New Releases - 3/4/22

Hitting The Racks

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

New Releases

Melissa Aldana – 12 Stars CD (Blue Note)

Grammy-nominated saxophonist and composer Melissa Aldana joins the Blue Note Records family with the release of 12 Stars, her debut album as a leader for the legendary label following her appearance on the acclaimed 2020 album by the collective Artemis. The Brooklyn-based tenor player from Santiago, Chile has garnered international recognition for her visionary work as a band leader, as well as her deeply meditative interpretation of language and vocabulary. 12 Stars grapples with concepts of childrearing, familial forgiveness, acceptance, and self-love, and was inspired by her deep interest in tarot. [Vinyl edition due April 8.]

As I May – Karu CD (Mighty Music/SPV)

As I May is a four-piece modern melodic metal band from Mikkeli, Finland. Formed in 2016, the band sounds like a modern day mix of In Flames and Amorphis. [Vinyl edition due March 11.]

Band Of Horses – Things Are Great CD/LP (BMG)

Band Of Horses return with their sixth album and first in over half a decade. Things Are Great marks a return to their earlier work and the kind of raw ethos that lies at the heart of Band Of Horses. Founder Ben Bridwell produced or co-produced all 10 tracks – most of which were written pre-pandemic. Past collaborators Jason Lytle (Grandaddy), Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips), Dave Sardy and engineer Wolfgang "Wolfie" Zimmerman also all make contributions here. [Indie store exclusive translucent rust color vinyl.]

Bitch – Bitchcraft LP+MP3 (Kill Rock Stars)

Limited-edition lime color vinyl edition. Bitchcraft was born in a move from New York City, where Bitch had lived for 15 years, to a log cabin in the woods. There was all the time in the world to make art, and it was there, in the cabin, that Bitch began to write some of the songs that would appear on Bitchcraft. "It gave me space to think about the biggest version of myself that I could be," she says of those early days in the cabin. The songs she wrote were a departure from anything she'd ever written before, and she began to craft huge pop tracks with the help of her trusty violin. Then, she moved to L.A. and Bitchcraft began to shapeshift again. The resulting record is one that is full of glorious pop tracks that go in unexpected directions. Bitchcraft is like Joni Mitchell set to a click track, it's queer Cyndi Lauper. It's neon pink, in your face, ready to hex you with its brilliance. It's an unbelievably fun record that is extremely capable of breaking your heart a little bit. It also makes you think about the state of the world, about evil politicians, about what it means to exist as a woman, and how to find joy along the way.

Blue Lab Beats – Motherland Journey CD/2xLP (Blue Note)

Jazztronica duo Blue Lab Beats make their full-length Blue Note Records debut with Motherland Journey, an album years in the making that celebrates pushing boundaries, taking risks, and overcoming adversity. Following their appearance on 2020's Blue Note Re: imagined project and their 2021 EP, We Will Rise, this new album is a star-studded affair featuring the duo (producer NK-OK and multi-instrumentalist Mr DM) joined by collaborators including Ghetto Boy, Tiana Major9, KillBeatz and more.

Buñuel – Killers Like Us CD (Profound Lore)

Buñuel is the sound of a difficult situation made worse by an unwillingness and an inability to play nice. If slotting it in a genre makes it easier for one to understand, just so one has something to file it under, mark it down as Heavy. With a capital H. But not heavy that's in any way predictable; Buñuel 's amalgam of angular rhythms, drum salvos, fast attack guitars and vocals is arty as in avant-garde noise. [Vinyl edition due March 18.]

Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs – External Combustion CD (BMG)

For Mike Campbell, External Combustion – the second album by his first band as a leader, The Dirty Knobs – is proof that lightning can strike twice. The follow-up to their 2020 debut Wreckless Abandon beats a new set of odds and jumps ahead in vision and drive, proving the first record was no one-shot deal. Campbell experienced all the above and more with Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers – riding shotgun with his friend and captain as lead guitarist, co-producer, and, at times, co-writer – when he met guitarist Jason Sinay at a session in Los Angeles in 2000. Once Lance Morrison joined in on bass and Matt Laug on drums, that turned into The Dirty Knobs, named after a faulty amp dial. [Vinyl edition due April 1.]

