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'Everything has to be said.' This is the conviction guiding Indigo De Souza's sophomore album, Any Shape You Take. This dynamic record successfully creates a container for the full spectrum'pushing through and against every emotion: 'I wanted this album to give a feeling of shifting with and embracing change. These songs came from a turbulent time when I was coming to self-love through many existential crises and shifts in perspective.'

Faithful to its name, Any Shape You Take changes form to match the tenor of each story it tells. 'The album title is a nod to the many shapes I take musically. I don't feel that I fully embody any particular genre'all of the music just comes from the universe that is my ever-shifting brain/heart/world,' says Indigo. This sonic range is unified by Indigo's strikingly confessional and effortless approach to songwriting, a signature first introduced in her debut, self-released LP, I Love My Mom. Written in quick succession, Indigo sees these two records as companion pieces, both distinct but in communion with each other: 'Many of the songs on these two records came from the same season in my life and a certain version of myself which I feel much further from now.

'I feel very much like a shape-shifter with my music, I'm always trying to embody a balance between the existential weight and the overflowing sense of love I feel in the world.' It is exactly this balance that Indigo strikes in her Saddle Creek debut, Any Shape You Take. A listening experience that gives back, as you shed and shape-shift along with her.

Tracks

1. 17
2. Darker Than Death
3. Die/Cry
4. Pretty Pictures
5. Real Pain
6. Bad Dream
7. Late Night Crawler
8. Hold U
9. Way Out
10. Kill Me

Previously Unreleased Blues/Jazz-Tinged Collection Recorded at San Francisco's Defunct Toast Studio in 2001; Newly Mixed by Original Co-Producer John Hanlon

For the past two decades, Toast has been whispered about in collectors' circles in hushed tones, as Neil Young has dropped pieces of information about it here and there, especially as it contains three never-before-released songs. In 2021, in his online daily newspaper, The Times Contrarian, Young wrote about the album in-depth. "The music of Toast is about a relationship," he said. "There is a time in many relationships that go bad, a time long before the breakup, where it dawns on one of the people, maybe both, that it's over. This was that time."

In 2001, Crazy Horse was in San Francisco, south of Market street, at an old studio called Toast. Coltrane had recorded there, among many other jazz greats, known and unknown. The Dot Com boom was happening and buildings were being bought and turned into lofts or torn down completely and rebuilt. New money was everywhere. Toast was a target. The place was a little run down and sort of on its last legs. If you asked Crazy Horse about these sessions, you would learn that it was a depressing atmosphere and things were not going well. The band recorded there for months and came up with very little. Nothing, other than one song, "Goin' Home" was ever finished. But a lot was started. Several of the songs written at Toast showed up on the Are You Passionate album with Booker T. and the MGs. But that album met with mixed reaction.

Now, years later, John Hanlon, the original co-producer with Neil, mixed all of the Toast material. Many songs share a bluesy, jazz-tinged vibe as a common thread. Three solid rockers are interspersed in the mix. Other songs are long with extensive explorations between verses, a Crazy Horse trademark, kind of like a down-played Tonight's the Night, except these songs deal directly with love and loss, not drugs. The ambient atmosphere, foggy, blue and desolate, pervades many of the tracks, if not all, with Tommy Brea's muted trumpet and dusky male and female counter-part BGs occasionally surfacing from Poncho and Ralph on one side, Nancy Hall and Pegi Young on the other. A cool and sleepy lounge piano rises in the fog occasionally.

The result of this is perhaps one of the most under-estimated and deceptive Crazy Horse records of all time, with many songs originally discarded, and then re-recorded with Booker T. and the MGs. The original performances now surface again through a foggy past. Like an abstract painting, lyrical images of a love lost and maybe even destroyed forever just refuse to die, creating a landscape littered with half-broken dreams and promises. Toast is finally here, a dark Crazy Horse classic for the ages!

