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Verve Sanders, Pharoah: Karma (Verve Acoustic Sounds) LP
Pharoah Sanders possesses one of the most distinctive tenor saxophone sounds in jazz. Harmonically rich and heavy with overtones, Sanders' sound can be as raw and abrasive as it is possible for a saxophonist to produce. Yet, Sanders is highly regarded to
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Sanders, Pharoah: Karma (Verve Acoustic Sounds) LP
C$54.99
Warner Flower Traveling Band: Satori LP
Released in 1971, this is the first album produced by a Japanese artist with the overseas market in
mind. It was released simultaneously in the United States, Canada, and Japan, and in particular, the single “SATORI PART 2” reached No. 8 in Canada. There
Flower Traveling Band: Satori LP
C$84.99
Mesh-Key Jacks: Vacant World LP
Arriving on the Japanese music scene during the Beatles-inspired cover band boom of the late ’60s, Jacks instantly distinguished themselves from their fluff-peddling, copycat peers with stripped-down, original compositions, nihilistic lyrics and raw perfo
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Jacks: Vacant World LP
C$49.99
Numero Hated: Best Piece Of Shit Vol. 4 (white) LP
This one’s been teased for awhile, decades even. The Hated box set was an idea before Numero was an idea. Today we’re pleased to announce the first of five planned Hated collections that we’ll be rolling out over the next several years. Up first is Best P
Hated: Best Piece Of Shit Vol. 4 (white) LP
C$39.99
Bada$$, Joey: 1999 (2LP-purple-in-tan coloured) LP
The debut mixtape from Pro Era crew member and Brooklyn MC, Joey Bada$$. Leaning into the golden era sound of hip-hop, Joey Bada$$ garnered widespread acclaim from some of Hip-Hop's most vaunted tastemakers by crafting a project that paid homage to the 90
Bada$$, Joey: 1999 (2LP-purple-in-tan coloured) LP
C$41.99
Wichita Ride: Nowhere LP
"Shoegaze legends Ride have announced the details of the reissues of their early classic albums via Wichita Recordings. These will be released on the 4th November and will include the first four EPs ('Ride, 'Play', 'Fall', and 'Today Forever'), plus their
Ride: Nowhere LP
C$49.99
Get Better Fucked Up: Hidden World (MAGENTA) LP
FUCKED UP’s second reissue for Get Better Records is cloaked in shades of unconventional aesthetics, symbolic overtones and a self-proclaimed “culture of confusion.” Hidden World, the band’s first full length studio album, marks a turning point for the my
Fucked Up: Hidden World (MAGENTA) LP
C$41.99
Verve Coltrane, Alice: Ptah The El Daoud (Verve By Request) LP
Transferred from Analog Tapes and Remastered on 180g Vinyl LP as Part of the Verve By Request Series. Recorded in the basement studio of the Coltrane home in 1970, Alice Coltrane's fourth album is a masterpiece of spiritual jazz. The title track is an ode
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Coltrane, Alice: Ptah The El Daoud (Verve By Request) LP
C$39.99
Motown Staples, Vince: Vince Staples LP
Esteemed hip-hop artist Vince Staples delivers his new self-titled LP via Motown Records. His first full-length release since 2018's critically acclaimed FM!, the 10-track LP delves not only into Staples' upbringing in Long Beach, but his psyche as he l
Staples, Vince: Vince Staples LP
C$39.99
Mr. Bongo Ishikawa, Akira & Count Buffalos: Uganda (Dawn Of Rock) (box edition) LP
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The respected Japanese jazz drummer Akira Ishikawa was not messing around when he recorded the 'Uganda (Dawn of Rock)' album with his band the Count Buffaloes. For this offering, originally released in 1972 on Toshiba Records, Aki
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Ishikawa, Akira & Count Buffalos: Uganda (Dawn Of Rock) (box edition) LP
C$69.99
Superior Viaduct Spacemen 3: Recurring LP
Solid green, 180 gram vinyl. Due to continued demand, the fourth and final Spacemen 3 studio album Recurring; the much-anticipated follow-up to their seminal Playing with Fire album, is being repressed. By the time the album was recorded, relations betwee
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Spacemen 3: Recurring LP
C$44.99
Telephone Explosion Sharif, Jairus: Water & Tools LP
The passionate and unclassifiable work of Calgary-based improviser Jairus Sharif embraces each of these definitions of freedom and others, albeit strictly on its own personal and idiosyncratic terms.

