Waterloo Records

After a decade making the most of improvised recording spaces set in warehouses, trailers and lofts, Japanese Breakfast's fourth album, For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women), marks the band's first proper studio release. Produced by Grammy Award winner Blake Mills, the record sees front-woman and songwriter Michelle Zauner pull back from the bright extroversion that defined it's predecessor Jubilee to examine the darker waves that roil within, the moody, fecund field of melancholy, long held to be the psychic state of poets on the verge of inspiration. The result is an artistic statement of purpose: a mature, intricate, contemplative work that conjures the romantic thrill of a gothic novel.For Melancholy Brunettes follows a transformative period in Zauner's life during which her 2x GRAMMY nominated breakthrough album Jubilee and her bestselling memoir Crying In H Mart catapulted her into the cultural mainstream, delivering on her deepest artistic ambitions. Reflecting on that success, Zauner came to appreciate the irony of desire, which so often commingles bliss and doom. "I felt seduced by getting what I always wanted," she says. "I was flying too close to the sun, and I realized if I kept going I was going to die."The plight of Icarus and other such condemned ones lends For Melancholy Brunettes it's most persistent theme, the perils of desire. Like light dispersed, it's spectral parts take the album's characters through cycles of temptation, transgression and retribution. On "Orlando in Love" - a riff on John Cheever's riff on Orlando Innamorato, an unfinished epic made up of 68 ½ cantos by the Renaissance poet Matteo Maria Boiardo - the hero is a well meaning poet who parks his Winnebago by the sea and falls victim to a siren's call, his 69th canto (even in the lofty realm of classical myth Zauner has a soft spot for innuendo). "Honey Water" plumbs the quiet rage of a woman married to an unfaithful man, watching him cede again and again to lust like a base insect perpetuating it's own demise.Sadness is indeed the dominant emotional key of this record, but it is sadness of a rarified form: the pensive, prescient sadness of melancholy, in which the recognition of life's essentially tragic character occurs with sensitivity to it's fleeting beauty. Zauner finds space enough inside it for glimmers of hope. They are the consolations of mortals that poets before her have called out to and that poets after will continue to rediscover: love and labor, and though they run like tonic resolutions through the record's many episodes, they sound most saliently on it's final song, "Magic Mountain," an engagement with Thomas Mann's famous novel of the same name. For her, making any work feels like scaling a mountain, but from the perch of For Melancholy Brunettes, she surveys the future.

For more than 25 years, My Morning Jacket have achieved an incredibly rare feat in rock & roll, upholding a long established cultural legacy while sustaining the curiosity and creative hunger of their earliest days. For their 10th studio album, the band teamed up with GRAMMY Award-winning producer Brendan O’Brien (Springsteen, Pearl Jam) for what may be their most masterfully realized work yet, once again expanding the limits of their sound while elevating their artistry to unprecedented heights. Available on "Blue Iceberg" color vinyl with custom inner sleeve and 4-page insert. Limited Edition. Indie Exclusive.

Double vinyl LP pressing. Venerated singer/songwriter David Ramirez has announced the March 21st release of All The Not So Gentle Reminders (Blue Corn Music), his most ambitious album to date. The twelve-song collection is an eclectic musical journey, featuring richly textured arrangements, ethereal acoustic balladry, sweeping choruses and hints of cabaret. All The Not So Gentle Reminders may be the most liberating album in Ramirez's body of work. The album, his sixth LP, is a creative revelation. "I love all the records I've made in the past," says Ramirez. "But in making them, there was always the thought in the back of my mind of where and what it could get me... This time it was all about just the joy of making it, about having fun with it.

Recorded at relax and enjoy (London) and dfa (NYC)produced and mixed by james murphy for the dfaengineered by al doyle and james crump (London) / korey richeyand pablo morales (NYC)mastered and cut by bob weston at Chicago mastering servicecover photo by stephen nebesney 1987pressed at paramount pressing in Denver, co

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Venus and Mars, this special vinyl edition was cut at half speed using a high-resolution transfer of the original master tapes from 1975 by Miles Showell at the legendary Abbey Road Studios, London. This meticulous reproduction of the original UK pressing includes recreations of the original "Venus and Mars are alright tonight" circular sticker and "comparative sizes of sun and planets" bookmark sticker as well as two posters with photography by Aubrey Powell and Sylvia de Swaan.

Kinky Friedman's final record (he passed away on June 27, 2024) Poet of Motel 6 is a moving collection of ten songs about love and loss. From his tribute to Billy Joe Shaver, The Poet of Motel 6, to his paean to the late, notorious mystery woman, Miranda Grosvenor, in “Whitney Walton Has Flown Away,” Kinky plumbs the depths of love and mortality on his final album. Joined by Texas royalty like Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Rick Trevino, Amy Nelson, Rodney Crowell, and produced by fellow Rolling Thunder Revue alumni David Mansfield, this record truly lays bare the heart of this Texas bard.

