Indie Exclusive

Robin Pecknold brings light to the bleakest of winters with Fleet Foxes' 'A Very Lonely Solstice,' a 13-track career spanning collection recorded in December 2020, at Brooklyn, NY's St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church. Now being released for the first time on vinyl, CD and digital formats, 'A Very Lonely Solstice' captures a poignant moment in time. The recording was originally broadcasted as a live-stream event on the winter solstice of 2020, just days after New York declared a state of emergency tightening restrictions again in response to increasing COVID-19 cases. Pecknold describes the set as "me by myself on the longest night of the year... honoring the loneliness of 2020 with a nylon string and some songs new and old." Fans worldwide tuned in while quarantined at home, finding solace and a sense of community in a period of extreme isolation. Much of 'A Very Lonely Solstice' showcases a solo focus on Pecknold who offers up acoustic arrangements of fan-favorite songs spanning Fleet Foxes' catalog. Selections cover all four of the band's studio albums, including their 2008 self-titled debut album ("Tiger Mountain Peasant Song") to 2011's Helplessness Blues ("Blue Spotted Tail") and 2017's Crack-Up ("If You Need To, Keep Time On Me"), all the way to their latest release, Shore. Resistance Revival Chorus joins Pecknold on Shore tracks "Wading In Waist-High Water" and "Can I Believe You." Also featured: a cover of Nina Simone's "In The Morning" and a rearrangement of the traditional "Silver Dagger."

• 1 Wading in Waist-High Water (Solstice Version)
• 2 Sunblind (Solstice Version)
• 3 In the Morning (Solstice Version)
• 4 Tiger Mountain Peasant Song (Solstice Version)
• 5 Maestranza (Solstice Version)
• 6 Helplessness Blues (Solstice Version)
• 7 Silver Dagger (Solstice Version)
• 8 Featherweight (Solstice Version)
• 9 A Long Way Past the Past (Solstice Version)
• 10 Blue Spotted Tail (Solstice Version)
• 11 If You Need to, Keep Time on Me (Solstice Version)
• 12 I'm Not My Season (Solstice Version)
• 13 Can I Believe You (Solstice Version)

Hits to The Head gathers all your favorite Franz Ferdinand singles in one handy album. 18 stone cold classics with brand new future hits "Billy Goodbye" & "Curious."

Tracks

LP1

1. Darts Of Pleasure
2. Take Me Out
3. The Dark Of The Matinée
4. Michael
5. This Fire
6. Do You Want To
7. Walk Away
8. The Fallen
9. Outsiders
10. Lucid Dreams

LP2

1. Ulysses
2. No You Girls
3. Right Action
4. Evil Eye
5. Love Illumination
6. Stand On The Horizon
7. Always Ascending
8. Glimpse Of Love
9. Curious
10. Billy Goodbye

Voir Dire, the momentous album by Earl Sweatshirt and Alchemist, undoubtedly represents the long-awaited convergence of two rap titans. Earl's personal and intricately woven wordcraft, along with Alchemist's treasure trove of obscure, captivating samples, combine to create an artistic chemistry that permeates 'Voir Dire' (which translates from French to 'Speak Your Truth'). Earl accomplishes just that as he delves into the analysis of specific phases of his life, particularly in the past where his reflections resonate with immense potency, meticulous detail, and profound insight. The album features notable Los Angeles wordsmith Vince Staples on two tracks and esteemed rap artist, MIKE. On Voir Dire, unmatched lyricism and remarkable maturity take center stage, while personal experiences such as new fatherhood emerge and evolve over stripped-down, spacious Alchemist production - culminating in what many consider to be the best rap album of the year.

Bleachers -"Bleachers" - Ingrooves; Dirty Hit; Bleachers return with their self-titled new album, via Dirty Hit. The album is Jack Antonoff's distinctly New Jersey take on the bizarre sensory contradictions of modern life, on his position in culture, and the things he cares about. Sonically, it's sad, it's joyful, it's music for driving on the highway to, for crying to and for dancing to at weddings. There's something reassuringly touchable and concrete about it's sentiment: exist in crazy times but remember what counts. Vinyl variants include 4 bonus tracks. Indie Exclusive Blue 2 LP.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 I Am Right on Time
• 2 Modern Girl
• 3 Jesus Is Dead
• 4 Me Before You
• 5 Alma Mater
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Tiny Moves
• 2 Isimo
• 3 Woke Up Today
• 4 Self Respect
• 5 Hey Joe
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 Call Me After Midnight
• 2 We're Gonna Know Each Other Forever
• 3 Ordinary Heaven
• 4 The Waiter
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 I Am in Your Hands
• 2 The Backwards Heart
• 3 Question Mark
• 4 The Big Bad Turnpike Ghost

2LP Expanded Edition of the legendary final concerts with Lou Reed recorded in 1970. Limited Edition Purple and Magenta Vinyl. Includes “I’m Waiting for the Man”, “Sweet Jane”, “Pale Blue Eyes”, “Femme Fatale” and more.

Tracks:

I’m Waiting For The Man
Sweet Jane
Lonesome Cowboy Bill
Beginning To See The Light
I’ll Be Your Mirror
Pale Blue Eyes
Sunday Morning
New Age
Femme Fatale
After Hours

On Before And After, Young chooses favorites from his playbook like a trip into his music history and performs them mostly alone on a solo acoustic journey. Each of the songs blend into each other and morph with mesmerizing clarity into a continuous flow of music creating a 48-minute pure and intimate listening experience. The 13-track album spans Neil’s career, from Neil’s early Buffalo Springfield contribution, "Burned" (1966) to the recent "Don't Forget Love"(2021) and includes the previously unreleased song “If You Got Love”.
 
