- Eminem The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grace) [Red & Blue Opaque 2 LP]
- Tears For Fears Songs For A Nervous Planet [Indie Exclusive Cocoa Cream 2LP]
- Andrea Bocelli Duets - 30th Anniversary [LP]
- James Blake & Lil Yachty Bad Cameo [Indie Exclusive Royal Magenta LP]
- Oak Ridge Boys Mama's Boys [LP - Translucent Sea Glass ]
- Ben Folds Sleigher [Indie Exclusive Signed Green LP]
- Jesse Malin Silver Patron Saints [3 LP translucent red, yellow, green]
- Flat Black Dark Side Of The Brain [2 LP]
- Bocelli, Andrea Duets - 30th Anniversary [Deluxe Hardcover Book Edition 2 CD]
- Caroline Shaw Leonardo da Vinci (Original Score) [2 LP]
- Amythyst Kiah Still + Bright [Translucent Forest Green vinyl]
- Soccer Mommy Evergreen [Indie Exclusive Sky Blue Marble LP]
- Tess Parks Pomegranate [Indie exclusive Clear Blue]
- Fashion Club A Love You Cannot Shake [Red Vinyl LP]
- Dean, Jackson On The Back Of My Dreams
- Johnnie Taylor One Step From The Blues [LP]
- Kublai Khan TX Exhibition of Prowess [3 Color Smush]
- Ralfi Pagan Ralfi Pagan [LP]
- Peach Pit Magpie [Indie Exclusive Clear White With Swirl LP]
- Shiro Sagisu (Ofgv) Music From Shin Evangelion Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 [3LP]
- Chuck Ragan Love & Love [Tri-Color Smush LP]
- Iotunn Kinship [Dark Jade Marbled 2LP]
- Gigan Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus [Random Eco-Mix 2 LP]
- Amyl & The Sniffers Cartoon Darkness [Doing In Me Lungs Edition LP]
- Chuck Prophet Wake The Dead [Colored Vinyl] (Org)
- Amorphis Rarities 1991 - 2001 [LP Light blue]
- Living Gate Suffer As One [LP Galaxy edition]
- Ron Sexsmith Cobblestone Runway [Limited Edition Edition Yellow Colored Vinyl]
- Ron Sexsmith Retriever [Limited Edition Blue Colored Vinyl]
- Parker, Charlie Bird In Kansas City [LP]
- Bastille & [Recycled 2 LP]
- Benjamin Hastings William Sold Out, Sincerely
- Deadform Entrenched In Hell [Limited Royal Blue w/ Black Splatter Vinyl]
- Ma, Yoyo / Stott, Kathryn Merci
- Waxahatchee Cerulean Salt [Indie Exclusive Purple Pinwheel LP]
- A Place To Bury Strangers Synthesizer [Indie Exclusive Glow in The Dark LP]
- Eminem The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grace) [Red & Blue Opaque 2 LP]
- Tears For Fears Songs For A Nervous Planet [Indie Exclusive Cocoa Cream 2LP]
- Andrea Bocelli Duets - 30th Anniversary [LP]
- James Blake & Lil Yachty Bad Cameo [Indie Exclusive Royal Magenta LP]
- Oak Ridge Boys Mama's Boys [LP - Translucent Sea Glass ]
- Ben Folds Sleigher [Indie Exclusive Signed Green LP]
- Jesse Malin Silver Patron Saints [3 LP translucent red, yellow, green]
- Flat Black Dark Side Of The Brain [2 LP]
- Bocelli, Andrea Duets - 30th Anniversary [Deluxe Hardcover Book Edition 2 CD]
- Caroline Shaw Leonardo da Vinci (Original Score) [2 LP]
- Amythyst Kiah Still + Bright [Translucent Forest Green vinyl]
- Soccer Mommy Evergreen [Indie Exclusive Sky Blue Marble LP]
- Tess Parks Pomegranate [Indie exclusive Clear Blue]
- Fashion Club A Love You Cannot Shake [Red Vinyl LP]
- Dean, Jackson On The Back Of My Dreams
- Johnnie Taylor One Step From The Blues [LP]
- Kublai Khan TX Exhibition of Prowess [3 Color Smush]
- Ralfi Pagan Ralfi Pagan [LP]
- Peach Pit Magpie [Indie Exclusive Clear White With Swirl LP]
- Shiro Sagisu (Ofgv) Music From Shin Evangelion Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 [3LP]
