Car Seat Headrest - The Scholars

From Shakespeare to Mozart to opera, CSH's Will Toledo pulled from the classics when devising the lyrics and story arc of Scholars, while the music draws from classic rock story song cycles. "One thing that can be a struggle with rock operas is that the individual songs kind of get sacrificed for the flow of the plot," Toledo notes. "I didn't want to sacrifice that to make a very fluid narrative. And so this is sort of a middle ground where each song can be a character and it's like each one is coming out on center stage and they have their song and dance."

Pink Floyd - At Pompeii

The groundbreaking 1972 film directed by Adrian Maben has been digitally remastered and remixed by Steven Wilson. Set in the hauntingly beautiful ruins of the ancient Roman Amphitheatre in Pompeii, Italy, this unique film captures Pink Floyd performing an intimate concert. This audio companion contains the live performances from the film as well as two additional tracks, including a previously unreleased extended version of "A Saucerful Of Secrets". Vinyl, CD or DVD!

Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Ecophony Gaia LP

Deep, deep, earth music from Tsutomu Ohashi and crew. A macrosymphony composed for the International Garden & Greenery Expo in Osaka, Japan, 1990, it was supposed to be the stunning, aural centerpiece for a light and water performance system echoing the sentiment of the venue: "Harmonious Coexistence of Nature and Mankind". The final part of a trilogy that began with 1986's Ecophony Rinne, continued, in 1988, with the soundtrack to the dystopian cyber-punk film Akira. Looking back one can break up these releases into a holy musical trinity: Ecophony Rinne = spirit, Akira = body, and Ecophony Gaia = earth.

Briston Maroney - Jimmy

Briston didn't want to call his explosive and engrossing 3rd album Jimmy. He wanted to call it Jellyfish, the name taken from a poem he wrote when he was 9: "Jellyfish/The whole ocean/But nowhere to go." That was a year before he wrote his first song and many years before he had the language to describe what he was feeling, depression. But he realized that the idea was too hopeless for what's actually happening on Jimmy, a song cycle about scraping the bottom of mental, social, and emotional barrels and holding on long enough to do what can sometimes seem like life's true masterpiece: simply being yourself. Free poster w/ purchase.

Esther Rose - Want

Esther was on a long solo drive when she started writing the title track of her 5th album. "I want a puppy, but I don't want a mess. I want to know where I'm going without GPS." Soon, the idea snowballed into a list of desires that spanned existential, spiritual, and mundane; romantic to platonic to familial; at once wildly ambitious yet piercingly relatable; all set to a catchy melody that blends pop instincts with country storytelling and the raw immediacy of a basement punk show. Vivid and bracing, Want places you in the passenger seat while each of these feelings arrive. Signed CD/LP!

Eli Winter - A Trick of the Light

The Chicago-based guitarist, (with help from ex-Bton drummer Tyler Damon), has elegantly crafted a vibrant collection that finds him at the height of their powers. Eli remains a natural collaborator welcoming star turns from David Grubbs, Mike Watt, and Kiran Leonard. It's testament to his restless curiosity and omnivorous musical sensibilities. In his own words, it's a record that has "nothing to do with genre or idiom or homage or pastiche. It has everything to do with learning what the music wants, how it feels, and trusting when it wants something or doesn't want it."

Cash Langdon - Dogs

Cash's 2nd record under his own name, but the first joined by his band Meadow Dust. Mostly recorded at Portside Studios (the former location of the legendary Muscle Shoals Sound), engineer Brad Timko (Dan Sartain, St Paul & the Broken Bones) captured the trio sounding fierce and tight. Their fuzzy take on heavy country rock recalls Crazy Horse and gives off the heat of his native Birmingham. These songs are beautiful, searing, southern-gothic testaments to the ongoing violence of being awake to the world around you and the resolve to stay awake.

More New Releases

Blondshell - If You Asked For A Picture
Eric Church - Evangeline vs. The Machine
Cosmic Tones Research Trio - All Is Sound
Glixen - She Only Said
Valentina Goncharova - Campanelli LP
Jenny Hval - Iris Silver Mist
Lucius - s/t
Minot - And You're Not [tape]
Natural Information Society + Bitchin Bajas - Totality
Propagandhi - At Peace
Suzanne Vega - Flying With Angels

Reissue / Archival Zone

American Analog Set - Fun Of Watching Fireworks LP
Harry Bertoia - Sonambients: The Sound Sculpture Of Harry Bertoia CD+DVD
Ice (Lafayette Afro-Rock Band) - Afro Agban LP
Grachan Moncur III - Some Other Stuff LP
Jeff Parker - Slight Freedom LP
Lee Parker - Rollin' With Leo LP
Hermeto Pascoal - Hermeto LP
Rico Rodriguez - Wareika Dub LP
Frederic Rzewski - Speaking Rzewski: Performed by Stephane Ginsburgh CD
Robert Wyatt - Radio Experiment Rome, February 1981 LP
VA - Egypt And Lebanon Cosmic Arab Disco & Searing Dance Floor Bangers 1974-85

Back in Stock Vinyl

A brief selection of albums recently back in stock...
Charli XCX, Michael Hurley, Radiohead, Pixies, Big Thief, Mission of Burma, Led Zeppelin, Wilco, Twenty One Pilots, The Smiths, Van Halen, Cindy Lee, Jessica Pratt, Mac Miller, Tracy Chapman, Arctic Monkeys, Death Cab for Cutie, Bon Iver, Faye Webster, Songs: Ohia, and many more! Roll thru & get diggin'!