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Wavves’ Afraid of Heights and The Strokes’ Comedown Machine may be week’s most anticipated releases, but I have been most enjoying Mwahaha’s self-titled debut album.

Carry On is a 4-CD box set from Stephen Stills.

What new releases are you picking up this week? What can you recommend? Have I left anything noteworthy off the list?

This week’s interesting music releases:

The Black Lillies: Runaway Freeway Blues
Crime and the City Solution: American Twilight
Dido: Girl Who Got Away
Depeche Mode: Delta Machine
Grateful Dead: Go to Heaven (reissue) [vinyl]
Hum: You’d Prefer an Astronaut (reissue) [vinyl]
Iron Maiden: Maiden England ’88
John Zorn: Mysteries
Julian Lynch: Lines
Lapland: Lapland
Lil Wayne: I Am Not a Human Being II
Little Green Cars: Absolute Zero
The Milk Carton Kids: The Ash and Clay
Mwahaha: Mwahaha
OneRepublic: Native
Stephen Stills: Carry On (4-CD box set)
The Strokes: Comedown Machine
Tartufi: These Factory Days
Twinstar: The Sound of Leaving
The Waterboys: Appointment with Mr. Yeats (reissue)
Wavves: Afraid of Heights
Wax Idols: Discipline + Desire
Wire: Change Becomes Us
Y La Bamba: Oh February

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Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, which features Daniel Day-Lewis’s Oscar-winning performance, is in stores tomorrow.

The Criterion Collection releases expanded editions of Robert Bresson’s A Man Escaped and Charlie Chaplin’s Monsieur Verdoux.

The documentary Step Up To The Plate profiles French chef Michel Bras as he turns his 3-Michelin-star restaurant over to his son.

The historical drama The Borgias: The Second Season is the television highlight.

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My Bloody Valentine’s long awaited successor to Loveless, m b v, was released Saturday night.

I have already heard EELS’ Wonderful, Glorious, Frightened Rabbit’s Pedestrian Verse, Richard Thompson’s Electric, and Thao and The Get Down Stay Down’s We The Common, and can heartily recommend them.

There is little doubt I will be listening to Bettie Serveert’s 10th album Oh Mayhem some time after midnight tonight.

My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James has a new solo album, Regions of Light and Sound of God.

Sunshine Boy: The Unheard Studio Sessions & Demos 1971-1972 collects unreleased songs by Townes Van Zandt.

What new releases are you picking up this week? What can you recommend? Have I left anything noteworthy off the list?

This week’s interesting music releases:

Bauhaus: In the Flat Field (remastered) [vinyl]
Bauhaus: Mask (remastered) [vinyl]
Bettie Serveert: Oh Mayhem
Bjork: Bastards
The Bronx: The Bronx (IV)
Chris Stamey: Lovesick Blues
Coheed and Cambria: The Aftermath: Descension
Darkstar: News from Nowhere
Depeche Mode: Heaven
EELS: Wonderful, Glorious
Elephant Stone: Elephant Stone
Eugene Mirman: An Evening Of Comedy In A Fake, Underground Laboratory
Frightened Rabbit: Pedestrian Verse
Funeral for a Friend: Conduit
Grouper: The Man Who Died in His Boat
Guards: In Guards We Trust
Hayden: Us Alone
Holly Williams: The Highway
Jenny O: Automechanic
Jewel: Greatest Hits
Jim James: Regions of Light and Sound of God
Josh Groban: All That Echoes
Matt Pond: The Lives Inside The Lines In Your Hand
Misfits: D.E.A.D. Alive
My Bloody Valentine: m b v
Night Beds: Country Sleep
Richard Thompson: Electric
Ron Sexsmith: Forever Endeavor
Roxy Music: The Complete Studio Recordings (10-disc box set)
Silverstein: This Is How the Wind Shifts
The Spinto Band: Cool Cocoon
Steeldrivers: Hammer Down
Syd Barrett: Madcap Laughs (reissue)
Thao and The Get Down Stay Down: We The Common
Townes Van Zandt: Sunshine Boy: The Unheard Studio Sessions & Demos 1971-1972
Unknown Mortal Orchestra: II
Various Artists: American Noise
Various Artists: Safe Haven (soundtrack)
Wayne Shorter: Without a Net

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Girls frontman Christopher Owens’ solo debut Lysandre is by far the week’s new release that has spent the most time in my headphones.

