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Swervedriver

The World’s Fair EP

BACK IN STOCK!

The early 90’s were an incredible time fo EP was the format that delivered the most vital music of the era. Usually just 4 songs, these EPs were released as quickly as possible after being recorded, and had tracks that were often not found on the subsequent full-length LP.

We here at Outer Battery are looking to bring back the heady days of the 12” EP, and what better band to do that with than Swervedriver!

Back with their first new music in over 5 years, with 2 tracks recorded with Mark Gardener from Ride and the other 2 recorded by YouTube star Rick Beato, The World’s Fair EP is classic Swervedriver, with Beatlestinged hits like Pack Yr Vision and psychedelic freak-outs like The World’s Fair. This EP, pressed on orange vinyl, is not to be missed!

Artist: Swervedriver

Title: The World’s Fair EP

Label: Outer Battery Records

Street Date: March 7th, 2025

UPC: 634457199514

Cat #: OBR 00033

NEW STEREOLAB ALBUM! •

INSTANT HOLOGRAMS ON METAL FILM •

RELEASE DATE • 05.23.2025

Instant Holograms On Metal Film is the first Stereolab album in 15 years, featuring 13 new studio recordings. Played by Laetitia Sadier, Tim Gane, Andy Ramsay, Joe Watson and Xavi Muñoz, with contributions from Cooper Crain, Rob Frye, Ben LaMar Gay, Ric Elsworth, Holger Zapf, Marie Merlet and Molly Read. The groop will be playing live throughout 2025, with shows in Europe, North America, South America and the UK. The album follows Not Music released in 2010; remastered and expanded reissues of seven of their albums in 2019; and volumes 4 and 5 in the Switched On series appearing in 2021 and 2022 respectively. NO EXPORTS • NO EXPLICIT CONTENT

FORMATS

D-UHF-D46

SPEC •

Black 2LP vinyl in printed inner sleeves in gatefold outer sleeve

BOXLOT • 12

UPC • 5056818801013

D-UHF-D46C

Restricted from Amazon

SPEC • Clear 2LP vinyl in printed inner sleeves in gatefold outer sleeve

BOXLOT • 12 UPC • 5056818802164

D-UHF-CD46

SPEC • CD in inner wallet with 6 page concertina booklet in 4 panel outer wallet

BOXLOT • 55 UPC • 5056818801006

SELLING POINTS

• First album in 15 years

• 13 new studio recordings

• Written by Laetitia Sadier and Timothy Gane

• Performed by Laetitia, Tim, Andy Ramsay, Joe Watson, and Xavi Muñoz

• 70+ date WW tour in 2025

Marc Ribot Map of a Blue City

When she was a child and he a young father, Marc Ribot’s daughter drew a map of a city in deep, rich, vivid blue. When he praised her blue map, she corrected him: It’s not a blue map, but a map of a blue city. That distinction stuck with him and eventually inspired a curious song called “Map of a Blue City.

Map of a Blue City ruminates on what it means to be lost—the confusion and fear, of course, but also the excitement of so many undreamt-of possibilities. Its history is an odd map of its own, full of false starts, blind alleys, dead ends, and one inconceivable tragedy, all leading to what may be his definitive statement as an instrumentalist, as a songwriter, and even as a singer. While it’s not a singer-songwriter album, it is his first to center his plaintive, wise voice quite so prominently.

Map of a Blue City bears the weight of its history gracefully, incorporating recordings made over nearly half of Ribot’s life and reflecting on how he got to this particular moment. “Working on this album for so long, I’ve seen the world change dramatically and not really change at all. Some of the issues today are the same ones I thought about when I was just starting the album, but some are things I couldn’t have dreamt of at the time. But I think that’s why I was so determined to get the production values right. Recording production is really complicated, but it all boils down to what kind of room the listener feels they’re standing in. There are some hard truths and cold observations in these songs. I wanted the room to be small enough so that we couldn’t turn away: but warm enough to feel like you’re hearing it from a friend.”

Street Date: May 23, 2025

Track Listing

1. Elizabeth

2. For Celia

3. Say My Name

4. Daddy’s Trip to Brazil

5. Map of a Blue City

6. Death of a Narcissist

7. When the World’s on Fire

8. Sometime Jailhouse Blues

9. “Optimism of the Spirit”

CD

Sel. #: NW6604CD

Config: Digipak, marketing sticker

UPC: 607396660421

Box Lot: 30 Count

Genre: Alternative, Indie Folk, Jazz, Singer-songwriter

Vinyl

Sel. #: NW5911LP

Config: 1xLP, Jacket, Full Color Sleeve, Black Vinyl

UPC: 607396591114

Box Lot: 20 Count

Genre: Alternative, Indie Folk, Jazz, Singer-songwriter

Indie Only Vinyl

Sel. #: NW5914LP

Config: 1xLP, Jacket, Full Color Sleeve, Blue Vinyl, Limited to 1000 Copies, One time pressing

UPC: 607396591411

Box Lot: 20 Count

Genre: Alternative, Indie Folk, Jazz, Singer-songwriter

***This variant is shared with the New West Records webstore

Marketing Points

•‘Downtown’ NY Guitarist, Free Jazz, and Noise-Rock Legend’s First Vocal Album. A collection of Songs Written Over A 30 Year Span

•Known For His Collaborations With Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Lounge Lizards, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, John Zorn, and more

•Worldwide Touring throughout 2025 and 2026

•Original Sessions Produced by Hal Willner

THESE NEW PURITANS CROOKED WING

TRACKLISTING

1. Waiting

2. Bells

3. A Season In Hell

4. Industrial Love Song (featuring Caroline Polachek)

5. I'm Already Here

6. Wild Fields (I Don't Want To)

7. The Old World

8. Crooked Wing

9. Goodnight

10. Return

CATALOG NUMBER: WIG553 RELEASE DATE: May 23, 2025

UNDER: Eletronic “T”

Boxlot: 30 UPC: 887828055326

Boxlot: 20 UPC: 887828055319

OVERVIEW

Crooked Wing is These New Puritans' long-awaited fifth album—their first in six years. Produced by Jack Barnett and Bark Psychosis pioneer Graham Sutton and executive produced by George Barnett, it features an unpredictable lineup of collaborators, from Caroline Polachek to veteran jazz bassist Chris Laurence.

The cult duo returns with one of 2025’s boldest and most immersive records, shifting from the brutal to the beautiful. Crooked Wing cements TNP’s status as visionaries—defying genre, rejecting convention, and delivering their most moving, powerful work yet.

SELLING POINTS

• LP format comes with a newsprint poster and download card in jacket with spot gloss and silver foil blocking.

TRACK LISTING

LOVE THE ONE YOU’RE WITH (Stephen Stills) GO YOUR OWN WAY (Fleetwood Mac) • MR. SOUL (Buffalo Springfield) LONGER (Dan Fogelberg) • SHAKIN’ (Eddie Money)

I’M ALRIGHT (Kenny Loggins) • I NEED YOU (America) SO YOU WANT TO BE A ROCK ’N’ ROLL STAR (The Byrds) LET ME LOVE YOU TONIGHT (Pure Prairie League) SAIL ON SAILOR (The Beach Boys) • CHRISTINE’S TUNE (Flying Burrito Brothers) COOL CHANGE (Little River Band)

• FEATURING SONGS MADE FAMOUS BY STEPHEN STILLS, FLEETWOOD MAC, AMERICA, EDDIE MONEY, THE BEACH BOYS, THE BYRDS & MORE

• ON TOUR IN 2025 & 2026

• INCLUDES THE SINGLE “LOVE THE ONE YOU’RE WITH” FEATURING WYNONNA JUDD & “SO YOU WANT TO BE A ROCK & ROLL STAR”

In 1976-1979 FIREFALL played on tour & got to be friends with many top bands of the day (Fleetwood Mac, The Beach Boys, Dan Fogelberg, America and more). FRIENDS & FAMILY 2 is Firefall in 2025, respectfully and lovingly adapting these classic tracks, paying tribute to their famous friends.

Aggressive Viral Campaigns on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube

Extensive Radio & TV Campaign Including Morning Shows & Podcasts

RELEASE DATE: MAY 23, 2025

ARTIST: FIREFALL

TITLE: FRIENDS & FAMILY 2

CONFIGURATION: ECO-FRIENDLY DIGIPAK / 1 CD

CAT #: CD-SBR-7076

BARCODE: 7 08535 70762 2

May 23, 2025

Sun Ra’s Nuits de la Fondation Maeght recordings are legendary within his extensive canon. Across two nights in August 1970, these were the first concerts Ra and the Arkestra had performed outside North America and formed part of a stellar festival line-up alongside Albert Ayler, Cecil Taylor, LaMonte Young and Marian Zazeela

Prior to Maeght, The Arkestra’s early years in New York had been lean in terms of gigs, money and visibility Their precarious situation improved after Ra’s participation in the 1964 October Revolution concerts and the release of the breathtaking Heliocentric Worlds LPs A gradual increase in touring followed and talk had turned to brokering dates in Europe when they received an invitation to play at an art gallery in Southern France in 1970 Set in the medieval town of St Paul-de- Vence in Provence, the Fondation Maeght celebrated modern art in all its forms, housing work from some of the most important artists of the 20th Century including Matisse, Georges Braque, Chagall and Giacometti.

The Ra performance featured one of the great Arkestra line-ups with mainstays John Gilmore, Marshall Allen, Pat Patrick, Danny Davis and Danny Ray Thompson at the peak of their powers Festival curator Daniel Caux recalled, “The Arkestra’s performances were electrifying Films were projected behind the musicians - vistas of New York and Chicago, moon rockets, Egyptian Gods and plumed African warriors Sun Ra’s organ threw lightning bolts, dancers brandished symbolic objects The audience was stunned by a spectacle that surpassed anything they could have imagined”

Originally released across two edited volumes by Shandar in 1971, the concerts are now being reissued by Strut across 4 CD’s. The set features a 36-page booklet featuring liner notes by Daniel Caux, Jacqueline Caux and Paul Griffiths and stunning restored photos of the festival by Philippe Gras.

KEY POINTS

Strut introduces the expanded, legendary Sun Ra ‘Nuits de la Fondation Maeght’ recordings, performed live in France across two nights in August 1970

Extensively remastered and released for Record Store Day 2025

Housed across 4CD’s, featuring a 36-page booklet featuring liner notes by Daniel Caux, Jacqueline Caux, Paul Griffiths and restored photos of the festival by Philippe Gras

SUN RA

TRACKLIST

Disc 1 sun interlude 1 love in outer space 2 shadow world (excerpt) 3 cosmic explorer (continuation) 4 piano solo (untitled) 5 friendly galaxy no 2 6 why go to the moon? / it's after the end of the world 7 spontaneous simplicity 8 watusi 9 percussion interlude 10 interstellar low ways 11 somewhere else 12.

Disc 2 they'll come back 1 tone science interlude 2 satellites are spinning 3 sun ra and his band from outer space 4 calling planet earth 5 imagination 6 i'll wait for you 7 we travel the spaceways 8 the world of lightning 9 blackmyth;

RELEASE DATE: May 23rd 2025

ARTIST: Sun Ra

TITLE: Nuits de la Fondation Maeght

CAT NO.: STRUT193CDB

FORMAT: Vinyl 4CD Boxset

BARCODE CD: 4062548108002

TERRITORY: WW

BeckieBell

InNeedOf...

Strut proudly reintroduces a sought after independent disco gem from the Topomic catalogue: Beckie Bell’s ‘In Need Of...’, reissued in full for the first time.

Originally released in 1980, In Need Of... quickly became a cult classic of the French disco scene. After relocating from New York to Paris in the late 1970s, Bell carved out a unique space for her sound, blending the soulfulness of New York disco with the high energy sophistication of the European market.

The full debut album features some of Bell’s earliest recordings, including the full length version of 'Super Queen' (1979) and 'In The Right Place' (1980), showcasing her commanding vocal delivery and distinct musical style. Standout track 'Music Madness' has since become a muchloved disco anthem, revered by collectors and DJs alike

In Need Of... is the product of a powerhouse creative team: Bell’s soulful vocals combine with the compositional brilliance of Lafayette Afro-Rock Band’s Arthur Young and Frank Abel, enhanced by the legendary synth work of Patrick Cowley, Jacob Desvarieux of Kassav' on guitar and keyboards and Chantal Curtis on backing vocals, all brought to life by the expert production of Pierre Jaubert.

Remastered by The Carvery, this long-awaited reissue offers a fresh opportunity to rediscover an essential piece of disco history.

RELEASE DATE: May 23rd

ARTIST: Beckie Bell

TITLE: In Need Of...

