Nothing have always been rule-breakers. Shoegaze renegades who’ve rebuilt the stereotypically lightweight genre in their own bloodyknuckled American image. Outlaw poets spilling existential dread on mile-wide canvasses of fuzz and reverb. Beginning as a Philly-born bedroom solo project in 2010, Nothing’s music has always captured the full scale of the human condition, both the blaring anger and the whispering sadness. 'a short history of decay', Nothing’s fifth album and first for Run For Cover Records, widens that aperture even further, providing the most hi-def rendering of Nothing to date.

The band have never sounded this colossal, never felt this intimate, never been this honest. With the strongest arsenal in Nothing’s ever-shifting lineup locked in -- guitarist Doyle Martin (Cloakroom), bassist Bobb Bruno (Best Coast), drummer Zachary Jones (MSC, Manslaughter 777), and third guitarist Cam Smith (Ladder To God, also of Cloakroom) -- singer-songwriter Domenic “Nicky” Palermo knew he had the manpower to make the band’s most ambitious record yet. Cowritten and produced with Whirr guitarist Nicholas Bassett, and with additional production and mixing work from Sonny Diperri (DIIV, Julie), 'a short history of decay', is the most evolved musical statement in Nothing’s catalog. Songs like 'Cannibal World' and 'Toothless Coal' are cataclysmic lashings of mechanized industrial-gaze that sound like My Bloody Valentine -- except more extreme. On the other end of the spectrum, the ornately morose 'Purple Strings' boasts a beautiful string arrangement that includes harpist -- and two-time Nothing contributor -- Mary Lattimore. That baroque delicacy permeates other a short history of decay, highlights, particularly 'The Rain Don’t Care', a lilting ballad that channels the worn-down elegance of Mojave 3, and also 'Nerve Scales', a pattering bop that resembles Radiohead in its marriage of otherworldly atmosphere and mortal precision. Palermo calls the new record “a final chapter.” Not the end of Nothing, but the conclusion of a story that began with Nothing’s 2014 debut, 'Guilty of Everything' -- another album about time, regret, and confronting uncomfortable truths -- and now resolves with 'a short history of decay',. As much a snapshot of Palermo’s past as it is a leap into Nothing’s future.

TRACK LISTING

1. Never Come Never Morning
2. Cannibal World
3. A Short History Of Decay
4. The Rain Don’t Care
5. Purple Strings
6. Toothless Coal
7. Ballet Of The Traitor
8. Nerve Scales
9. Essential Tremors

A critical darling and beloved by fans, the success and recognition of 'Domestica' changed the trajectory of Cursive’s career. It was recorded over nine days at Lincoln, NE’s Whoop-Ass studios (the original studio of Mike and AJ Mogis), and the album’s bracing, jagged, cathartic, and visceral songs capture the urgency of the reunited young band—and continue to resonate with fans 25 years later.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Casualty
2. The Martyr
3. Shallow Means, Deep Ends
4. Making Friends And Acquaintances
5. A Red So Deep
6. The Lament Of Pretty Baby
7. The Game Of Who Needs Who The Worst
8. The Radiator Hums
9. The Night I Lost The Will To Fight

From the maniacal opening notes and carnival barker howl that launch the album, 'The Ugly Organ' wasted no time searing itself into a listener’s ears and quickly established Cursive as a musical force with which to be reckoned. A self aware examination of artistic constraints (or lack thereof), relationships, sex, and the intersection of all three, 'The Ugly Organ' wowed critics and audiences alike with its cerebral, cathartic blend of songs.

Fiercely intelligent and cohesive – the liner notes laid the songs out like a play, complete with stage directions – across its diverse sonic landscape, the album landed Cursive on the Sunday Arts & Leisure section cover of The New York Times (which also called it “a marvelous collection of riddles and left turns, conceived as a single piece of musical theater”) and earned accolades from Rolling Stone (“a brilliant leap forward”), Entertainment Weekly, Billboard, Alternative Press, MAGNET (“The best punk record you’ll hear all year”), Esquire, and SPIN, among many others, as well as a place on numerous year-end best lists.

