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Bon Iver: For Emma Forever Ago

Pronounced "bohn eevair; French for "good winter" and spelled wrong deliberately. This debut is centered around a particular aesthetic; Justin Vernon, the primary force behind Bon Iver, moved to a remote cabin in the woods of Northwestern Wisconsin at...

$24.98

Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend

This NY four-piece draw on their diverse backgrounds and interests, experimenting with African guitar music, the Western classical canon, hazy memories of Cape Cod summers, winters in upper Manhattan, and reggaeton. "Equal parts shruggy New York indie strumming and...

$28.98

Bon Iver: Bon Iver

Bon Iver, Bon Iver is Justin Vernon returning to former haunts with a new spirit. The reprises are there solitude, quietude, hope and desperation compressed but always a rhythm arises, a pulse vivified by gratitude and grace notes. The...

$24.98

She & Him: A Very She & Him Christmas

A VERY SHE & HIM CHRISTMAS is a wonderful collection of holiday tunes from two of musics most impressive artists Zooey Deschanel (She) & M. Ward (Him). Inspired by seminal holiday albums by the likes of the Carpenters, Vince...

$22.98

Arctic Monkeys: Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I Am Not

Vinyl LP. U.S. pressing. Released with a printed inner sleeve. Blazing out of high school obscurity to the top of the charts, The Arctic Monkeys built a huge internet following before releasing their first full-length album in 2006. "Whatever...

$27.98

Neutral Milk Hotel: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Named Best Album of the 1990s by Magnet Magazine, Aeroplane gives US Jeff Mangum's powerful solo acoustic work, full horn-section marches, history, religion, & sex - everything you hoped for and more! Now available on high quality 180 gm...

$20.15

Wilco: Cousin

Wilco’s thirteenth studio album, Cousin, was recorded in the band’s legendary Chicago studio – The Loft – over a period of two years. The ten new tracks are written by band leader Jeff Tweedy and feature musical performances by the...

$26.88

Foster the People: Torches

Produced by Paul Epworth (Adele, Florence And the Machine), Rich Costey (Muse, Interpol) and Greg Kurstin (Beck, Red Hot Chilli Peppers), the debut album from Foster the People features the hit song "Pumped Up Kicks".

$24.94

The Shins: Wincing the Night Away

Their third album is the sound of a band growing up and out. James Mercer's infectious, indelible melodic style is still at the core, but on various songs he also channels a Morrissey vibe, pairs a hip-hop beat with...

$24.98

Fleet Foxes: Helplessness Blues

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 Van Morrison's ASTRAL WEEKS in particular, HELPLESSNESS BLUES sees...

$29.98

Alvvays: Blue Rev - Blue

Limited blue colored vinyl LP pressing. Alvvays' third album, the nervy joyride that is the compulsively lovable Blue Rev, doesn't simply reassert what's always been great about Alvvays but instead reimagines it. They have, in part and sum, never...

$27.98

Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Cool It Down

Vinyl LP pressing. 2022 release. It could only be called alchemy, the transformative magic that happens during the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' most tuned-in moments in the studio, when their unique chemistry sparks opens a portal, and out comes a...

$26.98

Iron & Wine: Creek Drank the Cradle

Iron and Wine is the one guy and his tape deck project of Samuel Beam. It's an ode to an older South, defined by traditional values, pastoral imagery, and arcane manners. Beam teaches cinematography at a local Miami college,...

$24.98

The Flaming Lips: Transmissions from the Satellite Heart

Originally released in 1993, The Flaming Lips Transmissions From the Satellite Heart is now available on vinyl.

$27.44

Iron & Wine: The Shepherd's Dog

Iron and Wine's last release (not including the collaborative in the Reins EP which featured songs by Iron and Wine's Sam Beam and performances by both Iron and Wine and Calexico together) was 2005's Woman King, a 6-song EP...

$24.98

The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin

Originally released in 1999, The Flaming Lips THE SOFT BULLETIN is now available on vinyl.

$39.98

Tame Impala: Innerspeaker

Tame Impala are a rainbow sandstorm of stoned riffage, mind bending melody and blissed out adventurism from the most isolated city in the world who echo the lighter side of Cream, Blue Cheer and Kyuss. This is the band's...

$34.74

Alt-J: An Awesome Wave

Vinyl LP pressing. Alt-J are a four piece that met while attending Leeds University in the UK. They signed to Infectious Records (Temper Trap, Local Natives) for Europe and the rest of the world before signing with Canvasback/ Atlantic...

$26.88

The Decemberists: The Crane Wife

Double vinyl LP pressing. The Decemberists' album, "The Crane Wife," is thematically based on a tragic Japanese folk tale, but band leader Colin Meloy promises a fair dose of rock n' roll, rape, murder and violence as well. The...

$35.53

Magnetic Fields: The Charm Of The Highway Strip

Originally released in 1994, this was the Magnetic Fields' Merge debut and fourth full-length. Presented here on HQ 180-gram vinyl with beautiful artwork and full art Euro-sleeve insert, this marks the classic record's first appearance in LP format. Ten...

