Don t Wake Me Up is the debut studio album by American musical project the Microphones. It was released by K Records on August 24, 1999, and reissued on vinyl via P.W. Elverum & Sun on April 16, 2013. The album was recorded between April 25, 1998, and March 1, 1999, in studios in Olympia…
Excellent Christmas album from one of the most respected vocal groups of all-time, The Miracles! Refreshing new takes on old classics featuring complex, multi-part vocal arrangements of O Holy Night, Jingle Bells, Frosty The Snowman, White Christmas and many more! Available for the first time on vinyl!
Frank Zappa & the Mothers – Live At Fillmore East, June 1971 – The iconic 1971 release gets expanded for it s 50th Anniversary. Featuring the original single LP, newly remastered, with two additional vinyl discs of period-perfect vintage mixes from the Vault. Includes the John Lennon and Yoko Ono encore and the original Billy…
All Eternals Deck is the thirteenth studio album by the Mountain Goats, released on March 29, 2011 by Merge Records. All Eternals Deck refers to a fictional set of Tarot cards, the history and details of which are described in the album s liner notes.
When the Mountain Goats got together in early March 2020, it was to make not one album, but two: Getting Into Knives and Dark in Here. That s how many keepers the band s superhumanly prolific frontman, John Darnielle, had come up with since they d recorded In League With Dragons in Nashville back in 2018. One of the words that John…
Get Lonely is every bit as assured as its predecessor, The Sunset Tree , but the mood is entirely different. Sunset chronicled the fraught, violent relationship between John Darnielle and his stepfather and derived its power from an unblinking exorcism of personal demons, while Get Lonely is the haunted aftermath. It s a reflective, intimate…
The Mountain Goats have recorded four fine albums that have established them as a genuine cult phenomenon and confirmed John Darnielle s status as one of the finest lyricists of his generation. Heretic Pride is a suite of songs about mythical creatures, imaginary cults, slasher films, and pulp fiction novelists. Here, Darnielle has also come…
A surprise cassette released April 2020, Songs for Pierre Chuvin is The Mountain Goats first all-boombox album since 2002 s All Hail West Texas. After selling over 4000 cassettes in a matter of minutes, the avid Mountain Goats fanbase has demanded more and we are happy to acquiesce! Songs for Pierre Chuvin will be available…
Mountain Goats auteur John Darnielle continues to write songs that could inspire a season s worth of TV movie melodramas…the results can be extraordinary. Get the man an orchestra, now. – Entertainment Weekly.
The Mountain Goats John Darnielle has been one of the best songwriters of the 00s: he turns out mostly acoustic, remarkably consistent albums full of engaging, heart-rendering songs about things like failed marriages and speed freaks and liquor store employees shooting burglars in the face – Rolling Stone.
The Movers were titans of South African soul who left a legacy of countless songs of pure groove. On The Movers 1970–76, Analog Africa presents 14 of the finest tracks from the band’s undisputed peak. “I first discovered The Movers on my very first “record safari” in 1996. Twenty-five years later I’m still grooving to…
First Two Pages of Frankenstein is The National’s ninth studio album. This 11-song collection signals a new chapter in the band’s discography. Anchored by evocative melodies and an enthralling lyrical narrative, First Two Pages of Frankenstein finds The National sounding more creatively energized than ever and poised to earn them even more fans. The album…
High Violet, the new full-length record by the National, is a nervy, melodic, explosive and beautiful set of songs that find the band at the height of their collaborative powers. The music is wide-ranging in its moods, by turns intimate and rough, expansive and spare, full of stark angles and atmosphere. Berninger s singing—wild, half-broken,…
I Am Easy To Find is The National’s eighth studio album and the follow-up to 2017’s GRAMMY®-award winning release Sleep Well Beast. A companion short film with the same name will also be released with music by The National and inspired by the album. The film was directed by Academy Award-nominated director Mike Mills (20th…
The National s elegant seventh full-length album Sleep Well Beast follows-up 2013 s Trouble Will Find Me and their 2015 Ragnar Kjartansson collaboration A Lot Of Sorrow. Produced by band member Aaron Dessner with co-production by Bryce Dessner and Matt Berninger, the 12-track collection was mixed by Peter Katis and recorded at Aaron s Hudson Valley, New York studio, Long Pond, with additional sessions having taken place in…
***Over the past 20 years, THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS have proven themselves one of the most excellent bands in indie rock. The group s ninth album and first for Merge establishes them alongside modern luminaries like Yo La Tengo and Superchunk when it comes to their ability to evolve while still retaining what made them so…