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Older is the highly anticipated new album from acclaimed singer/songwriter Lizzy McAlpine. Older finds the 24-year-old rising star stepping into newfound confidence, discovering her voice and defining her artistry with profound simplicity. It's a notable departure for Lizzy, who wrote the LP's deeply personal 14 tracks during a three-year period of transition into adulthood. Older is the follow up to Lizzy's widely successful second studio album, five seconds flat which was released to critical acclaim in the spring of 2022. Lizzy McAlpine gained recognition when she began to share original songs and covers on Soundcloud and YouTube. In 2020, Lizzy released her debut album, Give Me A Minute, solidifying herself as a rising force and amassing thousands of devoted fans. Heavyweight vinyl produced by RCA Records in 2024.

• 1 The Elevator
• 2 Come Down Soon
• 3 Like It Tends to Do
• 4 Movie Star
• 5 All Falls Down
• 6 Staying
• 7 I Guess
• 8 Drunk, Running
• 9 Broken Glass
• 10 You Forced Me to
• 11 Older
• 12 Better Than This
• 13 March
• 14 Vortex

Pink in Green Color-in-Color vinyl. Sweet Tooth, which arrives three years after Mom Jeans' second LP Puppy Love, was recorded in New Jersey at The Barber Shop Studios with producer Brett Romnes (The Front Bottoms, Oso Oso, Dogleg). Butler says it's the first time the band had a proper, top-to-bottom studio experience, which meant no cutting corners, and an ability to chase a previously-unattainable level of Polish. Tyler Povanda (Save Face) and Kory Gregory (Prince Daddy & the Hyena) contributed vocals to the record.

The music on Sweet Tooth marked a departure for Butler from his usual writing style. "I fell in love with bands like Modern Baseball and Front Bottoms and Joyce Manor, so I wanted to write songs like that," says Butler. "That's what our first two records were: me trying to stay in that box, cause I think that's where I felt comfortable." Sweet Tooth feels like an eternal dessert-before-dinner, a rejection of the idea that we need to suffer before we get to the good stuff. You've got one life. Indulge your Sweet Tooth.

• 1 Something Sweet
• 2 What's Up?
• 3 Hippo in the Water
• 4 White Trash Millionaire
• 5 Circus Clown
• 6 Sugar Rush
• 7 Graduating Life
• 8 Luv L8R
• 9 Crybaby (On the Phone)
• 10 Anime Theme Song
• 11 Tie Dye Acid Trip
• 12 Ten Minutes
• 13 Teeth

Brand new digital transfers from the original 1/4” tape mixes by Rob Schnapf & Joanna Bolme. Remastered by the official Elliott Smith archival team of Larry Crane (Jackpot! Studio/Tape Op) and Adam Gonsalves (Telegraph Mastering).

From A Basement On The Hill is Smiths final recording and finds Smith returning to an edgier, guitar-driven sound, alongside his trademark heart-rending balladry. From a Basement on the Hill was originally released on October 19, 2004 on ANTI- Records and is now proudly re-issued by Kill Rock Stars - now home of all of Elliott's indie releases.

The Smile will release their highly anticipated debut album A Light For Attracting Attention in June, 2022 on XL Recordings.

The 13- track album was produced and mixed by Nigel Godrich and mastered by Bob Ludwig. Tracks feature strings by the London Contemporary Orchestra and a full brass section of contempoarary UK jazz players including Byron Wallen, Theon and Nathaniel Cross, Chelsea Carmichael, Robert Stillman and Jason Yarde.

The band, comprising Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood and Sons of Kemet’s Tom Skinner, have previously released the singles You Will Never Work in Television Again, The Smoke, and Skrting On The Surface to critical acclaim.

