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Radiohead figurehead Thom Yorke follows up his 2014 album Tomorrow's Modern Boxes and 2018 score to Suspiria with his third full-length solo effort Anima. Produced by longtime collaborator Nigel Godrich, several of the album's songs were debuted live during Yorke, Godrich and Tarik Barri's Tomorrow's Modern Boxes performances.

This standard black double vinyl LP edition is housed in a wide-spine single sleeve and includes the exclusive bonus track, "(Ladies & Gentlemen, Thank You For Coming)." A download card for the original nine-track album is also included in the sleeve.

Tracks

1. Traffic
2. Last I heard (...He Was Circling the Drain)
3. Twist
4. Dawn Chorus
5. I Am a Very Rude Person
6. Not the News
7. The Axe
8. Impossible Knots
9. Runwayaway
10. (Ladies & Gentlemen, Thank You For Coming)

With a name as bold as Junglepussy and an artistry to match, Shayna McHayle is New York's premier rap rule-breaker. Honest, funny, and freaky, her rhymes span from the explicitly audacious to the tenderly relatable. Her unfailingly confident flow accentuates her roots in Brooklyn (her parents are from Trinidad and Jamaica), and her bars land with cool impact. In the universe that is Junglepussy, relationships are complicated, vegetables are magic, and an excellently delivered flex on an ex is one punchline away.

Junglepussy's fourth album Jp4 follows 2018's Jp3, and is for her an exercise in grounding. "The number three is very powerful for manifestation," she explains, referencing her acclaimed third album and what it's meant to her. "Number four though is really securing the foundation." Jp4 is Junglepussy's stellar next phase. With contributions from vocalist Ian Isiah, rapper Gangsta Boo, and producers Dave Sitek and Nick Hook, Jp4 is Junglepussy ascended. After almost a decade of experimenting, Junglepussy feels she's finally living up to her name. "From the genesis of Junglepussy, I struggled with my sound, because what I was doing at the time, I knew it wasn't really, really, really what I wanted to do," she says. "But I just didn't know how to get there. Jp4 really sounds like and feels like I got there."

On album opener "Bad News," she sings from a welcome new place, introducing a soulful, haunting voice that mirrors the song's title. The noisy, interstellar melodies that guide "Telepathy" and "What You Want" are the album's trippy, experimental gifts.

1. Bad News
2. Main Attraction
3. Telepathy
4. Morning Rock
5. Out My Window (Feat. Ian Isiah)
6. Spiders
7. What You Want
8. Arugula
9. Stamina (feat. Gangsta Boo)
10. No Band Aid

Every decade or so a science fiction film comes along that captures the Zeitgeist and simultaneously casts a searchlight into the murk of what's to come. Such a film was The Matrix. Released in 1999 to a public already grappling with huge technological change and subject to Y2K hysteria whipped up by the media, The Matrix wove such au courant tropes as Japanese animé, Hong Kong martial arts films, cyperpunk sci-fi, and hacker hero worship into a tale of druggy paranoia whose vision of a grim future marked with universal surveillance and pathological interconnectedness actually looks less paranoid by the day.

And its soundtrack was similarly forward-looking. Instead of offering the blues-based, heavy metal rock that might have populated the score had the movie been made a decade before, The Matrix tapped into the new, breakbeat electronic sounds making inroads into popular music. The result was a propulsive audio ride perfectly mated to the film's cinematographic "bullet time" innovations, a doom-laden, neck-snapping blend of stoner metal, hip hop, and electronica.

On the eve of the franchise's fourth installment, Real Gone Music reissues the equally ahead of its time original soundtrack to The Matrix as a colored vinyl 2LP-set with gatefold packaging featuring stills from the original film production.

