Record Store Day 2025. Gilles Peterson presents International Anthem is a Deluxe Double LP compilation chronicling the infamous London-based radio host, DJ, label head, curator and cultural impresario's long-standing affinity for and interaction with artists and music from the Chicago-born record label International Anthem. The tracks on this compilation were chosen by Peterson via an extensive review of track lists from his broadcasts on BBC 6 Music, Worldwide FM, and various syndicated radio programs. The compilation also includes a previously unreleased track recorded live on the Peterson-founded online radio station Worldwide FM. The RSD exclusive 2LP is on "Frozen Lake Michigan" colored vinyl. This album is released via International Anthem as part of their "IA11" series of releases and events – where the label celebrates their eleventh year of existence by looking back on their first ten years while establishing new standards for the next ten years.

Composed, performed and produced fully by the artist herself, the new album by Cosey Fanni Tutti is equal parts abstract electronic experimentation and rhythmic propulsion, finds Jon Buckland. It has been six years since Cosey Fanni Tutti’s last solo outing (and 42 since her first). This thinly veiled sequel, 2t2, continues in much the same fertile vein as her post-Throbbing Gristle output. At the same time, it also appears a little more guarded, as if the candid moments in her early days have left her more cautious. Split into two distinct halves, 2t2 combines a back half of exploratory electronics with the more rhythmic, Chris & Cosey-esque opening tracks. Formed of mournful cornet cutting through slippery drones and pearlescent pads, the subtle centrepiece, ‘Stolen Time’, perfectly bridges these two worlds. Not that the mood throughout the record is wallowing in despondency.

In SEI guitar movement and dance take over the stage. The guitarists Kaki King and Tamar Eisenman become dancers, coordinating their whole bodies to perform the rigors of both choreography and composition. Multiple guitars are spaced out strategically, in a design allowing for music and movement to be created between them. In SEI, the relationship between the players is revealed musically and physically, a progression of distance and space—like the progression between the six individual strings of the guitar.

Amazon exclusive edition. Aoxomoxoa is the third studio album by American rock band the Grateful Dead, released on June 20, 1969, by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts. It was one of the first rock albums to be recorded using 16-track technology. The title is a meaningless palindrome, usually pronounced /ɒksə.məksˈoʊə/. Rolling Stone, upon reviewing the album, mentioned that "no other music sustains a lifestyle so delicate and loving and lifelike". The album was certified gold by the RIAA on May 13, 1997. In 1991 Rolling Stone selected Aoxomoxoa as having the eighth best album cover of all time. It was voted number 674 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000).

On January 10, 2023, Jeff Beck, a lone genius guitarist who suddenly passed away at the age of 78 while still an eternal guitar boy. To commemorate the 80th anniversary of Jeff's birth, whose original and superb technique that no one could follow was the envy of guitarists all over the world, a number of his masterpieces left by Epic Records will be reissued in four periods on Japanese analog LPs. The fourth installment will release three titles from 1999 to 2003. This work, "Who Else!", is an instrumental work released in 1999 that reacted sensitively to the trends of the scene at the time and adopted programmed rhythms, entering the so-called digital rock realm. While possessing diversity in techno, blues, and Irish traditional, the sound full of a futuristic sense created with his long-time partner Tony Hymas once again proved that he is a unique guitarist who is constantly renewing himself. This time, it will be reissued on analog LP for the first time in the world!

Moonrisers' debut album, Harsh & Exciting, delivers raw, haunting tones steeped in shadowy atmosphere, carving a unique path in the realm of "doom folk." Rooted in Detroit's experimental music scene, Libby DeCamp's evocative guitarwork and Adam Schreiber's nuanced percussion create a rhythmic force that lingers. Produced by Dan Auerbach, this instrumental, cinematic masterpiece is a must for fans of boundary-pushing soundscapes.

