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Cover of In Grief Or In Hope by BIG|BRAVE.

BIG|BRAVE

In Grief Or In Hope

Thrill Jockey Records

The work of BIG|BRAVE is ever-expanding. The trio’s singular masterful sculpting of sonics into songcraft tucks layers of vulnerability into frenetic storms. 'In Grief Or iI Hope' is an innovative vision of electro-acoustic sound and emotive storytelling, an endless bounty of overwhelming distortions and devastating beauty. in grief or in hope marks a shift for BIG|BRAVE towards denser guitar-oriented compositions. With longtime touring bassist Liam Andrews (MY DISCO, Aicher) joining guitarist/vocalist Robin Wattie and guitarist Mathieu Ball in the studio for the first time, the pieces are keenly layered with a rich tapestry of harmonics and tonal intricacies. The trio’s instinctual progressions made more vivid through live recording, harnessing the gargantuan and storied sound of their performances. Wattie writes: " All that I could reflect on was grief and hope; death and life; cause and effect; shared experiences of being a human person.” The tenth album for the ensemble, 'In Grief Or In Hope' pays homage to their past while looking into their future. Standout 'The Ineptitude for Mutual Discernment' expands on lyrical themes first explored on 2015’s 'Au De La' where 'Verdure' echoes melodies from the title track of 2014’s 'Feral Verdure'. These references to their past serve as potent reflections on BIG|BRAVE’s evolution as artists. A sonic whirlpool of string instruments surround Wattie’s commanding vocals as she shifts from spectral undulations on pieces like 'What May Be The Kindest Way To Leave' to the direct, spare declarations of the title track. The ambiguity of mountainous chords on 'An Uttering of Antipathy' are coupled with autotuned phrases emphasizing the protagonists’ isolation inside the fray. Together the trio shift deliver emotional momentum that vividly describes the complex and deep feelings of struggle, pain, and transcendence. 'In Grief Or In Hope' transmits that sense of humanity with every gesture.

TRACK LISTING

1. What May Be The Kindest Way To Leave
2. A Shape Of Shame
3. The Ineptitude For Mutual Discernment
4. Holding Tongue
5. Verdure
6. Skin Ripper
7. An Uttering Of Antipathy
8. In Grief Or In Hope

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Cover of Heavy Water by Magic Tuber Stringband.

Magic Tuber Stringband

Heavy Water

Thrill Jockey Records

Magic Tuber Stringband act in communion with the natural world around them. Highly skilled players and writers, the trio are leaders within the burgeoning Avant-Folk world. Growing up in Appalachia studying the folk traditions of the region in tandem scientific and observational work in nature, their music appears to weave in and out of the fabric of the landscape. The ensemble continues to stretch the parameters of acoustic instrumental expression with masterful flourishes of dense, textural arrangements, subtle minimalist gestures and deft improvisation.

'Heavy Water' addresses the impact of nuclear production on the environment and the communities within, a musical evocation of destruction and resilience, an embrace of dissonance and tension within moments of transcendence. The inspiration for Heavy Water is rooted in fiddler Courtney Werner’s work as an ecologist in rural South Carolina. Werner explains: “The town of Ellenton, South Carolina was the largest of the towns displaced in 1952 by the U.S. federal government to build the Savannah River Plant, which produced radioactive materials for U.S. nuclear weapons during the Cold War. The former site of Ellenton was dedicated to the extraction of ‘heavy water,’ whereas other areas of the plant focused on manufacturing weapons-grade plutonium and tritium within nuclear reactors. Heavy water is chemically altered to be denser than normal water and is incredibly expensive and time-consuming to synthesize, requiring 52 gallons of river water to produce one fluid ounce. Its denser properties made it valuable for use within the nuclear reactors on the site.”

'Heavy Water' is more than a collection of songs. It is a work whose compositions are entirely modern. Played on traditionally folk acoustic instruments, it defies expectations and emotionally addresses the pain of lives human, flora or fauna irrevocably changed by dominant forces and defiantly persevering.

TRACK LISTING

1. Death Of Ellenton
2. Marker Of A Drowning
3. Sound Of A Million Stars
4. Woodpeckers
5. Scintillation
6. Blooms In The Rapids
7. Tribute To The Angels
8. Where The Place Becomes Forgetting
9. Wintering Grounds
10. Soft And Pliable
11. Dog-Headed Man

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Cover of Wonderful Rainbow - 2026 Repress by Lightning Bolt.