- Chuck Ragan Love & Love [Tri-Color Smush LP]
- Iotunn Kinship [Dark Jade Marbled 2LP]
- Gigan Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus [Random Eco-Mix 2 LP]
- Amyl & The Sniffers Cartoon Darkness [Doing In Me Lungs Edition LP]
- Chuck Prophet Wake The Dead [Colored Vinyl] (Org)
- Amorphis Rarities 1991 - 2001 [LP Light blue]
- Living Gate Suffer As One [LP Galaxy edition]
- Ron Sexsmith Cobblestone Runway [Limited Edition Edition Yellow Colored Vinyl]
- Ron Sexsmith Retriever [Limited Edition Blue Colored Vinyl]
- Parker, Charlie Bird In Kansas City [LP]
- Bastille & [Recycled 2 LP]
- Benjamin Hastings William Sold Out, Sincerely
- Deadform Entrenched In Hell [Limited Royal Blue w/ Black Splatter Vinyl]
- Ma, Yoyo / Stott, Kathryn Merci
- Waxahatchee Cerulean Salt [Indie Exclusive Purple Pinwheel LP]
- A Place To Bury Strangers Synthesizer [Indie Exclusive Glow in The Dark LP]
This Week's New Releases
Music Releases 11-01-24
After 16 years, THE CURE is back with their 14th studio album, SONGS OF A LOST WORLD. Songs from the record were previewed during their 90-date, 33-country ‘Shows Of A Lost World’ tour for more than 1.3 million people to overwhelming fan and critical acclaim. Speaking about, “Alone,” the opening track on the album, Robert Smith says, “It’s the track that unlocked the record; as soon as we had that piece of music recorded, I knew it was the opening song and I felt the whole album come into focus... that was the moment when I knew the song – and the album – were real.” Robert Smith created the sleeve concept and Andy Vella, a longtime Cure collaborator, handled the album’s art and design. The cover art features ‘Bagatelle,’ a 1975 sculpture by Janez Pirnat.
Across 6CDs, Elvis Costello: King of America & Other Realms traces his musical travels from Hollywood – where the King Of America album was recorded in 1986 – to a brand new take on “Brilliant Mistake” cut in Cape Fear early in 2024, via Costello’s recording adventures in New Orleans, Oxford and Clarksdale, Mississippi, Nashville and Memphis, Tennessee and guided by Costello’s own 35-page essay which includes numerous rare and never-before seen photos.
The collection is anchored by CD1: a new 2024 remaster of the album King Of America from the original master tapes.
CD2 collects the solo demos from 1985 including six performances from the unheard Red Bus Studios session with radically different lyrical drafts, shedding new light on the intention of key songs from the King Of America album.
CD3 is a never heard before 17-song concert recorded on January 27, 1987 at The Royal Albert Hall in London in the company of James Burton, Jim Keltner, Jerry Scheff, Benmont Tench & T-Bone Wolk.
Newly mixed from multitrack tapes – and featuring live renditions of several King Of America titles – Costello is also heard performing songs by Waylon Jennings, Arthur Alexander, Allen Toussaint, Sonny Boy Williamson, Mose Allison, Ray Charles, Jesse Winchester, Dave Bartholomew and Buddy Holly. A truly great American songbook.
The set closes with a 3CD digest of Costello’s studio recordings, previously unreleased demos, outtakes & live recordings from this wild and wonderfully odd odyssey.
Often revered as one of the most important debut albums of all time, Weezer’s “blue” album celebrates 30 years with a 1-LP color vinyl
edition exclusive for indie music stores.
