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Bon Iver, Bon Iver is Justin Vernon returning to former haunts with a new spirit. The reprises are there solitude, quietude, hope and desperation compressed but always a rhythm arises, a pulse vivified by gratitude and grace notes. The winter, the legend, has faded to just that, and this is the new momentary present. Bon Iver, Bon Iver was recorded and mixed over the course of three years at April Base Studios, a remodeled veterinarians clinic located in rural Fall Creek, Wisconsin.

• 1 Perth
• 2 Minnesota, Wi
• 3 Holocene
• 4 Towers
• 5 Michicant
• 6 Hinnom, TX
• 7 Wash
• 8 Calgary
• 9 Lisbon, Oh
• 10 Beth/Rest

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This is the folow-up to their platinum-selling and Grammy nominated GOOD NEWS... album, WE WERE DEAD BEFORE THE SHIP EVEN SANK is a new chapter in Modest Mouse's career with the new infusion of Johnny Marr and the extra percussion muscle brought by Plummer and Peloso. Produced by GOOD NEWS... Helmer Dennis Herring, the new album features several songs that the band played live during their 2-week-long sold-out runs in LA and NY, including the istant radio hit "Dashboard." This year will be filled with 4-star reviews for the new Modest Mouse album, get ready.

• 1 March Into the Sea
• 2 Dashboard
• 3 Fire It Up
• 4 Florida
• 5 Parting of the Sensory
• 6 Missed the Boat
• 7 We've Got Everything
• 8 Fly Trapped in a Jar
• 9 Education
• 10 Little Motel
• 11 Steam Engenius
• 12 Spitting Venom
• 13 People As Places As People
• 14 Invisible

Mj Lenderman is a songwriter born and raised in Asheville, North Carolina. The anatomy of an MJ record might go something like this: warped pedal steels and skuzzed out guitar; crackin' a cold one with some buds; a voice reminiscent of the high-lonesome warble of a choirboy. Songs snake their way from a lo-fi home recording to something glossier made with longtime friends at Asheville's Drop of Sun studios, but the recording setting doesn't seem to matter much - at it's core, a Lenderman song rings true.

Manning Fireworks is a remarkable development in Mj Lenderman's story as an incredibly incisive singer-songwriter, whose propensity for humor always points to some uneasy, disorienting darkness. The punchlines are still here, as are the rusted-wire guitar solos that have made Lenderman a favorite for indie rock fans looking for an emerging guitar hero. There's a new sincerity, too, as Lenderman let's listeners clearly see the world through his warped lens.

• 1 Manning Fireworks
• 2 Joker Lips
• 3 Rudolph
• 4 Wristwatch
• 5 She's Leaving You
• 6 Rip Torn
• 7 You Don't Know the Shape I'm in
• 8 On Me Knees
• 9 Bark at the Moon

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Nine Inch Nails purists once again have the opportunity to own the original version of PRETTY HATE MACHINE, as it is now being reissued on CD and LP in it's original form, which has been unavailable since a brief reissue in 2005. The album features the breakthrough singles "Sin," "Down in It," and "Head Like a Hole".

• 1 Head Like a Hole
• 2 Terrible Lie
• 3 Down in It
• 4 Sanctified
• 5 Something I Can Never Have
• 6 Kinda I Want to
• 7 Sin
• 8 That's What I Get
• 9 The Only Time
• 10 Ringfinger

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

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."

LOVE + POP is a snapshot of a moment in not-so-far-away time; something fast, loud, moody and a little dangerous. It is, in some ways, classic Current Joys: full of wild ambition, sneaky hooks, and songs that move from concept to completion with prolific speed. But LOVE + POP also explodes myriad expectations with aggressive, deconstructed production, house music influence, and a guest appearance from Lil Yachty. It is not so much a twist as it is a unique multiverse identity for Current Joys, as Nick Rattigan's set out to "capture this sonic moment and harken back to the way I first released music."

