Toro y Moi s Sandhills is both a tender love letter to Chaz Bear s hometown of Columbia, South Carolina, and a poignant, bittersweet acceptance that one can never really go back home. Recalling Sufjan s Seven Swans or Karen O s soundtrack work for Where The Wild Things Are, these loping folk-pop songs are…
Opening to the scream of F1 s speeding around a racetrack, and maintaining that intensity with booming guitar riffs and psychedelic effects throughout, the forthcoming album from Toro y Moi is definitely making a statement. But Chaz Bundick, the frontman and songwriter, is leaving it up to you to figure out what they are. While…
Beacons of Ancestorship is Tortoise’s sixth album, originally released in 2009. This re-issue is pressed on high quality virgin vinyl and presented in an old-style tip-on gatefold jacket with artworked inner sleeve and free download card. A characteristic Tortoise album is one that traverses an encyclopedia of styles and reference points, a document of where…
Tortoise has spent nearly 30 years making music that defies description. While the Chicago-based instrumental quintet has nodded to dub, rock, jazz, electronica and minimalism throughout its revered and influential discography, the resulting sounds have always been distinctly, even stubbornly, their own. One of the throughlines that create that distinctive sound is what might be…
Standards is Tortoise s fourth album originally released in 2001. This re-issue is pressed on high quality virgin vinyl with artworked inner sleeve, custom silk-screened PVC outer bag, and download coupon. The tunes on Standards are direct and immediate, yet they maintain the exploratory edge that has always characterized the group s output. The fusion…
TNT is Tortoise’s third studio album, originally released in 1998. This re-issue is pressed on high quality virgin vinyl and packaged in a tip-on gatefold jacket with spot UV printing and free download card. TNT builds upon the spare, instrumental framework of the group’s first, self-titled album, and the extended edits, melodic adventures, and klangfarben…
Tortoise s self-titled debut was originally released in 1994. This re-issue is pressed on high quality virgin vinyl, re-mastered by Roger Seibel at SAE Mastering, and packaged in a chipboard jacket with insert and free download card. Tortoise s self-titled debut incorporates many musical styles and influences and combines them into one very distance sound….
Tortoise’s self-titled debut was originally released in 1994. This re-issue is pressed on high quality virgin vinyl, re-mastered by Roger Seibel at SAE Mastering, and packaged in a chipboard jacket with insert and free download card. Tortoise’s self-titled debut incorporates many musical styles and influences and combines them into one very distance sound. So distinct…
For Richard Dorfmeister and Rupert Huber, the idea of rebirth is a creative driving force – an artistic device which not only informs their work, but anchors it.As the avant-garde electronic group Tosca, the two artists have lived many musical lives, from their early electronic experiments with tape decks to the blissed-out dub compositions with…
Recorded between Los Angeles and Sweden, multi-platinum, Grammy-nominated artist Tove Lo s fourth album, Sunshine Kitty represents a new chapter for the Swedish singer songwriter, marked by a reclamation of confidence, hard-earned wisdom, more time, and a budding romance. The title is a play on pussy power, but it s a happy, positive way of seeing it,  Tove Lo states….
TOXIC HOLOCAUST return to the scene with their best record yet. Chemistry of Consciousness is 11 songs of revved up high-energy punk-metal recorded by the band themselves and mixed by Kurt Ballou (Converge) for the most outstanding record in TOXIC HOLOCAUST’s already near perfect discography. Chemistry of Consciousness is the sound of Discharge on speed,…
First time on colored vinyl. TRST, the debut self-titled record from Robert Alfons and Maya Postepski, features tales of lust, wax, and erotomania carried along on a dense black vapor of speed, space and tears. TRST s malevolent, sexy synth-pop (Pitchfork) erupted out of Toronto s fertile underground music scene alongside darkwave contemporaries Crystal Castles and…
Writing songs is hard. Not compared to so many things I suppose, but it s difficult to create something that you love and then other people love as well. Writing songs for two and a half years in front of video screens instead of being in the presence of other humans has been a long,…
Vinyl LP pressing. A 20th anniversary reiussue of the original soundtrack from the iconic drama Trainspotting. Based on the Irvine Welsh novel of the same name, the film version of Trainspotting – directed by Danny Boyle – became a cult sensation. Centered around the heroin subculture of Edinburgh in the 1980s, the film is occupied…
Vinyl LP pressing. A 20th anniversary reiussue of the original soundtrack from the iconic drama Trainspotting. Based on the Irvine Welsh novel of the same name, the film version of Trainspotting – directed by Danny Boyle – became a cult sensation. Centered around the heroin subculture of Edinburgh in the 1980s, the film is occupied…