For the first time ever, Vince Guaraldi's 1974 "It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown (Original Soundtrack Recording - Peanuts 75th Anniversary Edition)" premieres, with the complete 19 track score plus 1 special bonus track - on 12" 45RPM Easter Purple BioVinyl LP. The holiday classic was written by Charles Schulz, directed by Phil Roman and produced by Bill Melendez and Lee Mendelson. The Guaraldi score is finally available on CD, vinyl and digital. Mixed and mastered for audiophiles, jazz lovers, and Peanuts® fans everywhere from the original 2" session tapes to a 192kHz/24bit master. The record Includes Guaraldi hits like "Peppermint Patty," "Easter Theme," and "Snoopy and Woodstock". And includes a special bonus track: "Woodstock's Medley" performed by Guaraldi torch-bearer David Benoit (piano) with original Guaraldi sidemen Seward McCain (Bass) and Mike Clark (drums) - recorded 50 years later at the same Hyde Street studio where the soundtrack was recorded in San Francisco. Limited to 2000, individually numbered, Easter Purple BioVinyl only at independent record stores. Beyond the composer's playing on piano, electric piano, harpsichord, and electric guitar, McCain plays electric bass, Robert Clare plays flute, Glenn Cronkhite and Eliot Zigmund play drums, and John Scott Trotter supervised the music. This album is a wonderful Easter treat 50+ years in the making. The album was mixed by Clark Germain at WonderWorld Studio, and restored and mastered by Vinson Hudson, and produced by Sean and Jason Mendelson. The vinyl includes a 4-page insert with art from the special and liner notes that give a track-by-track analysis by producer Sean Mendelson and notes by producer Jason Mendelson and Derrick Bang (author of "Vince Guaraldi at the Piano"). The vinyl has additional photographs and images of historical artifacts.

Celebrate 50 years of RUSH with their first-ever complete career anthology. Fifty tracks on 7 180g LPs featuring selections from every studio, live, and deluxe reissue album. Igniting the experience are the very first two singles, “Not Fade Away” and “You Can’t Fight It,” remastered & reissued for the first time ever. The collection showcases 7 unreleased tracks, including five 1974 live selections with the non-album songs “Bad Boy” and “Garden Road,” a Vault Edition of “The Trees” with an alternate guitar solo, and the very last performance with Neil Peart in Los Angeles on August 1, 2015, of “What You’re Doing / Working Man / Garden Road.” The 104-page hardcover book features new Hugh Syme 50th anniversary artwork along with stunning new song illustrations, photos, and liner notes by renowned rock journalists David Fricke and Philip Wilding.

Goya Gumbani loves getting dressed, guided not by stylists or trends but by his own research and self-expression, an excitement for fabrics, fits, and fundamentals. The Brooklyn-born, South London-based artist approaches Warlord of the Weejuns, his first LP on Ghostly International, after years of acclaimed self-releases with the same mentality. Borrowing the album title from a magazine headline once placed upon Mile Davis (given how well he wore the iconic Weejun loafers), here he channels not just that storied style from the king of cool but an artistic ingenuity and timeless sensibility, redefining his recording project with rich, full-band arrangements. Goya outfits his flow between London's new jazz generation and New York City's hip-hop storytelling legacy, a shared musicality that welcomes various players and guests, including Fatima, lojii, Seafood Sam, Yaya Bey, and many others. Marked by unguarded ambition and introspection, Warlord of the Weejuns is a triumph of taste, heritage, and pride from one of rap music's most dexterous talents.

In the Fall of 2022, Phil Cook found himself living alone in a small home at the edge of field and forest in North Carolina's Piedmont. For most of Cook's life he lived near the hearts of the towns he had called home, near the groan of traffic and hubbub of coffee shops. Such close quarters helped make the gregarious Cook a prolific collaborator, from co-founding Megafaun to working with The Blind Boys of Alabama, Bon Iver, Hiss Golden Messenger, and endless others. But Cook's closest neighbor now was a trailhead, so he went and listened, enraptured first by the stillness and then by the manifold birds. He began leaving his windowsill slightly cracked each night, so that the dawn chorus greeted him. Cook began recording these tangled bird songs, and he slowly joined them. With the sun finally high, Cook would listen to the day's recordings and improvise in real time on the instrument that remains the first and most steadfast love of his musical life, the piano. When Cook left that cabin after a year, he moved into a home of his own in Durham, with plenty of space for his two boys to play and for something he'd never actually owned-a proper piano. Over the next several months, Cook spent untold hours drilling down on these pieces. During lessons with the Southern gospel great Chuckey Robinson, the pianist had challenged Cook to sustain fewer notes, to stop clouding and crowding his melodies by using the instrument's pedals as crutches. His music suddenly had more clarity, with the sounds and the feelings they ferried given more room to function. Cook dug into the danger and delight, into the idea that we twist our bodies into knots trying to understand what is best for our hearts. In April 2024 Cook returned to Wisconsin's Chippewa Valley where he was raised. His lifelong friend and bandmate, Justin Vernon, had just finished an overhaul of April Base, the studio compound where Cook has worked on more than a dozen records during the last 15 years. Cook asked Vernon to produce Appalachia Borealis as simply as possible-merely to listen and offer feedback in two extended afternoon sessions, to talk about the right takes and make sure that they'd captured the heart. It, of course, got more complicated, as they experimented with the process. Vernon would add or subtract the bird songs to Cook's headphones, seeing how they impacted his playing. Or they would route his notes through a massive reverb chamber, Cook responding in gossamer improvisations. Appalachia Borealis is a deeply poignant and personal set of 11 piano meditations, built with the emotional range of a full and open existence. Inspired by those windowsill improvisations, it reflects not only the turmoil and sadness of a fraught time for Cook but also the hope, light, and joy of looking for the other side. You can sometimes still hear the birds whose tune and time helped to inspire so many of these songs. Even when they're not within earshot, their essence remains.

