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MAHINA - ZAZA EP
TLTL006
TOO LITTLE TOO LATE RECORDS
12inch28.08.202628.AUG.26

Hip-HopR & BAfrobeat

Independent Belgian artist of Congolese descent MAHINA explores an eclectic voice where soul, Afrocentric melodies, R&B, reggae , and both acoustic and electronic sounds intertwine, carried by percussion. ZAZA is MAHINA's long-awaited debut EP.

Moving between deep introspection, spiritual messages, and enchanting harmonies, Mahina embodies a new voice - both innovative and singular. Her ambition is clear: to make listeners feel, heal, resonate, and find a space where music becomes a language of truth and elevation.

Alongside her music, Mahina has performed in the critically acclaimed theater production Dear Winnie (KVS & NNT) and appeared on screen in the short film Le retour des femmes colibris by visual artist Patricia Kaersenhout.

Zaza is much more then just an EP, it is an inner quest, a journey through love, faith, vulnarability and resilience. Through an eclectic sound palette : soul, Afro-rhythmic, R&B, reggae, acoustic and electronic. Mahina offers a unique identity, both intimate and universal.

This adventure is conceived as a breath, a space where emotions and spirituality meet. Balancing fragility and strength, softness and intensity, Mahina unfolds a sincere and captivating voice that seeks to make listeners feel, heal and resonate.

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expected to be published on 28 Aug

21,64 €
Night Lovell - MY BLOOD AS THE INK
  • A1: Sick & Tired
  • A2: This Ain't K-Pop
  • A3: Stranger
  • A4: Gangsta Tear
  • A5: Pawn Shop
  • A6: Cigarette
  • B1: Fight Night At Gitanes
  • B2: Bleed
  • B3: Flip The Switch
  • B4: A Message To You
  • B5: Piñata
  • B6: Run
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Indie Retail Exclusive[30,04 €]


G59002LP1
G59 Records
12inch28.08.202628.AUG.26

PopWorld Music

MY BLOOD AS THE INK marks Night Lovell’s first full-length release in 2.5 years and feels like a natural evolution of his catalog while pushing his world into darker, more refined territory. Motivated by pain, betrayal, loyalty, and the emotional weight that comes with success, the album sharpens Lovell’s signature atmosphere into something more nuanced, mature, and complex. It still carries the cold, cinematic darkness fans expect from him, but there is a deeper sense of reflection here, with Lovell sounding more focused, more intentional, and more aware of the cost of the life he has built.

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expected to be published on 28 Aug

25,63 €
KICKIN VALENTINA - ANTHEMS FROM THE UNDERGROUND
  • 1: GENERATION TIME BOMB
  • 1: 2DANCE OF DESTRUCTION
  • 1: 3ROCK'N'ROLL CASUALTY
  • 1: 4DON'T BE MAD
  • 1: 5SILVER MOON
  • 1: 6DOG FIGHT
  • 1: 7GOOD TIME BAD GUYS
  • 1: 8OVERDOSE ON CLOUD 9
  • 1: 9BULLETPROOF SOUND
  • 1: 0JUST LIKE A MOVIE
177815
Emanzipation Productions
12inch28.08.202628.AUG.26

PopRock

Limited purple vinyl. KICKIN VALENTINA return with a sensational new full-length album, "Anthems From The Underground", set for worldwide release in August 2026. The highly-anticipated record will be released via Mighty Music and delivers a crushing, no-compromise statement of modern underground hard rock. Formed in 2013, Kickin Valentina quickly built momentum in the U.S. and internationally, first signing with Atlanta indie label Highway 9 Records before moving to Mighty Music in 2015. Since then, the band has released a steady run of acclaimed records including "Super Atomic", "Imaginary Creatures", "Revenge of Rock", "Star Spangled Fist Fight", and "Raw Trax, B-Sides and Bootlegs", as well as the EP "Chaos in Copenhagen", earning a strong reputation for raw, high-energy rock'n'roll rooted in a take-it-or-leave-it attitude.

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expected to be published on 28 Aug

36,09 €
Various - Friendly Records x War Child LP
  • 1: Claude Cooper - Tangerine Dreams 03:5
  • 2: Nick Craft - Dance In The Fire 04:05
  • 3: IDLES - Grace (Terry Remix) 0:29
  • 4: PJ Harvey - The Glorious Land (Live) 03:7
  • 5: Floating World Pictures - Salt-wind Rises At The Waterfront Promenade 02:23
  • 6: Beak> - Stuck In The Way 02:42
  • 7: Christian Madden & The Enemy Chrous - Our Living Breath 04:00
  • 8: The Jimi Entley Sound - Charlie's Theme 03:11
  • 9: Sleadford Mods x Hot Chip - Nom Nom Nom 03:30
  • 10: ZEE - Endlessly 02:58
  • 11: Portishead - SOS 03:29
  • 12: Claude Cooper & Brain Fog - On The Loose 03:20
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FRWC7007LP
FRIENDLY RECORDINGS
12inch28.08.202628.AUG.26

PopRockHeavy-MetalAlternativeIndie

Bristol’s Friendly Records mark 10 years with a special compilation in aid of War Child - raising vital funds for children affected by conflict.

The record brings together standout tracks from recent Friendly Records 7” releases supporting War Child, featuring Portishead, PJ Harvey, IDLES, Sleaford Mods, Hot Chip, Beak and more!

Also includes tracks from Friendly Recordings releases by Christian Madden And The Enemy Chorus, Floating World Pictures, Nick Craft, Claude Cooper & Brain Fog and ZEE.

exclusive artwork by David Shrigley.

Every purchase will help War Child UK protect, educate and stand up for the rights of children living through war.

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expected to be published on 28 Aug

33,57 €
Various - Friendly Records x War Child LP
FRWC7007LP1
FRIENDLY RECORDINGS
12inch28.08.202628.AUG.26

PopRockHeavy-MetalAlternativeIndie

Bristol’s Friendly Records mark 10 years with a special compilation in aid of War Child - raising vital funds for children affected by conflict.

The record brings together standout tracks from recent Friendly Records 7” releases supporting War Child, featuring Portishead, PJ Harvey, IDLES, Sleaford Mods, Hot Chip, Beak and more!

Also includes tracks from Friendly Recordings releases by Christian Madden And The Enemy Chorus, Floating World Pictures, Nick Craft, Claude Cooper & Brain Fog and ZEE.

exclusive artwork by David Shrigley.

Every purchase will help War Child UK protect, educate and stand up for the rights of children living through war.

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expected to be published on 28 Aug

33,57 €
Andy Bell - Love Oneself & Delicious
  • A1: Love Oneself (ManhaWan Clique 2026 Extended New York Remix)
  • B1: Love Oneself Delicious (ManhaWan Clique 2026 Extended London Remix)
  • B2: Love Oneself (Andy Bell Version)
  • B3: Delicious (Andy Bell Version)
CLQ3
Renegade Records
12inch28.08.202628.AUG.26

PopElectronica

Ândy Bell, Erasure-Frontmann und Electro-Pop-Legende, veröffentlicht mit "Extended Blue" sein Solo-Debütalbum "Electric Blue" (2005) als limitierte Deluxe-Edition auf dreifarbig-blauem Vinyl neu. "Electric Blue" - samt den Duetten mit Claudia Brücken (xPropaganda) und Jake Shears (Scissor Sisters) - wurde gemeinsam mit Manhattan Clique geschrieben und produziert, einem Duo, das zwei Jahrzehnte lang die Welt der Pop-Dance-Club-Remixe dominierte und mit Weltstars (Katy Perry, Britney Spears, Lady Gaga, OneRepublic, Moby) und wegweisenden Electronic-Acts (The Human League, Soft Cell, OMD, The B-52s und natürlich Erasure) zusammenarbeitete.

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expected to be published on 28 Aug

27,31 €
Low - Things We Lost In The Fire 2x12"
KRANK046LP
Kranky Records
2x12inch28.08.202628.AUG.26

PopFolkSynth-Pop

2026 Repress

MUCH LOVED LOW ALBUM BACK IN PRINT ON VINYL…NB NEW PRICE.NON -RETURNABLE.

The second Albini recorded and engineered Low album, Things We Lost in the Fire features such hits as Sunflower and Laser Beam.

#14 on Pitchfork 30 Best Dream Pop Albums.

#117 Pitchfork Top 200 Albums of the 2000s.

#93 The Guardian 100 Best Albums of the 21st Century list.

#36 NME Top 50 Darkest Ever Albums.

