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Moon Mirror, Nada Surf’s new record, has everything fans love and expect from them. Bittersweet anthems that begin quiet but explode into soaring harmonies? Check. Songs that are play-on-repeat heart punches? Check. Songs that are poetic and thought-provoking while also being absolute belt-at-the-top-of-your-voice-with-the-windows-down masterpieces? Check. It’s all here.

For the past 30 years, Nada Surf has had the same core lineup: Matthew Caws, Daniel Lorca, and Ira Elliot. Moon Mirror, their first for New West Records, was produced by the band and Ian Laughton at Rockfield Studios in Wales. For the recording, Matthew, Daniel, and Ira were joined by their friend and longtime keyboard player Louie Lino.

Moon Mirror is a thrilling and moving leap forward for Nada Surf. The songs on the album are true to the human experience—as meaningful and mysterious and sometimes absurd as it is. There’s love, yes, but also grief, deep loneliness, doubt, wonder, and hope. These are not the songs of a band in their 20s. There is hard-won wisdom here, and hard-won belief in possibility—the kind that comes from falling down and getting back up.

Shine, the debut EP from Seattle’s Mother Love Bone. Fronted by legendary vocalist Andrew Wood, this is one of the key releases that jump started the grunge rock evolution. With fully remastered audio, this is a must have gem from one of the most underrated rock groups of the era. 

BLUE How does an artist follow a critically-acclaimed breakthrough record like Southeastern? For Jason Isbell, the answer was Something More Than Free. With songs like "24 Frames," "Flagship," and "Children of Children," the 2015 album found Isbell tackling the subjects he knows best: the dignity of work, the difficulty of love, the friction between the present and the past. Something More Than Free further established the North Alabama native as a bonafide songwriter, and also netted him his first two Grammy Awards, for Americana Album of the Year, and for American Roots Song of the Year ("24 Frames.") 10 years later, Something More Than Free has been re-mixed by the legendary Sylvia Massy (Prince, Johnny Cash, Tom Petty), breathing new life into these now classic songs in the Isbell canon. And as a cherry on top, the man has broken his normal rule and included a b-side here. "Should I Go Missing" is a bluesy jammer highlighted by Isbell's slide guitar playing. If we're lucky, it will become a staple at his upcoming live shows.

Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King (2LP Palantir Clear), (Indie Exclusive) by Howard Shore and Hollywood Studio Orchestra. - Howard Shore's The Fellowship of the Ring score, certified platinum in the U.S., captivated audiences worldwide with it's sweeping orchestration and unforgettable themes. Winner of both an Academy Award® and a GRAMMY, this iconic album features two stunning original songs by Enya, including the beloved "May It Be" and "Aníron (Theme for Aragorn and Arwen)." A must-have for any Lord of the Rings fan, this timeless soundtrack continues to inspire generations.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 The Prophecy
• 2 Concerning Hobbits
• 3 The Shadow of the Past
• 4 The Treason of Isengard
• 5 The Black Rider
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 At the Sign of the Prancing Pony
• 2 A Knife in the Dark
• 3 Flight to the Ford
• 4 Many Meetings
• 5 The Council of Elrond (Feat. "Aniron") [Theme for Aragorn and Arwen]
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 The Ring Goes South
• 2 A Journey in the Dark
• 3 The Bridge of Khazad Dum
• 4 Lothlorien (Feat. "Lament for Gandalf")
• 5 The Great River
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 Amon Hen
• 2 The Breaking of the Fellowship (Feat. "In Dreams")
• 3 May It Be - By Enya

