The fifth and final volume in the classic Switched On series which compiles non-album tracks and sought after deep cuts by the group Stereolab. This volume is unique in that it does not hone in one particular period but gathers together unavailable tracks across the band’s career, from early EP Low-Fi, to the brain-scrambling mid-90’s Nurse With Wound remixes to unreleased installation tracks for sculptor Charles Long, culminating in a live version of fan favourite “Cybele’s Reverie” captured at the Hollywood Bowl.

Originally released in 2006. Inspired by their surroundings, Calexico explored musical avenues that they had previously left untouched. “This album was a conscious decision to try something new and tap into strains in our musical fabric that haven’t been highlighted in the past,” commented Joey Burns. Reissued on limited silver and white vinyl.

Sides—produced by Alverson alongside Erik Hall (In Tall Buildings) and featuring contributions from Elliot Bergman (Nomo, Wild Belle) and Joseph Shabason (Destroyer, The War on Drugs)—has a distinctly cinematic quality, perhaps due in part to Alverson’s other career. Moments of jazz, slowcore, and dirgelike R&B find their way into the sorrowful, ambient suite, lulling the listener into a state of calm while the lyrics speak of ghosts, childhood, and mortality. Despite the gravity of the subject matter, Sides succeeds in mastering a balancing act between pathos and pop. Each song is indelible and haunting, with melodies that have the kind of broad appeal reminiscent of Karen Dalton, Aldous Harding, and FKA twigs.

Slowcore greats Codeine release Dessau, an album of previously unheard early-’90s studio recordings.  Dessau is part of a Numero Group series of ’90s indie and emo archival releases.

PIANOS BECOME THE TEETH – Drift CD/LP (Epitaph)

Drift, their fifth studio album, sees Pianos Become the Teeth taking another sonic step forward to craft a musical statement that truly transcends genres. For the recording of Drift, the band took it back to basics, starting at a family -owned cabin in the woods of Virginia, that they transformed into an analog recording studio. The band lived together, recorded together and ate dinners together where they would listen to the day’s recordings, talk about them and pull them apart and reworking them, creating what may be their finest album to date.

Yungblud is the self-titled third album by 24-year-old singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Yungblud (Dominic Harrison). Following the success of 2018’s 21st Century Liability and 2020’s weird!, his third record is simply titled Yungblud: it’s a reclamation of his own narrative and the consolidation of his artistic identity.

Megadeth’s explosive 2022 album features twelve new songs from the titans of thrash metal! Produced by Dave Mustaine and Chris Rakestraw, the follow-up to the critically acclaimed, Grammy Award-winning album Dystopia will melt Megadeth fans’ minds worldwide with songs like “We’ll Be Back,” the radio hit “Soldier On!” and “Night Stalkers” – the latter of which features icon Ice-T.

Limited sea blue and clear cloudy colored vinyl LP pressing. White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean is the fourth studio album by NOFX, originally released in 1992. It is the first NOFX album to feature El Hefe on guitar, replacing Steve Kidwiller, who left the band in 1991. White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean was also the first NOFX album not produced by Brett Gurewitz, who produced the band’s first three albums. The title is a reference to the eclectic ethnic identities of the band members: white “trash” (Erik Sandin), two Jews (Fat Mike and Eric Melvin), and a Hispanic man (El Hefe).

Double 180gm vinyl LP pressing. David Sylvian describes his second solo album for his own Samadhisound label as being, “A modern kind of chamber music. Intimate, dynamic, emotive, democratic, economical.”

JJULIUS is Julius Pierstorff, a Gothenburg-based musician and producer who has kicked around that city’s incredibly vibrant DIY scene in a variety of projects. He is half of Monokultur with his partner Elin, who also records on her own as Loopsel. Newly signed to DFA, the pair have new records on the way along with this repress of the long-since-sold-out Vol. 1

Needle drop and a floaty, child-like piano line sucks you into the post-punk papier-mâché world of JJULIUS, where everyone speaks Swedish, listens to Young Marble Giants and eats nothing but Twizzlers. Vol. 2 is, perhaps obviously, a continuation of the world-building done on Vol. 1, which is a little more raw, a little wilder in spirit and sold out at both source and every record store that managed to get its hand on a copy. It will also re-arrive this summer on DFA this summer with its successor.