Ingenue was originally recorded and mixed on analog tape and produced by Greg Penny, Ben Mink and k.d. lang. The original analog master tapes were directly used as our audio source for this One-Step pressing! This is the first time the analog tapes have been used as a vinyl source for this brilliant recording. The results are stunning. We used Neotech VR900-D2 180g High-Performance vinyl compound which is the same as what is known as Super Vinyl – the best in the world. Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering cut the lacquers with meticulous care! He also did the original mastering of the CD release in 1992. Dorin Sauerbier at Record Technology, Inc (R.T.I.) has been plating records for decades and is considered the best in the world – he also has done more One-Step processing than anybody. This is a vital step in the process to ultimately delivering the absolute best sounding version of Ingenue ever. Record Technology, Inc did the pressing – using the exact pressing machine used for so many other One-Step releases. The QC team is constantly monitoring each copy as it comes off the press. Our slipcases, and gatefold “Old Style” tip on original art jackets were printed by world renowned Stoughton Printing Company.

Sophie - "OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES NON-STOP REMIX ALBUM" [3 LP] After selling out it's initial pressing in just days, Sophie's 'OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES NON-STOP REMIX ALBUM' has now been re-pressed on 3xLP black vinyl. The record shows Sophie in party mode as she brings her iconic and critically acclaimed record to the club for 95 minutes of non-stop dance remixes featuring some of her long-term collaborators and friends (Doss, Cecile Believe, Bibi Bourelly, BC Kingdom). Indie Exclusive

Anchored in the idea that, despite all obstacles, the human experience casts a net of possibilities, Defiant Life - Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith's second duo recording for ECM - proves a profound meditation on the human condition and both the suffering and resilience it entails. Recorded within two days at Lugano's Auditorio Stelio Molo, Defiant Life was produced by Manfred Eicher. "This recording session was conditioned by our ongoing sorrow and outrage over the past year's cruelties, but also by our faith in human possibility." - Vijay Iyer

Celebrate 25 years of Disturbed's debut album, The Sickness, with this limited-edition 1-LP and 3-CD box set. It includes the original album, b-sides, unreleased demos, and an unreleased 14-track concert from The Palladium in LA from April 2001. Plus a book featuring rare memorabilia, an essay with new interviews with the members of Disturbed, and producer Johnny K. The box also includes a poster, a cloth patch, backstage pass, and a set of guitar picks. An exclusive lithograph signed by the band is included with the limited-edition D2C format.

 

Spec: BOX SET

• LP 1: The Sickness (silver vinyl)

• CD 1: The Sickness

• CD 2: B-Sides, Demos and Rarities                                                                                                                                      

• CD 3: Live at the Palladium concert, plus one live track from Chicago and London.

• Packaging & memorabilia:

• 13” x 13” case-wrapped hardcover book style package printed on rainbow foil

• Outer sleeve artwork printed on "rainbow" paper (mirror effect)

• Large interior pocket on the left hand side of the gatefold book for LP, book and poster.

• 4 interior wallets on the right hand side of the gatefold book for CD's and merch.

• 12" x 12" soft cover 24 page book including extensive liner notes by Katherine Turman from new interviews with David, Dan, Mike, Fuzz and Johnny K.

• The book also includes many unseen photographs and band memorabilia from the era.

• Poster

• Sticky backstage pass replica

• Cloth patch

• Set of 3 Disturbed guitar picks

Unhinged, damaged art-punk from San Diego's mid-'90s Gravity scene. Gathered here are Clikatat Ikatowi's three albums-Orchestrated And Conducted By..., River Of Souls, and a first time vinyl pressing for their 1993 demo, all remixed and remastered from the original analog tapes. The accompanying 24-page book pairs Tony Rettman's colorful essay with dozens of period photos and flyers, an in-depth history of a city and scene that defined the shape of noise to come.

Double vinyl LP pressing. Following the release of Mahler's fifth symphony as part of The Original Source Series, the sixth by the unbeatable duo Herbert von Karajan and the Berliner Philharmoniker now follows. The Gramophone Classical Music Guide describes the recording as "A masterly achievement by composer, conductor and orchestra alike. " Mixed and edited from the original 8-track tapes, this edition provides a breathtaking listening experience of the highest analogue sound quality. Remastered by the renowned Berlin-based Emil Berliner Studios using 100% pure analogue techniques to create versions of the highest possible audio quality. Produced on 180g virgin vinyl by Optimal and housed in deluxe gatefold editions, featuring additional photos and/or recording documentation.

The new album from the Stylistics! It's called "Falling In Love With My Girl" and features the following guest artists: • Shania Twain • The Elton John Band including Nigel Olsson and Davey Johnstone • Ronnie Wood of The Rolling Stones • Bill Champlin of Chicago • Jay Graydon • Gene Simmons of Kiss • Billy F Gibbons of ZZ Top • Justin Hawkins of The Darkness • The Real Thing • Tower of Power • Steve Lukather • Nathan East • Ray Parker Jr. The album features The Stylistics’ original members, Airrion Love and Herb Murrell, together with Jason Sharp, who joined the group in 2011, and sings high falsetto vocals.

Vinyl LP pressing. Released in 1970, Psychedelic Shack was the twelfth studio album by The Temptations for Motown. All songs were composed by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong and produced by Whitfield. Instead of presenting the classic Motown sound, the album tries it's hand at psychedelia. Psychedelic Shack features Dennis Edwards, Paul Williams, Eddie Kendricks, Melvin Franklin, and Otis Williams, just before that formation of the group broke apart.

This special release marks the 20th anniversary of The Grind Date. De La Soul’s seventh studio album features
guest appearances by Ghostface, MF Doom, Carl Thomas and Common. This limited edition 2 LP set is pressed on
splatter color vinyl and includes 4 bonus instrumental versions of the leading tracks, “The Grind Date,” “Verbal Clap,”
“Shopping Bags,” and “Days of Our Loves.”

