Conjuring from ‘64-’80, Lenny “King Creole” LaCour dealt a mean slight of sockin’ R&B, basement beehive, hard funk, group harmony, and proto disco across a variety of mysterious imprints.

This deluxe double album set gathers 26 soulful tricks from the Magic Touch tophat, with an illusion’s worth of noters, photos, and ephemera in the accompanying booklet. Abracadabra.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Mar-J’s - Got To Find A Way Out
2. Marvelle & The Blue Mats - A Whole Lotta Lovin’
3. The Swinging Hearts - I’ve Got It
4. Junior & The Classics - Wise Up
5. Gary Brown - Would You Laugh At Me
6. Evelyn Smith - Don’t (Make Me No Promises)
7. The Comic Books - The First Time In My Life
8. The Tornadoes - Won’t You Forgive
9. Marvelle & The Blue Mats - The Dance Called The Motion
10. Evelyn Smith - You Don’t Mean A Thing To Me
11. The Swinging Hearts - You Speak Of Love
12. The Mar-J’s - Forever (There’ll Be A Summer Night)
13. Sean Taylor - Put Me Down Easy
14. Gary Brown - Oh My Love
15. The Swinging Hearts - Say It Isn’t So
16. Junior & The Classics - Kill The Pain
17. Filet Of Soul - Do Your Own Thing
18. The Tornadoes - Feel Like A Fool
19. Marvelle & The Blue Mats - Soul Fever
20. Junior & The Classics - Mix Up (A Go Go)
21. Filet Of Soul - Sweet Lovin’
22. Shirley Drumgole - I’ll Never Give You Up
23. The C.O.D.’s - Gimme Your Love
24. Harvey Scales and The Seven Sounds - Trying To Survive
25. The Deltas - Gonna Move On
26. Krystal - False Alarm
27. Brighter Side of Darkness - He Made You Mine

Before relocating to downtown New York, Mikel Rouse led Tirez Tirez, a Kansas City group formed in the Mid-1970s that bridged new wave, minimalism, and experimental pop. The band gained early attention opening for Talking Heads on their 1978 tour, with David Byrne remaining a supporter as Rouse transitioned into new York’s experimental scene, where he connected with figures like Arthur Russell.

'Story of the Year' draws from recordings made during this shift, combining earlier Tirez Tirez material with later sessions produced in New York and Brussels. Released in 1982/83 on Les Disques Du Crépuscule, the album reflects Rouse’s early use of system-based composition within a band format, incorporating layered rhythms and phase-based repetition that would later inform his role in developing totalism.

Positioned between Kansas City and New York, and between post-punk and contemporary composition, the record captures a moment before Rouse’s work fully moved into more overtly compositional territory.

TRACK LISTING

1. Dreams
2. Living In This City
3. Darkness
4. Real People
5 Another World
6. This Is New York
7. Inside Albany
8. Story Of The Year
9. The Cough
10. There Ain’t Nothing

A eulogy to a band and a millennium, the year 2000’s collaborative Macha Loved Bedhead has been remastered from the original analog tapes and finally makes its way to the mother format. Recorded long distance by Wichita Falls-born brothers Matt and Bubba Kadane and Josh and Mischo McKay, this five-song, 34-minute EP combines gamelan, slowcore, and a cover of Cher’s 'Believe' pecked out on a touch tone phone into a seamless meditation on life at the end of the American century.

TRACK LISTING

1. You And New Plastic
2. Never Underdose
3.Hey Goodbye
4. Only The Bodies Survive
5. How Are Your Windows?
6. Believe

Sooj, a new collaboration between Duster and Dirty Art Club. In this diseased world where entireties of lives are cursed, Sooj makes a small racket for traveling alone, or dreaming together, or doing nothing at all.

TRACK LISTING

1. Vers le Couloir de la Perte
2. In The Walls
3. Night Layers
4. Double Clutch
5. Fleece
6. 3,100 Luigis
7. Unfold Me
8. Lavender
9. Gallo Pinto
10. Moonbag

After the success of Codeine’s 'Frigid Stars' LP, the trio of Stephen Immerwahr, John Engle, and Chris Brokaw booked time at Harold Dessau Recording in June 1992 to track an eight-song sophomore album. A few days and a couple of
unexplainable high-pitched frequencies later, the record was scrapped, shelved, and forgotten about. Brokaw left the band shortly after, and these songs were re-tracked in various iterations for Codeine’s final LP. Numero has unearthed
these recordings, restoring the original 'White Birch' to the band’s exacting standards with producer Mike McMackin. A slowcore masterpiece hidden in plain sight and on compact disc for the first time.

TRACK LISTING

1. Sea
2. Jr
3. Tom
4. I Wonder
5. Realize
6. Something New
7. Wird
8. Smoking Room

In the wake of Bitch Magnet and current of Superchunk, Sooyoung Park and
Mac McCaughan formed a raw version of Seam in the summer of ’91. With bassist Lexi Mitchell, the trio banged out an album and two singles worth of shambolic dream pop in the sweltering Chapel Hill heat. Fourteen songs of talk-whispered vocals, sloshing guitar solos, scattered snare rolls, Velocity Girl’s Sarah Shannon, and the original version of Codeine’s slowcore classic 'New Year’s', on compact disc for the first time since 1992.

TRACK LISTING

1. Decatur
2. Grain
3. Sky City
4. Pins & Needles
5 .Feather
6. Atari
7. King Rice
8. New Year’s
9. Shame
10. Granny 9x
11. Days Of Thunder
12. Grain (Original)
13. Look Back In Anger
14. Which Way To Go

Scoring the lives of small-time players, pimps, junkies, and prostitutes lurking around his simultaneously blessed and cursed existence, Wee mastermind Norman Whiteside lived in an entirely different Columbus than Capsoul's Bill Moss or Prix’s Clem Price. Alternating between Stevie Wonder's dreamy soul and Sly Stone's druggy groove, You Can Fly On My Aeroplane bypasses Whiteside's everyday gritty street life reality, focusing instead on the airy sounds of fantasy and masquerade. Smooth, sexy, and synthy, You Can Fly On My Aeroplane is a peerless and sprawling psychedelic soul concept album and a sure'fire panty soaker to boot.

TRACK LISTING

A1 You Can Fly On My Aeroplane
A2 Leavin' You Alone
A3 Put It In Real Good
A4 Alone (Reprise)
B1 I'm All Changed
B2 Alone
B3 Find Me, Love Me
B4 Try Me
B5 Aeroplane (Reprise)

An album Maximum Rock ’N’ Roll deemed not punk enough to review, Unwound’s 1994 sophomore effort was a lethal depth charge aimed at major label grunge and independent hardcore alike. From the off-kilter, vertiginous rhythm of “Entirely Different Matters” to the neck-snapping velocity of “What Was Wound” to the relentless pounding at the end of “All Souls Day,” New Plastic Ideas is the Sonic Youth-loving older sister to Fake Train’s post-punk-obsessed little brother. “If you’re seeking catharsis, here it is.” Mother Jones.

TRACK LISTING

Side A.
1. Entirely Different Matters
2. What Was Wound
3. Envelope
4. Hexenszene
5. Abstraktions

Side B.
1. All Soul’s Day
2. Usual Dosage
3. Arboretum
4. Fiction Friction

The San Diego via Boston alt trio’s complete original studio recordings, remastered, restored, and compiled into one lavish box set. 'Wait A Lifetime' gathers the band’s peerless albums 'Junk' and 'This Afternoon Malady', plus 'R.I.P.', expanded to include their unfinished 3rd album, singles, splits, and comp tracks. The 68-page accompanying booklet details the entire saga via Nina Cocoran’s essay and dozens of period photos, all housed in a stunning case-wrapped and varnished box. Sink into the ground and fly.

TRACK LISTING

Junk Tracklisting:
1. Meteorite
2. Greyscale
3. Pablo
4. Stresser
5. Ethan Allen
6. Indian Giver
7. Radical Firepower
8. Ford

This Afternoons Malady Tracklisting:
1. Morale Is Low
2. Coping With Senility (Lowlife Owns A Pen)
3. This Afternoons Malady
4. Fixed On The One
5. Sitcom Epiphany
6. Solar
7. New Clear Saturday
8. Regrets Are Unanswered Dreams
9. Demonica
10. 38 Calumet
11. One Transmission
12. Same To You

R.I.P. Tracklisting:
1. Record City After World
2. The New State
3. Lunatic
4. The Highs And Lows
5. 2000 Miles
6. Heart Of Desire
7. Early Stars
8. Morale Is Low (Alternate Version)
9. That’s Why She Hates Me
10. Solar (Alternate Version)
11. Lowlife (Version Remix)
12. Grace (Wizard Glick Is Swimming)
13. Drive By Negly
14. Early Stars (7” Version)
15. That’s Why She Hates Me (7” Version)
16. Hialeah
17. Figured Out

Left-field Brooklyn soulful lounge from Numero’s Private Mind Garden. Seven lo-fi gospel meditations that bridge the gap between Shuggie Otis and Otis G . Johnson. Get lost in Lynn Marshall’s wavering falsetto and producer Norman Marcelle’s Lowery-brand organ and primordial drum machines. 1980 never
sounded so heavy.

TRACK LISTING

1. Ain’t No Weight
2. Burn
3. Are You Listening
4. Look Out For Shaft
5. One Hundred Years
6. Calling You
7. Happy Day

The virally Tok’d Everyone Asked About You return with their first new recordings in 25 years. Never Leave follows up on six midwest emo seeds set into the wind of adulthood. What do we become when the guitar is pawned, when we sing only in the shower, when our hair begins to thin, when our parents die, when the dog is on prozac. Can we crash synths and guitars and adhd polyrhythms into our abandoned teenage call and response dreams. How can we miss our band if we never leave? Catching up a quarter of a century of life in just 13 minutes, Never Leave’s four songs are urgently paced—there’s no extra time in the couch cushions of middle age. Rehearsed and tracked in their native Little Rock by Jason Weinheimer during April 2024 Total Eclipse, the EP confronts America’s own darkening and wryly replies, “Where we goin’ next?”

TRACK LISTING

1. A-House
2. We’re All Losing It
3. Toby
4. A Vigil

Karate’s defiant and (then) final studio album that punctuated a 12-year discography that spanned harDCore-style catharsis to feedback-saturated improv. This ’04 classic skipped the Friendster migration for back-to-basics songwriting suffused with jazz phrasings and beat-inspired lyricism. Featuring Codeine/Come guitarist Chris Brokaw, Pockets is remastered from the original analog tapes and housed in a deluxe tip on sleeve with reproduction lyric sheet.

TRACK LISTING

1. With Age
2. Water
3. “The State I’m In” Aka “Goode Buy From Cobbs Creek Park”
4. Cacophony
5. Alingual
6. Tow Truck
7. Pines
8. Concrete

First state femo for the floor-punchaverse. Lasting barely a year and never escaping the Delaware Valley, Eldritch Anisette eeked out a 7” and two dozen shows before aging out and leaving six moments of heartfelt adolescence behind for the world to rediscover. 30 years since their soul-baring, 'Complete Fairytales' gathers the band’s almost-lost Nick Rotundo sessions onto a single LP with accompanying lyric sheet for easy screaming along with the kids.

TRACK LISTING

1. Suckerpunch
2. Pessimism Goes To Work
3. Dissection of Silence
4. Untitled
5. Secondhanded
6. Japan

An ambient symphony of ethereal decay, upgraded to 21st century classic status. Tracked at home in ‘92 with a 12-string guitar, 4 track recorder, looping pedal, infinite reverb, and the textured coos of enigmatic vocalist Melissa Arpin Duimstra, Scott Cortez’s lovesliescrushing project transformed post-adolescent bedroom daydreaming into a serene, moonlit float on an endless sea. This expanded and remastered double album edition adds five more distortion-wracked reflections from the vault, with lyrics and replica postcard to get lost in along the way. No need for the eyewash station here—blindness intended.

