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• TOM ROGERSON WITH BRIAN ENO - FINDING SHORE | CD (DOC146cd) | Dead Oceans PHYS UPC:656605144627 • TOM ROGERSON WITH BRIAN ENO - FINDING SHORE (OPAQUE BLUE VINYL) | LP (DOC146lp-C1) | Dead Oceans PHYS UPC:656605144634 • SUFJAN STEVENS - GREATEST GIFT (TRANSLUCENT YELLOW VINYL) | LP (AKR134lp-C1) | Asthmatic Kitty PHYS UPC:656605613819 • ROBERT CROTTY & LOREN CONNORS - ROBERT CROTTY WITH ME: LOREN’S COLLECTION (1979-1987) | 2xCD (FV096cd) | Family Vineyard PHYS UPC:656605409627 • ROBERT CROTTY & LOREN CONNORS - ROBERT CROTTY WITH ME: LOREN’S COLLECTION (1979-1987) (BLACK VINYL) | LP+CD (FV096lp) | Family Vineyard PHYS UPC:656605409610 • VISIBLE CLOAKS - LEX (BLACK VINYL) | 12" EP (RVNGNL044lp) | RVNG INTL. PHYS UPC:716670165962 • CALIFONE - HERON KING BLUES (DELUXE REISSUE) (BLACK VINYL) | 2xLP (DOC120lp) | Dead Oceans PHYS UPC:656605142012 • THE COURTNEYS - THE COURTNEYS (REISSUE) (BLACK VINYL) | LP (FN5756lp) | Flying Nun PHYS UPC:942190363544 • THE COURTNEYS - THE COURTNEYS (REISSUE) (COLOR VINYL LP) (BLACK VINYL) | LP (FN5756lp-C1) | Flying Nun PHYS UPC: • PREOCCUPATIONS - CASSETTE (REISSUE) | Cassette (JAGSPEC21cass) | Jagjaguwar PHYS UPC:656605102948 • HONEY HARPER - UNIVERSAL COUNTRY (LIMITED EDITION HAND-LATHED CLEAR VINYL) | 10" (ABT065lp) | Arbutus Records PHYS UPC: • HEATHERED PEARLS - DETROIT, MI 1997 - 2001 | Cassette (GI313cass) | Ghostly International PHYS UPC:804297831312
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TOM ROGERSON WITH BRIAN ENO FINDING SHORE CATALOG #: DOC146 RELEASE DATE: DECEMBER 8, 2017 FORMAT: CD/LP/DIGITAL CD BOX LOT: 30 LP BOX LOT: 25 GENRE: AVANT/EXPERIMENTAL/INDIE KEY MARKETS: NEW YORK, LOS ANGELES, CHICAGO, SEATTLE TERRITORY RESTRICTIONS: EXCLUSIVE TO HOSTESS IN JAPAN FIRST PRESSING OF VINYL IS EXCLUSIVELY ON OPAQUE VINYL. REPRESSES WILL BE ON STANDARD BLACK VINYL. VINYL NOT RETURNABLE.
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SIDE A: 1. Idea of Order at Kyson Point 2. Motion in Field 3. On-ness 4. March Awa 5. Eastern Stack 6. Minor Rift 7. The Gabbard 8. Red Slip
SIDE B: 9. Quoit Blue 10. Marsh Chorus 11. An Iken Loop 12. Chain Home 13. Rest
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ABOUT THE ALBUM Tom Rogerson's life as an improviser began when, as a toddler, he would clamber up onto his family piano stool and try to emulate his sister's playing. Now releasing his second solo album, a collaboration with Brian Eno, he feels that his musical life has come full circle: "I remember smashing out C Major chords again and again and really loving it. It's the same as what I do now, funnily enough, I've come back to it." After stints playing jazz in New York, a delipadated fenland hotel and in noise rock band Three Trapped Tigers, Rogerson ran into Eno at a gig. Bonding over a love of the countryside of their Suffolk home, the pair entered the studio and worked with The Piano Bar, a device that converted the sound of the piano into midi signals, which were then further manipulated. "It was this classic Eno, almost scientific thing," Rogerson says now. "He always finds a system that can be a source of creativity." The result is an album that uses Eno's magic to pull deep from Rogerson's subconscious to evoke the strange flat landscape of Eastern England, all heathland, military testing sites and estuary mud. "I do totally hear it, I'll listen and think, ‘oh that sounds like the bells at Woodbridge, that's the birds, the wind rustling in the reeds,'" Rogerson says. "I think it permeates my music, and Brian's ambient records. That 'is it organic or is it electronic thing' is so interesting."
