1
 
Cass McCombs — Big Wheel & Others

 Cass McCombs — Big Wheel & Others

 Cass McCombs — Big Wheel & Others

≡   West Coast singer/songwriter known for his haunting voice and intense songcraft.
Born: 1977 in Concord, California, United States
Instruments: Vocals, Guitar, Piano, various
Location: Concord, CA ~ Brooklyn, New York, NY, U.S.
Album release: October 15, 2013
Record Label: Domino Records
Duration:     85:34
Tracks:
CD1:
01. Sean I      (0:59)
02. Big Wheel      (3:40)
03. Angel Blood      (3:43)
04. Morning Star      (3:57)
05. The Burning Of The Temple, 2012      (6:03)
06. Brighter!      (3:57)
07. There Can Be Only One      (4:18)
08. Name Written In Water      (2:53)
09. Joe Murder      (5:52)
10. Everything Has To Be Just-So      (9:00)
CD2:
01. It Means A Lot To Know You Care      (3:34)
02. Dealing      (3:20)
03. Sooner Cheat Death Than Fool Love      (3:12)
04. Satan Is My Toy      (2:39)
05. Sean II      (1:12)
06. Home On The Range      (6:38)
07. Brighter! (feat. Karen Black)      (3:51)
08. Untitled Spain Song      (3:59)
09. Sean III      (0:52)
10. Honesty Is No Excuse      (5:24)
11. Aeon Of Aquarius Blues      (3:37)
12. Unearthed      (2:54)
CREDITS:
Karen Black  Featured Artist, Vocals
Tim Cedar  Engineer
Arthur Elletson  Engineer
Albert Herter  Cover Art, Drawing
Joe Lambert  Mastering
Perry Lubin  Layout
Chris Lux  Titles
Phil Lynott  Composer
Gabe Max  Engineer
Cass McCombs  Composer, Guitar, Primary Artist, Producer, Vocals
Sean Paulson  Engineer
Malcolm Pullinger  Editing
Ariel Rechtshaid  Engineer
Nicholas Vernhes  Engineer
Chet Jr. White  Engineer, Mixing
≡   Gatefold CD jacket including 2 CDs and a 16 pg booklet featuring illustrations and album lyrics.

DOMINO MART EXCLUSIVE: Limited edition of 500.
≡   Vinyl jacket printed on Kraft Duplex paper stock by Stumptown Printers featuring:
— alternate album cover
— exclusive 7" containing unreleased tracks
— exclusive 8 pg booklet featuring illustrations by Albert Herter and album lyrics
— includes MP3 download card
Website: http://cassmccombs.com/
MySpace: https://myspace.com/cassmccombs
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CassMcCombs
Agent: Kevin French
Description:
≡   "Big Wheel and Others is Cass' seventh-and-a-half album and the follow-up to the 2011's pair of releases Wit's End and Humor Risk. It comprises twenty-two songs, but "double album" implies bloat, prog, and concept, so, let's stick with "songs." This album is a bundle, a bindle, a hay bale, and an oil barrel of songs. Some of the genres that are to be found in varying degrees in the songs on this album are: Road songs, rock songs, folk songs, blues songs, country songs, rhythm and blues songs, skronk non-songs, cinema songs, cult songs, poem songs, jams, and ballads - to use however you wish."
In french:
≡   Un double-album tres varié et intriguant... A découvrir.
________________________________________________________________
Review by Fred Thomas; Rating: ***
≡   Following a remarkably prolific 2011, which saw the release of not one but two strong–in–their–own–right full–length records (Wit's End and Humor Risk) from indie troubadour Cass McCombs, things got relatively quiet for the ever–evolving songwriter.  His complexly poetic lyricism and subtly textured musicianship were in prime form on both albums, reaching into different places of darkness and humor. Two years later, Big Wheel and Others arrived; a sprawling 22–track collection that clocks in at almost 90 minutes and shows McCombs trying on different hats in his own established way of slowly unraveling his patient, aching compositions. It's an odd one. Beginning with a home-recorded spoken interview with a four-year-old, the album launches with a trio of repetitive Americana-seeped road rockers. The dusty churn of "Big Wheel," pedal steel-glazed softness of "Angel Blood," and dark lumbering tones of "Morning Star" set the listener up for an understated album of cowboy songs and clean, country-tinged melodies delivered from a distance. Before sinking into any one mode, however, McCombs quickly shifts gears with the saxophone-aided amble of "The Burning of the Temple, 2012," breezy dad–rock with the Graceland-esque instrumentation of "There Can Be Only One," and eventually the disorientingly lengthy sermon/poem/song cycle of "Everything Has to Be Just-So." This song riffs on for almost nine minutes, with a Dylan-via-Lou Reed monotone delivery on race, society, and individual perception. The song's mismatched segments persist for so long that they go from potentially grating to strangely lulling, not unlike Gillian Welch's ghostly epic "I Dream a Highway" or Dylan's "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands," songs that stick around so much longer than expected that they become meditations unto themselves. It's an unexpected highlight of the album, and is followed immediately by the head-scratching instrumental pseudo-smooth jazz of "It Means a Lot to Know You Care." That's not the only bizarre sidestep of the extensive set. The lyrics of the almost unlistenable sleaze rock romp of "Satan Is My Toy" experiment with the meeting of religious and sexual themes only a few notches above AC/DC's locker-room innuendo, and almost every time the arrangements veer away from sleepy acoustic instruments, the shifts can be jarring. The issue with Big Wheel is that the standout tracks are as brilliant as the filler is confusing, and both are represented more or less equally. A loving cover of Thin Lizzy's "Honesty Is No Excuse" is delivered with the same shambling feel as Dylan's Self Portrait material, and Karen Black contributes lead vocals to one of two versions here of the especially strong "Brighter!," but every fantastic song is cushioned by an anonymous-feeling mediocre one. While those already enamored with McCombs' lyrical approach and subdued songwriting might find more of immediate value here than the uninitiated, there's a lot to sift through, even for fans, and it might be difficult to keep focus through the entire sometimes befuddling set.
