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Hater
Siesta
Despite their name Hater are quite the romantics at heart. The Scandinavian four piece play heart-on-sleeve indie rock with memorable melodies, chiming guitars and just a bit of synth haze. A perfect summer soundtrack that has led them to be compared to the Chills, Snail Mail and t...view item »
Holger Czukay
Movies
Holger Czukay's classic solo LP Movies from 1979 gets a timely reissue from Grönland and it's a lovely, crisp re-press of the remastered edition the label graced us with two years ago. A future-jazz masterpiece, the record includes the wonderful 'Cool In The Pool' (very welcome!) and the exper...view item »
The Smittens
City Rock Dove
I knew it! The Smittens are a twee indie pop band out of Vermont with a nice line in jangly indie charm but you know what they are obsessed with don't you? What in fact all twee indie pop bands are obsessed with. Dirty grinding filthy sex. They talk about nothing else in the press release. It's all sex, sex sex with these people...view item »
Sweet Valley
Eternal Champ II
Sweet Valley is a mysterious place where you're quite likely to get lost in a hazy fog of cannabis smoke and never re-emerge. Additionally, and not-quite coincidentally, Sweet Valley is also a duo of stoner-rock musicians who just happen to be brothers. The Williams brethren of slurred-out California are also seemingly quite tak...view item »
Sweet Valley
Eternal Champ
Sweet Valley are an experimental stoner rock-esque musical outfit and this is a thirteen track reissue of Eternal Valley on Ghost Ramp. Should you purchase this vinyl LP, you will receive a limited edition blue coloured record with a matching coloured euro sleeve and you'll (metaphorically) become part of the Sweet Vall...view item »
Little Ugly Girls
Little Ugly Girls
Not sure you can describe girls as ugly these days (or little?) but Little Ugly Girls presumably chose their name 20 years ago when they formed. And they are made up of girls so maybe its ok. The strange thing is that this band has been going 20 years and this is their first album. That's a lot of prep but they've supported the ...view item »
Hanterhir
The Saving Of Cadan
Hanterhir is by all accounts a massive project of musicians, oddballs and hangers-on, who hung out together in the deep Cornish countryside to make this outsized record. The Saving Of Cadan was a mammoth undertaking which brings together strands of freak rock, post-punk, hip-hop, electronica, psych-folk and more in the ...view item »
Chvrches
Love Is Dead
The Bones Of What You Believe wasn't too bad of an album if you listen to the music for what it is and remove all preconceptions of what it should be. That album was the absolute definition of electro meets pop. . . also I think We Share may have been on Fifa 14. I don't mind Chvrches, but I am go...view item »
Mellah
Middle England
Interesting sleeve but for God's sake kids do not do this at home. You'll suffocate. Mellah are do intense indie guitar vocal says the press release and they are produced by Arctic Monkeys production wizard James Ford so this is big league. And it's on Columbia Records of the United States of America. ...view item »
Alaskan Tapes
You Were Always An Island
Gorgeous, pining, occasionally harrowing and ultimately heart-melting ambient from Alaskan Tapes -- beautifully presented by Fluid Audio with suitably elegant artwork; Two tone / 4 panel hand made letter-pressed Somerset cotton CD covers, glass mastered CD, 12 x hand drawn images by the artist printed on luxury Gesso card (...view item »
The Moldy Peaches
The Moldy Peaches
The Moldy Peaches CD /LP is lo fi madness. Top little
tunes with a distinct American folk feel to it and add a shitload of drugs
and you've got an idea what it sounds like. Almost like a cross between
Royal Trux and early Sonic Youth (with Kim singing) but
without all of the noise and art...view item »
The Fall
458489 A Sides
It's taken Beggars some time to start with the Fall re-issue programme but here it is and it starts with the perfect introduction to the Fall for the faint hearted. 458489 A Sides was how I got into the Fall myself as it contains all their singles from the Brix Smith era generally seen as their most user friendly period. Of...view item »
Midori Takada
Through The Looking Glass (2017 Re-Edition)
Much needed reissue of Japanese percussionist Midori Takada’s first album - originally issued back in 1983 on RCA Red Seal and now faithfully reproduced by We Release Whatever The Fuck We Want Records and Palto Flats. This music has been unavailable for a very long time so it’s great to see this become widely available.