STAFF COMMENTS

Liam says: OMG YES!!! Our pals at Numero have done it again and are releasing another grail of 90s shoegaze! Originally released in '92, lovesliescrushing's 'bloweyelashwish' leans in to the more ambienty/post-rocky side of the gaze but still just as beautiful. Loaded up with 5 extra tracks from the vault, don't come to me whinging you missed out once this flies out - GO GO GO!

TRACK LISTING

1. Babysbreath
2. Teardrop
3. Iwantyou
4. Fur
5. Dizzy
6. Plume
7. Burst
8. Tinkerwench
9. Charm
10. Sugaredglowing
11. Glimmer
12. Finger
13. Moinaexquisitewallflower
14. Butterfly
15. Youreyesimmaculate
16. Bloweyelashwish
17. Crushing
18. Precious
19. Darkglassdolleyes
20. Halo
21. Babysbreath (mycomium Version)
22. Spidervelvet
23. Lips To Kiss
24. Feathermouth
25. Moinaexquisitewallflower (original Version)

Post-hardcore, Philly style. Discontent with the metallic youth crew format, Frail pursued Gen-X’s ferocious, noisy rage against everything at San Diego’s galloping pace. No Industry—the quintet’s first and only vinyl compilation—includes vital singles for the Yuletide, Bloodlink, and Kidney Room labels, plus rare comp tracks from across their ‘93-95 run. Includes a 24-page ‘zine chronicling the band in notes, quotes, photos, flyers, and revolutionary literature. Make Your Own Noise.

TRACK LISTING

1. Spoken
2. Blister
3. Decade
4. Paradise Lost
5. Revolution
6. Static
7. Inquisition
8. Ideal
9. Love
10. Firecracker
11. Industry
12. Obscene Jigsaw Puzzle
13. Brothers and Sisters
14. American As Apple Pie
15. Simply By The Book
16. Things Can Turn Around
17. Promise

Female fronted talk-mo from the cursed Elgin, Illinois scene. 'Something Good Has Got To Come From All These Goodbyes' compiles The Lazarus Plot’s complete recordings— their 1998 debut 2x7”, 'The End' EP, split with Long Live Nothing, a stray V/A, and two previously unissued songs, with accompanying 24-page booklet of lyrics and photos crafted by thee Laura Laurent. A secret teenage diary of grief and longing , set to music inspired by pre-internet Louisville and Chicago. No regrets.

TRACK LISTING

1. Friday The Thirteenth
2. Confessions To An Early Summer Nightmare
3. Dissolving Substance
4. Sleepwalker
5. Ending Time
6. Goodbye, Again
7. Unmarked
8. This Glass Is Half Empty
9. Rock Song
10. Charmed, I’m Sure
11. Eyes Like Sticks and Mud
12. Asleep - Awake
13. Eviction Notice

The transcendental guitar master’s 1971 debut, remastered for all your sabbath needs. 37 minutes of ambient guitar witchcraft and the perfect soundtrack for third eye awakening, light alchemy, or human sacrifice. You could start a cult with this thing. California mail-order mystic Master Wilburn Burchette was first known from his ads, hidden in the back pages of Fate Magazine, Beyond Reality, and Gnostica News. On offer: Burchette’s sevenpart, block-printed “Psychic Meditation Course,” designed to teach people how to listen to music. To go along with his lessons, Burchette sold a series of instrumental guitar and electronic records featuring ornate hand-drawn cover designs, complete with listening instructions from the Master himself. Since just his twelfth year, Burchette had been transfixed by the parapsychological, spending as much time reading books on Tibetan mysticism fundamentals as he did practicing guitar, the vibrations of which he used to create tonal pictures and patterns. After time spent teaching classical guitar, Master Wilburn Burchette released seven albums in the seven years spanning 1971 through 1977, before abruptly burning and discarding everything related to his musical explorations.

TRACK LISTING

1. Summons To The Sacrificial Feast
2. Arise
3. The Lords Shall Fight
4. Awaking The Third Eye
5. Triumphed Gloriously
6. Witches’ Sabbath
7. Dance Of The Zodiac
8. The Enlightened One
8. Lo!
10. The Alchemist’s Death

The ambient loafergaze soundtrack for interdimensional travel. Compiled from hissy cassettes 4-tracked between 1991-’95, Lovesliescrushing sophomore album 'Xuvetyn' sighed and went in 1996, achieving the patina of legend some 30 years later. This double LP edition is housed in a tip-on jacket illustrated with Melissa Arpin and Scott Cortez’s abstract photography, plus an elvish to english lyric sheet to read along with.

TRACK LISTING

1. Valerian (Her Voice Honeyed)
2. Aquan1
3. Mandragora Louvareen
4. Staticburst
5. Xarella Almandyne
6. Milkysoft
7. Blooded And Blossom-Brown
8. Hum Vibralux
9. Virgin Blue-Eyed
10. Seesaw
11. Flavored Smother
12. Monar
13. Silver (Fairy Threaded)
14. Luma (Web-Like And Crescent)
15. Golden-Handed
16. Bones Of An Angel
17. Ghosts That Swirl
18. Mother Of Pearl

Ambient post-rock from San Diego’s millennial post-hardcore retreat. Tracked between Tristeza tours, The Album Leaf ’s sophomore album weaves delicate guitar noodling, tinkling piano, reflective synth, eerie field recordings, and driving percussion into a meditation on the passage of time. This remastered 25th anniversary edition replicates the original, with fresh notes from author Adam Gnade and previously unpublished photos. A devastating hour of aural photosynthesis.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Incredibly beautiful Rhodes keys, drifting synth swells, brittle acoustic guitar and saturated, crackling ambience. I could pretty easily say that this and 'In a Safe Place' by The Album Leaf have influenced my music more than any other single artist or album. It's all Jimmy's fault.

TRACK LISTING

1. Gust Of...
2. The MP
3. Story Board
4. Wet The Day
5. The Audio Pool
6. Hang Over
7. In Between Lines
8. Last Time Here
9. Asleep
10. The Sailor
11. Vermillion
12. Glimmer

Caught between the Canyon and the Caribbean, Cathy Hamer’s pair of extremely private LP’s got lost in the Me Decade’s hippy hangover. Tracked in ‘79 and ‘80 at Roanoke, Virginia’s custom bluegrass powerhouse Threshold Recordings, these 11 originals breeze through all colors— folk, country, yacht, etc—of the cosmic American rainbow. Remastered LP comes housed in a tip-on jacket with accompanying booklet of notes and the precious few photos that survived from Hamer’s brief time as a lady of the canyon, full of dreams and nowhere to go.

TRACK LISTING

1. Lady Full Of Dreams
2. The Hurt Is Still There
3. I’m Missing You
4. .Confusion Blues
5. December Dreaming
6. When I Fall In Love
7. Hypnotise
8. Promises
9. Untalkable Thoughts
10. Loving At The Feeling
11. Jackson Browne

The complete studio recordings from The American Analog Set’s second chapter. 'Destroy Destroy Destroy' gathers the Texas slow-krauters 'Know By Heart', 'Promise Of Love', and 'Set Free' LPs, 'Everything Ends In Spring' EP, and an additional two discs of singles, B-sides, alternates and outtakes. Accompanying 36-page booklet is flooded with photos and handwritten scraps from the band’s dreamy post-Y2K era. Punk as fuck, for real.

TRACK LISTING

LP1 - Know By Heart
LP2 - Promise Of Love
LP3 - Set Free
LP4 - Everything Ends In Spring
LP5 - Static Between The Stations Pt 1
LP6 - Static Between The Stations Pt 2

A band that played so loud their entire fan base went deaf and never spoke of them again. Formed in 1993 in the go-nowhere exurb of San Jose, California, Super Static Fever played only a handful of gigs in their brief two year existence, punishing spectators with a tinnitus-inducing wah-wah wall of Marshall-stacked distortion. Their sound was a mix of Melvins-esque sludge, Swervedriver’s melodic crunch, and latter-day Black Flag’s penchant for volume, as heard from the stock stereo of a hot-boxed 1985 Ford Econoline. Unfinished tapes from two ear-bleeding sessions are all that survived the ensuing 25 years since their indifferent break-up, mixed by the exacting Steve Albini as the band’s one condition for reissue. The package reeks of the ’90s computer-crippled D.I.Y. aesthetic, with VHS blur and opaque white screened on chipboard. A record that just barely does, and probably should not, exist.

TRACK LISTING

1. Acid Sweet Happening
2. Awareness For Fun
3. Scent Sample Feed
4. Sonic Seller Song
5. Fake Calm Existing
6. Lovely Kill Smile
7. Happy Frown Styles

Amid the early 2000s Scottish music scene that birthed Camera Obscura, Arab Strap and Belle and Sebastian, Tacoma Radar were the quiet achievers. Their sole album, 'No One Waved Goodbye' – a mesmerizing collection of hushed melancholy, is now hailed as a cult classic. Reissued for the first time, this deluxe double album features 'No One Waved Goodbye', both seven inch singles, and the previously unreleased 'Live From the 13th Note'.

TRACK LISTING

1. So Much Water
2. Take Your Time
3. Pilothouse
4. Who’s Gonna Hold The Line
5. Ghost Channels
6. Left Unsaid
7. Past Worn Out
8. Falling Dead Stars
9. Loneliness Comes Without A Sound
10. Tuckahoe
11. It’s Getting Dark
12. Radar Contact
13. Pilothouse
14. Some Things Last A Long Time
15. Who’s Gonna Hold The Line
16. Tuckahoe
17. It’s Getting Dark
18. Radar Contact
19. Pilothouse

Hard Texas funk from the celebrated San Antonio scene. As Abe Epstein was tracking West Side brown-eyed soul groups on General Mc-Mullen Blvd., Mickey Foster and his biracial Soul Generation band were answering James Brown’s call to get on the good foot just south of the River Walk. Collected here are a dozen of their swaggiest and crook-legged instrumentals, a mood building survey of the band’s 1969-’77 run, including the paper hit knee-wobbler 'Iron Leg'. Chop up your next sample here.

TRACK LISTING

1. Iron Leg
2. Give Everybody Some
3. Football
4. Chocolate
5. UFO
6. Mystery Girl
7. Get Down Brother
8. Up The Stairs And Around The Bend
9. The Whatzit
10. Soulful Sickness
11. Joint Session
12. Message From A Black Man

So what is Sweet Soul? Maybe the sweet spot between lowrider and symphonic soul? Lush yet vibrant production, seemingly wrapped in audible silk, sure to give every listener pause. Either way, if one thing is certain, its purpose stays perfectly clear. Pleasure, low and slow, bajito y suavecito. Every kiss begins with soul, or sweet soul for low rides.

Sweet soul is the predecessor to what we now call modern soul. It came into its own in the late ’60s and ’70s, alongside—but apart from—the grittier, funk-driven soul dominating the airwaves. Where that music pushed hard rhythms and raw emotion, sweet soul softened the edges. It favored melody, warmth, and polish, giving it a calm, lush feel that made it easy to return to, and easy to love, even decades later.

