Friday was a big one for the new stuff and today is a big one for the not-new stuff. Proper record shop action folks.
We have lots of interesting routes for you all today!
West Coast is the 2006 debut LP from Swedish musicians Dan Lissvik and Rasmus Hägg as Studio and Ghostly International have put together a really nice 2025 pressing. It’s such a curious record as it sounds so much like lots of other bits, but weirdly not that much like anything else. Really psychedelic music, with lush production oddities to keep it bubbling along.
“The Swedish duo’s 2006 debut still feels both familiar and futuristic, with a breezy blend of dance and indie rock that evokes both windswept landscapes and youthful freedom.”
- Pitchfork 8.5
+ Available on limited ‘Fog Machine’ colour vinyl.

Back in print for the first time in ages, we have Sufjan Stevens’ The Avalanche via his own Asthmatic Kitty label. His landmark Illinois album was originally conceived as a double and this excellent collection contains variously unused tracks, alternative versions, outlines and other abandoned material from the time. There are some really stunning moments, but its other draw is hearing Illinois in a new way as those famous and much loved songs evolved.
Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo. Guys, you do the math! Another pretty serious bit of back in stock with a first pressing in over twenty years of Yo La Tengo’s early deep cuts. More than two hours of hard to find and unreleased music from 1988 – 1995. You know how much we love ’em, but this is dead good!
4AD have made a 30th Anniversary Edition pressing of Frank Black’s excellent second solo album, Teenager of the Year. With Pixies on hiatus he really just went totally off-piste, racking up expensive studio sessions for a glorious odd album that is raw and riotous, but also so full and sonically intense. In the very best way, this is a right cacophony!
+ This new pressing has been cut at 45 rpm for optimum playback and is being pressed on double gold vinyl. It also comes in a gatefold sleeve that includes liner notes by both Frank Black and producer Eric Drew Feldman.

A Blues double on the Verve label this week with Lightnin’ Hopkins’ Lightnin’ Strikes and John Lee Hooker’s It Serves You Right To Suffer. Lightnin’ Strikes is the later of two albums with the same time and has a real rawness to the performance as the band follow Hopkins around. It Serves You Right to Suffer is also a great set, with reworked classics alongside new compositions and another really great band too.
+ Both are released as part of Verve’s Acoustic Sounds Series and feature transfers from analog tapes and remastered 180-gram vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging.
Also this week, XL have made a limited pressing of Nourished By Time’s 2023 album, Erotic Probiotic 2. Totally forgot how much we liked this one, an Arthur Russell-esque trip through studio haze. Really, really good. Also really, really good is Salami Rose Joe Louis’ (Bay Area singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Lindsay Olsen) Zdenka 2080. Originally released in 2019 on Brainfeeder and a legit woozing gem. Iggy Pop’s career-spanning Montreux Jazz Festival show from 2023 gets a full physical release.
Lastly this week, Michael Head and The Strands fabled The Magical World of The Strands album is pressed for the first time in about a decade. The iconic Liverpudlian songwriter has never had a straightforward career, and this convoluted debut as The Strands was gradually created between 1992 and 1997, before mostly missing an audience. But, like his Shack and The Pale Fountains, the good will always out and this collection contains some of the sunniest songs about drug addiction ever committed to tape. A brilliant songwriter and in a career of dazzlers, this is a right dazzler.
+ Available on exclusive Cream White colour vinyl.
+ New gold foil embossed artwork.