Lightning Bolt

Wonderful Rainbow - 2026 Repress

Thrill Jockey Records

Legendary band Lightning Bolt’s 'Wonderful Rainbow' is one of the most quintessential albums to come from the underground in the last 20 years. Included in lists like Pitchfork’s “200 top albums of the 2000s” and the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, Lightning Bolt’s seminal record solidified their place as pillars of the underground community. 'Wonderful Rainbow' saw the duo of Brian Chippendale (drums/vocals) and Brian Gibson (bass) being compared to the likes of Slayer, Ornette Coleman, and early Boredoms, and captured the bristling, immeasurable energy of their mythical live shows, which continue to astonish audiences today. The album’s now iconic artwork (drawn by Chippendale) mirrors the music’s curious and exhilarating blend of chaos, noise, intense beauty and childlike wonderment. Lightning Bolt paved the way for countless artists who followed them, cracking the noise-rock and underground scenes wide open with an album as frenetic and violent as it is overflowing with joyful abandon.

TRACK LISTING

1. Hello Morning
2. Assassins
3. Dracula Mountain
4. Towers
5. ON fire
6. Crown of Storms
7. Longstockings
8. Wonderful Rainbow
9. 30,000 Monkies
10. Duel in the Deep

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Cover of Setting by Setting.

Setting

Setting

Thrill Jockey Records

The North Carolina trio Setting brings together their substantial collective skills as musicians and their collaborative mindset to bear in their inventive and rich improvisations. Known for work in Mind Over Mirrors, Califone, Black Twig Pickers, Pelt, Peeesseye, Sylvan Esso, and Jake Xerxes Fussell, multi-instrumentalists Jaime Fennelly, Nathan Bowles and Joe Westerlund subvert expectations while creating a sense of wonderment. Their intricate interplay of synthesizers, cassette loops, banjo, keyboards, electronics, zithers, and a litany of percussive instruments form a tactile amalgam of celestial transcendence and terrestrial rhythm, a loamy pulse fluidly guiding every minute fluctuation in feel. Setting’s self-titled album is a definitive statement of their improvisational acumen meeting compositional rigor, a robust wellspring of hypnagogic grooves and mosaiced textures. Setting harnesses the euphoria of communal creation. “This is one of the most joyous albums I’ve made with other musicians. It felt like we were all in the slipstream,” notes Fennelly. Bowles adds: “Making this is maybe the easiest thing in my life; it’s not struggle music. This collaboration feels like it’s just coming out of the air, like it’s breathing. The eponymous album from Setting is the product of three intuitive players and deep listeners, artists who use those skills to create transformative music. The trio shirk any broader categorizations, as their unique dynamic pieces are alight with arrangements urgent and smoldering, patient and emotive.

TRACK LISTING

1. Heard A Bubble
2. Gum Bump
3. What Kind Of Fish Is A Turtle
4. Ribbon Of Moss
5. Derring-do

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Cover of THE HORIZON SPIRALS / THE HORIZON VIRAL by OOIOO / Lightning Bolt.

OOIOO / Lightning Bolt

THE HORIZON SPIRALS / THE HORIZON VIRAL

Thrill Jockey Records

OOIOO and Lightning Bolt are both bands whose music is wholly unique and whose creators’ influence would be impossible to overstate. 2 Epic OOIOO SONGS and 5 Blistering Lightning Bolt Songs ! YoshimiO, OOIOO’s founder and bandleader, has been a guiding force in uncompromising art across the continuum of rock and improvised music for four decades, from her work in UFO or Die to The Boredoms to SAICOBAB and beyond. OOIOO serves as a core outlet for melding freeform experimentalism with hypnotic rock pulses, defying boundaries with her acrobatic voice, electronics, trumpet and gamelan. Lightning Bolt’s Brian Chippendale and Brian Gibson have remained unparalleled in their ability to transmute frenetic whirls of percussion, gargantuan fuzz and dizzying melody into monolithic vistas. 'THE HORIZON SPIRALS / THE HORIZON VIRAL' is a split that captures the parallels in ethos between these two ensembles, their sense of gleeful abandon and freight train momentum, in inspiring detail. 'THE HORIZON SPIRALS', composed of OOIOO’s gamelan-infused sagas 'THE HORIZON' and 'Gamel BE SURE TO SPIRAL' demonstrates the boundless scope of OOIOO’s music. YoshimiO explains a core contrast between these pieces and 2014’s 'Gamel lays' in the physical materials used: “Back then in Bali, bronze-keyed gamelan were mainstream, and GAMEL uses bronze. THE HORIZON SPIRALS' gamelan is iron. Black-painted iron. This time, incorporating Koheysai's iron sound (iron gamelan) allowed us to see OOIOO's songs spiraling upward with greater lightness. Lightning Bolt’s 'THE HORIZON VIRAL' evokes the limitlessness of their improvisations and distills through more sophisticated home recording techniques. 'THE HORIZON VIRAL' reignites the flame of their storied home recordings, capturing the duo in full freeform, bolstered from bassist Brian Gibson’s experiences composing and recording soundtracks for video games he co-designed, Thrasher and Thumper.

