The moment the needle drops on Bite, the new A Giant Dog record, one's conception of what an A Giant Dog record sounds like bends like space and time around a starship running at lightspeed. The ...

The moment the needle drops on Bite, the new A Giant Dog record, one's conception of what an A Giant Dog record sounds like bends like space and time around a starship running at lightspeed. The ...

The moment the needle drops on Bite, the new A Giant Dog record, one's conception of what an A Giant Dog record sounds like bends like space and time around a starship running at lightspeed. The ...

This summer, Merge will reissue A Giant Dog's first two full- lengths_2012's Fight and 2013's Bone _worldwide on limited- edition colored vinyl, reintroducing the world to the quintet Spoon's Britt ...

This summer, Merge will reissue A Giant Dog's first two full- lengths_2012's Fight and 2013's Bone _worldwide on limited- edition colored vinyl, reintroducing the world to the quintet Spoon's Britt ...

Forging their friendships in the crucible of their Houston, TX, high school, Sabrina Ellis (vocals), Andrew Cashen (vocals, guitar), and Orville Neeley (drums) first got their start covering AC/DC, ...

Forging their friendships in the crucible of their Houston, TX, high school, Sabrina Ellis (vocals), Andrew Cashen (vocals, guitar), and Orville Neeley (drums) first got their start covering AC/DC, ...

[GER] Toy ist das vierte Album von A GIANT DOG und die zweite Veröffentlichung über Merge Records. Die Band tourte ein Jahr lang bevor es ins Studio ging und das hat sich musikalisch bemerkbar ...

[GER] Toy ist das vierte Album von A GIANT DOG und die zweite Veröffentlichung über Merge Records. Die Band tourte ein Jahr lang bevor es ins Studio ging und das hat sich musikalisch bemerkbar ...

AMOR DE DIAS, the long-term collaboration between Alasdair MacLean (THE CLIENTELE) and Lupe Núñez-Fernández (PIPAS), release their sophomore album "The House at Sea" on Merge Records. While their ...

AMOR DE DIAS, the long-term collaboration between Alasdair MacLean (THE CLIENTELE) and Lupe Núñez-Fernández (PIPAS), release their sophomore album "The House at Sea" on Merge Records. While their ...

After the release of Apex Manor's 2011 album The Year of Magical Drinking - which critics declared "whipsaws between pure-pop jingle-jangle, lo-fi droning, and pensive acoustics, all of it as catchy ...

After the release of Apex Manor's 2011 album The Year of Magical Drinking - which critics declared "whipsaws between pure-pop jingle-jangle, lo-fi droning, and pensive acoustics, all of it as catchy ...

Originally released in 1996; refreshed here with reworked art by Ian Dingman & liner notes by Stephen Thompson (of NPR). LP is clear vinyl in gatefold jacket and full album download with 19 ...

The acclaimed 1993 debut album from Archers of Loaf, re-mastered by Bob Weston and featuring new liner notes by Robert Christgau, Icky Mettle comes with bonus material including the entire Archers ...

The acclaimed 1993 debut album from Archers of Loaf, re-mastered by Bob Weston and featuring new liner notes by Robert Christgau LP is black vinyl in gatefold jacket with foil detail and full album ...

As sculpted shards of guitar-tumbling, tolling, squalling-shower the jittery bounce of a piano on opener "Human," it's obvious that Reason in Decline, Archers of Loaf's first album in 24 years, will ...

As sculpted shards of guitar-tumbling, tolling, squalling-shower the jittery bounce of a piano on opener "Human," it's obvious that Reason in Decline, Archers of Loaf's first album in 24 years, will ...

As sculpted shards of guitar-tumbling, tolling, squalling-shower the jittery bounce of a piano on opener "Human," it's obvious that Reason in Decline, Archers of Loaf's first album in 24 years, will ...

Originally released in 1995; refreshed here with reworked cover art by Jay Ryan & liner notes by Eric Miller (of Magnet Magazine). LP is black vinyl in gatefold jacket and full album download with 16 ...

Originally released in 1995; refreshed here with reworked cover art by Jay Ryan & liner notes by Eric Miller (of Magnet Magazine). LP is black vinyl in gatefold jacket and full album download with 16 ...

Originally released in 1998; refreshed here with reworked art by Casey Burns & liner notes by Josh Modell. LP is white vinyl in gatefold jacket and full album download with 13 digital-only bonus ...

Originally released in 1998; refreshed here with reworked art by Casey Burns & liner notes by Josh Modell. LP is white vinyl in gatefold jacket and full album download with 13 digital-only bonus ...

There was something sinister about Crooked Fingers, both the name of the project and the music that Eric Bachmann wrote at the helm of its ever-shifting lineups over 15 years. He retired the moniker ...

There was something sinister about Crooked Fingers, both the name of the project and the music that Eric Bachmann wrote at the helm of its ever-shifting lineups over 15 years. He retired the moniker ...

To commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of Virginian salsa veterans Bio Ritmo, esteemed indie Merge is reissuing their debut 7" `Piragüero' which it originally released back in 1996. This ...

The March entry in the 25th anniversary reissue series of MERGE Records is "Bloomed", the 1994 debut album from RICHARD BUCKNER. The album will be remastered and released on CD and 180-gram vinyl. ...

The March entry in the 25th anniversary reissue series of MERGE Records is "Bloomed", the 1994 debut album from RICHARD BUCKNER. The album will be remastered and released on CD and 180-gram vinyl. ...

Dents and Shells is the first LP that Richard Buckner made for Merge Records, in 2004. By the time the album was recorded in Austin, TX and Tucson, AZ, with the help of Butthole Surfers' drummer King ...

The words are entrancingly cryptic, as if their simplicity conceals unfathomable depths. The music is sparse, almost whispered at times, like a secret. The title gives everything away, though. During ...

Incident: I packed up most of the familiar and brought in a few new sound dispensers and bearding effects with certain re-enactors in mind. Restraints suggested surrender, though, so I sent the ...

Incident: I packed up most of the familiar and brought in a few new sound dispensers and bearding effects with certain re-enactors in mind. Restraints suggested surrender, though, so I sent the ...

On the 100th anniversary of Edgar Lee Masters Spoon River Anthology, Merge is reissuing the epic it inspired: Richard Buckner's The Hill. The Hill started in 1996 in an old garage that had been ...

Friday Night is a live album of performances from Will Butler's tour supporting his first album Policy. It was recorded mostly at Lincoln Hall in Chicago on June 4, 2015. Five of the songs are from ...

Friday Night is a live album of performances from Will Butler's tour supporting his first album Policy. It was recorded mostly at Lincoln Hall in Chicago on June 4, 2015. Five of the songs are from ...

In the five years since Will Butler released his debut album, Policy, he's toured the world both solo and as a member of Arcade Fire, released the Friday Night live album, recorded and released ...

In the five years since Will Butler released his debut album, Policy, he's toured the world both solo and as a member of Arcade Fire, released the Friday Night live album, recorded and released ...

In the five years since Will Butler released his debut album, Policy, he's toured the world both solo and as a member of Arcade Fire, released the Friday Night live album, recorded and released ...

Will Butler has been a member of the band Arcade Fire for over 10 years. This is his first release under his own name. Policy is American music - in the tradition of the Violent Femmes, The ...

LP includes full album download coupon. Will Butler has been a member of the band Arcade Fire for over 10 years. This is his first release under his own name. Policy is American music - in the ...

Sara Dobbs and Jenny Shore used to work summer stock theater in St. Louis, Missouri. They'd do the hand jive with TV stars past and future; they'd get coldly corrected by the ancient, legendary ...

Sara Dobbs and Jenny Shore used to work summer stock theater in St. Louis, Missouri. They'd do the hand jive with TV stars past and future; they'd get coldly corrected by the ancient, legendary ...

Natural w/ Blue Swirl Vinyl. Sara Dobbs and Jenny Shore used to work summer stock theater in St. Louis, Missouri. They'd do the hand jive with TV stars past and future; they'd get coldly corrected by ...

All Her Plans, the third album from Melbourne, Australia's Cable Ties, finds the trio of Jenny McKechnie, Shauna Boyle, and Nick Brown at their punchiest and most assured. The ferocious, ...

All Her Plans, the third album from Melbourne, Australia's Cable Ties, finds the trio of Jenny McKechnie, Shauna Boyle, and Nick Brown at their punchiest and most assured. The ferocious, ...

All Her Plans, the third album from Melbourne, Australia's Cable Ties, finds the trio of Jenny McKechnie, Shauna Boyle, and Nick Brown at their punchiest and most assured. The ferocious, ...

Cable Ties are a fierce, tense rock'n'roll trio. They take the three-minute punk burner and stretch it past breaking point to deliver smouldering feminist anthems. Post-punk and garage rock hammered ...

Cable Ties are a fierce, tense rock'n'roll trio. They take the three-minute punk burner and stretch it past breaking point to deliver smouldering feminist anthems. Post-punk and garage rock hammered ...

Black and orange swirl vinyl! Cable Ties are a fierce, tense rock'n'roll trio. They take the three-minute punk burner and stretch it past breaking point to deliver smouldering feminist anthems. ...

Look to the East, Look to the West, the new album by Camera Obscura, is a revelation. The Tracyanne Campbell-led outfit, reuniting with producer Jari Haapalainen (Let's Get Out of This Country, My ...

Look to the East, Look to the West, the new album by Camera Obscura, is a revelation. The Tracyanne Campbell-led outfit, reuniting with producer Jari Haapalainen (Let's Get Out of This Country, My ...

Anthology serves as a celebration of The Clean, a band whose influence extends so far beyond their New Zealand home that even if you have never heard of The Clean before, you have surely heard of ...

2001's Getaway maybe best illustrates whatever mercurial, inexplicable musical power animates The Clean. After the band's initial rush of activity between 1978 and 1982, the trio lay dormant until ...

2LP is gatefold jacket + CD insert + full album download 2001's Getaway maybe best illustrates whatever mercurial, inexplicable musical power animates The Clean. After the band's initial rush of ...

Merge reissue of The Clean's "Mister Pop" on vinyl, originally released in 2009. In 1978, The Clean were the seeds of New Zealand punk. In the years since, they have carved out a big sandbox for ...

Merge reissue of The Clean's "Unknown Country" on vinyl, originally released in 1996. In 1978, The Clean were the seeds of New Zealand punk. In the years since, they have carved out a big sandbox for ...

