Encore Records

Archers Of Loaf

Vee Vee 2CD

Expanded reissue of ARCHERS OF LOAF’s second album, ‘Vee Vee’.

CD copies of ‘Vee Vee’  include 16 bonus tracks and new cover art re-imagined by graphic artist Jay Ryan.

The limited edition LP’s are pressed to green vinyl and include a coupon to download the entire album, plus the 16 bonus tracks.

Wire

Black Session: Paris 10 May 2011

Taken from a 2011 performance for the French radio show C’est Lenoir at Maison de Radio, this recording concentrates on pop-oriented material, mainly from 2010’s Red Barked Tree.

Flaming Lips

Flaming Lips Vinyl !

Newly reissued LP versions of Soft Bulletin, Clouds Taste Metallic, Yoshimi, Transmissions and Hit To Death !!

Islands

A Sleep and a Forgetting

Islands’ new album A Sleep & A Forgetting continues the band’s penchant for crafting adventuresome and infectious state of the art pop music.

But this time band leader Nick Thorburn has infused the songs with a personal introspection that gives the record a new and powerful emotional resonance. “This album is far more personal than any I’ve made before,” Thorburn explains. “I left New York after the end of a relationship and came to Los Angeles. There was a piano where I was staying and that’s where I wrote these songs. This record deals with loss, with memory and forgetting and with dreaming.

Bahamas

Barchords

The sophomore album from the musical pseudonym of Toronto-based singer/songwriter Afie Jurvanen.

Afie’s disarmingly forthright, captivatingly melodic songs have already earned him both a devoted fan base and a significant amount of critical acclaim on both sides of the border.

On Barchords, the determined, down-to-earth tunesmith delivers a beautifully bittersweet, infectiously uplifting set whose insightful lyrics, rousing melodies and raw, intimate performances exude an organic warmth and a timeless sense of universality.

Queen

The Works / A Kind Of Magic / Made In Heaven / Innuendo / Miracle

The final batch of 2 cd remasters are now in stock !!!

Van Halen

A Different Kind Of Truth

Van Halen’s first album since 1998 is a long-awaited reunion with David Lee Roth, who hasn’t recorded with the band since its classic 1984.

Here, the reunited Van Halen touch upon the past—reviving and reworking their old 1976 demo “She’s the Woman”—but look toward the future via new rockers like “Tattoo.”

The deluxe edition of A Different Kind of Truth contains a bonus DVD with acoustic versions of new songs and old tunes, including “Beautiful Girls” and “Panama.

Uncut / Mojo / The Wire / Classic Rock / The Word / Classic Rock Prog / Terrorizer

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February 2012 issues are in stock now !!

Of Montreal

Paralytic Stalks

Quirky, funky indie pop outfit Of Montreal offer their 11th full-length with Paralytic Stalks, finding band brainchild Kevin Barnes at his most personal since 2007 release Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?

Recorded in Athens, Georgia at Barnes’ home studio with engineer Drew Vanderberg (Deerhunter, Best Coast) and a crew of session musicians (a first in Of Montreal history), Barnes lays bare his emotions to ponder revenge, self-loathing, and relationship turmoil through an eclectic ‘60s pop, revivalist prog, and pseudo country-tinged lens.

Leonard Cohen

Old Ideas

2012 album from master singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen.

Here are 10 new songs that mine the heart, shake the body and break the boundaries as everybody knows only Leonard can do.

A signature of our time, Leonard’s baritone holds us like the voices of Hank, Frank and Ray. These are songs that nobody knows and everyone will treasure.

Complementing Cohen’s signature baritone on Old Ideas are the exceptional vocalists Dana Glover, Sharon Robinson, The Webb Sisters (Hattie and Charley Webb) and Jennifer Warnes. The album’s cover design and drawings are Cohen’s own.