LP version. Ben Frost and Daníel Bjarnason are two composers used to shrugging off the distinction between experimental sound art and deeply-felt melodies. Frost's vast, blackened post-industrial works often crystallize in moments of quiet beauty before disintegrating in pure visceral noise; Bjarnason's orchestral music marries brutal modernism to classical aesthetics one moment and soaring...

Protector’s Tea is the debut solo lp from thirty-year-old Gabe Celestino, a native of the Olympic Peninsula. Despite being largely recorded in isolation over the last year with minimal gear in the drab, alienating confines of an apartment building located in the midst of an industrial zone on the outskirts of Seoul, South Korea, Celestino was nevertheless able to re-imagine his dreary living...

Dean is a local Pittsburgh area musician who is equally gifted as painter and musician. Somewhat of a wunderkind, he appeared at Garfield Artworks six years ago at the age of 15, playing his solo Devendra-esque freak-folk songs during his uncle's art opening. Over the next few years - Dean's now 21 - he's grown into a prolific visual artist, having shown a lot of his works all over town, and...

Mastered for vinyl by Nils Frahm. Cut and pressed in Berlin, Germany. Comes with 10"x10" lyric sheet/full width image. “The new album from Emphemetry features ambient swells of guitars, intimate folk songs, a string quartet, strange sounds, tape delay, reverse loops, pianos, and a haunted acappella quintet. Derby is a small city in the middle of England. About three-hundred thousand people live...

LP version. Karaoke Kalk introduces another exciting new artist to their roster. J.R.Plankton is a collaborative project by Jens Strüver and Robert Ohm. Strüver also manages the M=minimal label. His first collaboration with studio-nerd and multi-instrumentalist Robert Ohm was an hour-long radio-play/sound collage about the legendary composer Moondog, repeatedly broadcasted on German radio...

Perispirit is the duo of Ricardo Donoso and Luke Moldof and they have been haunting the Northeast of the United States for a couple of years now. After a slew of releases on Prurient's Hospital Productions label and Ricardo's own Semata Productions, Spiritual Church Movement has Perispirit taking an unexpected turn as they unleash their most cohesive and accomplished work to date. Spiritual...

The first new recordings from Windy & Carl in more than three years. Cited as "A leading light of the Michigan space-rock scene" by Allmusic, the minimalist group formed in 1993 around the core husband-and-wife duo of guitarist Carl Hultgren and bassist/singer Windy Weber. (Most of the band's pieces feature no vocals, however.) The band was prolific from the outset up to 2001, whereupon they took...

Three Lobed Recordings is exceptionally proud to bring the landmark 2004 drone epic 4/23/03 from Bardo Pond and Tom Carter to vinyl for the very first time. While both of these artists have spent decades carving out corners of the American underground, the album collects the output of a single magical day nearly a decade ago when these stalwart voices shared a lengthy day cranking out a unique...

One of the all-time classic ambient albums finally available on strictly limited edition 180 gram vinyl. The vinyl edition of Substrata is released by Geir Jenssen's own label, Biophon. It comes as a double gatefold album featuring the bonus track "Laika" (14:35). Biosphere is widely-regarded as one of the legendary names in ambient/electronic music. Residing in Norway, near the Arctic Circle, he...

"The third full length from the visionary producer/electronic musician celebrated by the likes of Flying Lotus, Prefuse 73, Gaslamp Killer and other 'new beat' scene luminaries. Deluxe 3x10" vinyl edition: records are housed in thick 'tip on' sleeves and packaged in a slipcase containing original art by Anneka Beatty. Contains an exclusive 7" single: Grimm Reality: 'Orchard-Wards/Older Modes,'...

LP version. "Public Information presents the first ever compilation of the lost work of British electronic music pioneer Frederick Charles Judd. Electronics Without Tears represents a mammoth undertaking between Public Information, film artist Ian Helliwell and F.C. Judd's widow Freda and son Peter. Trawling through his tape archives Public Information have pulled almost an hour's worth of...

LP edition with instant download in your choice of highest quality mp3, flac, or apple lossless formats. This is a preorder for the physical format but you get the download immediately. LPs, CDs, and bundles are expected to begin shipping on January 31st. Also available: Complete Bundle, CD + download, or download only. Woven Tide is the debut album by From The Mouth of The Sun, the new...

Imbodogom is the duo of Alexander Tucker and Daniel Beban. This is their second album following The Metallic Year (Thrill 245, August 2010) and Tucker's solo album Dorwytch (Thrill 265, April 2011) Imbogodom's And They Turned Not When They Went sees Alexander Tucker and Daniel Beban return to the BBC's Bush House for another nocturnal collection of pure analogue tape work. Here the musique...