• 1 The Same
• 2 The Opposite
• 3 You Will Never Work in Television Again
• 4 Pana-Vision
• 5 The Smoke
• 6 Speech Bubbles
• 7 Thin Thing
• 8 Open the Floodgates
• 9 Free in the Knowledge 04:12
• 10 A Hairdryer
• 11 Waving a White Flag
• 12 We Don't Know What Tomorrow Brings
• 13 Skrting on the Surface

Digitally remastered edition. Please was the debut album by Pet Shop Boys and produced by Stephen Hague. Released in March 1986, the record hit #3 and spent 82 weeks in the UK Official Album Charts, went into the Top Ten in the USA where it was certified platinum, and to date has sold over three million copies worldwide. Comprising ten tracks in it's original release, the album's track-listing includes the duo's debut single 'West End Girls' - PSB's first #1, certified Gold single. In 1987, it was awarded Best Single at the BRIT Awards, Best International Hit at th Ivor Novello Awards and later was awarded the Song Of The Decade Ivor Novello Award in 2005, chosen by the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters. It also reached #1 in the USA. Singles 'Love Comes Quickly', 'Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money)' and 'Suburbia' also feature on Please, all of which went on to earn Top 20 status in the UK Singles Chart.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Two Divided By Zero (2018 Remastered Version)
• 2 West End Girls (2018 Remastered Version)
• 3 Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money) [2018 Remastered Version]
• 4 Love Comes Quickly (2018 Remastered Version)
• 5 Suburbia (2018 Remastered Version)
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money) [Reprise] [2018 Remastered Version]
• 2 Tonight Is Forever (2018 Remastered Version) 03 Violence (2018 Remastered Version)
• 3 I Want a Lover (2018 Remastered Version)
• 4 Later Tonight (2018 Remastered Version)
• 5 Why Don't We Live Together? (2018 Remastered Version)

Vinyl LP pressing. The follow-up to 2014's 'Bury Me At Makeout Creek', named after a Simpsons quote and hailed by Pitchfork as "a complex 10-song story [containing] some of the most nuanced, complex and articulate music that's come from the indiesphere in a while," 'Puberty 2' picks up where it's predecessor left off. "It's kind of a two parter," explains Mitski. "It's similar in sound, but a direct growth [from] that record." Musically, there are subtle evolutions: electronic drum machines pulse throughout beneath Pixies-ish guitars, while saxophone lights up it's opening track. "I had a certain confidence this time. I knew what I wanted, knew what I was doing and wasn't afraid to do things that some people may not like."

• 1 Happy
• 2 Dan the Dancer
• 3 Once More to See You
• 4 Fireworks
• 5 Your Best American Girl 03:32
• 6 I Bet on Losing Dogs
• 7 My Body's Made of Crushed Little Stars
• 8 Thursday Girl
• 9 A Loving Feeling
• 10 Crack Baby
• 11 A Burning Hill

In February 2024, just shy of the tenth anniversary of Alvvays' self-titled debut, it's second song and single, "Archie, Marry Me," reached a rarified threshold for our streaming age-one-hundred million listens through a single platform. For the world's biggest pop stars that's an average achievement, but for an upstart indie rock band then writing in a backroad farmhouse on a Canadian island, it represented a staggering proof of connection and widespread resonance. Makes sense, after all: "Archie, Marry Me" is a softly stinging, pointedly funny portrait of a common end-of-youth predicament-to wed or not to wed, to involve the state and the possibility of financial ruin when you're already saddled with student loans and just trying to survive. Instantly relatable, it is an anthem about prescribed social expectations and delighting, however noncommittally, in outcast status.

Now remastered and reissued with deep cut "Underneath Us" to mark a glorious decade of deadpan jangle, Alvvays feels that way from end to end-literally, from the opening stalking-you-with-love anthem "Adult Diversion" to the ennui escapism of sci-fi closer "Red Planet." In a little more than 30 minutes, Alvvays give us a song about loving someone to actual death ("Next of Kin"), how keeping secrets will destroy what you think you want ("The Agency Group"), and another incisive song about the societal demands of love and marriage ("Atop a Cake"). When Molly Rankin, Alec O'Hanley, Kerri MacLellan, and Brian Murphy cut these songs with Chad VanGaalen in 2013, long before they had a record deal, they were, in fact, young adults trying to figure out these encroaching exigencies for themselves. Again, these problems don't age; some of us just happen to be lucky enough to age out of them. Little of this would matter if the songs themselves didn't stick, if the melodies weren't as timeless as the topics. But the tension between Alvvays' shimmer and snap and Rankin's knowingly droll delivery connects these numbers to a brilliant and deep rock continuum, from the glories of C86 and the triumphs of Athens in the '80s to Celtic folk's own magnetic candour. Each of these songs lands several hooks apiece: the sparkling drum-machine drift of "Dives," the noise-caked sway of "The Agency Group," and, of course, the half-diffident and half-confident matrimonial plea of "Archie, Marry Me" and that pearly guitar lick. Ten years ago or ten years from now, here are ten songs to slip in your pocket and pull out when the decisions of the world seem to swirl like the very guitars that shape them.

