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Vincent Fenton is a French multi-instrumentalist and producer. Under the name of FKJ, aka French Kiwi Juice, his free and colorful compositions have already conquered a fanbase that extends to the four corners of the world. A platinum-selling artist with over 2 billion streams to date, FKJ embodies a unique musical approach bridging with spontaneity, which he brings to life in live performances designed to encompass his multiple creative aspirations.
An accomplished musician with one foot in the new world and one in the old; FKJ makes soulful, limitless music for a restless, genre-fluid generation. His songs blur jazz, classical music, soul, 70’s rock and experimental beats that combine intricacy and intimacy.
In the fall of 2022, he embarked on a new era by forming a live band for the first time. FKJ assembled a talented group of musicians to join him on tour: Arjun Dube on drums, Seth Tackaberry on bass, and Rosie Danvers, who transcribed his songs for the string trio. From the start of rehearsals, FKJ emphasized the importance of improvisation, a way to counterbalance the repetitive nature of touring and maintain creative spontaneity.
HIGHLIGHTS
• Over 1B+ global streams across total discograph
• FKJ’s popular track with Masego, “Tadow” has over 259M+ US streams on all DSPs. Charting #15 on Spotify Global Viral 50.
• FKJ’s Ylang Ylang EP received over 213M+ global streams on all DSPs, While his live session on Youtube reached over 19.2M+ views
• His latest project with Calm App, Just Piano released in August accumulating over 26.8M+ global streams on all DSPs and FKJ’s longform video received over 4.1M+ views on YouTube
• FKJ averages 32K Shazams weekly
“Yet, this body of work has a much more cinematic, even symphonic quality to it. He hasn’t just made songs here; he’s brought newfound life to his intricate, evolving soundscapes.” - Ones To Watch
“In a world of electronic musicians who strive to play live, FKJ is the multi-instrumentalist poised to steal your heart.” - Billboard
TOP CITIES (USA / CAN)
1. Los Angeles, 2. New York, 3. Chicago, 4. Toronto, 5. Montreal, 6. Denver, 7. Seattle, 8. Dallas, 9. Phoenix, 10. Atlanta
LABEL
REDEYE Juliette Black Perry Harrell juliette@momandpopmusic.com perry@redeyeworldwide.com
TRACK LISTING
Side A
1. Lying Together (Live from Coachella)
2. Washington Special (Live from Echostage)
3. Paris Special (Live from Le Zénith)
Side B
1. Different Masks For Different Days (Live from Echostage, Washington)
2. Salt Lake City Special (Live from The Union)
Side C
6. Madison Special (Live from The Sylvee)
7. Detroit Special (Live from Royal Oak Music Theatre)
8. Hong Kong Special (Live from Clockenflap)
Side D
9. Ylang Ylang (Live from MTLEUS, Montreal)
10. Saint Paul Special (Live from Palace Theatre)
11. Sundays (Live from Eventim Apollo, London)
CATALOGUE
THE ALTONS
HEARTACHE IN ROOM 14
NO EXPORT TRACKLISTING
After several wildly popular singles out on Penrose Records, alongside labelmates Thee Sacred Souls, The Altons gear up to release their debut album on Daptone Records. With lead vocals shared between Adriana Flores and Brian Ponce the interplay between their unique timbres brings a romantic quality to the music that is absent in many of today's soul offerings. Steeped with moody ballads, soulful, tejano-kissed duets and Bond theme psychedelia–Heartache in Room 14 is poised to be the "must have" album of 2025.
MARKETING HIGHLIGHTS
• US Tour beginning Feb 2025.
• 38m+ Spotify Streams.
• YouTube views - 6.6m across four videos.
• Music video for "Waiting".
• PR by Jeff Kilgour at The Syndicate.
• Radio by Jessica Weber at Co-sign.
• The Altons helped launch the Daptone imprint, Penrose Records, along with labelmates Thee Sacred Souls.
1. WAITING 2. TANGLED UP IN YOU 3. I TRY I TRY 4. PERD Ó NAME 5. FLOAT 6. WHERE DID SHE GO? 7. DEL DIELO TE CUIDO 8. YOUR LIGHT 9. OVER AND OVER 10. SHOW YOU LOVE
BARTEES STRANGE Horror
Bartees Strange was raised on fear. His family used scary stories to teach life lessons, and at an early age, Strange started using scary movies to practice being strong. The world can be a terrifying place, and for a young, queer, black person in rural America, that terror can be visceral. Horror is an album about facing those fears and growing to become someone to be feared. Throughout the record, Strange lays down one difficult truth after another, all over a sonic pastiche of music he loved as a kid. His dad hipped him to Parliament Funkadelic, Fleetwood Mac, Teddy Pendergrass, and Neil Young. Those influences merged with Strange’s interest in hip-hop, country, indie rock, and house, culminating in a record that feels completely original.
Selling Points
- Follow-up album to Farm to Table, which was released to much critical acclaim earning best-of nods from the likes of The New York Times, Rolling Stone and NPR Music
- Co-produced with Jack Antonoff
- Spring 2025 US, UK & EU tour (under embargo - to be announced)
- NPR Tiny Desk confirmed (under embargo - to be announced)
Exclusive Red Vinyl 4AD-0746-LPE
Tracklist
1. Too Much
2. Hit It Quit It
3. Sober
4. Baltimore
5. Lie 95
6. Wants, Needs
7. Lovers
8. Doomsday Buttercup
9. 17
10. Looped Defenders
11. Norf Gun
12. Backseat Banton
Available from: February 14th 2025
HORSEGIRL
Phonetics On and On
There is something about the bitter cold in Chicago that unites the city in January— the two weeks in 2024 that Horsegirl spent recording Phonetics On and On were some of the coldest days in Chicago that year. With the heating off in The Loft to avoid sound interference, the band was bundled in multiple sweaters and sitting on their hands between takes. Working closely with musician/producer
Cate Le Bon (Deerhunter, Kurt Vile, Wilco) Horsegirl found focus and intimacy in the studio that can only arise when it’s simply too cold to step outside. Abandoning the heavy saturation and character studies of Versions of Modern Performance, Le Bon leads them into new, bright, clear, sonic territories that highlight the inventive nature of these new songs.
After playing together for four years, Horsegirl explores the limits of the trio configuration within Phonetics On and On— what if instead of filling out songs with distortion, they utilized the expanse that the three of them didn’t occupy?
This question seems to be the motivating force behind the record, and the songs are a testament to experimenting with space and texture while maintaining a pop song at the core. New tools help bring this world to life; violins, synths, and gamelan tiles are all woven into the record with complete effect.
• THE FIRST NEW MUSIC FROM HORSEGIRL SINCE 2022
• AVAILABLE ON LIMITED EDITION CRYSTAL CLEAR VINYL
• NORTH AMERICAN HEADLINE TOURING PLANNED THROUGHOUT 2025 - 2026
• ALBUM PRODUCED BY CATE LE BON
• DEBUT ALBUM ON BEST OF ‘22 LISTS FROM PITCHFORK, STEREOGUM, NME, ROLLING STONE, CRACK, PASTE, AV CLUB, BK VEGAN, MORE
• MULTIPLE HIGH QUALITY OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEOS AND PROFESSIONAL PHOTO SHOOTS IN LP CAMPAIGN.
Praise for Versions of Modern Performance:
“One of the most vital debuts of the year... challenging the throne of the classics that inspired them.” - Stereogum
“Rich in textural sophistication, carving hooks from fidgety harmonics and swooning whammy-bar abuse.” - MOJO
“A masterclass in a new kind of classic rock.”
- The Guardian
TRACKLIST
01. WHERE’D YOU GO?
02. ROCK CITY
03. IN TWOS
04. 2468
05. WELL I KNOW YOU’RE SHY
06. JULIE
07. SWITCH OVER
08. INFORMATION CONTENT
09. FRONTRUNNER
10. SPORT MEETS SOUND
11. I CAN’T STAND TO SEE YOU
RELEASES
PHYSICAL: FEB 14, 2025
DIGITAL: FEB 21, 2025
CALIFONE THE VILLAGERS COMPANION
SIDE A
1. every amnesia movie 2. burn the sheets.bleach the books 3. a blood red corduroy 3 piece suit 4. jaco pastorius 5. gas station roller doggs
SIDE B
6. antenna mtn death blanket 7. the bullet b4 the sound 8. family swan 9. crazy as a loon
• INDIE EXCLUSIVE "FIREWORK SHIMMER" COLOR VINYL w/:
- ALTERNATE COVER ART.
- HAND SILKSCREENED & NUMBERED.
- LIMITED TO 500 COPIES.
• VINYL INCLUDES DOWNLOAD CODE
“At their core, Rutili's songs carry a melodic warmth and innate sense of rhythm that makes them endlessly inviting.”
– Rob Hughes, UNCUT
Like a passenger riding shotgun on a road trip, The Villagers Companion offers its own unique perspective and story to tell. Featuring tracks recorded alongside last year’s acclaimed villagers, TVC captures the miles between the start and destination—the faded gas station pit stops, the plastic saint statue stuck to the dashboard for safe travels or luck. It embodies the essence of the journey without the burden of driving—the experience of the ride itself.
