Experimental / Art-Rock

** Remastered from the Original Tapes. Deluxe Edition Reissue Sanctioned by John Cale Himself. Includes Previously Unreleased Outtakes & a Brand-New Recording** John Cale was never very kind to his solo debut, Vintage Violence. When it was released in early 1970, Cale had been out of The Velvet Underground for less than two years. He wanted to prove he could be the songwriter, the person penning the words and melodies behind which a band could work. “I was masked on Vintage Violence,” he wrote m…

*300 copies limited edition* "After Klanggalerie coaxed a sleeping dog out of the hut with "Extra Weapons / Double Dog Dare, Summer '84" by The Lo Yo Yo, ADN throws me the next sweet bone with the re-release of Look de Bouk's avec des coussins bleus (AD9 012, LP). Look De Bouk were even split partners with Alig Pearce, Mick Hobbs, Joey Stack & Caroline Brooks on AYAA's "Double Dog Dare" cassette and were also linked together again on the "Bad Alchemy Nr 17" live @ AKW compilation. Here slinging …

Italian Surf Academy, led by guitarist Marco Cappelli, reworks the 1968 film soundtrack of Barbarella by Bob Crewe and Charles Fox, recorded in Paris in 2013, post-produced by JD Foster and mastered by Brian Brandt and Paul Howells.

Lindsay Cooper's song cycle on texts by Sally Potter, about the divided Europe of the Cold War, live at Victoriaville in October 1989 with Phil Minton, Hugh Hopper, Marilyn Mazur, Alfred Harth and Elvira Plenar.

Nico's second solo album, 1968's 'The Marble Index', has long been out of print. This reissue includes audio mastered from the original tapes and previously unreleased photos of Nico by Guy Webster. Nico's haunting vocals predicted the Gothic movement and co-producer and Velvet Underground's band mate John Cale's startingly modern classical production ensured 'The Marble Index's timeless appeal. The iconic music journalist Lester Bangs wrote, “The Marble Index is the greatest piece of 'avant-gar…

The twenty-eighth Durutti Column album and the first in sixteen years, produced by Keir Stewart: Vini Reilly's guitar among warm ambient washes, piano and quiet beats, with guest vocals from Caoilfhionn Rose. Deluxe gatefold on transparent bottle green vinyl.

*200 copies limited edition* "“L’inversion des pôles” holds two tracks, “Anaphores” on the A side and “Syncopes” on the B side, both composed by Comelade and Saintlos. Comelade plays grand piano, vertical piano, Farfisa organ, an Emenee plastic guitar and a Roland RD 300 SX keyboard, with “Syncopes” adding an EMS-AKS synthesizer and a Koma Elektronik FT201. Saintlos contributes a Korg MS10, an Arturia MiniBrute, a Nord Lead X2, a Yamaha RX11 drum machine, an ARP Odyssey and a Poly D clone Minimo…

"From its word-playful title (Deceit / This Heat – say it aloud and twist your tongue) to the lyrics densely written on the back cover, This Heat's second album from 1981 is much more verbally direct than their largely instrumental 1979 debut. The group had things on their minds and statements they wanted to make. "'The first album was about the Dread, but dread not really understood yet,' says Charles Hayward. 'With the second album, we were starting to understand what made us afraid. The whole…

*2026 stock. 150 copies limited edition* Sing-A-Beast is the debut solo album of Mariella Modonese following numerous collaborations with various exponents of the Italian research scene. The album contains 10 tracks conceptualized, composed and performed by Miriam and produced by her son Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo (Larsen, ( r ), Blind Cave Salamander,...) portraits of different animals organized into a sort of bizarre bestiary containing short spurts and long elaborate musical suites as well as …

Free-psych freak-out unreleased before 1999 album from the cult Argentine rockers Reynols!

Debut solo album for Alternative Tv frontman and long-time running Uk punk scenester, originally released in 1980 on Deptford Fun City Records. Mark Perry was also the man behind the iconic Sniffin' Glue zine, founded in July 1976. The album was produced by Grant Showbiz, principally known for his work with The Fall, The Smiths and Billy Bragg, and it is literally an art-rock nugget. Sort of an autobiographical work, the record is full of twisted hooks, showing the dark side of post-punk. Less h…

Experimental DIY synth krautrock noise, polyrhythmic contemporary post-punk from France.