• 1 Adult Diversion
• 2 Archie, Marry Me
• 3 Ones Who Love You
• 4 Next of Kin
• 5 Party Police
• 6 The Agency Group
• 7 Dives
• 8 Atop a Cake
• 9 Red Planet
• 10 Underneath Us

Any album that takes its title from a Keith Richards quote (“Friction, baby” was his response to an interviewer asking him what the secret was behind the durability of his partnership with Mick Jagger) has a lot going for it from the get-go…and a certain responsibility to live up to the legacy of the Glimmer Twins. Thankfully, this 1996 album from the celebrated New Orleans alternative rock band Better Than Ezra doesn’t monkey (man) around. On the heels of their success with Deluxe, BTE actually had a real recording budget for the first time, and, with the help of producer Don Gehman (R.E.M., Hootie and the Blowfish), they successfully merged songwriter Kevin Griffin’s Southern boy pop with the heavy guitar sound of the era to form a college radio wet dream of a record spearheaded by the hits “King of New Orleans” and “Desperately Wanting.” Tan vinyl pressing complete with hidden track, with printed inner sleeve. Fully authorized by the band…Ezralites, rejoice!

Loser Edition on sparklemuffin pearl vinyl. Suki Waterhouse's music sounds like a collage of her inspirations, experiences, and emotions stitched together by honeyed vocal delivery, bright-eyed melodies, and evocative storytelling. It doubles as a mirror image of her life as a consummate creative, artist, actress, model, and mother, yet it also breaks the glass to unveil raw truth. She leans on an ever-evolving sonic palette to convey what she's feeling-whether it be folky Americana, nineties alternative, turn-of-the-century indie, or handcrafted otherworldly pop. You'll hear Suki's longing in a swooning chorus, fearlessness in a crunchy chord, elation in a danceable waltz, and wonder in a soft coo befitting of a lullaby. She faithfully followed a lifelong passion for music to her 2022 full-length debut, I Can't Let Go. Adorned by "Moves" and "Melrose Meltdown," it incited widespread critical applause from Variety, Nylon, NME, The Line of Best Fit, and more. Between headlining shows and touring with Father John Misty, "Good Looking" surged online, generating nearly a billion streams, going RIAA platinum, and paving the way for the Milk Teeth EP. Simultaneously, she absorbed inspiration from a season of change earmarked by unforgettable moments a la gracing the stage of Lollapalooza 2023, performing on multiple continents, becoming a mom, and closing out the Gobi Tent at Coachella in 2024. Everything just set the stage for the gold-certified songstress to assert herself as a versatile, vibrant, and vital presence on her 2024 double-LP, Memoir of a Sparklemuffin.

• 1 Gateway Drug
• 2 Supersad
• 3 Blackout Drunk
• 4 Faded
• 5 Nonchalant
• 6 My Fun
• 7 Model, Actress, Whatever
• 8 To Get You
• 9 Lullaby
• 10 Big Love
• 11 Lawsuit
• 12 Omg
• 13 Think Twice
• 14 Could've Been a Star
• 15 Legendary
• 16 Everybody Breaks Up Anyway
• 17 Helpless
• 18 To Love

Hippo Campus' singer Jake Luppen had been listening to the band's work as they rolled around the country, trying to tease out how much work remained. All of it, he soon decided. Obfuscated by the need to sound sophisticated and the overwhelming ambition to make the best Hippo Campus LP ever, a deeper and more profound record that reflected how their lives were changing. But Luppen and all of Hippo Campus decided they didn't actually like what they were making.

