LALA LALA - 'THE LAMB'

Formats

• HAR107 - LP

  0098787310719

• HAR107CD - CD

  0098787310726

• HARCS107 - MC

  0098787310740

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“The Lamb was written during a time of intense paranoia after a home invasion, deaths of loved ones and general violence around me and my friends,” says Lillie West, the Chicago-based songwriter behind Lala Lala. “I began to frequently and vividly imagine the end of the world, eventually becoming too frightened to leave my house. This led me to spend a lot of time examining my relationships and the choices I’d made, often wondering if they were correct and/or kind.” West initially started Lala Lala as a way to communicate things that she felt she could never say out loud. But on The Lamb, her sophomore LP and debut for Hardly Art, she has found strength in vulnerability. Through bracing hooks and sharp lyrics, the 24-year-old songwriter and guitarist illustrates a nuanced look on her own adulthood -- her fraught insecurity, struggles with addiction, and the loss of several people close to her. Across the album’s 12 tracks, West carefully examines the skeletons in her closet for the first time, hoping to capture honest snapshots of her past selves. Many of the songs show West asking herself agonizing questions about her life with a clever and hopeful curiosity. On the album’s first single and opening track, “Destroyer,” she reflects on feeling self-destructive and the delayed realization something in the past has irrevocably hurt you. In “Water Over Sex,” West laments her old precarious lifestyle, while trying to readjust to her newfound sobriety, and ”Copycat” confronts her feelings of alienation and boredom. “Some of this album is about being frustrated that everything is always repeating itself and being bored with your own feelings,”she explains. “‘Copycat’ in particular is about how everyone talks exactly the same on the Internet and how it sometimes feels futile to try and be yourself.” 

Tracks

01. Destroyer
02. Spy
03. Water Over Sex
04. I Get Cut
05. Dove
06. Dropout
07. The Flu
08. Copycat
09. Scary Movie
10. Moth
11. When You Die
12. See You at Home

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PHILL NIBLOCK - 'NIBLOCK FOR CELLI / CELLI PLAYS NIBLOCK'

Formats

• SV157 - LP

  855985006574

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Composer, filmmaker and photographer Phill Niblock is a true pillar of the New York avant-garde. In the past 50 years, he has curated over 1,000 performances at his Centre Street loft and steadfastly built a massive, multidisciplinary body of work. While his earliest musical compositions date back to 1968, Niblock waited until the early ’80s to release any recordings. Nothin To Look At Just A Record, a powerful debut with densely layered trombones, would be the first to unfurl his unique approach to sound. The second album and perhaps the most rare in Niblock’s vast catalogue, 1984’s Niblock For Celli / Celli Plays Niblock is a meeting of two great minds. Working with reed player Joseph Celli (a composer in his own right, who has collaborated with John Cage, Pauline Oliveros and Ornette Coleman), Niblock nimbly removes the breathing pauses from Celli’s oboe and English horn to create seamless, enchanting drones. Niblock insists that his music be played loud: only in this way can one experience the visceral ringing of these long instrumental tones through the speakers and their natural overtones generated by the room. Niblock For Celli remains deeply absorbing. This first-time reissue is recommended for fans of Alvin Lucier, Yoshi Wada and Dome. 

Tracks

1. Second Two Octaves And A Fifth
2. First Performance

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ROBERT POLLARD - 'WAVED OUT'

Formats

• GBVI84 - LP

  655035088419

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Robert Pollard’s Waved Out gets the 20th anniversary reissue treatment with newly re-mastered audio and a beautiful blue vinyl pressing. The Guided By Voices captain’s second solo album from 1998 captures the more eclectic side of his songwriting. Here, he brilliantly compresses prog, psych, and post-punk ideas into magnificent two-minute pop songs. Wire, early Genesis, Nilsson Schmilsson, Lennon’s White Album songs, Blue Öyster Cult, XTC, and Captain Beefheart: it’s all here, condensed into brilliant songs like “Subspace Biographies” and “Whiskey Ships.” A lot’s been made of Pollard’s spontaneous and prolific songwriting methods, and most of that’s true, though he works much harder on his songs than even he likes to admit. With Waved Out, he seemed to grow more comfortable and ambitious in formal studio-type settings, so that anyone who carps about “unfinished arrangements” and “shitty production values” ought to be pretty happy with this record. This doesn’t apply to “Caught Waves Again,” where he sings into a boombox over a tape of GBV guitarist Doug Gillard’s noodling. Nor does it apply to a touching song about tragedies in Pollard’s hometown of Dayton, Ohio, called “People Are Leaving,” where he puts two separate melodies over instruments by collaborator Stephanie Sayers. In addition to Gillard, a few other GBV personalties appear on the record, Jim Pollard, Tobin Sprout and Jim MacPherson, then of The Breeders. But the bulk of the record, including a fair bit of the drumming, is all Robert Pollard. • On blue vinyl!

