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Since forming a decade ago in 2014, the $uicideboy$ have prolifically shared their distinctive fusion of rap, punk, and trap with audiences worldwide. Starting out as pioneers of the SoundCloud Rap movement, they have gone on to deliver a tremendous amount of music and have achieved over 20 billion all-time streams, placing them in the Top 100 streaming artists of all time. In 2023, they were one of Spotify’s Top Groups of 2023 and one of SoundCloud’s Top 5 Most Streamed Artists.
 
NEW WORLD DEPRESSION delves deep into a tumultuous psyche, portraying a world riddled with inner demons, existential crises, and a stark defiance of societal norms. Throughout the album, the duo navigates through themes of fame, self-destruction, and the relentless search for identity amidst chaos. Their raw, unfiltered lyrics serve as a gritty narrative of personal turmoil, substance abuse, and the struggle for authenticity in a world that often feels cold and indifferent. This album is an unapologetic exploration of the darker sides of human experience, resonating with anyone who has ever felt out of place or battled with their own shadows.
$UICIDEBOY$	 - NEW WORLD DEPRESSION	 [Coke Bottle LP]
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Alvvays are two women, three men, a crate of C-86 tapes and a love of jingle-jangle. Convening in Toronto, the group have been making music since since dusk or maybe dawn. As a result, their debut self-titled album is both sun-splashed and twilit. Recorded at Chad VanGaalen's Yoko Eno studio and mixed by Graham Walsh (Holy Fuck) and John Agnello (Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., Kurt Vile). The resultant album is loud and clear and sure. Flood your ears.
Alvvays - Alvvays [Vinyl]
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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 been better. There are newly aggressive moments here-the gleeful and snarling guitar solo at the heart of opener "Pharmacist," or the explosive cacophony near the middle of "Many Mirrors." And there are some purely beautiful spans, too-the church- organ fantasia of "Fourth Figure," or the blue-skies bridge of "Belinda Says." But the power and magic of Blue Rev stems from Alvvays' ability to bridge ostensible binaries, to fuse elements that seem antithetical in single songs-cynicism and empathy, anger and play, clatter and melody, the soft and the steely. The luminous poser kiss-off of "Velveteen," the lovelorn confusion of "Tile by Tile," the panicked but somehow reassuring rush of "After the Earthquake."In October 2021, when they arrived at a Los Angeles studio with fellow Canadian Shawn Everett, he urged them to forget the careful planning they'd done and just play the stuff, straight to tape. On the second day, they ripped through Blue Rev front-to-back twice, pausing only 15 seconds between songs and only 30 minutes between full album takes. And then, as Everett has done on recent albums by The War on Drugs and Kacey Musgraves, he spent an obsessive amount of time alongside Alvvays filling in the cracks, roughing up the surfaces, and mixing the results. This hybridized approach allowed the band to harness each song's absolute core, then grace it with texture and depth.
Alvvays - Blue Rev [Marbled Blue LP]
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Limited 180gm Light Blue vinyl LP pressing, includes digital download. American Football's original triumph, on their 1999 self-titled debut, was to reunite two shy siblings: emo and post-rock. It was a pioneering album where lyrical clarity was obscured and complicated by the stealth musical textures surrounding it. Like Slint's Spiderland, or Codeine's The White Birch, even Talk Talk's Laughing Stock, American Football asked far more questions than it cared to answer. But there wasn't a band around anymore to explain it, anyway. The three young men who made the album - Mike Kinsella, Steve Holmes, and Steve Lamos - split up pretty much on it's release. 15 years later, American Football reunited (now as a four-piece, with the addition of Nate Kinsella). They played far larger shows than in their original incarnation and recorded their long-anticipated second album, 2016's American Football (LP2). The release was widely praised, but the band members still felt like their best work was yet to come.

