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For more than three decades, AFI has been in a nearly constant state of reinvention. The band have made it a point to evolve with every album-sometimes dramatically so-never allowing themselves to become too comfortable in one genre or rest on any of their impressive career laurels. It's an approach that has grown their audience but also challenged it with a sonic identity that can shift in wild, unexpected directions. Now with their twelfth album, Silver Bleeds the Black Sun..., AFI are once again at the start of a bold new chapter, only this time they've even managed to surprise themselves. How does a band that's known for creative upheaval still find ways to push themselves out of their comfort zones? Typically the group would start an album by immediately throwing themselves into writing and simply letting their intuitive musical shorthand guide the process, but for Silver Bleeds the Black Sun... AFI set out to purposely change their creative approach all together. This time it started with a conversation: how could they break new ground? The key to moving forward actually ended up coming from AFI's collective past. "We started with something that sounded like Echo & the Bunnymen," explains guitarist Jade Puget, who produced and engineered the album. "But eventually we ended up with this melange of death rock and post-punk-all this stuff from the late '70s and early '80s that we grew up on, like Sisters of Mercy, and Bauhaus, and Siouxsie and the Banshees." The goal became making an album with a singular mood, something dreamy and ethereal, and the band members found themselves diving headfirst into influences that had always been deeply embedded in AFI's musical core, but now were being brought to the forefront. Silver Bleeds the Black Sun... is dark and otherworldly, but also grandiose and stately, biting and beautiful in equal measure-in other words, it's very AFI, yet not quite like any version of the band you've ever heard before.

• 1 The Bird of Prey
• 2 Behind the Clock
• 3 Holy Visions
• 4 Blasphemy and Exccess
• 5 Spear of Truth
• 6 Ash Speck in a Green Eye
• 7 Voidward, I Bend Back
• 8 Marguerite
• 9 A World Unmade
• 10 Nooneunderground

Vinyl LP pressing. 2013 release, the ninth studio album from the multi-platinum Alt-Rock band and their first for Republic Records. The Cali-based band recorded the album with producer Gil Norton (Pixies, Patti Smith, Foo Fighters) at East West Studios in Los Angeles. The record was mixed by Andrew Scheps (Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers). Since the release of 1995's debut album Answer That and Stay Fashionable, AFI have written and recorded five top ten hit singles, hit #1 on the Billboard 200 (with the stunning December underground), garnered critical acclaim and amassed a fiercely loyal international following whose members number in the millions.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 The Sinking Night
• 2 I Hope You Suffer
• 3 A Deep Slow Panic
• 4 No Resurrection
• 5 17 Crimes
• 6 The Conductor
• 7 Heart Stops
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Rewind
• 2 The Embrace
• 3 Wild
• 4 Greater Than 84
• 5 Anxious
• 6 The Face Beneath the Waves

Compact Disc

HUMBUG, the 3rd album from Sheffield's Arctic Monkeys finds the band brimming with vim, vigor and new ideas. They brought in a new production accomplice, Josh Homme, for some of the recording. He generously hosted and produced tracks with them at his Joshua Tree studio. Then they rejoined forces with James Ford, producer of the previous 2 Arctic Monkeys and Last Shadow Puppets albums, in Brooklyn, NY to complete the tracks that became HUMBUG. The album is stunning set of songs both heavier and lush than previous albums but still full of the Monkeys usual punch and vitality.

• 1 My Propeller
• 2 Crying Lightning
• 3 Dangerous Animals
• 4 Secret Door
• 5 Potion Approaching
• 6 Fire and the Thud
• 7 Cornerstone
• 8 Dance Little Liar
• 9 Pretty Visitors
• 10 The Jeweller's Hands

A new live album that sees the band reflecting on their 6th album, Radiohead’s Hail to the Thief (Live Recordings 2003-2009) is comprised of performances of songs in London, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, and Dublin between 2003 and 2009. The album was mixed by Ben Baptie and mastered by Matt Colton.

Speaking about the new live album, Thom Yorke, who recently co-created the critically acclaimed Hamlet Hail to the Thief, a frenetic adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, says:

“In the process of thinking of how to build arrangements for the Shakespeare Hamlet/Hail To The Thief theatre production, I asked to hear some archive live recordings of the songs. I was shocked by the kind of energy behind the way we played. I barely recognised us, and it helped me find a way forward. We decided to get these live recordings mixed and released (it would have been insane to keep them for ourselves). It has all been a very cathartic process. We very much hope you enjoy them.”

