The Strokes - Reality Awaits

Produced by Rick Rubin, Reality Awaits is the 7th album from The Strokes. Full track list includes nine new songs. The New Yorkers' first album in six years takes them even further away from where they started out. That, as this weird and wonderful collection proves, is no bad thing at all. Allying the crackpot strangeness of Julian Casablancas' side projects with his band's gift for pop minimalism, the New Yorkers are on playful, joyous form.

Charli XCX - Music, Fashion, Film

Her proper follow-up to Brat is a brilliant, catchy, often very funny look at the machinery of fame. Charli has, wisely, throttled back for a fashionably short new album with a "one for me" feeling that resembles the quasi-vérité style of How I'm Feeling Now. Music, Fashion, Film makes a few pointed rejoinders to Brat style: Rather than club pop and wounded electronics, Charli and co-producers AG Cook and Finn Keane are making "rock music," with guitars. The mood has shifted, themes of career insecurity and self-doubt replaced with creativity and gratitude for success.

Punch Brothers - The Unsung Adventures of

The 7th album from the band- and it's first comprising all instrumental tunes as well as it's first with fiddle player Brittany Haas. The album's title is more than a play on words: without lyrics to guide the listener, these are stories, impressions, and emotions communicated entirely with strings through melody, harmony, rhythm, and a literary sense of musical structure. For a band known for pushing acoustic music into unexpected places, going fully instrumental may be the most adventurous move they have made yet.

Corb Lund - Dark Horses

Dark Horses is a collection of songs hand-picked by Corb from across his catalog, presented in chronological order and rerecorded as solo acoustic performances. Stripped down and intimate, these new versions offer a fresh perspective on familiar material - and the result is an illuminating listening experience that showcases the depth and craft of Corb's songwriting.

Sella - Well I Mean

While the Front Bottoms continue to record and tour, Brian Sella has also struck out on his own in an effort to keep things fresh. Sella has titled songs after places in the past, but these new songs feel more like internal landscapes, metaphoric places for what's going on inside Sella's head. Sonically, many of the songs feature ambient rivers of sound that run parallel to the voice and guitar rivers of blended instruments; repeated piano and guitar melodies play off each other, horn sections ebb and flow, there's even a flugelhorn that bends around the edges of jazz.

Mojave 3 - reissues

Mojave 3's members are Neil Halstead, Rachel Goswell, and Ian McCutcheon. The band broke cover in 1995, when a demo impressed 4AD sufficiently to offer them a deal, despite a then-prevailing musical climate of bumptious Britpop that seemed totally at odds with what Mojave 3 were doing. Their incongruence was hardly surprising given that Halstead, Goswell and McCutcheon had formed as members of definitive shoegazers Slowdive. Long out of print, these five CD/LP reissues have been remastered at Abbey Road.

More New Releases

Domi & JD Beck - Who Asked
The HU - Hun
Charles Lloyd - Sangam & Friends
Patron Saints of Violence - Ultraviolet 7"/Tape
The Revivalists - Get It Honest
Rezn - Cycles in the Infinite Dream
River Shook - s/t
Shania Twain - Little Miss Twain
Tyla - A*Pop
Waterparks - Jinx
Willow - Thread

New Reissue / Archival Zone

David Bowie - LP reissues
The Damned - Damned, Damned, Damned LP
Dance Gavin Dance - Mothership LP
Echo & the Bunnymen - Songs to Learn and Sing LP
Freddie Hubbard - Artistry Of Freddie Hubbard LP
Kingfish (Bob Weir) - s/t LP
NRBQ - Workshop [DLX CD]
The Smiths - Best Of I/II LP
Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis [Rhino HiFi LP]
Toadies - Rubberneck LP

Back in Stock

A brief selection of titles recently back in stock...
David Bowie, Khruangbin, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Dinosaur Jr, Songs:Ohia, Radiohead, Big Thief, Pavement, Cocteau Twins, Pixies, Mountain Goats, and many more! Roll thru & get diggin'!