LP1
1. Marilyn Manson “Rock Is Dead”
2. Propellerheads “Spybreak! (Shortone)”
3. Ministry “Badblood”
4. Robd “Clubbed To Death (Kurayamino mix)”
5. Meatbeat Manifesto “Prime Audio Soup”
6. Lunatic Calm “Leave You Far Behind

LP2
1. Prodigy “Mindfields”
2. Rob Zombie “Dragula (Hot Rod Herman Remix)”
3. Deftones “My Own Summer (Shoveit)”
4. Hive “Ultrasonic Sound”
5. Monster Magnet “Look To Your Orb For The Warning”
6. Rammstein “Duhast”
7. Rage Against The Machine “Wakeup”

CAM Sugar presents Fellini's milestone Amarcord – carefully restored and remastered from the original master tapes and featuring 15 tracks previously unreleased on vinyl. Amarcord won an Academy Award in 1974 as Best Foreign Film and received two nominations for Best Director and Best Screenplay. The sweet and evocative music by Nino Rota takes the listener on a journey through the places of Fellini's boyhood in Rimini, creating a combination of music and images that is still appreciated today.

Tracks

LP1
1. Amarcord
2. La Fogaraccia
3. Le Manine di Primavera
4. Lo Struscio/Quel Motivetto che mi piace tanto/Stormy Weather/La Cucaracha
5. L’emiro e le sue Odalische/Salomé - Abat-Jour
6. Gary Cooper
7. La Gradisca e il Principe
8. Siboney
9. Danzando nella nebbia
10. Tutti a vedere il Rex
11. Quanto mi piace la Gradisca
12. La Gradisca si sposa e se ne va

LP2
1. Amarcord (Guitar And Harmonica)
2. Siboney (Accordion) 
3. Amarcord (Grand Hotel)
4. Amarcord (Il barbiere)
5. Amarcord (Tenderness)
6. Amarcord (Dancefloor Pt. 1)
7. Amarcord (Grand Hotel) (Alternate)
8. Salomé: Abat-Jour (Alternate)
9. Danzando nella nebbia (Alternate Mix)
10. Amarcord (Funeral) (Alternate)
11. Amarcord (Theme)
12. La fogaraccia (Film Version)
13. Lo struscio / Quel motivetto che mi piace tanto (Alternate)
14. Amarcord (Dancefloor Pt. 2) (Alternate)
15. Amarcord (Zio matto a vuoto)

Coldplay celebrate the holiday season with the re-release of 'Christmas Lights' as a recycled black vinyl 7-inch single, backed by Coldplay's take on the perennial Christmas classic 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas' which was recorded for a Jo Whiley, BBC Radio 1 live session, at the tail end of 2000.

• 1 Christmas Lights
• 2 Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Vinyl LP pressing. Home for Christmas is a Christmas album and the seventh studio album by singer/songwriter Sheryl Crow, first released in 2008. Sheryl Crow's music incorporates elements of pop, rock, country, and blues. She has released ten studio albums, four compilations, a live album, and has contributed to a number of film soundtracks. She has sold more than 50 million albums worldwide. Crow has garnered nine Grammy Awards (out of 32 nominations) from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. In addition to her own work, Crow has performed with the Dixie Chicks, Emmylou Harris, the Rolling Stones, Jerry Lee Lewis, Stevie Nicks, Michael Jackson, Steve Earle, Prince, Eric Clapton, Luciano Pavarotti, Willie Nelson, Smokey Robinson, John Mellencamp, B.B. King, George Strait, Tony Bennett, Kid Rock, Sting, Vince Gill, Albert Lee and Zucchero Fornaciari, among others.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Go Tell It on the Mountain
• 2 The Christmas Song
• 3 White Christmas
• 4 I'll Be Home for Christmas
• 5 Merry Christmas Baby
• 6 The Bells of St. Mary's
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Blue Christmas
• 2 It Came Upon a Midnight Clear/O Holy Night
• 3 There Is a Star That Shines Tonight
• 4 Hello My Friend, Hello
• 5 All Through the Night
• 6 Long Road Home

Music on Vinyl press. 180 gram audiophile vinyl. Includes insert. Featuring the number 1 hit "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" duet with George Michael, produced by Narada Michael Walden. Sleeve artwork by Andy Warhol. Black vinyl. The 1986 self-titled Aretha Franklin album was a successful one, notable for containing five R&B hits, including the number 1 hit "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" and "If You Need My Love Tonight". Aretha herself says on the liner notes that this is one of her favorite albums, and it's easy to see why.