So they called an audible. They were going to start over. And three months later, the four-member core of Hippo Campus rendezvoused with longtime collaborator Caleb Wright and producer Brad Cook at Sonic Ranch, a playground-like studio complex on the Texas border. They gave themselves 10 days to cut the tracks they liked best, to make something to which they could commit at last. Less than two weeks later, they emerged with what they'd given themselves half a decade to make-Flood, or the best album Hippo Campus has ever made. The sentiments on Flood are raw, real, and unguarded, a testament to Hippo Campus dropping preconceptions of how they had to sound after so many failed attempts to re-record these songs. They wiped the slate clean, starting over without beliefs about what Hippo Campus or this record needed to be. Still, sophistication lurks in subtle key and tempo changes, in the almost innate shifts that a band of longtime best friends can tap after so much time spent helping to shape one another's musical language. Flood doesn't need to tell you it's important or interesting; it simply is, just by virtue of how it's written, built, and rendered, a map of what it's like to feel everything at once. This rebirth is accompanied by a crucial career shift for Hippo Campus, too, as they exit the traditional label system to issue LP4 via Psychic Hotline, a truly independent imprint run by peers and pals. If you're working to let go of expectations, why not jettison them all? There's a bravery to that, and you can hear it's revivifying spirit in every second of LP4. Early into the endlessly propulsive "Paranoid," where stunted acoustic strums undergird an inescapable jangle, Luppen asks an existential question: "Is there something waiting out there for us at the finish line?" For the next three minutes, the band cycles with him through his woes, from the title's overwhelming worry to notions of dislocation and loneliness. (Also, is there any other refrain ever that manages to make the phrase "so god-damned f***ing" sound so catchy and natural?) But in the final verse, with his voice breaking through a scrim of distortion, he stumbles upon a new credo: "Wait, I wanna give this life all that I have in me." That is precisely what Hippo Campus have done with Flood after realizing it doesn't take a lifetime-or, well, five years-to do just that.

• 1 Prayer Man
• 2 Paranoid
• 3 Fences
• 4 Everything at Once
• 5 Flood
• 6 Corduroy
• 7 Slipping Away
• 8 Brand New
• 9 Tooth Fairy
• 10 Madman
• 11 Forget It
• 12 Closer
• 13 I Got Time

Limited metallic silver colored vinyl. This album features fourteen tracks compiled from all seven of Elliott Smith's albums (including his albums on Geffen): Roman Candle, Elliott Smith, Either/Or, XO, Figure 8, From A Basement on the Hill, and New Moon. An Introduction to... is, as the title suggests, intended as an introduction to one of the greatest songwriters of our era. We hope this will enable new generations to learn about Elliott's music by providing a pathway for people to delve more deeply into his immensely satisfying catalog.

• 1 Ballad of Big Nothing
• 2 Waltz #2 (Xo)
• 3 Pictures of Me
• 4 The Biggest Lie
• 5 Alameda
• 6 Between the Bars
• 7 Needle in the Hay
• 8 Last Call
• 9 Angeles
• 10 Twilight
• 11 Pretty (Ugly Before)
• 12 Angel in the Snow
• 13 Miss Misery (Early Version)
• 14 Happiness (Single Version)

The Alexander Technique, Rex Orange County's fifth studio album, is a detailed portrait of Alex's lived experience from his early to mid 20's. The album was produced by Rex himself alongside Teo Halm and Jim Reed, in addition to James Blake who produced and features on the track Look Me In The Eyes. Longer than any project he's ever made and more musically varied, The Alexander Technique was made over a matter of years and recorded at various studios including Abbey Road, Henson, Conway, Decoy & Black Rock. Black double vinyl in gatefold jacket. Includes Exclusive Poster (Poster version exclusive to standard vinyl).

• 1 Alexander
• 2 Guitar Song
• 3 2008
• 4 Therapy
• 5 4 in the Morning
• 6 Jealousy
• 7 The Table
• 8 Pure
• 9 One of These Days
• 10 Carrera
• 11 Much Too Much
• 12 Sliding Doors
• 13 Lost for Words
• 14 Look Me in the Eyes (Featuring James Blake)
• 15 New Years
• 16 Finally

Dream Your Life Away (10th Anniversary Edition) Vinyl LP pressing. 2014 debut album from Vance Joy; a folk/pop artist from Melbourne, Australia. Vance Joy's love of music was inspired by his mother's aptitude at literature and his father's fondness of singing. His parents' vast, eclectic record collection only served to heighten his partiality to it. After completing a university degree in law, he decided to take a year's break to focus on making music. He travelled to India and South-East Asia with a collection of songs rattling around in his head. When he came home, they all fell into place. Like the unforced orchestration of his songs, Vance Joy's success has developed organically. Expanded 2-LP set pressed on Translucent Red Vinyl and featuring two bonus tracks ("Fire and the Flood" and "Straight Into Your Arms") making their debut on vinyl.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Winds of Change
• 2 Mess Is Mine
• 3 Wasted Time
• 4 Riptide
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Who Am I
• 2 From Afar
• 3 We All Die Trying to Get It Right
• 4 Georgia
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 Red Eye
• 2 First Time
• 3 All I Ever Wanted
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 Best That I Can
• 2 My Kind of Man
• 3 Fire and the Flood
• 4 Straight Into Your Arms