Remastered LP Reiussue! Originally released in 2009. LP package is single jacket + black vinyl + code for full album download. "Bonfires is an indian summer record if ever there was one, music for ...

Remastered LP Reiussue! Originally released in 2007. Recorded by Mark Nevers (Lambchop) at the Beech House in Nashville, Tennessee. Drawing, collage & painting by Alasdair MacLean. LP package is ...

On July 28, 2023, Merge Records will release I Am Not There Anymore, The Clientele's first new record in six years. Over The Clientele's 32-year career, critics and fans have described their songs ...

On July 28, 2023, Merge Records will release I Am Not There Anymore, The Clientele's first new record in six years. Over The Clientele's 32-year career, critics and fans have described their songs ...

On July 28, 2023, Merge Records will release I Am Not There Anymore, The Clientele's first new record in six years. Over The Clientele's 32-year career, critics and fans have described their songs ...

Originally released in 2005, The Clientele recorded their 2nd full-length album Strange Geometry with producer Brian O'Shaughnessy at Bark Studios, Walthamstow (UK). The album features twelve dreamy ...

LP is jacket + full album download + bonus CD Merge Records will reissue Suburban Light-the start of the label's five-album, decade-plus relationship with The Clientele-on May 13, 2014. Released as a ...

With Happy Hour, her ravishing new LP, Hollie Cook matures into the queen of modernday "lovers rock"... the lush girly harmony reggae style beloved in Britain since the 1970s. Evolution rings from ...

With Happy Hour, her ravishing new LP, Hollie Cook matures into the queen of modernday "lovers rock"... the lush girly harmony reggae style beloved in Britain since the 1970s. Evolution rings from ...

With Happy Hour, her ravishing new LP, Hollie Cook matures into the queen of modernday "lovers rock"... the lush girly harmony reggae style beloved in Britain since the 1970s. Evolution rings from ...

On August 11, 2023, Merge Records will release Happy Hour in Dub, a heavenly set of dub versions to pair with Hollie Cook's critically acclaimed 2022 album Happy Hour. Her first full dub record since ...

On August 11, 2023, Merge Records will release Happy Hour in Dub, a heavenly set of dub versions to pair with Hollie Cook's critically acclaimed 2022 album Happy Hour. Her first full dub record since ...

Fresh from signing with US Indie label Merge Records, West London-based Hollie Cook - famed for reviving lovers rock - returns with new album 'Vessel of Love' and a sultry matured new sound. She has ...

Fresh from signing with US Indie label Merge Records, West London-based Hollie Cook - famed for reviving lovers rock - returns with new album 'Vessel of Love' and a sultry matured new sound. She has ...

Mikal Cronin's self-titled debut from 2011 was all about endings: the end of college, the end of a serious relationship, and the end of his time in Los Angeles, where he grew up. So it's no surprise ...

LP includes download coupon. Mikal Cronin's self-titled debut from 2011 was all about endings: the end of college, the end of a serious relationship, and the end of his time in Los Angeles, where he ...

Mikal Cronin returns with MCIII. Marked by the lush arrangements, stunning melodies, and deeply personal lyrical work for which Cronin is now known, the album is also a deliberate attempt to simply ...

LP includes a coupon for a full download. Mikal Cronin will return with MCIII. Marked by the lush arrangements, stunning melodies, and deeply personal lyrical work for which Cronin is now known, the ...

Limited edition clear vinyl. LP includes a coupon for a full download. Mikal Cronin returns with MCIII. Marked by the lush arrangements, stunning melodies, and deeply personal lyrical work for which ...

Recorded live with a crew of close friends and engineer Jason Quever at Palmetto Studios in Los Angeles, Seeker finds Cronin pushing his often devastating power pop into darker territory _ from the ...

Recorded live with a crew of close friends and engineer Jason Quever at Palmetto Studios in Los Angeles, Seeker finds Cronin pushing his often devastating power pop into darker territory_from the ...

Eric Bachmann recorded "Breaks in the Armor" in Athens, Georgia at The Bakery with Matt Yelton (live sound engineer for the Pixies) throughout the winter of 2010/2011, enlisting the help of Liz ...

Dignity and Shame, Crooked Fingers' fourth full length finds front man Eric Bachmann embracing great traditions of American Music from appalachian folk, southwestern blues, country and good old rock ...

The debut full-length by Allison Crutchfield titled "Tourist in This Town" sonically pulls back the curtain on her life and places Crutchfield center stage, fully revealing her power, conviction, and ...

In the hallowed Destroyer discography, the early trinity of City Of Daughters / Thief / Streethawk: A Seduction holds an important place; for not only does it document Dan Bejar's evolution from ...

First time on vinyl since 1998 Canada only pressing. Opaque red vinyl! In the hallowed Destroyer discography, the early trinity of City Of Daughters / Thief / Streethawk: A Seduction holds an ...

Destroyer's 7th full length album & originally released in 2006. CD is jewel case with booklet insert. a thoroughly unexpected collection of clever pop music that takes no prisoners. Destroyer's ...

Destroyer's 4th full length album! In the hallowed Destroyer discography, the early trinity of City Of Daughters / Thief /Streethawk: A Seduction holds an important place; for not only does it ...

Destroyer's 4th full length album, LP includes full album download. In the hallowed Destroyer discography, the early trinity of City Of Daughters / Thief /Streethawk: A Seduction holds an important ...

In the hallowed Destroyer discography, the early trinity of City Of Daughters / Thief / Streethawk: A Seduction holds an important place; for not only does it document Dan Bejar's evolution from ...

First time on vinyl since 1998 Canada only pressing. Opaque orange vinyl! In the hallowed Destroyer discography, the early trinity of City Of Daughters / Thief / Streethawk: A Seduction holds an ...

Destroyer's 5th full length album & originally released in 2002! 2LP is gatefold jacket with black double vinyl and includes download insert for full album. An amazing epic song cycle from Dan Bejar, ...

Destroyer's 8th full length album & originally released in 2008. This release cements Vancouver, BC's Dan Bejar as an artist as quirky and enigmatic as David Bowie, as symphonic and grandiose as ...

LP pressed to 180g & includes coupon for full album download . Your Blues is a stunning collection of songs and craftsmanship. Bombastic and bold at times, quiet and soothing at others, Your Blues ...

Originally released in 1992, the two songs on Drive Like Jehu's sole 7-inch display a harnessing of powers first introduced on their self-titled record from the previous year and later fully realized ...

- Blue Vinyl. - First time pressed to vinyl. - Limited to 1k. - LP3 coupon for full album download & three rare digital bonus tracks. "We're not breaking any records yet" is the opening line from ...

Formed in Brooklyn in 1998, The Essex Green released four albums between 1999 and 2006. They became one of the few bands from the Northeast to be associated with the groundbreaking Elephant 6 ...

Formed in Brooklyn in 1998, The Essex Green released four albums between 1999 and 2006. They became one of the few bands from the Northeast to be associated with the groundbreaking Elephant 6 ...

- White Vinyl. - First time pressed to vinyl - Limited to 1k - LP3 coupon for full album download & three rare digital bonus tracks The Essex Green are a neo-psychedelic pop outfit from Brooklyn, NY, ...

When Ex Hex exploded onto the scene with their unfettered brand of rock and riffage, the power trio for our generation had finally arrived. Made up of Mary Timony (guitar, vocals), Betsy Wright ...

When Ex Hex exploded onto the scene with their unfettered brand of rock and riffage, the power trio for our generation had finally arrived. Made up of Mary Timony (guitar, vocals), Betsy Wright ...

Ex Hex is a power trio hailing from Washington, DC. With Wild Flag on hiatus, Mary Timony (Autoclave, Helium) needed a new outlet, so she retreated to her basement and started writing. To her ...

150 g vinyl + downloadcode Ex Hex is a power trio hailing from Washington, DC. With Wild Flag on hiatus, Mary Timony (Autoclave, Helium) needed a new outlet, so she retreated to her basement and ...

Whether one seeks it out or it simply presents itself, change is an inevitability. Should one embrace it? Grapple with it? Fight it? These are the questions Martin Frawley unpacks as he steps into ...

Whether one seeks it out or it simply presents itself, change is an inevitability. Should one embrace it? Grapple with it? Fight it? These are the questions Martin Frawley unpacks as he steps into ...

Whether one seeks it out or it simply presents itself, change is an inevitability. Should one embrace it? Grapple with it? Fight it? These are the questions Martin Frawley unpacks as he steps into ...

At a time when most female singer-songwriters perform as alter egos, ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER is simply, refreshingly herself. And that's just the way her fans like it. Having spent the last decade ...

At a time when most female singer-songwriters perform as alter egos, ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER is simply, refreshingly herself. And that's just the way her fans like it. Having spent the last decade ...

Friendship's Merge debut, Love the Stranger, moves like a country record skipping in just the right spot, leaving its fellow travelers longing for a place they've only visited in their dreams. ...

Friendship's Merge debut, Love the Stranger, moves like a country record skipping in just the right spot, leaving its fellow travelers longing for a place they've only visited in their dreams. ...

Friendship's Merge debut, Love the Stranger, moves like a country record skipping in just the right spot, leaving its fellow travelers longing for a place they've only visited in their dreams. ...

Eric D. Johnson rarely lingers at one location too long. As a kid growing up in the Midwest, Johnson's family moved around a lot, but it wasn't until he became a touring musician years later that ...

Eric D. Johnson rarely lingers at one location too long. As a kid growing up in the Midwest, Johnson's family moved around a lot, but it wasn't until he became a touring musician years later that ...

Eric D. Johnson rarely lingers at one location too long. As a kid growing up in the Midwest, Johnson's family moved around a lot, but it wasn't until he became a touring musician years later that ...

Gold Past Life marks both an end and a beginning. It's the end of an unintentional thematic trilogy of records that began with 2014's EDJ (a solo record by name, but a Fruit Bats release in spirit) ...

Gold Past Life marks both an end and a beginning. It's the end of an unintentional thematic trilogy of records that began with 2014's EDJ (a solo record by name, but a Fruit Bats release in spirit) ...

Indie Exclusive Peak Vinyl LP is aqua vinyl + black vinyl 7"+ LP3 coupon! Gold Past Life marks both an end and a beginning. It's the end of an unintentional thematic trilogy of records that began ...

