RSD2025 Everything Else

YOU'RE DEAD! Is a shamanic pilgrimage into the psychedelic unknown of the infinite afterlife. A sonic, visual and metaphysical fusion of technological innovation and technical virtuosity that amounts to a transcendent, mind-expanding plasma that could only exist between our world and another. The enduring universe of Lotus' supporting cast has expanded and evolved to feature in order of appearance, Herbie Hancock, Kendrick Lamar, Captain Murphy, Snoop Dogg, Angel Deradoorian, Thundercat, Niki Randa, alongside mind-blowing original artwork by Japanese comic book artist Shintaro Kago. 'The album isn't about the end, it's really the beginning. It's a celebration of the next experience. It's the transition and the confusion. It's not 'hey you're dead.' It's 'hey you're dead!'

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Theme
• 2 Tesla
• 3 Cold Dead
• 4 FKN Dead
• 5 Never Catch Me
• 6 Dead Man's Tetris
• 7 Turkey Dog Coma
• 8 Stirring
• 9 Coronus, the Terminator
• 10 Siren Song
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Turtles
• 2 Ready Err Not
• 3 Eyes Above
• 4 Moment of Hesitation
• 5 Descent Into Madness
• 6 Boys Who Died in Their Sleep
• 7 Obligatory Cadence
• 8 Your Potential//The Beyond
• 9 Protest

Vinyl 2LP Reissue Remastered at Half-Speed for Superior Quality!

Commanding a significant and uniquely loyal audience from the rock, pop, alternative, and under-the-radar regions of the music world, Tori Amos has influenced generations of artists in a myriad of platforms. Originally issued on Atlantic in 1994, Amos' extraordinary second album Under The Pink finds the eclectic singer/songwriter migrating from the confessional intensity of her breakout 1992 debut Little Earthquakes to a much more playful tone. Describing the release as her "impressionistic album," Amos explores soft-loud dynamics here amidst mostly piano-based material with weaving guitars, violins, and bass loops interspersed throughout. Propelled by the hit singles "Cornflake Girl" and "God," Under The Pink shot straight to No. 1 in the UK, her highest charting album there to date. The wonderfully evocative 12-song set also received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Alternative Music Performance.

LP1

1. Pretty Good Year
2. God
3. Bells For Her
4. Past The Mission
5. Baker Baker
6. The Wrong Band
7. The Waitress

LP2

1. Cornflake Girl
2. Icicle
3. Cloud On My Tounge
4. Space Dog
5. Yes, Anastasia

Music by Madlib Edited, Arranged and Mastered by Kieren Hebden aka Four Tet; Vinyl Lacquered by Bernie Grundman in L.A.

Gil Evans to Miles Davis...Holger Czukay to the ensemble known as Can...Jean Claude Vannier to Serge Gainsbourg on Histoire de Melody Nelson. That's the only way to explain the specificity of Four Tet and Madlib's collaboration, in the special album, Sound Ancestors, that showcases a two-decade long friendship. The collection follows in the big shoes of Madlib classics like Quasimoto's The Unseen, Madvillainy and his Pinata and Bandana albums with Freddie Gibbs.

"A few months ago I completed work on an album with my friend Madlib that we'd been making for the last few years," explains Kieren Hebden aka Four Tet. "He is always making loads of music in all sorts of styles and I was listening to some of his new beats and studio sessions when I had the idea that it would be great to hear some of these ideas made into a Madlib solo album. Not made into beats for vocalists to use but instead arranged into tracks that could all flow together in an album designed to be listened to start to finish. I put this concept to him when we were hanging out eating some nice food one day and we decided to work on this together with him sending me tracks, loops, ideas and experiments that I would arrange, edit, manipulate and combine. I was sent hundreds of pieces of music over a couple of years stretch and during that time I put together this album with all the parts that fitted with my vision."

Music by Madlib. Edited, arranged and mastered by Kieran Hebden. Lacquered by Bernie Grundman in L.A. Art direction by Errol Richardson. Photography by Richard Foster. 

