Avant Garde & Classical | Genres

Janek Schaefer & William Basinski ...On Reflection
- LP - Metallic Silver vinyl £27.99
- LP - black vinyl £25.99
- CD £11.99
Janek Schaefer & William Basinski ...On Reflection
- LP - Metallic Silver vinyl £27.99
- LP - black vinyl £25.99
- CD £11.99
New collaboration from William Basinski (The Disintegration Loops), and acclaimed experimental composer, Janek Schaefer.
Label
Temporary Residence
Released
21 Oct 2022
Gnac* Afternoon Frost
- LP - green vinyl £19.99
Gnac* Afternoon Frost
- LP - green vinyl £19.99
Afternoon Frost is the sixth full-length from composer Mark Tranmerʼs instrumental GNAC project.
Label
Verticle Features
Released
25 Nov 2022
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Sarah Davachi Antiphonals
- LP - silver vinyl £21.99
- CD £13.99
Sarah Davachi Antiphonals
- LP - silver vinyl £21.99
- CD £13.99
It was once said that listening to Antiphonals was, “like listening to a progressive rock album except it’s just the keyboard parts.”
Label
Late Music
Released
10 Sep 2021
Dep's Pick
Andrew Poppy Ark Hive Of A Live
- 4xCD Boxset £30.00
Andrew Poppy Ark Hive Of A Live
- 4xCD Boxset £30.00
Ark Hive of A Live is a 4 CD set of recordings by Andrew Poppy, along with a 128 page book, including writing by Andrew Poppy; an introduction by Paul [...]
Label
Four Walls
Released
2 May 2023
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Maurizio Bianchi Armaghedon
- LP £26.99
Maurizio Bianchi Armaghedon
- LP £26.99
Maurizio Bianchi Armaghedon album is the soundtrack to the year 1984.
Label
Verlag System
Released
30 Apr 2021
Aunt Sally Aunt Sally
- LP - black vinyl £37.99
Aunt Sally Aunt Sally
- LP - black vinyl £37.99
Aunt Sally's seminal 1979 debut album, finally reissued in a beautiful official reissue. A testament to glorious rule breaking.
Label
Mesh-Key
Released
26 Sep 2022
Archive of the Week
Laurie Anderson Big Science
- LP - Red Vinyl £19.99
Laurie Anderson Big Science
- LP - Red Vinyl £19.99
Laurie Anderson’s 1982 debut album returns to vinyl for the first time in 30 years with a new red vinyl edition.
Label
Warner
Released
14 Apr 2021
Monorail Classics
Jon Collin Bridge Variations (Of The Song Of Stokholm)
- LP with booklet £24.99
Jon Collin Bridge Variations (Of The Song Of Stokholm)
- LP with booklet £24.99
Opening with a whistling gale and the fumbled realism of a human being in space, Jon Collin’s latest long player – for the Discreet label this t [...]
Label
Discreet Music
Released
8 Sep 2022
Michael's Pick
Fennesz / Ryuichi Sakamoto Cendre
- 2x10" £27.99
Fennesz / Ryuichi Sakamoto Cendre
- 2x10" £27.99
Ryuichi Sakamoto and Christian Fennesz blend the unstructured and imaginative qualities of improvisation with the satisfying sculpture of composition.
Label
Touch
Released
14 Oct 2021
Stefan Christensen Cheap Things
- LP - black vinyl £10.99
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Stefan Christensen Cheap Things
- LP - black vinyl £10.99
In many regards, Cheap Things represents an apex of the universe Christensen has fostered over the last decade, both collaborative and highly personal
Label
World Of Echo
Released
20 Aug 2021
Graeme Miller Comet In Moominland OST
- LP £23.99
Graeme Miller Comet In Moominland OST
- LP £23.99
From deep in the heart of Moominvalley, frozen in time for many midwinters passed, comes a genuine treasure chest of never heard Moomin melodies...
Label
Finders Keepers
Released
3 Jun 2022
Arthur Russell Corn
- LP £21.99
Arthur Russell Corn
- LP £21.99
Arthur Russell’s acclaimed albums ‘Love Is Overtaking Me’ and ‘Corn’ will now both be made available on vinyl in the UK / EU for the first time.
Label
Rough Trade
Released
2 Dec 2022
Cults Percussion Ensemble Cults Percussion Ensemble
- LP £21.99
Cults Percussion Ensemble Cults Percussion Ensemble
- LP £21.99
Legendary privately pressed 1979 LP from Scotland played by a group of 11 girls with an average age of 14, including Evelyn Glennie...
Label
Trunk
Released
1 Apr 2022
Monorail Classics
Valentina Magaletti & Laila Sakini Cupo
- LP - clear vinyl £26.99