Under Certain Light and Atmospheric Conditions is built upon two years of live shows, soundcheck improvisations, and field recordings. It is a 38-minute dreamspace of jet lag, melatonin supplements, roaring crowds, and failing technology. Frost was joined by Greg Kubacki of Car Bomb, an original contributor on Scope Neglect (2024, Mute), and audiovisual composer Tarik Barri. They were also accompanied by sound designer Carlos Boix, whose recordings of the past year of live performances has seamlessly been woven into the album by Frost. Three of the tracks—‘Tritium Bath,’ ‘Chimera,’ and ‘Turning The Prism’—come directly from Frost's Scope Neglect, while the remaining cuts—‘Permcat,’ ‘Trancelines,’ ‘Black Thread,’ and ‘Prism Inversion’ (with their roots in Ukraine, India, Mongolia, and Brazil)—are previously unreleased.

An eclectic compilation album celebrating twenty ‘tips of the tongue’ from David Keenan, released to coincide with a book of his collected music writing. As well as being the title of a book. Volcanic Tongue was a record shop that existed in Glasgow from 2005 to 2015, run by David Keenan and Heather Leigh, it championed contemporary DIY music from around the world, often released in tiny runs on homemade CD-Rs, and also sought to shine a light on forgotten artists from the past, who had often released their music as a ‘private press’ LP. The shop was also known for it’s weekly mailing list, with Keenan enthusiastically rapping about new arrivals, especially the record of the week, given the sobriquet ‘tip of the tongue’. This collection has been put together from releases that were a ‘tip of the tongue’, containing music that runs the gamut from outsider synth to psych-folk to damaged rock’n’roll, with tracks recorded between 1968 and 2013, a celebration of a vibrant and eclectic underground avant-garde.

Further Down the Spiral is a remix album by the American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails. It is the companion remix disc to the band’s second studio album, The Downward Spiral, and was released on May 29, 1995, in two editions, one denoted as Halo 10 (released in the United States), and the other as Halo 10 V2 (released in Japan, Australia, and the UK), each containing a different set of tracks.

Philly prog-funk fusion trio Muscle Tough have been performing shows to celebrate their 10th year making music as a band and have released their latest album, Too Busy 4 Jail. From downright chaotic to delicate & tender, the band's third LP spans the spectrum of emotions and style. One quickly learns that nothing stands in the way of Ross Bellenoit, Joe Baldacci, and Jonathan Colman, pushing boundaries and displaying the compositional prowess & experience under their belts that only tight-knit bands display. Harkening back to their 2016 EP title track, Greasin' Up The Mediocrity Wheel, MT delivers a progressive approach with complex arrangements, while executing engaging and developing music in the 8-track offering.

Doctor Dark (alternatively stylized as Dr Dark or Dr. Dark) is an upcoming studio album and "modern theater piece/opera" by The Residents, scheduled for release on CD and vinyl on February 28th 2025 by Cherry Red Records, MVD Audio and New Ralph Too, with two limited vinyl editions also expected from Psychofon Records.

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2025 reissue. With Obi containing Japanese translation. MASTERED & PRESSED IN JAPAN.

Recorded live at the Phoenix Central Park, Sydney, August 22nd 2024.

1st pressing on vinyl. Limited Edition of 500. 250 on Black (This), & 250 on White. Although their first two efforts, 2000's Terra Incognita and 2003's The Link, had been quite impressive in their own ways, Gojira's third album, 2005's From Mars to Sirius, was the one that really stamped the French quartet's all-pro credentials, gaining them access into the exclusive top echelon of the world's progressive metal elite. Meticulously conceived from the inside out, the record radiated a newfound confidence to match both the unprecedented diversity of its musical palette, and the evocative cover art (featuring a whale adrift amongst mystery planets) representative of its often otherworldly qualities. Yes, the band's primary influences – Pantera's heavy grooves, Meshuggah's icy technicality, Neurosis' post-metal atmospherics – were still very evident in complex new musical excursions like "Ocean Planet," "From the Sky," and "The Heaviest Matter in the Universe" (listen for their shared, Dimebag-inspired, jarring guitar-squeal effect).

Soap&Skin releases her first cover album Torso. Anja Plaschg alias Soap&Skin has always had a special talent for reinterpreting songs with her own unique approach. When the Donau-Festival invited her in 2022 to perform all the cover songs she had composed over the years, she came up with the idea of a permanent collection - which is now released as the album Torso. The previous albums Narrow (2012) and From Gas to Solid / You Are My Friend (2018) also featured covers without being immediately recognized as such. Simply because “it feels good to escape from myself”, says Plaschg. She likes covers - quite literally as a disguise and hiding place.