01. 2 + 2 = 5 (Live)
02. Sit Down. Stand Up (Live)
03. Sail to the Moon (Live)
04. Go to Sleep (Live)
05. Where I End and You Begin (Live)
06. We Suck Young Blood (Live)
07. The Gloaming (Live)
08. There There (Live)
09. I Will (Live)
10. Myxomatosis (Live)
11. Scatterbrain (Live)
12. A Wolf at the Door (Live)

It was winter in Manhattan. The streets were frozen and still the band rode bicycles to the Power Station on 53rd and back to Brooklyn for three weeks. Three weeks that would mark the birth of Double Infinity - the album that constitutes a grand departure for Big Thief. An ultramodern community of musicians gathered in the warm wooden room where Bruce once stood. They all tracked together – simultaneously – improvising arrangements and making collective discoveries. 

Laraaji created drones with zither and an iPad and sang intuitive vocal melodies. Joshua Crumbly played bass; Mikey Buishas made live tape loops and played keys; Mikel Patrick Avery, Jon Nellen, and Caleb Michel played percussion; Adam Brisbin played guitar; and Hannah Cohen, Alena Spanger and June McDoom sang background vocals. Along with core members Adrianne, Buck, and James, the group played for nine hours a day. Double Infinity is the archive of this play. It could only have been produced, engineered, and mixed by longtime Big Thief collaborator Dom Monks. 

“Double Infinity,” reaches into the idea of inner and outer worlds, and the body as the bridge. It speaks to the purgatory created by the human brain, always looking to the past or future, between the things we’ve lost and the things we want, between desire and regret. “Beauty speak to me, let me know you, let me see myself inside your mystery, through the crystal cage of aging.” It calls for true beauty to speak, not fabricated, conditioned ideas of beauty. At the bridge between “what is forming” and “what is fading”, between “losing and of gaining”, “mourning and celebrating”, perhaps there is solace in “the eye behind the essence, still, unmovable”, that which is “unchanging”, outside of time. Is it love?

Hard to believe that this multi-platinum record-boasting the #1 Modern Rock single "Good"-has only seen a release on vinyl previously via an extremely limited run for Pledge Music (remember them?). Just like that edition, we're going gatefold with our 2-LP Real Gone reissue... originally self-released by Better Than Ezra in 1993 and re-released by Elektra in 1995, Deluxe provides a ticket back to that beloved jangle-pop, college radio sound. Also features the alternative hit singles "In the Blood" and "Rosealia."

Compact Disc

The Smashing Pumpkins' hit double album, MELLON COLLIE & THE INFINITE SADNESS, has been remastered for the first time for this reissue.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
• 2 Tonight, Tonight
• 3 Jellybelly
• 4 Zero
• 5 Here Is No Why
• 6 Bullet with Butterfly Wings
• 7 To Forgive
• 8 F*** You (An Ode to No One)
• 9 Love
• 10 Cupid de Locke
• 11 Galapogos
• 12 Muzzle
• 13 Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
• 14 Take Me Down
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Where the Boys Fear to Trend
• 2 Bodies
• 3 Thirty-Three
• 4 In the Arms of Sleep
• 5 1979
• 6 Tales of a Scorched Earth
• 7 Thru the Eyes of Ruby
• 8 Stumbleine
• 9 X.Y.U
• 10 We Only Come Out at Night
• 11 Beautiful
• 12 Lily (My One and Only)
• 13 By Starlight
• 14 Farewell and Goodnight

Crumb is the collaboration of Brooklyn-based musicians Lila Ramani (guitar, vocals), Brian Aronow (synth, keys, sax), Jesse Brotter (bass), and Jonathan Gilad (drums). The friends came together in 2016 with the goal of developing and recording a collection of songs Ramani had written in high school and college, the work ultimately resulting in the band's first two EPs, 2016's "Crumb" and 2017's "Locket." Encouraged by the warm reception online and at shows, the band evolved into a full time touring and recording project. In June 2019, Crumb will release Jinx, their first full-length album and best distillation to date of their singular blend of psych-rock and jazz. On Jinx, Ramani continues to helm the songwriting, with Aronow, Brotter, and Gilad each bringing distinctive ideas to match her ethereal, intimate vocals and luminous guitar lines. Informed by two years of nearly non-stop touring, the songs sweep and swell to capture the beguiling live spirit of Crumb shows, while taking listeners one step further down the band's dizzying, hypnotic path.

