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Mclusky

I Sure Am Getting Sick Of This Bowling Alley

    Mclusky are a band who were a band, weren’t a band, then are a band again. they formed in the late nineties and unformed, for the first time, in 2005, after three albums, opinions of which can be found on the internet.

    The path to re-becoming a band started in 2014, with the band playing sporadic shows to raise money for a local venue threatened with closure and after some misadventures, which can be put down to life in its most wonderful forms, in 2025 they released their first record in twenty years, and now in 2026, they continue with more new music in the form of this 6-song mini album.


    TRACK LISTING

    1. I Know Computer
    2. As A Dad
    3. Spock Culture
    4. Hi! We're On Strike
    5. Fan Learning Difficulties
    6. That Was My Brain On Elves

    Valve

    Half-Life: Alyx (Official Game Soundtrack)

      VALVE video games and IPECAC RECORDINGS have a partnership that dates back almost 15 years when we released the PORTAL 2 soundtracks. Since then, there’s been releases of some of the biggest video game soundtracks out there including TEAM FORTRESS 2, DOTA 2 and the entire HALF-LIFE series. These have been some of Ipecac’s best-selling physical and digital releases on the label.

      HALF-LIFE: ALYX was originally released digitally as a series of 11 chapters from 2020–2022, and the physical release brings those together in two different formats

      The HL:A game itself has sold over 2MM copies since 2020 and had added to the Half-Life series of games that has sold over 30MM copies.

      TRACK LISTING

      CD Features All 72 Tracks From The HL:A Series Over 4 CDs
      2LP Features 21 Tracks Selected By The Composer, And Includes A Download Card With All 72 Tracks

      Melvins With Napalm Death

      Savage Imperial Death March

        After two co-headlining tours over the past decade, (the) Melvins are continuing their long tradition with us of teaming up with another band on an album. Next up – Napalm Death! This isn’t just some split release with the bands each getting a side. 'Savage Imperial Death March' is a full collaboration with both Melvins & Napalm Death playing together on all the tracks.

        This release originally came out on super-limited CD and vinyl via AmRep in 2025 (tour and AmRep store only). This will be an extended version with 2 extra songs, brand new artwork from Mackie Osborne, new vinyl variants, and will be the official release for the first time at record stores, DSPs and more.

        TRACK LISTING

        1. Tossing Coins Into The Fountain Of Fuck
        2. Some Kind Of Antichrist
        3. Awful Handwriting
        4. Nine Days Of Rain
        5. Rip The God
        6. Stealing Horses
        7. Comparison Is The Thief Of Joy
        8. Death Hour

        Dälek

        Brilliance Of A Falling Moon

          Experimental Hip-Hop legends dälek return with their latest full-length album, 'Brilliance of a Falling Moon'. Taking its name from a section of Erik Larson’s 2011 novel In the Garden of Beasts, the album paints a fiery portrait of life and resistance in fascist America.

          Conceived, composed, and produced by Will Brooks (aka MC dälek) and Mike Mare, 'Brilliance of a Falling Moon' is a sprawling, uncompromising record that speaks to the political timbre of the day. Recorded in the group’s Deadverse Studios over the course of 2024 and 2025, 'Brilliance of a Falling Moon’s beats are propelled by brutal, dust-caked drum breaks and cloaked in an ominous, otherworldly atmosphere. Taking aim at everything from the State’s suppression of information to colonialism and Trump’s demonization of immigrants, Brooks’ rhymes are practically burning with outrage at the current state of the world.

          dälek debuted in 1998 with 'Negro Necro Nekros', a sonic tour de force built upon thunderous drums, blissful ambient sections, and gritty, insightful lyrics. On watershed albums like 'From Filthy Tongue of Gods and Griots' (2002), 'Absence' (2005), 'Abandoned Language' (2007), and 'Gutter Tactics' (2009), dälek laid a template that added completely new textural and structural dimensions to rap music.