Ceramic Animal – Sweet Unknown CD (Easy Eye Sound)

Strutting out of Doylestown, PA, Ceramic Animal forge glam, post-punk, psych rock and '70s pop into an original and exciting sound. The band's music and ambition impressed Dan Auerbach, who signed them to his Easy Eye Sound label and invited them down to Nashville to write and record their fourth album, Sweet Unknown. Together, they created an album that marries the glitter-stomp of T. Rex with the slow rush of Tame Impala and the extravagant melodicism of Todd Rundgren.

The Darkness – Motorheart LP (Cooking Vinyl)

Drop the needle anywhere on The Darkness' Motorheart and be instantly transported from this moaning and weeping vale of tears to Elysian fields of rock where all hands are raised, the drinks - just as in the Club Tropicana of yore - are free, and everyone wears a pleasingly salacious grin. Does it rock? Is the sun hot? Has your partner's touch grown cold? The Darkness are the Orwellian boot stamping on the flaccid face of limp rock, forever. Motorheart brims with the UK glam rock giants' trademark blazing guitar riffs and solos, soaring falsetto and immeasurable rock 'n' roll extravagance. [Indie exclusive clear vinyl.]

The Dead South – Easy Listening For Jerks Pt. 1 CDEP (Six Shooter)
The Dead South – Easy Listening For Jerks Pt. 2 CDEP (Six Shooter)

The Carter Family meets The Addams Family in Easy Listening For Jerks, two new covers EPs by prairie pickers The Dead South. Rich with quality finger picking and replete with harmonies, Easy Listening For Jerks offers many new moods of songs we think we know so well. Under a title that recalls the songwriting humor of Roger Miller and Steve Martin's comedy stylings alike, the EPs offer a surprising and compelling mix of gravity and levity. Foggy Mountain Boys meets Beetlejuice. Free beef jerky with purchase while supplies last! [Vinyl editions due July 29.]

The Dip – Sticking With It CD/LP (Dualtone)

Seattle-based seven-piece R&B/soul band The Dip makes their Dualtone Records debut with their new album Sticking With It . Self-produced by the band and recorded at their self-made studio in Seattle's Central District, the new album puts forth the groove-heavy, richly detailed sound the band has become known for, expertly matching their sophisticated musicianship with a strikingly loose energy.

Guided By Voices – Crystal Nuns Cathedral CD/LP (GBV Inc.)

GBV release their 35th album just four months since It's Not Them. It Couldn't Be Them. It Is Them!, 12 twelve songs determined to challenge for the title of greatest Guided by Voices album of all-time. The guitars are bigger, the arrangements are more ambitious, the songs are uplifting, epic, and as incredibly hook-laden as always. Pure power pop perfection.

Just Friends – Hella CD/LP (Pure Noise)

Just Friends is a band from the East Bay of California. Their new album, Hella, is a jam-packed spectacle of rhythmic funk, riotous punk, and just about everything in between. [Indie store exclusive color vinyl.]

Kesha – High Road 2xLP (RCA)

Double orange and red color vinyl pressing of the 2020 album from the modern pop icon and the follow up to her 2017 Grammy-nominated album Rainbow. High Road is filled with emotional and stylistic range and is a blend of heavenly highs and emotional depths. Kesha's swagger is front and center, with frisky, rap-based tracks that show-off her skills as a lyrical spitfire, and a folksier side that emerges. With a dream-pop ode to a best friendship, a reflective ballad about growing up without a father, and plenty of lust and laughter, High Road traverses the emotional spectrum. Guest collaborators include John Hill, Dan Reynolds, Stuart Crichton, Jeff Bhasker, Drew Pearson, Brian Wilson, Sturgill Simpson, Nate Ruess, Justin Tranter, Stint, Wrabel, and Pebe Sebert, among others.

