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The Mooney Suzuki

People Get Ready - 25th Anniversary Edition

The Mooney Suzuki's landmark debut 'People Get Ready' is getting the deluxe treatment for its 25th anniversary! The full album is completely remastered and includes the rarity 'I'm Not Talkin' along with the band’s 1999 concert at The Cooler in NYC, a blistering, sweat-soaked performance never before released. This seminal 2000s album has never sounded better. Long hailed as one of the ignition sparks of the early-2000s garage-rock revival, 'People Get Ready' helped define the sound and swagger of a scene that would soon reshape rock music. Its explosive energy, razor-wire riffs, and unfiltered urgency were a blueprint for a generation of bands emerging from New York’s downtown clubs. Members of The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and other contemporaries have spoken about the electric atmosphere of the band, and 'People Get Ready' stands as one of the records that proved a new wave of rock was not only possible, but inevitable. The Mooney Suzuki’s raw, soul-infused attack set a tone that their peers absorbed, expanded, and carried into the global spotlight.

TRACK LISTING

1. Singin' a Song About Today
2. Make My Way
3. Half of My Heart
4. I Say I Love You
5. My Dear Persephone
6. Oh No
7. I'm Not Talkin'
8. Right About Now
9. Make You Mine
10. Everything's Gone Wrong
11. Do It
12. Yeah You Can
13. Everytime
14. Make My Way - Live at The Cooler, NYC, 1999
15. I Say I Love You - Live at The Cooler, NYC, 1999
16. Half of My Heart - Live at The Cooler, NYC, 1999
17. I'm Not Talkin' - Live at The Cooler, NYC, 1999
18. Oh No - Live at The Cooler, NYC, 1999
19. My Dear Persephone - Live at The Cooler, NYC, 1999
20. Heart Attack Blackout - Live at The Cooler, NYC, 1999
21. Hot - Live at The Cooler, NYC, 1999
22. Turn My Blue Sky Black / Shit P*rty - Live at The Cooler, NYC, 1999
23. Yeah You Can - Live at The Cooler, NYC, 1999

Dallas Good & Richard Reed Parry

Were "The Watchtowers"

'Were "The Watchtowers"' is the final recordings of Dallas Good of The Sadies, recorded prior to his unexpected passing in February 2022. This collaboration between Good and Richard Reed Parry of Arcade Fire (originally calling their duo “The Watchtowers") had slowly been written and recorded over the course of a decade whenever the two had a spare weekend. “It has been the slowest moving musical endeavour of my entire life,” Parry says. “We didn’t plan to do it this way, it’s just how it happened. Tiny, joyous flourishes of activity a couple times a year for over a decade.” Many of Good’s collaborators make guest appearances on the album, including Neko Case, Kurt Vile, Yo La Tengo, Jim Jarmusch, John Doe, Jon Spencer, Scott McCaughey, Gary Louris and Margaret Atwood. The album explores the cosmic, psychedelic Americana sounds that The Sadies perfected on 2022’s 'Colder Streams' that featured Parry in the producer’s chair. The final track on the album 'Not in This World' boasts a chorus of over 500 of Dallas' friends and fans from around the world singing together on Dallas' final piece of recorded music.

TRACK LISTING

1. Alone Alone
2. Echo the Part
3. The Brightest Light
4. Your Hand and Mine
5. There’s Time
6. Hope I Dream Again
7. Are You Gone (feat. Margaret Atwood)
8. The Hole in the Wall (feat. Neko Case)
9. Not in This World

Los Straitjackets

Somos Los Straitjackets

America’s favorite masked guitar slingers, Los Straitjackets, are back with 'Somos Los Straitjackets', their first album of original material in over a decade. Channeling the eternal spirit of surf rock while riding their own unmistakable wave, 'Somos Los Straitjackets' delivers fifteen tracks of twang-drenched riffs.

From the sun-scorched intensity of 'Polaris' to the funky undertow of 'Two Steps Ahead', 'Somos Los Straitjackets' is a sonic adventure that captures the freedom, danger, and endless horizon of a band at their creative peak. Tracks like 'Spinout' and 'High Wire Act' demonstrate why Los Straitjackets have reigned as the kings of modern instrumental rock for over thirty years with shimmering tremolo, relentless drum grooves, and hooks so catchy they don’t need lyrics to get stuck in your head. Produced with a vintage touch but packed with fresh intensity, 'Somos Los Straitjackets' is both a love letter to surf rock’s golden era and a bold new ride into uncharted waters.

TRACK LISTING

1. Bumper Car
2. Polaris
3. Genesee River Rock
4. High Wire Act
5. Numbskull
6. Two Steps Ahead
7. April Showers
8. Cry for a Beatle
9. Catalina Farewell
10. Copy Cat
11. Sentimental Fool
12. Bad Apple
13. Wicker Park
14. Spinout
15. Virgon

Iris Dement

The Way I Should (RSD26 EDITION)

THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2026 EXCLUSIVE AND WILL BE AVAILABLE INSTORE ON SATURDAY APRIL 18TH ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

IF THERE ARE ANY REMAINING COPIES THEY WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE ONLINE AT 8PM (BST) ON MONDAY APRIL 20th).


With The Way I Should, Iris DeMent stepped boldly into new territory, delivering a collection that balanced her fierce lyrical conviction with tender vulnerability. Released in 1996, this third studio album from the revered Americana singer-songwriter expanded on her folk and country roots, blending sharp political commentary with deeply personal storytelling. In celebration of the 30th anniversary of Iris Dement's album The Way I Should, Yep Roc Records is releasing the album on vinyl for the first time. The album is remastered by Mike Westbrook of Material Mastering and is pressed on Summer Sky color vinyl.