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SELLING POINTS - A unique collaboration between classically trained improviser Tom Rogerson and a legend of future-thinking music, Brian Eno - Heralds a new voice in the world of modern classical music - Rogerson has recorded with members of The Bad Plus and is a founding member of British experimental rock trio Three Trapped Tigers, who recently supported Deftones and Thrice around the US
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Sufjan Stevens The Greatest Gift CATALOG / AKR134 RELEASE DATE / December 8th, 2017 DESCRIPTION / The Greatest Gift is a mixtape of outtakes, remixes and demos from Sufjan’s 2015 album Carrie & Lowell. The release is available in translucent yellow vinyl and yellow cassette.
LP UPC / 656605613819 LP BOX LOT / 50 LP PKG / Single Jacket LP RETURNABLE / No COLOR / Translucent yellow
TAPE UPC / 656605613833 TAPE BOX LOT / 30 TAPE PKG / Norelco box TAPE RETURNABLE / No COLOR / Translucent yellow
GENRE / Singer-songwriter FORMAT / LP DISCOUNT / $0.50 standard, all formats EXPORT RESTRICTIONS / None TRACK LISTING / SIDE A Wallowa Lake Monster / 06:52 Drawn to the Blood — Sufjan Stevens Remix / 05:28 John My Beloved — iPhone Demo / 04:17 Drawn to the Blood — Fingerpicking Remix / 02:01 The Greatest Gift / 01:51 SIDE B Exploding Whale — Doveman Remix / 05:27 All of Me Wants All of You — Helado Negro Remix / 03:24 Fourth of July — 900X Remix / 06:48 The Hidden River of My Life / 04:04 City of Roses / 02:14
This collection serves as a companion piece to the Carrie & Lowell Live album released earlier this year (and as an expansion to the original album). In the same way the live show featured re-interpretations of the songs from Carrie & Lowell, the mixtape unveils new remixes by several longstanding collaborators including Roberto C. Lange (aka Helado Negro), Thomas Bartlett (aka Doveman), and James McAlister (aka 900X). The album also features Sufjan’s own remix of “Drawn to the Blood.” The mixtape includes a few alternate and/or demo versions of songs from the original album. The digital release also contains an iPhone demo of the song “Carrie & Lowell.” Greatest Gift features four previously unreleased new songs, “official” outtakes from Carrie & Lowell (they were recorded at the same time as the album). These include “Wallowa Lake Monster,” “The Hidden River of My Life,” “City of Roses,” and “The Greatest Gift.” This new material, in its investigation of love, life, death, God, and the beautiful state of Oregon, serves as a contemplative companion to the original album. We hope you enjoy.
HOMETOWN / New York City, NY KEY MARKETS / Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Sydney, London QUOTES / “Sufjan Stevens is one of the most prolific and absolutely gifted American songwriters of the 21st century.”—NPR “Stevens remains at the height of his powers—capable of work as individual, compassionate and powerful as any American composer working today.”—The Washington Post SELLING POINTS / • Translucent yellow vinyl; matches clear vinyl of original Carrie & Lowell pressing and clear blue vinyl of Carrie & Lowell Live. • Includes digital download. • Carrie & Lowell (2015) has scanned over 175,000 in US.
Robert Crotty & Loren Connors Robert Crotty with Me: Loren’s Collection (1979-1987) Catalog Number: FV96 Release Date: Dec. 8, 2017 Format: LP+CD / 2xCD LP UPC: 656605409610 CD UPC: 656605409627 Genre: Blues LP Box Lot: 30 / CD Box Lot: 35 Territory Restrictions None Vinyl Is Not Returnable RIYL Blind Willie Johnson, Bill Orcutt, Robert Johnson, Sam Cooke, Keiji Haino
LP In the years 1978 to 1981, Robert Crotty would show up on Loren Connors’ doorstep in New Haven, Connecticut with his tiny, almost toy guitar. The two would then spend hours playing acoustic blues, the likes of which was absolutely staggering in its truthfulness. Robert Crotty with Me: Loren’s Collection (1979-1987) is the first anthology of the late bluesman’s work, as selected by Connors, his former playing partner and avant blues master. These are the unheard tapes of Crotty and Connors communing with the spirits of Delta and County Blues through their own revisions of standards and tingle-inducing improvisations. These also some of the Connors’ earliest available recordings showing the development of his iconoclast guitar style and vocal moan.