Aptly, Toast is heavy and distressed, brimming with electrifying tension. Even its sweet-sounding opening track, "Quit," features the refrain, "Don't say you love me." "Standing In The Light of Love" and "Goin' Home" let the Horse off the tether in fields of overdriven guitar; an out-of-work logger grapples with his faith on the breakneck "Timberline;" and on "Gateway of Love," Young dreams of a less painful future over a hypnotizing 10 minutes, leading into the somber, brokedown "How Ya Doin'?" The songwriter sums up the album best during its shadowy finale "Boom Boom Boom": "All I got is a broken heart, and I don't try to hide it when I play my guitar."

1. Quit
2. Standing in the Light of Love
3. Goin' Home
4. Timberline
5. Gateway of Love
6. How Ya Doin'?
7. Boom Boom Boom

"When we started firing up the new Lit material, we discussed putting our heads in that sweet spot we had landed in during the late 90s and early 2000s. It was a conscious effort that took some rediscovery and collaborative experimentation! During that process, we met Eric Paquette and Carlo Colasacco. We ended up tapping into an amazing energy with them. We not only rediscovered our old school roots, but also found a unique marriage between the classic sound of 1999 and a modern 2021 interpretation. 'Yeah Yeah Yeah' is our first release for this batch of new, yet classic, Lit! Buckle up and enjoy the ride!" - Lit

1. Yeah Yeah Yeah
2. Mouth Shut
3. Do It Again
4. Kicked Off The Plane
5. Ok With That
6. The Life That I Got
7. Get Out Of My Song
8. Tastes Like Gold
9. Here's To Another
10. Hold That Thought
11. Out Of It
12. Let's Go

Meet The Moonlight, Jack Johnson's eighth studio album and first full-length release in five years, was produced by Blake Mills (Alabama Shakes, Perfume Genius, Jim James) and recorded in Los Angeles and Hawaii. The creation process marks a major artistic milestone from past work, taking shape from a one-on-one collaboration with Mills, and unveiling an intimate and highly experimental process that involved embedding Johnson's elegantly stripped-back arrangements with enchanting sonic details. 180g black vinyl LP.

1. Open Mind
2. 3AM Radio
3. Calm Down
4. One Step Ahead
5. Meet The Moonlight
6. Don't Look Now
7. Costume Party
8. I Tend To Digress
9. Windblown Eyes
10. Any Wonder

Double vinyl LP pressing. Named by Q Magazine as one of the "5 Best Compilations of 2000," Romeo Must Die: The Album is the soundtrack to the Andrzej Bartkowiak 2000 film, Romeo Must Die. With executive produced by Timbaland, Barry Hankerson, Jomo Hankerson and Aaliyah, the film's star. The album features production from Irv Gotti, Rapture Stewart, Ant Banks, Eric Seats, Mannie Fresh and J Dub. Appearances include B.G., Chanté Moore, Dave Hollister, Destiny's Child, Ginuwine, Joe, Lil' Mo, Mack 10, Playa, Stanley Clarke, and Aaliyah, who appears on four songs. The album debuted at number 3 on the Billboard 200 and was certified Platinum shortly after it's release.

• 1 Try Again By Aaliyah
• 2 Come Back in One Piece By Aaliyah (Feat. DMX)
• 3 Rose in a Concrete World (J Dub Remix) By Joe
• 4 Rollin' Raw By BG
• 5 We at It Again By Timbaland & Magoo
• 6 Are You Feelin' Me? By Aaliyah
• 7 Perfect Man By Destiny's Child
• 8 Simply Irresistible By Ginuwine
• 9 It Really Don't Matter By Confidential
• 10 Thugz By Mack 10 (Feat. the Comrades)
• 11 I Don't Wanna By Aaliyah
• 12 Somebody's Gonna Die Tonight By Dave Bing (Feat. Lil' Mo)
• 13 Woozy By Playa
• 14 Pump the Brakes By Dave Hollister
• 15 This Is a Test By Chante Moore
• 16 Revival By Non-A-Miss
• 17 Come on By Blade
• 18 Swung on By Stanley Clarke (Feat. Politix)

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Organist "Brother" Jack McDuff came to Blue Note and made one of the most ambitious albums of his career with Moon Rappin'. Released in 1970, it features five funky, spaced-out originals including "Oblighetto," which would later be sampled by A Tribe Called Quest as the foundation of their classic tracks "Scenario," and "Check the Rhime." Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series is all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes.