CAT NO.: STRUT293LP

FORMAT: Vinyl LP

BARCODE LP: 4062548102888

TERRITORY: WW

B2.INTHERIGHTPLACE

B3.MUSICMADNESS

B4.WHATYOUNEEDICANBRING

KEYPOINTS

First-ever official vinyl release of the full ‘In Need Of...’ album featuring standout disco anthem ‘Music Madness’.

an

Remastered by The Carvery

Features

impressive cast of musicians from Patrick Cowley, Chantal Curtis, Jacob Desvarieux, Frank Abel & Arthur Young, and produced by Pierre Jaubert

IdrisAckamoorAnkhestra, DannyGlover,Rhodessa Jones

ArtisticBeing

In honour of fifty years in the performing arts dating back to the founding of the legendary band The Pyramids in 1972 Idris Ackamoor proudly presents “Artistic Being” for Record Store Day 2025. This special recording features celebrated San Francisco actor, activist, and author Danny Glover, alongside renowned stage actress Rhodessa Jones.

In February 2024 Ackamoor’s performing arts company, Cultural Odyssey, partnered with The Lab, a prominent San Francisco venue, to co-present "Underground Jazz Cabaret" during Black History Month Ackamoor expressed: “Collaborating with Danny Glover and Rhodessa Jones, two of the most revered Artistic Beings, was a profound honour Their unwavering dedication to ‘art as social activism’ feels more urgent and necessary than ever. ” The performance brought together new and classic works from Idris Ackamoor and his Ankhestra, including members of The Pyramids The evening’s score served as a connective thread, weaving together a libretto that spans from the haunting legacy of the Middle Passage to contemporary meditations and dreams for the future.

Both Danny Glover and Rhodessa Jones lent their distinctive voices to a series of powerful spoken-word musical tone poems. Among these were "Grandma Cole Story," a poignant indictment of the slave trade told through the eyes of a ten-year-old African girl aboard a slave ship, and "China Lane Suite," which explores a forbidden romance between a Chinese laundry owner and a freed slave during Reconstruction. Glover also contributed his original work, "In God’s Country," a moving homage to his mother The evening concluded with Ackamoor’s latest composition, "Now!," a striking reflection on the crises facing the Middle East today. All the narratives were underscored by an evocative score composed and arranged by Ackamoor himself, performed by his newly expanded 14-piece Ankhestra.

This performance not only celebrated a milestone in Ackamoor’s illustrious career but also exemplified the transformative power of art in addressing the pressing social issues of our time

Available as limited edition deluxe 2CD with booklet.

RELEASE DATE: May 23rd

ARTIST:IdrisAckamoorAnkhestra,DannyGlover,RhodessaJones

TITLE: Artistic Being

CAT NO.: STRUT483CD

FORMAT: 2CD

BARCODE CD: 4062548103106

TERRITORY: WW

TRACKLIST

DISC 1

1. AFRO FUTURISTIC DREAMS 13.10

2 CHINA LANE SUITE 17:36

3 TEMBEKA 7:50

4. GRANDMA COLE STORY 10:44

DISC 2

5 THANK YOU GOD 17 53

6. PRAYER FOR CHANGING TIMES 8:44

7. IN GOD’S COUNTRY 4:42 NOW! 8:49

8. CHINA LANE SUITE 17:36

9. MOONLIGHT AND SUNSHINE 9:41

Phi-Psonics Expanding To One

Double Black BioVinyl LP, in Pantone printed sleeve, with printed insert and packed in resealable protective sleeve.

Double Black BioVinyl Limited LP, in Pantone printed sleeve, containing 8-page booklet and packed in resealable protective sleeve.

CD edition, in Pantone printed, gatefold style sleeve and packed in resealable protective sleeve.

Label: Gondwana Records

Catalogue No: GONDLP076

GONDLP076LE

GONDCD076

Barcode (EAN): 4062548101133

4062548101140

4062548101126

Contact: adam@k7.com

File under: Contemporary Jazz / Jazz Crossover

Street Date: 05/23/2025 - May 23rd

“Phi-Psonics is a spiritual exploration of being together and connecting,” says acoustic bassist Seth Ford-Young of the immersive project he initiated in East Los Angeles in 2016. “From the beginning, I wanted to explore a contemplative sound, to create music that can be useful to listen to when you’re in a place of being more meditative, and maybe needing a break from the cacophony of the world.”

For his third long-player under the Phi-Psonics banner, Ford-Young marshalled a series of live recordings at the Healing Force Of The Universe record store in Pasadena, sculpting fourteen tracks, largely composed in the moment with a fluctuating cast of players, which wonderfully transmit his ideals of community and inner peace.

Called ‘Expanding To One’, it features exquisitely calming yet searching pieces like ‘There’s Still Hope’, where Seth’s softly undulating bassline underpins beatific explorations from core Phi-Psonics members, Sylvain Carton and Randal Fisher (both on saxophone), and Josh Collazo (drums), alongside guests Zach Tenorio (Wurlitzer piano) and Mathias Künzli (percussion). Equally sublime, ‘Healing Time’ ripples like a mountain stream, with Ford-Young, Carton, Fisher and Tenorio joined by Minta Spencer (harp), Dylan Day (guitar) and, on drums/percussion, Jay Bellerose, a revered LA stickman most recently under the spotlight in Jeff Parker ETA IVtet.

These exquisite recordings were captured at six fortnightly ticketed sessions at Healing Force in February-April 2024, with sixty-odd fans and locals sitting in rapt attention as the players improvised together. For Seth, the venture was partially a reaction to the brutality of COVID lockdown.

“That experience of being isolated really brought into focus how important being together is,” he says. “That’s really what we have. We have all these other ways of connecting, like via the internet, but actually being together in person, there’s no substitute for it. So, I was like, ‘Alright, I want to do something that brings people together, and builds communities.’”

As much a performance space as a record store, the room at Healing Force Of The Universe (named after the Albert Ayler album from 1970) allowed for studio-quality recording of rare warmth and definition, and Ford-Young wisely chose to present the material as a studio album, benefitting from the energy of the moment shared by all those in attendance across those six sessions, but editing out the crowd noise to let the music stand timelessly – the best of both worlds.

As the world opened up again, and social boundaries became less distanced once more, Seth very consciously took his creativity back towards the spontaneous, and opened up Phi-Psonics to broaden his community, and to improvise music collectively without too much prescribed in advance.

“I thought, ‘Let’s involve some more musicians, different instruments, people that I've played with on other things… Some of them had even sat in with the band at different gigs and stuff, so let's bring them in and really involve them in the recording, and just expand things.’ That's why I called the album ‘Expanding to One’.”

“I feel like the whole record is a document of a time and a place,” he goes on by way of summary. “There's a music community in Los Angeles right now which is doing special things, and that's part of why I chose the various people, because they’re doing beautiful work, and are of a similar mind. So, it’s all about capturing that moment”.

The audiences on each night, he says, were “an intentional listening crowd”, seated on beanbags, eyes closed, drifting with the gentle tides of the music. Experiencing ‘Expanding To One’ in the comfort of their own home, listeners can now share in that moment, and immerse themselves in the gentle beauty of Phi-Psonics musical world.

Track

Listing:

A1 Prelude: Expansion A2. There's Still Hope A3. Healing Time

A4. Many Paths

B1. Sunrise

B2. Love Theme From Your Life

B3. We're All One

B4. Nature Signs C1. Discovery

C2. It Finds A Way

C3. Sounds Of The Universe

D1. Before The Pyramids

D2. New Pyramid

D3. Mysteries Of The Dark

https://phi-psonics.com/ https://gondwanarecords.com/

PALE SAINTS SLOW BUILDINGS

Pale Saints complete their series of 30th anniversary reissues with the release of an expanded edition of their third and final album, Slow Buildings. By 1994, they were the quartet of Meriel Barham (vocals / guitar), Chris Cooper (drums), Graeme Naysmith (guitar) and Colleen Browne (bass guitar/vocals), who having just left The Heart Throbs replaced founding member Ian Masters who had departed the band to form Spoonfed Hybrid with AC Temple’s Chris Trout. Primed by the brilliant single ‘Fine Friend’ (a song adapted from 1981’s ‘Poison in the Airwaves’ by Scottish band Persian Rugs), third album Slow Buildings shows the band still venturing forward – this time, keeping the experimentation and guitar fuzz of their early records whilst opening-up their songs so Meriel’s vocals could hit new, pop heights.

As with the 30th anniversary reissues of their previous two albums, this special pressing sees this long out of print record being remastered and expanded to include a wealth of bonus material that’s sure to delight fans. Working with mastering engineer Kevin Vanbergen, this new edition runs over two discs with the album being packaged with the Fine Friend EP and a great selection of previously unheard tracks and demos as handpicked by the band.

A record that stands the test of time 30 years on, Slow Buildings is well worthy of reappraisal. This reissue is being released in the memory of Graeme Naysmith.

2xCD

4AD-0810-CD

Tracklist

King Fade

Angel (Will You Be My)

One Blue Hill

Henry

Under Your Nose

Little Gesture

Song of Solomon Fine Friend

Gesture of a Fear

Always I

Suggestion

Fine Friend

Special Present

Marimba

Reprise

On Your Own

Always I

Loopy

Henry

Angel

Honesty Spills

Marimba

Selling Points

• CD companion to the RSD limited edition pressed on petrol blue vinyl, housed in a gatefold sleeve designed by Timothy O’Donnell and Roy Burns III, using the original art photography by Dominic Davies.

Available from: May 23rd 2025

LISA GERMANO Geek The Girl

“A bold investigation of a woman’s journey through self-acceptance and the systemic issues fuelling her personal struggles.”

PopMatters

Lisa Germano’s landmark 1994 album, Geek The Girl, is a prescient yet unsettling listen. A record that explores themes of stalking, sexual harassment, anxiety and the female experience, word of mouth has only grown since its release.

A record that is as vital a statement today as when first released, Lisa is unflinching and unbowed throughout Geek The Girl, giving a platform to the silenced, or as she says, “people who are stuck but want to go somewhere else.” Writing with a raw, emotional honesty – sometimes from a kowtowing perspective – she holds little back. An incredible body of work, the atmosphere is heightened by a jaunting violin sound and her use of (with permission and after much deliberation) of a real 911 call in which a woman confronts an intruder in her own home. Her recurring use of Sicilian folk tune ‘Frascilita’ as an interlude jars too, even though she intended for it to give the album some needed “comic relief.”

Ranked in SPIN Magazine’s Top 100 albums of the 90s, Geek The Girl is unlike most music of the period and a testament to both Lisa’s artistry and courage. Working with Abbey Road Studios in London, the album has been remastered for its 30th anniversary and has had both ‘Cry Wolf’ b-side ‘The Mirror Is Gone’ and 5 track pre-cursor EP, Inconsiderate Bitch, added to deliver the complete package.

2xCD

4AD-0809-CD

Tracklist

My Secret Reason Trouble Geek The Girl Just Geek Cry Wolf ...A Psychopath Sexy Little Girl Princess Phantom Love Cancer Of Everything A Guy Like You ...Of Love And Colours Stars The Mirror Is Gone Happiness Energy Puppet Sycophant (Late Night) Dresses

Selling Points

• Remastered and expanded (featuring ‘Cry Wolf’ b-side ‘The Mirror Is Gone’ and the 5-track pre-cursor EP Inconsiderate Bitch).

• CD companion to the RSD limited edition pressed on double, crystal clear vinyl with a cover designed by Chris Bigg (v23) featuring imagery from the original porcelain doll cover shoot by Dominic Davies.

Available from: May 23rd 2025

THRILL JOCKEY

Emptyset, James Ginzburg and Paul Purgas, explore both spatial and physical properties of sound; specifically the perceptible boundaries between it and noise. They have produced installations for Tate Britain and the Architecture Foundation in London. Emptyset’s new album Dissever continues their exploration of the histories of 20th century electronic sound and media. Dissever delves into the intertwined evolution of cosmic rock, minimalism and electronic music, viewed through their prospective dreams and overlapping technological ambitions. Premiered at Tate Modern as a live performance, Dissever was part of the exhibition Electric Dreams, a large-scale survey of the global history of art and technology. The resulting album is astoundingly sublime, rich with sonics that are as thrilling and immediate as they are singular and dense with complexity.

The compositions across Dissever draw threads from pioneering production methods emerging in parallel across the late 1960’s, considering the cross talk between these fields and their radical intentions to carve out the future from differing paths, traversing the mystical and modern, while incorporating elements of the transformative, hypnotic, expansive and transcendent to define new principles within sound. The arrangements, performed live and captured in single takes, emerged across a series of sessions at long term collaborator Mat Sampson’s recording studio in Bristol. This process revisited early hardware, spatial and multitrack recording techniques to create a dynamic body of material that could look back to these foundational musical forms and converge them through the lens of a reimagined timeline, cultivating a transmission from 1969 to the present and a sensory bridge to the past.