          TRACK LISTING

          1. Better Than
          2. Knowledge | Understanding | Wisdom
          3. Normalized Tragedy
          4. Expressions Of Love
          5. Substance
          6. I AM A MAN
          7. For The People
          8. By The Time We Arrive In El Salvador

          Spotlights

          Rarities

            Spotlights release 'Rarities', a remastered nine-song compilation of early and rare tracks spanning the band’s full discography.

            Rarities traces the band’s evolution, from their debut single to standout tracks from their 2023 'Séance' EP. After relocating from San Diego to New York in 2013, the band released their first EP, 'Demonstration', in 2015. That was followed by the 'Spiders' EP and their full-length debut, 'Tidals', in 2016 – releases that drew attention from artists like Deftones, Shiner, If These Trees Could Talk, and ultimately led to their signing with Ipecac Recordings.

            Now, after a decade of releases, the band is reflecting on these songs, all of which are appearing on vinyl for the first time.

            TRACK LISTING

            1. 050809 (2025 Remaster)
            2. The Fire Walk (2025 Remaster)
            3. Cult Classic (2025 Remaster)
            4. A Box Of Talking Heads (2025 Remaster)
            5. She Spider (2025 Remaster)
            6. Unalive (2025 Remaster)
            7. Your Morning Kill (2025 Remaster)
            8. Should Time Stand Still (2025 Remaster)
            9. Kiss The Ring (2025 Remaster)

            Melvins

            Freak Puke - 2025 Reissue

              The first wide release of Melvins' eighteenth album, under the name Melvins Lite, originally released on June 5, 2012. It was the first to feature one of the Melvins' alternate lineups with Trevor Dunn on standup bass.



              TRACK LISTING

              1. Mr. Rip-Off
              2. Inner Ear Rupture
              3. Baby Won’t You Weird Me Out
              4. Worm Farm Waltz
              5. A Growing Disgust
              6. Leon Versus The Revolution
              7. Holy Barbarians
              8. Freak Puke
              9. Let Me Roll It
              10. Tommy Goes Berserk

              Melvins

              Colossus Of Destiny - 2025 Reissue

                The first time on Vinyl! 'Colossus of Destiny' is a 2LP live album by Melvins, released in 2001 and recorded live Friday, December 13, 1998, at Club Mangler, Cupertino, California. It is nearly an hour of synthesizer and sample experimentation ending in a performance of the song Eye Flys. The hour-long track is broken up to fit on four sides of vinyl

                TRACK LISTING

                1. Colossus Of Destiny

                Melvins

                Everybody Loves Sausages - 2025 Reissue

                  2LP Reissue of the 2013 album of cover songs, with special guests including Jello Biafra, Clem Burke, Mark Arm, JG Thirlwell and more.



                  TRACK LISTING

                  1. Warhead
                  2. Best Friend
                  3. Black Betty
                  4. Set It On Fire
                  5. Station To Station
                  6. Attitude
                  7. Female Trouble
                  8. Carpe Diem
                  9. Timothy Leary Lives
                  10. In Every Dream Home A Heartache
                  11. Romance
                  12. Art School
                  13. Heathen Earth

                  Mclusky

                  The World Is Still Here And So Are We

                    The heralded UK band’s first album since 2004 and first for Ipecac Recordings.

                    Having formed in the late nineteen-nineties and releasing music, if that is what it was, from 2000-2004, Mclusky disbanded soon afterwards in a slow motion farce of not enough drama to get much press off the back of it. Now they are back fuelled initially by spite but now enjoying it too much not to do it, and playing to crowds in the UK, US and Australia which are much bigger - and more hygienically inclined - than in their so-called heyday. So far nobody has complained, except for one guy in Leeds (and he was clearly on ketamine). They are writing a new album - entitled 'the world is still here and so are we' due for release in may 2025.