“Measuring out grief and resilience with a steady hand, these are the best songs of Low's quiet career.” Mojo 9/10

“Low's original stark minimalism has gradually given way to a broader sonic range, without sacrificing their strangely accessible otherness.” Wire

“Low have always sought to make music that can both swell the heart like a gospel tune and capture the amplified absence of a funeral parlour. It's difficult to imagine a more perfect expression of their vision than this.” NME

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34,03 €
MULLIE GRAF - ONE MORE CHANCE
ROOT007
Roots Recordings
12inch28.08.202628.AUG.26out soon

HouseDeepDub

On its latest must have release Roots Recordings takes us to the West Coast of the United States which has traditionally been a hotbed of deep, dreamy and dubby house. This is the first ever vinyl outing from Los Angeles producer Mullie Graf. There are two original cuts on show: the sub-heavy, hypnotic and increasingly acid-fired chug of 'One More Chance' and the deeper, dreamier, warmer and partially organic 'Hang On', a cut that recalls the trademark sound of San Francisco's Dubtribe Soundsystem. Fellow Californian producer Natural Rhythm provides remixes of both, following a tough, acid house-meets-dub-house pass

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16,18 €
Die Kreuzen - Die Kreuzen LP
  • A1: Rumors
  • A2: This Hope
  • A3: In School
  • A4: I’m Tired
  • A5: On the Street
  • A6: Enemies
  • A7: Get ‘Em
  • A8: Fighting
  • A9: No Time
  • A10: All White
  • B1: Pain
  • B2: Sick People
  • B3: Hate Me
  • B4: Live Wire
  • B5: Not Anymore
  • B6: Mannequin
  • B7: Fuckups
  • B8: Think For Me
  • B9: Dirt and Decay
  • B10: Don’t Say Please
  • B11: No Name
TG004LP-C1
Touch and Go Records
12inch28.08.202628.AUG.26

PopAlternativeRockPunk

Formed in 1981 by two Rockford, Illinois, and two Brookfield, Wisconsin, natives in the midpoint of Milwaukee, Die Kreuzen (pronounced dee kroyt-zen) chose their name specifically to avoid stereotyping because “no one knows what it means. 'Die Kreuzen' roughly translates out of German meaning 'to intersect' or 'to hybridize,' which is exactly what they did on their five LP's for Touch and Go. Their self titled debut is considered one of the most seminal hardcore records of the early 80’s. As far as their second album October File is concerned, remember that flannel shirt movement in the 90's? This is what those guys were listening to.

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expected to be published on 28 Aug

27,94 €
Galvanizer - Sanguine Vigil LP
  • 1: Mood For The Blade
  • 2: Enjoyment Of Annihilation
  • 3: Deathbeat Deity
  • 4: Sanguine Vigil
  • 5: Grind Till... You're Dead!
  • 6: Domestic Mastication
  • 7: Gorefestation
  • 8: Premature Rot
  • 9: Unfinished Autopsy
  • 10: A Painful End For Curiosity
MSUO86LP
Me Saco Un Ojo
12inch28.08.202628.AUG.26

PopRockDeath-Metal

From the swamping lands of Finland death/grind trio Galvanizer emerges with their debut album “Sanguine Vigil” after having paid all their dues with several tapes and a 7″ep like we were used back in the 90s.
Galvanizer have quickly become one of the most promising underground acts around, their old school approach perfectly combines with their youthful energy and their sound will perfectly please both fans of old school Finnish death metal and modern deathgrind sounds.
The artwork is painted by mighty TG Rantanen, a finnish institution famous for his works with Demilich, Demigod, Adramelech, Depravity and many more.

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expected to be published on 28 Aug

27,31 €
2 Of Clubs - Walk Tall - The Fraternity Recordings (10")
  • A1: HEART
  • A2: MY FIRST HEART BREAK
  • A3: WALK TALL LIKE A MAN
  • A4: SO BLUE IS FALL
  • A5: LET ME WALK WITH YOU
  • A6: YOU LOVE ME
  • B1: RIVER DEEP - MOUNTAIN HIGH
  • B2: LOOK AWAY
  • B3: HOW CAN I BE HAPPY
  • B4: I'LL COME RUNNING OVER
  • B5: HE CALLS ME CHILD
10CH1679
ACE Records
10inch28.08.202628.AUG.26

PopRock'n'roll

2 Of Clubs may have enjoyed only a brief recording career, but Linda Parrish and Patti Valentine left behind a remarkable body of work. This 10-inch vinyl mini-album gathers their complete recordings for the first time, including every Fraternity Records release and two previously unissued tracks discovered in the label’s tape archive.
The duo became local favourites in Cincinnati during the mid-1960s after meeting while performing at the popular Guys & Dolls nightclub, accompanied by the Driving Winds, led by Linda’s husband Carl Edmondson. Discovering how well their voices blended, they joined forces as 2 Of Clubs and soon caught the attention of Fraternity Records founder Harry Carlson, who signed them to the label with Edmondson acting as producer and manager.

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expected to be published on 28 Aug

22,27 €
Rosa Passos & Ron Carter - Entre Amigos LP
  • 1: Bahia Com H
  • 2: Insensatez
  • 3: Desafinado
  • 4: Sorriu Para Mim
  • 5: A Primeira Vez
  • 6: Garota de Ipanema
  • 7: Por Causa de Voce
  • 8: Caminhos Cruzados
  • 9: Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar
EVLP067BL
CHESKY
12inch28.08.202628.AUG.26

PopJazz

This album is a beautiful union of the enchanting rhythms of Bossa Nova and the sophistication of jazz. Standout tracks from the album include Garota De Ipanema, Desafinado and Corcovado. This highly requested LP were released on a limitednumbered white viny LP in 2025 and now it will be re- released on 180g 'One Step Pressing' Vinyl LP.

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expected to be published on 28 Aug

39,29 €
NOFX - 40 YEARS OF FUCKIN' UP - SOUNDTRACK
  • 40: YEARS OF FUCKIN' UP
  • DRUGS ARE GOOD
  • LAZY
  • ON THE ROAD (DEMO 1986)
  • WE'RE BROS
  • SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND SKATE
  • LA BAMBA (COVER)
  • LINOLEUM (LIVE)
  • SUITS AND LADDERS
  • SECRET SOCIETY (DEMO)
  • WE CALLED IT AMERICA
  • PUNK ROCK CLICHÉ (ACOUSTIC)
  • FERMENTED AND FLAILING
  • NOFX (LIVE)
  • WE DID IT OUR WAY (LIVE 10/6/24)
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FAT1324
Fat Wreck Chords
12inch28.08.202628.AUG.26

PopPunk

Der ganz offizielle Soundtrack (sowie Fat Mikes zusätzliche Filmmusik auf CD-Format) zum aktuellen NOFX-Doku-Feature "40 Years Of Fuckin' Up"! Vier Jahrzehnte zählten NOFX zu den lautesten, chaotischsten und am hartnäckigsten unabhängigen Bands der Punkszene. Nun bringen sie ihre ganze Geschichte - jede Fehlentscheidung, jeden großartigen Song und jede unglaubliche Anekdote - mit "40 YEARS OF FUCKIN' UP" in die Kinos. Es ist eine rohe, ungefilterte Dokumentation, die genau so genossen werden sollte, wie es sich gehört: laut, gemeinsam und auf der großen Leinwand (idealerweise im örtlichen Kino). Dies ist keine weichgespülte Rock-Doku, das hier ist das echte Punkrock-Leben. Die Drogen, der Alkohol, die Katastrophen auf und abseits der Bühne - und ja, mindestens eine Geschichte, die eine wahrhaft unglückliche medizinische Situation beinhaltet. Der 15 Songs umfassende Soundtrack enthält die brandneuen, bisher unveröffentlichten Singles "40 Years of Fucking Up" und "We Did It Our Way" (geschrieben als der allerletzte NOFX-Song, der jemals live gespielt werden soll). Des Weiteren sind sechs seltene und unveröffentlichte Tracks enthalten - wie etwa "Secret Society (Demo)", "On The Road (Demo)" und "La Bamba (Cover)" - sowie Live-Versionen der Hit-Singles "Linoleum" und "NOFX". Die zusätzliche Original-Filmmusik besteht aus 11 brandneuen Tracks, welche von Fat Mike komponiert und gemeinsam mit einem Orchester eingespielt wurden. Pinkfarbene Einzel-LP mit Soundtrack sowie CD mit Soundtrack & Filmmusik - das Cover-Artwork wurde von Illustrator Tokyo Hiro entworfen.

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expected to be published on 28 Aug

24,33 €
NOFX - 40 YEARS OF FUCKIN' UP - SOUNDTRACK
FAT1372
Fat Wreck Chords
12inch28.08.202628.AUG.26

PopPunk

Der ganz offizielle Soundtrack (sowie Fat Mikes zusätzliche Filmmusik auf CD-Format) zum aktuellen NOFX-Doku-Feature "40 Years Of Fuckin' Up"! Vier Jahrzehnte zählten NOFX zu den lautesten, chaotischsten und am hartnäckigsten unabhängigen Bands der Punkszene. Nun bringen sie ihre ganze Geschichte - jede Fehlentscheidung, jeden großartigen Song und jede unglaubliche Anekdote - mit "40 YEARS OF FUCKIN' UP" in die Kinos. Es ist eine rohe, ungefilterte Dokumentation, die genau so genossen werden sollte, wie es sich gehört: laut, gemeinsam und auf der großen Leinwand (idealerweise im örtlichen Kino). Dies ist keine weichgespülte Rock-Doku, das hier ist das echte Punkrock-Leben. Die Drogen, der Alkohol, die Katastrophen auf und abseits der Bühne - und ja, mindestens eine Geschichte, die eine wahrhaft unglückliche medizinische Situation beinhaltet. Der 15 Songs umfassende Soundtrack enthält die brandneuen, bisher unveröffentlichten Singles "40 Years of Fucking Up" und "We Did It Our Way" (geschrieben als der allerletzte NOFX-Song, der jemals live gespielt werden soll). Des Weiteren sind sechs seltene und unveröffentlichte Tracks enthalten - wie etwa "Secret Society (Demo)", "On The Road (Demo)" und "La Bamba (Cover)" - sowie Live-Versionen der Hit-Singles "Linoleum" und "NOFX". Die zusätzliche Original-Filmmusik besteht aus 11 brandneuen Tracks, welche von Fat Mike komponiert und gemeinsam mit einem Orchester eingespielt wurden. Pinkfarbene Einzel-LP mit Soundtrack sowie CD mit Soundtrack & Filmmusik - das Cover-Artwork wurde von Illustrator Tokyo Hiro entworfen.