REVIEW
By OTIS HART; October 06, 201311:00 PM
≡    His essentially anonymous — an innocuous drifter with a poet's wit. Ten years into a singular songwriting career, he continues to shrug off any craving for context: There's no real backstory other than his lack of interest in backstory. McCombs writes, records and releases music; nothing to see here.
≡   But there's so much to hear, as a lack of known facts begets endless interpretation of fiction. McCombs' songs can be decoded every which way but true, with every listen complicating the one before it. There's no reveal, just an endless game of strip poker.
≡   Big Wheel and Others is McCombs' latest collection of metaphysical mumbo-jumbo, and almost definitely his best. In the past, McCombs has often prioritized opaque expression over earworms. Not the case here: Most of these 19 songs (plus three excerpts from the 1970 documentary Sean) are destined to be hummed. No hit singles like "County Line" or "Dreams Come True Girl" turn up in the mix, but perfect songs can often diminish the rougher cuts surrounding them. Big Wheel opts for consistency, with one great song after another and nothing paling in comparison.
≡   Still, highlights abound. "Brighter" features the dearly departed actress Karen Black, who lost a battle with cancer earlier this year and to whom McCombs dedicates this album. "There Can Be Only One" is all bongos and bass, and might just be played at a wedding someday. "Morning Star" boasts Phish's Mike Gordon on bass, which is kind of hilarious, and every time Kevin Bouley's saxophone makes an appearance, an angel gets its wings.
≡   At 85 minutes, Big Wheel and Others is a doozy, so don't force yourself to absorb the entire collection at once. Come and go as you please. McCombs wouldn't have it any other way. (http://www.npr.org/)
REVIEW
Songwriter Cass McCombs Offers His Best Work to Date With Big Wheel and Others
By Aaron Frank; Wednesday, Oct 9 2013
≡   Art can often be a constant process of refinement, but Cass McCombs has finally perfected his approach. This week, the 35–year–old singer–songwriter is set to release his most ambitious project to date, a sprawling two-disc album titled Big Wheel and Others. On none of his previous albums has the California-–orn, Brooklyn–based drifter so finely honed his songwriting talent.
≡   With his 2008 breakthrough, Catacombs, McCombs found a balance between two of his strongest abilities: haunting love ballads like “Dreams–Come–True Girl,” and poignant character studies like “Jonesy Boy” and “Lionkiller Got Married.” Big Wheel and Others is a more focused culmination of these abilities, but it also marks a new chapter in his career.
≡   In the past, McCombs's songs have, more often than not, been a reflection of the artist and society at large. But new songs like "Big Wheel" are strikingly direct. McCombs has a unique talent for inhabiting characters, but on Big Wheel and Others, the voice is usually his own, the lyrics bolder and more sincere.
≡   McCombs has been painted as a misanthrope in the media, mainly because of his reticence toward interviews and social media. But in conversation after a surprise performance at Bar4 in Brooklyn, there's no smoke screen, no façade. He has the air of an artist comfortable in his own skin, unencumbered by the Internet's mix of nasty comments and empty back-patting.
≡   Considering his stance on social media, you would think he'd be up for trashing it a little bit. But weeks later, over the phone from LA, he simply says it's not for him.
≡   "To each his own," McCombs explains. "I play music. That's how I communicate with people."
≡   While clearly dodging the question, he's also got a point. When you make music as intensely revealing as his, there's really no need for constant elucidation. In a perfect world, most artists would share this view, but we live an age of oversharing where the curtain is always up, which makes McCombs one of very few artists to save all of his bleeding for the music.
≡   This can make navigating an interview with him somewhat tricky. (His publicist once told a Nashville publication that McCombs would only conduct interviews with female journalists because it allowed him to open up more and speak more freely.)
It's a bit of a coup to even get him on the phone.
≡   There are rules, though. No questions about who played on the album or where he lives. He wants to talk "ideas in music on a universal level."
Fine.
≡   McCombs recently injured his hand skateboarding, and he explains he doesn't believe in Western medicine. He's been visiting shamans who have recommended herbs and a strict diet of hot food. He's toyed around with meditation as well, but playing music, he says, is already quite meditative.
≡   Onstage, it's clear what he means. Even while wincing through a six-song set at Bar4, he locked into the hard-stomping groove on "Big Wheel" with eyes closed, head bobbing side to side.
≡   "That's really where it happens for me," he says. "I don't really feel like I can totally express myself in a studio. I'd rather be onstage."
≡   As the opener on his new album, "Big Wheel" is at once its centerpiece and also something of a mission statement. Hearkening back to McCombs's early 20s, when he worked brief stints as a construction worker and a truck driver, the lyrics consist of shout-outs to steamrollers, bulldozers, and "driving far alone" intertwined with a peacenik ideology that has colored much of his recent work, including a tribute to jailed folk hero Chelsea Manning.
≡   Since the early 2000s, McCombs's creativity has thrived on his penchant for traveling. Though he divides most of his time between LA and New York, when he isn't touring he often sets out driving cross-country, crashing on couches, visiting friends and writing songs along the way.