We don’t typically look to pop albums to answer our cultural moment,
let alone to meet the soul hunger left in the wake of global catastrophe.
But occasionally, an artist proves the form more malleable and capacious
than we knew. With Laurel Hell, Mitski cements her reputation as an artist
in possession of such power - capable of using her talent to perform
the alchemy that turns our most savage and alienated experiences into
the very elixir that cures them. Her critically beloved last album, Be the
Cowboy, built on the breakout acclaim of 2016’s Puberty 2 and launched
her from cult favorite to indie star. She ascended amid a fever of national
division, and the grind of touring and pitfalls of increased visibility
influenced her music as much as her spirit. Like the mountain laurels for
this new album is named, public perception, like the intoxicating prism of
the internet, can offer an alluring façade that obscures a deadly trap—one
that tightens the more you struggle. Exhausted by this warped mirror,
and our addiction to false binaries, she began writing songs that stripped
away the masks and revealed the complex and often contradictory
realities behind them. She wrote many of these songs during or before
2018, while the album finished mixing in May 2021. It is the longest span
of time Mitski has ever spent on a record, and a process that concluded
amid a radically changed world. She recorded Laurel Hell with her
longtime producer Patrick Hyland throughout the isolation of a global
pandemic, during which some of the songs “slowly took on new forms
and meanings, like seed to flower.” Sometimes it’s hard to see the change
when you’re the agent of it, but for the lucky rest of us, Mitski has written
a soundtrack for transformation, a map to the place where vulnerability
and resilience, sorrow and delight, error and transcendence can all sit
within our humanity, can all be seen as worthy of acknowledgment, and
ultimately, love.

RIAA Diamond-certified multi-platinum group Foster The People make their eagerly anticipated Atlantic Records debut with today’s premiere of their ready-for-summer single, “Lost In Space.” The 3x GRAMMY® Award-nominated band’s first new release in over three years, “Lost In Space”, is produced by lead singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mark Foster and co-produced by bandmate Isom Innis.

• 1 See You in the Afterlife
• 2 Lost in Space
• 3 Take Me Back
• 4 Let Go
• 5 Feed Me
• 6 Paradise State of Mind
• 7 Glitchzig
• 8 The Holy Shangri-La
• 9 Sometimes I Wanna Be Bad
• 10 A Diamond to Be Born

Double green and blue colored vinyl LP pressing housed in gatefold jacket. Includes digital download. Merriweather Post Pavilion, Animal Collective's ninth studio album, sees the American art-rock collective in heartwarmingly baffling form, combining upbeat indietronica with mind-warping samples. For it's 15th anniversary, the 2xLP has been pressed on color vinyl for the first time, Bluish and Translucent Green, and is housed in a reflective foil deluxe gatefold jacket. Merriweather Post Pavilion was universally acclaimed upon it's release in 2009 and was named the #1 best album of the year by Pitchfork, Entertainment Weekly, Spin, and KEXP. "Every once in a while, musicians sweep away the existing musical landscape to create something new," stated NPR at the time. "Animal Collective is such a group, and it's new Merriweather Post Pavilion is such an album." It has since been recognized as one of the most influential records of the 2000s. "When it comes to 2000s indie, Merriweather stands as the era's alpha and omega," Pitchfork has written, "a diamond-cut reflection of the era's eccentricities, seemingly impossible to replicate in form or format."

Produced by Chris Coady and written by DIIV (pronounced Dive), Frog in Boiling Water, the band’s fourth full-length LP is a collection of snapshots that explores the brutal realities of end-stage capitalism and overwhelming technological advance. Across 10 dark and dazzling tracks, DIIV documents the collapse from various angles with unusual sensitivity and depth of purpose while expanding their grand, hypnotic shoegaze, to create a transportive, sensual work of hope, beauty and renewal.