                    TRACK LISTING

                    1. Unpopular Parts Of A Pig
                    2. Cops And Coppers
                    3. Way Of The Exploding Dickhead
                    4. The Battle Of Los Angelsey
                    5. People Person
                    6. The Competent Horse Thief
                    7. Kafka-esque Novelist Franz Kafka
                    8. The Digger You Deep
                    9. Autofocus On The Prime Directive
                    10. Not All Steeplejacks
                    11. Chekhov's Guns
                    12. Juan-party System
                    13. Hate The Polis

                    Melvins

                    Thunderball

                      The new album featuring the 1983 lineup of Buzz & Mike Dillard. Plus special guests Void Manes and Ni Maitres. Formed over 40 years ago in Seattle, they were one of the pioneers of the grunge and sludge metal scenes.

                      a little history… and some opinions from Buzz Osborne - 
                      "Mike Dillard is the original drummer for the Melvins, we’ve been friends since high school. We met in Montesano, a small town on the coast of Sashington state. We had moved there from an even smaller town. I hated everything about it. I hated the people, hated the teachers, hated the cops, hated the weather, hated how isolated it was. It was like living on the dark side of the moon. I knew no one and had no friends at all which was fine by me If I had a chance to do it over i’d quit high school as soon as i could. High school was a complete waste of time. My own classmates proved themselves the enemy so finding someone I could relate to was just great. Mike was immediately impressed with all the weird music I was into. Up to that point I hadn’t met anyone with any an interest in any of my musical discoveries. It was an amazing time in the history of music and literally no one was interested. We were surrounded by mediocrity, stupidity, prejudice, and dangerous rednecks. We learned to play music together. We grew up together and have remained friends all these years. 'Thunderball' is the third Melvins 1983 record we have made together. I wanted this one to be bombastic. I think it is. I’m already planning a fourth one that will be even more uncompromising. A real shit show."

                      TRACK LISTING

                      1. King Of Rome
                      2. Vomit Of Clarity
                      3. Short Hair With A Wig
                      4. Victory Of The Pyramids
                      5. Venus Blood

                      Venamoris

                      To Cross Or To Burn

                        The second release of soulful dark pop from legendary drummer Dave Lombardo and singer-songwriter Paula Lombardo

                        The courtship of Dave and Paula Lombardo is the kind of thing that would make for an inspired romantic comedy. Picture it: The man who raised the bar for heavy metal drumming rendezvous with a beautiful woman whose musical background included backing up legacy acts in Las Vegas and trying to break into Nashville as a singer/songwriter. Fortunately for the world, their musical union has manifested as Venamoris, whose Ipecac debut 'To Cross Or To Burn' goes far to explode preconceived notions while constructing captivating new possibilities.

                        Obviously, the indefatigable Dave Lombardo’s bonafides as a world-class drummer are well-known. But while he drafted the blueprint that would define thrash-metal drumming, he’s also applied his finesse to solo percussion (2023’s 'Rites Of Percussion', also on Ipecac), hip hop and classical music, as well as boundary-pushing recordings and performances with everyone from John Zorn’s ensembles to punk icons Misfits and Mr. Bungle. 'To Cross…' is another milestone in his storied career, where he’s added guitar, bass and considerable production techniques to his sonic skill-set. “The only thing that rivals how many drums we have [at home] is how many guitars Dave has,” says Paula, laughing. “So he plays guitar quite a bit on this album.”

                        Paula is truly a dynamic musical force powered with impressive vocal prowess, a deftness on piano and synthesizers and a great instinct for alluring lyrics, melodies and arrangements. At 18 years old, she was a backing singer as part of Las Vegas entertainer Wayne Newton’s enclave, which taught her grace under pressure when you’re performing multiple shows in an evening and perfection was demanded every day. She left Vegas to head to Nashville to continue her career in music, but by her own words, “It just wasn’t the right fit.”