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1. TB Blues 2. Come Back Baby 3. Improvisation No. 5 4. Golden Ring 5. Improvisation No. 1 6. Blow Wind Blow 7. That’s All Right 8. Come Back Baby 9. Bye And Bye, I’m Going To See The King 10. Honeymoon Blues 11. Improvisation No. 3 12. Improvisation No. 2 13. Georgia On My Mind 14. Somewhere Over The Rainbow
1. Lights Out 2. Groanin’ The Blues 3. When Things Go Wrong 4. I Love My Whiskey 5. TB Blues 6. Trouble In Mind 7. Never Let Me Go 8. I’ll Come Runnin’ Back To You 9. I’m Waiting For Ships That Never Come In 10. Country Man 11. Steady Rollin’ Man
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Crotty was a New Haven lifer and linchpin of the region’s blues scene yet, he never achieved much recognition outside local bars and house parties — until now. The album features never before heard recordings, unseen photos, liner notes by Connors and Crotty’s brother plus a bonus CD: the first-time reissue of Crotty’s ultra rare sole LP Robert Crotty Blues and 7-inch -- both released on Connors’ private St. Joan imprint in the late 1980s.
- Unheard 1970 and 1980s recordings by legendary avant guitarist Loren Connors - The first anthology of blues guitarist/singer Robert Crotty - Include bonus CD of Crotty’s late 1980s ultra-rare LP and 7-inch released on Connors’ private label
Loren Connors Back Catalog Angles That Fall LP (FV100) The Departing of a Dream, Vol. VI 10” (FV99) Live In New York CD (FV95) Red Mars CD (FV69)
Visible Cloaks Lex Visible Cloaks’ Lex proposes a utopian dream language and its accompanying sound, a limitless, delicate space developed by fluid musical techniques and subconscious voices. The six pieces comprising Lex simulate a more peaceful future, their mysteries telling a new tale in an unknown but imaginable melodic language. Visible Cloaks are the Portland-based musicians Spencer Doran and Ryan Carlile. Utilizing software-based composition rooted in randomization, MIDItranslation and chance operations, the duo has established an improbable humanist mode of music from esoteric processes. Following their self-titled debut album, Visible Cloaks offered Reassemblage, an album simultaneously honoring the post-Yellow Magic Orchestra school of avant musical adventure and diverging from it. Veering from the paths cleared by Japanese and Italian electronic pop and ambient artists of the mid-80s / early90s, Reassemblage established Visible Cloaks’ own camp in a forest of deep sound canopied by trees grown from synthetic seeds. The sound represented on Lex is webbed with sculptural arrangements and interpolated by the sounds of alien speech. These strange and serene utterances were created by Doran feeding a chain of multiple dialects and accents through a language translation software to create an auditory poetry of an evolved place and time. Lex features both the final version of this process and earlier, simplified experiments with it (“Keys”). “The idea – building on ‘fourth world’ or ‘global village’ type concepts – was to create a projected language that was a fusion of many,” Doran explains. “The result was a very disorienting form of non-language that amplifies the lapses in meaning that occur with the inaccuracy of auto-translation software.” Permutate Lex, a companion short film to Lex made by Visible Cloaks in collaboration with artist Brenna Murphy (who also created the artwork for Reassemblage and several virtualist videos for the album), is an integral counterpart, both visualizing an aesthetic alive with human form and guiding the sonic experience of the first five pieces: “Wheel,” “Frame,” “Transient,” “Keys,” and title track “Lex.” “World,” the longest piece presented on Lex, is redrawn from a generative composition originally produced for an installation Doran made with Murphy. The original work incorporates LFOs and randomized MIDI-information, and was intended to variate indefinitely. In this ‘fixed’ version, “World” provides a more conclusive view into the impossible musical environments Visible Cloaks make real. Longer than any track on Reassemblage, “World” expresses the deepening, patient intimations suggested by Lex. Doran says the Lex “attempts to communicate the essence of a world distant enough that it can’t be captured or comprehended from the present, appearing only surreal and inscrutable.” The statement reveals a broader musical philosophy fueling this new moment; an awakened voice woven through complex melodic shapes and phrases establishes communication between listeners and the unknown, here presented by Visible Cloaks as sounds coloring the very edge of the envisionable. Visible Cloaks’ Lex is available December 8 in LP and digital formats. An exclusive CD version of Lex featuring the audio of Permutate Lex will be available around Visible Cloaks Japanese November / December 2017 tour with Sugai Ken.