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expected to be published on 28 Aug

25,42 €
Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein - Marche 22
HG001
Hourglass Recordings
12inch28.08.202628.AUG.26

HouseElectronicaPop

In Walter Benjamin’s seminal essay “Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”, he posits that the aura of art objects is destroyed by the ability to photographically reproduce them. When you had to make a pilgrimage to a work it remained elusive, charged, ever distant; but when you can easily see a reproduction, such aura dissipates. What Benjamin did not anticipate is that in the age of AI and the frictionless fount of digital content, we have imbued mechanical and analog means of media production with aura. Film cameras from the last 100 years are in high demand (the point and shoot Olympus Mju I featured in Wim Wenders film Perfect Days still sells for $200), vinyl sales continue to grow year by year, 35mm and 70mm film screenings have become aura-drenched events people travel across country for, and as to the world of vintage and analog synthesizers, when a friend asked for the price on the Yamaha CS-80 synth used on Toto’s “Africa”, the answer was a cool $60,000.

Despite the ability to simulate almost any synthesizer on a computer, the original physical units retain their mystique. Perhaps this lies in the physical process, many of these synths are temperamental and difficult to fully utilize, and the effort and ingenuity can be felt in ways that will always be absent from easy digital simulacra. Perhaps there is an aura in their imperfection, as Brian Eno wrote: “Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided.” Some may call this nostalgia, but such sonic imperfections are the sounds of humans interacting with the physical world, and it is understandable to feel a pang of emotion and attachment in a time of exponential alienation.

Marche 22 was recorded over a week at the Museo Del Synth Marchigiano in Macerata, Italy. The museum is filled with rare and obscure synths (especially CRB, GEM & Elka) as well as salvaged materials from a nearby shuttered Farfisa organ factory, including MARS, an unfinished realtime audio processing application developed by IRIS - similar to the now well known MAX/MSP. Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein play a suite of pieces that encompasses the last sixty years of synthesizer music—there are nods to Cluster, Tangerine Dream, Jean Michel Jarre, and Morton Subotnick. Dixon and Stein are like jazz masters playing the American songbook with their own riffs and quotations. What shines through in these varied works that are sometimes rhythmic, sometimes melancholic, and sometimes both, is a soul, a spirit, an emotion vibrating through the tones like the charge of coming rain or the thrum of a distant train on the tracks. - Neil Fauerso

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expected to be published on 28 Aug

27,94 €
Golden Earring - You Know We Love You (3x12")
  • A1: Don’t Stop The Show
  • A2: I Do Rock ‘N Roll
  • A3: Another 45 Miles
  • A4: Long Blond Animal
  • B1: When The Lady Smiles
  • B2: Liquid Soul
  • B3: Twilight Zone
  • C1: Going To The Run
  • C2: Vanilla Queen
  • C3: Hold Me Now
  • D1: Say When
  • D2: The Devil Made Me Do It
  • D3: Johnny Make Believe
  • E1: Rinus On Bass
  • E2: Radar Love part 1
  • E3: Cesar On Drums
  • E4: Radar Love part 2
  • F1: She Flies On Strange Wings
  • F2: Legalize Telepathy
MOVLP3102T
Music On Vinyl
12inch28.08.202628.AUG.26

PopRock

In 2021, Golden Earring announced their parting after more than 60-years as a group. This meant that their last live show, held at the Rotterdam Ahoy on 16th November 2019, was also their final performance as a band. With this knowledge, the excellent audio recordings of this tremendous concert were unshelved in close cooperation with the band and John Sonneveld – the band’s long-time technical assistant and producer. The result: You Know We Love You!

It's the ultimate goodbye of this legendary Dutch rock band and available as a limited edition of 500 individually numbered copies on transparent vinyl. This 3LP is packlaged in a deluxe trifold sleeve featuring a collage of photos that fans of Golden Earring submitted, plus a 4-page booklet including a replica of the original concert poster.

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expected to be published on 28 Aug

44,96 €
Magi Merlin - POWER HOUSE LP
BONAL118-LPEMG
Bonsound
12inch28.08.202628.AUG.26

PopAlternativeIndie

Magi Merlin’s debut LP, POWER HOUSE, is a high-production, 12-track masterclass in modern pop - an infectious, high-energy record that feels deceptively familiar at first touch, yet every time you reach for a comparison, you realize it doesn't quite fit; a one-of-one project that remains as polished as it is daring.
Conceptually, POWER HOUSE is an exploration of the internal architecture we all inhabit, housing the conflicting rooms of anger, fear, vanity, and ultimately, a reclaimed sense of power. Where Magi Merlin’s previous work, Gone Girl, was a study of external strength, this new era is an ode to the realization that inner work is the only true outer work. With a perspective that is both empathetic and furious, and a grow-as-you-go philosophy, she proves that real change starts small but sounds massiv

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expected to be published on 28 Aug

26,85 €
The Cramps - Look Mom No Head! LP
  • A1: DAMES, BOOZE, CHAINS AND BOOTS
  • A2: TWO HEADED SEX CHANGE
  • A3: BLOW UP YOUR MIND
  • A4: HARD WORKIN' MAN
  • A5: MINISKIRT BLUES
  • A6: ALLIGATOR STOMP
  • B1: I WANNA GET IN YOUR PANTS
  • B2: BEND OVER, I'LL DRIVE
  • B3: DON'T GET FUNNY WITH ME
  • B4: EYEBALL IN MY MARTINI
  • B5: HIPSVILLE 29 BC
  • B6: THE STRANGENESS IN ME (WHEN I GET THE BLUES)
WIKAD101R
Big Beat Records
12inch28.08.202628.AUG.26

PopRockFolk

Released in 1991, the Cramps’ “Look Mom No Head!” is a stone-cold classic.
As well as black vinyl, it was also released on red and Ace are delighted to give fans old and new the opportunity to restock their vinyl blood bank with that delicious colour.

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expected to be published on 28 Aug

27,31 €
MY DYING BRIDE - ANTHOLOGY OF SOMBRE REFLECTIONS LP 8x12" DELUXE BOX SET
  • Disc 1 – The Grief Of Age Side A1. Symphonaire Infernus Et Spera Empyrium (1990 demo) (08:53)
  • A2: Vast Choirs (1990 demo) (07:35)
  • A3: The Grief Of Age (1990 demo) (04:08)
  • A4: Catching Feathers (1990 demo) (03:42)
  • Side B1. God Is Alone (1991 7" version) (04:57)
  • B2: De Sade Soliloquy (1991 7" version) (04:39)
  • B3: Unreleased Bitterness (07:44)
  • B4: The Sexuality Of Bereavement (08:04)
  • Disc 2 – Symphonaire Infernus Et Spera Empyrium Side A1. Symphonaire Infernus Et Spera Empyrium (11:36)
  • Side B1. God Is Alone (04:48)
  • B2: De Sade Soliloquay (03:41)
  • Disc 3 - As The Flower Withers (Half-Speed) Side A1. Silent Dance (02:14)
  • A2: Sear Me (09:06)
  • A3: The Forever People (04:09)
  • A4: The Bitterness And The Bereavement (07:37)
  • Side B1. Vast Choirs (08:16)
  • B2: The Return Of The Beautiful (12:50)
  • B3: Erotic Literature (05:14)
  • Disc 4 - The Thrash Of Naked Limbs EP Side A1. The Thrash Of Naked Limbs (06:10)
  • Side B1. Le Cerf Malade (06:28)
  • B2: Gather Me Up Forever (05:17)
  • Disc 5 - Turn Loose The Swans (Half-Speed) Side A1. Sear Me MCMXCIII (07:25)
  • A2: Your River (09:18)
  • A3: The Songless Bird (06:57)
  • A4: The Snow In My Hand (07:05)
  • Side B1. The Crown Of Sympathy (12:13)
  • B2: Turn Loose The Swans (10:06)
  • B3: Black God (04:50)
  • Disc 6 - I Am The Bloody Earth EP Side A1. I Am The Bloody Earth (06:35)
  • A2: Transcending (Into The Exquisite) (08:39)
  • Side B1. The Crown Of Sympathy (remix) (11:09)
  • Disc 7 - The Angel & The Dark River (Half-Speed) Side A1. The Cry Of Mankind (12:13)
  • A2: From Darkest Skies (07:47)
  • A3: A Sea To Suffer In (06:11)
  • Side B1. Black Voyage (09:47)
  • B2: Two Winters Only (09:01)
  • B3: Your Shameful Heaven (06:59)
  • Disc 8 - Like Gods Of The Sun (Half-Speed) Side A1. Like Gods Of The Sun (05:40)
  • A2: The Dark Caress (05:59)
  • A3: Grace Unhearing (07:19)
  • A4: A Kiss To Remember (07:32)
  • Side B1. All Swept Away (04:17)
  • B2: For You (06:37)
  • B3: It Will Come (04:28)
  • B4: Here In The Throat (06:21)
  • B5: For My Fallen Angel (05:55)
EBVILE033
Peaceville
8x12"-Vinyl28.08.202628.AUG.26

PopHeavy-Metal

After a career spanning over thirty five years, from UK underground upstarts and outliers, to major success on the international stage - including tours with UK icons Iron Maiden and genre legends Dio - My Dying Bride have themselves become a firmly established pillar of metal history with a refined and influential brand of Death/Doom metal. With enduring popularity across subsequent decades, My Dying Bride remains a productive and captivating vessel for tragedy and despair, with their studio output spanning fourteen full-length albums to date.

As part of the “Peaceville Three”, along with fellow countrymen Paradise Lost and Anathema, My Dying Bride truly became a primary force in highlighting Britain as an epicentre of this Doom revolution of the time, creating a highly distinguishable sound assisted by the inclusion of violin & a more poetic approach to the delivery of morbid and salacious topics, lending an additional air of eccentricity and eloquence to the darkness.