                        TRACK LISTING

                        1. Stay With Me
                        2. In The Shadows
                        3. Truth
                        4. Stain Of Pain
                        5. Spiderweb
                        6. Burnt Paper
                        7. Holding On To Nothing
                        8. Animal Magnetism
                        9. Numb
                        10. To Cross Or To Burn

                        Jean Claude Vannier

                        Jean Claude Vannier Et Son Orchestre De Mandolines

                          The project was born from an unusual encounter between the man the press calls “The Rare Bird” and the famous mandolinist from Marseilles, a pioneer in the revival of this small Mediterranean lute.

                          A long way from his fellow Vladimir Cosma, Ennio Morricone, Lalo Schifrin, Jean Claude Petit and Claude Bolling, all of whom wrote concertos for Vincent Beer-Demander’s virtuoso mandolin.

                          Jean Claude Vannier has created an album that is both poetic and out of step, in which the mandolin is multiplied to form a singular orchestral sound palette, mingled with the accordion’s soufflet and the composer’s use of the solo mandolin: taping, bottleneck, percussion, treble.

                          A pinch of strings, a hint of childhood, melodies that touch the heart, orchestration that’s never expected... these are the emotions that emerge from this album by Jean Claude Vannier.

                          TRACK LISTING

                          1. Moi, Ma Mandoline
                          2. Comme Les Enfants Savent Aimer
                          3. La 2CV Disparaît Au Coin De La Rue
                          4. Perdue Dans La Cité
                          5. Il Y Avait Des éléphants
                          6. À Cause De Mes Problèmes
                          7. Une Séance Photo Sous Les Arcades
                          8. Belle à Pleurer
                          9. Danse Des Maillots De Bain
                          10. Nos Regards Se Sont Croisés
                          11. La 2CV Rouillée
                          12. Un Petit Bout De Verre Cassé
                          13. Les Feux Arrière De L'ambulance

                          King Buzzo

                          This Machine Kills Artists / Gift Of Sacrifice - 2024 Reissue

                            King Buzzo, a.k.a. Buzz Osborne, is the singer, guitar player and founder of the enormously influential band, the Melvins. His innovative approach to songwriting, and guitar playing, has influenced countless musicians, and turned leagues of music lovers into ardent fans. Renowned for his pioneering use of down-tuned strings, Buzzo masterfully blended his punk and metal influences, and in turn, he created a groundbreaking new sound in heavy music. Over Osborne’s extensive career, which originated in the small hamlet of Montesano, Wash. in 1983, he has released over 30 albums under the Melvins’ moniker, two solo albums 'Gift of Sacrifice' (2020) and 'This Machine Kills Artists' (2014), as well as a number of collaborative projects including Fantomas and Crystal Fairy.

                            'Gift of Sacrifice' had Buzz team up with Trevor Dunn, who might be most widely known for his work with Mr. Bungle, the eclectic and unpredictable Northern California band he co-founded in 1985, but his career outside of Mr. Bungle has been just as notable. Also a member of Fantomas, Trevor Dunn’s Trio-Convulsant, Tomahawk and Melvins Lite.


                            TRACK LISTING

                            This Machine Kills Artists Tracklist:
                            1. Dark Brown Teeth
                            2. Rough Democracy
                            3. Laid Back Walking
                            4. Drunken Baby
                            5. Vaulting Over A Microphone
                            6. New River
                            7. The Vulgar Joke
                            8. Everything's Easy For You
                            9. The Ripping Driving
                            10. How I Became Offensive
                            11. Instrument Of God
                            12. The Spoiled Brat
                            13. Illegal Mona
                            14. Good And Hostile
                            15. The Blithering Idiot
                            16. Useless King Of The Punks
                            17. The Hesitation Twist

                            Gift Of Sacrifice Tracklist:
                            1. Mental Vomit
                            2. Housing, Luxury, Energy
                            3. I'm Glad I Could Help Out
                            4. Delayed Clarity
                            5. Junkie Jesus
                            6. Science In Modern America
                            7. Bird Animal
                            8. Mock She
                            9. Acoustic Junkie

