Redeye Label of the Month Q&A
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This Issue: Kurt DeLashmet, Label Manager & Co-Owner
How did you personally get started in the music industry?
My first real industry job was starting this label. I often think about how silly that is. I have always loved music, and specifically the independent music world, but for most of my life I never really thought of it as an option for work. Closest I came was applying to a job at Guitar Center and completely blowing my interview. I have participated in my local music scenes everywhere I’ve lived, including booking lots of house and DIY shows in Conway and Fayetteville in my 20s. Before Gar Hole, I was a sales manager for a wine and spirits distribution company for 10 years.
When and where did the label begin?
Me and recording artist Nick Shoulders started Gar Hole Records in 2020 while we were hunkering down during COVID. We had collaborated on releasing music in the past through a cassette label I started in 2018 called Tape Dad. We got to be friends after I put out his first two records, Lonely Like Me and Okay, Crawdad. on tape. After lockdown started, his music started taking off online and, long story short, we decided to start a grown up version of Tape Dad.
Is the label tied to a specific geographical area?
The label is based in Fayetteville, Arkansas, right at the start of the Ozark Mountains. The name “Gar Hole” partly came from a legendary swimming hole in this region. For those that don’t know, a gar is a type of ancient, armored, kind of creepy looking freshwater fish. They are all over the place in the rivers and lakes of Arkansas and the southeast. Gar are typically thought of as fish that are bad for eating, mostly because they have super thick scales and are hard to clean, not because they taste bad. They also can partially breathe air, so it’s typical to find gar in bodies of water where you wouldn’t find much else. Because of this, a “gar hole” is a colloquial term for a poor fishing or hunting spot.
Is there a genre that you would consider to be the label’s “signature style,” or is it a mix?
We jokingly like to call it “unamericana”, which I guess would be misfit and oddball country, folk, americana, and whatever else.
Someone recently told me that we put out “suspenders folk and country.” Not sure if that’s accurate. We do get a lot of the punk-tocountry pipeline folks. Like the folks who wear battle vests to the honky tonk.
How would you describe your overall ambitions and goals as a label from when you first started compared to now?
At first, starting the label was more out of necessity. Nick needed help capitalizing on his music’s new-found popularity and we were just trying to figure out the best ways to meet those demands. I feel like we have most of the mechanics down now, so it’s really about just continuing to push forward. We are really lucky to be where we are only five years in and I think the best way to honor those good fortunes is by continuing to take it as far as we can.
The other goal was just to use what we were learning and accomplishing and try to spread that benefit to other artists who were part of our music scenes in Arkansas and New Orleans: people like Chris Acker, Dylan Earl, Jude Brothers, and the Lostines. We’ve also gotten better at this over time and seeing the folks we’ve worked with from the beginning start to find real success is one of the things I’m the most proud of.
What was the biggest challenge for you and the label during the Pandemic, and is it still a challenge?
I hesitate to complain too much about this time because Gar Hole is really a product of pandemic era music business stuff, but if I had to pick one thing it would be manufacturing. I will always remember the heartache of not having vinyl on the release day for Chris Acker’s Odd, Ordinary & Otherwise, our fourth release, and the disappointed emails from customers. So glad that’s not a thing anymore. Shout out to Echo Base in Athens, GA and New Orleans Record Press in NOLA!
We know you can’t choose, but what’s been your favorite label release, and why?
I’ll say Maddy Kirgo’s Shadow on My Light, an immaculate indie-pop / alt-country record we put out last year. One of those records where, if it was just about how “good” the music is, we would have sold 100,000 copies.
What’s the wildest marketing promotion you’ve ever worked on for any release?
For Nick Shoulders’ new record, we are selling mouth bows. We’ve sold over 100 so far, which has got to be a world record.
If you had the budget, what would be your dream “outsidethe-box” or “crossover” marketing campaign?
We’ve always talked about wanting to do some kind of traveling roadshow thing. Put together a house band and caravan around putting on big showcase concerts featuring a bunch of our artists and friends. Would be a lot more fun than buying billboard ads or something.
How do you feel about the rising costs of vinyl records? And what about the continued popularity of the CD format?
We’ll always try to keep vinyl affordable for stores and fans of our artists. It’s a fine line of needing to make the money we need to make and making sure things are attainable for people who want to support. Philosophically, the latter is more important to us. I do hope CDs keep coming back. It sure would make things easier!
How do you view the issue of being environmentally sustainable within the music industry?
We try to be as environmentally conscious as we can. We are a lean company that doesn’t create much waste which hopefully offsets the fact that most of what we do is ship little pieces of plastic everywhere. Our office is also completely furnished with furniture I’ve pulled out of dumpsters around town, so that’s pretty good. Also, no AI.
Want to shout out a personal favorite record store or retail establishment? Now’s your chance: Block Street Records in Fayetteville, Control Records in Little Rock, Euclid Records, Domino Sound, and Sisters in Christ Records in New Orleans.
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Nov 03, 2023 LP
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Oct 20, 2023 LP
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Iggy Pop, Keanu Reeves, Flea, Debbie Harry, Jason Momoa, Henry Rollins, Juliette Lewis and even Tom Cruise. These legends are all fans, and many have been spotted at The Bobby Lees shows. Don’t miss out on a band that is keeping rock alive and dangerous, and making it still mean something.
Suzanne Vega Flying With Angels
Deluxe 2CD Out Now
A hardbound book pack with a 36-page booklet, many exclusive photos, and 6 track CD of Suzanne's demos for the Flying With Angels album
Flying With Angels is Suzanne Vega's first studio album of new songs in eleven years. "Each song on the album takes place in an atmosphere of struggle," Vega notes, "struggle to survive, to speak, to dominate, to win, to escape, to help someone else, or just live."
