Ultra Q's debut LP, My Guardian Angel, on black vinyl.

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PACKS Crispy Crunchy Nothing on Black and Red vinyl (limited edition) & CD

 

Bless This Mess sees the critically acclaimed Toronto-based artist U.S. Girls return with a stunning album.

All songs recorded, written, played and mixed by Mac in motels, hotels and other assorted accommodation in each song's corresponding city, between the dates of January 15 and March 15, 2022. All songs are presented in the order they were recorded. Mastered by David Ives.

This is a pre-order. The CD will ship on or around January 20, 2023, and the vinyl will ship on or around May 12, 2023.

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- This is a pre-order, and you will be notified via email when this order ships. If you purchase this alongside another item, your entire order will be held until the pre-order is ready. If you wish to purchase multiple items, please place a separate order for any pre-order items to ensure your order is not held.

Limited edition CD version of Eliza McLamb's first Royal Mountain Records release, Salt Circle. Limited to 500 copies.

Celebrate 10 years of METZ's excellent debut self-titled LP with this limited edition cassette with clear shell and black liner. 

Ltd to 15 in Canada.

Label exclusive variant of Wild Pink's highly-anticipated new album, ILYSM. Limited to 300 copies of sea blue transparent vinyl. Please note that this is a double LP. 

"Whether you're a music-first or lyrics-first listener, Wild Pink makes music for you."
NPR

"[A Billion Little Lights] is 2021's best rock album."
New York Magazine

"[A Billion Little Lights is] one of rock's tiny masterpieces"
Billboard

"open-air, stargazing indie rock"
The New York Times

"Splitting the difference between War on Drugs and Death Cab for Cutie, the Brooklyn band offers indie rock at its most familiar and instantly gratifying."
Pitchfork

"[A Billion Little Lights is] one of the most exquisitely pretty rock albums in recent memory"
Stereogum

"[A Billion Little Lights] is the album that sounds destined to make the world sit up and take notice of Wild Pink."
AV Club

"Wild Pink are Bigger Than Christmas"
MTV

 

Please note:

- This image is a mock-up. Actual vinyl colour may look different once pressed. 

- This is a pre-order, and you will be notified via email when this order ships. If you purchase this alongside another item, your entire order will be held until the pre-order is ready. If you wish to purchase multiple items, please place a separate order for any pre-order items to ensure your order is not held.

Limited edition vinyl variant of girlpuppy's excellent debut album, When I'm Alone. Pressed on milky clear transparent vinyl.

"Playful and easygoing, as [girlpuppy] paints a hopeful summertime daydream...if anyone's pandemic sidehustle sticks I hope it's [hers]."
NPR

"One of indie folk’s most promising newcomers...her knack for lyrical scene-setting and gossamer melodies that seem to hang in the air like the scent of a freshly baked fruit pie."
NYLON

"A breezy ode to less-than-effortless love" 
FADER

"Destined for stardom. Her debut EP Swan features heartfelt serenades and bouncy indie rock jams that make her irresistible, and her delicate voice is simply magical."
Paste

"Comparable to the stylized work of Mazzy Star and Taylor Swift."
Office Magazine

"girlpuppy has stepped onto the scene with her debut offering, and is immediately proving to be on the path to excellence."
Line of Best Fit

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- This image is a mock-up. Actual vinyl colour may look different once pressed. 

- This is a pre-order, and you will be notified via email when this order ships. If you purchase this alongside another item, your entire order will be held until the pre-order is ready. If you wish to purchase multiple items, please place a separate order for any pre-order items to ensure your order is not held.

JayWood's debut album, Slingshot, out July 15th. Pre-order it now on gorgeous Orange Crush vinyl.

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This item is a pre-order and will ship the week of release, pending global vinyl delays.

The second album from Anyway Gang, "Still Anyways" is out digitally May 6th 2022.

Please note: Vinyl for this release will be ready in December 2022. The attached images are mockups - actual colour may vary.

Vinyl will include a bonus track that is not being released digitally. 