The album takes us through the heart of Califone’s magic: reverb-drenched piano chords, electronic whirs, and layers of experimental noise. Guided by Tim Rutili’s abstract, fragmented lyrics—both strange and familiar—delivered through his warm, well-worn vocals, it creates an experience as evocative as it is haunting. Often passing through what seem to be the spaces between radio frequencies, the stations never meant to be heard. Crackles of static, feedback loops, and fleeting signals bloom into meditative moments, with each sound given space to breathe, unravel, and shimmer in slow decay. The result resonates deeply, transforming what might be noise into something profound, hypnotic, and totally immersive.
As with villagers, Rutili and company continue to explore what it means to get lost while surrounded by modern technology. Like a ghost in a machine or a whispered prayer stuck in a telephone line, Califone adds soul—be it damned or saved. And they do so with the kind of transformative magic granted perhaps only to artists a quarter of a century into their craft. The kind that turns a photograph into a tableau, or any darkened space with a microphone into a makeshift confessional. A song into a hymn, and a hymn into a soundtrack to a life.
FEBRUARY 14 2025
THE DELINES
MR. LUCK & MS. DOOM
SIDE A
1. Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom 2. Her Ponyboy
3. Left Hook Like Frazier 4. Sitting On The Curb
5. There's Nothing Down The Highway SIDE B
6. Don't Miss Your Bus Lorraine 7. The Haunting Thoughts 8. Nancy & The Pensacola Pimp
9. Maureen's Gone Missing 10. JP & Me
11. Don't Go Into That House Lorraine
“The Delines’way with romance is all their own and time is suspended as we watch with our ears. Southern country-soul bent, as economical and well-judged in arrangements and execution as they are in their lyrical content.” – UNCUT
Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom, The Delines fourth full-length release, follows romantic misfits and grifters as they drift across the United States, living out of suitcases and cars, hoping that in the next town or city will be the score that saves them. Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom features 11 new songs penned by novelist and songwriter Willy Vlautin, whose lyrics transport the listener inside the lives of these lost drifters. Recorded at Bocce Studios, with longtime collaborator John Morgan Askew, the record features Amy Boone’s lush, world worn voice, the cinematic production skills of Askew, and the horn and string arrangement of Delines keyboardist and trumpeter, Cory Gray. This is wide screen, CinemaScope, Delines at their best.
• FIRST PRESSING “DESERT HARDSCAPE” COLOR VINYL.
LP: Y0-387-LP
File Under: R&B/Hip-Hop
Vinyl non-returnable
CD: Y0-387-CD
File Under: R&B/Hip-Hop
TRACK LISTING
Satellites
Don’t Cover Me Money Shows Emotions Nevasure
Steady As I Am Grands!
Cows Come Home Whole Or None Poster Found Home
Ocean Steppin’
Dancing In The Rain Heavens Sent
PRESS
“Mingling catharsis and mystery… a major new voice”
- The Guardian
“The poetic rapper who is doing things her own way” - The Face
“Raw punk attitude and icy confidence” - Bleep
“A renegade London rapper on the rise” - DAZED
“John Glacier’s ‘Like A Ribbon’ is extraordinary” - CLASH
Interview Magazine feature, recent coverage in Pitchfork, Stereogum, Paper, “best of 2024” mid-year nod from Gorilla vs Bear
JOHN GLACIER LIKE A RIBBON
STREET DATE: 02/14/25
Since 2021’s Shiloh, John Glacier has been an underground icon. Aloof, icy, magnetic.
Now, she is ready to take you deeper into her unique world.
Following selling out her headline show at London’s iconic ICA, being the face of the new Alexander McQueen campaign, and blowing everyone out the water with a verse on Jamie xx’s new single ‘Dafodil’, John Glacier returns with Found. Released ahead of her debut at Club2Club in Turin, Found is taken from her as-yet unannounced third EP of the ‘Like A Ribbon’ trilogy and showcases the nostalgic side of John’s eclectic lyricism, perfectly laced over distorted drums and uplifting piano riffs.
SELLING POINTS
• ‘Like A Ribbon’ features contributions from Sampha, Eartheater, Flume, Vegyn
• Other recent collaborations include Jamie xx, Surf Gang
• ‘Emotions’ soundtracked Lacoste’s FW24 show approaching its first million streams.
• Featured on Jamie xx ‘Dafodil’ with Kelsey Lu & Panda Bear (5.5 million global streams)
• Fashion campaigns and co-signs: Louis Vuitton, Burberry, Prada, Alexander McQueen, Lacoste, Miu Miu, Wales Bonner, Mains by Skepta, Raf Simons, Off-White, Billionaire Boys Club, Marni, Charles Jeffery, Amiri
• In residence at New York’s Park Avenue The Armory studio with guests including Clams Casino and Nick Hakim
• Performed for Miu Miu (Milan) for an event celebrating Prada’s love of the word. Special guest at Louis Vuitton Women’s (Paris) Burberry and Skepta’s MAINS (London)
• Popping up for PAs and poetry reading at clubs and underground nights - Jamie xx’s The Floor at MOT, Young @The Flying Duck, James Massiah’s Adult Education
• • Two debut music videos - self-directed for ‘Money Shows’ and ‘Cows Come Home’ dir Yasser Abubeker nominated for a UKMVA (UK Music Video Awards)
• Sold out show at The ICA (350 cap), supported Sampha at Alexandra Palace (10,000 cap), performed at ADE, Amsterdam.
• Debut US headlines to follow in 2025
“ThisalbumisabrilliantcollaborationthatcombinesEagle's sharp,introspectivelyricismwithWhite'seclectic,soulfulproduction.” -AnthonyFantano
OpenMikeEaglemightnothavealltheanswers,butfewinlifeask smarterquestions.RecordedinLondonwithproducerPaulWhite,Hella PersonalFilmFestivalartfullydissectsmodernlife'sbanalitiesand perils.Continuingwherehis2014DarkComedyleftoff,itblends whimsicalanxiety,socialmediaaddiction,andscorn.Knownfor collaborationswithartistslikeDannyBrownandMosDef,Eagleand Whitecreatetense,emotionallyrichanthemsthatcapturethe disorientationofdailylifeandexaminesocietaldoublestandardsand casualbigotry.
RICHARD DAWSON END OF THE MIDDLE
OVERVIEW
The title of Richard Dawson's new album End of the Middle is a suitably slippery contradiction, one that invites multiple interpretations: Middle-aging? Middle-class? The middle-point of Dawson's career? The centre of a record? Centrism in general? Polarisation? The possibility of having a balanced discussion about anything? Stuck in the middle with you? Middle England? Middling songwriting?
End of the Middle is a wonkily beautiful peer into the workings of the family unit, perhaps several generations of the same family: "I wanted this record to be small-scale and very domestic", Dawson explains, "to be stripped back, stark and naked, and let the lyrics and melodies speak for themselves and for the people in the songs". By paring things right back what is revealed is a suite of remarkably poised, oddly elegant, beautiful music.
8. Removals van 9. More than real
NUMBER: WEIRD166
DATE: February 14, 2025
UNDER: Alternative “D”
Boxlot: 30 UPC: 887833016626
20 UPC: 887833016619
PRAISE FOR RICHARD DAWSON
"Nobody writes about humanity—our hopes and dreams, obsessions and follies—quite like Richard Dawson."
Pitchfork (Richard Dawson & Circle's Henki)
“Endlessly rewarding” Aquarium Drunkard (The Ruby Cord)
"The disjunctive melodies of the British avant-garde troubadour Richard Dawson are like Captain Beefheart reborn as a pastoral folky” The New York Times (2020)
“Socially aware, beautifully played, dazzlingly well-crafted, and, most importantly, exceptionally moving” Under The Radar (2020)
SELLING POINTS
• Richard Dawson’s 2017 studio album Peasant was critically acclaimed: Album of the Year - Quietus #1, The Wire #2, Crack Magazine #9, The Guardian #10, Mojo #20.
Cyrus Lubin cyrus@dominorecordco.com
Eno Street, Hillsborough, NC 27278 Contact: Jill Wheeler jillw@redeyeworldwide.com
• All LP formats include a 12-page lyric booklet and download card. Indie Retail Exclusive LP (ltd) is a black color vinyl pressing with an exclusive signed print.
title Satanic Ecstasy
• Limited edition 500 copies only worldwide.
• Deluxe vintage style heavy duty gatefold case wrapped sleeve
• Satanic Sex Splatter vinyl.
Wasted Swedish heavy psych power trio soaked in diabolical occult havoc. Drugged and toxic - Hard Rock from Hell!
Satanic Ecstasy presents a depraved cinematic audio experience with unique music from Ball
This is the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack for the extreme and demonic new underground hardcore horror. An adult shock flick from the deepest recesses of the abyss - so horrifying it couldn’t be shown! Satanic Ecstasy!