American Football - American Football LP3 [Limited Edition Light Blue LP]
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Aside from being one of Anamanaguchi's most streamed songs, "Miku," featuring the vocaloid pop star Hatsune Miku, is an anthem for a new type of musical icon, one that doesn't need to be attached to a physical human body. Miku, which was officially released in 2013, is a Vocaloid software voicebank developed by Crypton Future Media. Her voice is based around Japanese actress Saki Fujita and uses Yamaha Corporation's Vocaloid 2, Vocaloid 3, and Vocaloid 4 singing synthesizing technologies. Anamanaguchi wrote "Miku" with the virtual musician and were the first band to perform live alongside the Hatsune Miku hologram on the Miku Expo tour in 2016. Since then, the song has been streamed tens of millions of times around the globe and given way to several viral TikTok moments with 20K+ unique videos, signature dance moves, and millions of views. Consistently engaging their audience in both the real world and the virtual internet-sphere, Anamanaguchi has had TV performances on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and Adult Swim's Fish Center, multiple appearances at Porter Robinson's Secret Sky Fest, and co-curated one of the first major live stream events for indie musicians with the Nether Meant Festival, which was featured in the New York Times and The Washington Post. The band has also continued to stay true to a uniquely cohesive collaborative spirit, sharing tracks with artists such as HANA, Planet 1999, Flux Pavilion, Porter Robinson, Dorian Electra, Pussy Riot, Village People, and POCHI.For 2022, Polyvinyl is proud to announce the release of Miku on vinyl for the first time. The release will feature the original composition as well as 8 bonus versions of the song including remixes from LLLL, Carpainter, Ben Aqua, Mino Mino, Lazerdisk, as well as an NES version, a Japanese version, and an instrumental version.
Anamanaguchi - Miku - Teal [Colored Vinyl] [Download Included]
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Arctic Monkeys release their fifth album, entitled AM. AM was produced by James Ford and co-produced by Ross Orton at Sage & Sound Recording, LA and Rancho De La Luna, Joshua Tree. The album was engineered by Ian Shea and mixed by Tchad Blake. Josh Homme, Pete Thomas and Bill Ryder-Jones all make guest appearances on AM as do the words of John Cooper Clarke, on the track "I Wanna Be Yours."
Arctic Monkeys - AM [LP]
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Vinyl LP pressing. 2003 sophomore album from the acclaimed Alt-Rock/Blues duo.
The Black Keys - Thickfreakness [LP]
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Eric Clapton's Grammy Award winning 1992 MTV Unplugged album. Unplugged is the bestselling live album of all time with over 26M copies sold Worldwide.

Grammy-Winning 1992 Acoustic Album Reissued on Double LP!

The Best-Selling Live Album of All Time!

1993 Grammy Award Winner:

Album Of The Year: Unplugged

Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male: Unplugged

Best Rock Song: "Layla"

On January 16, 1992, 300 music fans boarded coaches in London that took them to Bray Studios, near Windsor. Little did they know music history would be made on Soundstage 1 as MTV filmed the opening episode of Unplugged's third season. It turned out to be some of the finest music ever recorded by Eric Clapton.

His bestselling album - and the bestselling live album of all time - with over 26M copies sold worldwide, Unplugged was awarded Album of the Year at the 35th Annual Grammy Awards, with Clapton also winning Best Rock Vocal Performance - Male (Unplugged) and Best Rock Song ("Layla").

ERIC CLAPTON / UNPLUGGED

Eric Clapton - Unplugged [2LP]
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2023 marks the 10th anniversary of Daft Punk multi Grammy winning hit record Random Access Memories including Get Lucky, Instant Crush, Lose Yourself To Dance and featuring Pharrell Williams, Nile Rodgers, Julian Casablancas, Paul Williams, Panda Bear and Todd Edwards. To celebrate this milestone a special expanded edition will be released including 35 minutes of unreleased music (Demo and Studio Outtakes). The triple vinyl  includes a special Lose Yourself To Dance poster + 16 page booklet.