Saving Grace (140g Fruit Punch Indie/D2C Exclusive) Robert Plant announces the release of Saving Grace: the first album featuring the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer's new band of distinguished players, which he calls "a song book for the lost and found." Arriving September 26 on Nonesuch Records, the genesis of Saving Grace began during a lockdown spent in "The Shire," when Plant's customary wandering was all but forbidden. While his recent adventures have centred around Nashville, having reunited with Alison Krauss for 2021's chart-topping, multi GRAMMY-nominated Raise The Roof, it was in the English countryside that Robert Plant connected closely to this diverse group of musicians, who through their own experiences had a shared leaning towards his much-loved corners of evocative song. Together, Plant and Saving Grace - vocalist Suzi Dian, drummer Oli Jefferson, guitarist Tony Kelsey, banjo and string player Matt Worley, cellist Barney Morse-Brown - have spent the past six years growing into a wide-ranging workshop of styles and personalities, weaving through time and circumstance with joy and abandon. Saving Grace breathes fresh life into a collection of centuries-old music arranged by Robert Plant, Saving Grace and Sam Amidon, as well as more recent treasures by Memphis Minnie, Bob Mosley (Moby Grape), Blind Willie Johnson, The Low Anthem, Martha Scanlan, Sarah Siskind and Mimi Parker and Alan Sparhawk's Low.

• 1 Chevrolet
• 2 As I Roved Out
• 3 It's a Beautiful Day Today
• 4 Soul of a Man
• 5 Ticket Taker
• 6 I Never Will Marry
• 7 Higher Rock
• 8 Too Far from You
• 9 Everybody's Song
• 10 Gospel Plough

7x Grammy® winner Jon Batiste returns with a new album, BIG MONEY. An exploration of the real currency of life as we know it today, Batiste melds classic and modern styles of R&B, Americana, soul, roots, jazz, gospel and more to create sounds of jubilee and diasporic expression. The soundtrack of a movement. Social music.

In 2023, as his triumphant American Utopia era came to a close, David Byrne began jotting down the occasional groove, chord or melody and assembling them into demos he recorded with just an acoustic guitar atop a programmed beat or loop. The prior three years had given him, and much of humanity, the opportunity to ask, "Do I like what I'm doing? Why am I writing songs, or working this job, or whatever? Does any of it matter?" Byrne's attempts to answer those weighty questions can be found on Who Is The Sky?, a first-time collaboration between himself, Grammy-winning producer Kid Harpoon aka Tom Hull (Harry Styles, Miley Cyrus) and New York-based chamber ensemble Ghost Train Orchestra, and featuring guest appearances by Paramore's Hayley Williams, longtime collaborator St. Vincent and The Smile drummer Tom Skinner. The album builds upon the optimistic themes laid out by American Utopia and it's supporting tour, but more specifically spelled out by the Grammy-winning Broadway show and subsequent movie. With this offering, Byrne continues his lifelong exploration of human connection and the potential for societal unity against the chaotic backdrop of the world. Who Is the Sky? is particularly personal, cinematic, humorous and joyful, but often with a lesson baked in - that love is unexplainable, that enlightenment means very different things to different people and that it's always a good idea to moisturize, whether you wake up the next morning with skin like a baby or not. Most importantly, the songs evince Byrne's gift for riding the razor's edge of avant-garde and accessible pop.

• 1 Everybody Laughs
• 2 When We Are Singing
• 3 My Apartment Is My Friend
• 4 A Door Called No
• 5 What Is the Reason for It?
• 6 I Met the Buddha at a Downtown Party
• 7 Don't Be Like That
• 8 The Avant Garde
• 9 Moisturizing Thing
• 10 I'm An Outsider
• 11 She Explains Things to Me
• 12 The Truth

Repentless is Slayer's first new studio album since 2009's critically-acclaimed, Grammy-nominated World Painted Blood. The twelve songs were produced by Terry Date and recorded between August 2014 and mid-January 2015 at Henson Studios in Los Angeles. Love 'em or hate 'em, they're back and Repentless is an album full of short, sharp relentless Thrash.

"Sun was made for coming out, even though the night is long." Aperture - The Head and the Heart's sixth album and first since signing to Verve Forecast - is the affirming work of a band finding again it's shared footing, reaching unimagined levels of camaraderie and mutual risk as one. With every song fortified by the sense of beginning again, Aperture is The Head and the Heart's most vital and poignant album. Featuring tracks like the album's beautifully arcing opener "After the Setting Sun" and the mighty anthem "Arrow," Aperture is a stunning testament to the collaborative work of a band who decided to let in the light, return to their roots, and forge a new path, together as one.