TRACK LISTING

1. Ice Cold Love - Wonderful To Be Loved
2. Jus’ Us - Don’t Stop Smiling
3. The Defaulters - Gentle Man
4. The Si-berians - Crying Baby Won’t Help The Hurt
5. Third Generation - Love Is Gonna Rain Down On Me
6. Sweet Breeze - Slow Change Up
7. Family Connection - Lost Her Love
8. Ujima - All I Want Is You
9. Soul Pushers - With A Broken Heart
10. Majestic Arrows - The Magic Of Your Love
11. The Exceptional Three - What About Me
12. Timothy Wilson - Hiding In Your Heart
13. The 5 Stepping Stars - I’ll Never Love Again

Between 1975-77, Chicago’s southside nightclubs were experiencing dark times. The after-hours routine may have been on the up, but the sound of urban blues was on its way down, getting funkier, heavier, picking up a Zeppelin echo from the British rock scene that had raided its larder. Thankfully, lightening came by way of a lanky white guy skulking from club to club with a camera and strobe light. Chicago photographer Michael Abramson hit Perv’s House, Pepper’s Hideout, The High Chaparral, The Patio Lounge, and The Showcase Lounge nightly, not to capture the artists on stage but instead popping off a half-dozen rolls every night exclusively on the seldom photographed crowd.

Light: On The South Side gathers more than 100 beautiful black and white Abramson images, as Numero shines its own light on yet another dark corner of the musical past. The 132-page hardback book features not just these photos, but an extended and wildly colorful ephemera section, plus an essay by British novelist and Numero fan Nick Hornby. Housed in a gorgeous slipcase with the 12X12 monograph is the 2LP set Pepper’s Jukebox, a 17-track compilation of Chicago blues in transition, as heard from both the stage and the Wurlitzer.

TRACK LISTING

A1 Arelean Brown – I'm A Streaker Baby
A2 Bobby Rush – Bowlegged Woman, Knock Kneed Man
A3 Ricky Allen – No Better Time Than Now
A4 Little Mac Simmons – The Same One
A5 Lady Margo – This Is My Prayer (To Find Someone Of My Own)
B1 Andrew Brown – You Made Me Suffer
B2 Artie White – Gimmie Some Of Yours (I'll Give You Some Of Mine)
B3 Lucille Spann – Womans Lib
B4 Hugh Hawkins – Bring It Down Front
C1 Slim Willis Band – I Sayed That
C2 Little Ed & The Soundmasters – It's A Dream
C3 Syl Johnson – Is It Because I'm Black (Inst.)
C4 Walter "Butterball" Davis – Baby (Wacha Doin' To Me)
C5 Willie Williams – Detroit Blues
D1 Little Mac Simmons – Goose Walk
D2 Detroit Jr. – Young Blood
D3 Willie Davis – I Learned My Lesson
D4 James Kinds & Stack – California Lady

Spirit of Brotherhood’s gritty, street-level funk cut—recorded to tape, nearly lost to time, and later revived as the standout opener of Side A on Eccentric Disco, a release strong enough to spark seven more genre-focused editions from Numero.

TRACK LISTING

1. Go For It
2. Spirit Of Brotherhood

The first-ever 7” appearance of Sylvester “Syl” Johnson’s vibrant, groove-driven 'Tripping on Your Love' and the title track 'Foxy Brown', long considered a funk collector’s grail—never reissued, never compiled, and sitting in that sweet spot be- tween boogie and steppers, the kind of private-press rarity that could only come out of Chicago.

TRACK LISTING

1. Tripping On Your Love
2. Foxy Brown

Ujima’s full-bodied soul workout, powered by steady rhythm and rich group harmonies.

TRACK LISTING

1. Maybe
2. All I Want Is You

Over the decades, Numero has excavated a metric ton of recordings from the depths of Detroit. From all manner of mini Motowns we’ve uncovered soul, R&B, funk, disco, boogie, and by nature of proximity—gospel. Previous examinations of the Revival and Big Mack la- bels turned up more than a few new apocryphal hymns, and 'Great Lakes Gospel Vol. 2' compiles a dozen curious church groups devotionally reaching towards the genre’s frayed edge. Get lost in ecstatic choir funk, pulpit rappin’, direct-injection guitar solos, and the holy spirit, should it move you. Look around the room. You could start a church with this thing.

TRACK LISTING

1. Voices Of Conquest - O Yes My Lord
2. Ada Richards - I’m Drunk & I’m Real High (In The Spirit Of God)
3. The Gospel Supremes - Sinnerman
4. Mighty Voices Of Wonder - I Thank The Lord
5. The Mighty Walker Brothers - God’s Been Good To Me
6. The Apostles Of Music - Wade In The Water
7. LaVice & Company - Thoughs Were The Days
8. Calvin Cooke - Walk With Me
9. Deliverance Echoes - Heaven
10. Liz Davis - Motherless Child
11. The Soul Superiors - Faith
12. Otis G. Johnson - Time To Go Home
13. Wayne & Thelma And The McAllister Singers - Peace When He Comes

Unfolding over twelve nocturnal and nostalgic hours, 'Walk Don’t Run' is a buddy-comedy thriller chronicling the unraveling of a lifelong friendship one manic diner dash, hijacked Woodie Wagon, Big Dipper roller coaster ride, and 3AM surf sesh at a time. Soundtracked by demos culled from the Ry-Ko discard pile, Moody’s instrumental shortcut is a snapshot of the mid-’60s surf music crash. In keeping with the film’s overnight theme, Walk Don’t Run trades in the loping, dreamy balladry of the era, shooting the echo-y curls of the private beach underground well after dark. If you want to stay friends—WALK DON’T RUN.

TRACK LISTING

1. Duane & The Drifters - Misty
2. The Persuaders - Stormy Sunday
3. Chayns - Live With The Moon
4. Bailey’s Nervous Kats - Cobra
5. The Travelers - Spanish Moon
6. Jerry & The Catalinas - Away From It All
7. Dino And The Dell Tones - Daydream
8. The Shelltones - Blue Castaway
9. The Monterays - Sun Set
10. The Thunderbolts - Blending (vocal Version)
11. The Centuries - Lonely Night
12. The Blazers - Sound Of Mecca
13. The Persuaders - Summer Is Nearly Here
14. The Suspicions - A Winter’s Serenade

Majesty Crush, are a Detroit based shoegaze band from the 90s but lightyears ahead of their time. They released their first, and only studio album 'Love 15' on Dali records which was a subsidiary label of Warner/Elektra but folded shortly after its release. The album offers listeners a dreamy, guitar-driven sound that blurs the lines between indie rock and pop - something that is a defining feature of Majesty Crush.

TRACK LISTING

1. Boyfriend
2. Uma
3. No. 1 Fan
4. Brand
5. Purr
6. Seles
7. Grow
8. Pretty Head
9. Cicciolina
10. Penny For Love
11. Skin
12. Feigned Sleep
13. Horse

Loitering on the same Berkeley streets that birthed Green Day, Operation Ivy,
and Crimpshrine, Pot Valiant (AKA Vagrants) developed their own style of Gilmangaze in the early-’90s. Compiled here are the band’s 'Lookout' and
'Sunny Sindicu't 7”s, 'Transaudio' LP, and comp tracks; all on one CD, remastered from the original tapes.

TRACK LISTING

1. Nugget Killer
2. Tapir
3. Oar
4. Low Dexterity Points
5. This Heaven Has Bars
6. Sick
7. Going
8. Last Sun
9. Untitled (Unfinished)
10 .Volar
11. Low Dexterity Points (Single)
12. Loud Street
13. Mythmaker’s Office
14. Wood

You like your lo-fi dreamgaze like you like your men: born in the ’90s and shacked up with their college girlfriend in a suburban bedroom. Compiled here for the first time is Should’s 1998 debut 'Feed Like Fishes' plus 10 period bonus tracks, on vinyl for the first time ever. Sounds like a head hanging out of a car window while speeding down a county road, three hours past curfew on a school night. Go ahead and turn the headlights off.

TRACK LISTING

1. Fish Fourteen
2. Sarah Missing
3. Aside
4. Spangle
5. It Still Would
6. Lullen
7. Memdrive
8. Its Pull Is Slight
9. Inst2
10. In Nine
11. Both Eyes Open
12. Things Are The Same (in Nine)
13. Faded
14. This House I’m Living In
15. Myself
16. Singe
17. Feed Like Fishes
18. Ocean Warm
19. Soothed (Rerecorded)
20. Merger
21. These Days

Totally phreaked Irish psychedelia for the summer of love hangover. Led by Belfast born wunderkind David Lewis, Andwellas Dream’s 1969 debut 'Love and Poetry' shreds the line between Denmark Street and Cyprus Avenue. A 13-song pastoral fever dream lost in the CBS warehouse, now remastered and
restored to its original glory. Hold onto your mind!

TRACK LISTING

1. The Days Grew Longer For Love
2. Sunday
3. Lost A Number Found A King
4. Man Without A Name
5. Clockwork Man
6. Cocaine
7. Shades Of Gray
8. High On A Mountain
9. Andwells
10. Midday Sun
11. Take My Road
12. Felix
13. Goodbye

The Boston music school refugees’ 1997 debut. Referred to as 'Junk' by bassist/vocalist/engineer Araby Harrison, the eight songs contained herein showcase Jejune’s pop punk affinity and alt-rock aspirations with a youthful push pit energy. Get lost in a 30-minute geographic sampler of Gilmangaze, Midwest emo, and Masshole hardcore, remastered and refreshed from the original dog-eared atlas. Duct tape not included.

TRACK LISTING

1. Meteorite
2. Greyscale
3. Pablo
4. Stresser
5. Ethan Allen
6. Indian Giver
7. Radical Firepower
8. Ford

Second wave emo gasping at alt-rock’s final breath. Jejune’s sophomore and final album 'This Afternoons Malady' showcases their love of midwest emo via a Corgan-esque wall of growling guitars. Co-produced with Chisel’s Ted Leo, Malady’s dozen songs mix handclaps and heart- break in equal measure, all remastered and finally available on wax for the first time ever. You can toss that picture disc in the garbage now.

TRACK LISTING

1. Morale Is Low
2. Coping With Senility (Lowlife Owns A Pen)
3. This Afternoons Malady
4. Fixed On The One
5. Sitcom Epiphany
6. Solar
7. New Clear Saturday
8. Regrets Are Unanswered Dreams
9. Demonica
10. 38 Calumet
11. One Transmission
12. Same To You

Epically torched psychedelia from deep in the private mind garden. Tracked in a remote cabin in the California redwoods, Stan Hubbs’s middle aged, 1982 brain-fryer 'Crystal' is the missing link between In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida and homegrown harpsichord hallucinogens. This hydroponic 44th anniversary edition includes Hubbs’ original 16-page book of poetry and doodles to help ease consciousness expansion.

TRACK LISTING

1. Sundance
2. Joe And Gina
3. Let’s Go On Back To Camp
4. Young Saint Augustine
5. Juggernaut
6. The Best Man For Some Jobs Is A Woman
7. Golden Rose
8. Crystal
9. Seems Like It’s A Rich Man’s World

Atmospheric post-rock from turn of the century Chicago. 90 Day Men’s debut for Southern Records surfs no wave’s spiky shorelines for eight hypnotizing tracks.

This expanded 25th anniversary edition includes an unreleased album tracked at Steve Albini’s Electrical Audio, with notes from engineer Greg Norman and a fresh Heba Kadry master. Let’s meet at Jinx.