Tour Dates
Dec 12 - Manhattan, NY - Town Hall
Tracklist
CD1
1. Speakers' Corner
2. Flying with Angels
3. Witch
4. Chambermaid
5. Love Thief
Feb 6 - Phoenix, AZ - Musical Instrument Museum (MIM)
Feb 7 - Phoenix, AZ - Musical Instrument Museum (MIM)
Feb 10 - Solana Beach, CA - Belly Up Tavern
Feb 11 - Palm Springs, CA - Plaza Theatre
Feb 12 - Malibu, CA - Smothers Theatre
Feb 14 - Santa Barbara, CA - Lobero Theatre
Feb 15 - Los Angeles, CA - Largo at the Coronet
Feb 17 - San Francisco, CA - Bimbo’s 365 Club
Feb 18 - Redding, CA - Cascade Theater
Feb 20 - Medford, OR - The Holly Theatre
Feb 21 - Portland, OR - Aladdin Theater
Feb 22 - Seattle, WA - Neptune Theatre
6. Lucinda
7. Last Train From Mariupol
8. Alley
9. Rats
10. Galway
CD2
1. Flying with Angels (Demo)
2. Speakers' Corner (Demo)
3. Witch (Demo)
4. Galway (Demo)
5. Lucinda (Demo)
6. Rats (Demo)
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J Dilla – Donuts (20th Anniversary Audiophile Edition)
Stones Throw Records | STH2126-10LP
12 December 2025 | Vinyl | Hip-Hop
Stones Throw Records celebrates 20 years of J Dilla 's Donuts with a brand new Anniversary Audiophile Edition.
Donuts began simply enough as an idea to turn a demo tape into a full-length album. It would end up being one of the defining works of J Dilla's life. Completed during the year Dilla spent in and out of Cedars- Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and released on his birthday, February 7, 2006, Donuts gained particular poignancy when Dilla died three days later on February 10th.
Produced with fans and vinyl collectors in mind, the Audiophile Edition of Donuts is a deluxe version of J Dilla’s magnum opus crafted to sound. Donuts is widely regarded as one of the most beloved and influential hip-hop records of all time, and the record is one of only 150 albums awarded a perfect 10/10 score by Pitchfork. Rolling Stone placed Donuts in its list of the Greatest Albums of All Time.
Lacquers cut at Bernie Grundman M anufactured at Fidelity Record Pressing in California.
Double LP 180g vinyl cut at 45rpm and pressed on black wax. Deluxe art printed Stoughton jacket.
Side A
1. Donuts (Outro)
2. Workinonit
3. Waves
4. Light It
5. The New
6. Stop!
7. People
8. The Diff'rence
Side B
1. Mash
2. Time: The Donut of the Heart
3. Glazed
4. Airworks
5. Lightworks
6. Stepson of the Clapper
7. The Twister (Huh, What)
Side C
1. One Eleven
2. Two Can Win
3. Don't Cry
4. Anti-American Graffiti
5. Geek Down
6. Thunder
7. Gobstopper
Side D
1. One for Ghost
2. Dilla Says Go
3. Walkinonit
4. The Factory
5. U-Love
6. Hi.
7. Bye.
8. Last Donut of the Night
9. Welcome to the Show
Street Date: December 12th
Exclusive Artwork by David Shrigley
Limited Edition of 2500 Units World Wide
After an incredible year with their debut album Who Let The Dogs Out — released in January and followed by what felt like a thousand sold-out shows and countless festival appearances across the globe — Lambrini Girls cemented their place as one of the most talked-about, loved, hated, debated and celebrated bands of the year. The record has become a fixture on end-of-year lists from fans, press and record stores alike.
Now, Who Let The Dogs Out returns in a very special end-of-year edition. But this isn’t one of those overpriced deluxe versions — quite the opposite. It’s a stripped-back, black-and-white, DIY, down-to-earth punk rock version, complete with alternative artwork by none other than fellow legend, visual artist David Shrigley.
Vinyl Edition - Artwork by David Shrigley
Also available as a regular version - released January 2025 Compact Disc: Vinyl, Black: Vinyl, Colored: Slang50598 Slang50598LP Slang50598X
UPC: 4250506850852
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UPC: 4250506851057
Side A: 1. Bad Apple 2. Company Culture 3. Big Dick Energy 4. No Homo 5. Nothing Tastes As Good As It Feels Side B: 6. You’re Not From Around Here 7. Scarcity Is Fake (communist propaganda) 8. Filthy Rich Nepo Baby 9. Special Different 10. Love 11. Cuntology 101
BLUE
Released January 9, 2026
The boys are back! Simon Webbe, Duncan James, Antony Costa and Lee Ryan return with Reflections, Blue’s brand-new studio album, out January 9th, 2026. Bursting with the soaring vocals and anthemic hooks that made them one of Britain’s biggest pop success stories, Reflections marks an exciting new chapter.
With a legacy that includes three UK #1 albums, twelve Platinum certifications, and timeless hits like All Rise, One Love and their chart-topping collaboration with Elton John, Blue have already secured their place in pop history. Now, Reflections looks set to add another shining chapter, reaffirming their status as international hitmakers and beloved performers.
Blue are back. And they are hereto stay.
DRY CLEANING Secret Love
Produced by Cate Le Bon, Secret Love started life in Peckham rehearsal spaces, all members – frontperson Florence Shaw, guitarist Tom Dowse, drummer Nick Buxton and bassist Lewis Maynard – writing, playing and responding to each other in the room: in Dry Cleaning, music and lyrics form an inseparable, generative whole. The follow-up to Stumpwork evolved through affirming sessions at Jeff Tweedy’s Chicago studio the Loft and explosive ones with Gilla Band’s Alan Duggan and Daniel Fox at Sonic Studios in Dublin, taking advantage of the sonic particulars of each space, and finally with Cate Le Bon at Black Box in the Loire Valley.
Secret Love is the finest expression yet of the profound friendships that created Dry Cleaning. Here, the south London four-piece take their place in rock’s avant garde, catalysing the Reaganite paranoia of early 80s US punk and hardcore with the dry strut of Keith Richards, stoner rock, dystopian degradation, playful no wave and pastoral fingerpicking, while Florence’s delivery, meticulously calibrated to her bandmates’ soundscapes, asserts her in a lineage of spoken-word artists stretching from Laurie Anderson to Life Without Buildings’ Sue Tompkins.