Quasimoto The Further Adventures Of Lord Quas on 2LP

Madlib resurrected his sticky-green obsessed, helium-huffing alter-ego, Quasimoto in 2005 for the release of The Further Adventures of Lord Quas. While Madlib has always been one of the most experimentally savvy beatmakers in the underground, his creation of the electronically altered narrator Quasimoto, has become one of his biggest selling points for alternatively minded fans. The second full-length under the moniker plays something like a smoked-out comedy/crime Blaxploitation flick, with Madlib and Quas in a more chaotic state then on The Unseen. Further Adventures thrills some, confuses and frustrates others, and in the end, cemented Madlib's reputation as one of the most creative and fearlessly skewed creators in hip-hop. The album includes 26 tracks, with only two guest shots: one from Doom (for the return of Madvillain) and another from Medaphoar.

LP1
1. Bullyshit
2. Greenery
3. Crime
4. Hydrant Game
5. Don't Blink
6. Players of the Game
7. Bus Ride
8. Closer
9. Maingirl
10. Civilization Day
11. Bartender Say
12. 1994
13. Another Demo Tape

LP2
1. Raw Deal
2. Mr. Two-Faced
3. The Exclusive
4. Fatbacks
5. J.A.N. (Jive Ass Niggaz)
6. Shroom Music
7. Rappcats, Part 3
8. Strange Piano
9. Life Is...
10. The Clown (Episode C)
11. Raw Addict, Part 2)
12. Tomorrow Never Knows
13. Privacy

Judging from their name, Suicidal Tendencies were never afraid of a little controversy. Formed in Venice, CA, during the early '80s, the group's leader from the beginning was outspoken vocalist Mike Muir. The outfit specialized in vicious hardcore early on - building a huge following among skateboarders, lending a major hand in the creation of skatepunk - before turning their focus eventually to thrash metal. Early on, the group found it increasingly difficult to book shows, due to rumors of its members' affiliation with local gangs and consistent violence at their performances.

The underground buzz regarding Suicidal Tendencies grew too loud for labels to ignore though, as the quartet signed on with the indie label Frontier; issuing Muir and company's classic self-titled debut in 1983. The album quickly became the best-selling hardcore album up to that point; its best-known track, "Institutionalized," was one of the first hardcore punk videos to receive substantial airplay on MTV. 1987 saw the release of Suicidal's sophomore release, Join the Army, which spawned another popular skatepunk anthem, "Possessed to Skate." 

Soon after, Suicidal was finally offered a major-label contract with Epic. Third album 1988's How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today, showed that their transformation from hardcore to heavy metal was now complete, as did a compilation of two earlier EPs, 1989's Controlled by Hatred/Feel Like Shit Déjà Vu which marked Robert Trujillo's debut with Suicidal Tendencies and was their first of three albums to go gold. 

A must have for any Suicidal Tendencies fan, Controlled By Hatred/Feel Like Shit Deja Vu has been out of press since its original release in 1989. Now it's back on vinyl with this limited edition colored 180-gram pressing from ORG.

1. Master Of No Mercy
2. How Will I Laugh Tomorrow
3. Just Another Love Song
4. Waking The Dead
5. Controlled By Hatred
6. Choosing My Own Way Of Life
7. Feel Like Shit...Deja-Vu
8. It's Not Easy
9. How Will I Laugh Tomorrow (Heavy Emotion Version)

Inspired by his return to the road – after foregoing live fan-filled arenas across the globe for his living room in Nashville like so many – Where We Started marks a similar return to Thomas Rhett's in-the-moment mix of tempo, transcendent romance, and tip-of-the-spear sonic trailblazing. On the album, country's resident good-life philosopher shakes away a year-plus of off-stage dust. 