Tracks

1. Make Use
2. Vibrations In The Woods
3. Just Say The Word
4. Subspace Biographies
5. Caught Waves Again
6. Waved Out 7. Whiskey Ships
8. Wrinkled Ghost 9. Artificial Light
10. People Are Leaving
11. Steeple Of Knives 12. Rumbling Joker
13. Showbiz Opera Walrus
14. Pick Seeds From My Skull
15. Second Step Next Language

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Reissue of GBV captain?s second solo
album from 1998
A fan favorite of the entire Pollard catalog
Features Doug Gillard, Tobin Sprout, Jim
MacPherson (The Breeders), Jim Pollard,
and Stephanie Sayers

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WINGTIP SLOAT - 'PURGE & SWELL / THE LOST DECADE'

Formats

• VHF143 - LP

  783881014310

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Wingtip Sloat’s slashing and arty post-punk sounds weirdly contemporary these days, so what better news than to have their first new music in almost twenty years! Purge And Swell is a 12-inch 45 RPM mini LP with ten new tracks, and is accompanied by a 76-minute bonus CD Lost Decade with thirty-one additional tracks. The 12- inch includes plenty of the trebly guitar blare and low-fi charm immediately familiar from the group’s classic early ’90s singles, backstopping winning and memorable tunes like “Stars Bailed Out” and “Gizzard Jett.” The bonus CD includes bric-a-brac from the Sloat rehearsal room, with found poetry, perfect ninety-second rockers (the DC-specific “Cruisin’ The Ellipse”), confusing instrumental detours, and winsome covers of Eno, Dylan, Wire, Belle & Sebastian and more. Wingtip Sloat

Tracks

Purge And Swell
Porch Song
We Live In Spacious Houses
Ed From Oblivion
One Note Of Boston
Stars Bailed Out
Some Nice People Came To See The Robot
Gizzard Jett
Broken Cajun
Dojo Circus
Working Title: Hope

Lost Decade
1. Wrong Way Home
2. Hypo Slimy Bovis
3. Cruisin? The Ellipse
4. Spanish Encores/Giddy In Palestine
5. Lee Morgan-Chocolate Kiss
6. Mr Roy Speed
7. I?m A City Boy
8. Fry The Fortress
9. I Hope They Spelled My Name Right/ Andy?s Camaro
10. After Scaring The Dog
11. Jim Cantore
12. Weather Page
13. This Song Is Called My Friend The Asshole
14. A Momentary Dawn
15. Stars Bailed Out
16. PGA Tour On ABC
17. Brickin? In The USA
18. Coated And Cracked
19. Hypnotist
20. Chant Of Devotion
21. Cindy Tells Me
22. Judy And The Dream Of Horses
23. What We Don?t Know
24. Clothesline Saga
25. Ode To Billy Joe
26. Male Cleavage Carpet
27. Outdoor Miner
28. Block Party Weekend
29. Giddy In Palestine
30. Fashion Folklore
31. The Sun (Hidden Track)

Press

First new music from arty post-punk band in nearly twenty
years!
A favorite of British DJ John Peel, who played them a lot on
BBC radio and raved about them to
Rolling Stone

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BIKINI KILL - 'THE SINGLES'

Formats

• BK010CD - CD

  851647004179

• BK010LP - LP

  851647004186

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Bikini Kill Records is excited to reissue of The Singles, on both vinyl and compact disc. This is the first time that it has been released as a 12-inch (special note for all you vinyl fanatics, we managed to keep it at 45rpm for better sound quality)! The Singles was initially released in 1998 as a CD only compilation of all of BIKINI KILL's 7”s. Once called "their defining document" by Pitchfork it includes Bikini Kill's legendary collaboration with JOAN JETT on the New Radio (1993) single as well as the long out of print Anti Pleasure Dissertation (1995) and I Like Fucking (1995) singles.