This ...view item »
Hiroshi Yoshimura
Music For Nine Postcards
I’d call this Hiroshi Yoshimura’s classic if he hadn’t released so many of them. ‘Green’ is perhaps his most formative work, a collection of half-operated melodies and simmering environments, but the gorgeous and plaintive ‘Soundscape’ deserves the accolade too. Known as a tape toiling in obscurity, a re...view item »
dragSTER
Anti-Everything
Miss the ‘90s? Think that cyberpunk is due another day in the sun? Wistfully daydreaming about bygone Whitby Goth festivals? Then fear not - the fourth LP from dragSTER is here to satisfy your cravings. Anti-Everything is very turn-of-the-century Marilyn Manson, which is great news because his rec...view item »
The Wolfhounds
Hands In The Till: The Complete John Peel Sessions
Now active again releasing a couple of well received albums in the last few years, the Wolfhounds were a great 80s band who had one finger in C86 jangle and strum and another filthy finger in the noise rock of the likes of Sonic Youth. This album collects the band's three four song Peel Sessions on one LP showca...view item »
Susumu Yokota
Acid Mt.Fuji
Originally released on Sublime Records (Marc Romboy, Captain Funk) in 1994, Susumu Yokota’s Acid Mt.Fuji is reissued as a double-vinyl by Midgar. This is nicely-calibrated electronica that veers from squeaky Rephlex-aping techno (...view item »
Kira Kira
Alchemy & Friends
Icelandic ‘audio/visual prankster’ Kira Kira presents a lavish release on Time Released Sound (Porya Hatami, Ghostwriter). It’s the usual Reykjavik sort of thing from Kira Kira here, though Alchemy & Friends does stand out from the Ola...view item »
Depeche Mode
A Broken Frame | The 12” Singles
Depeche Mode were one of the first major acts to embrace the potential of the 12” single. During their heyday the group would drop luxurious vinyl releases of their hits, always with striking artwork and often featuring extended versions and remixes by the hottest producers. Now a selection of their best work comes remaste...view item »
Depeche Mode
Speak & Spell | The 12” Singles
Depeche Mode get into the reissues game in a novel way. Ever the innovators, the group have eschewed the typical remastered-LP-on-heavy-vinyl thing for a series of box sets celebrating their 12” singles. This one focuses on the three hits that were born out of their 1981 debut Speak & Spell. That means ‘...view item »
The Wheel Of Rituals
The Wheel Of Rituals
The latest drop by impressive Dutch imprint Viewlexx (Nina Kraviz, The Conservatives) is a grainy-as-hell techno selection from The Wheel Of Rituals. These six tracks deliver on the portentous EP title. With the recording quality suggesting the files may have been ripped directl...view item »
Stilluppsteypa
Beach Jolanda
Belgian imprint Ultra Eczema release this weird-ass record by Icelandic group Stilluppsteypa. Beach Jolanda is more like a late-night radio mix than a regular LP. Divided into sides of largely wordless fare, the music is constantly shifting and mutating. One minute we’re in church listening to org...view item »
Tom Odell
Jubilee Road
Crooning posho Tom Odell limbers up for another chart-dominating year with his third LP Jubilee Road. The title track sounds nothing like Nick Cave’s late-period masterpiece ‘Jubilee Street’. In fact it’s more like closing-time Elton John. The rest of the album i...view item »
Paul McCartney
Egypt Station
Say what you like but Paul McCartney ain't doing bad for nearly 80. The former Beatle has had one of the most incredible careers in music history ranging from brilliance to some of the worst music made by a human and he's still at it. Though lead single 'Come On To Me' sounds bizarrely like Flight of the Conchords...view item »
Lory D
Jam With Deaf Cats
Cats. Our feline friends are not noted for their appreciation of head-shaking, foot-stomping minimal acid-techno.. Although they are creatures of the night. Even deaf ones. So Lory D releases his latest 12", an EP on Seilscheibenpfeiler Schallplatten Berlin called 'Jam With Deaf Cats', containing therein 4 ...view item »
Rezzett
Rezzett
The truth of the matter is this is the record I’m gonna have on my shuffle all year, accompanying me whenever destiny decides it’s time for a little more home comfort. With their self-titled debut, Rezzett do away with surprises and deliver the kind of record that leaves listeners cocooned: their grainy, ghostly iteration of techno a...view item »