TRACK LISTING

LP1 - (It (Is) It) Critical Band:
1. Dialed In
2. Missouri Kids Cuss
3. From One Primadonna To Another
4. Super Illuminary
5. Hans Lucas
6. Exploration Vs. Solution, Baby
7. Sort Of Is A Country In Love
8. Jupiter And Io
LP2 - Unreleased ‘98 LP:
1. Intro
2. Methodist
3. I’ll Be The DJ You Shithead
4. Super Illuminary
5. Missouri Kids Cuss
6. She’s A Salt Shaker
7. Activate ThThe Borders
8. Fight In ThThe Family Room
9. Beta Waves
10. Jupiter And Io

Take cover from this deadly Xmas-funk album cut by cruel crooner Jimmy Jules, devastating diva Jackie Spencer, and backed by the venomous Nuclear Soul System. Released on Jules’ Jim Gem label in 1977, the record vanished in disco’s mushroom cloud, achieving grail status and inspiring a Sharon Jones’ holiday album in the fall out. Silent night? Soulful fright!

TRACK LISTING

1. Xmas Done Got Funky
2. The New Year
3. It's Impossible
4. Time's Moving On
5. The Macaroni Man
6. Too Many Horses
7. Come And Get Your Gift

Take a much-needed vacation for your own mind, right from the comfort of your home. The first compilation from thrift store-to-YouTube darlings Paradise Is A Frequency, The Style of Life illuminates 70 minutes of wine cooler-core, consumer-grade smooth jazz CD- Rs, aerobic proto-vape VHS, and elevator-grade library music tape loops from artists including Metamorphosis, Lorad Group, Ski Johnson, Mensah, and more. Spread across two main- frames and featuring a booklet of reflections, dig sites, and wallpaper groupings for further lifestyle upgrades. The fictional software update for the next version of you.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
A1. David Lee - Freedom From Stress A2. Vincent - Ease Into
A3. Michael Colson - Opening Night A4. Bruce Sherman - Slow R&B
A5. Greg Haage - Two Shall Become One
SIDE B
B1. Scott Bruder - Susie’s Challenge B2. S. Work - Looking For
B3. Luigi Piergiovanni - Coracao
B4. Keope - Song Of Joy
SIDE C
C1. Metamorphosis - Line 2 4 U
C2. Lorad Group - Flirti Di Notte C3. Terrance Coleman - Coolbreeze C4. Ricky J - Reel Track 1
SIDE D
D1. Ski Johnson - Following A Rainbow
D2. Mensah - Happy To See The Sunrise Again D3. Jeff Jones - Daydream
D4. Paul Steven Ray - A.C.

Hüsker Dü. Live. 1985. Need we say more? Witness the transcendent Minneapolis punk trio tearing into the most incendiary year of its existence, captured live on stage at First Avenue in perhaps the highest fidelity recordings of the band’s lauded SST era. This 4-LP/2-CD edition includes Beau Sorenson’s restoration of an entire January 30 1985 set, 20 extra live tracks from the year’s touring schedule, and a deluxe booklet detailing twelve months of history-making Hüsker Dü. What is the sound of a legend being written?

TRACK LISTING

1. New Day Rising
3. Everything Falls Apart
4. The Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill
5. I Apologize
6. If I Told You
7. Every Everything
8. Makes No Sense At All
9. Terms Of Psychic Warfare
10. Powerline
11. Books About UFOs
12. Broken Home, Broken Heart
13. Diane
14. Hate Paper Doll
15. Green Eyes
16. Divide And Conquer
17. Pink Turns To Blue
18. Eight Miles High
19. Out On A Limb
20. Helter Skelter
21. Ticket To Ride
22. Love Is All Around
23. Don’t Want To Know If You’re Lonely
24. I Don’t Know For Sure
25. Hardly Getting Over It
26. Sorry Somehow
27. Eiffel Tower High
28. What’s Going On
29. Private Plane
30. Celebrated Summer
31. All Work And No Play
32. Keep Hanging On
33. Find Me
34. Flexible Flyer
35. Sunshine Superman
36. In A Free Land
37. Somewhere
38. Flip Your Wig
39. Never Talking To You Again
40. Chartered Trips
41. The Wit And The Wisdom
42. Misty Modern Days

Swindly Cosmic Americana for the boxcar bound. Operating out of a suite in the Roanoke, Virginia Ramada Inn Tiffin Music Enterprises International was but one of hundreds of gray-market record companies offering dubious services to Nashville aspirants. Cut in three days in 1975, 20-year-old Firebaugh wrote and played every bummed-out note, save a forgotten pedal steel man. 50th anniversary edition remaster fits snugly in your private mind garden

TRACK LISTING

1. Past The Point Of Caring
2. Only A Dancer’s Dream
3. This Time
4. Empty Canvasses
5. Moon Upon The Sea
6. And The Fiddle Ceased To Play
7. Silver Knight
8. Alabama Railroad Town
9. Losers
10. I’m Just A Writer
11. Looking Into Your Eyes
12. Like I Do

Tristeza’s Y2K sophomore album and debut for Tiger Style, back in print a quarter century later. Tracked in Chicago—the post-rock capital of the world— 'Dream Signals In Full Circles' weaves together shimmering counterpointed guitars, mathlete precision percussion, synth glaze and dramatic strings into a trance-inducing sonic screensaver. Do they ID at this bar?

TRACK LISTING

1. Building Peaks
2. Respira
3. City Of The Future
4. Shifty Drifty
5. Auroura Borealis
6. I Am A Cheetah
7. Chiaroscuro
8. Are We People
9. Opiate Slopes

The break up concept album no one asked for, The Appleseed Cast arrived on Tiger Style in 2003 amidst a second wave emo backlash.

Decades later, 'Two Conversations' is widely considered the Lawrence, Kansas, quintet’s crowning achievement, an atmospheric soul baring that eschews the Midwest varietal’s tropes. Get lost in the dreamy keys and synths and steel string strums, just be home before curfew.

“The group sound like it’s trapped on Polyvinyl Records circa 1996.”—Pitchfork

TRACK LISTING

1. Hello Dearest Love
2. Hanging Marionette
3. Ice Heavy Branches
4. Losing Touching Searching
5. Fight Song
6. Sinking
7. ThThe Page
8. Innocent Vigilant Ordinary
9. How Life Can Turn
10. A Dream For Us

In the wake of the Louisville–via–Chicago late-millennium post-rock explosion, Mercury Program arrived at an amorphous “scene” in transition, vibraphone in hand. From 'The Vapors of Gasoline'—their 2000 album for Tiger Style—was hardly a sophomore slump. Its ten cerebral and dissonant jams coyly answer the never-asked query: What if new age and post-hardcore bought a house in the suburbs?

This 25th anniversary remaster reveals the genius of an overlooked triumph in startlingly vibrant detail, providing atmospheric color for erstwhile reptile and periodic table fans alike.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Sea Is In Here
2. Highways Like Veins
3. Re-inventing A Challenge For Machines
4. Leaving Capitol City For Good
5. Nazca Lines Of Peru
6. Every Particle Of The Atmosphere
7. From The Vapor Of Gasoline
8. Fastest Way Through The South
9. Down On Your Old Lung
10. The Vortex East

Karate’s first five years, boxed in classic Numero fashion and annotated by frontman Geoff Farina. Collaging DC posthardcore, De Stijl, and Django Reinhardt, this five LP set includes their self-titled debut, In Place of Real Insight, The Bed Is In The Ocean, period 7”s, and previously unissued 1993 demo. 41 late millennium accounts of 2AM bike rides, punk house floors, skinny dipping, regrettable tattoos, and Interstate 95 commuting, all remastered from the original tapes and housed in sturdy tip-on sleeves for the discerning Karate enthusiast. Don’t drown.

TRACK LISTING

LP1 S/T
A1 Gasoline
A2 If You Can Hold Your Breath
A3 Trophy
A4 What Is Sleep?
A5 - - -
B1 Bad Tattoo
B2 Every Sister
B3 Bodies
B4 Caffeine Or Me?

LP2 In Place Of Real Insight
C1 This, Plus Slow Song
C2 New Martini
C3 Wake Up, Decide
C4 It’s 98 Stop
D1 New New
D2 The New Hangout Condition
D3 On Cutting
D4 Die Die
D5 Today Or Tomorrow

LP3 The Bed Is In The Ocean
E1 There Are Ghosts
E2 The Same Stars
E3 Diazapam
E4 The Last Wars
E5 Bass Sounds
F1 Up Nights
F2 Fatal Strategies
F3 Outside Is The Drama
F4 Not To Call The Police

LP4 Demo
G1 Cherry Coke
G2 Remembering To Forget
G3 Hard Song
G4 First Time
H1 Dating Is Stupid
H2 Starfish
H3 Schwinn
H4 Remembering Reprise

LP5 7” And EPs
I1 Death Kit
I2 Nerve
I3 Cherry Coke (7inch Version)
J4 The Schwinn (7inch Version)
J5 Operation: Sand
J6 Empty There

A muffled cry into the technological darkness, 'Contemporary Movement' slid into the world right as the MP3 was seeping out of college dorms. A 39-minute drift into the void, drenched in Cold War-era reverb and then submerged in four track hiss for good measure. Duster constructed a Brutalist masterpiece on the outskirts of a suburban mall, as if to say, “We were here.” This numbered 25th anniversary edition is pressed on 180G vinyl and comes with a lyric sheet and poster.

TRACK LISTING

1. Get The Dutch
2. Operations
3. Diamond
4. Me And The Birds
5. Travelogue
6. The Phantom Facing Me
7. Cooking
8. Unrecovery
9. The Breakup Suite
10. Everything You See (Is Your Own)
11. Now It’s Coming Back
12. Auto-Mobile

Dreamed up in the basement of his Bronzeville harem/ headquarters, Arrow Brown’s peerless 'The Magic of The Majestic Arrows' album was the by-product of years operating at the fringe of Chicago’s storied Record Row. Issued on his own Bandit imprint, the LP is a string-laden fantasia straddling the street corner doo-wop of the ‘50s and the Me Decade’s studio excess. Backed by the Chosen Few and the Scott Brothers, arranged by Benjamin Wright, sung by Brown’s 17-year-old daughter Tridia and Moroccos falsetto Larry Brown, and drawn by The Wind’s Eugene Phillips, the album is an outsider D.I.Y. soul genie await- ing the rub of a phonographic needle to reveal its immor- tal sorcery. Be careful what you wish for.

TRACK LISTING

1. One More Time Around (Vocal)
2. Love Is All I Need
3. Doing It For Us
4. Going To Make A Time Machine (Vocal)
5. Going To Make A Time Machine (Instrumental)
6. Ladies And Wonderful Girls (Arranged By Arrow Brown)
7. I’ll Never Cry For Another Boy
8. We Love Together
9. Another Day
10. The Magic Of Your Love
11. One More Time Around (Instrumental)
12. If I Had A Little Love (Rehearsal Take)

For our 100th Eccentric Soul 45, Numero returns to our Ohio roots with three replica 45s from the Capsoul universe.

We discovered Ron Harrington’s “Because You’re Mine” demo amongst the Capsoul tapes, a demo cut for founder Bill Moss that never escaped greater Columbus. The mid-tempo harmony joint “It Happened To Me Again” adorns the flip, with a lo-fi funk backbeat tossed in for good measure.

Eccentric Soul from the heart of it all.

TRACK LISTING

It Happened To Me Again
Because You're Mine

From his early-’60s days as hip shaker Twistin’ Harvey to his late-’70s nights on the light up dance floor in search of a “Disco Lady,” Harvey Scales survived scrapes with the pop charts, bankrupt record companies, walk outs, sit ins, strikes, price hikes, lay offs, and under table payoffs over a 40 year career. Compiled here for the first time are Scales’ Cuca and Magic Touch recordings, 27 slabs of cracker jack R&B, stomping northern soul, divorce-ridden deep soul, feverish funk, and hustling disco spread across 2 LPs and housed in a deluxe gatefold jacket.. Bill Dahl’s in depth notes document the entire sordid affair, with dozens of period photos and ephemeral bits illustrating the accompanying 20 page book. So necessary.