• 1 Cracking
• 2 Nina
• 3 Ghostride
• 4 Fall Down
• 5 M.R
• 6 The Letter
• 7 Part III
• 8 And It Never Ends
• 9 Faces
• 10 Jinx

R.E.M. - "Fables Of The Reconstruction" / R.E.M.'s third studio album, Fables of the Reconstruction, was originally released in 1985 and features such classics as "Driver 8," "Can't Get There From Here," and "Life And How To Live It." The gold-certified record has been faithfully restored on vinyl.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Feeling Gravitys Pull
• 2 Maps and Legends
• 3 Driver 8
• 4 Life and How to Live It
• 5 Old Man Kensey
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Can't Get There from Here
• 2 Green Grow the Rushes
• 3 Kohoutek
• 4 Auctioneer (Another Engine)
• 5 Good Advices
• 6 Wendell Gee

Originally released in 1990, Bossanova was the Pixies' third full-length and second collaboration with independent English producer Gil Norton. The album was a noted departure from their unpredictable signature sound and it's considered their first thematic project. Leader Black Francis' (Frank Thompson) songwriting reveals his twisted interpretation of surf music combined with his fascination of aliens and UFOs. The end result is Bossanova, a surf-space rock album that found the Pixies reaching new heights. Pressed on Audiophile Quality 180g Vinyl!

Pixies Bossanova Track Listing

1. Cecilia Ann 
2. Rock Music 
3. Velouria 
4. Allison 
5. Is She Weird 
6. Ana 
7. All Over The World 
8. Dig For Fire 
9. Down To The Well 
10. The Happening 
11. Blown Away 
12. Hang Wire 
13. Stormy Weather 
14. Havalina 

Garbage - "Bleed Like Me" Newly remastered reissue of the fourth Garbage studio album, Bleed Like Me, available for the first time on vinyl. Originally released in 2005 and featuring the hit single, "Why Do You Love Me," this remastered LP contains the main album only.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Bad Boyfriend
• 2 Run Baby Run
• 3 Right Between the Eyes
• 4 Why Do You Love Me
• 5 Bleed Like Me
• 6 Metal Heart
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Sex Is Not the Enemy
• 2 It's All Over But the Crying
• 3 Boys Wanna Fight
• 4 Why Do You Love Me
• 5 Happy Home

Dinosaur Jr carved out a singular path through the latter half of the 1980s and first half of the 1990s, issuing a number of highly influential albums in the process. Hand It Over, their seventh record, appeared in the spring of 1997 following a lengthy absence, and would prove to be the band's final album-length offering for a decade.

Performed primarily by J Mascis, Hand It Over appeared at a time of declining international interest in American alternative rock, but nevertheless received widespread approval and appreciation amongst critics and reviewers. The album was accompanied, unusually, by an EP of non-album songs recorded for the Matt Dillon movie Grace Of My Heart and, later, a vinyl only "I'm Insane" 7" single, all of which are collected here alongside previously unreleased recordings made on stage in Stockholm and on TV in Australia.

Remastered and accompanied by in-depth sleevenotes from Mojo's Keith Cameron (based on recent and exclusive interviews with J Mascis), this deluxe edition colored vinyl 2LP-set provides a final view of a band about to disappear from the limelight but still as engaging and powerful as ever.

Features:
• Colored vinyl 2LP-set
• Remastered and expanded
• Includes the Take A Run at the Sun EP plus never-before-on-vinyl tracks
• Liner notes by Mojo Magazine's Keith Cameron based on exclusive new interviews with J Mascis
• Produced in conjunction with the artist

LP1

1. I Don't Think
2. Never Bought It
3. Nothin's Goin On
4. I'm Insane
5. Can't We Move This
6. Alone
7. Sure Not Over You
8. Loaded
9. Mick
10. I Know Yer Insane
11. Gettin' Rough
12. Gotta Know

LP2

1. Take A Run At The Sun
2. Don't You Think It's Time
3. The Pickle Song
4. I Misunderstood
5. Never Bought It (Live 1997)
6. Alone (Live 1997)
7. Never Bought It (Live On ABC)
8. Sure Not Over You (Live On ABC)