Selling Points
• Produced by Cate Le Bon
• Extensive US Touring in 2026; recent shows with Nick Cave and Godspeed You! Black Emperor
• Limited Color Vinyl Exclusive
Indie Apricot LP 4AD-0868-LPE
LP
4AD-0868-LP
CD
4AD-0868-CD
Tracklist
Hit My Head All Day Cruise Ship Designer My Soul / Half Pint Secret Love (Concealed in a Drawing of a Boy) Let Me Grow and You’ll See the Fruit
Blood
Evil Evil Idiot Rocks
The Cute Things I Need You
Joy
Press
“Leftfield art rockers are a deadpan delight. …a genuinely radical band”
- The Guardian
“[Florence Shaw] pours out a waste land of poetry fragments like a post-postmodernist T.S. Eliot”
- Rolling Stone
Available from: January 9th 2026
MIZMOR & HELL - ALLUVION
The stories of Mizmor and Hell are, for all intents and purposes, inextricably intertwined. For twenty years A.L.N. (Mizmor) and M.S.W. (Hell) have been orbiting the same fertile creative circles in the Pacific Northwest. They've done stints as live/touring members for each other's solo endeavors and they've contributed their distinctive voices to each other's recordings. A.L.N. and M.S.W. even aligned their cathartic outlets for a now impossible to find Mizmor/Hell split, unleashed upon the world in 2014. A collaboration record like Alluvion feels as if it was always predestined.
The blueprint for Alluvion had been drafted long ago and it wallowed in obscurity, its memory swirling in the ether, patiently waiting for a rogue spark to manifest its existence. And, as luck would have it, when A.L.N. and M.S.W. once again found themselves in the midst of each other’s boundless creative universes, they were now prepared to undertake the monumental task.
A.L.N. and M.S.W. intend for the compositions on Alluvion to be used as a map to help navigate the listener through bouts of psychic distress, touching upon emotions both terribly familiar and wholly extrinsic. Pensive, tranquil movements combust into passages of absolutely soul-searing sludge. Suffocating, blackened doom bursts out of unknown crevasses; punctuated by the unsettling voices of beings doing their damnedest to claw their way out of canyons carved by mental anguish. It's a harrowing journey, but one that seeks to provide a necessary catharsis. Alluvion is meant to act as a lens into the mind's seemingly mystifying geography; a vessel for the self-exploration of the complex terrains of the human psyche.
CD: 798576336998
LP RED: 798576335199
LP CLOUD: 798576335298
LP BLACK: 798576335090
HELL - SPLITS
BLURB INFO
Since 2009 MSW has been creating doom under the project HELL. With a trilogy of LPs and a standalone self-titled full-length MSW has built a monolith of suffering and despair through song. Between albums HELL has released a number of splits, and for the first time those tracks are collected here.
This collection has been remastered and had lacquers cut by Adam Gonsalves at Telegraph mastering. The D-side features an etching illustrated by Cold Poison.
The deluxe album packaging includes a wide spine single pocket LP jacket with an O-card outer sleeve. All copies include a 24"x36" poster.
Kyle M – Winter’s Wish
Stones Throw Records | STH2519LP
January, 9th 2025 | Alternative, Christmas
Winter’s Wish is a Christmas EP from Kyle M, the musical alias of actor, comedian, and director Kyle Mooney (Saturday Night Live, Y2K, Brigsby Bear). It follows the cult success of his debut album The Real Me on Stones Throw Records, a fan-favorite for its offbeat sincerity. Winter’s Wish once again finds Mooney fully in his creative element, writing, recording, and producing every track himself.
A tongue-in-cheek yet heartfelt ode to the holiday season, Winter’s Wish blends vintage Christmas nostalgia with Kyle’s signature lo-fi pop aesthetic and storytelling. A holiday record for indie fans, comedy heads, and anyone looking for something a little left-of-center to soundtrack the season.
The campaign will include a music video for the standout track
“Mrs. Claus is Getting Down,” starring Alicia Silverstone as Mrs. Claus, as well as limited-edition holiday-themed merchandise
Previous support from The New York Times, NBC, Exclaim!, Vulture, Brooklyn Vegan, Stereogum, Consequence, Blackbird Spyplane, Tim Heidecker’s Office Hours, Anthony Fantano’s The Needle Drop, Ezra Koenig’s Time Crisis, and more.
Translucent Light Blue Color Vinyl
Side A
A1) Winter's Wish
A2) Mrs. Claus is Getting Down
A3) Joy
Side B
B1) That Was Christmas
B2) O Holy Night
Tracklist
A1. “Animal Style” by Illingsworth
A2. “R2” by DJ Harrison
A3. “Soon Never Comes” by Stimulator Jones
A4. “Joel” by Ahwlee
A5. “Droogs” by Cavalier
A6. “Abeja” by Mndsgn, Sofie Royer
A7. “Po’Looters (feat. Mndsgn)” by Zeroh
B1. “12am” by Gifted & Blessed
B2. “Sativa” by Kutmah
B3. “Watching You” by Charlotte Dos Santos
B4. “Tension” by Dark Twaine
B5. “L7 (Inspiredorbiting)” by Oliver The 2nd
B6. “Eatndoggyfood (feat. Swarvy) by Pyramid
Vritra
B7. “Prettybrowneyes” by Tuamie
C1. “RedBeanBun (One4Sofie)” by Poptartpete
C2. “Deal With The Real” by Ohbliv
C3. “Almost There (feat. SiR)” by Ill Camille
C4. “J10” by Jonwayne
C5. “Ferrari (feat. MURS)” by Issue
C6. “PointPressingStick” by Mndsgn, Sofie Royer
D1. “Dahmers Boy” by Clark & The Community
D2. “Ooooo” by Braxton Cook
D3. “River” by Subito!
D4. “Last Cut” by Sofie Royer
Artist Various Artists
Title Sofie ’s SOS Tape
Cat # STH2376-4
Coke Bottle Clear Vinyl
Label Stones Throw Records
Genre Alternative
UPC 659457237646
Formats 2LP
Release January 9th, 2026
Pre-order October 29th, 2025
Key Selling Points
• Stones Throw’s 30 Year Anniversary Pressing
• 2LP Limited Coke Bottle Clear Vinyl
• First ever repress of Sofie Royer’s cult classic compilation featuring 24 songs and 26 artists.
• SOS Tape was an insider’s look on emerging acts across the US and abroad in 2016 including Charlotte Dos Santos, Mndsgn, SiR, Zeroh, DJ Harrison, Braxton Cook, Ahwlee, ISSUE (E40’s son). Sofie Royer, Ohbliv, and many more.