“Satanism is more popular now than ever before. The devil’s herb is used to inspire intercourse. Through sex Satan’s powers are invoked. Often during the ceremonies, the worshippers pretend they are animals.”
Experience Satanic Ecstasy firsthand…if you dare. Parental advisory – X-rated content. Buy at your own risk!
“…this is what black metal would sound like if it was from Detroit ’68.” Jus Oborn (Electric Wizard)
street date: 14 March, 2025
artist: Ball
title: Satanic Ecstasy
media: LP
label: Horny Records
catalog #: HOR-666-LP4
UPC: 634457199170
track listing:
A1. BLACK MAGIC RITES
A2. SATANIC SEX
A3. WITCHCRAFT
A4. SATANIC ECSTASY
A5. SNAKES
A6. THE DOMINATORS
B1. DEVIL’S HERB
B2. SATANIC FORCES
B3. GROUP SEX
B4. SEX MAGICK
B5. SATANIC BREEDING
B6. SATANIC RITUAL
THE PSYCHEDELIA ON TRANSLUCENT FIRED
SHOULD HAVE TURNED INTO MAJOR STARS. DESPITE THE FACT THE BAND S SECOND AND FINAL ALBUM, “ALL THE GOOD THAT’S HAPPENING,” PARENTED NO WINNING SINGLES AND ISN’T QUITE AS POTENT AS THE FIRST DISC, THE PLATTER REMAINS TERRIBLY UNDERAPPRECIATED. TRACKS SUCH AS THE MOODY STUPOR OF “ON THE PLANE” AND THE PING-PONG PULSATIONS OF “LEMMON PRINCESS,” WHICH CARRIES A CHAOTIC CIRCUS-LIKE AIR, ARE DECORATED IN PSYCHEDELIC DECALS, WHILE “TWILIGHT SANCTUARY” FEATURES SOME HARD-DRIVING HARMONICA BLOWING CHAINED TIGHT AGAINST GIDDY BLUES ROCK JAMMING.
THE BAND’S BLUES INFLUENCES ADDITIONALLY PREVAIL ON HONEST RECYCLINGS OF JIMMY REED’S RASPY-THROATED “LET’S GET TOGETHER” AND BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE’S CANDIDLY CRYPTIC “CODINE,” ALONG WITH “FLASHBACK (THE RHYTHM THING),” A RETOOLING OF JOHN LEE HOOKER’S “CRAWLING KING SNAKE” THAT MORPHS INTO AN INTENSE BOOGIE WOOGIE INSTRUMENTAL. A COPY OF MANFRED MANN’S “THE ONE IN THE MIDDLE” WEIGHS IN AS ANOTHER BLUES BASED ITEM, AND “TO TRY FOR THE SUN” IS A STARK AND HAUNTING FOLK BALLAD.
SNAPPING GUITARS, COMPOUNDED BY STRONG AND SOLID HARMONIES GIVE THE ALBUM A STRUTTING GARAGE ROCK EDGE, WHERE SMATTERINGS OF OFFBEAT ARRANGEMENTS AND CURIOUS EFFECTS ZONE IN ON THE FREAKIER SIDE OF THE LEAVES. TO CALL THE ALBUM TRAILBLAZING WOULD BE STRETCHING THE TRUTH, BUT THERE ARE ENOUGH AMUSING AND EXCITING IDEAS TO KEEP LISTENERS AWAKE AND INTERESTED. PERSONNEL ISSUES, PAIRED WITH LACK OF PROMOTION PREVENTED “ALL THE GOOD THAT’S HAPPENING” TO BE HEARD, RESULTING IN THE END OF A BAND THAT DIED ON THE VINE (PUN INTENDED) WAY TOO SOON.
LP-SUND-5664 UPC: 090771566416
CD-SUND-5664 UPC: 090771566423
Includes: Twilight Sanctuary • One in the Middle • On the Plane • Officer Shayne • Let’s Get Together • Introduction to a Cartoon Show • With None Shoes • To Try for the Sun • Codine • Flashback (The rhythm thing) • The Quieting of Oliver Tweak (The stone freak) • Lemmon Princess
REISSUED ON LP FOR THE FIRST TIME! 090771566416
TAPE/OFF
New LP Out Feb 14, 2025
FORT SENSIBLE
Brisbane, Australia’s own Tape/Off return with Fort Sensible, their highly-anticipated third album and a genuine labor of love. A passionate dose of opinionated, heart-on-sleeve rock’n’roll, the record captures not just a place but a time, with meticulously-crafted guitars, robust rhythms, and socially-conscious lyrics that delve into both the personal and the political. Seamlessly shifting between intricacy and intensity, Tape/Off deliver a bold, caustic, and irresistibly catchy statement that cuts straight to the quick.
F o r fans of: McClusky, Sonic Youth, Explosions in the Sky
"sink in the heaviness and float on the soaring lead lines" American Pancake (USA) "a blast, so powerful and direct" We Love That Sound (Germany) "Half love letter, half furious screed" Various Small Flames (UK)
CATALOGUE # CBS-017
Limited Edition: 300 Worldwide Coloured Vinyl 12”
AVAILABLE VIA REDEYE
COLOUR LP UPC: 634457202979
CD DIGIPACK UPC: 634457202962
aya ~ im hole
Catalogue Number : LP-HDB-061
Release Date : 02.14.2025
Format : LP
UPC : 5056321681973
Box Lot : 20
Originally released in 2021 as a book and digital album, imholeis now presented on ecomix splatter-effect vinyl. A welcome reminder ahead of new aya music in 2025.
On imhole , aya distilled the incisive sonic experimentation of her early run of releases, the tongue-in-cheek giggles of her DJ sets and edits, and the identity-fluxing lyricism of her live shows. The album was immediately championed from all corners, 'Best New Music' in Pitchforkto DJ Mary Anne Hobbs Album of the Year, followed by incredible live shows which drew new listeners further into the net.
Contorting language, dialect, gender and sexuality between intermittently controlled bursts of rhythm, noise and aural goop, aya sculpted a set of autobiographical vignettes that challenge established norms, question supposed truths, and affirm a spectrum of interlocking experiences. But while it's wide open and personal, imholealso challenges queer art's tendency to veer towards repetitive solipsism. Even the title itself references the unwieldy mix of self-actualization and sexualization that bogs down cultural perceptions of the trans experience. It's neither one thing nor t'other, just as much a sly nod to dissociative afterparty sloppiness as it is any self-congratulatory pinkwashed grandstanding.
The music follows suit, fragmenting familiar sounds, twinned with familiar words, assembled in unfamiliar ways, full of sharp humour, even in the middle of despair. Stories are muddled with phonetics just as dubstep is macrodosed with microtonal drone
A1. somewhere between the 8th and 9th floor A2. what if i should fall asleep and slipp under A3. once wen’t west A4. dis yacky A5. OoBrosThesis A6. the only solution i have found is to simply jump higher B1. still i taste the air B2. Emley lights us moor (ft Iceboy Violet) B3. tailwind B4. If [redacted] Thinks He's Having This As A Remix He Can Frankly Do One B5. backsliding
Speed Of The Stars
(Steve Kilbey & Frank Kearns)
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Speed Of The Stars
Easy Action
Purple Vinyl
EARS195LP
CD EARS195
5060446073759 2025-02-07
5060446073766 2025-02-07
• Collaboration between Kilbey (The Church ) and Kearns ( Cactus World News )
• Initially only issued as a 500 run Cd mail order this is the very first time being released in deluxe packaging through global distribution
• Packaged in deluxe gatefold sleeve.
• Contains 2 unreleased bonus tracks
• Kilbeys The Church have returned to a high profile status with recent albums ‘The Hypnogogue’ and ‘Eros Zeta’ being critically acclaimed globally
• Easy Action will be issuing Steve Kilbey’s solo and collaboration albums over the coming years.
ArmagedDon In A Summer Dress SUNNY WAR
Sunny War, also known as Sydney Ward, found inspiration for her latest album, Armageddon In A Summer Dress, while living in her late father’s 100-year-old house in Chattanooga, TN. She initially thought the house was haunted. Eerie sounds and visions led her to write the song “Ghosts.” However, she later discovered that hallucinations were caused by gas leaks, shifting her understanding of those experiences but not her artistic focus. Armageddon In A Summer Dress explores themes of memory, loss, and the ghosts of past selves.
After the success of her 2022 album, Anarchist Gospel, Sunny spent more time touring with artists like Bonnie Raitt and Mitski. To avoid falling back into past struggles with alcohol, she channeled her energy into music, crafting intricate demos and experimenting with sound. This process involved shifting from acoustic to electric guitar, aiming for a fuller band sound.
Tracks like “One Way Train” and “No One Calls Me Baby” highlight her blend of punk and roots influences, emphasizing the rebellious spirit shared by both genres. A notable collaboration on the album is with Steve Ignorant from Crass, whose participation in “Walking Contradiction” reflects Sunny’s admiration for the band and its critique of modern society.