Snail Mail returns with her first recordings since the critically adored 2021 LP 'Valentine.' 'Valentine Demos' collects four intimate recordings leading up to Snail Mail's most recent studio album along with a never-before-heard track "Easy Thing." Snail Mail's Lindsey Jordan will embark on a North American acoustic tour accompanied by a full string section in tandem with the release of the demos EP.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Automate
• 2 C. Et Al
• 3 Headlock
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Easy Thing
• 2 Adore You
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 Automate
• 2 C. Et Al
• 3 Headlock
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 Easy Thing
• 2 Adore You

Compact Disc

"The title Soft Sounds From Another Planet alludes to the promise of something that may or may not be there. Like a hope in something more. The songs are about human resilience and the strength it takes to claw out of the darkest of spaces." Michelle Zauner wrote the debut Japanese Breakfast album in the weeks after her mother died of cancer, thinking she would quit music entirely once it was done. That wasn't the case. When Psychopomp was released to acclaim in 2016, she was forced to confront her grief. Zauner would find find herself reliving traumatic memories multiple times a day during interviews, trying to remain composed while discussing the most painful experience of her life. Her sophomore album, Soft Sounds From Another Planet, is a transmutation of mourning, a reflection that turns back on the cosmos in search of healing. - With help from co-producer Craig Hendrix (who also co-produced Little Big League's debut) and Jorge Elbrecht, (Ariel Pink, Tamaryn) who mixed the album, Zauner recontextualizes her bedroom pop beginnings, expanding and maturing her sound. The sheer massiveness of the big room production on Soft Sounds From Another Planet introduces listeners to a new Japanese Breakfast. Zauner's familiar, capacious voice will serve as their guide.

• 1 Diving Woman
• 2 Road Head
• 3 Machinist
• 4 Planetary Ambience
• 5 Soft Sounds from Another Planet
• 6 Boyish
• 7 12 Steps
• 8 Jimmy Fallon Big!
• 9 The Body Is a Blade
• 10 Till Death
• 11 This House
• 12 Here Come the Tubular Bells

Ghost Stories (clear EcoRecord LP) Ghost Stories by Coldplay is now available on clear EcoRecord. Each injection-moulded LP is made entirely from, on average, nine recycled plastic bottles. EcoRecord sounds and looks as great as a traditional vinyl record, but it's been manufactured using 100% recycled PET, instead of PVC. Injection moulding technology has energy savings of up to 85% compared to the traditional vinyl process. - Ghost Stories is Coldplay's 2014 sixth studio album. The album was co-produced by the band, Paul Epworth, Dan Green and Rik Simpson. It includes the singles Midnight, A Sky Full of Stars, Magic and True Love.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Always in My Head
• 2 Magic
• 3 Ink
• 4 True Love
• 5 Midnight
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Another's Arms
• 2 Oceans
• 3 A Sky Full of Stars
• 4 O

Vinyl LP pressing. 2022 release, the fifth album from the Southern California-based rock band.

• 1 American Bollywood
• 2 Wake Up
• 3 Tomorrow
• 4 Guardian Angel
• 5 My Way
• 6 Insomnia
• 7 Tonight
• 8 The Walk Home
• 9 Dollar $Tore
• 10 Cult of Personality
• 11 I Bite
• 12 Dancing in the Rain
• 13 Happy
• 14 Commotion
• 15 Otherside
• 16 Same Folk

Compact Disc

311's third studio album, 311, celebrates it's 30th anniversary with a deluxe CD featuring 7 bonus tracks.

• 1 Down
• 2 Random
• 3 Jackolantern's Weather
• 4 All Mixed Up
• 5 Hive
• 6 Guns (Are for Pussies)
• 7 Misdirected Hostility
• 8 Purpose
• 9 Loco
• 10 Brodels
• 11 Don't Stay Home
• 12 DLMD
• 13 Sweet
• 14 T & P Combo
• 15 Tribute ('311' Outtake - 1995)
• 16 Let the Cards Fall ('311' Outtake - 1995)
• 17 Gap ('311' Outtake - 1995)
• 18 Firewater (Slo-Mo) ('311' Outtake - 1995)
• 19 Outside (From 'Senior Trip' Ost - 1996)
• 20 Juan Bond (311 Sessions)
• 21 Next (311 Sessions)

Compact Disc

Tyler Robert Joseph and Joshua William Dun present their fifth energy-laden work, a release that's sure to enchant every fan of the band.

