Encore Records

The Shins

Port Of Morrow

The Shins’ first studio album in five years is the first to be released through James Mercer’s own Aural Apothecary label, and features an all new backing band that includes fellow songwriters Jessica Dobson and Richard Swift, Modest Mouse drummer Joe Plummer, and Yuuki Matthews from the Crystal Skulls.

VCMG

Ssss

VCMG is the collaboration between two British electronic pioneers, Martin Gore (Depeche Mode) and Vince Clark (Yazoo, Erasure).

Concentrating on their love of electronic music, the pair create the ten-track album Ssss, which crackles with rhythmic and Teutonic fusion - perfect dancefloor sounds for the early-hours.

The Decemberists

We All Raise Our Voices to the Air

2012 two CD live release from the acclaimed Alt-Rock/Folk outfit culled from the band’s 2011 tour supporting their chart-topping, Grammy-nominated album The King Is Dead.

With songs spanning their entire first decade as a band—from their debut EP 5 Songs through each of their six LP’s—We All Raise Our Voices To The Air is the first-ever live album from a band that has grown into one of rock’s most thrilling live acts.

Tindersticks

The Something Rain

The Something Rain brims and bristles with canny narrative thrust.

Slinky, supple compositions are spiked with plenty of barbed edges and sparkling fizz.

Right out the gate, album opener “Chocolate” features David Boulter’s sequel to the spoken-word classic “My Sister” from Tindersticks’ 1995 eponymous release. Boulter narrates the story while the band works up a brilliant, brewing crescendo, abetted by the swirling horns of long-time collaborator Terry Edwards.

This is indeed a new Tindersticks classic edgier, more exuberant and more expansive.

Bruce Springsteen

Wrecking Ball

Special Edition includes two bonus tracks: “Swallowed Up (In The Belly of the Whale)” and “American Land”.

Wrecking Ball features 11 new Springsteen recordings.

Said long-time manager Jon Landau, “Bruce has dug down as deep as he can to come up with this vision of modern life. The lyrics tell a story you can’t hear anywhere else and the music is his most innovative of recent years. The writing is some of the best of his career and both veteran fans and those who are new to Bruce will find much to love on Wrecking Ball.”

TRUST

trst

Tales of lust, wax, and erotomania carry along on a dense black vapor of speed, space and tears.  Trust is Robert Alfons and Maya Postepski (Austra).

dirty three

Toward the sun

The first studio album in seven years from this Alt-Rock/Folk trio led by Grinderman/Bad Seeds mainstay Warren Ellis. Toward The Low Sun is a true humdinger. Ellis is always sawing away at something on the violin that kind of tightens our chest and gives us that ol’ thousand-yard stare; Mick Turner wanders with hollow-bodied guitar from abstract and dreamy to punishing hard chord rock in the space of a breath, never sacrificing a sense of the awesome along the path; then there’s Jim White, who is doing something that no one else does back there. Plus, he’s drumming!

Andre williams

Hoods and Shades

Andre Williams teams with guitarists Dennis Coffey and Matt Smith and guests Jim White, Greasy Carlisi, Jim Diamond, and Don Was for a funky psychedelic-folk-rock-garage-R&B romp that prooves Williams has lost none of his swagger, drive, or style.,

plants and animals

the end of that

The band took a different, more relaxed approach with The End of That as opposed to their former sprawling, in-the-studio songwriting process; they decided to write and fully develop a large volume of material before setting the tape rolling and clock running. But whereas they spent more time than ever before preparing, they actually recorded and mixed The End of That faster than any other Plants and Animals record to-date. With their new songs fleshed out, the band returned to La Frette Studios, outside of Paris, and with the help and ear of engineer Lionel Darenne (Feist), wrapped up their sessions in two weeks. The end result is arguably Plants and Animals’ most live-off-the floor offering. That also makes The End of That their most intimate record.

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.