New Releases - 2/5/21

Hitting The Racks

Here's your weekly rundown of what's hitting the new release racks at Grimey's

New Releases

Aaron Lee Tasjan - Tasjan! Tasjan! Tasjan! signed CD (New West)

CDs are here, vinyl due March 19th. Every now and then an artist comes along who makes you remember why you started listening to albums in the first place: Aaron Lee Tasjan is that artist. With his off-center charm and restless creative dazzle, he makes music with conviction that has its roots in rock’s murky past, armed with an arsenal of songs that spill over with humor, intelligence, irony, and at times prophecy.He updates the idea of androgyny but dispels the emotional and social ambiguity with lyrics that reflect his own geographic and artistic wanderings. His new record Tasjan! Tasjan! Tasjan! is 11 songs. The man who began the album is not the same man who completed it, transformed both by the experiences that inspired the songs and crafting them. This is not anxious music for anxious times, but rather music as an antidote for anxious times. It is the sound of the future arriving. Autographed copies of Tasjan! Tasjan! Tasjan! are available on CD here now, and we're still taking preorders for signed copies of the limited edition splatter colored vinyl and standard black vinyl (due out 3/19). And we're happy to announce that on March 19th, to celebrate the vinyl release, you'll be able to watch Aaron and his band rock out in the record store! Stay tuned for details about where and when you can check that out in the weeks to come.

Foo Fighters - Medicine At Midnight LP/CD (RCA)

Medicine at Midnight is the new album from Foo Fighters, and packs nine new songs into a tight-ass 37 minutes. Medicine at Midnight is produced by Greg Kurstin and Foo Fighters, and is the band's 10th album. Available on limited edition blue vinyl while supplies last and on standard black vinyl.

Black Country, New Road - For the First Time LP (Ninja Tune)

For the first time is the highly anticipated, debut album from Black Country, New Road - a new UK based seven-piece, who have gained huge tastemaker press and radio support in the UK, US and internationally including NPR, KEXP, WFUV, The Fader, The Guardian, Loud & Quiet and more, off the back of just two singles releases in 2019. They are the latest stars from the famed Brixton Windmill scene - other acts from this scene include black midi, Squid, Fat White Family and Shame. First single “Athen’s France” was released on tastemaker label Speedy Wunderground, helmed by producer Dan Carey (Kae Tempest, Natasha Khan), ‘Sunglasses’ followed on Thurston Moore affiliated, Blank Editions. Recorded with Andy Savours (My Bloody Valentine), the album is the perfect capturing of a new band and all the energy, ferocity and explosive charge that comes with that. Available on limited edition white vinyl, an indie record store exclusive, while supplies last.

Patricia Brennan - Maquishti LP (Valley Of Search)

Mexican born vibraphonist, marimbist, improviser and composer Patricia Brennan inherited a deep love and appreciation for musical tradition from both parents. She started studying music at 4 years old, playing Latin percussion along salsa records with her father and listening to Jimmy Hendrix and Led Zeppelin records with her mother. As a teenager Patricia toured a member of the Youth Orchestra of the Americas and performed with renowned musicians such as Yo-Yo Ma and Paquito D’Rivera. She then attended the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she performed alongside high caliber musicians from all over the world and conductors such as Simon Rattle and Charles Dutoit. She also performed with the prestigious Philadelphia Orchestra and other acclaimed new music groups such as members from Eight Blackbird. Patricia's search for freedom in her musical expression led her to find her voice through the vibraphone and mallet percussion in improvisational music and composition. The New York Times observed, “Brennan has recently started to make her presence known on the New York avant-garde, working with such prominent bandleaders as Matt Mitchell and Michael Formanek.”