≡   "Traveling and continuing to travel and listening to people's stories has truly affected the way I write songs, because I'm able to directly put people's stories into a song," he says. "It's very direct."
≡   In his lyrics, McCombs adopts the voices of people he meets on the road: outcasts, rejects, those relegated to the fringe of society, whose existence says something about where we are or might be heading. On another new song , "Joe Murder," he sings about a drug dealer who cuts his product with milk sugar. "Such a frugal drifter," he sings. "But not all who wander are lost."
≡   McCombs says one of the most inspiring people he met while traveling was cult actress Karen Black, with whom he collaborated on Catacombs for "Dreams-Come-True-Girl." In the late stages of the ampullary cancer that took her life in August, Black contributed vocals to "Brighter!" on Big Wheel and Others, casually ad-libbing the line "brighter my ass."
≡   "Every person she met, she instilled in them a sense of dignity," McCombs reflects. "She didn't project any amount of hatred, although we had once talked about writing a 'Fuck You' song. She was just so open to feeling things and expressing herself that the idea of writing a 'Fuck You' song probably sounded fun and light to her."
≡   Producer Ariel Rechtshaid was on hand to record Black's vocals. He explains the process as difficult, considering the rapid deterioration of her health.
≡   "She just taught me so much," McCombs adds. "Karen was probably the most interesting and caring person I ever met."
≡   Black lives on in his music among an assortment of colorful characters. Considering her influence on McCombs, it feels appropriate for her last recording to appear on his best work to date.
≡   McCombs lets it slip that his secret to better songs lies in sharpening his focus on writing. “I’m spending more time on it,” he says. The more he talks about songwriting, the more it sounds like he's actually talking about his life. “I want to test boundaries in myself, and I want to challenge my own pillars of morality. I’m not satisfied with any kind of structure.”
Fortaken: http://www.villagevoice.com/
Also:
BY ANDREW HANNAH, 8 OCTOBER 2013; Rating: 6/10
:: http://thelineofbestfit.com/reviews/albums/cass-mccombs-big-wheel-and-others-138803
Reviewed by James Oldham; 11 October 2013
:: http://www.caughtbytheriver.net/2013/10/big-wheel-and-others-cass-mccombs/
Albums:
• A (2003)
PREfection (2005)
Dropping the Writ (2007)
Catacombs (2009)
Wit's End (2011)
Humor Risk (2011)
Big Wheel and Others (2013)
EPs:
Not the Way E.P. (2002)
________________________________________________________________

Cass McCombs — Big Wheel & Others

 

ALBUM COVERS XI.

33EMYBW — Golem (25 Sept., 2019)
First Aid Kit — Stay Gold (2014)
STEREOLAB: Oscillons from the Anti~Sun
Ronnie Godfrey — Shades of Blue (Oct. 25, 2019)
Pancrace — The Fluid Hammer (09 Sep 2019/2LP)
Stereolab — Margerine Eclipse (Nov. 29, 2019)
WaqWaq Kingdom — Essaka Hoisa (Nov. 15, 2019)
Jack Peñate — After You (29th Nov. 2019)
White Lies — To Lose My Life… [10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition]
Avey Tare — Eucalyptus (July 21, 2017)
Bonnie “Prince” Billy — I Have Made A Place (Nov. 15th, 2019)
Hallelujah the Hills — A Band Is Something to Figure Out (2016)
Hallelujah the Hills — I’m You (Nov. 15, 2019)
Philip B. Price — Bone Almanac (Nov. 8, 2019)
The Who — WHO [Deluxe Edition] (22 Nov. 2019)
Courtney Barnett — MTV Unplugged [Live In Melbourne] (2019)
Hail The Ghost — Arrhythmia (6th Dec. 2019)
The Growlers — Natural Affair (25th Oct. 2019)
Signe Marie Rustad — When Words Flew Freely (Nov. 15, 2019)
Sean Henry — A Jump from the High Dive (Nov. 1, 2019)
SOFIA TALVIK — Paws of a Bear (Sept. 27, 2019)
David Thomas Broughton & Juice Vocal Ensemble — Sliding The Same
David Thomas Broughton — The Complete Guide To Insufficiency /re
Grimes — Visions (2012)
RADEK BABORÁK a jeho ORQUESTRINA na PIAZZOLLOVSKÉ ALBUM.
