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Parlophone Bowie, David: Low (2017 Remastered Version) LP
January 1977 saw the release of the first installment of what came to be known as David Bowie's Berlin trilogy. That album was the Bowie/Tony Visconti produced Low and it was followed later the same year by Heroes with the trilogy completed in 1979 by the
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Bowie, David: Low (2017 Remastered Version) LP
C$34.99
Amateur Hour: Framtiden Tillhor Inte Oss LP
The second album of the absolute which are Amateur Hour!

"The songs talk for themselves, appealing to both the romantic indie-kid to the most elitist avantgardist. My mind ventures to referencing Nico’s The Marble Index and it’s lovechild with a Beat H
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Amateur Hour: Framtiden Tillhor Inte Oss LP
C$39.99
Serfs, The: Primal Matter LP
Emerging like a missile from some surreptitious silo in southwestern Ohio, The Serfs are a deliberately nebulous and incidentally industrialist gang of dance-floor hymners—perturbed and tranced-out troubadours whose sound and musical ideology seems to be
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Serfs, The: Primal Matter LP
C$49.99
Thrill Jockey Body, The: Christs, Redeemers (INDIE EXCLUSIVE, CLEAR) LP
It has been said by more than a few intrepid listeners that The Body is the most brutal band on the planet. With ravishing grimness and impenetrable walls of noise, the duo of Chip King and Lee Buford create music that goes beyond what is normally conside
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Body, The: Christs, Redeemers (INDIE EXCLUSIVE, CLEAR) LP
C$47.99
Milan Geinoh Yamashirojumi: Akira (Red Swirl) LP
Set in the year 2019 in Neo-Tokyo, the world is still recovering from the ravages of World War III. One night, teen delinquent Kaneda has his biker gang hurtle through the busy city. Kaneda’s friend, Tetsuo, is seriously injured during an accident and is
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Geinoh Yamashirojumi: Akira (Red Swirl) LP
C$49.99
Music From Memory Masin, Gigi: Talk to the Sea LP
*2022 repress*Part of only a small and very much underground music scene in his hometown of Venice, Gigi Masin self released two modestly pressed LP's 'Wind' (1986) and 'Wind Collector' (1991) and appeared along side Charles Hayward for the Sub Rosa compi
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Masin, Gigi: Talk to the Sea LP
C$44.99
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
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Hated: Best Piece Of Shit Vol. 4 (white) LP
C$39.99
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
ORG Bad Brains: Bad Brains LP
ORG Bad Brains: Bad Brains LP
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Bad Brains: Bad Brains LP
C$36.99
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
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Staples, Vince: Vince Staples LP
C$39.99
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
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 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
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.
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Digable Planets: Blowout Comb LP
C$59.99
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
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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
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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
4AD Breeders: Last Splash LP
In October 2017, The Breeders announced their return to 4AD, along with a new album, All Nerve, released in March 2018. The label is also reissuing their previous four albums on vinyl including Pod (1990), Last Splash (1993), Title TK (2002) and Mountain
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Breeders: Last Splash LP
C$29.99
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
C$26.99
Blue Fog Elevator Through: Vague Premonition "Extra 2LP edition" LP
Recorded in autumn 1998 at Chemical Sound in Toronto, with Daryl Smith and mixed by Jack Endino, the "Vague Premonition" LP was Elevator's last album with Sub Pop, and is now fully remastered and sounding better than ever. The second LP in this package fe
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Elevator Through: Vague Premonition "Extra 2LP edition" LP
C$44.99
Cleopatra Chrome: Half Machine Lip Moves LP
Chrome were an experimental rock band formed in San Francisco in 1975. After their first album, the group’s mastermind, Damon Edge, met guitar player Helios Creed and the pair began developing the group’s signature sound collage / acid punk sound. On Half
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Chrome: Half Machine Lip Moves LP
C$34.99
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.
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Black Flag: Damaged LP
C$36.99
Cleopatra Guru Guru: UFO LP
Guru Guru was formed in 1968 as The Guru Guru Groove by Mani Neumeier (drums), Uli Trepte (bass), and Eddy Naegeli (guitar) (later replaced by American Jim Kennedy. By the time of Guru Guru's debut in 1970, Ax Genrich had replaced Kennedy to solidify the
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Guru Guru: UFO LP
C$44.99