twins vibe.
DOLAN, TERRY – s/t 2LP (High Moon)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Unreleased,1972 Warner Brothers album. Part mellifluous singer-songwriter album; part scorching template/unrivaled progenitor for a sound that has come to be known as "jam band." The musicians on this phenomenal album seem to have been cherry-picked from a rock and roll fan's dreams: Nicky Hopkins (legendary for his piano work with The Rolling Stones) plays some of the most fiery work of his career. Guitarists John Cipollina (Quicksilver Messenger Service) and Greg Douglas (Country Weather, Steve Miller Band) contribute all shades of electric guitar, from sweet, sustained melodies, to epic, dueling solos. Bassist Lonnie Turner (Steve Miller Band) plays funky and tastefully on the album's first side. The drums are played alternately by Spencer Dryden (Jefferson Airplane) and Prairie Prince (future Tubes). Side two features Pete Sears (Rod Stewart) on bass and a post-Santana, pre-Journey Neal Schon on electric guitar. Terry Dolan's songs are instantly memorable, from out-and-out rocking to beautiful ballads. His voice manages to be strong and supple at the same time. Backing him on half of the tracks are The Pointer Sisters (a year before their own debut album), adding layers of gorgeous, Gospel-inspired harmonies.
[AUST / NZ] DRAGGS – 3D Funeral 7”EP (Goodbye Boozy)
Limited to 255 copies only.
Raw R'n'R Garage Punk Lo-Fi, from Gold Coast, Oz with Kel Mason from GEE TEE - it's something like Useless Eaters on a trip with Hawkwind !!
DUNBARROW – s/t (Riding Easy)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Summoned to play it the old way in a new age, Trondheim, Norway quintet Dunbarrow draws inspiration from freezing winter nights, unpolished demo tapes from the 70s and the Swedish throwback rock from the beginning of the 21st century. The result is Norwegian proto-doom with a back-to-basics sound, from Pentagram and Witchfinder General to Quicksilver Messenger Service. Dunbarrows clean, unadorned sound shares the unpretentious brilliance of classic heavy progenitors playing basements and barns, before the big budgets and bloated habits diluted hard rock into an echo chamber awash in reverb and layered in distant, screeching hobbits.
DUSTY MUSH – Cheap Entertainment (Howlin Banana)
Includes download code.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
The second full-length by this French band. The music on offer is straight up garage-punk, sounding somewhere between Billy Childish and early Ty Segall, with an emphasis on FUZZ. It took Dusty Mush three years of experimenting on the borders of lo-fi in order to get the right sound.
EKIN FIL - Ghosts Inside (Helen Scarsdale Agency)
Acclaimed drone-pop chanteuse working with the sparest of materials in her ethereal, shoegaze deconstructions. Her sound developed out of a healthy obsession with Cranes, Cocteau Twins, Slowdive and many other bands that she discovered in the tattered back issues of NME and the home-dubbed tapes that were passed around when she was growing up in Turkey. Upon a fortuitous invitation to perform alongside Grouper in Istanbul in the late oughts, Ekin Fil began producing a series of hidden gems in the drone-rock underworld through releases on Root Strata, Students Of Decay, Bathetic and No Kings. Ghosts Inside continues to find Ekin coaxing somber melodies out of echo, shadow and whisper, even as she expands her arrangements to include piano and keyboards to accompany the guitar, voice and array of pedals that had been front and central on her previous recordings.
ELDER - Reflections Of A Floating World 2LP (Armageddon Shop)
Clear / green vinyl, limited to 500 copies only.
It’s time to get euphoric. With ELDER's fourth full-length album, an epic piece of rock music will be released unto the world.
[AUST / NZ] ELECTRIC GUITARS – Three Body Problem / Death From Beside 7” (Volume Creep)
Limited to 150 copies only.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Cool sonic acid-trip sounds from Melbourne psych act with forthcoming second album. The flip of this single will not appear on the LP.
ELECTRIC PRUNES – I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night (Reprise)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
50th Anniversary pressing. Debut mono pressing on purple wax from preeminent garagers.
Great, fairly dark, psychedelic garage. "Sold to the Highest Bidder" is an acid freakout lost classic.
ELECTRIC SEWER AGE - Moon's Milk In Final Phase (Soleilmoon)
Includes download code.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Little was known about this upcoming project other than it likely featured some involvement of former COIL legends PETER "SLEAZY" CHRISTOPHERSON and DANNY HYDE, and perhaps, it was rumored, with the posthumous contributions of JHONN BALANCE. Because Electric Sewer Age was intended to be an anonymous aural experiment meant to free the listeners mind of any preconceptions about who or what created it, little more was ever planned to be publicly revealed about the project, even after the first release. However, following the unexpected and untimely passing in 2010 of Christopherson, the first Electric Sewer Age EP became an epitaph to the loss of this peerless musician, for these were the last tracks he and his decades long collaborator and friend Danny Hyde ever completed together. The music, originally intended to conclude Coil’s Moon’s Milk series, was released on CD by Divine Frequency in 2012, and then on vinyl the next year by Danny Hyde. Both editions sold out quckly and have been unavailable until now. Moon’s Milk In Final Phase consists of four ambient-electronic instrumentals.
ELSON, KAREN – Double Roses (Hot)
Includes download code.
2017 album from the model turned folk singer. This is her sophomore album and the first since 2010's The Ghost Who Walks. While her debut was rooted in bluesy indie folk and country, Double Roses sees her expand that sound into something greater. Instead of haunting murder ballads she sings swirling folk ballads of love and loss. The album has an impressive list of collaborators including Pat Carney (The Black Keys), Josh Tillman (Father John Misty), and Laura Marling.
ENGLISH, HAZEL - Just Give In / Never Going Home 2LP (Polyvinyl)
Includes download code.
25-year-old Oakland-based artist who makes beautifully blurry indie-pop music powered by transcendent melodies and caked in layers of Californian sunshine and redolent reverb. She’s drawn comparisons to everyone from Alvvays and Pains Of Being Pure At Heart to touring partners Ride, while her soaring, hypnotic, vocal arrangements have been likened to everyone from Grimes to DIIV. Her label debut, Just Give In / Never Going Home, collates a brilliant snap-shot of her DIY creations to date. Those that have followed her meteoric ascendance through the hazy blogosphere so far will recognize the title track ‘Never Going Home’ and ‘It’s Not Real,’ both of which were championed by Gorilla Versus Bear, Stereogum, The Line of Best Fit, and more. Double vinyl pressed on 180-gram light blue / light yellow vinyl.
ERTLIF – Ertlif… Plus 2LP (Sommor)
Debut album from 1972 by Ertlif, one of the leading Swiss progressive / psychedelic bands from the 70s. Now expanded to a double set, including a whole extra album of previously unreleased homemade recordings from 1971 plus a rare compilation only track from 1973.
UK sounding doomy & atmospheric psychedelic hard–rock and proto–prog sounds with lot of Hammond organ, hard guitar, occasional Mellotron and English vocals.
ERTLIF – Relics From The Past (Sommor)
Previously unreleased ’74–75 homemade recordings by Swiss prog /psych legends Ertlif.
Insert with liner notes by band member Teddy Riedo plus rare photos and memorabilia.
Raw, in–your–face hard–progressive sound with ultra–loud fuzz–wah guitar plus Hammond, Mellotron, synths, powerful (English) vocals... A great find for anyone into underground psychedelia.
FALL, THE – New Facts Emerge 2x10” (Cherry Red)
Double 10"
Complaining about the repetitive nature of The Fall is like bitching that water is wet. All mid-tempo garage / rockabilly / psych one-riff stompers with Mark E. half-(probably a gross underestimation) drunkenly ranting some shit or another over the top.
FALL, THE - Perverted By Language (Superior Viaduct)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
The Fall returned to Rough Trade in 1983 to release a pair of singles (“The Man Whose Head Expanded” and “Kicker Conspiracy”) and Perverted By Language, their sixth proper studio album. Perverted By Language hints at the band’s shift towards a distinctly pop approach, one that they would perfect via their Beggars Banquet output that immediately followed. Yet again, the force and panic of their initial Rough Trade recordings remains the foundation for much of the album. A transitional recording in the absolute best sense, Perverted By Language is The Fall both as they were and as they would become.
FAUST – Fresh Air (Bureau B)
New album. Includes bonus CD.
As Krautrockers, Faust had a worldwide career. On their first three albums in the early 1970s, they inhabited the vast field from improvisation to bricolage to rock'n'roll with the ease of rogues and the determination of declared sonic renegades. One can still feel the breathing of this music in current Faust pieces, in the stone-age thudding of "Fish", which Faust anticipated in 1972 on "Mamie Is Blue".
FLAMIN GROOVIES – Live In San Francisco (Rock Beat)
You could hardly invent a more perfect template for a pre-punk cult rock band than the Flamin’ Groovies. Though their 1965 formation and 1968 recorded debut place them squarely in the hippie era, they purveyed a prescient and influential back-to-basics ethos, with a roots-and-blues approach that was of its time at first, but increasingly out of touch with the ongoing shift to psychedelia happening in the San Francisco scene from which the band sprung. Their second incarnation, post-1971, saw the band landing squarely in the power-pop realm
FLOWERS OF EVIL - City Of Fear (Deranged)
Includes download code.
Reminiscent of early Career Suicide, this album blends the high velocity in-your-face sound of first era hardcore like The Germs with a good dose of melody to keep things catchy and infectious.
Hardcore punk project featuring Brandon Welchez of Crocodiles and David McDaniel of Young Boys
FOLEY, BLAZE - Lost Muscle Shoals Recordings (End Of An Ear)
Includes download code.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
End Of An Ear Records (Austin, TX) continue to set the bar high with their second label release, following the amazing Stick Men With Ray Guns 'Grave City'. With 'Lost Muscle Shoals Recordings' they've moved into finger-pickin' country territory - a far departure from the brutality of Bobby Soxx of the Stick Men but no less essential.
FOLLAKZOID – II (Sacred Bones)
Limited edition of 400 space coloured vinyl.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Psychedelia is supposed to be boundless-- gobble enough indoles, and all the old categories start to dissolve, freeing you up for transcendence. Psychedelic warriors Föllakzoid hail from Santiago, Chile, but-- with their rigid rhythms, their chemtrail synths, their afterburner guitars-- their sound is pure Düsseldorf, circa 1971. But this krautrock-worshiping quartet's fascination with all things kosmische isn't merely musical: their primary concern seems to be untethering themselves from the earth. Their debut leaned toward desert rock, but the interplanetarily minded II is a bold shift in perspective from their earthbound origins, an all-out swing into a very different sound that follows its own alien logic.
FRA LIPPO LIPPI – In Silence (Onderstroom)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Originally released in 1981. Fra Lippo Lippi was a gothic post-punk band founded in Nesodden, Norway in 1978. Their sound was heavily influenced by bands such as Joy Division and The Cure.
[AUST / NZ] FRANKENBOK – Vicious, Lawless (Fair Dinkum)
Thrash fans will be hard pressed to find anything to dislike in tracks like "Stalker Stalker" and "Drive It Into the Ground", as the pace lets up just enough to make sure you don’t drown in speed before dunking you back under for another beating.
FRESH FLESH – Say It, Say Yes 7” (Goodbye Boozy)
Limited to 255 copies only.
Quartet from Memphis, featuring guitarist Alicja Trout (Lost Sounds, River City Tanlines, Sweet Knives) with a sound that falls somewhere between proto-punk bands of the '60s and '70s and the garage rock revivalists of the early 2000's. Punk / Garage / Pop!!
GALAVIS, QUIN - The Battery Line (Super Secret)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Austin, TX songwriter QUIN GALVIS returns with the follow up to 2016's album-of-the-year topping epic double album My Life In Steel and Concrete, with the more refined yet lyrically weighty, The Battery Line. Unpredictable and experimental from record to record and from live performance to live performance, Quin Galavis continues to challenge himself and his audience to reconsider and subvert what it means to be an artist and musician. The album's powerful, expressive and hook-laden songs show that Galavis isn't beholden to the dark avant rock of his previous album. Catchy riffs and quasi power pop moments give the album a lifting spirit.
GIUDA – Speaks Evil (Conquest of Noise)
Limited copies on gold vinyl.
This is the third full-length release for the Italian glam rock band.
GLITTER - Joy of a Toy 7” (Lumpy)
Dark and evil punk/hc covered in spider webs. This Calgary act (featuring ARIELLE of JANITOR SCUM) scrapes and twitches and sneers the good way, maybe like how Saccharine Trust does. There are bursts of manic hardcore energy in some songs too a la Cheetah Chrome Motherfuckers. An unsettling listen.
GLORIOUS DIN – Leading Stolen Horses (BFE)
Limited to 300 copies only.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Reissue of this post punk classic. San Francisco 1985
AMERICA’S GREATEST UNKNOWN POST PUNK GROUP
www.cvltnation.com/glorious-
"Fronted by an intense singer with an oblique songbook and a mysterious past, Glorious Din were unlike any other group to emerge from San Francisco’s ‘80s underground. David Katz tells the story of Eric Cope, the chosen persona of a Joy Division-obsessed Sri Lankan boy who travelled halfway around the world to follow his punk dream."
GOLEM – Orion Awakes (Mental Experience)
Includes download code.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
A glorious blend of Space–Rock, Kraut and Psychedelia courtesy of the mysterious Golem. Plenty of Hammond organ, analogue synths, ripping guitar, effects, trippy jams...
[AUST / NZ] HARDING, ALDOUS - Party (4AD)
Includes bonus 7".
Americana might need a new name, so many sterling exemplars have been rolling in off the South Pacific: Nadia Reid and Julia Jacklin, for two. The latest is Aldous Harding, whose second album of hypnotic folk flowers into something far more opaque and artistically evolved. Producer John Parish’s long association with PJ Harvey is a reference point, but Harding is her own woman, an arresting vocalist whose mannered deliveries – from chanteuse to jazzy – and intense themes defy obvious influence.
HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER - Heart Like a Levee (Merge)
When MC Taylor first attracted attention as Hiss Golden Messenger, he drew tentative comparisons with those titans of contemporary Americana, Bill Callahan and Will Oldham. He may not quite have hit those peaks yet, but his sixth full-length record is another collection of warm and rootsy songs and a persuasive bid for a place at alt-country’s top table. Taylor does not stray far from the sound of his vintage antecedents: Happy Day (Sister My Sister) has the languid swing of the Band, Like a Mirror Loves a Hammer feels like a classic cut of southern funk. But this is much more than an exercise in loving hommage, not least because his lyrics brim with personality and feeling.
HOUSEWIVES - s/t 12” (Ever/Never)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Elements of The Fall or even Spray Paint in its Beefheart-esque delivery.