Tracks

1 New Radio 1:33
2 Rebel Girl 2:37
3 DemiRep 2:47
4 In Accordance To Natural Law
5 Strawberry Julius 2:17
6 Anti-Pleasure Dissertation 2:29
7 Rah! Rah! Replica 0:58
8 I Like Fucking 2:16
9 I Hate Danger

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EARTHLESS - 'FROM THE WEST'

Formats

• SC38 - LP

  647603402512

• SC38X - LP (COLOURED)

  657628443490

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On the eve of the release of Black Heaven, their debut for Nuclear Blast Records, Earthless turned in this incredible live performance in San Francisco on March 1st, 2018, captured released on vinyl by Silver Current Records. Since their inception seventeen years ago, this band has become an icon of 21st century heavy music and a cult unto themselves. On From The West the band’s signature high-volume drive and unbridled horsepower create an almost mantra-like repetition as a framework for infinite improvisation. That, and beer-can crushing, fist-pumping riffs and solos delivered by an unstoppable rhythm section. This album is a complete, hypnotic, psychedelic experience in a way that remains totally unique to the band’s virtuosic expression. A live album that captures the band at peak powers and a quintessential fan piece from one of the best live rock bands in the world. Album tracks includes looser, rawer versions of Black Heaven favorites, a nearly twenty minute version of their instrumental titan “Uluru Rock,” and a blazing cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Communication Breakdown.” The album jacket is also a meticulous reproduction of the band’s favorite TMOQ (Trademark Of Quality) Zeppelin bootleg.

Tracks

1. Black Heaven
2. Electric Flame
3. Gifted By The Wind
4. Uluru Rock
5. Volt Rush
6. Communication Breakdown

Press

Blistering live album from heavy
music icons, known for mantra-like
improvisations and fist-pumping riffs and
solos

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LIARS / TROPICAL FXXX STORM - 'LAMC 18'

Formats

• FC048X - 7"

  RED VINYL

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Bio: The eighteenth edition in Famous Class’ LAMC split series featuring an unreleased A-side track from one of the label’s favorite band’s, backed with a B-side track from a lesser-known artist handpicked by the A-side group. The series gets its name from the epic Less Artists More Condos concerts that the late ARIEL PANERO threw in New York, showcasing amazing bands in some strange and unique venues. Ariel’s driving force was a desire to get the bands he believed in the recognition he felt they deserved. This series simply tries to honor that idea. Features LIARS "Total 3 Part Saga" backed with TROPICAL FUCK STORM’S "The Happiest Guy Around." ***we have a UK exclusive RED vinyl version / 200 copies only. Black vinyl also available

Tracks

Side A: Liars - Total 3 Part Saga
Side B: Tropical Fuck Storm - The Happiest Guy Around

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PAPIR - 'PAPIR'

Formats

• PSYCHOBABBLE102 - LP

  4046661573411

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** LIMITED QTY OF THE COLORED VINYL NOW SHIPPING** Before releasing a string of albums on the El Paraiso label and hitting upon their trademark sound of soft, warm and even jazz-tinged psychedelic rock, Papir released their first and perhaps most experimental record to the world in a limited pressing of only 250 copies. Even in their early days, the Copenhagen trio Christoffer Brøchmann Christensen, Nicklas Sørensen and Christian Becher Clausen were virtuosos in their art of hypnotizing rock, and their debut record is a testament to the group’s early devotion to krautrock. Incorporating haunting, industrial sounds, keyboards and otherworldly guitar sounds into their tapestry of sound, Papir gives a glimpse into the band’s early days where a certain weird joy in experimentation was palatable. Hints of the blissful psychedelia the band is now known for shine through in intervals, only to collide against beeps and loops, submerging and emerging while unexpected sounds assail the listener. Papir is a beautiful and highly unique record in the band’s catalog that will be appreciated by the band’s current fans as well as krautrock enthusiasts. Papir’s first studio album is a powerful statement that established the band immediately as one of the most creative psychedelic forces in the European scene. Stickman Records is reissuing the record for the first time on vinyl since 2010 Papir will be available on 180gr neon yellow vinyl including download code from Stickman Records. 

Tracks

1. KURL TE POW RALISE
2. LYKK TREP-R HI LOS?
3. UNE FRENSAL N-ERIT
4. ROGTER SOT OE KOFT
5. TI LIRO MISA NE NIARU

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ELECTRIC CITIZEN - 'HELLTOWN'

