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Numero Duster: Capsule Losing Contact BOX
San Jose’s sonic cure-all for the Y2K hangover that never materialized, Duster emerged from a cloud of lonely bong rips to take indie rock to the moon, and beyond. Scotch-taped guitars toggle between a chorus of brittle winter trees and a blanket of disto
Duster: Capsule Losing Contact BOX
C$104.99
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
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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
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
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Modern Classics Digable Planets: Blowout Comb LP
The album is named for the combs used to maintain an Afro hairstyle, and that’s significant. The group’s Ishmael “Butterfly” Butler said it summed up what they wanted to do with it: "It means the utilization of the natural, a natural style,” he has said.
Digable Planets: Blowout Comb LP
C$59.99
Numero Unwound: Fake Train (silver) LP
After the Pacific Northwest grunge raids of the early ’90s that saw Nirvana, Mudhoney, and even the Melvins hoisted up the major label flagpole, Unwound’s 1993 debut came as a welcomed reprieve for underground noise-niks everywhere. A pulsing cluster of w
Unwound: Fake Train (silver) LP
C$29.99
Superior Viaduct Contortions: Buy LP
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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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Wick Rault, Michael: Michael Rault (galaxy blue/ltd edition) LP
Wick Records presents Michael Rault, the eponymous new album from one of the most talented songwriters in the game. A remarkable re-imagination of '70s pop perfection, the album began to take shape during a time of endings. Michael, on the cusp of turning
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Rault, Michael: Michael Rault (galaxy blue/ltd edition) LP
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Daptone Frightnrs, The: Always (INDIE EXCLUSIVE, BLUE SPLATTER VINYL) LP
Before Dan Klein's unfortunate passing, The Frightnrs agreed to keep a promise he asked of them - continue making music together. Part of that promise has been made manifest here...Daptone Records is proud to present ALWAYS! - the raw, soulful new long pl
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Frightnrs, The: Always (INDIE EXCLUSIVE, BLUE SPLATTER VINYL) LP
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Dead Oceans Fay, Bill: Still Some Light: Part 2 LP
Bill Fay has always sung about attempting to understand the most universal questions: those of nature, spirituality, humanity. His songs are "calming hymns for another chaotic time", he says. His influence can be traced through many artist's work, and so
Fay, Bill: Still Some Light: Part 2 LP
C$34.99
Republic Roxy Music: Roxy Music (half-speed master) LP
Roxy Music's self-titled 1972 debut, one of two with Brian Eno still in the fold, exemplified the band's penchant for glamour, both in the lyrics and with the album cover of model Kari-Ann Muller, kick-starting a tradition of iconic album covers featuring
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Roxy Music: Roxy Music (half-speed master) LP
C$49.99
International Anthem Chiu, Jeremiah & Marta Sofia Honer: Recordings from the Aland Islands LP
In 2017 Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer traveled together to the Åland Islands (an archipelago that is host to around 6,500 islands) in the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland. They headed to the islands with the intention of helping two friends (moth
Chiu, Jeremiah & Marta Sofia Honer: Recordings from the Aland Islands LP
C$34.99
Palto Flats Shimizu, Yasuaki: Kiren LP
Acclaimed saxophonist, producer and composer Yasuaki Shimizu will release Kiren, his unreleased album from 1984, on the Palto Flats record label on February 25, 2022. Liner notes by music historian Chee Shimizu, and credits in both Japanese and English.
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Shimizu, Yasuaki: Kiren LP
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Sub Pop Mudhoney: Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge (2LP deluxe edition) LP
By going back to basics with Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge, Mudhoney flipped conventional wisdom. Not for the first time – or the last – they would be vindicated. A month after its release in July 1991, the album entered the UK album chart at Number 34 (f
Mudhoney: Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge (2LP deluxe edition) LP
C$41.99
Hedhunter Drive Like Jehu: Drive Like Jehu (coloured vinyl) LP
Repressed again with liner notes. The San Diego post-hardcore band’s debut album from 1991, containing the legendary Rick Froberg & John Reis guitar team dipped in battery acid, wired to a power station, wailing and screaming, with nervous riffs piled on
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Drive Like Jehu: Drive Like Jehu (coloured vinyl) LP
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Impulse Coltrane, Alice: Kirtan: Turiya Sings LP
Alice Coltrane is the undeniable godmother of spiritual jazz and an acknowledged influence on everyone from Flying Lotus and Kamasi Washington to Solange and Radiohead. Turyia Sings was originally released in 1982 on cassette as a collection of devotional
Coltrane, Alice: Kirtan: Turiya Sings LP
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Finders Keepers Various: Strain, Crack & Break Vol. 2 LP
With his ongoing commitment to like-minded archivist label Finders Keepers Records, industrial music pioneer Steven Stapleton further entrusts us to lift the veil and expose “the right tracks” from his uber-legendary and oft misinterpreted psych/prog/pun
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Various: Strain, Crack & Break Vol. 2 LP
C$39.99
Southern Lord Sunn O))): Flight Of the Behemoth LP
2002's Flight of the Behemoth is the third album by Sunn O))). The band collaborated with legendary Japanese noise artist Merzbow, who mixed "O)))Bow 1" and "O)))Bow 2." The first ever use of a drum machine on a Sunn O))) track is heard on "F.W.T.B.T.", a
Sunn O))): Flight Of the Behemoth LP
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Sacred Bones Ataraxia (Mort Garson): The Unexplained (orange) LP
Black vinyl version. The pioneering electronic composer Mort Garson (Mother Earth's Plantasia) takes on supernatural phenomena with lush synth grooves on The Unexplained, his only release under the name Ataraxia. Subtitled Electronic Musical Impressions o
Ataraxia (Mort Garson): The Unexplained (orange) LP
C$26.99
Black Sweat Cherry, Don: Om Shanti Om LP
An amazing document of the life experiment that was the Organic Music Society. This super quality audio, recorded by RAI (the Italian public broadcasting company) in 1976 for television, documents a quartet concert focused on vocals compositions and impro
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Cherry, Don: Om Shanti Om LP
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Blackest Ever Black Dal Forno, Carla: You Know What It LP
Carla dal Forno presents her debut solo album You Know What It's Like, following time in cult Melbourne group Mole House and an earlier association with Blackest Ever Black as a member of F ingers and Tarcar. Her voice is an extraordinary instrument: both
Dal Forno, Carla: You Know What It LP
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Dais Tazartès, Ghédalia: Diasporas (clear red) LP
Originally recorded in 1977, following a limited release in 1979, Ghédalia Tazartès debut album, Diasporas, introduced listeners to the surreal, mysterious and truly unclassifiable statement of Tazartès and his out-of-time place in the French avant-garde
Tazartès, Ghédalia: Diasporas (clear red) LP
C$26.99
Finders Keepers Various: Strain Crack Break LP
After years of mythology, misinterpretation, and procrastination Nurse With Wound's Steven Stapleton finally chooses Finders Keepers as the ideal collaborators to release "the right tracks" from his über-legendary psych/prog/punk peculiarity shopping list
Various: Strain Crack Break LP
C$44.99