Other new albums I can recommend this week include Erin McKeown’s Manifestra, Free Energy’s Love Sign, Parquet Courts’ Light Up Gold, and Yo La Tengo’s Fade.

Four Captain Beefheart albums are reissued on vinyl this week: Clear Spot, Lick My Decals Off Baby, Shiny Beast – Bat Chain Puller, and Spotlight Kid.

What new releases are you picking up this week? What can you recommend? Have I left anything noteworthy off the list?

This week’s interesting music releases:

A$AP Rocky: Long.Live.A$AP
Aly Tadros: The Fits
Ani DiFranco: Dilate [vinyl]
The B-52′s: Cosmic Thing (reissue) [vinyl]
Boz Scaggs: Some Change (reissue) [vinyl]
Brave Baby: Forty Bells
The Capsules: Northern Lights and Southern Skies
Captain Beefheart: Clear Spot (reissue) [vinyl]
Captain Beefheart: Lick My Decals Off Baby (reissue) [vinyl]
Captain Beefheart: Shiny Beast – Bat Chain Puller (reissue) [vinyl]
Captain Beefheart: Spotlight Kid (reissue) [vinyl]
Captain Beefheart: Lick My Decals Off Baby (reissue) [vinyl]
Captain Beefheart: Shiny Beast – Bat Chain Puller (reissue) [vinyl]
Christopher Owens: Lysandre
Erin McKeown: Manifestra
Free Energy: Love Sign
The Head and the Heart: Josh McBride / Honey Come Home (10” 78rpm Vinyl) [vinyl]
Holopaw: Academy Songs, Volume 1
Marching Band: And I’ve Never seen Anything Like That
Mike Cooley: Fool on Every Corner [vinyl]
Mystical Weapons: Mystical Weapons
The National: The Virginia EP (reissue) [vinyl]
Pantha du Prince & the Bell Laboratory: Elements of Light
Parquet Courts: Light Up Gold
Rachael Sage: Haunted By You [vinyl]
Sean Lennon: Alter Egos
Tame Impala: Elephant [vinyl]
Teena Marie: Beautiful
Various Artists: Dead Oceans Winter 2013 Sampler
Various Artists: Music from the Showtime Series Californication Season 6
Various Artists: West of Memphis: Voices for Justice
Velvet Underground: Max’s Kansas City (reissue) [vinyl]
Yo La Tengo: Fade

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For over 15 years I have been calling John Darnielle America’s greatest lyricist, and after listening to new latest album, The Mountain Goats’ Transcendental Youth, I am even more convinced that is the case.

Beth Orton’s Sugaring Season, Iris Dement’s Sing the Delta, Tift Merritt’s Traveling Alone, and Tori Amos’s Gold Dust are other quality new releases from veteran singer-songwriter.

Balmorhea’s Stranger, Moon Duo’s Circles, and Sun Airway’s Soft Fall are also highly recommended this week.

Reiissues include two vinyl discs from Sondre Lerche, Duper Sessions and Two Way Monologue.

What new releases are you picking up this week? What can you recommend? Have I left anything noteworthy off the list?

This week’s interesting music releases:

Balmorhea: Stranger
Beatles: Love Me Do (reissue) [vinyl]
Beth Orton: Sugaring Season
California Wives: Art History
Cher Lloyd: Sticks and Stones
Dark Dark Dark: Who Needs Who
DJ Shadow: Reconstructed: The Best of DJ Shadow [vinyl]
Durutti Column: Return of the Durutti Column (reissue)
ERAAS: ERAAS
First Aid Kit: Drunken Trees EP
First Aid Kit: Lion’s Roar Limited Edition (CD and DVD)
Flying Lotus: Until the Quiet Comes
Frank Turner: Last Minutes and Lost Evenings
Grateful Dead: Dick’s Picks Vol. 27 Oakland Coliseum Arena, Oakland, CA 12/16/92 (3-CD box set)
Heart: Fanatic
How to Dress Well: Total Loss
Immigrant Union: Immigrant Union
Iris Dement: Sing the Delta
Jake Shimabukuru: Grand Ukulele
John Cale: Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood
Joseph Arthur: Junkyard Hearts
Ken Stringfellow: Danzig in the Moonlight
Lavender Diamond: Incorruptible Heart [vinyl]
Lightning Bolt: Oblivion Hunter
Marillion: Sounds That Can’t Be Made
Mark Eitzel: Don’t Be a Stranger
Maserati: Maserati VII
Matt and Kim: Lightning
Moon Duo: Circles
Mount Moriah: Mount Moriah [vinyl]
The Mountain Goats: Transcendental Youth
Muse: The 2nd Law
No Doubt: Push and Shove [vinyl]
Sondre Lerche: Duper Sessions (reissue) [vinyl]
Sondre Lerche: Two Way Monologue (reissue) [vinyl]
Sun Airway: Soft Fall
Taken By Trees: Other Worlds
Tift Merritt: Traveling Alone
Tilly and the Wall: Heavy Mood
Tori Amos: Gold Dust
The Tragically Hip: Now for Plan A
Tristan Prettyman: Cedar and Gold
Ultraista: Ultraista
The Vaccines: Come of Age
Various Artists: Spooky Halloween Hits
Various Artists: Who Are You – An All-Star Tribute To The Who
WHY?: Mumps etc.
Willie Nelson: The Classic Christmas Album [mp3]
Yo La Tengo: Stupid Things [vinyl]

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Reissues this week include a deluxe remastered and expanded edition of Smashing Pumpkins’ Pisces Iscariot album, which includes 3 CDs and one DVD.

Two Can albums (Unlimited Edition and Flow Motion) have also been remastered.

Of the new music releases, I can definitely recommend The Dust Engineers’ Bail EP, JEFF the Brotherhood’s Hypnotic Nights, and The Very Best’s MTMTMK.

What new releases are you picking up this week? What can you recommend? Have I left anything noteworthy off the list?

This week’s interesting music releases:

Aesop Rock: Skelethon [vinyl]
Alberta Cross: Songs of Patience
Aloha: Sugar (reissue)
Angus Stone: Broken Brights
Bananarama: 30 Years of Bananarama
Baroness: Yellow and Green
The Be Good Tanyas: A Collection
Bjork: Later With Jools Holland 1995 – 2011 [dvd]
Black Francis: Live In Nijmegen
Bob Mould: Bob Mould (Hubcap)/Last Dog & Pony Show/Livedog98 (reissue)
Can: Unlimited Edition (remastered)
Can: Flow Motion (remastered)
Citizen Cope: One Lovely Day
Cosmo Jarvis: Think Bigger
Crosby, Stills and Nash: 2012 [dvd]
Drowning Men: All of the Unknown
The Dust Engineers: Bail EP
Fela Kuti: Live in Detroit 1986
The Fixx: Beautiful Friction
The Frames: The Cost (reissue)
Future of the Left: The Plot Against Common Sense [vinyl]
Gatekeeper: Exo
Genesis: The Gabriel Years [dvd]
Grateful Dead: History of the Grateful Dead 1 [vinyl]
Green Pajamas: Death by Misadventure
Hans Zimmer: The Dark Knight Rises: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Hot Panda: Go Outside
Icky Blossoms: Icky Blossoms
JEFF the Brotherhood: Hypnotic Nights
Jen Schande: Songs for and Inspired By Valencia: Chapter 19
Jill Scott: Crates: Remix Fundamentals 2
Jimmy Cliff: Rebirth
JJAMZ: Suicide Pact
John Maus: A Collection of Rarities…
Jon Dee Graham: Garage Sale
Leonard Cohen: After The Gold Rush [dvd]
Marcy Playground: Lunch Recess and Detention
Marilyn Manson: Born Villain [vinyl]
Masta Ace and MF Doom: Ma Doom: Son of Doom
Mates of State: My Solo Project (reissue)
Matisyahu: Spark Seeker
matt pond PA: Nature of Maps (reissue)
Milo Greene: Milo Greene
Missy Higgins: The Ol’ Razzle Dazzle
The Mommyheads: Vulnerable Boy
Motel Mari: Eternal Pleasant
Nas: Life Is Good
Newton Faulkner: Write It on Your Skin
Nicki Bluhm: Driftwood
Old Crow Medicine Show: Carry Me Back
Ozzy Osbourne: Speak of the Devil [dvd]
Posies; Dear 23 (reissue) [vinyl]
Sam Phillips: Martinis and Bikinis (remastered)
Shawn Lee: Reel to Reel
Shout Out Out Out Out: Spanish Moss And Total Loss
Smashing Pumpkins: Pisces Iscariot (Deluxe Edition) (4-disc box set)
Soul Asylum: Delayed Reaction
Soulsavers: The Light The Dead See [vinyl]
Steve Roach and Dirk Serries: Low Volume Music
Stowaways: Time for Change
Susanna Hoffs: Someday
Tom Waits: Second Hand Stories [dvd]
Ty Segall Band: Slaughterhouse [vinyl]
Various Artists: 60′s Music Revolution (remastered) [9-CD box set)
Various Artists: Black On Blues - A Tribute To The Black Keys
Various Artists: SpokAnarchy! Original Soundtrack
Vibracathedral Orchestra: Vibracathedral Orchestra (reissue) [vinyl]
The Very Best: MTMTMK