Valentina Magaletti & Laila Sakini Cupo
- LP - clear vinyl £26.99
The restraint of instrumentation in Cupo defines the moods as much as the palette: thick, industrial street scenes with menacing panned trumpets...
Label
Magaletti Sakini
Released
18 Apr 2023
Staff Pick
Dean McPhee / Mary Arches Devon Folklore Tapes V: Ornithology
- 2x10" with Booklet £14.99
Dean McPhee / Mary Arches Devon Folklore Tapes V: Ornithology
- 2x10" with Booklet £14.99
Heed the magpie’s disquieting call. It’s a death knell lurking in birdskull. Perfidious bird; an emissary of ill omen in avian and human lore alike. I [...]
Label
Folklore Tapes
Released
26 Jan 2022
Ian Humberstone & David Chatton Baker Devon Folklore Tapes VI: Theo Brown & The Folklore Of Dartmoor
- 2LP with Bookbound Insert £18.99
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Ian Humberstone & David Chatton Baker Devon Folklore Tapes VI: Theo Brown & The Folklore Of Dartmoor
- 2LP with Bookbound Insert £18.99
Incredible work from one of the UK's most devoted exploratory labels. Comes with Monorail Exclusive Folklore Tapes Sampler.
Label
Folklore Tapes
Released
26 Jan 2022
Monorail Exclusive
R.D. Kirdiv and S.V. Skirling Devon Folklore Tapes VII: Two Ruins
- LP - black vinyl £7.99
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R.D. Kirdiv and S.V. Skirling Devon Folklore Tapes VII: Two Ruins
- LP - black vinyl £7.99
Flesh soon yields, but stone is greater; the works of man survive the maker, Yet, given time, new flesh brings breath; and fastens song to stone’s unr [...]
Label
Folklore Tapes
Released
27 Jan 2022
The Lord (Greg Anderson of Sunn O)))) and Petra Haden Devotional
- LP - white vinyl £28.99
The Lord (Greg Anderson of Sunn O)))) and Petra Haden Devotional
- LP - white vinyl £28.99
Devotional is a new collaborative album with Greg Anderson (sunn O))), Goatsnake, Engine Kid) + vocalist and violinist Petra Haden...
Label
Southern Lord
Released
21 Oct 2022
Russell's Pick
Hallelujahs Eat Meat, Swear An Oath
- LP £33.99
Hallelujahs Eat Meat, Swear An Oath
- LP £33.99
A dreamlike dispatch from mid-80s Japan, the first and only Hallelujahs album is an entrancing and gentle work of psychedelic pop brilliance.
Label
Blank Editions
Released
13 Jan 2023
Stephen's Pick
Chaos Echoes Ecstasy With the Nonexistents
- LP £18.99
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Chaos Echoes Ecstasy With the Nonexistents
- LP £18.99
The final testament from the absolute gods of underground experimental death metal.
Label
Sentient Ruin
Released
16 Apr 2021
Time Is Away Fable Of The Bees
- CD £9.99
Time Is Away Fable Of The Bees
- CD £9.99
"The piece was originally commissioned by Black Tower Projects as part of our exhibition with them last February..."
Label
Idle Press
Released
23 Aug 2021
Stephen's Pick
Caterina Barbieri Fantas Variations
- 2xLP £29.99
Caterina Barbieri Fantas Variations
- 2xLP £29.99
Fantas Variations maps out eight new potentials for the composition.
Label
Editions Mego
Released
14 May 2021
Michael's Pick
Huerco S For Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)
- 2LP - Black Vinyl £24.99
Huerco S For Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)
- 2LP - Black Vinyl £24.99
Huerco S, having built a reputation as a distorted disco master, pulls a curve ball with his ambient opus, For Those Of You Who Have Never...
Label
Prohibito
Released
28 Jan 2022
Michael's Pick
Ensemble Avantgarde & Steve Reich Four Organs / Phase Patterns / Pendulum Music
- LP - black vinyl £23.99
Ensemble Avantgarde & Steve Reich Four Organs / Phase Patterns / Pendulum Music
- LP - black vinyl £23.99
“By the ’90s, a number of record labels began to re-investigate some of the earlier, pre-fame works of minimalist composers, both establis [...]
Label
Karl Records
Released
29 Aug 2022
Dep's Pick
Andrew Wasylyk Fugitive Light And Themes Of Consolation
- LP £19.99
Andrew Wasylyk Fugitive Light And Themes Of Consolation
- LP £19.99
Black un-numbered vinyl.
Label
Athens Of The North
Released
18 Sep 2020
Monorail Exclusive
Growing & Mary Lattimore Gainer