Formats

• EZRDR094 - LP

  603111729916

• EZRDR094CD - CD

  603111729923

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Helltown , the forthcoming third album by Electric Citizen is, in many ways, a homecoming. While the title may seem fittingly metal (if not exceedingly so), it actually has real relevanc: Helltown , while also multidimensional, is named after the Cincinnati, OH, neighborhood in which the band lives, practices, and where the album was written, recorded and mixed. Now known more prosaically as Northside, Helltown earned its name in the 1800s due to its reputation for rowdy taverns frequented by the neighborhood of factory workers and immigrants. Inasmuch as this album is an ode to the band’s home and its buried past, it also represents a return to the grittier sound of their 2014 debut, Sateen. Furthermore, it marks the return of original bassist Nick Vogelpohl, who rejoins vocalist Laura Dolan, guitarist Ross Dolan and drummer Nate Wagner. It’s a fun, tough, dirty rock ‘n’ roll album.The band’s 2016 album Higher Time was an expansive and somewhat cleaner effort mixed by Black Keys engineer Collin Dupuis . It was a landmark moment for the band earning considerable press praise— Consequence Of Sound named it in the 20 Most Anticipated Albums of 2016 with “the most breakout potential of all the young bands on this list.” And, the band’s endless touring since the first album earned them stints opening for acts like Pentagram, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Fu Manchu, Budos Band, and Wolfmother. What sets Electric Citizen apart from contemporary heavy counterparts is their songwriting. The band writes concise, three-minute, heavy rock songs. While others might now be following suit, when they started, most bands of their ilk were content writing drawn- out slow doom dirges. Regardless, none can deliver quite like Electric Citizen: Laura Dolan’s captivating star-power, Ross Dolan’s perfect tone and riffs, Wagner’s pugilistic and swinging beats, glued together by Vogelpohl’s gliding bass lines.

Tracks

1. Heart Attack
2. Hide It In The Night
3. Cold Blooded Blue
4. Father Time
5. Ripper
6. The Pawn
7. New Earth
8. Lunch
9. Mother?s Little Reject

Press

Cincinnati, OH, hard rock band returns
after press-beloved 2016 album
Higher
Time

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GOGGS - 'PRE STRIKE SWEEP'

Formats

• ITR325 - LP

  759718532517

• ITR325CD - CD

  759718532524

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With their second album Pre Strike Sweep, GØGGS add a new level of primordial anxiety to their already catastrophic symphony. Recorded and mixed in 2017 by GØGGS guitarist and co-founder Ty Segall, the album explores the damaging affects of modern life before blowing them up one by one. Singer Chris Shaw uses terms like “space rinse” and “roadside surgery” to inform the listener that this is a strange and different trip, far and away from the “Glendale Junkyard” he romanticized in 2016 on their self-titled album. In fact, all expectations brought on by that acclaimed debut are crushed into dust, revealing a new standard by which the GØGGS march thumps.

Tracks

1. Killing Time
2. Pre Strike Sweep
3. Still Feeding
4. Space Rinse
5. CTA
6. Vanity
7. Disappear
8. Burned Entrance
9. Ruptured Line
10. Funeral Relief
11. Morning Reaper

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Ty Segall side project featuring Chris Shaw (Ex-Cult) on vocal duty and
Charles Moothart (Fuzz) on drums

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OHMNS - 'JOCELYN / CARNAGE'

Formats

• ST02 - 7"

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New Liverpool label, Sentinel, is pleased to annouce the long awaited vinyl debut by one of the key groups on the new Liverpool underground scene. High octane rock'n'roll for the party faithful. Two track 7 inch single with third track download code. All in screen printed sleeve. Only 300 available. 

Tracks

1 - Jocelyn
2 - Total Carnage
3 - 2nd Gorgeous (download track)

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FATHER JOHN MISTY - 'LIVE AT THIRD MAN RECORDS'

Formats

• TMR523 - LP

  813547026569

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In September last year, Josh Tillman stopped by our Nashville headquarters on an otherwise ordinary Tuesday afternoon and surprised us all with a lunchtime solo, acoustic set before his sold-out Ryman Auditorium performance. We, of course, had our 1955 Scully Lathe warmed at the ready to capture the occasion. As is typical for direct-to-acetate recordings in the Blue Room, Josh warmed up the room (and our engineers) with two songs before we started cutting the LP. He began with the debut performance of his newly penned “Mr. Tillman” (foreshadowing its release as the first single on God’s Favorite Customer 9 months later). We then used the second song as an opportunity to carve a 12” on-the-spot single of “Now I'm Learning to Love the War,” which was promptly handed it to a lucky attendee for safe keeping. If you want to know more about that, you’ll have to scour the depths of FJM’s fan net. Live at Third Man Records covers songs from all three Father John Misty albums out at the time of its recording, heard here stripped totally bare

Tracks

Tracklist:
I Love You, Honeybear
I?m Writing a Novel
Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings
Chateau Lobby #4 (In C for Two Virgins)
So I?m Growing Old on Magic Mountain
Holy Shit
Everyman Needs a Companion

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