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Woody at 100: Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection is another impressive archival box set from Smithsonian/Folkways that collects 57 of the legendary singer-songwriter’s songson three CDs, and includes a 154-page book. Younger fans may enjoy Elizabeth Mitchell’s Little Seed: Songs for Children By Woody Guthrie.

Dirty Projectors’ Swing Lo Magellan, Holograms’s self-titled album, and Twin Shadow’s Confess are other new music releases I can wholeheartedly recommend.

What new releases are you picking up this week? What can you recommend? Have I left anything noteworthy off the list?

This week’s interesting music releases:

Aesop Rock: Skelethon
Band of Horses: Infinite Arms (reissue) [vinyl]
Beak: Beak II
The Capitol Steps: Take the Money and Run for President
Chatham County Line: Sight and Sound
Chris Forsyth: Kenzo Deluxe
Clare and the Reasons: KR-51
Dead Rat Orchestra: The Guga Hunters of Ness
Debo Band: Debo Band
Deep Time: Deep Time
Delicate Steve: Positive Force
Digitalism: DJ-Kicks
Digits: Where Do You Belong? EP
DIIV: Oshin [vinyl]
Dirty Projectors: Swing Lo Magellan
Duran Duran: A Diamond in the Mind
The Early November: In Currents
Eleni Mandell: I Can See the Future
Elizabeth Mitchell: Little Seed: Songs for Children By Woody Guthrie
The English Beat: The Complete Beat (5-CD box set)
The English Beat: Keep The Beat: The Very Best Of The English Beat
Erika Spring: Erika Spring EP
Family of the Year: Loma Vista
Guns N’ Roses: Use Your Illusion I (reissue) [vinyl]
Guns N’ Roses: Use Your Illusion II (reissue) [vinyl]
Holograms: Holograms
Husky: Forever So
Jimi Hendrix: Jimi Hendrix Experience Live at Berkeley
JJAMZ: Suicide Pact
The Kingsbury Manx: Ascenseur Ouvert!
Madlib: Shame EP [vinyl]
Marina and the Diamonds: Electra Heart
Milk Maid: Mostly No
Mission of Burma: Unsound
Mornin’ Old Sport: Mornin’ Old Sport
Muddy Waters and The Rolling Stones: Live At The Checkerboard Lounge, Chicago 1981 (CD and DVD)
Paul Heaton: Presents the 8th
Rhett Walker: Come to the River
Scott Walker: The Drift (reissue) [vinyl]
The Sea and Cake: Fawn (reissue) [vinyl]
The Sea and Cake: Nassau (reissue) [vinyl]
Serj Tankian: Harakiri
Teen Daza: All of Us Together [vinyl]
theclosing: theclosing
Thelonious Monk: Misterioso (reissue) [vinyl]
Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins: Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins (reissue) [vinyl]
Twin Shadow: Confess
Van She: Idea of Happiness
Various Artists: All Kinds Of Highs: A Mainstream Pop-Psych Compendium 1966-70
Various Artists: I (Heart) ZYX Italo Disco Collection 14 (3-CD box set)
Various Artists: New Rides Of The Furious Swampricers
Various Artists: Take Your Whiskey Home: A Millennium Tribute To Van Halen 1978-1984
Various Artists: Two Minutes To Midnight: A Millennium Tribute To Iron Maiden
Videoing: Reader LP
Woody Guthrie: Woody at 100: Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection (3-CD box set)
Zac Brown Band: Uncaged

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A Place To Bury Strangers’ Worship, Beachwood Sparks’ The Tarnished Gold, Everest’s Ownerless, and especially Milk Maid’s Mostly No.