ALSO AVAILABLE FROM Emptyset :

“Borders” CD/LP (Thrill 429)

“Skin” LP (Thrill 451)

“Blossoms” CD/LP (Thrill 507)

Emptyset Dissever

Thrill - 631

CD

BOX LOT LP 50

LP

BOX LOT LP 25

Pure Denim LP

BOX LOT LP 25

Vinyl is non-returnable

GENRE: Alternative Electronic

FILE UNDER: “E” for Emptyset

RELEASE DATE: 23-May-2025

NO EXPORT

TRACK LISTING:

1. Gloam

2. Aether

3. Penumbra

SALES POINTS

79037H-063127

79037H-063110

79037H-631111

4. Dissever 5. Lucent 6. Antumbra 7. Dawn

Emptyset are the duo of James Ginzburg and Paul Purgas, explorers of both spatial and physical properties of sound; specifically the perceptible boundaries between it and noise. They have produced installations for Tate Britian and the Architecture Foundation in London.

In fall of 2024, Dissever premiered at the Electric Dreams exhibition at the Tate Modern.

James Ginzburg makes music as Ginz, the Body Snatchers, and as an accomplished remixer and producer. Artists he works with include Basement Jaxx, Joker, AussChuss, Jules Reidy, Th@ kid, and Spooky Bizzle. James also runs labels Subtext and Arc Light Editions Imprint as well as a publishing company.

Paul Purgas lectured on the history of India’s first electronic music studio at the Guliford Moog Symposium Purgas has also curated for the Wysing Arts Centre’s annual music festival with Moor Mother and wrote for the Unsound: Undead Book for Audint, which was distributed by MIT Press.

Emptyset Will be performing at the Rewire Festival and Long Play Festival in NYC this year.

The duo‘s notable performances include Moogfest, Berlin Atonal, Unsound, MUTEK, CTM, Sonic Acts, Berghain, Luminato, Adelaide, and Bozar

“The sparse, minimal, glacially evolving throbs of the duo Emptyset explore the area where electronic sound meets our fragile reality — silence, feedback, room ambience. For its sixth album, “Blossoms,” the group allowed machine-learning software to gobble up Emptyset records and hours of percussion jams. It threw up a convulsing, mutated, Cronenberg-ian tantrum of rhythmic confusion.” - New York Times

“However you or I might feel about almost-literal computer music is beside the point. The strong sense of perpetual emergence – of listening in on an intelligent system gaining confidence – makes Blossoms an especially remarkable listen.” - The Quietus

“Emptyset are in a class by themselves when it comes to excavating brutality out of silence.” - Pitchfork

THRILL JOCKEY

Thalia Zedek Band The Boat Outside Your Window

Thrill - 630

CD

BOX LOT LP 50

LP

BOX LOT LP 25

Coke Bottle Clear LP

BOX LOT LP 25

Vinyl is non-returnable

GENRE: Alternative Rock

79037H-063028

FILE UNDER: “T” for Thalia Zedek Band

RELEASE DATE: 23-May-2025

NO EXPORT

Thalia Zedek’s considerable body of work demonstrates a clarity of vision, a singular performance style, and an expansive range. Her ability to deliver raw emotions through her vivid stories of loss and hope, strife and triumph is unmatched. Zedek has long been a melodic songwriter in a series of heavy bands. That contrast, alongside her distinct blend of both direct and poetic lyrics, allows her to sing of the most difficult of life’s moments in ways that are both elevating and devastating. Out and proud her entire career, Zedek never hesitates to speak truth to power. The Boat Outside Your Window finds Zedek contemplating absence and distance, with songs as spirited as they are profoundly moving.

The band is guitarist and vocalist Zedek, bassist Winston Braman, and drummer Gavin McCarthy (Karate), now joined by newest member, pedal steel guitarist Karen Sarkisian. On The Boat Outside Your Window, Sarkisian’s counter melodies and oblique augmentations created with non-traditional tools like an ebow, add an otherworldly quality to songs. The grit of Zedek’s guitar and drive of Braman and McCarthy are met with synth-like swells and more harmonic density. The album features guests Nancy Asch (percussion) and Beth Heinberg (piano) whose subtle touches are added to “Shoes” and “Aliyah”. The record was recorded with Andy Hong, mixed by Seth Manchester, and mastered by Sarah Register

The energetic “Tsunami” intertwines the personal and the political, the rising waves of pedal steel surround the song’s core of Zedek’s guitar lines. “Aliyah”’(meaning rising, ascending, exalted) is a song about the ancient tower of Babel and the utter communication breakdown that humankind is currently in the midst of. “Disarm”’ deals with personal separation and reunification while “Circus,” looks at broader helplessness and loss of control. “Boat” gorgeously captures the beauty and pain of seeing a person one misses in one’s surroundings. The poignant “Shoes”, a song inspired by Berlin, braids haunting images of the past with an unsettling present. Throughout the album, Zedek deftly uncovers how external realities manifest in our internal worlds.

Zedek’s mastery of songwriting is on full display on The Boat Outside Your Window. Her unique musical voice remains potent and pointed. Cultivating her sound with purpose and an unflinching view of humanity, Zedek’s words and music are both invigorating, and capable of deep emotional complexities. The Boat Outside Your Window is Thalia Zedek reaching new heights, reinforcing her status as a peerless songwriter and voice.

ALSO AVAILABLE FROM Thalia Zedek :

“Trust Not Those In Whom...” CD/LP (Thrill 148)

“Liars and Prayers” CD/LP (Thrill 196)

“Via” CD/LP (Thrill 325) | “SIX” CD/LP (Thrill 359)

“Eve” CD/LP (Thrill 409) | “Fighting Season” CD/LP (Thrill 471)

“Been Here and Gone” CD/LP (Thrill 544)

“Perfect Vision” CD/LP (Thrill 547)

TRACK LISTING:

1. Tsunami

2. Aliyah

3. Pin

4. Naming Names

5. Disarm

SALES POINTS

Circus

Boat

Shoes

Dissolve

Under Weather

Thalia Zedek, a legend in independant music from her work in COME, UZI, Live Skull and Dangerous Birds to her vast solo catalog. Zedek’s work stands alone for its singular persistent guitar-driven melodies and seering emotional intelligence.

Thalia Zedek Band is Thalia Zedek (guitar, vocals), Winston Braman (bass), Gavin McCarthy (drums), and Karen Sarkisian (pedal steel), with special appearances by Nancy Asch (percussion) and Beth Heinberg (piano).

The Boat Outside Your Window was recorded by Andy Hong at Infrasonic, mixed by Seth Manchester at Machines with Magnets, and mastered by Sarah Register.

Thalia Zedek has toured or collaborated with The Indigo Girls, J Mascis, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr, Sugar, Nirvana and many other seminal rock bands.

The Boat Outside Your Window is available in CD and LP formats. Limited Coke Bottle Clear LPs available. All formats include a digital download card.

“her voice sounding like a cross between Nico and Patti Smith ...musically she spans pedal-steel-laden country rock, punk menace and string-driven Velvets drones.” - Uncut

“she has rediscovered the energy that defined her work with Uzi, Live Skull, and Come, pouring imposing defiance into ten rocking cuts.” - The Wire

“Ms.Zedek’s songs {are}...more hard-nosed, delivered...in a raspy voice that backed by the band’s folk-rock, sounded surprisingly like Bob Dylan’s.” - New York Times

“This is someone getting better at something they were already incredible at.” - The Quietus

Artist: Bardo Pond

Title: Volume 4 & 5

Release date: 2025-05-23

Label: Fire Records

Track List

Volume 4 - Side A

A1 Take What You Need

A2 K2

Volume 4 - Side B

B1 New Drunks (Revisited)

B2 Pangolin Dance

B3 Narmada

Volume 5 - Side A

A1 Fufo

Volume 5 - Side B

B1 Monarch

Bardo Pond – Volume 4&5

A double LP package from Bardo Pond, combining two of their super rare jam volumes on vinyl for the first time. A further edition in this celebrated series, ‘Volume 4’ and ‘Volume 5’ feature more freeform improvisational pieces from the hypnotic Philadelphia outfit.

Capturing the raw essence of the band, whose fearless exploration blurs the lines between structure, chaos, melody and noise. Bardo Pond's music traverses space rock, acid rock, post-rock, shoegaze, noise, Krautrock and psychedelia.

‘Volume 4’ hails from self-released sessions recorded in January 2002, its five tracks include the supremely tripped out heaviness of ‘K2’ and the balance-shifting ‘New Drunks (Revisited)’ with Isobel Sollenberger’s exquisite and, frankly, quite disturbing vocal. They’re shorter interrogations of sound by Bardo terms, almost succinct in their mesmerising riffage and off-kilter arrangements.

By contrast, ‘Volume 5’ consists of two lengthy mantras recorded between 2000 and 2004 and released as the tape spool spiralled out. ‘FUFO’ sounds like Cluster unravelling with Merzbow mixing, a post-industrial slew of hypnotic proportions, while ‘Monarch’ begins as a Current 93-like neo-folk mood piece before evolving into a wailing slice of drone-drenched Americana by way of a Velvets’ jam.

“We were pushing improvisations as far as we could. It was glorious having the studio. The more that our heads were spinning after a session, the better we knew that session would sound when we listened back. We were getting together two nights a week, usually three or four hours working on material and songs and the other half the time letting loose. Volumes 4 and 5 gather together some of these improvisations, and one early song that we felt like doing.” Adds Michael Gibbons of Bardo Pond.

“One of underground rock's most extraordinary enigmas, a majestic command of sound.” The Quietus

JESSE QUEBBEMAN-TURLEY

HOSANA: THE MESSE DE NOSTRE DAME

Jesse Quebbeman-Turley says that their debut full-length, Hosana: the Messe de Nostre Dame is a “reflection on our simultaneously real and fictive relationships to the past.” That is a conceptuallybold claim, but one that Quebbemen-Turley and the music itself robustly back up

Effectively an abstracted cover of Medieval French composer Guillaume de Machaut’s Messe de Nostre Dame, Hosana is aesthetically profound, centering minimalist weavings of harpsichord, guitar, synthesizer, saxophone, bass clarinet, voice, and the tuning fork organ (played by its inventor, Davy Sumner). Quebbeman-Turley’s extensive use of what they call rhythmic harmony creates a sense of infinite sonic combinations of cycling, hypnotic sounds –– pulsing, loping, often subtle but ultimately ecstatic and intimate.

During his life, Guillaume de Machaut created the Ferrell-Vogüé Codex, a self-archival project that was entirely unique for the time In this codex, Machaut included his music, poetry, and a collection of illustrations and calligraphy, even selecting the binding himself This codex is the site of the Messe de Nostre Dame, which is the earliest surviving Mass with a single author

“I am drawn,” Quebbeman-Turley says, “to the clarity of Machaut's gesture” via the codex Quebbeman-Turley sees desire, a reaching forward into a future unknown, and they are compelled to, in a sense, reciprocate the gesture. Quebbeman-Turley is influenced in part by their Mormon upbringing, saying that the belief system, as both a spiritual and intellectual framework, places poetic significance on concepts of temporality and eternity

“I crave collaboration with Machaut,” Quebbeman-Turley says. And while of course that is not possible –– nor is direct knowledge of what Machauts music sounded like in any of the particular rooms in which he performed it, nor what was the on the minds of his listeners, and so on –– Quebbeman-Turley seeks and finds meaning in a kind of fictionalization of their connection to Machaut “In a sense,” Quebbeman-Turley says, “I believe the relation to be real but the material of the connection to be fiction.”

Street Date: 05.23.25

WSR059-CD

UPC: 781661739149

Whited Sepulchre Records

01. Go now you are dismissed 02 I believe 03 Binding / Illumination 04 Hosana

Quebbeman-Turley's extensive work as a session drummer, recording with artists Cherry Glazerr, Eyvind Kang & Jessika Kenney, Buck Meek, Meernaa, The Army The Navy, Jerry Paper has connected them to the musicians on this recording: Patrick Shiroishi, Luke Williams, Gregory Ulhmann, Logan Hone, and Davy Sumner.

The pleasures of rhythm pervade all of Quebbeman-Turley’s work and their playing on Hosana –– particularly of the harpsichord –– is certainly the playing of a percussionist. But it is also the playing –– and the compositions –– of an artist whose sense of eternity and matters of the spirit is vividly animated

Distro Contact: Lori

Label Contact: Ryan Hall whitedsepulchrerecords@gmail com

Track List:

I. Nargess

II. Fazlina

III.Folla

IV.Lajwa

V. Mifraz

VI.Qashmina

VII.Samreen

VIII.Shefali

Recording Engineer: René Pierre Allain at Scholes Street Studio, Brooklyn, NY

Mixed and mastered by Nathan James at Vault Mastering, Phoenix, AZ

Graphic design by Jiryis Ballan

Cover Photo by James Ilgenfritz

Ayman Fanous Joe Morris

Zuhour

Zuhour (flowers in Arabic) is an album of improvised pieces by the duo of guitarists Ayman Fanous and Joe Morris. While firmly rooted in the free jazz idiom, the pieces veer into unexpected territory, including flamenco and musique concrète. Both guitarists employ a wide array of techniques, from traditional plectrum approaches to fingerstyle and extended techniques. Although the pieces are entirely unplanned, they sometimes sound throughcomposed, due to Fanous and Morris’ sympathetic deep listening and generosity. This results in music that is warm, spontaneous, and unpredictable, where figure and ground merge imperceptibly and kaleidoscopic

Photo of Ayman Fanous and Joe Morris by René Pierre Allan © & ℗ 2025 Ayman Fanous and Joe Morris

RIYL: Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Alice Coltrane, Nate Wooley, Mary Halvorson, Luke Stewart, Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, Cecil Taylor, Anthony Braxton

Logan Richard is one of music’s rarest creatures—a compelling and diverse songwriter who also shreds.

