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I Heard It's a Mess There Too - Red [Explicit Content]
Regular price $29.98 Save $-29.98For Aesop Rock, the phrase "I heard it's a mess there too" started out as a lyric, but it didn't take long for that line to get it's hooks into him. It felt familiar, like a line he'd said a thousand times in recent years while checking in with friends across different cities, swapping stories about where each other are, and what's going on there. The more he sat with the phrase, the more it started to feel like the center of something bigger. I Heard It's A Mess There Too lives at the intersection of two personal urges for Aesop: the need to venture out and document your surroundings, and the desire to stay connected-especially when things feel uncertain.
Musically, Aesop Rock explores some new territory on the album. "I'd been building tracks the same way for many years," he says, "but I made a conscious shift in my process here. I tried out some new tools and attempted to make my beats cleaner, more minimal. The drums are more stripped back, the bass lines are allowed to just sit, without layering ten things on top. I didn't want the beat and the vocals competing for attention-I just wanted enough to get a wave rolling and not much more, just setting a mood I could move to." These twelve songs mark different stops along that path of tinkering and looking for something new.
- 1 Crystals and Herbs
- 2 The Cut
- 3 Full House Pinball
- 4 Bag Lunch
- 5 Spin to Win
- 6 Opossum
- 7 Oh My Stars
- 8 Potato Leek Soup
- 9 Pay the Man
- 10 Poly Cotton Blend
- 11 Call Home
- 12 Sherbert
Chain Yer Dragon
Regular price $49.99 Save $-49.99On August 14th Goose will release it's fifth studio album, 'Chain Yer Dragon'. The band's second release in 2025 follows the success of April's 'Everything Must Go', 'Chain Yer Dragon' welcomes listeners into a rich, fully-realized world of music and familiar characters, beckoning them to follow the lights and sounds through dingy barrooms and late nights on the road that dissolve into the clarity of a fresh dawn. 'Chain Yer Dragon' showcases Goose's versatility, laying down 70's-infused rock songs that feel lived-in and that come to life through improvisation. Playing with form, 'Chain Yer Dragon" is buoyed by a natural production style that gives the album the raw, freewheeling feel of the band's electric live shows.
With tracks that span Goose's musical career, 'Chain Yer Dragon' serves as a connective tissue between some of the group's earliest, much-beloved songwriting and it's current evolution as a four-piece. Featuring live staples like "Echo of A Rose," "Empress of Organos," "Rockdale," and fan favorites like "Factory Fiction," 'Chain Yer Dragon' embraces the band's origins. The album's opening, featuring new tracks like "Madalena" and "Royal," flesh out the universe of The Night Rays Band, expanding on ideas first conceived by guitarist and vocalist Rick Mitarotonda and his songwriting partner Matt Campbell back in 2011. "There's a world-building component that feels like the driving force of this record," Mitarotonda said. "Many of these character-driven songs come from a time and place where we were finding our voice musically and it's been so gratifying to not only revisit it through the lens of who and where we are now, but to expand on it. These songs have been on a journey, and it feels right for them to finally have a home now." 'Chain Yer Dragon' offers personalities, locales, and music to get lost in. Lyrical callbacks and textured storytelling tell a story that, while not linear, feels cohesive. The record pushes Goose's ever-expanding musical catalog forward while serving as a reminder that sometimes, to go forward, you have to embrace the past.
- 1 Hot Love & the Lazy Poet
- 2 Madalena
- 3 Royal
- 4 Turbulence & the Night Rays
- 5 Echo of a Rose
- 6 Mr. Action
- 7 Dr. Darkness
- 8 The Empress of Organos
- 9 Jed Stone
- 10 Rockdale
- 11 Factory Fiction
Sounds Of The Universe
Regular price $39.98 Save $-39.98Depeche Mode / SOUNDS OF THE UNIVERSE -When it came time to record the Sounds Of The Universe album, Depeche Mode returned to the studio to make their second album with producer Ben Hillier, whose intuitive contributions to the previous album Playing The Angel, had created new sonic possibilities for the band. It includes the singles Wrong, Hole To Feed, Fragile Tension and Peace.