TRACK LISTING

1. Glamour Girl
2. On The Street Of) New York City
3. Independency
4. I Want To Apologize
5. Ten Thousand Years
6. The Clock
7. Every Step Of The Way
8. Can’t Have Me
9. Love That One
10. Canadian Sunset
11. Midnight Til We Meet
12. Forever Crying
13 Outcast (Gypsy Girl)
14. Yesterday

A white ship sailing in a sea of blackness, Codeine’s swan song arrived in 1994amid grunge’s ascension to alt radio’s godhead status. John Engle’s guitar alternates between crystalline and sludge, and Stephen Amersham’s distorted bass floats on top of punishing drums from newcomer Doug Scharin (Rex, June of44), resulting in nine perfect meditations on the loneliness and uncertainty of early adulthood. “Codeine’s unyielding numbness creates its own kind of warmth — the feeling of cold water running for so long that it suddenly feels hot.” —Spin

TRACK LISTING

1. Sea
2. Loss Leader
3. Vacancy
4. Kitchen Light
5. Washed Up
6. Tom
7. Ides
8. Wird
9. Smoking Room

The drowsiest and earliest inklings of the slow core movement can be traced to Codeine’s 1991 debut. Combining the Louisville scene’s relaxed tempo with doom metal’s distorted slurry, the album is a depressing masterpiece of hushed vocals, noisy guitar, and punishing drums. Remastered from the original analog tapes and recreated in painstaking detail, Frigid Stars LP is the NYC trio’s fuzziest and most affecting work. “A deft musical approximation of the sound of water turning to ice, the guitars are so weighed down with distortion that they struggle to march from one chord to the next.”—Pitchfork

TRACK LISTING

1. D
2. Gravel Bed
3. Pickup Song
4. New Year’s
5. Second Chance
6. Cave-In
7. Cigarette Machine
8. Old Things

The Nigerian princesses of afro-funk arrived on the international scene with 1976’s 'Danger' and never looked back. Produced by multi-instrumentalist Adeniyi “Biddy” Wright, the six-song LP is a low-slung affair, awash in dreamy psychedelic guitar, crisp hi-hat shuffles, and telepathic harmony vocals from twins Taiwo and Kehinde. This 2025 remaster is housed in a deluxe tip-on jacket and includes lyrics in both Yorurban and English. Danger, danger, danger please come on back.

TRACK LISTING

1. Danger
1. Amebo
3. Life’s Gone Down Low
4. Cashing In
5. Bobby
6. Lord Have Mercy

After three albums of reverberated guitar wandering, Master Wilburn Burchette’s 'Psychic Meditation Music' takes a turn towards the kosmiche. Two side-long synth explorations transport the listener to the avocado hues of 1974, expanding consciousness one oscillation at a time. Bug out your third eye!

TRACK LISTING

1. Yin
2. Yang

Malian guitar sorcery of the highest order. You shall not pass. Connecting Wasulu hunter music, griot praises, Senufo pastoral dances, Fula and Mandingo repertoire alongside Western psychedelia, blues and afro-beat, Zani Diabaté’s Super Djata Band was among Mali’s top orchestras of the 1980s. For their 1981 album, the Bamako-based orchestra discovers the wah-wah pedal, delivering six mind-ravishing guitar workouts for the proletariat.

TRACK LISTING

1. Mali Ni Woula
2. Zani Djabaté
3. Noumouna Kouloumba
4. Sinaya
5. Signanna
6. Limaniya Kile De Boro

80s synth magic for the the four-track mind. DIY outsider Rick Cuevas was a post-punk refugee on a vision quest for a hit. Tracked at home in 1984, 'The Birds' is that 40-year-delayed viral smash, one of eight retro-futurist anthems that make up Cuevas’ debut album.

Remastered from the analog masters, this 40th anniversary edition replicates the 200-copy original for max teleportation value.

TRACK LISTING

1. Symbolism
2. The Birds
3. Hello Condemnation
4. Loving This Girl
5. Long Way To Go
6. Circle Of The Rain
7. Sense Of Real
8. Wind Of My Breath

WHEN A NIGHT IN SOUNDS LIKE A NIGHT OUT

A dazzling 11-track journey through the rich, handpicked gems of Numero’s finest. Blending the timeless warmth of classic soul with a fresh, modern twist, 'Eccentric Modern Soul' delivers an expansive soundscape that feels both nostalgic and new

TRACK LISTING

1. Mind & Matter - I’m Under Your Spell
2. Ujima - Maybe
3. Cosmos Universal Band - Third Eye
4. 94 East - If You See Me
5. Crystal’s Image - A Friend
6. Arabi - Times Three
7. Universal Togetherness Band - Dreamality
8. Third Rail - Just Had To Tell You
9. Clifton Dyson, Gwen Matthews - I’m Giving Up
10. Wind - Best Thing I Can Do (Vocal)
11. Wee - Take To The Sky

Townies, homecoming queens, and big men on campus manifest a homegrown and revolutionary sound in Civil Rights-era Greensboro. Among presidential hopefuls and future astronauts, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, located in Greensboro, was a hotbed of black excellence, activism, and raw talent. At the helm of a half-dozen labels, local yokel Walter Grady assembled a rotating cast of townies, homecoming queens, and big men on campus to manifest a scintillating sound that was both homegrown and revolutionary. 'Eccentric Soul: The Linco Label' compiles melodic milestones from the birthplace of the civil rights movement.

TRACK LISTING

1. Gin And The Gents - Dreams For Sale
2. Four Wheel Drive - Fussin’ & Cussin’
3. Ronn Feaster - Don’t Laugh In My Face And Steal My Man
4. The Opells - Day And Time
5. The Versatile Gents - You’ve Blown My Mind
6. The Blenders - Nothin’ But A Party
7. Gin And The Gents - Boy And Girl
8. Cathy Smith - Baby, You Got It
9. Electric Express - Life Ain’t Easy
10. Bryant Headen - Guess I Better Move On
11. Roy Roberts Experience - Stop (Watch What You Doing To Me)
12. The Opells - You Know I Love You
13. Gin And The Gents - Could This Be Love
14. The Party Brothers - Let Me Be The One
15. Soul Hustlers - Super Party
16. John McCain - They Call Me The Man
17. Second Movement - People Get Down
18. True Transfusion - No Communication
19. EW Funktionäre - Disco Spirit
20. Roy Roberts Experience - I Can’t Go On (Without Your Love)
21. Inner City Funktion - Don’t You Need Someone Like Me (I Can Set Your Love Free)
22. Bridge - Stick Your Finger In The Ground (And Turn The World Around)
23. Human Blood - Blood City Funk
24. EW Funktionäre - Noah
25. Rufus Thompson - What’s Happening To My World (Extended Version)
26. Human Blood - She Makes My Temperature Rise (Because She’s Bad)

The dreamy debut album from Texas’s new wave of American krautrock. Recorded at home in 1996, 'The Fun Of Watching Fireworks' straddles the aerodynamic drag between lo-fi and Living Stereo, huffing hypnotic chem trails, Ampex 456 polyfibre dust, and subtropical ozone while the Farfisa warms up. Remastered from the original analog tapes as a reminder of what life was like in the before times. Trespassers encouraged.

TRACK LISTING

1. Diana Slowburner II
2. On My Way
3. Gone To Earth
4. On The Run’s Where I’m From
5. Dim Stars (The Boy In My Arms)
6. Trespassers In The Stereo Field
7. Too Tired To Shine II
8. It’s Alright

Funded by Capitol, tracked in 14 studios, issued by Tiger Style, and lost in the Y2K shuffle, Ida’s fourth album captures a band caught between Brooklyn and Woodstock, temping and adulting, burying a parent and birthing a child. A tireless compendium and ode to sleep, sex, all-night talking, and other bed-ridden activities, 'Will You Find Me‘s 14-songs are pillowed with 34 outtakes, alternate mixes, 4-track demos, and covers from the band’s extensive vault, unfolding thematically across four LPs. The accompanying 24-page booklet documents Ida’s major label album that never was in both stunning photographs and Douglas Wolk’s blow-by-blow essay. Who were you then?

TRACK LISTING

Will You Find Me Tracklist:
1. Down On Your Back
2. Maybelle
3. This Water
4. Shrug
5. The Radiator
6. Shotgun
7. Turn Me On
8. Man In Mind
9. Past The Past
10. Georgia
11. Triptych
12. Firefly
13. Encantada
14. Don’t Get Sad
15. Shrug (Brown Rice In A Magic Shop Dub)
16. Time To Listen To The Mystery Sound Of Your Own Heart
17. AZ U R
18. What Holds The World Together
19. The Great South River
20. Black Thumb
21. Better Days

Could Be The Door Tracklist:
1. Down On Your Back (Live On WFMU)
2. Maybelle (Strings And Piano Mix)
3. This Water (Capitol Demos Reel)
4. Shrug (The Woo Mix)
5. The Radiator (Pink Moon Mix)
6. Shotgun (Minimal Mix)
7. Turn Me On (Instrumental Mix)
8. Man In Mind (Vocal Only Mix)
9. Past The Past (Capitol Demos Reel)
10. Georgia Strings
11. Triptych Coda
12. Firefly (Rehearsal Excerpt)
13. Encantada
14. Don’t Get Sad (Dreamland)

The Reservoir Tracklist:
1. Never Goes Away
2. Shrug (4-track Demo)
3. Tales Of Brave Ida (4-track Demo)
4. Nothing But Sound (4-track Demo)
5. Love Streams (4-track Demo)
6. Mestizo Blues

The original soft grunge 90s sad girl. Julie in Memphis. With Eric’s Trip on ice, the Duchess of Canadian flannel flew south in December ‘96 to cut an album of postpartum depression ballads. Joined by Giant Sand’s Howe Gelb and The Grifters’ David Shouse, Loneliest In The Morning captures Julie’s blue period with trembling accuracy. Hanky not included.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
So Fast
Dance Me
Sorry Part I
Sorry Part II
Tell You Again
Explain
Crying Baby

SIDE B
Sweeter
Tonight, We Sleep
Mother
Love To Annoy
Creative Depression
Condescending You
Le Solei
Dance Music (7” Version)

As Warped Tour pop-punk and American Apparel indie rock dominated the strange post-Y2Kguitar-band milieu, Boston’s Karate delivered an engrossing shot of rock that constantly shifted between several shades of subterranean sounds. The quiet moments on Karate’s millennium busting fourth album carry much of that old, unbridled intensity, braided into subdued jazz melodies and slowcore restraint. This 25th anniversary edition of 'Unsolved' replicates the original 2000 pressing’s side D, and includes the 'Death Kit' 7” and split with Crown Hate Ruin. God forgive us.

TRACK LISTING

1. Small Fires
2. The Lived-But-Yet-Named
3. Sever
4. The Roots And The Ruins
5. Number Six
6. One Less Blues
7. The Halo Of The Strange
8. The Angels Just Have To Show
9. This Day Next Year
10. Cherry Coke
11. Death Kit
12. Nerve

The Notations smash “What More Can I Say” returns to the mother format with their all-time lowrider tail-pipe dragger “I’m Still Here” on this limited, twin-smash Numero Classics 45. Sampled by NxWorries, Anderson.Paak, redveil, and Snoop Dog, these Notations hits are sure to tickle the trainspotters and old-timers alike.