1. There Is No Time (Prelude)
2. The Call
3. Theme De Crabtree
4. Road Of The Lonely Ones
5. Loose Goose
6. Dirtknock
7. Hopprock
8. Riddim Chant
9. Sound Ancestors
10. One For Quartabê/Right Now
11. Hang Out (Phone Off)
12. Two for 2 -For Dilla
13. Latino Negro
14. The New Normal
15. Chino
16. Duumbiyay

Vinyl LP pressing. 2021 release. For the second straight year, The Killers are releasing a new album. The follow-up to 2020's Imploding the Mirage is titled Pressure Machine.

• 1 West Hills
• 2 Quiet Town
• 3 Terrible Thing
• 4 Cody
• 5 Sleepwalker
• 6 Runaway Horses
• 7 In the Car Outside
• 8 In Another Life
• 9 Desperate Things
• 10 Pressure Machine
• 11 The Getting By

This is Bill Evans' first trio date under his own name for Verve, and the deep communication he maintains throughout with Gary Peacock and Paul Motian, two brilliant rhythm players, is sublime. All of the songs are standards of one for or another, but Evans and Co. find a depth to them that's astonishing. Bill uses the spaces between phrases in a way that broadens and deepens the emotional content. Two outstanding examples of Bill's interpretive magic here are the novelty numbers "Little Lulu" and "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town," which both acquire a warmth, scope of imagery and sardonic touch that enlivens their musical essence like never before. This all-analog 180g vinyl LP reissue was mastered from the original analog tapes by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound, pressed at QRP, and comes housed in a Stoughton tip-on gatefold jacket.

Tracks

1. Little Lulu
2. A Sleeping Bee
3. Always
4. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
5. I'll See You Again
6. For Heaven's Sake
7. Dancing In The Dark
8. Everything Happens To Me

Vinyl LP pressing. Eliza Noble and Jennifer Skillman are Eli & Fur: the British live act, singer-songwriter and producer duo whose career together stretches back for nearly a decade. Having formed a close bond in their teens born out of their unwavering passion for music in all it's guises, their careers as DJs, songwriters, vocalists and producers has taken them around the globe as touring musicians and seen them grace the stages of the biggest festivals in the world including Coachella, Tomorrowland and Glastonbury.

Highly Anticipated Follow-Up to 5x Grammy-Winning Debut When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go

Billie Eilish's highly anticipated second full-length album Happier Than Ever, which she called the favorite thing she's ever created, features no outside songwriters or producers, and was written by Billie and her brother Finneas, who produced the album in Los Angeles, CA. In late 2020, the singer released "Therefore I Am," an audacious ode to being entirely unbothered which followed the release of the ethereal single "My Future." Eilish appeared on Sirius XM to discuss the process of creating the follow up to her massive debut When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go, which took home five Grammys and went 3x Platinum saying: "Everything about every song is very different but somehow cohesive, and I think that was the same with the last album. We really wanted a project to be cohesive and make sense, but not just be a repeat and a clone of every other song." The album topped the US Billboard 200 and its title track received a total of seven nominations at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards including Album of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Album, Song of the Year and Record of the Year.

1. Getting Older
2. I Didn't Change My Number
3. Billie Bossa Nova
4. My Future
5. Oxytocin
6. Goldwing
7. Lost Cause
8. Halley's Comet
9. Not My Responsibility
10. OverHeated
11. Everybody Dies
12. Your Power
13. NDA
14. Therefore I Am
15. Happier Than Ever
16. Male Fantasy

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Guitarist Kenny Burrell debuted on Blue Note Records in 1956 and over the following 7 years made a series of excellent albums for the label that culminated with his masterwork Midnight Blue. Recorded in 1963, the album waded deep into the blues, conjuring an alluring late-night vibe with a profoundly soulful cast including tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine, bassist Major Holley, Jr., drummer Bill English, and Ray Barretto on congas. Burrell originals including "Chitlins con Carne," "Midnight Blue," "Saturday Night Blues," and the stunning solo guitar piece "Soul Lament" set the tone for this timeless classic adorned by one of the all-time great Reid Miles cover designs.