- - Disc 1 -
- 1 In Chains
- 2 Hole to Feed
- 3 Wrong
- - Disc 2 -
- 1 Fragile Tension
- 2 Little Soul
- 3 In Sympathy
- - Disc 3 -
- 1 Peace
- 2 Come Back
- 3 Spacewalker
- 4 Perfect
- - Disc 4 -
- 1 Miles Away / the Truth Is
- 2 Jezebel
- 3 Corrupt
A Broken Frame
Regular price $29.98 Save $-29.98DEPECHE MODE / A BROKEN FRAME - Depeche Mode's second album, A Broken Frame, was released in 1982 and shows a growing band in it's early stages, a group that's searching for direction and focus. It's versatility and highly diverse set of quintessential Eighties Pop make this a very interesting album, including hit singles "Leave In Silence", "See You" and "The Meaning Of Love". Every Depeche Mode fan that's eager to get an understanding of the makings of the group should own this record.
- - Disc 1 -
- 1 Leave in Silence
- 2 My Secret Garden
- 3 Monument
- 4 Nothing to Fear
- 5 See You
- - Disc 2 -
- 1 Satellite
- 2 The Meaning of Love
- 3 A Photograph of You
- 4 Shouldn't Have Done That
- 5 The Sun and the Rainfall
Live From Glastonbury (BBC Recording) [Explicit Content]
Regular price $42.98 Save $-42.98Double light blue / cobalt colored vinyl LP pressing. Olivia Rodrigo releases Live From Glastonbury (A BBC Recording). The 2 CD set encompasses Olivia's entire set from Glastonbury, including tracks from her record-breaking albums SOUR and GUTS, as well as duets of "Friday I'm In Love" and "Just Like Heaven" with The Cure's Robert Smith. Artists' net proceeds from "Friday I'm in Love" and "Just Like Heaven," will benefit Doctors Without Borders.
- - Disc 1 -
- 1 obsessed
- 2 ballad of a homeschooled girl
- 3 vampire
- 4 drivers license
- 5 traitor
- 6 bad idea right
- 7 love is embarrassing
- 8 pretty isn’t pretty
- 9 happier
- 10 enough for you
- - Disc 2 -
- 1 friday i’m in love
- 2 just like heaven
- 3 so american
- 4 jealousy jealousy
- 5 favorite crime
- 6 deja vu.
- 7 brutal
- 8 all-american bitch
- 9 good 4 u
- 10 get him back
Stories Of A Stranger (Anniversary Edition)
Regular price $42.98 Save $-42.9820th anniversary edition of the acclaimed fifth studio album from O.A.R. Originally released in 2005, the album features the singles "Heard The World," "Lay Down," and the Gold-certified "Love and Memories." This 2-LP set is housed in a gatefold jacket and features three live performances as well as a non-album studio bonus track. AllMusic declares that the album "presents everything that defines O.A.R.
- - Disc 1 -
- 1 Heard the World
- 2 Love and Memories
- 3 Wonderful Day
- 4 Stranger
- 5 Lay Down
- 6 Program Director
- 7 Nasim Joon
- 8 Tragedy in Waiting
- - Disc 2 -
- 1 Daylight the Dog
- 2 One Shot
- 3 Dakota
- 4 52-50
- 5 Sometimes [Stories of a Stranger Sessions]
- 6 Heard the World [Live at PNC Bank Arts Center July 22 2005]
- 7 Lay Down [Live at PNC Bank Arts Center July 22 2005]
- 8 About Mr. Brown [Live at PNC Bank Arts Center July 22 2005]
Tourist History
Regular price $25.98 Save $-25.98Fifteen years ago, Two Door Cinema Club lit up the indie music world with their debut album, 'Tourist History'-a record that seamlessly blended indie rock with electronic influences. Featuring era-defining anthems like "Undercover Martyn," "Something Good Can Work," and the breakout smash "What You Know," the album was both a commercial and critical success. It topped the independent album charts in their native Ireland and reached No. 5 on the U.S. Billboard Heatseekers Chart. Tourist History has since been certified platinum in the UK and was awarded the 2010 Choice Music Prize for Irish Album of the Year.