Track Listing 01. Wheel 02. Frame 03. Transient 04. Keys 05. Lex 06. World
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Artist Visible Cloaks Title Lex Genre Avant-Garde / Ethnoambient / Interplanetary Folk Music / Musique Plastique Release date December 8, 2017 Formats Mini-LP / Digital Vinyl Is Not Returnable Box Lot Mini-LP — 50 Outer, 25 Inner
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CALIFONE KING HERON BLUES (DELUXE REISSUE) CATALOG #: DOC120 RELEASE DATE: DECEMBER 8, 2017 FORMAT: 2XLP LP BOX LOT: 50 GENRE: AVANT FOLK / INDIE ROCK KEY MARKETS: CHICAGO, NEW YORK, SEATTLE, PORTLAND, NASHVILLE, LOS ANGELES TERRITORY RESTRICTIONS: EXCLUSIVE TO HOSTESS IN JAPAN VINYL NOT RETURNABLE
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ABOUT THE ALBUM Heron King Blues is about the letting go. Each song its own ceremony. The earth, sun and moon. Wingbones. Shadow maps and dream logic. Stoplights. Meat Trucks. The Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Cocaine. Wild eyed robbers. Hunchbacked derelicts. Broken down angels, Lepers. Gay Lithuanians. Cheaters. Sex. Beggars. Rabid dogs. Sirens. Undertows. Reverse magnetism. Cock fighting. Electric shock therapy. Trick birds. Floods. Ancient Hebrew texts. The Illuminati. Haboobs. Bleach. Expired medicine. Severed tongues. Dragons, Spirit telephones. Bees. Modern Architecture. Electric fences. Dianetics. ESP. Snakes. Poltergeist. Haunted spaces. Crop circles. Demons. Feedback loops. How does one capture lightning in a bottle? You could call me a witness, or better yet an interloper, briefly given the wheel to the mythological ship called Califone. Where others might have attempted to exercise the demons, I chose to let the spirits run wild. We bored under the earth’s surface into its core until we reached the belly of the beast. These aren’t Songs of Love and Hate. This is no Street Hassle. No Main Street here. This is music that was pulled from the abattoir of Chicago rock, tattered and bruised and barely breathing. This is not music for pussies. — Michael Krassner, August, 2017
SIDE A: 1. Wingbone 2. Trick Bird 3. Sawtooth Sung A Cheater's Song 4. Apple
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SIDE B: 5. Lion & Bee 6. 2 Sisters Drunk On Each Other 7. Heron King Blues
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SIDE C: 8. Outro 9. Electric Fence (Clava Live Version) 10. Sawtooth Sung A Cheaters Song (10.11.03 - KRVX Radio, Austin, TX) 11. The Ocean Was Lungs (Faraway Bells)
SIDE D: 12. I Walk On Gilded Splinters 13. St. Martha (Clava Live Version) 14. Red (Clava Live Version)
56605 14206 7 SELLING POINTS - Long out-of print re-issue of Califone’s third, critically acclaimed full-length - Includes bonus LP with unreleased tracks
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PREOCCUPATIONS CASSETTE ABOUT THE ALBUM
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In late 2013, Preoccupations —then known as Viet Cong— released a small-run cassette EP only available on tour. Over the course of a year, Matt Flegel and Scott Munro worked in their basement studio with a mess of old and run down equipment to build a set of fresh material. Joined by bandmates Daniel Christiansen and Michael Wallace, the band completed work on an debut cassette. What emerged from the studio was a mixture of sharply-angled rhythm workouts and euphoric ‘60s garage pop-esque melodies, balanced with a penchant for drone-y, VU-styled downer moments, and became a hard-to-find classic.
