Official debut from Syracuse University student Claire Cottrill aka Clairo. The term “bedroom pop” is getting thrown around more and more, but unlike the slew of studio artists chasing a certain reverse-engineered false intimacy, Cottrill s bedroom pop is borne out of necessity. And now that her music has transcended Soundcloud and YouTube and is…
The Tourist is the 5th album from Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. The band, which formed in 2004 and originally consisted of 5 members (they all met at Connecticut College), is now down to just one member, Alec Ounsworth, who handled most of CYHSY s songwriting since the beginning. Ounsworth recently mentioned that the LP…
First ever reissue of this hard to find kraut electronic album! Clara Mondshine is the alias of Walter Bachauer, a radio director, journalist, and composer who worked for RIAS Berlin in the 70s and 80s. Bachauer collaborated with electronic artist Peter Michael Hamel and was part of the krautrock act Between in the 70s, as…
Fresh take on Claudio Simonetti s classic soundtrack. George A. Romero s Dawn Of The Dead is one of the most famous horror movies of all time. Simonetti s mix of prog and electronic rock added the necessary tension to the film. In celebration of the film s 40th anniversary, Simonetti formed a new iteration…
The Cocteau Twins’ very first breakthrough in a career littered with breakthroughs: Treasure established them as the flagbearers of postpunk’s swirling transformation into ethereal bliss, Heaven Or Las Vegas broke them onto pop radio… but Head Over Heels set the standard to which they would be compared for the rest of their career, and in the process,…
Expertly assembled compilation of early work from the Cocteau Twins. After gaining considerable success in the UK and Europe, the Cocteau Twins were introduced to US with this compilation. The Pink Opaque picks some of the band s best material for a co-release from their home label, 4AD, and American label, Relativity. None of the…
While Head Over Heels retained traces of the metallic postpunk nihilism that defined their first album and early singles, Treasure finds the Cocteau Twins firmly planted in their next big phase; floating in Robin Guthrie’s pillowy reverb and chorus, Liz Fraser’s soaring lyrical hieroglyphs and new recruit Simon Raymonde’s swirling DX7 strings and bass guitar….
black vinyl pressing edition of 1000 Decca proudly presents a unique artefact from its vaults for the first time since the original release in 1962. In Venice, August 1961, the most prominent surrealist artist of all time, Salvador Dalí staged a very unique performance at the Teatro La Fenice and Decca were on hand to…
yellow colored vinyl pressing edition of 1,500 1st time pressing on vinyl features songs from the hit 1993 films including No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) by k.d. lang and Andy Bell (of Erasure fame), The Red Hot Chili Peppers Soul To Squeeze, an unused track from Blood Sugar Sex Magic (which had been a…
2016 s Ruminations from Conor Oberst, the singer-songwriter best known for his work with Bright Eyes, is an intimate, bare-bones full-length recorded with minimal instrumentation during a recuperative stay at his native Omaha, Nebraska. For Salutations, Oberst revisits the 10-tracker, working with a full band to flesh out songs like Next Of Kin, Tachycardia, Till…
You ll immediately feel the intimacy of The Trinity Session the moment Margo Timmins vocals on hit on the brief acapella number Mining For Gold. The Canadian band s sophomore album, originally released in 1988, was recorded at Toronto s Church of the Holy Trinity on one mic (Clarec Ambisonic Microphone), which explains the playing-in-front-of-you…
80s nostalgia with a modern twist. Justin Vallesteros, recording as Craft Spells, released Idle Labor in 2011, and the album is repressed for Captured Tracks 10th anniversary. 80s synth guitar pop inspires the 11 tracks, and listening to the LP is a pleasant trip down memory lane for those that grew up on Factory Records…
80s nostalgia with a modern twist. Justin Vallesteros, recording as Craft Spells, originally released Idle Labor in 2011. 80s synth guitar pop inspires the 11 tracks, and listening to the LP is a pleasant trip down memory lane for those that grew up on Factory Records and 4AD (Vallesteros s voice has been compared to…
Lo Que Siento was THE love song of summer 2018, and the LA singer-songwriter wunderkid is slated to release his highly anticipated debut album, Para Mi, next month. Omar Banos aka Cuco, has developed a fervent following since dropping his 2016 mixtape, Wannabewithu, and his lo-fi, psychedelia-dipped English-Spanish ballads thrust the singer-songwriter into the indie-pop…
Omaha, Nebraska s Cursive broke out into the scene with Domestica, but the band already had two full-lengths under its name by the time it dropped the 2000 LP, Such Blinding Stars For Starving Eyes being one of them. Tim Kasher, Clint Schnase, Matt Maginn, and Stephen Pederson s sound, which fuses indie rock with…
Cursive s breakout moment might have been Domestica, but the Omaha, Nebraska band had released 2 LPs prior to the 2000 critical success. The Storms Of Early Summer – Semantics Of Song, originally released in 1998, is the band s sophomore effort, and it is Tim Kasher and co. s first attempt at a concept…