Anthology of Sombre Reflections is an expansive and comprehensive collection of the early and much-celebrated works of the Doom Gods, from the formative deathly rawness of the revered Towards the Sinister demo, ‘God is Alone’ 7” tracks and subsequent debut album, As the Flower Withers, through to the gothic-tinged funereal seductive delights of 1996’s highlight, Like Gods of the Sun.

With the addition of all-time genre classic opuses Turn Loose the Swans, and The Angel and the Dark River also representing My Dying Bride’s much-loved early to 90’s period, the band’s three cult EPs are also featured in this deluxe eight-vinyl boxset, with each record presented on 180gm heavyweight black vinyl. The four studio albums themselves have also been treated to new half-speed masters courtesy of Air Studios.

Accompanying the audio is a 48-page book featuring photographs and artwork, plus new interviews with Andrew Craighan and Aaron Stainthorpe exploring some of the influences and thought-processes behind the creation of such cherished works of the 90s, as well as reflections of their output over this period.

Anthology of Sombre Reflections also contains 2 large posters depicting the Turn Loose the Swans CD artwork image, plus the original poster included in As the Flower Withers. A selection of photo prints of the band from this era are also included.

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267,02 €
Andy Bell - Extended Blue LP 3x12"
  • A1: Intro
  • A2: Caught In A Spin
  • A3: Crazy
  • B1: Love Oneself
  • B2: I Thought It Was You
  • B3: Electric Blue
  • C1: Jealous
  • C2: Shaking My Soul
  • C3: Runaway
  • D1: I'll Never Fall In Love Again
  • D2: Delicious
  • D3: Fantasy
  • E1: See The Lights Go Out
  • E2: The Rest Of Our Lives
  • E3: Jump
  • F1: Back Into The Old Routine
  • F2: Little Girl Lies
  • F3: Names Change
 
4
CLQ1
Renegade Records
3x12inch28.08.202628.AUG.26

PopElectronica

Andy Bell, Erasure-Frontmann und Electro-Pop-Legende, veröffentlicht mit "Extended Blue" sein Solo-Debütalbum "Electric Blue" (2005) als limitierte Deluxe-Edition auf dreifarbig-blauem Vinyl neu. "Electric Blue" - samt den Duetten mit Claudia Brücken (xPropaganda) und Jake Shears (Scissor Sisters) - wurde gemeinsam mit Manhattan Clique geschrieben und produziert, einem Duo, das zwei Jahrzehnte lang die Welt der Pop-Dance-Club-Remixe dominierte und mit Weltstars (Katy Perry, Britney Spears, Lady Gaga, OneRepublic, Moby) und wegweisenden Electronic-Acts (The Human League, Soft Cell, OMD, The B-52s und natürlich Erasure) zusammenarbeitete.

Die Deluxe-3LP enthält zudem sämtliche Bonustracks & B-Seiten der "Electric Blue"-Sessions erstmals auf Vinyl. Das Deluxe-Booklet kommt mit ausführlichen Liner Notes des Classic Pop-Autors John Earls samt Interviews mit Andy Bell und den Manhatten Clique-Produzenten Philip Larsen & Chris Smith, sowie unveröffentlichten Fotos aus der 2005er Session mit dem renommierten britischen Fotografen Tim Flach. Bei Erasure- und Electro-Pop-Fans zählt "Electric Blue" weithin als 'verlorenes Juwel', da kurz nach Veröffentlichung das damalige Label Sanctuary Records zusammenbrach und dieses herausragende Album sein Potential nicht vollständig ausschöpfen konnte.

Eine streng limitierte Erstauflage der 3LP enthält zusätzlich die CD "Extended Blue" mit dem identischen Tracklisting des Vinylformats.beitete.

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67,65 €
Steve Hackett, Steve Rothery - The Roaring Waves
19958433821
Inside OutMusic
12inch28.08.202628.AUG.26

PopRock

Die renommierten Gitarristen Steve Hackett und Steve Rothery freuen sich, ihr lang erwartetes gemeinsames Album "The Roaring Waves" vorzustellen. Sieben Instrumentalstücke, die von gekonnt-absurd bis brillant-erhaben reichen, aber alle ein gemeinsames Thema haben: die Tiefe des Meeres. Rothery erklärt: "Im Winter konnte man bei stürmischem Wetter das Rauschen der Wellen hören. Whitby war ein sehr inspirierender Ort zum Leben, ein sehr poetischer und kraftvoller Ort, um aufzuwachsen. Ich denke, dieses Album ist eine Möglichkeit, einige dieser Erinnerungen und Emotionen darüber auszudrücken, was das Meer für mich bedeutet hat." "The Roaring Waves" entstand über einen Zeitraum von fast acht Jahren, obwohl die ursprüngliche Idee, gemeinsam ein Album aufzunehmen, bereits drei Jahre zuvor entstanden war. Aufgrund ihrer jeweiligen Tagesjobs und Tourneepläne konnten sie jedoch monatelang nicht zusammenarbeiten. Die Aufnahmesessions im Racket Club und in ihren jeweiligen Heimstudios brachten jedoch eine Fülle an Kreativität hervor. "Unser Ansatz war ein bisschen old school, so wie die Idee, dass Freunde sich in der Garage treffen, um zu spielen und zusammen abzuhängen", sagt Hackett über ihre Herangehensweise an Kreativität. Derzeit handelt es sich um ein Einzelalbum, da keiner der beiden Gitarristen Zeit für Live-Auftritte aufbringen kann, geschweige denn daran denkt, gemeinsam ein weiteres Album aufzunehmen. Während die Gezeiten kommen und gehen, blicken alle Gesichter auf den leeren Horizont und warten darauf, dass ein letztes Schiff an Land gebracht wird, um endlich nach Hause zurückzukehren. "The Roaring Waves" wird als limitierte CD & Blu-ray Mediabook mit Dolby Atmos-Mixes von Andy Bradfield sowie als Gatefold 180g LP & LP-Booklet erhältlich sein, das von Miles Showell in den Abbey Road Studios mit Half-Speed Mastering gemastert wurde. Das Album wird auch als Standard-CD-Jewelcase und digital erhältlich sein.

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27,69 €
LES IMPRIMÉS - REVERIE (TAPE)

LES IMPRIMÉS

REVERIE (TAPE)

BCRCASS138
Big Crown Records
Cassette28.08.202628.AUG.26

Hip-HopSoul

Big Crown Records is proud to present the debut full length offering from Les Imprimés, Rêverie. The stirring and ethereal sounds of Les Imprimés have been making fans of anyone who hears them since their first 7" single hit the speakers. Morten Martens is the man behind the band. Born, raised, and working in Kristiansand, Norway, he keeps a low prole while making his heart felt, highly infectious, and unique music. This album is a long time coming for Martens and it is sure to make him a name to be reckoned with. The first thing you notice listening to Les Imprimés is the high level of musician-ship. Martens plays nearly every instrument on the recordings and handles the production and arranging. He has been making records for decades, winning a Spellemann Award (aka, the Norwegian Grammy) in 2006 for producing a HipHop album as well as getting nominations across three other genres. While awards and accolades speak to the level of his talent, this new album really shows who he is an artist on his own terms. Moving away from being a hired gun on the touring scene naturally led him to start doing more studio work. Slowly collecting gear and getting more experi-ence behind the boards he built his own studio on the island of Odderoya and was making a living playing with and recording other people's music. As the story goes, after those sessions would end he would work on his own project into the wee hours of the night. From these late night sessions, Les Imprimés was born and Rêverie began to take shape. However, "it wasn't until COVID, when things locked down, that I was really able to nd the time to focus on Les Imprimés" Morten says about creating and leading his own solo project. "It was a scary time. But I knew I had to do something with it." He took the sum of his inuences, combined them with his own vibe and got busy writing the music, playing the instruments, and singing the songs. "It's soul music, but I don't exactly have the soul voice," Morten explains humbly. "But I do it my own way, in a way that's mine. "It is his sound, his fingerprint, his sensibility, that makes his music hard to put in a box. The album showcases both Martens' range and his ability to make a cohesive album. The lead single "Falling Away" starts with a raw drum break and turns into a lushly arranged tune that paints the picture of love when it slips away. On "Still Here" he professes his resilience through life's twists and turns over a thundering track that puts a new spin on the B side ballad genre. Songs like "You" and "Our Love" mix tones from 60s and 70s Soul with arrangement nods to Doo Wop records while Martens' lyrics and delivery leave you singing the melodies long after they finish. "Love & Flowers" finds Martens in a moment of clarity with a song that ts the niche sub genre of happy break up tunes, the four on the floor track will move the dancefloor or while the message will resonate with anyone who put too much effort into the wrong situation in their lives. However, it is songs like "Muse" and "Chess" that really encapsulate the uniqueness of Les Imprimés as they push the boundaries of genre, one a profession of love for music and the other a cover of an electronic record respectively. Martens' lyrics, emotion, and delivery truly make the whole thing come together and stand out from any of his peers. There's an infectiousness and a pop sensibility in the writing that is done with the utmost class and taste giving Les Imprimés the rare quality of immediate attraction that only deepens the more you listen.

