Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World (Matador)

The first studio album in five years from Yo La Tengo. Recorded at their practice space in Hoboken NJ, the new material captures the collaborative energy and eclecticism that has defined the band's career as it enters it's 40th year.

Brad Mehldau - Your Mother Should Know: Plays The Beatles (Nonesuch)

This live solo album - recorded in September 2020 at Philharmonie de Paris-- features the pianist/composer's interpretations of nine songs by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, one by George Harrison, and ends with a David Bowie classic that connects the Beatles with the pop songwriters who followed. Free poster with purchase while supplies last.

Narrow Head - Moments of Clarity LP (Run for Cover)

On their third LP, the Houston-based outfit delivers massive, churning riffs - often distorted to the point of violence - bouncing, lock-grooved rhythms, and crystalline hooks.

Lisa O'Neill - All Of This Is Chance (Rough Trade)

New album from contemporary Irish music singer/songwriter follows five BBC Folk Awards nominations and a designation by the Guardian UK for Folk Album of the Year in 2019. All Of This Is Chance is her first for the Rough Trade label.

Paramore - This Is Why (Atlantic)

The band's first album in nearly six years, following After Laughter (2017), as well as their first album to feature the same line-up as it's predecessor. Free posters and wristbands with purchase.

Quasi - Breaking The Balls Of History (Sub Pop)

Tenth record from Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss (ex-Sleater-Kinney, Jicks, Wild Flag) lands ten years after their last record, and 30 years since they began playing together.

Andy Shauf - Norm (Anti)

Andy writes albums that unfold like short fiction, full of colorful characters, fine details and a rich emotional depth. Here, he has slyly deconstructed and reshaped the style for which he's been celebrated, elevating his songwriting with intricate layers and perspectives, challenging himself to find a new direction. Under the guise of an intoxicating collection of jazz-inflected romantic ballads, his storytelling has become decidedly more oblique, hinting at ominous situations and dark motivations.

Tennis - Pollen (Mutually Detrimental)

The sixth album from the acclaimed indie-pop duo Tennis, produced and recorded by the husband and wife duo of Patrick Riley and Alaina Moore.

White Heaven - Strange Bedfellow (Black Editions)

From 1993, White Heaven's second album is one of the great unsung albums of the 90's Japanese psych-rock underground. Released two years after their striking debut, Out, the album reveals the group shifting to a more dynamic sound, transmuting west-coast psychedelia and garage into fuzz-drenched rockers.

The Golden Dregs - On Grace & Dignity (4AD)

The third Golden Dregs album reflects on loss of innocence and inferiority, grounded by singer Benjamin Woods' deep voice, inspired by Lambchop's Kurt Wagner and by Silver Jews' David Berman.

Kelela - Raven (Warp)

Kelela emerges from the tides of her higher self’s oceanic orbit with a 15-track, continuous play album exploring autonomy, belonging and self-renewal as healing. With all the sonic, visual, and physical sensualism that magnetized her early core fanbase, Kelela’s new album finds her more certain and at ease with her creative fluidity’s exceptionality, no matter how high or wide its waves.

Also New This Week

Black Belt Eagle Scout - Land the Water the Sky (Saddle Creek)
Blushing - Tether/Weak LP (Kanine)
Carm - Carm II (37d03d)
Count Ossie & The Mystic Revelation Of Rastafari - Tales Of Mozambique (Soul Jazz)
Cymande - s/t LP [reissue] (Partisan)
Darkthrone - Goatlord: Original (Peaceville)
Oliver Hart [Eyedea] - The Many Faces of Oliver Hart LP (Rhymesayers)
Hollie Kenniff - We All Have Places That We Miss (Western Vinyl)
Laraaji - Segue To Infinity [LP Box] (Numero)
Odesza - Summer's Gone [reissue LP] (Foreign Family Collective)
Pierce the Veil - Jaws of Life (Fearless)
Pretty Reckless - Other Worlds (Fearless)
The Rolling Stones - Grrr Live! (Mercury)
Say She She - Trouble 7" (Colemine)
Sleep - Dopesmoker [CD/LP reissue] (Third Man)
Soul Glo - Diaspora Problems LP (Secret Voice)
Tubeway Army [Gary Numan] - s/t debut [reissue LP] (Beggars)

Back in Stock Vinyl

A brief selection of albums recently back in stock...
Metallica, Kraftwerk, Prince, Stooges, John Prine, Phoebe Bridgers, Sufjan Stevens, Fela Kuti, Waxahatchee, Silver Jews, St Vincent, Yo La Tengo, Daft Punk, Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, plus many MANY more... stop by and get digging!