Meitei - Kofū II CD/LP (Kitchen. Label)

A sequel to 2020's Kofū, which was the Japanese producer's third album of immersive sonic storytelling, reimagining moments of Japanese history he felt were being washed away through wistful compositions that stretched across ambient music, hauntology and musique concrete. After Kofū, Meitei found he was left with over 60 fully realized tracks, bursting with ideas that fired in divergent, curious directions, and his merriment in returning to this world is palpable in the first two tracks of Kofū II – a loop of cheery whistling amidst the clanking of wood leads into strings, cricket sounds and flutes, all united in bustling harmony. In Happyaku-yachō, pitch-shifted vocal samples roam around in the crowded sonic field as Meitei conjures the vibrancy of a dense Edo of the past. The album is bursting with spectral vignettes of wandering samurais, red lanterns, ninjas, puppet theatres, poets, even a vengeful assassin (Shurayukihime, known to Western audiences as ‘Lady Snow-blood’).

Midnight – Let There Be Witchery CD/LP (Metal Blade)

Filthy, belligerent, and obnoxious, Midnight makes music to start fights to. Since 2003, one-man-band Athenar has been churning out an ungodly racket, dropping countless demos, splits, and EPs, and in 2022 he returns with Midnight's fifth full-length, Let There Be Witchery. Delivering more of what can be expected from his demented mind, it is a catchy mixture of black and speed metal and dirty punk rock, and it is relentlessly compulsive. [Limited-edition clear vinyl.]

Thurston Moore – Screen Time LP (Southern Lord)

Thurston Moore surprise-releases a new instrumental album, Screen Time. The former Sonic Youth mastermind in a statement expanded upon the project, saying he wanted to compose a soundtrack for an imaginary film noir, with each track representing a different scene.

Nation Of Language – A Way Forward LP (PIAS America)

Nation of Language's A Way Forward is more relaxed and confident than anything the Brooklyn band have done before. Released in May of 2020, their debut album, Introduction, Presence, did so much better than they'd ever imagined it would that they felt it best to trust themselves and follow their instincts on the resulting follow-up. Those instincts led them to a record more rooted in Krautrock and early electronic music, with influence from artists like Kraftwerk, Laurie Spiegel, and Cluster. A Way Forward feels even more like a journey than its predecessor, something that can be followed from start to finish with greater emotional peaks and valleys and new sonic landscapes being explored. [CD edition due March 11.]

Pablo Solo – Solo Sings Simon CD (Think Like A Key)

Released last November on CD – now available on vinyl. A collaborative album between legendary songwriter-producer John Simon (Music From The Big Pink, Cheap Thrills) and singer-songwriter Pablo Solo from Cantabria, Spain. Solo brings his raw energy and musicianship to create a strong set of beautiful songs written by Simon throughout his career, including two recent compositions, Irresistible and the poignant One as well as classics like Tannenbaum and King Lear's Blues.

Dolly Parton – Run Rose Run CD (Butterfly)

Run Rose Run is released at the same time as the publication of a novel co-written with famed author James Patterson sharing the title, Run Rose Run. The 12 songs were inspired by the book's storyline and feature country and bluegrass artists such as Joe Nichols, Rhonda Vincent, The Isaacs, and Dailey & Vincent. [Vinyl edition due April 1.]

Peach Pit – From 2 To 3 LP (Columbia)

From 2 To 3 is the new album from Peach Pit. It draws inspiration from ‘60s – ‘70s rock and folk music, with the band citing Paul McCartney, Neil Young, Eagles, Glen Campbell, and George Harrison as their biggest influences.

Porches – All Day Gentle Hold! CD/LP+MP3 (Domino)

All Day Gentle Hold! is the fifth album from Aaron Maine and a celebratory collection of songs. Harder, faster, shorter and louder than any other Porches record, it's direct and pointed, charged up and chaotic, described by Maine as "the most energetic, off-the-cuff moments, collaged together into the most captivating songs [he] could make." [Indie store exclusive yellow vinyl.]

Real Friends – Torn In Two 12” (Pure Noise)

Released last September on CD, an indie store exclusive blue w/ pink & white color vinyl pressing is now available. New EP from the Illinois-based pop-punk band.

