November 15 street date. The last time there was a new collection of original Bonnie Prince Billy songs was 2011's "Wolfroy Goes to Town". The released records in the intervening years have been of previously-recorded songs most often written by other people (the Everly Brothers, Susanna Wallumrod, Mekons, Merle Haggard; even Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy) as well as a collaborative album with Bitchin' Bajas. "I Made A Place" is intensely inspired by the 50th state. In fact, for a while there the working title of the record was "49th State Of Mind", after the mid-20th century Hawaiian music record label optimistically and ultimately erroneously called 49th State Records. The songs likewise are influenced by certain Hawaiian musics, mainly the recordings of Johnny Lum Ho and Edith Kanaka’ole; also by the recordings of Jake Xerxes Fussell; by the songwriting of John Prine, Susanna Wallumrod and Tom T. Hall.
November 15 street date. The last time there was a new collection of original Bonnie Prince Billy songs was 2011's "Wolfroy Goes to Town". The released records in the intervening years have been of previously-recorded songs most often written by other people (the Everly Brothers, Susanna Wallumrod, Mekons, Merle Haggard; even Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy) as well as a collaborative album with Bitchin' Bajas. "I Made A Place" is intensely inspired by the 50th state. In fact, for a while there the working title of the record was "49th State Of Mind", after the mid-20th century Hawaiian music record label optimistically and ultimately erroneously called 49th State Records. The songs likewise are influenced by certain Hawaiian musics, mainly the recordings of Johnny Lum Ho and Edith Kanaka’ole; also by the recordings of Jake Xerxes Fussell; by the songwriting of John Prine, Susanna Wallumrod and Tom T. Hall.
November 15 street date. The last time there was a new collection of original Bonnie Prince Billy songs was 2011's "Wolfroy Goes to Town". The released records in the intervening years have been of previously-recorded songs most often written by other people (the Everly Brothers, Susanna Wallumrod, Mekons, Merle Haggard; even Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy) as well as a collaborative album with Bitchin' Bajas. "I Made A Place" is intensely inspired by the 50th state. In fact, for a while there the working title of the record was "49th State Of Mind", after the mid-20th century Hawaiian music record label optimistically and ultimately erroneously called 49th State Records. The songs likewise are influenced by certain Hawaiian musics, mainly the recordings of Johnny Lum Ho and Edith Kanaka’ole; also by the recordings of Jake Xerxes Fussell; by the songwriting of John Prine, Susanna Wallumrod and Tom T. Hall.
November 8 street date. Renowned Montréal/Cairo composer Sam Shalabi returns with his exhilarating and utterly genre-bending big band Land Of Kush. The trenchantly-titled "Sand Enigma" bristles with defiant exuberance, restless creative energy, and electrifying cross-cultural expression - the band's most accomplished, acute and accessible album to date (though don't expect ‘easy listening’ from this boundary-pushing hydra-headed entity). "Sand Enigma" is a wildly diverse and hugely compelling tour de force of modern composition that pulses with emotion and experimentation, blending avant-garde, psychedelic, Middle Eastern, out-jazz, electronic, and improv/free music tropes to stunning effect. The 75-minute opus, brilliantly recorded by Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (Jerusalem In My Heart, Matana Roberts) captures a band on fire, flowing through composed set-pieces, improvisational turns, harmolodic gestural and textural interplay, bursts of fervent groove, and fearless, feral experimentation.
November 8 street date. Renowned Montréal/Cairo composer Sam Shalabi returns with his exhilarating and utterly genre-bending big band Land Of Kush. The trenchantly-titled "Sand Enigma" bristles with defiant exuberance, restless creative energy, and electrifying cross-cultural expression - the band's most accomplished, acute and accessible album to date (though don't expect ‘easy listening’ from this boundary-pushing hydra-headed entity). "Sand Enigma" is a wildly diverse and hugely compelling tour de force of modern composition that pulses with emotion and experimentation, blending avant-garde, psychedelic, Middle Eastern, out-jazz, electronic, and improv/free music tropes to stunning effect. The 75-minute opus, brilliantly recorded by Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (Jerusalem In My Heart, Matana Roberts) captures a band on fire, flowing through composed set-pieces, improvisational turns, harmolodic gestural and textural interplay, bursts of fervent groove, and fearless, feral experimentation.