TRACK LISTING

1. THE HORIZON
2. Gamel BE SURE TO SPIRAL
3. WAVERS
4. CLOUD CORE
5. THE RUNNERS 2
6. WOW 13
7. HEADLESS HORSEFOLK

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Cover of Sentence Structure In The Country by More Eaze.

More Eaze

Sentence Structure In The Country

Thrill Jockey Records

more eaze is the moniker of Brooklyn-based composer, orchestrator, and multi- instrumentalist, mari maurice. A renowned collaborator both in performance and on recordings, maurice’s own work is a fantasia, a reflection of her curious and explorative musical mind, encompassing entire spectrums of sound from a wide sonic pallet of electro-acoustic textures, folk traditions, and pop forms that pirouette into fully realized ecosystems. sentence structure in the country is a definitive statement of the matchless quality of more eaze’s skill as player and musical thinker.

The album relishes the ecstatic in performance and collaboration with an inviting wit and incisive compositions, imbuing tenderness, frustration, and joy into each passage. The title is an acknowledgement of the vernacular that shaped maurice’s musical production. As Coltrane said, “It all has to do with it.” maurice grew up playing fiddle in traditional folk and country tunes, and while playing on her album is entirely different, her reverence for the evolution of folk forms and her playing remain integral to those performances. Informing her production choices were maurice’s well- chosen collaborators: Wendy Eisenberg on electric guitar, piano and voice, Henry Earnest on electric guitar, Alice Gerlach on cello, Jade Guterman on acoustic guitar, and Ryan Sawyer on drums. sentence structure in the country is a collection of compositions, each beautifully realized, self-contained worlds. maurice’s dexterous, tasteful arranging lays bare her influences and obsessive fascinations with remarkable congruency while foregoing any sense of indulgence.

Her music holds a density not only in the lush compositions and embellishing flourishes, but also for those moments of spare, minimalist beauty. sentence structure in the country is a textural marvel, a mosaic of ethereal electronics and loamy acoustics sculpted around deeply moving, enduring songs.



TRACK LISTING

1. Leave (Again)
2. Distance
3. Bad Friend
4. Crunch The Numbers
5. Biters
6. The Producer
7. A Chorale
8. Healing Attempt
9. Sentence Structure In The Country
10. Move

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Cover of Can Such Delightful Times Go On Forever? by The Soft Pink Truth.

The Soft Pink Truth

Can Such Delightful Times Go On Forever?

Thrill Jockey Records

The Soft Pink Truth (Drew Daniel also of Matmos) grafts chamber music and electronic music into a beguiling new hybrid pop album that evokes mid-20th century film soundtracks with nods to minimalism. 'Can Such Delightful Times Go On Forever?' features artwork by Robert Beatty (Tame Impala, The Weeknd). The new album features a host of special guests: Bill Orcutt offers one of his most delicate performances committed to record. Other guests include strings arranger Ulas Kurugullu, harpists Neleta Ortiz and Cecilia Cuccolin, pianists Koye Berry and M.C. Schmidt, strings player Kurugullu, and the Ebu String Quartet, as well as woodwind players by Brandon Wilkins and Evelyn Frances and Zach Rowden of celebrated noise duo Tongue Depressor provides grinding double bass drones. Wedding emotional expression with canny references to the inherited history of recorded music, the chimes, organ and pizzicato strings on 'Phrygian Ganymede' recall Bernard Herrmann’s scores for classic Alfred Hitchcock films, while galloping marimbas lend a sense of screwball comedy on 'L’Esprit de L’Escalier'. 'Can Such Delightful Times Go On Forever?' is a singular album that speaks to the prowess of Drew Daniel as a composer and producer, deftly interlacing pop structure and classical timbre while interlacing subtle electronic sound design with gorgeous acoustics. Across the album Daniel embraces a spirit of drama and romanticism that blurs the boundaries between unconscious desire and everyday reality. The Soft Pink Truth has created a sound world of lavish fantasy that acts as a balm and counterpoint to the communal pains of modern life.