Daft Punk - Random Access Memories: 10th Anniversary Edition [3LP]
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Death's legendary 1987 debut Scream Bloody Gore is more than just an untouchable album - upon it's release, it was positively genre-creating. Scream Bloody Gore founded the quintessential Death metal sound, with more tormented riffs, screams, and leads than the world had ever imagined, and established Chuck Schuldiner's inimitable phrasing and songwriting style as the most singular voice in the burgeoning genre. Today, the album is viewed unanimously as one of the all-time most important cornerstones of Death metal. As the final chapter in Relapse's comprehensive Death reissue series, Scream Bloody Gore will now receive the deluxe reissue treatment on a wide variety of formats including 2CD, Limited Edition 3CD, LP, Deluxe 2xLP Boxset, and cassette versions.
Death - Scream Bloody Gore [Colored Vinyl] (Red) (Viol) (Wht)
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Diamond Eyes works the way good records used to; each song carries you a little further away from your crappy day until finally, you've been transported to a place that feels a whole lot better than where you started. There's also a newfound sense of purpose that makes Deftones' sixth album stand out. The band recorded the album after their best friend and bassist Chi Cheng sustained a debilitating brain injury from a car accident in November of 2008.

The tangle of Stephen Carpenter's woozy, undulating guitar work and Moreno's soaring then secretive vocal style is the bittersweet dynamic behind each of Deftones' records, including Diamond Eyes. The friction drives the music as much as it does the players, though it doesn't always make life easy for childhood friends Carpenter and Moreno. "What makes us work?" asks Carpenter. "Chino will give you the exact opposite answer that I do. That's the way it is with us-we contradict each other constantly but it's also what makes our music what it is-intense and different."

Deftones - Diamond Eyes [LP]
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Limited double interdimensional blue colored vinyl LP pressing. A love letter to the '80s classics that captivated a generation, Stranger Things is set in 1983 Indiana, where a young boy vanishes into thin air. As friends, family and local police search for answers, they are drawn into an extraordinary mystery involving top-secret government experiments, terrifying supernatural forces and one very strange little girl. Lakeshore Records has partnered with UK's Invada Records founded by Geoff Barrow to press and release Stranger Things Vol. 1 Soundtrack (composed by S U R V I V E's Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein) on vinyl for a release date in October 2016 just in time for Halloween.
Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein - Stranger Things, Vol. 1 (A Netflix Original Series Soundtrack) [Interdimensional Blue 2LP]
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Billie Eilish’s third studio album, "HIT ME HARD AND SOFT", released via Darkroom/Interscope Records is her most daring body of work to date, a diverse yet cohesive collection of songs— ideally listened to in its entirety from beginning to end—does exactly as the album title suggests; hits you hard and soft both lyrically and sonically, while bending genres and defying trends along the way. With the help of her brother and sole collaborator, FINNEAS, the pair wrote, recorded, and produced the album together in their hometown of Los Angeles. This album comes on the heels of her two massively successful albums “WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP WHERE DO WE GO?" and "Happier Than Ever" and works to further develop the world of Billie Eilish.

The vinyl is made with recyclable compound, collecting all first run scraps to re-use for additional runs later. All vinyl packaging is made from FSC® certified recycled paper/boards made 100% from post-consumer waste and recycled pre-consumer fibers. The ink used is raw plant-based and water-based dispersion varnish. In place of shrink-wrap, the sleeves are 100% recycled and re-usable. For shipping, all finished goods are packaged and shipped to depots in up to 93% recycled and 100% recyclable shipping boxes.