HURULA - Vapen Till Dom Hopplosa (Deranged)
Four years after the end of his punk band Masshysteri, Robert Hurula returned with a solo project under the name Hurula. His first album, Vi Är Människorna Som Våra Föräldrar Varnade Oss För, picked up where that classic band left off, blending elements of early Scandinavian punk à la Ebba Gron and post-punk with some obvious pop undertones. The album earned wide acclaim and made numerous Best Of Year lists in 2014. On this second album, Hurula returns with more of the same infectious formula anyone familiar with his musical output over the last ten years will immediately recognise.
HYUN, SHIN JOONG – Beautiful Rivers And Mountains 2LP (Light In The Attic)
First anthology of Shin Joong Hyun’s music outside of Korea.
Comprehensive liner notes by Kevin “Sipreano” Howes with an in-depth interview and track-by-track notes by Mr. Shin.
2xLP housed in a deluxe jacket with liner notes and rare photos.
A musical trip existing somewhere between Motown, Hendrix, and the Velvet Underground.
I.L.Y’s, THE - Bodyguard (Castle Face)
Includes download code.
Limited edition "Krang Smudge" colour vinyl.
Exclusive to, and highly recommended by Strangeworld.
While their lineup was originally unknown, it was later revealed to be Zach Hill on drums, vocals and production and Andy Morin (both Death Grips) on bass guitar, with contributions from Tera Melos guitarist Nick Reinhart. An improvement on what The I.L.Y's were going for on "I've always been good at true love," which is some weird garage-pop with elements of experimental electronic instrumentation.
[AUST / NZ] IMPETUOUS RITUAL - Blight Upon Martyred Sentience (Profound Lore)
Includes download code. Inner sleeve with lyrics.
Australia’s Impetuous Ritual follow up their last album Unholy Congregation Of Hypocritical Ambivalence with their new musical abomination of ambient death metal surrealism Blight Upon Martyred Sentience, which takes their unhinged vortex-like chaos into more abstract, cavernous, and otherworldly realms.
Features two members of critically acclaimed death metal masters Portal
INSTITUTE – Subordination (Sacred Bones)
Includes download code.
Limited edition clear vinyl. Insert with lyrics and bonus huge newsprint poster.
Since their first demo in 2013, the Austin expats in Institute have edged their raw anarcho punk blitz into something much more expansive and nuanced. Catharsis, the band’s debut full-length, was another huge push forward, with a slightly cleaner production and some krautrock influence creeping in around the edges. Subordination sees them push themselves further out of genre, incorporating hard rock and glam and writing some of the most diverse material of their career.
IN MIRRORS - Escape From Berlin (Italians Do It Better)
180 gram blood red vinyl.
In Mirrors from Vancouver, B.C. debut LP "Escape From Berlin" was recorded in deep isolation on location at Nite Prison in Vancouver. Produced & mixed by Johnny Jewel, the album plays as a dizzying massive singular collage. Acutely focused on texture & the negative space between moments, composer & poet Jesse Taylor is the core member in a revolving cast of collaborators. For this LP, his partners in crime are Suzanne, Hiromi Inada (Japan), & Andrew Grosvenor on clarinet. As enigmatic & fleeting as reflections in a hall of mirrors, these themes are fractured & textural. Taylor ambitiously asks us to look beyond the mirror...through to the other side where we imagine Phillip Glass playing chess with William Burroughs while Klaus Schulze slaves over a droning synthesizer in the corner. Sonically, we hear vapor trails from Coltrane, Carpenter, & Amon Duul.
INVSN – The Beautiful Stories (Dine Alone)
A missing 1987 album from the Beggars Banquet vaults? No, this slab of rockin' Swedish Goth-pop is the latest incarnation of The Lost Patrol (mid-aughts purveyors of power pop), helmed by the guy behind '90s punk band Refused and, immediately thereafter, garage rockers The (International) Noise Conspiracy.
ISM – A Diet For The Worms (Ship To Shore)
Includes download code.
Remastered from the original master tapes.
Features a 4-page color insert with never-before-seen photos and brand-new liner notes from Jism himself as well as American Hardcore author Stephen Blush.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Ism’s 1983 full-length debut A Diet For The Worms, originally available in a limited release by S.I.N. Records, dominated college radio and the CMJ radio charts while the group, fronted by the enigmatic and classically trained pianist Jism, popularized their new brand of Hardcore Punk at venues like CBGB, City Gardens and A7 alongside the likes of The Ramones and Black Flag.
JESUS & MARY CHAIN – Damage And Joy (Artificial Plastic)
Includes download code. Gatefold sleeve.
They're still doing their classic sound, making some beautiful noise-pop-gaze sounds, and delivering some breathy vocals and some of the tracks are actually pretty great.
JOYNER, SIMON & DAVID NANCE - Goat's Head Soup (Grapefruit)
Includes download code.
Do Simon Joyner and David Nance love or hate the Rolling Stones’ Jamaican vacation themed 1973 follow-up to Exile On Main Street? You’ll have to listen and decide for yourself. It might depend on how sacrosanct you feel about classic rock “masterpieces”!
One thing’s for certain, the Grimmer Twins version is a bit more raw and experimental than the original Glimmer Twins record. “Some of the songs had decent lyrics but terrible music, like Keith had just conceded the band to Mick at this point, so we wrote our own music. At least one song had to be totally re-written with new words and music because it was so awful that neither of us could think of how to save it. We kept the title. But the others just needed to be played by people who give a shit.”
KA-SPEL, EDWARD - High On Station Yellow Moon (Soleilmoon)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Edward Ka-Spel was the co-founder is psychedelic lunatics the Legendary Pink Dots and has recently (improbably) recorded an album with ex Dresden Dolls Amanda Palmer. It veers between spoken word over eerie psychedelic noise and strange story songs which sit between Syd Barrett, Edward Lear and Tim Smith (Cardiacs). It's unique - Ka-Spel is obviously as 60's influenced as any travelling psychedelicist but also showcases a knowledge and love of cut up electronics and sound collage mayhem.
KG – Come Closer, We’re Cool (Manufactured Recordings)
While similarities to Isn’t Anything-era My Bloody Valentine and the Jesus & Mary Chain’s Psychocandy abound, KG’s approach is markedly different by blending the swirling textures of shoegaze and dream pop with the immediacy and minimalism of punk. Though KGnever took off as a rock band – Bux has turned his efforts towards making electronic music under the KG moniker at the beginning of the century, and is nowadays producing a mix of both styles – Come Closer, We’re Cool showcases one of the underrated greats of the 2nd wave of shoegaze.
[AUST / NZ] KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD - Murder of the Universe (Flightless)
Includes download code.
Flightless edition. We also sometimes have the ATO edition.
New album from explosive Melbourne garage-psych act.
KLEISTWAHR – Music For Zeitgeist Fighters (Nashazphone)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
The 2016 album by the much revered solo project of Gary Mundy (Ramleh/Broken Flag). On offer are two pieces of intense, emotional and purgative electronics, miles away from audiophile realms.
KOZMONAUT - Flieg (Mental Experience)
Includes download code.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Mental Experience present a reissue of Kozmonaut's Fleig, originally released in 1986. Ultra-rare DIY minimal/synth-pop/industrial/
LA BONTE, RICH - Mayan Canals (Dark Entries)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Jacket features a replica of the original with a Mayan figure screen printed using the original rubber stamps from Rich’s archives. Each copy includes a 6-page xeroxed booklet with lyrics, never before seen photos, and liner notes by Rich La Bonte.
Rich released his debut solo album ‘Mayan Canals’ in 1981. The seven songs were recorded between 1973 and 1980 while living in New York, Pennsylvania and Hollywood. Influenced by everything from Apple Records to Zappa, the album veers from oozy psychedelia to synthesized breezy folk. Vocally Rich sounds like a cross between Tom Verlaine and Lou Reed. Some tracks feature an EMS Synthi A synthesizer, known to generate the sci-fi sounds from Dr. Who. Other songs utilize feedback from a Maestro Fuzztone box into a TEAC 4-track SimulSync tape recorder. Lyrically La Bonte tackles themes of dying celestial bodies, the birth of his daughter, and a critique of Bowie's character in The Man Who Fell To Earth. Included on this reissue are two bonus tracks originally released on the double A side 7” single Chance Circumstance/Drums Along The Maple Wood, a tribute to Irwin Chusid, the eminent WFMU DJ, with vocals by Shari Famous.
LAIBACH – Also Sprach Zarathustra (Mute)
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An update of the music Laibach created for the play.
LAMAR, KENDRICK – Damn 2LP (Top Dawg)
Kendrick Lamar's universally praised third album now available on vinyl. Retreating from his jazz/funk sound off of TPAB, Lamar has made another album that is consciously sound, pointing out the hypocrisy of society as well as the questions we all wrestle with in trying to answer.
LANEGAN BAND, MARK – Gargoyle (Heavenly)
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Absolutely brilliant record from Lanegan again, his consistency and output is amazing, Gargoyle being right up there with his best work. Also, have to mention ex-Pearl Jam drummer Jack Irons doing a great job on this one too.
[AUST / NZ] LAWRIE, JIM – Slacker of the Year (Barely Dressed)
Limited to 200 copies only.
Jim Lawrie is a songwriting gem – an artist transitioning from his previous incarnation as a folk singer-songwriter into a purveyor of soaring alt-country rock 'n' roll. On record and live, his performances are gorgeous and Jim's trademark vocal purity is a highlight; melodic, harmonious, warm and human.
[AUST / NZ] LAWRIE, SABRINA – Hush The Mountain (Pig City)
From the gutbucket riffage of pulsating opener “No Rules” onward, Lawrie sets about conducting an operatic spectacle (“High Time to Fly”) – the album’s darkly brooding, guitar-driven grandeur recalling the sonic tableaux of Yawning Man (“Little Red House”), while Lawrie imports ample bruising, Abbe May-like heaviness. Baring her teeth to the void, Lawrie dials back the shrillness of, say, Karen O or Alison Mosshart, while more than matching them for raw menace and pure, animal soul.
LEA PORCELAIN – Hymns To The Night 2LP (Lea Porcelain)
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Electronic post-punk duo Lea Porcelain debut album. Inhabiting a musical landscape that evokes a post-punk legacy, one that continues to evolve and thrill; the album was written and recorded over a two year period in Berlin's Funkhaus, a broadcasting house created under Soviet supervision that now houses the world's biggest recording studio. "The spectrum of the album is extremely wide. Every song works together, playing with very different moods. We would describe it as - atmospheric, cinematic and melancholic".
LEER, THOMAS – 1979 2LP (Dark Entries)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Thomas Leer is an innovative electronic musician from Port Glasgow, Scotland. By 1977, he had moved to London, where he fronted Pressure, a Clash-esque punk group with fellow experimental Scottish musician Robert Rental. After hearing Kraftwerk, Leer became interested in synthesizers – not long after, he was exploring the experimental techniques of Eno, Zappa, Beefheart, Faust, and Can. In 1978, Thomas released his first single, “Private Plane”/“International”, on his own Oblique Records.
39 years later this is fresh UK D.I.Y. post-punk, compelling pop with a dark heart, vacillating between the pretty disturbing and the disturbingly pretty.
LEWIN, PHILIP - Am I Really Here All Alone? (Tompkins Square)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
A reissue of this 1975 private press LP originally released in an edition of 300 signed copies. Remastered from the original tapes. "Phil Lewin's homespun debut is a loner folk masterpiece; accidentally psychedelic, lit by heartbreak and timeless in its sadness and hope." - Jeff Conklin, WFMU
LICHEN GUMBO – Boilin’ (Aguirre)
Limited to 150 copies only.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Lichen Gumbo is a lo-fi underground rock band from Finland. The songs on this album range from Throbbing Gristle-style hits to more noisy garage rock. Heavily distorted drums, guitars and vocals, ranging in style from garagey no wave to totally deranged, are mixed with synth bubbles which sound like they were recorded straight from the water surface of hot springs (or perhaps they just borrowed a moog from Acid Mothers Temple).
LITTLE BOB AND THE LOLLIPOPS - Nobody But You (Mississippi)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Retrospective of Lil Bob and the Lollipops' discography. Classic Louisiana swamp soul/R&B, recorded in the early to mid-1960's. Includes the popular dance floor fillers 'I Got Loaded' and 'Stop' as well as some obscurities.
LOMBARD, CLAUDE - Chante (Sommor)
Beautiful pop songs sung in French by this Belgian maverick (who worked with Luciano Berio) swirling upon wonderful '60s abstract-expressionism orchestrations: chimes and ondes Martenots among lovely dream basslines and organ drifting, with a dreamy use of echoes, reverbs and sometimes electronics.
LOSS - Horizonless 2LP (Profound Lore)
Nashville, Tennessee melancholic death / funeral doom metal band Loss have completed their anticipated masterwork of pure doom death worship Horizonless, one of the most anticipated metal releases of the year.
LOST BALLOONS - Hey Summer (Dirtnap)
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‘60s-inspired pop project by Jeff Burke (Radioactivity, Marked Men) and Yusuke Okada (Suspicious Beasts)
LUNG LETTERS - Passing Days 7” (Super Secret)
Debut record by Austin-based band. Over the past 15 years these veterans have served time in prominent punk projects including TOTAL ABUSE, DEAD SPACE, OBN IIIs, A GIANT DOG, FLESH LIGHTS, NAZI GOLD and various others. The band conveys the calamitous soundscapes of Flipper and Scratch Acid while delivering a live performance that has been likened to “watching a 5-year-old throw a temper tantrum.” Trash cans, vocal monitors, mic stands, beer bottles, the audience’s sense of decorum and the singer’s own shoes are no match for the destructive power of the band’s live performance. The same bone-headed energy from their shows has been channeled into the songs on this record.
MAGNETIX – Live In San Francisco (Castle Face)
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Limited edition clear vinyl. Includes bonus flexi.
Exclusive to, and highly recommended by Strangeworld.
“The lovely and tough-as-hell Aggy, crushing the kit. Heavy weird attackers from our sister country. Sludge drips—murder the guitar, usurp the amp, fry the mic, howl like beasts, melt the crowd: Magnetix. We were lucky enough to grab them on one of their rare U.S. shows, recorded in a basement in San Francisco. Here it is in all its gory glory. Let’s go tripping…” —John Dwyer
MALE GAZE – Miss Taken (Castle Face)
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Limited edition "Smoke On The Water" colour vinyl.
Exclusive to, and highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Male Gaze is a trifecta of bad vibes from the dudes that brought you Blasted Canyons, Mayyors and The Mall. Sheets of fuzz, feedback peeking out the corners, and a B+ Ian Curtis impression dress these diet pill pop tunes in your favorite sweater from 1996.