John Carpenter - Lost Themes III: Alive After Death LP/CD (Sacred Bones)

The third album in John Carpenter's Lost Themes series of solo albums and first since 2016's Lost Themes II. The legendary director and composer behind Halloween, Escape from New York, The Fog, and more. Much has changed in the musical life of renowned composer and director John Carpenter since 2016’s Lost Themes II. Following the release of that album, he went on his first-ever concert tour, performing material from the Lost Themes albums, as well as music from his classic film scores. He re-recorded many of those classic movie themes for 2017’s Anthology album, working alongside son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies. The following year, he was asked to executive produce and compose the music for the new Halloween movie directed by David Gordon Green, which promptly became the highest-grossing installment in the series. Now, he returns with his first album of non-soundtrack music in nearly five years, Lost Themes III: Alive After Death. Underpinning Carpenter’s renaissance as a musician has been his collaboration with Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies. They’ve composed and performed as a trio throughout this entire run, on studio albums, on soundtracks, and onstage. Here, the trio reaches a new level of creative mind meld. Richly rendered worlds are built in the interplay between Davies’s guitar and the dueling synthesizers played by the Carpenters. Each of the ten songs is a universe unto itself. Whereas the original Lost Themes album came as a pleasant surprise after years of relative silence from Carpenter, the third installment sees him in the midst of a resurgent moment as a cultural force. Available on limited edition red vinyl while supplies last.

Common - A Beautiful Revolution Pt. 1 LP/CD (Loma Vista)

A Beautiful Revolution finds Common returning to his hip-hop roots. A full-length continuous listening experience, the EP features 2 interludes and 7 new songs that he refers to as "Movement Music"; music to uplift, heal & inspire listeners dealing with racial and social injustices. It's recognition. It's elevation. Includes "Don't Forget Who You Are," written/recorded for Bookmarks, Netflix's impactful new children's show produced by the Obamas. "It is music to uplift, heal, and inspire listeners dealing with racial injustices as well as other social injustices. It's affirmation. It's recognition. It's elevation. It's music to go with a movement. Because the truth is, there is still so much work to do. Regardless of the outcome of the election, we need to make sure things do not return to the status quo. The intention of A Beautiful Revolution Pt. I is to channel all of our pain and outrage into something productive, inspirational, and good. It's to help lead a movement into our next phase of the work to be done." - Common Available on limited edition red, white & blue marbled vinyl while supplies last.

A.J. Croce - By Request LP/CD (Compass)

Over the past three decades, A.J. Croce has established his rep as a piano man and serious vocal stylist who pulls from a host of American traditions and anti-heroes - it's part New Orleans, part juke joint, part soul. While his last album, Just Like Medicine, paired him with soul legend Dan Penn and an all-star cast of players, this album was born of memories - of favorite artists and shows, but mostly, of late-night gatherings with groups of friends, many of them fellow musicians, with Croce at the piano taking requests. Croce revisits these musical evenings with By Request, 12 personally curated covers that traverse decades and genres, propelled by his spirited, loose-and-easy piano mastery and emotive vocals. It's a tribute to Croce the music fan as well as Croce the musician that both the variety - from pop to Rock 'n' Roll to soul - and execution is inspired, aided by a full band and horns. By Request is the first album Croce has released since losing his wife of 24 years, Marlo Croce, after a sudden heart ailment.

Dean & Britta - Neon Lights 12” single (Double Feature Records)

Dean & Britta cover Kraftwerk's "Neon Lights" on this EP that contains the original mix and three additional remixes by Holy Shit.

Dave Hause - Patty/Paddy LP (Dave Hause)

Previously released digitally, now on vinyl. Featuring five Dillinger Four songs and five Patty Griffin songs, Patty / Paddy aims to cross the genre party lines. Drawing lyrical parallels with an open invitation to hear songs in a different way. "With the pandemic rolling in and all of our touring plans canceled, it seemed like a great time to try some home recording, and to do this project that I've always wanted to try," Dave Hause said. Featuring Brian Fallon ("Long Ride Home"), Lilly Hiatt ("Doublewhiskeycokenoice"), Will Hoge ("Great American Going Out of Business Sale"), Laura Stevenson ("When It Don't Come Easy"), Bar-tees Strange ("Top of the World"), and Jake Blount ("Minimum Wage is a Gateway Drug"). Available on Coke bottle clear colored vinyl while supplies last

Kings of Leon - Bandit b/w 100,000 People 7" single (RCA)

The Kings of Leon have released their first new single since 2016's critically acclaimed record Walls. Their long-awaited new album, When You See Yourself, will be out March 5th (you can preorder it here). This 7” is only available through the band’s site and at Independent Record Stores like this one. Grab one while you can! (Due to the special nature of this release copies are limited to one per person.)