Penny Rimbaud – Corpus Mei LP (One Little Independent)

Prolific punk pioneers Penny Rimbaud and Youth proudly present their collaboration album Corpus Mei. In a series of epic, cinematic soundscapes, Penny spits tales of the grotesque and absurd. Gargantuan sermons delivered in counter to swelling, emotive orchestration where he and former bandmate Eve Libertine deliver a slew of anti-capitalist weaponized poetry. With their carefully constructed verse, they arm the listener against corrupt institutional powers as well as the abstract. High concept and highly descriptive, these vivid and dramatic pictures are painted with artful, honest passion against a monstrous, post-apocalyptic backdrop.

Rival Consoles – Overflow 2xLP+MP3 (Erased Tapes)

Rival Consoles returns with a resonant and explorative soundscape of original music, composed for renowned choreographer Alexander Whitley's contemporary dance production Overflow. Exploring themes of the human and emotional consequences of life surrounded by data, the piece echoes the concept of social media, advertising, marketing companies and political factions exploiting our data to gain wealth, political advantage, and sow division. Key reading for the project was based around the contemporary philosophical work Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism And New Technologies Of Power by Byung-Chul Han. [CD edition due March 25.]

Sabaton – War To End All Wars CD/LP/Cassette (Nuclear Blast)

Written and recorded in 2021 during the COVID global pandemic, Sabaton has crafted a concept album of 11 brand new songs that dive deep into previously unexplored atrocities, miracles and events tied to the early 20th century's World War I. With the release of The War To End All Wars, fans can expect a wealth of single releases, each one accompanied by a compelling and emotional music video that will breathe life into the fact-based story behind the song. [Limited-edition Pacific blue color vinyl.]

Cécile McLorin Salvant– Ghost Song CD/LP (Nonesuch)

Nonesuch Records presents Ghost Song, the label debut of singer/songwriter Cécile McLorin Salvant. Ghost Song features a diverse mix of seven originals and five interpretations on the themes of ghosts, nostalgia, and yearning. Salvant says, "It's unlike anything I've done before – it's getting closer to reflecting my personality as an eclectic curator. I'm embracing my weirdness!" Ghost Song opens and ends with a sean-nós (traditional Irish unaccompanied vocal style) performance by Salvant, recorded in a church. On track one, she transitions into Kate Bush's 1978 classic "Wuthering Heights”. Salvant says of the song, "Wuthering Heights is a book that really struck me to my core as I was making this album, during the pandemic. And the best interpretation of the novel is Kate Bush's song."

Stromae – Multitude LP (Interscope)

Paul Van Haver makes light, bouncy songs about heavy subjects. The Belgian-born, French-speaking singer and producer, known as Stromae, first caught waves in 2009 with “Alors On Danse”, a self-satirizing, electro-tinged track about someone who tries—and fails—to escape their problems on a dance floor. It became an international club hit and cemented Van Haver’s place as a modernist pop force, eager to slip sobering themes (debt, misogyny, racism, death) inside his fizzy bubblegum creations. On Multitude, his first new album in eight years, he continues to find inspiration in contradictions—darkness and light, joy, and pain. [Indie store exclusive white vinyl.]

Kiefer Sutherland – Bloor Street LP (Cooking Vinyl)

Recently released on CD – now available on vinyl. Kiefer Sutherland, mostly known as an Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning actor, producer, and director, began pursuing a secondary musical career in the 2000s and 2010s by forming the Ironworks label. He signed Rocco DeLuca, Ron Sexsmith and started his own rootsy Americana outfit called the Kiefer Sutherland Band. Bloor Street is his latest album.

System Exclusive – System Exclusive CD (Castleface)

"Often when music is constructed with synths and other electronically generated sound makers, their level of exactitude and control is such that the vocalist will either wittingly or otherwise seek to emulate the relative artifice of the soundscape. This is often done to great effect, think Kraftwerk. But what if there was a unit whose music was synth-generated but the vocals were coming from a hot-blooded, singing-for-the-cheap-seats approach? If done well, it's a case of two great tastes that taste great together, which brings me to System Exclusive.” – Henry Rollins [Vinyl due March 18.]