TRACK LISTING

I'm Still Here
What More Can I Say

When not gazing out windows into the stormy Manhattan skyline, Margo Guryan spent her thirties banging out earworms for the likes of Bobbie Gentry, Jackie DeShannon, Claudine Longet, Carmen McCrae, and Julie London at CBS’s April Blackwood Music. Guryan’s timeless musings on love, Sundays, earthquakes, crying, and boys named Timothy have soundtracked countless films and viral videos—enduring masterpieces from the before times. 28 of her 60s and ’70s songwriting demos are collected on this 25th anniversary double album edition. Get under Margo’s umbrella.

TRACK LISTING

1. L What Can I Give You
2. Something’s Wrong With The Morning
3. I Love
4. Sunday Morning
5. Can You Tell
6. Think Of Rain
7. Sun
8. Most Of My Life
9. The 8:17 Northbound Success Merry-Go-Round
10. Love Songs
11. Thoughts
12. I Don’ Intend To Spend Christmas Without You
13. Come To Me Slowly
14. Timothy Gone
15. It’s Alright Now
16. Values
17. I Think A Lot About You
18. The Hum
19. Please Believe Me
20. Yes I Am
21. I’d Like To See The Bad Guys Win
22. California Shake
23. Shine
24. Hold Me Dancin
25. Goodbye July
26. Why Do I Cry
27. Under My Umbrella
28. I Ought To Stay Away From You

Whipped up in the dust of Rene & Rene’s Tejano tornado “Angelito,” the Dynamic label was just one among San Antonio record and real estate mogul Abe Epstein’s enterprises. Dynamic’s flagship outfit, the Commands, marched “No Time For You” up to the middle of the charts in 1966 with performance chops honed jet-sharp by the demanding Air Force Base circuit. That take off paved a runway for 20 more soulful Dynamic singles over an impressive 30-month campaign. Epstein’s open-door policy brought a diverse cross-section of Texas talent into convergence within his General McMullan Drive studio, as whites, blacks, and Latinos alike suited up for service in whichever new group the call of duty called for. Epstein’s Alamo City melting pot is ladled out here in 21 (28 on the 2LP) of Dynamic’s most intriguing dishes by the Tonettes, Little Jr. Jesse & the Tear Drops, Don & the Doves, Willie Cooper & the Webs, Bobby Blackmon & His Soul Express, and Doc & Sal. Lone Star pic sleeves, full-color dancehall photography, and rich ephemera plant a new flag for soul in soil that’s seen its share of hoisted banners.

TRACK LISTING

A1 Commands – Hey It's Love
A2 Little Jr. Jesse & The Tear Drops – Give Your Love To Me
A3 Tonettes – I Gotta Know
A4 Doc & Sal – Can't Get You Offa My Mind
A5 Commands – I've Got Love For My Baby
A6 Willie Cooper & The Webs – You Don't Love Nobody
A7 Little Jr. Jesse & The Tear Drops – Ain't No Big Thing

B1 Commands – No Time For You
B2 Webs – Little Girl Blue
B3 Tonettes – My Heart Can Feel The Pain
B4 Doc & Sal – Cry & Wonder Why
B5 Commands – Don't Be Afraid To Love Me
B6 Willie Cooper & The Webs – I Can't Take No More
B7 Don & The Doves – Together

C1 Webs – Don't Ever Hurt Me
C2 Commands – Must Be Alright
C3 Bobby Blackmon & The Soul Express – She's Gotta Have Soul
C4 Doc & Sal – Laughing To Keep From Crying
C5 Webs – Try Loving Me
C6 Commands – Too Late To Cry
C7 Doc & Sal – My Dream

D1 Little Jr. Jesse & The Tear Drops – If You Don't Love Me
D2 Webs – Can't Let You Go
D3 Commands – A Way To Love Me
D4 Little Jr. Jesse & The Tear Drops – It Keeps Rainin'
D5 Don & The Doves – I Need You
D6 Bobby Blackmon & The Soul Express – You'll Find Another
D7 Commands – Around The Go-Go 

You know Dolly, Loretta, Tammy, and Bobbie—but what about Joyce, Mona, Cathy or Judy? Barnyard Beehive lassos 16 Opry hopefuls from across the Numeroverse, corralling the timeless tropes of heartbreak, trouble, and the bottle into one 12” pen.

TRACK LISTING

1. Joyce Street - Mississippi Moonshine
2. Judy Brackin - Mama’s Baby Again
3. Jenny Jordan With Billy Carnes And The Lee Riders - Walking In The Sunshine Of Your Love
4. Vanita Thompson - You Always Break My Heart
5. Edna Lee - You Can’t Deceive Me
6. Cathy Collins - Token Of Love
7. Connie Caddell - Angel
8. Ellie Shepherd And The Countrymen - I Love You Only
9. Julie Durocher And The Plainsmen - Bad News
10. Mona Lunsford - I’m Getting Restless
11. Bonnie Lee And The Country Men - Don’t Think That I May Never Go
12. Nancy Lee Jourdan - I’m A Woman Who Needs A Man
13. Katy Cricket - Society Girl
14. Molly Fay - The Bottle Or Me
15. Skip & Gail - That’s All I Want From You
16. Country Girl Kay - No One Loves You Like I Do

Following his post-hardcore heroics with Indian Summer and Calm, Marc Bianchi unplugged his distortion pedal and switched on the four track. From his boyhood San Mateo, California bedroom, Her Space Holiday explores the bewilderment of young adulthood through a dreamy prozac lens. This expanded 25th anniversary edition of Home Is Where You Hang Yourself includes an extra LP of remixed songs from Duster, Bright Eyes, Micromars, and Mahogany, an elegant tip-on jacket, lyrics, and 20 milligrams of millennial malaise. Ask your doctor if Her Space Holiday is right for you.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
Home Is Where You Hang Yourself
Snakecharmer
Through The Eyes Of A Child
A Matter Of Trust
The Doctor And The DJ

SIDE B
Sleeping Pills
Famous To Me
Can You Blame Me?
Sugar Water
Homecoming

Side C
Her Space Holiday–Misery Loves Company (Space Is Easy Mix)
Aspera Ad Astra–Godspeed (Freedom Fighters Mix)
Bright Eyes–Contrast And Compare (Making Words Work Mix)
Novasonic Down Hyperspace–Sounds Just Like An Ocean (Ocean Floored Mix)
Re Wired

Side D
Micromars–Smile Decoy (To Mars And Back Mix)
Mahogany–Singing Arc Lamp (Natural Satellites Mix)
Duster–And Things Are Mostly Ghosts (Version Overdose Mix)
Her Space Holiday–Famous To Me (Hurtful Kid Mix)
Tapping

From the frayed loop of San Diego’s white belt ‘90s scene, Boilermaker provided a subtle counterpoint to the Gravity obsessed post-hardcore landscape. They called it Leucadia-core, a hybrid of major chord riffs, emotive yelps, angular bass chug, and pounding rhythms, building and releasing with the Swami tides. 'Not Enough Time To Get Anything Halfway Done' compiles the trio of Terrin Durfey, Tim Semple, and Richard Sanderson complete discography—three albums, singles, and rarities—into a 41-song/ 4xLP box set, with annotation and illustration in the accompanying 24-page book. Surfs down. Hang zero.

TRACK LISTING

1. Roller Rink Skate Date
2. Hill
3. Switch
4. Ladyfinger
5. Lot 235
6. Crispin Glover Weekend
7. Slingshot
8. Alone
9. Trunk
10. Dark Island
11. Iris
12. Backseat Boat
13. Slow Down
14. Jingle Dell
15. Last Good Growth
16. Shepherd
17. Five Lined Skink
18. Phil The Water Sweep
19. Pathos Delay
20. Breach
21. Norman
22. Midnight Manager
23. Last Stop On The Way To Vegas
24. Last On The Drive
25. 1/10/98
26. Sunset Ridge
27. From Phoenix At Four
28. Tumbleweed
29. Here Comes Rolling
30. Thinner Runs Through Her
31. Bluebird
32. Used To Be
33. Beseme Mucho You Fucker
34. Drained Nonsense
35. Mobile Home
36. Why Is Grandma On The Roof?
37. Slow Down
38. Sleeping Arms
39. Switch _91X
40. Slingshot
41. Trunk (Live At Che Fest) 

Struck for circulation after 63 years in hock within the Lou-Mood Pictures vault, this previously unissued soundtrack traffics in the high-tone timbre and highball-sipping swoon of pop’s post-war years. Muddling together sugar-lipped divas, barrel-aged big bands, and “zoo be zoo be zoo” zest, with a Latin jazz Luxardo for garnish, Call Me Old Fashioned is a 40-minute stereo-sonic adventure for the 7 & 7 spy-fi fanatic.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
A1. Pony Sherrell - Don’t Do Anything Til You’ve Heard From Me
A2. Margo Guryan - More Understanding Than A Man
A3. Charleen Houston - Just Like A Fool
A4. Dolores White - Lovers Paradise
A5. Charlene Knight - If My Dreams Come True
A6. Darla Hood - Un Momento Mas
A7. Manny Lopez - Terra Bella (Que Bonita Es Mi Tierra)

SIDE B
B1. Nun Plus - Walk About The Craters Of The Moon
B2. Arnie & Chise’ Trio - Three Cherries
B3. Carmen - Ukulele Mambo
B4. Jeanne Hatfield - Time
B5. Doris Drew - Aba Da Aba Du
B6. April Yen - If And When It Happens
B7. Birdlegs And Pauline - Mist Of A Dream

Ten Numero-minted, dance floor ready dive bombers from disco’s all-to-brief heyday, previously swept under rug by the whitewashed glitz and glam of the era. Chugging grooves, bubbling synths, soaring strings, and sonorous voices are guaranteed to light up your night, on living room rugs and dance floors alike.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
01. Spirit Of Brotherhood - Go For It
02. Billy Foster & Audio - I Need Your Love
03. Sabata - Man For My Lady
04. Great Lakes Orchestra - This Is The Night For Loving
05. Karriem - I Love You
SIDE B
01. Lee Alfred - Rockin - Poppin Full Tilting
02. Arnie Love & The Lovelettes - Stop And Make Up Your Mind
03. Jackie Stoudemire - Flying High
04. Uneda Dennard And The Shandells Band - Fantasy Ride
05. Stephen Colebrooke - Shake Your Chic Behind 

The Numero Group guide to private issue new age.

Featuring Laraaji, Iasos, Joanna Brouk, Don Slepian, Peter Davison, Master Wilburn Burchette, Jordan De La Sierra, David Casper, Robert Slap and nine other pioneers of the Perrier underground.

Adorned with Marcus Uzilevsky’s ‘Linear Landscapes’, this double LP compilation is housed in a sturdy tip-on jacket and is accompanied by a 32-page booklet.

The fourth world awaits.

TRACK LISTING

Joanna Brouk - The Space Between
Laraaji - Bethlehem
David Naegele - Eternal Sanctuary
David Casper - Carmel Valley Sunset
Don Slepian - Sea Of Bliss
Vernal Equinox - Silent
Dream - The Real Dream
Steven Cooper - Soulmate Suite Part 1
Peter Davison - Control
David Storrs - Night In The Vortex
Iasos - The Angels Of Comfort
Robert Slap & Suzanne
Ghiglia - Ocean Echoes
Upper Astral - Crystal Cave (Back To Atlantis)
Alex Johnson - Music For Earth Orbit
Georges Boutz - After The Storm
Dervish - Somebodies
Peter Nothnagle - New Snow
Jordan De La Sierra - Music For Gymnastics
Master Wilburn Burchette - Eternal Light

San Jose slowcore/space rock outfit Duster returns with surprise album 'In Dreams', continuing their of inclination of sonically capturing an open-ended question. These thirteen tracks hone in on their trademark dark, droning guitar tones, dialed back percussion, and alluring hard-panned vocals while expanding and exploring synth-heavy and drum machine avenues.

