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Songs and Instrumentals are two distinct collections, both written and recorded in April 2020 after Big Thief's March tour was abruptly cut short due to Coronavirus. After returning to the states from Europe, frontman Adrianne Lenker decamped to a one roo

As Long As You Are looks to the past as well as the future, confronting old ghosts and embracing a new hope. It is an album about trust, full of honesty, redemption and "letting go", allowing old wounds to heal and bringing painful chapters to a close. As

Big Thief had only just finished work on their 3rd album, U.F.O.F. – "the celestial twin" – days before in a cabin studio in the woods of Washington State. Now it was time to birth U.F.O.F.'s sister album – "the earth twin" – Two Hands. 30 miles west of E

Trouble Will Find Me, The National’s new album will be released on 4AD. This is the sixth studio album from the Brooklyn band, and follow-up to their critically and commercially successful 2010 album, High Violet. The 13-track set is the most self-assured

In September 2017, director Mike Mills emailed Matt Berninger to introduce himself and in very short order, the most ambitious project of the National's nearly 20-year career was born and plans for a hard-earned vacation died. The Los Angeles-based filmma

Originally released in 1991 and previously only available on CD in Japan, 4AD are finally giving the Pale Saints’ early singles compilation, Mrs. Dolphin, its first ever vinyl pressing on RSD 2020. The album rounds up all the tracks from their early 4AD E

2020 marks the 30th Anniversary of Bossanova, the third studio album by Pixies. To celebrate Bossanova hitting its third decade, 4AD present a colored vinyl LP edition with the original 16-page booklet being reinserted, having previously only been availab

The National's elegant seventh full-length album Sleep Well Beast follows-up 2013's Trouble Will Find Me and their 2015 Ragnar Kjartansson collaboration A Lot Of Sorrow. Produced by band member Aaron Dessner with co-production by Bryce Dessner and Matt Be

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti is back with the new album, Mature Themes, the band's second album for 4AD and the official follow-up to their 2010 breakthrough album, Before Today. The first single from the album will be a cover of Donnie and Joe Emerson's

U.F.O.F. is the highly anticipated third record by Big Thief and their first on 4AD. U.F.O.F. was recorded in rural western Washington at Bear Creek Studios. In a large cabin-like room, the band set up their gear to track live with engineer Dom Monks and

4AD repress two more albums from Cocteau Twins on vinyl - their 1982 debut Garlands and 1986's Victorialand. This means that with the exception of The Moon and the Melodies (their 1986 collaboration with Harold Budd), all of the band's studio albums relea

Singles is the 4AD debut album from Baltimore trio Future Islands consisting of enigmatic frontman Sam Herring, bassist/guitarist William Cashion and keyboardist/guitarist/programmer Gerrit Welmers. Despite the kind-of-just-a-little-bit-confusing title, i

Bing & Ruth have announced the third studio album No Home of the Mind, continuing with the deft minimalism that has marked them out in critical circles in recent years. With No Home of the Mind, the evolving ensemble has been streamlined to five and, afte

Bing & Ruth, the ever-evolving project helmed by New York composer David Moore, returns on 4AD with the new 7-track, 49-minute record Species. While on a surface level, Species is an exploration of the sonic possibilities of the Farfisa organ, aided only

Bauhaus were singer Peter Murphy, guitarist Daniel Ash, bassist David J and drummer Kevin Haskins. The dark, dramatic music that they made in their short time together possessed far more force, variety and playfulness than the "goth" tag that they were un

Few debut albums have ever arrived as nearly perfectly formed as In the Flat Field. It practically invented what remains for many as the blueprint of goth music. Starting with the angst of “Double Dare,” with its shattering guitar over a curious but fierc

10th Anniversary Expanded Edition Colored Vinyl 3LP Reissue featuring Third Disc with Eight Bonus Tracks!
2010's High Violet, the critically acclaimed fifth full-length record by The National, is a nervy, melodic, explosive and beautiful set of songs t

It's been 30 years since Pale Saints released their debut album, The Comforts of Madness, and to celebrate, 4AD have remastered the album and will be reissuing it on vinyl LP. From Leeds, the original Pale Saints line-up featured Ian Masters (bass / vocal

National: High Violet LP