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10,71 €
THEE MARLOES - PERAK (TAPE)

THEE MARLOES

PERAK (TAPE)

BCRCASS179
Big Crown Records
Cassette28.08.202628.AUG.26

Hip-HopSoul

Big Crown Records ist stolz darauf, "Perak", das Debütalbum von Thee Marloes, zu präsentieren. Wenn man Thee Marloes zum ersten Mal hört, mag einem ihr spezieller Soul-Sound vertraut vorkommen. Da sind die wuchtigen Trommeln, eine sanfte Gitarre und eine schöne Stimme, die über unerwiderte Liebe und die Komplikationen in Herzensangelegenheiten singt. Aber dann ist da etwas unbestreitbar anderes an Thee Marloes und ihrer Musik, etwas Neues und Unverwechselbares. Die meisten, die mit Soulmusik vertraut sind, haben wahrscheinlich noch nie etwas aus Surabaya, Indonesien, gehört - dem Ort, den Thee Marloes ihre Heimat nennen. Thee Marloes, das sind Natassya Sianturi (Gesang und Keyboard), Tommy Satwick (Schlagzeug) und Sinatrya ("Raka") Dharaka (Gitarre und Produktion). Ihr Sound hat die universelle Anziehungskraft von Soul, Jazz und Pop, aber mit einem ganz eigenen Ansatz, der auf ihre lokale Kultur und ihren globalen Einfluss zurückzuführen ist. Die erste Auskopplung von "Perak" ist "Midnight Hotline", die heiße A-Seite ihrer Debüt-7" auf Big Crown. Eine druckvolle Dancefloor-Nummer mit einem ansteckenden Refrain, vibrierendem Piano und jazzigen Gitarrenlicks. Die B-Seite "Beri Cinta Waktu" ist auch auf dem Album und hat alles, was eine beliebte Soul-Ballade ausmacht, aber der Text ist auf Indonesisch. Unabhängig von der Sprachbarriere ist das Gefühl in ihrer Musik spürbar, was dazu beiträgt, dass ihre Songs nachvollziehbar sind und ans Herz gehen. "I Know" ist ein Mid-Tempo-Song, der davon handelt, wie man den Schleier der Lügen von einer Liebesaffäre, die auf Falschheit beruht, wegzieht. "Not Today" gehört zu den groovigsten Wohlfühlsongs, die man an einem Sonntagmorgen spielen kann. Natassya erinnert uns daran, uns selbst Raum zu geben, ganz gleich, was das Leben uns vor die Füße wirft. "Mungkin Saja" zieht das Tempo mit einem weiteren Dancefloor-Smoker wieder an, während Thee Marloes mit "True Love" in die gefühlvolle Seite des Jazz eintauchen, mit einer Beat-Ballade, die eine Tarantino-Tanzszene untermalen könnte. "Over" beginnt mit einem schweren Drum-Break und entwickelt sich zu einem epischen Arrangement, das in Schichten wunderschöner Melodien getränkt ist und das Chaos einer Liebesaffäre, die abrupt endet, perfekt einfängt. "Perak" ist eine Reise aus dem Herzen Surabayas in den Geist des Soul-Sounds. Es geht darum, einen Raum zu schaffen, wo keiner war, und es zu tun, weil man es liebt. Man spürt den Spaß, den Thee Marloes haben, ihre Musik zu machen, vom Songwriting und Aufnehmen bis hin zu den Auftritten vor Publikum. "Wir wollen das, was wir leben, mit anderen teilen", sagt Natassya. Egal, welche Sprache man spricht oder aus welcher Kultur man kommt, die Musik und die Energie von Thee Marloes sind so charmant, dass wir sie alle noch jahrelang in der Nähe des Plattenspielers haben werden.

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10,71 €
Erosão Percussion Trio - Erosão Percussion Trio
K002LP
Kassiani Records
12inch28.08.202628.AUG.26

BeatsExperimentalPopJazz

Mariá Portugal has been active in the music scenes of Brazil and Europe as a drummer, composer, singer, and music producer. After graduating in composition, she has focused her research on free improvisation and its possible intersections with popular song. This exploration resulted in her acclaimed album EROSÃO (2021) and in the formation of two groups: the EROSÃO Septet and the EROSÃO Percussion Trio, both based in Germany.

She is also a member of the group Quartabê and has toured and recorded around the world with various artists, moving between pop, free jazz, free improvisation, and Brazilian popular music. She has performed and recorded with artists such as Elza Soares, Anthony Braxton, Joe McPhee, Fred Frith, and Tomeka Reid. She is a member of Fire! Orchestra, Fire! Trio, Endless Breakfast and MONSTER.

In 2020, Portugal was the 13th Improviser in Residence at the Moers Festival. As a curator, she has participated in the Soundtrips-NRW in Duisburg and currently coordinates the concert series “TOMA CHOCOLATE!” in Berlin, besides being the guest curator for this year's unlimited Wels festival. She also composes music for dance, theater, and film, including the award-winning soundtrack for the film “1976”, which earned her the Chilean Film Academy Award in 2025. She was nominated for the 2025 and 2026 German Jazz Prize in the drums and percussion category.
Emilio Gordoa is a Mexican sound artist, percussionist, and composer whose work focuses on sound and performance as primary means of expresion. Based in Berlin since 2012, he has been an active contributor to the city’s Echtzeitmusik scene and is involved in the international avant-garde music community.

His projects include solo and ensemble performances, sound installations, and compositions for film, theater and dance. He has collaborated with a wide range of artists, including Jérôme Noetinger, Ingrid Schomliner, Yuko Kaseki, Burkhard Beins, Don Malfon, John Butcher and Sabiene Vogel. Gordoa’s approach combines experimental percussive techniques with electronic elements, leading to invitations to perform at events such as the Moers Festival, Meakusma Festival in Belgium, A’larme!, and Maerzmusik in Berlin.

He founded WildSonico, a platform for experimental music, and has been part of artist residencies at institutions like the Akademie der Künste and Kunststiftung NRW. He also worked as the Improviser in Residence for the Moers Festival. His discography includes albums such as Substantial Myths (2022), Balderi Variations (2019), and GRIFF (2021), which reflect his ongoing engagement with music. His work has been supported by organizations such as the Goethe-Institut, Musikfonds e.V., and INM - initiative neue musik berlin, and he has received recognition, including an Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica.

Burkhard Beins was born in 1964 in Lower Saxony and has been living in Berlin since 1995. He is considered a stylistically influential percussionist as a composer/performer, due to his individually developed playing techniques. Additionally, he works with analog synthesizers and live electronics, plays electric bass, and has created various sound installations.

He collaborates as a soloist, as well as with artists such as Chris Abrahams, Keith Rowe, Sven-Åke Johansson, Axel Dörner, Andrea Neumann, and many others. He is also a member of several ensembles including Sawt Out, Activity Center, Polwechsel, The Sealed Knot, Zone Null, Perlonex, Trio Sowari, Vertigo Transport, the NoWave/Krautrock band Slurge, and the Berlin Splitter Orchestra.

Since the late 1980s, he has performed concerts and participated in international festivals for experimental and contemporary music across Europe, America, Asia, and Australia. He has released more than 70 CDs and LPs in collaboration with various artists.

Burkhard Beins has been an Artist-In-Residence at the Künstlerhäuser Worpswede (2009), EMS Stockholm (2014), Muong Studios, Hoa Binh/Vietnam (2015), the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Captiva/Florida (2017), as well as at DAR, Drsukininkai/Lithuania (2018), and the Agosto Foundation, Prague (2019).

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33,19 €
Danielle Nicole - Fireflies LP
  • Radical Love
  • Take Me Back
  • Memories
  • Soulside
  • Gaslight
  • Piper
  • The Same Love That Made Me Laugh
  • Chameleon
  • Tug of War
  • Dreams
  • Fireflies
FBR055LP
Forty Below Records
12inch28.08.202628.AUG.26

PopBlues

That sound reaches a new height with her fourth solo record, Fireflies. Recorded with producer Tony Braunagel in Nicole's hometown of Kansas City, it's not just a record about roots -- it's about the growth that occurs when reflection, resilience, and real artistry all combine. From nostalgic tracks like "Take Me Back" (featuring North Mississippi Allstars' Luther Dickinson) to empowered anthems like "Gaslight" and "Tug of War," Fireflies burns bright, deepening Danielle Nicole's exploration into soul, R&B, and the rich tapestry of American roots music.

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27,94 €
Kulk - Choosing To Die LP
  • An Endless Knife
  • We're Worried About You
  • Being Forgotten
  • Collapse
  • For Blood
  • To Take Life
  • The Saddest Holiday
  • Ache
  • Our Last Walk
CRR259V
CHURCH ROAD RECORDS
12inch28.08.202628.AUG.26

PopRockHeavy-Metal

This Summer has never looked so bleak. Along with news of the album, Kulk have also released their new video single 'An Endless Kife': "An Endless Knife is about growing up. When we're younger, sometimes it feels like we're invincible. Like everyone we know and love are constant parts of the universe. When that reality is shattered, it changes how we see the world. You come to realise we are all just a couple of bad days from the worst. At the same time, it feels devastating. It reminds us to look after each other" - Kulk The band have toured across the UK extensively the past few years, playing amongst bands such as Part Chimp, Hey Colossus, Crowbar, Melt Banana, Iress, Big Brave, Gnoomes, Conan and Portrayal of Guilt... to name a few! They have toured twice with PigsX7, including shows at Electric Ballroom (London) and Rock City (Nottingham) and have appeared at the renowned UK festivals Arctangent and Desertfest

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31,30 €
JONATHAN BREE - DON'T CALL IT LOVE LP 2x12"
  • 1: DISAPPEAR
  • 2: CHAMELEON (FEAT. ELOïSE LABARBE-LAFON)
  • 3: GAME
  • 4: CLOAK AND DAGGER
  • 5: CONFIDANT
  • 6: HONEY
  • 7: LIVE TO DANCE (FEAT. PRINCESS CHELSEA)
  • 8: MEDICINE
  • 1: THIS IS ME
  • 2: PART TIME LOVE (FEAT. PRINCESS CHELSEA)
  • 3: JUST LIKE AN ANGEL
  • 4: SAVOUR MY LOVE (FEAT. RACHEL CLARKE)
  • 5: GUN
  • 6: DON'T CALL IT LOVE (FEAT. ADAH DYLAN)
  • 7: SHE WAS FUN
  • 8: SLOW (FEAT. PRINCESS CHELSEA)
  • 9: LITTLE MISS NO NAME
LCRLP56
LIL CHIEF RECORDS
2x12inch28.08.202628.AUG.26