• Standout tracks include Stimulator Jones R&B anthem “Soon Never Comes” and Sofie Royer and Mndsgn’s laid back smash “Abeja.
MILD MINDS
Release Date: January 9, 2026
Mild Minds' landmark album MOOD was his critically lauded debut on Counter Records / Foreign Family Collective in 2020. MOOD is now available for the first time for NorthAmerican retail.
MOOD received a 2020 GRAMMY®Award Nomination, a 2020Australian Music PrizeAward Nomination, landed him on tour with the likes of Big Wild and Tycho, and has been ARIACertified GOLD
MOOD has also tallied 300 million+ cumulative streams and earned widespread acclaim while remixes poured in from Jacques Greene, Laurence Guy, DJ Boring, and more.
Since Mild Minds' emergence in 2018, he has consistently pushed boundaries and defied genre conventions. Drawing inspiration from human movement, patterns, and artificial intelligence, he crafts soundscapes that are as intellectually stimulating as they are emotionally evocative.
Mild Minds further solidified his position as a pioneering force in electronic music with his 2025 sophomore album GEMINI. His genre-defying approach has drawn comparisons to luminaries such as Bonobo, Maribou State, Caribou, and Four Tet, while maintaining a distinctly unique identity, further cementing his status as one of electronic music's most innovative and emotive voices.
Standard LP:
CATNO: COUNT203
UPC: 5054429140156
Box Lot: 20
￫12” sleeve with 3mm
spine
￫ matte - 12” labels
CMYK, black paper inners
￫- 140g Blue Vinyl
Tracklisting
A SIDE
A1 Movements
A2 Embracer
A3 Walls
A4 Oblivious
B SIDE
B1 Swim
B2 Formations
B3 Destinations
B4 Dopamine
B5 Views
RIYL: Bonobo, George Fitzgerald, Tourist, Elderbrook, RUFUS DU SOL, Kasbo
Top Markets: NewYork, LosAngeles, Mexico City, Chicago,Toronto, Denver
Formats: UPC · Box Lot
LP (clear blue vinyl)
LP (black vinyl)
0634457209848 · 10
0634457209855 · 10
limited to 500 copies worldwide · 100 clear blue vinyl reserved for Redeye
Tracklist:
01. Desplendor
02. La visite
03. Casca il mondo
04. Don´t move
05. 122
06. Philips Geist
07. Unstable
08. Dod24
09. Etterbeek
10. Illustration
11. La fin
Dictaphone are back with their 6th full length called „Unstable“. In the 25th year of the project Brussels born composer and mastermind Oliver Doerell is surrounded again by a lot of musicians & friends. Roger Döring is there, his clarinet and saxophone play has always been a trademark sound of the band - also Alexander Stolze‘s ghostly violins. The dark atmosphere and experimental sound of the new album is a reference to the 80s belgian art music scene, which Doerell had the luck to experience in his formative years. Minimal jazz meets musique concrete meets a postpunk mind. On this new album “Unstable“ more voices and vocals than usual can be heard - especially Helga Raimondi (who already sang on the last album “Goats and Distortions 5“) . As a collage artist she is also responsible for the visual side of Dictaphone - she designed the cover artwork and the visuals for the live shows.
The Brussels-Berlin-Teheran connection: Other guests on „Unstable“ are the voices of Kaveh Ghaemi and Ashkan Afsharian, who Doerell met during a modern ballet production by Modjgan Hashemian (2008). The trumpet of Shahab Anousha can be heard in the track “La fin“ - Oliver Doerell and Shahab Anousha also share the spoken words Project “Nouf ān”. For nearly 20 years Oliver Doerell is linked to the Iranian Diaspora in Berlin and the Dictaphone track “Rattle” from the classic album “ Poems from a rooftop “ (2012) has been a hit in Teherans underground scene since the beginning. Furthermore the title track “Unstable“ is a homage to Ian Curtis of Joy Division. The words of this piece are based on the setlist of Joy Divisions last show.
Dictaphone played more than two hundred shows all over the world (including festivals Mutek, Transmediale, Unsound , Benicassim and many others). Their music can be heard in countless films, tv series and theatre pieces - (“the responder“ (BBC) , “the love he knows” (Ali Mohammad) , “Don´t move“ (Modjgan Hashemian) , Ring (Felix Ruckert) among others.
Also available:
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Artist: TAUCETI
Formats: UPC · Box Lot
LP (clear) 0634457184732 · 10
limited to only 300 copies worldwide · 100 clear vinyl reserved for Redeye
Tracklist:
01. Intro
02. Hélios
03. Black Mamba
04. District de Tripoli
05. Khit Errouh
06. Nabatieh
07. Kheops
08. Let me sleep at Artachat
Tauceti (Lilou Chelal) is a DJ / producer / composer from Lyon. As a DJ Chelal distills a dark, tropical and sensual techno with percussive and vaporous rhythms in her mix. She stands for a very particular elegance and a certain, clearly audible maturity, which makes her stand out. „Guanyin“ is her very first full length - where she transfers the elegance of her sound into a very personal and unique journey.
Tauceti about „Guanyin“:
I am pleased to announce the release of my very first ambient album on the Denovali label. This is probably the most personal record I produced so far, because it is in a way a tribute to my Middle Eastern and Asian origins. It is a hybrid and intimate object, at the border between futurism and cultural heritage, with a desire to approach a more contemporary environment at the limit of classical. I used traditional instrument patterns, sounds intimately linked to oriental instruments, all the while using my electronic touch composed of drone/ ambient and sound distortions. This is the result of a year of reflection and increased exploration of new frontiers in the studio, which has gradually evolved into a desire to make an album concrete. Composed of eight tracks, some of you may have heard some of them during my ambient set during the last edition of Nuits Sonores, just before Vail and Rodhad’s magnificent live performance. It’s a kind of homecoming for me, the very first tracks I produced years ago already being part of the ambient register. This is an opportunity for me to rea rm the multi-faceted aspect of my artistic project, drawing on various aesthetic registers, between ambient and techno. I would like to warmly thank the Denovali label for their trust here, and with whom I will have the chance and the opportunity to maintain a privileged relationship for the next years.