2LP is pink & violet vinyl pressed to Side A / Side B effect in a gatefold jacket. Eric D. Johnson, the creative force behind Fruit Bats, doesn't spend a lot of time looking in the rearview mirror. ...

"The Pet Parade," the title track to Fruit Bats' newest album, might be a surprising opening track for longtime fans of Eric D. Johnson's beloved indie folk-rock project. The six-and-a-half-minute ...

"The Pet Parade," the title track to Fruit Bats' newest album, might be a surprising opening track for longtime fans of Eric D. Johnson's beloved indie folk-rock project. The six-and-a-half-minute ...

2CD is 6-panel digipak w/ booklet & poster inserts. "I was sent an unfinished version of Dose Your Dreams so that I might contribute string parts. I couldn't stop listening to the rough mixes I ...

2LP is wide spine jacket + black vinyl + newsprint poster + LP3 coupon! "I was sent an unfinished version of Dose Your Dreams so that I might contribute string parts. I couldn't stop listening to the ...

With One Day, Fucked Up have delivered one of the most energizing and intricate albums of their entire career, a massive-sounding record that arrives in deceptively small confines. The Canadian ...

With One Day, Fucked Up have delivered one of the most energizing and intricate albums of their entire career, a massive-sounding record that arrives in deceptively small confines. The Canadian ...

Blue in milky clear vinyl pressed color-in-color! With One Day, Fucked Up have delivered one of the most energizing and intricate albums of their entire career, a massive-sounding record that arrives ...

Recorded over 6 months by Jon Drew at Giant Studios in Toronto, Year of the Ox is the band's fourth record in the continuing 12-year cycle and adds to its evolving retinue of guest musicians. The ...

FUTURE BIBLE HEROES are comprised of celebrated songwriter Stephin Merritt (THE MAGNETIC FIELDS, THE 6THS, THE GOTHIC ARCHIES), longtime friend and collaborator Christopher Ewen (FIGURES ON A BEACH, ...

3LP is a triple gatefold + full download FUTURE BIBLE HEROES are comprised of celebrated songwriter Stephin Merritt (THE MAGNETIC FIELDS, THE 6THS, THE GOTHIC ARCHIES), longtime friend and ...

"Partygoing" features 13 quick and catchy songs, and Stephin Merritt and Gonson deliver their lines with vim and vigor, particularly on "How Very Strange" a mean-spirited look back at the ...

On July 12, Washington, DC's Gauche will release A People's History of Gauche, a collective catharsis of anger, frustration, and trauma through creativity. Jason P Barnett, Adrienne CN Berry, Mary ...

On July 12, Washington, DC's Gauche will release A People's History of Gauche, a collective catharsis of anger, frustration, and trauma through creativity. Jason P Barnett, Adrienne CN Berry, Mary ...

There's an old saying about how "you have your whole life to write your first record." For Coco Hames, the songs on her stunning self-titled debut poured from her pen over a sustained burst of ...

There's an old saying about how "you have your whole life to write your first record." For Coco Hames, the songs on her stunning self-titled debut poured from her pen over a sustained burst of ...

M.C. Taylor recorded this spiritually devastating, austere antecedent to the widely celebrated Hiss Golden Messenger albums Haw (2013) and Poor Moon (2011) direct to a portable cassette recorder at ...

M.C. Taylor recorded this spiritually devastating, austere antecedent to the widely celebrated Hiss Golden Messenger albums Haw (2013) and Poor Moon (2011) direct to a portable cassette recorder at ...

Devotion: Songs About Rivers and Spirits and Children is a limited-edition deluxe box set which includes remastered reissues of the classic Hiss albums Bad Debt, Poor Moon, and Haw as well as Virgo ...

Devotion: Songs About Rivers and Spirits and Children is a limited-edition deluxe box set which includes remastered reissues of the classic Hiss albums Bad Debt, Poor Moon, and Haw as well as Virgo ...

Haw is the name of a river, a modest tributary of the Cape Fear, flowing rocky and swift through 110 miles of Piedmont North Carolina, wending Southeasterly past abandoned and repurposed textile ...

Haw is the name of a river, a modest tributary of the Cape Fear, flowing rocky and swift through 110 miles of Piedmont North Carolina, wending Southeasterly past abandoned and repurposed textile ...

The writing of the songs that became Heart Like a Levee started in a hotel room in Washington DC in January of 2015 during a powerful storm that darkened the East Coast. At that time I was ...

The writing of the songs that became Heart Like a Levee started in a hotel room in Washington DC in January of 2015 during a powerful storm that darkened the East Coast. At that time I was ...

It's spring of 2023 in the North Carolina Piedmont, and songwriter and singer M.C. Taylor_leader of the band Hiss Golden Messenger_is feeling alive. Joyful. Eternal, he might say. For the ...

It's spring of 2023 in the North Carolina Piedmont, and songwriter and singer M.C. Taylor_leader of the band Hiss Golden Messenger_is feeling alive. Joyful. Eternal, he might say. For the ...

Indie exclusive Peak Edition on Orange & Black Swirl Vinyl, in a gatefold cover + poster. It's spring of 2023 in the North Carolina Piedmont, and songwriter and singer M.C. Taylor_leader of the band ...

Lateness of Dancers is the fifth full-length from Hiss Golden Messenger. It's an open, confident, immediate album, and it feels, at times, like a direct response to the darkness of M.C. Taylor's last ...

Lateness of Dancers is the fifth full-length from Hiss Golden Messenger. It's an open, confident, immediate album, and it feels, at times, like a direct response to the darkness of M.C. Taylor's last ...

Conceptualized and written during the chaotic fall months of 2020, Hiss Golden Messenger's O Come All Ye Faithful_recorded shortly after the widely hailed Quietly Blowing It_is a meditation on grace, ...

tricolor (bone, red, green) segment vinyl in gatefold jacket. Conceptualized and written during the chaotic fall months of 2020, Hiss Golden Messenger's O Come All Ye Faithful_recorded shortly after ...

Composed and arranged by Head Messenger M.C. Taylor at his home in the rural Piedmont mill town of Pittsboro and recorded with longtime collaborator Scott Hirsch in New York, California and North ...

Composed and arranged by Head Messenger M.C. Taylor at his home in the rural Piedmont mill town of Pittsboro and recorded with longtime collaborator Scott Hirsch in New York, California and North ...

"I went looking for peace," says songwriter M.C. Taylor of Hiss Golden Messenger about his new album Quietly Blowing It. "It's not exactly a record about the state of the world_or my world_in 2020, ...

"I went looking for peace," says songwriter M.C. Taylor of Hiss Golden Messenger about his new album Quietly Blowing It. "It's not exactly a record about the state of the world_or my world_in 2020, ...

Led by the introspective songwriting of M.C. Taylor, Terms of Surrender finds the charismatic bandleader ruminating on complex emotions in the wake of a personally turbulent year. Over the course of ...

Led by the introspective songwriting of M.C. Taylor, Terms of Surrender finds the charismatic bandleader ruminating on complex emotions in the wake of a personally turbulent year. Over the course of ...

North Carolina's Benji Hughes fronted a rock band in the nineties. He's written commercial jingle. He's made music for film and television (Walk Hard, Eastbound & Down). He released 2008's A Love ...

LP includes full album download North Carolina's Benji Hughes fronted a rock band in the nineties. He's written commercial jingle. He's made music for film and television (Walk Hard, Eastbound & ...

Eno Williams, frontwoman of Ibibio Sound Machine, uses both English and the Nigerian language from which her band's name is derived for the dazzling new album Doko Mien. Long lauded for jubilant, ...

Eno Williams, frontwoman of Ibibio Sound Machine, uses both English and the Nigerian language from which her band's name is derived for the dazzling new album Doko Mien. Long lauded for jubilant, ...

Even in trying times, "there is no love without electricity." Electricity is the fourth and most progressive album from Ibibio Sound Machine, and like all good Afrofuturist stories, it begins with an ...

Even in trying times, "there is no love without electricity." Electricity is the fourth and most progressive album from Ibibio Sound Machine, and like all good Afrofuturist stories, it begins with an ...

Pull the Rope, the new record by Ibibio Sound Machine, casts the Eno Williams and Max Grunhard-led outfit in a new light. The hope, joy, and sexiness of their music remain, but, further honing the ...

Pull the Rope, the new record by Ibibio Sound Machine, casts the Eno Williams and Max Grunhard-led outfit in a new light. The hope, joy, and sexiness of their music remain, but, further honing the ...

Pull the Rope, the new record by Ibibio Sound Machine, casts the Eno Williams and Max Grunhard-led outfit in a new light. The hope, joy, and sexiness of their music remain, but, further honing the ...

Fronted by London-born Nigerian singer Eno Williams, Ibibio Sound Machine is a clash of African and electronic elements inspired in equal measure by the golden era of West African funk, disco, modern ...

The fifth album by IMPERIAL TEEN, "Feel the Sound", succeeds completely at its goal, plainly stated in the collection's title. Like the sharpest pop music, "Feel the Sound" gets you to keep coming ...

The fifth album by IMPERIAL TEEN, "Feel the Sound", succeeds completely at its goal, plainly stated in the collection's title. Like the sharpest pop music, "Feel the Sound" gets you to keep coming ...

Roddy Bottum, Will Schwartz, Jone Stebbins, and Lynn Perko Truell - who they've become, how they are dealing, and what their lives are in 2019 - all of this is on Imperial Teen's forthcoming release ...

Roddy Bottum, Will Schwartz, Jone Stebbins, and Lynn Perko Truell - who they've become, how they are dealing, and what their lives are in 2019 - all of this is on Imperial Teen's forthcoming release ...

Jade Hairpins waste no time fulfilling their second album's titular demand. From its harmony-drenched opening note to its baroque-anthemic conclusion, Get Me the Good Stuff is positively loaded with ...

Jade Hairpins waste no time fulfilling their second album's titular demand. From its harmony-drenched opening note to its baroque-anthemic conclusion, Get Me the Good Stuff is positively loaded with ...

Jade Hairpins sneaked onto the scene in late 2018 with a mysterious 12-inch on Merge Records and a couple of poetic sentences about hiding in trees. The label remained tight-lipped while touting Dose ...

Jade Hairpins sneaked onto the scene in late 2018 with a mysterious 12-inch on Merge Records and a couple of poetic sentences about hiding in trees. The label remained tight-lipped while touting Dose ...

