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A passion to create uncommonly expressive rock and roll fueled Jeremy Enigk (guitar/vocals), Dan Hoerner (guitar/vocals), William Goldsmith (drums), and Nate Mendel (bass) from the earliest incarnations of Sunny Day Real Estate. It was quickly clear they’d all stumbled upon something new and exciting. Enigk’s yearning, high-register voice was a direct contrast to Hoerner’s primal delivery, imbuing the music with a previously unrealized level of emotion, and when Mendel returned from tour, it was decided Sunny Day would henceforth be a quartet, with Enigk on lead vocals.

At the time, grunge had turned Seattle into the epicenter of the music industry, making worldwide superstars out of hometown heroes Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Alice in Chains. But Sunny Day forged its own path, deriving a unique sound from its members’ collective talents. “It was guys that played hardcore experimenting with actually writing songs,” Goldsmith recalls of the band’s early days. “Hardcore is really fast and out of control. There was still songwriting and arranging, but this was a whole new thing, learning how to leave space. We had these melodies that were kind of triumphant; they matched what we were feeling.”

In May 1993, Sunny Day played just its second show ever at Seattle’s Crocodile Café, before a sparse crowd that just happened to include Sub Pop co-founder Jonathan Poneman. He left blown away and determined to sign the band to his label, which he did within a matter of weeks. “The thing that was so emotionally engaging about the music was that the songs were so beautiful and evocative,” he says. “It was a riveting experience.”

Poneman enlisted producer Brad Wood (Liz Phair, Smashing Pumpkins) to produce Sunny Day’s Sub Pop debut, which the band recorded at his Idful Studios in Chicago at the end of its maiden North American tour. Diary was released on May 10, 1994 and, despite substantial rock radio airplay for “Seven” and “In Circles,” failed to appear on any Billboard chart. The band wrapped itself in mystery, granting only one interview (to British journalist Everett True) and distributing a single publicity photo. The critical reception was generally positive (“poignant and painfully revealing,” said CMJ; “a stark, blinding ray of sunshine,” offered Kerrang!). But it proved a remarkably consistent seller, eventually exceeding 230,000 units to make it Sub Pop’s seventh-biggest release of all time.
 
Sub Pop Records has reissued both Diary and the band’s second full-length album, commonly known as LP2 (or “The Pink Album” for its entirely pink cover). Both re-mastered albums include rare bonus tracks as well as newly written liner notes.

Sunny Day Real Estate Diary Track Listing:

1. Seven
2. In Circles
3. Song About an Angel
4. Round
5. 47
6. The Blankets Were the Stairs
7. Pheurton Skeurto
8. Shadows
9. 48
10. Grendel
11. Sometimes
12. 8 (bonus track)
13. 9 (bonus track)

Available on Vinyl for the First Time Since Limited Initial Pressing; 40th Anniversary Reissue Pressed at Memphis Records Pressing with Lacquers Cut by George Horn at Fantasy Studios

As Violent Femmes celebrate their 40th year together, Craft Recordings honors the band's enduring catalog of cult classics with the long out-of-print vinyl reissue of the popular 1993 collection Add It Up (1981 – 1993). The 23-track compilation features Violent Femmes' biggest hits, including "Blister in the Sun," "American Music," and "Gone Daddy Gone," plus live recordings of favorites like "Add It Up," and "Kiss Off," alongside a trove of demos, B-sides, interstitial voice recordings, and rarities. Housed in a gatefold jacket, the 2LP-set was pressed at Memphis Records Pressing, with lacquers cut by George Horn at Fantasy Studios.

Tracks

LP1

1. Intro
2. Waiting For The Bus
3. Blister In The Sun
4. Gone Daddy Gone
5. Gordon's Message
6. Gimme The Car
7. Country Death Song
8. Black Girls
9. Jesus Walking On The Water
10. 36-24-36
11. I Held Her In My Arms

LP2

1. I Hate The TV
2. America Is
3. Old Mother Reagan
4. Degradation
5. Dance, Motherfucker, Dance!
6. Lies [Live]
7. American Music
8. Out The Window
9. Kiss Off [Live]
10. Add It Up [Live]
11. Vancouver [Live]
12. Johnny [Live]

Double vinyl LP pressing. 2018 release, the fourth studio album by British band Mumford & Sons. The album was recorded at The Church Studios in London with producer Paul Epworth. The album features the lead single, "Guiding Light". The band recorded more than 25 songs with Epworth and were intent on keeping the "collaborative spirit" of their live shows and 2016 EP Johannesburg. Marcus Mumford has said that much of the album was recorded in "non-gender specific Friday night lads sessions" with friends where they would play music, "smoke cigarettes and have a great time". Around 100 people were involved in these sessions, with some being featured on the record, including American singer-songwriters Maggie Rogers and Gill Landry.