• 1 After the Setting Sun
• 2 Time with My Sins
• 3 Arrow
• 4 Beg, Steal, Borrow
• 5 Cop Car
• 6 Blue Embers
• 7 Fire Escape
• 8 Pool Break
• 9 Jubilee
• 10 West Coast
• 11 Finally Free
• 12 Aperture

Cody Jinks returns with his highly anticipated new album, In My Blood, a powerful, raw exploration of personal reflection, struggle, and redemption. Known for his unapologetically honest lyrics and rootsy blend of country, rock, and outlaw spirit, Jinks delivers yet another collection of songs that dig deep into the human experience. The album opens with the lead single, Found, a poignant track that encapsulates the essence of Jinks’ evolving sound. Found blends an aching melody with rich, gritty storytelling, highlighting his signature vocals and soulful delivery. The song captures a moment of personal clarity and catharsis, with Jinks reflecting on themes of rediscovery, healing, and the search for something real in an often chaotic world. In My Blood is an album that showcases Cody Jinks’ unwavering authenticity and growth as an artist. The album seamlessly weaves together elements of classic country, Americana, and rock, all while maintaining the raw, emotional resonance that has earned Jinks a devoted fanbase. With Found leading the charge, the album promises to be another milestone in Jinks' already impressive career. Whether you're a long-time fan or new to Jinks’ music, In My Blood is an album that speaks to the heart, rooted in the tradition of country music while moving boldly into new, exciting territory.

Public Image Ltd.'s This Is What You Want... This Is What You Get marked a bold step forward in the post-punk landscape when it was released in 1984. Featuring tracks like "This Is Not a Love Song" and "Bad Life," the album blends experimental rock and electronic elements, solidifying PIL's reputation as innovators. The album reached No. 1 on the UK charts and continues to be celebrated for its influence on the alternative music scene.

TRACK LIST:

Side 1:

1. Bad Life
2. This Is Not a Love Song
3. Solitaire
4. Tie Me to the Length of That

Side 2:

1. The Pardon
2. Where Are You
3. 1981
4. The Order of Death

Released in 1993, Gentlemen is a landmark album by the Afghan Whigs, blending alternative rock, soul, and grunge. Tracks like "Debonair" and "Be Sweet" showcase the band's raw emotion and distinct sound. The album received critical acclaim for its dark, brooding themes and powerful performances, earning a lasting place in the '90s rock scene. Gentlemen remains one of the band's most celebrated works and a defining moment of their career.

Side One:

1. If I Were Going
2. Gentlemen
3. Be Sweet
4. Debonair
5. When We Two Parted
6. Fountain and Fairfax

Side Two:

1. What Jail Is Like
2. My Curse
3. Now You Know
4. I Keep Coming Back
5. Brother Woodrow / Closing Prayer

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

10th anniversary of Blur's iconic album The Magic Whip with a special, half-speed mastered limited edition gold disc. The Magic Whip is blur's 8th studio album and includes the tracks Ghost Ship, Go Out, Lonesome Street and Ong Ong.

Thunderball The Melvins Indie Exclusive "Smoke Is A Color" The new 2025 album featuring the 1983 lineup of Buzz & Mike Dillard. Plus special guests Void Manes and Ni Maitres. Formed over 40 years ago in Seattle, Melvins were one of the pioneers of the grunge and sludge metal scenes.

• 1 King of Rome
• 2 Vmit of Clarity
• 3 Short Hair with a Wig
• 4 Victory of the Pyramids
• 5 Venus Blood

Originally released on September 15th, 1987, Halfway To Insanity is their tenth studio album and the last to feature drummer Richie Ramone.