'The Ugly Organ' feels as vibrant and vital today as it did upon release more than 20 years ago. A landmark album, it not only catapulted Cursive from the simmering indie underground to the forefront of a genre, but also served to inspire a host of young bands in its wake.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Ugly Organist
2. Some Red-Handed Slight Of Hand
3. Art Is Hard
4. The Recluse
5. Herald! Frankenstein
6. Butcher The Song
7. Driftwood: A Fairy Tale
8. A Gentleman Caller
9. Harold Weatherstein
10. Bloody Murderer
11. Sierra
12. Staying Alive

For more than three decades, AFI has been in a nearly constant state of reinvention. The band have made it a point to evolve with every album—sometimes dramatically so—never allowing themselves to become too comfortable in one genre or rest on any of their impressive career laurels. It’s an approach that has grown their audience but also challenged it with a sonic identity that can shift in wild, unexpected directions.

Now with their twelfth album, 'Silver Bleeds the Black Sun…', AFI are once again at the start of a bold new chapter—only this time, they’ve even managed to surprise themselves.

How does a band that’s known for creative upheaval still find ways to push themselves out of their comfort zones? Typically, the group would start an album by immediately throwing themselves into writing and simply letting their intuitive musical shorthand guide the process. But for 'Silver Bleeds the Black Sun…', AFI set out to purposely change their creative approach altogether. This time, it started with a conversation: how could they break new ground?

The key to moving forward actually ended up coming from AFI’s collective past. “We started with something that sounded like Echo & the Bunnymen,” explains guitarist Jade Puget, who produced and engineered the album. “But eventually we ended up with this melange of death rock and post-punk—all this stuff from the late ‘70s and early ‘80s that we grew up on, like Sisters of Mercy, and Bauhaus, and Siouxsie and the Banshees.”

The goal became making an album with a singular mood—something dreamy and ethereal—and the band members found themselves diving headfirst into influences that had always been deeply embedded in AFI’s musical core, but now were being brought to the forefront.

'Silver Bleeds the Black Sun…' is dark and otherworldly, but also grandiose and stately, biting and beautiful in equal measure. In other words, it’s very AFI—yet not quite like any version of the band you’ve ever heard before.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Bird Of Prey
2. Behind The Clock
3. Holy Visions
4. Blasphemy & Excess
5. Spear Of Truth
6. Ash Speck In A Green Eye
7. VOIDWARD, I BEND BACK
8. Marguerite
9. A World Unmade
10.Nooneunderground

It’s impossible to talk about Wicca Phase Springs Eternal without talking about transformation. For over a decade the singer, songwriter and producer Adam Andrzejewski has used the moniker as a wide creative umbrella, under which he’s made a vast body of work that’s as consistently compelling as it is constantly changing. This deft ability to blend sounds and styles has become his calling card, but no matter the genre signifiers–from rap beats, to new wave synths, to goth atmospherics–the beating heart of WPSE is Andrzejewski’s singular voice and esoteric-yet-emotional lyricism. Those key elements have centered the project through musical explorations, and now on his latest full-length, Mossy Oak Shadow, Andrzejewski really puts them to the test. Shedding thumping 808s and intricate production in favor of a no-frills band and sparse live recording, the album is a stirring collection of hazy folk rock songs that prove Wicca Phase Springs Eternal can truly be anything.

“I always kind of thought that as long as I have the Wicca Phase Springs Eternal name that I can do whatever I want,” Andrzejewski explains. “The name provides a framework for the lyrics and aesthetics of the project–my songwriting with a mystical overlay to it–and as long as I can make something work within that, then the genre doesn’t totally matter.” That daring creative mentality is what steered Andrzejewski when he first started the WPSE project, through his work as a co-founder of the influential GothBoiClique collective, or as member of Thraxxhouse and Misery Club, and even with his punk side project, Pay For Pain. Still, few could have guessed that the new proper Wicca Phase Springs Eternal release would be a set of country-leaning folk songs performed without a wink in sight. As with all things Wicca Phase, Mossy Oak Shadow finds Andrzejewski fully committed.