Lou Donaldson had been a Blue Note stalwart since his earliest recordings in 1952 and over the following 15 years produced numerous classic dates spanning bebop, hard bop, and soul jazz. But when the alto saxophonist hooked up with the funky drummer Leo Morris (aka Idris Muhammad) for 1967's Alligator Bogaloo it began a run of great groove-oriented albums, including 1968's Say It Loud. Filling out the band were Donaldson's fellow Blue Note labelmate Blue Mitchell (trumpet), Charles Earland (organ), and Jimmy Ponder (guitar) on this emphatic session, which opens with a firmly in-the-pocket version of James Brown's "Say It Loud (I'm Black and I'm Proud)." This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is stereo, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal.

Vinyl LP pressing. Singer/songwriter Ryan Hurd has accumulated more than one billion on-demand career streams, received numerous award nominations, including two GRAMMY nominations, and has scored multiple No. 1 hits as singer and a songwriter. His debut album reached the top five of Spotify's most-streamed Country albums and garnered critical acclaim. Midwest Rock & Roll marks Hurd's sophomore album, paying homage to his midwestern roots and exploring the aftermath of leaving his home behind in chase of a dream.

Limited translucent blue colored vinyl LP pressing. A 1985 live performance from the Velvet Underground's cult icon! Nico's doom-laden contralto voice, the bizarre choice of a harmonium for accompaniment, and the sheer eeriness and other-worldliness of her repertoire mark Nico as one of the most extraordinarily original performers of the rock era.

Double yellow colored vinyl LP pressing. Sun Ra was a master of misdirection. Tape boxes wrongly labeled-whether by accident or design-are legendary among Ra archivists. One can speculate about the artist's intent or carelessness, but source misinformation abounds on Ra tape cases, album jackets, cassettes, ephemera-as well as in interviews. It's as if Ra, in furtherance of his own mythmaking, wanted to keep historians guessing. This project began as a misidentified tape discovered by Michael D. Anderson of the Sun Ra Music Archive. The 7-inch reel, which contained a live Ra solo piano performance of 11 works-some recognizable, others not-was of stellar quality, and was marked as a 1979 Carnegie Hall date. But the program on the tape did not align with known facts (e.g., titles played, concert duration) which were chronicled in a Newsday review of Ra's appearance at Carnegie in September of that year. With a prod from writer/historian Ted Gioia and further research by myself, the tape was eventually identified as a mostly unreleased July 1977 performance by Ra at a downtown NYC "jazz café" called The Axis-in-Soho.

Vinyl LP pressing. "Michael Tilson Thomas' recording of Tchaikovsky's first symphony has long been considered the best because of it's 'balletic' treatment of the score. And indeed, there is an element of danceability in his tempi as well as an irresistibly natural flow in his handling of the transitions. Thomas makes the lilting second movement sound like a soulful lullaby, helped in no small part by the richly textured string playing of the Boston Symphony." - Classics TodayThe Original Source Series is remastered by the renowned Berlin-based Emil Berliner Studios using 100% pure analogue techniques to create versions of the highest possible audio quality. Produced on 180g virgin vinyl by Optimal and housed in deluxe gatefold editions, featuring additional photos and/or recording documentation.

Grace Bowers was baptized by rock ‘n’ roll music. She cut her teeth on sweat soaked stages inside dive bars and found fellowship in the divine playing of B.B. King. She once studied six-string scripture – written by Slash and Leslie West – for hours a day, mastering her favorite riffs on a ‘61 cherry-finished Gibson SG. She’s a bandleader and songwriter preparing to leave her mark on some of the biggest stages in music. Her debut album, Wine On Venus – produced by ace guitarist and songwriter John Osborne (of hitmaking country group Brothers Osborne) – is out now. On the album, Bowers and The Hodge Podge graduate from traditional rock and blues influence to sounds inspired by Parliament-Funkadelic and Sly and the Family Stone/ Bowers co-wrote most of Wine On Venus in Nashville songwriting circles – a creative exercise that took her “a hot second” to comfortably navigate. “I love it,” she said. “Seeing where I can go with it, I still have so much to learn.” Recycled Rainbow Tie Dye Splatter Vinyl Variant "This is made from recycled vinyl material and, as referenced in the name, each vinyl is a random color. The Random Color Eco-Regrind is a favorite vinyl option for a number of reasons - not only is it recycled but it also generates a unique color scheme/design/appearance from one record to the next - each one is slightly different and therefore highly collectable." "This is made from recycled vinyl material and, as referenced in the name, each vinyl is a random color. The Random Color Eco-Regrind is a favorite vinyl option for a number of reasons - not only is it recycled but it also generates a unique color scheme/design/appearance from one record to the next - each one is slightly different and therefore highly collectable."

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Horace Silver had been delivering hard bop classics for over a decade when he moved into more groovy territory in the late '60s on albums including, Serenade To A Soul Sister. Featuring two different quintets performing a set of Silver originals from the high-octane "Psychedelic Sally" to the groove waltz title track to the tender ballad "Next Time I Fall In Love." This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is stereo, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes.

Double clear vinyl LP pressing. Cerrone has been a musical icon in disco and beyond for five decades. Disco Symphony revisits 21 of his greatest hits performed with the Symphony Orchestra of Cannes directed by the legendary Randy Kerber, also featuring Cerrone on drums and an additional band on bass, guitars and keyboards. Merging the power of electronic music, the groove of disco and the lyricism and unique touch of a symphony orchestra, in respect of the club culture Cerrone was born in and with.

Released in 1967 with personnel including Lonnie Liston Smith (piano), Ronnie Boykins (bass), and Grady Tate (drums), Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith marked the beginning of Kirk's groovier explorations that would eventually lead him to record Blacknuss in 1971. It's vintage Kirk in a pared-down setting and is considered an essential Kirk album. Verve Acoustic Sounds Series features transfers from analog tapes and remastered on 180g vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging.

