A Day to Remember – Homesick (15th Anniversary) 15th anniversary pressing of A Day to Remember s Gold-certified third album, Homesick. The two-LP set features the original album, two acoustic tracks and nine live tracks. Homesick features some of the band s biggest hits to date, including The Downfall Of Us All, If It Means…
Dark-folk songwriter Chantal Acda and beyond drums-percussion musician extraordinaire Eric Thielemans propose a new score for Koyaanisqatsi, re-actualizing the incredibly beautiful, raw, rhythmic, and touching images of this 80s cinematographic masterpiece. Slow deep electric waves, lonely synths in sonic desert landscapes, rhythmic pulses, transporting drums and bells, and deeply longing sounds and voices make up the audible fundamentals of this…
Musicians came and went within the circle of A Perfect Circle. On their Platinum-certified second album Thirteenth Step (2003), the band s founders – Tool s singer Maynard Kennan and Tool s talented guitar tech Billy Howerdel – lead the way, with key contributions by guitarists Danny Lohner (Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie) and Troy Van…
Limited colored vinyl LP pressing. Back in 2006, Richard Linklater s film adaptation of Philip K Dick s sci-fi novel A Scanner Darkly was greeted with suspicion. No one had done justice to the master (Bladerunner, Minority Report, Total Recall, The Adjustment Bureau had or have all met with mixed reviews). And, movies attempting to…
Post-hardcore veterans A Skylit Drive jumpstarted their careers with their debut EP She Watched The Sky in 2007 under Tragic Hero Records. The album featured heavy vocals predominately comprised of screaming compared to the more melodic sound found on later releases. After the release of She Watched The Sky, the band went on to tour…
Over the course of five classic albums and numerous hit singles, A Tribe Called Quest became a cornerstone artist in hip-hop and across contemporary music in general. The gold-certified People s Instinctive Travels And The Paths Of Rhythm and The Love Movement as well as the platinum-certified and groundbreaking albums The Low End Theory, Midnight Marauders and Beats, Rhymes & Life, created a unique and…
Limited 180 gram vinyl LP repressing of the Norwegian new wave Synthpop trio s debut album. Formed in 1982 by Morten Harket, Paul Waaktaar-Savoy and Magne Furuholmen, a-Ga went on to become one of the biggest pop acts of the 1980s. Beginning with a bang, a-ha s 1985 debut, Hunting High And Low, sold more…
Into The Blue is the clearest portrait of who I am as an artist. It s me through and through, says multi-instrumentalist Aaron Frazer. A daring blend of soul, psychedelia, spaghetti western, disco, gospel and hip-hop, Into the Blue represents the impressive range of Frazer s sonic talents. Frazer maintains the unmistakable falsetto and classic…
Over the last ten years, Aaron Turner has increasingly focused on improvisation, and this refined emphasis on free composition has been applied to his work within the bands SUMAC and Old Man Gloom. His most unbridled improvisation pieces, however, have been solo guitar works issued under his own name. On his first official full length, To Speak, Turner dives even deeper…
Now That You ve Found It, the first full-length album from Aaron Turner and Jon Mueller, is a delightfully weird foray that shows the pair of highly acclaimed musicians stretching out. Past projects include Isis, SUMAC, and a host of album art (Turner), plus Volcano Choir with Justin Vernon, Death Blues, Mind Over Mirrors, and…
The album that saw the band say goodbye to the decade they dominated with style, Voulez-Vous was ABBA s fifth consecutive #1 in Sweden, a chart-topper around Europe and a US Top 20 album. Powered by classic singles, including the title track, and Chiquitita , Voulez-Vous was at the heart of one of the groups…
Abbey Lincoln s distinctive vocal style, thought-provoking writing, and spirited personality has secured her a place among the jazz greats. Though she made her first recording for Riverside, and later in life for Verve, it was with the young and audacious Candid Records that she made her biggest musical statement, 1961 s Straight Ahead. It s one of…
Wewantsounds is delighted to reissue Mawood one of the cornerstones of Egyptian music, recorded in 1971 by legendary Arabic singer Abdel Halim Hafez. Famously sampled by Jay-Z on Big Pimpin for one of his 60s tracks, Hafez is captured here live with his full orchestra including Omar Khorshid on guitar. The album mixes traditional Arabic…
Vinyl LP pressing. Pianist-composer Abdullah Ibrahim (formerly known as Dollar Brand) has long ranked among South Africa s giants alongside Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba and the late Kippie Mokoetsi. A master of improvisation with a distinctive African edge, the exiled Cape Town musician has developed a musical style over the past 30 years that defies…