- 1 Cigarettes in the Theatre
- 2 Come Back Home
- 3 Undercover Martyn
- 4 Do You Want It All?
- 5 This Is the Life
- 6 Something Good Can Work
- 7 I Can Talk
- 8 What You Know
- 9 Eat That Up, It's Good for You
- 10 You Are Not Stubborn
Let Your Dim Light Shine (Flaming Vinyl)
Regular price $41.98 Save $-41.98Let Your Dim Light Shine was released in 1995 as the big follow-up to the 1990s alternative rock milestone Grave Dancers Union, which featured their biggest hit Runaway Train. Once again did the band achieve platinum status, with three singles hitting the charts. 'Misery' even reached #20 in the US Billboard Top 100 and was even parodied by 'Weird Al' Yankovic, probably the best indicator of being a huge band in 1990s.
The album was produced by Butch Vigs, who produced Nevermind (Nirvana), and helped to keep the signature alternative sound of the band´s previous albums intact. Till this day, the album is seen as a highlight in the bands 40-plus-year career. Let Your Dim Light Shine is available as a 30th anniversary edition of 2000 individually numbered copies on flaming colored vinyl. LISTEN: https://youtu. Be/GLQ2TIul8pI * 180 AUDIOPHILE VINYL * DELUXE SLEEVE WITH LINEN LAMINATE FINISH * INCLUDES INSERT * THE PLATINUM CERTIFIED 1995 ALTERNATIVE ROCK CLASSIC BY Soul Asylum * PRODUCED BY BUTCH VIG (NIRVANA, GREEN DAY, SONIC YOUTH, GARBAGE, THE SMASHING PUMPKINS) * FEATURING 'MISERY', 'JUST LIKE ANYONE' & 'PROMISES BROKEN' * 30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF 2000 INDIVIDUALLY NUMBERED COPIES ON FLAMING COLORED VINYL
- 1 Misery
- 2 Shut Down
- 3 To My Own Devices
- 4 Hopes Up
- 5 Promises Broken
- 6 Bittersweetheart
- 7 String of Pearls
- 8 Crawl
- 9 Caged Rat
- 10 Eyes of a Child
- 11 Just Like Anyone
- 12 Tell Me When
- 13 Nothing to Write Home About
- 14 I Did My Best
Jem And The Holograms (Deluxe Edition, Colored Vinyl, Yellow, Bonus Tracks, Gatefold LP Jacket)Jem And The Holograms (Deluxe Edition, Colored Vinyl, Yellow, Bonus Tracks, Gatefold LP Jacket)
Regular price $36.98 Save $-36.98Jem and the Holograms rose to fame in the 1980s with the hit animated series 'JEM'. After running for three seasons, it became a cult classic and retains a strong following 40 years later with new generations continuing to discover and love the original show and music. Jem is releasing rerecordings of the most popular tracks from the 80s and include vocals from Britta Phillips, the original singer! This deluxe version includes a 12" x 12" poster with three new tracks 'Glitter & Gold (Reimagined)', 'Fun To Be Scared (Reimagined)' and 'Glitter & Guitars: The Truly Outrageous Jem Remix' along with all the reimagined instrumentals printed on a beautiful 'Lemonade Sparkle' color 1LP. Get ready for some real 'Showtime, Synergy!' with these rocking new recordings!
