Empath
Active Listening: Night On Earth / Liberating Guilt & Fear (LP) [ Fat Possum / 2 LP - released 4/Oct/2019 ] Empath goes far beyond the sound of birds faintly chirping. They're a band that writes songs like communing with nature, bringing all their fuzzed and tripped out idiosyncrasies into harmony. Empath began in 2016 when Garrett Koloski, Em Shanahan,... |
Ennio Morricone
Quando L'amore È Sensualità (LP) [ Decca / 2 LP - released 11/Nov/2022 ] Introducing Quando l'amore è sensualità by Ennio Morricone, the fourth release in the Morricone Segreto series. The soundtrack is one of the undiscovered gems in Morricone's catalogue. Newly remastered, this album features eleven previously... |
Erny Belle
Not Your Cupid (Black Vinyl Gatefold LP) [ Flying Nun / LP - released 10/Nov/2023 ] Auckland-based Erny Belle is a sweet enigma adorned by dark dreams, wild wonder, and spellbinding song. The musical veil of Ngāpuhi singer-songwriter Aimee Renata emerged onto the scene with a billowing aura of mystery but swiftly enamoured audiences... |
Erny Belle
Not Your Cupid (Red Vinyl Gatefold LP) [ Flying Nun / LP - released 10/Nov/2023 ] Auckland-based Erny Belle is a sweet enigma adorned by dark dreams, wild wonder, and spellbinding song. The musical veil of Ngāpuhi singer-songwriter Aimee Renata emerged onto the scene with a billowing aura of mystery but swiftly enamoured audiences... |
Father John Misty
Chloë and the next 20th Century (Black Vinyl LP) [ Sub Pop / 2 LP - released 8/Apr/2022 ] Father John Misty returns with Chloë and The Next 20th Century, his fifth album and first new material since the release of God's Favorite Customer in 2018. Chloë and the Next 20th Century was written and recorded August through December 2020 and... |
Father John Misty
Chloë and the next 20th Century (Limited Edition Blue Double Gatefold LP) [ Sub Pop / 2 LP - released 8/Apr/2022 ] Father John Misty returns with Chloë and The Next 20th Century, his fifth album and first new material since the release of God's Favorite Customer in 2018. Chloë and the Next 20th Century was written and recorded August through December 2020 and... |
Felt
Gold Mine Trash (LP) [ 1972 / LP - released 30/Jun/2023 ] Lawrence Hayward knew that he wanted to be a pop star as a teen, and he devised a plan to release ten albums and ten singles over ten years to make that dream come true. A particular and determined individual, he would only be known as Lawrence from... |
The Flaming Lips
Hypnotist (Limited Edition LP) [ Warner / LP - released 16/Jun/2023 ] The centerpiece of this LP is the 24-minute epic "Psychedelic Hypnotist Daydream (demo)". Three other tracks from the CD box set are included, also receiving their first release on LP - notably the instrumental version of "Do You Realize??". Over... |
Foghat
Permission To Jam: Live In New Orleans 1973 (RSD 2024 LP) [ Bearsville / 2 LP - released 20/Apr/2024 ] Foghat formed in 1971 in the UK and hav achieved eight gold records, one platinum, and one double platinum record in their career. Permission To Jam: Live in New Orleans 1973 features all previously unreleased live material recorded over two shows... |
Frank Zappa
Over-Nite Sensation 50th Anniversary (2LP) [ Zappa Records / 2 LP - released 17/Nov/2023 ] Over-Nite Sensation turns 50 years old. An absolute classic. For some a gateway to Zappa, a place to start along with the following 1974 release Apostrophe('). It was also the first album by Zappa to be released in Quadraphonic surround sound. The... |
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
The Genuine Imitation Life Gazette (RSD 2024 LP) [ Rhino / LP - released 20/Apr/2024 ] The Genuine Imitation Life Gazette marked a wild, unexpected, utterly satisfying departure for Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons. Inspired by and dropped in the wake of classic psych-pop vocal albums like Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Pet... |
Gaby Moreno And Van Dyke Parks
¡Spangled! (LP) [ Nonesuch / Warner / LP - released 4/Oct/2019 ] ¡Spangled! is a collaboration between Guatemalan-born singer-songwriter Gaby Moreno and American musician, songwriter, arranger, and producer Van Dyke Parks. The ten-song set celebrates the migration of song across the Americas and spans more than... |
Golden Harvest
Golden Harvest (LP) [ Frenzy / LP - released 28/Jul/2023 ] Golden Harvest, those fabled sons of Morrinsville, have announced a 2023 vinyl re-press of their sought after debut, and only, studio album. Formed by the four Kaukau brothers, and vocalist Karl Gordon, the band made a huge splash in 1978, before... |
Grim Ltd
Shakin' It Up At The Nicoberg (LP) [ Frenzy / LP - released 18/Aug/2023 ] On a balmy night in downtown Palmerston North in late 1966, the city's top band took the stage for the last time. The venue was the Nicoberg Coffee Lounge which was situated near the Stafford Arcade near Cuba St. The group were tipped to be the next... |
High Pulp
Pursuit Of Ends (LP) [ Anti- / LP - released 10/Jun/2022 ] Drawing on bebop, punk rock, shoegaze, hip-hop, and electronic music, experimental jazz act High Pulp present Pursuit of Ends, their first full-length album with Los Angeles's ANTI- Records. High Pulp's music is both vintage and futuristic all at... |
Incubus
Light Grenades (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / 2 LP - released 7/Feb/2013 ] Merging Nu-Metal grooves with Funk, Rock and Hip Hop, Incubus carved their own musical niche and earned a huge following by tireless touring and releasing ever-improving quality albums. Light Grenades [2006] shows the growth of a band that has stayed... |
Jack Johnson
All The Light Above It Too (LP) [ Republic Records / LP - released 8/Sep/2017 ] When choosing a title for his seventh studio album, Jack Johnson lifted a lyric from the opening track: a warm and wistful meditation on keeping perspective in frenzied times. "All the Light Above It Too refers to the sun and how it shines in all... |
Jack Johnson
In Between Dub (LP) [ Republic / LP - released 2/Jun/2023 ] In March 2020, Jack Johnson reached out to Lee "Scratch" Perry to produce a dub remix album based on Jack's most loved recordings. On August 29, 2021, the project was brought to a halt as Scratch departed this physical world. In 2022, Jack and... |
Jackie McLean
A Fickle Sonance (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 9/Dec/2022 ] |
Jake Bugg
Jake Bugg (10th Anniversary Edition LP) [ UMC / 2 LP - released 14/Oct/2022 ] It's hard to believe that it's been ten years since Jake Bugg released his extraordinary self- titled debut album. Released on October 15th, 2012, Jake introduced himself to the world and blew open the doors with an exquisite debut that rocketed to... |