Double 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Eli Roth, the American director (Cabin Fever, Hostel, Borderlands) and actor (Inglorious Bastards, Grindhouse, The Idol) takes you on a forbidden journey across the vaults of legendary Italian soundtrack label CAM Sugar. Setting the mood for his very own red light discoth?que, Tarantino's right-hand man and Italian B-movies connoisseur has sourced and selected 20 juicy tracks, spanning from kinky disco and funk to seductive bossa nova and psych, taken from Italian sexy comedy and softcore films (1969-1981). The collection includes 9 previously unreleased tracks and 4 tracks previously unreleased on vinyl. Featuring music by some of Italian film music's most cult composers, including Stelvio Cipriani, Bruno Nicolai, Riz Ortolani, Franco Campanino, Gianni Ferrio, and Nico Fidenco. 2 LP set on 180g vinyl. Includes booklet with unseen ephemera from the CAM Sugar archive and interviews with softcore cinema icon Edwige Fenech and composer Franco Campanino.

Twiztid returns after nearly 4 years with another high-energy album filled with a hard rock sound. Completely produced by Zeuss (Rob Zombie, Hatebreed, Queensryche, etc), this album is perfect for long time fans and welcomes new fans to the band's world.

Limited lemonade/tangerine colored vinyl LP pressing. Listen to all your favorite tracks from the Disney Channel's 2007 original movie, Jump In! Featuring the iconic, "Push It to the Limit," by Corbin Bleu and "Jump to the Rhythm," by Jordan Pruitt.

Bloodywood is a metal band from India known for pioneering a sound that seamlessly fuses Indian folk instruments w/ metal to devastating effect. Expect to hear the percussive power of the mighty Dhol, the melancholic flute, the single stringed Tumbi and several other uncommon, yet distinctly characteristic sounds from India. A combination of thunderous Hindi/Punjabi choruses and meaningful yet unforgiving rap verses along with the ethnic instrumentation makes Bloodywood a truly unique experience.

Vinyl LP pressing. Lola Kirke is a powerhouse of creativity - a gifted artist, writer, and actress with a story as dynamic as her talents. Born in the UK, shaped by New York, and now thriving in Nashville, she channels her life experiences into art. Her highly anticipated album, Trailblazer, delves into the defining moments of her journey, exploring the complexity of relationships with family, friends, and lovers. This is Lola at her most authentic - unapologetically bold and undeniably captivating.

"In my opinion, film music is one of the rare territories where a composer can write freely, providing that he chooses the films and subjects that suit his personality." This is the ideology that Howard Shore, one of the most innovative film composers, has embraced for more than 40 years. This album provides the perfect synthesis of three Paris concerts, which aimed to define the mysterious contours of the composer's multifaceted output. 2 LP set.

On his 2025 album, Canadian star pianist Jan Lisiecki brings the diverse sounds of the prelude to life, highlighting that it is far more than just a curtain-raiser to something else. Frédéric Chopin's extraordinary 24 Préludes Op. 28 are inspiration and centrepiece of this recording. For Lisiecki, Chopin was a "master of the short form" who "brought the prelude out of the shadows and into the spotlight." Chopin's pieces are complemented and contrasted with selected preludes by other composers from across three centuries, each representing a pinnacle of achievement in the genre - from Bach, Messiaen, Rachmaninoff to Górecki. Lisiecki seeks "to showcase the broad possibilities of the humble prelude" that takes "the audience on a musical expedition" through these kaleidoscopic miniatures.

PAGANIZERs new live album is nothing short of a shock of blackened, symphonic ambitions and epic intents. Loud, proud, bombastic and belligerent, Swedish metal crew Paganizer have been raging against the dying of mankind's light for the last two decades, a consistent and reliable force for massive riffs and even bigger choruses. An instant critical success and a huge hit the band's ever-growing fan base, it refined and redefined the Paganizer sound.

Scriabin's 'Le Po?me de l'extase' is representative of everything he produced as a composer. The oversized nature of his compositions virtually overwhelms the listener. Writer Boris Pasternak confessed, "I could not listen to this music without tears. " Tchaikovsky describes much more earthly joys and pains in his fantasy overture 'Romeo And Juliet. ' Balakirev had drawn the composer's attention to Shakespeare's tragedy. In gratitude, Tchaikovsky dedicated the score to him. The Original Source Series is remastered by the renowned Berlin-based Emil Berliner Studios using 100% pure analogue techniques to create versions of the highest possible audio quality. Produced on 180g virgin vinyl by Optimal and housed in deluxe gatefold editions, featuring additional photos and/or recording documentation.

Don McLean's The Western Album is a 1973 release that blends folk, rock, and country influences. The album features McLean's storytelling style, exploring themes like love, loss, and Americana, with a focus on Western imagery. It includes tracks like "The Good Old American Dream" and "The Legend of Andrew McCrew. The Western album remains notable for its introspective lyrics and rich sound.

Limited vinyl LP pressing.

