Like the towering mounds of toxic waste from which it gets its namesake, the music of Oklahoma City noise rock quartet Chat Pile is a suffocating, grotesque embodiment of the existential anguish that has defined the 21st Century. It figures that a band with this abrasive, unrelenting, and outlandish of a sound has stuck as […]
Celebrate Elektra Records’ 75th anniversary with Dylan’s Circle, a compilation overseen by label founder Jac Holzman. Featuring tracks by Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Fred Neil, and more, this release explores the folk revival’s roots in Greenwich Village.
Hammond B3 organist Baby Face Willette debuted his swinging sound on three consecutive Blue Note sessions in January 1961: Lou Donaldson’s Here ‘Tis, Grant Green’s Grant’s First Stand, and his own debut Face To Face.For his second leader date, Stop And Listen, the organist convened a trio with Green on guitar, and Ben Dixon on […]
20th anniversary 2xLP reissue of Flags Of The Sacred Harp, a transcendent masterpiece of free-folk, gospel-drone, and psychedelic Americana.A re-imagining of traditional hymns and anthems from the original American songbook that was first published in 1844.This long-awaited repress revives a landmark recording of collective improvisation and spiritual exploration and includes bonus downloads of archival tracks […]
South London singer, songwriter and cultural powerhouse Joy Crookes has today unveiled the news that her worth-the-wait second album Juniper will be released on September 26th ahead of a full UK & EU headline tour. A stunningly candid and fearless body of work, the album reaffirms Joy as one of the UK’s most vital and […]
First-ever official reissue of the pioneering 1986 ambient work. Produced in full cooperation with Hiroshi Yoshimura’s estate. New liner notes by original album producer Hiroyoshi Shiokawa. Includes Yoshimura’s original notes in Japanese & English Remastering and lacquer cutting by John Baldwin. Vinyl pressed at Gotta Groove Records. LITA EXCLUSIVE VARIANT PRESSED ON BLUE VINYL / […]
Its creation led by pure emotion, Cate Le Bon’s seventh record Michelangelo Dying usurped the album she thought she was making. The product of all-consuming heartache, her feelings overrode her reluctance to write an album about love, and in the process became a kind of exorcism. What emerges is a wonderfully iridescent attempt to photograph […]
Blue Note Re:imagined returns with a second volume; a new 16-track compilation featuring fresh takes on music from the illustrious Blue Note vaults recorded by a heavyweight line-up of the UK jazz, soul and R&B scene’s most hotly-tipped rising stars. Arriving off the back of the widespread international success of the first volume, which topped […]
Brothers Adrian and Paul Gurvitz were responsible for some of the most progressive hard rock sounds of the late ‘60s and ‘70s, first in The Gun, and later with Cream drummer Ginger Baker in The Baker Gurvitz Army. In between those two bands, though, was the one that was perhaps the best of the bunch; […]
This record hasn’t been available since its very limited original release back in 1989! So this is a rookie reissue, and quite the phenom at that , pressed in green and yellow “cornfield” vinyl, and featuring James Horner’s amazing, spine-tingling score. Don’t strike out on this one! 1. The Cornfield 2. Deciding To Build the […]