The P.E.I.-born-and-based artist has been sharpening both skills since he rst picked up the guitar as a pre-teen, building a reputation as a deft, genre- uid songsmith and peerless hired gun for some of Canada’s most exciting musicians. But his new full-length, Character Traits, collects the undeniable evidence of his talents under his own name as he navigates slick pop, spacey R&B, and soulful folk. As the thesis song and title track attests, he’s a 21st-century renaissance man in both skill and style.

In uenced by his axe-slinging brother, artists like Stevie Ray Vaughan and John Mayer, his dad’s record collection, and his Acadian mom’s ddle-playing family, Logan hit the stage at just 12 years old, cutting his teeth playing gigs around the island he still calls home. He’s built his career as both a solo artist and in-demand live and session player, racking up experience over more than a decade and playing everywhere from dim blues dives to historical soft-seaters.

“‘Character Traits’ was the very last song that I wrote for the record. It came together in one sitting, which doesn't happen to me very often,” Logan says. “That song tied everything together—I don’t think there are any two songs on the album that sound super similar to each other. Each song touches on a di erent genre and lyrical theme. They all represent separate little character traits. They all reveal di erent aspects of who I am.”

Character Traits is the inevitable result of commitment to craft. It is a collection of considered and close-to-the-heart songs that provide a detailed picture of a songwriter hitting his stride.

Karisma Records

Nygårdsgaten 2

5015 Bergen

Norway www.karismarecords.no post@karismarecords.no

OVERVIEW:

Band: LarsFredrikFrøislie

Title: ”Gamle Mester”

Label: Karisma Records

Catalogue no &barcodes:

KAR296CD- 7073317002909

KAR296LP- 7073317002916

KAR296LPC -7073317002923

Format: CD,LP(Black), Ltd. LP (MarbleVinyl)

Tracklist: 01. Demring(Dawn)

02. JaktenPåDet KalydonskeVillsvin (TheHuntforthe Calydonian Boar)

03. Gamle Mester(Old Master)

04. Medusas Flåte(TheRaftof the Medusa)

05. DeTreGratier (The Three Graces)

06. Skumring (Dusk)

On his secondsoloalbum, "Gamle Mester" (Old Master), Lars Fredrik Frøisliepays homage to the greats of the past. Drawing inspiration not only fromthepioneers of progressiverock but also fromart, literature, andmythology, the albumreflects on timeless acts of creativity that still resonate today.The titleis derivedfrom the ancient oak tree"Den Gamle Mester," foundat Krødsherad Prestegård, which also inspireda poem of the samenameby Jørgen Moe. This symbolic tree serves as aunifyingtheme throughoutthealbum, representing wisdom,endurance, andthepassageof time.

Fromthe opening track "Demring" (Dawn)to the closing “Skumring”(Dusk), the album embarks ona dynamic journey filled with masterfulinstrumentation andsomeof Frøislie’s most compelling songwritingto date.

The albumreaches its crescendo with "Detre gratier" (TheThree Graces), named after the daughters of Zeus. Spanning 12 minutes,this opus encapsulates everything that makes "Gamle Mester" a triumph. Shifting between light and dark, the track is a treasuretrove of richkeyboard textures, soaring flutemelodies,dynamic percussion, and thevirtuosic bass work of NikolaiHængsle. With"Gamle Mester," Lars Fredrik Frøislie delivers an albumsteeped in history, mythology, and musicalbrilliance. Amust-havefor progressiverock enthusiasts andcollectors alike.

SELLING POINTS

 For fans of Wobbler, Yes, GentleGiant, Jordsjø, Tusmørke + + +

 LimitedLPversionon Green/ Transparent Marble Vinyl(600x)

 Featuring Nikolai Hængsle (Elephant9, Needlepoint, Bigbang+ +) on bass, and Ketil Einarsen (Ex-JagaJazzist, Weserbergland, White Willow) on flute

 Digitalsingles: Gamle Mester (13. March), Jakten på det Kalydonske villsvin (10. April)

Bandwebsite: www.facebook.com/larsfredrikfroislie

Labelwebsite:www.karismarecords.no,

For interviews, info & promomaterial,contact Karisma Records andMartin Kvam: e-mail: post@karismarecords.no / tel: +47 95 749219

THE DELINES

MR. LUCK & MS. DOOM

SIDE A

1. Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom 2. Her Ponyboy

3. Left Hook Like Frazier 4. Sitting On The Curb

5. There's Nothing Down The Highway SIDE B

6. Don't Miss Your Bus Lorraine 7. The Haunting Thoughts 8. Nancy & The Pensacola Pimp

9. Maureen's Gone Missing 10. JP & Me

11. Don't Go Into That House Lorraine

• SECOND PRESSING “OX BLOOD” COLOR VINYL.

“The Delines’way with romance is all their own and time is suspended as we watch with our ears. Southern country-soul bent, as economical and well-judged in arrangements and execution as they are in their lyrical content.” – UNCUT

Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom, The Delines fourth full-length release, follows romantic misfits and grifters as they drift across the United States, living out of suitcases and cars, hoping that in the next town or city will be the score that saves them. Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom features 11 new songs penned by novelist and songwriter Willy Vlautin, whose lyrics transport the listener inside the lives of these lost drifters. Recorded at Bocce Studios, with longtime collaborator John Morgan Askew, the record features Amy Boone’s lush, world worn voice, the cinematic production skills of Askew, and the horn and string arrangement of Delines keyboardist and trumpeter, Cory Gray. This is wide screen, CinemaScope, Delines at their best.

‘their finest album yet’ UNCUT 9/10 ‘Outstanding’ MOJO 4/5

TWÏNS

Followingtheir2022debutalbum“TheHumanJazz”,Berlin basedartistTwïnsreturnstoEarthLibrarieswith“Healing Dreams”,theirsecondLPAfterexploringthenatureofloss andgriefintheirfirstrecord,thisalbumrepresentsthespiritual journeythatfollows,onetowardshealingandgrowth,bothas anindividualandasacommunity

“HealingDreams”transportsthelistenerintoamulti-faceted tropicaluniversethatfeelsalongwayawayfromBerlinItis warmandmellow,withfloatingquestionsthatareexploredin softcontemplationbytheseainthebossa-tinted“Marisma”,or inthedepthsofthemeditativemind,inthefree-form improvisation“Introspection”Asenseofpersonalpainand melancholycanbefeltinsomeofthelyrics,whichcontinueto turnoverthecomplicationsofrelationshipsinalltheirforms, butthesunbeamsrarelyvanish

FTheinfluenceofspiritualjazzisclearlypresentinTwïns’work, accompaniedbyahumbleandjoyousexplorationoftheirmost treasuredauralaestheticsfromthe‘70sThesoftrockofPaul McCartneyandGeorgeHarrisoninspireagentletone,inwhich Twïnssharestheirrejectionofviolenceandaggressioninthe increasinglydarkworldthatweinhabitThewords:“Peaceand unityshallbethepoemoftheday”arewrittenonthefront coveroftheLP,transcribedfromtherealdreamthatinspired thealbum’stitle

RIYL:LôBorges,PharoahSanders,CaroleKing,TexCrick,Amen Dunes,GaryWilson

Artist: TWÏNS

Album: HEALING DREAMS

Label: Earth Libraries

Genre: PSYCHEDELIC / INDIE ROCK

Release Date: 5.23.2025

TRACKS

My Head is my Holy House Ikarus Love, Third Variation I Dream of Sleep Tango Mango Spirits Sing, But You Are Gone Reflections (Peace & Unity) Marisma Earth Piece Season of Strangers Introspection Oriente

TOP MARKETS

BERLIN, PARIS, BARCELONA, BROOKLYN, AUSTIN, LONDON, CHICAGO

Is it Jazz? Records

Nygårdsgaten 2

5015 Bergen Norway

www.isitjazzrecords.no martin@isitjazzrecords.no

OVERVIEW

Band: SoftFfog

Title: ”Focus”

Label: Is it Jazz? Records

Catalogue no: KAR290CD / KAR290LPC

Barcode: 7073317002657 / 7073317002664

Format: CD / LTD LP (Blue/White Swirl Vinyl)

Soft Ffog is a Norwegian progressive jazz-rock band celebrated for its exceptional virtuosity and high musicianship levels. The band combines intricate jazz improvisation with rock elements, creating a dynamic and engaging listening experience that showcases precision and creativity.

On their second album Focus, the band is more progrock than ever. The Soft is Ffoggier and the Ffog is softer. Highly influenced by 70s underground heroes like Camel and Focus, sprinkled with that old jazz dust, this new record should satisfy all you 70s nostalgics with a jazz tickle out there!

The combined members of Soft Ffog have probably played with everyone in the Norwegian jazz scene, but here they do their own thing. All songs are composed by Tom Hasslan, and the band is playing his compositions like there’s no tomorrow. But then again, there will probably be a tomorrow, and then you buy the record, and «YoU Will Be happy» !!

Line-up:

- Tom “Zappa-finger” Hasslan on the guitars

- Axel “Pheel the Collin’s” Skalstad on the buckets

- Trond “Geezer Jeezuz” Frønes on the bass

- Vegard “Wake(up the)man” Lien Bjerkan on all the keyboards in the world

Focus was recorded by Christian Engfelt at Studio Paradiso. Produced by Tom Hasslan/Soft Ffog and Christian Engfelt, and mastered by Espen Høydalsvik at OSLO:Fuzz. Cover art by Einar Evju, layout and logo by Tom Korsvold.

Selling points:

 Band members from Krokofant, Red Kite, WIZRD, Grand General and more

 For fans of King Crimson, Terje Rypdal, Krokofant, Red Kite, Elephant9

 Release concerts to be announced

 Limited edition LP on Blue / White Swirl Vinyl (500x)

 Digital single: Oh Jimi (21/3)

Band website: https://www.facebook.com/Softffog

Label website: www.isitjazzrecords.no

For interviews, info & promo material, contact Is it Jazz? Records and Martin Kvam: e-mail: martin@isitjazzrecords.no / tel: +47 95 74 92 19

caroline

caroline2

Friday May 30th, 2025

TRACKLISTING

Total euphoria

Song two

Tell me I never knew that (feat. Caroline Polachek) When I get home

PRESS

U R UR ONLY ACHING

Coldplay cover Two riders down Beautiful ending

“Deeply emotional deconstructed post-rock with heavy doses of orchestral beauty… incredible” - Stereogum

“It seems no task is too ambitious for caroline right now” - Loud & Quiet 8/10

“caroline take a molecular-gastronomy approach to both sweeping postrock and weeping Midwest emo, toying with structure, arrangement, and texture” - Pitchfork: 8.0

“A hypnotising debut from an octet bursting with ideas”. -NME

“caroline’s self-titled debut album is a thing of rich and rare emotional power” - The Quietus

Ever evolving London-based eight-piece ensemble caroline return with their first new music in three years.

“The first record was a compilation, but this one is a declaration,” says Jasper Llewellyn.

Fleshed out over several songwriting trips across Scotland, France and England, caroline’s second album picks up where its predecessor left off, but in many, many others, it finds them breaking new ground. It makes for a record of extraordinary scope – where the organic and the artificial, the harsh and the beautiful, the pristine and the hazy all clash and combine.

‘Tell me I never knew that’ welcomes a new voice entirely in Caroline Polachek. A mutual fan, Polachek agreed not only to contribute to a song, but to push it even further. “She was a force to be reckoned with,” says O’Malley. “She was singing for five or six hours, writing new harmonies.”

On caroline 2, what were once incidental moments have become an intentional centerpiece. On ‘Coldplay cover’ (a joke name that ended up sticking), half of the band started playing in their manager’s living room, the other half in the kitchen, while engineer Syd Kemp physically took a microphone from one room to the other.

There are many other worlds to be found across this record –There are earthly sweeps of strings, starkly manipulated vocals, low resonant drones, fractured snippets of field recordings and a great heaving sound – heavily distorted acoustic instruments –

Constantly shifting, but consistently magnificent.