Musicians:
Kenny Burrell, guitar
Stanley Turrentine, tenor saxophone
Major Holley, Jr., bass
Bill English, drums
Ray Barretto, conga

Tracks

1. Chitlins Con Carne
2. Mule
3. Soul Lament
4. Midnight Blue
5. Wavy Gravy
6. Gee Baby Ain't I Good To You
7. Saturday Night Blues

J Mascis Several Shades Of Why on LP + MP3 from Sub Pop

Dinosaur Jr. Leader's First Solo Acoustic Album

Gorgeous Arrangements, Delicate Emotions, and Brilliant Melodies Pepper Guitar Hero's Batch of Original Tunes

In the quarter century since he founded Dinosaur Jr., J Mascis has created some of the era’s signature songs, albums and styles. The laconically-based roar of his guitar, drums and vocals have driven a long string of bands such as Deep Wound, Dinosaur Jr., Gobblehoof, Velvet Monkeys, the Fog, Witch, and Sweet Apple. He has also guested on innumerable sessions. But Several Shades of Why, recorded at Amherst, Massachusetts’ Bisquiteen Studios, is J’s first solo studio record, and it is an album of incredible beauty, performed with a delicacy not always associated with his work.

Nearly all acoustic, Several Shades of Why was created with the help of a few friends. Notable amongst them are Kurt Vile, Sophie Trudeau (A Silver Mount Zion), Kurt Fedora (long-time collusionist), Kevin Drew (Broken Social Scene), Ben Bridwell (Band of Horses), Pall Jenkins (Black Heart Procession), Matt Valentine (The Golden Road), and Suzanne Thorpe (Wounded Knees).

Together in small mutable groupings, they conjure up classic sounds ranging from English-tinged folk to drifty, West Coast-style singer/songwriters. But every track, every note even, bears that distinct Mascis watermark, both in the shape of the tunes and the glorious rasp of the vocals. Ten brilliant tunes that quietly grow and expand until they fill your brain with the purest pleasure.

"Mascis’ first solo acoustic album and Sub Pop debut, the ten-song set further exposes the beautiful tunefulness and pained emotionalism at the root of his craft. Many of Mascis’ best songs over the past 20 years capture the lifetime-lasting wounds related to longing, wondering, and searching. Such emotional themes recur on Several Shades of Why, which finds the singer/guitarist striving for degrees of destination, closure, companionship, and certainty without ever arriving at any agreed-upon understandings or firm conclusions."
--Bob Gendron, TONE Audio, Issue 35, February 2011

J Mascis Several Shades Of Why Track Listing:

1.  Listen To Me
2.  Several Shades Of Why
3.  Not Enough
4.  Very Nervous and Love
5.  Is It Done
6.  Make It Right
7.  Where Are You
8.  Too Deep
9.  Can I
10. What Happened

Double vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. Includes poster. Digitally remastered and expanded edition. By going back to basics with Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge, Mudhoney flipped conventional wisdom. Not for the first time - or the last - they would be vindicated. A month after release in July 1991, the album entered the UK album chart at Number 34 (five weeks later, Nirvana's Nevermind entered at 36) and went on to sell 75,000 copies worldwide. A more meaningful measure of success, however, lay in it's revitalization of the band, casting a touchstone for the future. The record is a major chapter in Mudhoney's ongoing story, the moral of which has to be: when in doubt, fudge it. This 30th anniversary edition, remastered by Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering Service, stands as testimony to the creative surge that drove them in this period. The album sessions yielded a clutch of material that would subsequently appear on B-sides, compilations, and split-singles. This edition includes all those tracks, and a slew of previously unreleased songs, including the entire five-track Music Source session.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Generation Genocide
• 2 Let It Slide
• 3 Good Enough
• 4 Something So Clear
• 5 Thorn
• 6 Into the Drink
• 7 Broken Hands
• 8 Who You Drivin' Now?
• 9 Move Out
• 10 Shoot the Moon
• 11 Fuzzgun '91
• 12 Pokin' Around
• 13 Don't Fade IV
• 14 Check-Out Time
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 March to Fuzz
• 2 Ounce of Deception
• 3 Paperback Life (Alternate Version)
• 4 Fuzzbuster
• 5 Bushpusher Man
• 6 Flowers for Industry
• 7 Thorn (1st Attempt)
• 8 Overblown
• 9 March from Fuzz
• 10 You're Gone
• 11 Something So Clear (24-Track Demo)
• 12 Bushpusher Man (24-Track Demo)
• 13 Pokin' Around (24-Track Demo)
• 14 Check-Out Time (24-Track Demo)
• 15 Generation Genocide (24-Track Demo)