Contrail comes packaged as a limited edition 7" pressed onto clear vinyl and includes a download card for the two vinyl tracks as well as two additional songs, thus creating a 4-song EP. The jacket is a heavy-weight chipboard stock printed with one PMS ink in the style of the previous 12k 7" releases. Kane Ikin (b.1982) is an Australian musician based in Melbourne. With his musical beginnings...

This is the debut album from o F F Love. Autotune, echo and reverb -- slow heart beats and minor chords -- o F F Love's music is fragile. Hidden behind a Ying Yang-print scarf and transforming his voice, o F F Love is talking from a distance. However, he couldn't be more direct than in his manner of sharing his feelings with his minimal productions and repetitions: not looking for perfection, but...

Since we first introduced Pierrot Lunaire to the world, via his mind-altering masterpiece debut, Turn Back the Hands of Time, we felt it was only right to release his first work on vinyl as well. More of a miniature album than a single, this 7” is the total manifestation of Pierrot. Leading off with a sidelong sax and electronics slow burner, Lunaire guides you gently down the rabbit hole as...

Rhyton is an experimental/improv/psych trio based in Brooklyn that features Dave Shuford (D. Charles Speer and the Helix, No Neck Blues Band), Jimy SeiTang (Psychic Ills) and Spencer Herbst (Messages, Matta Llama) Rhyton is a band with an organic genesis, born from late night rap sessions at a local Brooklyn watering hole. Heads of certain vibe gathered together to tap into the underlying flux...

This is the standard edition limited to 100 copies. This is truly a special edition of one of the most beautiful albums you are likely to hear from one of the most finely curated labels in existence today. Lets hope we see a lot more from this label. '...For the Tired And Ill At Ease...' is the cumulative result of several years of John McCaffrey's shoulder to the musical grindstone; originally a...

James Leyland Kirby returns in 2012 with his long-in-the-making soundtrack to Grant Gee's film about W.G. Sebald. Patience (After Sebald) is a multi-layered film essay on landscape, art, history, life and loss by the acclaimed documentary film-maker Grant Gee. It is an exploration of the work and influence of German writer W.G. Sebald (1944-2001), told via a long walk through coastal East Anglia...

2012 marks 20 years of Thrill Jockey. We will be celebrating by re-pressing and re-issuing many classic titles on vinyl. 1998 : Trans Am's third studio album The Surveillance is released. Out of print on vinyl for years we are happy to finally offer it again. Pressed on high quality virgin vinyl and including all original artwork - a fully artworked inner sleeve and for the first time a download...

London's Krautpop duo Walls continue their voyage to distant planets, hovering over alien continents. Starting off procedures with some trademark drone work, the title-track soon introduces a danceable beat pattern straying not too far away from what luminaries like Caribou or Animal Collective are doing to tighten up their jam sessions, but with lush vocals, succulent textures and a...

Zomes is the solo work of Asa Osborne (Lungfish, The Pupils). Improvisations follows his album Earth Grid (Thrill 267, April 2011) and 2013-3012 - his recent collaboration with The Skull Defekts and Daniel Higgs (Thrill 12.48, Nov 2011) Asa Osborne's solo guise, Zomes, is the penultimate exercise in the study of repetition and meditative repose. Simple melodic keyboard patterns overlay primitive...

Volume 2. Limited vinyl edition with bonus tracks. A bludgeoning mix of machine and vaudou/Central African percussion plus other acoustic instruments combine to create one of the most physically intense musical experiences ever. Since 2007's Whitehouse album Racket, and after his original Afro Noise mix became one of the most downloaded experimental mixes ever made, William Bennett's remarkable...

Gonjasufi’s sonic appeal is not based on one single emotion. It’s one mans soul poured out via a sound, an outlet. Each song is wrapped in it’s own sense of being, every single feeling is intertwined within his lyrics. ‘MU.ZZ.LE’ although short in it’s length, is huge on messages. Political, social and spiritual interpretations that define him as an artist. Written on the road, it was...

Juan Manuel Cidrón, from Almeria (Andalusia), is a prominent Spanish synth-player who began playing in 1985. A veteran of analog electronic sounds, his early influences were the Berlin School of the '70s (Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, etc.) and American minimal music. Cidrón has released nine albums on his own label (Extraradio) with a very limited distribution. As a child, Cidrón fell in...