Martin Barre — Roads Less Travelled (26 Oct. 2018)
No~Man — Love You To Bits (Nov. 22, 2019)
Martin Barre — Away With Words
Guranfoe — Sum of Erda (Dec. 13, 2019)
Virginia Plain — Strange Game (Dec. 13, 2019)
Cold Chisel — Blood Moon (6 Dec., 2019)
930 x 827 tmavší podklad.jpg
CECILIA BARTOLI — Opera Proibita (Sept. 13, 2005)
Bruce Ackley, Fred Frith, Henry Kaiser, Aram Shelton — Unexpecte
Benoît Pioulard & Sean Curtis Patrick — Avocationals (2019)
Florist — Emily Alone (July 26, 2019)
The Flaming Lips — The Soft Bulletin (Nov. 29, 2019)
Cosmo Sheldrake — Galapagos [Original Soundtrack] 2019
Ben Featherstone — Prisoner to the Wind (Dec. 20th, 2019)
Oiseaux~Tempęte — From Somewhere Invisible (19 Dec., 2019)
Nonlocal Forecast — Bubble Universe! (March 1, 2019)
ROBERT FRIPP — THE KITCHEN (New York, NY) — 05 FEB 1978
KING CRIMSON, The Night Watch
Juraj Griglák, From The Bottom (Sept. 16, 2019)
Juraj Griglák — From the Bottom (Sept. 16, 2019)
Lilien Rosarian ~ A Day in Bel Bruit (June 9, 2019)
Jim Noir — A.M Jazz (Dec. 20, 2019)
Sean O’Hagan — Radum Calls, Radum Calls (2019)
Bill MacKay and Katinka Kleijn — STIR (Oct. 17, 2019)
Alice Peacock — Minnesota (Sept. 20th, 2019)
Sean McMahon ― You Will Know When You’re There (March 1, 2019)
Tylor Dory Trio — Unsought Salvation (Dec. 21, 2019)
Intocable ― Percepcion (March 15, 2019)
Third Coast Percussion & Devonté Hynes — Fields (Oct. 11, 2019)
Scorn — Cafe Mor (Nov. 15, 2019)
Alogte Oho and his Sounds of Joy — Mam Yinne Wa (Nov. 8, 2019)
P/\ST — /Expedice do vnitrobloku\ (Oct. 5, 2019)
Destroyer — Have We Met (Jan. 31, 2020)
Devendra Banhart — Ma (September 13, 2019)
Bellows — The Rose Gardener (Feb. 22, 2019)
Roland Tings — Salt Water (Nov. 8, 2019)
A Winged Victory for the Sullen — The Undivided Five
Alessandra Leão ‎— Macumbas e Catimbós (24/05/2019)
Stephen Duffy — I Love My Friends [Expanded Ed] (10 May 2019)
Carissa Johnson — A Hundred Restless Thoughts (Dec. 18th, 2019)
Georgia — Seeking Thrills (10th Jan., 2020)
The Chap — Digital Technology (10 Jan., 2020)
Field Music — Making a New World (Jan. 10, 2020)
Lydia Ainsworth — Darling Of The Afterglow (2019)
Lydia Ainsworth — Phantom Forest (May 10, 2019)
Circa Waves — Sad/Happy (March 13th, 2020)
Hawktail — Formations (Jan. 10, 2020)
Moonchild — Little Ghost (6th Sept. 2019)
Susanne Sundfør — Self Portrait (Original Score, 10th Jan. 2020)
Frances Quinlan — Likewise (Jan. 31, 2020)
Harvestman — Music for Megaliths (May 19, 2017)
Anika Nilles — For a Colorful Soul (Jan. 10, 2020)
Of Montreal — Ur Fun (Jan. 17, 2020)
Drive~By Truckers — The Unraveling (Jan. 30, 2020)
Wolf Parade — Thin Mind (Jan. 24, 2020)
Lucia Cadotsch — Speak Low (Feb. 26, 2016)
The Adobe Collective — All the Space That There Is (10 Jan 2020)
David Cross & Peter Banks — Crossover (17 Jan., 2020)
Whyte Horses — Empty Words (March 9, 2018)
Whyte Horses — Hard Times (17th of Jan., 2020)
Bombay Bicycle Club — Everything Else Has Gone Wrong (01/24/20)
John McLaughlin, Shankar Mahadevan, Zakir Hussain — Is That So?
Keeley Forsyth — Debris (17 Jan., 2020)
Gemma Ray — Psychogeology [Feb. 15th, 2019, Deluxe Edition, 2020
Deserta — Black Aura My Sun (Jan. 17, 2020)
Broken Social Scene — Live at Third Man Records (Feb. 28, 2020)
Kyrie Kristmanson — Lady Lightly (Jan. 10, 2020)
Futurebirds — Teamwork (Jan. 15th, 2020)
Ospalý pohyb — Ostrava (October 17, 2016)
Ospalý pohyb — ø (May 24, 2016)
Caspian — Dust and Disquiet (Sept. 25, 2015)
Caspian — On Circles (January 24, 2020)
Jennifer Curtis & Tyshawn Sorey: Invisible Ritual (2020)
The Innocence Mission — See You Tomorrow (Jan. 17, 2020)
The Sufis — Double Exposure (Jan. 24, 2020)
Blackbird & Crow — Ailm (17 Jan 2020)
Blackbird & Crow © 2020 Author: Megan Doherty
Torres — Three Futures (29th Sept. 2017)