MAN OR ASTROMAN? – Live At Third Man Records (Third Man)
Recorded Live to Acetate.
MCDOWALL, DREW - Unnatural Channel (Dais)
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Aside from the legions of Coil fans that will buy this on sight,it's recommended for anyone that digs futuristic electronic music, dark ambient, industrial, techno etc. It doesn’t fit neatly into any of the above and could be just the ticket for the industrial techno party comedown.
[AUST / NZ] MEANIES - Televolution (Bang!)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
First vinyl edition of 'Televolution', originally released on CD in 1994. Remastered in order to get The Meanies most brutal sound and essence. This is a must have album for all fans of Australian underground and American grunge.
MELVINS – A Walk With Love And Death 2LP (Ipecac)
2LP set features two separate gatefold vinyl housed in a sturdy box.
Death is on Opaque Pink vinyl, Love is on Opaque Violet
The dual albums find the trio of Buzz Osborne, Dale Crover and Steve McDonald showcasing two distinct sides to the band’s music: Death, a proper Melvins’ release and Love, the score to the Jesse Nieminen directed, self-produced short also titled A Walk With Love and Death.
MEN, THE – Leave Home (Sacred Bones)
10th anniversary edition.
Clear vinyl, limited to 500 copies only.
Four-piece post punk outfit from Brooklyn, NY. Their catalog which began in 2008 with a hand-dubbed self-released demo cassette has grown in 2011 to include two more LP's- We Are the Men and Immaculada - two more tapes, and a 7". Having three songwriters in the band allows them to pull from innumerable post punk sources, referencing drone, metal, shoegaze, and even Suicide lyrics on Leave Home. They have breathed new life into the genre of hardcore and created a seminal album that is truly for punks of all ages.
MEN, THE – Open Your Heart (Sacred Bones)
10th anniversary edition.
Purple vinyl, limited to 500 copies only.
Ironically referred to by Timeout NY as "Thurston Moore & the E Street Band," The Men have never been a band to play by categorical punk subgenre rules. Instead, over the last three years, this band has dabbled in everything from hardcore punk to psych to shoegaze to black metal; and they have done all of it effortlessly, and for the most part, flawlessly.
[AUST / NZ] MERE WOMEN – Big Skies (Poison City)
"Big Skies matches the band's personnel expansion with a subtle progression of the band's murky, propulsive post-punk. Sonically things are actually pretty similar – previous albums were already somewhat layered with Flyn McKinnirey's guitar and certainly not lacking in low-end thanks to singer Amy Wilson's synths – with the addition of bass not adding extra heft to the band's sound so much as additional punch and forward motion. The result is a heightened sense of urgency in the songs contained herein, despite the band staying on a fairly even keel at all times - somehow Mere Women manage to sound simultaneously restrained and bombastically epic, best exemplified on tracks like 'Birthday' and 'Come Back'. The fact that vocalist Wilson so often turns individual lines of lyrics into repeated chants adds to this sense. Her voice is the centre around which the rest of the band whirls, commanding attention and defining the core of the song – she always sounds powerful, but never histrionic or anything other than completely in control." - 4ZZZ
MESSIS, PAUL – Nightmares / Penny Arcade 7”
MESSIS, PAUL – The Problem With Me (13 O'Clock)
Includes download code.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
UK based, singer-songwriter, well established underground musician who writes 60s garage, folk-rock, psychedelia and 60s punk sounds.
MODERN ART - Oriental Towers (Color Tapes)
Limited to 500 copies only. Includes a poster insert.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Another entry from the darkly enchanting minimal synth-pop and psych-tinged world of THE MODERN ART. As an introduction to the world of Coil and Current 93 collaborator (and Sun Dial main man) GARY RAMON and his orbiting bandmates, you can't do better. Formed by Ramon in the early 1980s, Modern Art released two albums on vinyl, and a significant amount of impossible-to-find cassettes. This remastered reissue of Oriental Towers, their second cassette album, originally released in 1983, also includes three previously un-issued tracks from that session. On this album you will find examples of what was going on in England during the pinnacle of the post-punk scene—an inspired time that encouraged young musicians to develop music influenced by the likes of Joy Division, Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle and Clock DVA.
MODERN WARFARE - Complete Recordings And More (Rerun)
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Early punk rock from Long Beach with hardcore tendencies and an artsy edge.
MONKEYWRENCH, THE - Goes Round Comes Round (Valley King)
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3D jackets with custom Monkeywrench viewing glasses and bonus sticker.
The first release for THE MONKEYWRENCH - Tim Kerr (BIG BOYS, POISON 13, LORD HIGH FIXERS), Mark Arm & Steve Turner (MUDHONEY), Tom Price (GAS HUFFER, U-MEN), and Martin Bland (BLOODLOSS, LUBRICATED GOAT) - since 2008! The original tracks were recorded live at the Crocodile in Seattle (which marked their first show in 15 years).
MONKS – Hamburg Recordings (Third Man)
The sole LP from short-lived Hamburg garage band the Monks now ranks in the upper echelon of 1960s gems. This new set pulls together 15 minutes’ worth of odds and ends recorded during their final year.
MOON DUO – Killing Time (Sacred Bones)
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Red vinyl edition to celebrate Sacred Bones 10th anniversary, limited to 1000 copies only.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Newly expanded to include three bonus tracks from the band's earliest recordings, "Bopper's Hat," "Run Around," and "Dead West Pt. II."
MOORE, THURSTON – Rock ‘n Roll Consciousness (Fiction)
The most Sonic Youth sounding of his albums. It's a little bit more mellow, kinda like if Lou Reed's Transformer meets Daydream Nation. There's only 5 songs here but each one is pretty long (obviously) and builds up on this guitar groove that he's got going on with vocals scattered here and there. Progressive noise rock if you will.
MORBY, KEVIN – City Music (Dead Oceans)
Captivating fourth album feels spacious and intimate at once. It possesses an elegant, dusky atmosphere and Morby’s hopelessly optimistic songwriting is the best it has ever been.
MUFF DIVERS - Dreams of the Gentlest Texture (Lumpy)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Chicago group’s debut LP. 10 songs of catchy drum machine Glam with a hearty reverence for KISS and the Ramones. Some high voltage pogo speed punk rock n roll!
[AUST / NZ] MURLOCS – Old Locomotive (Flightless)
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Limited edition black and gold vinyl.
Includes lyric insert and reflective silver sleeve and embossed text.
Five-piece Geelong group's third album, via Flightless Records.
Produced by Stu McKenzie of King Gizzard with songs by frontman and fellow Gizzard Kenny Ambrose-Smith.
MYRRORS – Hasta La Victoria (Beyond Beyond Is Beyond)
Includes download code.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Sonoran trance music from Tuscon, AZ for fans of Embryo, Parson Sound, and Faust.
NAG – Flies 7” (Space Taker)
Second 7" continues where the first left off, down a dark path of anxious fury. The organ intro, into the menacing guitar fray of the A-side feels foreboding and sinister. The sonic violence of harnessed noise with nervous, frenetic punk songs clawing through it. For punks who like The Dead C.
NANCE, DAVID - Negative Boogie (Ba Da Bing)
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Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Omaha veteran of warble and hiss, returns with Negative Boogie, his new concoction of chug, throb and greasy swagger. Nance trades in his beaten up Tascam 488 for the bullet-proof, glass walls of A.R.C. Studios. What exactly is the negative boogie? Well, it’s a bit like Canned Heat but with Pere Ubu’s queasy rhythms and someone playing five finger fillet with Swell Maps. Ensconced in his ivory tower and soundproof rooms, Nance reached for unlikely weapons to tear down his own lofty experiment. He had his pick of rare guitars, cowbells, steel drums, vintage amps, Crazy Horse microphones, mellotron, and the restless but indefatigable rhythm section of Kevin Donahue and Tom May. They started at sunrise and recorded fifteen songs by midnight. Maybe it’s his Midwestern work ethic, maybe he’s a sonic cheapskate. Maybe it’s just the sound of negative boogie.
NAOMI PUNK – Yellow 2LP (Captured Tracks)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Latest album from the Olympia, WA deconstructionalist rock group.
NARCOSATANICOS – Body Cults (Bad Afro)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Danish noise rock band that breaks the confines of genre spanning aforementioned noise to krautrock to mellow psych; must be heard to be believed.
NEEDLES // PINS - Good Night, Tomorrow (Mint / Dirt Cult)
Vancouver power-trash trio release its third LP. The record is a progression both musically and lyrically from their older material while still maintaining the hook-centric philosophy of their previous releases. The band has become legendary in Vancouver for wild shows and gruff but catchy punk rock melodies. It draws from classic punk roots like the wiry pop of The Buzzcocks and the gravely anthems of Stiff Little Fingers, but has a unique West Coast approach that would align itself with the catchiest of the Lookout! or Dirtnap Records catalog.
NEON - Neon / Nazi Schatzi 7” (Water Wing)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Lost Swiss Punk Treasure! Two Song 7”EP by all female foursome NEON. The band featured Astrid Spirig (vocals), Dagmar Heinrich (guitar), Loredana Zandonella (bass), and Gitta Gsell (drums). Astrid was the third singer of LILIPUT and sang on both LILIPUT full length LP’s.
NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (Merge)
Includes download code.
180 gram vinyl.
In The Aeroplane Over The Sea gives us JEFF MANGUM’s powerful solo acoustic work, full horn section marches, history, religion, and sex.
NEW TWEEDY BROTHERS – s/t (Guerssen)
100% uncut psychedelia and garagey, jangly folk–rock from 1968.
"Many punters feel that this LP epitomizes the innocent first wave of "the West Coast Sound" before it was quickly corrupted." – John T. Berg.
RIYL: THE BYRDS, MOBY GRAPE, JEFFERSON AIRPLANE, THE CHARLATANS, BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD...
[AUST / NZ] NICHOLSON, SHANE – Love And Blood (Lost Highway)
NSW central coast-based singer-songwriter’s sixth solo studio album is another strong collection of songs from one of the country’s masters of Americana music.
NON BAND – s/t (TAL)
Includes download code.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Non Band released their self titled six song debut in 1982, decades ahead of its time, its an eclectic mix of lo-fi / new wave / no wave soundscapes.
NOTS - Cruel Friend / Violence 7” (Goner)
Newest 7" from high energy post-punk outfit from Memphis.
OBNOX – Niggative Approach (12xu)
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"Lamont Thomas has made seven Obnox albums in as many years, and they’ve all been bold expressions of his wide vision. But his third, 2014’s Louder Space, was a true breakthrough. The hip-hop and R&B strains that course beneath his noisy one-man garage rock came into sharper focus on that record, his first made in a proper studio. It also showed that Thomas could delve deeper into specific sides of his persona—in this case, by crafting legit rap jams—without sacrificing the many styles of which he’s capable.
The three Obnox albums that Thomas made after Louder Space were solid and diverse, but *Niggative Approach *feels like its true spiritual follow-up. The album is heavily focused on beats - Thomas has drummed in many vital Cleveland post-punk outfits - and filled with earworm-ready grooves. If *Louder Space *was his hip-hop album, *Niggative Approach *is his funk platter, bubbling with big bass lines and filled with studio touches like horn sections and keyboard accents. There’s still a lot of punk spirit here; the album’s title nods to hardcore legends Negative Approach, whose singer John Brannon opens and closes the album with spoken exhortations to Thomas. But *Niggative Approach *is first and foremost about groove.
OF MONTREAL - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? 2LP (Polyvinyl)
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Triple gatefold with 12"x12" lyric booklet.
OF MONTREAL's landmark 2007 album. The album defined of Montreal’s career and continues to be hailed as a classic. Hissing Fauna was honored on best of 2007 lists from Pitchfork, Stereogum, Associated Press, NPR, SPIN, Rolling Stone, and more. “The Past is a Grotesque Animal” was named #13 song of the year by Pitchfork. LP pressed on 180-gram red and yellow vinyl with the bonus Icons, Abstract Three EP.
OiSTER - Pre-Dwight Twilley Band 1973-74 Teac Tapes 2LP (Hozac)
Includes download code. Limited to 500 copies only.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
The early, primal years of the Twilley/Seymour Oister-era are sadly undocumented until now, with this 20-track collection, freshly remastered from the original tape for vinyl for the first time anywhere, now on HoZac Archival. These songs seamlessly bridge those heavenly Everly Brothers harmonies with their beloved Anglo Pop bravado, yet keeping the sound undeniably definitive of early American Power Pop. Ghostly echoes slip through some of the delicate tracks like spirits in the night, while others crank up the juice and just ooze out that real, uncut rock’n roll, framing up their successful next incarnation as the Dwight Twilley Band. Featuring liner notes from their friend and original session engineer, Kent Benjamin, and a crisp mastering job, the Oister collection is the impossible missing link between the Sun Records snarl and the melodic prowess of the British Invasion’s finest songsmiths, and now it can finally be yours.
OLIVERI, NICK – N.O. Hits At All Vol.2 (Heavy Psych)
Volume 2 of a series featuring bands with Nick Oliveri on vocals.
ONO, YOKO – Approximately 2LP (Secretly Canadian)
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Approximately Infinite Universe is a double album by Yoko Ono, released in early 1973. It represents a departure from the experimental avant garde rock of her first two albums towards a more conventional pop/rock sound, while also dabbling in feminist rock.
ONO, YOKO – Feel The Space (Secretly Canadian)
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Feeling the Space is Yoko Ono's fourth solo album, her last one on Apple Records and her last release of the 1970s. A declaration of a feminist vision in songs and anthems of humanism, hope and pride.
ONO, YOKO – Fly 2LP (Secretly Canadian)
Includes download code.
A sonic spectacle of avant funk, innovative instrumentation, and atmospheric soundscapes - a classic in its own genre.
ORLANDO/TOMAGA – Play Time: Music For Video Games (Abstrakce)
Limited to 300 copies only.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
A soundtrack for primitive video games that never existed.
Floating somewhere between exotica, psychedelia, synth minimalism & jazzy/industrial drums.
A library music gem!
OST – Almost Holy by Atticus Ross, Leopold Ross and Bobby Krlic (Sacred Bones)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine's social and political institutions faced massive change, including an increasingly corrupt government and crippled infrastructure. A number of the nation's youth wound up homeless and addicted to a lethal cocktail of injected cold medicine and alcohol. Steve Hoover’s documentary Almost Holy follows a pastor named Gennadiy Mokhnenko, who saves street kids, at times by forcible abduction, and brings them to his Pilgrim Republic rehabilitation center—the largest organization of its kind in the former Soviet Union. The film’s depiction of a country in the grip of poverty, addiction, and warfare is made even more powerful by its captivating electronic score by award-winning composer Atticus Ross, his brother Leopold Ross, and Bobby Krlic (The Haxan Cloak).