Danny Kroha - Detroit Blues LP/CD (Third Man Records)

Danny Kroha’s Detroit Blues could be considered part two of his solo debut LP - Angels Watching Over Me. In his own words, “it was me in a room playing acoustic instruments and doing my own arrangements of some old songs”. Not so fast man!, when you hear this record and dig a little deeper into the facts, you’ll have a heightened awareness of the sonic beauty found in the simplicity. On many of these traditional songs, Danny dropped, added or rearranged verses from various sources, mixing up music from one song and words from another and unintentionally created his own amalgamation of early blues and ‘60s folk. Instead of following all the rules rooted in the early blues and ‘60s folk, Danny Kroha mixed up all the rural and urban traditions and kicked out a new surreal sound that could really only happen in Detroit - “I listen to both genres, for sure. I just wasn’t TRYING to make a record that sounds like that. It just came out that way”. Limited edition color vinyl pressing.

Femi Kuti & Made Kuti - Legacy+ 2xLP/CD (Partisan Records)

Divided into two sections, Fela Kuti’s son and grandson rework his signature sound, adding their own political commentary. Legacy+ is really 2 separate records - Femi’s eleventh album ‘Stop The Hate’ and the debut from his son Made, ‘For(e)ward. The first is a mature-sounding Afrobeat offering, the second is more musically adventurous, but both share the DNA of Fela Kuti’s hypnotic grooves and raw social conscience. Denied any traditional teaching by his father, Femi learnt music on the job, playing saxophone in Fela’s band. By contrast, Femi allowed his son Made a formal musical education in London (where Fela had also studied) and enlisted him for his band Positive Force, bringing a third generation into the musical tradition immortalised at The Shrine in Lagos (the venue created by Fela in the ‘70s and now managed by Femi).

Ingrid Michaelson - Alter Egos pic-disc LP (Spirit Music Group)

Alter Egos is Ingrid's recent collaboration with some of her favorite artists, and consists of re-imagined versions of select songs from her full-length album, It Doesn't Have To Make Sense. Now available as a Picture Disc LP.

Peel Dream Magazine - Moral Panics LP (Tough Love Records)

Yellow vinyl pressing of previously digital-only EP. Features the original 6 unreleased tracks recorded during the sessions for their recently released second album Agitprop Alterna which was released in April of this year, plus two further exclusive tracks. Talking about the EP, Joe Stevens, the main artistic force behind Peel Dream Magazine said: Moral Panics is an EP featuring unreleased songs from the Agitprop Alterna recording sessions over the course of 2018 and 2019. It's kind of like a sibling to that record as well as the Up and Up EP from 2019.

Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - SHYGA! The Sunlight Mound LP (Marathon Artists)

Psychedelic Porn Crumpets continue to assert their status as one of Australia's hardest working bands - pandemic be damned - with the release of their new album, SHYGA! The Sunlight Mound. For the Perth group, creativity and production hasn't stopped in 2020. Despite much of this year's tour plans being put on pause, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets have used their time off road to continue preparing themselves for the release of their fourth studio release, and an eventual blistering return to stages around the world with a heavy-hitter of an album primed for the live space.