The Most Famous Sports Team in History ON RECORD... Pressed on orange vinyl. - First "official" release in over 50 years.Inspired by the smash hit "Sugar Sugar", by the cartoon pop band The Archies, CBS TV were only too keen to sign-up Don Kirshner's Globetrotters recordings as the soundtrack to the all-new Saturday morning Harlem Globe Trotters cartoon series that ran from 1971-72.The TV series - the album and companion singles - were a huge commercial success and 22 episodes were produced by Hanna-Barbera. It was the first Saturday morning show to feature an African-American cast and the soundtrack was suitably soulful, upbeat and funky. One of the main writers, James Ralph Bailey, was a former member of the Cadillacs and famed for penning songs for Main Ingredient and Isaac Hayes. Bailey is also none other than Chuck Wood, writer and singer, of the Northern Soul anthem "Seven Days Too Long"?.With guest vocals by Globetrotter legend Meadowlark Lemon this exclusive vinyl reissue will certainly set the ball rollin'! - Produced by Brill Building legend JEFF BARRY (writer of ten U.S. #1's) - Written by Barry, Neil Sedaka, Howard Greenfield and James R Bailey - Soundtrack to the Hanna-Barbera hit TV series with a global audience

Limited blue and white splatter vinyl LP pressing. A biographical drama film written and directed by Ava DuVernay. It is based on the book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson, which describes racism in the United States as an aspect of a caste system. Score by Academy Award winning Julliard educated pianist, Kris Bowers (The Last Repair Shop, Queen Charlotte, Bridgerton, When They See Us, The Color Purple, King Richard, The Snowy Day, Monsters And Men, Green Book, Heroes And Misfits (debut album), Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me, Dear White People, Madden NFL) with original score music by Katya Richardson (VORTEX, The Best Chef in the World, Mink!, Goldfish)

Limited white colored vinyl LP pressing housed in gatefold jacket. Goldstar takes perennial New Yorkers, Imperial Triumphant's exploration of the extreme and arcane and delivers the band's most focused, authentic and accessible work to date. Featuring guest appearances by Meshuggah drummer Thomas Haake and legendary drummer, Dave Lombardo, both of whose presence makes it clear that musically, Imperial Triumphant are in a class by themselves. In their vision of urban disorder, Imperial Triumphant's monolithic cityscapes are dark as any of their extreme or black metal brethren.

Limited blue smoke colored vinyl LP pressing. Includes booklet. With Helldorado, the third installment of Spiritworld's death-western trifecta, chief hombre Stu Folsom and his rhinestone-encrusted, Stetson-wearin' wrecking crew take you deeper into a world where the hot desert sun beats down on a singular vision of the American West as a gateway to hell. "It's a different album than the past two," says Folsom of the thematic and sonic journey that began with the Las Vegas band's 2020 Pagan Rhythms LP and continued with 2022's Deathwestern. From the honky-tonk swing of opener "Abilene Grime" to the Slayer-worthy riffing of "No Vacancy in Heaven" and the unforgettable "Oblivion" (which features members of Black Braid and Rise Against), Spiritworld's story rides on with this latest offering, blasting Mojave-born bloodlust and stomping tomahawk riffs while charging straight into a sonic vision of macabre Americana.

2025 marks 40 years since Ricky Ross met Dougie Vipond and they started to form Deacon Blue, the songs on 'The Great Western Road' reflect the journey the band has taken and remain honest to the age and experience they all share. Ricky Ross: "It's just the next part of the adventure and it's as exciting now as it was back in 1988". The joyous lead single 'Late '88' fondly remembers the care-free excitement of those early days. - 'The Great Western Road' was recorded at the legendary Rockfield Studios, Ricky Ross and (Deacon Blue guitarist and long term collaborator) Gregor Philp return to production duties, having last produced the bands' Top 5 charting and their last full length album, 2020's 'City Of Love'. This album was recorded by Matt Butler, who first worked with the band on their debut, 'Raintown'.

'Tales Of Mystery And Imagination Edgar Allan Poe' is re-issued in a variety of different formats including as an Abbey Road remaster, expanded CD with 4 bonus tracks. The Alan Parsons Project debut studio album was originally released in June 1976. The lyrical and musical themes of the album are retellings of horror stories and poetry by Edgar Allan Poe. Musicians featured on the album include vocalists Arthur Brown of The Crazy World of Arthur Brown on "The Tell Tale Heart", John Miles on "The Cask of Amontillado" and "(The System of) Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether", and Terry Sylvester of The Hollies on "To One in Paradise". The complete line-up of bands Ambrosia and Pilot play on the record, along with keyboardist Francis Monkman of Curved Air and Sky. The album was a worldwide hit selling almost a million copies and achieving platinum status in a number of territories including Germany and Canada.

'Tales Of Mystery And Imagination Edgar Allan Poe' is re-issued in a variety of different formats including as an Abbey Road remaster, expanded CD with 4 bonus tracks. The Alan Parsons Project debut studio album was originally released in June 1976. The lyrical and musical themes of the album are retellings of horror stories and poetry by Edgar Allan Poe. Musicians featured on the album include vocalists Arthur Brown of The Crazy World of Arthur Brown on "The Tell Tale Heart", John Miles on "The Cask of Amontillado" and "(The System of) Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether", and Terry Sylvester of The Hollies on "To One in Paradise". The complete line-up of bands Ambrosia and Pilot play on the record, along with keyboardist Francis Monkman of Curved Air and Sky. The album was a worldwide hit selling almost a million copies and achieving platinum status in a number of territories including Germany and Canada.

Tomb Of The Forgotten – NECROPSY’s early demos reissued on vinyl in January via Svart Records NECROPSY is one of the few really legendary bands of the obscure Finnish death metal scene of the late ’80s / early ’90s. Dark and twisted death metal in the vein of early SENTENCED, early AMORPHIS, CONVULSE, DEMIGOD, PURTENANCE, DEMILICH and ABHORRENCE. The band hailing from Lahti, Finland was formed in 1987 and released the material presented on this compilation before taking a 14 year long hiatus starting in 1994. Founding member Janne Kosonen along with his brother Tero re-established NECROPSY in 2008 and they are still active to this day.