Billie Eilish - HIT ME HARD AND SOFT [Recycled Black LP]
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Vinyl LP pressing. 2017 release from the blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. Fish recorded Belle of the West in the relaxed, rural creative atmosphere of the legendary Zebra Ranch Studios in the North Hills of Mississippi with producer Luther Dickinson (of North Mississippi Allstars fame), with whom she worked previously on her 2015 album Wild Heart. The studio team included some of the region's most iconoclastic musicians, including Dickinson, solo artist and Jack White associate Lillie Mae, much-traveled juke-joint blues artist Lightnin' Malcolm, Squirrel Nut Zippers founder Jimbo Mathus, upright bassist and beloved solo artist Amy LaVere, Tikyra Jackson, Trina Raimey and Shardé Thomas, granddaughter of the legendary Southern bluesman Otha Turner.
Samantha Fish - Belle Of The West [LP]
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Vinyl LP pressing. 2013 album from the BMA Winner for Best New Blues Artist 2012. Produced by Mike Zito, the album features musical assistance from Charlie Wooton, Yonrico Scott and Zito from Royal Southern Brotherhood.
Samantha Fish - Black Wind Howlin
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Vinyl Pressing. 2014 album from the rapper and producer. Freddie Gibbs is the product of violent, drug-laden streets but unlike most rappers with similar resumes, he brings the block to the booth without inhibition or an exaggerated rap persona. PINATA, a 17 track collaboration with producer Madlib, is the best distillation yet of his transparent approach to making music, combining an at times stark honesty with electrifying talent as a lyricist and performer. PINATA is 'a gangster Blaxploitation film on wax,' says Gibbs, who came up on the streets of Gary, Indiana, the disregarded city previously best known for producing Michael Jackson. Here he is joined by Mac Miller, Earl Sweatshirt, Raekwon, Scarface, Domo Genesis, Ab-Soul and a host of others in setting his soliloquies of the streets alongside film snippets and dusted Funk, Soul and Progressive musical tapestries.
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Pinata [Vinyl]
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180-Gram Black Vinyl in a Gatefold Jacket. Includes 3 bonus tracks. Champaign, Illinois band Hum is re-issuing it's four-album catalog on vinyl with exclusive distribution by Polyvinyl Records. The band members oversaw every step of the re-mastering, lacquer cutting, and manufacturing stages while working with original designer Andy Mueller/Ohio Girl in updating the artwork. Each album is offered in a double-LP 180g set in black.Electra 2000 (1993 - 12-Inch Records, Champaign, IL)Recorded and mixed by Brad Wood at Idful Studio, Chicago, IL.Re-mastered by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound, Nashville. Offered in black 180g double LP at 45 rpm.You'd Prefer an Astronaut (1995 - RCA Records)Recorded and mixed by Keith Cleversley at The Playground, Chicago, IL.Licensed from Sony Music and re-mastered by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound, Nashville.Offered in black 180g double LP at 45 rpm.Downward is Heavenward (1998 - RCA Records)Recorded by Mark Rubel at Pogo Studio, Champaign, IL. Mixed by Brian Malouf at Pacifique, LA.Licensed from Sony Music and re-mastered by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound, New York.Offered in black double LP at 33 1/3 rpm. Includes B-sides.Inlet (2020 - Earth Analog Records)Recorded by Matt, Tim Lash, and James Treichler at Earth Analog, Tolono, IL. Mixed by Tim Lash at ELL.Mastered by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound, Nashville.Offered in black 180g double LP at 33 1/3 rpm.All records manufactured at Record Technology, Inc., Camarillo, CA. On a personal note, we remain grateful and humbled by the ongoing interest in our music from fans old and new. Sincerest thanks for the decades of support and kindness. -Hum
Hum - Downward Is Heavenward (Bonus Tracks) (Gate) [180 Gram]
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Last Chance To Make Amends (Indie Exclusive, Colored Vinyl, Red) Artist: Ice Nine Kills GENRE: Heavy Metal!!!!!!!
Ice Nine Kills - Last Chance To Make Amends [Colored Vinyl] (Red) [Indie Exclusive]
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ICE NINE KILLS - Safe Is Just A Shadow (Indie Exclusive, Colored Vinyl, Silver) Artist: Ice Nine Kills GENRE: Heavy Metal!!!!!!!
Ice Nine Kills - Safe Is Just A Shadow (Re-Shadowed And Re-Recorde)
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Limited 180gm colored vinyl LP pressing. The second full-length album from Australian singer/songwriter Julia Jacklin, Crushing embodies every possible meaning of it's title word. It's an album formed from sheer intensity of feeling, an in-the-moment narrative of heartbreak and infatuation. And with her storytelling centered on bodies and crossed boundaries and smothering closeness, Crushing reveals how our physical experience of the world shapes and sometimes distorts our inner lives. The follow-up to her 2016 debut Don't Let the Kids Win, Crushing finds Jacklin continually acknowledging what's expected of her, then gracefully rejecting those expectations. As a result, the album invites self-examination and a possible shift in the listener's way of getting around the world - an effect that has everything to do with Jacklin's openness about her own experience.
Julia Jacklin - Crushing [Limited Edition Green LP]
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Double vinyl LP pressing. Seeing it's first-ever U.S vinyl release is October 1997's The Velvet Rope (10x platinum worldwide). It will include on LP for the first time "Can't Be Stopped," which was previously only made available as a hidden track on CD and digital versions of the album and also features the hit singles "Got Till It's Gone", "Together Again" and "I Get Lonely".
Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope
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16 of Journey’s most beloved recordings on 2 LP’s. Features the all-time favorites “Don’t Stop Believin’”, “Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)”, “Who’s Crying Now” and “Any Way You Want It”. Remastered from the original stereo master tapes and pressed on 180-gram audiophile vinyl.

