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New Releases for February 23, 2024

MGMT LOSS OF LIFE - MOM + POP CD/LP

It’s possible to overstate how straightforward an album Loss of Life is: this is an album that opens with someone reciting a 13th-century Welsh poem and ends with the title track dissolving into a protracted cacophony. Rather, it strikes a balance between weirdness and pop more impressively than any MGMT album since their debut. Whether it can capitalise on their improbable TikTok fame is questionable – that kind of success rarely extends beyond the track that’s gone viral – as is what happens if it does: MGMT seemed deeply nonplussed by the celebrity Oracular Spectacular conferred on them. But while you wait and see, Loss of Life is a delightful thing to immerse yourself in. - THE GUARDIAN


HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF THE PAST IS STILL ALIVE - NONESUCH CD/LP

If The Past Is Still Alive is resigned, however, it’s by no means supine. It’s an act of fierce witness bearing, part memory box, part salute into a setting sun. The singer left their New York home aged 17, jumping freight trains, living rough, playing on street corners and in squats. They know what it takes to push up through the concrete and wire of a hostile environment, and as with 2022 album Life On Earth, or 2017 song Pa’Lante, they present it with tender but unsentimental empathy. - MOJO



ALLIE X GIRL WITH NO FACE LP

AMIGO THE DEVIL YOURS UNTIL THE WAR CD/LP

LIAM BAILEY ZERO GRACE LP

BARDO POND VOLUME 9 LP

THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER MIASMA (COLV) (GRN) LP

THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER NOCTURNAL (CVNL) LP

THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER UNHALLOWED (COLV) LP

BLUT AUS NORD DEUS SALUTIS MEAE LP

BLUT AUS NORD MEMORIA VETUSTA III LP

THE BODY & DIS FIG ORCHARDS OF A FUTILE HEAVEN LP

BORKNAGAR FALL LP

BTS LOVE YOURSELF: TEAR LP

CAN LIVE IN PARIS 1973 LP

BETTY CARTER MODERN SOUND OF BETTY CARTER LP

ERIKA DE CASIER STILL LP

CONGO NATTY JUNGLE REVOLUTION LP

THE DEAD WEATHER HOREHOUND LP

THE DEAD WEATHER SEA OF COWARDS LP

BILL FAY GROUP TOMORROW TOMORROW & TOMORROW LP

FUCKED UP CHEMISTRY OF COMMON LP

EMAHOY GEBRU TSEGE M SOUVENIRS LP

GHOST FUNK ORCHESTRA A TRIP TO THE MOON LP/CASSETTE

ASTRUD GILBERTO LOOK TO THE RAINBOW LP

JJ GREY & MOFRO JJ GREY LP

SIMON HANES TSONS OF TSUNAMI CD

HAPPY END KAZEMACHI ROMAN LP

HEAVENLY THE DECLINE & FALL OF HEAVENLY LP

HELLHAMMER APOCALYPTIC RAIDS LP

HURRAY FOR THE RIFF THE PAST IS STILL ALIVE CD/LP

INTEGRITY ALL DEATH IS MINE LP

JOB FOR A COWBOY MOON HEALER LP

JUAN MACLEAN INFINITY MACHINE CASSETTE

KING DIAMOND MASQUERADE OF MADNES LP

FELA KUTI IKOYI BLINDNESS LP

FELA KUTI O.D.O.O. LP

FELA KUTI ORIGINAL SUFFERHEAD LP

LUIZA LIAN 7 ESTRELAS LP

LIL WAYNE I AM MUSIC (CVNL) LP

CORB LUND EL VIEJO LP

SKIP MAHONEY & THE CASUALS YOUR FUNNY MOODS LP

JAMES MASTRO DAWN OF A NEW ERROR LP

JUNE MCDOOM WITH STRINGS LP

MGMT LOSS OF LIFE (BLUE) LP / CD

MINDCHATTER SPIRITUAL PUBERTY LP

MODERN ENGLISH 1 2 3 4 (COLV) LP

MOTORHEAD LOST TAPES VOL. 5 LP

ART PEPPER SMACK UP LP

PERSHER SLEEP WELL (PINK) LP

PONTE DEL DIAVOLO FIRE BLADES FROM THE TOMB LP

PRINCE VAULT - OLD FRIENDS LP

THE RACONTEURS BROKEN BOY SOLDIERS LP

THE RACONTEURS CONSOLERS OF THE LONELY LP

REAL ESTATE DANIEL (SILVER) LP

MAYA SHENFIELD UNDER THE SUN LP

SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM OF THE LAST HUMAN BEING LP

SPLENDIDS & EAMON CRY BABY CRY 7”

ROD STEWART / JOOLS HOLLAND SWING FEVER LP

KEITH SWEAT MAKE IT LAST FOREVER LP

TEETHE TEETHE (GREEN) LP

RAFAEL TORAL SPECTRAL EVOLUTION LP

TV ON THE RADIO DEAR SCIENCE LP

NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE DUME LP

LATE ADDITIONS…

KAY ADAMS LITTLE PINK MACK LP

BLONDE REDHEAD SIT DOWN FOR DINNER LP

CHRIS BOTTI VOL. 1 CD

ARTHUR BROWN DEVIL'S GRIP 7”

THE CHATS HIGH RISK BEHAVIOUR LP

DE LA SOUL 3 FEET HIGH AND RISING CASSETTE

VARIOUS ARTISTS DISCO NOT DISCO LP

DJ NOBU / WATA IGARASHI FLARES LP

THE DONNAS EARLY SINGLES LP

DANNY ELFMAN THE CORPSE BRIDE LP

FANNY FANNY LP

FEAR RECORD (COLV) LP

RUTH GOLLER SKYLLUMINA LP

HARDLINE DOUBLE ECLIPSE LP

KELVIN KRASH HARSH (BLUE) LP

LAMINATE LAMINATE LP

PEGGY LEE ULTIMATE PEGGY LEE LP

VARIOUS ARTISTS LIVE AT THE CROCODILE LP

THE LOVECRAFT SEXTET THE HORROR COSMIC LP

MEGA CAT MEGA CAT LP

NEW YORK DOLLS NEW YORK DOLLS LP

NUCLEAR ASSAULT SOMETHING WICKED CD

PISSED JEANS HALF DIVORCED CD/LP

DANIEL ROMANO TOO HOT TO SLEEP LP

THE RUNAWAYS THE BEST OF LP

SHEHERAZAAD QASR (CVNL) LP

FRANK SINATRA MY WAY (COLV) LP

SQUAREPUSHER DOSTROTIME CD/LP

TINARIWEN AMATSSOU LP

IKE WHITE CHANGIN TIMES CD

SLAB / KEESH MOUNTAIN WOMBO LP