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New Arrivals:
Deftones – B-Sides & Rarities
Digitally remastered edition of this 2005 Deftones compilation of covers, acoustic versions, live tracks and other rarities. Includes “Change (In The House Of Flies)”, “Be Quiet And Drive (Far away)” [both acoustic], “Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want”, “Simple Man”, “No Ordinary Love” & more.
Alanis Morissette – Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (Brick & Mortar Exclusive)
No doubt it was a daunting task in 1998 for Alanis Morissette and co-producer Glen Ballard to come up with an album to follow the hugely successful Jagged Little Pill. However, the dazzling, dizzying variety on Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie almost makes Jagged seem tame. The album contains a crazy quilt of styles and themes and is an album that more than succeeded in its task to uphold Alanis’s reputation after the huge star-making pop culture phenomenon of her worldwide debut release. Featuring the hits “Thank U” and “Unsent” and “That I Would Be Good”, this new ‘Thank U Edition’ celebrates the album during its 25th Anniversary year with a new 2LP reissue of the original album featuring newly reimagined artwork, and a digital deluxe edition including rare B-Sides and demos.
Decemberists – Picaresque (Indie Exclusive, With Book, Gatefold LP Jacket)
The Decemberists know that the psychology of a culture at war is complex; that historical archetypes can inform the masses on current events far better than the evening news; and, perhaps most importantly, that life is ultimately a spectacular and colorful pageant. They remind us that, on any given day, we might rub shoulders with rogue spies and runaway prostitutes, child monarchs and vengeful mariners, boy ghosts, couples contemplating suicide, cannibals and drowning angels. This existence is indeed a spectacle to be revered.
In August of 2004, Rachel Blumberg, Jenny Conlee, Chris Funk, Colin Meloy, and Nate Query set up shop at a former Baptist church in Portland, Oregon. With co-producer Chris Walla at the controls, the five musicians collectively known as The Decemberists emerged three weeks later with the bulk of the work completed for Picaresque, their most ambitious and realized effort to date.
Joni Mitchell – Hejira (Remastered)
Mitchell’s exquisite exploration of love, longing, and the open road. Featuring the classic tracks COYOTE, AMELIA, HEJIRA.
LL Cool J – Force (Gatefold LP Jacket, Autographed / Star Signed)
Hip-hop legend LL Cool J returns with The FORCE, his first new album in more than a decade. Produced in it’s entirety by A Tribe Called Quest’s Q-Tip, The FORCE (an acronym for Frequencies Of Real Creative Energy) represents years of intense work. The result is an album that sounds thoroughly modern – full of razor-sharp writing and nimble, elastic vocals – but rooted in a rich tradition. LP Packaging: Available on vinyl with gatefold jacket, printed sleeve and signed insert included. Features: Snoop Dogg, Rick Ross, Fat Joe, Saweetie, Busta Rhymes, Nas & Eminem.
Mercury Rev – Born Horses (Gatefold LP Jacket)
In upstate New York, deep in the seam between the Catskills mountains and the Hudson Valley, a richly swelling, spellbound sound emerges, eddying and flowing like the local Esopus Creek, or in the slipstream of the grander Hudson river, carrying the flotsam and jetsam of our hopes, dreams, fears. A sound composed of organic and electronic; guitars, keys, brass, strings, woodwind, drums – and a voice of incantations, tapping streams of consciousness that similarly eddy and flow. Spiritually, literally, psycho-geographically: where else does Mercury Rev’s ninth album Born Horses spring from? This cascade of gleaming, glistening psych-jazz-folk-baroque-ambient quest that searches it’s soul but can never truly know the answer? A sound and vision linked to their exalted past whilst quite unlike anything they have created before? The answer is somewhere between the homes of founder members Jonathan Donahue (the hamlet of Mt Tremper) and Grasshopper (the town of Kingston), in their veins and brains of their now-legendary tapping of musical cosmology, and the vital presence of new permanent member Marion Genser (keys), plus long-term ally Jesse Chandler (keys) and guests Jeff Lipstein (drums), Martin Keith (double bass) and Jim Burgess (trumpet). A place that feeds off the levitating mood of their last album, 2019’s expansive tribute Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweete Revisited, and the instrumental