FUNKADELIC’S CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED 1981 ALBUM NEWLY REMASTERED PLUS BONUS INSTRUMENTAL TRACK IN DELUXE CD MEDIABOOK PACKAGINGMasterminded by the larger-than-life figure of George Clinton, Funkadelic was a key component of his...
Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow is the second album from funk innovators Funkadelic. Arriving in 1970 mere months after their trailblazing debut, the record saw the band...
CD edition. Fleet Foxes and Sub Pop present a limited-edition collection in honor of the 10th anniversary of Fleet Foxes' debut LP. First Collection 2006-2009 spans the early days of...
2018 release. God's Favorite Customer (alternatively Mr. Tillman's Wild Ride) is the fourth studio by American musician Josh Tillman, under the stage name Father John Misty. The album was primarily...
From Brazil, CSS is the first South American band Sub Pop has foisted upon the global marketplace. The title is Portuguese for ""Tired Being Sexy"" and the sound is a...
Cullen Omori - The Diet (CD). Available on CD. Released by Sub Pop. A rock release from 2018.Tracklist: 12 tracks Four Years Borderline Friends All By Yourself Happiness Reigns Master...
The phantom zone, the parallax, the upside down-there is a rich cultural history of exploring in-between places. Through her latest, Titanic Rising, Weyes Blood, a.k.a. Natalie Mering, has designed her...
LESE MAJESTY is the second album by Shabazz Palaces, the Seattle-based experimental hip-hop group featuring Palaceer Lazaro (aka Ishmael Butler, formerly of Digable Planets) and Fly Guy 'Dai (aka Tendai...
PASSERBY is the second album by Australian/Brooklyn band Luluc - it is their first international release and their Sub Pop debut. Co-produced by the band and the National's Aaron Dessner,...
2010 release from Alt-Rock favorite Jimmy LaValle (AKA The Album Leaf). a Chorus of Storytellers was recorded by Ryan Hadlock in the frosty month of February 2009 at Bear Creek...
LET'S BE STILL, The Head and the Heart's follow-up to their breakout self-titled debut, finds the band confidently stretching the indie-folk sound that gained them widespread acclaim over the past...
Geist feels like a window - or a mirror - into possibilities of the self and beyond. Shannon Lay's new album is tender intensity, placeless and ethereal. It exists in...
KING TUFF is the new self-titled record from King Tuff, his first for Sub Pop and his second album overall. His gem of a new album was produced by Bobby...
2010 release, the third album from the Montreal-based Alt Rockers. Recorded during a matter of weeks, Expo 86 finds Wolf Parade slimming themselves down to a four-piece lineup and continuing...
On Describe, Hannah Jadagu learns the hard way that distance is relative. After her 2023 debut album Aperture garnered glowing praise from outlets like The New York Times and NPR,...
The Kalshi app is a ""prediction market for trading the future,"" a platform allowing users to gamble on the outcome of almost any real-world event - from the accuracy of...
Gatefold altpack. Pissed Jeans has never been a band that goes halfway. They're known for their feral vocals, biting lyrics, buzz-saw guitars, and unhinged live shows, and their sixth album,...
CD edition. Pastoral pummel. Listening to Heron Oblivion's album feels like sitting in a lovely meadow in the shadow of a dam that's gonna heave-ho' any minute. Members of this...
With Death Jokes, for the first time since the project's incarnation in 2006, the spiritual reflections and meditations of Amen Dunes are turned away from himself, and out sharply towards...
Album number two and their Sub Pop debut. Thick-as-glue punk bombast and Aussie sludge stoke the coals of your existence. This album is diverse, but the Jeans ain't no dilettantes....
For the last 24 years, Tunde Adebimpe has largely been known as the co-founder, co-vocalist and principal songwriter for TV On The Radio. The mostly-black art-rock band triumphed through two...
Fresh out of high school, Hannah Jadagu released her debut EP, What Is Going On?, a collection of intimate bedroom pop tracks recorded entirely on an iPhone 7, which was,...
Montreal band Corridor have returned on their fourth album, Mimi, with a sound and style that's more widescreen and expansive than anything that's preceded it. The follow-up to 2019's Junior...