Armageddon in a Summer Dress serves as a reflection on identity and choices, balancing heavy themes with empowerment. Sunny War encourages listeners to live authentically and resist societal pressures. Committed to continual growth, she sees every performance and song as an opportunity for exploration. Through her music, Sunny War captures the complexities of life, loss, and the transformative power of creativity.
Street Date: February 21, 2025
TRACK LISTING
Side A:
1. One Way Train
2. Bad Times
3. Rise
4. Ghosts
5. Walking Contradiction (feat. Steve Ignorant)
Side B:
1. Cry Baby (feat. Valerie June)
2. No One Calls Me Baby
3. Scornful Heart (feat. Tré Burt)
4. Gone Again (feat. John Doe)
5. Lay Your Body
6. Debbie Downer
VINYL
Sel. #: NW5851LP
CONFIG: 1xLP, Jacket, Sleeve, Black Swan Color Vinyl, Marketing Sticker
UPC: 607396585113
Box Lot: 20 Count
Genre: Singer-Songwriter, Alt-Folk, Americana
Indie Only Vinyl
Sel. #: NW5903LP
CONFIG: 1xLP, Jacket, Sleeve, Marketing Sticker, Clear
Pink Color Vinyl, AUTOGRAPHED
UPC: 607396590315
Box Lot: 20 Count
Genre:Singer-Songwriter, Alt-Folk, Americana
CD
Sel. #: NW6599CD
CONFIG: Digiwallet,Marketing Sticker
UPC: 607396659920
Box Lot: 30 Count
Genre: Singer-Songwriter, Alt-Folk, Americana
INDIE CD
Sel. #: NW6599SCD
CONFIG: Digiwallet,Marketing Sticker, AUTOGRAPHED
UPC: 607396659906
Box Lot: 30 Count
Genre: Singer-Songwriter, Alt-Folk, Americana
Armageddon In A Summer Dress
by taking 25% off SuNNy War’s previous release, Anarchist Gospel.
VINYL
Sel. #: NW5851LP
CONFIG: 1xLP, Jacket, Sleeve, Black Swan Color Vinyl, Marketing Sticker
UPC: 607396585113
Box Lot: 20 Count
Genre: Singer-Songwriter, Alt-Folk, Americana
Indie Only Vinyl (2nd Pressing)
Sel. #: NW5714LP
CONFIG: 1xLP, Spot Glossed Gatefold, Marketing Sticker, Mardi Gras Color Vinyl
UPC: 607396571413
Box Lot: 20 Count
Genre:Singer-Songwriter, Alt-Folk, Americana
CD
Sel. #: NW6532 CD
CONFIG: Digiwallet,Marketing Sticker
UPC: 607396653225
Box Lot: 30 Count
Genre: Singer-Songwriter, Alt-Folk, Americana
Critical Praise for Anarchist Gospel
“...her exceptional seventh album Anarchist Gospel, is a significant breakthrough...it’s one of 2023’s best so far.” - MOJO
“... Americana’s brightest star and biggest disruptor.” - Uncut Magazine
“The Best Albums of 2023 (So Far)” - Rolling Stone
”The Best Albums of 2023 (So Far)” - SPIN
“The Best Albums of 2023” - Louder Than War
“Thrilling” - NPR Music
“Anarchist Gospel is Sunny War’s most compelling album yet.” - NPR World Cafe
“It all amounts to a powerful statement from a singer-songwriter poised to become one of the year’s most vital voices in roots music.”Rolling Stone
“...through the originality of her fingerpicking and the might of her fortitude, she channels an entire breadth of folk music and refracts it through a modern DIY prism... a rich, evocative portrait.” 8 out of 10 - Uncut Magazine
“an exercise in building hope out of chaos... remarkably centred and complete, the work of a songwriter who knows who she is and how she got here.” 4 Stars - MOJO Album of the Month
“In a competitive field, this is the thrilling, uncompromising future of contemporary American roots music” ***** The Sun (UK)
“She sounds like a shrewd, modern-day Nina Simone... a victory of an album.” 9/10 Stars - Holler
“The album, showcasing her probingly personal writing, affectingly understated voice, and magnetically dexterous acoustic folk-blues fingerpicking, is the work of an accomplished and distinctive artist. “ - SPIN
“…emotionally resonant and curiously hopeful” - Pitchfork
“This remarkable country blues album gets under your skin with its subtle acoustic guitar melodies, gospel backing vocals, warm organ interludes and War’s sonorous tones, which bring to mind an American Joan Armatrading”. **** - The Times (UK)
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Wrekmeister Harmonies Flowers in the Spring
Thrill - 624
LP
BOX LOT LP 25
Opaque Pink LP
BOX LOT LP 25
Vinyl is non-returnable
GENRE: Drone / Metal
Wrekmeister Harmonies, the duo of JR Robinson and Esther Shaw, are sonic shape shifters with expansive ideas. From special performances to collaborations the band have worked with David Yow (Jesus Lizard) Ryley Walker, Ken Vandermark, Bruce Lamont, Mark Solotroff, Sanford Parker, Jamie Fennely (Mind Over Mirrors), The Body, Mary Lattimore, Olivia Block, Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu), Chris Brokaw, Fred Lonberg-Holm and Thor Harris (Swans). Inspired by artists such as Glenn Branca, Rhys Chatham, and Lou Reed, the duo approach each album as a new sonic adventure.
Flowers in the Spring was born of deep, careful listening as much as composing. It explores music as a meditative practice with a focus on microtonal shifts and intersectional overtones. Robinson explains: “It’s the subtle movements within and without, the fine threads of sound, loud or quiet, interior or exterior that become valuable.” Limiting himself to just four mixer channels on each piece; precisely layering guitar and electronics, intently listening and manipulating either the intensity or the duration of each loop to yield unexpected interactions, moments of beauty as well as dissonance.
“Flowers in Spring” emerges from fizzing distortion, hewing monolithic slabs of drone from the rock face while electronics push through fissures. “Fuck the Pigs” uses layers of noise as it metaphorically shifts into the depths of winter, arctic winds howling while the guitar scars like frost across a windowpane. In contrast “A Shepherd Stares Into the Sun” is pure light and heat, overwhelming in its sheer celestial enormity.
“Flowers Variation” was born of nature’s microscopic subterranean movements in its primordial gloom and buzzing synth pads. Each track holds multitudes of micro sonic details coming together to form the album’s expansive ecosystem.
ALSO AVAILABLE FROM Wrekmeister Harmonies :
“You’ve Always Meant So...” LP (Thrill 339)
“Then It All Came Down” CD/LP (Thrill 360)
“Night of Your Ascension” CD/LP (Thrill 403)
“Light Falls” CD/LP (Thrill 421)
“The Alone Rush” CD/LP (Thrill 458)
“We Love To Look at the Carnage” CD/LP (Thrill 510)
79037H-062410
79037H-624113
FILE UNDER: “W” for Wrekmeister Harmonies
RELEASE DATE: 21-February-2025
NO EXPORT
TRACK LISTING:
1. Flowers in the Spring
2. Fuck the Pigs
3. A Shepherd Stares into the Sun
SALES POINTS
Wrekmeister Harmonies is the Kingston, NY based duo of JR Robinson and Esther Shaw.
Flowers in the Spring is available on LP and Ltd Opaque Pink LPs. All LPs include a digital download card.
Wrekmeister will be touring both in the US and in the EU in the 2025. The band has an extensive touring history including Roadburn Festival. The duo have toured with Marissa Nadler, Dead To A Dying World, Slint, Grails, Bell Witch, Corrections House, and Woven Hand.
Wrekmeister have received broad acclaim across every album including Spin’s Best Metal Albums, Top Albums of the Year at the Quietus, Top Ten Metal Albums of the Year Pitchfork.
Wrekmeister Harmonies is known for bringing major metal artists to perform in unconventional venues, such as the Andy Warhol Museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Pompidou Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco and Chicago’s Bohemian National Cemetery.
“...an immensely rewarding listen that takes both his band—and the hybrid genre he’s helping invent—to new heights.” - Pitchfork
“Robinson’s musical vision is as naturally imposing on a recording as you imagine his grey-bearded, urbanshaman-with-knuckle-tattoos-appearance would be in the flesh.” - The Quietus
“Intense, genre-defying” - Brooklyn Vegan
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Jules Reidy’s sublime music maps the human experience in glittering constellations of sound. The guitarist is a driver of Berlin’s fertile contemporary music scene. A wide-eyed imagination combined with technical mastery guide each work in Reidy’s extensive catalog, from solo guitar albums and collaborations with innovative peers, including recent works with claire rousay, Oren Ambarchi, Andrea Belfi and Sam Dunscombe to major commissions from JACK Quartet and Zinc & Copper. The songs of Ghost/Spirit collectively convey an astral sense of yearning and wonder, pushing towards transcendence. The album charts a deeply personal journey with love, spirituality and transformation expressed in fractal guitar figures, ethereal vocal vapors and rippling microtones.