OST – Eraserhead by David Lynch and Alan R. Splet (Sacred Bones)
Includes download code.
Bonus 7" of Peter Ivers "In Heaven."
Silver vinyl. Limited to 1000 copies only.
Soundtrack of iconic David Lynch film.
OST – Psychic Migrations 2LP (Cinewax)
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Limited to 1000 copies only. "Pitted" Pink wax.
Deluxe gatefold jacket includes inner sleeves with stills from the film.
To match the cinematic poetry of this psychedelic surf journey, a suitable soundtrack was necessary: proto-New Age piano music by Gurdjieff / de Hartmann, drone jams from Bitchin Bajas and Al Lover, and garage-psych from Thee Oh Sees, Cave and White Fence. An artistic synthesis of eclectic music, pulsating surf action, and mesmerizing scenery, this highly acclaimed film builds on and advances the rich history of surf flicks.
OST – The Signal by Wojciech Golczewski (Death Waltz)
The emphasis is on super minimal widescreen sci-fi ambience. The record is absolutely epic in scope and features lush synth arrangements with melody lines that bubble just under the surface creating a multi layered listen that is perfect for late nights and dark rooms.
OST - Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss by Melvin Van Peebles (Stax)
180-gram vinyl in gatefold sleeve.
Features new new in-depth liner notes by author and music writer Jeff Weiss (Passion of the Weiss, LA Weekly) plus, commentary from acclaimed director Mario Van Peebles. (New Jack City)
Breathtakingly unique, just like the movie, and undeniably fascinating. Although Earth, Wind, & Fire went on to have a long and fruitful career full of hits, their music never again sounded as unusual as it did here, which is kind of a shame, because this album has aged like fine wine. Like the film it's based on, it's didactic, sometimes bizarre, and very energetic. Melvin Van Peebles' vocals and spoken word style perfectly synchronize with the rhythms and tones as well. This album also sounded way ahead of its time, with audio clip samples scattered all over the place immersing you that much further into the music and taking you back to that time period's harsh reality.
OST – Un’Ombra Nell’Ombra (Ring of Darkness) by Goblin / Stelvio Cipriani (Four Flies)
Limited to 500 copies only.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Presented on vinyl for the very first time is Stelvio Cipriani's iconic score to Pier Carpi's 1979 occult-themed movie, 'Un'ombra Nell'ombra'. Expect a virtuous synth explosion composed by Maestro Cipriani and performed by the classic Goblin line-up. The result of this special rendezvous is an elegant and dark sound, full of deep bass and obsessive rhythms, with an innovative and experimental electronic background enriched with synth and exotic percussion. This album is an absolute must-have for fans of Italian horror, video nasty VHS aficionados, and soundtrack and library connoisseurs.
OTTEWELL, BEN – A Man Apart (Sunday Best)
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Orange vinyl, exclusive Australian edition.
Ben Ottewell’s solo career has rarely strayed far from the campus-friendly, blues-informed folk-rock that rocketed Gomez to fame in the 1990s, and his third LP does not buck the trend. These world-weary songs are occasionally syrupy (“Walking On Air”) though his capacity for urgent, incisive songwriting does emerge on “Own It” and “Lead Me”.
PALEHOUND - A Place I'll Always Go (Polyvinyl)
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Sophomore album from Boston trio is a frank look at love and loss, cushioned by indelible hooks and gently propulsive, fuzzed-out rock.
PEACERS - Introducing The Crimsmen (Drag City)
Whether gentle psych, basement throb, keening “Time of the Season” nocturne or ground-glass soundscape, it’s all bubblegum boiled in pot, scripted up with stinging street smart, zoloftnagenic reverie and a wink and a chill grin.
PENTAGRAM HOME VIDEO – The Satanic Path (Death Waltz Originals)
Broody analog electronics weave in between a thumping kick drum and snares that can snap a back at 50 paces. What Pentagram does with the 80’s infused synth template is give it space to breathe. His music is as much about what’s happening in between the bass stabs as the actual melodies themselves which gives his music an other worldly feel, the only person you could even mildly compare him too is Pye Corner Audio. In a world full of retro synth merchants PHV stands out because there is no hint of cheesy 80’s revisionism here, the music is dark, foreboding and very eerie indeed.
PERFORMING FERRET BAND – s/t (Beat Generation)
Limited to 500 copies only. Includes extensive liner notes, photos and memorabilia.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Seminal 1980 DIY post-punk LP with a touch of The Fall and TV Personalities.
The band themselves credit influences from Captain Beefheart and The Velvet Underground. Mark E. Smith was apparently an enthusiastic fan as well...
The album deserves its legendary status, and this reissue should elevate the Performing Ferret Band's reputation to a comparable level as The Desperate Bicycles or Television Personalities.
PERREY, JEAN-JACQUES – Musique Electronique Du Cosmos (Wah Wah)
Limited to 500 copies only.
Colour insert with photos and liner notes.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Enter the electronic space sound age. This is only TV and radio background music, which is fine by me. Despite the inclusion of naff tunes like 'Barnyard In Orbit' most of it consists of brief sketches that stick to the Interplanetary Music theme in a consistently fine manner.
PETERS, SURYA KRIS – Holy Holy Holy (Electric Magic)
Second LP of Samsara Blues Experiment´s Christian Peters´ as a solo artist. Collects two previous outputs (two digital EPs), of which the first one featured the 20 minute modular synthesizer jam “Modular Mono Logic” in, while the second EP was more a collection of different styles, including the title track “Schorfheide Blues”, what may very well be the strangest track here, a rock song maybe reminiscent of The Desert Sessions. Most of the other songs are more the synth-ladden Electronic Krautrock-type, which can be seen as the center piece of Peter´s newer solo works. Influences on these songs can be found in the music of Vangelis, Manuel Göttsching, Jean-Michel Jarre and the aforementioned Desert Sessions.
PIO, GIUSTO – Motore Immobile (Soave)
One of the most striking documents of Italy's minimalist movement, 'Motore Immobile', is a masterwork with few equivalents. Produced by Franco Battiato in 1979, at the outset of a long and fruitful period of collaboration between the two composers, its triumphs were met by silence, before falling from view. A sonic sculpture reaching heights which few have touched.
[AUST / NZ] PLYERS – Clear 12” (Trait)
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Dark outsider noise from the backwoods of Australia. Equal parts amplifier worship and analogue freakout.
POPOL VUH – Agape-Agape Love-Love (One Way Static)
Includes insert and liner notes.
New limited first ever reissue of this fantastic 1983 addition to the sacred kraut band's catalog, featuring vocals from Renate Knaup of Amon Duul. This limited reissue edition comes with an extra track not featured on the original pressing.
[AUST / NZ] POWER – Live At Third Man Records 7” (Third Man)
For the uneducated and uninitiated, Power's music most notably employs volume and velocity, taking strong cues from seismic Aussie proto-punk from the '70s. Both sides of the Serpent City/Road Dog single begin exactly how you'd want- a squeal of amp feedback fading into bangover riffage. A more anthemic shitstorm does not exist. For fans of Judas Priest, Rocket from the Tombs, and Coloured Balls.
[AUST / NZ] PREGNANCY – Urgency (Lost And Lonesome)
New Melbourne band fronted by dual-lead vocalists Zac Denton (The Ocean Party, Ciggie Witch) and Ashley Bundang (Ciggie Witch, Totally Mild) wish to introduce you to their debut record Urgency.
Eschewing the rolling, lazier delivery of the aforementioned parenthesized bands, Pregnancy reside closer to the fog machine, in the nightclub scene of an 80s flick, Denton and Bundang all the while interweaving their affable voices and drawing the listener deeper into the dancefloor.
PROPER ORNAMENTS - Foxhole (Slumberland)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
The Proper Ornaments try to stylize their music to the psychedelic rock of the late sixties and they do it pretty successfully. Many of the songs on this one were written on piano instead of guitar. Mostly Jangle Pop, it's still dreamy and slightly psychedelic, and it sounds perfectly like the late 60s.
PROPHET, CHUCK – Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins (Yep Roc)
Includes free badge, with LP cover die-cut to house the badge!
Chuck Prophet describes his new disc BOBBY FULLER DIED FOR YOUR SINS as California Noir.
PSYCHIC ILLS – Hazed Dream (Sacred Bones)
Limited edition of 300 desert sunset coloured vinyl for the 10th anniversary of Sacred Bones Records.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Since their formation in 2003 as a home-recording experiment, the Ills have evolved into a live band, in their element playing the extended jam. Musically, it also marks a departure from some of the band’s more recent sonic explorations. The raga rumbles and synthesizer space-outs aren’t gone all together; the singular blasted musical perspective of the Ills remains.
PSYCHIC TV – Allegory & Self (Sacred Bones)
Includes download code.
Limited edition white vinyl. 16-page booklet.
Best known for the soaring neo-psychedelic garage-pop of ‘Godstar’, an eccentric tribute to Brian Jones (one of the Rolling Stones) that more than makes this album worthwhile alone, only several tracks feature this skewed take on 60s rock. ‘She Was Surprised’ and ‘Ballet Disco’ pick up where the lighter tracks of ’20 Jazz Funk Greats’ left off with their experimental synth-disco throbbing and there are quite a few freeform improvisational pieces like ‘Southern Comfort’ that feature Genesis P-Orridge howling shamanistically beside a bubbling cauldron of sounds. ‘Thee Dweller’ features fractured Beefheartian blues rock guitar along with keyboards and sound effects seemingly straight from a Halloween party CD. ‘Allegory and Self’ is an adventure to say the least, and despite lacking a cohesive atmosphere to bring all the elements together like on the more fully developed ‘Dreams Less Sweet’, even the more throwaway tracks add to the album’s nature as a veritable lucky bag of sonic oddities.
PSYCHIC TV – Pagan Day (Sacred Bones)
More low-key and less ambitious than the albums that preceded it, ‘A Pagan Day’ is subtitled ‘Pages from a Notebook’ and has the feel of relaxed experimentation that this suggests. Split between psychedelic pop tinged acoustic tracks and synth instrumentals, it’s the sense of structure here that is pleasing as opposed to the sprawling and unpredictable approach of ‘Dreams Less Sweet’.
PUKE SPIT AND GUTS - Eat Hot Lead (Slovenly)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
First ever reissue of the infamous Eat Hot Lead LP from San Fernando Valley punkers. Fully authorized by the band’s surviving members, this is a ten-years-in-the-making project that was originally slated for re-release by Alternative Tentacles. A crew of spirited So. Cal. weirdos, as opposed to mere punks, Puke Spit & Guts released the LP on their own Important Records label in 1980.
On the opening cut - the 'Puke Spit & Guts Theme' - vocalist Donny Death declares most bizarrely and brazenly "Sex Pistols couldn’t hold their liquor / Ramones wear tennis shoes! Alice Cooper is a party pooper / we’re the punk band for youuuu!"
It’s shocking and offensive, much like real punk rock must be. The Eat Hot Lead LP is a must have, especially if your sense of humour is black and filthy, much like Puke, Spit & Guts appear to be.
PUSTOSTANY – 2012 (Sweet Rot / Pouet! Schallplaten)
Includes download code.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Polish post-punk, released on cassette a few years back and now getting a second life thanks to this speedy platter. Not hard to see why, as these eight songs reveal a sound both mechanical and ornery, on the trajectory of mid-late ‘90s/early ‘00s revivalists of the form (Metamatics, The Crainium, Scissor Girls, Xerobot/Numbers), taking the “Rowche Rumble”-meets-Aural Guerrilla approach to heart and to task. The music screams ACTION, with that primitive lo-bit Atari sounding synth howling and bubbling all over the place, and the rhythmic/chordal agenda set to march/stomp. Lyrics are in native tongue but song titles are translated for us. On the garage, noise, no wave and synth-punk axes, this thing totally rips, with energy to burn.
Probably the most loud and punishing and dare I say "punk" release on Sweet Rot even though there are massive amounts of harsh electronics to be found. For fans of Teledetente, SIDA, Dow Jones and the Industrials.
PYTHAGORON TM – s/t (Wah Wah)
Limited to 500 copies only.
Inhabiting this grey area between late psych efforts and early PINA (private issue new age), 1977’s Pythagoron TM is an electronic oddity originally marketed as some sort of musical narcotic (“a new invention that gets you high with sound” original ads read) sold via magazines like High Times.
Shrouded by it’s corporate-like design are two enigmatic side long suites of droning electronics which evoke similar autistic synth experiences like early Conrad Schnitzler, Lorq Damon, Udder Milk Decay or the whole Pascal / Narco Records output whilst recalling also more articulate efforts such as Steve Reich’s early opus, Charlemagne Palestine’s sinewave experiments or Eliane Radigue’s synthetic bliss.
RANCID – Trouble Maker (Epitaph)
Includes download code and exclusive 7" with two bonus tracks.
Trouble Maker is about as good as a latter-day Rancid album gets. The Bay Area group examines contemporary political turmoil with a quick, scratchy sound that honors their punk past.
RATTENS KRATER - Urrah (Conquest of Noise)
Musically you’ll find them crammed up somewhere between bands like Neu!, The Misfits, Crass, The Units and the Swedish postpunk unit Cortex.
REAL NUMBERS – Frank Infatuation 7” (Market Square)
Limited to 300 copies only. Sold out at the source.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Indie classic from Minneapolis' greatest DIY punk band Real Numbers - two slices of absolutely beautiful pastoral independent pop.
REDDING, OTIS – The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads (Rhino)
Classic sophomore album from The King of Soul.
Original mono.
REDDING, OTIS – The Soul Album (Rhino)
11 tracks of classic Southern soul. In mono.
REDDING, OTIS & CARLA THOMAS – King & Queen (Rhino)
Limited edition 180 gram gold vinyl.
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Southern Soul classic.
RIDE – Weather Diaries 2LP (Wichita)
Includes download code.
Limited edition embossed gatefold sleeve with printed inners.
At this point most people interested in alternative rock should be well familiar with the 3 pillars of shoegaze: My Bloody Valentine on the noisy layered side, Slowdive on the dreamy lush side and last we had Ride, who played on the more poppy melodic side. However, despite being the most accessible one, Ride have been the least popular band out of the three and sometimes discredited by shoegaze elitists who jokingly referred to their music as "britpop with reverb".
ROMANO, DANIEL – Modern Pressure (New West)
Includes download code.
Daniel Romano released a number of classic country records before veering into psychedelic folk pop-rock on 'Modern Pressure', a very surprising and unusual move indeed.
However, the Toronto-based musician seems as comfortable with this new idiom as he seemed at home with country music.