YEULE EVANGELIC GIRLISAGUN

Release Date: May 30th, 2025

yeule (aka Nat Ćmiel), the cyborg alchemist coalescing the soundscapesofglitch-popelectronica,altrock,andtrip-hop.Aftertheir breakthrough sophomore album in 2022, Glitch Princess, Nat Ćmiel crystallised their place as alt electronica luminary with their boundary-breaking 2023 album, softscars. Both albums were named ‘Best New Music’ by Pitchfork with the latter lauded as a “riotous, high-energy journey”bythe Guardian

Forthcoming album, Evangelic Girl is a Gun, is set for release on May 30th via Ninja Tune. It is yeule’s most unrestrained and emotionally baring work yet, as they grapple with ideas of a self-destructive identity burning through the canvas of post-modernity. Accompanied by still visual artworks made in collaboration with artist Vasso Vu (Ashnikko, MarinaAbramović), Ćmielexploresthedualityof darkness,aswellastheirpersonalhistorytotheirroleasthe"painter.” Through the album’s hypnotic melodies, they present a portrait of the tortured artist trapped within an image, as Ćmiel’s haunting vocals act as an emotional chokehold atop dance beats. The album features production from A.G. Cook (Charli xcx, Caroline Polachek), Chris Greatti (Lady Gaga, Yves Tumor), Mura Masa, Clams Casino, Fitnesss and Kin Leonn, Ćmiel’s trusted collaborator and co-executiveproducerof2023’s softscars

Ahead of the release of Evangelic Girl is a Gun yeule will make their TV debut as a guest on Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney on Netflix. Following release they will embark on a full NorthAmerican tour.

Socials

Instagram: @yeule (242k followers)

TikTok: @yeul_e (84k followers)

Facebook: @yeulemusic (18k followers)

Discord: https://discord.gg/yeule (10k followers)

StandardVinyl

CATNO: ZEN315

UPC: 5054429200645

CD CATNO: ZENCD315

UPC: 5054429200669

IndiesExclusiveVinyl

CATNO: ZEN315E

UPC: 5054429202601

140g black vinyl, 12” outersleeve (6mm spine), 12” inner sleeve with hole on one side and A2 folded poster (16.5 in x 23.4 in).

Jewelcase with CD

140g Iris of Bloodlust vinyl (Red Marble), 12” outer sleeve (6mm spine), 12” inner sleeve with hole on one side and A2 folded poster (16.5 in x 23.4 in).

A

TheGirlWho SoldHerFace

B 1. Dudu 2. What3vr 3. Saiko 4. EvangelicGirlis aGun 5. Skullcrusher

Genre: Alternative,Electronic Key Markets: LosAngeles,Chicago,NewYork, Dallas,Seattle

Recommended if you like… SOPHIE,Mitski,Alex G,MuraMasa,JapaneseBreakfast

Previous Release: rR

Release Title: softscars

Date of Release: September 22nd, 2023

Label: Ninja Tune

Formats: Vinyl, CD

JAMESZOO WITHASKO|SCHÖNBERG

MUSIC FOR 17 MUSICIANS

Release date: 30May2025

Jameszoo (Mitchel van Dinther) returns to Brainfeeder with a wonderfully cinematic album embarking on adventures on the fringes of jazz and contemporary classical. Much like in 2019 when he worked with the MetropoleOrkesttoadapthisalbum‘Fool’,Jameszoois back writing for a sizeable ensemble reinterpreting his youngest record ‘Blind’, navigating it into uncharted watersheavingwithfunandbeauty.

Imbued with the same spirit of adventure and experimental outlook as his previous work on the label, ‘Music for 17 Musicians’ is a new work written for and performed by the renowned ensemble Asko|Schönberg, percussion group HIIIT and Jameszoo’s own “blind” group: Niels Broos (keys), Petter Eldh (bass) and Richard Spaven (drums). The title is a nod to Steve Reich’s masterful 1978 album on ECM‘Musicfor18Musicians’.

Therecordisalargelyacousticpiecedivingdeeperinto and reflecting on the ideas behind ‘Blind’ with the Disklavier (motorised piano) at the heart of the ensemble, allowing for the execution of passages unplayablebythehumanhand.

Jameszoo released his debut album “Fool” in 2016. It featured cameos from two outright legends: Brazilian composer Arthur Verocai and pianist Steve Kuhn; in addition to virtuoso bassist Thundercat. In 2017 Jameszooopened ADE withaveryspecialcollaboration with Jules Buckley and the Grammy-Award winning Metropole Orkest at the iconic Melkweg concert hall. The recordings of this momentous collaboration were releasedviaBrainfeederinMay2019.

A1.(EggModern)

A2.(musicforbatcaves)

A3.(Hommageàqui)

A4.(BigGame)

B1.(Philip)

B2.(Bugatti)

B3.(Imps)

B4.(“song”)

Genre: Alternative,Jazz,Experimental Key Markets: LosAngeles,Chicago,NewYork, Toronto,Seattle

Recommended if you like… MaxRichter;Floating Points,PharoahSanders&LSO;MetropoleOrkest; ColinStetson;JonnyGreenwood;JerskinFendrix

CAT NO: BF151

UPC:

5054429201086

Box Lot: 20

￫ BlackvinylLP

￫ Photographyby

naretail@ninjatune.net

VictoireElekonawo,Chris DiepenhorstandBart Grietens

￫ Layoutanddesignby AdamStoverandPieter Goossens

POSSESSION TY SEGALL

DC915 LP/CD/CS

Street Date: May 30, 2025

NO EXPORT TO UK/EU/AUS./ NEW ZEALAND, TO BE POSSESSED IN ALL OTHER TERRITORIES!

2025: YOLO. With the quickness, time’s still slipping into the future so fast at times, you may think the end’s in sight up ahead, or that you’ve outrun the long trail of history behind. All that’s absurd, man. Take it from Ty Segall. He’s been on a few trips around the sun himself, making records in orbit as he charts his path forward. Modern life is here to stay, but also (to quote an old civil war scribe), everything rocks and nothing dies so for Possession, Ty ’s 16th album, he strikes up the orchestra in his head with an abiding view of some quintessentially American stories, a quest channeled into ten non-stop bangers. Because you gotta move or something might be catching you!

A year and a half removed from the trenchant identity opus of his Three Bells song cycle, Ty ’s beamed himself out from deep within psychic interiors. Hitting the trail beneath the big skies of our good ol’ frontier empire, he’s on the hunt for new horizons and it’s frankly astonishing to hear, at this mature point in his discography, the discovery of invigorated new sonics around every bend. That’s simply what Ty does with his music. Here, compulsive rhythm arrangements are joined in battle by sweeping movements of strings and horns that further the charge righteously.

Recently available from Ty Segall:

Be it de Toqueville, duBois, George H. Nash, Howard Zinn, Bob Dylan or Smile-era Beach Boys, it doesn’t matter where you get your history: whether you wanna party like it’s 1999 or 1699, the stories you like to tell yourself tend to reinforce what you already believe. But what if they didn’t? Here, coursing through the irresistibly high music spirits, Ty foists social concepts that you won’t read about in school. In the process, he manages to slip discreetly in and out of the ranks of silver-tongued bums, fly-by-nights and way-outs like Cheap Trick and Steely Dan, never tarrying long enough to retain their distinctive ordure.

One of the keys to this new music involved tapping an old friend and collaborator, filmmaker Matt Yoka, to write with him. As a non-musician, Matt ’s language sense is different from the one Ty ’s amassed as a player of music. With the trust they’ve developed over the years brainstorming the visual worlds of Goodbye Bread, Manipulator, Emotional Mugger, and plenty more they throw the conceptual ball back and forth to translate general vibes and feels into wicked lyric imagery, each acting as writer and editor in the process.

Through these lyric sets, Ty found new scansion and different shapes suggesting the qualities of the songs, and of an overall arrangement sense. That’s where the other keys came in piano keys! Ty ’s been woodshedding on the 88s, the 76s and/or the 61s; they add new outlines and shadings to the music, fortifying his fantastic plastic vision left and right. Rife with singing guitar leads and Wizzardian brass n’ reeds lustily riffin’ on the banks of Ty ’s harmony vocal choir, Possession features some of Ty ’s most inspired songs to date.

It’s a post–"Paradise City" map of the American way, moving and grooving, but not pointing fingers even as childish fantasies splatter across the windshield. Taking back alleys through complicated cityscapes, ripping riffs jaggedly out of past hits for a new purpose, Ty scans the wreckage scattered all around, singing about the end of the rope while resisting defeat suggesting an ecstatic new empire to build as he cruises the countryside in his glittering craft. Track List: Shoplifter Possession Buildings Shining Skirts of Heaven Fantastic Tomb The Big Day Hotel Alive Another California Song

COUNTERCLOCKWISE FAUN FABLES

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Track List: The Wedding

Ember Bell Washing Song Widdershins

Black Diamond

Elfrida

Fearful Name

Black Angels (Czarne Anioły)

Woolsey Street & the Lake of Fire

Sugar Camp

Lullaby

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Hiawatha

Wonderous Stories

Maybe

Joy of Counterclockwise

Celestial Bell

Faun Fables, the long-running collaboration between Dawn McCarthy and Nils Frykdahl, have returned with Counterclockwise, the follow-up to 2016’s Born of the Sun. With the longest space between albums in the band’s twenty-seven year history, the nature of time and experience spent raising a family and negotiating life’s changes have much to do with the incredible listening companion Faun Fables have gifted us here.

Counterclockwise’s songs and production are the most encompassing, richly lived-in sonic world of their seven full-length albums. From start to finish, it is an exquisitely etched portrait of their aesthetic and worldview: colorfully studded with fine-hewed jewels of song, tinged with the traditional sounds of past and future nations.

Their timeless “songtelling” practice is entwined with a holistic view of a life in music embracing and celebrating the mundane details of home, partnering and family, elevated by a mystical and fantastical perspective. The new discovery here is their creative relationship with time. As Dawn notes in the album liner:

“Time… the most fertile & playful of mediums, though full of mist... We mustn’t forget time offers itself first as something to be creatively shaped.”

To this end, the title conception of “counterclockwise” spins alternatively to the accepted definition of going against the grain of time. In the Faun family, the passage of time is an affirmative process evolving through old and new generations. Their time in the world is an exception to the view of aging into infirmity and death. Instead, it is one of eternal return, of thought, belief and shared experience living on, becoming young and growing again. And again!

Counterclockwise began to take form in 2020, its songs brought together from over a span of fifteen years. Some came from commissioned projects about werewolves, Mother Goose and other fairy tales. Others were rooted in familial traditions: “The Wedding” was conceived as an ideal air to be sung at such a gathering; “Lullaby,” a bedtime melody for children, and “Ember Bell,” a meditation on the organic complexities of pregnancy. “Widdershins,” “Woolsey Street & the Lake of Fire,” “Hiawatha,” and “Black Angels (Czarne Anioły)” have been featured on recent Faun Fables tours and so represent time in the world before Counterclockwise. Similarly, several cover songs salute crucial companions from different points in their individual and collective lives, making deep cuts from Yes and the Bee Gees as well as the theme song to 70s television program Grizzly Adams into further chapters of shaped time, well lived and loved, to indelibly light this collection.

Counterclockwise is the first Faun Fables album engineered and produced by Dawn and Nils from start to finish. Taking the wheel in the tradition of the engineers that taught them, they have created a living atmosphere of songs and family. The chiming and twinkling of bells throughout evokes the richness of the years and the passage of time. Highlighting the spirit of play, Nils brings his multi-instrumental vision (as heard in Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and Free Salamander Exhibit), contributing on guitar, bass, flutes, voice, glockenspiel, drums, harmonium, trombone and tenor sax. Dawn and Nils’ wide-ranging vocal harmony tradition is enriched by the voices of their daughters Edda, Ura and Gudrin, who contribute on keyboards and percussion, as well. Norwegian guitarist Arild Hammerø lends his singular guitar craft on the songs “Ember Bell”, “Hiawatha”, “Wonderous Stories” (on which he also sings) and “Maybe”, as well as the final, essential sounds that close the album.

Dedicated with love to Dawn’s late father, Edward ‘Will’ McCarthy, Counterclockwise is an evocation of the essential truth and joy of Faun Fables’ relationship with time, the greatest value they can imagine to give to anyone who listens to their music.

UNDERCURRENTS MATTHEW YOUNG

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Street Date: May 30, 2025

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Track List: Reflexion One and All Undercurrents

A Game of Chess, a Game of Chance

The Summer Girls

Her Key Is Minor Inflexion Into the Woods

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Drag City and Yoga Records are delighted to return to the music of Matthew Young Following Recurring Dreams (1981, reissued 2014) and Traveler's Advisory (1986, reissued 2010 ), Undercurrents (2025) collects eight oddly dissimilar pieces that somehow fit together perfectly. Although unique enough to be called outsider, Young’s new album occupies a musical world accessible to fans of many genres.

Matthew Young, born in 1950, grew up in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. When he showed early musical interest, his parents bought an upright piano, and Matthew began taking lessons. In his teens, he attended concerts by Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck, and Count Basie, and grew up to discover iconoclasts such as Eric Satie, Charles Ives, John Cage, Harry Partch, Brian Eno, and experimental rock groups such as Can and Harmonia. He also regularly attended and played at folk music gatherings in the nearby New Jersey Pine Barrens.