The Flaming Lips release The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends this week, a new studio album that also features Yoko Ono, Bon Iver, Ke$ha, and many other musical guests.

Enjoy three Cat Power vinyl reissues (The Greatest, Moon Pix, You Are Free) while you wait for Chan Marshall’s next studio album next album, Sun (out September 4th).

The Mountain Goats’ Hound Chronicles/Hot Garden Stomp packages both albums into one low-priced reissue.

What new releases are you picking up this week? What can you recommend? Have I left anything noteworthy off the list?

This week’s interesting music releases:

Admiral Fallow: Tree Bursts in Snow
Air Traffic Controller: Nordo
A Place To Bury Strangers: Worship
Alejandro Escovedo: Big Station [vinyl]
The Band: Music from The Big Pink (reissue) [vinyl]
Bassnectar: Vava Voom [vinyl]
Beachwood Sparks: The Tarnished Gold
Cat Power: The Greatest (reissue) [vinyl]
Cat Power: Moon Pix (reissue) [vinyl]
Cat Power: You Are Free (reissue) [vinyl]
Chain And The Gang: In Cool Blood
Cinematic Orchestra: In Motion #1
Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons: Old Believers
Dala: Who Do You Think You Are
Dali’s Car: InGladAloneness
The dB’s: Falling Off the Sky [vinyl]
DIIV: Oshin
Echo Lake: Wild Peace
El-P: Cancer for Cure
Everest: Ownerless
Exray’s: Trust a Robot
The Flaming Lips: The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends
Henry Clay People: Twenty-Five for the Rest of Our Lives
Infantree: Hero’s Dose
Jeans Wilder: Totally
Jesca Hoop: The House that Jack Built
Joe Jackson: The Duke
Kasabian: Live! Live at the O2 [dvd]
A Lull: Meat Mountain
Milk Maid: Mostly No
Mindy Smith: Mindy Smith
Mixtapes: Even on the Worst Nights
Mountain Goats: Hound Chronicles/Hot Garden Stomp (reissue)
New Beard: New Beard City
New Pornographers: Mass Romantic (reissue) [vinyl]
The Offspring: Days Go By
Paul Weller: When Your Garden’s Overgrown
Pharaoh Sanders: In the Beginning 1963-1965 (4-CD box set)
Pink Floyd: The Story of Wish You Were Here [dvd]
R. Kelly: Write Me Back
SBTRKT: Hold On [vinyl]
Sonny and the Sunsets: Longtime Companion
The Soundtrack of Our Lives: Throw It to the Universe
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs: Trouble [vinyl]
Ty Segall Band: Slaughterhouse
Various Artists: Ted: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Yo La Tengo: Electr-O-Pura (reissue) [vinyl]

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Occupy This Album is a 4-CD box set that contains 99 tracks from 99 artists in a variety of music genres. Patti Smith, Lucinda Williams, Ani DiFranco, and others contribute to this ambitious project that benefits the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Beach House’s Bloom, The Green Pajamas’ Summer of Lust, and Plushgun’s Waste Away are also albums that I can wholly recommend.

If you can’t wait for the domestic My Bloody Valentine remastered album to arrive, these UK imports from the band may suffice: EPs: 1988-1991 and Isn’t Anything.

What new releases are you picking up this week? What can you recommend? Have I left anything noteworthy off the list?

This week’s interesting music releases:

Alexander Tucker: Third Mouth
Andre Williams and The Sadies: Night and Day
Apollo Ghosts: Landmark
Bassnectar: Vava Voom [vinyl]
Beach House: Bloom
Best Coast: The Only Place
Billy and Dolly: Dally Bon Idyll
Carrousel: 27 rue de mi’chelle
Birthmark: Antibodies
Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band: One of My Kind [dvd]
Cornershop: Urban Turban
Craft Spells: Gallery EP
The Cribs: In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull
Dave Alvin: Eleven Eleven Expanded
Esperanza Spalding: Radio Music Society [vinyl]
Garbage: Not Your Kind of People
Godsmack: Live and Inspired
The Green Pajamas: Summer of Lust
Guided By Voices: Class Clown Spots a UFO
Hands: Massive Context
Hot Water Music: Exister
Japandroids: The House That Heaven Built
Josephine Foster and Victor Herrero: Perlas
Lee Bains III: There Is a Bomb in Gilead
Little, Big: Pins and Narwahls
Madonna: Hard Candy (reissue) (box set) [vinyl]
Meiko: The Bright Side
Mewithoutyou: Ten Stories
MV & EE: Space Homestead
My Bloody Valentine: EPs: 1988-1991 (remastered)
My Bloody Valentine: Isn’t Anything (remastered)
Parlovr: Kook Soul
Plankton War: Spirits
Plushgun: Waste Away
Richard Hawley: Standing at the Sky’s Edge
Santana: Shape Shifter
Say Anything: …Is a Real Boy (reissue) [vinyl]
Shadows Fall: Fire from the Sky
Simian Mobile Disco: Unpatterns
Sinead O’Connor: How About I Be Me (And You be You) [vinyl]
Slugabed: Time Team
Squarepusher: Ufabulum
Tenacious D: Rize of the Fenix
Tortoise: Millions Now Living Will Never Die [vinyl]
The Tubes: Ouside Inside (reissue)
Tu Fawning: A Monument
Various Artists: Glee: The Music, Season Three – The Graduation Album
Various Artists: Occupy This Album (4-CD box set)
Violens: TRUE
White Fence: Vol. 1 and 2: Family Perfume
Willie Nelson: Heroes

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Shearwater’s Animal Joy is already at the top of my 2012 favorite albums list (along with Sharon Van Etten’s Tramp, released last week).

Other albums I can wholeheartedly recommend this week include Heartless Bastards’ Arrow, Islands’ A Sleep & A Forgetting, The Kills’ The Last Goodbye EP, Rosie Thomas’s With Love, and Tennis’s Young and Old.

Five Flaming Lips albums are reissued on vinyl tomorrow: Clouds Taste Metallic, Hit to Death in the Future Head, The Soft Bulletin, Transmissions From the Satellite Heart, and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.

What new releases are you picking up this week? What can you recommend? Have I left anything noteworthy off the list?

This week’s interesting music releases:

Amoral: Beneath
Amos Lee: As the Crow Flies
Band of Skulls: Sweet Sour
Barry Adamson: I Will Set You Free
Bears: Greater Lakes
Bettye LaVette: Nearer to You (reissue)
Cotton Mather: Kontiki (remastered with bonus CD)
Detroit Cobras: Mink Rat or Rabbit
Digital Leather: Modern Problems
Earth: Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II
Exdetectives: Take My Forever
The Explorers Club: Grand Hotel
Field Music: Plumb
Flaming Lips: Clouds Taste Metallic (reissue) [vinyl]
Flaming Lips: Hit to Death in the Future Head (reissue) [vinyl]
Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin (reissue) [vinyl]
Flaming Lips: Transmissions From the Satellite Heart (reissue) [vinyl]
Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (reissue) [vinyl]
Gotan Project: Revancha Del Tango (reissue) [vinyl]
Grateful Dead: Reckoning (reissue) [vinyl]
Heartless Bastards: Arrow
Howlin Rain: Russian Wilds
The (International) Noise Conspiracy: Up For Sale EP
Islands: A Sleep & A Forgetting
The Kills: The Last Goodbye EP
Moguai: Mpire
Neurosis: Enemy of the Sun (reissue) [vinyl]
Orange Goblin: Eulogy for the Damned
Phenomenal Handclap Band: Form & Control
Punch Brothers: Who’s Feeling Young Now?
Radiohead: Bloom: Jamie XX Rework 3 [vinyl]
Rosie Thomas: With Love
Shearwater: Animal Joy
The Shins: Simple Song / September [vinyl]
Tennis: Young and Old
Tribes: We Were Children EP
Unicycle Loves You: Failure
Various Artists: Alright, This Time Just the Girls Volume 2
Various Artists: Piano Tribute to Metallica
Various Artists: Qat Coffee & Qambus: Raw 45s From Yemen [vinyl]
Various Artists: Soundtrack for a Revolution
Windy & Carl: We Will Always Be
Winterpills: All My Lovely Goners
Young Magic: Melt
Yuksek: Living on the Edge of Time

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