Waveform* - Last Room LP (Run For Cover)

Blue color vinyl pressing. On Last Room, the third album from the Connecticut-based Waveform*, there's a purposeful hollowness. It's a record you can fall into, a collection of music that's unafraid to venture into emotion, exploring the gaping distance that develops in some relationships, the constant confusion that accompanies self-discovery, and the darkness that accompanies abandonment.

The Weather Station – How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars CD/LP (Fat Possum)

How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars is an introspective record of songs which were written alongside those that appeared on Ignorance. It is intended not to be a follow up, but to be a companion piece, a piece of reflection and quiet, meant to hold stillness in the aftermath. It was recorded live, as a performance, an improvisation, with a group of Toronto jazz musicians. [Indie store exclusive gold vinyl.]

Nilüfer Yanya – Painless CD/LP (ATO)

Nilüfer Yanya runs headfirst into the depths of emotional vulnerability on her anticipated sophomore record Painless. Recorded between a basement studio in Stoke Newington and Riverfish Music in Penzance, the record is a more sonically direct effort, narrowing her previously broad palette to a handful of robust ideas. Yanya on lead single "Stabilise": "...the central theme in the song is no one is coming to save you ever. It's set in depths of reality in everyday life where we are the only one's truly capable of salvaging or losing ourselves." [Indie store exclusive blue w/ white color vinyl.]

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

Beastie Boys – Aglio E Olio [Reissue/ 1995] 12” (Capitol)

Aglio E Olio covers a lot of ground in the span of 8 tracks and 11 minutes, a reminder of the Beastie Boys’ early punk beginnings. Along with Mike D, Ad-Rock, and MCA, Aglio E Olio features contributions from drummer Amery “AWOL” Smith of Suicidal Tendencies. It was originally released by the band’s now inoperative label Grand Royal.

The Beths – Future Me Hates Me LP+MP3 [Reissue/2018] (Carpark)

Now available on limited edition blue vinyl. The Beths occupy a warm, energetic sonic space between joyful hooks, sun-soaked harmonies, and acerbic lyrics. Their debut album, Future Me Hates Me, delivers an astonishment of roadtrip-ready pleasures, each song hitting your ears with an exhilarating endorphin rush like the first time you heard Pavement’s Slanted And Enchanted or The Breeders’ “Cannonball”. Front and center on these 10 infectious tracks is lead singer and primary songwriter Elizabeth Stokes. Stokes has previously worked in other genres within Auckland’s rich and varied music scene, recently playing in a folk outfit, but it was in exploring the angst-ridden sounds of her youth that she found her place. [2016’s Warm Blood EP is also reissued, on brown vinyl.]

Harold Budd – The Pavilion Of Dreams [Reissue/1978] CD/LP (Superior Viaduct)

Produced by Brian Eno in 1978, The Pavilion Of Dreams stands toe-to-toe with another minimalist masterpiece also released that year: Steve Reich's Music For 18 Musicians. Budd's gorgeous pieces reveal a lightness of touch that draws the listener in, while sublime voices float in and out as if in a recurring dream. Featuring saxophonist Marion Brown and multi-instrumentalists Gavin Bryars and Michael Nyman, The Pavilion Of Dreams remains a master class in exquisite timbre and shimmering texture.

Cannibal Corpse ‎– Evisceration Plague [Reissue/2009] CD (Metal Blade)

CD reissue of the death metal band’s eleventh studio album.

Escape The Fate – Dying Is Your Latest Fashion [Reissue/2006] LP+MP3 (Epitaph)

Standard black vinyl pressing. Dying Is Your Latest Fashion is the debut studio album by Escape the Fate, originally released in September 2006. It is the only full-length album and second release with original singer and founding member Ronnie Radke, who would later be incarcerated and eventually become the frontman of his own band, Falling In Reverse, after getting kicked out of Escape The Fate. It is also the last release to feature rhythm guitarist Omar Espinosa and keyboardist/vocalist Carson Allen, as he would depart before the release of the album and was thus uncredited.