November 1 street date. "The Way Forth", a new folk opera from Rachel Grimes, encompasses lush layers of voices and orchestrations in an experiential, non-linear investigation highlighting perspectives of Kentucky women from 1775 to today. Inspired by a treasure-trove of family documents, photos, and letters spanning several generations, Grimes began in 2016 to research some of the more vexing questions that came to the surface about these people, places, and events. The songs that make up "The Way Forth" weave back in time through a postcard, a personal account of a long life on a farm, traces of folk tunes, names, places, and rivers, all woven into an emotional fabric of yearning, nostalgia, grief, and the rich intimacies of everyday life. Initially solo voices are heard above vivid orchestrations, expanding with the choral voices of the community through fragments of traditional church music and popular tunes. The scope widens to include a modern male narrator's reflections on a place battered by greed, civil war, bigotry, and the exploitation of natural resources.
November 1 street date. "The Way Forth", a new folk opera from Rachel Grimes, encompasses lush layers of voices and orchestrations in an experiential, non-linear investigation highlighting perspectives of Kentucky women from 1775 to today. Inspired by a treasure-trove of family documents, photos, and letters spanning several generations, Grimes began in 2016 to research some of the more vexing questions that came to the surface about these people, places, and events. The songs that make up "The Way Forth" weave back in time through a postcard, a personal account of a long life on a farm, traces of folk tunes, names, places, and rivers, all woven into an emotional fabric of yearning, nostalgia, grief, and the rich intimacies of everyday life. Initially solo voices are heard above vivid orchestrations, expanding with the choral voices of the community through fragments of traditional church music and popular tunes. The scope widens to include a modern male narrator's reflections on a place battered by greed, civil war, bigotry, and the exploitation of natural resources.
November 1 street date. In the fall of 2017, a year after the release of her acclaimed 2016 album "Open To Chance", Kayla Cohen, the songwriter and guitarist who records and performs as Itasca, left her home in Los Angeles to live and write for two seasons in a century-old adobe house in rural New Mexico. "Spring", suffused with mystery and a keenly evoked sense of place, contains Cohen's most quietly dazzling, coherent, and self-assured set of songs to date. Having withdrawn from and returned to the city, she sounds more like herself than ever before. In the context of the album's bolder arrangements, her gorgeous, lambent voice and helical fingerstyle guitar plumb new depths of expressivity, confidence, and wonder. Inflected with flourishes recalling the '70s orchestrated concept albums from which it draws influence, "Spring" resembles an archeological excavation of Cohen's own encanyoned style. If "Open To Chance" felt moonlit, spectral and spooky, "Spring" sounds positively auroral, luminous, a brisk early morning walk through lucid daylit dreams, a series of vivid visions in thrall to the dusty New Mexican terrain.
November 1 street date. In the fall of 2017, a year after the release of her acclaimed 2016 album "Open To Chance", Kayla Cohen, the songwriter and guitarist who records and performs as Itasca, left her home in Los Angeles to live and write for two seasons in a century-old adobe house in rural New Mexico. "Spring", suffused with mystery and a keenly evoked sense of place, contains Cohen's most quietly dazzling, coherent, and self-assured set of songs to date. Having withdrawn from and returned to the city, she sounds more like herself than ever before. In the context of the album's bolder arrangements, her gorgeous, lambent voice and helical fingerstyle guitar plumb new depths of expressivity, confidence, and wonder. Inflected with flourishes recalling the '70s orchestrated concept albums from which it draws influence, "Spring" resembles an archeological excavation of Cohen's own encanyoned style. If "Open To Chance" felt moonlit, spectral and spooky, "Spring" sounds positively auroral, luminous, a brisk early morning walk through lucid daylit dreams, a series of vivid visions in thrall to the dusty New Mexican terrain.