Limited vinyl LP repressing of this classic Jazz release. This album is a Blue Note essential and is part of the Blue Note 75 anniversary LP reissue campaign. At the Half Note Cafe is a live album by American trumpeter Donald Byrd recorded in 1960 at the Half Note in Manhattan and released on the Blue Note label originally as two single LP issues. Trumpeter Byrd is joined on this recording by Pepper Adams, Duke Pearson, Laymon Jackson and Lex Humphries. This first volume includes "Intro/My Girl Shirl', "Soulful Kiddy", "A Portrait Of Jennie", "Cecile", " and "Theme: Pure D. Funk".

THE JEAN-PIERRE LELOIR COLLECTION

180 PRE VIRGIN VINYL LPs IN GATEFOLD PACKAGING

INCLUDES 2 BONUS TRACKS

"The Lonely One", issued by Verve in 1959, presents a series of 1955 trio sessions by the great Bud Powell, recorded in the company of such figures as bassists Percy Heath and George Duvivier, and drummers Kenny Clarke and Art Taylor. Powell experienced serious health problems throughout his life. He was commited to a mental hospital from late 1951 to early 1953, and would be released into the guardianship of Oscar Goodstein, the owner of the Birdland nightclub. Following his release from the hospital, Powell’s playing began to be seriously affected by Largactil, a drug prescribed for the treatment of schizophrenia, and by the late Fifties his talent was clearly in eclipse.

These sessions, however, still find him in good shape (his playing, besides some technical trouble, never ceased to produce interesting music). According to All About Jazz reviewer Patrick Burnette, “Powell deconstructs Monk’s ‘Epistrophy’ and garbles ‘Sweet Georgia Brown,’ but the most striking cut is ‘Mediocre,’ on which Powell plays a repetitive melody over a descending series of chords for about three minutes, making increasingly outre variations on the melody rather than soloing over the chords.”

PERSONNEL:

BUD POWELL, piano on all tracks, plus:

A1-A5 & B7:
GEORGE DUVIVIER, bass
ART TAYLOR, drums
Fine Sound Studio, New York, April 25 (A4-A5 & B7) and April 27 (A1-A3), 1955.

B1-B6:
PERCY HEATH, bass
KENNY CLARKE, drums
Fine Sound Studio, New York, January 13, 1955.

SIDE A:

1 CONFIRMATION
2 STAR EYES
3 LULLABY IN RHYTHM
4 WILLOW WEEP FOR ME
5 HEART AND SOUL (*)

SIDE B:

1 MEDIOCRE
2 ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE
3 EPISTROPHY
4 DANCE OF THE INFIDELS
5 SALT PEANUTS
6 HEY GEORGE [SWEET GEORGIA BROWN]
7 CRAZY RHYTHM (*)

(*) Bonus tracks: From the same sessions, but not included on the original LP.

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.

Tracks

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



Norwegian artist and writer Jenny Hval has developed her distinct take on intimate sound since the release of her debut album in 2006. For her last two solo albums, 2013's Innocence Is Kinky and 2015's Apocalypse, Girl, Hval's debut for Sacred Bones, she has received thoughtful and widespread international acclaim for her fascinating voice, singular delivery and markedly non-traditional arrangements which incorporate elements of poetry, prose writing, performance art, and film.