- LP - Transluscent Red Vinyl £29.99
Growing & Mary Lattimore Gainer
- LP - Transluscent Red Vinyl £29.99
Unfurling, rolling drone, an utterly delightful double sider from two kindred spirits.
Released
29 Jul 2022
Michael's Pick
Dewa Alit & Gamelan Salukat Genetic
- LP £14.99
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Dewa Alit & Gamelan Salukat Genetic
- LP £14.99
Black Truffle announce Genetic, the first release outside Indonesia from contemporary Balinese composer Dewa Alit and his Gamelan Salukat.
Label
Black Truffle
Released
20 Feb 2022
Russell's Pick
Nils Frahm Graz
- LP £23.99
- CD £13.99
Nils Frahm Graz
- LP £23.99
- CD £13.99
Graz is in the first studio album Frahm recorded for the label back in 2009, that somehow remained a secret… until now.
Label
Erased Tapes
Released
30 Jul 2021
Shizuka Heavenly Persona
- 2LP - Black Vinyl £58.99
Shizuka Heavenly Persona
- 2LP - Black Vinyl £58.99
Black Editions presents Shizuka's sole studio album, 1994's Heavenly Persona. A step into the portal to eternal sadness. We urge you to take it.
Label
Black Editions
Released
5 May 2023
Staff Pick
Richard Dawson & Circle Henki
- Green Vinyl 2XLP £29.99
Richard Dawson & Circle Henki
- Green Vinyl 2XLP £29.99
Henki’s seven tracks deal with special plants throughout history, making it the greatest flora-themed hypno-folk-metal record you’ll hear this year.
Label
Domino
Released
26 Nov 2021
Kevin Daniel Cahill Impossible Worlds
- CD £12.00
Kevin Daniel Cahill Impossible Worlds
- CD £12.00
Stunning long-form, ambient swells manipulated with guitars and tape loops.
Label
False Walls
Released
2 May 2023
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Omochi Interior 1
- LP £26.99
Omochi Interior 1
- LP £26.99
Omochi, (honorific “O” before mochi) in daily parlance is a rice cake, a dense glutinous product suited to many recipes, sweet or savoury.
Label
Ethbo
Released
2 Dec 2022
Staff Pick
Pan Daijing Jade
- LP £7.99
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Pan Daijing Jade
- LP £7.99
Operatic, unsettling vocals spoken word interludes, paired with visceral noise, from the sound artist and PAN mainstay.
Label
PAN
Released
7 Aug 2021
Staff Pick
Pharoah Sanders Karma
- LP £37.99
Pharoah Sanders Karma
- LP £37.99
"The Creator Has a Master Plan" is as close as Spiritual Jazz comes to having its own anthem.
Label
Verve (Acoustic Sounds Series)
Released
16 Dec 2022
Archive of the Week
Arca KICK ii
- Black Vinyl LP £10.99
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Arca KICK ii
- Black Vinyl LP £10.99
Produced and recorded by Arca, The complete Kick Cycle; KICK ii – kiCK iiiii. The Grammy nominated Venezuelan star, showcasing the multiplicity of her [...]
Label
XL
Released
20 May 2022
Jon Dale Last Blues
- LP - black vinyl £20.99
Jon Dale Last Blues
- LP - black vinyl £20.99
If Metal Machine music's instruments left to howl into the void were soothed and allowed to exist in peace.
Label
Delacatessen Records
Released
30 Sep 2022
Michael's Pick
Keeley Forsyth Limbs
- CD £10.99
- LP - Dinked Edition oxblood vinyl £23.99
- LP - Indies white vinyl £21.99
Keeley Forsyth Limbs
- CD £10.99
- LP - Dinked Edition oxblood vinyl £23.99
- LP - Indies white vinyl £21.99
Keeley Forsyth’s 2020 debut album found an elemental voice ringing out from beneath the rubble. Understated but devastating, Debris’ success led [...]
Label
Leaf
Released
25 Feb 2022
Kali Malone Living Torch
- LP £24.99
Kali Malone Living Torch
- LP £24.99
Living Torch, through its unique structural form and harmonic material, is a bold continuation of Kali Malone’s demanding and exciting body of work...
Label
Ina GRM
Released
18 Apr 2023
Michael's Pick
Various Artists Longing for the Shadow: Ryūkōka Recordings, 1921-1939
- CD £13.99
- LP £23.99
Various Artists Longing for the Shadow: Ryūkōka Recordings, 1921-1939
- CD £13.99
- LP £23.99
Emerging during the early stages of the recording industry in Japan, the ryūkōka style adopted western classical, blues & jazz elements...
Label
Death Is Not The End
Released
16 Dec 2022
Russell's Pick
Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer & Shahzad Ismaily Love In Exile
- 2xLP £37.99
Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer & Shahzad Ismaily Love In Exile
- 2xLP £37.99
Shimmering keyboard melodies and stirring vocals, earthy basslines, and hypnotic drones: together they create an album of stunning gravitas and beauty
Label
Verve
Released
24 Mar 2023
Arthur Russell Love Is Overtaking Me
- 2xLP £25.99
Arthur Russell Love Is Overtaking Me
- 2xLP £25.99
Arthur Russell’s acclaimed albums ‘Love Is Overtaking Me’ and ‘Corn’will now both be made available on vinyl in the UK / EU for the first time.
Label
Rough Trade
Released
2 Dec 2022
Michael's Pick
David Boulter Lover’s Walk (Instrumental)
- Limited Colour Vinyl LP £21.99
David Boulter Lover’s Walk (Instrumental)
- Limited Colour Vinyl LP £21.99
After the successful release of Lover's Walk, David Boulter is back with a purely instrumental version. Only available with us and Norman Records.
Label
The Spoken World
Released
1 Jul 2022
Monorail Exclusive
David Sylvian Manafon
- 2LP - Black Vinyl £31.99
David Sylvian Manafon
- 2LP - Black Vinyl £31.99
David Sylvian describes his 2nd solo album for his own Samadhisound label as being: “A modern kind of chamber music. Intimate, dynamic, emotive, democ [...]
Label
UMC
Released
2 Sep 2022
Bobby Krlic Midsommar OST
- White And Red Marbled Vinyl LP £18.99
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Bobby Krlic Midsommar OST
- White And Red Marbled Vinyl LP £18.99
Midsommar is a folk horror film written and directed by Ari Aster. It follows a couple (played by Florence Pugh and Jack Reynor) and their friends who [...]
Label
Music On Vinyl
Released
18 Oct 2021
Staff Pick
Treasury Of Puppies Mitt Stora Nu
- LP - black vinyl £13.99
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Treasury Of Puppies Mitt Stora Nu
- LP - black vinyl £13.99
Ahh Gothenburg. Port city full of sailors, steaming ships, industrial belt and what is probably the most mysterious and edifying scene of experimental [...]
Label
Discreet Music
Released
25 Mar 2022
Michael's Pick
Richard Youngs Modern Sorrow
- LP £22.99
Richard Youngs Modern Sorrow
- LP £22.99
Modern Sorrow serves up two sides of twistedly elegiac, radically stark takes on contemporary pop production.
Label
Black Truffle
Released
2 Apr 2023
Dep's Pick
Helena Celle Music For Counterflows
- CD £12.00
Helena Celle Music For Counterflows
- CD £12.00
Beguiling hour-long piece by Kay "Helena Celle" Logan, submerged, melodic exotica adrift in inky darkness
Label
False Walls
Released
2 May 2023
Michael's Pick
Erland Cooper Music For Growing Flowers
- LP £22.99
Erland Cooper Music For Growing Flowers
- LP £22.99
Erland Cooper shares a new mesmerising ambient album to be listened to while growing your own flowers and plants.
Label
Mercury
Released
19 Aug 2022
Staff Pick
Coil Musick To Play In The Dark
- 2xLP - indies only vinyl £27.99
Coil Musick To Play In The Dark
- 2xLP - indies only vinyl £27.99
Masters of the dark, Coil famously proposed that, to paraphrase heavily, the night time is the right time.
Label
Dias
Released
5 Feb 2021
Michael's Pick
Blackwater Navigation
- LP £12.99
Blackwater Navigation
- LP £12.99
Navigation, the debut LP from Blackwater, and latest release from Ethbo, the mother label to Japan Blues.
Label
Ethbo
Released
14 Jan 2022
Various Artists Neuro-Defragmentation
- LP £22.99
Various Artists Neuro-Defragmentation
- LP £22.99
A various artists ambient compilation featuring tracks from Funki Porcini, Pataphysical, James Osland, Obelisks and Quilsk...
Label
New Words
Released
2 Sep 2022
Staff Pick
goat (Japan) New Games / Rhythm & Sound
- LP £19.99
goat (Japan) New Games / Rhythm & Sound
- LP £19.99
This is the long-awaited, first-ever vinyl release from the Osaka-based band 'goat'.
Label
Em
Released
13 Jan 2022
Russell's Pick
Forgiveness Next Time Could Be Your Last Time
- LP - clear vinyl £23.99
Forgiveness Next Time Could Be Your Last Time
- LP - clear vinyl £23.99
"not really jazz, not really new age, not really ambient or electronica", instead they welcome you into a synaesthesia-inducing technicolour fantasy..