Jade Hairpins is a new Merge Records artist with a full length for release in 2019. "Mother Man" b/w "Gracefully" is pressed to black vinyl at 45 RPM with an LP3 download coupon for both tracks. ...

Andy Stack has rightfully earned a reputation as a generous collaborator and musical polymath, both as half of the beloved duo Wye Oak and on the road and in the studio with Lambchop, Helado Negro, ...

Andy Stack has rightfully earned a reputation as a generous collaborator and musical polymath, both as half of the beloved duo Wye Oak and on the road and in the studio with Lambchop, Helado Negro, ...

On 9 August, 2024, Merge Records reissues David Kilgour's A Feather in the Engine, remastered and pressed on vinyl for the very first time. Originally released in 2002, A Feather in the Engine ...

Left by Soft was recorded in the Catlins, about two hours south of Dunedin, New Zealand, in an old lodge surrounded by native bush, birds, and the sea. David spent about a week down there with the ...

End Times Undone, the latest album from David Kilgour and the Heavy Eights, was recorded in his native New Zealand between 2012 and 2014, but that's a bit misleading. The album took so long to finish ...

David Kilgour's 11th solo album, Bobbie's a girl is a quieter affair than fans may associate with the pioneer of New Zealand indie rock. "I tended to shy away from too much guitar playing for a point ...

David Kilgour's 11th solo album, Bobbie's a girl is a quieter affair than fans may associate with the pioneer of New Zealand indie rock. "I tended to shy away from too much guitar playing for a point ...

It has been a lengthy hiatus, but we have finally finished our latest "masterpiece" and named it after an incredible indigenous-rights movement that is happening right now called "Idle No More". I ...

It has been a lengthy hiatus, but we have finally finished our latest "masterpiece" and named it after an incredible indigenous-rights movement that is happening right now called "Idle No More". I ...

Most listeners were introduced to Mike Krol in 2015 with the release of his Merge debut, Turkey. Few knew at the time that Turkey was actually Chapter 3 of the Krol saga, and that he had selfreleased ...

On Mike Krol Is Never Dead: The First Two Records, we catch up-with the past, that is. Indeed, Turkey, released in 2015, is Chapter 3 of the Krol saga; here, finally, are its long-lost predecessors. ...

Music ruined Mike Krol's life. And then saved it. In 2015, Mike Krol found himself in the midst of an existential crisis. He'd invested everything to create the rock-and-roll life he'd always wanted, ...

Music ruined Mike Krol's life. And then saved it. In 2015, Mike Krol found himself in the midst of an existential crisis. He'd invested everything to create the rock-and-roll life he'd always wanted, ...

In bowling's hallowed alleys, a strike is the minor miracle of all ten pins falling at once. Back-to-back strikes make a double. Do it a third time and you've got yourself a turkey. History will ...

LP includes newsprint poster insert + album download coupon! In bowling's hallowed alleys, a strike is the minor miracle of all ten pins falling at once. Back-to-back strikes make a double. Do it a ...

Little Scream says she began conceiving of Cult Following while visiting a friend in a small intentional community in northern Brazil that was on the verge of becoming a cult. "People were running ...

Little Scream says she began conceiving of Cult Following while visiting a friend in a small intentional community in northern Brazil that was on the verge of becoming a cult. "People were running ...

On her third album, Little Scream offers us a reflection on class and poverty in America. Speed Queen began as bits of prose written while touring her last album across North America_observing the ...

On her third album, Little Scream offers us a reflection on class and poverty in America. Speed Queen began as bits of prose written while touring her last album across North America_observing the ...

You may not be able to see the gorgeous landscapes behind Baby Grand, Stuart McLamb's fourth record as The Love Language, but they're so essential to the picture you'll feel them in every note. ...

Gatefold LP. You may not be able to see the gorgeous landscapes behind Baby Grand, Stuart McLamb's fourth record as The Love Language, but they're so essential to the picture you'll feel them in ...

The Love Language is a fortunate by-product of frontman North Carolina native Stuart McLamb's rudderless mid-20s, where a tempest of breakup, inebriation, and incarceration found the abandoned ...

The Love Language is a fortunate by-product of frontman North Carolina native Stuart McLamb's rudderless mid-20s, where a tempest of breakup, inebriation, and incarceration found the abandoned ...

Friends and fans of THE LOVE LANGUAGE songwriter and frontman Stuart McLamb have learned to expect a lot, but rarely in a timely manner. Completing a triumvirate of spiritual transmissions spent lost ...

Friends and fans of THE LOVE LANGUAGE songwriter and frontman Stuart McLamb have learned to expect a lot, but rarely in a timely manner. Completing a triumvirate of spiritual transmissions spent lost ...

On The Love Language's most recent tour opening for Teenage Fanclub, we played for lots of fresh ears, many of whom came to the merch table after the show and asked, "If you had to pick one, which of ...

7-inch pressed to black vinyl and limited to 1,100 copies worldwide. Mac Krol is Mac McCaughan (of Superchunk, Portastatic) and Mike Krol. The collaboration began its life in 2015, when Krol and his ...

Originally released in 1999. 6xLP is black ten-inch vinyl in box with ten-inch book insert and full album download. 3xCD is jewel case box set and book insert. ...

Originally released in 1999. 6xLP is black ten-inch vinyl in box with ten-inch book insert and full album download. 3xCD is jewel case box set and book insert. ...

Limited edition silver vinyl anniversary reissue of the Magnetic Fields' classic 1999 rumination on, of course, love. Funny, smart, dark, memorable, and a lifetime's worth of listening. Stephin ...

Thirteen songs from the worst year of Stephin's life. Originally released in 1995 and remastered for reissue. LP sequence updated by bandleader Stephin Merritt in 2008. LP is black vinyl in jacket ...

Thirteen songs from the worst year of Stephin's life. Originally released in 1995 and remastered for reissue. LP sequence updated by bandleader Stephin Merritt in 2008. LP is black vinyl in jacket ...

Originally released in 1994. LP is black vinyl in jacket with Euro sleeve and full album download. CD is jewel case with printed insert. ...

Originally released in 1994. LP is black vinyl in jacket with Euro sleeve and full album download. CD is jewel case with printed insert. ...

Originally released in 2012. LP is black vinyl with Euro sleeve and full album download. CD is digipak with 16-page booklet. Love at the Bottom of the Sea is The Magnetic Fields' tenth full-length ...

Originally released in 2012. LP is black vinyl with Euro sleeve and full album download. CD is digipak with 16-page booklet. Love at the Bottom of the Sea is The Magnetic Fields' tenth full-length ...

Ten gothic country-pop road songs by Stephin Merritt. Kind of like if Yaz were from Oklahoma. Originally released in 1994. LP is black vinyl in jacket and full album download insert. CD is jewel case ...

Ten gothic country-pop road songs by Stephin Merritt. Kind of like if Yaz were from Oklahoma. Originally released in 1994. LP is black vinyl in jacket and full album download insert. CD is jewel case ...

- 30th anniversary remastered edition - pressed 45 RPM - Side B vinyl etching - first time released as a 12-inch - includes the track "Alien Being" not previously available on the original 7" vinyl ...

- 30th anniversary remastered edition - pressed 45 RPM - Side B vinyl etching - first time released as a 12-inch - includes the track "Alien Being" not previously available on the original 7" vinyl ...

The 1st and 2nd albums by The Magnetic Fields; originally released in 1991 & 1992. 2xLP is black vinyl in two jackets with obi wrap and full album download. CD is jewel case with printed insert. ...

The 1st and 2nd albums by The Magnetic Fields; originally released in 1991 & 1992. 2xLP is black vinyl in two jackets with obi wrap and full album download. CD is jewel case with printed insert. ...

Superchunk frontman Mac McCaughan will release Non-Believers, his first solo album under his own name. McCaughan wanted to use the album to explore his attraction to that early-'80s era of music when ...

Superchunk frontman Mac McCaughan will release Non-Believers, his first solo album under his own name. McCaughan wanted to use the album to explore his attraction to that early-'80s era of music when ...

Throughout his career fronting Superchunk and Portastatic, Mac McCaughan has channeled more than his share of angst into a microphone, resulting in undeniable rock anthems. So how can a voice so ...

Throughout his career fronting Superchunk and Portastatic, Mac McCaughan has channeled more than his share of angst into a microphone, resulting in undeniable rock anthems. So how can a voice so ...

Narratively, H.C. McEntire's Eno Axis is about finding direction in the natural world, and following love. Sonically, it's an album shaped enormously by the atmosphere it was recorded in_the crew's ...

Narratively, H.C. McEntire's Eno Axis is about finding direction in the natural world, and following love. Sonically, it's an album shaped enormously by the atmosphere it was recorded in_the crew's ...

Narratively, H.C. McEntire's Eno Axis is about finding direction in the natural world, and following love. Sonically, it's an album shaped enormously by the atmosphere it was recorded in_the crew's ...

If naming is a form of claiming, of being claimed, how is one tethered to both the physical landscape that surrounds us, as well as our own internal emotional landscape_at times calm, at times ...

If naming is a form of claiming, of being claimed, how is one tethered to both the physical landscape that surrounds us, as well as our own internal emotional landscape_at times calm, at times ...

If naming is a form of claiming, of being claimed, how is one tethered to both the physical landscape that surrounds us, as well as our own internal emotional landscape_at times calm, at times ...

H.C. McEntire, frontwoman of Mount Moriah, strikes out on her own with her debut solo album LIONHEART, a collection of songs inspired by the American South and a desire to reclaim "country" music ...

H.C. McEntire, frontwoman of Mount Moriah, strikes out on her own with her debut solo album LIONHEART, a collection of songs inspired by the American South and a desire to reclaim "country" music ...

Bob Mould releases his all-new studio album "Beauty & Ruin" again on Merge Records. Described as "a compact epic", "Beauty & Ruin" packs a staggering lifetime's worth of emotion and experience into ...

Bob Mould releases his all-new studio album "Beauty & Ruin" again on Merge Records. Described as "a compact epic", "Beauty & Ruin" packs a staggering lifetime's worth of emotion and experience into ...

In the winter of 2019, Bob Mould bucked the era's despair with his most melodic, upbeat album in ages, "Sunshine Rock". Cut to spring of 2020, and he has this to say: "We're really in deep shit now." ...

In the winter of 2019, Bob Mould bucked the era's despair with his most melodic, upbeat album in ages, "Sunshine Rock". Cut to spring of 2020, and he has this to say: "We're really in deep shit now." ...