PopIndie

Der Mann hinter der Maske, Jonathan Bree, kehrt mit seinem sechsten Studioalbum "Don't Call It Love" zurück. "Don't Call It Love" kommt als Doppelalbum mit 17 Songs und ist ein erotisches Konzeptalbum, das sich mit Sexualität auseinandersetzt und Kollaborationen mit Frauen aus den Bereichen Musik, Film, Fotografie und Tanz enthält. "Don't Call It Love" klingt wie der düstere Soundtrack zu einer versteckten, mit Samt ausgekleideten Bar in einem schummrigen Keller - mal verspielt und verführerisch, mal beunruhigend und provokativ. Brees neue Songs setzen sich mit dem gesamten Spektrum der Sexualität und ihrer emotionalen Last auseinander - ein Album, das sich weigert, wegzuschauen, und sein Herz buchstäblich auf der Zunge trägt. Fans haben diesen neuen Sound bereits mit den düster-nostalgischen Klängen von New Order und Siouxsie & The Banshees verglichen, wobei Brees musikalische Entwicklung über die Jahrzehnte hinweg endlich ihr von den 80ern durchtränktes, melancholisches Ziel erreicht hat: ein melodramatisches Meisterwerk raffinierter Sleaze-Musik. Jonathans charakteristische Orchesterarrangements sind nach wie vor vorhanden und verbinden diesmal eine karge, düster angehauchte Noir-Ästhetik mit filmischer Instrumentierung und seinem grüblerischen Bariton. "Don't Call It Love ist zudem Jonathans bisher kollaborativstes Album, auf dem eine außergewöhnliche internationale Riege von Frauen einige der entscheidenden Momente des Albums mit ihren einzigartigen Stimmen bereichert. Die bei den Fans beliebte Princess Chelsea kehrt für drei beeindruckende Songs zurück ("Live To Dance", "Part Time Love", "Slow"); Neuseelands bestgehütetes Musikgeheimnis Rachel Clarke bewegt sich bei "Savour My Love" von intimer Zurückhaltung zu schwindelerregender Intensität; die französische Fotografin und Künstlerin Eloïse Labarbe-Lafon liefert auf "Chameleon" eine charaktervolle Gesangsdarbietung, die an die Tradition von Jane Birkin anknüpft; während die französische Musikerin und Schauspielerin Adah Dylan auf dem Titeltrack zu hören ist und den Leadgesang mit direkter, schnörkelloser Klarheit trägt: "don't call it love_ when we fuck." Für einen Künstler, der bereits sechs Alben veröffentlicht hat, gibt es hier eine Reihe von Premieren - sein erstes Doppelalbum, sein gitarrenlastigstes Album, sein kollaborativstes und sein bisher kompromisslosestes konzeptionelles Werk. Es wird nicht jedem gefallen, und es ist klar, dass Bree kein Interesse daran hat, es abzuschwächen. Wie er es ausdrückt: "Als ich meiner Mutter davon erzählte, schlug ich ihr vor, dieses Album vielleicht lieber auszulassen."

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33,57 €
Interpol - This Mirror Weighs a Ton lp
PTSN30683
Partisan Records
12inch28.08.202628.AUG.26

PopAlternative

This Mirror Weighs a Ton, Interpol’s first album in four years and debut for Partisan Records, finds the band turning inward while continuing to move forward. Across the record, reflection, distortion and perception become a lens through which familiar shapes are refracted into something slightly alien, as if seen through a different kind of light.

Produced with Grammy- and Oscar-winning Andrew Wyatt (ROSALÍA, Charli xcx) and mixed by Dave Fridmann, the album introduces vibrant new textures into Interpol’s world. Synthesizers, strings, acoustic guitars and percussion are integrated into the fabric of the songs, expanding the palette while revealing colors already latent within it. Nothing feels imposed. Instead, the additions deepen the band’s language of restraint, atmosphere and tension. At its center remains the creative relationship between Paul Banks, Daniel Kessler and Sam Fogarino, a partnership now approaching three decades and defined by intuitive alignment and momentum that continues to generate new possibilities. The result is an album that feels expansive, uncanny and alive with forward motion, not a reinvention but an evolution that allows Interpol to continue transforming without losing their identity.

“This Mirror Weighs A Ton” / “See Out Loud” is a study in duality, with Interpol moving fluidly between familiarity and departure. The title track unfolds from a skeletal progression into something vast and textural, built from warped bass, a wordless female voice and a sense of motion that feels tidal, bending the band’s familiar language into somewhere more expansive and unfamiliar. By contrast, “See Out Loud” carries the DNA of Interpol’s earliest work, sharp, propulsive and direct, while complicating it through layered vocals, shifting perspectives and a rare lead vocal turn from Kessler. Both tracks reflect the interplay between structure and spontaneity that defines This Mirror Weighs a Ton, expanding Interpol’s world through fresh textures while keeping the instinctive chemistry between Banks, Kessler and Fogarino at the center.

The double single is accompanied by two visualizers directed by Nick Steinhardt.

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34,03 €
MARCI - MASK LADY AND LATE NIGHT GIRL
  • 1: STARS ARE FAKE
  • 2: CHAOTIC PRINCESS
  • 399: DIMENSIONAL
  • 4: EDGE OF THE KNIFE
  • 5: SLOW MOVES
  • 6: BUTTERFLY STICKER
  • 7: PAY ME NOW
  • 8: LADY WITH THE MASK
  • 9: HOT SEXY USA
  • 10: LIQUID HEARTBEAT
  • 11: CHERRY SUNDAY
  • 12: OOH I KNOW
ABTLP117
Arbutus
12inch28.08.202628.AUG.26

PopIndie

Als wir zuletzt von Marci (alias Marta Cikojevic von der Soft-Rock-Band TOPS aus Montreal) hörten, tanzte sie auf ihrem 2022 erschienenen Album ,Marci" den Schmerz weg. Vier Jahre später kehrt Cikojevic mit ,Mask Lady and Late Night Girl" zurück - einem Album voller Hymnen für Partygirls für die Zeit, wenn die Party vorbei ist, vorgetragen mit Liebe und Mitgefühl für die guten Zeiten und die schönen Erinnerungen. Erneut in Zusammenarbeit mit ihrem TOPS-Bandkollegen David Carriere entstanden, enthält ,Mask Lady" Elemente, die sowohl von den chaotischen Pop-Girls der Y2K-Ära wie Uffie und Kesha als auch von Cikojevics Liebe zu Powerballaden-Sängern der 80er wie White Snake und Def Leppard inspiriert sind, zusammen mit den Vintage-Synthesizern, die ,Marci" eine warm-futuristische Ästhetik verliehen. Glam-Metal-Einflüsse treten bei ,Chaotic Princess" in den Vordergrund, geschrieben und produziert mit Mike Silver (CFCF), einem über-die-Spitzen-gehenden, gitarrenlastigen Knaller über eine verrückte Nacht, in der Cikojevic einen Polizisten anfleht, sie nicht ins Gefängnis zu bringen - Eddie Van Halen auf dem Beifahrersitz, Britney am Steuer.

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23,49 €
Interpol - This Mirror Weighs a Ton lp
  • A1: This Mirror Weighs a Ton
  • A2: See Out Loud
  • A3: Iron City
  • B1: Wounded Soldier
  • B2: Wings On Fire
  • B3: Even the Actor
  • C1: So Rides the Reindeer
  • C2: Darling Thoughts
  • C3: Wake Up
  • D1: Enemy
  • D2: Bird and The Serpent
  • D3: Sudden
also available

Transparent Red Color Vinyl[34,03 €]


PTSN3068-1
Partisan Records
12inch28.08.202628.AUG.26

PopAlternative

This Mirror Weighs a Ton, Interpol’s first album in four years and debut for Partisan Records, finds the band turning inward while continuing to move forward. Across the record, reflection, distortion and perception become a lens through which familiar shapes are refracted into something slightly alien, as if seen through a different kind of light.

Produced with Grammy- and Oscar-winning Andrew Wyatt (ROSALÍA, Charli xcx) and mixed by Dave Fridmann, the album introduces vibrant new textures into Interpol’s world. Synthesizers, strings, acoustic guitars and percussion are integrated into the fabric of the songs, expanding the palette while revealing colors already latent within it. Nothing feels imposed. Instead, the additions deepen the band’s language of restraint, atmosphere and tension. At its center remains the creative relationship between Paul Banks, Daniel Kessler and Sam Fogarino, a partnership now approaching three decades and defined by intuitive alignment and momentum that continues to generate new possibilities. The result is an album that feels expansive, uncanny and alive with forward motion, not a reinvention but an evolution that allows Interpol to continue transforming without losing their identity.

“This Mirror Weighs A Ton” / “See Out Loud” is a study in duality, with Interpol moving fluidly between familiarity and departure. The title track unfolds from a skeletal progression into something vast and textural, built from warped bass, a wordless female voice and a sense of motion that feels tidal, bending the band’s familiar language into somewhere more expansive and unfamiliar. By contrast, “See Out Loud” carries the DNA of Interpol’s earliest work, sharp, propulsive and direct, while complicating it through layered vocals, shifting perspectives and a rare lead vocal turn from Kessler. Both tracks reflect the interplay between structure and spontaneity that defines This Mirror Weighs a Ton, expanding Interpol’s world through fresh textures while keeping the instinctive chemistry between Banks, Kessler and Fogarino at the center.