Torres — Silver Tongue (Jan. 31, 2020)
Andy Statman — Old Brooklyn (2011)
Recondite — Dwell (Jan. 24, 2020)
Silkworm — In The West (24 Jan., 2020)
James Harries — Superstition (Jan. 31, 2020)
James Harries — Before We Were Lovers
Yorkston | Thorne | Khan — Navarasa : Nine Emotions (2020)
Fruition — Broken At The Break Of Day (Jan. 23, 2020)
Loveblind / Sleeping Visions (March 27, 2020)
Rizan Said — Saz û Dîlan (Oct. 11, 2019)
HMLTD — West of Eden (7 Feb., 2020)
HMLTD ©Dean Hoy
ÁSGEIR: IN THE SILENCE
Ásgeir — Bury the Moon (7 Feb., 2020)
Frazey Ford — U kin B the Sun (Feb. 7th, 2020)
Erlend Apneseth — Fragmentarium (Jan. 31, 2020)
Les Filles de Illighadad — Eghass Malan (Oct. 28, 2017)
Nina Kohoutová — Blue Sunray (Feb. 6th, 2020)
Alphaxone — Dystopian Gate (Jan. 14, 2020)
Cheerleader — Almost Forever (Feb. 7, 2020)
Oh Wonder — No One Else Can Wear Your Crown [Deluxe Edition]
Tame Impala — The Slow Rush (Feb 14, 2020)
REBECCA FOON — WAXING MOON (21st Feb., 2020)
Thomas Köner — Motus (Feb. 20, 2020)
Julianna Barwick — Circumstance Synthesis (Dec. 20, 2019)
ELYSIAN FIELDS — Pink Air
The Men — Mercy (Feb. 14, 2020)
Le Butcherettes — DON’T BLEED EP (14 Feb 2020)
The Gray Havens — She Waits (Nov. 7, 2018)
The Heliocentrics — Infinity Of Now (Feb. 14, 2020)
Caribou — Our Love (October 14, 2014)
Caribou — Suddenly (Feb. 28th, 2020)
Jack Peñate — After You [Expanded Edition] (2020)
These New Puritans — The Cut (2016~2019) (14 Feb. 2020)
Sarah Harmer — Are You Gone (Feb. 21st, 2020)
Sonny Landreth — Elemental Journey (May 22, 2012)
Sonny Landreth — Blacktop Run (Feb. 21, 2020)
Lanterns On the Lake — Spook the Herd (21 Feb., 2020)
Lanterns On the Lake — Spook the Herd (21 Feb., 2020)
Humanist — Humanist (21 Feb., 2020)
Sega Bodega — Salvador (Feb. 14, 2020)
Myopia Exclusive Crystal Clear Vinyl
Molina — Vanilla Shell (Jan. 24, 2020)
Debashish Bhattacharya JOY!guru cover
Cate Le Bon — Here It Comes Again (2020)
CocoRosie — Restless (Feb. 12th, 2020)
Wrekmeister Harmonies — We Love to Look at the Carnage (2020)
Calexico / Iron & Wine — Years to Burn (2019)
Fairport Convention — 50:50@50 (June 9, 2017)
Fairport Convention — Shuffle and Go (29 Feb., 2020)
James Taylor — American Standard (Feb. 28th, 2020)
The Magnetic Fields — Quickies (May 15, 2020)
Moses Sumney — græ Part 1 & 2 (May 15, 2020)
The Dream Syndicate — „The Universe Inside“ (April 10, 2020)
The Third Mind — The Third Mind (Feb. 14, 2020)
ANNA CALVI — HUNTED (March 6, 2020)
Jonathan Wilson — Rare Birds (March 2nd, 2018)
Jonathan Wilson — Dixie Blur (March 6, 2020)
Luke Haines — Beat Poetry For Survivalists (6 Mar. 2020)
Sink Ya Teeth — Two (28th Feb. 2020)
Stian Westerhus — Redundance (March 5, 2020)
Thomas Dybdahl — The Great Plains (Feb 24, 2017)
Thomas Dybdahl — Fever (March 13, 2020)
PETR KALANDRA — Petr Kalandra & ASPM 1982 — 1990 (Feb. 26, 2020)
Al Di Meola — Across the Universe: The Beatles, Vol. 2 (2020)
Sam Gendel — Satin Doll (13 Mar 2020)
Chapelier Fou — Deltas (Sept. 22, ​2014)
Chapelier Fou — Meridiens (Feb. 28, 2020)
CocoRosie — Put the Shine On (6 March 2020)
Dungen — Live (March 13, 2020)
Queer Jane — Home (Dec. 1, 2016)
Hornscape — Hornscape (March 6th, 2020)
Joywave — Possession (March 13, 2020)
Walter Martin — The World at Night (Jan. 31, 2020)
Morrissey — I Am Not a Dog On a Chain (March 20th, 2020)
Human Impact — Human Impact (13 March 2020)
Hibiscus Biscuit — Reflection of Mine (March 1st, 2020)
Markus Reuter — TRUCE (Jan. 17, 2020) cover
Orchards — Lovecore (March 13th, 2020)
Julia Holter — Never Rarely Sometimes Always (March 13, 2020)
Cathedral Bells — Velvet Spirit (March 6, 2020)
Bacchae — Pleasure Vision (March 6, 2020)
The Dears — Times Infinity Volume One (September 25, 2015)
Amanda Palmer — Forty~Five Degrees: Bushfire Charity Flash Rec.