- 1 Glitter & Gold (Reimagined)
- 2 Jem and the Holograms Theme Song (Reimagined)
- 3 Truly Outrageous (Reimagined)
- 4 Only the Beginning (Reimagined)
- 5 Like a Dream (Reimagined)
- 6 I Got My Eye on You (Reimagined)
- 7 She's Got the Power (Reimagined)
- 8 Fun to Be Scared (Reimagined)
- 9 Glitter & Guitars: The Truly Outrageous Jem Remix
- 10 Glitter & Gold (Reimagined) - Instrumental
- 11 Jem and the Holograms Theme Song (Reimagined) - Instrumental
- 12 Truly Outrageous (Reimagined) - Instrumental
- 13 Only the Beginning (Reimagined) - Instrumental
- 14 Like a Dream (Reimagined) - Instrumental
- 15 I Got My Eye on You (Reimagined) - Instrumental
- 16 She's Got the Power (Reimagined) - Instrumental
- 17 Fun to Be Scared (Reimagined) - Instrumental
- 18 Glitter & Guitars: The Truly Outrageous Jem Remix - Instrumental
Fortitude (Colored Vinyl, Gray, Brown, Splatter)
Regular price $29.98 Save $-29.98Recorded and Produced by Joe Duplantier at Silver Cord Studio - Gojira's Ridgewood, Queens, headquarters - and mixed by Andy Wallace (Nirvana, Rage Against the Machine), 'Fortitude' is a collection of songs urging humanity to imagine a new world - and then make it happen. The band initially laid the foundation for 'Fortitude' in 2020 with the surprise release of the single 'Another World'.
- 1 Born for One Thing
- 2 Amazonia
- 3 Another World
- 4 Hold on
- 5 New Found
- 6 Fortitude
- 7 The Chant
- 8 Sphinx
- 9 Into the Storm
- 10 Trails
- 11 Grind
Firewater (White Lightnin) [Indie Exclusive Colored Vinyl]
Regular price $35.98 Save $-35.98Remastered for a double LP 'White Lightnin' exclusive indie variant of the highly acclaimed, Gold Certified Firewater album by Whiskey Myers
Megz of Ram - Green
Regular price $19.98 Save $-19.98"Megz of Ram", the surprise new EP from The Voidz, unleashes four hypnotic and abrasive tracks, recorded in the same East Village basement where Is This It first came to life. Blending shimmering synths, post-punk pulses, and Auto-Tune-warped vocals, the record feels like a cryptic transmission from a parallel dimension - both nostalgic and darkly futuristic.
- 1 Unholy Lover
- 2 Blue Demon
- 3 Russian Coney Island
- 4 Drifto
Anthology 4
Regular price $75.98 Save $-75.98Anthology 4 - Triple LP. The new volume from The Beatles Anthology Collection.
Anthology 4, is newly curated by Giles Martin, including 13 previously-unreleased session outtakes dating from 1963 to 1969. It also includes the band’s final single, ‘Now And Then’, released in 2023, and new mixes of The Beatles’ Anthology-associated hit singles: the GRAMMY-winning ‘Free As A Bird’ and ‘Real Love’, given new life by their original producer, Jeff Lynne, using de-mixed John Lennon vocals. Furthermore, Anthology 4 presents 26 tracks that have never previously been released on vinyl.
The track notes are written by Kevin Howlett with an introduction compiled from 1996 interviews recorded with The Beatles’ close friend and adviser Derek Taylor.
Pressed on 180g black vinyl, the triple LP is housed within poly-lined inner bags and a triple gatefold sleeve.