In the late ’70s, Young took a summer seminar on computer music at Princeton taught by Richard Cann and Michael Dellaira. Inspired, Young bought his own EMS Synthi and Revox tape recorder and began working on electronic music at home. His music began to appear in local theater productions, leading to the 1981 release of Recurring Dreams, through New York distributor NMDS. The Trenton Times described the record as “an album of liquid, effervescent keyboard tones; tingling, trembling notes; and surprising, occasionally bizarre effects.” Later, Young became obsessed with the hammered dulcimer, and in 1986 he released a new album, Traveler's Advisory, which featured the instrument prominently, along with electronics, tape effects, and his first foray into vocals.

Composed and recorded over the span of several decades, Undercurrents displays the wide range of Young’s various sonic pallets: similar to Recurring Dreams, the electronic landscapes meander coherently, and much like Traveler's Advisory, the album skews from the nearly algorithmic computer music of side one to the moving pastoral folk of the second.

On the opener “Reflexion,” a quartet of marimbas twist and turn over each other, while in “One and All,” a harp melody is overtaken by various electronic effects. The 12-minute title track is an abstract weaving of piano and synthesis, with the six sections named after oceanic currents. “A Game of Chess, a Game of Chance” consists of sparse electronic tones created on the Princeton University IBM mainframe during his studies in 1976. This all makes way for the second half of Undercurrents, where settings of Marion Lineaweaver 's poems, “The Summer Girls” and "Her Key is Minor," showcase Young's honest, fragile vocal approach, conveying a deep sense of soulful longing, and the latter even sweetly approaching something akin to synthpop. The piano on "Inflexion" calls back to the end of “Reflexion," and in the album closer, “Into the Woods,” Young plays the hammered dulcimer with the disciplined reverence of an alchemist.

Simply put, Undercurrents is a triumph across many musical realms … this is Matthew Young’s world.

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MIKE'S BOX MICHAEL SMITH

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Street Date: May 30, 2025

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8 Discs

128-Page Booklet

NTSC/All-Region

Color/B&W

Stereo/Mono USA

Works collected from 1975-2022

“In a manner befitting the everyday otherworldliness of Michael Smith’s work, I was 13 when I first stumbled on his work through Public TV’s Image Union. His “Secret Horror” was a hilarious, deadpan and appropriately unflinching look into the abyss. This superimposition of states had a profound impact on my life and work, to this day. This boxset is the doorway into that world, Mike’s World, that will throw you for a loop, wild-eyed and helpless.”

— Jim O’Rourke, 2025

For five decades, Michael Smith’s performance art has inhabited bland domestic spaces; mass media and its promise to keep us company; and failing business ventures that misread the moment. Through art installations, theater, video, television and live performances, Smith’s comedic work lives inside the identity models that both constitute and disassociate our shared experience. His two performance personae, Mike and Baby Ikki, plumb the depths of American culture to perform the discrepancies between what is promulgated by controlling interest and what actually exists in reality of day-to-day worlds. Like culture itself, Smith’s is forever in and out of time. MIKE’S BOX is an immersive 8-disc DVD collection of his work up until now.

In the 1970s, the idea of the American everyman was rarely questioned. The '50s postwar aspiration for blessed conformity had been a primary objective of the powers that be, continually hammered into everyone’s home via that ubiquitous box, the TV set. Whether programming or advertising (did it matter?), images of the happy homemaker, the man in the grey flannel suit and like-minded citizens flooded the country with an irradiant stream of optimistic content meant to whitewash and anesthetize the American public. Although developments in the late '60s offered a new appraisal of everyday life, it was apparent that this approach was not easily processed by the general population, and the status quo remained intact. The Silent Majority were as the name implies everywhere and nowhere. In some places, it felt like the 1950s hadn’t ended at all; a decade with no term limit. So, who were ‘us/we’, anyway? It felt increasingly urgent to reevaluate old world values with those surfacing in an alienated youth culture. As this alienation continued to grow, it appeared that this was the primary issue that everyone could agree upon.

Enter Mike, who, along with his contemporaries on the NYC art scene of the 1970s and ‘80s (a sprawling group spread across disciplines, including but not limited to Laurie Anderson, Eric Bogosian, Andy Kaufman, Mike Kelley, Cindy Sherman, and the many freaks feeding the nascent Saturday Night Live franchise), was inclined to disengage the frame of reference from the traditional rarified “white cube” context, and instead insert his practice in relation to everyday life and the institutions exerting control over it. The absurdities we now find ourselves culturally awash in, like ‘meta’ and ‘reality show’, weren’t yet on the table. Smith’s early videos, like “Down in the Rec Room,” “It Starts at Home” and “Secret Horror,” suggested that the world we live in is only as normal as we suspect it is which means, irretrievably strange as well.

MIKE’S BOX covers Smith's career from the ‘70s to the present, collecting his infamous and prescient performances, installations and videos (many only previously seen at galleries and museums within the fine art context), as well as forms more accessible to a general audience: comedy shows, cable access programs and musical theater. MIKE’S BOX also contains the complete collaborative video work of Smith with both Joshua White and Doug Skinner, as well as his team-ups with William Wegman, Seth Price, Mike Kelley and many others. It is accompanied by a richly illustrated book that includes an essay by Tim Griffin, and features documentation from shows exhibited at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Museo Jumex, along with filmed conversations between the artist, curators and collaborators.

MIKE – Showbiz!

ReleaseDate: 30thMay2025

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Showbiz! is the tenth solo album by MIKE, released via his own label 10k. Widespread acclaim includes Pitchfork 'Best New Music', who proclaimed it's "the young artist’s greatest accomplishment thus far". It sets a new benchmark for himself and his contemporaries as he steps into the next chapter of his career as a proven, essential voice in hip hop this decade. The record features 454 and duendita, alongside guest production from Thelonious Martin, Salami Rose Joe Louis, Jacob Rochester,Anysia Kym, Harrison (SURF GANG), ShunGu, Laron and redLee.

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LPDISC 1

A1. BearTrap

A2. Clown of the Class (Work Harder)

A3.Then we could be free..

A4. Watered down

A5. man in the mirror

A6.Artist of the Century

B1. What U Bouta Do?/AStar was Born (feat. 454)

B2. Belly 1

B3. Da Roc

B4.The Weight (2k20)

B5. Lost Scribe

B6.You're the Only One Watching

LPDISC 2

C1. Lucky

C2. #82

C3.Too Hot (interlude)

C4. Pieces of a Dream

C5. Strange Feeling

C6. Zombie pt.2

D1. Burning House

D2. Showbiz! (Intro)

D3. Spun Out

D4. Miss U (feat. duendita)

D5. When it Rains

D6. Diamond Dancing (Broke)

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CD DISC 1

1BearTrap 2Clown of the Class (Work Harder) 3Then we could be free..

Watered down

man in the mirror 6Artist of the Century

7What U Bouta Do?/AStar was Born (feat. 454)

8Belly 1 9Da Roc 10The Weight (2k20) 11Lost Scribe 12You're the Only One Watching 13Lucky 14#82 15Too Hot (interlude) 16Pieces of a Dream

Strange Feeling 18Zombie pt.2

Burning House 20Showbiz! (Intro) 21Spun Out 22Miss U (feat. duendita) 23When it Rains 24Diamond Dancing (Broke)

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1dique down 2like thaat flip

3dat phonk phonk (nasty) 4green of me

5pain 1

6nite flite

7ny roze me

8hurr face ahh tiddiez

9selfless freestyle (anysia kym flipp)

10bossy nova (ma neck)

11bump like this 2

12i get high (tribute trak)

Iglooghost - Tidal Memory Exo [Anniversary Edition]

Release Date: 30 May 2025

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Boxlot: 20 | Ⓟ & © 2025 LUCKYME® Includes two bonus tracks ‘Seaweed Green’ vinyl limited to 500 copies

File Under: Experimental, Hyperpop, Dance

Iglooghost’s Tidal Memory Exo is a masterclass of worldbuilding – think geomagnetic storms, prehistoric creatures, made-up micro-genres such as ‘foamtek’ and ‘sporestyle’ - Dazed

This is a dense, longform piece of near future sci-fi that clothes dense storytelling in visceral, goosebump-inducing club music - Resident Advisor

Tidal Memory Exo is Malliagh’s way of saying, “Who’s got it like me?” - Bandcamp

LUCKYME® celebrates the first anniversary of Iglooghost’s highly-acclaimed third album Tidal Memory Exo with a limited edition ‘Seaweed Green’ vinyl run Featured in Bandcamp, Dazed and The Needle Drop’s end-of-year lists, the record was a 2024 stand-out release.

Made while squatting in an old MOT garage on the Kent Coast, Tidal Memory Exo sees Iglooghost take the fore as a vocalist for the first time The album takes place in a coastal town cut off from the mainland and plagued by a never ending storm, where the locals have created their own music scene with genres such as ‘sporestyle’ and ‘tektonikore’ Like previous records, there is a seemingly endless amount of lore to delve into on Tidal Memory Exo CD and vinyl include two bonus tracks, Collision Data ft Marina Herlop and Diode Teeth ‘Seaweed Green’ edition limited to 500 copies

VINYL TRACKLIST

A1 Blu

A2 Ne

A3 Allo

A4 Co

A5 Sp

A6 flux

A7 Pu

A8 Ech p (Bonus)

ESG

THREE CLASSIC ALBUMS RE-PRESSED ON NEON ORANGE VINYL

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Repressed LP on Neon Orange Vinyl, includes download card. It feels like someone left the light on in the studio and it all just ran itself, there had been a funky human input earlier in the day but, by a Darwinian machine-led kind of osmosis, the tracks recorded spent the wee small hours self-reducing and simplifying themselves. Marinated in music. “I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil,” said Truman Capote. ”Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication,” opined Leonardo da Vinci much earlier in proceedings. Yes, it’s the space around the object, what you leave out that makes what you leave in so important. ESG know this. Sure they can play the game but it’s the swagger of the groove and the minimal topping –like an anti-cup cake – that makes this unique New York sisterhood so appealing on ‘Keep On Moving’. Sampled on TV ads, lauded by critics and swooned over on the dancefloor, ESG’s post-punk took out the grunge and polished the basics. Cut them open and “less is more” is written all the way through. ‘Keep On Moving’ was released over ten years ago to much praise (Q said it was “even better” than 2002’s much loved ‘Step Off’). ESG had been sparring partners for PiL and early hip hop and four years after the ‘Off’, they were onto something new – rhythm as core, reflective storylines about relationship management, sensuality and insanity gather around the bass fix but they’re much blurrier than the incessant beats. Inadvertently they unmask techno and glitch and leave out any kind of superfluous fluff. It’s hard and temple throbbing. Turn it up. And keep moving.

Come Away With

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Repressed LP on Neon Orange Vinyl 35-year anniversary release of the classic genrebusting debut album by the Bronx sisters ESG The sample-friendly opus that’s the inspiration for hip-hop, house and post punk. Music that falls outside of the no wave, new wave and post punk library, it’s for the dance floor but it’s not funk, there’s no horns, no driving organ; it’s the opposite of Sly And The Family Stone but no less cool and no less groovy. “A lasting document of their unique brand of minimal funk that would influence subsequent post-punk, hip-hop, and dance music acts. Stripped down to the most basic of drumbeats and rudimentary bass lines, ‘Come Away’ confirms the notion that the real rhythm is what happens between the beats.

Step Off

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Repressed LP on Neon Orange Vinyl “ESG's fusion of sweet soul and punk attitude with an intuitive understanding of dance music remains.” The Guardian “This is still funk with an alien otherworldliness the likes of which George Clinton never envisioned, stripped to its barest essentials for maximum impact.” All Music “ESG are as cool as ever.” The Guardian Pumping their way out of the South Bronx of New York in the early 80s, this rhythm and dance-punk outfit made unforgettable funk that was also unusually rooted in post-punk. This powerhouse of raw and cutting edge music ultimately made them ahead of their time. ESG enjoyed success sharing stages with PiL and Gang Of Four and have been heavily sampled as many musicians including TLC, Wu-Tang Clan, Beastie Boys and Liars.

Artist: Jane Weaver

Title: Love in Constant Spectacle

Label: Fire Records

Street date: 2025- 05- 30

Track List

Side A

A1 – Perfect Storm

A2 – Emotional Components

A3 – Love in Constant Spectacle -

A4 – Motif

A5 – The Axis and The Seed

Side B

B1 – Is Metal

B2 – Happiness in Proximity

B3 – Romantic Worlds

B4 – Univers

B5 – Family of the Sun

Jane Weaver – Love in Constant Spectacle

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Recalibrating her singular journey in the British musical landscape with her most open-hearted, direct and intimate collection of material yet. Love In Constant Spectacle evokes spectacular imagery and distills the artists’ vision in its purest form, elevating her inimitable sound and poetic vision to new heights.

Recapturing the melancholy of her early work whilst propelling it forward, she sketches scenes as we watch new colours, shapes and languages emerge and fill the frame. Love In Constant Spectacle sees her take measured steps towards a vivid, dreamlike record, that offers resolve in the face of life’s inevitability.

