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.

Lambchop

Mr M

It’s been nearly two decades since LAMBCHOP released its first album, at the time pronouncing itself “Nashville’s most fucked-up country band”.

Provocative it may have been, but the description made sense: at the heart of all that ruckus was a band at once defying and embracing the musical legacy of its hometown.

Since then, Lambchop has evolved into an accomplished ensemble, adding palpable depth and substance to singer-songwriter-guitarist Kurt Wagner’s songs - and the band sounds as commanding as ever on its 11th album, ‘Mr. M’, a collection of meditations on love and loss and the detritus of everyday existence.

The double vinyl edition is limited and includes 4 bonus tracks.

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.

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.

John K. Samson

Provincial

Debut solo album from the Weakerthans main main. Provincial began with a simple idea: to explore four different roads in Manitoba.  “They’re the places I kept going back to. ” Samson talked to relatives, friends and strangers; he visited archives, a tuberculosis sanatorium turned RV park, a forgotten cemetery. The result is this collection of evocative songs, an album that fits beside Bruce Springsteen s Nebraska, Sun Kil Moon s Ghosts Of The Great Highway, Mountain Goats Tallahassee. While the teenage craving of “Cruise Night” recalls the Cars, “Stop Error” invokes Bach; for “When I Write my Master s Thesis, ” Samson s inspiration was all jukebox serendipity Bob Dylan s “When I Paint My Masterpiece, ” sailing out from the corner of a Yukon dive bar. Provincial is a record full of fierce, tuneful, vivid stories.

Motorhead

Motorhead Vol. 1-world is ours

In celebration of their 35 years on the road, Motörhead are proud to present The Wörld Is Ours Vol. 1: Everywhere Further Than Everyplace Else, a blistering DVD containing live footage, interviews and some of the finest moments from the band’s 2011 world tour. The DVD is a pure testament to the power, glory and sheer voltage of the finest Rock ‘n’ Roll played by real legends. Accept NO substitute!
2CD+DVD, BLU RAY, and 2XLP versions available.

Ani Difranco

Which Side Are You On ??

Which Side Are You On? features 11self-penned songs alongside a radically reworked rendition of the classic title song, famously popularized by Pete Seeger nearly five decades ago, but no less relevant today.

Backing DiFranco on this collection is a remarkably diverse line-up of stellar musicians, including members of her own touring band as well as guest players Ivan and Cyril Neville (of New Orleans’ first family of Funk and R&B, The Neville Brothers), avant-saxophonist Skerik (Pearl Jam, R.E.M., Bonnie Raitt, The Meters), acclaimed singer/songwriter Anaïs Mitchell, guitarist Adam Levy (Norah Jones, Tracy Chapman, Amos Lee), and a host of New Orleans-based horn players known for their work in such outfits as Galactic, Bonerama, and The Rebirth Brass Band.

Guided By Voices

Let’s Go Eat The Factory

2012 reunion album from the Indie Rock pioneers, the first album in 15 years from the classic lineup (Robert Pollard, Tobin Sprout, Mitch Mitchell, Greg Demos and Kevin Fennell).

The Black Keys

El Camino

With the hard-rocking El Camino, guitarist-singer Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney conjure up an exhilarating, stadium-sized sound in collaboration with producer and friend Danger Mouse.

El Camino boasts a no-nonsense brilliance: The pace is fast, the mood is upbeat, the choruses unfailingly addictive made for shouting along, preferably in a large, sweaty crowd. A band already at the top of its game has gotten even better.