WASHER
HERE COMES WASHER - IMPROVED MEANS TO DETERIORATED ENDS
1.9.2026
Release Info: Here Comes Washer
Catalog number: EIS043LP-C2
Genre: Indie Rock, Garage Rock, Punk
Configuration: LP - Cloudy Green Vinyl Street Date: 1.9.2026
Vinyl UPC: 843563194201
Vinyl Box Lot: 40
Key Markets: Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Portland OR, Denver, Brooklyn, Seattle, Philly
Release Info: Improved Means To Deteriorated Ends
Catalog number: EIS126LP-C2
Genre: Indie Rock, Garage Rock, Punk
Configuration: LP - Burgundy Vinyl Street Date: 1.9.2026
Vinyl UPC: 843563194171
Vinyl Box Lot: 40
Key Markets: Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Portland OR, Denver, Brooklyn, Seattle, Philly
Selling Points
• Fanny Are the Godmothers of Women Who Rock
• The First All-Female Band Signed to a Major Label
• And a Favorite Artist Here at Real Gone Music
• We’ve Reissued a Rare Live Album Along with All of Their Reprise Albums on CD and Three of Their Reprise Albums on LP
• Now, by Popular Demand, We Are Finally Releasing Fanny’s Fourth Album Mothers Pride on Vinyl
• Baby Pink Vinyl, to Be Exact, Chosen to Match the Starry-Eyed Baby Doll on the Front Cover
• Mothers Pride Is the Most Controversial Album in the Fanny Catalog, as Todd Rundgren Agreed to Produce the Project with the Condition that He and He Alone Oversee the Album Mix
• But with Such Classics as “Summer Song,” It’s Indispensable for Any Fanny Fan
• Remastered for Vinyl by Mike Milchner at Sonic Vision
• Includes Two-Page Insert Featuring Lyrics and the Rare Promo Flyer That Accompanied Some Original Copies
• Fully Endorsed by the Band
Fanny: Mothers Pride
(Remastered Baby Pink Vinyl Edition)
STREET DATE:
JANUARY 9, 2026
First we put out all of Fanny’s Reprise albums on CD…now we’re doing the same on LP! Yes, that’s right, Fanny fans—we’re finally giving the band’s 1973 album Mothers Pride its first vinyl reissue. All four Reprise albums have their champions among Fanny followers, but Mothers Pride is definitely the most controversial entry in the band’s catalog, as Todd Rundgren agreed to produce the album on the condition that he and he alone oversee the album mix. The result was a record that cemented Fanny’s popularity in the U.K. but failed to make a dent in the charts here in the States despite such classics as “Summer Song.” The two-page insert includes not just the lyric sheet but the rare promo flyer that accompanied some copies, and we’ve had the album remastered for its baby pink vinyl release. Another seminal ‘70s rock record from everybody’s favorite “forgotten” allfemale rock band!
MORTON FELDMAN: ROTHKO CHAPEL/FOR FRANK O’HARA
SELLING POINTS
• Morton Feldman Is a Pivotal Figure Not Just in Modern Classical Music, but in Modern Art as a Whole
• Feldman Hung Out in the ‘50s and ‘60s with Abstract Expressionist Painters Like Jackson Pollock, Philip Guston, and Robert Rauschenberg
• Feldman’s Work Echoed That of His Painter Friends, Emphasizing Tonal Color Over Structure, Melody, and Rhythm
• His Use of Silence and Stasis Was Akin to the “Negative Space” in Abstract Paintings, and Presaged the Work of Ambient Composers Like Brian Eno
• Feldman Also Was a Huge Influence on John Cage and Vice Versa
• Two of Feldman’s Minimalist Masterpieces Were Named After Giants in the Abstract Expressionist Movement, Painter Mark Rothko (Whose Exquisite Chapel Adorns the Front Cover), and Critic/Poet Frank O’Hara
• Those Two Pieces, “Rothko Chapel” and “For Frank O’Hara,” Appeared Together on a Seminal 1976 Album from the Columbia/Odyssey Label
• Now, on Its 50th Anniversary, Real Gone Music Is Reissuing This Landmark Album for the First Time on LP
• 180-Gram Black Vinyl
• Cut from Brand-New Transfers from the Original Master Tapes
• Pressed at Gotta Groove Records for the Quietest Listen Achievable
• A Modern Classical Cornerstone
UPC: 848064020585 FORMAT: 180-Gram Black Vinyl PACKAGING:
SELLING POINTS
• True Romance Is One of the Great Action Flicks of the ‘90s and a Stone-Cold Cult Classic
• Though Directed by Tony Scott, the Film Bore All the Earmarks of Its Writer, Quentin Tarantino, from Its Grisly Violence to Its B-Movie Homages to Its Gleeful Amorality
• Tarantino’s Influence Carried Over to the Soundtrack, Which Careened from Rockabilly to Grunge to Honky-Tonk to Romantic Machismo
• Features Such Artists as Charlie Sexton, Chris Isaak, Soundgarden, Shelby Lynne, and Robert Palmer
• Composer Hans Zimmer Also Paid Homage to Another Violent Road Movie, Badlands, with His Carl Orff-Inspired Contribution
• Jacket Features Production Stills from the Film
• Pressed in “Alabama Worley” Turquoise Vinyl
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UPC: 848064020387
FORMAT:Regular Weight “Alabama Worley” Turquoise Vinyl
PACKAGING: Album Jacket
BOX LOT: 60
(50th Anniversary 180-Gram Black Vinyl Edition)
STREET DATE: JANUARY 9, 2026
If you could actually hear an abstract expressionist painting, it would probably sound a lot like the work of Morton Feldman. And that’s no accident: Feldman hung out in ‘50s and ‘60s New York with Jackson Pollock, Philip Guston (whose work graced the cover of Feldman’s first album), and Robert Rauschenberg. Like the paintings of his visual artist peers, Feldman’s work emphasized tonal color over structure, rhythm, or melody, the traditional building blocks of music. It also employed the musical equivalent of painterly “negative space” with its use of silence and stasis; that Feldman and John Cale were enormous influences on each other will come as no surprise. So, it makes sense that Feldman would dedicate probably his two most celebrated compositions to two giants of the New York scene: abstract expressionist Mark Rothko, whose famous Chapel adorns this LP’s front cover, and writer and critic Frank O’Hara, whose own work drew inspiration from the same sources as Feldman’s. Rothko Chapel and For Frank O’Hara first were released in 1976 on a seminal album from the Odyssey imprint on Columbia Records; for its 50th anniversary and first LP reissue, we’ve had it pressed on 180-gram black vinyl at Gotta Groove Records for the quietest listen achievable, using new transfers from the original master tapes. Profound, career-defining work that opened the door for latter-day ambient composers like Brian Eno to walk through.