The foundations of Weaver’s sound are still evident – lush motorik drums, pulsating bass, custom modded synths and exotic fuzz pedals - but the stream is awash with scrabble piece poetry and Letraset lullabies leading to lush escapism, the free abandon that you’d associate with free jazz and the avant-garde. But, as determined and visionary as Weaver might be, Love In Constant Spectacle wasn’t executed without assistance. Here we find a long mooted unison with Jane’s first ever producer, John Parish (PJ Har vey, Aldous Harding ), who has shared Weaver’s process in the surrounds of Rockfield Studios and Geoff Barrow’s Invada studio.

Love In Constant Spectacle is otherworldly, it is both intimate yet distant, a surrealist interpretation of the foundations that make us human – the stories and landscapes it paints are habitats of their own. A voyage into undisclosed pastures, it’s a heartfelt manifesto from an artist that continues to boundlessly evolve with each chapter in her career.

“An artist at the top of her game” NPR

Artist: Various Artists

Title: Dennis Hopper’s ‘The Last Movie’

Release date: 2025-05-30

Label: Earth Recordings

Territory : World

Various Artists – Dennis Hopper’s The Last Movie

After the incredible success of the film Easy Rider, Dennis Hopper was given complete freedom to direct and star in the bizarre, surrealist The Last Movie – released in 1971. Filmed in a drug fuelled haze in Peru with Hopper, Peter Fonda, Kris Kristofferson, Dean Stockwell, Michelle Phillips, Russ Tamblyn, and Samuel Fuller – there has never been a soundtrack to this film until now!

Featuring the first ever performances of Kristofferson’s legendary “Me and Bobby McGee” plus sublime country-folk songs from John Buck Wilkin, Peruvian folk & dance music – all recorded live on set in Peru –nothing was overdubbed! Plus, provocative movie dialogue from Dennis Hopper, Sam Fuller and others – coupled with the ambient sounds of the mountains and villages of South America – reissue producer Pat Thomas and Hopper Estate archivist Jessica Hundley have assembled a groovy listening experience that will melt minds.

Packaging includes rare vintage photos, detailed liner notes, et al. The Last Movie audio recordings are being released for the first time on CD –taken from the original movie reels!

They’re coming! The Hippies! The Acid Heads! BLONDE ON A BUM TRIP is a frank, revealing look at the LSD generation! Instead of using the usual jazzy instrumental library music or generic elevator pop, The Vagrants, The Bit’ A Sweet, and to a much greater extent The E-Types were recruited to propel the film's lysergic journey. This serves as the first ever soundtrack to this film as well as a doctorate level exploration into The E-Types’“Put The Clock Back On The Wall.” On hallucinogenic swirl vinyl!

1967 ushered in the Summer of Love and dozens of feature length psychedelic-themed films flooded theaters and drive-ins, opening minds across America. A number of black & white LSD films were made in the mid-1960s, yet Blonde on a Bum Trip (1968) stands out as something unique and different. Shot in NYC entirely in electric shades of gray, this motion picture comes across more like an underground student film and freaky fringe time capsule.

The music tracks are used effectively as a driving device and create an unmistakable mood, especially The E-Types relentless ear worm “Put the Clock Back on the Wall.”The Bit’A Sweet’s “Is It On, Is It Off?”provides a delirious dance track. The other oddball “LSD”song that recurs in the movie was performed by a relatively unknown band, Thee Neons, fronted by John Wonderling. He would go on to have his own long career as a singer/songwriter. Russell Leslie, the drummer for The Bit’A Sweet, also played with Thee Neons. After nearly a decade in the making, we are pleased to say that the film now has a groovy soundtrack album! It’s Out of Sight - Out of Mind!

Artist: Something Weird

Title: Blonde On A Bum Trip

File Under: Soundtrack, Psychedelic Rock

Box lot quantity: 30 LP / 60 CD

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STREETDATE: MAY 30, 2025

LIMITED EDITION FIRST PRESSING 500 ON BLACK VINYL

Talented songwriter, arranger, recording engineer and multi-instrumentalist James Palko has had a hand in a run of great records recently, ranging from his smooth, horn-laden take on the ‘70s as Jimmy Montague to an excellent pair of swan song albums from Taking Meds and Perspective, a Lovely Hand to Hold. Now, he’s back with “what promises to be a breakthrough record” (-Punk Rock Theory) in Pretty Rude’s debut LP with SideOneDummy. Eight tracks of pure guitar rock/ power pop magic, this is easily one of the best debuts we’ve ever come across.

FFO: Weezer, Fountains of Wayne, Webbed Wing, The Cars, Superdrag

Lionmilk – WHEN THE FLOWERS BLOOM

Stones Throw Records | STH2505LP

16 May 2025 | Vinyl | Indie & Alternative

30 May 2025

Lionmilk announces his first album on Stones Throw, WHEN THE FLOWERS BLOOM — his antidote to depression and heartbreak, presented through a lens of optimism and joy.

A truly self contained artist, Lionmilk wrote, produced, and performed every instrument on the new record. Each personal story is told with a different musical style: “only one” calls back to Lionmilk’s DIY and lo-fi roots; instrumental “tom is in heaven” pays tribute to a family friend who introduced Lionmilk to jazz; and “não mais saudade” focuses the Brazilian concept of saudade (longing) onto a story of relationships. Even when Lionmilk’s going through it, the songs stay light – as he puts it, “a ‘cheer up’ for my depressed ass.” As he grows and learns, everything comes full circle in an eternal bloom.

Lionmilk is a Los Angeles native known for his work as a pianist, composer, and producer. He has played in Mndsgn and John Carroll Kirby’s live bands, opened for Resavoir and Alabaster DePlume, and performed live in LA, London, Japan and more.

Earlier song “Great Mother In The Sky” went viral on TikTok, with over 70k videos generated. This translated to a larger audience on other platforms and has 6m Spotify streams.

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Toro

Side A

1. tom is in heaven

2. eyes closed

3. only one

4. happy corner

5. sambinho

6.beautiful

Side B

7.get high

8. não mais saudade

9. fantasy

10. all i have

11. irreplaceable

12. family

An artist whose reputation has long been forged by his engagement and musical exchange with local scenes and cultures from across the world Quantic’ s vast discography of electronic releases spans two decades, ranging from focused solo productions and intimate collaborations to expansive ensemble projects Now, the multi-instrumentalist, DJ, composer and producer Will Holland delivers his DJ-Kicks compilation, which fittingly radiates friends and family energy

Having worked and lived in the UK, US and Colombia, Quantic reached out to the many wide-ranging music connections he has made during his 20-plus-year career. “It’s not like writing an album; you ’ re at the mercy of what other people are creating," he reflects of the mix’s creation “Fortunately, the homies’ submissions were of an extremely high calibre!” Gathering these artists' music together was a delight for Quantic, especially as he had personal connections with many of those who crafted them.

The mix bursts with unreleased exclusives and places the art of curation at its core, giving the listeners space to go and dig more of the songs and sonics which resonate the most Will Holland includes a glistening breadth of new material, including new music from Quantic alongside another of his aliases Sobredosis, creating a mix teeming with vitality

Beyond raising profiles, the mix encapsulates Quantic’s tempo-changing DJing style which, over the past decade, has built him a strong community of fans. “It’s got a moody start and end, but a big portion is uplifting and joyous,” he says of the DJ-Kicks compilation’s sonic journey, “ you ’ re going down a river and get off in a different place… it’s also a cool way to encapsulate, stylistically, what I’ve been up to as a DJ over the last few decades, while shining a light on people I admire”.

This DJ-Kicks is the latest instalment in Quantic’s ever-evolving artistic trajectory, an accompaniment to those moments when the gloaming disappears into darkness Will Holland’s longstanding dedication to a full range of melodic and percussive expression alongside continued musical collaboration is what makes his edition of DJ-Kicks such a rare beauty.

KEY POINTS

All exclusive and previously unreleased tracks

6 new exclusive tracks by Quantic & aliases

Includes limited DJ-Kicks playing card

100% GVR vinyl made from bioplastics derived from renewable resources

Release Date: 30th May 2025

Artist: Quantic

Title: DJ-Kicks: Quantic

Cat/Barcode:

K7443LP / 4062548104462

K7443CD / 4062548104455

Packaging:

Gatefold 2LP (GVR vinyl)/CD Digipak

CD TRACKLIST

01 JJ Whitefield feat. bonnie behave - The Mind Is A Palace

02 The Heliocentrics - Minimal Engagement

03 Quantic - Dialect

04 Alfa Mist - In My Defence 05 JKriv feat Gabriel Oliveira - Pifeiro Malandro 06 Quantic - Twang 07 Frente Cumbiero - Michilero

08 Quantic - Theme From Selva (Remix)

09 Quantic - Eko Eko

10 Quantic - Motivic Retrograde (Live Version)

11 Eblis Alvarez, Meridian Brothers - Un Grande Nubarrón Se Alza En El Cielo

12 The Maghreban - Covent Garden

13 Anna Morgan - Throw Dat Azz

14 Ehua - Scintille

15 Turbo Sonidero - Kumbia ESSJ 16 Sobredosis - No Llores Por Mí

LP TRACKLIST

A1 JJ Whitefield feat bonnie behave - The Mind Is A Palace

A2 The Heliocentrics - Minimal Engagement

A3 Quantic - Dialect

A4 Alfa Mist - In My Defence

B1 JKriv feat Gabriel Oliveira - Pifeiro Malandro

B2 Quantic - Twang

B3 Frente Cumbiero - Michilero

B4 Quantic - Theme From Selva (Remix)

C1 Quantic - Eko Eko

C2 Quantic - Motivic Retrograde (Live Version)

C3 Eblis Alvarez, Meridian Brothers - Un Grande Nubarrón Se Alza En El Cielo

C4 The Maghreban - Covent Garden

D1 Anna Morgan - Throw Dat Azz

D2 Ehua - Scintille

D3 Turbo Sonidero - Kumbia ESSJ

D4 Sobredosis - No Llores Por Mí

Soul Jazz Records presents The Reducers Things Go Wrong / We Are Normal

PUNK 45 Collectors’ Limited Edition

Exact replica reissue of much sought-after £100+ garage band DIY/Punk 45 rarity from The Reducers. Sounds like a lo-fi version of other early DIY punk groups like TV Personalities, O-Levels and Desperate Bicycles.

Originally self-released in four different colour sleeve variants on Vibes Records in 1978, now available on Soul Jazz Records in a very limited edition one-off of 300 copies.

The Reducers were from Bury, Greater Manchester in existence 197880. They released two singles on the independent Vibes label followed by one more single after briefly signing EMI.

Release date: 30th May 2025

Artist: Soul Jazz Records presents The Reducers

Title: Things Go Wrong / We Are Normal

Label: Soul Jazz Records | Format: 7” Single Cat.no SJR509-7 | UPC: 5026328005096

Soul Jazz Records presents Trash Priorities / Look

PUNK 45 Collectors’ Limited Edition

Exact replica picture sleeve seven-inch reissue of this hidden supercatchy punk/power pop 45 from the very short-lived punk group Trash. The music is raw, naive three-chord genius!

The group Trash were from Weybridge, Surrey and found little success at the time. They released just two singles to absolutely no fanfare at all in 1977 and 78 despite being signed to Polydor Records.

Trash's 'Priorities', the group's debut single is now available once again for the first time in nearly 50 years on Soul Jazz Records in a very limited edition one-off pressing of 300 copies.

Release date: 30th May 2025

Artist: Soul Jazz Records presents Trash

Title: Priorities / Look

Label: Soul Jazz Records | Format: 7” Single Cat.no. SJR510-7 | UPC: 5026328005102

Contact: Nick Stamey | 877-733-3931 x277 | nick@redeyeworldwide.com No shipments outside of North America

Joe Harvey-Whyte & Bobby Lee

Last Ride

Vinyl/Digital

Catalog#: CURED048

UPC Vinyl LP Black: 850070373067

UPC CD: 850070373098

A new project between ambient pedal steel explorer Joe Harvey-Whyte and psych-country guitarist Bobby Lee, “Last Ride” takes in Paris, Texas-esque dusty instrumentals, west coast canyon-rock, brit-folk pastoralism, kosmische choogle and new-age mellowness. The UK pair bonded over their broad church approach to cosmic country, where Eno and Arthur Russell stand shoulder to shoulder with Gram and JJ Cale. Individually, they’re both rare torch bearers of ambient americana on their side of the Atlantic.

First single “Flatbed Alfalfa Run To Pueblo, Colorado, Fall 1972” opens with a phased guitar chug riding a loping groove, before a laid back Sneaky Pete-style fuzz-steel carries it off down the highway. Wispy cirrus clouds of Fender Rhodes hug the skyline, whilst the primordial drum machine marks every passing telegraph pole, like some motorik Marshall Tucker Band.

Joe is one of the UK’s most in demand pedal steel guitar players, known for his session work with artists as diverse as Alabama 3, Billy Bragg and Susanne Sundfør, and his wildly experimental soundtrack/installation compositions which push the boundaries of the instrument. Bobby has released three critically acclaimed records via American Primitive stalwarts Tompkins Square Records, described as “a word of mouth sensation amongst discerning heads” by Mojo Magazine editor John Mulvey.