Label
Gondwana
Released
10 Jun 2022
Russell's Pick
Cosey Fanni Tutti Original Soundtrack Recordings from the film ‘Delia Derbyshire: The Myths And The Legendary Tapes’
- LP - ultra clear vinyl £22.99
Cosey Fanni Tutti Original Soundtrack Recordings from the film ‘Delia Derbyshire: The Myths And The Legendary Tapes’
- LP - ultra clear vinyl £22.99
Cosey Fanni Tutti has announced details of a new album, Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and the Legendary Tapes, her original soundtrack recordings...
Label
Conspiracy International
Released
16 Sep 2022
Staff Pick
Lisel Patterns For Auto-Tuned Voice And Delay
- LP £28.99
Lisel Patterns For Auto-Tuned Voice And Delay
- LP £28.99
From Philip Glass to Charli XCX, Carl Stone to Grimes, Patterns makes radical connections.
Label
Ba Da Bing!
Released
10 Mar 2023
Russell's Pick
Blod Pilgrimssanger
- LP - black vinyl £9.99
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Blod Pilgrimssanger
- LP - black vinyl £9.99
Hand-screenprinted, varying differing colours. Comes with A4 page hymn sheet. They say the devil has all the best tunes, but maybe his opposite number [...]
Label
Discreet Music
Released
24 Jun 2022
Michael's Pick
Ivor Cutler & Linda Hirst Privilege
- LP £23.99
Ivor Cutler & Linda Hirst Privilege
- LP £23.99
Ivor Cutler is loved by generations of fans - including Paul McCartney, Billy Connolly and Alex Kapranos - for his unique music and poetic humour.
Label
Hoorgi House
Released
25 Nov 2022
Monorail Classics
Semay Wu Raspberry Hotel
- Cassette £7.99
Semay Wu Raspberry Hotel
- Cassette £7.99
Having lived and worked in numerous musical directions for many years, Semay Wu’s begrudgingly faithful cello still remains at her side...
Label
Akashic Records
Released
7 Feb 2023
Lizzie's Pick
Tape Rideau
- LP £27.99
Tape Rideau
- LP £27.99
Absolute masterpiece. Reissue of the 3rd album by the great Swedish trio, Tape, on vinyl for the first time.
Label
Morr Music
Released
19 Dec 2022
Monorail Classics
David Keenan & Han Bennink & Peter Brotzmann Schwarzwaldfahrt 1977
- Book + CD £29.99
David Keenan & Han Bennink & Peter Brotzmann Schwarzwaldfahrt 1977
- Book + CD £29.99
“In the spring of 1977, two musicians – Han Bennink and Peter Brötzmann – disappeared into the depths of a German deity named Dark Forest…” – David Ke [...]
Label
Trost/Wolke
Released
9 Dec 2022
Monorail Exclusive
Thurston Moore Screen Time
- LP - black vinyl £10.99
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Thurston Moore Screen Time
- LP - black vinyl £10.99
Screen Time is a series of instrumental guitar pieces recorded during the summer of 2020 as the world confronted the pandemic shutdown and as the peop [...]
Label
Southern Lord
Released
18 Mar 2022
Dep's Pick
OZmotic & Fennesz Senzatempo
- LP £26.99
OZmotic & Fennesz Senzatempo
- LP £26.99
A symphonic work for an imaginary orchestra in which melodies, counterpoints, dynamics and sonorities define a structural breadth...
Label
Touch
Released
14 Apr 2023
Staff Pick
Grouper Shade
- Black Vinyl LP £21.99
- CD £14.99
Grouper Shade
- Black Vinyl LP £21.99
- CD £14.99
The 12th full-length by Pacific Northwest artist Liz Harris aka Grouper is a collection of songs spanning 15 years.
Label
Kranky
Released
22 Oct 2021
Staff Pick
Trees Speak Shadow Forms
- LP - brick red vinyl £24.99
Trees Speak Shadow Forms
- LP - brick red vinyl £24.99
Absolutely stunning second album from Trees Speak, new on Soul Jazz Records.
Label
Soul Jazz
Released
13 Feb 2022
Russell's Pick
Astrid Øster Mortensen Skærsgårdslyd
- LP - black vinyl £23.99
Astrid Øster Mortensen Skærsgårdslyd
- LP - black vinyl £23.99
This is a really beautiful record. Astrid Oster Mortensen’s music is subtle and lower case, confident in taking up the space it opens up.
Label
Discreet Music
Released
22 Feb 2022
Michael's Pick
Caterina Barbieri Spirit Exit
- 2LP - Black Vinyl £25.99
Caterina Barbieri Spirit Exit
- 2LP - Black Vinyl £25.99