Puma Blue - In Praise Of Shadows CD (Blue Flowers)

Over the course of two EPs, two singles and a stripped-back live album, Puma Blue has established himself as one of the UK's most vital new talents, quietly amassing over 50 million streams in the process and selling out shows from London to LA and Paris to Tokyo. His long-awaited debut album, In Praise of Shadows, is a delirious dreamland of soulful vocals, D'Angelo-ish guitars and muted electronic beats. It's fourteen tracks are a contemplation on "the balance of light and dark, the painful things you have to heal from or accept, that bring you through to a better place" says the 25-year-old Puma Blue, real name Jacob Allen "It's about finding light in darkness and realizing that it's what got me here today." [Color vinyl is available for special order]

Rival Consoles - Night Melody / Articulation CD (Erased Tapes)

Some of London-based electronic songwriter Ryan Lee West's most recognised work to date comes in the shape of spontaneous EP or so-called mini album releases' clocking in just under the 40-minute mark, keeping their contents urgent, immediate and to the point. As with his 2013 EP Odyssey and 2014's Sonne, which were later compiled to a full-length release titled Odyssey / Sonne in 2015, there is a similarly strong synergy between his 2016 mini album Night Melody and this year's Articulation. His 34-minute, 6-track mini album Night Melody was born out of and shaped by long hours working into the night. It's nocturnal in sound; mysterious in the way that the early hours so often are. Articulation was conceived with a very visual way of thinking, unusual for the London musician and producer. During the writing process Ryan drew structures, shapes and patterns by hand to try and find new ways of thinking about music, giving himself a way to problem-solve away from the computer. The album title references a piece by the avant-garde contemporary composer Györgi Ligeti, though not for its music, but for the non-traditional graphic score that accompanied it. The idea of using analogue drawings and tools to bolster digital creations can be heard in the structure of the pieces that make up Articulation from the broody techno opener 'Vibrations on a String' all the way to the album's boundless closer 'Sudden Awareness of Now'. Rising out of birdsong heard from his studio window, it has a particular urgency about it and seems to perfectly capture a longing for escape. Built around a simple and repetitive melodic theme, expanding and retracting over the course of its seven-minute odyssey.

Anna B. Savage - Common Turn CD (City Slang)

City Slang is thrilled to announce the debut album of London based singer-songwriter Anna B Savage! Her 2015 EP was deeply intriguing and quickly drew the attention of Father John Misty and later Jenny Hval, both of whom brought Savage out on European tours. Anna B Savage's first full-length record 'A Common Turn" is question mark music. Her songs are heavy with unanswered queries, with dilemmas and insecurities, or often just with wondering. Savage's voice is endlessly warm, but producer William Doyle' (East India Youth) consistently finds the iron in it. Even the darkest moments in this music don't stick in their devastation, though ' Savage's fire burns too brightly. Her voice can drop to a whisper, but then it will open all the way up in a flash flood of cavernous guitar, echoes, and swelling strings that expand and then vanish just as suddenly as they arrived. [Blue vinyl LP is available for special order]

The Staves - Good Woman LP/CD (Nonesuch)

Good Woman was written and recorded in a time of tremendous turmoil and change for the band, between the ending of relationships, the death of their beloved mother, and the birth of Emily’s first child. The album is a testament to the Stavely-Taylors’ strength and that of other women; to sisters, mothers, and daughters; to love, loss, and change; and to trying to be a good woman.The band explains: “We have been working on this for a long time and are thrilled to share the title track. When we think about making this album we think about moments and snapshots of all the different contexts we were in as it was made. Living in each other’s pockets and then living with oceans between us. Of voice notes and field recordings and ideas in emails sent across continents. We think of homesickness and family. Of being an outsider. Of endless notebooks and scraps of paper. Of studios in the winter and recordings under the summer sun. Of rainy London days and long American nights with coffees and beers, dogs, and cats. We think of love. Big, big love. Our Mum. Our Dad. Our friends. And of loss. Death and birth. Womanhood, motherhood. Sisterhood.“And coming home.”

Sun June - Somewhere LP (Run For Cover)

Austin-based band Sun June, organized around Laura Colwell and Stephen Salisbury, with Michael Bain on lead guitar, Sarah Schultz on drums, and Justin Harris on bass, returns with Somewhere. It's a record that feels distinctly more present than its predecessor. In the time since, Colwell and Salisbury have become a couple, and it's had a profound effect on their work; if Years was about how loss evolves, Somewhere is about how love evolves. "We explore a lot of the same themes across it," Colwell says, "but I think there's a lot more love here."Somewhere showcases a gentle but eminently pronounced maturation of Sun June's sound, a second record full of quiet revelation, eleven songs that bristle with love and longing. It finds a band at the height of their collective potency, a marked stride forward from the band that created that debut record, but also one that once again is able to transport the listener into a fascinating new landscape, one that lies somewhere between the town and the city, between the head and the heart; neither here nor there, but certainly somewhere.

