New Arrivals / Today
Gold Is The Metal With The Broadest Shoulders
The "Gold Is The Metal With The Broadest Shoulders" LP by Coil is released on Mute. Originally issued in 1987, the album is not a conventional studio album but a collection of outtakes, demos, and interim versions from the sessions for "Scatology," "Horse Rotorvator," and the Hellraiser contributions, functioning as a documentary in-between space within the band’s body of work.
Musically, the record operates in the tension between experimental electronics, dark ambient aesthetics, and industrial…
KKAARREENNIINNAA
On KKKAAARRREEENNNIIINNNAAA, Charlemagne Palestine, Oren Ambarchi and Daniel O’Sullivan turn a 1997 “magic song” for a beloved dog’s spirit into a towering trio ritual. Organ drones, phase‑drifting cassette voices, Leslie‑swirled guitar and viola blooms coil around Palestine’s keening live chant, forming a single, dense, ecstatic invocation that feels like a séance conducted inside a vibrating cathedral.
Mystical Obscurant
Across four decades, Andrew Chalk has built one of experimental music's most singular bodies of work. Mystical Obscurant gathers new recordings into a survey in miniature — drifting guitars, blurred keys, and loop-based vignettes sharing one unmistakable atmosphere: a subjunctive music of suggestion, where memory unfolds at its own pace.
Ys
Joanna Newsom's 2006 masterpiece returns on double LP: five sprawling songs where harp and voice meet Van Dyke Parks' orchestral grandeur, recorded by Steve Albini, mixed by Jim O'Rourke. Named for a drowned Breton city, Ys remains overwhelming
