A real people music masterpiece, D.R. Hooker’s 1972 debut meets at the be-in of drug-addled hippy psychedelia and evangelical Christianity. Conjuring visions of an L.S.D.-damaged Frank Sinatra or Lou Reed playing the role of a divorced suburban dad, The Truth is a religious midlife crisis disguised as a private press LP. Forge your own chains,…
Classic country music, the stuff of AM radio and the Grand Ole Opry, is a study in contrasts. There s glitz and grit, reveling and wallowing, wretchedness and showmanship. Country music s greats wore their battered hearts on sequined sleeves. From Bakersfield to Galveston, the legends traded their tragicomic highs and lows for gold records…
Repress of LP in the 40th anniversary package: David Bowie – The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars which is remastered from analog.LP in poly-lined sleeve. Package also includes replica inner picture lyric sleeve.
Remixed and Remastered to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Deafheaven s Sunbather. Deafheaven’s monolithic second LP Sunbather, was not only a massive success in 2013, it created a radical shift in heavy music culture, an acceptance of the genre by previous outsiders, and a trailblazing sound that heretofore hadn’t been heard outside of learned circles. It was…
Documenting the band’s final era, when hardcore gigs in Sapporo were banned, and still had to be organized in private recording studios with seating. Before bands like Gai and Confuse existed on the opposite end of Japan, Real Control shows Deef diving into a totally raw and abrasive hardcore style, issuing a challenge for bands…
Deef, forming in 1979 in Sapporo City, Japan evolved from a school-age free jazz group into a raw hardcore band influenced by the global explosion of political punk and hardcore, as well as Japanese bands like The Stalin. During the early era, their Anti-Emperor gig series “Ten-Nou” was targeted by right wing groups, facilitating a…
Tracklist: 01 – Dog Days 02 – Hard To Love 03 – Mood Ring 04 – Necklace 05 – Alien 06 – Light On 07 – Pure Gold 08 – Dist B 09 – So Good 10 – Don t Look Down 11 – Knife 12 – Shake 13 – Magician 14- Forget
With their second album, “Satan Soldier of Fortune”, Departure Chandelier weave in reverse order the process of Napoleonic battlefield cleanup against self-coronation and the emperor’s ascent to deity whom profited off the fallen of both sides. While the dying are stripped naked to fertilize the countryside, boots and teeth are hurriedly taken for sale in…
Big Crown Records is proud to present Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek’s debut 7” offering on the label. They came to New York in June of 2024 to record their new album at The Diamond Mine Studio in Queens with Leon Michels handling production. These are the first two tunes from those sessions and they…
Delaware is the debut studio album by American band Drop Nineteens released on June 19, 1992. Despite the albums release over 30 years ago, and the band remaining inactive from 1993 onwards this album has remained a favorite of shoegaze fans for decades, and was listed as one of the 50 best shoegaze albums of…
1. Future Nostalgia 2. Don’t Start Now3. Cool4. Physical 5. Levitating6. Pretty Please7. Hallucinate8. Love Again9. Break My Heart10. Good In Bed11. Boys Will Be Boys
Jacob Long s fourth full-length for Kranky began as a notion to reimagine Earthen Sea as a piano trio, inspired by a year-long immersion in the ECM label catalog, but the compositions soon grew more complex. Elements were chopped and resampled, then layered with bass, drums, percussion, and additional keys. The result is a fusion…
7 vinyl pressing of the quickly sold out tape release on General Speech. Degenerate and irreverent synth punk from Chicago, featuring members of Ignorantes and Mock Execution. There’s not many bands that sounds like this, but one could try to imagine a mix of The Spits, Mummies, and Chaotic Dischord. Catchy and simple, danceable punk,…
Brand new digital transfers from the original 1 4” tape mixes by Rob Schnapf & Joanna Bolme. Remastered by the official Elliott Smith archival team of Larry Crane (Jackpot! Studio Tape Op) and Adam Gonsalves (Telegraph Mastering). From A Basement On The Hill is Smiths final recording and finds Smith returning to an edgier, guitar-driven…
On their fifth album, Take Care, Take Care, Take Care, Explosions In The Sky take some of their greatest creative leaps yet, experimenting with layers of haunting, unplaceable sounds, euphoric vocals, classical guitar, body percussion, Japanese singing bowls and more. With solitary focus and collaborative vision, each instrument clearly exudes the spirit and inspiration of…
1. Mulholland Drive 2. Midnight On A Sunny Day (feat. Bee Eyes) 3. Something About You (feat. Dent May) 4. Long Nights At The 711 5. Fulfill The Dream (feat. Vex Ruffin) 6. Spit On Your Grave 7. Brain Dead 8. Dancing With My Demons (feat. Paul Cherry) 9. Body Dysmorphia 10. Want You There…