John Ondolo spent his life traveling between Tanzania, where he was born, and Kenya, where he recorded a string of singles for independent labels in the late 1950s and early 60s. Unlike most guitarists from the region, Ondolo used open tuning (a favorite of American blues guitarists), creating a hypnotic drone over which he laid down endless rhythmic variations on his main themes. Inspired by the exploding pop music scene in Nairobi, the newest rock and roll imports from the US, and the Abakuria tribal music of his youth, Ondolo transposed traditional instruments and rhythms to his guitar, playing it more like a traditional harp at times, and inventing a sound totally unique in the recorded history of African guitar. This album brings together John Ondolo’s rare early 78rpm recordings in the first-ever overview of this innovative but overlooked artist.

Gewgawly I has created a master work of ambiance, not only reminiscent of some of the best game soundtracks from the 80s and 90s but also a stunning work of contemporary experimental music pushing the genre forward in exciting ways. Thou have rounded out the game’s grit with a wash of downtuned doom and drone. The band has previously been described as “For fans of: alienation, absurdity, boredom, futility, decay, the tyranny of history, the vulgarities of change, awareness as agony, reason as disease,” and these themes come to life vividly in Thou’s collaboration with the richly illustrated world of NORCO.

Stemming from Tiersen’s ’21 album Kerber, the remixers fan out from minimalist chamber classical to sleek EBM techno and computer music geometries thorough a dismantling and reframing of Tiersen’s cinematic gestures. Best among them is Iku Sakan’s take on ‘Ker Yegu’ with its feathered hyaline plucks and stereo-swirl dynamic, and we’re also snagged on the elegantly layered tonal minimalism of Beatrice Dillon’s remix to ‘Ker al Loch’, with her rhythmic instincts reduced to flickering glitch pulses in a spacious framework reminding us of David Behrman’s ‘Interspecies Smalltalk’ systems-based works. Available on limited edition white vinyl.

Surrounded by an eclectic arrangement of instruments and a shrine of mementos, Tash Sultana performed to a transfixed crowd for their MTV Unplugged Melbourne live session. Seeped in the effortless and endlessly hypnotic flow that is Tash Sultana, fans were treated to a truly enchanting set. Now, that magic is being shared with the world as Sultana is set to release MTV Unplugged (Live In Melbourne). Available on pink swirl vinyl.

One of the rarer albums in the Sun Ra canon, RTTR originally entered our orbit in 1983, mystifying listeners and confounding Ra fanatics with the minimal info on the Saturn pressing. Recorded at several locations over several years (including legendary avant-garde arts enclave, the Squat Theater in NYC), the tracks here include everything from Ra’s sci-fi synthesizer insanity, Marshall Allen’s skronking sax, an excellent Arkestra vocal track “They Plan To Leave,” and so much more. Reissued for the first time, and pressed on colored vinyl!

CHARLEY CROCKETT – Man From Waco CD/LP

BUILT TO SPILL – When The Wind Forgets Your Name CD/CASS

AFGHAN WHIGS – How Do You Burn CD/LP

FLOGGING MOLLY – Anthem CD/LP

JOSH REDMAN, BRAD MEHLDAU, CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE – Longgone CD/LP

LAKE STREET DIVE – Fun Machine: Sequel CD

MADISON CUNNINGHAM – Revealer CD

DELTA SPIRIT – One Is One CD

KMFDM – Hyena CD

Thee Sacred Souls – Self Titled CD

PARANOYDS – Talk Talk Talk CD/LP

OLIVER SIM – Hideous Bastard CD/LP

SUDAN ARCHIVES – Natural Brown Prom Queen CD/LP

STELLA DONNELY – Flood CD/LP

OF MONTREAL – Freewave Lucifer Fuck Fuck Fuck CD/LP

SANTIGOLD – Spiritualis LP

UNWOUND – Live Leaves LP

MARLON WILLIAMS – My Boy CD/LP

GA-20 – Crackdown CD/LP

BAD RELIGION – Generator LP reissue

DAFT PUNK – LP reissues

JOCKSTRAP – I Love You Jennifer B LP

DANIEL JOHNSTON – Welcome To My World LP

ROXY MUSIC – Best Of LP

POWERMAN 5000 – Tonight The Stars Revolt LP

SPACEHOG – Chinese Album LP

SPOON – Kill The Moonlight LP colored reissue

KOREATOWN ODDITY – Is This For Real LP

SCONE CASH PLAYERS – Brooklyn To Brooklin CD/LP

BLOCKHEAD – Music By Cavelight LP reissue