CATALOG NUMBER: JAGSPEC21 RELEASE DATE: August 4, 2017 FORMAT: LP/Cassette/Digital LP BOX LOT: 25 CASSETTE BOX LOT: 25 GENRE: Alternative/Punk KEY MARKETS: New York, Chicago, Portland, Vancouver, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Washington D.C., Atlanta TERRITORY RESTRICTIONS: Not available in Canada, Exclusive to Hostess in Japan VINYL NOT RETURNABLE
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Preoccupations’s first ever release, “Cassette”, originally a tour-only cassette, is now being reissued on vinyl
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LP UPC: 656605102917
CASSETTE UPC: 656605102948
DIGITAL UPC: 656605102962
Preoccupations are coming off the critical success of their debut LP, Viet Cong (Pitchfork BNM), and their followup LP, Preoccupations, garnering acclaim from Pitchfork, NPR, The New York Times, Vulture, and many more
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Upcoming Summer and Fall touring, including festival appearances in the US and EU TRACKS SIDE A:
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1. Throw It Away 2. Unconscious Melody 3. Oxygen Feed 4. Static Wall
5. Structureless Design 6. Dark Entries 7. Select Your Drone
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Honey Harper Universal Country TRACKLISTING 01 02 03 04
Pharaoh Secret SOFR Man Is A Luxury
“[Pharaoh] makes a solid frst impression, all gooey and romantic and heartbreakingly huge.” - The FADER “Songs that are weightless in sound and heavy in feeling.” - Pitchfork
CATALOGUE NUMBER: ABT065 ARTIST: Honey Harper TITLE: Universal Country GENRE: Country RELEASE DATE: December 8th, 2017 AVAILABLE FORMATS: 10” LP TERRITORY: Worldwide BOX LOT: 30 VINYL IS NOT RETURNABLE LP: 656605363165
Honey Harper is both an old and a new project. The songs were written in the past three years but they’ve been around for much longer. They resist temporality and eschew spatial specifcity. Whether they were written on a lake in northern Ontario, a haunted hotel room in Atlanta, or in a car at 5AM in east London makes little difference as they all reside within. Honey Harper is intrinsically honest, pure, universal country. ●
Limited edition clear 10” vinyl records, hand-lathed in Montreal.
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US and European headline touring planned in support of release.
LABEL CONTACT: Arbutus Records #300 - 6545 Durocher Ave Outremont, QC H2V 3Z4 CANADA info@arbutusrecords.com www.arbutusrecords.com
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GI-313 Heathered Pearls
Detroit, MI 1997 -2001 TRACKLIST 01. Under The Bridge 02. The Chop Shop
03. Mack & Bellevue 04. The Packard Plant
RELEASE BIO Since his 2012 debut as Heathered Pearls, Jakub Alexander has constructed art — music, objects, installations — as a way of revisiting and re-imagining fragments of his past. The Polish-born producer’s first album was a slow, oceanic response to the ambient music his mother introduced him to as a kid. His second, 2015’s Body Complex, used melodic repetition to render the architectural structures of his daydreams as a teen, as well as the late night drives home with friends in the afterglow of a rave. Detroit, MI 1997 - 2001 resumes reflection on the formative era. The EP’s four compositions take their respective names from four distinct locations of Alexander’s youth, and sonically suggest the deeper sides of early Detroit techno. The sound that pulled him and countless others from the suburbs to the scene at a young age; music he’s been DJing for the last 20 years and relied on especially when warming up bigger rooms on tour with Tycho.
RELEASE INFO Catalogue Number: GI-313 Format: Cassette Release Date: 8 December, 2017 UPC: 804297831312 Genre: Electronic, dance Territory Restrictions: None
Detroit, MI 1997 - 2001 is a tribute, not a replica. Alexander is quick to assert he doesn’t use traditional hardware, opting instead for soft synths, free of patches or samples. “My best attempt at techno,” he’ll humbly joke. The music pulses like a memory resurfacing, vivid but inexact: a form both familiar and new. Cool, cavernous opener “Under The Bridge” reverberates back to the shipping container raves once held under the Ambassador Bridge, on the banks of the Detroit River en route to Canada. “The Chop Shop” retrofits tension into bliss, recalling the sprawling West Side warehouse that handled illegal cars by day and hosted legendary parties by night. “Mack & Bellevue” relives the underground grit of its beloved namesake, the low-lit, decayed East Side space, throbbing dust from the rafters after dusk. The final track is an exuberant, sidewinding wink towards “The Packard Plant,” the abandoned automotive manufacturing center which served as ground zero for Midwest rave culture. Alexander takes the references points one step further: the EP’s artwork contains four cement bricks hand-picked by his sister from the actual sites. By nature and spirit, Detroit, MI 1997 - 2001 is ephemeral dance music.