Willie Nelson is now in his 7th decade as a songwriter, performer and recording artist, but one of his most underrated talents is song interpretation. Over his career he has tackled songs from across the world of music, making each his own. Now for his 76th studio album and 153rd album overall as he celebrates his 91st year, Willie turns his gaze to a collection of songs by rock legends, idiosyncratic singer songwriters, alt-rock heroes, and indie folk artists. The result is a gorgeously cohesive rumination on loss, love, and world-weary hope, perfectly complemented by spare and spooky musical production. Lovingly curated and produced by his son Micah Nelson, Last Leaf On The Tree finds Willie covering songs from moody indie rock (Beck), psych alt-pop (The Flaming Lips) and punk-informed folk (Sunny War, Micah’s Particle Kid) to thought-provoking soul jazz (Nina Simone) and lesser-known gems from legends like Tom Waits, Neil Young, Keith Richards, and Warren Zevon. In addition, the album features new takes on one of Willie’s oldest songs (“The Ghost” from 1962) plus a new one penned with Micah (“The Color Of Sound”) that joins Willie’s collection of Zen-soaked classics. In addition to producing, Micah Nelson plays many of the instruments and even designed the album cover. He is joined by a host of celebrated musicians plus guest spots from legendary producer and musician Daniel Lanois, John Densmore of The Doors and harmonica master Mickey Raphael, who has played alongside Willie for over 50 years.
It’s dangerous to put Illiterate Light in a box, especially with the release of their new album, Arches. Are they a guitar-driven indie rock duo? Kaleidoscopic neo-psychedelia? Synth-kissed, harmony-laden folk? What does one do with an album beginning with “fake tits and diet coke,” then pivoting to train derailments in rural Ohio and never-ending black holes? These prolific farmers-turned-rockers have captured the energy of their live shows—fans crowd-surfing, moshing, crying, and crooning—and infused it into their latest release.
“We’ve always been shape shifters, moving between heavy, dark distortion and gentle sweet fingerpicking, writing aggressive songs, introspective songs, and love songs, exploding and embracing,” reflects singer-guitarist Jeff Gorman. “Smashing it all together used to feel strange, but now there's a glue between everything we do. Our fans get it. They care less about genre. All they care about is feeling. And that’s all we care about. Are you alive or not?”
Illiterate Light’s third album, Arches, is not a passageway but an arrival. “We’re no longer striving to define a sound,” said drummer Jake Cochran. “We’re leaning into sides of ourselves that have felt off-limits, sticking to what feels right rather than concerning ourselves with comparison.” Out November 1 via Thirty Tigers, the record is bursting with thunderous anthems, biting lyrics, and lush harmonies.
The band originated in the Shenandoah Valley in 2015 when multi-instrumentalists Gorman and Cochran began playing music together while working on an organic farm. Eventually, they left the farm to focus on music, adopting the moniker Illiterate Light from a Wilco lyric. After several years of non-stop touring, they signed with Atlantic Records and released their eponymous full-length debut in late 2019. Two years later, they signed with Thirty Tigers and, in 2023, issued their critically acclaimed LP, Sunburned. Shortly after, they released two additional EPs, making Arches their fourth release in two years.
Arches was recorded in two very different locations: small-town Appalachia at Gorman’s home studio and Hollywood, CA at Sunset Sound with producer Joe Chiccarelli (The Strokes, Beck, The Killers). “We wanted the best of both worlds,” says Gorman. “We spent several days with Joe at Sunset. To record vocals in the same live room as so many of my heroes—Neil Young, Paul McCartney, Dylan—was unreal. I knew I was in a holy place.” The LA session was paired with sessions in Virginia, where Gorman and Cochran co-produced the bulk of the record with longtime collaborator Danny Gibney. In their hometown, they experimented with soaring instrumental journeys and had friends sit in on the sessions to keep things lively.
“Having our community stop by the sessions kept us on our toes—we haven’t been able to do that in the past. It helped connect us to the feeling of our live show,” recalls Cochran. Illiterate Light’s live performances, described by the Washington Post as “massive,” feature Gorman on one foot, hammering bass on a foot-pedal synth, shredding big guitar riffs, and spitting out song after song while Cochran matches Gorman harmony for harmony, dancing with his standing drum kit, teetering on the edge of the stage only to dive head first into his next solo.