November 1 street date. Includes digital download. 25 years ago, a Louisville band called Rodan released the only record they'd make in their two year tenure. "Rusty" would become one of those records that launched a thousand very f**king good bands in the 90s, an historical moment in real need of poets and punks and beautiful freaks who could render some sense and beauty out of the cultural grey water. Surprise: newly discovered Rodan tapes have been pulled out of a secret time release vault in the floor of the Hat Factory in Baltimore, the studio where Rodan recorded early versions of the songs that would comprise "Rusty". These fluid, energetic prototypes ring out like raw power emerging from a cocoon in the ground, like the 25 year brood of a very rare, winged insect shaking off the soil and finally, blessedly, flying right into your ear.
November 1 street date. Gold vinyl edition. Includes digital download. 25 years ago, a Louisville band called Rodan released the only record they'd make in their two year tenure. "Rusty" would become one of those records that launched a thousand very f**king good bands in the 90s, an historical moment in real need of poets and punks and beautiful freaks who could render some sense and beauty out of the cultural grey water. Surprise: newly discovered Rodan tapes have been pulled out of a secret time release vault in the floor of the Hat Factory in Baltimore, the studio where Rodan recorded early versions of the songs that would comprise "Rusty". These fluid, energetic prototypes ring out like raw power emerging from a cocoon in the ground, like the 25 year brood of a very rare, winged insect shaking off the soil and finally, blessedly, flying right into your ear.
November 1 street date. There is a closeness at the heart of Turnover's aptly titled new album, ‘Altogether.’ Though it's the first collection the trio has written while living on opposite coasts, the record actually represents the group's most collaborative and connected work to date, showcasing the intuitive, near-telepathic relationship frontman Austin Getz has developed over the years with his bandmates. Turnover first emerged roughly a decade ago in Virginia Beach, VA, but the group's critical and commercial breakthrough didn't arrive until six years later, when they cracked the Top 5 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart with their acclaimed sophomore album, ‘Peripheral Vision’. The band followed it up in 2017 with ‘Good Nature,’ a streaming smash that racked up roughly 40 million plays on Spotify alone.
November 1 street date. Purple vinyl edition. There is a closeness at the heart of Turnover's aptly titled new album, ‘Altogether.’ Though it's the first collection the trio has written while living on opposite coasts, the record actually represents the group's most collaborative and connected work to date, showcasing the intuitive, near-telepathic relationship frontman Austin Getz has developed over the years with his bandmates. Turnover first emerged roughly a decade ago in Virginia Beach, VA, but the group's critical and commercial breakthrough didn't arrive until six years later, when they cracked the Top 5 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart with their acclaimed sophomore album, ‘Peripheral Vision’. The band followed it up in 2017 with ‘Good Nature,’ a streaming smash that racked up roughly 40 million plays on Spotify alone.
November 1 street date. A must for soul fans! 15 years on from both Dave Godin's death and his fourth volume of "Deep Soul Treasures", Kent has compiled a further 25 tracks using titles chosen by Dave for future projects in the much loved series. Many are recordings he wanted from day one of the Treasures concept, but licensing quirks made them unavailable until now. The accompanying booklet is enhanced by an extensive interview Dave gave to Jon Savage in the 90s; Jon also writes an introduction. Where relevant, Dave’s words, mainly from the pages of Blues & Soul magazines of the time, are used in relation to the recording. 25 tracks from artists like Big Maybelle, James Carr, Barbara Lynn, Eddie & Ernie, Esther Phillips, and many more.
November 1 street date. Unlike the previous volumes in Jon Savage's series of double CD compilations, which featured music from an expansive mixture of genres, this latest edition is 100% rock, as Jon elaborates in the customary bumper 28-page booklet: "in the late 60s, British pop and youth culture began to fragment into tribes. The divisions had always been there, even at the height of the supposedly classless mid-60s. I was an unrepentant rock fan. That was my tribe. I still bought Motown and reggae hits, but they were the hits: there was no deeper exploration. After Radio Caroline had gone, I’d lost most of the connection to black American music as part of the wider pop experience that I’d had in 1965, 1966 and 1967, even 1968. Thus streamed, I hunted the bins all over London for singles on Island, Elektra and Track". 43 tracks from artists such as MC5, The Stooges, Procol Harum, Mott The Hoople, King Crimson, The Velvet Underground, Free, The Kinks, Spooky Tooth, and more.