- - Disc 1 -
- 1 I Saw Her Standing There (Take 2)
- 2 Money (That's What I Want) (RM7 Undubbed)
- 3 This Boy (Takes 12 and 13)
- 4 Tell Me Why (Takes 4 and 5)
- 5 If I Fell (Take 11)
- 6 Matchbox (Take 1)
- 7 Every Little Thing (Takes 6 and 7)
- 8 I Need You (Take 1)
- - Disc 2 -
- 1 I've Just Seen a Face (Take 3)
- 2 In My Life (Take 1)
- 3 Nowhere Man (First Version - Take 2)
- 4 Got to Get You Into My Life (Second Version - Unnumbered Mix)
- 5 Love You to (Take 7)
- 6 Strawberry Fields Forever (Take 26)
- 7 She's Leaving Home (Take 1 - Instrumental)
- - Disc 3 -
- 1 Baby, You're a Rich Man (Takes 11 and 12)
- 2 All You Need Is Love (Rehearsal for BBC Broadcast)
- 3 The Fool on the Hill (Take 5 - Instrumental)
- 4 I Am the Walrus (Take 19 - Strings, Brass, Clarinet Overdub)
- - Disc 4 -
- 1 Hey Bulldog (Take 4 - Instrumental)
- 2 Good Night (Take 10 with a Guitar Part from Take 5)
- 3 While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Third Version - Take 27)
- 4 (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care (Studio Jam)
- 5 Helter Skelter (Second Version - Take 17)
- 6 I Will (Take 29)
- 7 Can You Take Me Back? (Take 1)
- 8 Julia (Two Rehearsals)
- - Disc 5 -
- 1 Get Back (Take 8)
- 2 Octopus's Garden (Rehearsal)
- 3 Don't Let Me Down (First Rooftop Performance)
- 4 You Never Give Me Your Money (Take 36)
- 5 Here Comes the Sun (Take 9)
- 6 Something (Take 39 - Instrumental - Strings Only)
- - Disc 6 -
- 1 Free As a Bird (2025 Mix)
- 2 Real Love (2025 Mix)
- 3 Now and Then
The Greatest Gift Of All
Regular price $28.98 Save $-28.98Vinyl LP pressing. 2025 holiday release from iconic and long-running Christian metal band Stryper. Fans have been requesting a holiday record for years-and now, the wait is finally over. Stryper's current lineup features original members Michael Sweet, Robert Sweet, and Oz Fox, alongside bassist Perry Richardson. Together, they continue to craft what they believe is some of the most powerful and inspiring music of their career.
Holiday Road (Colored Vinyl, Red)
Regular price $25.98 Save $-25.98Straight No Chaser-over 2M albums sold, 1.5B+ streams, and one of the original viral a cappella sensations-return with their first Christmas album in 2 years! The new album 'Holiday Road' will feature guests Hunter Hayes, Marc Broussard, Mickey Guyton, Jose Mari Chan & John Splithoff, they deliver "Holiday Road," "Underneath the Tree," "Most Wonderful Time of the Year" & more, in the unmatched vocal style fans adore. Red Blend Vinyl in Gatefold Jacket.
- 1 A1. Holiday Road
- 2 A2. Christmas Is Different (Feat. Hunter Hayes)
- 3 A3. Underneath the Tree
- 4 A4. Someday at Christmas
- 5 A5. Very Merry Christmas
- 6 A6. It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
- 7 A7. Good to See You (Feat. John Splithoff)
- 8
- 9 B1. Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer
- 10 B2. Keep Me Warm
- 11 B3. Still, Still, Still
- 12 B4. Blue Christmas (Feat. Mickey Guyton)
- 13 B5. All Alone on Christmas
- 14 B6. Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
- 15 B7. Christmas in Our Hearts (Feat. Jose Mari Chan)
Around The World In A Day
Regular price $28.98 Save $-28.98Prince's seventh studio album, and the second to be credited to Prince and the Revolution, Around The World In A Day, was released on April 22, 1985. Featuring no fewer than four singles, Around The World In A Day saw Prince and the Revolution change musical direction yet again, experimenting with psychedelic textures, incorporating new instrumentation, and expanding the genres of songs within the album. With audio newly remastered by original mastering engineer Bernie Grundman, with additional mastering by Chris James, the Around The World In A Day 2025 Remaster will be available November 21, 2025 on 140g black vinyl.
- 1 Around the World in a Day
- 2 Paisley Park
- 3 Condition of the Heart
- 4 Raspberry Beret
- 5 Tamborine
- 6 America
- 7 Pop Life
- 8 Ladder
- 9 Temptation
Ocms Xmas (IEX) Green
Regular price $29.98 Save $-29.98"We're in the joy business," says frontman Ketch Secor, who launched the Grammy-winning band in 1998. "From the very start, a lot of the virtues of Christmas - the revelry, the singalongs, the happiness - have been present in our show."