Hontatedori
Konata Kanata
Hontatedori is comprised of Tokyo-based musical trio Taku Unami, Moé Kamura and Tetuzi Akiyama. Although certainly recognised as individual performers of some stature, ‘Konata Kanata’ is nevertheless their sophomore album following 2013's self-ti...view item »
CUTS
Dream Voyager
‘Dream Voyager’ was one of the standout moments of the two Exist EPs that CUTS released earlier this year on Village Green Recordings (Ellis Island Sound, Moon Gangs). The manner in which it builds from portentous opening synthscape to an earth-shaking clima...view item »
Bury Me in a Corner of the Yard
Death Is Not The End are a fine label who should get more recognition than they do. The rare-as-hen’s-teeth records they get hold of for reissue are always hauntingly beautiful, and their recent LPs from Nina De La Puebla and Violeta Parra are simply not the sort of thing you hear every da...view item »
Eric B. & Rakim
Paid In Full
Eric B. and Rakim's Paid In Full is one of their two rap classics that, although it's a little dated sounding, most rap fans will love. Every song here is good or great, and Rakim is definitely just a great MC. He's not one of my favourites, but I'm pretty sure everyone will like him. He flows very well and his delivery is interesting and well d...view item »
Eric B. & Rakim
Let The Rhythm Hit 'Em
Originally dropped in 1990, the third LP from Eric B. & Rakim gets the reissue treatment. Though Let The Rhythm Hit ‘Em might not have the commercial clout of something like Paid In Full, this album is the connoisseur's EB & R record. Tunes like ‘No Omega’ sees Rakim spitting some of h...view item »
Eric B. & Rakim
Don't Sweat The Technique
On their fourth and final LP, Eric B. & Rakim left the stage with one of their most eloquent and soulful performances. Don’t Sweat The Technique combined the strutting jazzy hip-hop style that the pair had patented from Paid In Full-onwards with impassioned bars that took in everything from the G...view item »
C.W. Stoneking
Gon' Boogaloo
Australian revivalist C.W Stoneking offers his first full length since 2008. Gon' Boogaloo is his delta manifesto and features his very own rhythm section. Full of classic Mississippi blues and spooky cuts, Gon' Boogaloo is C.W S' take on his favorite blues men - I mean I knew the aussies can b...view item »
The Rolling Stones
From The Vault: No Security - San Jose ’99
As the title might suggest, this is an archival album that deals in a Rolling Stones concert from their 1999 No Security tour. The triple-vinyl release sees the withered old crones play and oldies-and-newies set, though of course the newies in this case are a couple of decades ripe by now. Unfortunately the press releas...view item »
Mikaela Davis
Delivery
After self-releasing for a few years, New York harpist/pianist/singer/songwriter/general talent Mikaela Davis has been snapped up by Rounder Records. Delivery, her first LP for the esteemed Massachusetts imprint, is a collection that balances influences from AM rock, 80s pop and a little smidgen of...view item »
Cold War Kids
Audience
Well hang me up to dry, Cold War Kids are still alive and kicking. Though they may have slipped down the pecking order somewhat after the success of 2006’s Robbers & Cowards, the Long Beach band have plugged away admirably and released five more LPs in the intervening years. Audience - a live album re...view item »
Steve Hauschildt
Dissolvi
Former Emeralds guitar wizard Steve Hauschildt returns with 'Dissolvi' the name taken from the latin phrase cupio dissolvi, meaning "I wish to be dissolved". Let's hope Steve isn't dissolved any time soon as here he presents another example of his work which contains techno pulses, synth haze, the voice of&...view item »
Dauwd
Theory of Colours - Versions
Dauwd revisits his Theory of Colours album with an EP that investigates and reconsiders three of its tracks in four different ways. Rouge Mecanique remixes...view item »
Collins
Suzy Went Missing
Collins makes dark and cinematic synth music with weird atmospheres. Collins tries to write soundtracks for Nicolas Winding Refn movies. Collins is unafraid of the dancefloor. Collins has put this tape out on the ever popular Spun Out of Control label once of the few tape labels that actually sells copies in our store. ...view item »