Reidy’s guitar approach unlocks the tonal and textural possibilities of the instrument from their use of alternate tunings and astute processing. The maximalist melodics of album opener “Every Day There’s a Sunset” are bolstered by rumbling bass samples from Andreas Dzialocha, Reidy’s collaborator in the duo Sun Kit. On “Satellite,” cello samples from Judith Hamann stretch out through the cosmos, orbited by spiraling finger-picked guitars, while stacked trombone chords echo out into the ether. Thundering drum samples from Berlin metal mainstay Sara Neidorf push the album to ecstatic peaks on “Every Day There’s a Sunrise,” fragmented rhythms breaking apart in the atmosphere. Field recordings of the Berlin S-Bahn recur throughout the album, another endless cycle of leaving and returning that shuttles beneath the album’s whirling tones.
Ghost/Spirit captures the inherent power and agency in choosing to offer yourself up to the universe and let go, ego death and prayer rendered in incandescent sonics. Reidy’s inimitable skill as a guitarist, producer and composer is on full display, and when combined with the intensity of experience, the resulting album is a remarkable work of art.
Jules Reidy Ghost/Spirit
Thrill - 618
CD
BOX LOT LP 50
LP
BOX LOT LP 25
Translucent Red LP
BOX LOT LP 25
Vinyl is non-returnable
79037H-061826
GENRE: Alternative Pop / Experimental
FILE UNDER: “R” for Reidy, Jules
RELEASE DATE: 21-February-2025
NO EXPORT
TRACK LISTING:
1. Every Day There’s a Sunset
2. Interlude I
3. Satellite
4. To Breathe Lightning
5. Ghost
6. Breaks
7. Search Light
SALES POINTS
8. Every Day There’s a Sunrise
Spirit
Maybe
Acclaimed guitarist and composer Jules Reidy has collaborated with the likes of JACK Quartet, claire rousay, Oren Ambarchi, Andrea Belfi, and Sam Dunscombe.
Ghost/Spirit features Andrea Dzialocha, Judith Hamann and Sarah Neidorf.
Jules Reidy has released records with Black Truffle, Editions Mego, Slip, Miasmah, and Ortorku
Reidy will be touring worldwide in 2025, including a performance at Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN.
Ghost/Spirit will be available on LP, Limited Translucent Red LP and CD. All formats come with a download coupon.
“Jules Reidy is another musician transforming the capabilities of an instrument, in this case the guitar… somewhere between Vini Reilly, Glenn Branca and Kevin Shields.” - The Guardian
“You grasp for names that might fit Reidy’s elusive emotional register, searching in vain for an affective Rosetta Stone. The music feels both warmly familiar and uncomfortably alien; therein lies its power.” - Pitchfork
“Like looking through a tinted window then trying to adjust to the world’s normal colours. It’s brilliant.” - The Quietus
“[Their] music offers an intricate sonic tapestry of fingerstyle guitar, found sounds and spectral electronic drone.” - Crack
some days are better the lost scores
KENNY WHEELER LEGACY
featuring the ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC JAZZ ORCHESTRA and FROST JAZZ ORCHESTRA
Greenleaf Music is proud to announce the January 31, 2025 release of Some Days Are Better: The Lost Scores , a wide-ranging, expansive new project celebrating the legacy of one of the great, original voices in contemporary jazz, Kenny Wheeler . Recorded in partnership between the Royal Academy of Music (London) and the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami , at the legendary Abbey Road Studios in London, Some Days Are Better comes to light directly following what would have been Wheeler’s 95th birthday and in tandem with the launch of Song for Someone: The Musical Life of Kenny Wheeler (Brian Shaw and Nick Smart, Equinox Publishing).
TRACK LISTING
1 Smatta — featuring Ingrid Jensen and Scottie Thompson
2 Some Days Are Better Suite — featuring Norma Winstone, Evan Parker, Nick Smart, Emma Rawicz, and Niklas Lukassen
3 Dallab — featuring Shelly Berg and James Copus
4 Sweet Yakity Waltz — featuring Chris Potter, Norma Winstone, Donovan Haffner, and Scottie Thompson
5 D.G.S. — featuring Brian Lynch, Eric Law, and Josh Beck
6 Song for Someone — featuring Maria Quintanilla, Joe Evans and Josh Beck
7 C.P.E.P. — featuring Evan Parker and Sam Keedy
8 Who’s Standing In My Corner — featuring Nick Smart, Donovan Haffner, and Scottie Thompson
9 Introduction To No Particular Song — featuring John Daversa, Niklas Lukassen, and Ananda Brandão
10 Some Doors Are Better Open — featuring Etienne Charles and Emma Rawicz
11 Everybody Knows It — featuring John Daversa, Maria Quintanilla, and Eric Law
ALBUM DETAILS
Artist Kenny Wheeler Legacy featuring the Royal Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra and Frost Jazz Orchestra
Title Some Days Are Better: The Lost Scores
Label Greenleaf Music Catalog# GRE-CD-1113
Format CD / DSP
Box lot 20
Genre Jazz
UPC 63445719978
Street Date January 31 2025
February 21 2025
LABEL Jonathan Galkin Greenleaf Music jon@greenleafmusic.com
Basia’s Palace got its start in 2022. A new home, a new family, a pause: the singer was finally finding time to hear her own thoughts, to think about old stories, to boot up her Nintendo to play Dragon Warrior 4. The album that emerged from this — that started in dawn-kissed synth instrumentals, lyrics scribbled down in a Hayao Miyazaki notebook — is the softest and most questing of her career. Basia’s Palace is like a time-travel score, with Bulat as Chrono Trigger ’s intrepid adventurer, going back into the past to shape the events of the future. After years of releasing records where live performance came first, the singer-songwriter wanted to express herself in a completely different way, composing with MIDI instead of piano/guitar. Reuniting with co-producer Mark Lawson, she found herself moving through a dreamworld of whispers, synths, early Eurovision tunes — and her great uncle’s gauzy Maryla Rodowicz and Marek Grechuta LPs.
Throughout, Bulat pays tribute to the magic of creation and the spellwork of performance. This is the truest location of Basia’s Palace: not just the Montreal jam-space where she recorded much of this LP; not just her home, her family, or her searching spirit. But those moments themselves — the ones that arrive on-stage, or in the instant of creation — when a song leaves Basia’s heart and leaps onto her lips.
Basia Bulat is a singer-songwriter living in Montreal, Canada. She offers both a distinctive voice and artistry that pulls as much from R&B and soul as it does from classic folk. In addition to her skills as a powerhouse vocalist, Bulat is an accomplished multiinstrumentalist, recording and performing on electric guitar, piano, autoharp, ukulele, bass and charango.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS/SELLING POINTS
• Basia’s Palace mixed by Tucker Martine (Beth Orton, The National, Neko Case), co-produced by Mark Lawson (Arcade Fire, Peter Gabriel) and string arrangements by Grammy-nominated Drew Jurecka (Dua Lipa, Metric, Alvvays).
• “Baby” featured on Paste Magazine‘s Best New Songs and album announcements on The Needle Drop, Brooklyn Vegan, Amplify Music Mag and The Scene Star. The single “My Angel” premiered by FLOOD Magazine
• “Baby” first look on KODAK_shootfilm (444K Instagram Followers)
• Previous album features in The New York Times, The New Yorker, USA Today, Pitchfork, NPR Studio360, Magnet,, Nylon, Pop Matters, ETown, Paste Magazine, Brooklyn Vegan, Consequence of Sound, The Needle Drop, SPIN Magazine and many more.
• Past live TV performances include #LateShowMeMusic Series on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, NPR’s Tiny Desk, Later... with Jools Holland, Canada AM, Global Morning TV, and more.
• Widely praised by artists around the world: She has performed for Leonard Cohen Massey Hall’s Glenn Gould Prize Gala, as well as appearing at his memorial concert, playing “Come Back to You” with his son, Adam; appeared on stage with St Vincent, Sufjan Stevens, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The National, Michael Kiwanuka, Daniel Lanois, Beirut, Destroyer, US Girls, Jim James and more.
• Three-time Polaris Music Prize finalist and five-time JUNO Award nominee.
• Performances at SXSW (USA), Austin City Limits (USA), Newport Folk Festival (USA), Festival de Jazz de Montreal (CA), POP Montreal (CA), Festival de Jazz de Montreux (CH) and more
• Media targets in the USA for this album include: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, NPR (including Tiny Desk), NPR A1, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair, Pitchfork, Talkhouse, PAPER, The New York Times, Stereogum, CBS This Morning “Saturday”, WNYC, KCRW, KEXP, WXPN, WFUV, a Noncommvention performance and more.