As Neil put it on his NYA site:
Songs from my life, recently recorded, create a music montage with no beginnings or endings. The feeling is captured, not in pieces, but as a whole piece. Only for listening.

50th Anniversary Vinyl LP Reissue with Lacquers Cut from the Original Master Tapes by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound

2023 marks the 50th anniversary of Al Green's Call Me, and to celebrate, Hi Records/Fat Possum will reissue the 1973 R&B classic on vinyl with lacquers cut from the original master tapes by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound. A combination of 'sweet' and 'funky' is certainly the secret to Al Green's gloriously sentimental and sensual pop songs. Green's subtly controlled falsetto, which he tones right to the threshold of audibility, swings along gently always anchoring the proceedings. However, this sublime set also belts out some fiery sounds right from the very first number. The sinuous, swinging request in the brilliant hit single "Call Me," the relaxed and groovy "Stand Up" with its sharp wind interjections which demand one's unerring attention, are typical of Green's style, just as is his almost disturbing capability to gain comfort from loneliness ("I'm So Lonesome, I Could Cry"). This rhythmically powered music can best be described as light, intensive, dynamic but never flashy ("Your Love Is Like The Morning Sun") and it finds its earthly culmination in soul ("Jesus Is Waiting") and spiritual depth.

1. Call Me
2. Have You Been Making Out Okay
3. Stand Up
4. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
5. Your Love Is Like The Morning Sun
6. Here I Am (Come and Take Me)
7. Funny How Time Slips Away
8. You Ought To Be With Me
9. Jesus Is Waiting

The surprise companion to The National’s April release First Two Pages of Frankenstein, Laugh Track is the band’s most freewheeling, all-hands-on-deck album in years. If Frankenstein represented a rebuilding of trust between group members after 20+ years together, the vibrant, exploratory Laugh Track is both the product of that faith and a new statement of intent. Reveling in the license to radically upend its creative process, The National honed most of this material in live performances on tour, and captured those invigorated versions in impromptu sessions at producer Tucker Martine’s Portland studio. Two nights later in Vancouver, the nearly eight-minute album closer “Smoke Detector” was recorded during soundcheck, completing a body of work bristling with spontaneity and vintage rock energy that makes a perfect complement to the songs found on its more introspective predecessor. 1. Alphabet City 2. Deep End (Paul’s in Pieces) 3. Weird Goodbyes (feat. Bon Iver) 4. Turn off the House 5. Dreaming 6. Laugh Track (feat. Phoebe Bridgers) 7. Space Invader 8. Hornets 9. Coat on a Hook 10. Tour Manager 11. Crumble (feat. Rosanne Cash) 12. Smoke Detector

Music from the documentary by John Scheinfeld (Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everyone Talking About Him), The U.S. vs. John Lennon, Herb Alpert Is…).

First time on vinyl for live recordings from 1970 recorded in Yugoslavia, Romania, and Poland.

Side 1:
1. Somethin’ Comin’ On
2. God Bless The Child
3. Spinning Wheel

Side 2:
1. Somethin’ Goin’ On/Blues—Part II

Side 3:
1. Hi-De-Ho
2. And When I Die
3. Sometimes In Winter

Side 4:
1. Smiling Phases
2. You’ve Made Me So Very Happy
3. I Can’t Quit Her

Over a decade in the making, this new collection, Light in the Attic & Friends, features an incredible cast of legendary artists covering songs that the label Light in the Attic has re-released over the past 22 years, including Charles Bradley & The Menahan Street Band covering Sixto Rodriguez, Iggy Pop & Zig Zags covering funk queen Betty Davis, Ethan & Maya Hawke covering country great Willie Nelson, Angel Olsen covering folk singer Karen Dalton, 88-year old electronic pioneer Roedelius covering Mali guitar gods Tinariwen, and Mac DeMarco covering Japanese master Haruomi Hosono.

The double LP is pressed on special limited edition color wax and housed in a widespine jacket featuring new cover art by renowned British artist Sophy Hollington, plus a booklet of new liner notes by Lydia Hyslop.

Charles Bradley & The Menahan Street Band - I'll Slip Away, Sweet Tea - After Laughter (Comes Tears), Vashti Bunyan & Devendra Banhart - How Could You Let Me Go, Barbara Lynn - We'll Understand, BADBADNOTGOOD feat. Jonah Yano - Key To Love Is Understanding, Iggy Pop & Zig Zags - If I'm In Luck I Might Get Picked Up, Mozart Estate - Low Life, Leslie Winer & Maxwell Sterling - Once I Was, Ethan & Maya Hawke - We Don't Run, Gold Leaves - Won't You Tell Your Dreams, Swamp Dogg, John C. Reilly, Jenny Lewis & Tim Heidecker - The Kneeling Drunkard's Plea, Silas Short - You've Become A Habit, Mac DeMarco - Honey Moon, Cameron Bethany - Send It On, Roedelius - Le Chant des Fauves, Roedelius - Same Old Man, Angel Olsen - Something On Your Mind, Mary Lattimore - Blink, Acetone - Plain As Your Eyes Can See, Steve Gunn & Bridget St. John - Rabbit Hills

Produced by Jon Landau, MC5’s second album is one of the most influential rock albums of all time. Includes: “Tonight” and “Back in the USA”.