• 1967 Impulse Records Funk Soul Masterpiece• Cut from the original analog master tapes by Kevin Gray• All Analog Process (AAA)• High Quality Vinyl Release• Original Gatefold Design The 1967 Impulse Records legendary Funk Soul Instrumental masterpiece album Chicken Fat. If you haven’t heard Chicken Fat yet, get ready because the LP won’t leave your…
Melanie Martinez s After School EP is another thoroughly demented collection of pop songs from the genre s most original voice. Apart from being exceptionally good, the 7-song set is also notable because it finds the 25-year-old side-stepping Cry Baby – the usual lens through which she creates. Instead, this is 100 percent undiluted Melanie Martinez. Everything is based…
Melanie Martinez s sophomore album, K-12, is another ambitious triumph for the artist. As with her debut album Cry Baby, K-12 s music is a vibrant and singular melting pot of low-key hip-hop, soulful pop and indie-leaning electro. K-12 s universe is an expansion of the one introduced in Cry Baby. Using lyrics rich with…
Presenting 3+5, the long-awaited eighth album from Tokyo-based noise-rockers Melt-Banana on their own A-Zap label! The album showcases the duo s visionary musical approach and extraordinary abilities as performers: Yasuko Onuki s giddy, hyperactive vocalizing and Ichiro Agata s glitchy, cyberpunk guitar, delivered at dizzying speed, bathed in aggressive electronic sounds. Their aesthetic approach is…
Vinyl LP pressing. 2024 release. Six brand new songs! The best part about a new Melvins album is that you re never quite sure what you re going to get. – That s the genius of these guys! With Bad Mood Rising it s a tuned down rock and roll nightmare. – BIG riffs and…
Originally released as a 10-inch in 1991, Eggnog is a wild ride into the outer limits of Melvins-dom. The first side cuts loose with three quick blasts. “Wispy” has the Lorax (Lori Temple Black) on bass and Dale Crover on drums, pounding one note in unison while Buzz Osborne bellows and whispers and turns his…
Signed to Atlantic Records in the hubbub after Nirvana’s Nevermind exploded, the Melvins’ fifth album “Houdini” was a conscious attempt by the band to make a record that wouldn’t alienate their fans but that the band members themselves would also enjoy. Their best-selling release by a country-mile, this album crested at number 29 on on the Billboard…
In 1992 the Melvins fascination adoration denigration of the mighty KISS rock and roll universe compelled them to excrete out three solo masterworks inspired by the KISS solo LPs. The first in the series is King Buzzo, from the Melvins giggling guitar grumpus. Four songs of atmospheric clanging and rockin banging. Also features the many…
Lice-All, from 1992, previously known as self-titled, and also previously known as something else we’re all not gonna talk about, thank you very much. This was the Melvins last release before signing their Atlantic deal, and features the introduction of new bass player Joe Preston (previously of Earth, currently of Thrones). It’s one long, slow,…
The final album in the Melvins major label span, Stag finds the band fully spreading their wings (and budget) to create what is arguably their most wide-ranging and diverse album among the nearly two-dozen full-length studio albums the band has released since 1987. For the first time on vinyl since 1996, the album now comfortably…
THE Melvins will release a new album, Tarantula Heart , via Ipecac Recordings. The LP is quite possibly the band s most unconventional, catchiest and imaginative work yet, continuing a legacy celebrated for it s eccentric and extraordinary output. The majority of Tarantula Heart has dual drum parts, adds longtime Melvins drummer Dale Crover. Roy…
Vinyl LP pressing includes digital download. For their fifth full-length After the Party, The Menzingers set out to make the quintessential jukebox record: an unstoppably melodic album primed for bar-room sing-alongs. Delivering anthemic harmonies, furious power chords, and larger-than-life melodies, the Philadelphia-based garage-punk four-piece amply fulfills that mission while achieving something much more deeply nuanced….
Strawberry Shortcake Splash LP (Indie Exclusive). The Menzingers are an absolute institution. The Philadelphia punk legends multi-decade reputation as road warriors with an unbeatable catalog is cemented as hard truth-and their seventh album, Some Of It Was True, stands as their most immediate-sounding and energetic record to date. The follow-up to 2019 s sensational Hello…
Mermaid Chunky. It’s all in a name, sometimes. The danceable, costumed, curiosity rich duo of artists Freya Tate and Moina Moin are as imaginative as they profess. Or, to get more to the point, as we all need them to be. Freya and Moina are two visual artists and musicians from Stroud and South London,…