[AUST / NZ] ROYA – s/t (Burger)
The bands early formation consisting of singer Rahill Jamalifard, guitarist Jay Heislemann and drummer Hamish Kilgour set the foundation for Royas deliberately minimal sound. Kilgour, notable as a founding member of New Zealands seminal post punk band The Clean, plays shambolic and primitive driving drumbeats that add layers of depth and texture to his boldness. Heislmanns guitar spills over Kilgour's rhythmic web with deconstructed arabic surf riffs dripping wet with noisy undertones. This melodically demented outfit cradle Jamalifards stark and naked vocals that paint over each chorus with grief-stricken and doleful lyrics that are raw but gentle in delivery.
RUBS, THE - Impossible Dream (Hozac)
Includes download code.
Limited to 300 copies only.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
For anybody that loves Big Star or any of the insanely good power pop we've had available previously such as Moondogs or JD Buhl and at 300 copies only you get one shot at it!
Agonizingly articulate pop that can barely contain it’s own excitement, these songs just keep hitting you, one after another, each better than the last, just continuously pounding their unwavering contagiousness into your brazen heart. From the instant “Wrong Right Girl” kicks off, it’s a tense and tender tear through the highs and lows of girls, summer, breakups, and tight jeans, drizzled with a reduction of those irresistible vocal hooks.
RUPTURE – Israel Suite (Sommor)
Includes download code.
Israel Suite included a side-long suite on side A and shorter songs on Side B. An incredible mix of vocal/spiritual jazz, funk, progressive, jazz-pop, psych -- An impossible to find rarity from France. RIYL: Cortex, Les Masques, George Arvanitas, Herbie Hancock, Full Moon Ensemble.
SACCHARINE TRUST - The Great One Is Dead 2LP (Recess / Water Under The Bridge)
Includes download code. Gatefold sleeve.
Saccharine Trust came out of the southern California SST scene that also included bands like Black Flag, SWA, Descendents, October Faction, DC3 & many many more. The band was started by singer Jack Brewer (Jack Brewer Band, Perfect Rat, w/Bazooka, w/Kava) & Joe Baiza (Universal Congress of..., October Faction, Natassya Filippovna, & Unknown Instructors [with Mike Watt & George Hurley of Minutemen fame] in 1980. Original drummer Rob Holzman appeared on their 1981 debut Paganicons but left the band to play in Slovenly & was replaced by drummer Tony Cicero. Many musick luminaries including Kurt Cobain, Buzz Osborne, & Sonic Youth have named Sacchrine Trust as a major influence on their musick. Sonic Youth covered their song "I Am Right" on the SST compilation The Melting Plot.
[AUST / NZ] SALMON, KIM – E(a)rnest (Beast)
Limited to 300 copies only.
Originally self-released on CD only.
E(a)rnest is the first album in Kim Salmon's 'solo' career to feature only his vocal, instrumental and songwriting talents. E(a)rnest is about the singer and the songs. E(a)rnest is for lounging about with on a crisp spring day or enjoying in the intimacy of your fireside couch. Contains a new reading of "Cool Fire" which was previously performed by the Beasts Of Bourbon.
SAM & DAVE – Double Dynamite (Rhino)
Landmark second album from the dynamic soul duo. In mono.
[AUST / NZ] SAND PEBBLES – Pleasure Maps (Kasumuen)
180 gram colour vinyl.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
“The real treat this album delivers is the extended instrumental breaks that feature winding guitar solos and spaced out synths” - Guido Farnell, The Music
SATAN'S PILGRIMS - Creature Feature (Jackpot)
Green ooze colour vinyl. Limited to 500 copies only.
Originally released in 1998 in a limited run on Estrus Records. Creature Feature expertly distills the essence of West Coast '60s surf instrumentals. Eastern scales dive-bomb with full bodied tremolo and glide across seas of reverb. Infused with classic Monster Sounds, Satan’s Pilgrims brings the boneyard to the beach. Features ART CHANTRY's original cover art and design.
S.B.F – Double Blind 7” (Goodbye Boozy)
Limited to 255 copies only.
From California - S.B.F!! This is a new project with Cruz Somers (Socialites) and Raymond Schmidt (Race Car). Two new tracks on a single sided 7", previously they released a 7" on Drunken Sailor.
!!!Punk/Synth/Hardcore!!!
SCHICKERT, GUNTER (GAM) - 1976 (Wah Wah)
Limited to 500 copies only.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
After the success of Günter Schickert’s amazing Samtvogel LP, Wah Wah present another of his projects, GAM – on which he joined Axel Struck and Michael Leske. A powerful trio of mind-expanding krautrock sounds formed in 1973, they recorded their first sessions in 1976, improvising directly to tape in Schickert’s basement – but these weren’t released until 1986, originally in cassette format. The sound of GAM 1976 differs a bit to that of Samtvogel. Obviously, this is a band effort delivering their guts in a one take session, while on Samtvogel Schickert was playing all the parts, layering one after the other using the sound on sound facilities of his reel to reel recorder. Here, instead, we have an energetic echo charged jam that takes us through different atmospheres and moods, a hidden gem in krautrock’s cosmische history legacy.
[AUST / NZ] SCHOOL DAMAGE – s/t (Chapter)
Includes download code.
Local Melbourne/Geelong supergroup's debut LP via Chapter Music.
[AUST / NZ] SCREAMFEEDER – Pop Guilt (Four Four)
Screamfeeder's 2017 record is their seventh album and is a major accomplishment in the Australian band's career, certainly up there as one of their best so far.
[AUST / NZ] SENIOR, LEAH – Pretty Faces (Flightless)
Includes download code.
"Bone with double-mint haze" colour vinyl.
Second album Pretty Faces pays homage to her dark folk roots while hinting at layers of pop and psychedelic undertones. The blinds are drawn and the songs are covered in a fine layer of dust; yet there is sunlight peaking through the gaps, a silver lining to a dusky tone and a sense of humour behind the tragedy.
SHEER MAG - Need To Feel Your Love (Static Shock)
Sheer Mag return with their much anticipated debut album that delivers on the promise of their early work while showcasing fresh new avenues for the band to explore.
[AUST / NZ] SHIFTERS – A Believer 7” (Market Square)
Limited to 300 copies only. Sold out at the source.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Two-sided art-punk killer 7" by Melbourne Australia's fantastic scratchy guitar heroes The Shifters.
SHITKID - Fish (Pnkslm)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Low fi pop offering from Swedish songstress.
SHOC CORRIDOR - A Blind Sign (Dark Entries)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Shoc Corridor was the London post-punk quartet of Paul O’Carroll (Voice, Synth), Andy Garnham (Synth, Drum), Chris Davis (Guitar, Bass, E-Bow) and Nogi Prass (Synth) named after the Sam Fuller film from 1963. Their influences were wide reaching: Kraftwerk, Neu, Cabaret Voltaire, Brian Eno, PIL, and Joy Division.
SICK THOUGHTS - Songs About People You Hate (Neck Chop)
it shouldn’t come as a surprise to you that Songs About People You Hate, Sick Thought’s newest LP, is another prime example of sleazy, spit-riddled punk rock ‘n’ roll done right—and wrong—in all the best ways possible, vicious spurs of idiot savant-tier musicianship abound. And with Drew rapidly leaving adolescence, you better believe he’s gonna take his vitamins, outline his will, and then promptly blast your eardrums with eleven brand-new auditory bruisers, all before kicking you right off his fuckin’ lawn.
SILVER ABUSE – Consider The Pigeon (Alona's Dream)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Silver Abuse has shared its distinctive style of punk noise and no-wave resonance in Chicago since 1977 whilst remaining a modern band making new sounds.
[AUST / NZ] SILVERLIGHT SHADOWS – Headspace (self released)
Includes download code.
180 gram vinyl.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Latest album from heavy grunge act outta Melbourne.
For fans of Queens of the Stone Age, Kyuss and The Hellacopters.
[AUST / NZ] SILVERLIGHT SHADOWS – s/t (self released)
Includes download code.
Limited to 200 hand-numbered clear green vinyl. Two bonus stickers.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Grunged out High Octane rock from Melbourne!
SKATALITES – Independence Ska And The Far East Sound 2LP (Soul Jazz)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Compilation of legendary ska band.
[AUST / NZ] SKIDS, THE – Crooked Cop 7”EP (Shipping Steel)
The Skids are a cruisey Melbourne punk rock band. It may be 2017 but the four-piece sound like a deep cut from four decades ago.
SKIP CHURCH - Out Of Tune, In Touch With The Devil (Randy)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Debut LP by America's #1 Saturday Night Band!!! Fourteen party anthems for the slacker set, pressed onto hot vinyl, delivered cold to your door.
[AUST / NZ] SLEEPMAKESWAVES – Made of Breath Only 2LP (Bird's Robe)
Limited electric blue swirl vinyl.
Gatefold sleeve.
Sleepmakeswaves are an instrumental rock band from Sydney, Australia, formed in late 2006. Drawing influences mainly from but not limited to post-rock, they mix driving metallic bombast with textured electronics.
[AUST / NZ] SMALL WORLD EXPERIENCE – Soft Knocks (Tenth Court)
Limited to 350 copies only.
The result is a hazy warmth of layered acoustic guitars around which drums, vocals and Patterson’s bass lines weave. These are not the kind of melodies that demand a listener’s attention, rather they slowly nestle their way deep into your subconsciousness.
SNAPPED ANKLES - The Best Light Is The Last Light (Leaf Label)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Bizarre woodland creatures-slash-post-punk noise mongers sign with The Leaf Label, presenting their first physical release. Delving into cinema as of late their tracks have taken an almost chase scene-like quality, hyper energised mixing the driving arpeggiator-like pulse of Apparat Organ Quartet, dead toned vocals akin to early Gary Numan with a motorik backbone.
[AUST / NZ] SOME JERKS – Strange Ways (Pig City)
Includes download code.
Limited to 300 copies only.
Some Jerks were once described as sounding like Sleater-Kinney covering the Shangri-La’s. That’s nice. We think they sound more like Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra pashing in the surf. Or making out in a vintage spy flick like Dr No. Or like the house band in Monster Beach Party. There’s definitely a strong ’60s flavour, though. Yeah, the Shangri-La’s are in there. And other girl groups, like the Crystals, as well as lots of nugget-y garage stuff, and lots of indie-punk ’80s and ’90s trash you’ve heard before too.
SONGHOY BLUES - Resistance (Transgressive)
Includes download code.
"Definitely the album of the summer. We've been jamming on this hard here at Fat Possum and we're super antsy for y'all to peep. It's a crazy cocktail of desert punk, hill country blues, tropicalia, and rock 'n roll featuring appearances from Iggy Pop and Elf Kid."
"A skittering disco-tinged guitar vamp slinks through the track alongside spaced-out synth lines and brassy horn blasts while singer Aliou Tour delivers a punchy vocal performance." (Rolling Stone)
SPECTRE FOLK - Vol. 4 (Vampire Blues)
"Generous servings of layered, lavalamp-drip guitars, lethargic riffery and choogling sunstare moments both epic and subtle. Pete Nolan (Magik Markers) directs his song energy through and with a band of prime players: Aaron Mullan (Tall Firs / Hallogallo), Mark Ibold (Pavement / Dustdevils), Peter Meehan (Lucky Peach zine) and Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth), who churn out a cohesive and gorgeous collection of inventive and expansive sounds. A sonic celebration of good wine, sunlight, wanderlust, and players whose kinship and shared vocabulary move this latest spectral event into the zone of bliss.” — Brian Turner, WFMU
STETSON, COLIN – All This I Do For Glory (52Hz)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
The music of experimental saxophonist Colin Stetson gives you an unusually heightened awareness that you are hearing a human body laboring to produce sound. His latest album is called All This I Do for Glory, and the six compositions on it survey the same blasted, rocky terrain. Stetson has his approach: You either know everything about him and the demanding way he makes his music going in, or you have your mind blown by it on first contact.
[AUST / NZ] STEVENS – Good (Chapter Music)
Includes download code.
Good picks up where their 2014 debut A History Of Hygiene left off – 18 short songs, alternately frenetic or laconic, packed with twists and hooks that merge lo-fi outsider songcraft with 70s prog wizardry and classic rock swagger.
STICKERS - Joy (Reefers)
Includes download code.
Plus lyric sheet and bonus "Stickers Gazette". Extremely limited stock.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Slightly dinged corners, barely noticeable.
No idea how we first stumbled upon this excellent Seattle outfit - fronted by singer/saxophonist Gabi Page-Fort - but we can't get enough of their post-punk-skronk. Glad we did but didn't get many copies and who knows if we can again. Titled Joy, the record leaves gorgeous bruises on your ears, its rumbling, pitch-black songs recalling a battle royal between Juju-era Siouxsie and the Banshees and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks… in a coal mine
STREET EATERS – The Envoy (Nervous Intent)
Includes download code. Insert with lyrics and bonus stickers.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Bay Area sonic muscle akin to The Ex and Drive Like Jehu. - WFMU Release of the Day
SUSPIRIANS - Ti Bon Ange (Super Secret)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
From the first notes of the album, throughout its 7-song, 40 minute duration it’s clear that Suspirians aim to deconstruct rock in a way that’s both psychedelic and mysterious. Guitarist/vocalist MARISA POOL, bassist/keyboardist STEPHANIE DEMOPULOS and drummer LISA CARMERON craft songs that shape-shift from part to part rather than follow traditional verse-chorus-verse structure. It’s a wall of guitars and subtle synth layers, vocals drenched in reverb and on the brink of feedback, powerful and open drumming that allows the songs to flow like molten lava without ever sounding lethargic. Points of reference bridge a wide array of psychedelic, punk and experimental sounds: Pylon, Sonic Youth, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Stooges first album, Frightwig, early Butthole Surfers, Roky Erickson & The Aliens, late 70s British post-punk and more.
[AUST / NZ] SUSS CUNTS - 5 Song EP (Emotional Response)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
We've had this in a couple times already but now proving a little difficult to get.
Split between Melbourne and Sydney, this all-female trio spew sex-positive female anthems that are sure to elevate you as you suffer through the tedium of the male gaze. Or, for those men reading and listening at home, maybe give you something to think about. The world needs more Suss Cunts. Suss Cunts are TAHLIA CORDEUX, NINA RENEE and HELENA HOLMES.
SWANS – Great Annihilator 2LP (Young God)
Includes download code for M.Gira solo effort Drainland (1995).
Gatefold sleeve and poster. Remastered from original mixes in 2017. Insert with lyrics.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
This is a stunning, claustrophobic masterpiece of an album. They've taken the intensity of their early work, and mixed it with the lighter, folkier side of their 'bunny' period. What that creates is a unique sound of pounding, syncopated percussion, high pitched electric guitar textures, jangling acoustic guitar, and echoing, droning sound loops. Both vocalists perform the best works of their careers, Michael Gira seems to have perfected his hypnotic, mantra-like croon, and Jarboe can add a touch of heaven or a touch of spite seemingly at will. The lyrics are sheer Gira. Does anyone do self-loathing with the same class, the same honesty and intensity?
