Surface Noise Weekly: Protomartyr, Unwound, Russian Circles, SWANS & more
This week’s new vinyl releases, reissues and where to buy them, curated for indie, post-rock and shoegaze lovers.
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Surface Noise Weekly: Talk Talk, Dry Cleaning, Interpol, Can, Chest, Windy & Carl & more
This week’s new vinyl releases, reissues and where to buy them, curated for indie, post-rock and shoegaze lovers.
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Ebbb’s Shallow Hits Is Out Now, And It’s Sharper Than It Sounds On Paper
On paper, Ebbb sound like they could go a lot of ways at once, jagged indie electronic, neo psych, post punk, all with a club leaning production underneath everything. In practice, the combination of Will Rowland’s vocals and Lev Ceylan’s production is what actually holds it together, and Shallow Hits is a genuinely confident first…
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Surface Noise Weekly: 11 July 2026
Surface Noise Weekly: 11 July 2026 Issue 5 — July 2026 New vinyl you need to know about A strong week anchored by a 20th anniversary debut from Howling Bells, first time on vinyl, with unreleased demos. Andy Bell and Masal return with their second collaborative album on Sonic Cathedral, and James Ellis Ford arrives…
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Howling Bells Are Finally Getting Their Debut On Vinyl
Some records take a while to catch up with the format they always deserved. Howling Bells released their self titled debut back in 2006, a dark, atmospheric record built almost entirely around Juanita Stein’s voice, and somehow it never made it to vinyl at the time. Twenty years on, that gets put right. Nude Records…
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Pixies Complete B sides: Vinyl release
Pixies’ Complete B-Sides: 1988-97 gets vinyl release! The 2001 CD-only compilation has been remastered from original analog tapes and expanded with six live bonus tracks and this time it actually exists on vinyl. Surface Noise · June 2026 · 3 min read Pixies have put out a lot of archival material over the…
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MONO’s drops new Snowdrop album without Steve Albini
MONO’s Snowdrop Is a Post-Rock Requiem for Steve Albini The Japanese post-rock quartet return with an orchestral record made in the shadow of grief, recorded at Albini’s own Electrical Audio with a producer who was his longtime friend. Surface Noise · June 2026 · 4 min read MONO have released nine albums over a quarter…
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Surface Noise Weekly: 26 June 2026
This week’s new vinyl releases, reissues and where to buy them, curated for indie, post-rock and shoegaze lovers.
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Why are you having to pay 473% more for shoegaze vinyl in 2026?
The original release of Slowdive’s Souvlaki cost twelve dollars a few years ago. It sells for over four hundred now. We pulled real sales data from Discogs and other resellers for 51 shoegaze and dream pop albums to see exactly what happened to prices since release day. Surface Noise · June 2026 · 5 min…
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Pixies are back in the wax: Bossanova & Trompe le Monde get the reissue they deserve
Pixies are back in the wax: Bossanova & Trompe le Monde get the reissue they deserve New 2026 remasters. Coloured vinyl. Unreleased tracks. And a pressing run short enough to make you nervous. Surface Noise · June 2026 · 4 min read Forty years in, 4AD are releasing newly remastered editions of Bossanova (1990) and…
