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Recorded in the same sessions as A Bit of Previous, Late Developers doesn't feel like a collection of lesser-than songs that weren't good enough to go on the "real" record. Rather, it's an embrace of the freedom that comes with a jumbo-sized canvas, skill

Originally released on Matador Records in 2000, Yo La Tengo's hauntingly meditative ninth full-length album, the Roger Moutenot-produced And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out, is named after the otherworldly Sun Ra quote, "...At first there was nothin

The first installment of Matador's 2022 "Revisionist History" catalog series is a 30th anniversary colored vinyl LP reissue of Pavement's landmark debut Slanted & Enchanted. First released in 1992, it remains a truly monumental album three decades later

If fate didn't quite ordain the circumstances for Interpol's seventh album, it was at least fortunate that the band had happily concluded their Marauder cycle on stage in front of 30 thousand-odd Peruvian fans. Rather than be sent scrambling like so many

Gang of Four was formed in Leeds in 1976 by bassist Dave Allen, drummer Hugo Burnham, guitarist Andy Gill, and singer Jon King. The band pioneered a style of music that inverted punk's blunt and explosive energies – favoring tense rhythms, percussive guit

Will Toledo always knew he would return to Twin Fantasy. He never did complete the work. Not really. Never could square his grand ambitions against his mechanical limitations. Listen to his first attempt, recorded at nineteen on a cheap laptop, and you'll

Belle and Sebastian followed up the considerable promise of 1996's fantastic If You're Feeling Sinister with an album that is, unbelievably, even better. 1998's The Boy with the Arab Strap served as the group's third full-length overall and it's an immedi

Coinciding with the release of the Terror Twilight: Farewell Horizontal 5LP box set, Pavement reissues the Spit on a Stranger EP on 12" vinyl. Includes the viral hit "Harness Your Hopes" on vinyl for the first time plus a previously unreleased live 1999 v

Matador's complete series of expanded editions of Pavement's five studio albums culminates with this deluxe reissue of their 1999 fifth studio album Terror Twilight, originally released in 1999. This expanded vinyl 4LP box set contains numerous unreleased

After twenty-odd years, twenty-odd lineups, and twenty-odd albums, EPs, singles, triples, stolen bases, misdemeanor convictions, and broken hearts, Dayton, OH's fortunate sons Guided By Voices were to call it quits, and 2004's Half Smiles of the Decompose

Spoon's tenth album, Lucifer on the Sofa, is the band's purest rock 'n roll record to date. Texas-made, it is the first set of songs that the quintet has put to tape in its hometown of Austin in more than a decade. Written and recorded over the last two y

In 2011, Toronto's Fucked Up delivered an album that chafed the edges of punk rock's conceptual boundaries – a set of songs that splayed freely into unexpected instrumentation, psychedelic drift, and situationist philosophy. Its ambition was limitless and

Julien Baker’s solo debut, Sprained Ankle, was one of the most widely hailed works of 2015. The album, recorded by an 18-year-old and her friend in only a few days, was a bleak yet hopeful, intimate document of staggering experiences and grace, centered e

This new gift from Lucy Dacus, her third album, was built on an interrogation of her coming-of-age years in Richmond, VA. Many songs start the way a memoir might – "In the summer of ‘07 I was sure I'd go to heaven, but I was hedging my bets at VBS" – and

Traditional Techniques is new phase folk music for new phase folks, with Stephen Malkmus as attuned as ever to the rhythms of the ever-evolving lingual slipstream. Instead of roses, briars, and long black veils, prepare for owns, cracked emojis, and shado

With amped-up acoustic guitars, jumpy song structures, and a punk attitude, the John Croslin-produced Telephono (1996) was the shot across the bow from Austin, Texas' fledgling rock heroes Spoon. The follow-up, Soft Effects EP (1997), features five of Spo

Traditional Techniques is new phase folk music for new phase folks, with Stephen Malkmus as attuned as ever to the rhythms of the ever-evolving lingual slipstream. Instead of roses, briars, and long black veils, prepare for owns, cracked emojis, and shado