The musical vortexes of Caterina Barbieri rewire time and space. Listening to the Italian composer and modular synth virtuoso has felt like traveling [...]
Label
Light Years
Released
8 Jul 2022
Michael's Pick
Julius Eastman Stay On It / The Holy Presence Of Joan D'Arc
- LP - Repress Black Vinyl £34.99
- LP - black vinyl £28.99
Julius Eastman Stay On It / The Holy Presence Of Joan D'Arc
- LP - Repress Black Vinyl £34.99
- LP - black vinyl £28.99
Julius Eastman is, without a doubt, one of the unsung geniuses of the American avant garde. Although his work is associated with the minimalism, it en [...]
Label
Week-End
Released
14 Apr 2023
Staff Pick
Cindytalk Subterminal
- CD £12.00
Cindytalk Subterminal
- CD £12.00
“Cindytalk are pushing the boundaries of what music can be, reinventing and pursuing sonic possibilities, combining the actuality of the world with th [...]
Label
False Walls
Released
2 May 2023
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Various Artists Swifter Than The Moon's Sphere: English Fairy Lore
- LP with booklet £19.99
Various Artists Swifter Than The Moon's Sphere: English Fairy Lore
- LP with booklet £19.99
Doesn't get more esoterically moving than this collection of responses to English fairy lore, courtesy of one of our favourite labels, Folklore Tapes.
Label
Folklore Tapes
Released
16 Mar 2022
Staff Pick
Sam McLoughlin & David Chatton Barker Tales Of The Monstone
- LP with Bookbound insert £23.99
Sam McLoughlin & David Chatton Barker Tales Of The Monstone
- LP with Bookbound insert £23.99
‘Our nursery legends and superstitions are fast becoming matters of history, except in more remote quarters of the country’. It is found that many of [...]
Label
Folklore Tapes
Released
26 Jan 2022
Tara Clerkin Trio Tara Clerkin Trio
- LP £14.99
Tara Clerkin Trio Tara Clerkin Trio
- LP £14.99
This is one of the great records of 2020. The Tara Clerkin Trio have an extraordinary otherness about them, the music just is.
Label
Laura Lies In
Released
18 Jan 2022
Stephen's Pick
Shiho Yabuki The Body Is A Message of the Universe
- LP £25.99
Shiho Yabuki The Body Is A Message of the Universe
- LP £25.99
Limited edition reissue of this legendary, rare and unusually dreamy electronic ambient new age album
Label
Subliminal Sounds
Released
9 Dec 2022
Staff Pick
The Dead Texan The Dead Texan
- LP - black vinyl £27.99
The Dead Texan The Dead Texan
- LP - black vinyl £27.99
First vinyl issue of the sole The Dead Texan album originally released in 2004. Gatefold Sleeve. “Stars Of The Lid’s Adam Wiltzie presents a collectio [...]
Label
Kranky
Released
26 Sep 2022
Faust The Faust Tapes
- LP £23.99
Faust The Faust Tapes
- LP £23.99
There's something perversely fabulous about the thought of this warped masterwork wandering into 60,000 unsuspecting British homes in 1973.
Label
Bureau B
Released
12 Aug 2022
Monorail Classics
Bianca Scout The Heart Of The Anchoress
- LP £18.99
Bianca Scout The Heart Of The Anchoress
- LP £18.99
First Terrace Records is happy to present a new album from Bianca Scout, the South London based musician and choreographer.
Label
First Terrace
Released
17 Feb 2023
Staff Pick
Tim Hecker
- LP £23.99
Tim Hecker
- LP £23.99
Label
Invada
Harold Budd The Pavilion Of Dreams
- LP £32.99
Harold Budd The Pavilion Of Dreams
- LP £32.99
Produced by Brian Eno in 1978, The Pavilion Of Dreams stands toe-to-toe with other minimalist masterpieces.
Label
Superior Viaduct
Released
4 Mar 2022
Dep's Pick
Jack Nitsche The Reprise Singles 1963 - 1965
- LP £25.99
Jack Nitsche The Reprise Singles 1963 - 1965
- LP £25.99
Best known as the right-hand-man and arranger of producer Phil Spector and for his work with the Rolling Stones or Neil Young, among many others...
Label
Hanky Panky
Released
6 Jun 2022
Monorail Classics
Kali Malone The Sacrificial Code
- 2xLP £35.99
Kali Malone The Sacrificial Code
- 2xLP £35.99
Slow, methodical organ recordings on this major new work from Kali Malone; a quietly subversive double album...
Label
Ideal Recordings
Released
18 Apr 2023
Michael's Pick
Hannah Peel & Paraorchestra The Unfolding
- 2LP - Black Vinyl £22.99
- 2LP - Blue Vinyl £25.99
