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*300 copies limited edition* Catholics Against Architecture is the name Chris Connelly has given this project that here collects twelve songs crafted from sonic collages, spoken word, fractured melodies, vocals not far removed from those that David Bowie traded some of his best songs on, rivulets of subdued noise and seemingly random location recordings, tender guitar work, tape manipulation and all kinds of other sounds either in between or beyond. Together, these compositions sit outside conve…
The Rhythm of Design
Sound fragments unfold across Zurich, making loss, memory, and cultural change physically and acoustically perceptible. In The Rhythm of Design, Zurich-based fine arts duo Michael Meier & Christoph Franz explore urban displacement and its impact on the local music scene.Focusing on six venues that have disappeared or are under threat, the artists collected materials on site—wood, metal, and other architectural elements—and, with the support of professional instrument builders, transformed them i…
Mannequin
"After Aktor and Quietism last year, the Scotsman is in top form, churning out albums that are stunning in their intelligence and pop refinement. If Mannequin is so good, it's for three main reasons. The first is that Momus has returned from his experiments that saw him playing around with AI or composing K-pop songs. We welcome with delight his return to the basics of a pure and perfect pop characterised by a certain economy of means, a DIY ethos — a synth-pop hodgepodge that suits him perfectl…
Du Formol Orgonal
*300 copies limited edition* The powdered-nosed Escampette, a devil, steps out of the reserve he once assigned himself with the complicity of the warder. In his new recipe book he deciphers for us several ways of inhabiting the night, that refuge running beneath the day, and, by brushing it, draws the map of paths winding between woods and thickets where strange trumpets grow. It is in their coppery foliage that he cools the fire of his cheeks.
In constant molt, the devil knows when and how to t…
Sunset Overdrive
*200 copies limited edition* Deaf Star is a shoegaze / noise-pop / electronic project founded in San Francisco and now based in Barcelona, Spain. Rooted in melancholy-driven personal songwriting, the project drags those intimate impulses through blown-out textures, crude production, bass-heavy electronics, and walls of distortion, arriving at a sound that feels both fragile and annihilating.
Drawing from the jet-engine narcotic haze of Astrobrite, damaged intimacy of Sebadoh, nocturnal drift of …
Wade
*150 copies limited edition* Circle Bros emerged during the late‑nineties wave of lo‑fi and dronerock, when Morc Records founder Wim Lecluyse first began shaping hazy, guitar‑driven soundscapes. Over the many years that followed, the project gradually started using a richer soundpallete, and shifted toward semi‑improvised, restrained songs that draw as much from minimal‑leaning songwriters as from artists who fearlessly approach the folk traditions. What has never changed is the core approach — …
Kva er Vald
Hebbex D'expectatio Expectata is a Norwegian experimental music trio based in Stavanger. The group is an evolution of a long-standing duo consisting of Kjetil Brandsdal (Noxagt, Ultralyd, No Balls) and Thore Warland (Staer, Golden Oriole, Tørrfall, Plan Affine), who have released five LPs together.
The project expanded into its current trio format with the addition of vocalist Helge Thornes, a figure from the Norwegian psychobilly and dancehall scenes of the 80’s and 90’s. Kva er Vald is the tr…
unworld.afterpop
Endlessly uplifting, gorgeous sunshine art-pop from Swedish librarian cum insanely talented multi-instrumentalist Sternpost. Who said the underground had to be glum??Sternpost’s 2023 hit Ulrika felt like something of an awakening, an open door to a vivid and unbelievably lush sound world that was totally at odds with its humble home-recorded nature. Back on Portland outpost Concentric Circles, unworld.afterpop takes our hand again and guides us into a dreamworld of charming avant-pop, drawing in…
Still House Plants
On their self‑titled debut, Still House Plants capture a raw, one‑day snapshot of their early quartet chemistry: tape‑hazed grooves, off‑kilter song forms and fragile/feral vocals sketched live to reel, already hinting at the oblique intimacy they’d grow into.