October 25 street date. Kranky presents 2 new vinyl reissues from the critically acclaimed electronic experimental singer / songwriter known as GROUPER!! Out-of-print since 2012 !! “This sound / synapse transposition is as haunting as it is beautiful—surely Grouper’s best.”—Tiny Mix Tapes // “If past Grouper releases have inhabited abyssal trenches and damp backwoods, here Harris takes us journeying across constellations and stars. Two of the most beguiling albums of the year, exquisitely realized and singularly evocative.” —The Quietus // “This music feels both spacey and expansive and also oddly intimate and grounded, the work of someone who has mastered her tools and knows how to get the most out of them.”—Pitchfork // “Harris finds a way to dive deeper in simple and unassuming ways.”—NPR
October 25 street date. Kranky presents 2 new vinyl reissues from the critically acclaimed electronic experimental singer / songwriter known as GROUPER!! Out-of-print since 2012 !! “This sound / synapse transposition is as haunting as it is beautiful—surely Grouper’s best.”—Tiny Mix Tapes // “If past Grouper releases have inhabited abyssal trenches and damp backwoods, here Harris takes us journeying across constellations and stars. Two of the most beguiling albums of the year, exquisitely realized and singularly evocative.” —The Quietus // “This music feels both spacey and expansive and also oddly intimate and grounded, the work of someone who has mastered her tools and knows how to get the most out of them.”—Pitchfork // “Harris finds a way to dive deeper in simple and unassuming ways.”—NPR
October 25 street date. Expanded 50TH Anniversary Editions - of one of rock music’s seminal debut albums. 2LP’s on 200gm super heavyweight vinyl. LP1: all new 2019 mixes by Steven Wilson. LP2: Alternate album featuring tracks mixed by Steven Wilson and David Singleton. Packaged in original gatefold sleeve art – fully restored from original paintings. Cut by Jason Mitchell at Loud Mastering from original 24/96 high-resolution source files.
October 25 street date. Expanded 50TH Anniversary Editions - of one of rock music’s seminal debut albums. 3CD & Blu-Ray/boxed set, packaged in two gatefold sleeves with booklet in a rigid exterior slipcase. 3 CDs present the 2019 mixes in stereo & instrumental forms, an expanded alternate album and the original album mix – also with additional tracks. First time Blu-Ray edition for this iconic album, with all new mixes in stereo & 5.1, original album mixes and a multitude of extras all in Hi-Resolution.
October 25 street date. The bastard love child of Elvis and Lux Interior, Israeli guitarist Charlie Megira brewed a heady amalgam of '50s trash rock, surf-y tremolo, and reverb-drenched goth during his all-too-brief 44 trips around the sun. He recorded seven albums worth of material in 15 years, primarily issued on CD-R, most of which is now unreadable or in a landfill. "Tomorrow's Gone" is the first collection of Megira's work; a 24-track double album accompanied by a lavish booklet that documents his tragic existence. Armed with only an Eko guitar, a black tuxedo, and his signature wrap-around shades, Charlie Megira was a mold-breaking artist who disintegrated while we were all staring at our phones.
October 25 street date. Written and produced by Michael Gira, Leaving Meaning is Swans fifteenth studio album and features contributions from recent and former Swans, members of Angels of Light as well as guest artists Anna and Maria von Hausswolff, Ben Frost, The Necks, Baby Dee, and a Hawk and a Hacksaw. Michael Gira explains, “Leaving Meaning is the first Swans album to be released since I dissolved the lineup of musicians that constituted Swans from 2010 – 2017. Swans is now comprised of a revolving cast of musicians, selected for both their musical and personal character, chosen according to what I intuit best suits the atmosphere in which I’d like to see the songs I’ve written presented. In collaboration with me, the musicians, through their personality, skill and taste, contribute greatly to the arrangement of the material. They’re all people whose work I admire and whose company I personally enjoy.