The New York Times defines her writing as "taking a scalpel to the subjects of gender politics and sexuality." Hval has eloquently brought to light issues of both male and female gaze, which for years had been swept under the rug and/or denied all together. Apocalypse, Girl landed on numerous year-end lists with leading compelling writers everywhere to grapple with the age-old, yet previously unspoken, question: What is Soft Dick Rock?

After touring for a year and earning her second Nordic Prize nomination, as any perfectionist would, Hval immediately went back into the studio to continue her work with acumen noise producer Lasse Marhaug, with whom she co-produces here on Blood Bitch. Her new effort is in many respects a complete 180° from her last in subject matter, execution and production. It is her most focused, but the lens is filtered through a gaze which the viewer least expects.

1. Ritual Awakening
2. Female Vampire
3. In the Red
4. Conceptual Romance
5. Untamed Region
6. The Great Undressing
7. Period Piece
8. The Plague
9. Secret Touch
10. Lorna

U.F.O.F. is the highly anticipated third record by Big Thief and their first on 4AD. U.F.O.F. was recorded in rural western Washington at Bear Creek Studios. In a large cabin-like room, the band set up their gear to track live with engineer Dom Monks and producer Andrew Sarlo, who was also behind their previous albums. Having already lived these songs on tour, they were relaxed and ready to experiment. The raw material came quickly. Some songs were written only hours before recording and stretched out instantly, first take, vocals and all. Others were explored in search of perfected moments of dynamic feedback and spiritual, rhythmic togetherness. A careful New Age sprinkle of mystical textures and stabs was added and kept in the mix only when all agreed that each element had become absolutely crucial to the tune. The completed palette feels classic, upfront and honest, with an occasional, welcome glimpse into the magic box. "Making friends with the unknown...All my songs are about this," says Adrianne Lenker (guitar, vocals). "If the nature of life is change and impermanence, I'd rather be uncomfortably awake in that truth than lost in denial."

1. Contact
2. UFOF
3. Cattails
4. From
5. Open Desert
6. Orange
7. Century
8. Strange
9. Betsy
10. Terminal Paradise
11. Jenni
12. Magic Dealer

Vinyl LP pressing. Damon Locks & Black Monument Ensemble's previous album, their 2018 debut Where Future Unfolds, had a best new music in Pitchfork, was a Top 50 Album of the Year in Wire Magazine, and was BBC DJ Gilles Peterson's unequivocal Favorite Album of the Year. NOW is the band's much anticipated follow-up, which carries on their unique brand of Choir-fronted Hip-Hop-meets-Gospel/Jazz Liberation Music ' very much a modern day echo of the Harlem Freedom Singers and/or Eddie Gale's Black Rhythm Happening. This new one is a bit heavier on the beats and drum machines, sounding almost like Public Enemy/Bomb Squad working with ESG. Clarinetist Angel Bat Dawid and cornet player Ben LaMar Gay are heavily featured on this album.

Tracks

1. Now (Forever Momentary Space)
2. The People vs The Rest of Us
3. Keep Your Mind Free
4. Barbara Jones-Hogu and Elizabeth Catlett Discuss Liberation
5. Movement And You
6. The Body Is Electric

John Williams wrote this suite for concert performance, and then worked with the National Philharmonic Orchestra to bring that experience to record. This fantastic long out of print album is reissued here on 180g LP and comes housed in a gatefold jacket with the original iconic Star Wars paintings by William Stout and images of John Williams, plus notes from author Ray Bradbury, composer and critic, Christopher Palmer, and the maestro himself. The Empire Strikes Back: Symphonic Suite has been out of print since its original pressing in 1980.

1. 20th Century Fox Fanfare
2. Main Title / The Imperial Probe
3. Luke's First Crash
4. Han Solo And The Princess
5. The Asteroid Field
6. The Training Of A Jedi Knight And "May The Force Be With You"
7. The Battle In The Snow
8. The Imperial March
9. The Magic Tree
10. Yoda's Theme
11. The Rebels Escape Again
12. Lando's Palace
13. Finale