                            Dead Cross

                            II

                              When Dead Cross released their self-titled debut in the Summer of 2017, Mike Patton, in conversation with Rolling Stone, said “I’m not some young tough guy trying to prove a point anymore. For me to make a record like this, it’s entirely a musical adventure. I just think it’s fun, and it makes me smile a lot.” Visually, and audibly, Dead Cross is a snarling beast from some of music’s most experimental and dare we say, hardcore, musicians: Dave Lombardo (drums), Michael Crain (guitar), Justin Pearson (bass) and the aforementioned Patton on vocals, but at its core it’s a group of friends having fun, paying homage to the music they love and asking music fans to come along for the ride. It’s that very friendship that brought the band members back together once again and gave us II, their new release out Oct 28th, 2022.

                              TRACK LISTING

                              1 Love Without Love
                              2 Animal Espionage
                              3 Heart Reformer
                              4 Strong And Wrong
                              5 Ants And Dragons
                              6 Nightclub Canary
                              7 Christian Missile Crisis
                              8 Reign Of Error
                              9 Imposter Syndrome

                              Melvins

                              Five Legged Dog

                                The Melvins’ first ever acoustic collection, featuring 36 songs including classics like ‘Night Goat’, ‘Honey Bucket’ and ‘Billy Fish’, as well as covers of Brainiac, The Rolling Stones and Alice Cooper tracks. This newly recorded acoustic collection features a career-spanning collection of songs, from 1987’s ‘Gluey Porch Treatments’ to 2017’s ‘A Walk With Love & Death’ - the entire gamut of the legendary band’s catalogue is represented. 

                                “I knew I wanted to do something ridiculously big,” explains Buzz Osborne of the band’s first ever acoustic offering. “36 songs reimagined by us acoustically is certainly ridiculous but it works. The magic of the songs is still there regardless of it being acoustic. Since we weren’t touring we had the time to do something of this size. I’m very excited about this record. Dale and Steven did a fantastic job on this. I think it’s a very special record. I can’t think of anyone else who’s done something like this.” 

                                The band previewed the impressive offering with the release of ‘Night Goat’. Dale Crover noted: “I think people will be surprised that we can do an acoustic version of a song like ‘Night Goat’ without losing any of the heaviness. We also worked hard on the vocal arrangements. People are going to freak out!” 

                                ‘Five Legged Dog’ also features acoustic versions of several rarities from the influential band’s overflowing discography, including a cover of Redd Kross’ ‘Charlie’ (from the limited edition ‘Escape From LA’ single), ‘Outside Chance,’ a Turtles cover from the ‘Slithering Slaughter’ single and new interpretations of The Rolling Stones ‘Sway’, Brainiac’s ‘Flypaper’ and Fred Neil’s ‘Everybody’s Talking’ (popularised by Harry Nilsson). Butthole Surfer Jeff Pinkus lends his vocals (and banjo) to ‘Don’t Forget to Breathe’ and ‘Everybody’s Talking’.

                                TRACK LISTING

                                Edgar The Elephant
                                Up The Dumper
                                Hung Bunny / Roman Dog Bird
                                Hooch
                                Billy Fish
                                Shevil
                                Charlie
                                A Growing Disgust
                                Eye Flys / Woman
                                Pitfalls In Serving Warrants
                                Outside Chance
                                Evil New War God
                                The Bloated Pope
                                Bad Move
                                With Teeth
                                Halo Of Flies
                                Oven
                                Sway
                                Anaconda
                                Lovely Butterflies
                                Boris
                                It’s Shoved
                                Honey Bucket
                                We Are Doomed
                                Fly Paper
                                Let God Be Your Gardener
                                At The Stake
                                Night Goat
                                Queen
                                Everybody’s Talking
                                Revolve
                                Suicide In Progress
                                Prig
                                The Bit
                                Civilized Worm
                                Don’t Forget To Breathe


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