Marianne Faithfull – Vagabond Ways [Reissue/1999] CD/LP (BMG)

CD and vinyl reissue of the 1999 album from the rock icon. At the time of its release, Vagabond Ways was her first album of original material since A Secret Life (1994). This work, produced by Daniel Lanois and Mark Howard, is a balladry-like extension of her then neo-cabaret persona, interpreting songs by herself and legendary songwriters of her generation, like Pink Floyd's Roger Waters, Leonard Cohen and the songwriting duo Elton John and Bernie Taupin. Many of the stories told on this album were adapted from memories that didn't make her autobiography or her observations of social struggles she felt particularly moved by.

The Felice Brothers – From Dreams To Dust 2xLP+MP3 (Yep Roc)

On From Dreams To Dust, their eighth and most recent studio album, the band's exuberance to be together doing what they do so well is palpable. Characteristic of The Felice Brothers, the new tracks are a mixture of somber tunes with ones that are musically upbeat, all the while carrying messages that beg listeners to think deeply about the environment, humanity, legacy, and death. Many of the songs depict the passage of time, nostalgia, transience and getting older. "I want for my music to do what the best music in my life has done for me," explains Ian Felice. "I want to do that for other people – to help them think through hard times or think through how to communicate something they didn't know how to; to just make them happy.” [Now available on standard black vinyl.]

Grant Green – The Latin Bit [Reissue/1962] LP (Blue Note)

Guitarist Grant Green explored Latin and Brazilian influences on his highly enjoyable 1962 album, The Latin Bit, featuring Johnny Acea on piano, Wendell Marshall on bass, Willie Bobo on drums, Carlos "Patato" Valdes on conga, and Garvin Masseaux on chekere. Part of Blue Note’s Tone Poet Series which features all-analog, remastered sound.

Loney Hutchins – Appalachia CD/LP (Appalachia Record Co.)

The sole, full length album from Loney Hutchins' most productive era in the 1970's. Tracked over three days in 1979 at Lee Hazen's Studio by the Pond by Jack "Stack-a-Track" Grochmal - the resulting country rock album was too folksy for L.A. and too electric for Nashville. Featuring a rhythm section from Dolly Parton's live band during her "Jolene" period, and searing hot country licks, this reissue is restored from the original 2" multitrack tapes, including two never before heard tracks.

Andy Irvine / Paul Brady – Andy Irvine / Paul Brady [Reissue/1976] CD/LP (Mulligan Records)

Long thought of as one of the seminal releases in the Irish music cannon, Andy Irvine / Paul Brady’s 1976 eponymous album has been praised by artists such as Bob Dylan (who recorded Paul Brady's arrangement of "Arthur McBride And The Sergeant"), Bono, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Liam O'Maonlai (Hothouse Flowers), and Radie Peat and Daragh Lynch (both of Lankum). [180gm purple vinyl.]

Karate – The Bed Is The Ocean [Reissue/1998] LP (Numero)

In their short time together, Karate helped bolster the national punk ecosystem, a scene in which individual artistic vision was prized but rarely achieved. Their exacting precision and emotive interplay helped recombine the DNA of the dignified grace of slowcore, the hot-and-sweaty atmospherics of the blues, and the high-wire tension of post-hardcore to deliver drawling instrumental curveballs and a furtive riptide climax with a controlled grace.

Lemonheads – It’s A Shame About Ray [Reissue/1992] 2xCD/2xCD+MP3/2xLP (Fire)

Digitally remastered and expanded edition of Lemonheads' seminal album It's A Shame About Ray, lovingly reissued for its 30th Anniversary. The set includes a slew of extra material, including an unreleased “My Drug Buddy” KCRW session track from 1992 featuring Juliana Hatfield, B-sides from singles “It's A Shame About Ray” and “Confetti”, a track from the “Mrs. Robinson/Being Round” EP, alongside demos. [The deluxe edition includes photos, digital download, and more.]