TAIWAN HOUSING PROJECT – Veblen Death Mask (Kill Rock Stars)
Includes download code.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
"There is regular brains rock music and there is broken brains rock music. No slight against the former, but sometimes squares gotta be oblonged and thought patterns obliterated. Mark Feehan and Kilynn Lunsford both made a regular habit of scrambling brains with Harry Pussy and Little Claw, respectively, but with their new Philly-based band, they rock the body manic.
After a wild 7", Veblen Death Mask is the debut album from Taiwan Housing Project — 32 minutes of garage-rock scuzz scraped out of a demented sock-hop. "Ideal Body Alignment" is a frenetic swirl of punk and sax-sputtering free jazz, like a Garbage Pail Kids version of The Stooges' freak-grooved Fun House. - NPR Music
TAKADA, MIDORI – Through The Looking Glass (WRWTFWW)
Stoughton "tip-on" jacket. Includes extensive liner notes.
Highly-anticipated reissue of Japanese percussionist Midori Takada's sought after and timeless ambient/minimal album Through The Looking Glass, originally released in 1983 by RCA Japan. Considered a holy grail of Japanese music by many, Through The Looking Glass is Midori Takada's first solo endeavor, a captivating four-song suite capturing her deep quests into traditional African and Asian percussive language and exploring contemplative ambient sounds with an admirably precise use of marimba. The result is alternatively ethereal and vibrant, always precise and mesmerizing, and makes for an atmospheric masterpiece and an unparalleled sonic and spiritual experience.
TALSOUNDS - Love Sick (Ba Da Bing!)
Natalie Chami’s project TALsounds documents solo sessions of improvised synthesis and live-looped vocal performances, presented to the listener as discrete takes without overdubs. The decisions made in her atmospheric sketches—the onset of a quivering vocal melody, the echoing turn of a delay knob—flash across as seismic ripples within a network of standing sounds.
TELEVISION PERSONALITIES – Mummy You’re Not Watching Me (Fire)
Includes download code.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
The second full length, also released in 1981, is more psychedelic than the first, but still with plenty of dry and acerbic wit.
TELEVISION PERSONALITIES – The Painted Word (Fire)
Includes download code.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Released in 1984, The Painted Word is TVP’s fourth studio album is “one of the most wanton and willful cases of self-immolation you’re ever likely to hear” (Melody Maker). Breaking up two year’s prior, TVP’s returned with this stunning dark comeback shares the same name as the Tom Wolfe novel.
With the formidable Daniel Treacy at its core, Television Personalities remain one of new wave’s longest serving and seminal artists with a career spanning over three decades. The indie pop visionaries influenced many people across the industry including Battles, Black Dice, Crystal Stilts, MGMT and Creation Records’ Alan McGee.
TELEVISION PERSONALITIES – They Could Have Been Bigger Than The Beatles (Fire)
Includes download code.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Originally released in 1982, ‘They Could Have Been Bigger Than The Beatles’ was the influential band’s third album. A collection of singles, demos, outtakes and rarities that was intended to mark the band's breakup in 1982 had they not got back together again so soon. The record features “David Hockney's Diaries”, “The Boy In The Paisley Shirt” and “Psychedelic Holiday”.
[AUST / NZ] TERRY - Remember (Upset The Rhythm)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
You've heard both 7"s and the 'HQ' album, all of which provided perfect soundtracks for summer. Now you get the chance to do it all over again with the follow-up, 'Remember'.
[AUST / NZ] TESKEY BROTHERS – Half Mile Harvest (Half Mile Harvest)
The Teskey Brothers' debut album Half Mile Harvest was self-produced at their home studio in Warrandyte and captures the essence of old school soul that the four have grown to love and know over years of musical friendship. The songs are beautifully written, showcasing the musicianship at hand and dripping with warm hooks as natural and alive as anything that came out of Stax-era Memphis.
[AUST / NZ] TEX, DON & CHARLIE – You Don’t Know Lonely (EMI)
Bonafide legends of the Australian music scene, Tex Perkins, Don Walker, and Charlie Owen are set to take back their collective crown once more with the announcement that their alt-country supergroup, Tex, Don, & Charlie returns with a brand new album.
TROST, HEATHER – Agistri (LM Duplic-Cation)
Includes download code.
As one half of A Hawk And A Hacksaw, has hefty credentials from playing with Neutral Milk Hotel, Thor Harris, Beirut and more. Her solo work is now flourishing, with Agistri arriving on the back of a 7” and a cassette. The album is centered around the Greek island it is named for, and it's an infectious suite of stylistically-varied pop music.
TWENTY SIXTY-SIX – Reflections of the Future 2LP (Missing Vinyl)
Limited to 500 copies only.
An expanded double LP reissue (180-gram vinyl) of the legendary, sole album by a heavy psychedelic krautrock group, originally released by United Artists in 1972. The first platter is an exact repress of the original album, while LP #2 contains all other (previously unissued) material that the group recorded in the early '70s.
ULAN BATOR – Stereolith (Bureau B)
Ulan Bator have been creating avant-garde rock music from their base in Paris since 1993: Stereolith is their twelfth album. Stereolith is full of full-on krautrock rhythmic drive and inventive electronics, but notably keeps things tight.
USA/MEXICO - Laredo (12xu)
The long-awaited/feared debut recording from Austin, TX trio are finally here. Guitarist Craig Clouse (Shit & Shine, Todd), drummer King Coffey (Butthole Surfers, Rubble, Hugh Beaumont Experience) and bassist Nate Cross (Marriage, When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth, Expensive Shit) have somehow created a musical land-scape that exceeds present day reality for absurdity and night-marishness. There’s faint (oh ok, try “loud”) echoes of their past works but their combined forces have resulted in an album as bludgeoning and all-encompassing as any that’s occupied shelf space in my home or yours.
v/a – Brown Acid Volume 4 (Riding Easy)
LIMITED EDITION CLEAR VINYL - 300 copies only
Exclusive to, and highly recommended by Strangeworld.
If you thought we were getting close to the end of the Brown Acid series with our last Trip, you were dead wrong…we’re only just getting rolling. The well of privately released hard rock, heavy psych, and proto-metal 45's is deep and we are nowhere near tapped out. Most of these records were barely released and never properly distributed so they ain’t easy to find, but they’re out there if you’re willing to dig…and we aren’t afraid to get our hands dirty. Hard calluses have formed from handling the shovel and we’ve sifted through a lot of dirt, but we’ve dug up another ten tremendous records to share with all the heavy heads out there. This volume brings together eight insanely rare and skull-crushingly heavy 45s as well as two previously unreleased bangers.
[AUST / NZ] v/a – Closed Circuits: Australian Alternative Electronic 2LP (Festival)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Double LP of various Australian electronic music from the '70s and '80s.
v/a – Cologne Curiosities: The Unknown Krautrock Underground 1972-1976 2LP (Mental Experience)
Includes download code.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Including lost–in–time bands / studio projects like Astral Army, Fuerrote, Spirulina and Baal among others, the music here ranges from killer proto–New Wave Kraut psych to wild space rock, proto–ambient electronic, dark psychedelia and raw Kosmische sounds with lot of analog synths / Moog.
v/a – Duke Reid Rock’s Steady (Music On Vinyl)
Limited to 750 copies on orange colour vinyl.
180 gram vinyl.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Duke Reid's studio band consisted of some of the best musicians on the island such as Gladstone Anderson, Ernest Ranglin, Hux Brown, Tommy McCook etc. Treasure Isle had some of the top vocalists and vocals groups of the era such as Alton Ellis, the Techniques, Phyllis Dillon, the Paragons, the Melodians,and the Ethiopians to name only a few. Treasure Isle's sound is often compared to the Motown sound in Detroit. Plus all the tracks are taken from the original master tapes for the best quality sound.
v/a – Horrendous New Wave (Lumpy)
Sixteen track comp featuring AUSMUTEANTS, RIK AND THE PIGS, JANITOR SCUM, BB EYE, NANCY and others.
v/a – Scared To Get Happy: A Story of Indie-Pop 1980-1989 2LP (Cherry Red)
RSD 2017. Limited to 500 copies only.
The first box set ever to document the explosion of Indie Pop in Britain across the 1980s. Gatefold double vinyl of Cherry Red’s seminal 2013 box set, charting Indie Pop’s development from the post punk era and the dominance of Scottish bands through to its genre-defining C86 period and onto the end of the decade, with the arrival of Madchester and the shoegazing sound. Inspired by the Nuggets compilations, the vinyl edition boasts 28 tracks spanning the Eighties, drawn from many of the key labels of the period. The gatefold details the history of this unique compilation while the two printed inner sleeves reveal more about each featured band’s own story.
v/a – Sing It High, Sing It Low: Tumbleweed Records 1971-73 2LP (Light In The Attic)
"Rocky Mountain High" three colour swirl wax, limited to 300 copies only.
Restored and remastered audio.
Liner notes interviewing Tumbleweed principals Larry Ray and Bill Szymczyk, as well as surviving employees and artists. Unseen archive photos, album artwork and label history.
Housed in a deluxe Stoughton “Tip-On” gatefold jacket.
In February of 1971, Larry Ray and Bill Szymczyk fled an earthquake and a debauched L.A. music scene to claim their own slice of utopia in Denver, Colorado. After meeting and bonding at ABC-Dunhill, where Ray landed as general manager, and where Szymczyk had breezed in from New York - fresh off his first real hit as a burgeoning engineer/producer with BB King’s “The Thrill is Gone” - they’d often daydreamed about starting their own label.
In Denver, Ray and Szymczyk settled on the name Tumbleweed Records, and through industry connections they secured multi-million-dollar financing from Gulf + Western, whose head honchos believed they were bankrolling the hippie movement’s next big thing.
But instead of producing the next Janis Joplin or Jimi Hendrix, Ray and Szymczyk turned their sights on idiosyncratic wunderkinds like Pete McCabe, moody songwriters Robb Kunkel and Danny Holien, psych-folk rocker Arthur Gee, all the while providing a platform for more established musicians like Albert Collins and Dewey Terry (of Don & Dewey fame), while launching the career of Michael Stanley.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, and, per Szymczyk, it was a “bitchin’ disco time.” Drugs, parties, poetry, celebrities, money - Tumbleweed had it all, except airplay and distribution. Two years after its storied start, the label was finished.
Ray would go on to various opportunities, including producing five country albums alongside Bill Halverson, while Szymczyk would soon skyrocket to fame after producing The Eagles’ Hotel California. Yet most of Tumbleweed’s artists have been relegated to thrift store bin obscurity—until now. This landmark release not only showcases Ray’s vision and Szymczyk’s early work, but begins a major reappraisal of Tumbleweed’s catalog by bringing these songs out of the shadow of the Rocky Mountains and back into the spotlight.
v/a – Solar Power: New Sounds In Seattle Hip-Hop (Crane City)
Emerging from the grey-green Pacific Northwest, Solar Power: New Sounds in Seattle Hip-Hop collects the best and brightest tracks from Seattle’s current hip-hop underground. This is music that thrives in the shadows, in basements, abandoned warehouses and undiscovered realms where mixtapes and mics are passed like spliffs.
v/a – Space, Energy & Light: Experimental Electronic And Acoustic Soundscapes 1961-88 3LP (Soul Jazz)
Soul Jazz present a carefully-curated selection of forward-pushing experimental electronics from the years 1961 to 1988. Space, Energy & Light, which features music from the likes of Laurie Spiegel, Tod Dockstader and Carl Matthews, is focused on new age, musique concrete, and DIY cassette sound cultures, and is packed with rare gems.
VERT:X – From Now To Now (Weird Beard)
Limited to 250 numbered copies.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Armed only with coruscating guitars, metronomic beats and a hanger full of spacey electronica, VERT:X has been traversing the space rock continuum since 2007, thrilling the various encountered lifeforms with a unique brand of psych, kraut and spacepunk meanderings. Drawing on early Hawkwind, Chrome, The Stooges and the unmistakeable motorik beats of NEU!, the band's high adrenalin, visceral sonic attacks have drawn praise from every corner of the known musicverse.
VOIGHT-KAMPFF - The Din Of Dying Youth (Deranged)
Includes download code.
A perfect blend of sonics and industrial-era programming, resulting in nothing less than dark-wave purity.
For fans of Joy Division, Merchandise, and Iceage
[AUST / NZ] VOIGT/465 – Slights Still Unspoken LP / CD (Mental Experience)
Includes download code.
Remastered, including liner notes by Phil Turnbull (synthesizer, vocals) and bonus live / studio tracks.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
The sole album by Aussie post-punkers VOIGHT/465, released in 1979, including their "State" 7" from 1978 as a bonus.
Krautrock, DIY, avant-garage, post-punk, psych, art-rock and free improv noise combine to form a sound unlike any other.
"An interesting schizophrenic mix of punk, krautrock, psychedelia with RIO / Homosexuals / This Heat weirdness." - Mutant Sounds
WAXAHATCHEE - Out in the Storm (Merge)
Katie Crutchfield's fourth album as Waxahatchee and the follow-up to her Merge debut Ivy Tripp.
WEST COAST POP ART EXPERIMENTAL BAND - Vol. 3 (Jackpot)
Released in July 1968 on Reprise Records, Vol.3: A Child’s Guide To Good & Evil is considered to be the band’s most accomplished work and a masterpiece of the psychedelic genre. Released just nine months after Vol. 2, the band explores their incredibly creative psychedelic pop song writing with an accomplished mastery of studio techniques. Featuring iconic original artwork by JOHN VAN HAMERSVELD (Beatles, Rolling Stones) A long awaited reissue from the master tapes. "One of the 40 greatest Psychedelic Records of all time.” - Mojo Magazine. Limited edition MONO pressing. Packaged with printed inner sleeve with master reel photos.
WET HAIR - The Floating World (Wharf Cat)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
WET HAIR return to the spotlight with a kinetic collection of 6 sizable tracks that represent their most exciting and beautifully-produced efforts to date. On their latest (the trio’s first release since 2012’s Spill Into Atmosphere LP), the Iowa City-based veterans revitalize their hybrid psych / krautrock sound, masterfully working shimmering synths swells and fiery drum and bass grooves into pointed explorations of growth and texture.
[AUST / NZ] WET LIPS – s/t (Hysterical)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Album kicks off with a blistering two and half minute nugget in "Shame" - about the crushing feeling of letting slip how you feel about someone after one too many beers. Grace K's soaring wail is the perfect counterpoint to their scorching garage punk. KBD crank meets killer hooks and pop smarts - you can shut the gate on this one.