Tracks

• 1 Jimmy Lee
• 2 I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) Duet with George Michael
• 3 Do You Still Remember
• 4 Jumpin' Jack Flash
• 5 Rock-A-Lott
• 6 An Angel Cries
• 7 He'll Come Along
• 8 If You Need My Love Tonight Duet with Larry Graham
• 9 Look to the Rainbow

For nearly a decade now, Noah Kardos-Fein has been making post-industrial / neo-no wave music under the name Yvette, building a distinct and arresting repertoire along the way. In 2016, Yvette began work on what would become their highly anticipated sophomore album How The Garden Grows. It took three years of stops and starts – multiple studios and different producers and engineers – to write and record. The album, now seeing the light of day in 2021, is the culmination of years of hard work, and countless obstacles. It marks a period of significant growth and change: not just within the band, but also in the musicians' personal lives, the world of New York experimental/DIY music, national politics, and an increasingly globalized world. And it reveals a band carving paths into a new realm of experimentation, in terms of both songwriting and technical approach. 

How The Garden Grows is an intense, kinetic space where animosity is soothed by moments of beauty, and beauty is sharpened into a metallic spearpoint by animosity. "B61" opens the album with two minutes of spacious clattering atop a nauseous hum, the harmony of which becomes clear when Kardos-Fein's voice bubbles to the surface. His delivery starts out glassy and melodic only to boil over into a scream midway through the track, creating one of the most aggressive moments on an already aggressive offering. By the song's end, the mood is complete panic, with Kardos-Fein's guitar-controlled synthesizer evoking distorted alarms, as if to emphasize the apocalyptic imagery of his lyrics. Songs like "Besides" and "For A Moment" march with a similarly anxious momentum of double-timed rhythms and overdriven textures, but here they serve a more discernible pop framework, highlighting Yvette's acute sense of songcraft.

For all of its energy, the album concludes with eight minutes of beat-less atmosphere in the form of "Intermission," a reflective piece of inertia that serves to contrast the utter dismay that precedes it. It's the only track that Kardos-Fein performed by himself, a droning, improvisational piece he recorded when everyone else had left the room. One of the last things you hear, accidentally picked up by the mic as the instrumental drifts into oblivion, is the sound of his bandmate opening and closing the studio door, leaving Kardos-Fein to carry on as Yvette alone. It's a surprisingly prescient sonic farewell for an intensely unconventional album. The droning fades, and the listener is left feeling slightly uneasy, wondering what comes next.

1. B61
2. Contact High
3. Warm Up
4. Besides
5. For A Moment
6. Close Quarters
7. Smoke In Your Eyes
8. Best Intentions
9. Translucent
10. Intermission

Over the past decade, the harpist Brandee Younger has been at the center of music's celebrated work, even if you didn't know she was there. Be it her output with the soul singer John Legend or the rapper Common, she's always put her stamp on the music in question, all while setting a new course for what classical music can entail. But with her major-label debut, Somewhere Different, she's pushing her artistry to the foreground. By her own admission, Younger would've stepped back in years past to let others shine; the harp would've been mixed behind layers of woodwind instruments. Now she's putting her instrument first.

"It was important for me to thrust the harp forward in a non-traditional setting," Younger says of her new album. "I made a conscious effort to make sure that the harp was a bit more present in this recording. It's important for the instrument." Indeed, the first sound heard on Somewhere Different is the harp, a gorgeous, tone-setting solo that ushers in "Love & Struggle," the album's meditative opener. It also sets the mission for the music that follows: Younger has spent her career breaking down the barriers between classical music and contemporary forms of R&B, hip-hop, and funk. This album synthesizes her work while forging new ground. "I started recording music that wasn't common on harp in 2006," she says. This is my way of combining all the worlds I have into one. This is me doing my own thing completely."