Featuring 15 songs, all but one co-written by Rhett, the project highlights his signature infusion of country tradition with kinetic romantic energy. Mixing raw, unfiltered joy with his uniquely personal, small-town Shakespeare writing – with producer Dann Huff returning alongside co-producers Jesse Frasure and Matt Dragstrem – the project enlists superstar Katy Perry for the dramatic root-pop title track, while also tapping collaborations with Riley Green, Tyler Hubbard, and Russell Dickerson.

"For me, getting into the entertainer headspace and back onstage was euphoria," Rhett explains. "When you go a year and a half without it, then feel it for the first time again, it's the coolest thing in the world. That's really where my brain has been and where these songs came from – they're some of my favorite songs that I've ever been a part of. I'm just enjoying life so much right now, getting to be a dad, collaborating with incredible artists, playing shows with my friends, and watching people smile from the stage. It has really filled my soul." Gatefold colored vinyl 2LP.

Tracks

LP1

1. The Hill
2. Church Boots
3. Bass Pro Hat
4. Anything Cold
5. Angels
6. Half Of Me
7. Bring The Bar
8. Paradise

LP2

1. Death Row
2. Mama's Front Door
3. Slow Down Summer
4. Simple As A Song
5. Us Someday
6. Somebody Like Me
7. Where We Started

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Half-speed master. 50th anniversary edition of Creedence Clearwater Revival's third studio album, first released in August of 1969. This release marked an epochal year for Creedence, Green River being the second of three albums they released in that year. It features the hits "Green River," "Bad Moon Rising" and "Lodi."

Tracks

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Green River
• 2 Commotion
• 3 Tombstone Shadow
• 4 Wrote a Song for Everyone
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Bad Moon Rising
• 2 Lodi
• 3 Cross-Tie Walker
• 4 Sinister Purpose
• 5 The Night Time Is the Right Time

Original soundtrack reissue of the 1979 musical comedy film Rock 'N' Roll High School on colored vinyl LP featuring the Ramones and containing the original remixes of "Rock ‘n' Roll High School" and "I Want You Around" done by Phil Spector. But just because the Ramones were the stars of the show doesn't mean that they were the only ones on the soundtrack. Among the others whose tunes can be found on the grooves of this reissue are Nick Lowe, Brian Eno, Devo, Eddie & The Hot Rods, Brownsville Station, Chuck Berry, Todd Rundgren, Alice Cooper, The Paley Brothers duetting with the Ramones on "Come On Let's Go," and P.J. Soles singing the title track for the film.

Tracks

1. Rock 'n' Roll High School - By Ramones
2. I Want You Around - By Ramones
3. Come On Let's Go - By Ramones & The Paley Brothers
4. Ramones Medley: Blitzkrieg Bop / Teenage Lobotomy / California Sun / Pinhead She's the One - By Ramones
5. So It Goes - By Nick Lowe
6. Energy Fools the Magician - By Brian Eno
7. Rock 'n' Roll High School - By P.J. Soles
8. Come Back Jonee - By Devo
9. Teenage Depression - By Eddie & The Hot Rods
10. Smokin' In The Boys' Room - By Brownsville Station
11. School Days - By Chuck Berry
12. A Dream Goes on Forever - By Todd Rundgren
13. School's Out - By Alice Cooper

All-Analog 180g Vinyl LP of Grant Green's The Latin Bit Mastered from the Original Master Tapes by Kevin Gray & Pressed at RTI: Reference-Caliber Blue Note Reissue Helmed by Music Matters' Joe Harley

Grant Green had already recorded a prolific 10 sessions of classic hard bop and soul jazz for Blue Note over a 2-year span by the time he arrived at Van Gelder Studio in 1962 to record his album The Latin Bit. The concept of the album was a departure for Green with the guitarist exploring Latin and Brazilian influences with a band featuring Johnny Acea on piano, Wendell Marshall on bass, Willie Bobo on drums, Carlos "Patato" Valdes on conga, and Garvin Masseaux on chekere. As Nat Hentoff wrote in the album's liner notes: "It is because of Green's remarkably consistent ease in many varieties of material, that this album of jazz with a Latin tinge becomes so seamless a blending of Latin idioms and blues-laced, modern mainstream swinging." The highly enjoyable set includes joyful takes of "Mambo Inn" and "My Little Suede Shoes," as well as a lyrical and beguiling version of "Besame Mucho."