Journey - Greatest Hits: Remastered [2LP]
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Limited 140gm vinyl LP pressing in gatefold sleeve. 2004 album from the Norwegian folk-pop duo. The title of their groundbreaking album Quiet Is The New Loud was a virtual mantra for the European Music Press and the band helped define and reinstate a timeless sound After first earning notice thanks to a series of acclaimed European festival appearances during the summer of 1999, the Norway-based indie pop duo comprised of Erik Glambek Boe and Erlend Oye quickly became the standard bearers for the turn of the century acoustic movement.
Kings Of Convenience - Riot On An Empty Street [Vinyl]
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Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. Blue Note Tone Poet Series. Recorded in 1967, Oblique is one of two quartet sessions the great vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson recorded for Blue Note. Released in 1979, features Herbie Hancock (piano), Joe Chambers (drums) and Albert Stinson (bass). An incredible journey from bops to exploratory sonic poems, with standouts like breezy opener "'Til Then," Hancock's tremendous "Theme From Blow Up" and Chambers' adventurous "Oblique".
Bobby Hutcherson - Oblique (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) [180 Gram]
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Last Dinosaurs has found a rhythmic succession over the last decade, one that's plucked them out of Australia, pulled them through the eye of the European needle, off to write in ancient Japanese ghost towns, onto America's most iconic stages, and somehow grounded them in the middle of a sacred loophole - a ring of fire, really - that few artists find.They call it a loophole because it hasn't been linear, it hasn't been promoted, it hasn't been announced and popularized and pushed through the press. Blame it on the Latino and Asian kids streaming the sh*t out of their trifecta of indie-rock records or the internet's international party knuckles banging at their digital door 24/7, but Last Dinosaurs are erupting. They've all felt it onstage and backstage in every sold-out sanctuary of sound they have ripped through.
Last Dinosaurs - Yumeno Garden (Blue) [Colored Vinyl] (Pnk) (Ylw)
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Superior Viaduct and our new artist label, W.25th, are proud to continue to be the home for Cindy Lee with the physical release of the celebrated album Diamond Jubilee. Universally praised, shortlisted for the 2024 Polaris Music Prize, and already hailed by Pitchfork as the 3rd best album of the 2020s, anticipation and conversation around the record has been high. Cindy Lee is the performance and songwriting vehicle of Patrick Flegel (who previously fronted influential indie group Women). Over several albums, Flegel has combined delicate melodies and sheer beauty with moments of experimentation. With Diamond Jubilee, Flegel's undeniable songcraft comes to the foreground, embracing a more instant connection and accessibility. Timeless tales of love and longing, surrounded by sticky hooks, take the listener on an unforgettable journey. Diamond Jubilee was written and recorded over several years by Patrick Flegel in Toronto, Durham, Calgary and Montreal at Realistik Studios. The album was mixed by Steven Lind, who also contributes to several tracks and co-wrote "Baby Blue," and was mastered by Joshua Stevenson. Triple LP on black vinyl comes with 24" x 36" poster. "Each song like a foggy transmission from a rock 'n' roll netherworld with it's ghostly canon of beloved hits." -Pitchfork "Their masterwork, beamed down from another world, will always feel out of time and, therefore, feel at home in any given moment." -Paste "Top album and song of the year so far... a legit timeless psych-pop masterpiece." -Gorilla Vs Bear "The word of mouth album of the year." -The Guardian "Intimate, serendipitous magic... Diamond Jubilee is not merely a piece of art, it's the entire exhibition." -Stereogum "The greatest thing to happen to lo-fi pop in like a decade." -The Needle Drop "An artist operating at the peak of their powers who is able to harness and crystallize all that potency and charge into a record." -Uncut
Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee
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Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin began their musical journey together over 10 years ago in a Miami after-school music program. Connecting through their shared music tastes, the two formed a band that endured until the two parted ways for college. Not long afterward, Tenenbaum and Lewin reconnected and formed what we now know as the indie-pop duo Magdalena Bay.