Listeners will hear this creative freedom throughout the LP, from the introspective tenor of "Olivia Benson," "Beautiful Is Black" and "Pretend," featuring Tarriona "Tank" Ball of the breakout New Orleans band Tank and the Bangas, to the vibrant rock and bounce-infused sounds of "Reclamation" and the title track, respectively. In that way, Younger pays homage to the pioneering harpists Alice Coltrane and Dorothy Ashby, both of whom merged the instrument with jazz, funk and soul at a time when such ingenuity wasn't commonplace. Somewhere Different is not only the realization of Younger's musical journey, it channels the spirit of a deserving performer whose life merits deeper examination. 

1. Love & Struggle
2. Olivia Benson
3. Beautiful Is Black
4. Pretend
5. Reclamation
6. Somewhere Different
7. Spirit U Will
8. Tickled Pink

Vinyl LP pressing. Damon Locks & Black Monument Ensemble's previous album, their 2018 debut Where Future Unfolds, had a best new music in Pitchfork, was a Top 50 Album of the Year in Wire Magazine, and was BBC DJ Gilles Peterson's unequivocal Favorite Album of the Year. NOW is the band's much anticipated follow-up, which carries on their unique brand of Choir-fronted Hip-Hop-meets-Gospel/Jazz Liberation Music ' very much a modern day echo of the Harlem Freedom Singers and/or Eddie Gale's Black Rhythm Happening. This new one is a bit heavier on the beats and drum machines, sounding almost like Public Enemy/Bomb Squad working with ESG. Clarinetist Angel Bat Dawid and cornet player Ben LaMar Gay are heavily featured on this album.

Tracks

1. Now (Forever Momentary Space)
2. The People vs The Rest of Us
3. Keep Your Mind Free
4. Barbara Jones-Hogu and Elizabeth Catlett Discuss Liberation
5. Movement And You
6. The Body Is Electric

Limited vinyl LP repressing of this classic Jazz release. This album is a Blue Note essential and is part of the Blue Note 75 anniversary LP reissue campaign. At the Half Note Cafe is a live album by American trumpeter Donald Byrd recorded in 1960 at the Half Note in Manhattan and released on the Blue Note label originally as two single LP issues. Trumpeter Byrd is joined on this recording by Pepper Adams, Duke Pearson, Laymon Jackson and Lex Humphries. This first volume includes "Intro/My Girl Shirl', "Soulful Kiddy", "A Portrait Of Jennie", "Cecile", " and "Theme: Pure D. Funk".

Vinyl LP pressing. 2010 release from the Punk Rock survivors. Bad Religion are celebrating three decades of influential, thought provoking and groundbreaking Punk Rock with the Dissent of Man, their 15th studio album overall. The result is one of the band's most forward thinking and musically varied albums ever.

• Tracks
• Credits

Split in two volumes, here is the sum of James Brown's early five-year period 1956-1960, when JB (and his Famous Flames) was obsessively searching for his own sound. Selected from a bunch of 19 two-sided singles, and including super hits such as "Please, Please, Please", "Try Me", and "I'll Go Crazy", this collection represents James Brown's fundamental groundwork for the coming soul music revolution.

A great collection of Stevie Wonder's early '60s work. When as a Tamla's young prodigy named Little Stevie, still under the influence of Ray Charles, he began hitting the charts, proving his genius with songs like "Contract on Love", "Fingertips - Pt 2", and "Work Out Stevie, Work Out".