The story of LOVE + POP begins with one of those house parties: the kind that bulldozes your home and, in it's aftermath, leaves a wreckage that finds you flattened but also ready to be new. In that mess and mayhem, Rattigan watched Everybody's Everything, the documentary of Lil Peep, and recorded a cover of "walk away as the door slams". But the itch wasn't scratched, and what began as a moment of homage morphed into something bigger, deeper and more fundamental, a point where the seemingly haphazard - in his home, in Peep's process - opened Rattigan up to an entire creative space and a new approach to bending or even detonating genre. Crucially, all of this was recorded at home, in what Rattigan calls a "tribute to the process of creating" in a DIY space. And what began as a singular passion project unexpectedly grew into a uniquely collaborative record for Current Joys. "I've set out to make collaborative records before," Rattigan explains, "but they often end up totally me, with just a couple exceptions. But then this record gave me the opportunity to be extremely collaborative, to let other people write instrumental tracks, sending links around for people to mess with and weigh in on. I sat down to do credits and realized here were all these people and styles and they all came together and worked." LOVE + POP's cover art is an airbrush/spraypaint rendition of the Wild Heart album cover, which is itself a photo of Rattigan's grandparents kissing. It is sacred in some ways and shredded in others. This idea - the aggressive reimagining of something timeless into a present, finite style - is LOVE + POP.

• 1 Walk Away As the Door Slams
• 2 Love + Pop
• 3 Gatsby
• 4 My Shadow Life
• 5 Cigarettes
• 6 BB Put on Deftones
• 7 Dr Satan
• 8 Moon Sickness
• 9 Rock N Roll Dreams
• 10 I Feel Truth Inside of U
• 11 3Lefant
• 12 U R the Reason

The Libertines The Libertines On Vinyl LP

Rock'n'roll can pretty much burn off pure mythology alone, but what happens when the soap opera of drug abuse and broken friendships threatens to overwhelm the music? That's the problem the Libertines' eponymous second LP faced and while it sometimes struggles to live up to the magic of its predecessor, 2002's Up the Bracket, it's still peppered with enough inspiration to explain why people still care about this band. Co-frontmen Carl Barat and Pete Doherty tackle their problems head on with the opening "Can't Stand Me Now," an anthemic, harmonica-accompanied number with echoes of the Cure's "Lovecats," that sees Barat sum up The Libertines' troubled history in the album's most quotable line: "The boy kicked out at the world/ The world kicked back a lot f***ing harder." Further rollicking numbers include the Barat-sung "Narcissist" and knockabout closer "What Became of the Likely Lads?" as well as the hoarse, off-key "Don't Be Shy" which features Doherty at the helm.

The Libertines The Libertines Track Listing

1. Can't Stand Me Now 
2. Last Post On The Bugle 
3. Don't Be Shy 
4. The Man Who Would Be King 
5. Music When The Lights Go Out 
6. Narcissist 
7. The Ha Ha Wall 
8. Arbeit Macht Frei 
9. Campaign Of Hate 
10. What Katie Did 
11. Tomblands 
12. The Saga 
13. Road To Ruin 
14. What Became Of The Likely Lads

Expanded 30th anniversary re-issue of The Lemonheads’ classic 1993 album. The breakthrough record that took American alt rock global and catapulted Evan Dando into the hearts of a generation. With a wealth of unreleased demos, alternative versions and rarities - including covers of Victoria Williams, Buddy Holly and The Flying Burrito Brothers plus the Cole Porter standard ‘Miss Otis Regrets’.

In the 90’s Evan’s Lemonheads produced hit after a hit, a string of super cool singles: ‘Big Gay Heart’, ‘Into Your Arms’, ‘It’s About Time’, and ‘The Great Big NO’. Pure genius filling the radio waves and taking the stage... Some 30 years on; Evan is still knocking that song writing thing out of the park and ‘Come On Feel The Lemonheads’ sounds as fresh and perky as it ever did. Amid the hits on the original record are stencils and outlines for yet more magical music and now this deluxe edition adds a second disc of demos and acoustic versions, plus a host of one-offs from sessions and compilations that add further colour to the myth and how it was created.

There’s the cover of Victoria Williams’ ‘Frying Pan’ from her ‘Sweet Relief’ album, which is joined by an eclectic set of flipsides and out-takes, like their version of ‘Little Black Egg’ by The Nightcrawlers, Evan’s homage to Gram Parsons on the winsome ‘Streets Of Baltimore’ and Buddy Holly’s melancholy ‘Learning The Game’. Evan knows a good song when he hears it, as ‘Come On Feel The Lemonheads’ certainly proved.

