STAFF PICKS

our favorite MUSIC of

2025

so far…

GRIMEY

(founder/co-owner)
Turnstile ‘Never Enough’
Billy Allen & The Pollies ‘Black Noise’
Nick Govrik ‘One More Time for the Man’
Will Johnson ‘Diamond City’
Bootsy ‘Album Of The Year #1 Funkateer’
Little Simz ‘Lotus’
Pulp ‘More’
Blondshell ‘If You Asked For A Picture’
Little Barrie & Malcolm Catto ‘Electric War’

DOYLE

(co-owner/vinylist)

Five for ’25, so far…

Stereolab - Instant Holograms on Metal Film (instant classic, more potent than ‘return to form’ can convey)

Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee (digitally older, but I never heard it until this year’s vinyl release. mysterious mix of girl group & Velvet-y vibes.)

Sunny Dada & Afrokokoroot - World Peace (authentic Afrobeat, straight from Nigeria to Nashville!)

Sly & The Family Stone - First Family: Live at Winchester Cathedral 1967 (you’re a fly on the wall at the founding of funk)

Pink Floyd - Pink Floyd at Pompeii (their best live recording from arguably their most interesting era, never before released as a standalone album and with a stunning new mix.)

ANNA

(store manager/Indie Pop Princess)
studio albums
Artificial Go - *Musical Chairs* (Feel It Records)
Chime Oblivion - *Chime Oblivion* (DEATHGOD CORP)
Edith Frost - *In Space* (Drag City)
S.G. Goodman - *Planting by the Signs* (Slough Water Records)
Japanese Breakfast - *For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)* (Dead Oceans)
Sharp Pins - *Radio DDR* (K Records)
Stereolab - *Instant Holograms on Metal Film* (Warp/Duophonic)
compilations
*All Dressed Up! (1960s Girl Goodies Lost & Found)* (Teensville)
*Barnyard Beehive* (Numero Group)
*Can't Stop It! Australian Post-Punk 1978-82* (Chapter Music)
*Pop Psychédélique: Les Extras (An Extra Slice of French Psychedelic Pop)* (Two-Piers)

WILL

(assistant manager/receiving major domo)
Baths - *Gut* (Basement’s Basement)
Deerhoof - *Noble and Godlike in Ruin* (Joyful Noise)
FKA Twigs - *EUSEXUA* (Atlantic)
Food House - *Two House* (self-released)
Lucy Gooch - *Desert Window* (Fire Records)
Lawrence Hart - *Come In Out of the Rain* (Domino)
Jane Remover - *Revengeseekerz* (DeadAir)
Nick León - *A Tropical Entropy* (TraTraTrax)
Los Thuthanaka - *Los Thuthanaka* (self-released)
Julien Mier - *Gradually* (Lapsus)
Momma - *Welcome to My Blue Sky* (Polyvinyl)
Oklou - *choke enough* (True Panther)
PinkPantheress - *Fancy That* (Warner)
Salami Rose Joe Louis - *Lorings* (Brainfeeder)
Colin Self - *respite ∞ levity for the nameless ghost in crisis* (RVNG Intl.)
Maria Somerville - *Luster* (4AD)
Stereolab - *Instant Holograms on Metal Film* (Warp/Duophonic)
venturing - *Ghostholding* (DeadAir)
Yeule - *Evangelic Girl is a Gun* (Ninja Tune)
Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek - *Yarın Yoksa* (Big Crown)

JASON

(bookstore major domo/preloved music buyer/trickster sage)
New Albums:
Horsegirl - Phonetics On & On
Panda Bear - Sinister Grift
Sharp Pins - Radio DDR
Hannah Cohen - Earthstar Mountain
Craig Finn - Always Been
Tune-Yards - Better Dreaming
The Bobby Lees - Beauty Pageant
Archival/Reissues:
V/A - Gather in the Mushrooms: The British Folk Underground 1969-1975 (Sanctuary 2004, reissued via Ace Records 2025)
V/A - Jingle Jangle Morning: The U.S. Folk Rock Explosion (Cherry Red)

TYLER

(preloved music buyer/resident cinema expert/sound conductor)
1. Bill Fox - Resonance
2. Bruce Springsteen - The Lost Albums - Tracks II
3. Pulp - More.
4. Friendship - Caveman Wakes Up
5. Stereolab - Instant Holograms On Metal Film
6. William Tyler - Time Indefinite
7. Artificial Go - Musical Chairs
8. Lilly Hiatt - Forever
9. S.G. Goodman - Planting By The Signs
10. Sharp Pins - Radio DDR