$22.98

The War on Drugs: Future Weather

The War on Drugs is once again at the blurred edges of American music: overexposing studio limitations, piling tape upon tape to maximum density, and then with each song they pull off the scaffolding to reveal what sticks, keeping...

$20.98

The War on Drugs: Slave Ambient

On their debut, the life-affirming Wagonwheel Blues, and the follow-up EP, Future Weather, The War on Drugs seemed obsessed with disparate ideas, with building uncompromised rock monuments from pieces that may have seemed like odd pairs. Electronic and instrumental...

$25.98

Bright Eyes: I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning

Vinyl LP pressing. "The first three are innocent in a way, because we didn't have an audience when we were making them," Oberst says. "But from Lifted on, I was definitely aware of an audience. Lifted was well-received right...

$24.98

Band of Horses: Cease to Begin

Vinyl LP. Loud, understated indie rock is the hallmark of Band of Horses. Their melancholy approach to music drew high praise from fans and critics on 2007's album "Cease to Begin." It is a carefully crafted album that worked...

$24.98

The Tallest Man on Earth: Shallow Grave

The Tallest Man on Earth released one of 2008's most powerful records, one that Pitchfork praised, calling Kristian Matsson "a natural-born folksinger, earnest, clever, and comforting." Shallow Grave could not have been more simple, just Matsson's commanding vocals with...

$22.25

Beach House: Bloom

BLOOM is the fourth full length album by Beach House. BLOOM is meant to be experienced as an Album, a singular, unified vision of the world. The many layers of BLOOM are uncomplicated and meticulously constructed to ensure there...

$29.98

Owen: I Do Perceive (On Black-in-Cloudy-Clear Vinyl)

Also, can we use this description: In the years since it's release, American Football's self-titled debut full-length has quietly become one of the most fiercely beloved titles in the Polyvinyl catalog. Though the trio - Mike Kinsella (Cap'n Jazz,...

$24.98

Bon Iver: Blood Bank

This four-song collection continues down the path forged by 2008's critically acclaimed "For Emma, Forever Ago". Bon Iver's snow-blanketed harmonies live across the seasons. As much as "Emma" is about the cold, "Blood Bank" is about the warmth that...

$20.98

Sufjan Stevens: Michigan

Composed as a geographical tone poem, MICHIGAN follows a metaphysical expedition through the idiosyncrasies of middle America.

$31.98

Japandroids: Celebration Rock

Vinyl LP pressing. This is the long-awaited, follow up to 2009's Post-Nothing. Celebration Rock is well balanced with a much bigger sound and showcases the band's growth as songwriters. Songs like "Evil's Sway" and "The House That Heaven Built"...

$26.98

Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven

After two years of constant touring and near-unanimous critical acclaim, Godspeed You Black Emperor! Assembled a collection of new recordings that charted the creative evolution of the band as well as it's literal physical movement on the road, criss-crossing...

$29.98

Arctic Monkeys: Suck It and See

Light and airy, filmic but intimate, carefully arranged but deceptively powerful, SUCK IT AND SEE is Arctic Monkeys fourth album. Recorded at Sound City Studios in Los Angeles with long-time producer/ collaborator James Ford, it has a summery pop...

$27.98

Iron & Wine: Around the Well

This double CD/triple LP collects songs ranging from out-of-print to never-before-released and spans Iron And Wine's earliest sessions which yielded the band's debut (2002's "The Creek Drank the Cradle") through material recorded for 2007's "The Shepherd's Dog". The double...

$34.98

Phoenix: It's Never Been Like That

Vinyl LP pressing. 2006 release, the third album from the French indie rock band, who rose to prominence when their track, 'Too Young' (from their debut album, United), was featured on the soundtrack to Lost in Translation.

$27.44

Wilco: Sky Blue Sky

Wilco's first studio album in three years, Sky Blue Sky, has been perhaps the most ardently awaited release of '07. Eager fans had taken to shouting out pleas for information to bandleader Jeff Tweedy during his recent solo acoustic...

$39.98

Wilco: Wilco [The Album] [Bonus CD]

Vinyl LP with CD. While many suspected this self-titled album to be seen as some sort of reintroduction for the band-perhaps a return to the experimentalism of "Yankee Foxtrot Hotel"-the album actually seems like a direct successor of the...

$31.11

Volcano Choir: Unmap

Following the breakthrough success of 2008's 'For Emma, Forever Ago', Justin Vernon (better known to the world as Mr Bon Iver) is back as part of VOLCANO CHOIR. a collaboration between Vernon and fellow Wisconsin rockers, Collections of Colonies...

$22.98

Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Yeah Yeah Yeahs

45 RPM self-released EP on 12-inch vinyl. This five-song long EP is the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' first production, and it set the groundwork for what would go on to become one of the most beloved alternative rock bands from...

$20.50

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