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These songs are strikingly beautiful, if less elliptical and more straightforward, with more sophisticated arrangments than the last record, 2006's EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME. Produced by Phil Ek.

Vinyl LP. After noodling around with emo-laden heartbreak and self-defeating obsessions in the band Carissa's Weird, Ben Birdwell (vocals and guitar) and Mat Brooke (bass) formed Band of Horses in... more

BLOOM is the fourth full length album by Beach House. BLOOM is meant to be experienced as an Album, a singular, unified vision of the world. The many layers of BLOOM are uncomplicated and... more

BLOOM is the fourth full length album by Beach House. BLOOM is meant to be experienced as an Album, a singular, unified vision of the world. The many layers of BLOOM are uncomplicated and... more

Recorded in upstate New York, in a converted church called Dreamland with producer/engineer Chris Coady (who has worked with TV on the Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Blonde Redhead, and a bunch of others)... more

Father John Misty is the nom-de-plume of Josh Tillman, who has been releasing solo albums since 2003 and who recently left Seattle's Fleet Foxes after playing drums from 2008-2011. FEAR FUN is Father... more

Father John Misty is the nom-de-plume of Josh Tillman, who has been releasing solo albums since 2003 and who recently left Seattle's Fleet Foxes after playing drums from 2008-2011. FEAR FUN is Father... more

Seattle's Fleet Foxes traffic in baroque harmonic pop. They draw influences from the traditions of folk, pop, choral, gospel, sacred harp singing, West Coast music, traditional music from Ireland to... more

Like very nearly every worthwhile thing, making this album was not easy; it was a difficult second album to make. Drawing inspiration from folk/rock from about 1965 to 1973, and Van Morrisons ASTRAL... more

Like very nearly every worthwhile thing, making this album was not easy; it was a difficult second album to make. Drawing inspiration from folk/rock from about 1965 to 1973, and Van Morrisons ASTRAL... more

Seattle's Fleet Foxes make such complex, harmonic, 70s inspired folk rock, it's hard to believe that the band's principle songwriter, Robin Pecknold, is only 21 years old. There's a moment on David... more

This double CD/triple LP collects songs ranging from out-of-print to never-before-released and spans Iron And Wine's earliest sessions which yielded the band's debut (2002's THE CREEK DRANK THE... more

One of those one-guy-and-his-tape deck affairs. An ode to an older South of traditional values, pastoral imagery, and arcane manners. This is arresting stuff, intimate "American Gothic" style... more

On his second full-length, Sam Beam "... launches balloons of sweetly whispered regret over trance-inducing backwoods string arrangements and watches them float away, his heart in tow" "Equally... more

On his second full-length, Sam Beam "launches balloons of sweetly whispered regret over trance-inducing backwoods string arrangements and watches them float away, his heart in tow - Entertainment... more

On vinyl for the first time, this record was Sam Beam's second release on Sub Pop. Thus far, the CD version has scanned nearly 50,000 copies. Look for the new album, "The Shepherd's Dog", in... more

Iron and Wine's last release (not including the collaborative in the Reins EP which featured songs by Iron and Wine's Sam Beam and performances by both Iron and Wine and Calexico together) was 2005's... more

Iron and Wine's most ambitious and accomplished recording to date, and also the most satisfying. While many of US learned of Iron and Wine by way of the tender and spare rendering of the Postal... more

Sam Beam's third recorrd is striking both for it's broadened instrumental palette and it's thematic focus on female characters both archetypal and personal. He frames his melancholy in concrete... more

While it was impossible to anticipate how massive GIVE UP would become, it was obvious in 2003 that these guys had made something special. Ten years on it's amazing to know that so many people have... more

Shearwater brings you their Sub Pop debut and eighth overall album, Animal Joy. On Animal Joy, lead man Jonathan Meiburg has opted to ditch an approach that paid huge artistic dividends over his last... more

Recorded over time in James Mercer's basement studio, Phil Ek's Seattle digs, and in Oregon City with veteran engineer Joe Chiccarelli (Beck, U2) - Wincing the Night Away is a Whole new animal. It's... more

Every so often, Chad VanGaalen emerges from his bunker in Calgary with a batch of songs, giving US a window into the private world of this reclusive and enigmatic songwriter. With Diaper Island,... more

At Mount Zoomer, the second full length LP from the Canadian indie rock band Wolf Parade, an indie rock band from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, now based in Montreal, Quebec. The album is named... more

2010 release, the third album from the Montreal-based Alt Rockers. Recorded during a matter of weeks, Expo 86 finds Wolf Parade slimming themselves down to a four-piece lineup and continuing to... more