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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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Luaka Bop Onyeabor, William: World Psychedelic Classics 5: Who Is William Onyeabor (3LP) LP
Little is known about William Onyeabor, and that’s the way he likes it.

Sure, you might hear something about him if you go to Enugu, a rural and isolated town in Eastern Nigeria, where he lives in a hidden palace in the woods. As a crowned High Chief o
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Onyeabor, William: World Psychedelic Classics 5: Who Is William Onyeabor (3LP) LP
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RVNG Intl. Visible Cloaks: Paradessence (silver vinyl) LP
Paradessence, Visible Cloak’s third full length, is an album of tension and reassurance. Its thirteen songs shift, heave, and shimmer against a faintly luminous backdrop of night, a cavern-like space shaped by sparse hyperreal representations of the natur
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Visible Cloaks: Paradessence (silver vinyl) LP
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Proper Fay, Bill: Time Of The Last Persecution LP
Time Of The Last Persecution (released in 1971 by Deram) is a more rock-oriented production and an altogether darker work than his debut and was co-produced by Fay and guitarist Ray Russell, and featured top-notch session players including drummer Alan Ru
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Fay, Bill: Time Of The Last Persecution LP
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Bureau B Faust: Faust IV LP
By 1973, Faust had already rewired the circuits of German rock. Their first two albums had exploded traditional song form with a joyous disregard for continuity, coherence, or commercial appeal. The Faust Tapes, released earlier that year for 49p as a sur
Faust: Faust IV LP
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Numero 90 Day Men: (It (Is) It) Critical Band (2LP-25th anniversary/coke bottle wave vinyl) LP
90 Day Men's (It (Is) It) Critical Band + Reissued for Its Y2K 25th Anniversary Edition on Colored 2LP: Expanded With Unreleased Album Tracked at Steve Albini's Electrical Audio. Atmospheric post-rock from turn of the century Chicago. 90 Day Men's debut f
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90 Day Men: (It (Is) It) Critical Band (2LP-25th anniversary/coke bottle wave vinyl) LP
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Warner Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots LP
Although it was burdened with the difficult task of following-up what is universally lauded as one of the best albums of the '90s in 1999's Soft Bulletin, The Flaming Lips struck gold once again with 2002's equally as brilliant Yoshimi Battles The Pink Ro
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Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots LP
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Murder Sloan: Smeared (tip-on sleeve) LP
Smeared is the debut studio album by Canadian rock band Sloan. It was released in Canada on October 1, 1992, and in the United States in January, 1993, on Geffen Records. The album was recorded at a low cost of $1,200. The album is ranked 86th in the 200
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Sloan: Smeared (tip-on sleeve) LP
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Drag City US Maple: Talker LP
U.S. Maple on Drag City BACK IN STOCK, at last! Talker, Acre Thrills and Purple on Time, from their Drag City run (1999-2003) may be ordered now, bundled together at a price that should move ya! These transgresso-rock classics are gonna live forever – but
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US Maple: Talker LP
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International Anthem Chiu, Jeremiah & Marta Sofia Honer: Recordings from the Åland Islands (IA11 Edition) (DELUXE EDITION) LP
Recordings from the Åland Islands, the duo debut by synthesist Jeremiah Chiu and violist Marta Sofia Honer, is a truly unique series of pieces that marry acoustic and electronic sounds with field recordings, all captured on a trip to the titular Baltic ar
Chiu, Jeremiah & Marta Sofia Honer: Recordings from the Åland Islands (IA11 Edition) (DELUXE EDITION) LP
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R&S Aphex Twin: Classics LP
Undoubtedly one of the most important and influential electronic artists to have emerged in popular music, the sonic misfit from Cornwall, the Aphex Twin, released a breathtaking slew of early singles and albums from 1991 onwards (and continues to present
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Aphex Twin: Classics LP
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Drag City Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas: Totality LP
Years past the space time of Automaginary, Bitchin Bajas and Natural Infor- mation Society have reported back at last from beyond. If the new title doesn’t clue you, Totality brings good news. Since their first collaboration, the path- ways that lead from
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Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas: Totality LP
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International Anthem Parker, Jeff: The Way Out Of Easy LP
