Encore Records

Arctic Monkeys

Suck It And See

2011 release, the fourth album from the British Alt-Rock band led by Alex Turner. Suck It & See features 12 new Arctic Monkeys songs and was produced by James Ford at Sound City Studios in Los Angeles.

Fucked Up

David Comes To Life

David Comes To Life is a Rock opera, an album set to a play. Though no less monumental, it is far more melodic than their break through The Chemistry Of Common Life. There are more female vocals, which work in perfect contrast to Damian Abraham’s highly effective wounded bull growl.

My Morning Jacket

Circuital

Although recorded after a brief hiatus, during which Carl Broemel released a solo album and Jim James co-formed Monsters of Folk, Circuital feels like a close cousin to Evil Urges and Z, retaining both albums’ eclectic pop sound while presenting a more concise track list than its predecessors.

The band worked on the album in Kentucky, turning a local church’s gymnasium into a makeshift studio and capturing the initial tracks live on 24-track tape.

Death Cab For Cutie

Codes and Keys

Codes and Keys still sounds like a Death Cab album, but the guys explore the benefits of the recording studio more than ever before, boosting Jason McGerr s drums with bits of programmed percussion and scaling back their guitar riffs to sparse, articulate clumps of notes that ring out into the ether.

Theres a new-found emphasis on open space, on electronics, on Kid A-inspired webs of feedback and distortion that are draped behind the songs like ambient backdrops. It’s not all machines and Eno-esque production.

Flogging Molly

Speed Of Darkness

Speed Of Darkness is their fifth, and arguably most important album.

In the words of lead singer and songwriter Dave King, “It wasn’t the album we set out to write. It became the album we had to write”. Speed Of Darkness was written in Detroit, MI and takes a hardnosed look at the economic collapse in the US: the causes and the direct effect it has had on everyday people.

Speed of Darkness features Flogging Molly’s own blend of Rock, Folk, Punk, Blues and traditional Irish music with King’s populist poetry.

Thurston Moore

Demolished Thoughts

The third solo album from the Sonic Youth main man. Demolished Thoughts was produced by Beck and features Mary Lattimore on harp, Samara Lubielski on violin, and Beck on various instruments.

Demolished Thoughts is an equally beautiful and brooding work.

While there are more than a few tonal similarities to some of your older favorite Moore compositions, the execution this time is nothing short of staggering.

Booker T Jones

The Road From Memphis

2011 album from the Memphis Soul legend.

Along for the ride are vocalists Matt Berninger of the National, Yim Yames of My Morning Jacket, Sharon Jones, Lou Reed, and Booker himself, telling the story of how the Funk/Soul sound that Booker helped invent spiraled out from Memphis, touching The Roots hometown of Philadelphia, New York and Detroit.

The Road from Memphis is classic Memphis Soul, and classic Booker in the tradition of “Green Onions”, but beyond that it is the story of a sound, and how Booker, working with the inheritors of his sound, is keeping a tradition alive.

Fleet Foxes

Helplessness Blues

Helplessness Blues is the anticipated follow-up to Fleet Foxes’ 2008 debut. Recorded and co-produced by fellow Seattleite Phil Ek, it expands the band’s baroque folk songs by focusing heavily on rhythm and groove, although Fleet Foxes’ signature harmonies are also on full display.

Queens of the Stone Age

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Finally back in print on cd and LP !!

Rory Gallagher

Irish Tour ‘74

For the first time the film has been lovingly restored and remastered from the original footage and is being released for the first time on Blu-ray.

There is a massive improvement in both sound and picture quality over the original DVD release and finally Gallagher fans can get to see the film as it was meant to be, capturing Rory, his music, the period and the place to perfection.