TEAMS
• US Publicity handled by Chromatics
• US Radio Tracking handled by CoSign
Artist: Basia Bulat
Album: Basia’s Palace
Release Date: February 21, 2025
Genre: Alternative Label: Secret City Records Distro: Redeye Distribution Tracklisting:
UPCOMING TOUR DATES
Full USA tour for winter/spring
March 19, 2025 — City Winery Boston, Boston, MA
March 20, 2025 — Joe’s Pub, New York, NY
March 21, 2025 — Pearl Street Warehouse, Washington, DC
March 22, 2025 — World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA
April 2, 2025 — Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago, IL
April 3, 2025 — Majestic Theatre, Madison, WI
April 4, 2025 — Cedar Cultural Center, Minneapolis, MN
April 5, 2025 — Vivarium, Milwaukee, WI
May 2, 2025 — Triple Door, Seattle, WA
May 3, 2025 — McMenamins Mission Theater, Portland, OR
May 5, 2025 — The Chapel, San Francisco, CA
May 7, 2025 — Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever, Los Angeles, CA
Tim Hill Shades of Green
All the shades of green. Plants. Water. The absolute necessities of life. Music, too, is an absolute necessity. To capture both color and sound in a bottle to put atop a piano like a houseplant. A clock. A fern. Synesthesia. This music is meant for that. To close your eyes and see green. To drown in the color of piano. A melancholic covey that pulls hard on the heart strings musically and lyrically, brushed over with a plethora of improvisation in smooth watercolors.
With Tim Hill’s new trajectory, we are offered a fresh neuron sprawl, branching beyond lyrics in interrupted pieces of sound. He takes our reptilian brains and welds them to our unborn futures, placing us inside of his droplet. Here, we're forced to reflect out, something singular multiplies, nature brings her face in, something shifts, our speed changes, the Self refracts and what's left jumps on sustained lines that eventually arch into meditation milk. It becomes a karmic cleanse of the amygdala, a launch from normal feeling life. Tim takes the risk, committing to diving deeper into his own bottomless pool of art, gifting us with sensory treats that dilate our old perimeters. It's sky as theatre, handing out everything but answers to questions. And where do we go? Where starlight mingles. Where minds never land.
A seasoned musician in all forms, Tim Hill has toured the world as a keyboardist, guitarist, saxophonist, and drummer, with a long time stint with LA group the Allah Las, and well known acts such as Nick Waterhouse, Curtis Harding, PAINT, and others.
"Whittier, California-based ranch worker and known as the touring keyboardist for Allah-Lahs, Hill continues to brew his own craft of cowboy originals rooted in worn and dusty standards." - Aquarium Drunkard
"...the Southwestern cowboy, who hums songs of simpler times. A storyteller at heart, the Americana multi-instrumentalist’s music hits you right in the feels" - Buzzbands LA
"Mournful pedal steel pairs with Tim Hill's perfectly exhausted delivery... I’m a sucker for an album that’s pushing aside serenity in favor of simply finding solace..." - Raven Sings the Blues
LP Box Lot: 30
Packaging: Standard Jacket
Vinyl is non-returnable
Catalog: CALICO-20243
Release Date: February 21, 2025
Genre: Indie/Alternative/Singer-Songwriter
For Fans Of: Allah-Las, Mapache, Cass McCombs, Father John Misty, Cut Worms, Low, Mark Kozelek, Smog, Bonnie Prince Billy, Damian Jurado, Wilco, Neil Young, Townes Van Zandt, Warren Zevon
UPCOMING NORTH AMERICAN DATES STARTING IN APRIL 2025 HITTING NYC, DC,
COVER FEATURES ON ARENA HOMME + & MAN ABOUT TOWN
FEATURED ON COLORS PERFORMING HIS HIT SINGLE “KAREN”
SIDE A INTRO
AFRICA KAREN
REUNITED WITH KAYTRANADA ON SINGLES “KEEP UP” AND “ALL NIGHT”
Rejjie Snow has toured with Kendrick Lamar and Madonna, collaborated with MF DOOM, Tinashe, Aminé, and Joey Bada$$, and designed a collection with sportswear brand C.P Company. Pitchfork labelled Snow “Ireland’s most promising young rapper,” and since his arrival on the scene, he still proudly carries the flag for Irish rap.
to a young daughter has shifted his focus and perspective, he’s more conscientious of the fact that one day she’ll listen to his music.
PEACE TO THE WORLD
MONKEY IN THE ROOM
TOKYO DRIFT
RIO DE JANEIRO
SIDE B
FLIGHT TO BRAZIL
POOFY LEAVES
PEEKABOO
I’M YOURS
MASK ON/OFF
GRANDMA’S HANDS
SNOW WHITE
Snow’s third full-length album PEACE 2 DA WORLD is about honoring his artistic roots and returning back to basics. Snow sees this new record as embracing who he is today, a reckoning of self. Becoming a father
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Rejjie is more considerate of the responsibility he has as a rapper, how his lyrics can be perceived, and what that means as a father. This clarity can be felt throughout the album’s tone, delivery and writing. At this stage in his career, it’s not about dwelling on the past or worrying about the future but appreciating the present with hopeful optimism.
FEATURING THE HIT SINGLE “HOLLY” WITH OVER 5 MILLION SPOTIFY
STREAMS
HEADLINE NORTH AMERICA TOUR SCHEDULED FOR SPRING OF 2025 COMING OFF OF A 2024 OPENING STINT WITH JOE P
Following the release of her 2023 EP, Hey Anna, a breakup, and a move, Anna’s upcoming album, Someone Should Stop Her marks the start of a transformative new chapter for Anna Shoemaker.
Known for her alt-leaning production, intoxicating pop melodies, and unflinching lyricism, Anna’s music vividly captures the turbulence, charm, and selfreflection of young adulthood. Recorded in Nashville, this album captures her personal evolution as she embraces a fresh, stripped-back sound, moving beyond the synth-heavy production that defined her debut. Much of Someone Should Stop Her was written while on tour and navigating significant personal changes, including her move to L.A. in 2024 and a breakup that deeply influenced her creative process.
This new era is one of non-compromise. Her decision to leave New York for L.A. reflects a rejection of the polished, glam persona she had built in Brooklyn. “I don’t want to be the unattainable girl on stage, in her heeled boots, swinging my hair around. I just want to be whatever I actually feel like in the moment,” Anna shares. She envisions her music as a therapeutic outlet, offering listeners the intimacy of a late-night conversation with a big sister, where vulnerability takes center stage.
VINYL PLO2408 Box Lot: 30
Release Date: February 21, 2025
Gabriel da Rosa – Cafuné 7” STH7083
Artist Gabriel da Rosa
Title Cafun é b/w Sort Of
Cat # STH7083
Label Stones Throw Records
Genre World / Brazilian
UPC 659457708313
Forma ts 7”
Release February 21st, 2025
Pre-order January 17th, 2025
Tracklist
A1) Cafuné
B2) Sort Of
Key Selling Points
• Gabriel da Rosa signed to Stones Throw Records in 2022 after moving to LA from Brazil to start a new life. He met Stones Throw’s founder Peanut Butter Wolf and the two bonded over their shared love for Brazil, bossa nova, and records.
• Since then Gabriel has connected with all types of musicians in LA, including Pedro Dom, who's worked with some of Brazil's best internationally known artists (Seu Jorge, Rodrigo Amarante and Latin Grammy Award winner Ian Ramil).
Description
• The A-side "Cafuné" was written for an independent film “All Happy Families” directed by Haroula Rose, Gabriel teamed up with LA string composer Oliver Hill. The Portuguese word “Cafuné” loosely translates to the act of running your fingers through someone's hair in a tender way: “An act that is calming and loving, and is used to show affection toward people closest to us.” The B-side “Sort Of” is an equally tender and existential song made with Oliver Hill
• Press & radio highlights: Aquarium Drunkard, Bandcamp, Paste, Uproxx, and more. Airplay on SiriusXM, KCRW, BBC Radio 2, BBC 6 Music, BBC Radio 3, The Popular Music Show (BBC Merseyside), NTS, Dublab, and lots more.
• For fans of: Rodrigo Amarante, Rogê
“Developer is a perfect synthesis of music, mood, and storytelling. A film noir album.” - Paul Tremblay
Comedy Minus One's highly anticipated and expanded vinyl reissue of Silkworm’s out-of-print fifth album “Developer,” licensed from Matador Records, will be available worldwide soon.
This now-double album - originally released in 1997 as a single recordcontains six bonus tracks never before available on LP, including five Japan-only tunes you likely haven’t heard yet and a Bob Dylan cover with Stephen Malkmus of Pavement in the fold.
Comes with a CD for the sake of convenience.
Both records are housed in full-cover sleeves inside the record’s gorgeous jacket.
Recorded by Steve Albini at Robert Lang Studios (Seattle) and his house.
Remastered and lacquers cut with Matthew Barnhart at Chicago Mastering Service.
150 gram vinyl manufactured at Quality Record Pressing, with this first pressing limited to 1,000 copies.
Due to the nature of our licensing agreement with Matador, “Developer” will only be available as a 2xLP + CD but each purchase does come with a download code.
ROEDELIUS 90
DATE 25 TH OKTOBER
RELEASE DATE 21 ST FEBRUAR 2025
4 LPs of unreleased material! Limited edition compiled to celebrate Hans-Joachim Roedelius’ 90th birthday.
4 CDs of unreleased material! Limited edition compiled to celebrate Hans-Joachim Roedelius’ 90th birthday
Most of the music on 90 comes from the 2-track Revox tapes (1968 – 80). Working with his Echolette tape delay and Farfisa organ—the equipment on which Achim recorded his beloved Selbstportrait records and much of the seminal work with Dieter Moebius and Michael Rother—the Revox tapes document the processes and sounds that continue to inspire generations of music lovers and sonic adventurers.