THE DEARS — ‘Lovers Rock’ (May 15, 2020)
Eivind Aarset & Jan Bang — Snow Catches On Her Eyelashes (2020)
Waxahatchee — Saint Cloud (March 27, 2020)
Michael Landau — The Michael Landau Group Live (Oct. 31, 2006)
Låpsley — Through Water (March 20th, 2020)
Elysian Fields — Transience Of Life (May 7, 2020)
Baxter Dury — The Night Chancers (20 March 2020)
The Weeknd — Beauty Behind the Madness (Aug. 28th, 2015)
The Weeknd — Beauty Behind the Madness (Aug. 28th, 2015)
False Heads — It’s All There But You’re Dreaming (13 March 2020)
False Heads — It’s All There But You’re Dreaming (13 March 2020)
The Album Leaf — OST (March 20, 2020)
Real Estate — The Main Thing (28th Feb., 2020)
Villagers — The Art Of Pretending To Swim (03/19, 2020) DELUXE E
Villagers — Darling Arithmetic [Deluxe Version] (April 10, 2015)
Noveller — Arrow (June 7, 2020)
Justine Vandergrift — Stay (Feb. 7th, 2019)
The Electric Soft Parade — Stages (Jan. 8, 2020)
Ben Watt — Storm Damage (31st Jan., 2020)
Anoushka Shankar — Love Letters (7 Feb., 2020)
Roger Eno | Brian Eno — Mixing Colours (20 March, 2020)
Alberto Posadas : Poética del Laberinto, cycle pour quatuor de s
Sufjan Stevens — Aporia (March 27, 2020)
Beck — Deep Cuts (March 2020)
BECK — Uneventful Days (St. Vincent Remix)
Béla Fleck & Toumani Diabaté — The Ripple Effect [2LP, March 27,
Arbouretum — Let It All In (March 20, 2020)
Pearl Jam — Gigaton (March 27, 2020)
Loveblind: Visions
Loveblind: Visions
San Fermin — San Fermin (Nov. 11, 2013)
San Fermin — The Cormorant I & II (Oct. 4, 2019/April 3, 2020)
Stove — ‘s Favorite Friend (Oct. 31, 2018)
Queer Jane — Amen Dolores (March 27, 2020)
Rory Block — Prove It On Me (March 27, 2020)
Lizzy Farrall — Bruise (March 27, 2020)
Lilly Hiatt — Walking Proof (27 March, 2020)
The Chats — High Risk Behaviour (March 27, 2020)
Kazuomi Eshima & Masahiko Takeda — Inheritance for Soundscape
Marissa Nadler — unearthed (March 20, 2020)
Lucy Railton — Paradise 94 (22 Mar 2018)
BECCA STEVENS — WONDERBLOOM (March 20th 20, 2020)
Trees Speak — Ohms (3rd April, 2020)
Teho Teardo — Ellipsis dans l’harmonie (March 6th, 2020)
Ellipsis dans l’harmonie BACK COVER
Cocteau Twins — Head Over Heels
Cocteau Twins — Treasure
Cocteau Twins — Garlands (1982, Reissue 2020)
1600 x 1600 High Violet (10th Anniversary Expanded Edition).jpg
Riva Taylor — ‘This Woman’s Heart .1’ (27 Mar 2020)
Amy LaVere — Painting Blue (27 Mar 2020)
Sea Wolf — Through a Dark Wood (March 20, 2020)
Locate S,1 — Personalia (April 3, 2020
Anna Burch — Quit The Curse (Feb 2, 2018)
M.Ward — Migration of Souls (April 3, 2020)
Peel Dream Magazine — Agitprop Alterna (3rd April 2020)
ANDREW BIRD — CAPITAL CRIMES (April 1st, 2020)
Spy Machines — Spy Machines (April 3, 2020)
Richard Barbieri ‎— Past Imperfect / Future Tense (Mar 2020)
DAVID POMAHAČ — DO TMY JE DALEKO (Feb. 7, 2020)
KIESLOWSKI Tiché lásky
Born Ruffians — Juice (April 3, 2020)
LENKA NOVÁ — DOPISY (21.03./24.04., 2020)
Ezra Bell — This Way to Oblivion (3rd April, 2020)
Songdog — Happy Ending (27th March, 2020)
Laurel Halo — Raw Silk Uncut Wood (July 13, 2018)
Laurel Halo — Possessed (April 10, 2020)
Laura Marling — Song for Our Daughter (April 10th, 2020)
Hamilton Leithauser (The Walkmen) — Dear God (Aug. 2015)
Hamilton Leithauser — The Loves of Your Life (10 April 2020)
Don Gallardo — The Lonesome Wild (April 2, 2020)
Cowboy Junkies — Ghosts (30 Mar 2020)
The Mountain Goats — Songs for Pierre Chuvin (April 10, 2020)
Darnielle, Jon Wurster, Matt Douglas, Pete Hughes. ©Josh Sanseri
Erik Griswold — All’s Grist That Comes To The Mill (03/20, 2020)
Erik Griswold — All’s Grist That Comes To The Mill (03/20 2020)
Varga Marián — Solo in Concert (1. feb. 2018)
Joe Bonamassa & The Sleep Eazys — Easy To Buy, Hard To Sell
Midwife — Forever (April 10, 2020)
Moondog — On The Streets Of New York (Feb. 14, 2020)
Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble — Where Future Unfolds (2019
Meredith Monk & Bang on a Can All~Stars — Memory Game (03/27/20)
Pharoah Sanders — „Live In Paris (1975): Lost ORTF Recordings“
I Like to Sleep — Daymare (April 17, 2020)
MoE/Mette Rasmussen — Tolerancia Picante (March 25, 2019)
The Tiger Lillies — Cold Night in Soho (10 Feb. 2017)
The Tiger Lillies — Edgar Allan Poe’s Haunted Palace
Sarah Jarosz — World On The Ground (June 5, 2020)
Kate Amrine — This Is My Letter to the World (Jan. 24, 2020)