- Dinked 2LP £25.99
Hannah Peel & Paraorchestra The Unfolding
- 2LP - Black Vinyl £22.99
- 2LP - Blue Vinyl £25.99
- Dinked 2LP £25.99
An extraordinary eight-part collaboration between composer Hannah Peel and Paraorchestra, it was made over three years in precious morsels of time
Label
Real World
Released
1 Apr 2022
Evan Parker & Henry Dagg Then Through Now
- CD £12.00
Evan Parker & Henry Dagg Then Through Now
- CD £12.00
Two masters of their craft collaborate on a single, hour-long drift of sax and sound sculpture
Label
False Walls
Released
2 May 2023
Just In
The Necks Travel
- CD £12.99
- 2xLP £35.99
The Necks Travel
- CD £12.99
- 2xLP £35.99
Travel, the 19th studio album by Australian improvisational trio The Necks...
Label
Northern Spy
Released
24 Feb 2023
Staff Pick
Julius Eastman Two Extended Pieces For Four Pianos
- 2LP - Red Vinyl LP £24.99
Julius Eastman Two Extended Pieces For Four Pianos
- 2LP - Red Vinyl LP £24.99
Two outstanding recordings of some of the most expressive, important music to have been written in and largely forgotten by, the 20th C avant garde
Label
Sub Rosa
Released
28 Jul 2022
Staff Pick
Jon Hassell Vernal Equinox
- LP - black vinyl £18.99
Jon Hassell Vernal Equinox
- LP - black vinyl £18.99
Hailed as one of the 50 best ambient albums of all time by Pitchfork, Vernal Equinox was the first commercially released work by Jon Hassell
Label
Ndeya
Released
11 Jan 2022
Staff Pick
The Notwist Vertigo Days Live From Alien Research Center
- LP £27.99
The Notwist Vertigo Days Live From Alien Research Center
- LP £27.99
A Notwist concert is a Notwist concert is a Notwist concert.
Label
Morr Music
Released
17 Feb 2023
Staff Pick
Tree Speak Vertigo Of Flaws
- 2xLP+7" £28.99
Tree Speak Vertigo Of Flaws
- 2xLP+7" £28.99
This new release is a vast leap into an ocean of space and sound, a quantum leap into cybernetics, biology, anti-gravity, time travel, dream speech an
Label
Soul Jazz
Released
3 Dec 2021
Russell's Pick
MIchael Tanner Vespers / The Blackening
- Cassette £12.99
MIchael Tanner Vespers / The Blackening
- Cassette £12.99
Really exceptional release from long time shop favourite, Michael Tanner - all micro moments and modest magnificence. Across the lanes.
Label
Objects Forever
Released
31 Mar 2023
Stephen's Pick
Arooj Aftab Vulture Prince (Deluxe Edition)
- 2xLP £34.99
Arooj Aftab Vulture Prince (Deluxe Edition)
- 2xLP £34.99
"Vulture Prince" is the third album from Brooklyn-based Pakistani composer Arooj Aftab.
Label
Verve
Released
17 Feb 2023
Staff Pick
The Residents WARNING: UNINC (TITLE TBC) 1971-1972 Live and Unincorporated
- 2xLP £19.99
On Sale!
The Residents WARNING: UNINC (TITLE TBC) 1971-1972 Live and Unincorporated
- 2xLP £19.99
RECORD STORE DAY 2022
Label
NEW RALPH
Released
23 Apr 2022
Wilfred Percussion Wilfred Percussion
- LP £12.99
On Sale!
Wilfred Percussion Wilfred Percussion
- LP £12.99
Born in the 1940s in Istanbul, Italian painter and percussionist Wilfred Copello had, from the onset, a predisposition for exotic sounds.
Label
Libreville
Released
10 May 2021
Michael's Pick
Wormhook Workaday Strangeness: Gyrating Death Throes From a Void Axiom
- LP £17.99
Wormhook Workaday Strangeness: Gyrating Death Throes From a Void Axiom
- LP £17.99
Workaday Strangeness: Gyrating Death Throes From a Void Axiom' is the new LP from Glasgow-based music originator Wormhook.
Label
Akashic Records
Released
7 Feb 2023
Lizzie's Pick
Various World Of Echo presents: Thorn Valley
- 2LP - Black Vinyl £30.99
Various World Of Echo presents: Thorn Valley
- 2LP - Black Vinyl £30.99
Thorn Valley is a 20 song comp of various transmissions from the ever diffuse and widening DIY underground, to celebrate 4 years of World Of Echo
Label
World Of Echo
Released
25 Nov 2022
Michael's Pick
Svitlana Nianio & Oleksandr Yurchenko Znayesh Yak? Rozkazhy
- LP £15.99
Svitlana Nianio & Oleksandr Yurchenko Znayesh Yak? Rozkazhy
- LP £15.99
Svitlana Nainio and Oleksandr Yurchenko are musicians with a long history in the still-mysterious Kiev Underground.
Label
Night School
Released
26 Feb 2021
Michael's Pick