Debut solo record from Jasmyn, out June 3rd 2022

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Sister Ray's debut LP, Communion, is out May 13th 2022. 

Born and raised on the expansive prairies of Sturgeon County, Sister Ray’s music is steeped in a wide range of cultural influences. With gospel bluegrass and 90’s country playing in the background of their youth, it was the traditional Métis music played at home that not only  brought them closer to their heritage, but taught them a form of storytelling rooted in collective value, resilience, and safety. Through the existential questions that came with examining contradictory identities, Coyes came to understand music’s ability to archive personal histories while also unpacking overwhelming emotions with the support of a community. 

Communion, the debut album by Sister Ray, is a raw, meticulously-crafted portrait of momentous, ordinary moments; experiences that define your past, and instruct how you move through the world. It’s also a break-up album invested in exploring the motivations behind actions, rather than attempting moral judgment. It’s about “shitty shit” says Coyes.

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Deanna Petcoff's debut album, To Hell With You, I Love You, on violet vinyl and cd. Out April 8th 2022.

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The word that jumps to mind when hearing Deanna Petcoff's music for the first time is “yearning”. A whirlwind of emotions, her debut record To Hell With You, I Love You is a reckoning with the loss of a relationship, documenting the aggressive highs and deeply emotional lows that come from falling out of love. 

Recorded in Toronto over the course of a year, she was able to look more closely at the nuances and minutiae of relationships and examine the ways in which they can either grow or falter. She writes about her frustrating experiences as a 24-year old woman finding her voice and identity while navigating an ever changing world, exploring the ins and outs of love and heartbreak with a grace and quick wit that belies her year. Her rich, textured voice juxtaposes her soft imagery and her vulnerable and starkly honest lyrics welcome us into a world where even a fleeting moment of emotion can become its own monument.

Based in Toronto, ON, Petcoff shaped her own unique brand of beautiful and confessional indie rock through years of devotion to music, sharing stage with the likes of Molly Burch, Tokyo Police Club, The Nude Party and many more. She excels with heart-on-her-sleeve, emotive lyricism that showcases her strength as a songwriter and a vocalist, and on To Hell With You, I Love You, she wanted to present “the whirlwind of emotions you have when you’re grieving a relationship, which can feel like the death of a part of you or what you thought your life was going to look like.” It’s an album that ebbs and flows with a confidence and an assuredness as she tackles the highs and lows of falling in and out of love, and everything in between.

“It’s so easy to get caught up in things when someone is showing you attention, that you forget to clock whether you like them at all,” she explains when discussing the cheeky and sardonic “Devastatingly Mediocre”, a cutting takedown of an extremely average boyfriend. Discussing how she “wanted to capture what it feels like to want to be open when you’re feeling closed off,” she fizzes and bursts with laconic self-deprecation on “Trash Bag”, taking aim inwards and lamenting her woes (“Sorry I’m pathetic / I think I need a medic / To help me put my shoes on”). Album closer “Sing With Me” sees Deanna sing with a pleading but resigned desperation to a partner she can feel slipping away (“I don't need you to know how to dance / Or even know how to romance / I just want you to sing with me”) while on “I Don’t Wanna Get Over You”, she feels her heart moving on despite her head wanting to stay (“I guess I’m just a sucker for a boy who’s nice to his mother / A phenomenal lover, hope that I can find another”).

Nurtured and fostered by the women at Girls Rock Camp Toronto, which she attended in 2011 as a young teen looking for a place to grow, the warmth and texture of Deanna’s sweeping vocals intertwines with the almost playful blueness of her lyrics. On To Hell With You, I Love You, a sense of intense longing reveals a worldview that is full of pain at the loss of love, and full of hope for something more beautiful. It is not simply a breakup record. It’s an album to heal to, to cry to, to laugh to and to learn how to love again to. It’s a declaration of strength, and a love letter to the joys and agonies of navigating your early twenties.

 Pillow Queens' latest record, Leave the Light On, is out April 1st 2022.