"Here's the deal. In 2012, people loved Silver Age (to a degree that surprised me, pleasantly), likewise Beauty & Ruin in 2014 (despite the heaviness of the subject matter, which I thought might be a ...

The North Carolina-based band Mount Moriah - composed of Heather McEntire (lead vocals, guitar), Jenks Miller (lead guitar, keys), and Casey Toll (bass, keys) - seem insistent to grow. If Mount ...

LP is jacket + printed sleeve + full album download coupon! The North Carolina-based band Mount Moriah - composed of Heather McEntire (lead vocals, guitar), Jenks Miller (lead guitar, keys), and ...

Fiercely contemporary yet rich with classic influences, Mount Moriah's Miracle Temple sports bigger arrangements, louder guitars, bolder vocals, and more soulful rhythms than their acclaimed ...

"an infectious brew of gospel, folk, rock and country that asks questions of the establishment while looking at love from every angle." - NPR Music As record store clerks in Chapel Hill, NC, Heather ...

The Mountain Goats are a trio from the mid-Atlantic and points north, helmed by John Darnielle ("one of America's most startling lyricist/poets" _Boston Herald) and kept honest by Peter Hughes and ...

The Mountain Goats are a trio from the mid-Atlantic and points north, helmed by John Darnielle ("one of America's most startling lyricist/poets" _Boston Herald) and kept honest by Peter Hughes and ...

The last of the "all-home-recordings albums" by THE MOUNTAIN GOATS and the only one about which that claim is true, "All Hail West Texas" was originally released as a free-standing compact disc on ...

The LP is packaged in a deluxe gatefold jacket and includes a digital download of the full record plus the seven additional tracks. ...

LP in gatefold jacket. The last of the "all-home-recordings albums" by THE MOUNTAIN GOATS and the only one about which that claim is true, "All Hail West Texas" was originally released as a ...

Beat the Champ is about professional wrestling, which was an avenue of escape for me when I was a kid. Wrestling was low-budget working class entertainment back then, strictly UHF material. It was ...

2LP black vinyl in gatefold jacket + download coupon! Beat the Champ is about professional wrestling, which was an avenue of escape for me when I was a kid. Wrestling was low-budget working class ...

Maybe you are just like John Darnielle: In the depths of the pandemic end of 2020, the Mountain Goats frontman passed the time trapped at home watching pulpy action movies, finding comfort in ...

2LP is yellow vinyl cut 45 RPM in gatefold jacket. Maybe you are just like John Darnielle: In the depths of the pandemic end of 2020, the Mountain Goats frontman passed the time trapped at home ...

When the Mountain Goats got together in March 2020, it was to make not one album, but two. The idea was to again work with Matt Ross-Spang, the dashing Memphis wunderkind. Matt pitched we spend a ...

When the Mountain Goats got together in March 2020, it was to make not one album, but two. The idea was to again work with Matt Ross-Spang, the dashing Memphis wunderkind. Matt pitched we spend a ...

On the first of March, 2020, John Darnielle, Peter Hughes, Matt Douglas, and Jon Wurster, aka the Mountain Goats band, visited legendary studio Sam Phillips Recording in Memphis, TN. Darnielle armed ...

double vinyl in gatefold jacket! On the first of March, 2020, John Darnielle, Peter Hughes, Matt Douglas, and Jon Wurster, aka the Mountain Goats band, visited legendary studio Sam Phillips Recording ...

double vinyl in gatefold jacket! On the first of March, 2020, John Darnielle, Peter Hughes, Matt Douglas, and Jon Wurster, aka the Mountain Goats band, visited legendary studio Sam Phillips Recording ...

"The theme this time around is goth, a subject closer to my heart perhaps than that of any Mountain Goats album previous. And while John writes the songs, as he always has, it feels more than ever ...

Gatefold 2LP on black vinyl, cut at 45 RPM. "The theme this time around is goth, a subject closer to my heart perhaps than that of any Mountain Goats album previous. And while John writes the songs, ...

"In League With Dragons" was recorded at Blackbird Studio in Nashville TN and produced by Owen Pallett. The Mountain Goats are John Darnielle, Peter Hughes, Jon Wurster, and Matt Douglas. They have ...

Jenny from Thebes began its life as many albums by the Mountain Goats do, with John Darnielle playing the piano until a lyric emerged. That lyric, "Jenny was a warrior / Jenny was a thief / Jenny hit ...

Jenny from Thebes began its life as many albums by the Mountain Goats do, with John Darnielle playing the piano until a lyric emerged. That lyric, "Jenny was a warrior / Jenny was a thief / Jenny hit ...

yellow & black vinyl pressed half / half. Jenny from Thebes began its life as many albums by the Mountain Goats do, with John Darnielle playing the piano until a lyric emerged. That lyric, "Jenny was ...

A surprise cassette released April 2020, Songs for Pierre Chuvin is the Mountain Goats' first all-boombox album since 2002's All Hail West Texas. After selling over 4000 cassettes in a matter of ...

A surprise cassette released April 2020, Songs for Pierre Chuvin is the Mountain Goats' first all-boombox album since 2002's All Hail West Texas. After selling over 4000 cassettes in a matter of ...

Originally released in October 2000, The Coroner's Gambit finds John Darnielle between physical and sonic spaces, five of its sixteen songs recorded in Simon Joyner's Omaha, Nebraska, studio, five ...

Originally released in October 2000, The Coroner's Gambit finds John Darnielle between physical and sonic spaces, five of its sixteen songs recorded in Simon Joyner's Omaha, Nebraska, studio, five ...

"Transcendental Youth is full of songs about people who madly, stupidly, blessedly won't stop surviving, no matter who gives up on them. I can report that it is a very good album and has many more ...

"Transcendental Youth is full of songs about people who madly, stupidly, blessedly won't stop surviving, no matter who gives up on them. I can report that it is a very good album and has many more ...

"Mary's Voice", THE MUSIC TAPES' third full-length album, is the warmest and most accessible invitation yet into Julian Koster's world-the culmination of a vision he has been realizing for over a ...

Neutral Milk Hotel is Elephant 6 co-founder Jeff Mangum, Julian Koster (of Music Tapes), Scott Spillane (of the Gerbils) and Jeremy Barnes (of Beirut, A Hawk and a Hacksaw). Originally released in ...

180g black vinyl! Neutral Milk Hotel is Elephant 6 co-founder Jeff Mangum, Julian Koster (of Music Tapes), Scott Spillane (of the Gerbils) and Jeremy Barnes (of Beirut, A Hawk and a Hacksaw). ...

Neutral Milk Hotel's much-beloved, endlessly influential 1998 album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is available on cassette. On too many "best albums of the 1990s" lists to recount, In the Aeroplane ...

The two full-length records that Jeff Mangum made as Neutral Milk Hotel sound both in and out of time. Like translations of a shared subconscious, 1996's On Avery Island and 1998's In the Aeroplane ...

Over the past 20 years, The New Pornographers have proven themselves one of the most excellent bands in indie rock. The group's ninth album and first for Merge establishes them alongside modern ...

Over the past 20 years, The New Pornographers have proven themselves one of the most excellent bands in indie rock. The group's ninth album and first for Merge establishes them alongside modern ...

Over the past 20 years, The New Pornographers have proven themselves one of the most excellent bands in indie rock. The group's ninth album and first for Merge establishes them alongside modern ...

Reissue! Digipak CD! This recording was made in Tepoztlán, Morelos, México during the months of January and February 2008. In Tepoztlán, a place known for Aztec Magic and Extra-Terrestrial Sightings, ...

Reissue. 180g Gatefold LP. This recording was made in Tepoztlán, Morelos, México during the months of January and February 2008. In Tepoztlán, a place known for Aztec Magic and Extra-Terrestrial ...

Reissue Digipak CD. While touring in support of Conor Oberst, Conor and the Mystic Valley Band began writing new songs. The result is the first album credited to this group. Oberst's songwriting and ...

Reissue 180g Gatefold 2xLP. While touring in support of Conor Oberst, Conor and the Mystic Valley Band began writing new songs. The result is the first album credited to this group. Oberst's ...

Orbiting Human Circus' new album is called Quartet Plus Two. What is Orbiting Human Circus? It is the continuing evolution of Julian Koster (Neutral Milk Hotel, The Music Tapes), whose music and ...

Orbiting Human Circus' new album is called Quartet Plus Two. What is Orbiting Human Circus? It is the continuing evolution of Julian Koster (Neutral Milk Hotel, The Music Tapes), whose music and ...

Orbiting Human Circus' new album is called Quartet Plus Two. What is Orbiting Human Circus? It is the continuing evolution of Julian Koster (Neutral Milk Hotel, The Music Tapes), whose music and ...

Room Inside the World, the third LP from OUGHT and first for Merge, explores themes that have always concerned the band-identity, connection, survival in a precarious world-but with a bolder, more ...

140g vinyl LP in gatefold jacket! Room Inside the World, the third LP from OUGHT and first for Merge, explores themes that have always concerned the band-identity, connection, survival in a ...

In Prism is the best Polvo record even before you get to the majestic "A Link in the Chain," serene and tempestuous like few other things you'll hear. The album was recorded with Brian Paulson, and ...

In Prism is the best Polvo record even before you get to the majestic "A Link in the Chain," serene and tempestuous like few other things you'll hear. The album was recorded with Brian Paulson, and ...

Check out the first 18 or so seconds of "Can I Ride," the title track on the first release by Polvo, the two-guitar juggernaut that represented the other side of Chapel Hill indie rock (more on that ...

During their initial run from 1990-1998, POLVO crafted a sound so fantastically obstinate and so perfectly cockeyed that its DNA is essentially resistant to mediocrity or repetition. On "Siberia", ...

LPs include a coupon for full album download During their initial run from 1990-1998, POLVO crafted a sound so fantastically obstinate and so perfectly cockeyed that its DNA is essentially resistant ...

white vinyl LP includes coupon for full album download PORTASTATIC's "The Summer of the Shark" will be available for the first time on vinyl as part of a monthly series of reissues to mark the 25th ...

Previous Industries is three Chicagoans with a deep, shared history_Open Mike Eagle, Video Dave, and STILL RIFT_who currently reside in LA. In a city where transplants often say they find it hard to ...