Ska-punk pioneers The Mighty Mighty BossToneS deliver their eleventh studio record When God Was Great. Co-produced by longtime collaborator Ted Hutt (The Gaslight Anthem, Dropkick Murphys) and Rancid frontman Tim Armstrong (Transplants, Jimmy Cliff), When God Was Great is the culmination of their extensive and all-embracing career and sees the band bringing back friends, tourmates, and bandmates from the past for a sonic celebration that stresses the power of perseverance and human connection during tumultuous times. The album features 15-tracks that initially arose out of a collective sense of loss.

"We were lightly writing songs before the insanity without any sort of timeline in mind. All of a sudden, the world changed and benchmark events in a very long career that we were looking forward to, such as playing with the Madness at the Greek Theatre, were taken away from us," explains frontman Dicky Barrett. "With all of this time on our hands, we started writing at a quickened pace and we were really inspired. As grim as everything around us was in the outside world, this was the most fun we ever had making a record."

LP1

1. Decide
2. Move
3. I Don't Believe In Anything
4. Certain Things
5. Bruised
6. Lonely Boy
7. The Killing of Georgie (Part III)
8. You Had To Be There
9. When God Was Great

LP2

1. What It Takes
2. Long As I Can See the Light
3. The Truth Hurts
4. It Went Well
5. I Don't Want To Be You
6. The Final Parade

How do you best describe Angel Olsen? From the lo-fi, sparse folk-melancholy of her 2010 EP, Strange Cacti, to the electrified, polished rock 'n' roll bursting from 2016's beloved and acclaimed My Woman, Olsen has refused to succumb to a single genre, expectation, or vision. Impossible to pin down, Olsen navigates the world with her remarkable, symphonic voice and a propensity for narrative, her music growing into whatever shape best fits to tell the story.

Phases is a collection of Olsen's work culled from the past several years, including a number of never-before-released tracks. "Fly On Your Wall," previously contributed to the Bandcamp-only, anti-Trump fundraiser Our First 100 Days, opens Phases, before seamlessly slipping into "Special," a brand new song from the My Woman recording sessions. Both "How Many Disasters" and "Sans" are first-time listens: home-recorded demos that have never been released, leaning heavily on Olsen's arresting croon and lonesome guitar.

The B-sides compilation is both a testament to Olsen's enormous musical range and a tidy compilation of tracks that have previously been elusive in one way or another. Balancing tenacity and tenderness, Phases acts as a deep-dive for longtime fans, as well as a fitting introduction to Olsen's sprawling sonics for the uninitiated.

1. Fly On Your Wall
2. Special
3. Only You
4. All Right Now
5. Sans
6. Sweet Dreams
7. California
8. Tougher Than the Rest
9. For You
10. How Many Disasters
11. May as Well
12. Endless Road

2021 Vinyl LP Reissue Newly Remastered at Abbey Road Studios!

Twenty years on from the release of their 2001 self-titled debut album, The National are reissuing it along with 2003's follow-up Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers and 2004's Cherry Tree EP. With all three records having been remastered at Abbey Road Studios, the 2021 represses stay faithful to their original artwork while their stunning new masters help make these much-loved records sound as vital as ever, further emphasizing the early signs of the sound that would go on to make them one of the finest and most beloved alternative bands of their generation.

Released a year before The National broke through with their third album Alligator, the Cherry Tree EP is a thrilling record which - thanks to its collection of delicate ballads and anthemic crowd-pleasers - sums up what they do best in under 30 minutes. Now a firm fan-favorite, among Cherry Tree's seven tracks are now National classics "About Today" and "All The Wine," plus a thrilling live version of "Murder Me Rachael" that reminds of the band's fearsome early live performances.

Cherry Tree can be seen as the record that marks the moment when The National had truly found themselves, a bridge from what went before to a band ready to conquer the world. And with this new master, it's never sounded better!

1. Wasp Nest
2. All The Wine
3. All Dolled-Up In Straps
4. Cherry Tree
5. About Today
6. Murder Me Rachael (Live)
7. Reasonable Man (I Don't Mind)