WHITE SUNS - Psychic Drift (The Flenser)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
New York City’s purveyors of noise returned, following the deconstructed rock instrumentation of 2014’s Totem, Dana Matthiessen and Kevin Barry continue their inexorable plunge into sonic abstraction. This latest album consists of four long-form compositions where synthesizers, field recordings, cut-up samples and lurching rhythms form a tapestry of shifting layers. The focus here is on texture and atmosphere, utilizing repurposed aspects of drone, industrial and harsh noise to create claustrophobic soundscapes that ripple and groan.
WHITE, TREVOR - Crazy Kids 7” (Just Add Water)
WHITE, TREVOR – Understood 7” (Just Add Water)
Just Add Water is honored to release the 40th Anniversary Edition of JOOK / SPARKS / JET / RADIO STARS guitar hero, TREVOR WHITE's should-have-been-a-number-one-
WICCANS - Sailing a Crazy Ship (Dull Tools)
Another flat-out ripper from Denton, Texas' WICCANS. Nine raging cuts of metallic-tinged hardcore mayhem featuring members of BAD SPORTS, RADIOACTIVITY, and VIDEO.
[AUST / NZ] WILD CHERRIES – 16 Pounds of R&B (Groovie)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Less celebrated than many of their Australian contemporaries but arguably more significant in the creative stakes was Melbourne’s Wild Cherries. If you’re into savage stuff like The Knks or Pretty Things or late-60s psych, this album is for you.
WITCH VOMIT - Poisoned Blood 12” (20 Buck Spin)
New sophomore LP from the Portland death metal band.
WOO – Awaawaa (Palto Flats)
A record of unreleased material by WOO, the longstanding project of British brothers MARK and CLIVE IVES. Featuring never before heard recordings from Woo’s archives, Awaawaa sees the band at their most evocative and psychedelic—presenting a suite-like, atmospheric collection of stunning miniatures. Recorded in South London during 1975-82, Awaawaa lines up chronologically with other Woo releases, such as Whichever Way You Are Going, You Are Going Wrong, and touches upon synth, ambient, electronics, dub, and even krautrock.
WRAY, LINK – Be What You Want To (Tidal Waves)
Link’s previous releases had proven the man’s versatility with influences coming from many different genres including R&B, country, blues, and, of course, rock. Be What You Want To continues this trend: a thick stew of boogie-rock, country-funk and Americana with lots of soul.
[AUST / NZ] X – Citations: Best of X and Rarities Vol.1 (Radio Rocks)
Limited to 300 copies only.
Includes insert.
Best Of X is the best of X's early releases from 1977 til 1983. It includes songs from Their album X-Spurts, the Hate City E.P. as well as X-Aspirations. Also included are a live version of I Don't Wanna Go Out and the alternative version of Mother.
X.Y.R. - Labyrinth (Not Not Fun)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
St. Petersburg pathfinder Vladimir Karpov coaxes hushed auras of keys, metronomes, fog, and feeling to evoke hazed and isolated realms, traced in altered states. His latest collection – and vinyl debut – maps the maze at “the bottom of self,” subterranean consciousness manifested from decaying synthesizer and shadowed pulse: music for fading torchlight. Labyrinth leads through six misty, mystic chambers of dreams, drones, delirium, and phasered percussion, spiraling in slow, sacred arcs, in quest of “the inner world.”
[AUST / NZ] YOUNG, MIKEY - Your Move Vol. 1 (Moniker)
Available as a U.S import only.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Your Move Vol.1 is the debut LP by Mikey Young and the first entry in the synth-tastic new solo series from Moniker Records. Rhythmic synthscapes with the occasional guitar freakout.
YOUNG FATHERS – Tape One/Tape Two 2LP (Big Dada)
Tape One is the debut EP by Scottish hip hop group Young Fathers.
YOUNG PIONEERS – High Again (K)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Dusting off their spurs, poised to release their long awaited debus LP, High Again on K. Veterans of the NW underground, Young Pioneers formed in Olympia's nascent punk scene during the early '80s. They've not lost their gift as masters of the dark art of post-punk pop psychedelia, welding wicked melody into pop hooks. They beat a mean tambourine. Leather jackets and a pompadour; studs and eye make up; Young Pioneers have created a massive sound layering the guitar organ drumbeat.
YOUNGER LOVERS – Young Brothers (Southpaw)
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
Fronted by Brontez Purnell (previous bands Gravy Train!!! and Panty Raid, as well as Author, Actor and Writer) The Younger Lovers are back with their fourth LP 'Young Brothers'. Following up 2013's 'Sugar In My Pocket' which SPIN named 'must hear and crush worthy' the sound has gone from raw lo-fi bedroom masterpieces, to a fuller, explosive pop punk band without losing it's gritty charm. Heavily influenced by Riot Grrl, and Bay Area DIY punk, fans of Bikini Kill, Chrimpshrine and TV On The Radio will all rejoice.
[AUST / NZ] ZERODENT - Soul Mender 7”EP (Almost Ready)
3 blasts of punk rock rock from Perth, Australia. The title track has a melodic post punk feel while the flip offers two hardcore burners that leave you wanting more.
RESTOCKS / OLDER TITLES JUST IN
100 FLOWERS - s/t
3 HUR-EL – Hurel Arsivi
ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARAISO U.F.O. – Astrorgasm From The Inner Space 2LP
ADICTS – Sound Of Music
AGNEW, RIKK – All By Myself
AGNEW BAND, RIKK - Learn
AGUILAR, ILDEFONSO – Erosion 2LP
[AUST / NZ] AIRBOURNE – Breakin’ Outta Hell
ANTHRAX – For All Kings 2LP
ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS – Another World
ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS – Crying Light
ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS – I Am A Bird Now
ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS - Swanlights
ARCTIC - s/t
ARVEDON, DAVID - Best of Vol. 3
ASAKAWA, MAKI – s/t LP
ASH BORER - The Irrepassable Gate 2LP
[AUST / NZ] AVALANCHES – Since I Left You 2LP (Blue Vinyl)
[AUST / NZ] AVALANCHES – Wild Flower 2LP
BAD BRAINS – s/t
BAD SPORTS - Bras
BAD SPORTS - Living With Secrets 12”
BAD SPORTS - s/t
[AUST / NZ] BATS, THE – Deep Set
BB EYE - s/t 7”
BEACH BOYS – Wild Honey
BECK - Guero
BEHAVIOR - 375 Images of Angels
BEHAVIOR - Bitter Bitter
BETA BOYS - Oh Wow Hard Rock Music 7”
BIG BOYS – Lullabies Help The Brain Grow
BIKINI KILL - s/t
BIKINI KILL - Yeah Yeah Yeah 12”
BLACK FLAG – Damaged
BLACK LIPS – Arabia Mountain
BLACK LIPS – Underneath The Rainbow
BLACK MOUNTAIN – In The Future 2LP
BLIND OWL WILSON – s/t
BOLDER DAMN – Mourning
BORIS – Pink (Deluxe edition)
BOWIE, DAVID – Hunky Dory (Gold vinyl)
BOWIE, DAVID – Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust (Gold vinyl)
BRANCA, GLENN - The Ascension
BRIGMAN, GEORGE - Jungle Rot
BRONZE – In Stone
BROWN, JAMES – Live At The Apollo
BROWN, JAMES – Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag
BROWN, JAMES – Payback 2LP
BUHL, J.D. - Little Victories 1978-85
BUILT TO SPILL – Ultimate Alternative Wavers 2LP
[AUST / NZ] CABLE TIES – s/t
[AUST / NZ] CAVEMEN – Born To Hate
CFM - Dichotomy Desaturated
CHANCE, JAMES & THE CONTORTIONS - The Flesh Is Weak
CINDY LEE – Malenkost
CLIFF, JIMMY – Best Of
COACHWHIPS - Hands on the Controls
COHEN, TIM – The Two Sides Of
CONRAD, TONY with FAUST - Outside the Dream Syndicate
[AUST / NZ] CONSTANT MONGREL - Heavy Breathing
CORMANS, THEE - Halloween Record w/ Sound Effects
COSTELLO, ELVIS – My Aim Is True
CRIME - Murder By Guitar
CURE, THE – Faith
CURE, THE – Pornography
[AUST / NZ] DACIOS, THE – Monkey’s Blood
DANNY & THE DARLEANS - Bug Out
DAVIS, BETTY – s/t
DEAD MOON – Stranded In The Mystery Zone
DEAN WEEN GROUP – The Deaner Album 2LP
DEATH - For The Whole World To See
DEATHPROD - Imaginary Songs from Tristan da Cunha
DEATHPROD - Morals and Dogma
DEATHPROD - Treetop Drive
DEERHOOF – Apple O’
DE LA ROSA, SAM - Chameleon
DELLO, PETE & FRIENDS – Into Your Ears
DEMARCO, MAC – This Old Dog
DEMON’S CLAWS - Lost In The Desert - Part Deux
DEMON’S CLAWS - Satan’s Little Pet Pig
DESCLOUX, LIZZY MERCIER – Zulu Rock
DICTATORS – Bloodbrothers (Red vinyl)
DICTATORS – Manifest Destiny
DIE KREUZEN – s/t
DIE TODLICHE DORIS - " "
DILLOWAY, AARON - The Gag File
DISCO DOOM - Numerals
DOORS – s/t
DOWNTOWN BOYS - s/t
DRAKE, NICK – Bryter Later
DRINKS - Hermits On Holiday
DT's, THE - Fuck It
DUNGEN – Allas Sak
DUNGEN – Ta Det Lugnt 2LP
DWARVES - Free Cocaine 2LP
EARTHLESS MEETS HEAVY BLANKET - In A Dutch Haze
[AUST / NZ] EASYBEATS - Vigil
ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN - Ocean Rain
ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN – s/t
[AUST / NZ] EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING - Primary Colours
[AUST / NZ] EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING - Rush to Relax
[AUST / NZ] EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING - So Many Things 2LP
ELDER – Lore 2LP
ENDLESS BOOGIE – Vibe Killer
ERICKSON, ROKY – All That May Do Rhyme
EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY – The Wilderness 2LP
FALL, THE – Your Future Our Clutter 2LP
[AUST / NZ] FEEDTIME – Gas
FLAMIN GROOVIES – Supersnazz
FLESHTONES – Ama Como Un Hombre 7”
[AUST / NZ] FOURTEEN NIGHTS AT SEA – Great North
[AUST / NZ] FOURTEEN NIGHTS AT SEA – Minor Light
FRANKIE AND THE WITCH FINGERS – Heavy Roller
FRANKIE AND THE WITCH FINGERS – Sidewalk
[AUST / NZ] FRENZAL RHOMB – Hi-Vis High Tea (Orange vinyl)
FRIED E/M - s/t 7”
FUGAZI - Repeater
FUZZ – II 2LP
FUZZ - Live In San Francisco
FUZZ - s/t
GALAXIE 500 - Today
GIBBOUS, THE - Mortal Crust 7”
GIUDA – Let’s Do It Again
GLITTER - Joy of a Toy 7”
GØGGS - s/t
GO-GOs – Vacation
GOLDMAN, VIVIEN - Resolutionary
[AUST / NZ] GORMAN, FRASER A. – Slow Gum
GOSPEL TRUTH – A Lonely Man Does Foolish
GUN CLUB – In My Room
GUN CLUB - Miami
HAACK, BRUCE - Electric Lucifer
HAGGARD, MERLE – Mama Tried
HARMONIA – Deluxe
HARMONIA – Musik Von Harmonia
HARRIS, BETTY – The Lost Queen of New Orleans Soul 2LP
[AUST / NZ] HARVEY, MICK – Delirium Tremens
HAZLEWOOD, LEE – The LHI Years 2LP
HELL, RICHARD & THE VOIDOIDS – Blank Generation
HENDRIX, JIMI – Band Of Gypsys
[AUST / NZ] HEY COLOSSUS / HOTEL WRECKING CITY TRADERS – split 12”
[AUST / NZ] HIEROPHANTS – Parallax Error
HITCHCOCK, ROBYN – s/t
HOT SNAKES - Audit In Progress
HUMAN, ANDY AND THE REPTOIDS – s/t
INSTANT AUTOMATONS – Sincerely Making A Noise
INSTITUTE – Catharsis
INTERPOL – El Pintor
IVY GREEN – s/t
JAMES, ETTA – Tears Of Joy
JANSCH, BERT - s/t
JANSCH, BERT - It Don't Bother Me
JODI – Pops de Vanguardia
JONES, SHARON & THE DAP-KINGS – 100 Days, 100 Nights
JONES, SHARON & THE DAP-KINGS – Naturally
JOY DIVISION - Closer
JUNGLE NAUSEA - s/t
[AUST / NZ] KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD – Flying Microtonal Banana
[AUST / NZ] KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD – Nonagon Infinity
[AUST / NZ] KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD – Paper Mache Dream Balloon
[AUST / NZ] KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD – Quarters
KISS – Alive II
KISS – Destroyer
KIWANUKA, MICHAEL – Love And Hate
KLEENEX/LILIPUT – First Songs 2LP
KROG, KARIN – Don’t Just Sing – An Anthology: 1963-1999
LA MACHINE - Phases & Repetition
LAZY SMOKE – Corridor of Faces
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM – s/t
LED ER EST - May
LEON, CRAIG – Nommos