Previous Industries is three Chicagoans with a deep, shared history_Open Mike Eagle, Video Dave, and STILL RIFT_who currently reside in LA. In a city where transplants often say they find it hard to ...

Oyster Cuts, the Merge Records debut of Quivers, finds the Melbourne, Australia-based outfit awash in the kind of emotions people tend to fear losing themselves in. Finding love after grief, the ...

Oyster Cuts, the Merge Records debut of Quivers, finds the Melbourne, Australia-based outfit awash in the kind of emotions people tend to fear losing themselves in. Finding love after grief, the ...

RADAR BROTHERS return with "Eight", a very special new release. Featuring an expanded band of brothers including Stevie Triechel and Be Hussey from THE ILLUSTRATED GARDEN as well as new members Dan ...

Redd Kross invite you to explore Beyond the Door, an album inspired by the band's "total commitment to having the best f*cking time we can have while we're all still here." It's a rock and roll ...

Redd Kross invite you to explore Beyond the Door, an album inspired by the band's "total commitment to having the best f*cking time we can have while we're all still here." It's a rock and roll ...

Hot Issue, a dozen turn-of-the-century new digs and old finds recorded by Redd Kross in Hollywood between 1980 and 2007. This collection of top-quality recordings features Redd Kross rarities and ...

Hot Issue, a dozen turn-of-the-century new digs and old finds recorded by Redd Kross in Hollywood between 1980 and 2007. This collection of top-quality recordings features Redd Kross rarities and ...

Translucent Fluorescent Green Vinyl! Hot Issue, a dozen turn-of-the-century new digs and old finds recorded by Redd Kross in Hollywood between 1980 and 2007. This collection of top-quality recordings ...

Merge Records is thrilled to release the 35th anniversary edition of Neurotica, the 1987 power pop and alternative rock opus by Redd Kross. This reissue includes the original album, remastered by JJ ...

Merge Records is thrilled to release the 35th anniversary edition of Neurotica, the 1987 power pop and alternative rock opus by Redd Kross. This reissue includes the original album, remastered by JJ ...

This special 40th anniversary edition of the Red Cross EP, which includes the band's six-song eponymous debut and adds five contemporaneous extra tracks, is the most comprehensive document to date of ...

This special 40th anniversary edition of the Red Cross EP, which includes the band's six-song eponymous debut and adds five contemporaneous extra tracks, is the most comprehensive document to date of ...

Researching the Blues features 10 songs clocking in at just under 32 minutes. With songs written by Jeff and produced and mixed by Steven, the album is by far the band's favorite record. Steve says, ...

Researching the Blues features 10 songs clocking in at just under 32 minutes. With songs written by Jeff and produced and mixed by Steven, the album is by far the band's favorite record. Steve says, ...

A little drums, a little atmosphere, and it wails like this! Hotter than anything printed by a Hearst daily, the 12-song Version Especial of Redd Kross' Teen Babes from Monsanto - all art, no filler, ...

A little drums, a little atmosphere, and it wails like this! Hotter than anything printed by a Hearst daily, the 12-song Version Especial of Redd Kross' Teen Babes from Monsanto - all art, no filler, ...

Translucent Pink Vinyl! A little drums, a little atmosphere, and it wails like this! Hotter than anything printed by a Hearst daily, the 12-song Version Especial of Redd Kross' Teen Babes from ...

A Little More Time, Reigning Sound's seventh proper full-length, is the original lineup's first in-studio collaboration since 2005's Home for Orphans LP, which Merge reissued last year. Ultimately, ...

LP in gateflod sleeve. A Little More Time, Reigning Sound's seventh proper full-length, is the original lineup's first in-studio collaboration since 2005's Home for Orphans LP, which Merge reissued ...

When he was approached by Scion in 2011 to make an album for the music promotion arm of the car company, Reigning Sound frontman Greg Cartwright found himself unable to refuse_despite his band's ...

When Reigning Sound's Greg Cartwright assembled the tracklist for 2005's Home for Orphans compilation LP, he was mining from a moody pool of outtakes and rarities cut at various locations across his ...

Neon Orange Vinyl. Reigning Sound's Memphis in June is a document of Greg Cartwright and the original Memphis lineup of his garage/soul group in the pocket and on their home turf. Live from the ...

Shattered will be Reigning Sound's first album for Merge and the first full LP by the group since 2009's Love and Curses. The band's principal songwriter/member is Greg Cartwright, who's been leading ...

Shattered will be Reigning Sound's first album for Merge and the first full LP by the group since 2009's Love and Curses. The band's principal songwriter/member is Greg Cartwright, who's been leading ...

Much like the New Orleans-born artist who created it, Second Line is an unapologetic genre bender that pushes boundaries, expands possibilities, and shatters expectations. It's more than just an ...

Much like the New Orleans-born artist who created it, Second Line is an unapologetic genre bender that pushes boundaries, expands possibilities, and shatters expectations. It's more than just an ...

On October 21, 2022, Merge Records will release Pigments , the debut collaboration between New Orleans electro-revival dynamo Dawn Richard and multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer Spencer ...

On October 21, 2022, Merge Records will release Pigments, the debut collaboration between New Orleans electro-revival dynamo Dawn Richard and multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer Spencer ...

Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn share a common collaborative ethos, a genuine sense of musical curiosity, and a cosmopolitan eagerness to escape the conventions of genre. That shared vision first ...

Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn share a common collaborative ethos, a genuine sense of musical curiosity, and a cosmopolitan eagerness to escape the conventions of genre. That shared vision first ...

Born in Cabbagetown, Georgia, the Rock*A*Teens carved their signature echo-wrapped, wounded-heart music on the edges of the Atlanta music scene more than 20 years ago. Led by songwriter and lead ...

Bite Down, the Merge Records debut of Rosali, finds acclaimed songwriter and guitarist Rosali Middleman in the midst of transition. Written after moving to North Carolina from her longtime home of ...

Bite Down, the Merge Records debut of Rosali, finds acclaimed songwriter and guitarist Rosali Middleman in the midst of transition. Written after moving to North Carolina from her longtime home of ...

Bite Down, the Merge Records debut of Rosali, finds acclaimed songwriter and guitarist Rosali Middleman in the midst of transition. Written after moving to North Carolina from her longtime home of ...

Under the name DELICATE STEVE, Steve Marion recorded "Wondervisions", an instrumental record released by David Byrne's Luaka Bop label that entered the world via a glowing New York Times review. He ...

LP includes full album download. Under the name DELICATE STEVE, Steve Marion recorded "Wondervisions", an instrumental record released by David Byrne's Luaka Bop label that entered the world via a ...

Repress of A Very She & Him Christmas, the wonderful collection of tunes from two of music's most beloved artists _ Zooey Deschanel (She) & M. Ward (Him)! Recorded and originally released in 2011, ...

She & Him, aka Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward, released their third album of original material, entitled Volume 3, on May 7, 2013. With fourteen songs_11 Deschanel originals and three covers_Volume 3 is ...

She & Him, aka Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward, released their third album of original material, entitled Volume 3, on May 7, 2013. With fourteen songs_11 Deschanel originals and three covers_Volume 3 is ...

Zooey Deschanel and Matt Ward, aka She & Him, are as comfortable and complementary a musical pair as Les Paul and Mary Ford. Matt and Zooey make music for an eternal springtime, when the temperature ...

Zooey Deschanel and Matt Ward, aka She & Him, are as comfortable and complementary a musical pair as Les Paul and Mary Ford. Matt and Zooey make music for an eternal springtime, when the temperature ...

She & Him released their sophomore album, Volume Two, on March 23, 2011. Written by Zooey Deschanel (She) and produced by M. Ward (Him), Volume Two is the follow up to the duo's critically acclaimed ...

She & Him released their sophomore album, Volume Two, on March 23, 2011. Written by Zooey Deschanel (She) and produced by M. Ward (Him), Volume Two is the follow up to the duo's critically acclaimed ...

Merge Records welcomes Sneaks with the reissue of Eva Moolchan's debut full-length "Gymnastics". Sneaks songs are the mesmerizing post-punk incantations of Washington, DC's Eva Moolchan. Bass and ...

Sneaks, the solo moniker of Washington, DC's Eva Moolchan, returns with Happy Birthday on August 21. With astrological assertions alongside poetry filtered through a riot grrl spirit and set to ...

Sneaks, the solo moniker of Washington, DC's Eva Moolchan, returns with Happy Birthday on August 21. With astrological assertions alongside poetry filtered through a riot grrl spirit and set to ...

Just as she takes up space in the male-dominated Baltimore/Washington metropolitan area punk scene, SNEAKS aka Eva Moolchan takes up space among the patriarchy. Highway Hypnosis, her forthcoming ...

Just as she takes up space in the male-dominated Baltimore/Washington metropolitan area punk scene, SNEAKS aka Eva Moolchan takes up space among the patriarchy. Highway Hypnosis, her forthcoming ...

With little more than a bass, drum machine, and deadpan vocals, Sneaks, a.k.a. Eva Moolchan, makes minimalist music that takes up space - something she herself has made a point of doing in the ...

With little more than a bass, drum machine, and deadpan vocals, Sneaks, a.k.a. Eva Moolchan, makes minimalist music that takes up space - something she herself has made a point of doing in the ...

LP pressed to red translucent vinyl; coupon for full album download included Formed in 2005, Chapel Hill, North Carolina's Spider Bags were largely a revolving cast, with only Dan McGee (guitars, ...

LP pressed to red translucent vinyl; coupon for full album download included Formed in 2005, Chapel Hill, North Carolina's Spider Bags were largely a revolving cast, with only Dan McGee (guitars, ...

The Spinanes were Portland OGs singer-guitarist Rebecca Gates and drummer Scott Plouf and were snapped up by Sub Pop in the post-Nirvana feeding frenzy. Gates was a guitar manipulator more artful and ...

The Spinanes were Portland OGs singer-guitarist Rebecca Gates and drummer Scott Plouf and were snapped up by Sub Pop in the post-Nirvana feeding frenzy. Gates was a guitar manipulator more artful and ...

Peak edition is opaque yellow vinyl and includes a photo booklet of ephemera of the era! The Spinanes were Portland OGs singer-guitarist Rebecca Gates and drummer Scott Plouf and were snapped up by ...

Our original idea for an all-acoustic album was for it to be a selection of songs from all our albums, played in the style of an acoustic performance in a record store or a radio station, which we ...