Mossy Oak Shadow might seem like a drastic pivot for the Wicca Phase Springs Eternal fans who got on board through his beat-driven modern classic albums, like 2016’s Secret Boy or 2018’s Suffer On–but it shouldn’t come as a total surprise. WPSE releases have always dabbled in stripped down acoustic songs, and even further back there’s Andrzejewski’s earlier work as a member of emo/indie stalwarts Tigers Jaw. When he left that band to focus on Wicca Phase in 2013, he was met with skepticism from listeners who were hesitant to embrace his new persona and experimental trap sound. Ironically now Andrzejewski has so thoroughly established Wicca Phase Springs Eternal that he’s once again challenging his fans witha stark sonic shift–but this time by returning to the guitar-oriented songwriting he’d set aside. “Dylan, Will Oldman, Richard Thompson–what I like most about those songwriters is that I’m able to trust them,” Andrzejewski explains. “If they do something that’s totally strange I trust that they know what they’re doing because it’s coming from the same person that wrote all these other songs that I love. So even if it might take some time for me to get where they are, I want to try.”

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Rough Roads
2. Horseback
3. Enchantment
4. I Just Moved Here
5. Magic Moment
6. Meet Me Anywhere

Side B
1. Looking Back
2. I Get It
3. Settler’s Bend
4. Last Riders Crew
5. I Was A Runner Once

Jason Molina was an artist who didn’t like to look back. Throughout the singer-songwriter’s life and career, a restless and evolving creative pulse propelled him forward, training his focus on what was next. His unyielding creativity and work ethic bore sacred fruit. In his short life, Molina achieved what most musicians strive for: a sound that is instantly recognizable but rarely repeats itself.

From the banks of Lake Erie in his hometown Lorain, Ohio, to international stages with his bands Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co., Molina performed his vast catalog of mysterious, romantic, tempestuous, and monumental songs that were at once innovative and rooted in American tradition. He consistently tinkered with his sound, image, band, and homebase in order to sate his muse. Tenor guitar-toting misfit. Lovesick lo-fi indie rocker. Dirgey slowcore bard. 21st century roots-rock trailblazer. Canonical Midwestern songwriter. Jason Molina planted his creative flag in all of these territories — to stake his claim, convey how far he’d traveled, and leave behind a trail of precious talismans.

With I Will Swim to You: A Tribute to Jason Molina — named after a line in Molina’s song “Lioness” — Run For Cover Records and a coterie of affiliated artists honor the songwriter’s enduring impact. The compilation of Molina covers is performed by some of today’s most visionary singer-songwriters, including MJ Lenderman, Hand Habits, Horse Jumper of Love, Sun June and more, and includes singular interpretations of Molina fan favorites and deep cuts from his solo albums and lesser-known EPs. The resulting collection, an unmistakable labor of love, is an often-stunning gestalt of generational talent paying homage to one of the most gifted but underrated American songwriters.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. MJ Lenderman - Just Be Simple
2. Horse Jumper Of Love - Blue Factory Flame
3. Trace Mountains - The Dark Don’t Hide It
4. Sun June - Leave The City
Side B
1. Runnner - When Your Love Has Gone
2. Sadurn - The Old Black Hen
3. Advance Base - Everything Should Try Again
4. Hand Habits - Lioness
Side C
1. Teen Suicide - Whip-Poor-Will
2. Friendship - Hard To Love A Man
3. Lutalo - Shadow Answers The Wall
4. Another Michael - Farewell Transmission
Side D
Etched Artwork

Runnner’s sophomore full-length, 'A Welcome Kind of Weakness', emerged from a simultaneous tear in songwriter Noah Weinman’s body and life. Written during the months spent bedridden and healing from a torn achilles and the drastic upheaval of a breakup, the 11 songs on this record are Weinman’s most bracing, inviting the perceived vulnerability of the album’s title willingly. But at the same time, these songs are Runnner’s most present, defiant and self-assured, a reminder of the resolve that can come from gracefully accepting submission.