TRUE romance MOTION
PICTURE SOUNDTRACK
(“ALABAMA WORLEY” TURQUOISE VINYL
STREET DATE: JANUARY 9, 2026
EDITION)
Though it was directed by Tony Scott, the 1993 film True Romance displayed all the signature themes and images of its writer, Quentin Tarantino, from its grisly violence to its B-movie homages to its gleeful amorality. And the same could be said of the soundtrack; alongside composer Hans Zimmer’s riff on Carl Orff (which itself was an homage to another violent road movie, Badlands), True Romance offered a playlist that smacked of Tarantino in its embrace of rockabilly (Charlie Sexton, Chris Isaak), grunge (Soundgarden), honky-tonk (Shelby Lynne), and romantic machismo (Robert Palmer’s take on “[Love Is] The Tender Trap”). Vinyl would seem a natural for such a “warped” soundtrack; and, for this reissue, we’ve crafted a custom jacket sporting production stills from the film. What’s more, this release of True Romance comes in turquoise “Alabama Worley” vinyl in honor of the sartorial hue she favored in the film! Consider this a colorful homage to one of the greatest cult classic films of all time.
For Frank O’Hara
SIDE CLARENCE 1. You’re So Cool HansZimmer
2. Graceland CharlieSexton
3. In Dreams JohnWaite
4. Wounded Bird Charles&Eddie
5. I Want Your Body Nymphomania
6. Stars at Dawn HansZimmer
SIDE ALABAMA
1. I Need a Heart to Come Home to ShelbyLynne
2. Viens Mallika Sous le Dome Edais from “Lakme” Delibes
3. (Love Is) The Tender Trap RobertPalmer
4. Outshined Soundgarden
5. Amid the Chaos of the Day HansZimmer
6. Two Hearts ChrisIsaak
SELLING POINTS
• Hatebreed Were Pivotal in Establishing the Connecticut Hardcore Punk Scene
• Recorded Acclaimed Albums for the Victory and Universal Labels
• Then Made This One-Off for the Roadrunner Label in 2006
• Vocalist Jamey Jasta Described Supremacy as an “All-Out Onslaught of Completely Adrenaline-Charged, in-Your-Face Brutality,” Which Was Pretty Spot-On
• Marked the Debut of Guitarist Frank “3 Gun” Novinec
• But Supremacy Isn’t Just Piledriving Riffs
• Jasta’s Personal Statement (Reproduced on the Insert) Is Remarkable for Its Honesty and Its Quasi-Nietzschean Philosophy
• The Lyrics to Songs like “Mind over All” and “Supremacy of Self” Follow Suit
• Pressed in Hazy Green “Up in Smoke” Vinyl
• Limited to Just 500 Copies
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UPC: 848064020349
FORMAT: Regular Weight Hazy Green “Up in Smoke” Vinyl
PACKAGING: Album Jacket with Insert
LIMITED EDITION: 500 Copies
BOX LOT: 50
SELLING POINTS
• The 2002 Album Concrete Was the Last of L.A. Band Fear Factory’s Amazing Run of Albums for the Roadrunner Records Label
• But It Was Also the First
• Prior to Signing with Roadrunner, the Band Had Recorded the Album in 1990 with Producer Ross Robinson
• Then the Band and Robinson Had a Falling Out
• But It Was a Cassette Recording of Concrete That Landed Fear Factory Their Deal with Roadrunner Once Fear Factory Blew Up with the Release of 1995’s Demanufacture, Roadrunner Acquired the Rights to the Album from Robinson The Label Waited to Release It until 2002, When the Band Went on Hiatus and Left the Label
• Features Eight Songs That Were Re-Recorded for Their Debut Record Soul of a New Machine
• The Other Eight Songs Are New, Though Sharp-Eared Fear Factory Fans Will Hear Bits and Pieces That Surfaced on Subsequent Albums
• Includes Insert with Two Liner Notes Explaining the Circumstances Surrounding Concrete
• Remastered for Vinyl by Mike Milchner of Sonic Vision
• Silver and Purple “Decepticons” Pressing Limited to Just 300 Copies
hatebreed: SUPREMACY hatebreed:
(Remastered Hazy Green “Up in Smoke” Vinyl Edition)
STREET DATE: JANUARY 9, 2026
Hatebreed vocalist Jamey Jasta described Supremacy as an “all-out onslaught of completely adrenaline-charged, in-yourface brutality,” and who are we to argue (in fact, we’d be afraid to)?! Hatebreed came up through the Connecticut hardcore scene (they actually kind of invented it), and recorded acclaimed albums for the Victory and Universal labels before moving to Roadrunner for this 2006 record, which featured the debut of guitarist Frank “3 Gun” Novinec. Supremacy’s sonic assault took it to #31 on the charts, but there’s more to it than just piledriving riffs; Jasta’s personal statement (reproduced on the insert) is remarkable for its honesty and its quasi-Nietzschean philosophy, and the lyrics (e.g. “Mind over All;” “Supremacy of Self”) follow suit. Remastered by Mike Milchner at Sonic Vision, pressed in hazy green “up in smoke” wax limited to 500 copies!
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FEAR FACTORY: Concrete
(Remastered, Limited Silver and Purple “Decepticons” Vinyl Edition)
STREET DATE: JANUARY 9, 2026
This 2002 album was the last of L.A. band Fear Factory’s amazing run of albums for the Roadrunner Records, but it was actually the first. Huh? Let us explain—or better yet, you can read the two sets of liner notes that accompany the package. Briefly, prior to signing with Roadrunner, Fear Factory recorded an entire album in 1990 with producer Ross Robinson. The band and Robinson had a falling out, but, ironically, it was a cassette recording of that album that got them signed to Roadrunner. Once Fear Factory blew up with the release of 1995’s Demanufacture, Roadrunner acquired the rights to the album from Robinson, but waited to release it until 2002, when the band went on hiatus and left the label. But more interesting than the story behind the music is the music itself. For Fear Factory fans, Concrete is an absolute treasure trove— half of the songs are new, while the other half showed up in rerecorded form on their debut album Soul of a New Machine (and especially sharp-eared Fear Factory fans will notice bits and pieces of the new songs that showed up on subsequent albums). Above all, though, Concrete sets it in stone that very early on, Fear Factory had perfected the heavy verse-melodic chorus formula followed by so many nu-metal bands to come. For this LP release, we’ve remastered Concrete for its pressing in silver and purple “decepticons” vinyl limited to just 300 copies. An essential piece of the Fear Factory legacy!