It’s the fifth duster album, ok.

TRACK LISTING

1. Quiet Eyes
2. Aqua Tofana
3. No Feel
4. Starting To Fall
5. Close To Home
6. Isn’t Over
7. Cosmotransporter
8. Black Lace
9. Space Trash
10. Baking Tapes
11. Like A Movie
12. Poltergeist
13. Anhedonia 

Sleep off your summer with this comprehensive 36-song/4xLP overview of
Kansas City’s midwest emo pioneers. From 1993-1997 Boys Life defined this anxious strain of heartworn power pop punk, issuing a pair of standard-bearing albums between endless circling of the U.S. DIY circuit.

Collected here are their 'Departures and Landfalls' and self-titled albums, singles, split 7”s and 10”, live tracks, and rare demo tape, all annotated and illustrated inside a 24-page book

TRACK LISTING

LP1 - Boys Life LP:
1. Golf Hill Drive
2. Tucked In
3. A Quarters Worth
4. Without Doubt
5. Lister
6. Breaker Breaker
7. Cloudy And 47
8. Temporary
9. Clay Hill

LP2 - Departures And Landfalls:
1. Fire Engine Red
2. All Of The Negatives
3. Twenty Four Of Twenty Five
4. Radio Towers
5. Sleeping Off Summer
6. Calendar Year
7. Friends For That
8. Painted Smiles

LP3 - Boys Life Demo/Synergy Records Single:
1. Temporary
2. Strike
3. Cloudy+47
4. Hiawatha
5. Boxes
6. Lister
7. Without Doubt
8. Signing Off
9. Breaker Breaker
10 Temporary (Split Version)
11. Worn Thin

LP4 - Departures And Landfalls/Live At Black Cat Washington, DC 1997:
1. Sight Unseen
2. Homecoming
3. Two-Wheeled Train
4. Sight Unseen Live
5. Firm Handshake
6. Fire Engine Red
7. Sleeping Off Summer
8. Radio Towers

A trio of Kansas City soul sweepers, from the sprawling midwest burg’s storied Cavern, Damon, and Forte concerns. Bump and the Soul Stompers’ 1970 sweet soul double sider 'I Can Remember' was a tail pipe-dragging, low rider classic in the making, had it ever been released. A few years later Jerald “Bump” Scott took his new group to Cavern’s subterranean confines to cut the group harmony masterpiece 'Living In The Past', but remained unissued prior to Numero’s discovery of the Cavern tapes. As disco was cresting at the top of the next decade, Sharon Revoal tracked her James Brown meets James Bond stepper 'Reaching For Our Star' - the last 45 released on Marva Whitney’s peerless Forte label.

TRACK LISTING

1. I Can Remember
2. Standing On The Outside

A trio of Kansas City soul sweepers, from the sprawling midwest burg’s storied Cavern, Damon, and Forte concerns. Bump and the Soul Stompers’ 1970 sweet soul double sider 'I Can Remember' was a tail pipe-dragging, low rider classic in the making, had it ever been released. A few years later Jerald “Bump” Scott took his new group to Cavern’s subterranean confines to cut the group harmony masterpiece 'Living In The Past', but remained unissued prior to Numero’s discovery of the Cavern tapes. As disco was cresting at the top of the next decade, Sharon Revoal tracked her James Brown meets James Bond stepper 'Reaching For Our Star' - the last 45 released on Marva Whitney’s peerless Forte label.

TRACK LISTING

1. Reaching For Our Star
2. Run Between The Raindrops (While My Teardrops Fall)

A trio of Kansas City soul sweepers, from the sprawling midwest burg’s storied Cavern, Damon, and Forte concerns. Bump and the Soul Stompers’ 1970 sweet soul double sider 'I Can Remember' was a tail pipe-dragging, low rider classic in the making, had it ever been released. A few years later Jerald “Bump” Scott took his new group to Cavern’s subterranean confines to cut the group harmony masterpiece 'Living In The Past', but remained unissued prior to Numero’s discovery of the Cavern tapes. As disco was cresting at the top of the next decade, Sharon Revoal tracked her James Brown meets James Bond stepper 'Reaching For Our Star' - the last 45 released on Marva Whitney’s peerless Forte label.

TRACK LISTING

1. Strange Happenings
2. Living In The Past

The Hebrew surf-grunger returns! 'The End of Teenage' captures Charlie
Megira’s Berlin years with the Bet She’an Valley Hillbillies, shortly before his death. A time-traveling, five-song murder mystery guitar album that owes as much to Dick Dale as it does David Lynch. This expanded 10 year anniversary edition also includes the 11-song demo, where Megira’s familiar themes of drive-inn melancholia, beach blanket bongos, and desert drifting are explored in the privacy of his bedroom. Let him whisper in your ear.

TRACK LISTING

1. Jack The Ripper
2. Lord I Ain’t Gonna Bump With No Big Fat Woman No More
3. Rock Around The Block
4. Wall Of Death
5. Turn Around
6. Hava Nargila
7. A Whole Lot Of Nothing But The Blues
8. Banana
9. Little Skinhead Girl
10. Rasco
11. The Death Dance
12. Jack The Ripper
13. Heart And Soul
14. Alligator Man
15. Banana
16. The Death Dance III

A companion to 2016’s private country rock overview Cosmic American Music, this second volume goes way past Gram Parsons’ “country-rock plastic dry-fuck” and explores the twangy falsettos and commercial curiosity that sent the Eagles soaring. Though rooted in the west coast folk rock of the late-’60s, these new kids in town rendered a safe-for-thesuburbs sound bleached of the hippie era’s political strife. 20 tracks, two LPs, and gatefold tip-on sleeve for easy seed and stem separating are included.

"Come on I had a rough night, and I hate the fucking Eagles”—The Dude

TRACK LISTING

1. Mark Jones - One Way Train
2. Country Spice - Clouds
3. Charles Brown And Sleepy Creek - I Just Want To Talk To You
4. Lodestar - Who Are You
5. Caroline Peyton - Still With You
6. Suzy Siquenza - Someone Else
7. Cathy Hamer - Lady Full Of Dreams
8. The Jerry Busch Group - Devon
9. Chuck & Mary Perrin - Picking Up The Pieces
10. McKay - On He Goes
11. Bob Bakert - Cactus Woman
12. Richard Goldman - Don’t Spoil It Now
13. Salt Creek - Night With A Silver Tongued Devil
14. Rocky Top Band – Freedom Highway
15. Sally Colahan - Framed
16. Homecoming - Best Friend
17. Crystal Waters - Midnight Dreamer
18. Jim Spencer - Second Look
19. Hayne Davis - Without Me
20. David Liska - Raindog

A real people music masterpiece, D.R. Hooker’s 1972 debut meets at the be-in of drug-addled hippy psychedelia and evangelical Christianity. Conjuring visions of an L.S.D.-damaged Frank Sinatra or Lou Reed playing the role of a divorced suburban dad, The Truth is a religious midlife crisis disguised as a private press LP. Forge your own chains, indeed.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
1. The Sea
2. Fall In Love
3. A Stranger’s Smile
4. Weather Girl
5. This Thing

SIDE B
1. Forge Your Own Chains
2. I’m Leaving You
3. The Truth
4. The Bible
5. Falling Asleep

The ethereal third album from Texas’s slowcore first wavers. A lethargic, sparse, and autumnal album, 'The Golden Band' is where The American Analog Set developed the courage to drive 40 KPH on the autobahn. Issued on Emperor Jones in 1999, this 25th anniversary Numero edition has been remastered from the original tapes and flawlessly reproduced in a gorgeous tip on sleeve. When are you quitting the scene?

TRACK LISTING

1. Weather Report
2. Good Friend Is Always Around
3. It's All About Us
4. A Schoolboy's Charm
5. The Wait
6. New Drifters I
7. New Drifters II
8. New Drifters III
9. New Drifters IV
10. Golden Band
11. I Must Soon Quit The Scene
12. Will The Real Danny Radnor Please Stand?

'Take A Picture' is Margo Guryan’s one and done classic - one of record collecting’s real unheralded masterpieces - bright, breezy, lightly psychedelic, and utterly cosmopolitan, recorded in New York City no less. Newly restored by Jessica Thompson from the original two-track safety masters, this beguilingly melodic 1968 pop tour-de-force has never sounded better.

TRACK LISTING

1. Sunday Mornin’
2. Sun
3. Love Songs
4. Thoughts
5. Don’t Go Away
6. Take A Picture
7. What Can I Give You
8. Think Of Rain
9. Can You Tell
10. Someone I Know
11. Love

Bad vibes, habits, and breath collide on this ten-song pile up on the freeway to nowhere. Melting neo-grunge, swamprock, and noise punk in a cauldron of drug-addled psychosis, 1985’s 'You Get What You Deserve' continues Australia’s prison-as-country tradition of unhinged lunacy in the face of cultural isolation. Nuke nostalgia, femme fatale sharpshooters, demolition derbies, and a vacation at Hell Beach await.

TRACK LISTING

1. Hell Beach
2. If It’s The Last Thing I Do
3. Bad Priest
4. Demolition Derby
5. It Came Out Of The Sky
6. Atom Bomb Baby
7. Go Baby Go
8. Psycho Cook Supreme
9. Lead Foot
10. Murderess In A Purple Dress

Arriving as the hippy movement was discovering its peaceful easy ‘70s feelings,
Sandy Harless’ 'Songs' LP is Chillicothe, Ohio’s lone contribution to the Cosmic American Music movement. Financed from a 27-aquarium fish breeding business, the album shows its Appalachian roots with a tight weave of mountain folk, rural rock, and pastoral country. Real people music.

TRACK LISTING

1. I Knew Her Well
2. My Guitar
3. Day To Day
4. Friend
5. Sing A Song
6. Another Day
7. California Bound
8. Eagle R.I.P.
9. Gratitude
10. Love Song
11. Louisiana Woman
12. Who Said?
13. Farewell My Friend

Connecting Wasulu hunter music, griot praises, Senufo pastoral dances, Fula and Mandingo repertoire alongside Western psychedelia, blues and afro-beat, Zani Diabaté’s Super Djata Band was among Mali’s top orchestras of the 1980s. On their 1982 album, Diabaté enshrines himself within the pantheon of mythical West African guitarists, hypnotically picking through eight vivid compositions on his path to godhead status.

TRACK LISTING

1. Kanou
2. Fassiya
3. Mougoutigui
4. Soundiata
5. Souraka
6. Djegnonko Djugu
7. Faux Galant
8. Zan Sourou

A disciple of mambo innovator Perez Prado, the Cuban-born Modesto Duran was a pivotal figure in Latin dance music’s transitionary mid-century period. His gentle slaps can be heard across dozens of 1950s mega-sellers, from Esquivel to Belafonte, Eartha Kitt to Lena Horne. On his 1960 solo debut, Duran gathers a who’s who of conga-men, including Mongo Santamaría, Willie Bobo, and Juan Cheda, delivering a cinematic and percussive melange of afro-cuban, cha cha, and exotic jazz styles for the discerning listener.

TRACK LISTING

1. Afro-cu
2. Silent Island
3. Bem-be-cu
4. Chuqui Bambo
5. Piranha
6. Angry Drums
7. Goro-gu
8. Coro-coro
9. Baca-vaca
10. Gua-gua-co
11. Jungle Dream
12. Chango

Queer country rock from south of the Mason-Dixon line. High school
folkie Charles Brown teamed up with regional rural rock rascals Sleepy
Creek, triggering an unrequited inter-band love story and this album’s melancholy title track.