Marketing & Selling Points

● A new project between ambient pedal steel explorer Joe Harvey-Whyte and psych-country guitarist Bobby Lee, releasing their debut album on Curation Records.

● The duo is well known in the UK americana scene, Bobby Lee has released three critically acclaimed records via American Primitive stalwarts Tompkins Square Records and Joe Harvey-Whyte is one of the UK’s most in demand pedal steel guitar players, known for being a member of The Hanging Stars and his session work with artists as diverse as Alabama 3, Billy Bragg and Susanne Sundfør

● “Last Ride” features cover artwork by legendary airbrush artist Jeff Wack, and a guest appearance from Swimming Bell on “Smoke Signals ”

● Described as “a word of mouth sensation amongst discerning heads” by Mojo Magazine editor John Mulvey

● Press/Radio Campaign for UK will be done by the same team that got Bobby Lee great reviews and write-ups in Uncut, Aquarium Drunkard, Mojo and Shindig!

LISTEN TO - Last Ride:Stream It

LISTEN TO - Last Ride:Download Wave

CATBITE DOOM GARDEN

BTR064

LIMITED 12” VINYL STREET DATE: MAY 30, 2025

TRACKLIST:

1. Die in Denver

2. Tired of Talk (feat. Patrick Stump)

3. Put 'Em Away

4. Eyes Wide (feat. Zayna Youssef)

5. Deteriorate

6. Remediate

DISTRIBUTION

Redeye Worldwide

505 Eno Street, Hillsborough, NC 27278

Stephen Svacina

stephen@redeyeworldwide.com redeyeworldwide.com / 877.733.3931

LABEL

Bad Time Records / Distance Co. badtimerecords.com

Philadelphia ska band Catbite has been redefining the genre since their 2018 formation, blending elements of punk, new wave, and pop rock. Known for their electrifying live shows, they've toured with acts like The Bouncing Souls, Jeff Rosenstock, Screaming Females, and Laura Jane Grace.

Now, Catbite is set to release their most ambitious project yet: 'Doom Garden', out May 9, 2025, via Bad Time Records. Produced by Grammy winner Sarah Tudzin (boygenius, illuminati hotties), the EP showcases the band's growth and evolving songwriting. Inspired by Hieronymus Bosch’s 'The Garden of Earthly Delights', vocalist Brit Luna reflects on themes of self-exploration and morality. "It’s really difficult to look inward and feel like you’re a terrible person," Luna shares. "These songs helped me begin to heal parts of myself that I had long forgotten or pushed away. Being human is hard, but it’s not all bad."

The EP also features collaborations that see Catbite’s sound expand even further, including a track co-written and performed with Fall Out Boy’s Patrick Stump and guest vocals from Zayna Youssef of Sweet Pill. With 'Doom Garden', Catbite continues to evolve, cementing their place as one of the most exciting bands in modern ska and beyond.

• 12” pressed on limited edition colored vinyl with etched b-side

• Produced and recorded by Grammy awarded Sarah Tudzin (boygenius, illuminati hotties)

• Mastered by Sarah Register (Ariana Grande, Andrew WK, Kurt Vile)

• Extensive touring in support of this release (full US + 2 EU/UK tours in 2025), including dates with Less Than Jake, Suicide Machines, Fishbone, Strike Anywhere, Comeback Kid, etc.

• US Radio campaign by Pirate Promotion (The Linda Lindas, Japandroids, Pom Pom Squad)

FOR FANS OF: The Interrupters, Operation Ivy, No Doubt

DEMISE OF LOVE DEMISE OF LOVE EP

TRACKLISTING

1. Strange Little Consequence

2. Carry the Blame

3. Be a Man

4. Like I Loved You

CATALOG NUMBER: R UG1 466

RELEASE DATE: May 30, 2025

FILE UNDER: Electronic “D”

10"

Boxlot: 20 UPC: 887829146658

Vinyl is non-returnable

OVERVIEW

When three of the most forward-thinking minds in electronic and alternative music collide, the result is bound to be expansive. Demise Of Love is the thrilling new project from Daniel Avery, James Greenwood's Ghost Culture , and Working Men’s Club —a studio collaboration forged from mutual admiration and an unrelenting drive to break new ground. Born from a shared desire to create something raw, boundary-pushing and deeply emotive, the trio entered the studio with no expectations, only a love for each other’s work and a fearless approach to sound. The result is a heady fusion of industrial dreamscapes, acid house intensity, and starkly beautiful melodies. Shaped by the combined creative forces of the trio’s masterful production and brooding presence, Demise Of Love carves out its own uncompromising space in electronic music.

SELLING POINTS

• The self-titled debut EP from Demise of Love, a new project from Working Men’s Club, Daniel Avery, and Ghost Culture.

• 10" EP comes with download card.

DOMINO RECORDING COMPANY

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718.797.4229 / dominorecordco.com

Contact: Cyrus Lubin cyrus@dominorecordco.com

REDEYE

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ONE MISSISSIPPI

One Mississippi MAY 30, 2025

George Fontaine, Sr head of Strolling Bones Records, recently discovered a golden nugget of unreleased material from previously unknown band One Mississippi

Formed from the detritus of Austin, Texas indie buzz bands of the 90’s, and a precursor to current climber Molecular Steve, the album explodes with punk pop energy and deft songwriting by front man Ron Byrd (Prescott Curlywolf) Recorded in Austin from 2004 through 2007 and aging gracefully since, his talented band gives the songs drive and depth Featuring 13 compact head shakers, Fontaine maintains that “This is the best album of unreleased material I have ever heard”

STREET DATE:

1 Told You So 2.6 Tenths 3 Kid Abandon 4.Floodlights 5.Take You Alive 6 Fe Fi Fo 7.45 Paces 8 Not Sticking Together 9 Get Along Dear 10.16 Ships 11 Sorry Bob 12.No Inbetween 13.Leon Lit the Fuse

Sel #: SB49 CD

CONFIG: Digiwallet UPC: 607396049110 Genre: Indie Rock

Sel #: SB49 LP CONFIG: Jacket, black vinyl UPC: 607396049134

Genre: Indie Rock

Distributor RedEye

Territory Americas

Cat No. ERATP176LE

Format Translucent LP

RRP $32.99

EAN / UPC 3700551786282

Qasim Naqvi Endling

Erased Tapes

Formats Ltd Edition Translucent LP (first pressing)

Extras

3 700551 786282

Track List

A

B

1. Fires

2. Beautification Technologies

3. The Glow

4. Power Down the Heart

5. Plastic Glacier

1. Endling

2. In the Distance

3. The Great Reward

Artist Socials

IG: @qasimnaqviofficial

WWW: https://www.qasim-naqvi.com/

Label Socials

IG: @erasedtapesrecords

Bsky: @erasedtapes.com

WWW: erasedtapes.com

Download code File under Electronica / Ambient / Experimental For fans of Alessandro Cortini, Pye Corner Audio, alva noto

Box lot 20 LP

Release date 16th May 2025

30th May 2025

An endling is the final member of a species. When an endling dies, the species is extinct.

Pakistani-American composer Qasim Naqvi returns with Endling, his newest album for Erased Tapes Records, set for release 16th May. Written as a modular synth prequel to his 2023 BBC Concert Orchestral work, God Docks at Death Harbor, Endling takes the listener on a 43-minute odyssey through an intense and beautiful landscape, set hundreds of years into the future.

“One morning my wife woke up from a dream with a phrase in her mind “God Docks at Death Harbor, explains Naqvi I was just starting to write a new work for the BBC Concert Orchestra, and when she told me about this dream of words, it very quickly seeped into the fabric of the music. Her words were a poem to me, evoking very specific imagery. I imagined our planet hundreds of years into the future, where the human race no longer exists. I imagined a world peacefully restoring itself in the absence of us, because we’re no longer around to destroy it and ourselves. This became the tenet of the work. It was like a scenic mural that I could look at for inspiration, as I was writing this tone poem. After God Docks at Death Harbor premiered in the spring of 2023 in London, the feeling stayed with me, and when it came time to think about a new record I felt compelled to continue this narrative. I imagined a prequel, about the last human on the planet an endling, traversing a world centuries into the future. A world decayed and mutated into a strange amalgam of the natural and artificial. I envisioned the music as chapters, following this human through the crumbling landscape of the future, that was now being overtaken and absorbed by the natural world. In keeping with the tone poem tradition of God Docks, I created the track titles first, and their meanings became more defined as the music began to take shape

On the album’s centrepiece “Power Down the Heart,” featuring Moor Mother, our character stumbles upon an A.I. being that is in the final moments of its life. As a kind of last rites, this ancient artificial consciousness describes the beauty, sadness and horror it has observed for hundreds of years. I wanted the music to feel like the inside of this being’s mind. I shared the music and this narrative with Camae and asked if she would be the voice of this A.I., and she came back with the perfect contribution.

All of the music on Endling was made with an ARP Odyssey, Minimoog and modular synthesizer. For me, one of the many challenging and satisfying aspects of modular synthesizers involves the development of complex timbrel ideas from the ground up, which can rarely ever be repeated perfectly. The device can be organically unstable and fallible. It can feel like an organism and as the performer, you’re in control of the flow of its energy, or voltage. This machine approach to Endling was the perfect compliment to its orchestral predecessor, it felt like a different kind of orchestra from this album’s future – with the organic consuming and transmuting the artificial.

Qasim Naqvi is a percussionist, composer and synthesist based in Brooklyn, NY Along with being the drummer of lauded cult minimalist trio, Dawn of Midi, Naqvi is an accomplished solo artist and his passion for multidisciplinary work has brought him into the world of film, dance, installation art, and the stage of orchestral and chamber music. His concert music has been commissioned and performed by The London Contemporary Orchestra, The BBC Concert Orchestra, Crash Ensemble, Bang on a Can All Stars, Jennifer Koh, Stargaze, The Cello Octet of Amsterdam, The Helsinki Chamber Choir and others.

Delicious AlexPaxton

Alex Paxton, the ”highly innovative...of exceptional creative imagination and musical energy, packed with life force unlike anything else” (BBC Magazine/Ivor Novello British Composer Awards) award-winning composer & jazz-trombonist will release his fourth record Delicious (May 16, 2024) via New Amsterdam Records.

Delicious is a sonic behemoth drawing from Paxton’s idiosyncratic approach to orchestral music. Winds, strings, harpsichords and brass blend together with pitch bent samples, electronic textures, chopped vocals, and drum machines into pure movement. Underneath the chaos lies a solid foundation of melody which ties together the kaleidoscope of sounds which Paxton brings to life. The album is described by the composer as “biting into a strawberry and biscuit sandwich and having a good ol 'munch”. Delicious is decadent, dense, and will genuinely make you question if you’ve heard anything like it before.

NWAM195-CD

1 TouchingSweetly(fromScrunchyTouchSweetlytoFall(kiteandfingerrun))

2 ScrunchyMunchy(fromScrunchyTouchSweetlytoFall(kiteandfingerrun))

3 Kite(fromScrunchyTouchSweetlytoFall(kiteandfingerrun))

4.ShrimpBITBabyFace

5.Dadd'sFairies

6.JustgumFriends-AlexPaxton,GBSRDuoDEB162401083

7.YeastyPets&BestDrums(fromSpitCrystalYeast-rackdripping(àlorange))

8 MouldyMoanySnogDrip(fromSpitCrystalYeast-rackdripping(àlorange))

9 ThreeHornedToothGardenBeastPiercing(fromSpitCrystalYeast-rackdripping(àlorange))

10 AlongtheLongOrangeLight(fromSpitCrystalYeast-rackdripping(àlorange))

11.FloweryPreserveStringMulchDressDump(fromSpitCrystalYeast-rackdripping(àlorange))

12.Isthatallyou'vegottosaytoGrandmathenisit?(fromSpitCrystalYeast-rackdripping(àlorange))

13.LevelsofAffection

RELEASE DATE: May 30th, 2025

ARTIST: Alex Paxton

TITLE: Delicious

CAT. NO: NWAM195-CD

BARCODE: 4062548110227

FORMAT: CD

TERRITORY: WORLD

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COWBOY

ORGY:

ORGY:

JOHN

THE DONNAS: Spend the Night

MEDESKI MARTIN AND WOOD: Friday Afternoon in the Universe

MEDESKI

CHICAGO: Music from the Motion Picture

BETTER THAN EZRA: Friction, Baby (Tan Vinyl Edition)

THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA: With Roots Above and Branches Below (Metallic Gold Vinyl Edition)

THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD: Original Soundtrack (Clear with Blood Red Splatter Vinyl Edition)

NORMA TANEGA: Walkin’ My Cat Named Dog (Green & Purple “What We Do in the Shadows” Vinyl Edition)

LOVE, ACTUALLY: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Red & White 2-LP Vinyl Edition)

BURLESQUE: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Gold Vinyl Edition)