The Life You Save is the third album by Flock of Dimes, the solo project of multi-instrumentalist and producer Jenn Wasner.Across the last few decades - whether it be as...
2017 release. Beast Epic, Iron & Wine's fourth album of new material for Sub Pop and it's sixth overall, recasts soft power as a series of vignettes, observations and regular...
Pissed Jeans have been making gnarly noise for 13 years, and on their fifth album, Why Love Now, the male-fronted quartet is taking aim at the mundane discomforts of modern...
SOUND KAPITAL is the third full-length from Handsome Furs, the Canadian two-piece of husband and wife Dan Boeckner and Alexei Perry. These nine songs of innocence and experience occasionally look...
""Hidden Driver,"" the opening track of Lvl Up's third album and Sub Pop debut Return to Love, never stops moving. What starts with unassuming guitars and vocals adds new lines,...
While Flight of the Conchords first hammered out their reputation from behind the relative safety of acoustic guitars, blithely billed as a folk comedy act, nowadays their musical style runs...
Sarah Silverman: WE ARE MIRACLES, the acclaimed performer's Emmy-nominated and first headline special for HBO, is now available for the first time on CD via Sub Pop Records. WE ARE...
This is the debut from Oxford, England's five piece, dance rock band. Completing the circuit between the minimalism of American composer Steve Reich, guitars that sound like insects and tennis...
2014 remastered reissue of the Allentown, PA band's long out-of-print 2005 debut album. The 8-song album features their classics ""Boring Girls"" and ""Closet Marine,"". This reissue includes the bonus tracks...
BLACK UP is the new sonic move from Shabazz Palaces. Like rich velvet hijabs or gold threaded abayas. BLACK LIGHT uses electromagnetic radiation to eradicate microorganisms, but Shabazz didn't come...
Damien's last record won him comparions to Nick Drake, Skip Spence and ""Nebraska"" era Springsteen. ""I Break Chairs"" heads off in news directions with a full band called Gathered in...
Tad - Salt Lick (Deluxe) (CD). Available on CD. Released by Sub Pop. A rock release from 2016.Tracklist: 10 tracks Axe to Grind High on the Hog Wood Goblins Hibernation...
Downtown Boys have pushed relentlessly forward as an artistic and political project since their founding. Singer Victoria Marie and guitarist/singer Joey La Neve DeFrancesco first met at union meetings while...
Everything Will Change is the new live album by indie-pop legends The Postal Service. The album documents The Postal Service's performance at the Greek Theater in Berkeley, CA during their...
Lael Neale's minimalist drone pop draws inspiration from the Transcendentalists, the alienation of modern life, and a rich array of musical influences-ranging from Dionne Warwick and John Lennon to primitive...
To experience Justin R. Cruz Gallego's pulverizing Sub Pop debut is to get burned down to ashes and burst forth, born anew. Grim Iconic...(Sadistic Mantra), the Tacoma-based artist's second album,...
The Bug Club are back, again, for their annual appointment at the garage rock makers' market, where they're flogging yet another pedigree record. LP number four, Very Human Features, arrives hot...
Yuno's full-length debut, Blest, out May 16 on Sub Pop, finds the enigmatic indie-pop visionary transforming the emo-tinged suburban malaise of his 2018 Moodie EP into more expansive, widescreen pop...
Aeon Station's Observatory is an epic statement more than a decade in the making, with miles of timeless melodies and the kind of overpowering songwriting that will reaffirm your belief...
Digitally remastered and expanded deluxe 20th Anniversary edition of their 1989 debut album including 12 previously unreleased live bonus tracks. Originally recorded over three sessions with producer Jack Endino at...
Every so often, Chad VanGaalen emerges from his bunker in Calgary with a batch of songs, giving US a window into the private world of this reclusive and enigmatic songwriter....
The usual boom-and-bust cycles of growing up - breaking down, gathering the strength to get up, fumbling hard, doing it all over again - can feel unmooring, to say the...
Light Verse arrives April 26th, and it's Iron & Wine's seventh full-length overall and fifth for Sub Pop Records. Fashioned as an album that should be taken as a whole,...
2010 sophomore album from the British outfit, produced by former Clor Luke Smith. The album was recorded over Summer 2009 at Svenska Gramofon in Sweden. While the first album drew...