This 15-song LP gathers Brown’s solo and band work from 1976-’82, and Jon Freeman’s accompanying essay dissects the origin story of this private press pioneer.

TRACK LISTING

1. Just Want To Talk To You
2. Tennessee Woman
3. Talk Too Much Blues
4. Restless
5. The Hurtin’ Kind
6. Livin’ In A Suitcase
7. Circles
8. Trouble Is
9. All The Time
10. Like A Stone (Love Without Love)
11. Where Did The Love Go?
12. Colorado (My Lady Says)
13. On The Corner
14. The Hurtin’ Kind (Demo)
15. I Just Want To Talk To You (Live

Numero’s Hottest Sounds Around trio gathers castaway late ’70s grooves from across the Greater Antilles. Stan Chaman’s Trinidadian Semp concern delivered Wilfred Luckie’s wobbly 'My Thing' and the Hamilton Brothers’ calypso-disco smash 'Music Makes The World Go 'Round' in 1978. Across the sea, Frank Penn’s G.B.I studio tracked Stephen Colebrook’s Doobies-inspired 'Stay Away From Music' for the cruise ship curious. All three are housed in a custom Numero sleeve inspired by Edward Seaga’s Caribbean music manufacturing and distribution powerhouse WIRL (West Indies Records Ltd.)

TRACK LISTING

1. My Thing
2. Wait For Me

Numero’s Hottest Sounds Around trio gathers castaway late ’70s grooves from across the Greater Antilles. Stan Chaman’s Trinidadian Semp concern delivered Wilfred Luckie’s wobbly 'My Thing' and the Hamilton Brothers’ calypso-disco smash 'Music Makes The World Go 'Round' in 1978. Across the sea, Frank Penn’s G.B.I studio tracked Stephen Colebrook’s Doobies-inspired 'Stay Away From Music' for the cruise ship curious. All three are housed in a custom Numero sleeve inspired by Edward Seaga’s Caribbean music manufacturing and distribution powerhouse WIRL (West Indies Records Ltd.)

TRACK LISTING

1. Music Makes The World Go 'Round
2. Music Makes The World Go 'Round (Instrumental)

Numero’s Hottest Sounds Around trio gathers castaway late ’70s grooves from across the Greater Antilles. Stan Chaman’s Trinidadian Semp concern delivered Wilfred Luckie’s wobbly 'My Thing' and the Hamilton Brothers’ calypso-disco smash 'Music Makes The World Go 'Round' in 1978. Across the sea, Frank Penn’s G.B.I studio tracked Stephen Colebrook’s Doobies-inspired 'Stay Away From Music' for the cruise ship curious. All three are housed in a custom Numero sleeve inspired by Edward Seaga’s Caribbean music manufacturing and distribution powerhouse WIRL (West Indies Records Ltd.)

TRACK LISTING

1. Shake Your Chic Behind
2. Stay Away From Music

An overview of Laraaji’s earliest works, 'Glimpses of Infinity' gathers selections from his 1978 debut 'Celestial Vibration' and six additional studio sessions from the era. Full of discovery and wonderment, 'Glimpses of Infinity' is a miraculous chronicle of new age’s most fabled artist.

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: It's been a while since that first wave of Laraaji hype hit our shop so it seems fitting that Numero have returned with some of his earliest new age utterances - offering healing and rejuvenation for all during these testing times. Aural acupuncture and musical massages from this otherworldly sound shaman.

TRACK LISTING

1. Bethlehem (Glimpse)
2. All Pervading (Glimpse)
3. Segue To Infinity (Glimpse)
4. Kalimba 1 (Glimpse)
5. Koto (Glimpse)
6. Ocean (Glimpse)
7. Kalimba 2 (Glimpse)
8. Kalimba 4 (Glimpse)

Late night ‘60s R&B caught on tape at Jim Kirchstein’s jack-of-all genres Cuca studio. Re- leased on minuscule pressings into the Wiscon- sin wilderness, these 26 sasquatchrare tracks uncover the soulful paths between the Chicago, Milw aukee, Rockford, and Rockford scenes. Featuring Harvey Scales, Step By Step, Betty Moorer, Seven Sounds, Twiliters, Birdlegs & Pauline, Esquires, Artie & The Pharaohs, and Fantastic Six, this 2xlp tell s an alternate history of soul music that could only happen in the Hinterl ands on Highway 12.

TRACK LISTING

1. Twiliters - Restless Love
2. Harvey Scales & The Seven Sounds - Glamour Girl
3. The Devils & The Devilettes - I’ll Say “Yes”
4. Little Artie & The Pharaohs - It Puzzles Me
5. Birdlegs & Pauline - Too Much At Stake
6. Betty Moorer - The Long Hot Summer
7. The Esquires - You Don’t Care
8. Supremes Four - I Lost My Job (And I’ve Got To Find Another)
9. Harvey Scales & The Seven Sounds - Ten Thousand Years
10. Betty Moorer - One More Time
11. The Devils & The Devilettes - I’m Leaving You
12. Supremes Four - I Love You, Patricia
13. Twiliters - We Three
14. The Devils & The Devilettes - Tell Me
15. Step By Step - Time After Time
16. Harvey Scales & The Seven Sounds - Independency
17. Betty Moorer - My Man Lives
18. Twiliters - Can’t You Stay A Little Longer
19. The Devils Ft. J. Watson Vance - Love And Understanding
20. Step By Step - She’s Gone
21. Twistin’ Harvey - Every Step Of The Way
22. Twiliters - Girl Of My Dreams
23. Fantastic Six - I Never Knew Love
24. Artie & The Pharaohs - I’ll Take Care Of You
25. Birdlegs & Pauline - Mist Of A Dream
26. Rex Swanigan And The Fabulous Troubadores - Tribute To Jimi Hendrix

Everybody’s still talking about the good ol’ days! A rough and rugged collection of ol’ dirty classics that have inspired swarms of killer beats. A head nod to the sounds of Shaolin, the twelve chambers of Shanghai ’d Soul have moved lyrical chefs and production geniuses alike to compose some of their most ominous hip-hop. Gods and Earths alike will appreciate the raw funk and smoother-than-a-Lexus soul that come together like Voltron on this special compilation.

As sampled by J. Cole, The Game, Cappadonna, The Avalanches, Kanye, Hudson Mohawke, Anderson .Paak, Loyle Corner, Meek Mill, T.I., Quavo, Danny Brown, and hundreds more.

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1. The Professionals - Theme From The Godfather
2. Ponderosa Twins Plus One - Bound
3. The Notations - What More Can I Say
4. Tommy McGee - To Make You Happy
5. Dyson’s Faces - Cry Sugar
6. T.L. Barrett - Nobody Knows
7. Syl Johnson - Different Strokes
8. Salty Miller - Music Makes Me High
9. GreenFlow - I Got’Cha
10. The Spiritual Harmonizers - God’s Love
11. Family Circle - Mariya
12. Whole Truth - Can You Lose By Following God

An expanded and remastered 25th anniversary edition of the mythical Olympia, Washington, trio’s out of print singles and compilation tracks, A Single History 1991-2001 gathers odds and ends from across Unwound’s first decade. From their earliest post-hardcore squeals on “Crab Nebula” to the dub-inspired death march of “Behold The Salt,” this 23-track double LP fills in the distorted gaps of their initial seven album run.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
1. You Speak Jealousy
2. Stumbling Block
3. Crab Nebula
4. Caterpillar
5. Miserific Condition
6. Eternalux
7. New Radio Hit

SIDE B
1. Broken E-Strings
2. Totality
3. Mkultra
4. Negated
5. Said Serial
6. Census
7. Plight

SIDE C
1. Seen Not Heard
2. Mile Me Deaf
3. Solo Sonata
4. The Light At The End Of The Tunnel Is A Train

SIDE D
1. Corpse Pose
2. Everything Is Weird
3. Torch Song
4. Lazslo
5. Behold The Salt

Seven fretboard fantasias from California’s mysterious mail order mystic.

1973’s ‘Guitar Grimoire’ is a collection of reverberant and original charms establishing Burchette as the white wizard of tremolo theurgy.

Warning: Psychic energy shift probable.

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Birth Of A Witch
Raising The Pyramid Of Power
Love Call
Invocation To The Horned One
Fire Spell
Building The Circle
Witch’s Will

On 1977’s ‘Mind Storm’, the final album made prior to his emphatic retirement, Master Wilburn Burchette employed ‘pink sound’, a phenomenon known in acoustical science to open the mind to thrilling psychic revelations, setting down two sidelong pieces forming a reflecting crystal ball for squalls of deep br ain imagery.

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Deep Dimensions
Ceremony Within

Supernatural meditation, with a drum machine, from California’s mysterious mail order mystic.

1975’s ‘Music of the Godhead’ is the ambient alchemy that established Master Wilburn Burchette as the white wizard of tremolo theurgy.

Warning: Inner peace likely.

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Godhead
Resurrection
Eternal Light
Psychic Fire
Godward
Divine Revelation
Contemplation
Cosmic Celebration

California mail order mystic Master Wilburn Burchette was first known from his ads, hidden in the back pages of Fate Magazine, Beyond Reality and Gnostica News.

On his 1972 sophomore album, Burchette channels dreamy early music, druid folk, electric fingerstyle, psychedelic balladry and new age ontology, to create a visionary guitar technique all his own.

This faithful reproduction includes the original 12- page full colour instruction book for the secret method of piercing the psychic heart.

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Dawn Of Awakening
Regeneration
Transformation
Piercing The Psychic Heart
Invoke The Name Of God
Introversion
Realization

Self-examination via the synthesizer from California’s mysterious mail order mystic.

1976’s ‘Transcendental Music for Meditation’ is Burchette’s deepest exploration with the karmic keyboard.

As Burchette warned: Please do not listen to this album until you have prepared yourself!

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Part One
Part Two

Witness to revolutions in jazz and pop, Margo Guryan earned her place in the songwriting pantheon and then some. That she was largely unknown for decades is not the stuff of crushed dreams, but a result of her own choices and priorities. From humble beginnings to the peaks of her 1968 baroque pop masterpiece Take a Picture and the collected Demos to the recent viral ubiquity of “Why Do I Cry”, Words and Music captures the entirety of Guryan’s career, featuring 16 previously unreleased recordings and a 32-page booklet telling the whole story.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. If I Lose
2. You Promised
3. The Wise Man
4. The Morning After
5. Moon Ride
6. More Understanding Than A Man
7. More Understanding Than A Man (Instrumental)
8. There I Was

Side B
1. Kiss & Tell
2. Half-Way In Love
3. Goodbye July
4. Four Letter Words
5. Hurry On Home
6. I Ought To Stay Away From You
7. I Love
8. Under My Umbrella
9. I Don’t Intend To Spend Christmas Without You

Side C
1. Sunday Morning
2. Thoughts
3. Love Songs
4. Don’t Go Away
5. Take A Picture
6. Sun
7. What Can I Give You
8. Come To Me Slowly

Side D
1. The 8.17 Northbound Success Merry-Go-Round
2. Something’s Wrong With The Morning
3. Think Of Rain
4. Can You Tell
5. Someone I Know
6. Love

Side E
1. Why Do I Cry
2. Spanky And Our Gang
3. Most Of My Life
4. It’s Alright Now
5. Timothy Gone
6. The Hum
7. Please Believe Me
8. Yes I Am

Side F
1. I Think A Lot About You
2. I’d Like To See The BadGuys Win
3. Values
4. California Shake
5. Hold Me Dancin’
6. Shine
7. Goodbye July