Nowhere is that more apparent than OCMS XMAS, the group's first holiday album. Decorated with seasonal spirit and string-band stomp, it's the rare breed of Christmas record that packs a punch all year long, shining new light on the band's chart-topping version of American roots music. Old Crow Medicine Show aren't just reinterpreting their favorite yuletide standards; they're adding new songs to the canon, too, from "Jolly Man" - a country-blues number inspired by Mississippi John Hurt and laced with harmonica, sleigh bells, and resonator guitar - to the Zydeco-flavored "All About A Baby." A real legacy, indeed. Old Crow have thrived for more than a quarter century. Like many of their heroes, they've become torchbearers of classic folk music, reshaping those sounds for the modern world. They're creators, not replicators, and OCMS XMAS finds them tackling another tradition - the time-honored Christmas album - with humor, hillbilly twang, and novel ideas. Supported by the band's first-ever "Holiday Hootenanny" tour, OCMS XMAS just might be the start of a new tradition itself: a celebration of the seasonal sounds, shared joy, and holiday rituals that bring us all together. Christmas just got a new soundtrack.
- 1 Breakin' Up Xmas
- 2 Holly Jolly Christmas (FT. Brassville)
- 3 Jolly Man
- 4 North By Northeast
- 5 Corn Whiskey Christmas
- 6 Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
- 7 All About a Baby
- 8 Jinglin' Jack Guy
- 9 Store-Bought Christmas
- 10 December 26
- 11 Krampus Night
- 12 Grandpa's Gone
- 13 Bethlehem, Pa
Synthetica [Explicit Content]
Regular price $36.98 Save $-36.98Limited 180gm vinyl LP [Baby Blue LP] pressing including download code. 2012 release, the fifth album from the Indie Electro Rock band. According to Metric's front woman Emily Haines, Synthetica is "about forcing yourself to confront what you see in the mirror when you finally stand still long enough to catch a reflection. Synthetica is about being able to identify the original in a long line of reproductions. It's about what is real vs what is artificial". Features 'Youth Without Youth' and 'The Wanderlust', a collaboration with Lou Reed. EXPLICIT
- 1 Artificial Nocturne
- 2 Youth Without Youth
- 3 Speed the Collapse
- 4 Breathing Underwater
- 5 Drums So Real
- 6 Lost Kitten
- 7 The Void
- 8 Synthetica
- 9 Clone
- 10 The Wanderlust
- 11 Nothing But Time
Not for Kids Only (Deluxe Edition 2xLP)
Regular price $39.98 Save $-39.98Pressed to vinyl for the first time, this Deluxe edition of the classic children's album from Jerry Garcia and David Grisman has been remastered with four bonus tracks. Songs like "Jenny Jenkins," "Freight Train" and "There Ain't No Bugs On Me" - the way Jerry and David learned them long ago along, plus unique arrangements of classics ("Shenandoah", "Teddy Bears' Picnic"). Simple and playful, subtle and sophisticated, this collection of music is recommended for anyone who is, or ever was, a kid. 2xLP Black Vinyl in Gatefold Jacket.
- - Disc 1 -
- 1 Jenny Jenkins
- 2 Freight Train
- 3 A Horse Named Bill
- 4 Three Men Went-A-Hunting
- 5 When First Unto This Country
- 6 Arkansas Traveler
- 7 Hopalong Peter
- 8 Teddy Bear's Picnic
- - Disc 2 -
- 1 There Ain't No Bugs on Me
- 2 The Miller's Will
- 3 Hot Corn, Cold Corn
- 4 A Shenandoah Lullaby
- 5 Jenny Jenkins (Alternate Take)
- 6 When First Unto This Country (Previously Unissued Alternate Take)
- 7 Teddy Bear's Picnic (Alternate Take)
- 8 Shenandoah (Previously Unissued Take)
I Told You I Was Freaky LP (IEX) Metallic-Purple
Regular price $25.98 Save $-25.98Flight of the Conchords' 2009 sophomore album is back on vinyl with this limited, colored-vinyl pressing! Metallic-purple vinyl.
