Encore Records

Interpol

S/T

On their fourth and self-titled full-length, Interpol return to Matador, the label that released their first two albums.
It is their last album to feature bassist Carlos Dengler, whose departure was announced in May. Mixed by Alan Moulder (Depeche Mode, Smashing Pumpkins, the Killers), there s a greater emphasis on the rhythm section, which carries the band through a set of dark, thematically connected songs.

Great Lake Swimmers

Lost Channels

U.S. only deluxe vinyl LP edition includes a bonus seven-inch single plus a download code for the entire album. Lost Channels is the fourth album by the masters of ‘Ambient Zen Americana’, Great Lake Swimmers. Often compared to the likes of Nick Drake, Iron and Wine, Red House Painters and ‘After the Gold Rush’-era Neil Young, the new album by Tony Dekker and Co. nods occasionally in the more commercial direction of R.E.M. while simultaneously continuing to deliver the ‘starkly evocative and melodically melancholic’ (Paste magazine) brand of Folk Rock for which his band are renowned. Sony. 2010.

Iron Maiden

The Final Frontier

30 years on from their eponymous debut album in April 1980, The Final Frontier is Maiden’s 15th studio album and is plainly one of the strongest and most wildly inventive things they have ever produced;
a 76-minute tour-de-force of soaring melodies, thunderous heaviness and astonishing compositional bravery it looks certain to be regarded as a new landmark in the band’s career.

The Vinyl is a 2 LP pic-disc !

Torche / Boris

Split

Limited edition 10” featuring a new track from each band !

Melvins / Isis

Split

Limited edition split LP featuring some new Melvins and some of the last recordings by Isis !

Arcade Fire

Suburbs

New album on CD or LP.

Autechre

Move Of Ten

New ten track cd. 

Also available as 2 limited 12” eps.

Wolf Parade

Expo 86

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 explore the intersection of Indie Rock and Post-Punk.

Chemical Brothers

Further

2010 album from the British Electronic duo. It starts with what sounds like an alien morse code transmission; Earth bound signals bouncing off the side of orbiting space debris. Snatches of voices found out in the ether cut through the machine fog, drifting across burbling analogue equipment lovingly kept working long after supposed sell-by date.

By the time the click and thump of snare and bass drum arrive, the sounds are all-encompassing, swirling around you with dizzying, disorientating effect.

Noises come untethered by constraints of volume, seemingly leaping from the speakers with a life of their own. For a band used to dealing in psychedelics, this time round The Chemical Brothers have really pushed the proverbial envelope.

Deluxe CD/DVD edition includes a bonus DVD containing promo films for all eight album tracks.

Sarah Harmer

Oh Little Fire

A return to the accessible Pop-Rock sound of her acclaimed album You Were Here, but also showcasing a bit of her Folk/Country side, Oh Little Fire may be the strongest batch of songs Sarah Harmer has ever released.

Co-produced by Sarah and Gavin Brown (Metric), Oh Little Fire is full of the same hooky melodies, insightful lyrics, and lovely, plaintive singing which attracted so many fans to Sarah Harmer’s music. Featuring a duet with Neko Case!