90 is in no way intended as the exhaustive retrospective of the oeuvre of an important artist. The actual chronology of these pieces, and in some cases who might have collaborated with Achim on them, remain a mystery. But the historical context of this music is undeniably compelling—it doesn’t feel like hyperbole to suggest that these cascading, hypnotic cycles equal the best of contemporaries like Terry Riley, working half a world away on their own minimal masterpieces.
For now, a celebration is sufficient—the portrait of an extraordinary life at 90, narrated in beautiful, intimate, innovative music.
What happens when a Prophet meets a Prophet? The answer lies within these grooves.
Amongst the hundreds of recordings issued by Sun Ra and his Arkestra, under their various guises, the majority were recorded in concert or in makeshift studios such as their early 1960s set-up at NYC's Choreographer's Workshop. Beyond those, roughly 22 albums were recorded at Variety Recording Studio in New York's Times Square. However, on August 25, 1986, Sun Ra and cohorts entered Mission Control, a state-of-the-art 24-track studio north of Boston, which was teeming with electronic keyboards and otherworldly sound generators. Nestled within that arsenal was a brand-new digital ultra keyboard — the Prophet VS ("Vector Synthesizer").
Of all the keyboards Ra played throughout his half-century career, the Prophet was one of the most sophisticated. There's no evidence that he had played either of the instrument's earlier incarnations, the Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 and Prophet-10. Created using microprocessors, a then-new technological advance, under the auspices of engineer Dave Smith in 1978, the Prophet-5 revolutionized electronic music as the rst polyphonic and, most importantly, programmable synthesizer.
Ra was intrigued by the Prophet (surely by the instrument as well as by the name). Recorded during a single day, it's about time that these once lost performances have now been found.
It was a joy and a thrill to be sitting at the console hearing this music for the rst time, especially with my ngers on the faders and knobs of the mixing desk. We watched the oxide y o the 2" tapes during playback, making this our one chance to digitize before they metamorphosed into dust. Welcome to the new Sun Ra album….35+ years after it was recorded. The Omniverse has expanded once again.
— Brother Cleve (1955 - 2022)
Artist: Sun Ra Title: Prophet
Red Vinyl with Insert / CD w bonus tracks
Box lot quantity: 15 LP / 60 CD
File Under: Jazz
LP-MH-8268C UPC: 090771421111
CD-MH-286 UPC: 090771826824
• A LOST SUN RA STUDIO ALBUM SURFACES FEATURING WHAT MAY BE HIS ONLY RECORDINGS ON THE PROPHET KEYBOARD.
• LP CUT BY KEVIN GRAY AND PRESSED ON COLOR VINYL AND INCLUDES PROPHET KEYBOARD BROCHURE WITH NOTES FROM RANTHROPOLOGIST BROTHER CLEVE!
TRACK LISTING
The Prophet (16:29) Infinity Excursion (2:04)
The Prophet At Play (6:35)
The Prophet Returns (12:06)
*They Plan To Leave (8:36)
*They’ll Come Back (5:11)
*CD Only
Love & Hate is a classic 1980s New York story—one that encompasses the downtown dance clubs, the uptown salsa scene, a rising jazz hero, and one of Manhattan’s most legendary recording studios, and that’s just for starters. At its center is a Polish émigré who left his Russian-occupied homeland for the kind of borderless, cross-cultural experiences that are only possible in a place like New York City.
Lamprecht laid down Love & Hate in A&R’s luxurious confines. “It was originally designed to have orchestras record soundtracks to movies,” remembers Lamprecht, “with 25-foot ceilings and huge movie screens.” Jazz trumpet/flugelhorn giant Tom Harrell, who was already starting to make a splash at the time, stands out among the handful of additional contributors, sliding snakelike into the galloping synth-funk of “I Gotta Fever” [sic], the slap-bass slow burner “Ambition,” and the salsa-meets-new wave wallop of “Life is Good.”
“God, Family and Country,” the album’s most overtly rocking track, expresses Lamprecht’s worries for his adopted home. “It was about the festering conservatism that was growing in the U.S. at the time,” he says. “Carter had just lost, and Reagan was elected...you had all those people professing to be patriotic and observant of family and country and God.”
The edgy “State of War” is the ideal soundtrack for those nail-biting days when the Cold War kept people up at night with visions of nuclear annihilation. It also displays Lamprecht’s mastery of minimalism: the only lyrics are the repeated title phrase, which grows in anxious intensity each time around.
Ultimately, Love & Hate is a tribute to the multicolored, many-sided muse that was New York City in the 1980s.
INCLUDES:
CD:
Artist: Tomek
Title: Love & Hate
Box lot quantity: 60 CD
File Under: Electronic
CD-MH-8274 UPC: 090771827425
• FIRST EVER CD VERSION FEATURES SIX UNISSUED BONUS TRACKS FROM THE L&H SESSIONS!
• INCLUDES LINER NOTES WITH AN INTERVIEW WITH TOMEK!
•OVER A HALF HOUR OF UNHEARD BONUS NEW WAVEY POST PUNK
Artist: Tomek
Title: Fairlight And Funk
Green Vinyl LP / CD
File Under: Post Punk / New Wave LP-MH-8274 UPC: 090771827418 CD-MH-274 UPC: 090771827425
CD:
Life Is Good • Poland • Ambition • Now Or Never • Susie H. • God, Family and Country • State Of War I’m Coming Closer To You • 3rd Part In Spanish • I Gotta Fever • Georgia Georgia* • Second Chance* Aunt Alice* • La Cancona* • You’re Not A God* • Only You Can Save The World* *previously unissued bonus tracks
Oddisee
Oddisee's"MentalLiberation"isamasterclassinconscioushiphop,blendingsoulfulinstrumentalswithsharp,introspectivelyricism. Thealbumhasneverbeforebeenopenvinylandincludes3bonus tracks.Oddisee,bothaproducerandanemcee,deliversintricate beatsinfusedwithjazz,soul,andboom-bapelements.Hislyricism, lacedwithsocialcommentaryandpersonalreflection,challenges listenerstothinkcriticallyabouttheirownlivesandtheworldaround them.CollaboratingwitharangeofskilledrapperslikeBlackMilk, andJ-Live,thealbumstandsoutforitsseamlessintegrationof meaningfulcontentandhead-noddingbeats,makingitatimeless contributiontoundergroundhip-hop.
CASH & SKYE JUST A STRANGER
Street Date: Feb 21, 2025
The debut full-length album from the Los Angeles duo Cash & Skye, following their successful 7” “No More Candy” (Third Man Records) in 2021. This alluring infusion of Americana and Rock and Roll, executed with a punk-rock ethos, documents the 7 year musical journey of songwriters Henri Cash and Sophia Skye de Reeder, and features players from Cash’s prolific and beloved band, Starcrawler. Although very different from the raucous chaos of Starcrawler, these songs dive a little deeper into the traditions of country storytelling while still maintaining a raw and honest edge.
This long-awaited chronicle of songs were recorded at 64 Sound in Highland Park and Starcrawler’s basement studio in Pasadena, recorded in spare moments over the years between international tours, college classes, and eight-hour shifts. It explores modern recording techniques combined with classic analog tape recording in an attempt to naturally capture the music in a way that stays true to the sounds of the classic records that influenced them.
FFO
Gillian Welch • X • MJ Lenderman Neil Young • Rilo Kiley • Starcrawler 634457198753
SAY ZUZU
TAKE THESE TURNS (Deluxe Edition)
New-Hampshire born-and-bred band Say Zuzu are revisiting the sounds of their 1997 album, Take These Turns, which will be released on vinyl for the first time ever as a deluxe version (including 3 bonus tracks) via Strolling Bones Records on February 21, 2025
“Out of all the Say ZuZu back catalog, Take These Turns was the record with the shortest gestation period,” the band explains. “The resulting sound is us feeling brash and emboldened by our leap into the life of a touring rock band.”
“For the entirety of the two weeks it took to record and mix this record in Franklin, Tennessee, we were sleeping on our school bus (“The Bull”) in a WalMart parking lot, cooking on a camp stove, and soaking up the sounds of session players ripping it up at Robert’s Western World on Lower Broad in Nashville. It wasn’t pretty, but we still saw the road as an exciting destination. Take These Turns is the sound of movement, the sound of our band’s musical adolescence, and the sound of a band in tune with the pavement humming beneath its wheels.
Take These Turns (Deluxe Edition) is set for release on February 21, 2025 via Strolling Bones Records.