TRACK LISTING

1. Mere Survival Is Not Enough
2. And By And By A Cloud Takes All Away
3. Phrygian Ganymede
4. Underneath (I)
5. L'Esprit De L'Escalie
6. Time Inside The Violet
7. Orchard
8. Underneath (II)

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Cover of Open Close by Sam Prekop.

Sam Prekop

Open Close

Thrill Jockey Records

Sam Prekop’s work over the last 30 years, whether created primarily on his guitar or on his modular synth, is consistent in its powerful melodicism, delicate arrangements and subtle evolution. Prekop’s singular blend of melody, impressionistic lyricism and quietly intricate rhythms are the core of the singular sound of The Sea and Cake. Since 2010’s 'Old Punch Card', Prekop’s exploration of modular synthesis and electronic atmospheres, has come into its own. Highly skilled at manipulating the sonic interplay, Prekop has established a sytle all his own, his pieces are complex expressing real movement. Harmonies bloom with granular detail and contrary to their machine sources are able to convey emotion.

'Open Close' is an album that captures the flow and energy of a live performance through the lens of a deft craftsman, an equilibrium of intuitive composition and the excitement of possibility. The music of Sam Prekop is defined by his signature curiosity and his ability to mold and refine that curiosity into a wholly unique sound. His process in naming album 'Open Close' mirrors his creative practice and the worlds he builds across the album: “I like simple words that become complicated if you think of them more than a second or two, beyond face value. And 'Open Close' could be: close as in ‘close to you’ or close as in ‘close the door.’ If it gives everything away too quickly, then I’m not interested.” Each movement across 'Open Close' is replete with simple gestures that suggest new complexities with Prekop’s careful arrangements. 'Open Close' unearths new, soulfully human sounds from synthetic textures precisely juxtaposed, its subtle contrasts in texture and rhythm are a free-flowing celebration of sonics as stunning as they are ephemeral.

TRACK LISTING

1. Open Close
2. Font
3. Para
4. Light Shadow
5. A Book
6. Opera

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Cover of All The Waters Of The Earth Turn To Blood - 15th Anniversary Edition by The Body.

The Body

All The Waters Of The Earth Turn To Blood - 15th Anniversary Edition

Thrill Jockey Records

Originally released in 2010, The Body’s 'All The Waters Of The Earth Turn To Blood' is a watershed album that changed the landscape of heavy music. Buoyed by the eclectic cast of musicians, from the undeniably potent collaboration with The Assembly of Light Choir as led by now longtime The Body collaborator Chrissy Wolpert, to guest contributors that include members of Dead Times, Fang Island, Lichens (aka Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe), Human Beast, and many more. The album’s singularly bleak, yet beautiful atmosphere not only set the tone for The Body’s career in breaking the mold, but set a new standard for what extreme music could do. 'All The Waters...' also helped spark the duo’s penchant for collaboration, which they then solidified across dozens of releases, from collaborations with Braveyoung to BIG|BRAVE, Thou, Full of Hell, Uniform, and beyond. The new reissue for 'All The Waters...' is packaged as a double LP, including a whole new Side D, which is composed of bonus material never before pressed to vinyl.

TRACK LISTING

1. Abody
2. A Curse
3. Empty Hearth
4. Even The Saints Knew Their Hour Of Failure And Loss
5. Song Of Sarin, The Brave
6. Ruiner
7. Lathspell I Name You
8. Even The Saints Knew Their Hour Of Failure And Loss
9. Ruiner
10. Sarin, How The Gods Kill
11. Here Comes The Tears

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Cover of The Boat Outside Your Window by Thalia Zedek Band.

Thalia Zedek Band

The Boat Outside Your Window

Thrill Jockey Records

TRACK LISTING

1 Tsunami
2 Aliyah
3 Pin
4 Naming Names
5 Disarm
6 Circus
7 Boat
8 Shoes
9 Dissolve
10 Under Weather

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