Released in March 1996, Milk & Kisses is the eighth and final studio album by Cocteau Twins. And like it's predecessor, 1993's Four Calendar Café, it's yet to be formally released on vinyl outside Europe. That all changes next January when 4AD will reissue both titles in the United States. The second of two albums Cocteau Twins released via Fontana / Capitol Records after their long association with 4AD ended in 1990 with Heaven or Las Vegas, the band warmed the waters for Milk & Kisses with a pair of exceptional EPs where they took their music to new places, Twinlights and Otherness - the first largely acoustic, the second their only sanctioned remixes (done with Seefeel's Mark Clifford). A period of high creativity for the band, renewed after a turbulent time, they recorded and produced Milk & Kisses between their September Sound studio in London and the coastal town of Pors Poulhan in Brittany, France. Featuring the singles 'Tishbite' and 'Violaine' and fan favourites such as 'Serpentskirt' and 'Treasure Hiding', the album is a cathartic listen too with MOJO saying in a glowing review that the album's title "accurately intimates it's soothing, healing powers." Ultimately, Milk & Kisses also proved to be their swan song, bringing the curtain down on 14 years of wonder to leave an incredible legacy that new generations continue to discover to this day. 4AD are delighted to announce that they're working with the band on reissuing both Four Calendar Café and Milk & Kisses in the United States, with CD and black vinyl editions of both titles coming out on January 12th 2024. To do this, Robin Guthrie returned to his original studio mixes and has delivered stunning, brand new 24-bit masters of both titles.

• 1 Violaine
• 2 Serpentskirt
• 3 Tishbite
• 4 Half-Gifts
• 5 Calfskin Smack
• 6 Rilkean Heart
• 7 Ups
• 8 Eperdu
• 9 Treasure Hiding
• 10 Seekers Who Are Lovers

Double red colored vinyl LP pressing housed in gatefold jacket. Set against the vibrant pulse of one of the world's great music capitals, More Than We Ever Imagined captures Twenty One Pilots at a career-defining moment. Recorded during the band's huge Mexico City headline show on The Clancy World Tour, it documents an unforgettable performance with 65,000 fans at Estadio GNP Seguro. There's real scale here, but also the connection that makes Twenty One Pilots such a compelling live band. A powerful snapshot of a major tour, in a city that knows exactly how to raise the volume.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Overcompensate
• 2 Holding on
• 3 Vignette
• 4 Car Radio
• 5 Tear in My Heart
• 6 Shy Away
• 7 Heathens
• 8 Next Semester
• 9 Routines in the Night
• 10 Line
• 11 Mulberry Street
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Navigating
• 2 Nico/Heavy Dirty Soul
• 3 Guns for Hands
• 4 Lavish
• 5 Ride
• 6 Paladin Strait
• 7 Jumpsuit
• 8 Midwest Indigo
• 9 Stressed Out
• 10 Trees

MALCOLM TODD / DO THAT AGAIN VINYL LP - Malcolm has quickly emerged as one of alternative pop's most compelling young artists. In 2024, he introduced himself with his mixtape Sweet Boy, and two years later, the project has taken on a life of it's own with RIAA Gold-certified songs: "Earrings," "Sweet Boy," and "Roommates." He followed it with his self-titled debut, Malcolm Todd, which has accumulated over 600 million global streams, with the RIAA Platinum-certified "Chest Pain (I Love)," his first Billboard Hot 100 entry, now surpassing 350 million streams worldwide. While recording his new album Do That Again, Malcolm spent the summer bursting with life. The Los Angeles-based musician was hard at work, pouring all of it straight into the new record, writing through his growth as both a person and an artist. Over six months were spent at Electric Lady Studios in New York and Chaplin Recording Studios in Los Angeles. COLUMBIA RECORDS

• 1 Jean Skirt
• 2 Breathe
• 3 Free.99
• 4 Obsessica
• 5 I Saw Your Face
• 6 Difficult Love
• 7 Malcolm in the Middle
• 8 Ain't That the Truth
• 9 Gun to My Head
• 10 X's & O'S
• 11 Lonely Song
• 12 Good Bye
• 13 Do That Again