11 FEATURED RELEASES + 30 MORE BELOW

4 new releases · 6 reissues · 1 pre-order

Caspian

Caspian

Six years between records and Caspian still build the same way, patient repetition pushed into the kind of crescendo that makes post-rock worth sitting through the quiet parts for. The nine-minute “Remain” and the tremolo-driven “No One Left to Tell” are the ones to put the needle on first, but it’s “Waltz for the End” closing things out in 3/4 that tells you this isn’t just more of the same. If you’ve followed them for two decades, this is them finding room to move inside a sound they already own.

Los Guapos Sensibles

Fade Into You

A Mazzy Star cover run through pedal steel and Latin shoegaze instincts, which is a stranger and more interesting idea than most covers bother with. This is a repress of a Turntable Lab exclusive capped at 200 copies, so if the first run passed you by, that’s your window. Niche in the best way.

Sweet Trip

Velocity Design Comfort

An experimental dreampop gem that marked Sweet Trip’s step away from their glitchy IDM roots, and it’s aged into exactly the kind of record people quietly evangelize for. This reissue comes on Sonic Rainboom colored vinyl across two LPs, which suits an album that’s always had more going on texturally than it first lets on.

Deafheaven

At Work in the Fields of the Bomb

A surprise EP and arguably their most black metal-leaning material since Sunbather. Three tracks — Hunter, Three Princes, Sorry Laid the Hearth — produced by Arthur Rizk, with blast-beats, tremolo-picked guitars and ominous choral synths. Named after photographer Robert Del Tredici’s book documenting nuclear weapons production. Whatever you make of where Deafheaven have been recently, this sounds like them shaking something loose. Wild Rye vinyl from Rough Trade.

Ida

I Know About You (30th Anniversary Edition)

Ida’s 1996 sophomore record out of Brooklyn — lofted harmonies, intricate guitar, slowcore folk with an emotional weight that mixtape culture helped keep alive long after its original Simple Machines pressing disappeared. Numero’s 30th anniversary edition adds half a dozen extras and a photo booklet with fresh context from Jenny Toomey and Sara Marcus. If you know Codeine and Acetone and Bedhead, this belongs in the same sentence. Worth owning properly.

Sing-Sing

The Joy of Sing-Sing (25th Anniversary)

Emma Anderson of Lush and Lisa O’Neill made one of the more underrated dreampop records of the early 2000s under this name — shimmering electronics, restrained vocals, a kind of cinematic calm that never quite got the audience it deserved. Twenty-five years on, Aerial Records have given it the reissue it should have had much sooner. The Dinked Edition is the one to go for if you want something special to sit alongside your Lush records.

The Early Years and Sennen

The Mirror / City Light Split Single

Two exclusive new tracks, one from each band, pressed on orange and purple splatter vinyl in a silver sleeve. This one won’t turn up in shops, it’s merch table only on the co-headline tour, and Norwich has already sold out. If you’re going to one of the London dates, get there early.

Public Service Broadcasting

The Race For Space (10+1 Edition)

The album that tells the story of the space race, built from archive footage and spoken word samples recorded at The Pool Studios and Abbey Road, gets paired here with a mustard vinyl 7″ carrying “Korolev” and “We’re Going To Climb It”, both previously unreleased on vinyl. Timed to coincide with the band’s sold out Alexandra Palace show, so if you were there or wish you had been, this fills the gap.

Blondie

High Noon

First Blondie album in nine years, and the guest list alone tells you it’s not playing it safe, Johnny Marr, Glen Matlock, Zach Condon of Beirut, and Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig of Lucius all show up across a record that mixes rock and roll and punk with dance and Latin rhythms. On clear vinyl for this pressing.

Linkin Park

Living Things

Crafted in Los Angeles in 2012 with Mike Shinoda and Rick Rubin co-producing, this reissue lands on red smoke vinyl. Worth a look if you never got around to picking up a proper pressing the first time around.

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Autosmile

The indie folk duo’s second album and first for 4AD, working in the psychedelic folk tradition with a contemporary sensibility that makes it feel nothing like a revival exercise. Eleven songs that shift between heaviness and patient calm, balancing beauty and something darker beneath it. On 4AD, so the pressing will be decent, and the soil brown vinyl is a nice object. For fans of the more meditative end of what this label does.

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