Arches is the closest you can get to their live show, with heavier songs like “I Ride Alone” and “Bloodlines” encapsulating the best of the writhing, uninhibited front-row experience. The keystone of the album, “Norfolk Southern,” crashes in with Gorman belting, “Here comes the Norfolk Southern / It's off the tracks / and heading for you,” with Cochran chanting, “break, break, break, break” to the ghost of the train that derailed in 2023 in East Palestine, Ohio, releasing 10,000 gallons of hazardous materials into the atmosphere. The song also serves as a metaphor for Gorman’s own turbulent feelings. “I certainly wanted to shine a light on the environmental catastrophe. But strangely, some days I feel just like that Norfolk Southern, barreling out of control at warp speed.”
Gorman lets the lyrics take control. Showing up relentlessly, day after day, to his home studio dubbed “The Bookhouse” (a tribute to David Lynch's Twin Peaks), he can’t predict what will arise. For the album's first track, “Payphone,” the opening lyrics were a surprise to Gorman: “Fake tits and diet coke / Full of undefeated hope / You are the only one I trust.” The jangly and groovy album opener is a pep talk between a woman named Big Red and her man as he faces crippling self-doubt and is self-medicating. She comforts him during a time of despair on a phone call that continues to drop.
Another relationship study, “Montauk,” is a cold beachside dance under the full moon inspired by the central question in Gorman’s favorite movie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. “Do we go for it again—even though we're destined to fail?” he asks. “For me, the answer is a resounding yes.”
“All the Stars Are Burning Out” continues in that reflective vein. “It’s a throwback song, about getting high, going for a drive, dreaming up your future. You’re looking at that wide open black sky of bright stars, and they’re so beautiful and inspiring, and they make you want to follow your dreams. And yet all those stars eventually burn out. It’s a song about going for it even though life is impermanent and full of change,” Gorman said.
The saying goes, “arches never sleep.” Designed to distribute weight evenly, arches naturally rebalance as the structure around them shifts over time. Illiterate Light’s Arches exists within this metaphor in many ways. The album marks a period of artistic strength, a balancing act of identity and possibility. To listen to Arches is to plant yourself within the arch, to stand in the threshold between two worlds and gaze into Gorman and Cochran’s constant motion forward.
Raised in Long Beach, Lil Peep (born Gustav Åhr) launched his career through the self-release of his music online as a teenager. He garnered attention in 2015 following the success of a slew of singles and his first solo mixtapes, "Lil Peep; Part One" and "Live Forever". Over the course of two years, Peep amassed millions of fans, who connected with him through his gritty lyrics that explored themes of love, loss and loneliness. Branded "the future of emo" by Pitchfork in January 2017, Peep's genre-bending style contributed to his reputation as a pioneer of the late 2010s post-emo revival, dishing out a handful of full-lengths and several extended-plays all before the release of his debut album "Come Over When You're Sober, Pt. 1" in 2017. After his breakthrough 2016 mixtapes "Crybaby" and "Hellboy" made waves in underground circles, Peep toured the United States and Europe, walked the runways at Fashion Week and began collaborating with increasingly prominent artists between New York, Los Angeles and London throughout 2017. At the time of his death just two weeks after his 21st birthday, Peep had achieved status as one of the scene's most promising rising stars. Since his emergence in 2015, he has racked up 5 billion views on YouTube and over 20 billion streams across all platforms.
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Saves The Day's iconic album "Through Being Cool," a special edition reissue has been released, featuring a new limited embossed OCard that wraps around the original, classic packaging. This collector's edition is a tribute to a landmark album that has shaped the emo and pop-punk scenes for decades, offering fans a chance to relive the nostalgia and own a unique piece of music history.
Confessions 20th Anniversary Edition contains alternative album artwork and orchestral versions of “Burn” and “Superstar” as bonus tracks on a 2-LP black vinyl.