Tracks

1. 42
2. Guiding Light
3. Woman
4. Beloved
5. The Wild
6. October Skies
7. Slip Away
8. Rose Of Sharon
9. Picture You
10. Darkness Visible
11. If I Say
12. Wild Heart
13. Forever
14. Delta

My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love on LP

My Chemical Romance's auspicious 2002 debut I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love was produced by Thursday vocalist Geoff Rickly and combines the best of punk, metal and emo to create a big sound complete with an abundance of sing-along choruses and a relentless two-guitar attack. Equally anxious and angry frontman Gerard Way explores sinister themes of substance abuse and isolation with precision while the band's driving rhythms and anthemic melodies frame the proceedings handsomely. Includes the soaring standouts "Honey, This Mirror Isn't Big Enough For The Two Of Us," "Vampires Will Never Hurt You" and "Headfirst For Halos."

1. Romance
2. Honey, This Mirror Isn't Big Enough For the Two of Us
3. Vampires Will Never Hurt You
4. Drowning Lessons
5. Our Lady of Sorrows
6. Headfirst For Halos
7. Skylines and Turnstiles
8. Early Sunsets Over Monrover
9. This is the Best Day Ever
10. Cubicles
11. Demolition Lovers

Double vinyl LP pressing. Includes bonus tracks. Wasteland, Baby! Is the sophomore album by Irish Singer-Songwriter Hozier. Originally released in 2019, featuring the singles 'Nina Cried Power', 'Movement' and 'Almost (Sweet Music)', the album has gone on to be certified Platinum in Canada and Gold in multiple territories. This expanded edition includes the original album, b-sides, acoustic version of 'Be' + brand new song 'Why Would You Be Loved'.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Nina Cried Power
• 2 Almost (Sweet Music)
• 3 Movement
• 4 No Plan
• 5 Nobody
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 To Noise Making (Sing)
• 2 As It Was
• 3 Shrike
• 4 Talk
• 5 Be
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 Dinner & Diatribes
• 2 Would That I
• 3 Sunlight
• 4 Wasteland, Baby!
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 Shrike (Live at Windmill Lane Studios)
• 2 Moment's Silence (Common Tongue)
• 3 Why Would You Be Loved
• 4 Be (Acoustic)
• 5 NFWMB

Paramore / PARAMORE - Celebrate 10 years of Paramore's self-titled album with this Black 2xLP vinyl reissue. 10th Anniversary Reissue on Double LP!

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Fast in My Car
• 2 Now
• 3 Grow Up
• 4 Daydreaming
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Interlude: Moving on
• 2 Ain't It Fun
• 3 Part II
• 4 Last Hope
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 Still Into You
• 2 Anklebiters
• 3 Interlude: Holiday
• 4 Proof
• 5 Hate to See Your Heart Break
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 (One of Those) Crazy Girls
• 2 Interlude: I'm Not Angry Anymore
• 3 Be Alone
• 4 Future

Compact Disc

DEMON DAYS is the highly anticipated follow up to their multi-platinum debut. Album has been co-produced by Damon Albarn and DJ Dangermouse. With guest appearances from artists such as Ike Turner, de la Soul and Mf Doom. Features the first single "Feel Good, Inc.".

Formed of Laura Lee on bass, Mark Speer on guitar, and Donald "DJ" Johnson on drums; globetrotting Texan trio Khruangbin present their second album Con Todo El Mundo. Whereas their 2015 debut The Universe Smiles Upon You was influenced by '60s and '70s Thai cassettes and compilations of southeast Asian pop, rock and funk, Con Todo El Mundo hops east over India to take inspiration in similarly under discovered funk and soul sounds of the Middle-East, particularly from Iran. Laura Lee explains the album's title: "My grandpa would always ask me ‘Como me quieres?' (‘how much do you love me'?), and he'd only ever accept one response. ‘Con todo el mundo' (With all the world)." Throughout Con Todo El Mundo, Laura Lee's melodic low-end theory, Mark's lyrical, free-role guitar lines, and DJ's ever-steady, ever-ready backbeat form something greater than their parts. A vibe-synchronous soul-unit travelling the planet, honing their craft, absorbing the sights, sounds and feels from cultures across the globe, processing them through the Khruangbin filter and gifting the result...with all the world.

1. Como Me Quieres
2. Lady and Man
3. Maria Tambien
4. 10-Aug-2017
5. Como Te Quiero
6. Shades of Man
7. Evan Finds the Third Room
8. A Hymn
9. Rules
10. Friday Morning

Double vinyl LP pressing including digital download. 2017 release, the highly anticipated sophomore album from HAIM. When the time came to record the eleven tracks that make up Something To Tell You, HAIM decided to "go in and record as a band, keeping it a little more organic. That was kind of a mission statement for the album" offered Danielle HAIM. Includes the singles 'Want You Back' and 'Right Now'. HAIM consists of three sisters: Este HAIM (bass), Danielle HAIM (guitars and lead vocals), and Alana HAIM (guitars and keyboards), as well as drummer Dash Hutton. In addition to their primary instruments, each member is also proficient in several others. The group's pop sound on their studio work stands in contrast to the more rock-based music of their live shows.