dEUS
Zea
Here's an interesting and arresting re-issue: Antwerp, Belgium's finest export dEUS with their debut EP. 'Zea' is now available for the first time since 1993 and for the first time on 10" vinyl, in a gold coloured edition no less! The original release launched just prior to their contract with big boys Island Records and their s...view item »
Uniform
The Long Walk
The Long Walk is Uniform’s second or third LP for Sacred Bones depending on whether you’re counting the collaborative record they made with The Body. However, don’t try and crunch the numbers while you’re actually listening to this thing. The pair make such a rac...view item »
Reel By Real
20 Years Surkit - A Reel By Real Retrospective
The Midwest fetishists at Mojuba Records spin-off a.r.t.less got all hot and bothered by this collection of old Detroit jams when they first issued it in 2010. Reel By Real - a Martin Bonds presentation - made a couple of drops in the early ‘90s through labe...view item »
Not Good For Your Health: Punk Nuggets 1972-1984
Punk is a loose term for what we have here. While Not Good For Your Health: Punk Nuggets 1972-1984 contains several of the scene’s defining anthems - ‘Blitzkrieg Bop’, ‘Blank Generation’ and suchlike - there is as much ‘post-’ and ‘proto-’ as there is ‘punk’ on display. E...view item »
Small Faces
Ogdens Nut Gone Flake
This is a deluxe edition of the Small Faces’ fourth full length released via Sanctuary. Originally released in 1968, included here is the original mono and stereo albums remastered, alongside tracks of previously unreleased material of rarities and alternate versions. With surviving members Kenny Jones and Ian 'Mac' McLagan enabling an ext...view item »
Trojan 50th Anniversary Picture Disc
With Trojan Records celebrating a half-century in 2018, we reckon they’re allowed to indulge in a little gloating. This nifty release sees some of the label’s early smashes pressed on a double-picture disc - iconic helmet logo on one side, 50th birthday image on the other. Every tune on here went UK top-ten on releas...view item »
The Cool Greenhouse
London / The End Of The World
Can greenhouses be cool temperature wise? They are usually pretty hot. Though there are cool greenhouses out there for sure. This one is a band who, though living in the modern day manage to sound like the sort of messy, arty post punk bands that you'd find in the cassette scene around 1981. ...view item »
Led Zeppelin
The Song Remains The Same
The Song Remains The Same. So does the album, try as Led Zeppelin might to tell you otherwise. You can’t change history, of course, but you can keep repackaging it and bulking it out with filler. These exp...view item »
Underworld & Iggy Pop
Teatime Dub Encounters
Underworld & Iggy Pop originally began collaborating with a view to coming up with something for the Trainspotting II film. Makes sense, and when you think about about it Underworld and Iggy have a lot of co...view item »
Theo Parrish
Thanks To Plastic
Theo Parrish has long been a critic of gentrification within the clubsphere, so it will have irked him mightily when London club Plastic People closed its doors in 2015. During his residency at the Shoreditch dive, the Detroit don’s sets bridged gaps between jazz, house and techno that went ...view item »
Fatherson
Sum of All Your Parts
Fatherson release their third LP via Easy Life (Amber Run, Arcane Roots). The group bridge two great Scottish rock tradition...view item »
Cruel Diagonals
Disambiguation
Drawing Room Records present the debut LP from Bay Area vocalist/field recordist Megan Mitchell’s Cruel Diagonals project. Disambiguation...view item »
Kelly Lee Owens
Birds (Prins Thomas Remixes)
The eponymous debut LP from Kelly Lee Owens has generated plenty of traction since its release last year via Smalltown Supersound (Dungen, ...view item »
Alpaca Sports
From Paris With Love
Elefant Records presents the second LP from Alpaca Sports. The tunes on From Paris With Love are perfectly pleasant indie-pop ditties in the best Swedish t...view item »
Träden
Träden
Well, what have we here? Nothing other than a brand-new *double* album from Träden no less, formerly known of course as Träd Gräs och Stenar. Their truncation from 'Trees, Grass and Stones' to merely 'The Trees' has done nothing to lessen or dampen the edges of their sound.