Longtime fans of Weinman’s likely fell for his signature homespun indie rock, recorded almost exclusively in bedrooms and home studios, where his poignant and self-deprecating lyrics float over beds of banjos, guitars and reverberant horns crescendoing to cathartic peaks. But on 'A Welcome Kind of Weakness', Weinman soars for the first time in high fidelity. Runnner’s first studio record, it recalls the larger-than-life highs of the early aughts rock that Weinman grew up on, bands like Coldplay, Radiohead, and Snow Patrol with their pristine vocal presence, scintillating guitar riffs, and astral synth sparkle. This is rock music in its most delicious form, music that gave Weinman something to look forward to when he could finally play live again.

But as high as the sonic highs may be on 'A Welcome Kind of Weakness', we also see Weinman struggling gracefully with the questions that emerge from moments of physical and emotional undoing. As he sings about spackling holes in the house he shared with his ex and reckoning with a long span of physical futility, we’re reminded, too, of all the spectrums of experience we endure. We are all perpetually pulled between polls—weakness/resolve, nostalgia/presence, powerlessness/control—but it takes a certain bravery to sit in the murky middle long enough to write about it. And in his willingness to bear witness to that transitory space, Weinman seems to reassure us: You may think you won’t run again, but, given time, you might.

TRACK LISTING

1. A Welcome Kind Of Weakness
2. Achilles And
3. Spackle
4. Chamomile
5. Claritin
6. PVD
7. Coinstar
8. Get Real Sleep
9. Split
10. Sublets
11. Untitled October Song

Celebrate a decade of Turnover’s iconic sophomore album 'Peripheral Vision' with this Deluxe Anniversary Edition. This three-disc boxset includes 'Peripheral Vision' in full alongside two bonus tracks ('Humblest Pleasures' and 'Change Irreversible') on disc one. Disc two features a completely instrumental version of 'Peripheral Vision’s original eleven songs. Disc three features newly-recorded alternate versions of 6 Turnover songs from the era recorded with original producer Will Yip at Studio 4.

Packaged in a slip-case set, this deluxe edition features a 24” poster and 12”x 12” book with lyrics, liner notes, archival photos and an interview with the band reflecting on a decade of Peripheral Vision. Released on May 4th, 2015 via Run For Cover Records, Turnover’s second album 'Peripheral Vision' is widely regarded as an essential body of the work in the band’s discography, maturing its sound into a shoegaze-inflected post-punk direction following the band’s 2013 debut record 'Magnolia'. Described as “a tour de force” by Kerrang!, the album set the stage for an extensive and prolific touring history over the past decade and three subsequent albums, including their most recent LP, 2022’s 'Myself in the Way'.

TRACK LISTING

1. Cutting My Fingers Off
2. New Scream
3. Humming
4. Hello Euphoria
5. Dizzy On The Comedown
6. Diazepam
7. Like Slow Disappearing
8. Take My Head
9. Threshold
10. I Would Hate You If I Could
11. Intrapersonal
12. Humblest Pleasures
13. Change Irreversible
14. Cutting My Fingers Off (instrumental)
15. New Scream (instrumental)
16. Humming (instrumental)
17. Hello Euphoria (instrumental)
18. Dizzy On The Comedown (instrumental)
19. Diazepam (instrumental)
20. Like Slow Disappearing (instrumental)
21. Take My Head (instrumental)
22. Threshold (instrumental)
23. I Would Hate You If I Could (instrumental)
24. Intrapersonal (instrumental)
25. Cutting My Fingers Off (alternative)
26. Humming(alternative)
27. Diazepam (alternative)
28. Like Slow Disappearing (alternative)
29. Take My Head (alternative)
30. Humblest Pleasures (alternative)

Graham Hunt has an intuitive ability to carve out his own space within the long, confusing history of American pop music. The Wisconsin-based songwriter has spent the past four years hard at work building records that synthesize timeless guitar pop chops with a layered approach to production and a sly lyrical eye. His music balances the surreal with the quotidian, the melodic with the rhythmic, the cryptic with the triumphant–often proving that slacker playfulness and Heartland earnestness are not mutually exclusive.