October 25 street date. Written and produced by Michael Gira, Leaving Meaning is Swans fifteenth studio album and features contributions from recent and former Swans, members of Angels of Light as well as guest artists Anna and Maria von Hausswolff, Ben Frost, The Necks, Baby Dee, and a Hawk and a Hacksaw. Michael Gira explains, “Leaving Meaning is the first Swans album to be released since I dissolved the lineup of musicians that constituted Swans from 2010 – 2017. Swans is now comprised of a revolving cast of musicians, selected for both their musical and personal character, chosen according to what I intuit best suits the atmosphere in which I’d like to see the songs I’ve written presented. In collaboration with me, the musicians, through their personality, skill and taste, contribute greatly to the arrangement of the material. They’re all people whose work I admire and whose company I personally enjoy.
October 11 street date. Busting onto the scene in 2012, Waterparks have always been a band with hard-hitting lyrics and quirky personalities. On their latest album ‘Fandom,’ releasing October 11, 2019, they bring their music to the next level, addressing everything from the familiar themes of heartbreak and depression to polarizing topics such as the hate rock bands often receive for wanting to make a living. (Related Artists: All Time Low, Fall Out Boy, Panic! At The Disco)
October 11 street date. Busting onto the scene in 2012, Waterparks have always been a band with hard-hitting lyrics and quirky personalities. On their latest album ‘Fandom,’ releasing October 11, 2019, they bring their music to the next level, addressing everything from the familiar themes of heartbreak and depression to polarizing topics such as the hate rock bands often receive for wanting to make a living. (Related Artists: All Time Low, Fall Out Boy, Panic! At The Disco)
October 11 street date. Busting onto the scene in 2012, Waterparks have always been a band with hard-hitting lyrics and quirky personalities. On their latest album ‘Fandom,’ releasing October 11, 2019, they bring their music to the next level, addressing everything from the familiar themes of heartbreak and depression to polarizing topics such as the hate rock bands often receive for wanting to make a living. (Related Artists: All Time Low, Fall Out Boy, Panic! At The Disco)
September 27 street date. Against Me! quickly ascended to the upper echelon of the punk scene with hit-after-hit over the last two decades and a variety of record labels. AM! joined the Fat Wreck family in 2003 with their breakthrough album "As The Eternal Cowboy", and in 2007 they made their major label debut with "New Wave", followed by several other albums. But it was prior to all this success that Against Me! made arguably the most important album of their career. One that would become an instant cult classic and stand the test of time, fitting right in with scores of Against Me! Fans past and present across the globe. "Reinventing Axl Rose" was AM!’s debut album released on No Idea Records back in 2002. This genre defining full-length has remained a critical piece to any punk rock fan's collection; a piece that has been hard to come by in recent years. Those days are now over, as Fat Wreck has rescued this seminal album and are reissuing the original full-length, complete with new CD and LP packaging. The vinyl edition includes a poster and digital download.
September 27 street date. Against Me! quickly ascended to the upper echelon of the punk scene with hit-after-hit over the last two decades and a variety of record labels. AM! joined the Fat Wreck family in 2003 with their breakthrough album "As The Eternal Cowboy", and in 2007 they made their major label debut with "New Wave", followed by several other albums. But it was prior to all this success that Against Me! made arguably the most important album of their career. One that would become an instant cult classic and stand the test of time, fitting right in with scores of Against Me! Fans past and present across the globe. "Reinventing Axl Rose" was AM!’s debut album released on No Idea Records back in 2002. This genre defining full-length has remained a critical piece to any punk rock fan's collection; a piece that has been hard to come by in recent years. Those days are now over, as Fat Wreck has rescued this seminal album and are reissuing the original full-length, complete with new CD and LP packaging. The vinyl edition includes a poster and digital download.