Tracks:

1 I Wanna Live

2 Bop 'Til You Drop

3 Garden of Serenity

4 Weasel Face

5 Go Lil' Camaro Go

6 I Know Better Now

7 Death of Me

8 I Lost My Mind

9 A Real Cool Time

10 I'm Not Jesus

11 Bye Bye Baby

12 Worm Man

Bob Mould - "Here We Go Crazy" [Multicolor Smush LP] Alt-rock legend Bob Mould returns with his new album, Here We Go Crazy. The former frontman of Hüsker Dü and Sugar delivers 11 slices of anthemic, emotional driving alternative rock. Featuring singles "Here We Go Crazy," "When Your Heart Is Broken," and "Breathing Room," the album finds Bob in top form. Available on multicolor smush vinyl. Limited Edition. Indie Exclusive.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Here We Go Crazy
• 2 Neanderthal
• 3 Breathing Room
• 4 Hard to Get
• 5 When Your Heart Is Broken
• 6 Fur Mink Augurs
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Lost or Stolen
• 2 Sharp Little Pieces
• 3 You Need to Shine
• 4 Thread So Thin
• 5 Your Side

Deluxe 2xLP clothbound sleeve edition of ‘Car Button Cloth’, featuring Lemonheads classics ‘If I Could Talk I’d Tell You’ and ‘The Outdoor Type’. This reissue includes the original record alongside a whole extra LP of rarities and unreleased cuts, continuing Fire Records in-depth series of reissues from the legendary band.

‘Car Button Cloth' is an extraordinary affair of musical and emotional extremes, a soundscape spanning “the most beautiful piano-led mourning in the history of the broken heart” that switches into perky jangle-pop for fleeting moments and contains the ultimate self-deprecating classic ‘The Outdoor Type’, penned by Smudge cohort Tom Morgan, as well as a cover of the bluegrass standard ‘Knoxville Girl’ and ‘If I Could Talk I’d Tell You’ co-written with The Vaselines’ Eugene Kelly. All bases are covered.

To further unravel where Evan’s head was at during the period of its creation, this deluxe double album comes with a record of exquisite and typically eclectic scene setting covers that occupied B-sides and alternative format versions, plus other super rare offcuts, live takes and remixes. A diet of Volcano Suns, Glen Campbell, The Jacobites, The Sir Douglas Quintet and Whitney Houston influenced Evan’s thinking and added further colour to an album that remains something of a Dorian Gray-style masterpiece. The first side of extras is rounded off with the never before released ‘Arise’, originally set for the remake of Great Expectations and later realised as Rancho Santa Fe on solo album ‘Baby I’m Bored’.

Neon Green. The seventh studio album from Canadian punks - Sum 41, Order in Decline, topped the charts globally reaching #2 on: OCC Rock & Metal & US Hard Rock + #9 Germany's Offizielle Top 100 & #13 on Canadian Billboard charts. The album includes fan favorite tracks "Out For Blood," "Never There," & "Catching Fire."

Earning a 4/5 Ks by Kerrang!, they write "Taken as a whole, it's the hardest and heaviest album they've ever made, and across it's 10 tracks, it's also Sum 41 at their most creative and willing to explore their frontiers." Sum 41 formed in 1996 & released their first full-length album in 2001, several EPs and seven more albums, including Chuck (2004), Underclass Hero (2007), Screaming Bloody Murder (2011), and 13 Voices (2016) followed. The band released their final album Heaven : x: Hell (2024).

• 1 Turning Away
• 2 Out for Blood
• 3 The New Sensation
• 4 A Death in the Family
• 5 Heads Will Roll
• 6 45 (A Matter of Time)
• 7 Never There
• 8 Eat You Alive
• 9 The People Vs
• 10 Catching Fire

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 A One Story Town
• 2 You Got Lucky
• 3 Deliver Me
• 4 Change of Heart
• 5 Finding Out
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 We Stand a Chance
• 2 Straight Into Darkness
• 3 The Same Old You
• 4 Between Two Worlds
• 5 A Wasted Life