Janek Schaefer & William Basinski ...On Reflection

Janek Schaefer & William Basinski ...On Reflection

Gnac* Afternoon Frost

Gnac* Afternoon Frost

Sarah Davachi Antiphonals

Sarah Davachi Antiphonals

Andrew Poppy Ark Hive Of A Live

Andrew Poppy Ark Hive Of A Live

Maurizio Bianchi Armaghedon

Maurizio Bianchi Armaghedon

Aunt Sally Aunt Sally

Aunt Sally Aunt Sally

Laurie Anderson Big Science

Laurie Anderson Big Science

Jon Collin Bridge Variations (Of The Song Of Stokholm)

Jon Collin Bridge Variations (Of The Song Of Stokholm)

Fennesz / Ryuichi Sakamoto Cendre

Fennesz / Ryuichi Sakamoto Cendre

Stefan Christensen Cheap Things

Stefan Christensen Cheap Things

Graeme Miller Comet In Moominland OST

Graeme Miller Comet In Moominland OST

Arthur Russell Corn

Arthur Russell Corn

Cults Percussion Ensemble Cults Percussion Ensemble

Cults Percussion Ensemble Cults Percussion Ensemble

Valentina Magaletti & Laila Sakini Cupo

Valentina Magaletti & Laila Sakini Cupo

Dean McPhee / Mary Arches Devon Folklore Tapes V: Ornithology

Dean McPhee / Mary Arches Devon Folklore Tapes V: Ornithology

Ian Humberstone & David Chatton Baker Devon Folklore Tapes VI: Theo Brown & The Folklore Of Dartmoor

Ian Humberstone & David Chatton Baker Devon Folklore Tapes VI: Theo Brown & The Folklore Of Dartmoor

R.D. Kirdiv and S.V. Skirling Devon Folklore Tapes VII: Two Ruins

R.D. Kirdiv and S.V. Skirling Devon Folklore Tapes VII: Two Ruins

The Lord (Greg Anderson of Sunn O)))) and Petra Haden Devotional

The Lord (Greg Anderson of Sunn O)))) and Petra Haden Devotional

Hallelujahs Eat Meat, Swear An Oath

Hallelujahs Eat Meat, Swear An Oath

Chaos Echoes Ecstasy With the Nonexistents

Chaos Echoes Ecstasy With the Nonexistents

Time Is Away Fable Of The Bees

Time Is Away Fable Of The Bees

Caterina Barbieri Fantas Variations

Caterina Barbieri Fantas Variations

Huerco S For Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)

Huerco S For Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)

Ensemble Avantgarde & Steve Reich Four Organs / Phase Patterns / Pendulum Music

Ensemble Avantgarde & Steve Reich Four Organs / Phase Patterns / Pendulum Music

Andrew Wasylyk Fugitive Light And Themes Of Consolation

Andrew Wasylyk Fugitive Light And Themes Of Consolation

Growing & Mary Lattimore Gainer

Growing & Mary Lattimore Gainer

Dewa Alit & Gamelan Salukat Genetic

Dewa Alit & Gamelan Salukat Genetic

Nils Frahm Graz

Nils Frahm Graz

Shizuka Heavenly Persona

Shizuka Heavenly Persona

Richard Dawson & Circle Henki

Richard Dawson & Circle Henki

Kevin Daniel Cahill Impossible Worlds

Kevin Daniel Cahill Impossible Worlds

Omochi Interior 1

Omochi Interior 1

Pan Daijing Jade

Pan Daijing Jade

Pharoah Sanders Karma

Pharoah Sanders Karma

Arca KICK ii

Arca KICK ii

Jon Dale Last Blues

Jon Dale Last Blues

Keeley Forsyth Limbs

Keeley Forsyth Limbs

Kali Malone Living Torch

Kali Malone Living Torch

Various Artists Longing for the Shadow: Ry​ū​k​ō​ka Recordings, 1921​-​1939

Various Artists Longing for the Shadow: Ry​ū​k​ō​ka Recordings, 1921​-​1939

Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer & Shahzad Ismaily Love In Exile

Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer & Shahzad Ismaily Love In Exile

Various Artists Longing for the Shadow: Ryūkōka Recordings, 1921-1939

Various Artists Longing for the Shadow: Ryūkōka Recordings, 1921-1939