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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
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Chiu, Jeremiah & Marta Sofia Honer: Recordings from the Aland Islands LP
C$34.99
Pseudo Labroatories Pigeon Breeders: Stasis CS
Pigeon Breeders & Ghost Cars is the collaboration between Will Scott and Myles Bartel (Pigeon Breeders) and Matthew Belton (Ghost Cars), formed in 2019. Both projects are based in Edmonton, Alberta and have been notable acts in the experimental music comm
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Pigeon Breeders: Stasis CS
C$14.99
Numero Various: Valley Of The Sun: Field Guide To Inner Harmony (coloured) LP
Both a marketing firm and metaphysical mission, Valley of the Sun synthesized style and spirituality to produce an extensive catalog that at once defines and defies new age music. Founder Dick Sutphen worked with tireless devotion to spread a message he b
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Various: Valley Of The Sun: Field Guide To Inner Harmony (coloured) LP
C$39.99
Numero Various: Bound For Hell: On The Sunset Strip (2LP-silver with white stripe+book) LP
Heavy metal? Glam? Hard rock? Make your own fuckin' call, you poser. We're not gonna do it for you. Bound for Hell is early '80s L.A. rock as it actually was: a California cataclysm of drunk and horny headbangers, dressed in sharp, shiny, leather androgyn
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Various: Bound For Hell: On The Sunset Strip (2LP-silver with white stripe+book) LP
C$99.99
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
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Sharif, Jairus: Water & Tools LP
C$34.99
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
Numero Duster: Duster (seaglass wave coloured) LP
After a 19-year hiatus, Duster came back with their S/T chef-d'oeuvre in 2019. Recorded in band member Clay Parton’s garage (aka Low Earth Orbit), the record bears all the hallmarks of the band’s early work: gaunt basslines, spindly guitars, and melanchol
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Duster: Duster (seaglass wave coloured) LP
C$29.99
Mesh-Key Jacks: Vacant World LP
Arriving on the Japanese music scene during the Beatles-inspired cover band boom of the late ’60s, Jacks instantly distinguished themselves from their fluff-peddling, copycat peers with stripped-down, original compositions, nihilistic lyrics and raw perfo
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Jacks: Vacant World LP
C$49.99
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$41.99
Tarotplane: The Ektachrome Dawn LP
The second release on Tonight’s Dream Records is delivered by Baltimore-based ambient and new-school Kosmische guitar musician PJ Dorsey, better known as Tarotplane. The Ektachrome Dawn follows on from the stunning Horizontology (12th Isle) and Light Self
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Tarotplane: The Ektachrome Dawn LP
C$34.99
Self Release Brick Road: III CS
Brick Road
"BRICK ROAD III is one complete experience - however, you could divide it into two episodes: side A and side B of this tape. The first episode is more guitar-driven and composition-based. The second is more spatial and much slower. Every track
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Brick Road: III CS
C$14.99
Drag City Bitchin Bajas: Bajascillators LP
With a tactile clunk, Bajascillators bubbles to the surface. "Amorpha," a side-long shower of synthetic bells and bass, as patterns interlock and repeat and the beat within the barlines shifts constantly, forms a new, latest miniature of infinity. You fli
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Bitchin Bajas: Bajascillators LP
C$46.99
Dalton, Karen: In My Own Time (50th Anniversary) LP
Karen Dalton’s 1971 album, In My Own Time, stands as a true masterpiece by one of music’s most mysterious, enigmatic, and enduringly influential artists. Light in the Attic is honored to celebrate the 50th anniversary of In My Own Time with a special edit
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Dalton, Karen: In My Own Time (50th Anniversary) LP
C$99.99
Daptone Frightnrs, The: Always (INDIE EXCLUSIVE, BLUE SPLATTER) 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) LP
C$34.99
Born Bad Ruth: Polaroid/Roman/Photo LP
Born Bad Records present a reissue of Ruth's Polaroïd/Roman/Photo, originally released in 1985. Thierry Müller, who initiated the Ruth project, is not at his first try when the album Polaroïd/Roman/Photo, including the eponymous track, is released in 1985
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Ruth: Polaroid/Roman/Photo LP
C$34.99
Superior Viaduct Budd, Harold: The Pavilion Of Dreams LP
For five decades, Harold Budd stood on the forefront of the West Coast avant-garde. Born in Los Angeles, he studied with Schoenberg-pupil Gerald Strang and began teaching at CalArts in 1970. While searching for his own voice, he was influenced as much by
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Budd, Harold: The Pavilion Of Dreams LP
C$39.99
Akuphone Berrocal/Fenech/Epplay:Transcodex LP
Jac Berrocal, David Fenech, and Vincent Epplay are back with a true gem of an album: Transcodex. Turning more towards pop than in their beginnings, this fourth record follows the footsteps of their previous album, Exterior Lux (AKU 1026LP, 2021). The trio
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Berrocal/Fenech/Epplay:Transcodex LP
C$44.99
Mesh-Key Aunt Sally: s/t LP
Available again! Mesh-Key reissue of a true desert island disc, criminally out of print for nearly 40 years. They've spared no expense bringing this classic back to life in a format befitting its brilliance, carefully orchestrating transfers of the origin
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Aunt Sally: s/t LP
C$49.99
Domino Dawson, Richard: The Ruby Cord (INDIE EXCLUSIVE, SKY BLUE) LP
Pop in your earpiece, close your eyes and embrace the wonders (and horrors) of augmented reality and prepare to travel 500 years into the future as Richard Dawson returns with…The Ruby Cord. These seven tracks plunge us into an unreal, fantastical and at
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Dawson, Richard: The Ruby Cord (INDIE EXCLUSIVE, SKY BLUE) LP
C$44.99
Mr. Bongo Ishikawa, Akira & Count Buffalos: Uganda (Dawn Of Rock) (box edition) LP
HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION!
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
DFA JJULIUS: Vol. 2 LP
"I'll never forget the first time I heard JJulius. I was stumbling down the waxed marble steps of the Sunset Marquis, sipping in vain from my empty flask, when David Bowie pulled up in a tangerine Hummer H3 he "borrowed" from one of those Kraftwerk guys,
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JJULIUS: Vol. 2 LP
C$26.99
Late Music Davachi, Sarah: Two Sisters (INDIE EXCLUSIVE, GREEN) LP
The new album from Sarah Davachi on her own Late Music imprint is a collection of nine extended compositions for chamber ensemble and solo pipe organ. The expanded instrumentation on this album includes carillon (a keyboard instrument comprised of very la
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Davachi, Sarah: Two Sisters (INDIE EXCLUSIVE, GREEN) LP
C$49.99
Siltbreeze Puppet Wipes: The Stones Are Watching LP
Puppet Wipes is the latest source of audio levitation for Arielle McCuaig (Hairnet, Janitor Scum, Vacuum Rebuilders) & Kayla MacNeill (Singing Lawn Chair, Vacuum Rebuilders) who conjure up their extraordinary odds bodkins out of Calgary, Alberta. Label fa
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Puppet Wipes: The Stones Are Watching 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