psych explorations under the names of Harmony Rockets and Mercury Rev’s Clear Light Ensemble, and the spiritual guidance of avant-garde artist Tony Conrad and Beat poet Robert Creeley, to whom Born Horses is dedicated. Born Horses opens with ‘Mood Swings’. A trumpet, evoking mariachi and the windswept terrain of the desert prairie, opens up to a dynamic panorama of sound, wandering through and enveloping Jonathan’s intimate recitation, conflating memories and confessions of feelings trapped and unwrapped: “My mood swings come and go as they like / rebellious fickle teenagers, unable to decide.” It establishes Born Horses’ tone of vulnerability and awe, and a little frisson of fear, testifying to the frailty of human experience, buffeted by the currents all around us. The flightiness of feelings is further explored by the metaphor of a bird, most clearly in ‘Bird Of No Address’ and the album’s pulsating finale ‘There Has Always Been A Bird In Me’. The album title, named after the majestically rippling sixth track ‘Born Horses’, was chosen because it’s words resonate through the entire record, encompassing the idea of flight (“I dreamed we were born horses waiting for wings”) and the phrase “You and I” that appears at different junctures on the album. This is not the concept of two separate people, but two parts of one self. The concept of Born Horses began pre-pandemic, and then once Mercury Rev were allowed to tour and record again, Marion Genser moved over from her native Austria to join Jonathan in the Catskills, and Mercury Rev in full flight. A classically-trained painter as well as a musician, Marion has become an invaluable addition to the Rev chemical compound. More inspiration was provided by the spirits of Tony Conrad and Robert Creeley, acolytes of progressive thought and action who both taught at the University at Buffalo when Jonathan and Grasshopper were students. Amongst other credentials, Conrad was an associate of John Cale and The Velvet Underground, Creeley an associate of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and the Black Mountain poets. Gatefold LP w/ a 4-page booklet and inner sleeve
Molchat Doma – Belaya Polosa (Clear Vinyl)
Belarusian post-punk / synth pop group Molchat Doma have always exuded the kind of brutalist aesthetic of the architecture that adorns their album art. It’s cold, gray, imposing, industrial-and yet there are human hearts beating within those foundations. In the wake of their breakthrough success in 2020, the trio endured a polarity of experiences, from the nadir of an uprooted life and forced relocation away from their native Minsk to the apex of headlining massive shows across the world. It was in this headspace that the band settled into their new home of Los Angeles to finish writing their fourth album Belaya Polosa, a testament to change in difficult times, a love letter to the digital pulse of the ’90s, and a technicolor reinvention of the band’s somber dancefloor anthems. From the opening synth swell and drum machine throb of “Ty Zhe Ne Znaesh’ Kto Ya,” to the goth / post-punk austerity of “Son”, to the swirling electronic textures mixed with reverbdrenched guitar flourishes, expansive space, and yearning vocals of title track “Belaya Polosa” – that suggests Depeche Mode at their most reflective or The Cure at their most downtrodden – to the sultry and seductive “Chernye Cvety”- a track reminiscent of Duran Duran’s early ’90s output in it’s fusion of dreamy guitars and authoritative mechanized beats – and the interwoven layers of instrumentation, soaring chorus, and melodic sophistication of “Ya Tak Ustal”, it’s clear that Molchat Doma are operating on another level. Molchat Doma gained following with earlier albums that sound like third-generation bootlegs of banned recordings from the Eastern Bloc made after a few key entries in the Factory Records catalog were smuggled in from the West. Belaya Polosa propels them into a new direction while retaining their cold minimalist delivery they’re known for. The basement grime and dirty tape-head sound of their previous work are now making space for digital luster and shimmering production values. And while Molchat Doma’s broadened aural spectrum adds a synesthetic power to Belaya Polosa, the mood remains rooted in stark and unflinching self-reflection. Molchat Doma retain the duality of being both cold and feverish in their delivery while pushing their music into expanded territories through an armory of new textures. The trio continue to harness the sound of harrowing beauty thriving under harsh realities.