Tracks

LP1

1. Want You Back
2. Nothing's Wrong
3. Little of Your Love
4. Ready For You
5. Something To Tell You
6. You Never Knew

LP2

1. Kept Me Crying
2. Found It In Silence
3. Walking Away
4. Right Now
5. Night So Long
6. Water's Running Dry

0th Anniversary Colored 180g Vinyl LP Reissue of 2013 Grammy Award-Winning Album of the Year with Alternate ArtworkMumford & Sons offer up a 10th anniversary colored 180g vinyl LP reissue of their celebrated second album Babel! The anniversary edition features a variation of the photography originally featured on Babel, shot on location in West London by long-standing collaborator, the photographer Marcus Haney.

Babel was originally released in Autumn 2012, topping the charts on both sides of the Atlantic in September 2012 for the first time, as the band's profile soared right across the globe. It was first introduced in August of that year with lead single, "I Will Wait," as the band continued a sold-out headline tour of the US. The record has since sold millions of copies worldwide (going 4 x platinum in both the US and UK alone). Babel won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2013, with Mumford & Sons taking home the British Group award at the 2013 BRIT Awards. In addition, Babel won the Juno Award for International Album of the Year and was also included in Q Magazine's list of the 50 Greatest Albums of 2012.

Babel followed the word-of-mouth success of the band's debut album, Sigh No More, which debuted in October 2009 and slowly but surely sent Mumford & Sons stratospheric. Babel found the band stick close to the formula that had brought them such success, but the songs were bigger, bolder, and epic in scale. It was the fastest selling record of 2012 in the UK, and the second fastest record of the year in the US, behind only Taylor Swift's Red. Babel spawned some of Mumford & Sons' biggest hits to date including "I Will Wait," "Lover of the Light," and "Hopeless Wanderer." 

1. Babel
2. Whispers In The Dark
3. I Will Wait
4. Holland Road
5. Ghosts That We Knew
6. Lover Of The Light
7. Lovers’ Eyes
8. Reminder
9. Hopeless Wanderer
10. Broken Crown
11. Below My Feet
12. Not With Haste

Compact Disc

1993 sophomore album from the Alt-Rock duo consisting of Hope Sandoval and David Roback. Features the surprise hit single 'Fade Into You'.

• 1 Fade Into You
• 2 Bells Ring
• 3 Mary of Silence
• 4 Five String Serenade
• 5 Blue Light
• 6 She's My Baby
• 7 Unreflected
• 8 Wasted
• 9 Into Dust
• 10 So Tonight That I Might See

Compact Disc

THREE CHEERS FOR SWEET REVENGE, the major-label debut album from My Chemical Romance, is one of the years most anticipated albums. With influences ranging from Iron Maiden and the Misfits to Morrissey. The first single is "I'm Not Ok (I Promis)."

• 1 Helena
• 2 Give 'Em Hell, Kid
• 3 To the End
• 4 You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us in Prison
• 5 I'm Not Okay (I Promise)
• 6 The Ghost of You
• 7 The Jetset Life Is Gonna Kill You
• 8 Interlude
• 9 Thank You for the Venom
• 10 Hang 'Em High
• 11 It's Not a Fashion Statement, It's a Deathwish
• 12 Cemetery Drive
• 13 I Never Told You What I Do for a Living

THIRD EYE BLIND / A COLLECTION - A Collection is a greatest hits album by Third Eye Blind, originally released in 2006. The album contains all of their singles (with the exception of "Anything"), a handful of fan and band favorites, as well as three unreleased-via-LP songs: "Tattoo of the Sun", "My Time in Exile" and "Slow Motion" (with lyrics). The package also includes liner notes from renowned rock writer James Hunter and track-by-track commentary from Stephan Jenkins.