The roots of Naima Bock's music are far reaching. Born in Glastonbury to a Brazilian father and a Greek mother, Naima spent her early childhood in Brazil before eventually returning...
CD edition. January 2023, Dorset. Snow is piled at the door, icy roads are closed, and Emily Cross is in a coffin. Not a setting typical for a rebirth. But...
If you're looking for a raw, sugary blast of distorted pop, look no further than Weird Nightmare. The debut album from METZ guitarist and vocalist Alex Edkins contains all of...
But there's power in the solitary, too. Giant Palm was arranged with collaborator Joel Burton, but going this one alone in search of something that was truly hers, Naima found...
Almost as soon as Stella Chronopoulou began writing Adagio, her fifth album as Stella, she knew the time had finally come to sing in Greek, her native tongue. It would...
Lithium Zion is the fifth full-length album (and second for Sub Pop following 2015's Pain) from grisly Melbourne, Australia rock group Deaf Wish. Their previous efforts were recorded in makeshift...
The soaring choruses, rousing anthems, sprawling guitars and chaotic keys that make up Wolf Parade are on proud display over the course of Cry Cry Cry, the band's thunderous first...
ONES and SIXES is the new album from the Duluth-based trio of Alan Sparhawk, Mimi Parker and Steve Garrington, collectively known as Low. Low's music has been used in film...
Two CD live release. In October of 2018, ten years after the launch of their hit HBO series, musical comedians Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement returned to HBO for the...
Shearwater brings you their Sub Pop debut and eighth overall album, Animal Joy. On Animal Joy, lead man Jonathan Meiburg has opted to ditch an approach that paid huge artistic...
2009 collection of post-Galaxie 500 recordings by two-thirds of that legendary Alt-Rock band. Compiling the best of Damon & Naomi's records over the course of four albums on the venerable...
Age and four full-lengths haven't mellowed Pissed Jeans; they can still unleash a blare that will exfoliate your cochlea. Formed in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Pissed Jeans released Shallow, their first album,...
Sometime in 2016, just as the Polish singer/producer Tobiasz Bilinski began to find success through the dim and fractured electropop of Coldair, he knew it was time for a radical...
Western exports may have dominated the consciousness of international rock fans for the entirety of the 20th century, but our increasing global awareness has unearthed a treasure trove of transcendental...
Like very nearly every worthwhile thing, making this album was not easy; it was a difficult second album to make. Drawing inspiration from folk/rock from about 1965 to 1973, and...
On his second full-length, Sam Beam ""launches balloons of sweetly whispered regret over trance-inducing backwoods string arrangements and watches them float away, his heart in tow - Entertainment Weekly. ""Equally...
This acclaimed Kiwi novelty band follow the release of their six-track Grammy Award-winning CD EP THE DISTANT FUTURE with their full-length debut. Features fully fleshed-out and professionally recorded versions of...
Jimmy LaValle befriended Sugur Ros in 2003, went to Iceland with them, and crafted a chillingly delicate and more pop based album than ever before. IN a SAFE PLACE masterfully...
Mark Lanegan - Field Songs (CD). Available on CD. Released by Sub Pop. A alternative release from 2001.Tracklist: 12 tracks One Way Street No Easy Action Miracle Pill Hill Serenade...
Visions of Bodies Being Burned contains thirteen more scary stories disguised as rap songs, incorporating as much influence from Ernest Dickerson, Clive Barker, and Shirley Jackson as it does from...
2019 release. The legendary Preservation Hall Jazz Band present the soundtrack to A Tuba to Cuba, the critically acclaimed documentary directed by T.G. Herrington and Danny Clinch. The film follows...
Gatefold altpack. In one sense, it's easy for artists-songwriters, specifically-to express their feelings in their work. After all, that's what the lyrics are for! But it's much harder to convey...
At a moment when musical streams are crossing with unprecedented frequency, it's crucial to remember that throughout it's history, New Orleans has been the point at which sounds and cultures...
Yuno - Moodie (CD). Available on CD. Released by Sub Pop. A rock release from 2018.Tracklist: 6 tracks Amber No Going Back Fall in Love Why for So Slow Galapagos...