Fiona Apple — Fetch The Bolt Cutters (17 Apr., 2020)
The Tiger Lillies — Covid~19 (April 10, 2020)
Veneer — Recovery (April 15, 2020)
Siobhan Wilson — The Departure (10 May, 2019)
BC Camplight — Shortly After Takeoff (24 April 2020)
Siobhan Wilson — There Are No Saints (14 Jul, 2017)
Brendan Benson — Dear Life (April 24, 2020)
Ali Holder — Uncomfortable Truths (April 10, 2020)
From Atomic — Deliverance (April 2020)
Whyte Horses — Hard Times (17th of Jan., 2020)
Gerald Cleaver — Signs (March 27, 2020)
Sophie Tassignon — Mysteries Unfold (April 24, 2020)
HOUPACÍ KONĚ: SOULKOSTEL 8 11 2019 (April 25, 2020)
Sarah Longfield — Dusk (April 22, 2020)
Ariel Pink — House Arrest (2002/Mar 2011/April 24, 2020)
All The Best, Isaac Hayes (A Spoken Word Album)
Prophecy Playground — Comfort Zone (Feb. 15, 2020)
Mark Lanegan — Straight Songs Of Sorrow (8th May, 2020)
Genesis Revisited: Live at The Royal Albert Hall — 2020 Remaster
Joan As Police Woman — Cover Two (May 1, 2020)
Kuře v hodinkách — Flamengo
Kuře v hodinkách — Flamengo
Devon Williams — A Tear in the Fabric (May 1, 2020)
Johanna Warren — Chaotic Good (May 1, 2020)
emozpěv — Spolu (1st May 2020)
THE LEAGUE OF ASSHOLES — UNPLUGGED (1st May 2020)
Morgan1
Zuzana Mikulcová — Slová
The Fratellis — Half Drunk Under A Full Moon (8th May, 2020)
The Fratellis — Half Drunk Under A Full Moon (8th May, 2020)
Cocteau Twins — Victorialand (April, 1986, Reissue 2020)
Coloured Clocks — Flora (May 2, 2020)
I Break Horses — Warnings (08 May 2020)
Hawkwind — Acoustic Daze (25 Oct. 2019)
Indoor Voices — Animal (Feb. 14, 2020)
I Break Horses — Chiaroscuro
Einstürzende Neubauten — Alles In Allem (May 29th, 2020)
100 Gecs — 1000 gecs (May 31, 2019)
Evergreen — Overseas (15 Jun 2018)
Kurt Rosenwinkel Trio — Angels Around (May 8, 2020)
The Feather — Room (10 July, 2020)
Eyvind Kang — Ajaeng Ajaeng (May 1, 2020)
Eyvind Kang — Ajaeng Ajaeng (May 1, 2020)
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith — The Mosaic of Transformation (May 15, 20
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith — The Kid (October 6, 2017)
Mr. Alec Bowman — I Used to Be Sad & Then I Forgot (May 1, 2020)
György Ligeti — Lontano (22. Oct.,1967)
OWEN PALLETT — Heartland (March 3, 2014)
Badly Drawn Boy — Banana Skin Shoes (22nd May, 2020)
A.O. Gerber — Another Place to Need (May 22, 2020)
Kaleidoscope — Faintly Blowing (11 April 1969, Reissue, Remaster
Perfume Genius — Set My Heart On Fire Immediately (15th May 2020
Perfume Genius — No Shape (5 May, 2017) BC
Perfume Genius — No Shape (5 May, 2017) FC
Sungazers — Wasting Space (May 18, 2020)
Cermaque — Lament (22nd May, 2020)
Mountaineer — Bloodletting (May 22nd, 2020)
Jetstream Pony — Jetstream Pony (May 22, 2020)
Steve Earle — Townes (May 8, 2009)
Steve Earle & The Dukes — Ghosts of West Virginia (May 22, 2020)
Sixth June ‎— Trust (17 Jan 2020)
White Tail Falls — Age of Entitlement (May 29, 2020)
Weyes Blood — “Wild Time” from Titanic Rising
Nicole Atkins — Italian Ice (29 May 2020)
Deerhoof — Future Teenage Cave Artists (May 29, 2020)
Deradoorian — Find the Sun (Sept. 18, 2020)
Bob Dylan — Rough and Rowdy Ways (June 19th, 2020)
The Magnetic Fields — QUICKIES VINYL BOX SET (June 19, 2020)
The Magnetic Fields — QUICKIES VINYL BOX SET (June 19, 2020)
This Will Destroy You — Vespertine (June 9, 2020)
Jake Blount — Spider Tales (May 29, 2020)
Jake Blount — Spider Tales (May 29, 2020)
Yoko Ono, Kim Gordon & Thurston Moore — YOKOKIMTHURSTON
Psychic Markers — Psychic Markers (29 May, 2020)
The Memories — Pickles & Pies (May 29, 2020)
Songs for the Late Night Drive Home (Feb. 5, 2016)
Spc Eco — Dark Matter (Nov. 20, 2015)
SPC ECO — June (June 1, 2020)
Yves Tumor — Heaven to a Tortured Mind (April 3, 2020)
Norah Jones — Pick Me Up Off the Floor (June 12th, 2020)
Larkin Poe — Self Made Man (June 12th, 2020)
Ezra Furman — Sex Education [Original Soundtrack] (April 24, 202
Endless Field — Alive in the Wilderness (June 12, 2020)
Wesley Gonzalez — Appalling Human (June 12, 2020)
Noveller — Arrow (June 12, 2020)
Kim Myhr & Australian Art Orchestra — Vesper (17.04. 2020)
Kim Myhr & Australian Art Orchestra — Vesper (17.04. 2020)
Andrej Šeban — Triplet (March 22, 2019) inner cover
Andrej Šeban — Triplet (March 22, 2019) cover
The Crossing & Donald Nally — James Primosch: Carthage (05/2020)
Jerskin Fendrix — Winterreise (April 17, 2020)