The Way Out of Easy is the first album from guitarist Jeff Parker and his long-running ETA IVtet—saxophonist Josh Johnson, bassist Anna Butterss, drummer Jay Bellerose—since their 2022 debut Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy, which Pitchfork named one
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Parker, Jeff: The Way Out Of Easy LP
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Century Media Blood Incantation: Absolute Elsewhere LP
Blood Incantation’s Absolute Elsewhere is unlike anything you’ve ever heard before. Few can claim a sonic watershed as readily as the Denver, Colorado quartet. At roughly 45 minutes, the two compositions that make up this album are as confounding as they
Blood Incantation: Absolute Elsewhere LP
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Hands in the Dark Lauten Der Seele: Die Reise Zur Monsalwasche LP
Christian Schoppik aka Läuten der Seele brings his “Water” trilogy to a close with his new album ‘Die Reise zur Monsalwäsche’ (The Journey to Monsalwäsche) following up ‘Die Mariengrotte als Trinkwasseraufbereitungsanlage’ (2022, Hands in the Dark) and ‘E
Lauten Der Seele: Die Reise Zur Monsalwasche LP
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Dark Entries Cowley, Patrick: From Behind LP
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Cybernetic disco maestro Patrick Cowley returns to Dark Entries with From Behind, a collection of grooving and ecstatic covers of 60s garage and soul cuts. Best known for his chart-topping disco anthems, Cowley left us with an incredible body
Cowley, Patrick: From Behind LP
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Great Unwashed: Clean Out Of Our Minds LP
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REISSUED!!! The Clean broke up (for the first time) in 1982. After a break, the Kilgour brothers pursued a new aesthetic and started recording on a 4 track at home. Poking fun at their past, they called themselves The Great Unwashed. Clean Ou
Great Unwashed: Clean Out Of Our Minds LP
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Temporal Drift Les Rallizes Denudes: YaneUra Oct. '80 LP
In 1980, Les Rallizes Dénudés welcomed guitarist Fujio Yamaguchi (The Dynamites, Murahachibu, Teardrops) to its fold. The unconventional pairing of inimitable Rallizes frontman Mizutani with Fujio’s unrestrained, bluesier styles ushered in a new era for t
Les Rallizes Denudes: YaneUra Oct. '80 LP
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Warp Broadcast: Distant Call - Collected Demos 2000 - 2006 LP
Distant Call is a collection of early demos of songs that would subsequently appear as finished productions on the albums Haha Sound, Tender Buttons and The Future Crayon. The album also includes two songs discovered by James after Trish’s passing: “Come
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Broadcast: Distant Call - Collected Demos 2000 - 2006 LP
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Lingua Ignota: Caligula (2LP-transparent) LP
“CALIGULA”, takes the vision of Kristin Hayter’s vessel to a new level of grandeur, her purging and vengeful audial vision going beyond anything preceding it and reaching a new unparalleled sonic plane within her oeuvre.

Succeeding her self-released 20
Lingua Ignota: Caligula (2LP-transparent) LP
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Rotorelief Nurse With Wound: Chance Meeting On A Dissecting Table of A Sewing Machine And An Umbrella LP
Official reissue. New remastering vinyl of the 1979 LP by Colin Potter. Gatefold cover plus complete Nurse With Wound list on gatefold inner. This is the long-awaited vinyl re-issue of the timeless Nurse With Wound debut release from 1979. Described by So
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Nurse With Wound: Chance Meeting On A Dissecting Table of A Sewing Machine And An Umbrella LP
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Dais Coil: Moon's Milk (In Four Phases) (3LP-red-in-clear) LP
First compiled as a double CD in 2002, 'Moon’s Milk (In Four Phases)' is a suite of four EPs that Coil released seasonally via their in-house Eskaton imprint across 1998. The line-up for these sessions were John Balance, Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson, Dre
Coil: Moon's Milk (In Four Phases) (3LP-red-in-clear) LP
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Temporal Drift Yoshimura, Hiroshi: Surround LP
“If Surround can be listened to as music that’s as close to air itself, allowing us to enter each listener’s sound scenery, or as something that exists within a new perspective, expanding the middle ground between sound and music, and transforming it into
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Yoshimura, Hiroshi: Surround LP
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Milan Sakamoto, Ryuichi: Async LP
async is Ryuichi Sakamoto's first solo album in eight years. Taking inspiration from everyday objects, sculpture, and nature, Sakamoto composed and arranged the sounds/music that he most wanted to listen to. Paying close attention to the essence of each t
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Sakamoto, Ryuichi: Async LP
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