September 27 street date. Songs from the Bardo by Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal, Jesse Paris Smith. (Available as 2LP Gatefold with Varnish & Spot Gloss & also CD with 32 page booklet) Songs from the Bardo begins with a bell ringing out once, twice, three times, as a ritualistic chant emerges from the dense silence. The collaborative composition by avant-garde icon Laurie Anderson, Tibetan multi-instrumentalist Tenzin Choegyal, and composer and activist Jesse Paris Smith is a guided journey through the visionary text of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, unfolding in an 80-minute ebb and flow of sound and words. Songs from the Bardo is a transporting experience, meant to draw the listener into the present moment and provide a framework for inner exploration. Anderson, Choegyal, and Smith fuse modern compositional techniques with the mystique of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy to make these visionary traditions more accessible to a new generation of listeners and to reveal the ancient wisdoms contained within. "After 40 years, still, no one tells stories like Laurie Anderson." - NY Times
September 27 street date. Songs from the Bardo by Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal, Jesse Paris Smith. (Available as 2LP Gatefold with Varnish & Spot Gloss & also CD with 32 page booklet) Songs from the Bardo begins with a bell ringing out once, twice, three times, as a ritualistic chant emerges from the dense silence. The collaborative composition by avant-garde icon Laurie Anderson, Tibetan multi-instrumentalist Tenzin Choegyal, and composer and activist Jesse Paris Smith is a guided journey through the visionary text of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, unfolding in an 80-minute ebb and flow of sound and words. Songs from the Bardo is a transporting experience, meant to draw the listener into the present moment and provide a framework for inner exploration. Anderson, Choegyal, and Smith fuse modern compositional techniques with the mystique of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy to make these visionary traditions more accessible to a new generation of listeners and to reveal the ancient wisdoms contained within. "After 40 years, still, no one tells stories like Laurie Anderson." - NY Times
September 27 street date. Long hailed as a precursor to alt-country and roots-rock, Fear & Whiskey has been remastered and is reissued now for the first time on LP in its original form, on the band’s same imprint, Sin Recordings. Inspired by folk, honkey-tonk and Cajun music and boasting a pathological fear of closing time. "Some albums are of their time, and some are for all time. This record, originally released in 1985, is both." - Bill Meyer / Chicago
September 27 street date. Remastered for the 21st Century. First time available on vinyl since its original release in 1986. The success of Fear and Whiskey in 1985 saw the Mekons with a stable line-up and enough money to record a new album for the first time in years. The songs on Edge of the World were written and demoed in Leeds by Tom, Jon and Kevin early in 1986 and recorded at Offbeat Studios in Kirkstall with Three Johns live Soundman Tony Bonner who had recorded parts of Fear and Whiskey the year before. Around this time the live band was expanded further to include Rico Bell and Sally Timms who both perform lead vocal duties on Edge of the World. At one point during the recording sessions a version of the band traveled to the northeast of England to perform some live shows and procure valuable funds leaving Langford, Edmonds and Goulding in the studio cutting rhythm tracks. Martin Bomber Henderson of Keithley Gothic band the Skeletal family drummed in the live band at this time but does not appear on the album. The album was mixed in London and was the third release on Sin Recordings of Brixton through the York based distributor Red Rhino.
September 27 street date. The Unintended was a band formed by Rick White of Elevator/Eric's Trip and Dallas Good of The Sadies. Along with the rest of The Sadies and Greg Keelor of Blue Rodeo, they recorded this true beauty of a psychedelic folk rock gem at Keelor’s house in 2003. With a lasting cult following, the album is finally released on vinyl for the first time, fully remastered and with a extra track. Also contains a download code for more tracks, demos and live tunes.
September 20 street date. D.o.A The Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle is one of the bands most famous and sought after album. It has been unavailable for a few years but is back in print and on Green vinyl.
LP - Transparent green vinyl plus 8 page 12” booklet and download with 11 bonus tracks
2CD - (album plus 11 bonus tracks on CD2) 6 page eco pack with 3 pockets plus 8 page booklet
September 20 street date. D.o.A The Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle is one of the bands most famous and sought after album. It has been unavailable for a few years but is back in print and on Green vinyl.
LP - Transparent green vinyl plus 8 page 12” booklet and download with 11 bonus tracks
2CD - (album plus 11 bonus tracks on CD2) 6 page eco pack with 3 pockets plus 8 page booklet
September 20 street date. Greatest Hits, the classic, probably most sought-after Throbbing Gristle album, is back in print, after having been unavailable for a few years, and is pressed on orange vinyl with 8 page 12” booklet + download with 9 bonus tracks".
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