In March of 1999, Superchunk traveled to Electrical Audio Studios in Chicago to record the tracks that would become Come Pick Me Up. The addition of producer Jim O'Rourke allowed Superchunk to ...

180 gram vinyl. In March of 1999, Superchunk traveled to Electrical Audio Studios in Chicago to record the tracks that would become Come Pick Me Up. The addition of producer Jim O'Rourke allowed ...

I'll be honest: this compilation came out 14 years ago, and I still don't recognize the titles of 60% of these songs, despite drumming on all but one of them. You think Alan Alda remembers every ...

The first single from Wild Loneliness, "Endless Summer," features the harmonies of Teenage Fanclub's Norman Blake and Raymond McGinley. The 7-inch single contains a cover of The Glands' "When I ...

The first single from Wild Loneliness, "Endless Summer," features the harmonies of Teenage Fanclub's Norman Blake and Raymond McGinley. Participating independent record shops will carry an exclusive ...

Originally recorded with Brian Paulson (Wilco, Slint), "Foolish" is the fourth album by Superchunk (and first full length on Merge), and includes the singles "The First Part" and "Driveway to ...

Originally recorded with Brian Paulson (Wilco, Slint), "Foolish" is the fourth album by Superchunk (and first full length on Merge), and includes the singles "The First Part" and "Driveway to ...

To write the songs for Here's to Shutting Up, we gathered in Jim's garage (he lived way out in the woods) a couple times a week for what seemed like months. We started from actual scratch with no ...

Merge Records brings "Here's Where the Strings Come In" back to print on CD and 180 gram vinyl! Remastered by Jason Ward at Chicago Mastering Company from the original 1/2? reels, "Here's Where the ...

Merge Records brings "Here's Where the Strings Come In" back to print on CD and 180 gram vinyl! Remastered by Jason Ward at Chicago Mastering Company from the original 1/2? reels, "Here's Where the ...

After taking nearly a decade off following the release of "Here's to Shutting Up", Mac, Laura, Jon, and Jim decided to shout it out again in 2010 with "Majesty Shredding", an album perfectly ...

After taking nearly a decade off following the release of "Here's to Shutting Up", Mac, Laura, Jon, and Jim decided to shout it out again in 2010 with "Majesty Shredding", an album perfectly ...

Remastered reissue of Superchunk's sixth album, originally released in 1997. Both CD and LP reissues include downloadable bonus tracks previously unavailable: We'd Like To Thank The Homecoming ...

Remastered reissue of Superchunk's sixth album, originally released in 1997. Both CD and LP reissues include downloadable bonus tracks previously unavailable: We'd Like To Thank The Homecoming ...

Since releasing their first 7-inch in 1989, Superchunk has run the gamut of milestone albums: early punk rock stompers, polished mid-career masterpieces, and lush, adventurous curveballs. ...

Misfits & Mistakes: Singles, B-sides & Strays 2007-2023 is Superchunk's fourth singles compilation, a massive, 4-LP (or 2-CD) collection covering their triumphant return from hiatus. The amount of ...

Misfits & Mistakes: Singles, B-sides & Strays 2007-2023 is Superchunk's fourth singles compilation, a massive, 4-LP (or 2-CD) collection covering their triumphant return from hiatus. The amount of ...

Superchunk's sophomore effort put the Chapel Hill kids on the map with huge guitars and perennial faves like "Skip Steps 1& 3." Produced by Steve Albini, No Pocky for Kitty is still a fan favorite. ...

Superchunk's sophomore effort put the Chapel Hill kids on the map with huge guitars and perennial faves like "Skip Steps 1& 3." Produced by Steve Albini, No Pocky for Kitty is still a fan favorite. ...

Third proper full-length, recorded in LA with greaser / handyman / all-around good guy John Reis of Rocket from the Crypt ...the plot thickens, the songs lengthen, contains hits like "The Question ...

Third proper full-length, recorded in LA with greaser / handyman / all-around good guy John Reis of Rocket from the Crypt ...the plot thickens, the songs lengthen, contains hits like "The Question ...

CD includes mp3 coupon to download bonus Clambakes Vol 9: Other Music From Unshowered Grumblers - Live in NYC 1990, an 11-track live recording from release week in 1990. "When I listen to our first ...

Includes 11" x 17" folded poster + mp3 coupon to download the album and bonus Clambakes Vol 9: Other Music From Unshowered Grumblers - Live in NYC 1990, an 11-track live recording from release week ...

Superchunk's Tossing Seeds (Singles 89-91) is available on vinyl after a long hiatus. Originally released in 1992 on Merge, this reissue is remastered from the original tapes, pressed to 180-gram ...

After the shocking, and for many, demoralizing result of the 2016 election, "I didn't buy the silver lining some were promoting that 'well, at least art and music will be great now!'," says ...

After the shocking, and for many, demoralizing result of the 2016 election, "I didn't buy the silver lining some were promoting that 'well, at least art and music will be great now!'," says ...

Like every record Superchunk has made over the last thirty-some years, Wild Loneliness is unskippably excellent and infectious. It's a blend of stripped-down and lush, electric and acoustic, highs ...

Like every record Superchunk has made over the last thirty-some years, Wild Loneliness is unskippably excellent and infectious. It's a blend of stripped-down and lush, electric and acoustic, highs ...

Like every record Superchunk has made over the last thirty-some years, Wild Loneliness is unskippably excellent and infectious. It's a blend of stripped-down and lush, electric and acoustic, highs ...

After releasing two beloved full-lengths, 2012's Swearin' and 2013's Surfing Strange, the Philadelphia band Swearin' quietly put things on hold. It was due, at least in part, to the band's main ...

After releasing two beloved full-lengths, 2012's Swearin' and 2013's Surfing Strange, the Philadelphia band Swearin' quietly put things on hold. It was due, at least in part, to the band's main ...

"When people dance, they are fulfilling a human desire where instinct and culture meet. Dance and music are built into the mechanics of being human. We are born instinctively with these impulses. To ...

"When people dance, they are fulfilling a human desire where instinct and culture meet. Dance and music are built into the mechanics of being human. We are born instinctively with these impulses. To ...

Unravelled: 1981-2002 shines a loving light on lo-fi pioneers Tall Dwarfs, the prized New Zealand duo of Chris Knox and Alec Bathgate. The collection, available as a 4-LP or 2-CD box set, compiles ...

Four 180g black vinyl LPs housed in two gatefold jackets in a Tip-on cardboard slipcase. The vinyl edition includes a 20-page collector's booklet of lyrics, photos, comics, posters, and other ...

Eric Emm and Jesse Cohen of Tanlines are indie-rock lifers turned reasonable, happy middle-aged fathers of two, figuring out their place in a chaotic culture and industry that can no longer command ...

Eric Emm and Jesse Cohen of Tanlines are indie-rock lifers turned reasonable, happy middle-aged fathers of two, figuring out their place in a chaotic culture and industry that can no longer command ...

Eric Emm and Jesse Cohen of Tanlines are indie-rock lifers turned reasonable, happy middle-aged fathers of two, figuring out their place in a chaotic culture and industry that can no longer command ...

When it came time to make Ad Infinitum, the fourth Telekinesis album, drummer/songwriter/principal architect Michael Lerner found himself in a predicament. In just under five years, he had released ...

LP includes a full album download. When it came time to make Ad Infinitum, the fourth Telekinesis album, drummer/songwriter/principal architect Michael Lerner found himself in a predicament. In just ...

If Michael Benjamin Lerner has given us nothing more than an opportunity to nudge the word "effluxion" into the common vernacular, it is still a crowning cultural achievement. It comes from the Latin ...

If Michael Benjamin Lerner has given us nothing more than an opportunity to nudge the word "effluxion" into the common vernacular, it is still a crowning cultural achievement. It comes from the Latin ...

For more than 30 years, singer-songwriter and guitar hero Mary Timony has cut a distinctive path through the world of independent music, most recently as vocalist and guitarist of acclaimed ...

For more than 30 years, singer-songwriter and guitar hero Mary Timony has cut a distinctive path through the world of independent music, most recently as vocalist and guitarist of acclaimed ...

For more than 30 years, singer-songwriter and guitar hero Mary Timony has cut a distinctive path through the world of independent music, most recently as vocalist and guitarist of acclaimed ...

An Obelisk is the sixth album from Titus Andronicus, which finds the band under stewardship of producer and legendary rocker Bob Mould (Hüsker Dü, Sugar). This trans-generational meeting of the minds ...

An Obelisk is the sixth album from Titus Andronicus, which finds the band under stewardship of producer and legendary rocker Bob Mould (Hüsker Dü, Sugar). This trans-generational meeting of the minds ...

In July of 2015, noted rock band Titus Andronicus [hereafter +@] made history, twice. The wider world shook upon the impact of The Most Lamentable Tragedy [hereafter TMLT], the triple-LP rock opera ...

The Most Lamentable Tragedy [hereafter TMLT] is the fourth studio album by Titus Andronicus [hereafter +@] and the band's debut for Merge Records. The central narrative of TMLT ("a work of fiction," ...

The Most Lamentable Tragedy [hereafter TMLT] is the fourth studio album by Titus Andronicus [hereafter +@] and the band's debut for Merge Records. The central narrative of TMLT ("a work of fiction," ...

The Will to Live was produced by Titus Andronicus singer-songwriter Patrick Stickles and Canadian icon Howard Bilerman (Arcade Fire, Leonard Cohen, The Whole Nine Yards) at the latter's Hotel 2 Tango ...

The Will to Live was produced by Titus Andronicus singer-songwriter Patrick Stickles and Canadian icon Howard Bilerman (Arcade Fire, Leonard Cohen, The Whole Nine Yards) at the latter's Hotel 2 Tango ...

Silver & black galaxy effect vinyl w/ Side D etching in triple gatefold jacket The Will to Live was produced by Titus Andronicus singer-songwriter Patrick Stickles and Canadian icon Howard Bilerman ...

A person whose words are so potent that they cause the people and beings around them to vibrate is said to have a "silver tongue." It's apt, then, that Mackenzie Scott_who has spent the 2010s making ...

A person whose words are so potent that they cause the people and beings around them to vibrate is said to have a "silver tongue." It's apt, then, that Mackenzie Scott_who has spent the 2010s making ...

TORRES' fifth album Thirstier pumps the miraculous into the mundane. It is in open revolt against the gray drag of time, a searing and life-affirming eruption of an album that wonders what could ...