“Come On Feel was home to some of his best, sharpest writing – fabulous sunny powerpop and beautiful ballads” The Guardian

The time is now for Caroline Rose. Their last record, Superstar, was released on March 6, 2020. The record was critically acclaimed and positioned Rose as the next big breakthrough in music. Needless to say, the resulting pandemic grinded all momentum to a halt while at the same time throwing Rose's personal life into turmoil. The result of that turmoil is the fuel that fired the creation of their latest album, The Art of Forgetting. With The Art of Forgetting, Rose took on the dual role of writer and producer. The album encapsulates the feeling of experiencing recent memories, having them turn into old ones and then ultimately forgetting those memories altogether. There is a romantic nature within the sonic landscape of this record. Tape effects and loops emulate the feeling of aging while the juxtaposition of modern acoustic-electronic textures, like lo-fi tape next to hi-fi granular synths result in some of their most mature and honest work to date.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Love / Lover / Friend
• 2 Rebirth
• 3 Miami
• 4 Better Than Gold
• 5 Everywhere I Go I Bring the Rain
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 The Doldrums
• 2 The Kiss
• 3 Cornbread
• 4 Stockholm Syndrome
• 5 Tell Me What You Want
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 Florida Room
• 2 Love Song for Myself
• 3 Jill Says
• 4 Where Do I Go from Here?

WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story stars Daniel Radcliffe as “Weird” Al Yankovic in the unexaggerated true story about the greatest musician of our time. From a conventional upbringing where playing the accordion was a sin, Al rebelled and made his dream of changing the words to world-renowned songs come true. An instant success and sex symbol, Al lives an excessive lifestyle and pursues an infamous romance that nearly destroys him. The movie is available to stream on the Roku Channel or online via Roku, Fire TV or Samsung devices.

WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story (Original Soundtrack) features 46 tracks - a mix of “Weird Al’s” greatest hits (some newly recorded; some classics), a new song “Now You Know,” various artists’ tracks, interstitial bits from the film, and the film’s score from Leo Birenberg and Zach Robinson (the team behind the score for the Netflix blockbuster Cobra Kai) lovingly compiled on 2-LPs housed in a gatefold package on glorious coral color vinyl.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 You Don't Know Anything (Dialogue) - Diedrich Bader
• 2 My Bologna - "Weird Al" Yankovic
• 3 I Love Rocky Road - "Weird Al" Yankovic
• 4 Another One Rides the Bus - "Weird Al" Yankovic
• 5 Eat It - "Weird Al" Yankovic
• 6 Like a Surgeon - "Weird Al" Yankovic
• 7 Amish Paradise - "Weird Al" Yankovic
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Now You Know - "Weird Al" Yankovic
• 2 Dr. Demento Opening Theme (Pico & Sepulveda) - the Roto Rooter Goodtime Christmas Band
• 3 Beer Barrel Polka (Roll Out the Barrel) - Cory Pesaturo
• 4 Helena Polka - Cory Pesaturo
• 5 The Chicken Dance Aka the Bird Dance - the Emeralds
• 6 Clarinet Polka - "Weird Al" Yankovic
• 7 Beat on the Brat - "Weird Al" Yankovic
• 8 Bowling with the Devil - Skunk Barf
• 9 The Cobra Pit
• 10 Demento's Pool Party
• 11 You're All a Bunch of Slaves (Instrumental) - "Weird Al" Yankovic
• 12 Guadalajara - César Ramírez, Omar Estrada, & Cesar Chavira
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 Back from the Dead
• 2 Weird
• 3 The Accordion
• 4 Hay Boy
• 5 The Closet
• 6 Epiphany
• 7 Cracked the Code
• 8 On the Spot
• 9 A Rare Gift
• 10 My Parents
• 11 Write Your Own Songs
• 12 LSD Trip
• 13 Al and Madonna
• 14 A Parody of "Eat It"
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 Drunk Driving
• 2 You're All I've Got
• 3 Diner Kidnapping
• 4 Heart of the Jungle
• 5 Certified Platinum
• 6 It's All Business
• 7 The Factory
• 8 Dad Apologizes
• 9 Raised Amish
• 10 It's Nothing
• 11 Would You Be My Son?
• 12 Al's Speech
• 13 In Memoriam