Music From Agatha All Along / Var
Music From Agatha All Along (Various Artists)
20th Anniversary 3xLP colored vinyl with 11 original demo tracks recorded with Forrest Kline of HELLOGOODBYE. 14 song Digital release includes 11 song demo version of “Is A Real Boy” plus for the first time released digitally the song “But A Fleeting Illness”, “Spider Song” (Paul Trust version) and “Belt” acoustic.
The best-selling & most-awarded female gospel artist of all time, CeCe Winans has long since cemented her status as one of the most accomplished & celebrated women in modern music history.
With more than one billion streams in the United States, her mantel today holds a staggering 15 GRAMMY Awards, 28 Dove Awards, 15 Stellar Awards & one Billboard Music Award.
Joyful, Joyful: A Christmas Album Is CeCe Winan’s second solo foray into music celebrating the advent. Featuring 12 songs ranging from familiar favorites to brand new originals, this album is sure to put everyone in the Christmas Spirit.
This Week's New Releases
Music Releases 11-01-24
After 16 years, THE CURE is back with their 14th studio album, SONGS OF A LOST WORLD. Songs from the record were previewed during their 90-date, 33-country ‘Shows Of A Lost World’ tour for more than 1.3 million people to overwhelming fan and critical acclaim. Speaking about, “Alone,” the opening track on the album, Robert Smith says, “It’s the track that unlocked the record; as soon as we had that piece of music recorded, I knew it was the opening song and I felt the whole album come into focus... that was the moment when I knew the song – and the album – were real.” Robert Smith created the sleeve concept and Andy Vella, a longtime Cure collaborator, handled the album’s art and design. The cover art features ‘Bagatelle,’ a 1975 sculpture by Janez Pirnat.
Across 6CDs, Elvis Costello: King of America & Other Realms traces his musical travels from Hollywood – where the King Of America album was recorded in 1986 – to a brand new take on “Brilliant Mistake” cut in Cape Fear early in 2024, via Costello’s recording adventures in New Orleans, Oxford and Clarksdale, Mississippi, Nashville and Memphis, Tennessee and guided by Costello’s own 35-page essay which includes numerous rare and never-before seen photos.
The collection is anchored by CD1: a new 2024 remaster of the album King Of America from the original master tapes.
CD2 collects the solo demos from 1985 including six performances from the unheard Red Bus Studios session with radically different lyrical drafts, shedding new light on the intention of key songs from the King Of America album.
CD3 is a never heard before 17-song concert recorded on January 27, 1987 at The Royal Albert Hall in London in the company of James Burton, Jim Keltner, Jerry Scheff, Benmont Tench & T-Bone Wolk.
Newly mixed from multitrack tapes – and featuring live renditions of several King Of America titles – Costello is also heard performing songs by Waylon Jennings, Arthur Alexander, Allen Toussaint, Sonny Boy Williamson, Mose Allison, Ray Charles, Jesse Winchester, Dave Bartholomew and Buddy Holly. A truly great American songbook.
The set closes with a 3CD digest of Costello’s studio recordings, previously unreleased demos, outtakes & live recordings from this wild and wonderfully odd odyssey.
Often revered as one of the most important debut albums of all time, Weezer’s “blue” album celebrates 30 years with a 1-LP color vinyl
edition exclusive for indie music stores.
Willie Nelson is now in his 7th decade as a songwriter, performer and recording artist, but one of his most underrated talents is song interpretation. Over his career he has tackled songs from across the world of music, making each his own. Now for his 76th studio album and 153rd album overall as he celebrates his 91st year, Willie turns his gaze to a collection of songs by rock legends, idiosyncratic singer songwriters, alt-rock heroes, and indie folk artists. The result is a gorgeously cohesive rumination on loss, love, and world-weary hope, perfectly complemented by spare and spooky musical production. Lovingly curated and produced by his son Micah Nelson, Last Leaf On The Tree finds Willie covering songs from moody indie rock (Beck), psych alt-pop (The Flaming Lips) and punk-informed folk (Sunny War, Micah’s Particle Kid) to thought-provoking soul jazz (Nina Simone) and lesser-known gems from legends like Tom Waits, Neil Young, Keith Richards, and Warren Zevon. In addition, the album features new takes on one of Willie’s oldest songs (“The Ghost” from 1962) plus a new one penned with Micah (“The Color Of Sound”) that joins Willie’s collection of Zen-soaked classics. In addition to producing, Micah Nelson plays many of the instruments and even designed the album cover. He is joined by a host of celebrated musicians plus guest spots from legendary producer and musician Daniel Lanois, John Densmore of The Doors and harmonica master Mickey Raphael, who has played alongside Willie for over 50 years.
