New Releases for March 17, 2023

M83 - Fantasy (CD/LP)

Fantasy is a full-immersion album. Gonzalez’s tracks don’t often adhere to pop-song structure, and his lyrics often verge on gibberish. (“Hello, freak! Can you see the sky ladder by the limbo café, leading to the green ray?” I sure can!) To get the full effect, you have to go along for the ride, from the tender and acoustic quasi-folk of “Ready, Far, Gone” to the gauzy dream-funk of “Deceiver.” Even at its most vaporous, Fantasy feels urgent and physical. When Gonzalez sings, he stacks vocal tracks on top of each other and chirps so hard that you can practically see the forehead veins bulge. And while Fantasy works as a classic headphones records, its best moments, like the surging dance break on the title track, sound like the work of musicians in a room together. On some level, this sounds like communal music that’ll only reach its final form when a whole bunch of people hear it in a big room together. - Stereogum

Soul Jazz Records presents Studio One Funk CD/LP/Tape

"This collection goes deep into the Brentford Road vaults and unearths a rake of previously unreleased gems alongside hard to find classics. Heavy and inspirational, totally unique and essentially timeless." - Straight No Chaser

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong LP Reissue

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart landed with a bookish and fuzzy aesthetic, the sound of ace indie pop students mimicking their heroes. Yet the band has been forthcoming in their love of crossover alternative rock, and on their second LP, Belong, Pains link up with Flood and Alan Moulder, the superproducers who manned the boards for a number of 90s titans-- Smashing Pumpkins, Nine Inch Nails, U2, Depeche Mode, and PJ Harvey just to name a few. Coming after a scrappy, low-profile debut, this is the sort of power move that used to have cred-conscious listeners crying "sell-out!" (remember that word?), but fortunately, Belong is a bigger, bolder, and brighter follow-up that adds new dimensions to the Pains' sound while nearly equaling the songwriting of their debut. - Pitchfork

AMM - Ammmusic LP

The Animals - Best of the Animals LP

Genevieve Artadi - Forever Forever LP

Chet Baker - Sings Again LP

Bardo Pond - Volume 3 LP

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Blonde CD/LP

Daddy Long Legs - Street Sermons LP

Death & Vanilla - Flicker LP

Deux Filles - Double Happiness LP

Deux Filles - Silence & Wisdom LP

DJ Black Low - Impumelelo LP

Dojo Cuts - Pieces: Best of Dojo Cuts LP

Eric Dolphy - Outward Bound LP

Drake - Honestly Nevermind CD

Dropkick Murphys - Blackout LP

Dur-Dur Band - Berlin Session LP

Julius Eastman - Two Extended Pieces for Four Pianos LP

Eater - Album LP

Eels - End Times LP

Eels - Hombre Lobo LP

Eels - Tomorrow Morning LP

El Michels Affair & Black Thought - Glorious Game/Grateful 7”

Faust - Momentaufnahme I

Faust - Momentaufnahme II

The Flaming Lips - Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell LP

The Flaming Lips - Fight Test LP

The Four Tops - Reach Out LP

Frightened Rabbit - Pedestrian Verse CD/LP

GA-20 - Live in Loveland LP

The Get Up Kids - Eudora LP

Grand River - All Above LP

Greg - Odyssey OST LP

Greenflow - I Got’cha/No Other Life Without You 7”

Herbie Hancock - Empyrean Isles LP

Hauschka / Hildur Gudnadottir - Pan Tone LP

Inspiral Carpets - Complete Singles LP

Into the Woods (2022 Broadway Cast Recording) LP

B.B. King - Completely Well LP

Takashi Kokubo & Andrea Esperti - Music for a Cosmic Garden CD/LP

Thomas Koner - Daikan LP

Andrzej Korzynski - Diabel LP

Julian Lage - Layers LP

Danny Scott Lane - Home Decor LP

M83 - Fantasy CD/LP

Malombo Jazz Makers - Malombo Jazz Makers LP

Malombo Jazz Makers - Malompo Jazz LP

Kacey Mugraves - Same Trailer Different Park LP

Muslimgauze - Souk Bou Saada CD

Mystic - Cuts for Luck and Scars for Freedom LP

Naughty By Nature - 19NaughtyIII Tape

Neanderthals - Modern Stone-Age Family LP

Neanderthals - Neanderthals in Space LP

The Offspring - Smash LP

Old Man Gloom - Seminar II: The Holy Rites Of Primitivism Regressionism LP

Old Man Gloom - Seminar III: Zozobra LP

Pauline Oliveros - The Well & The Gentle LP

Omodaka - Zentsuu: Collected Works 2001-2019 CD/LP

Orbital - Optical Delusion LP

100 Gecs - 10,000 Gecs LP

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong LP

Pierce The Veil - Flair for the Dramatic LP

Caroline Polachek - Non Voglio Mai Vedere 7”

Iggy Pop - Iggy & Ziggy LP

Martha Reeves and the Vandellas - Watch Out! LP

Sam Rivers - Fuchsia Swing Song LP

Leon Russell - Signature Songs LP

Pharoah Sanders - Great Moments With… LP

Sandrider - Enveletration LP

Lalo Schifrin - Man on a Swing LP

The Smile - Live LP

Smino - Luv 4 Rent LP

Son Lux - Brighter Wounds LP

Andy Stott - Luxury Problems LP

Ten Years After - Space In Time LP

Tractor - Tractor LP

Transllusion - Opening of the Cerebral Gate LP

U2 - Songs of Surrender CD/LP

Piero Umiliani - Tra Scienza E Fantascienza LP

Unknown Mortal Orchestra - V CD/LP/Tape

Huma Utku - Psychologist LP

Various - All I Ever Wanted: A Tribute to Depeche Mode LP

Various - Borga Revolution Ghanaian Dance Music LP

Various – Jukebox Mambo Volume IV: Afro-Latin Accents In Rhythm & Blues 1946-1962 LP

Various – Locura Tropical Vol.2 LP

Various - Some Skin: A Modern Harmonic Bongo & Percussion Party

Various - Soul Jazz Records presents: Space Energy and Light LP

Various - Soul Jazz Records presents: Studio One Funk CD/LP/Tape

Various - Stoned Cold Country LP

Vatican Shadow - Atta’s Apartment Slated for Demolition LP

Woo - Paradise in Pimlico LP

Warren Zevon - Life’ll Kill Ya LP