VA - Red Xerox: Chicago Youth Beat 2020-2025 LP

A compendium capturing the first years of the Chicago's youth-beat Hallo-gallo scene. A movement that is still unfolding. Red Xerox features early cuts from Horsegirl and Lifeguard, who are now pillars of the scene signed to Matador Records, alongside soon-to-be classics and previously unreleased tracks from Friko, Post Office Winter, Dwaal Troupe, Sharp Pins, Current Union TM, TV Buddha, P. Noid, Amaya Pena, Free Range, and Uniflora. Each copy includes a handmade 24-page zine. From pop perfectionism, to noise rock wonders, from Ecuadorian inspired folk songs to no-wave psychedelia. RIYL: Good Flying Birds, Yo La Tengo, The Clean, Olivia Tremor Control, Beat Happening.

Snail Mail - Ricochet

Lindsey Jordan returns to assert herself as a generational songwriter, clear-eyed and honest as ever. Time has passed, but she remains a sensitive soul, and here her incisive introspection is tethered to newly expansive and hypnotic melodies and ornate string arrangements. While writing 'Ricochet,' Jordan found herself fixating on concerns she'd previously pushed out of her mind, namely death and what happens after. These 11 songs are colored by the anxiety of watching life slip through your fingers, as well as the vulnerability of loving deeply rather than frenetically.

Courtney Barnett - Creature of Habit

In the hands of Courtney, fragments of everyday life become rich and riveting. A deft lyricist and virtuosic guitarist with inimitable musicianship, Barnett first found critical acclaim with 2013's A Sea of Split Peas and broke into the mainstream in 2015 with her debut album, Sometimes I Sit and Think. Garnering a coveted Best New Artist Grammy nomination and numerous other accolades. With a guest appearance from Waxahatchee and production from John Congleton, the latest from the Australian singer-songwriter gently furthers her career-long search for inner peace.

Robyn - Sexistential

Sexistential is the most ecstatic record that Robyn has ever made. After the club music meditations of 2018's Honey, the new album features playful pop songs that tie back to her Body Talk trilogy, designed to feel "like a spaceship coming through the atmosphere at a really high speed and crash landing", she says. Co-produced with longtime collaborator Klas Ahlund, and featuring Max Martin among the writing credits, it heralds one of the decade's most celebrated comebacks. Featuring singles "Dopamine", "Talk To Me" and "Sexistential", it's emphatic and punchy, defiant about emotional and biological pleasure, need and softness.

Shabaka Hutchings - Of The Earth

Shabaka return to his saxophone - alongside electronics and traditional woodwind and percussion instruments from around the world. This combination is indicative of his diverse talents and the overall sound on Of The Earth. Hutchings is highly regarded for his work with The Comet Is Coming, Sons of Kemet, Shabaka and the Ancestors, and from his two most recent solo projects. As a musician he has also worked with a wealth of prestigious artists such as Andre 3000, Floating Points, Mulatu Astatke, Sun Ra Arkestra, Lianne La Havas, and Saul Williams.

Flea - Honora

Time and space have finally allowed Flea to return to his first musical loves: jazz and playing the trumpet. Flea composed and arranged the music, and also plays trumpet and bass throughout, joined by an elite crew of modern jazz visionaries: album producer and saxophonist Josh Johnson, guitarist Jeff Parker, bassist Anna Butterss, and drummer Deantoni Parks. The record features vocals from Flea, as well as Thom Yorke and Nick Cave. The album comprises 6 originals as well as interpretations of tunes by George Clinton and Eddie Hazel, Jimmy Webb, Frank Ocean, and Ann Ronell.

The New Pornographers - The Former Site Of

The album finds bandleader A.C. Newman, Neko Case, Kathryn Calder, John Collins, and Todd Fancey expanding their already rich catalog in surprising fashion. Joined by legendary session drummer Charley Drayton, the space has never been this clearly articulated or generously textured, giving a distinct pulse to the characters whose lives spill out in Newman's tender, evocative lyrics. Even in it's darkest or most self-deprecating moments, there is an effervescence to the music here that is irresistible, an affirmation that the struggle of it's characters and the listener, like a photograph of a distant planet, is worth it.

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