Tomb of the Forgotten (The Complete Demo Recordings 1989-1993), originally released by Century Media in 2013, is the first ever official demo compilation fully authorized by the band and includes NECROPSY’s all early recordings with 40 tracks in total. The entire audio material has been carefully remastered from the original master tapes at DMS Mastering (GRAVE, MORBID, ASPHYX) for the best possible audio quality. Includes extensive interview with the band, tons of pictures, scans of concert flyers, demo artwork, fanzine reviews, and more.

Tomb of the Forgotten (The Complete Demo Recordings 1989-1993) is available on Svart exclusive 4LP slipcase edition with multicolor vinyls, limited petrol green vinyls, and classic black vinyls. Release date January 10th 2024.

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SIDE A 1. Mental Disturbance 2. Extricate From The Life 3. Slippery Games 4. Intro-Appearing Lunacy 5. Scars Beyond Recovery SIDE B 1. Fetchers Of Soul 2. Imminent Prophecy 3. Curse 4. L.G.I.

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SIDE C 1. Intro-Sanctify The Crucifixion Ritual 2. Dust Thou Art 3. Allienced With Darkness 4. Fall-Out 5. G.A.B.G. SIDE D 1. Chronic Agony 2. Formal Absurdity 3. Charge Of Undead 4. Never To Be Forgotten 5. Dark Fantasies

 

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SIDE E 1. Refusal Of Cross 2. Under The Masses 3. White Perfect Fume 4. Locked SIDE F 1. Born And Begotten In Sin 2. Dance Among The Dead 3. Cross Of Deceased Flesh 4. Garden Of Rotting 5. Cold Inert Mass Of Meat

 

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SIDE G 1. Intro 2. Blasphemous Degradation 3. White Perfect Fume 4. From The Depths 5. Under The Masses 6. The Morass SIDE H 1. Implicit Confidence 2. Shattered 3. Rune Of Suffering 4. Black Dyed Dawns 5. Martyrdom 6. Anointing Of The Sick"

Double vinyl LP pressing housed in gatefold jacket. Drudkh is a venerated entity in the realm of atmospheric and pagan black metal. Renowned for their evocative storytelling and profound musical compositions, Drudkh stands as a paragon of artistic depth, seamlessly melding the corporeal with the ethereal. With Shadow Play, Drudkh offers a mesmerizing odyssey through themes of exile, the cyclical dance of life and death, and a poignant yearning for one's origins. An album invites you into a realm where silence battles storm, and light intertwines with shadow. A 6-track journey-Scattering the Ashes stirs the soul with it's introspective melancholy, while April envelops you in a meditative trance. The narrative evolves with The Exile, capturing the essence of displacement, and continues with the poignant echoes in Fallen Blossom. The Eve stands as a meditative contemplation on life's fleeting beauty, and the expansive The Thirst culminates this exploration with a profound reflection on human yearning. Shadow Play is an evocative experience that challenges you to confront your shadows and revel in the intricate dance of light and dark. Let Drudkh's newest release illuminate your path through the bleak human experience.

White vinyl GRAMMY Award-nominated Cradle of Filth reign supreme as one of the most revered names in music for over three decades. Following Existence Is Futile (debuting at 20 on the Billboard 200 Hard Rock chart), Cradle return with The Screaming of the Valkyries, out March 2025 via Napalm Records. Across the album's unforgiving expanse, it harkens to ghosts of Cradle's past like Cruelty And The Beast and the galloping thunder of recent entries like Hammer Of The Witches. Dani Filth's recognizable scream stands mightily alongside twin guitar attacks, symphonic flourishes, and explosive rhythm section. The Screaming of the Valkyries beckons the brave into a new era of Cradle of Filth, as a bloody love letter to Cradle's longtime faithful and an enticing entryway for fresh lambs to the slaughter.

GRAMMY Award-nominated Cradle of Filth reign supreme as one of the most revered names in music for over three decades. Following Existence Is Futile (debuting at 20 on the Billboard 200 Hard Rock chart), Cradle return with The Screaming of the Valkyries, out March 2025 via Napalm Records. Across the album's unforgiving expanse, it harkens to ghosts of Cradle's past like Cruelty And The Beast and the galloping thunder of recent entries like Hammer Of The Witches. Dani Filth's recognizable scream stands mightily alongside twin guitar attacks, symphonic flourishes, and explosive rhythm section. The Screaming of the Valkyries beckons the brave into a new era of Cradle of Filth, as a bloody love letter to Cradle's longtime faithful and an enticing entryway for fresh lambs to the slaughter.

Vinyl LP pressing. 2025 release. In 2024, Scour elevated their intensity with the announcement of their first full-length album, Gold, which includes a guest solo by Gary Holt (Slayer, Exodus). Recording for Gold began in February 2023 at Nodferatu's Lair - Philip Anselmo's personal studio and rehearsal space - which saw the band highly engaged in a concentrated effort toward a truly diabolical composition; with Anselmo leading the charge at every turn. One would often find the entire band in the control room in ecstatic debate; meticulously mulling over every blast beat and divebomb. The album was intermittently refined, and lyrical concepts finalized, over the course of 2023 as touring schedules would allow. Anselmo began vocal recordings in the fall of 2023 at 'The Lair. ' Back-up vocal recordings were then executed by the rest of the band in arena backstage rooms over the course of Pantera's February 2024 tour, where the full band would also thoroughly review the instrumentation mixes. Once the tracks were finalized by Scour and mixing engineer Dennis Israel, they were then passed to Fascination Street Studio in Örebro, Sweden for mastering by Jens Bogren. Deepening the experience set forth in Scour's EP trilogy, Gold pulls the listener through a blistering vortex of speed, aggression, and, above all, absolute horror. Drawing from a deep framework of literary horror masterworks, Gold guides the listener beyond the realm of death and through the metaphysical anomalies of a disheveled and decaying mind. In-so-which the pall of a savage universe is lifted, an inconceivable puppetmaster revealed, the remaining self of the listener excruciatingly dissolved, and left asking 'who is it that pulls the strings?"