John McLaughlin – John Mclaughlin: The Montreux Years CD/2xLP (BMG)

Curated and compiled by John McLaughlin, this collection of his finest performances from six legendary concerts at the Montreux Jazz Festival includes rare and previously unreleased material from Claude Nobs' private collection.

Melvins – Eggnog [Reissue/1991] LP (Boner)
Melvins – Lice-All [Reissue/1992] LP (Boner)

Translucent green and red (respectively) color vinyl pressings. Originally released as a 10-inch in 1991, Eggnog is a wild ride into the outer limits of Melvins-dom. Lice-All, from 1992, previously known as self-titled, was the Melvins last release before signing their Atlantic deal, and features the introduction of new bass player Joe Preston (previously of Earth, currently of Thrones). It's one long, slow, loud blob of drones, moans and fuzztones. The opening endless power chord shimmer influenced Sleep, Sunn O))), and countless other sludge metal drone freaks for years to come.

Pink Floyd – Piper At The Gates Of Dawn [Reissue/1967] LP (Sony Legacy)

Vinyl reissue of Pink Floyd’s debut album, The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (Mono Version), previously available only as a 2018 Record Store Day exclusive. This album, originally released in 1967, is the only title recorded while under the leadership of Syd Barrett. It was recorded at the now legendary Abbey Road Studios and is considered one of the quintessential psychedelic records of its era.

Reverend Bizarre ‎– Slave Of Satan [Reissue/2005] 12” (Svart)

First-time vinyl pressing of the Finnish doom metal band’s 2005 EP.

They Might Be Giants – Mink Car LP (Idlewild Recordings)

They Might Be Giants' "lost" 2001 album Mink Car was largely overlooked due to the almost instant collapse of Restless Records after the events of 9/11. Recorded in New York City and London this album includes the first collaborations with Langer/Winstanley since the Flood session ("Bangs", "Cyclops Rock", "My Man"). The album also includes notable productions with Adam Schlesinger from Fountains Of Wayne ("Man", "It's So Loud In Here", "Yeh Yeh", "Another First Kiss").

Various Artists – Erased Tapes 20 LP+MP3 (Erased Tapes)

At a time of global separation, Erased Tapes founder and sonic explorer Robert Raths stitched together a project putting what is most important at the forefront - connection. This collection of works by undisclosed artists from the roster gives space and time to appreciate art at its most honest. By shedding the information noise usually attached to release cycles and by bringing music back to the magic of sound, we're presented with an opportunity for exploration when we need it most.

Various Artists – Essential Sun Record: The Ultimate Collection CD (Sun)

Sam Phillips created the label where rock & roll was born, Sun Records. He and Shelby Singleton produced and released countless hit records, spanning across genres. From the original recording of Johnny Cash's "I Walk the Line", Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls Of Fire", and The Dixie Cups "Chapel Of Love", to reimagined classics like Dave Dudley's "Six Days On The Road" and everything else in between, Essential Sun Records: Ultimate Collection is your definitive playlist of timeless American hits.

Various Artists – Ocean Child: Songs Of Yoko Ono LP (Atlantic)

Imagined and curated by Benjamin Gibbard (lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter of Death Cab For Cutie), Ocean Child: Songs of Yoko Ono is comprised of 14 all-new versions of Ono's tracks performed by a diverse range of rising artists and legendary stars including David Byrne, Japanese Breakfast, The Flaming Lips, Sharon Van Etten, Jay Som, and more. A portion of the proceeds from the record will be going to WhyHunger, a non-profit organization Ono has supported for decades in their efforts to transform our food system by building social justice and striking at the root causes of hunger and poverty.

Mary Wilson – The Motown Anthology 2xCD (Motown)

The Motown Anthology is a collection of Mary's leads for the Supremes and their original group the Primettes, the CD debut of her 1979 solo album on Motown, plus a total of 7 unreleased tracks and 13 unreleased mixes or alternate takes. Inside is a 36-page booklet featuring rare photos, an extensive essay detailing her career, and testimonials from her peers - among them Sir Paul McCartney, Otis Williams, and Hillary Rodham Clinton.