Judging from the range displayed on their second album, I Told You I Was Freaky, Flight of the Conchords have yet to unearth a genre which can withstand their artistry. Unflinching in their lyrical stance, sophisticated with their arrangements, crafting melodies which always lodge firmly in the frontal lobe. Their rhymes are fearless, their thesauruses dog-eared. Only cool, confident specimens of manhood such as these could drop three-dollar vocabulary busters like "dungarees" and "pantaloons" while still mesmerizing the ladies with their undulating "Sugalumps." Vivid imagery? Check: The ardent "Angels" should spur listeners to think twice the next time they consider catching a snowflake on their tongues. Better still, the amorous odyssey of the album's zenith, "We're Both in Love with a Sexy Lady," unfolds before the listener's very ears in real time. Flight of the Conchords are making history, and You! Are! There!
- 1 Hurt Feelings
- 2 Sugalumps
- 3 We're Both in Love with a Sexy Lady
- 4 I Told You I Was Freaky
- 5 Demon Woman
- 6 Rambling Through the Avenues of Time
- 7 Fashion Is Danger
- 8 Petrov, Yelyena and Me
- 9 Too Many Dicks (On the Dance Floor)
- 10 You Don't Have to Be a Prostitute
- 11 Friends
- 12 Carol Brown
- 13 Angels
O Avalanche (Colored Vinyl, White)
Regular price $41.98 Save $-41.98Fionn Regan's 2024 album O Avalanche, available on vinyl for the first time.
"I float sometimes when you're around," sings Irish singer-songwriter Fionn Regan on "Islands", setting the weightlessly romantic tenor for his seventh album. Written in Spain, O Avalanche is an album of levitating intimacies, abstract and intuitive yet infused with a tangible sense of the elevating ties between environment and emotion. Between it's sun-dappled backdrops and lambent arrangements, the result is a set of sublime songs and something more: it's a record to float with, immersive, uplifting and transporting. His first since 2019's beautiful Cala, it's also an album that is, in Fionn's words, "very much on a level" - shimmering with poetic mystery and bolstered by a sustained feel for atmosphere and shape. As Fionn explains, "I see it sort of like a film that starts cinematically and develops in abstract ways. It moves in different sequences, backwards and forwards. And if you're thinking about it in a visual way, there's a quality about it where it's always magic hour." "I feel like the album has got quite a lot of bottled-summer energy running through it," says Fionn. It took him two or three albums' worth of material to find the songs that felt simpatico - the ones that "started to hang out together and fought their way to becoming the album". Capturing the mood, Fionn wrote the record while staying in Majorca, a place he describes as his "true north": "There's a sense of an artistic energy there, where you step back a little from the main drag of bigger cities. You're sat there in the mountains looking towards the cities, rather than the other way. There's a kind of focus, a feeling that you're tuned in to something." Co-produced with Ian Grimble, O Avalanche steers Regan's off-the-main-drag feel for climate and landscape towards another creative peak, forging a record to lose yourself in. "It's like you're looking into this world where there's a depth of field, it's summer, and you're floating into and out of it," he says of the album. "The songs can come together in the moment, so it's not a conscious thing, but when I listen to the record it feels like there's an eternal optimism about it - a kind of upward-feeling energy." With the gentlest of touches, O Avalanche will sweep you off your feet.
- 1 "Islands
- 2 Teix Mountains
- 3 O Avalanche (Featuring Anna Friel)
- 4 Blood Is Thicker Than Wine
- 5 Anja?I
- 6 Anja?Ii
- 7 Farewell
- 8 Into the Light of the Sun
- 9 Headphones
- 10 Swimming the Lakes / Flowers and Stones
- 11 Deia Song / Llucalcari "