Since early 2020, the 34-year-old autodidact has bee
Sharif, Jairus: Water & Tools LP
C$34.99
Numero Blonde Redhead: Blonde Redhead LP
Forming in 1994, Blonde Redhead were thrown together following a chance meeting in New York between Japanese siren Kazu Makino and Milanese twin brothers, Amedeo and Simone Pace. Taking their name from a song by fellow New York no wave artists DNA, locati
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Blonde Redhead: Blonde Redhead LP
C$24.99
Real Gone Honey & The Bees: Love (HONEY) LP
One of the great, lost albums of Philly Soul! And we mean really lost…we had to go to Italy and pay close to 500 euros to snag a copy for artwork. Jean Davis, Gwen Oliver, and Cassandra Wooten were known as The Yum-Yums when they auditioned for Arctic lab
Honey & The Bees: Love (HONEY) LP
C$36.99
International Anthem Photay with Carlos Niño: An Offering LP
An Offering is a new work by Photay, under the influence of a special creative partnership with International Anthem recording artist Carlos Niño. IARC followers should know Niño, or at least one of his 3 albums we’ve released in the last 2 years (Chicago
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Photay with Carlos Niño: An Offering LP
C$34.99
Numero Unwound: The Future Of What (black & white) LP
Unwound's third album in as many years, 1995's The Future of What is an unrelenting, constructivist masterstroke. The Olympia, WA trio's signature sound – grinding bass, syncopated drums, and fragmented guitar over measured yelps – ratchets past the threa
Unwound: The Future Of What (black & white) LP
C$29.99
Numero Duster: Together (cigarette smoke coloured) LP
Gather your loved ones, Together is here. Duster's fourth album is a 13-song exploration of comfortable, interplanetary goth. A sonic vaseline of submerged guitars, solder-burned synths, and over-driven rhythm tracks. "I know people say, ‘Oh Duster music
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Duster: Together (cigarette smoke coloured) LP
C$29.99
Bureau B Heldon: Allez-Teia LP
Bureau B present a reissue of Heldon's second album Allez-Teia, originally released on Disjuncta in 1975. Before making his own music in the early '70s, Richard Pinhas was a King Crimson fan. The British group has buzzed in Pinhas's mind for decades, but
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Heldon: Allez-Teia LP
C$39.99
Guruguru Brain Kikagaku Moyo: Kumoyo Island LP
“The fifth studio album & last euphoric mind-trip to Kikagaku Moyo's imagined island.
Best-suited for counting stars, looking at the ocean, and dancing in one’s daydream.”

In many ways ‘Kumoyo Island’ represents the culmination of a journey for Kikaga
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Kikagaku Moyo: Kumoyo Island LP
C$44.99
Merge Tall Dwarfs: Unravelled: 1981-2002 LP
A deep dive into the 21-year journey of New Zealand DIY pop pioneers Tall Dwarfs, aka Alec Bathgate and Chris Knox (both previously of Toy Love and The Enemy fame). Designed and painstakingly curated by Bathgate himself, this 55-track collection compris
Tall Dwarfs: Unravelled: 1981-2002 LP
C$134.99
Sub Pop Radio Birdman: The Essential Radio Birdman 1974-1978 LP
Founded in Australia by Michigan native, guitarist Deniz Tek and vocalist Rob Younger, Radio Birdman was one of the crucial forebears of underground, high-energy punk. Blending the Motor City sound of bands like The Stooges and MC5 that permeated Tek’s yo
Radio Birdman: The Essential Radio Birdman 1974-1978 LP
C$41.99
Castle Face Osees: A Foul Form LP
Box delayed, in early next week!
“Brain stem cracking scum-punk recorded tersely in the basement of my home. After a notoriously frustrating eon, the knee-jerk song path was aggressive and hooky. This is an homage to the punk bands we grew up on—the weir
Osees: A Foul Form LP
C$34.99
Superior Viaduct Contortions: Buy LP
Box delayed, in early next week!
Soon after their 1978 debut on the Brian Eno-produced No New York, a compilation that defined the No Wave scene, James Chance’s group Contortions had already evolved—getting sharper, tighter and just plain faster. Despite
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Contortions: Buy LP
C$34.99
Tidal Wave Music Home Boy And The C.O.L.: s/t LP
Cecil Johnson Lyde Holden aka “Home Boy” (born 1948) is an artist whose musical talent has been unmistakable since his days as a young boy. Growing up listening to his parents 78 RPM Doo-wop, Blues, Jazz and Gospel records, he started signing in church wh
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Home Boy And The C.O.L.: s/t LP
C$39.99