Fruits of Patience
Born from a shared love of Aerial M, Lung Fish and other contemplative, cyclical and slow moving rock music from the Chicago and Louisville scenes, Fire Nearby are a guitar duo exploring long-form automatic song writing for the autumn season. Althoug…
The Yellow Box
As trans-Atlantic alchemists pulling from a shared dialectic that somehow encompassed both postmodern deconstructionist tendencies and a delightfully subversive sense of poptimism, it’s easy to see how David Cunningham and Peter Gordon immediately hi…
Enter The Misanthropocene
Abhorrent Expanse thrives on contradictions and draws strength from the muddled wastes between firm stylistic distinctions. The group conjures harrowing visions of the descent into true hysteria, abstracting the familiar hallmarks of extreme metal in…
Forgetting is Violent
Forgetting is Violent, Patrick Shiroishi’s latest solo LP, is his most immediate release yet, expanding the scope not just of his music but of his extramusical considerations. Where his past releases on American Dreams reckoned with racism against Ja…
Songs and Bodies
'Songs and Bodies' is best described as hypnagogic post-rock, an impressionistic blur of dissociated riffs, jazzy rhythms and half-heard voices that casts a beguiling digital silhouette of '90s indie music. The album began as a personal experiment, a…
Model Express
Cindy Lee, the performance and songwriting vehicle of Canadian artist Patrick Flegel (who fronted influential indie group Women earlier), previously stunned listeners with Act Of Tenderness, a heart-wrenching statement informed by the noirish core of…
Act Of Tenderness
Cindy Lee is the diva alter-ego of singer / guitarist / drag queen Patrick Flegel, the one-time captain of heralded Canadian experimental guitar pop act, Women. In Flegel's working on / as Cindy Lee exclusively over recent years, their songwriting ma…
Dead Right
Officer!, an English interjection used to address a police officer, a "bobby" in London, to ask for directions, information, or help. And perhaps, since the 1980s, this word might have taken on a certain authority, aggression, with several exclamatio…
Mama Killa
Guitarist Ava Mendoza, violinist gabby fluke-mogul, anddrummer Carolina Pérez release their debut album, MamaKilla, named for the Inca goddess of the moon. Mama Killaoffers eight tracks of high-volume, riff-based guitar-violinimprovisation bolstered …
Summer Fun - Music for Hotels Vol. 2
The compilation "Return to Acapulco - Music for Hotels Vol. 1", curated by Vittore Baroni and released in the summer of 2024, collected 16 songs created by as many musicians as a soundtrack for the different areas of a typical seaside hotel structure…
Edificio
*300 copies limited edition* Edificio is the debut album from Diles Que No Me Maten, one of Mexico’s most vital underground bands known for their raw, hypnotic fusion of krautrock, post-punk, industrial textures, and poetic spoken word. Originally re…
Hold Onto I.D.
Recorded from late 1996 through early 1997, Hold Onto I.D., The Shadow Ring’s fourth album, marks the apogee of the trio’s experimental rock epoch—their last record clinging to their factitious bandness before they let all song and structure go awash…
Wax-Work Echoes
Wax-Work Echoes, The Shadow Ring’s 1996 album, marks a shift to original material and features Tim Goss in the main lineup. Fusing atmospheric soundscapes and wry lyricism, it captures the band’s restless energy. Out of print for decades, it now retu…
The Serpentine Similar
The Serpentine Similar, the seminal debut studio album from American experimental rock innovators Gastr del Sol, is now available on Drag City. Originally released in 1993 by TeenBeat Records and reissued by Drag City in 1997, this album marks a pivo…
Crookt, Crackt Or Fly
Drag City is proud to announce the reissue of “Crookt, Crackt, or Fly,” the groundbreaking album by avant-garde duo Gastr del Sol. Originally released in 1994, this record stands as a landmark in experimental and post-rock music, now remastered and a…
Oganesson Remixes
The Oganesson Remixes EP follows the March 2025 release of the “Oganesson” digital single, which was the first new music released by Tortoise since 2016. The EP includes the original version of “Oganesson” alongside five new remixes of the track crea…
The Mule Peasants Revolt Of 12,067
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Historically Fucked—four Manchester-based musicians—create eruptive, improvisational rock, blending voices, guitar, bass, and drums. Their album, “The Mule Peasants’ Revolt of 12,067,” fuses avan…
If Your Mirror Breaks
In true ‘Ex fashion’, If Your Mirror Breaks picks up where 27 Passports left off, and erupts like a musical short story collection, a ten-part series of surrealist daydreams, calls to action, ominous warnings and bursts of vitality tapped into the pu…
Spare Beauty
Spittle Records is proud to announce the reissue of Chance Operation’s seminal sophomore release, Spare Beauty. Originally issued in 1982 as a double 7” on Jeep Records, this sought-after EP makes its long-awaited debut on 12” vinyl, reintroducing fo…