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Mute Throbbing Gristle: Third Mind Movements LP
Throbbing Gristle unveils a reissue of The Third Mind Movements, released commercially for the first time on vinyl via Mute. Formed in 1975, Throbbing Gristle, aka Chris Carter, Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson (1955-2010), Cosey Fanni Tutti, and Genesis Bre
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Throbbing Gristle: Third Mind Movements LP
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ECM Part, Arvo: Tabula Rasa LP
In 1984, ECM brought a new sound into the musical world with the release of Arvo Pärt’s, Tabula Rasa, the first album on the label’s New Series imprint. The record also marked the intersection of some of the most longstanding, significant musical collabor
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Part, Arvo: Tabula Rasa 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
C$39.99
Domino Beat Happening: Beat Happening LP
Produced by Greg Sage (Wipers) & Patrick Maley.
Here’s where it all began…
This expanded double LP version of the “first album” thoroughly (though not completely) documents the band’s first four years of recorded history. Pitchfork calls it “a declarati
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Beat Happening: Beat Happening LP
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DDS Collin, Jon & Demdike Stare: Fragments of Nothing LP
Demdike Stare’s immersive set of windswept, strung out blues made in collab with Jon Collin finally makes it to vinyl after a small run of tapes back in 2020 that sold out in a hot minute. We reckon it’s some of Demdike’s most compelling work; a highly e
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Collin, Jon & Demdike Stare: Fragments of Nothing LP
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Relapse Poison Ruin: Harvest LP
Philadelphia Punks POISON RUIN make their Relapse Records debut with their new album, Harvest!

Evoking a rich tapestry of ice-caked forests, peasant revolts, and silent knights, POISON RUIN stab at the pulsing heart of what it means to live under the p
Poison Ruin: Harvest LP
C$31.99
Partisan Cymande: Cymande LP
In 1972, with the release of their self-titled debut album, Cymande emerged as innovators of the black British music scene. Taking influences from their Guyanese and Jamaican roots, the band fused reggae bass lines, Afro-tinged Nyabinghi percussion, psych
Cymande: Cymande LP
C$34.99
1972 Second Layer: Courts Or Wars LP
Adrian Borland and Graham Bailey might be better known as members of legendary post-punk group The Sound, but the two were childhood friends and had been playing together even earlier in The Outsiders, and continued their deep musical rapport as a duo, cr
Second Layer: Courts Or Wars LP
C$34.99
Secretly Canadian Magnolia Electric Co.: Josephine LP
Molina's concept album is an honest-to-God effort on the part of Magnolia Electric Co. to pay tribute to the life and spirit of fallen bassist Evan Farrell (R.I.P. December 2007), as the ideas for Josephine were being pieced together. Molina said each tun
Magnolia Electric Co.: Josephine LP
C$26.99
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
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
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
Ghostly Khotin: Release Spirit LP
Canadian producer Dylan Khotin-Footehas kept his Khotin alias going for the better part of a decade; the impressionistic electronic project shifts with the movements in his life. Sometimes it leads, like when the club-friendly grooves of 2014’s Hello Worl
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Khotin: Release Spirit LP
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ORG Bad Brains: Bad Brains LP
Bad Brains: Bad Brains LP
Bad Brains: Bad Brains LP
C$36.99
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
Sacred Bones Garson, Mort: Mother Earth's Plantasia LP
If you purchased a snake plant, asparagus fern, peace lily, or what have you from Mother Earth on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles (or bought a Simmons mattress from Sears), you also took home Plantasia, an album recorded especially for plants. Subtitled "wa
Garson, Mort: Mother Earth's Plantasia LP
C$26.99
SST Black Flag: Damaged LP
Damaged is the classic debut studio album by the American hardcore punk band Black Flag. SST Records released it December 1981.

Black Flag reached a new level of intensity and raw fury with this release. This could be Henry Rollins' lifetime highpoint.
Black Flag: Damaged LP
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Touch & Go Jesus Lizard: Liar (remastered) LP
Originally released in 1992, the Jesus Lizard’s Liar set a new standard for noisy, visceral indie rock that has yet to be matched. Fronted by powder-keg vocalist David Yow and featuring one of the tautest rhythm sections ever assembled, the Chicago-based
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Jesus Lizard: Liar (remastered) LP
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Impatience Tarotplane: Light Self All Others LP
Tarotplane offers up a new portal of possibility, entitled Light Self All Others, on the Impatience label. An unshackled mind melt of amorphous Berlin School electronics, glistening guitar tones, snatches of disembodied voices and rumblings of percussive
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Tarotplane: Light Self All Others LP
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Feeding Tube Gendron, Myriam: Ma délire: Songs of Love, Lost & Found LP
"It has been a while since the release Myriam's acclaimed 2014 debut album, Not So Deep as a Well (FTR 146-4LP). The intervening years have brought a smattering of live performances, a bouquet of children, Trump's Pandemic, and much more . . . Different c
Gendron, Myriam: Ma délire: Songs of Love, Lost & Found LP
C$39.99
Touch & Go Blonde Redhead: Melody Of Certain Damaged Lemons 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: Melody Of Certain Damaged Lemons LP
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Dais Coil: Musick To Play In The Dark² LP
Few groups in recent history forged as confounding and alchemical a body of work as Coil, the partnership of Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson and John Balance. From album to album and phase to phase their recordings spelunk perplexing depths of esoteric indu
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Coil: Musick To Play In The Dark² LP
C$35.99
Black Editions Takayanagi, Masayuki/New Direction: Station '70: Call in Question/Live Independence BOX
With the cosmic-disco-drenched Burning Feeling, Steve Moore's high-gloss Lovelock project conjured one of the most slept-on albums of last decade. Chunky, neon-lit synths and crashing, spacey guitars ride chugging Italo basslines and smooth-yet-shuddering
Takayanagi, Masayuki/New Direction: Station '70: Call in Question/Live Independence BOX
C$89.99
Numero Clark, Sanford: They Call Me Country (blue) LP
Propelled by his 1956 Lee Hazlewood-produced hit "The Fool," Sanford Clark was already a rockabilly legend in his own right by the time he swapped his hair gel and switchblade for a pair of cowboy boots on They Call Me Country. Recorded between 1965-67 an
Clark, Sanford: They Call Me Country (blue) LP
C$29.99