RELEASE DATE
January 9 2026 th
Special limited Green vinyl edition to celebrate 100 million streams
TRACKLISTING
Homegrown Toons
Groceries
(Feat Nigel Hall)
Be There For You
Lighta (Feat Rae Khalil) Vamp
Read My Lips
(Feat Floyd Fuji) (FeatRichardCarr,Pierce Allen)
Hollywood Flamingos Young Buck
Northern Lights
(Feat Tennishu) (Feat DJ Harrison) (Feat Fonville) (FeatLoArtiz, Juia Zivic)
Pressure Over Pleasure White Widow
Shika Shika is a label for music without borders The label was founded in 2015 between Berlin, Mexico City, Buenos Aires and Paris to give a platform to emerging artsts from around the world, focussing on artists exploring global folk roots, organic sounds and electronica Since then, the label has released music from over 90 artists from 30 countries, including 36 digital and +15 vinyl releases Shika Shika is also a non-profit organisation, developing unique projects where the music, art and culture that inspire us can come together in service of the social and environmental issues we are passionate about
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Don Enzo Magic Carpet Salesman / Kalimba Song
Format: 12”
Street Day: 09th January 2026
DITZ return with Don Enzo Magic Carpet Salesman a 9-minute, three-part noise-rock epic that marks a bold new direcBon for the Brighton band. Fierce, hypnoBc and unpredictable, it captures their live energy in full force. Out Oct 29 via City Slang, just ahead of their November tour and a French TV session airing this month.
Genre: Alternative-Rock, Indie-Rock, Noise
Limited to 1000 world wide Side A is 9min long (epic) song
Tracklist:
A1: Don Enzo Magic Carpet Salesman (09:12min)
A2: Kalimba Song (03:57min)
Cat #: Slang50612
UPC: 4250506852313
PARTY DOZEN
MAD ROOTER / GHOST RIDER
Format 7”
Street Day: 09th January 2026
Australian duo Party Dozen a feral blast of noise-funk chaos championed by Nick Cave and Amyl & The Sniffers return with “Mad Rooter”. Built without a click track, it lurches and struts with wild, off-grid swagger, featuring a sax solo that channels late-night TV energy. GriWy samples from a baWered, half-broken guitar add raw texture to a track that’s ten feet tall and gives zero f*cks.
And that’s only the first hit: it’s followed by an insanely good cover of the Suicide classic “Ghost Rider.” It’s the cherry on top of this double-whammy.
Genre: Alternative, Indie-Rock, Electronic, Noise
Limited Edition of 700 world wide
Brand New Studio Track Suicide Cover (Side B)
Tracklist:
A1: Mad Rooter (03:05min)
B1: Ghost Rider (04:04min)
Cat #: Slang50611
UPC: 4250506852238
LP UPC: 749846029614
: Slumberland Records
Catalog Number: SLR 296
Street Date: January 9, 2026
Territory: World ex Europe
RIYL: Talulah Gosh, Dolly Mixture, Shop Assistants, Tiger Trap, The Aislers Set
TL;DR: The Cords revitalize the punk-ish side of C86 indiepop with panache, youthful enthusiasm and most importantly terrific tunes. This self-titled debut album is an instant indiepop classic!
Packaging: Vinyl LP with DL code. On baby blue vinyl. Box Lot: 25
Now available on tape!
UPC: 749846029645
749846029621
Packaging: Gatefold wallet Box Lot: 30
The last few years have been quite a whirlwind for Scottish pop duo The Cords. Sisters Eva and Grace take their cues from forebears like Dolly Mixture, Shop Assistants, Heavenly and Tiger Trap, reinvigorating the C86 sound with style and infectious enthusiasm. Since starting in 2023 they've released a cassette single and a Christmas flexi that garnered airplay and breathless press from around the International Pop Underground, and played with everyone from The Vaselines (their first show!) to Shonen Knife, BMX Bandits, The Go! Team and Camera Obscura.
Recorded over the course of six days with Jonny Scott (CHVRCHES), their self-titled debut album is some of the most vital indiepop we've heard in years, bursting with boundless energy, youthful confidence, lively melodies and most importantly terrific tunes. From album opener (and first single) "Fabulist" to the heads-down rush of "October," from the punk-ish thrill of "You" to the instant classic "I'm Not Sad," The Cords have crafted a debut that handily transcends their influences and shows their firm grasp of all that makes great, timeless *pop*. By the time the dreamy slow-dance closer "When You Said Goodbye" rolls around you can't help but have fallen in love with indiepop all over again, and the only thing to do is lift the needle, flip the record, and start it over.
Contact: Stephen Svacina email: stephen@redeyeworldwide.com tel: 1.877.733.3931
First pressing on baby blue vinyl!
Karisma Records
Nygårdsgaten 2
5015 Bergen
Norway www.karismarecords.no post@karismarecords.no
OVERVIEW:
Band: Airbag
Title: Dysphoria (Live in the Netherlands)
Label: Karisma Records
Catalogue no & barcodes:
KAR303CD - 7073317003746
KAR303CDD - 7073317003494
KAR303LPC - 7073317003500
Format: 2CD, Ltd Digisleeve 2CD, Ltd 2LP (White / Blue Marble Vinyl) Release: 21. November 2025
Tracklist:
01 Dysphoria (Live)
02. Tyrants and Kings (Live)
03. Awakening (Live)
04. Erase (Live)
05. Tear it Down (Live)
06. Machines and Men (Live)
07. Redemption (Live)
08. Never Coming Home (Live)
09. Homesick (Live)
Progressive rock may rarely grace the mainstream spotlight, but its devoted global community continues to thrive, and few bands embody that spirit better than Airbag. Since their debut EP, Safetree (2007), and first full-length album, Identity (2009), the Norwegian quintet has steadily built a worldwide following with their cinematic soundscapes, soaring melodies, and timeless songwriting. From All Rights Removed to The Century of the Self, each release has cemented Airbag’s reputation as one of the most vital acts in modern progressive rock, earning critical acclaim and packing venues across Europe and beyond.