Street Date:
1.The Farm
2.14 Other Ways
3.Hard Line
February 21, 2025
4.Take These Turns
5.My My My
6.This Town
7.Don’t Tie Me Down
8.Like Mama Said
9.Nickle Store Stomp
10.The Twine Song
11.Dead Dog
12.Chamberlain’s Guard
13.Broken
14.706 Union
15. Blue Man of Kentucky/Old Dan Tucker (Bonus Track)
16.Broken (Alternative Mix)
17.Don’t Tie Me Down (Alternative Mix)
Sel. #: SB21 CD
CD CONFIG: Digiwallet
UPC: 607396021116
Genre: Country/Alternative
Sel. #: SB21 LP
CONFIG: Jacket, Black Vinyl,Double LP
UPC: 607396021130
Genre: Country/Alternative
THE ALTONS
Just in time for the lover's season The Altons deliver "Waiting" b/w "Teach Me to Forget You" - two brand new sides of sweet soul sublimity. "Waiting" the lead track off their forthcoming album Heartache in Room 14 is a moody, mid-tempo tune that creeps along with indubitable swing. With lead vocals duties shared between Adriana Flores and Bryan Ponce the interplay between their unique timbres brings a romantic quality to the music that is absent in many of today's soul offerings. On the flip and exclusive to this 45 is "Teach Me to Forget You", a feel-good mover that features the ever-soulful Adriana on lead vocals. A must for soul DJs and enthusiasts alike!
The Young Mothers Better If You Let It
The Young Mothers return with their third album, Better If You Let It, blending a genre-defying mix of jazz, hip-hop, punk, experimental rock, and electronic music. Formed by Norwegian bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten in Austin, Texas, the band’s sound is shaped by the diverse musical backgrounds of its members, hailing from both the U.S. and Norway. With influences spanning from Texas’ vibrant hip-hop and punk scenes to Norway’s experimental jazz traditions, the band creates a powerful fusion that feels cinematic and unpredictable.
The lineup includes Jawwaad Taylor (trumpet, rhymes, electronics) and Jason Jackson (tenor and baritone sax) from Houston, Stefan Gonzalez (vibraphone, drums, percussion, voice) from Dallas, Frank Rosaly (drums, electronics) from Chicago and Amsterdam, and Håker Flaten (bass) from Norway. This global roster brings together a dynamic, cross-cultural sound, with Better If You Let It showcasing their most cohesive and wide-ranging material yet. Recorded in Oslo and set for release on Sonic Transmission Records, the album is a bold statement, proving The Young Mothers’ ability to push musical boundaries across genres and geographies.
Formats: CD, LP
Catalog #: LP-BW-025 / CD-BW-025
Release Date: Feb 21 2025
Label: Birdwatcher Records / Sonic Transmissions
UPCS
LP: 7041886102313
CD: 7041886102351
Genre: Jazz, Freejazz, Hip Hop, Electronic, Grindcore
Tracklist:
1. Better If You Let It
2. Hymn
3. Lijm
4. Song For a Poet
5. Scarlet Woman Lodge
Distribution contact: Lori Miller lori@redeyeworldwide.com 877-733-3931 x216
The Prisoners
The Prisoners were a regular live act in London’s psychedelic and mod revival scene of the early 1980s. They recorded some fantastic material blending garage-punk, soulful vocals, and electrifying Hammond organ, but never quite made it. They called it a day in 1986, and most band members went on with new musical projects, including The Prime Movers and The James Taylor Quartet.
The love of the Prisoners’ music has grown ever since though, and the original four members have done several re-unions over the years on stage and released a long-awaited comeback album this year. Their lasting influence can be detected on subsequent generations of musicians, including many of the Madchester bands of the early 90s, notably the Charlatans and the Inspiral Carpets, and serves as a blueprint for Britpop and beyond.
Now we release The Prisoner’s best songs on the LP Hurricane with great packaging, liner notes and rare photos.
THE PRISONERS
Hurricane
Side A
1. WHENEVER I’M GONE
2. I AM THE FISHERMAN
3. MELANIE
4. SAY YOUR PRAYERS
5. HURRICANE
6. THE LAST THING ON YOUR MIND
7. NOBODY WANTS YOUR LOVE
Side B
1. COMING HOME
2. BETTER IN BLACK
3. PRETEND
4. REVENGE OF THE CYBERMEN
5. TILL THE MORNING LIGHT
6. REACHING MY HEAD
Media: Vinyl LP
Production: 2024
Label: Busy Bee Production
EAN: 7331915024502
Number: BBP133
Is it Jazz? Records
Nygårdsgaten 2
5015 Bergen
Norway
www.isitjazzrecords.no martin@isitjazzrecords.no
OVERVIEW
Band: Solstein
Title: ”Solstein”
Label: Is it Jazz? Records
Catalogue no: CD-KAR-256 / LP-KAR-256
Barcode: 7073317000073/ 7073317000080
Format: CD / LP
Tracklist:
1. Intersection
2. Oriental Folk Song
3. Southwester
4. The Night Owl
5. Siriusly
6. February 9th
7. The Creeper
8. Hamada
Featuring drummer extraordinaire KeithCarlock(SteelyDan,Toto,JohnLegend,Sting)and multiinstrumentalist JacobHolm-Lupo(WhiteWillow,TheOpiumCartel,Donner)as well as up-and-coming guitarist StianLarsen and keyboardists BrynjarDambo(WhiteWillow)and BillBressler, Solstein is a project that melds the groovier side of fusion with elements of prog and funk.
The project was born after Holm-Lupo and Carlock collaborated with legendary guitarist Georg Wadenius on a track for Holm-Lupo’s Donner project. The collaboration worked so well that the pair decided to work together again on a whole album.
Solstein is not your typical 2020s fusion affair. A lot of inspiration has been taken from the funkier, more melodic end of the spectrum, with the band name-dropping TheCrusaders, IdrisMuhammed, early BobJames and 70s HerbieHancock. Given some of the member’s prog backgrounds, there are also echoes of the jazzier side of prog, like Camel, HappytheMan and some of the Canterburyscene bands. Holm-Lupo and Carlock’s shared love of SteelyDan also shines through in a number of tracks.
More than anything, though, Solstein is a playground for the musicians, where everyone was given free reins to do whatever they felt the music needed. If it put a smile on everyone’s face, it was deemed right. The result is an album that is accessible yet adventurous, colourful, groovy and engaging.
Selling points:
Debut album from Norwegian/American fusion project Solstein
Featuring members from Steely Dan, White Willow, The Opium Cartel, Toto
Mixed and given pristine analogue mastering at Holm-Lupo’s Dude Ranch Studio.
Ads in magazines suc as Jazzwise, Prog Magazine, Eclipsed, Jazzthing, Downbeat, etc.
Singles: Hamada , Intersection.
For more info: www.facebook.com/solsteinband Label website: www.isitjazzrecords.no
For interviews, info & promo material, contact Is it Jazz? Records and Martin Kvam: e-mail: martin@isitjazzrecords.no / tel: +47 95 74 92 19
Moriaty –
The Devil’s Child
Easy Action
• 10th Anniversary edition of the debut album from the Devonshire duo who have been laying waste to clubs from Brighton to Burnley, building up a firm following of disciples
• LIMITED PRESSING ON RED VINYL
• INCLUDES BONUS TRACK
• Moriaty have already enjoyed a full page feature in Classic Rock magazine and reviews in Uncut, Record Collector, Art Rocker, Classic Rock, The Clash, Rock Sounds, R2, Vive Le Rock (feature) Shindig, NME.. •
• Having supported MUSE and being included on Muse’s Spotify playlist has given Moriaty huge exposure to the Muse fan base
• The video for the last single ‘Esperanza’ won best video for SW band award and a new video for the track ‘Dahmer Blues‘ will be unveiled to accompany the release
Montreal-basedrockbandLeNombre,activefrom2002to2009, released three albums filled with raw poetry and relentless riffs andrhythms.ScénarioCatastrophewasproducedbyIanBlurton (Tricky Woo, The Weakerthans) and recorded in Toronto. Releasedin2004,itmarkedthebandʼspeakbothmusicallyand lyrically. This record enabled them to tour Europe, the United States,andCanada,wheretheyopenedforTheNewYorkDolls atFestivaldʼétédeQuébec.Praisedbythepressbothhereand abroad,thealbum,nowofferedwitharemasteredsound,willbe availableonvinylforthefirsttimeinFebruary2025,twentyyears afteritsoriginalrelease.
Tracklist
A1Tousceuxdemarace
A2Perdulasolution
A3Montréalserveusessexy
A4Àlafindufilm
A5Stéthoscope
B1Soleil
B2Hierencore
B3Dansuncoïtprèsdechezvous
B4Leshabitsdeboisson
B5Flocondemétal
B6Nédansl'est
LENOMBRE SCÉNARIO
ReleaseDate:Feb21,2025
BlowTheFuseBTF006-LP 11tracks,2024Remaster Pressedonvinylforthefirsttime
LP-Black
ItemNumber:BTF006–LP
UPC:198588086704
BoxLot:25
Packaging:SingleLPJacket,BlackVinyl,PrintedSleeve
ExportStatus:Worldwide
LP-Blue
ItemNumber:BTF006–LPX
UPC:198588704417
BoxLot:25
Packaging:SingleLPJacket,BlueVinyl,PrintedSleeve ExportStatus:Worldwide
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