POINTS OF INTEREST • Follow up to 2015’s Body Complex LP • Recent tours opening for Tycho, Nick Murphy (fka Chet Faker), Shigeto • Cassette packaged in fluorescent orange Norelco cases containing opaque grey cassette shell
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• AKIRA SAKATA & CHIKAMORACHI WITH MASAHIKO SATOH - PROTON PUMP | CD (FV104cd) | Family Vineyard PHYS UPC:656605410425 • AKIRA SAKATA & CHIKAMORACHI WITH MASAHIKO SATOH - PROTON PUMP (BLACK VINYL) | LP (FV104lp) | Family Vineyard PHYS UPC:656605410418 • BIG BUSINESS - HEAD FOR THE SHALLOW (REISSUE) (BLACK VINYL) | LP (JNR240.1lp) | Joyful Noise Recordings PHYS UPC:714270691751 • BIG BUSINESS - HERE COME THE WATERWORKS (REISSUE) (BLACK VINYL) | LP (JNR240.2lp) | Joyful Noise Recordings PHYS UPC:714270691768 • BIG BUSINESS - MIND THE DRIFT (REISSUE) (BLACK VINYL) | LP (JNR240.3lp) | Joyful Noise Recordings PHYS UPC:714270691775 • TASHI DORJI & TYLER DAMON - LEAVE NO TRACE: LIVE IN ST. LOUIS (BLACK VINYL) | LP (FV103lp) | Family Vineyard PHYS UPC:656605410319 • SHAME - SONGS OF PRAISE | Cassette (DOC144cass) | Dead Oceans PHYS UPC:656605144405 • SHAME - SONGS OF PRAISE | CD (DOC144cd) | Dead Oceans PHYS UPC:656605144429 • SHAME - SONGS OF PRAISE (BLACK VINYL) | LP (DOC144lp) | Dead Oceans PHYS UPC:656605144412 • SHAME - SONGS OF PRAISE (BLACK VINYL) | LP (DOC144lp-C1) | Dead Oceans PHYS UPC:656605144436 • SHAME - SONGS OF PRAISE (ROUGH TRADE EXCLUSIVE) (BLACK VINYL) | LP (DOC144lp-C2) | Dead Oceans PHYS UPC: • UPHEAVAL - ALTAR OF ASH | LP (GR034lp) | Ghost Ramp PHYS UPC:616892503842
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• CHASTITY - CHAINS (BLACK VINYL) | 12" EP (CT269lp) | Captured Tracks PHYS UPC:817949014155 • HANZ - PLASTY I (BLACK VINYL) | 12" EP (TRI041lp) | Tri Angle Records PHYS UPC:616892523543 • LARAAJI - VISION SONGS | CD (NUM079cd) | Numero Group PHYS UPC:825764107921 • LARAAJI - VISION SONGS (BLACK VINYL) | LP (NUM079lp) | Numero Group PHYS UPC:825764107914 • ROBERT HAIGH - CREATURES OF THE DEEP (BLACK VINYL) | LP (UW017lp) | Unseen Worlds PHYS UPC: 766008587690 • SALAD BOYS - THIS IS GLUE | CD (TIM128cd) | Trouble In Mind PHYS UPC:630125983461 • SALAD BOYS - THIS IS GLUE (BLACK VINYL) | LP (TIM128lp) | Trouble In Mind PHYS UPC:630125983485 • SALAD BOYS - THIS IS GLUE (POWDER PINK VINYL) | LP (TIM128lp-C1) | Trouble In Mind PHYS UPC: 630125983492 • SHOPPING - THE OFFICIAL BODY | CD (FAT0147cd) | FatCat Records PHYS UPC:600116514721 • SHOPPING - THE OFFICIAL BODY (BLACK VINYL) | LP (FAT0147lp) | FatCat Records PHYS UPC:600116514714 • SHOPPING - THE OFFICIAL BODY (OPAQUE WHITE VINYL) | LP (FAT0147lp-C1) | FatCat Records PHYS UPC: 600116514790 • STRAND OF OAKS - HARDER LOVE (BLACK VINYL) | LP (DOC151lp) | Dead Oceans PHYS UPC:65660514511
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