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Limited silver colored vinyl LP pressing. Toro y Moi's seventh studio album, Mahal, is the boldest and most fascinating journey yet from musical mastermind Chaz Bear. The record spans genre and sound-encompassing the shaggy psychedelic rock of the 1960s and '70s, and the airy sounds of 1990s mod-post-rock-taking listeners on an auditory expedition, as if they're riding in the back of Bear's Filipino jeepney that adorns the album's cover. But Mahal is also an unmistakably Toro y Moi experience, calling back to previous works while charting a new path forward in a way that only Bear can do. Mahal is the latest in an accomplished career for Bear, who's undoubtedly one of the decade's most influential musicians. Since the release of the electronic pop landmark Causers of This in 2009, subsequent records as Toro y Moi have repeatedly shifted the idea of what his sound can be. But there's little in Bear's catalog that will prepare you for the deep-groove excursions on Mahal, his most eclectic record to date.

Tracks

• 1 The Medium
• 2 Goes By So Fast
• 3 Magazine
• 4 Postman
• 5 The Loop
• 6 Last Year
• 7 Mississippi
• 8 Clarity
• 9 Foreplay
• 10 DÉJÀ Vu
• 11 Way Too Hot
• 12 Millennium
• 13 Days in Love

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing housed in gatefold jacket. Strangeland is Keane's fourth studio album. Originally released in May 2012 it charted at #1 and has gone on to sell over 200k in the UK. It also charted at #1 in Ireland and the Netherlands whilst in the US it peaked at #17. Produced by Dan Grech-Marguerat the album includes three singles: 'Silenced By The Night', 'Disconnecte'd and 'Sovereign Light Café'.

• 1 You Are Young
• 2 Silenced By the Night
• 3 Disconnected
• 4 Watch How You Go
• 5 Sovereign Light Café
• 6 On the Road
• 7 The Starting Line
• 8 Black Rain
• 9 Neon River
• 10 Day Will Come
• 11 In Your Own Time
• 12 Sea Fog

Interpol follows-up 2014's El Pintor with their sixth studio album, Marauder. For the first time since 2007's Our Love to Admire, the band has opened themselves up to the input of a producer. For two-week spells between December of 2017 to April of 2018, they traveled to upstate New York to work with Dave Fridmann – famed for recording with Mercury Rev, Flaming Lips, MGMT, Spoon, Mogwai, and countless more.

In the run up to writing and recording, Sam Fogarino found himself immersed in soul drummers such as Al Jackson Jr (Otis Redding's drummer) and 80's funk producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. "How can I make shit swing?" was the question Sam repeatedly asked himself, and the answer is in the striding gallop of opener "If You Really Love Nothing," the embellished skip ‘n' bounce of "Stay in Touch" and the R&B swagger of closer "It Probably Matters." Interpol have always been world-beaters at creating a feeling, but Marauder is where the feel is just as crucial.

Paul Banks may have stepped out of the shadows as a bassist, but he steps into an even brighter light as a songwriter here. During Interpol's previous albums, the singer largely kept himself out of his own work, preferring to fill his lyrics with detached thoughts, characters, and observations, often phrased in abstract. But more than 20 years on since forming at NYU, the frontman is finally allowing himself to play a role in his own stories. 

"Marauder is a facet of myself," he explains. "That's the guy that fucks up friendships and does crazy shit. He taught me a lot, but it's representative of a persona that's best left in song. In a way, this album is like giving him a name and putting him to bed."

1. If You Really Love Nothing
2. The Rover
3. Complications
4. Flight of Fancy
5. Stay In Touch
6. Interlude 1
7. Mountain Child
8. NYSMAW
9. Surveillance
10. Number 10
11. Party's Over
12. Interlude 2
13. It Probably Matters

Limited translucent purple vinyl LP pressing. 2020 EP containing four stripped-back classic Bayside songs, as well as one brand new track, "Light Me Up." Acoustic Volume 3 serves as a follow up - and a stark juxtaposition - to 2019's Interrobang, the band's heaviest record to date.

Tracks

• 1 Light Me Up
• 2 The New Flesh
• 3 Not Fair
• 4 Poison in My Veins
• 5 Prayers

Dream pop band from Puerto Rico, who moved to NYC. Beautiful 7″ on clear coke bottle green vinyl.  Comes with a download card that contains 2 bonus tracks.