Zoongideewin — Bleached Wavves (June 19, 2020)
ULRICH SCHNAUSS — A Long Way To Fall — Rebound (3rd April, 2020)
Sports Team — Deep Down Happy (5th June, 2020)
Wrekmeister Harmonies — We Love to Look at the Car (2020)
Midlake — Antiphon (Nov. 4, 2013)
ANASTASIA MINSTER — Father ©Michael Haley
Jessie Ware — Glasshouse (Deluxe; 20 Oct 2017)
Teen Daze — Morning World
Jessie Ware — What’s Your Pleasure (June 26, 2020)
Art Feynman — Half Price At 3:30 (June 26th, 2020)
Bo Ningen — Sudden Fictions (26th June, 2020)
Khruangbin — Mordechai (June 26, 2020)
Pottery — Welcome to Bobby’s Motel (June 26th, 2020)
Orlando Weeks — A Quickening (June 12, 2020)
John Craigie — Asterisk the Universe (June 12, 2020)
Kavus Torabi — Hip to the Jag (May 22, 2020)
Nadine Shah — Kitchen Sink (June 5, 2020)
Paul Weller — On Sunset [Deluxe Edition] (3rd July, 2020)
Corb Lund — Agricultural Tragic (June 26, 2020)
Christine Ott — Chimères (pour ondes Martenot) (May 22, 2020)
The Beths — Jump Rope Gazers (July 10th, 2020)
Ashley Paul — Window Flower (May 13, 2020)
Grey Daze — Amends [Deluxe Edition] (July 3, 2020)
Grey Daze ©Photo credit: Anjella / Sakiphotography
Ajimal — As It Grows Dark / Light (June 26, 2020)
Ajimal — As It Grows Dark Light (June 26, 2020)
Eleanor Friedberger — Rebound (May 4th, 2018)
ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER — NEW VIEW (January 22, 2016)
Immigrant Union — Judas (June 19, 2020)
Julianna Barwick — Healing Is a Miracle [Japan Edition] (2020)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse — Colorado (Oct. 25, 2019)
Neil Young — Homegrown (19th June, 2020)
The Jayhawks — XOXO (July 10, 2020)
Joy Division — Closer (40th Anniversary) [2020 Digital Master] (
Daniel Bachman — The Morning Star (July 27, 2018)
Daniel Bachman — Green Alum Springs (June 6, 2020)
Becca Mancari — The Greatest Part (June 26, 2020)
Ytamo — Vacant (June 12, 2020)
Bright Eyes — Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was (Aug.
Thin Lear — Wooden Cave (24th July, 2020)
Devendra Banhart — Vast Ovoid (July 24, 2020)
Cub Sport — LIKE NIRVANA (24 July, 2020)
Sara Serpa — Recognition (June 5th, 2020)
Sara Serpa, Ingrid Laubrock, Erik Friedlander — Close Up (2018)
Klara Lewis — Ingrid (1st May 2020)
Buju Banton — Upside Down (June 26, 2020)
Son Lux — Learning Structures vol. 1~4 (Oct. 11th, 2019)
learning structures, vol. 3 distance between us (Oct. 11, 2019)
learning structures, vol. 2: end firma
learning structures, vol. 3: distance between us
The Boomtown Rats — Citizens of Boomtown (13 March, 2020)
Ralph of London — The Potato Kingdom (19th June, 2020)
Mike Polizze — Long Lost Solace Find (July 31, 2020)
Land of Talk — Indistinct Conversations (July 31, 2020)
The Heliocentrics — Infinity Of Now (Feb. 14, 2020)
TANYA DONELLY: Swan Song Series bonus tracks (FC)
The Heliocentrics — Telemetric Sounds (Aug. 7, 2020)
KMRU — Peel (18th Sept., 2020)
Kris Delmhorst — Blood Test
Bill Callahan — Gold Record (Sept. 4, 2020)
MUFF — Fatalust (Nov. 1, 2019) cover
Asher Gamedze – Dialectic Soul (July 10, 2020)
Allegra Krieger — The Joys of Forgetting (August 7, 2020)
Still House Plants — Fast Edit (Aug. 14, 2020)
Vladislav Delay, Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare — 500~Push~Up
The Waterboys — Good Luck, Seeker (Deluxe) (Aug. 21, 2020)
Martin Burlas & Musica falsa et ficta — Hexenprozesse
Holly Herndon — PROTO (Winner of Tais Awards 2020)
Maria Schneider Orchestra — Data Lords (24th July, 2020)
Cold War Kids — New Age Norms 1 (Nov. 1, 2019)
Cold War Kids — New Age Norms 2 (Aug. 21, 2020)
Free To Grow — Imperfection (Aug. 7, 2020)
Throwing Muses — Sun Racket (Sept. 4, 2020)
Narrow Head — 12th House Rock (Aug. 28th, 2020)
Laura Veirs — MY ECHO (23rd Oct., 2020)
PVRIS — Use Me (March 3, 2020)
Dan Croll — Grand Plan (21 Aug., 2020)
All Them Witches — Nothing as the Ideal (Sept. 4, 2020)
The Flaming Lips — American Head (Sept. 11, 2020)
Elysian Fields — Transience of Life (Sept. 4, 2020)
Sara Bareilles — What’s Inside Songs From Waitress (11/06, 2015)
Sara Bareilles — More Love: Songs from Little Voice Season One (
Delta Spirit — Into The Wide (Deluxe Edition, Sept. 9, 2014)
Lo Tom — LP2 (September 11, 2020)
The Telescopes — Hidden Fields (August 7th, 2015)
Slow Pulp — Moveys (Oct. 9, 2020)
Deerborn — Where Demons Hide (Aug. 28, 2020)
Deradoorian — Find the Sun (Sept. 18, 2020)