TORRES' fifth album Thirstier pumps the miraculous into the mundane. It is in open revolt against the gray drag of time, a searing and life-affirming eruption of an album that wonders what could ...

What I can say about TORRES is I think the music comes from a convicted place. Not convicted meaning a person is narrowly and foolishly committed to an ideal, or unshakably convinced of themselves, ...

What I can say about TORRES is I think the music comes from a convicted place. Not convicted meaning a person is narrowly and foolishly committed to an ideal, or unshakably convinced of themselves, ...

What I can say about TORRES is I think the music comes from a convicted place. Not convicted meaning a person is narrowly and foolishly committed to an ideal, or unshakably convinced of themselves, ...

Tracyanne & Danny is a new collaborative project between singer-songwriters Tracyanne Campbell (Camera Obscura) and Danny Coughlan (Crybaby). Tracyanne hails from Glasgow, Scotland. London-born Danny ...

Black vinyl LP in double gatefold jacket + LP3 coupon! Tracyanne & Danny is a new collaborative project between singer-songwriters Tracyanne Campbell (Camera Obscura) and Danny Coughlan (Crybaby). ...

Peak Edition LP is double gatefold jacket & poly sleeve + opaque red vinyl + black 7-inch + LP3 coupon. Qty ltd to 3,000 worldwide. Tracyanne & Danny is a new collaborative project between ...

Formed in Melbourne in late 2008, Twerps enjoyed immediate success, releasing a series of vinyl singles and cassettes on various labels around the world. The release of their 2011 self-titled debut ...

Formed in Melbourne in late 2008, Twerps enjoyed immediate success, releasing a series of vinyl singles and cassettes on various labels around the world. The release of their 2011 self-titled debut ...

William's new record, Goes West, is the best music that he's ever made. I'm sure of this because I know and love all of his music intimately, and this album moves me the most, and the most ...

William's new record, Goes West, is the best music that he's ever made. I'm sure of this because I know and love all of his music intimately, and this album moves me the most, and the most ...

,Impossible Truth" was born on tour as William Tyler was reading two books with an odd kinship while on long and lonely Midwestern drives: Barney Hoskyns' Hotel California and Mike Davis' The Ecology ...

,Impossible Truth" was born on tour as William Tyler was reading two books with an odd kinship while on long and lonely Midwestern drives: Barney Hoskyns' Hotel California and Mike Davis' The Ecology ...

Includes download code. "Whole New Dude" was born from a conversation with Mike Taylor (Hiss Golden Messenger) about Julian Jaynes' The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind ...

Modern Country is the fourth full-length album by guitarist and composer William Tyler and his first recorded outside of his hometown of Nashville, Tennessee. It features an ensemble backing group ...

Modern Country is the fourth full-length album by guitarist and composer William Tyler and his first recorded outside of his hometown of Nashville, Tennessee. It features an ensemble backing group ...

Recorded live at Yellowhammer Brewing in Huntsville, Alabama, in May 2021, Secret Stratosphere finds William Tyler and fellow psychedelic dreamers The Impossible Truth refashioning prime cuts from ...

Recorded live at Yellowhammer Brewing in Huntsville, Alabama, in May 2021, Secret Stratosphere finds William Tyler and fellow psychedelic dreamers The Impossible Truth refashioning prime cuts from ...

This limited edition 2LP contains the full "All Hail West Texas" covers collection, introduced over the course of podcast season one, pressed to opaque pink & opaque blue vinyl. "I Only Listen to the ...

VERTICAL SCRATCHERS is John Schmersal (ex-Brainiac/Enon, live Caribou, and Crooks on Tape) and Christian Beaulieu (ex-Triclops!/Anywhere). ,Daughter of Everything" is their debut album. Simplicity ...

VERTICAL SCRATCHERS is John Schmersal (ex-Brainiac/Enon, live Caribou, and Crooks on Tape) and Christian Beaulieu (ex-Triclops!/Anywhere). ,Daughter of Everything" is their debut album. Simplicity ...

Consisting of 12 stunning tracks, A Wasteland Companion was made with 18 musicians and recorded in eight different studios in Portland, Omaha, New York City, Los Angeles, Austin and Bristol (UK). ...

Consisting of 12 stunning tracks, A Wasteland Companion was made with 18 musicians and recorded in eight different studios in Portland, Omaha, New York City, Los Angeles, Austin and Bristol (UK). ...

Duet for Guitars #2 introduced us to M. Ward's characteristic rasp and fingerpicking prowess. More minimal in scope than future records, the songs run the gamut from lullabies to rocking declarations ...

Duet for Guitars #2 introduced us to M. Ward's characteristic rasp and fingerpicking prowess. More minimal in scope than future records, the songs run the gamut from lullabies to rocking declarations ...

For Beginners: The Best of M. Ward is a collection for M. Ward fans of any vintage. Gathering together 14 tracks from across his Merge Records discography, including the newly recorded song "Cry," ...

Hold Time is M. Ward's amazing follow-up to 2006's brilliant Post-War.Available on CD and LP, Hold Time is an eloquent and startlingly beautiful album. While past critics have compared him to ...

Hold Time is M. Ward's amazing follow-up to 2006's brilliant Post-War.Available on CD and LP, Hold Time is an eloquent and startlingly beautiful album. While past critics have compared him to ...

M. Ward returns with a stunning new album, More Rain, for release on Merge Records on March 4, 2016. Ward has released a string of acclaimed solo albums over the past several years, along with five ...

M. Ward returns with a stunning new album, More Rain, for release on Merge Records on March 4, 2016. Ward has released a string of acclaimed solo albums over the past several years, along with five ...

Post-War: the fifth M. Ward album. Its songs unravel their world-wearied tales of life, love, and human kindness with an innate and special grace, helped in part by the very talented friends who join ...

Post-War: the fifth M. Ward album. Its songs unravel their world-wearied tales of life, love, and human kindness with an innate and special grace, helped in part by the very talented friends who join ...

Post-War: the fifth M. Ward album. Its songs unravel their world-wearied tales of life, love, and human kindness with an innate and special grace, helped in part by the very talented friends who join ...

In 2003, everything broke open for Ward with the release of Transfiguration of Vincent. Critically lauded and long beloved, Pitchfork hailed it as an album that "broadcasts timelessness and defies ...

In 2003, everything broke open for Ward with the release of Transfiguration of Vincent. Critically lauded and long beloved, Pitchfork hailed it as an album that "broadcasts timelessness and defies ...

Transistor Radio: the fourth M. Ward album. Listening to M. Ward's breezy ode to radio's forgotten heydays is a lot like taking in a huge breath of dust-bowl wind -- however, its charms are rooted in ...

Transistor Radio: the fourth M. Ward album. Listening to M. Ward's breezy ode to radio's forgotten heydays is a lot like taking in a huge breath of dust-bowl wind -- however, its charms are rooted in ...

Transistor Radio: the fourth M. Ward album. Listening to M. Ward's breezy ode to radio's forgotten heydays is a lot like taking in a huge breath of dust-bowl wind -- however, its charms are rooted in ...

Katie Crutchfield's ever-shifting musical project Waxahatchee returns with the Great Thunder EP. Featuring a collection of songs written with now-dormant experimental recording group Great Thunder ...

Katie Crutchfield's ever-shifting musical project Waxahatchee returns with the Great Thunder EP. Featuring a collection of songs written with now-dormant experimental recording group Great Thunder ...

Out in the Storm, Katie Crutchfield's fourth album as Waxahatchee and her second release with Merge, is the blazing result of a woman reawakened. Her most autobiographical and honest album to date, ...

Out in the Storm, Katie Crutchfield's fourth album as Waxahatchee and her second release with Merge, is the blazing result of a woman reawakened. Her most autobiographical and honest album to date, ...

What do we hold on to from our past? What must we let go of to truly move forward? Waxahatchee's Katie Crutchfield spent much of 2018 reckoning with these questions and revisiting her roots for ...

black vinyl in standard jacket + 24 x 36 poster + LP3 album download. What do we hold on to from our past? What must we let go of to truly move forward? Waxahatchee's Katie Crutchfield spent much of ...

Wild Flag is a Portland, Oregon- and Washington, DC based quartet consisting of Carrie Brownstein, Rebecca Cole, Mary Timony, and Janet Weiss. The members of Wild Flag have played in numerous and ...

Wild Flag is a Portland, Oregon- and Washington, DC based quartet consisting of Carrie Brownstein, Rebecca Cole, Mary Timony, and Janet Weiss. The members of Wild Flag have played in numerous and ...

Wye Oak wrote what became Civilian between December of 2009 and July of 2010. The songs "are, as a whole, about aloneness (the positive kind), loneliness (the horrible kind), moving on, and letting ...

Wye Oak wrote what became Civilian between December of 2009 and July of 2010. The songs "are, as a whole, about aloneness (the positive kind), loneliness (the horrible kind), moving on, and letting ...

2LP is green swirl vinyl in a gatefold jacket. Ten years after its release, Wye Oak's Civilian remains a raw, sinewy punch of a record _ bleak and intense and lonely and self-assured all at once. The ...

natural + black swirl vinyl On June 23, 2023, Merge Records will release Every Day Like the Last: Collected Singles 2019-2023 , a physical home for three new tracks and previously released music from ...

On June 23, 2023, Merge Records will release Every Day Like the Last: Collected Singles 2019-2023 , a physical home for three new tracks and previously released music from Wye Oak, charting the past ...

On June 23, 2023, Merge Records will release Every Day Like the Last: Collected Singles 2019-2023 , a physical home for three new tracks and previously released music from Wye Oak, charting the past ...

CD reissue! Originally self-released in 2007 under the moniker Monarch, Wye Oak's debut If Children was given a proper introduction to the world the following spring on Merge Records. Jenn Wasner and ...

In 2014, Wye Oak released Shriek, their fourth album. It was a necessary departure for Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack, who found themselves on uncertain ground after two years of constant touring for ...

The Knot is Wye Oak's 2009 sophomore album. Wye Oak started as two friends (Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack) recording songwriting demos together, but their basement project has since evolved to include ...

The Knot is Wye Oak's 2009 sophomore album. Wye Oak started as two friends (Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack) recording songwriting demos together, but their basement project has since evolved to include ...

"The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs" - the triumphant fifth album by Wye Oak - begins with an explosion. For a few seconds, piano, drums, and a playful keyboard loop gather momentum; then, all at ...