TV Priest - Uppers LP/CD (Sub Pop)

It’s tempting to think that you have all the answers, screaming your gospel every day with certainty and anger. Life isn’t quite like that though, and the debut album from London four-piece TV Priest instead embraces the beautiful and terrifying unknowns that exist personally, politically, and culturally. Posing as many questions as it answers, Uppers is a thunderous opening statement that continues the UK’s recent resurgence of grubby, furious post-punk music. It says something very different though – something completely its own. Four childhood friends who made music together as teenagers before drifting apart and then, somewhat inevitably, back together late in 2019, TV Priest was borne out of a need to create together once again, and brings with it a wealth of experience and exhaustion picked up in the band’s years of pursuing ‘real life’ and ‘real jobs’, something those teenagers never had. Uppers is an album that has a lot to say right now. Taking musical cues from post-punk stalwarts The Fall and Protomartyr as well as the mechanical, pulsating grooves of krautrock, it’s a record that moves with an untamed energy. “Loser Edition” color vinyl pressing.

Various Artists - A Benefit for Equality Vol. 1 LP (Blind Pig Records)

Available exclusively at independent record stores, Blind Pig Records' A Benefit For Equality Vol. 1 celebrates Black Artistry in the blues genre with cuts by Cedric Burnside, Fantastic Negrito, Ruthie Foster, T-Model Ford, Keb Mo and more. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the NAACP.

The Weather Station - Ignorance LP/CD (Fat Possum)

Ignorance, the new album by the The Weather Station, begins enigmatically; a hissing hi hat, a stuttering drum beat. A full minute passes before the entry of Tamara Lindeman’s voice, gentle, conversational, intoning; “I never believed in the robber”. A jagged music builds, with stabbing strings, saxophone, and several layers of percussion, and the song undulates through five minutes of growing tension, seesawing between just two chords. Once again, Toronto songwriter Tamara Lindeman has remade what The Weather Station sounds like; once again, she has used the occasion of a new record to create a new sonic landscape, tailor-made to express an emotional idea. Ignorance, Lindeman’s debut for Mississippi label Fat Possum Records, is sensuous, ravishing, as hi fi a record as Lindeman has ever made, breaking into pure pop at moments, at others a dense wilderness of notes; a deeply rhythmic, deeply painful record that feels more urgent, more clear than her work ever has.

Reissues, Compilations, Live Recordings & Vault Excavations...

Anthrax - Sound Of White Noise 2xLP (Megaforce)

New vinyl reissue of the 1993 release.

Arcade Fire - Reflektor 2xLP (Legacy)

New vinyl reissue of Arcade Fire’s 4th LP, from 2013.

The Beths - Future Me Hates Me LP (Carpark)

Limited edition green jelly bean color vinyl reissue of The Beths’ universally acclaimed debut album. Includes download.

The Chi-Lites - (For God’s Sake) Give More Power To The People LP (Org Music)

New vinyl reissue of The Chi-Lites' third album. (For God's Sake) Give More Power to the People finds the group tapping into the social consciousness movement of the early '70s, presumably influenced by contemporaries like Sly & the Family Stone and fellow Chicagoan Curtis Mayfield. They had one of sweetest voices in soul music with Eugene Record, but their 1971 release showed a different side of the band, both in terms of lyrical content and production on tracks like "We Are Neighbors". Ironically, the biggest single on the album was "Have You Seen Her?", a sweet soul ballad which topped the R&B charts. (For God's Sake) Give More Power to the People was the best album the Chi-Lites ever released, and it's back on vinyl for the first time in decades. 180gram audiophile-grade vinyl pressing, mastered from original analog tapes.

