Best Of 2017

Lana Del Rey-Lust For Life (Interscope)

Hurray For The Riff Raff-The Navigator (ATO)

Little Simz-Stillness In Wonderland (Age 101)

Shinichi Atobe-From The Heart, It’s A Start, A Work Of Art (DDS)

Tara Jane O’Neil-Tara Jane O’Neil (Gnomonsong)

Kari Faux-Primary (Subjective Records)

Shilpa Ray-Door Girl (Northern Spy)

Nina Becker-Acrilico (YB Music)

Various: Mister Saturday Night, Then And Now (Mister Saturday Night)

L’Rain-L’Rain (Astro Nautico)

Girl Ray-Earl Gray (Moshi Moshi)

Nadah El Shazly-Ahwar (Nawa Recordings)

Rat Columns-Candle Power (Upset! The Rhythm)

Brainwaltzera-Poly-Ana (FILM)

Sampa The Great-Birds And The Bee9 (Big Dada)

Richard Dawson-Peasant (Weird World)

Hand Habit-Wildly Idle (Humble Before The Old) (Woodist)

Circuit Des Yeux-Reaching For Indigo (Drag City)

Mavis Staples-If All I Was Was Black (Anti-)

Spirit Fest-Spirit Fest (Morr Music)

Rata Negra-Oído Absoluto (La Vida Es Un Mus)

Aimee Mann-Mental Illness (SuperEgo)

Roe Enney-Glare (Root Strata)

Erasure-World Be Gone (Mute)

Kelela-Take Me Apart (Warp)

Jamie Saft, Steve Swallow, Bobby Previte-Loneliness Road (Rare Noise)

Felicia Atkinson-Hand In Hand (Shelter Press)

Armand Hammer-Rome (Backwoodz Studioz)

You’ll Never Get To Heaven-Images (Yellow K)

Carol Craig-Versus (Planet E)

Adult Mom-Soft Spots (Tiny Engines)

Anna Of The North-Lovers (Honeymoon/Plus 1)

Hampshire & Foat-Galaxies Like Grains Of Sand (Athens Of The North)

Ian Felice-In The Kingdom Of Dreams (New York Pro)

Nidia Minaj-Nídia É Má, Nídia É Fudida (Principe)

Diamondstein-Lullabies For Broken Spirits (Diamondstein)

Dai Burger-Soft Serve (First One Up)

Baxter Dury-Prince Of Tears (Le Label/Heavenly)

Ladama-Ladama (Six Degrees)

Ella & Sage-To Lose My Muse (Ella & Sage)

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith-The Kid (Western Vinyl)

Porter Ricks-Anguilla Electrica (Tresor)

Sawako-Planetary Music: Tokyo Yoga Sleep Meditations 001 (Tiny Tiny Press)

Spinning Coin-Permo (Geographic)

Maximum Joy-I Can’t Stand It Here On Quiet Nights: Singles 1981-82 (Silent Street)

Mz. Vee-DaaVee (Lynx)

Roger Eno-This Floating Work (Recital Work)

Lomelda-Thx (Double Double Whammy)

Sudan Archives-Sudan Archives (Stones Throw)

CEP-Drawing A Target Around The Arrow (Pannonica)

Julie Byrne-Not Even Happiness (Ba Da Bing)

Motion City Drum Ensemble-DJ Kicks (K7)

Becca-Unveiling (Zylofon Music)

Tiny Blue Ghosts-Growing Pains (Tiny Blue Ghosts)

Yaeji-EP2 (GODMODE)

Mega Bog-Happy Together (Nicey)

Depeche Mode-Spirit (Mute)

The Beacon Sound Choir-Sunday Songs (First Terrace)

Nick Hakim-Green Twins (ATO)

Neil Young-Hitchhiker (Reprise)

Opposum Sun Trail-Death Raga Run-on Sentence (Opposum Sun Trail)

Kelly Lee Owens-Kelly Lee Owens (Smalltown Supersound)