• 1 Semi-Charmed Life (2006 Remaster) - Third Eye Blind
• 2 Losing a Whole Year
• 3 How's It Going to Be
• 4 Jumper
• 5 Graduate
• 6 Never Let You Go
• 7 Deep Inside of You
• 8 10 Days Late
• 9 Blinded (When I See You)
• 10 Crystal Baller
• 11 Forget Myself
• 12 Can't Get Away
• 13 Motorcycle Drive By
• 14 My Time in Exile
• 15 Palm Reader
• 16 Tattoo of the Sun
• 17 Wounded
• 18 God of Wine
• 19 Slow Motion

Compact Disc

Tidal is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Fiona Apple, released in the United States on July 23, 1996, by Work Records and Columbia Records (Sony Music).. according to Nielsen SoundScan. It was certified 3x platinum by the RIAA in December 1997. Tidal produced six singles: "Shadowboxer", "Slow Like Honey", "Sleep to Dream", "The First Taste", "Criminal" and "Never Is a Promise". "Criminal", the album's most popular single, won a 1998 Grammy Award for "Best Female Rock Vocal Performance" and was named the single of 1997 in a poll of Rolling Stone readers. The music video for "The First Taste" never aired in the U.S. The 2005 album I've Got My Own Hell to Raise by Bettye LaVette is titled after a lyric in "Sleep to Dream", and includes a cover of that song. The album was very well received upon release and continues to be highly regarded. In 2008, Entertainment Weekly named Tidal the 20th Best Album of the last 25 years (1983-2008). In 2010, Rolling Stone placed it among the greatest albums of the 1990s, at number 83. A year later, Slant Magazine placed it at number 74. The album is featured in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. TIDAL contains multimedia photos, lyrics, a biography and the "Shadowboxer" video, all of which are playable on a CD-ROM drive. Personnel: Fiona Apple (vocals, piano, Optigon); Jon Brion (guitar, harp, tack piano, Chamberlin, dulcitone, Optigon, vibraphone, marimba); Rob Laufer (guitar); Greg Leisz (pedal steel guitar); Ralph Morrison, Claudia Parducci (violin); Evan Wilson (viola); Larry Corbett (cello); Patrick Warren (piano, Chamberlin); Dan Rothchild, Greg Richling, Sara Lee (bass); Matt Chamberlain, Danny Frankel (drums, percussion); George Black (drum programming); Amber Maggart (background vocals). Recorded at Sony Music Studios, Ocean Way Recorders and 4th Street Recording, Los Angeles, California. Fiona Apple was nominated for the 1998 Grammy Award for Best New Artist. "Criminal" won the 1998 Grammy for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance and was nominated for the 1998 Grammy for Best Rock Song. Judging from the songs that litter her debut, this 18-year-old singer-songwriter is at odds with every situation in which she finds herself.

• 1 Sleep to Dream
• 2 Sullen Girl
• 3 Shadowboxer
• 4 Criminal
• 5 Slow Like Honey
• 6 First Taste
• 7 Never Is a Promise
• 8 Child Is Gone
• 9 Pale September
• 10 Carrion

Compact Disc

Modern Baseball was formed in 2011 by friends and guitarists Jacob Ewald and Brendan Lukens, who were soon joined by Ian Farmer on bass and Sean Huber on drums. The band self-released their first EP The Nameless Ranger in 2011 while still in high school. Shortly after the members relocated to Philadelphia to attend college and quickly gained a strong following in the Philadelphia music community, teaming up with locals Marietta to release the Couples Therapy split in the spring of 2012. Modern Baseball released their debut full-length Sports later that year on Lame-O Records, which they self-recorded and produced.

After spending the summer of 2013 touring heavily across the US, the band headed into Studio A in Philadelphia to self-record You're Going to Miss It All. Mixed by Jonathan Low at Minor Street Recordings and mastered by Will Yip, You're Going to Miss It All features 12 tracks that showcase the band's signature witty indie-pop.

• 1 Re-Do
• 2 Tears Over Beers
• 3 The Weekend
• 4 @CHL03K [Explicit]
• 5 Hours Outside in the Snow [Explicit]
• 6 I Think You Were in My Profile Picture Once
• 7 Re-Done
• 8 Cooke [Explicit]
• 9 See Ya, Sucker [Explicit]
• 10 Look Out [Explicit]
• 11 Play Ball!
• 12 Coals

Embracing their roots with their defiant brand of "mexicore" and gaining a rapid fan base thanks to their incredible live show, Pierce the Veil have become a hot commodity over the past few years. But with the release of stunning new album Collide With The Sky, the San Diego natives are truly en fuego. Deploying every shred of musical prowess in their artillery, Pierce the Veil have poured heart and soul into new album Collide With The Sky - and it shows. Blending the unique vocal style of singer Vic Fuentes, incendiary guitar lines and soaring melody, the band's third album is an aural exploration that at once both packs a punch, while finding the pockets of calm in the chaos - a talent that has made the band such a refreshingly exhilarating force in the scene.

• 1 May These Noises Startle You in Your Sleep Tonight
• 2 Hell Above
• 3 A Match Into Water
• 4 King for a Day
• 5 Bulls in the Bronx
• 6 Props & Mayhem
• 7 Tangled in the Great Escape
• 8 I'm Low on Gas and You Need a Jacket
• 9 The First Punch
• 10 One Hundred Sleepless Nights
• 11 Stained Glass Eyes and Colorful Tears
• 12 Hold on Till May