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To make Leave the Light On, the second full-length album from Dublin’s Pillow Queens, the band looked towards introspection. It’s a lonely record, evoking feelings of late night drives on back roads where you digest the day and quietly change lanes. Make no mistake: loneliness doesn’t mean alone, necessarily. On Leave the Light On, the band’s first record with Royal Mountain, loneliness is a warm space to reflect, to meditate. To quote the writer Maggie Nelson in her experimental work of auto-theory Bluets: “When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.” Leave the Light On is a record not of longing but of light. It glows in tungsten. It is a record of queer dream blues. 

Leave the Light On comes at a time where things are rapidly accelerating for the band, which consists of Pam Connolly, Sarah Corcoran, Rachel Lyons, and Cathy McGuiness. After the success of their first record, 2020’s In Waiting, Pillow Queens went on to play bigger venues, festivals, and played James Corden. Music became a full time occupation for the band. At a point where most artists would get less personal and inward, Pillow Queens did the opposite. Leave the Light On is their most inward-focused release to date. It’s also a record about exploring the unknown, and for yearning. 

Just take a song like “Hearts and Minds,” as one such offering. It’s a song about being perceived, by yourself, and by everyone else around you. It’s about feeling like a teenager again. And it feels anthemic, tinged by C86 power pop and varicolored harmonies. “Well I’m not fixin to move/I’m atrophied from winning over all these hearts and minds,” sings Connolly in her pristine and muscular voice. 

The record is also a sonic departure for the band. Leave the Light On sounds huge, but also soft and intimate. It encourages a sense of duality—it is a record you can blast and a record you can also listen to on headphones in a moment where you just need to be alone with your thoughts.“Well Kept Wife,” is sparse, with iridescent guitars and crystalline bass. It takes inspiration from the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop, and the appeal of the banal and the everyday. Meanwhile “My Body Moves,” feels like a heartbreaking spark, a lift, it makes you want to dance and hold on for dear life. “Is it cool if I hold onto/Every inch of you/Till my skin turns blue.”

Leave the Light On is an inherently collaborative piece of work. Recorded in the Spring of 2021, the band wrote over the course of three months, and then went into the studio to work with producer Tommy McLaughlin, who the band worked with on In Waiting. The record came together quickly and naturally, becoming the most realized Pillow Queens release to date. 

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ONLY AVAILABLE IN NORTH AMERICA

If you purchase In Waiting you will also get the Rats 7 Inch

 

In Waiting is Pillow Queens’ debut album, the result of four years of brotherly love in a sisterly unit from Ireland’s most urgent, yearning, rock band. Crafted from our lives, and honed in a studio in rural Donegal in the northwest of Ireland, this is a record by queens in waiting and kings in the making.

 It’s an album about love; self-love, queer love, the anxiety-inducing fault lines of romantic love, and the love for a city and a country that simultaneously has your back and is on your back.

 It’s an album about the in-between; the transitionary period of an adulthood that never seems to arrive, while you wait for that lightbulb moment when everything makes sense, even though part of you knows deep down it will never come.  

It’s an album about the purgatorial aspect of late-stage capitalism, where the systems conspire to burden and punish; job insecurity, housing crises, income inequality, and social inequity.

 It’s an album about family; chosen, given, received and earned.

 It’s an album about spirituality; from the engrained confines of religion, to the expanding borders of spirituality, and the iconography and ritual that populates the emotional interior of anyone who grows up in Ireland.

It’s about resilience of the politics of the self and belief in the power of art. The wounded deer’s leap highest. Tiocfaidh ár lá.

12" test press of Calpurnia's debut EP, Scout.

Anyway Gang is comprised of four members of prominent Canadian rock groups. Menno Versteeg (Hollerado), Dave Monks (Tokyo Police Club), Chris Murphy (Sloan), and Sam Roberts (Sam Roberts Band) came together to create nine tracks of punchy pop showcasing singalong hooks.

“peppy sing-alongs aplenty and hooks gargantuan enough to clog any arena” - Exclaim!

 

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