The double single is accompanied by two visualizers directed by Nick Steinhardt.

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33,40 €
PULP - LIVE! LP 2x12"
  • 1: Intro
  • 2: Spike Island
  • 3: Slow Jam
  • 4: Sorted for E's & Wizz
  • 5: Disco 2000
  • 6: Help the Aged
  • 7: Farmers Market
  • 8: This is Hardcore
  • 9: Sunrise
  • 10: Something Changed
  • 11: Grown Ups
  • 12: O.U
  • 13: Do You Remember the First Time?
  • 14: Mis-Shapes
  • 15: Got to Have Love
  • 16: Babies
  • 17: Common People
  • 18: A
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BLUE COLOURED VINYL EDITION[29,20 €]


RTLP626
Rough Trade
2x12inch28.08.202628.AUG.26

PopRock

Ein Konzert ist ein Ereignis, bei dem Songs zu neuem Leben erwachen. Deshalb trägt dieses Album den Titel "Live!", erklärt Jarvis Cocker zu diesem besonderen Werk im Pulp-Kanon. "Es ist sowohl eine Tatsachenfeststellung (es handelt sich um die Aufnahme einer Liveband) als auch eine Herausforderung (kommt schon! Alle sollen lebendig werden!)." Gleichzeitig ist es auch sowas wie der erste Filmsoundtrack von Pulp: Der von Garth Jennings inszenierte Film "What Do You Do For an Encore?" erscheint weltweit am 25. September. Die Zusammenarbeit zwischen Pulp und Garth Jennings reicht bis ins Jahr 1997 zurück, als er das Musikvideo zu "Help the Aged" drehte. Als Pulp 2023 ihre Rückkehr auf die Bühne ankündigten, nahm Garth Kontakt auf und bot an, das Bühnenkonzept mitzugestalten. Im Juni 2025 filmte er schließlich die beiden Auftritte der Band in der Londoner O2 Arena, die das Herzstück des Films bilden. Diese Konzerte liefern auch das Material für das Livealbum. Es waren die 566. und 567. Shows der Bandgeschichte und zeigen eine Gruppe auf dem Höhepunkt ihres Könnens. Aufgenommen in der Woche, in der "More" - Pulps erstes Album seit 24 Jahren - Platz 1 der offiziellen UK-Charts erreichte, fängt das Album genau den Moment ein, in dem die Band als kreative Kraft zurückkehrt: alte und neue Klassiker erstmals vereint.

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29,20 €
SERA CAHOONE - I'VE MISSED YOU ALL THESE YEARS
  • 1: HIGH AND LOW
  • 2: SAY SOMETHING
  • 3: NO ONE LIKE YOU
  • 4: NOT HOW I HOPED
  • 5: HORSE RUNNIN
  • 6: PULLING UP ROOTS
  • 7: SUPPOSED TO BE
  • 8: HITS RIGHT
  • 9: TANGLED NIGHTS
  • 10: I'M NO FOOL
  • 11: SOMETHING GOOD
SPLPX1741
Sub Pop
12inch28.08.202628.AUG.26

PopIndie

Die acht Jahre, die I've Missed You All These Years geprägt haben, waren von tiefgreifenden Veränderungen geprägt: Sera Cahoone verlor innerhalb kurzer Zeit ihre beste Freundin, ihren Vater und ihren Hund. Aber bei diesem Album geht es ganz und gar nicht um die Dunkelheit; es geht darum, was passiert, wenn der Sturm vorbei ist, um den Moment, in dem du nach einem dunklen Winter wieder in deinen Körper zurückfindest. Dieses Gefühl der Leichtigkeit kommt deutlich zum Ausdruck in dem Klavier und der E-Gitarre, die in ,Say Something" zum Leben erwachen, sowie in dem komplexen Porträt von ,Hits Right". I've Missed You All These Years fängt den Klang einer ekstatischen Zusammenarbeit zwischen außergewöhnlich talentierten Freunden ein. Man hört es im Barroom-Swing von ,Pulling Up Roots", im Seufzer einer Pedal Steel in ,Not How I Had Hoped", im luftigen Falsett von ,Say Something". Es ist ein Album darüber, Trost in der Gemeinschaft zu finden; darüber, sich selbst wiederzuentdecken, indem man sich mit den Menschen verbindet, die man liebt. Auf ihrem sechsten Album hat Cahoone ihre Kräfte voll im Griff. In seiner Fähigkeit, Verlust und Verbundenheit in einer Hand zu halten, ist I've Missed You All These Years triumphierend, eine Feier des Lebens, die in dem Wissen um dessen Vergänglichkeit verwurzelt ist. Als Ergebnis eines Lebens, das sie mit dem Aufführen und Produzieren von Musik verbracht hat, durchquert das Album Blues, Folk, Pop und Country und erinnert in einem Song an Loretta Lynn und im nächsten an Lucinda Williams. Es ist ein Zeugnis der Kraft, die Kreativität und Gemeinschaft mit sich bringen, ein Porträt einer Künstlerin, die sich selbst vollkommen kennt.

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24,79 €
Broshuda - Spells LP
BL001V
Ballads Infinite
12inch28.08.202628.AUG.26

BeatsExperimental

Broshuda returns on the newly born label Ballads Infinite with another array of absurdist vignettes, lowercase hi-tech ambience and textural degradations of radio transmissions from the bicameral mind. Weaving multiple sonic timelines into silky yet slippery articulations, he sculpts each sound with deliberate care making it breathe, slither and shimmer. Spells conjures a subterranean force through its vanishing presence, with the restraint in the sonic palette feeling utterly refreshing, as watering, drop by drop, a ghostly flower in the dromoscopic netscape of overreaching stimuli.

Deliriously patching fragments of unnoticed memories, gliding freely— slightly inebriated—through the ocean of sound: what does it take to capture the transitory entities inhabiting the latent space of this hyperconnected manifold? An assemblage of mechanical debris reduced to their bare-bone essentials; the Tao of discharge brings life to corrupted data, unpacked through textural ruminations.

Broshuda doesn’t just cast the spell, he patiently coils it around you, dissolving each and every thought in the hiss, manipulating subtle energies by making them move beyond and outward. What’s the sound of matter silently falling apart? The serpent sheds its subtle yet solid armor, revealing the space between each spire blooming with gentle eruptions of broken melodies. Where do we land now? What are we turning into? An ontological enigma still awaits to be solved.

Mastered by: Inner Lakes @ Tapewave Studio

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21,43 €
Relapse - Your Mouth In My Hands / Multilingual Talk Channel 7“
  • A1: Your Mouth In My Hands
  • B1: Multilingual Talk Channel
MINOR_MORA
Minor
7"-Vinyl28.08.202628.AUG.26

BeatsDrum&Bass

The 2019-released label debut on Minor by Bristol-based producer Gordon Apps a.k.a. Relapse is another excellent showcase of how the long-standing underground imprint from Leipzig expands its sonic spectrum into dark and dubbed out Halftime Drum'n'Bass without losing its Industrial edge, providing a massive secret peak time weapon with the fluttering low end and seductive vocal snippets of the B-side tune „Multilingual Talk Channel“.
Never officially distributed before this is the first time ever this barely recognized underground gem is available to a wider audience, albeit in highly limited quantities. Limited pressing of 150 single copies on transclucent colour vinyl.

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12,56 €
Alex Warren - WILDCHILD LP
  • EMERALD EYES
  • SAME STARS
  • PASSENGER
  • RESCUER
  • CRY WOLF
  • FINE PLACE TO DIE
  • ARE YOU HAVING FUN, ALEX?
  • I MISS YOU MORE
  • ONLY THING LEFT
  • FEVER DREAM
  • WON'T GO BACK AGAIN
  • LAST TIME
  • WILDCHILD
also available

Limited LP[30,88 €]


0075678585999
Atlantic
12inch28.08.202628.AUG.26

PopFolk

Alex Warren returns with his highly anticipated sophomore album, WILDCHILD, following the success of his critically acclaimed debut You’ll Be Alright, Kid, which featured the chart-topping, record-breaking hit “Ordinary” and established Warren as one of music’s biggest global breakout stars. Inspired by the nickname his late father gave him growing up, WILDCHILD is Warren’s most vulnerable but also most joyous work to date — a raw, cinematic collection exploring grief, growth, love, and self-discovery. Blending heart-stopping ballads with infectious pop anthems, the album captures Warren at his most honest yet, pairing deeply personal storytelling with soaring vocals and expansive production. Featuring recordings of his father’s voice woven throughout the project, WILDCHILD offers an intimate portrait of an artist moving from heartbreak toward healing.

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30,88 €
Alex Warren - WILDCHILD LP
0075678584879
Atlantic
12inch28.08.202628.AUG.26

PopFolk

Alex Warren returns with his highly anticipated sophomore album, WILDCHILD, following the success of his critically acclaimed debut You’ll Be Alright, Kid, which featured the chart-topping, record-breaking hit “Ordinary” and established Warren as one of music’s biggest global breakout stars. Inspired by the nickname his late father gave him growing up, WILDCHILD is Warren’s most vulnerable but also most joyous work to date — a raw, cinematic collection exploring grief, growth, love, and self-discovery. Blending heart-stopping ballads with infectious pop anthems, the album captures Warren at his most honest yet, pairing deeply personal storytelling with soaring vocals and expansive production. Featuring recordings of his father’s voice woven throughout the project, WILDCHILD offers an intimate portrait of an artist moving from heartbreak toward healing.