The ten tracks that make up The Other represent a kind of psychic evolution for King Tuff. No less hooky than previous records, the new songs ditch the goofy rock-and-roll...
The self-titled sixth album by The Helio Sequence began with a friendly competition. Several of the duo's friends within the Portland, Oregon music scene had been playing 'The 20-Song Game.'...
Seattle's Fleet Foxes make such complex, harmonic, 70s inspired folk rock, it's hard to believe that the band's principle songwriter, Robin Pecknold, is only 21 years old. There's a moment...
Iron and Wine's most ambitious and accomplished recording to date, and also the most satisfying. While many of US learned of Iron and Wine by way of the tender and...
Deer Creek Canyon, Sera Cahoone's third solo album, sees her ruminating on the gravitational pull of home. Titled for the Colorado canyon where she came of age, Deer Creek Canyon...
Guitarist/vocalist Ben Bridwell and bassist Mat Brooke froemd Band of Horses in 2004 after the dissolution of their nearly 10-year run in northwest melancholic darlings Carissa's Weird. Carissea's Wierd trafficked...
Bria is an intimate and incisive labour of love from multi-instrumentalists Bria Salmena and Duncan Hay Jennings. Catapulted by a deep sense of dread and confusion in the depths of...
'I Love You, Honeybear' was recorded from 2013 to 2014 in Echo Park, Los Angeles. There's a case to be made that it sounds and acts a bit like Scott...
There's one thing Forth Wanderers want to make clear as they prepare to release their third album The Longer This Goes On: ""We're not back,"" guitarist Ben Guterl says emphatically....
2015 release. Thank Your Lucky Stars is the sixth full-length effort from Baltimore, Maryland dream pop duo Beach House (Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally) and second of this year alone...
Notes From a Quiet Life is the new album by chillwave pioneer Washed Out. It is filled with the lush, sun-baked electronic pop that has won over legions of fans...
The music recorded by Ernest Greene as Washed Out has been nothing if not dreamy, and on his second full-length, PARACOSM, he takes the dreamlike, otherworldly atmospheres of his music...
Bret McKenzie is a Grammy and Academy Award winning artist most well known for his band Flight of the Conchords and their eponymous television show. McKenzie is internationally renowned for...
Nation of Language's first two albums, Introduction, Presence (2020), and A Way Forward (2021), came as pandemic godsends: gorgeous, relatable soundtracks to our collective doldrums. But it was their last...
2016 release. The invocation of classic West Coast psychedelia that permeates Morgan Delt's Sub Pop debut album feels like a continuous sunrise, never concealing it's influences yet perfectly putting it's...
On her kaleidoscopic second album, The Starrr Of The Queen Of Life, Debby Friday defines success on her own terms. ""I want to be a starrr, I can't hide that...
Enter: The Conquering Chicken is The Gits' second, and final, full-length studio album. The Gits' vocalist, lyricist, and frontwoman, Mia Zapata, was murdered in Seattle during the few weeks they...
Several things happened before a warm day when I met the four members of Frankie Cosmos in a Brooklyn studio to begin making their album. Greta Kline spent a few...
Different Talking, the sixth and, so far, best album by NYC indie-rock four-piece Frankie Cosmos, seems to exist across time and space, as we all kind of do. It's a...
In the technical sense, every previous album by the radiant and heavy French trio SLIFT has been a fantasia-a composite of genres and forms that allowed the band to improvise,...
Billboard Heart, the new album by Deep Sea Diver, immediately puts the Seattle band in the company of St. Vincent, TV on the Radio, and Flock of Dimes, bands that...
This 2023 edition of The Shins's beloved second album, Chutes Too Narrow, celebrates the album's 20th anniversary with a fresh remaster by Adam Ayan, supervised by band leader James Mercer,...
As it's name suggested, the intimate and sultry Cuntry Covers Vol. 1 was always going to have a follow-up. Led by the brooding vocals of Bria Salmena, Cuntry Covers Vol....
On Up On Gravity Hill, the new album by Toronto power-trio METZ, the band creates a kaleidoscopic sonic world as tender as it is dark, aided once again by engineer...
Breaking the Balls of History is Quasi's tenth record, landing ten years after their last record. Three tens, which aligns with the thirty years they've played together. Sam Coomes and...