New Arrivals
BBC Radiophonic Workshop's BBC Radiophonic Workshop - A Retrospective (Book)
In BBC Radiophonic Workshop – A Retrospective, writer William L. Weir recounts how a small, overstretched BBC unit accidentally invented the sound of the future, tracing its tape‑loop alchemy from children’s shows to the DNA of electronica and ambient.
1970s Jazz Fusion (Book)
In 1970s Jazz Fusion, critic Matthew Reed Baker reassesses a once‑derided hybrid, showing how the electric experiments of Davis, Hancock, Corea, Mahavishnu and others reshaped jazz, rock, soul and hip‑hop from the 1970s to today.
20th Century Ambient (Book)
In 20th Century Ambient, writer Dusty Henry blends prose and comics to trace how ambient music quietly became one of the century’s most pervasive forms, from Satie and dub to Eno, Alice Coltrane and streaming‑era wellness soundscapes.
Minimalist Music (Book)
In Minimalist Music, critic George Jr. Grella treats minimalism less as a style than as a set of techniques, tracing how process, repetition and reduction have migrated across genres to become one of contemporary music’s most adaptable practices.
Neu Klang: The Definitive History of Krautrock (Book)
In Neu Klang, journalist Christoph Dallach assembles an oral history of krautrock, letting Can, Neu!, Kraftwerk and their peers explain how post‑war Germany’s experiments in noise, rhythm and repetition became a blueprint for modern rock and beyond.
The Sound of the Machine: My Life in Kraftwerk and Beyond (Book)
In The Sound of the Machine, former Kraftwerk member Karl Bartos offers a wry, detailed memoir of life inside and beyond Kling Klang, tracing how post‑war childhood, pop dreams and classroom work converged in some of electronic music’s most enduring songs.
Futuromania: Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines and Tomorrow's Music Today (Book)
In Futuromania, critic Simon Reynolds assembles essays and interviews into a time‑spanning narrative of machine music, tracing how electronic pop, from Moroder to Burial, has channelled science‑fiction fantasies and anxieties into new futures for sound.
Ukrainian Field Notes: Sound, Music And Voices From Ukraine After The Full-Scale Invasion (Book)
In Ukrainian Field Notes, Gianmarco Del Re uses more than 300 interviews to trace how war reshapes listening, following Ukrainian musicians as they compose amid sirens, shelters and displacement while forging new local and diasporic sonic communities.
Volcanic Tongue: A Time-Travelling Evangelist's Guide to Late 20th-Century Underground Music (Book)
In Volcanic Tongue, David Keenan gathers decades of visionary criticism, charting late‑20th‑century underground sound through ecstatic essays, interviews and close‑listening dispatches that treat marginal scenes as the true engines of musical modernity.
La Cuccagna
On La cuccagna, Ennio Morricone sketches early‑60s Italian life in miniature: light, bittersweet themes, small‑combo colours and gently ironic swings that mirror a young woman’s fragile hopes inside a consumerist daydream starting to fray.
La ragazza e il Generale
In La ragazza e il generale, Ennio Morricone threads anti‑war irony through bittersweet melodies and marching figures, mixing folk‑tinged themes, choral snatches and tense orchestration into a score where tenderness and absurdity share the same battlefield.
Danger: Diabolik
On Danger: Diabolik, Ennio Morricone weaponises pop, jazz and electronics into a hyper‑stylised heist engine: fuzz guitars, wordless vocals and mod orchestration turning Mario Bava’s comic‑book caper into a delirious, late‑60s sonic hallucination.
Thrilling
In Thrilling, Ennio Morricone’s widescreen sense of drama condenses into a tightly wound suite of themes: tense strings, ghostly choirs and razor‑edged rhythm figures that turn suspense into something almost voluptuously atmospheric.
Cosmic Music: The Life, Art and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane (Book)
In Cosmic Music, Andy Beta traces Alice Coltrane’s journey from Detroit church pews to avant‑garde bandstands and ashram altars, revealing a visionary composer, bandleader and spiritual teacher whose work radically reshaped the possibilities of Black American music.
They Came Like Swallows - Seven Requiems for the Children of Gaza
On They Came Like Swallows – Seven Requiems for the Children of Gaza, Bonner Kramer and Thurston Moore channel decades of noise, songcraft and studio sorcery into seven slow‑burning laments, where volcanic drones, grief‑stricken melody and a haunted Joy Division cover fuse into a stark act of sonic mourning and resistance.
Bar & Dem &
On Bar & Dem &, Vincent Barras and Jacques Demierre extend their BarDem duo outward: multilingual, spatialized voice pieces refracted through choirs, composers, poets and sound artists who treat language itself as malleable, resonant matter.
Release Of An Oath
Originally released in 1968 on Reprise Records, Release Of An Oath is the fourth studio album by The Electric Prunes and a radical departure from their earlier garage-psychedelic sound. The album was fully composed and arranged by David Axelrod, drawing inspiration from liturgical music and classical structures, most notably Johann Sebastian Bach’s Mass in F Minor.
Although credited to The Electric Prunes, the record largely features session musicians under Axelrod’s direction, with only drummer…
Dirty Water
Released in June 1966, Dirty Water stands as the definitive album by The Standells. Recorded during a two-day break from touring, the LP blends garage rock, attitude, and raw energy, powered by the iconic title track — a Top 10 hit and one of the band’s signature moments. A longtime cult favorite, it remains one of the strongest garage-rock statements of the 1960s.
Part One
Released in 1967 on Reprise Records, Part One is the second album by The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band and is widely regarded as their strongest and most cohesive work. Blending psychedelic pop, experimental rock, and surreal songwriting, the album features compositions by Frank Zappa, P.F. Sloan, Baker Knight, and Van Dyke Parks. More song-oriented than their debut yet still wildly unpredictable, Part One captures the strange, fractured beauty of Los Angeles psychedelia at its peak.
Istikhbars and Improvisations
On Istikhbars And Improvisations, Mustapha Skandrani turns solo piano into a bridge across the Mediterranean, translating Arabo‑Andalusian vocal modes into crystalline keyboard meditations that move like a modal Goldberg from Algiers to Paris and back.