The duo released their EP truly moments before the pandemic pervaded through North America, bringing their tour to an abrupt end. Resiliency illustrated at its peak, Magdalena Bay dipped their heads into a focused timeline, coming out of the pandemic with their debut album, Mercurial World. Magdalena Bay peruses the sound of experimental pop, crafting a synthy world that shatters genres and bends time to the pair’s will, elevating their sound to match their philosophical reflections. Lewin shared, “We spend all of our time together, and in some ways Mercurial World is about that particular sense of madness in containment. We live together and make art together; this immerses you in our creative, insular universe.”

Magdalena Bay - Mercurial World -  [LP]
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Executive produced with hitmaker Ryan Tedder (Taylor Swift, Beyonce), THINK LATER and it's songsare steeped in pop appeal and infectious toplines. Showcasing Tate's boundless vocal talent and evolution as a songwriter, this new body of work explores the all-too-relatable feelings of falling in love and embracing the raw emotions that you experience as a result of leading with your intuition and heart.

Tate McRae - THINK LATER [LP]
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Limited picture disc vinyl LP pressing. The Black Parade, My Chemical Romance's follow-up to it's 2004 platinum major-label debut Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge, "is way more dramatic, way more theatrical, completely over the top, borderline psychotic," says Gerard Way. "It's the most pure, intense thing we've ever been involved in." Producer by Rob Cavallo (Green Day), the album is a celebration of love and death and darkness. Join The Black Parade.
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade [Picture Disc LP]
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Iconic and foundational bands in the history of alternative music certainly include Bauhaus, Love And Rockets, and Violent Femmes. San Francisco born artist Darwin Meiners was a fan of all three. A chance meeting 13 years ago with David J (Bauhaus, Love & Rockets) grew into a friendship, and Darwin not only became a bandmate, but David J's manager. After reaching out to Victor DeLorenzo through e-mail, Darwin met the Violent Femmes drummer after the Femmes' Coachella set in 2013. Soon after the three collaborated on Darwin's 2014 release Souvenir.As the pandemic took hold, Darwin was looking for a new project to occupy the lock-down time and approached Victor, who was keen to proceed and suggested that David join as well. The musical trust established between these three was immediate and Night Crickets were born.
Night Crickets - How It Ends [Colored Vinyl]
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