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30,88 €
Asher White - Love Aggregates LP
  • A1: Reverie for work
  • A2: My day at the casino
  • A3: Memory patient (Motor Cycle Angel)
  • A4: White Castle sad
  • A5: Nightingale Version (Sailor's Moon)
  • B1: Jerryboy
  • B2: The eagle is no omen
  • B3: Health techniques
  • B4: Atoll
  • B5: Stage Diva
  • B6: Come 2
JNR523LP-C1
Joyful Noise Recordings
12inch28.08.202628.AUG.26

PopRockAlternativeIndieFolk

For any other artist, an album like Asher White’s Love Aggregates might come out of a conscious push to treat no idea as off-limits, to make something bold and new. Jubilant art-funk about cocaine addiction—absolutely. Swooning orchestral pop about Jerry Garcia—why not? Rippling electronic noise, jazzy brushed drums, an elderly motorcyclist with dementia, a profoundly emotional bass solo—put them all in one song. There are threadbare folk tunes, glammed-up power-pop bangers, “Sir Duke” horn charts, Morton Feldman string arrangements, layers of guitar feedback like violins made of liquid chrome. Yes, for another artist, Love Aggregates might be the most adventurous album in their catalog. For Asher White, it’s what passes for settling down.

White is 25 years old and has been making records—writing, recording, producing, and playing almost everything herself—for over a decade. She’d released two dozen of them on Bandcamp before catching the indie-rock industry’s attention with 2024’s Home Constellation Study and last year’s 8 Tips for Full Catastrophe Living. The latter album’s dizzy eclecticism and formidable craft landed her on Rolling Stone’s Future 25 list with the likes of xaviersobased and Oklou, along with a slew of other accolades. That came as something of a surprise to White, who didn’t craft the chaotic 8 Tips with a breakthrough in mind. Love Aggregates feels like a chance, for one of the most thrilling musical talents of her generation, at a more deliberate introduction.

She wrote and recorded her new album while her previous one was gathering
momentum, tinkering in the DIY recording studio where she always works, acutely conscious now that people would be listening to whatever she came up with. At around the same time, her years-long romantic relationship ended in a flurry of betrayal and addiction, her first experience of devastating heartbreak. Even so, Love Aggregates is not a bitter album about wallowing or seething, but instead making use of those impulses as raw materials in work that transcends the specificity of its origins, fashioning them into something surprising and new.

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28,15 €
DINOSAUR JR. - THERE NEAR
  • 1: SEVERAL GOT AWAY
  • 1: 2NO FRIENDS
  • 1: 3EVERYTHING AT ONCE
  • 1: 4TAKE ME WITH YOU
  • 1: 5BLOWIN' UP
  • 1: 6GONE OFF
  • 1: 7CLAM ALONG
  • 1: 8WALK ME BACK
  • 1: 9READ THE ROOM
  • 1: 0PUT IT DOWN
  • 1: NO ONE'S READY
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EXCLUSIVE SPLATTER VINYL[23,49 €]


177803
JAGJAGUWAR
12inch28.08.202628.AUG.26

PopAlternative

"There Near" ist das sechste Studio-Album, das DINOSAUR JR. seit ihrer gefeierten Wiedervereinigung vor 20 Jahren aufgenommen haben. Zwar gab es seit "Sweep It Into Space" vor fünf Jahren einige Live Veröffentlichungen und Archivsammlungen, doch nichts kommt an ein komplett neues Album voller frischer DINO Songs heran. Und auf "There Near" stehen sämtliche Regler auf Anschlag. Das Album entstand in kurzen, intensiven Arbeitsphasen über den Zeitraum eines Jahres hinweg in den Bisquiteen Studios in Amherst. Aufgenommen wurde es nahezu vollständig vom Kerntrio der Band: Schlagzeuger Murph, Bassist und Sänger Lou Barlow sowie Gitarrist und Sänger J Mascis. Unterstützung kam lediglich durch einige Piano- und Orgelparts von Ken Mauri. Das Ergebnis entfaltet von Anfang bis Ende eine enorme Wucht. Der Gitarrensound von Mascis klingt auf "There Near" noch ursprünglicher und animalischer als gewohnt, was möglicherweise auch an einem kürzlich erworbenen Mesa Boogie MK 1 Verstärker aus den 1970er Jahren liegt. "Ich habe denselben Verstärker gekauft, den Chris Dixon hatte, als wir unser erstes Album aufgenommen haben", erklärt Mascis. "Chris hat uns damals bei sich zu Hause mit genau diesem Amp aufgenommen. Er hat einen wirklich interessanten Klang, den ich schon lange nicht mehr hinbekommen habe. Genau zu diesem Sound wollte ich auf diesem Album zurück. Die ROLLING STONES begannen in den 70ern Mesa Boogies zu benutzen, nachdem sie SANTANA damit gehört hatten. Danach machten es THE CLASH nach und so weiter. Mit den späteren Modellen wurde der Sound zunehmend Metal-lastiger. Aber der MK 1 klingt wie ein aufgemotzter Fender. Man hört immer wieder, dass Rick Rubin Bands dazu bringt, ihr erstes Album zu hören und zu sagen: Lasst uns wieder zu diesem Sound zurückkehren. Also habe ich mir seinen Rat einfach selbst gegeben." Auf die Frage nach der oft schwer greifbaren Bedeutung seiner Texte antwortet Mascis: "Wenn ich einen Song schreibe, weiß ich oft selbst nicht genau, worum es darin geht. Ich schätze, die Bedeutung zeigt sich irgendwann von allein. Ich verwende einfach die Worte, die funktionieren. Vieles wird auch von irgendeinem esoterischen Kram beeinflusst, den ich gerade lese. Ich versuche, nicht zu viel darüber nachzudenken. Mich nervt es, dass Spotify inzwischen alle Songtexte anzeigt. Wo bleibt da der Spaß?" Mit "There Near" setzen DINOSAUR JR. ihre Reihe von mittlerweile zu Klassikern mutierten Alben fort. Die neuen Songs dürften mit ihren gewaltigen Riffs live ebenso eindrucksvoll funktionieren wie die Klassiker des Bandschaffens. Bis die Band wieder auf der Bühne zu erleben ist, wird "There Near" ein treuer Begleiter sein. Je näher, desto besser.

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22,27 €
DINOSAUR JR. - THERE NEAR
JAGLPC4480
JAGJAGUWAR
12inch28.08.202628.AUG.26

PopAlternative

Splatter Vinyl, exklusiv via 375 Media. "There Near" ist das sechste Studio-Album, das DINOSAUR JR. seit ihrer gefeierten Wiedervereinigung vor 20 Jahren aufgenommen haben. Zwar gab es seit "Sweep It Into Space" vor fünf Jahren einige Live Veröffentlichungen und Archivsammlungen, doch nichts kommt an ein komplett neues Album voller frischer DINO Songs heran. Und auf "There Near" stehen sämtliche Regler auf Anschlag. Das Album entstand in kurzen, intensiven Arbeitsphasen über den Zeitraum eines Jahres hinweg in den Bisquiteen Studios in Amherst. Aufgenommen wurde es nahezu vollständig vom Kerntrio der Band: Schlagzeuger Murph, Bassist und Sänger Lou Barlow sowie Gitarrist und Sänger J Mascis. Unterstützung kam lediglich durch einige Piano- und Orgelparts von Ken Mauri. Das Ergebnis entfaltet von Anfang bis Ende eine enorme Wucht. Der Gitarrensound von Mascis klingt auf "There Near" noch ursprünglicher und animalischer als gewohnt, was möglicherweise auch an einem kürzlich erworbenen Mesa Boogie MK 1 Verstärker aus den 1970er Jahren liegt. "Ich habe denselben Verstärker gekauft, den Chris Dixon hatte, als wir unser erstes Album aufgenommen haben", erklärt Mascis. "Chris hat uns damals bei sich zu Hause mit genau diesem Amp aufgenommen. Er hat einen wirklich interessanten Klang, den ich schon lange nicht mehr hinbekommen habe. Genau zu diesem Sound wollte ich auf diesem Album zurück. Die ROLLING STONES begannen in den 70ern Mesa Boogies zu benutzen, nachdem sie SANTANA damit gehört hatten. Danach machten es THE CLASH nach und so weiter. Mit den späteren Modellen wurde der Sound zunehmend Metal-lastiger. Aber der MK 1 klingt wie ein aufgemotzter Fender. Man hört immer wieder, dass Rick Rubin Bands dazu bringt, ihr erstes Album zu hören und zu sagen: Lasst uns wieder zu diesem Sound zurückkehren. Also habe ich mir seinen Rat einfach selbst gegeben." Auf die Frage nach der oft schwer greifbaren Bedeutung seiner Texte antwortet Mascis: "Wenn ich einen Song schreibe, weiß ich oft selbst nicht genau, worum es darin geht. Ich schätze, die Bedeutung zeigt sich irgendwann von allein. Ich verwende einfach die Worte, die funktionieren. Vieles wird auch von irgendeinem esoterischen Kram beeinflusst, den ich gerade lese. Ich versuche, nicht zu viel darüber nachzudenken. Mich nervt es, dass Spotify inzwischen alle Songtexte anzeigt. Wo bleibt da der Spaß?" Mit "There Near" setzen DINOSAUR JR. ihre Reihe von mittlerweile zu Klassikern mutierten Alben fort. Die neuen Songs dürften mit ihren gewaltigen Riffs live ebenso eindrucksvoll funktionieren wie die Klassiker des Bandschaffens. Bis die Band wieder auf der Bühne zu erleben ist, wird "There Near" ein treuer Begleiter sein. Je näher, desto besser.

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23,49 €

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