*2026 stock* The acclaimed album Exposure by Robert Fripp returns in a newly curated box set edition, bringing together definitive recordings and special presentation designed to deepen every moment of the listening journey. Built for collectors and audiophiles, Exposure is more than a release: it’s an immersive document of craft, sound, and atmosphere—now experienced in a format worthy of its legacy. "Exposures" is a 32-disc box set that examines the period of Robert Fripp's career from 1977 to…

2024 repress. "Daydream Nation was Sonic Youth's sixth full-length, their first double-LP, and their last for an indie label before signing with Geffen. Widely considered to be their watershed moment, the album catapulted them into the mainstream and proved that indie bands could enjoy wide commercial success without compromising their artistic vision. More recently, Daydream Nation has been recognized as a classic of its time: Pitchfork ranked it #1 on their '100 Greatest Albums of the 1980s'; …

Tip! The Durutti Column are proud to revisit “Vini Reilly”, a release originally issued in 1989—a heartfelt homage to the legendary sound and creative imagination of Vini Reilly. The record distills atmosphere, elegance, and emotional clarity into music that feels both timeless and deeply personal. Across “Vini Reilly,” the album captures the essence of Vini’s distinctive musical language: shimmering guitar textures, luminous melodic shapes, and a sense of space that invites the listener to slow…

On Spirit Of Eden, Talk Talk dissolve the idea of a “band” into a hushed, slow‑burning soundscape, six long pieces where jazz, blues, chamber music, and near‑silence fuse into something that feels less like an album and more like a single, ritual act of listening.

You Smile — The Song Is Over is Cheer-Accident’s 27th full-length release, out on the most-singular/most-still-standing Cuneiform label. It is an ambitious little monster, with lots of density and lots of sprawl, and it’s the perfect catalyst to force you out of your idiotic, culturally imposed ADD stupor. You Smile is, by turns, both meditative and adventurous, and we don’t see why you would want to leave your couch and/or headphones for a very long time. Our last couple releases could very wel…

*Limited edition of 500 copies.* In 1972, the left-wing intellectual film critic Uwe Nettelbeck suggested to Anthony Moore that he should write some (relatively speaking) straight songs. He took up the challenge, inviting his old school friend Peter Blegvad over to Hamburg to form the band Slapp Happy. They were joined for a session in Wümme by the young singer Dagmar Krause and Faust as their rhythm section; the recording became the album Sort Of. After getting the band back together for reunio…

"This album is composed entirely of live recordings: no overdubs, no gimmicks. Annie Barbazza and John Greaves tour throughout Italy and Europe with a constantly evolving tracklist, usually decided at the last minute before going on stage. This album collects some of the songs, mostly written by John, that form the core of their shows. Sometimes they perform parts of Annie's repertoire, such as "Moonchild" or "Epitaph" by Greg Lake while performing at the Rock In Opposition Festival in Lyon in M…

On Obscure Residue, Dimples - the bicoastal duo of Greg Hartunian and Colby Nathan - sharpen fifteen years of friendship into bittersweet, uptempo pop where orchestral arrangements lift codeine‑dream melodies while lyrics circle time, scars and the quiet truth that some currents just turn you around.

On Romancing The Music, Hip-See-Kid reanimates Japanese New Wave as a jittery, neon‑lit fever dream: punk‑funk basslines, soul‑scarred melodies and splashy jazz inflections squeezed into a compact mini‑LP that feels like a lost 80s club classic beamed into the present.

First 12-inch edition of Chance Operation's Spare Beauty, originally a double 7-inch on Jeep Records in 1982. A dense four-track EP of hypnotic, infectious, sax-driven Japanese post-punk by the Higo Hiroshi-led project, finally laid out in the format the music has always demanded.

First-ever reissue of Chance Operation's self-titled 1981 debut 12-inch on Jeep Records. A foundational document of Japanese avant-funk and post-punk that captures the Higo Hiroshi-led project at the moment of its formation.

The second part of Matador’s reissues of the essential early records by Texas’s Butthole Surfers continues with three of their most insane slabs -- 1985’s ‘Cream Corn from the Socket of Davis,’ 1987’s ‘Locust Abortion Technician’ and 1988’s ‘Hairway to Steven.’ The period during which these records were first issued parallels the Buttholes’ transition from being weirdo Texas outcasts to becoming internationally recognized smut-kings of the American underground. In 1985 they were still the sole p…

Often dark, sometimes repetitive or experimental, sometimes rhythmical and exotic, always based on emotion inducted by the Sound. One could define it as dark age music (as opposite to new age music), a sort of minimal come back to the roots and purity of acoustic sound without the cultural background linked to the 'academic' use of some instruments (for example African senzas are transformed and tuned to sound like Indonesian instruments, sitar or harmonium are used as rhythmical instruments, va…