[AUST / NZ] LORD ECHO – Melodies 2LP
LORELLE MEETS THE OBSOLETE - Corruptible Faces
LUMERIANS – High Frontier
LUNDY, MIKE – Nothing Like Dat Funky Music 7”
LYRES – A Promise Is A Promise
MADNESS - Absolutely
MAGNETIC FIELDS - Love at the Bottom of the Sea
MALA LECHE - s/t 7”
MALLARD, THE - Finding Meaning In Deference
[AUST / NZ] MANIKINS – From Broadway To Blazes 2LP
MAN OR ASTROMAN? – Eeviac: Operational Index
MAN OR ASTROMAN? – Experiment Zero
MARKED MEN - On The Outside
MARLING, LAURA – False Hope 7”
McALISTER, CHARLIE – Country Crème / Victorian Fog
MEATBODIES – Alice
MEAT PUPPETS – s/t
MEAT PUPPETS – Up On The Sun
MELTON, MATTHEW – Still Misunderstood
MERRITT, TIFT – Stitch of the World
MERRITT, TIFT – Traveling Alone
METAVARI - Metropolis
[AUST / NZ] METHYL ETHEL – Oh Inhuman Spectacle
MIND SPIDERS - Mind Spiders
MINIMAL MAN – The Shroud Of
MISFITS – Legacy of Brutality
MISSION OF BURMA - Unsound
MODERN WARFARE - Complete Recordings And More
MOGWAI - Atomic 2LP
MOGWAI – Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will 2LP
MONKS – Black Monk Time 2LP
MORELAND, JOHN – Big Bad Luv
MORRICONE YOUTH – Adventures of Prince
MOTORHEAD – Ace of Spades
MOUNTAINS & RAINBOWS - Particles
MR. WAX - Wax City 7”
MUFFS – Happy Birthday To Me
MUFFS – Really Really Happy
MUMMIES – Never Been Caught
MX-80 SOUND - Hard Attack
[AUST / NZ] MY DISCO – Little Joy 2LP
MYSTERY LIGHTS – s/t
NEW YORK DOLLS – s/t
NINE INCH NAILS – Pretty Hate Machine
NIRVANA – From The Muddy Banks of the Wishkah
[AUST / NZ] NOGA, MIKE - King
NOSFERATU - Sounds of Hardcore 7”
NOVAK – Dumb Records 1977-1979
OBLITERATIONS – Poison Everything
OBLIVIAN, JACK - Rat City
OBLIVIANS – Desperation
OFF! – Wasted Years
OH SEES, THEE - A Weird Exits
OH SEES, THEE - Carrion Crawler / The Dream
OH SEES, THEE – Drop (Castle Face)
OH SEES, THEE - Help
OH SEES, THEE - Putrifiers II
OH SEES, THEE - Singles Collection 1 & 2 2LP
OH SEES, THEE - Singles Collection 3
OH SEES, THEE - Warm Slime
OLSEN, ANGEL - Halfway Home
OM - Conference Of The Birds
OM - God Is Good
OM - Variations On A Theme
ONCE & FUTURE BAND – s/t
ONYEABOR, WILLIAM – Who Is William Onyeabor 3LP
ORANSSI PAZUZU – Valonielu
OST – Drokk by Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury
OST – Frozen Existence by Repeated Viewing
OST – Godfather, The
OST – Hannibal Season 1 Vol.1
OST – Hannibal Season 1 Vol.2
OST – Hannibal Season 2 Vol.1
OST – Hannibal Season 2 Vol.2
OST – It Follows by Disasterpeace
OST – Labyrinth by David Bowie and Trevor Jones
OST – Paris, Texas by Ry Cooder
OST – Suspiria by Goblin
OST – Twin Peaks by Angelo Badalamenti
OWEN, BUCK – s/t
PALLBEARER – Heartless
PARQUET COURTS – Content Nausea
PARQUET COURTS – Light Up Gold
PARQUET COURTS – Live At Third Man Records
PARTISANS – s/t
PERKINS, CARL – Best of the Sun Records Sessions
[AUST / NZ] PIN GROUP – Coat 7”
[AUST / NZ] PINK TILES - #1 Fan
PISSED JEANS – Hope For Men
PISSED JEANS – King Of Jeans
POP, IGGY – Idiot
POP, IGGY – Lust For Life
POP, IGGY – Post Pop Depression
POP, IGGY – TV Eye Live
PORTISHEAD - Dummy
POW! - Fight Fire
[AUST / NZ] POWDER MONKEYS – Outta Control Rock ‘n Roll
[AUST / NZ] POWDER MONKEYS – Smashed On A Knee
[AUST / NZ] POWDER MONKEYS – Time Wounds All Heals
[AUST / NZ] POWERLINE SNEAKERS - …Disasterpiece CD
PRESLEY, TIM - The Wink
PRIESTS - Nothing Feels Natural
PROCESS OF ELIMINATION - s/t 7”
PROMISE – s/t
PROTOMARTYR – Under Color Of Official Right
PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED – First Issue
Q - s/t 7”
RADIATION RISKS - Goodbye Money 7”
RADIOACTIVITY - s/t
RADIOACTIVITY - Silent Kill
[AUST / NZ] RADIO BIRDMAN – Radios Appear
[AUST / NZ] RAISED BY EAGLES – I Must Be Somewhere
RAMONES – It’s Alive 2LP
RAMONES – s/t
RANK/XEROX – s/t
RASPBERRIES – Raspberries Best feat. Eric Carmen
RATS, THE - Intermittent Signals
RAVEONETTES – Chain Gang of Love
RAVEONETTES – Lust Lust Lust
RAVEONETTES - Observator
RAVEONETTES – Raven In The Grave
REDD KROSS – Born Innocent
REDD KROSS – Researching The Blues
REED, LOU – Berlin
REED, LOU – Coney Island Baby
REED, LOU – Rock & Roll Animal
REFUSED – The Shape of Punk To Come (Deluxe edition)
REIGNING SOUND - Too Much Guitar
REIGNING SOUND - Time Bomb High School CD
REPLACEMENTS – Pleased To Meet Me
REQUIEM – For A World After
RESIDENTS – Meet The Residents
RESIDENTS – The Third Reich ‘n Roll
[AUST / NZ] RIBEIRO, JESS – Kill It Yourself
ROCKET FROM THE TOMBS – Rocket Redux 2LP
ROMANO, DANIEL – If I’ve Only
ROMANO, DANIEL – Mosey
ROMANO, DANIEL – Sleep Beneath The Willow
ROMANO, DANIEL – Workin For The Music Man
[AUST / NZ] ROSE TATTOO – Assault & Battery
[AUST / NZ] ROSE TATTOO – s/t
[AUST / NZ] ROSE TATTOO – Scarred For Life
ROXY MUSIC – Country Life
ROXY MUSIC – s/t
ROXY MUSIC - Stranded
RUBELLA BALLET - Ballet Bag
SALEM MASS – Witch Burning
[AUST / NZ] SALMON, KIM – Grand Unifying Theory
SCIENCE PROJECT - s/t 7”
SCIENTIST - Introducing Scientist - The Best Dub Album in the World
SEGALL, TY - s/t
SEGALL, TY - Twins
SEGALL, TY - Emotional Mugger
SEGALL, TY - Goodbye Bread
SEGALL, TY - Melted
SEGALL, TY - Singles 2
SEGALL, TY - Singles 2007-2010 2LP
SEGALL, TY - Sleeper
SEGALL, TY / BLACK TIME - Ty Segal / Black Time
SEGALL, TY AND WHITE FENCE - Hair
SHEER MAG - Compilation LP
SHELLAC – 1000 Hurts
SHELLAC – At Action Park
SHINS – Heartworms
SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE - Hexadic
SLAYER – Seasons In The Abyss
SLAYER – South Of Heaven
SLEEPING BEAUTIES - s/t
SLOAN – Commonwealth 2LP
SLOWDIVE – s/t
SMITH, ELLIOTT – Figure 8 2LP
SMITH, PATTI - Wave
SNAILS – Demos 7”
SOFT BOYS – A Can of Bees
SONNY & THE SUNSETS - Talent Night At The Ashram
SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES – Communism 2LP
SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES – Throw It To The Universe 2LP
SPACIN' - Total Freedom
SPARKS - s/t
S TO S – s/t
STICKS, THE – No Sustain 7”EP (Market Square)
SWELL MAPS – A Trip To Marineville
SWELL MAPS – Jane From Occupied Europe
TALKING HEADS – Remain In Light
TALKING HEADS – Speaking In Tongues
[AUST / NZ] TEK, DENIZ – Mean Old Twister
[AUST / NZ] TEK, DENIZ & JAMES WILLIAMSON – Acoustic K.O. 10”
THOMAS EDISUN’S ELECTRIC LIGHTBULB – The Red Day Album (bonus 7”)
TOOLS YOU CAN TRUST – Working And Shopping
[AUST / NZ] TOTAL CONTROL - Henge Beat
[AUST / NZ] TOTAL CONTROL - Typical System
TRANS AM – California Hotel
TRAUMA HARNESS - Ghost of a Flea 7”
[AUST / NZ] TRUST PUNKS – Double Bind
[AUST / NZ] TRUST PUNKS – s/t
TUBEWAY ARMY - Replicas
TV ON THE RADIO – Nine Types of Light
TYLL - Sexphonie
TYVEK - On Triple Beams
TYVEK - s/t
UB40 – Present Arms
ULTIMATE PAINTING - Dusk
UNSETTLED SOCIETY – 17 Diamond Studded Cadillacs
v/a – Africa Airways 3: The Afro-Psych Excursion 1972-1984
v/a – Brand New Wayo: Funk, Fast Times & Nigerian Boogie Badness 2LP
v/a – Deutsche Elektronische
v/a – FM-BX Society Tape Vol. 1
[AUST / NZ] v/a - Follow The Sun 2LP
v/a – Hillbillies In Hell Vol. 2: Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974
v/a – Rain Don’t Fall On Me
v/a – Sticks Over My Shoulder
v/a – The Thing From The Crypt
v/a – Typical Girls
VEGA, ALAN / ALEX CHILTON / BEN VAUGHN – Candyman 7”
VEIRS, LAURA – Troubled By The Fire
VELVET UNDERGROUND – s/t (45th Anniversary)
VELVET UNDERGROUND – White Light / White Heat
VESCOLI, TONI – Information
VILE, KURT – So Outta Reach 12”
VILE, KURT – Square Shells 12”
VIOLENT FEMMES – Hallowed Ground
WALL - Untitled
WARM SODA – I Don’t Wanna Grow Up (Castle Face)
WAVVES – You’re Welcome
WEEN - 12 Golden Country Greats
WEEN - Chocolate & Cheese 2LP
WEEN - God Ween Satan 2LP
WELCOME - Sirs
WELLER, PAUL – More Modern Classics 2LP
WEST COAST POP ART EXPERIMENTAL BAND - Part One
WHITE, TONY JOE – Hoodoo
WHITE, TONY JOE – Rain Crow
WHO – Who Are You
WIPERS – Better Off Dead 7”
WIRE – Chairs Missing
WIRE – Pink Flag
[AUST / NZ] WITCH HATS – Deliverance
WOLFE, CHELSEA – Apokalypsis
WOLFE, CHELSEA – Grime and the Glow
WOLFGANG – Eliminate Hate
WRITHING SQUARES - In the Void Above
YOUNG, DANIEL – Reel To Real
AUST / NZ
AIRBOURNE – Breakin’ Outta Hell
AVALANCHES – Since I Left You 2LP (Blue Vinyl)
AVALANCHES – Wild Flower 2LP
BAD//DREEMS –Gutful
BATPISS – Rest In Piss
BATS, THE – Deep Set
BENT - Mattress Springs 7”
BIKINI COPS – Number Two 7”EP (Goodbye Boozy)
BLACKEYED SUSANS – Close Your Eyes And See
BOMBAY ROYALE – Run Kitty Run
BURIED FEATHER – Mind of the Swarm
CABLE TIES – s/t
CAVEMEN – Born To Hate
CONSTANT MONGREL - Heavy Breathing
COOKIN ON 3 BURNERS – Lab Experiments Vol.1
DACIOS, THE – Monkey’s Blood
DAPPLED CITIES - IIIII
DRAGGS – 3D Funeral 7”EP (Goodbye Boozy)
EASYBEATS - Vigil
EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING - Primary Colours
EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING - Rush to Relax
EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING - So Many Things 2LP
ELECTRIC GUITARS – Three Body Problems 7”
FEEDTIME – Gas
FOURTEEN NIGHTS AT SEA – Great North
FOURTEEN NIGHTS AT SEA – Minor Light
FRANKENBOK – Vicious, Lawless
GORMAN, FRASER A. – Slow Gum
HARDING, ALDOUS - Party
HARVEY, MICK – Delirium Tremens
HEY COLOSSUS / HOTEL WRECKING CITY TRADERS – split 12”
HIEROPHANTS – Parallax Error
IMPETUOUS RITUAL - Blight Upon Martyred Sentience
KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD – Flying Microtonal Banana
KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD - Murder of the Universe
KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD – Nonagon Infinity
KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD – Paper Mache Dream Balloon
KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD – Quarters
LAWRIE, JIM – Slacker of the Year
LAWRIE, SABRINA – Hush The Mountain
LORD ECHO – Melodies 2LP
MANIKINS – From Broadway To Blazes 2LP
MEANIES - Televolution
MERE WOMEN – Big Skies
METHYL ETHEL – Oh Inhuman Spectacle
MURLOCS – Old Locomotive
MY DISCO – Little Joy 2LP
NICHOLSON, SHANE – Love And Blood
NOGA, MIKE - King
PIN GROUP – Coat 7”
PINK TILES - #1 Fan
PLYERS – Clear 12”
POWDER MONKEYS – Outta Control Rock ‘n Roll
POWDER MONKEYS – Smashed On A Knee
POWDER MONKEYS – Time Wounds All Heals
POWER – Live At Third Man Records 7”
POWERLINE SNEAKERS - …Disasterpiece CD
PREGNANCY – Urgency
RADIO BIRDMAN – Radios Appear
RAISED BY EAGLES – I Must Be Somewhere
RIBEIRO, JESS – Kill It Yourself
ROSE TATTOO – Assault & Battery
ROSE TATTOO – s/t
ROSE TATTOO – Scarred For Life
ROYA – s/t
SALMON, KIM – E(a)rnest
SALMON, KIM – Grand Unifying Theory
SAND PEBBLES – Pleasure Maps
SCHOOL DAMAGE – s/t
SCREAMFEEDER – Pop Guilt
SENIOR, LEAH – Pretty Faces
SHIFTERS – A Believer 7”
SILVERLIGHT SHADOWS – Headspace
SILVERLIGHT SHADOWS – s/t
SKIDS, THE – Crooked Cop 7”EP
SLEEPMAKESWAVES – Made of Breath Only 2LP
SMALL WORLD EXPERIENCE – Soft Knocks
SOME JERKS – Strange Ways
STEVENS – Good
SUSS CUNTS - 5 Song EP
TEK, DENIZ – Mean Old Twister
TEK, DENIZ & JAMES WILLIAMSON – Acoustic K.O. 10”
TERRY - Remember
TESKEY BROTHERS – Half Mile Harvest
TEX, DON & CHARLIE – You Don’t Know Lonely
TOTAL CONTROL - Henge Beat
TOTAL CONTROL - Typical System
TRUST PUNKS – Double Bind
TRUST PUNKS – s/t
v/a – Closed Circuits: Australian Alternative Electronic 2LP
v/a – Follow The Sun 2LP
v/a – Horrendous New Wave
VOIGT/465 – Slights Still Unspoken LP / CD
WELCOME - Sirs
WET LIPS – s/t
WILD CHERRIES – 16 Pounds of R&B
WITCH HATS – Deliverance
X – Citations: Best of X and Rarities Vol.1
YOUNG, MIKEY - Your Move Vol. 1
ZERODENT - Soul Mender 7”EP