Experimental CDs

Vulnerable is the fifth studio album by The Used, released on March 26 2012, under their new record label, Hopeless Records. The album was produced by John Feldmann, who also produced the band's first three albums.

While Noctourniquet was, in typical Mars Volta fashion, written by Omar RodriguezLopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala and produced by Rodriguez-Lopez, the 13-track album explores musical territories previously uncharted in the duo's 20 or so years of creating music together. The spectrum of musical and e...

The new album, the band's lead vocalist and bassist Tyson Ritter says he had no idea he was going to experience so much life in the three years between the band's last record and this one. “I went from the floor to standing up, and I think the whole record reflects that thematically,” he said. “It’s...

Scars And Stories is the third full-length album from the Denver-based quartet The Fray and follow-up to the band's Grammy Nominated 2009 self-titled release. The 12-song set was recorded at the legendary Blackbird Studios in Nashville, TN with producer Brendan O’Brien (Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam,...

The new edition of this genre-defying album comes packaged in the original UK artwork for the first time since 1971 and includes a bonus CD featuring 50 minutes of unreleased live material from 1972, remastered in 2011. 'Tago Mago' the first Can album with Damo Suzuki on vocals, features the line...

The debut album on fab UK label Memphis Industries for Manhattan-by-way-of-Boston’s Hooray For Earth. Early adopters of Hooray For Earth include Jay Z who featured them on his Life and Times Blog, where the band’s frontman Noel Heroux explained how he used sounds of the city in his productions. T...

Valtari is the sixth full-length studio album by the Icelandic band Sigur Rós. The album was announced in an interview with Q Magazine on March 26, 2012. Bassist Georg Hólm described the album as having "more electronic stuff than before" but not being "a dance album". The first single from the a...

This specially packaged limited edition of 'Happy To You' includes a second disc, featuring seven extra tracks. Miike Snow is a trio made up of Swedish superproducers, Bloodshy & Avant (aka: Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg) and American Andrew Wyatt. 'Happy To You' is their second album, t...

Grinderman 2 RMX’s many outstanding tracks include “Super Heathen Child” – a collaborative version of Grinderman’s “Heathen Child” (MOJO Honours Song Of The Year 2011) which teams the band up with legendary guitarist Robert Fripp (King Crimson, David Bowie, Eno); an exclusive previously unreleased r...

Leaders of the Free World is the third studio album from Elbow and was released in 2005. It was entirely self-produced at Blueprint Studios in Salford, Machester a space the band hired for the duration of their recording sessions and has been described as a love-letter to Manchester. The deluxe e...

Cast of Thousands was Elbow's second album released in 2003 and following on from the Mercury nominated Asleep in the Back. This deluxe edition of the album is expanded to a three disc set which includes a CD of rare live tracks and previously unreleased BBC sessions as well as a DVD movie. The D...

The Cranberries will return with Roses, their first studio album in over a decade, on the 13th February, 2012 via Cooking Vinyl The songs on ‘Roses’ come from a band with a renewed hunger and in every corner you’ll find the extraordinary sound of Dolores O’Riordan’s voice, the pivotal instrument ...

Skyline is Yann Tiersen’s seventh studio album, and sees Tiersen taking a confident step forward, cementing the sound of its darker sister, the critically acclaimed Dust Lane, which was released almost exactly 12 months previously. Monuments, the first single release from Skyline, shows Tiersen a...

Sublime with Rome is a musical collaboration between Eric Wilson, Bud Gaugh (both formerly of the band Sublime) and singer and guitarist Rome Ramirez. The group chiefly performed songs by Sublime, which was fronted by Bradley Nowell until his death in 1996. Sublime being one of the most nota...

Tanlines is an American experimental pop / indie rock duo from Brooklyn, New York. The band is composed of Jesse Cohen (drums, music); Eric Emm (guitar, vocals). Tanlines debut album Mixed Emotions is a deeply personal and unique pop album. Mixed by legendary Grammy award winning record producer ...

Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose introduces one of the most self-assured new artists of the year, a pop polymath whose blend of psychedelia, glam rock and chain gang folk is quite unlike anything else you’re likely to hear in 2012. Like her utterly unique stage outfits, it’s made from disparate individu...

Formerly of London, 3-piece Siren and Auckland psych-rockers The Quick and the Dead, Will is now performing solo as Will Saunders & the Lowest Fidelity. After returning form 8 years in London where he recorded and performed with Siren, Will formed The Quick and the Dead and began to take a more f...

Valtari is the sixth full-length studio album by the Icelandic band Sigur Rós. The album was announced in an interview with Q Magazine on March 26, 2012. Bassist Georg Hólm described the album as having "more electronic stuff than before" but not being "a dance album". The first single from the a...

Seminal NYC based art punk DIY enthusiasts / purists, BLACK DICE have returned with their sixth studio album MR. IMPOSSIBLE to be released April 10th on Ribbon Music. The nine song album combines 15 years of collaboration into one explosive electronic breakout monster mash. Over the course of their ...

Brighton-based alternative rock duo Laura-Mary Carter and Steven Ansell will return this year with new album 'In Time To Voices'. Since the release of their debut almost 4 years ago, the duo have embarked on a gruelling, unrelenting tour schedule, seeing them travel the four corners of the globe ...

While initially formed in 2009 to play and record lead vocalist and Dunedin raised Matt Joe Gow's highly praised solo album “The Messenger”, The Dead Leaves (also featuring guitarist Andrew Pollock, bassist Cameron Grindrod and drummer Joel Witenberg) have evolved far beyond a solo artist's backing ...

Miike Snow(pronounced Mike Snow) is a trio made up of Swedish super-producers Bloodshy & Avant (aka Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg) and American producer Andrew Wyatt. Happy to You is the long awaited follow up to their outstanding self-titled debut in 2009. it's a big, bold, bight, colou...

Beloved Philadelphia band Dr. Dog release a staggering burst of vital rock ‘n’ roll with their new record Be The Void. The album is the raucous follow up to the group’s critically lauded Shame, Shame. Having evolved from a band whose primary creative outlet was the album-making process into one ...

Produced by guitarist Derek Miller, and written by Miller and singer Alexis Krauss, 'Reign of Terror' is the raucous follow up to 2010's 'Treats'. Upon unleashing 'Treats' into the world. Sleigh Bells quickly became the most exciting new band to emerge from their hometown of New York City. 'Treat...

Tanlines is an American experimental pop / indie rock duo from Brooklyn, New York. The band is composed of Jesse Cohen (drums, music); Eric Emm (guitar, vocals). Tanlines debut album Mixed Emotions is a deeply personal and unique pop album. Mixed by legendary Grammy award winning record producer ...

On March 16, Memphis’ LUCERO will release ‘Women & Work,’ their first locally released album and debut for ATO/Shock Records, and an album which establishes them as the 21st century voice of that great musical city. ’Women & Work’ is a love letter from LUCERO to its hometown in Tennessee. “Having...