*300 copies limited edition* "Dis qu’t’as tort" is the latest venture from Tagubu (Denis Tagu, formerly of Hellebore, Look De Bouk, and Toupidek Limonade), realised in collaboration with Klimperei (Christophe Petchanatz, known for his work with Pierre Bastien, David Fenech, and Palo Alto, among others). The album represents a creative response to the increasing prevalence of autocracies and dictatorships across the globe, reflecting a world that is not simply changing, but rather derailing. The …

** 2026 stock ** One of the lost gems of the 90s, Talk Talk's final album 'Laughing Stock' has gathered momentum in the hushed tones of music fans' conversations since it's release. At long last it has secured a reissue. The record took a year to make yet has required decades to fully appreciate. following up on the abstract 'Spirit of Eden', which sufficiently alienated pop fans of the band's earlier material, 'Laughing Stock' took spaces in recorded music to new extremes, with layers of silenc…

Why did so many of the world’s most forward-thinking musicians gravitate toward Conny Plank’s studio at that time? Released in 1981, Phew was recorded at the legendary Conny’s Studio—home to seminal works by Kraftwerk, Neu!, D.A.F., and Brian Eno—featuring Phew, formerly of Aunt Sally. The album brings together Can members Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit, whose contributions, combined with Plank’s masterful engineering and Czukay’s innovative editing techniques, result in a strikingly original …

Reconstruction of The Velvet Underground's Fabled Lost 1969 album, available on vinyl for the first time with bonus tracks. To honour The Velvet Underground's 50th anniversary, Grammy-winning producer Bill Levenson has lovingly recreated the band's much-mythologized lost album, 1969. Nearly fifty years later, much remains unclear about these mysterious recordings. While there's been reports that the album was intended to be the band's fourth record only to be rejected by MGM, it's also possible …

Hits Are for Squares is the first greatest hits album by American rock band Sonic Youth, released on June 10, 2008, by Starbucks Entertainment. The album features 15 songs spanning Sonic Youth's career since the release of their debut studio album in 1983, Confusion Is Sex. It also includes one new song: "Slow Revolution". The band intended to create a compilation album that appealed to the casual consumer. Hits Are for Squares received acclaim from critics, who noted it as a strong introduction…

The Dictaphone is the solo project of Jérémie Morin. back after 3 years of recording hiatus, the French DIY synth artist delivers another fine album of electronic drone and abstraction.

** 2 CDs In A Dvd Case With A Thick 68p Book ** Rer Megacorp presents Miniatures 2020: A 40th Anniversary Tribute To Morgan Fisher's First Collection Of Tiny Masterpieces. This is the third in a noble series: the first was Morgan Fisher's now legendary 1980 classic, then in 2000 his expanded volume two; now - another twenty years on - Volume three, an even further extended homage to Morgan's minimal but cornucopian concept, which was simplicity itself: invite a selected body of artists to make a…

**17 CDs, 1 DVD and 250 pages of histories, chronology, testimony and commentaries by the band, sundry contemporary documents, and rare photographs – in a sturdy box.** This collection brings together in an inexpensive and definitive edition the full contents of all earlier releases, with the addition of a further 60pp booklet of newly unearthed, or commissioned, band commentaries, pictures and other documents prepared specifically for this box - as well as re-mastered versions of all the studio…

2026 stock In A Different Climate is the second and final studio album by the American rock band Mallard, released in 1976 on Virgin Records. Formed by ex-Captain Beefheart Magic Band members Bill Harkleroad (guitar), Mark Boston (bass), along with vocalist Sam Galpin, keyboardist John Thomas, and drummer George Dragotta, the band leaned into a progressive country-rock sound with swampy blues elements. Recorded in Wales and produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange, it features Harkleroad's signature…

Unofficial 1984 Italian LP with a recording of the live show at Loughborough University Students' Union, December 8, 1983.

Original Italian edition of the 1978 debut album by pop/punk's finest, on Virgin.

1986 re-issue on 4AD of one of the most original and inimitable records produced by the new wave, originally released by the same label in 1980. Essential.

Rare original UK edition on Rough Trade of TH's second and final album from 1981, one of the highest achievements of that era and one of the absolute masterpieces of experimental new wave, produced by The Flying Lizards' David Cunningham. Insurmountably original and essential.

Original Italian 1978 edition on Harvest of one the greatest new wave and all-time art-rock albums by one of the most original and consistent bands ever. Inventive and beautiful songs throughout. Essential total masterpiece.

When you’re running a label, a demo occasionally comes across your desk that makes you reconsider everything you thought your label was all about. For Balmat, such was the case with this stunning album from Stephen Vitiello, Brendan Canty, and Hahn Rowe. It sounds like nothing we’ve released so far—and that very otherness opened up a whole new world of possibilities for us. Fans of ambient, experimental electronic music, and sound art will be familiar with Vitiello, a New York native, long based…