Decemberists - Leave Home Library Vol. 1: August 11 2009, Royal Oak Music Theatre, Royal Oak, MI 2xLP (Youth and Beauty Brigade)

Recorded at the historic Royal Oak Music Theatre in suburban Detroit during the Hazards Of Love tour (2009), this is the first volume in the Decemberists' Live Home Library series. The album was co-produced & mixed by Tucker Martine and was released by the band’s own label, Youth and Beauty Brigade, as a vinyl exclusive.

Mikey Dread - African Anthem Dubwise: The Mikey Dread Show LP (Music on Vinyl)

Dread started out as an engineer with the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation when some of the most innovative reggae was being recorded in Jamaica. He convinced his bosses to give him his own radio program called Dread At The Controls and the rest is history. You can hear his radio announcements and shout outs before most tracks of his first record African Anthem Dubwise. Originally released in 1979, the album is available here as a limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing.

Philip Glass - Dancepieces LP (Music on Vinyl)

Dancepieces, originally released in 1987, presents music that American composer Philip Glass created for two separate dance performances. The first half of the album accompanied the Twyla Tharp Dance Foundation in a show called 'In the Upper Room,' and the second piece accompanied choreographer Jerome Robbins' 'Glasspieces'. Glass writes the majority of his music for visual performances, most frequently dance and opera, and the presence of a visual twin to his music is evident throughout the selections from Dancepieces. In discussing his technique for writing music to accompany dance, Glass has stated that melody, harmony and rhythm are key factors. Within the first seconds of each song on Dancepieces, the strength of Glass' strong rhythmic sense can clearly be heard. Available now on 180 gram vinyl LP.

Rudolph Johnson - Spring Rain LP/CD (Real Gone Music)

Columbus, Ohio’s Rudolph Johnson drew comparisons to John Coltrane during his career; like the jazz legend in his later years, Johnson eschewed drugs or alcohol and spent his time every day either meditating and rehearsing on his horn. You can definitely hear a little bit of Coltrane in Johnson’s playing on this, his 1971 debut release for the Black Jazz label, the first of two he recorded for the imprint and the first he recorded as a leader after some sideman work (most notably for organist Jimmy McGriff); his ability to explore the upper registers and overtones of his tenor sax while retaining control is quite striking. Of course, this being a Black Jazz release, along with the bebop sounds of “Sylvia Ann” and the mid-‘60s Blue Note stylings of “Sylvia Ann,” there’s the soul jazz of “Diswa” and the groove funk of “Devon Jean,” all played by, as is typical on Black Jazz releases, by top-notch sidemen including drummer Raymond Pounds, who’s played with everybody from Stevie Wonder to Pharoah Sanders to Bob Dylan, and pianist John Barnes, whose work is very familiar to Motown fans (Supremes, Temptations, Marvin Gaye). Bassist Reggie Jackson, who appeared on the Walter Bishop, Jr. Coral Keys record we previously released, rounds out the quartet. First vinyl reissue of another stellar Black Jazz release, Spring Rain was remastered for CD and vinyl by Mike Milchner at Sonic Vision and features liner notes by Pat Thomas, author of Listen, Whitey! The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975!

Calvin Keys - Shawn-Neeq LP (Real Gone)

Calvin Keys's 1971 debut album for the Black Jazz Records label announced the arrival of a new star in the jazz guitar firmament. Keys had spent the '60s backing up the crème de la crème of jazz organists Jimmy Smith, Jimmy McGriff, Jack McDuff, Richard 'Groove' Holmes' but for his first record as a leader, he was eager to play with a piano player instead. So he recruited one of the best, Larry Nash, who, besides being a member of the L.A. Express, played with everybody from Eddie Harris to Bill Withers to Etta James. Bassist Lawrence Evans, drummer Bob Braye, and flautist-songwriter Owen Marshall rounded out the group on Shawn-Neeq, which might remind some of Pat Metheny's early work (Metheny acknowledges Keys as an influence), or Grant Green. But what gives Shawn-Neeq extra depth is that it comes from the heart; as Keys says in Pat Thomas' liner notes, which feature an interview with the artist: 'My thing was, I write about some of the experiences that I've had in my life.' Keys has since become a fixture in the Bay Area jazz scene; this is the album that started his journey. Another gem from the celebrated Black Jazz catalog, freshly remastered for vinyl by Mike Milchner at Sonic Vision and ready to be savored!