Golden Teacher-No Luscious Life (Golden Teacher)

Tony Humpries-Running Back Mastermix (Running Back)

Jackie Shane-Any Other Way (Numero)

Amy O-Elastic (Winspear)

Sam Amidon-The Following Mountain (Barn None)

J.O.B. Band-Live At The Point After, 20 Aug 1977 (Athens Of The North)

Zara McFarlane-Arise (Brownswood)

The Weather Station-The Weather Station (Paradise of Bachelors)

DJ Stingray-Kern Vol 4 (Tresor)

Wu-Tang-The Saga Continues (eOne)

Jlin- Black Origami (Planet Mu)

Radiator Hospital-Play The Songs You Like (Salinas Records)

Poppy-Poppy.Computer (Mad Decent)

Phoebe Bridgers-Strangers In The Alps (Dead Oceans)

Dominique Lawalree-First Meeting (Catch Wave)

Ron Trent-Primitive Arts (Peace Frog)

Laetitia Sadier Souce Ensemble-Find Me Finding You (Drag City)

Arca-Arca (XL)

Saint Etienne-Home Counties (Heavenly)

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Ogre You Asshole
Crossword/Lost, Sigh, Days
James McNew Remixes

Limited
edition
cassette
releases
March 8, 2018.

PREORDER

Pleased to share with you

OGRE YOU ASSHOLE
Crossword/Lost, Sigh, Days (James McNew Remixes)

(TL-108) • 17 NOV 17

OYA’s long awaited 7th album everythingsomethingnothing came out in November 2016. Two tracks from the album, “Lost, Sigh, Days” and “Crossword” have been transformed into new arrangements by James McNew (Yo La Tengo, DUMP) and released as a 7” vinyl remix EP in Japan. Preorder cassette at Bandcamp, coming Spring 2018.

STREAM:

Exclaim Premiere

DIGITAL OUT NOW 

http://smarturl.it/OYA-USA

“a piano hums mournfully

as her guitar and a musical saw—

played by Dave Benton of LVL UP

—trembles”

 -Pitchfork

Please meet Yours Are the Only Ears

“Saturn”

TL-107-1 | Single Out Now | 11.10.17

Stereogum premiere | Gold Flake Paint new music

“A beautifully compelling starting place for the new YATOE chapter…” – Gold Flake Paint

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listen to it, buy it, do whatever you need to do

album coming in 2018, see you soon

“Weightless” by Tica Douglas | Directed by Gracie Pizzo

from Our Lady Star of the Sea, Help + Protect Us (TL-100)

Watch the video at Dimestore Saints, where Sam writes:

…toggling between the phrase “weight lift” and the song’s title…

hesitant arpeggios further compound its melancholic buoyancy

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Tica plays C’mon Everybody tonight in Brooklyn with Spritzer + Nutshell

OUT NOW

Bandcamp:  CD | CASSETTE | DIGITAL (TL-105)

iTunes exclusive: album w/ digital booklet (lyrics + track art)

Stream the album at Goldflake Paint, who describes it as:

soundtrack to another dimension;

the warmth of a human heart discovering vast tundras of stars and planets

ask at your local record shop or support the tour + get a copy of Devotion from the band! Dates:

oct 14 // cambridge, ma @ lilypad
oct 19 // kingston, ny @ BSP kingston w/ Tica Douglas + Guilt Mountain
oct 20 // rochester, ny @ the bug jar
oct 21 // syracuse, ny @ space camp
nov 2 // washington, dc @ paperhaus
nov 3 // richmond, va @ gallery 5
nov 4 // greensboro, nc @ sabine
nov 5 // greenville, sc @ radio room w/ Shana Falana
nov 6 // athens, ga @ michaels house
nov 7 // nashville, tn @ drk mttr
nov 8 // blacksburg, va @ house show
nov 9 // harrisonburg, va @ crayola house
nov 10 // philadelphia, pa @ ortleib’s