Cool Instore Event! Weds Oct 30th at 6PM, Landlocked is hosting Afro-Sonic Experiments and Feminist Aesthetics: an artist talk with Berlin-based Peruvian artists Alejandra Cardenas (aka Ale Hop) and Laura Robles. Their debut collaborative album 'Agua Dulce' radically deconstructs Afro-Peruvian music and dance traditions. The duo focus on the cajon, a box drum that enslaved peoples made from fruit boxes when Spanish colonizers banned the drum in the 19th Century. Robles uses a home-made electric cajon to beat out rhythms from dances, while Cardenas fractures the sounds with abstract electronics, splintering the tracks into noisy facets. Come to the talk, then catch the live performance at The Bishop on Halloween!
October 25th
Dave Vettraino - A Bird Shaped Window
The Btown expat / Chicago-based audio engineer has spent 15 years producing albums from the likes of Deeper, Melkbelly, Lala Lala, Dehd, and Ducks Ltd. He also engineers for International Anthem artists including Jaimie Branch, Makaya McCraven and Resavoir. Eponymously, he crafts compositions that embody his expansive role at the intersection of so many musical currents. Guests include cellist Lia Kohl, Macie Stewart (Finom, Tweedy), Daniel Villarreal, and Rob Frye (Bitchin Bajas). The album embraces a sepia toned palette with a lyrical and lilting directness, like the score to an unseen neo-noir film. Evoking 70s Impulse Records, balmy and ruminative. Recommended!
Soccer Mommy - Evergreen
Sophie Allison has always written candidly about her life. On Evergreen, she is again writing about her life but life's different these days. Since 2022's Sometimes, Forever, Allison experienced a profound and personal loss. New songs emerged, unflinching reflections on what she was feeling. She wanted them to sound that way too, as true to the demos as possible. Nothing overindulgent, everything real.
Ben Folds - Sleigher
Built on an eclectic mix of originals and reimagined classics, the album examines the passage of time through the lens of Christmas, reflecting on memory, loss, and longing as it explores the variety of ways the yuletide season marks the chapters of our lives. The songs are playful, full of humor and cheer, but they're also laced with melancholy, a looming darkness that always seems to hover around the periphery of those late December nights. Autographed LPs while they last.
Laura Marling - Patterns In Repeat
Now 8 albums and 15 years into her career as one of the most respected songwriters of her generation (Grammy and Mercury Nominated and Brit award winning) Patterns in Repeat was written following the birth of her daughter in 2023 and finds Laura reflecting on her motherhood experience as well as more broadly diving deeper into her reckoning with the ideas and behaviours we pass down through family over generations.
Amyl and The Sniffers - Cartoon Darkness
Recorded with producer Nick Launay at Foo Fighters' 606 Studios in LA, on the same desk that captured Nirvana's Nevermind and Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, the latest Amyl album is their most diverse yet. It stretches from classic punk to the glammy strut of hit single "U Should Not Be Doing That" to the stormy balladry of "Big Dreams" to pugnacious punk of "Jerkin." Back with a vengeance - bigger, brighter, smarter and sharper in every way.
BadBadNotGood - Mid Spiral
Mid Spiral sees BBNG return to their roots of instrumental jazz while once again pushing the boundaries of how they cross pollinate genres, incorporating their love of hip-hop, neo-soul, psychedelic, funk and more. For the sessions, the trio incorporated additional musicians to add more voices of instrumentation, resulting in a deeply collaborative and expansive new sound.
Katie Gavin - What a Relief
What A Relief comprises a set of songs that Gavin always loved but which "had something in them" that she and her bandmates felt didn't quite fit within the universe they were trying to cultivate with Muna. Typified by the Women & Songs CDs that Gavin loves, which compiled music by artists like Tracy Chapman, Tori Amos and Sarah McLachlan.
Green Day - American Idiot [20th Annv]
This super deluxe CD box set include 15 unreleased demos, a 15-song 2004 concert from Irving Plaza, NYC (9 songs previously unreleased), and 15 tracks that were released as B-Sides and bonus tracks. The box is completed with 2 Blu-rays that feature the film Heart Like A Hand Grenade, 35 minutes of Green Day live at the BBC, and a new documentary: 20 Years of American Idiot. Also includes 48-page book, an enamel pin set, sticker sheet, and cloth patch. 2LP color vinyl reissue also available.
VA - Why Don't You Smile Now: Lou Reed at Pickwick Records 1964-65
A compilation of songs penned by Lou during his mid-60s stint as a staff songwriter for Pickwick Records. Encompassing everything from garage-rock and girl-group pop to blue-eyed soul and teen-idol balladry, Reed's output here ultimately offers a fascinating early glimpse at his ever-evolving and truly limitless artistry. Both the 2xLP & CD editions feature in-depth booklets with unseen photos, liner notes by Richie Unterberger, and an essay by Lenny Kaye.
More New Releases
Andrea Bocelli - Duets
Brett Eldredge - Merry Christmas: Welcome to the Family
Fit For An Autopsy - The Nothing That Is
Gaerea - Coma-Season Of Mist
Halsey - The Great Impersonator
Oreo Jones - Nephew LP
Lone Justice - Viva Lone Justice
Thurston Moore - Flow Critical Lucidity
Nap Eyes - The Neon Gate
The Oak Ridge Boys - Mama's Boys
Tess Parks - Pomegranate
Pixies - The Night The Zombies Came
A Place To Bury Strangers - Synthesizer
Pom Pom Squad - Mirror Starts Moving Without Me
Chuck Prophet - Wake the Dead
Dan Reeder - Smithereens
Ruthven - Rough & Ready
Caroline Shaw - Leonardo da Vinci OST
Ed Sheeran - +-=× Tour Collection
Soul Asylum - Slowly But Shirley
Tears for Fears - Songs For A Nervous Planet
311 - Full Bloom
Devin Townsend - Powernerd
VA - Can't Steal My Fire: Songs Of David Olney
VA / Red Hot Organization - Transa: Selects LP
Reissue / Archival Zone
Bardo Pond - Melt Away / Set and Setting LPs
Blue Nile - Hats / Walk Across the Rooftops CDs
Crosby Stills Nash & Young - Live At Fillmore East 1969 CD/LP
Die Like A Dog - Fragments Of Music, Life And Death Of Albert Ayler LP
Charlie Megira - End of Teenage LP
Oscar Peterson - Another Day / Hello Herbie CDs
Porno for Pyros - Pyrotechnics: Latest & Greatest LP
Rodan - Rusty LP
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Coda CD/LP
Brian Setzer - Guitar Slinger LP
Slint - Tweez
Songs: Ohia - Protection Spells LP
VA - Grabar Y Coagular: A History of Audio Pieces by Peruvian Artists 1972-2018 LP
VA - Music for Shape-Shifters: Field Recordings from Amazonian Lowlands LP
VA - Verbal Matter: An Anthology of Peruvian Sound Poetry LP
Back in Stock Vinyl
A brief selection of albums recently back in stock...
Green Day, Fleetwood Mac, Radiohead, Pixies, Pavement, Haruomi Hosono, Aphex Twin, The Cure, Television, Joy Division, Turnstile, Black Keys, Talking Heads, Metallica, Ramones, Steve Reich, Led Zeppelin, MC5, Neil Young, Big Thief, Cocteau Twins, Breeders, Grateful Dead, Joni Mitchell, The Smiths, Wilco, Gorillaz, John Prine, Devo, Minutemen, and many more! Roll thru & get diggin'!