Blue Note Records' acclaimed Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Reissue Series continues in 2022. Launched in 2019 in honor of the label's 80th Anniversary, the Tone Poet series is produced by Joe Harley (from Music Matters) and features all-analog, 180g audiophile vinyl reissues that are mastered from the original master tapes by Kevin Gray of Cohearent Audio. Tone Poet vinyl is manufactured at RTI in Camarillo, CA, and packaged in deluxe Stoughton Printing "Old Style" gatefold Tip-On jackets. The titles were once again handpicked by Harley and cover the crème de la crème of the Blue Note catalog along with underrated classics, modern era standouts, and albums from other labels under the Blue Note umbrella including Pacific Jazz and United Artists Records. Every aspect of these Blue Note/Tone Poet releases is done to the highest-possible standard. It means that you will never find a superior version.

"The LPs are mastered directly from the original analog master tapes by Kevin at his incredible facility called Cohearent Mastering. We go about it in the exact same way that we did for so many years for the Music Matters Blue Note reissues. We do not roll off the low end, boost the top or do any limiting of any kind. We allow the full glory of the original Blue Note masters to come though unimpeded! Short of having an actual time machine, this is as close as you can get to going back and being a fly on the wall for an original Blue Note recording session."
- Joe Harley

Musicians:
Grant Green, guitar
Johnny Acea, piano
Wendell Marshall, bass
Willie Bobo, drums
Potato Valdez, congas
Garvin Masseaux, chekere

Features:
• Blue Note Tone Poet Series
• Curated by Music Matters co-founder Joe Harley
• Audiophile-quality 180g vinyl LP
• All-analog mastering (direct from the master tapes) by Kevin Gray
• Manufactured at Record Technology Incorporated
• Deluxe gatefold jacket packaging

1. Mambo Inn
2. Besame Mucho
3. Mama Inez
4. Brazil
5. Tico Tico
6. My Little Suede Shoes

Indie Exclusive Yellow Vinyl. All Day Gentle Hold ! is the fifth album from Aaron Maine and a celebratory collection of songs. Harder, faster, shorter and louder than any other Porches record, it’s direct and pointed, charged up and chaotic, described by Maine as “the most energetic, off-the-cuff moments, collaged together into the most captivating songs [he] could make.”

Tracks

1. Lately
2. I Miss That
3. Okay
4. Swimming Big
5. Back3School
6. Swarovski
7. Watergetsinside
8. In A Fashion
9. Inasint
10. Grab The Phone
11. Comedown Song (Gunk)

Lady Blackbird didn't mean to soundtrack a revolution. But last spring, that's exactly what she did. On May 27, 2020 Los Angeles-based singer Marley Munroe released her debut single. Now, "the Grace Jones of Jazz, " as dubbed by BBC's Gilles Peterson, presents her debut album, Black Acid Soul. Minimal yet rich, classic yet timely, the album connects backwards to Miles Davis (his pianist, Deron Johnson, plays Steinway Baby Grand, Mellotron and Casio Synth throughout) and forwards to Pete Tong (he made the Bruise mix of 'Collage' his Number Two Essential Selection tune of 2020) and, yes, Victoria Beckham - Matthew Herbert's remix of second single "Beware The Stranger" soundtracked the designer's Spring/Summer 2020 Fashion show. It's 11 tracks have a sound, feeling and attitude that speak of Lady Blackbird's deep experiences in music, stretching all the way back to infancy. This is Black Acid Soul, and this is the first crucial album of 2021. Are you ready to fly with Lady Blackbird?