Simply sel...view item »
Amusement Parks On Fire
All The New Ends
After plenty of time away - their last LP was released way back in 2010 - Nottingham art-grungers Amusement Parks On Fire have returned to the fray recently. All The New Ends...view item »
MIKE
Renaissance Man
The prodigiously talented Bronx teen MIKE swiftly follows May’s Black Soap tape with a new LP on Lex (Andrew Hung, JJDOOM). Across the thirty-odd minutes of Renaissance Man, the 19 year-old rapper/producer offers up a wealth of hazily soulful beats a...view item »
Great Lake Swimmers
The Waves, The Wake
2018 is the year in which Great Lake Swimmers will get to their fifteenth birthday, and what better way to celebrate than with a new album? The group forbade the use of any acoustic guitar on The Waves, The Wake...view item »
Golden Teacher
G.D.D.B.
Since they formed in the early 2010s, Glaswegian group Golden Teacher have ascended to the top of the UK’s dance-punk pile. It’s not happened by accident - the band's mixture of NYC punk-funk ala ESG/Liquid Liquid, acid influences and DIY spirit is an irresistible combo. G.D.D.B....view item »
ASC
The Farthest Reaches
Despite only seeing a first release in 2016, ASC’s The Farthest Reaches goes for big bucks on the second-hand market these days. If you, like this Norman Records&trad...view item »
Tunde Mabadu
Viva Disco
Some ultra-rare boogie Lagos here. Originally issued in 1980 and long lost to the annals of time, Tunde Mabadu’s Viva Disco is Nigerian disco par excellence. The tunes here boast ten-tonne grooves, and the slightly distorted recording only adds to their energy and verve. Anyone with an ear for the li...view item »
Mass Gothic
I've Tortured You Long Enough
Husband and wife duo Mass Gothic drop their sophomore LP via Sub Pop. If a title like I’ve Tortured You Long Enough...view item »
Manni Dee
The Residue
After a few years dropping EPs on labels like Perc Trax, Leyla and Earwiggle, Manni Dee mak...view item »
Deepchord
Immersions
Rod Modell is back in his long-running Deepchord guise with a long-awaited solo LP on Astral Industries. 'Immersions' comprises two beautiful, expansive long-form pieces, each adorning a side of the record. It's that wonderfully emotional, elegiac sound we're accustomed to: sparkling and elegant...view item »
Mogwai
KIN
It's not been too long since the successful Every Country's Sun LP but no resting on laurels for Mogwai as they release their first feature film soundtrack for the upcoming movie KIN (made by the same people who brought you Stranger Things). Though it will appeal to lovers of sci-fi soundtracks, we're promised that Mogw...view item »
The Holydrug Couple
Hyper Super Mega
Chilean psychsters The Holydrug Couple return to Sacred Bones for their third LP on the esteemed indie imprint. The band have said all the right things in the run-up to ...view item »
Ulver
Shadows Of The Sun
Norse experimentalists Ulver rose to prominence as one of the most significant founding black metal acts of Scandinavia, before compounding their sound into traditional folk and industrial metal. With Shadows of the Sun, they were reincarnated as the electronica act they're now known as ...view item »
Autechre
NTS Session 4
The fourth and final installment of Autechre’s sessions from their residency for NTS radio. With each session bringing 2 hours of new music, Session 4 acts almost like a digital palette cleanser, with the first half taking four tracks of minimal glitchy dronescapes they close with a huge wash of dense drone in an ...view item »
Claudio Simonetti's Goblin
Dawn Of The Dead
Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin is a resurrection of Goblin by founding member Simonetti who composed many soundtracks to cult horror films including Deep Red, Suspiria, and George A. Romero’s Dawn Of The Dead. Here is a 40 year anniversary re-release, with the ...view item »