Toro y Moi – Hole Erth (Blue & Smoke Clear Vinyl)
Hole Erth, Chaz Bear’s eighth full-length studio record as Toro y Moi, is the genre shapeshifter’s most unexpected and bold move to date, with Bear diving headlong into rap-rock, Soundcloud rap and Y2K emo. The album blitzes anthemic pop-punk next to autotuned, melancholic rap – two genres that inform one another now more than ever before – and packs in the most features ever on a Toro y Moi album. A sense of nostalgia sneaks it’s way into almost every Toro y Moi release, but angst is an emotion that Bear has never intentionally explored the way he does here. Tracks like “Tuesday’ channel a specific, yet forever-relatable sense of adolescent unease. A distorted guitar riff leads into a repeating chorus that conjures misunderstood teenagers singing aloud, maybe too loud, while riding bikes through American suburbs. This foreboding can also be heard on “HOV,” though not without poking some fun with lines like “Romance is so cold / My advice? To bring a coat.” Bear has the energy, but is acutely aware that his energy isn’t forever. At a time when the internet is blending multiple genres into one at an increasingly rapid pace, Bear accomplishes the rare feat of keeping up with the contemporary alternative listener. Constantly changing, evolving and experimenting is the heart of Toro y Moi, and on Hole Erth Bear challenges but also reclaims himself, embracing the myriad sounds and eras that formed him, while crashing new worlds together.
Weekly Restock:
Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
Aphex Twin - I Care Because You Do
Awolnation - Phantom Five
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Boygenius - Record
Cage the Elephant - Cage the Elephant
Cage the Elephant - Melophobia
Cake - Comfort Eagle
Cake - Fashion Nugget
Chappell Roan - Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
Childish Gambino - Camp (180 Gram Vinyl)
Chris Stapleton - From a Room: Volume 1
Chris Stapleton - From a Room: Volume 2
Chris Stapleton - Starting Over
Clairo - Charm
Conway the Machine - Slant Face Killah
The Cranberries - Dreams: The Collection
The Cranberries - Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We
The Cure - Disintegration (180 Gram Vinyl)
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories (10th Anniversary Edition)
Death Grips - Year Of The Snitch
Deftones - Around the Fur
Denzel Curry - King of the Mischievous South Vol. 2
Destroy Boys - Funeral Soundtrack #4 (Transparent Red Colored Vinyl)
Dr. Dre - 2001
Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
Earth Wind & Fire - Best of Earth Wind & Fire 1
Elliott Smith - Roman Candle (Indie Exclusive, Peach Colored Vinyl)
Fiona Apple - When the Pawn
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Fontaines D.C. - Romance (Indie Exclusive, Pink Colored Vinyl)
Grateful Dead - American Beauty
Green Day - Dookie
Greta Van Fleet - From the Fires
Hot Boys - Guerilla Warfare
Jimi Hendrix - Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix
Jpegmafia - All My Heroes Are Cornballs
Juice Wrld - Death Race for Love
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity (Yellow, Red, Black Colored Vinyl, 180 Gram Vinyl)
The Killers - Hot Fuss (180 Gram Vinyl)
Lana Del Rey - Honeymoon (180 Gram Vinyl)
Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence
Laufey - Bewitched: The Goddess Edition
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy (180 Gram Vinyl, Remastered)
Lee Morgan - Sidewinder
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
The Lumineers - Cleopatra (180 Gram Vinyl)
MF DOOM - MM Food
Mac Miller - Swimming
Marvin Gaye - What's Going on (180 Gram Vinyl)
Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See
Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell
Michael Jackson - Thriller
My Chemical Romance - I Brought You Bullets You Brought Me Your Love
My Chemical Romance - Life on the Murder Scene
N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
Nails - Every Bridge Burning (Forest Green Vinyl)
Nick Cave & Bad Seeds - Wild God
Nirvana - In Utero
No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom
Oceanator - Everything Is Love & Death
Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
Paramore - After Laughter
Paramore - Riot (FBR 25th Anniversary Edition)
Pearl Jam - Vs. (30th Anniversary Edition)
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Pixies - Doolittle (180 Gram Vinyl)
Post Malone - F-1 Trillion
Queen - A Night At The Opera (Half Speed Mastered)
Queen - The Game
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way
Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe
Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet (Light Sky Color Vinyl)
Sade - The Best Of Sade (180 Gram Vinyl)
Skinny Puppy - Too Dark Park
Slipknot - Slipknot
Smashing Pumpkins - Rotten Apples: Greatest Hits
Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle - Clear
Steely Dan - Aja
Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life (180 Gram Vinyl, Bonus 7')
The Strokes - Is This It
Taylor Swift - Lover
Taylor Swift - Speak Now (Taylor's Version)
Taylor Swift - Taylor Swift (Gatefold LP Jacket)
Tom Petty - Wildflowers & All the Rest
Tycho - Infinite Health
Van Halen - Van Halen II (180 Gram Vinyl, Remastered)
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks (Rocktober)
Various - Nightmare Before Christmas O.S.T.
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
Weezer - Weezer (Blue Album)
Wunderhorse - Midas
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