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The Portrait You Painted Of Me
2025 stock Black vinyl. Here we have the third solo LP by London's Alison Cotton, following on previous successes, All Quiet at the Ancient Theatre (FTR 424LP, 2019) and Only Darkness Now (FTR 564LP, 2020). And as with each of Cotton's projects it is a stylistic advance as well as another example of her dark signature sound. Alison's work with bands is well documented by recordings with Saloon, 18th Day of May, Trimdon Grange Explosion, and her current, ecstatic folk/psych duo, The Left Outsides…
La Proyección
“La Proyección”, the debut LP by Jose María Lluch, architect and musician from San Sebastian, appears as a transition, a gradual shift that happened over time. Intimate and innocent, disconnected and erratic at times, the 11 compositions presented here are extracted from recordings spanning 9 years, between 2015-2024. Humbly assorted in his home studio, the music here is for letting your mind drift. The processes of composition, recording, and editing intertwine. Field recordings from daily chor…
Around Here, The Birds Plant The Trees
A blackbird at dawn inspired a living score: Natalia Beylis’ work, ‘Around Here, The Birds Plant The Trees’, is a 52-minute longform journey about land stewardship grown from the sounds and textures of a single field in Leitrim, Ireland. This recording of 'Around Here, The Birds Plant The Trees' captures the piece as it existed on Friday 12 December 2025. I mention a specific date, because the score for this work is constantly shifting and provides a new variation each time it is played, echoing…
Salos
Haunting Lithuanian folk songs and luminous choral frames, Merope’s Salos folds ancient melody into a modern hush. Centered on Indrė Jurgelevičiūtė’s lead voice and the Vilnius chamber choir, the suite drifts through seven pristine scenes folk, minimalism, and subtle electronics yielding an intimate, non-sentimental pastoral that rewards close listening.
Halfway to a Threeway
It seems like it was only a few months ago that Jim O’Rourke changed everything with the release of the incredible Eureka. And if you actually think that, then by George, you’re the Rip van Winkle of 90s rock! It hasn’t even been a few months since Jim’s twin comebacks The Visitor and Simple Songs, his most recent albums in the mold of his classic “pop music” trilogy of Bad Timing, Eureka, and Insignificance. Those two are thirteen and seven years behind us already! O’Rourke freak or not, if you…
Gwethilu: Songs For The Dark Lake
On Gwethilu: Songs For The Dark Lake, Timoteo Carbone Hansson builds an otherworldly song‑cycle where experimental timbres, early‑medieval polyphony and Nordic folk roots swirl together into slow, haunted rituals of rhythm and drone.
God Spill
On God Spill, Victoria Mingot drags folk guitar through faulty circuitry and hissed devotion, stacking rough improvisations, blurred vocals and glitched drones into a slow, translucent act of repair where presence and disappearance keep trading places.
An Afternoon With Victor Dimisich
Big Tip!  This is one for the faithful. An Afternoon With Victor Dimisich gathers a set of recordings that until now existed only as rumour - an unearthed afternoon from the legendary pre-Flying Nun underground of Christchurch, New Zealand, surfacing more than four decades after it was first committed to tape, and never issued in any form before now. The Victor Dimisich Band took shape in 1980, when Stephen Cogle and Peter Stapleton broke away from Bill Direen's Vacuum to follow their own songwr…
Tinderbox
On Tinderbox, Myer U Clark leans into what he calls “musical jank”: loose‑limbed indie‑folk where wiry guitars, Harold‑and‑Maude whimsy and ghosts of English folk and Delta blues wrap around love songs that stumble, blush, and somehow land on their feet.
Long Live Brown Wimpenny
On Long Live Brown Wimpenny, Brown Wimpenny turn the folk revival into a street‑level commons: an 11‑piece, multi‑city collective collapsing the gap between stage and floor with roaring, communal takes on songs that belong to everyone and no one.
Remscéla
Milkweed’s new album draws from ‘The Táin’ Irish epic, mixing “Slacker Trad” with global sounds. Critically acclaimed, their music merges Appalachian folk, hauntology, and experimentation.
A Mistake by Mistakes
*Coming in a hand made & screen printed box* Hey, did I ever tell you about that time when things are going ok. When the music is never over, and stars are crushing down on you. Since I was little, I come to this music store every chance I got. I sneak in through the alley. I still make this trip a lot. Some weeks ago, during a trip, they played this “A Mistake by Mistakes” cassette tape compilation, out on that enigmatic Berlin, Neukölln based label Kashual Plastik. Sick folk-not-folk-modern-fo…
Aguirre Bundle (3LP Bundle)
A three-LP bundle gathering the latest Aguirre reissues from two corners of contemporary folk and experimental music, offered together at a reduced price. Two of the records belong to Brannten Schnüre, the Würzburg duo of Christian Schoppik and Katie Rich, who have spent more than a decade building a singular world at the borders of dark folk, musique concrète, ambient, and narrative conceptualism. Sommer im Pfirsichhain, the summer panel originally issued in 2015, and Geträumt hab ich vom Marti…
Stella Kola
Originally self-released in 2023, Stella Kola, the debut album from Beverly Ketch (Jow Jow, Weeping Bong Band) and Robert Thomas (Sunburned Hand of the Man, Dalthom), now returns in a renewed edition - bringing wider attention to a record that already felt like a quietly essential artifact from the moment it first appeared.Given the pair’s respective roots - and the presence of collaborators drawn from across the Northeast experimental underground - one might expect “a brutal blast of acid swirl…
Sommer Im Pfirsichhain
Last copies...Second edition of 500 on transparent red vinyl. Brannten Schnüre is an experimental dark folk group out of Würzburg, Germany. Christian Schoppik composed and played all the music, Katie Rich whispers, recites and sings. Together they make astoundingly beautiful folk with a rich instrumentation leaning towards the atonal spectrum. Instrumental wanderings stand alongside Nico-esque poetry tales. Christian plays the accordeon and in some songs guitar and flute. Inspired by hierophants…
Geträumt Hab Ich Vom Martinszug
Second edition of 500 on transparent green vinyl. The third stanza of Friedrich Hölderlin’s poem ‘Dem sonnengott’ evokes a narrator who is tortured by Spleen until slumber makes his childlike gloom disappear with music. Although today’s readers might judge these nineteenth century musings of the Imagination as mere stylistic platitudes, they also still speak beyond the grave as universal truths. A mere two hundred years later, similar anxieties and hopes are still channeled through various art f…
Brigitte Fontaine (LP)
2000 re-issue on Saravah of the fantastic 1971 experimental avant-chanson album by one of the most original French artists since the 1960's. Masterpiece on the NWW list.
Je Ne Connais Pas Cet Homme (LP)
1991 re-issue on Saravah of the excellent 1971 avant-chanson/folk album by two of the most original French artists since the 1960's. NWW list.
Inside The Dream (LP)
1978 re-issue on Tapioca of one of the masterpieces originally on Pôle Records (Besombes/Rizet, Henri Roger, Pataphonie, Mahogany Brain, Verto... all on the NWW list), a beautiful otherworldly album of cosmic electronic folk and pulsing synthesizer soundscapes from 1975.
Moondog In Europe
Originally released in 1977, Moondog In Europe was visionary composer Moondog’s first release after moving from NYC to Germany. Regarded as reflecting the historicity of his new environment, the album is more structured and formal than most of his previous releases; however, his layered song-cycles are just as circular and experimental, and still backed by a fair amount of tribal percussion. “Viking I” opens the album with Moondog’s solo celesta playing and retains the quirk and charm of his pre…
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