It’s dangerous to put Illiterate Light in a box, especially with the release of their new album, Arches. Are they a guitar-driven indie rock duo? Kaleidoscopic neo-psychedelia? Synth-kissed, harmony-laden folk? What does one do with an album beginning with “fake tits and diet coke,” then pivoting to train derailments in rural Ohio and never-ending black holes? These prolific farmers-turned-rockers have captured the energy of their live shows—fans crowd-surfing, moshing, crying, and crooning—and infused it into their latest release.
“We’ve always been shape shifters, moving between heavy, dark distortion and gentle sweet fingerpicking, writing aggressive songs, introspective songs, and love songs, exploding and embracing,” reflects singer-guitarist Jeff Gorman. “Smashing it all together used to feel strange, but now there's a glue between everything we do. Our fans get it. They care less about genre. All they care about is feeling. And that’s all we care about. Are you alive or not?”
Illiterate Light’s third album, Arches, is not a passageway but an arrival. “We’re no longer striving to define a sound,” said drummer Jake Cochran. “We’re leaning into sides of ourselves that have felt off-limits, sticking to what feels right rather than concerning ourselves with comparison.” Out November 1 via Thirty Tigers, the record is bursting with thunderous anthems, biting lyrics, and lush harmonies.
The band originated in the Shenandoah Valley in 2015 when multi-instrumentalists Gorman and Cochran began playing music together while working on an organic farm. Eventually, they left the farm to focus on music, adopting the moniker Illiterate Light from a Wilco lyric. After several years of non-stop touring, they signed with Atlantic Records and released their eponymous full-length debut in late 2019. Two years later, they signed with Thirty Tigers and, in 2023, issued their critically acclaimed LP, Sunburned. Shortly after, they released two additional EPs, making Arches their fourth release in two years.
Arches was recorded in two very different locations: small-town Appalachia at Gorman’s home studio and Hollywood, CA at Sunset Sound with producer Joe Chiccarelli (The Strokes, Beck, The Killers). “We wanted the best of both worlds,” says Gorman. “We spent several days with Joe at Sunset. To record vocals in the same live room as so many of my heroes—Neil Young, Paul McCartney, Dylan—was unreal. I knew I was in a holy place.” The LA session was paired with sessions in Virginia, where Gorman and Cochran co-produced the bulk of the record with longtime collaborator Danny Gibney. In their hometown, they experimented with soaring instrumental journeys and had friends sit in on the sessions to keep things lively.
“Having our community stop by the sessions kept us on our toes—we haven’t been able to do that in the past. It helped connect us to the feeling of our live show,” recalls Cochran. Illiterate Light’s live performances, described by the Washington Post as “massive,” feature Gorman on one foot, hammering bass on a foot-pedal synth, shredding big guitar riffs, and spitting out song after song while Cochran matches Gorman harmony for harmony, dancing with his standing drum kit, teetering on the edge of the stage only to dive head first into his next solo.
Arches is the closest you can get to their live show, with heavier songs like “I Ride Alone” and “Bloodlines” encapsulating the best of the writhing, uninhibited front-row experience. The keystone of the album, “Norfolk Southern,” crashes in with Gorman belting, “Here comes the Norfolk Southern / It's off the tracks / and heading for you,” with Cochran chanting, “break, break, break, break” to the ghost of the train that derailed in 2023 in East Palestine, Ohio, releasing 10,000 gallons of hazardous materials into the atmosphere. The song also serves as a metaphor for Gorman’s own turbulent feelings. “I certainly wanted to shine a light on the environmental catastrophe. But strangely, some days I feel just like that Norfolk Southern, barreling out of control at warp speed.”