'Timeless World Forever' - Hunt’s first release for Run For Cover - provides closure on a formidable body of songs while opening the gates for a new stage in the artist’s long, prolific career. For years, Hunt has been a staple of the Midwest indie rock world, dating back to his time leading Midnight Reruns and performing with acts like Mike Krol and Disq. In 2019 he released his first solo record, 'Leaving Silver City', but it was 2022’s 'If You Knew Would You Believe It?' where he hit his stride. The album was quickly followed by 'Try Not To Laugh' in 2023, and now 'Timeless World Forever' picks up those threads. The three records are of a piece: all made in the same Madison basement with a beat-driven density and sonic imagination that is as indebted to rap and rave as power pop.

It’s hard to look backwards and forwards at the same time without getting your wheels stuck in some sludgy atemporal mud. By sheer force of commitment, Graham Hunt has made a body of music that makes an argument for experimentation within a tradition— one that invokes both familiarity and mystery. Timeless World Forever is the culmination of a half-decade of growth; it’s the sound of a lifer revving up, shifting into a higher gear, pressing his foot on the pedal, and attacking the highway.

TRACK LISTING

1. I Just Need Enough
2. East Side Screamer
3. Robot World
4. Spiritual Problems
5. Been There Done That
6. Power Object
7. Frog In The Shower
8. Cave Art
9. CRC
10. Movie Night

Pelican has always been a band that’s not just from Chicago, but distinctly of Chicago. Formed in 2000 by guitarists Trevor Shelley de Brauw and Laurent Schroeder-Lebec alongside brothers Bryan and Larry Herweg on bass and drums respectively, Pelican’s foundation was built upon the rule-free, genre-agnostic scene synonymous with the Fireside Bowl. “The ‘90s in Chicago was a free-for-all. Everyone was just coming from a place of pure creativity,” says Shelley de Brauw. With Schroeder-Lebec returning to the band following Dallas Thomas’ exit in 2022, this reunified version of Pelican allowed the band to tap back into those influences and build something distinctly new with 'Flickering Resonance'.

While longtime Pelican fans will find an updated version of the band’s ethos—one that’s been constantly evolving since their very first EP—their new partnership with Run For Cover Records emphasizes something that’s always been implicit to the Pelican formula. These songs take as much inspiration from titanic ‘90s post-hardcore, space-rock, and emo as they do traditional metal, showing that though Godflesh and Goatsnake records occupied the shelves of Pelican’s songwriters, so too did Quicksand, Christie Front Drive, and Hum. “A lot of people didn’t hear it,” says Schroeder-Lebec. “I was like, well, I guess the metal world is where we fit. But now, I’m willing to acknowledge all the suits we’re wearing.” On Flickering Resonance, Pelican allowed themselves to look at their music less as a means of hard-earned catharsis and more as an appreciation for the glimmers of joy that occur even in the bleakest landscapes.

TRACK LISTING

1. Gulch
2. Evergreen
3. Indelible
4. Specific Resonance
5. Cascading Crescent
6. Pining For Ever
7. Flickering Stillness
8. Wantering Mind

Celebrate a decade of Turnover’s iconic sophomore album 'Peripheral Vision' with this 10 Year Anniversary Edition. Retaining the album’s iconic cover art, the packaging has been completely overhauled to include a new lyric poster & printed photo inner sleeve. This special limited edition also includes two bonus tracks from the era - 'Humblest Pleasures' and 'Change Irreversible'.

Released on May 4th, 2015 via Run For Cover Records, Turnover’s second album 'Peripheral Vision' is widely regarded as an essential body of the work in the band’s discography, maturing its sound into a shoegaze-inflected post-punk direction following the band’s 2013 debut record 'Magnolia'. Described as “a tour de force” by Kerrang!, the album set the stage for an extensive and prolific touring history over the past decade and three subsequent albums, including their most recent LP, 2022’s 'Myself in the Way'.

TRACK LISTING

1. Cutting My Fingers Off
2. New Scream
3. Humming
4. Hello Euphoria
5. Dizzy On The Comedown
6. Diazepam
7. Like Slow Disappearing
8. Take My Head
9. Threshold
10. I Would Hate You If I Could
11. Intrapersonal
12. Humblest Pleasures
13. Change Irreversible