The debut album by the Pyramids was inspired by the group s visit to the Lalibela monastery in Egypt, and was recorded in Yellow Springs, Ohio in early 1973. Drawing on the teachings of Cecil Taylor and the influence of John Coltrane, combined with a barrage of intense percussion, the album evolves over several long-form…
Originally issued in 1998, Wormwood became one of The Residents grandest, most ambitious and, ultimately, most rewarding projects. Featuring all of your favourite tales of chaos and carnage, incestual rape, brutality, murder, sacrifice, retribution, bloodshed and, of course, circumcision that made The Bible the must-read #1 best-seller it became. For sure, Wormwood finds The Residents…
Between The Buttons marked a high point in the band s career – arguably the richest straight pop collection The Rolling Stones ever made.?The U.S. version includes the hits Let s Spend The Night Together and Ruby Tuesday, and includes Keith s first solo vocal on Something Happened To Me Yesterday. Brian Jones talents as…
Vinyl 3LP Reissue Remastered from the Original Tapes with Bonus Tracks Curated by Questlove! Coming two years after their independent debut Organix (1993), The Roots official major-label debut album, 1995 s Do You Want More?!!!??! marked a shift in how hip-hop sounded at the time. While Stetsasonic were known as a hip-hop band, The Roots took that distinction to a whole different…
It was their seminal fourth album Things Fall Apart in 1999 that saw The Roots breakthrough and catapult into cultural consciousness. Receiving universal acclaim, Things Fall Apart was praised for its complex sound and thematic maturity by playing with the conventions of both hip-hop and soul. The album reached #4 on the Billboard 200 and has been certified platinum in the…
Limited 180gm clear viny LP pressing. The Selecter s second album, Celebrate The Bullet was released in February 1981 as the follow up to the successful 2 Tone debut album Too Much Pressure. Switching labels to Chrysalis Records, the band returned to On My Radio producer Roger Lomas, moving into a more melodic slower pace,…
‘You’re A Mess’ – the second album from Leeds’ filthiest sons – is a staggering assault of invective fit to reignite your ire, and a sound that constitutes a real and present threat to life and limb. Contained within these eight feral exorcisms is a merciless assault of Stoogian stygian riffage, gloriously purgatorial abjection and…
THE SILVER make their Gilead Media debut with the album Ward of Roses. A record that is at once extreme and exposed, horrific yet beautiful, Ward of Roses explores anxiety, love, loss, and the matters that make us all too human. From “First Utterance” to “Then Silence” the curtain rises and falls on a haunting…
THE SILVER make their Gilead Media debut with the album Ward of Roses. A record that is at once extreme and exposed, horrific yet beautiful, Ward of Roses explores anxiety, love, loss, and the matters that make us all too human. From “First Utterance” to “Then Silence” the curtain rises and falls on a haunting…
The Sisters of Mercy Floodland on Numbered-Edition LP from Mobile Fidelity Silver Label Goth-Rock Milestone Defined by Majestic Soundscapes and Ethereal Melodies Meat Loaf Producer Jim Steinman and New York Choral Society Among Collaborators on Vast-Reaching LP Lush, Huge, Balanced: LP Mastered on Mobile Fidelity’s World-Renowned Mastering System and Pressed at RTI The Sisters of Mercy emerged from…
***Pirates Press Records is unbelievably proud to announce the release of the first new Slackers full length album in seven years, and the first on Pirates! Filled front to back with true hits that could each stand alone as a single, this full length takes you on a real (musical) journey with this legendary band…
The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness on 180g 4LP Box Set EMI s Extensive Smashing Pumpkins Reissue Campaign Continues with the Band s Fourth Album Remastered for the Very First Time Remastered from the Original Analog Masters and Pressed Across 8 Sides for Optimum Sound Quality Housed in a 12 x 12 Rigid Slipcase…
Originally released in 1993, Siamese Dream is the breakthrough second album from the Smashing Pumpkins and one of the finest to ever come out of the alt-rock movement. Co-produced with Butch Vig and instrumentally recorded almost entirely by bandleader Billy Corgan himself, the guitar-heavy affair generated no less than four hit singles in Cherub Rock, Today, Disarm and Rocket. Built on rich,…
During the course of their career, The Smiths released a trifecta of compilation albums which every fan worth their salt felt obliged to own, even though two of them were originally only available in the UK and one was only available in the US. The first of the UK-only releases was the immortal Hatful of Hollow….
Originally released as a U.S.-only compilation in 1987, the expansive 24-track Louder Than Bombs collects The Smiths stray early singles, B-Sides, John Peel sessions and cuts from the 1984 U.K.-only compilation Hatful of Hollow. Featuring a wealth of material like the non-album singles Sheila Take a Bow, Shoplifters of the World Unite, Panic, Shakespeare s Sister and Ask as…
The Smiths eclectic 1985 release finds the band branching out into rockabilly, post-punk and flashes of funk, all while refining the guitar pop of their debut. Produced by Morrissey and Johnny Marr, Meat Is Murder is the band s sole studio album to reach No. 1 on the U.K. charts. The Headmaster Ritual and I Want the…