Watchhouse

Blindfaller

Lean in to the Watchhouse (formerly known as Mandolin Orange) album, 'Blindfaller', and it’s bound to happen. You’ll suddenly pick up on the power and devastation lurking in its quietude, the doom hiding beneath its unvarnished beauty. You’ll hear the way it magnifies the intimacy at the heart of the North Carolina duo’s music, as if they created their own musical language as they recorded it. “We talked about the feel of each song and pointed out loosely who was going to be taking solos, but it was mostly a lot of fresh takes, a lot of eye contact, and a lot of nods and weird winks,” says Andrew Marlin, who anchors the band with fellow multi-instrumentalist and singer Emily Frantz. As the duo’s songwriter, Marlin sharpens his lyrical prowess here, touching on broad themes of growing older and feeling helpless in a world torn by injustice. Sure, the album sounds classic, but it is rooted in the here and now of our daily headlines.

TRACK LISTING

1. Hey Stranger
2. Wildfire
3. Picking Up Pieces
4. Lonesome Whistle
5. Echo
6. Cold Lover’s Waltz
7. My Blinded Heart
8. Hard Travelin’
9. Gospel Shoes
10. Take This Heart Of Gold

Young Fresh Fellows

Loft - Black Friday 2025 Edition

THIS IS A BLACK FRIDAY 2025 EXCLUSIVE AND WILL BE AVAILABLE INSTORE ON FRIDAY NOVEMBER 28th FROM 10AM ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

IF THERE ARE ANY REMAINING COPIES THEY WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE ONLINE AT 8AM ON SATURDAY NOVEMBER 29th).

To celebrate the legendary Young Fresh Fellows' 40th anniversary, the band took one day off their hectic touring schedule to head to Wilco's LOFT studio in Chicago. The band got GRAMMY-Award winner Tom Schick behind the boards and some legendary guests across the album, including Neko Case (sings lead on 'Destination'), John Stirratt of Wilco (harmony vocals), Morgan Fisher of Mott The Hoople (keyboards), Jonathan Segel of Camper Van Beethoven (violin), Jenny Conlee of The Decemberists (accordion, harmony vocals), Mark Greenberg of Eleventh Dream Day (vibraphone), Peter Buck of R.E.M (12-string guitar), and Dave "Max" Crawford of Poi Dog Pondering (trumpet). This finished record, 'Loft', has never been released before and is finally seeing the light of day for the Young Fresh Fellows' 40th anniversary. The record is pressed on splash colour vinyl and limited to 1,000 copies worldwide. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Overture
2. I’m A Prison
3. Killing Time In Union Square
4. Three Gasconading Saints
5. Before The Deluge
6. Death Becomes Us
7. Entr’acte
8. Books Don’t Burn Twice
9. Destination
10. Whispering Hole
11. 1987
12. Harpoon In The Hay
13. The Exit Music
14. Theme

The Autumn Defense

Here And Nowhere

After a ten-year break from the studio, The Autumn Defense pick up right where they left off on their long-anticipated sixth album, 'Here and Nowhere'. Infusing the band’s breezy, harmony-drenched take on Laurel Canyon with lush orchestration and psychedelic flourishes, the collection is dreamy and impressionistic, full of warm, inviting tunes as beautiful as they are bittersweet.

Like much of the group’s catalog, it’s an album full of mystery and wonder, a rich, open-hearted work that nods to everything from Nick Drake and John Martyn to Carole King and David Crosby as it contemplates the passage of time, reckoning with what we lose, what we gain, and who we become along the way. Founded by core duo John Stirratt and Pat Sansone—and now featuring longtime rhythm section James Haggerty and Greg Wieczorek—The Autumn Defense first took shape in New Orleans, where the band recorded their 2001 debut, 'The Green Hour'. While the group has at times been pigeonholed as a Wilco side project (Stirratt is a founding member, and Sansone joined around the release of 2004’s A Ghost Is Born), The Autumn Defense’s sound has always been decidedly more West Coast than alt-country, drawing comparisons to The Beach Boys, The Byrds, and Love over the course of five critically acclaimed studio albums. NPR hailed the group’s “timeless pop songs,” while Rolling Stone called their music “gorgeous” and “delightful,” and the New York Times praised their delivery as “warm and radiant.”

TRACK LISTING

1. The Ones
2. I'll Take You Out Of Your Mind
3. Old Hearts
4. Winter Shore
5. In The Beginning
6. Hearts Arrive
7. Underneath The Rollers
8. More Than I Can Say
9. Love Lives
10. Raven Of The Wood
11. Ever Flowing Light

Sloan

Based On The Best Seller

'Based on the Best Seller', the new album from power pop auteurs Sloan, is a star-studded showcase of songwriting from the quartet of Andrew Scott, Chris Murphy, Patrick Pentland and Jay Ferguson. From hooks of 'Live Forever' and 'No Damn Fears' that cut like a director’s final edit, to the hooky harmonies of 'Dream Destroyer' and 'Capitol Cooler' that deserve top billing, this alt-rock blockbuster proves once again: Sloan never skips the reel magic. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Capitol Cooler
2. Dream Destroyer
3. Open Your Umbrellas
4. Baxter
5. Congratulations
6. Live Forever
7. So Far Down
8. Fortune Teller
9. No Damn Fears
10. Collect Yourself
11. Here We Go Again
12. Already Know


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