It was so real
Josefine, The person behind Upshifter and I come from the same town, Odense, she’s a few years older than me. I remember being very young and going to a vegan community kitchen and hearing rumors about her amazing synthpop group Time Masters around 10 years ago. This spring she started to play concerts with her new project Upshifter, described as “New Age /manifestation” on the first poster which of course made me very curious about the music. It’s an honor to present this demo cassette of glimm…
Viser og countryrock på fynsk
*200 copies limited edition* Self-released private press style LP from Jonas Torstensen, distributed by Discreet Music. Grainy and broken singer/songwriter music, one of the major highlights so far in what is already a rather astonishing discography! "This record is an attempt on doing an album of songs. I recorded it in the first half of 2025. I played all the instruments with varying luck. It’s quite different from what I wanted it to be, mostly because of my lack of technical skills, but I’m…
Cindy Lee Discography
The ultimate Cindy Lee vinyl experience: a comprehensive six-album collection that traces the complete artistic journey of Patrick Flegel's visionary project from its earliest experimental expressions to its critically acclaimed apex. This definitive bundle brings together 'Malenkost' (2015), 'Act Of Tenderness' (2015), 'Model Express' (2018), 'What's Tonight To Eternity' (2020), 'Cat O' Nine Tails' (2020), and the magnum opus 'Diamond Jubilee' (2024) — an extraordinary document of one of the mo…
Cindy Lee Bundle
An extraordinary opportunity to acquire the complete W.25th reissue initiative in one definitive collection. This five-album bundle brings together 'Malenkost' (2015), 'Act Of Tenderness' (2015), 'Model Express' (2018), 'What's Tonight To Eternity' (2020), and 'Cat O' Nine Tails' (2020) — a comprehensive survey of Cindy Lee's most elusive and sought-after work, now available together for the first time in beautifully remastered and pressed editions.
When Patrick Flegel's Cindy Lee project explod…
Che mi Guardi Attraverso Una Fiamma
Tip! A dream within a dream - Innocent and whimsical song-craft from a vibrant pocket of the contemporary Italian underground via Naples-born Lucia Sole aka La Festa Delle Rane. New split release between ANF and Tokyo friends Conatala.
It’s impossible not to be totally captivated by this. Lucia’s explorative, imperfect song-writing leans into a sense of cranky, domesticated nostalgia and soft melancholy - songs (you can just about call them that) are just about held together by a loose thread …
Fireproof Sweat
Having written and sung in five languages on 2020’s “Uva Ursi”, Urs Graf Consort return to Italian for “Fireproof Sweat”, a record of irresistible charm, innovation and existential lyricism. “Ten years ago, a fire took the lives of four of our friends on rue Myrha in Paris, just a few months after Urs Graf Consort was founded. One of them — Nicolas Millet, a magnificent bookseller and Félix Fénéon specialist — was meant to be our bassist. The title Fireproof Sweat, and the album as a whole, ques…
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 celebrity, and has continued to enchant with every album, including the startling What's Tonight To Eternity released earlier this year.
Model Express originally appeared as a self-released edition of 100 gold cassettes. The arch, filmic drama of Ci…
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 makes a move toward high atmospherics, often achieving a mysterious sweetness rooted equally in beauty and ache.
As Cindy Lee's first long-form statement, Act Of Tenderness makes use of antipodal themes to create a living sound: static with grace, dist…
Malenkost
Cindy Lee is the brainchild of singer / guitarist Patrick Flegel. While some may know Flegel from their time spent in Canadian experimental indie band Women, Cindy Lee has spent the past four years crafting songs that push and pull in opposing directions – from tales of tragedy laced with haywire distortion to moments of breathtaking beauty.
On Malenkost, Flegel combines everything that makes Cindy Lee so essential: heart-wrenching romantic pleas, rough shards of noise and twilit ballads. Featur…
Il lago è il cielo del bosco e tutte le rane cantano in coro
* Limited edition of 200 copies, comes with insert * La Festa delle Rane (literally the frog's party) are one of the most singular outputs from the vibrant Italian underground community of the last couple of years. Innocent, at times flawed, full of candour and tenderness and just enough spice to make things take a grandiose detour into the eerie and unsettling. Il lago è il cielo del bosco e tutte le rane cantano in coro originally released on tape for Ruego in 2022 and now remastered for viny…
Cat O’ Nine Tails
W.25TH is proud to announce the reissue of Cindy Lee's Cat O' Nine Tails, originally released in 2020 as an extremely limited edition of 50 lathe-cut LPs housed in silk-screened jackets. This essential collection, released in the wake of What's Tonight To Eternity, has long captivated die-hard fans with its perfect synthesis of classic songwriting and classical composition.
The album opens with the gothic drama of "Our Lady Of Sorrows," flowing into the manic exploration of the title track befor…