Gorman lets the lyrics take control. Showing up relentlessly, day after day, to his home studio dubbed “The Bookhouse” (a tribute to David Lynch's Twin Peaks), he can’t predict what will arise. For the album's first track, “Payphone,” the opening lyrics were a surprise to Gorman: “Fake tits and diet coke / Full of undefeated hope / You are the only one I trust.” The jangly and groovy album opener is a pep talk between a woman named Big Red and her man as he faces crippling self-doubt and is self-medicating. She comforts him during a time of despair on a phone call that continues to drop.
Another relationship study, “Montauk,” is a cold beachside dance under the full moon inspired by the central question in Gorman’s favorite movie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. “Do we go for it again—even though we're destined to fail?” he asks. “For me, the answer is a resounding yes.”
“All the Stars Are Burning Out” continues in that reflective vein. “It’s a throwback song, about getting high, going for a drive, dreaming up your future. You’re looking at that wide open black sky of bright stars, and they’re so beautiful and inspiring, and they make you want to follow your dreams. And yet all those stars eventually burn out. It’s a song about going for it even though life is impermanent and full of change,” Gorman said.
The saying goes, “arches never sleep.” Designed to distribute weight evenly, arches naturally rebalance as the structure around them shifts over time. Illiterate Light’s Arches exists within this metaphor in many ways. The album marks a period of artistic strength, a balancing act of identity and possibility. To listen to Arches is to plant yourself within the arch, to stand in the threshold between two worlds and gaze into Gorman and Cochran’s constant motion forward.
Raised in Long Beach, Lil Peep (born Gustav Åhr) launched his career through the self-release of his music online as a teenager. He garnered attention in 2015 following the success of a slew of singles and his first solo mixtapes, "Lil Peep; Part One" and "Live Forever". Over the course of two years, Peep amassed millions of fans, who connected with him through his gritty lyrics that explored themes of love, loss and loneliness. Branded "the future of emo" by Pitchfork in January 2017, Peep's genre-bending style contributed to his reputation as a pioneer of the late 2010s post-emo revival, dishing out a handful of full-lengths and several extended-plays all before the release of his debut album "Come Over When You're Sober, Pt. 1" in 2017. After his breakthrough 2016 mixtapes "Crybaby" and "Hellboy" made waves in underground circles, Peep toured the United States and Europe, walked the runways at Fashion Week and began collaborating with increasingly prominent artists between New York, Los Angeles and London throughout 2017. At the time of his death just two weeks after his 21st birthday, Peep had achieved status as one of the scene's most promising rising stars. Since his emergence in 2015, he has racked up 5 billion views on YouTube and over 20 billion streams across all platforms.
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Saves The Day's iconic album "Through Being Cool," a special edition reissue has been released, featuring a new limited embossed OCard that wraps around the original, classic packaging. This collector's edition is a tribute to a landmark album that has shaped the emo and pop-punk scenes for decades, offering fans a chance to relive the nostalgia and own a unique piece of music history.
Confessions 20th Anniversary Edition contains alternative album artwork and orchestral versions of “Burn” and “Superstar” as bonus tracks on a 2-LP black vinyl.
Music From Agatha All Along / Var
Music From Agatha All Along (Various Artists)
20th Anniversary 3xLP colored vinyl with 11 original demo tracks recorded with Forrest Kline of HELLOGOODBYE. 14 song Digital release includes 11 song demo version of “Is A Real Boy” plus for the first time released digitally the song “But A Fleeting Illness”, “Spider Song” (Paul Trust version) and “Belt” acoustic.
The best-selling & most-awarded female gospel artist of all time, CeCe Winans has long since cemented her status as one of the most accomplished & celebrated women in modern music history.
With more than one billion streams in the United States, her mantel today holds a staggering 15 GRAMMY Awards, 28 Dove Awards, 15 Stellar Awards & one Billboard Music Award.
Joyful, Joyful: A Christmas Album Is CeCe Winan’s second solo foray into music celebrating the advent. Featuring 12 songs ranging from familiar favorites to brand new originals, this album is sure to put everyone in the Christmas Spirit.
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