J. Mascis - Martin + Me LP (Chrysalis)

Having established Dinosaur Jr as a mainstay of, and influence over, the alternative scene by the mid-1990s, J Mascis began to venture out alone, performing acoustic sets of his band's material. "Martin + Me" documents a late 1995 US tour, and includes Dinosaur Jr classics such as 'Repulsion', 'Get Me' and 'Keeblin' alongside of covers of The Smiths' 'The Boy With The Thorn In His Side', Carly Simon's 'Anticipation' and Lynyrd Skynyrds 'Every Mothers Son'.Originally released in 1996 and long out of print, this luxurious yellow vinyl edition is a long overdue opportunity to revisit another side of J Mascis and Dinosaur Jr.

Charlie Parker - The Mercury & Clef 10-inch LP Collection 5x10” (Verve)

This unique box set includes five classic albums in their original, short-lived 10-inch format, remastered by Alex Abrash (AA Mastering) with faithful reproductions of the David Stone Martin artwork and liner notes on heavy stock. The Mercury & Clef 10-inch LP Collection is some of the greatest bebop of all time. Also inside the collector's slipcase is a 10" x 10" book featuring exclusive liner notes by Ethan Iverson, an essay by author David Ritz and full track-by-track session notes.

John Prine - September 78 LP (Oh Boy!)

In the fall of 1978, John Prine returned home to Chicago for a concert performance at the city's famed, Park West. This show, captured on the originally limited edition album September '78, features another side of John Prine - backed by an electric band. Oh Boy Records originally pressed only 2000 copies of this classic album for Record Store Day way back in 2015, but now you can have your own copy of this legendary recording on vinyl! Available in the shop or online.

Screaming Females - Chalk Tape LP (Don Giovanni)

Pitchfork called Chalk Tape “some of the hookiest, most melodic songs Screaming Females have ever recorded” in their original review of the EP. Initially released in a limited run of just 100 cassette copies, Chalk Tape was available and sold at only one show (at which it sold out immediately) in 2013, which was the first show back for the band after a six-month hiatus from touring and performing. It has not been available in any physical format since then. The EP’s genesis came after an extended period of touring inactivity while guitarist/vocalist Marissa Paternoster was recovering from a severe illness. The band worked on the seven songs that would make up Chalk Tape as a writing and collaboration exercise to keep creative energy fresh, following up 2012’s Steve Albini produced LP Ugly. Chalk Tape has existed outside the official canon of Screaming Females’ catalog since its release, though it is a unique document of a band concurrently writing, recording, and performing in real-time and capturing of their songs as they were being created.

Sunn O))) - Flight Of The Behemoth LP (Southern Lord)

Vinyl reissue of the 2008 LP from epic drone merchants Sunn O))).

Various Artists - Saturday Night: South African Disco Pop CD/LP (Cultures of Soul)

By the end of the 1990s, amid the dismantling of apartheid, South African music stars were making international waves with bubblegum, a flashy variety of Afro-techno-pop. This compilation explores that period of change and the intermediary forms that filled the gap between the jazzy indigenous jive of mbaqanga and bubblegum pop, the years when South African musicians and producers wrestled with the incursion of foreign disco and formulated their own style of homegrown disco-pop. The sound on these records is ostensibly familiar, drawing heavily on models from the 1980s dance culture in Europe and America, but the South African touchstones are still present - deep burbling basslines, brightly hypnotic melodies, and chant-like vocals.

Yumi Zouma - EP 1 10” (Cascine)
Yumi Zouma - EP II 10” (Cascine)
Yumi Zouma - EP III 10” (Cascine)

Yumi Zouma’s stunning EP trilogy reissued on limited edition color wax 10-inch vinyl. Rich with effortless atmospheres, winsome hooks and stadium-sized finishes.