Music

New Album from Montreal's emo heroes Gulfer on tri-colour vinyl. Limited Edition Pressing of 150

Release date = October 16, 2020. 

*This is a pre-order. Orders will ship week of release*

On their third record, Gulfer return to their dexterous punk-inspired emo roots with an expansive outlook that can only come from working their way between self-doubt and having it figured out. The band never abandon their earliest influences - but build upon them, anchored by vulnerable lyricism and explosive, agile emo.

Formed in 2018, Brooklyn’s Gustaf have built a kind of buzz that feels like it comes from a different era. The art punk 5 piece are yet to release any recorded music, but rapidly established a reputation as one of New York’s “hardest working…and most reliably fun bands” (BrooklynVegan), and excitement about their danceable, ESG-inspired post punk has expanded outside of their city with remarkable effect despite their scant online presence. The band have found early champions in all quarters, catching the attention of luminaries like Beck - who had the band open for him at a secret loft party he played around the release of his latest album - the New York no wave legend James Chance, and have shared stages with buzzing indie acts like Omni, Tropical Fuck Storm, Dehd and Bodega, while word of mouth led to sell out shows when they played their first LA headline dates in late 2019. 

While recent events have curtailed Gustaf’s live schedule, the band have remained relentless as ever in 2020, and recently entered the studio with producer Chris Coady (Beach House, Future Islands, TV On The Radio). Gustaf’s first official release, the product of their work with Coady, is expected in the fall of 2020 via Royal Mountain Records (US Girls, Wolf Parade, Pottery).

$1 from every record sold will be donated to Corona Comunidad Fridge, a community fridge located in Corona, Queens.

Margaritaville 2: The Reckoning 10'' Vinyl LP

Side A:

• Please Don`t Listen To Hollerado
• Konstantine
• Good Day At The Races

• Run Dickinson Run
• Canadianarama
• Dumb Like Me
• Thank You (For Sticking Around)

Hollerado's last ever album. Vinyl will either be yellow or pink splatter - fate will decide.

"Coming from a new band, this level of earnestness might be a bit much, but considering that Hollerado have said that this is their last album, the stakes feel appropriately high: this is their swan song, and they're going out with a message of love and positivity.
 
Retaliation Vacation shows just how much these industry vets have grown up, and acts as a big-hearted farewell statement from these reformed jokesters." - Exclaim!

Bags back in stock! Found these original pressings on the Hollerado Record In A Bag release

ONLY TWENTY IN STOCK

Includes a CD, sticker sheet, glitter and most importantly the bag!

Tracklisting :

• Wonder, Velocity, Charlie and Me
• Don`t Think
• Thanks For the Venom
• Desire 126
• Too Much To Handle
• Lonesome George
• So It Goes
• I Want My Medicine
• Pure Emotion
• Fresno Chunk (digging with you)
• Pick Me Up

Includes MP3 Download Card

TRACKLISTING

1. Hello Welcome
2. Call Me Up
3. Not U
4. Every Single Thing
5. Wrapping Up
6. Getting Down Pt III (He’s Cooling Down)
7. Timing
8. TV Volume
9. Khmlwugh
10. Fresh Air
11. Serious
12. So She
13. This Way
14. Signing Off

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KOKOKO! is a collective born in Kinshasa capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a creative collision of different artists which fused at a block party. It consists of musical instrument inventors from the Ngwaka neighbourhood, electronic producer Débruit, Makara Bianko (aka the Lingwala devil) and his dancers bursting forth from the Lingwala neighbourhood.

They’re best known for creating a contemporary aesthetic all their own by re-wiring and up-cycling materials such as metal, cans, engine parts and plastic containers found in Kinshasa’s streets into vital sculptural resonant dance music. Their distorted fast rhythms and spontaneous lo-fi electric sounds provide the chaotic soundtrack for the city's harsh yet abundantly creative realities.

It’s a brand new scene - radical, dangerous and thriving in a country whose political instability is felt first and most urgently on the streets of Kinshasa, an urban patchwork  stretching further than the eye can see in Africa’s 3rd largest capital city. KOKOKO! is the spectacular sonic backdrop, the new, no holds barred aesthetic emanating from the downtown clubs (in between the government-imposed power cuts).

Includes your choice of LP or CD and a signed postcard!

Le Ren’s slowburn songs paired with her deeply rich voice concoct the perfect recipe for some truly devastating songs - and her debut EP, Morning & Melancholia, gracefully fits that bill. Le Ren takes real-life tragedy and looks it in the eye, her voice never once faltering. 

Morning & Melancholia pays homage to Canadian folk heroes, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, while its curious, deadpan approach to lyricism feels like its dipping its feet into the Holy Trinity of songwriters - John Prine, Bob Dylan, Neil Young. Her lyrical couplets are as simply put as they are devastating. “So here we are at the end of all things // I guess I learned too late // that love can’t be the only reason to stay,” she sings on the closer "Love Can’t Be the Only Reason To Stay". It’s gut wrenching, but sure-footed.

CD comes in a sweet digipack. 

12" vinyl version of Hi, including a 12x24 insert signed by the band. 

Mac DeMarco's new album Here Comes The Cowboy

Available on Olive Green Vinyl, CD or Green Tape

We are only shipping to Canada, if you are outside of Canada please go here - https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/mac-demarco

Debut EP from Mav Karlo, recorded over Christmas 2019 in a hotel in Reno, NV.

Limited 30 Tapes

300 Vinyl With Phenakistoscope Screenprint by Marty MacPherson on Side B.

Produced by Chris Coady (Amen Dunes, Beach House, Future Islands) and recorded at two iconic studios (Sunset Sound in L.A. and Sonic Ranch in the Texas border town of Tornillo), Strangers Like Us marks a departure from the carefree indie-rock of Versteeg’s now-defunct band Hollerado. With its gracefully sparse arrangements, the album centers on Versteeg’s lyrical storytelling, revealing a narrative voice deeply attuned to the beauty in the ordinary and routinely overlooked. Despite that stripped-back approach, Strangers Like Us draws incredibly rich texture from Versteeg’s delicate melodies and warm vocal work, and from the spirited performances of guest musicians like Katy Goodman of Vivian Girls (on vocals), Charlie Spencer of Dizzy (keys, drums), and Versteeg’s Hollerado bandmate Nixon Boyd (guitar, bass). An album elegantly steeped in memory, Strangers Like Us navigates the often-painful act of looking back with grit and clarity and unbridled imagination.

*Vinyl colour may differ slightly in person*

While past METZ albums thrived on an abrasive relentlessness, the trio embarked on Atlas Vending with the goal to make a more patient and honest record—something that invited repeated listens rather than a few exhilarating bludgeonings. It’s as if the band realized they were in it for the long haul, and their music could serve as a constant as they navigated life’s trials and tribulations. The result is a record that sounds massive, articulate, and earnest. Bolstered by the co-production of Ben Greenberg (Uniform) and the engineering and mixing skills of Seth Manchester (Battles, Lightning Bolt) at Machines with Magnets in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, METZ deliver the most dynamic, dimensional, and compelling work of their career.