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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
International Anthem SML: Small Medium Large LP
SML is the quintet of bassist Anna Butterss, synthesist Jeremiah Chiu, saxophonist Josh Johnson, percussionist Booker Stardrum, and guitarist Gregory Uhlmann. Their debut album Small Medium Large began as a collection of long form improvisations recorded
SML: Small Medium Large LP
C$34.99
Light in the Attic Hazlewood, Lee: LHI Years: Singles, Nudes & Backsides LP
As a true legend of the great American songbook and a rebellious pioneer who left behind a lengthy trail of echo laden pop masterpieces, Lee Hazlewood’s influence continues to reverberate today. Between 1968-71, Hazlewood not only released his finest solo
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Hazlewood, Lee: LHI Years: Singles, Nudes & Backsides LP
C$54.99
Be With Nucleus: Elastic Rock LP
Nucleus's Elastic Rock is undisputedly a milestone in jazz-rock. A beautiful and vital debut album, it was first released on Vertigo in 1970. Genius trumpeter and visionary composer Ian Carr was one of the most respected British musicians of his era. He w
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Nucleus: Elastic Rock 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
Third Man Sleep: Dopesmoker LP
Remastered from Original Tapes with Never-Before-Heard Bonus Studio Track "Hot Lava Man" from the Jerusalem Sessions. Recorded in 1996 and not released (in slightly different edit/mix) until 1999 under the title Jerusalem, the legend and lore behind Dopes
Sleep: Dopesmoker LP
C$36.99
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
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
Serfs, The: Primal Matter LP
C$49.99
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
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
Geinoh Yamashirojumi: Akira (Red Swirl) LP
C$49.99
Numero Various: Technicolor Paradise: Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights BOX
Finally available again!!! It was a musical cocktail born in a marketing meeting: Two parts easy listening, one part jazz, a healthy dollop of conga drums, a sprinkling of bird calls, and a pinch of textless choir. Serve garnished with an alluring female
Various: Technicolor Paradise: Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights BOX
C$89.99
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
C$29.99
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
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
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
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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
Lilith Various: No New York LP
One of the brightest and most famous projects of the entire punk/new wave scene, No New York was released in 1978 on Island's sub-label Antilles. Featuring some of the most incredible rule breaking bands of the underground N.Y.C. art and music scene, the
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Various: No New York LP
C$44.99
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$34.99
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
Elevator Through: Vague Premonition "Extra 2LP edition" LP
C$44.99
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
Guru Guru: UFO LP
C$44.99
DFA Gonzalez, Delia/Gavin Russom: The Days Of Mars LP
Double album of blissed out beatless Krautrock influenced soundscapes on DFA Records. The sounds on these recordings were made by layering live takes of keyboards & other instruments, many of which were designed and built specifically for this album. The
Gonzalez, Delia/Gavin Russom: The Days Of Mars LP
C$34.99