Now, 16 years and five studio albums later, Airbag returns with their first official live album, captured during a powerful performance at Poppodium Boerderij in Zoetermeer, The Netherlands in 2024. This double CD / double vinyl release showcases the band at their best, raw, immersive, and sonically stunning. The recordings have been meticulously mixed to preserve the atmosphere and authenticity of the live shows.
For collectors, the vinyl edition is a must-have: A deluxe gatefold cover with an exclusive booklet and a limited first pressing on coloured splatter vinyl, a beautiful piece for fans and audiophiles alike.
Whether you’ve followed Airbag from the beginning or discovered them along the way, this live album is a celebration of a band that continues to defy trends, connect deeply with fans, and deliver music that stands the test of time.
SELLING POINTS
• First ever live album from the Norwegian prog legends Airbag
• For fans of: Pink Floyd, Bjørn Riis, Steven Wilson, No-Man, Porcupine Tree + + +
• Limited edition Double Gatefold LP on White / Blue Marble Vinyl with thick booklet (1000x)
• Digital singles & videos: Erase (17/10), Redemption (07. November)
Band websites: www.facebook.com/airbagsound / www.airbagsound.com
Label website: www.karismarecords.no,
For interviews, info & promo material, contact Karisma Records and Martin Kvam: e-mail: post@karismarecords.no / tel: +47 95 74 92 19
FREEDOM RHYTHM & SOUND
BY
Freedom, Rhythm and Sound showcases the stunning graphic works of independently published jazz record cover designs in the 1960s, 70s, 80s and beyond, from radical jazz musicians such as Sun Ra, John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, The Art Ensemble of Chicago and others.
This second Freedom, Rhythm and Sound book is a new ‘chapter’, featuring hundreds more unique, rare and beautiful jazz record cover designs. This book documents the continued development in jazz as African-American artists set out on new journeys to enlightenment, heading out into Europe at the end of the 1960s.
The artwork of these (often self-produced) record cover designs during this era reflected their radical agenda, spiritual awareness and singular search for musical and personal freedoms. From raw, DIY aesthetics to lyrical and poetic illustrations, sometimes containing futuristic worlds and ancient landscapes, the designs are always bold, strikingly graphic, and most importantly capture the spirit of the music, giving them a unique beauty.
The book also includes sections on African-American poets and writers, Civil Rights and Black Power Movement leaders (Martin Luther King, Malcolm X) and early musical pioneers (Yusef Lateef, Max Roach, Art Blakey and others), all of which helped influence and shape the world of radical and spiritual jazz from the 1960s and onwards to its rebirth today.
Since the 1980s, Gilles Peterson has been a pivotal figure in the club scene, renowned for his genre-defying approach to music with jazz at its core. As one of the UK’s most iconic DJs, he has spent over 40 years shaping music trends as a radio presenter, club DJ, producer, and festival curator. He hosts a flagship show on BBC Radio 6 Music and, in 2016, launched Worldwide FM. He is founder of the Worldwide Festival in the South of France and We Out Here festival in the UK. He runs the label Brownswood Recordings, dedicated to discovering and promoting new talent and bringing fresh voices to the global stage.
Stuart Baker founded Soul Jazz Records in 1992. For more than 30 years the record company has released over 500 records covering a genre-defying array of non-mainstream musical worlds – Jazz, Reggae, Punk, Latin, Brazilian, Disco, African, Gospel, Acid House and more.
In 2017, part of Stuart Baker’s jazz record collection (much of which appears in Freedom, Rhythm and Sound) was featured and displayed as part of the Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power exhibition at Tate Modern in London,
Soul Jazz Books presents FREEDOM, RHYTHM & SOUND
Chapter Two: Revolutionary Jazz Cover Art
Edited by Gilles Peterson & Stuart Baker
and subsequently at The Broad in Los Angeles (2019) and Brooklyn Museum (2019).
Soul Jazz Books launched in 2007, a similarly diverse and critically acclaimed publishing house with graphic art, culture and photography titles that include ‘Voguing and The House Ballroom Scene of New York’, ‘Dancehall –The Rise of Jamaican Dancehall Culture’, ‘Yo! The Early Days of Hip-Hop’, ‘Freedom, Rhythm and Sound – Revolutionary Jazz Cover Art 1965-83’, ‘Punk 45 – The Singles Cover Art of Punk 1976-80’ and others.
Reviews of the first Freedom, Rhythm and Sound:
“A remarkable book” The New Yorker
“If there can be such a thing as a revolutionary coffee table book, Freedom Rhythm & Sound is it a chance to wallow in the Afrocentric visual language of the non-mainstream black jazz vinyl of this extraordinary fertile and creative period.” Eye
“Like the uncompromising music they represent, all the covers broadcast a sense of bold, brazen ideology” Pitchfork
“A definitive account of a complex passage of cultural upheaval.” The Independent
“For decades, no one was sure how to refer to this extraordinary music. Calling it ‘fire music’ does justice to its incandescent spirit, still burning from the pages of a book that preserves the memory of a special time.” The Guardian
“These sleeves are the original independent legacy to America’s premier art form – Jazz. In terms of African-American cultural expression they are part of a long line of thought that was charged in the 1960s by John Coltrane, Martin Luther King, Ornette Coleman, Malcolm X and others” The Wire
“A hefty compendium of radical jazz cover art” Mojo
Title: Freedom, Rhythm & Sound CHAPTER TWO: Revolutionary Jazz Cover Art
Author: Gilles Peterson & Stuart Baker
Publisher: Soul Jazz Books
Cat. No. SJR586
ISBN: 978-1-9163598-4-0
Format: Gold coloured hardcover, 297x297mm, 224pp
COMPILED
GILLES PETERSON AND STUART BAKER
SOUL JAZZ BOOKS