Tracks

1. Blackbird
2. It's Not That Easy
3. Fix It
4. Ruler Of My Heart
5. Nobody's Sweetheart
6. Collage
7. Five Feet Tall
8. Lost And Looking
9. It'll Never Happen Again
10. Beware the Stranger
11. Black Acid Soul

Limited 180gm orange colored vinyl LP pressing. Funkadelic's first album, eponymously released in 1970, gets the HIQLP treatment to celebrate it's 50th anniversary. In a thick card sleeve.

Tracks

• 1 Mommy, What's a Funkadelic?
• 2 I'll Bet You
• 3 Music for My Mother
• 4 I Got a Thing, You Got a Thing, Everybody's Got a Thing
• 5 Good Old Music
• 6 Qualify and Satisfy
• 7 What Is Soul

Exactly 15 years ago, the Malibu-born Colbie Caillat released her debut album Coco. It was no surprise that it became a big success, since she was the daughter of Fleetwood Mac producer Ken Caillat. Colbie auditioned for American Idol twice, the second time she performed her own original song "Bubbly", but got rejected both times. Ironically, because "Bubbly" became an international mega hit as the lead single on Coco, which was produced by Mike Blue (Jason Reeves, Jason Mraz, OneRepublic). Coco was originally released in 2007 and debuted at No. 5 on the US Billboard 200, selling over 3 million copies around the world and going double Platinum in the US. To celebrate its 15th anniversary, Coco is available here on 180g vinyl LP for the first time featuring an insert with photos and credits.

Tracks

1. Oxygen
2. The Little Things
3. One Fine Wire
4. Bubbly
5. Feelings Show
6. Midnight Bottle
7. Realize
8. Battle
9. Tailor Made
10. Magic
11. Tied Down
12. Capri

Formed in 1981, Slayer assaulted the world with a new hybrid of metal and punk – heavier, faster and darker than the rest – and set a new standard, defining not only a genre, but an attitude. Throughout Slayer's history, the band never faltered in unleashing their extreme and focused aural assault, and repudiating temptations, always choosing to remain crushing and brutal, steadfastly refusing to cater to the mainstream. In October 2021 the five-time nominated, two-time Grammy winners deliver a suite of vinyl reissues of their classic records Show No Mercy (1983), Haunting the Chapel (1984), Live Undead (1984), and Hell Awaits (1985) via Metal Blade Records. Live Undead features five tracks from Slayer's debut, Show No Mercy which was issued a year prior, one cut from the three-song Haunting The Chapel EP and the non-album track "Aggressive Perfector." The songs fundamentally follow the heavy handed arrangements of their studio counterparts, but are enhanced with an added energy and menace that was vital to Slayer's exciting early period.

Tracks

1. Black Magic (live)
2. Die by the Sword (live)
3. Captor of Sin (live)
4. The Antichrist (live)
5. Evil Has No Boundaries (live)
6. Show No Mercy (live)
7. Aggressive Perfector (live)

Visceral, musically cinematic, otherworldly but strangely familiar and a bit unsettling, welcome to Pixies' brand new studio album, Beneath the Eyrie, where tales of witches, Daniel Boone, misfits and other characters fit utterly into the band's inherent weirdness. Boasting twelve new boundary pushing songs, the album was produced by Grammy-nominated Tom Dalgety (Ghost, Royal Blood) and recorded in December 2018 at Dreamland Recordings near Woodstock, NY. Drummer David Lovering spotted an eagles nest (or eyrie) right above the studio hence the title.

Tracks

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 In the Arms of Mrs. Mark of Cain
• 2 Graveyard Hill
• 3 Catfish Kate
• 4 This Is My Fate
• 5 Ready for Love
• 6 Silver Bullet
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Long Rider
• 2 Los Surfers Muertos
• 3 St. Nazaire
• 4 Bird of Prey
• 5 Daniel Boone
• 6 Death Horizon