CAT EMPIRE / BIRD IN PARADISE - Vinyl Packaging: "Blue Wren" color vinyl. The Cat Empire's tenth studio album, Bird In Paradise, is being released via BMG and includes the dance-floor filler, "La Garcia." - "When we set out to make the album Bird in Paradise, we wanted to make a more musically rich album than we had before, which featured the band instrumentally like never before." - Ollie McGill - "Musically speaking, Bird in Paradise is an Australian, Flamenco, Afro-Cuban project. We've drawn from the themes of contemporary Flamenco and Cuban music and combined it with the grit and toughness of Aussie rock history." - Felix Riebl.

Mozart's monumental work with an aura of dramatic finality, conducted by Karl Bohm, one of the best Mozart exegetes of the 20th century. His clear yet devoted view of Mozart, coupled with the class of the Wiener Philharmoniker and a unique quartet of soloists (Edith Mathis, Julia Hamari, Wielaw Ochman, Karl Ridderbusch), results in an extraordinary interpretation of the Requiem. The Original Source Series is remastered by the renowned Berlin-based Emil Berliner Studios using 100% pure analogue techniques to create versions of the highest possible audio quality. Produced on 180g virgin vinyl by Optimal and housed in deluxe gatefold editions, featuring additional photos and/or recording documentation.

'TELL DEM IT'S SUNNY' is an introspective album, that explores elements of London artist Greentea Peng's personality and lived experiences in a record that seamlessly weaves together an array of genres from Hip-Hop to Jazz, Neo-soul, Trip Hop, Ragga, Rock, Dub and Drum & Bass, all anchored by her signature sage vocals.

There are poets like the great Mary Oliver, who mightsuggest that one's primary function when moving through theworld, for as long as they have life and the ability to move throughthe world, is to play close attention to that which others may foolishlycall small, or quotidian. The brain and heart are both containers, withas much space as you wish for them to have, and to live is to createcollections of found affections. Sounds from your beloved andfamiliar blocks, movements of the trees and the people beneaththem, the way someone you adore may hold you for a few lingeringseconds before releasing from a hug and vanishing into a crowdedcrosswalk. To think of our living, our making, and our loving in thisway means that, at least for some of us, we may be propelled forwardby the prospect of what's next. What moment we can hold and placein our overflowing pockets.The work of Lonnie Holley is, for me, a work of this kind ofaccumulation and close attention. The delight of finding a soundand pressing it up against another found sound and another until,before a listener knows it, they are awash in a symphony of soundthat feels like it stitches together as it is washing over you. Tonky isan album that takes it's name from a childhood nickname that wasaffixed to Holley when he lived a portion of his childhood life in ahonky tonk. Lonnie Holley's life of survival and endurance is one thatrequired - and no doubt still requires - a kind of invention. Aninvention that is also rich and present in Holley's songs, which are fulland immersive on Tonky, an album that begins with it's longest song,a nine minute, exhaustive marathon of a tune called "Seeds," whichbegins with a single sparse sound and then expands. Chants, faintkeys, strings, and atop it all, Holley's voice, not singing, but speakingplainly about working the earth when he was young, the violence heendured in the process of it all, going to bed bloodied and in painfrom beatings. The song expands into a metaphor about place,about the failures of home, or anywhere meant to protect you notliving up to what it sells itself to be, even if you tirelessly work at it,work on it, work to make something worthwhile of it."Seeds" not only sets the tone for an album that revolvesaround rebirth, renewal, and the limits of hope and faith, but ithighlights what Holley's greatest strength as a musician is, to me,which is a commitment to abundance, and generosity. He is anincredibly gifted storyteller with a commitment to the oral tradition,such that many listeners (myself among them,) would be entirelycontent sitting at the feet of a Lonnie Holley record and turning anear to his robust, expansive storytelling. But Tonky is an album asexpansive in sound as it is in making a place for a wide range offeatured artists to come through the door of the record and feel athome, no matter how they spend the time they get on a song.

Harpist Ashley Jackson fuses music and storytelling in Take Me To The Water, a soulful exploration of spirituals, iconic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Alice Coltrane, and an exhilarating interpretation of Debussy's "Danse Sacree." Take Me To The Water celebrates the transportive nature of water, and of the rivers that unite us.

NEW ORLEANS LOUISIANAEric second album for Ruf Records with band membersTERRY SCOTT, JR DRUMSWILL REPHOLZ BASSERIC JOHANSON GUITAR & VOCALS

Limited green colored vinyl LP pressing. LORDI are successfully continuing to give us the creeps in their unique way on their 19th studio album. Led by singer, songwriter, designer and videographer Mr. Lordi, the unconventional troop rocks their way through the spotlight of the world's stages, as well as outside-the box collabs such as OnePlus or VOGUE Scandinavia to name but a few, with charm, unforgettable tunes and elaborate monster costumes.

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Dave Mason proudly unveils his 21st full-length album, A Shade of Blues. A project over a decade in the making, this blues-infused masterpiece showcases Mason's legendary artistry and collaborative spirit. The album features an impressive lineup of guest artists, including Joe Bonamassa, Michael McDonald, Mike Finnigan, Warren Hill, and more. A Shade of Blues sets the stage for Mason's highly anticipated 2025 tour, celebrating over five decades of electrifying performances and sold-out shows worldwide.

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