Predicted Platinum

“Here is my first-born child, a fuck you to all my exes, and basically me just trying to figure out some shit openly and honestly on record. First of many and if you don't like it, then this wasn't meant for you anyway.” - Lola Young

This Wasn’t Meant For You Anyway marks a remarkable shift in Lola’s sound as an artist. Recorded in LA and produced by friend and collaborator Solomonophic (Remi Wolf, BROCKHAMPTON, Dominic Fike), This Wasn’t Meant For You Anyway is a multi-faceted, fearless concept. As irresistible as it is unexpected, Lola’s album is crackling with kinetic energy and lyrically fuelled by rage, passion, narrative flair and comedy derision.

A contemporary break-up album, This Wasn’t Meant For You Anyway encapsulates the sound of what it means to be young and in constant romantic chaos. With exciting plans up Lola’s sleeve, her upcoming record will undoubtedly add to her musical trajectory.

Pressed on 140g transparent red vinyl and hand numbered

1. good books
2. wish you were dead
3. big brown eyes
4. conceited
5. messy
6. walk on by
7. you noticed
8. crush
9. fuck
10. intrusive thoughts
11. outro

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Release date: 4/8/25

Julien Baker & TORRES’ ‘Send A Prayer My Way’ was written and sung in the best of the outlaw tradition—defiant, subversive, working class, and determined to wrestle not only with addiction, regret and bad decisions, but also with oppressive systems of power. Mercifully, this is only the beginning of the stories TORRES and Baker are determined to tell. Because these are also songs about radical empathy and second chances, and third chances, and while there’s plenty of struggle and regret in here, there’s also humor and defiance. 

‘Send A Prayer My Way’ has been in the works for years. Imagine two young musicians playing their first show together at Lincoln Hall, a much-loved venue here in Chicago. It’s January 15, 2016, and bone chillingly cold outside, especially for a couple of southerners. When the show is over and they’re shooting the shit, one singer says to the other, “We should make a country album.” This is the origin story, the stuff of legend in the world of country music, and the beginning of a collaboration between two artists already admired for their spare, elegant lyrics as well as the courage to share their struggles with those who love their music. It’s also the beginning of creating a work that, like the most enduring country albums, sustains and inspires, reminding both singer and listener that not one of us is ever totally alone in this world, that music is a steady companion. 

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"This album is all about the vertigo of growing up," says Jack, who makes his Dualtone Records debut with the sophomore release JVC. "It's about re-defining and re-understanding yourself." JVC was born during a period of anxiety, self-examination, and newfound freedom. The album features a re-imagined version of breakthrough single "Rattlesnake," this time as a duet with artist Zach Bryan. It's track with introspective lyrics and atmospheric acoustics earned Jack a spot on Spotify's 2024 Best New Artist list with tastemaker playlist "juniper." JVC is a sharply-written record that measures the long, winding road from past to present.

Recorded in a little bedroom studio out in Durham, North Carolina, Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn's debut LP as Sylvan Esso arrived in 2014 at the juncture of pop and experimental.

Even now, years later, the LP remains an urgent and fitting introduction to a push-and-pull that would go on to inform the duo's sound - a thoughtful headiness that also wants you to get out on the dance floor. A blend of analog and digital, Meath and Sanborn were two unexpected puzzle pieces fitting together with singular ease, producing a ten-track LP that was both minimalist and shimmering, with dark undulations rippling beneath the synthy-surface and crystalline quality of Meath's voice. Before all of the international touring and festival headlining and critical acclaim, Sylvan Esso was just a shot-in-the dark of musical chemistry gone right. The original album bio for the self-titled presciently sets the stage for the thesis that has gone on to guide Meath and Sanborn's writing since then: "a collection of vivid addictions concerning suffering and love, darkness and deliverance" arriving as "a necessary pop balm, an album stuffed with songs that don't suffer the longstanding complications of that term."

And so, even as the band continues to evolve and becomes amorphous, there's still that argument about what pop can be at it's core. This is just the beginning of that conversation captured on tape. 

His new album, The Great American Bar Scene, adds to the Zach Bryan formula by taking on a wider lens,

weaving his personal struggles and triumphs into the greater legacy of lost souls and camaraderie found in America’s watering holes. This can lead to exciting new lyrical territory for him, like on “Oak Island,” a tightly wound character song about a railroad worker whose brother’s gotten into trouble with some boys from New Jersey. His protagonist, Mickey, also appears on the title track—this time as a nod to malt liquor—in a story that starts off with getting played by a bookie from Philly, winds through a police chase in Cheyenne, and ends with swaying to Johnny Cash with some sweet young thing under neon lights. In the background, you can hear the ambient sound of balls clanking in a game of pool, timed to the strums of the guitar.

Speak Now (Taylor's Version) features 22 songs, including 6 previously unreleased Songs From The Vault. 3 LP set on orchid marbled colored vinyl in a gatefold jacket. Album sleeves with lyrics and never-before-seen photos included.

Noah Kahan’s music uses an infused blend of indie, folk, pop, and country instrumentals, while his lyricism elicits deep sentiment.

This combination evokes many emotions for the listener to interpret. Specifically for me, it invokes a type of nostalgia for something that I have not yet experienced. Anemoia: a word that I have recently discovered which I can attribute to learning from the novel that I recently finished and reviewed, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin, is defined as being, “nostalgia for a time you’ve never known”. What this entails is entirely up to the interpreter, whether it be the feeling as if you’d been born in the wrong decade, or a shared worldly experience for which you have not yet felt, such as moving away from home for the first time. For me, Noah Kahan’s lyricism and melody make me long for my hometown which I have never truly left. Or maybe anemoia is making me long for a hometown to which I never truly belonged and which does not exist in this time-space continuum. Either way, Noah Kahan is the epitome of the nostalgic experience.

—Le Sabre

Double vinyl LP pressing. 2018 release, the fifth studio album by rapper Mac Miller. Includes the single "Self Care." Mac has accomplished every goal he ever set for himself. At least that's what the magazines say about the Pittsburgh kid, and they're right enough. With his first album, he became a grassroots rap megastar. With his second he bared his weird soul and was praised for it. His 11 mixtapes boast a couple bucket lists' worth of collaborators, from Bun B and Kendrick Lamar to Rick Ross and Juicy J. And in the same year that he toured the U.S. backed by a psychedelic soul band, he rapped all over Europe with Lil Wayne and 2 Chainz. He did indie. He's doing major. He even bought himself a ridiculous house in the Los Angeles hills and made a TV show about it. Hell, he made a jazz record.

Taylor keeps her re-records very close to the originals, but five previously unreleased songs add depth and context to what was then her galactic, career-shifting pop debut.

No new wrinkles are necessary to appreciate the record’s immaculate highs: the tug-of-war between yearning and anthemic on “I Wish You Would”; “Style”’s Miami Vice strut; the Tumblr-teen euphoria of “New Romantics.” It’s easy to class 1989 as an artistically lesser entry in Swift’s catalog, however counterintuitive to its success, but these songs are wildly durable. 1989 (Taylor’s Version) isn’t plastered with a debutante smile like its predecessor—but it certainly hasn’t lost its luster.

— Pitchfork

3-time GRAMMY® award winning recording artist olivia rodrigo will release her new album, GUTS,

on september 8th via geffen records. Available now. GUTS was recorded with producer daniel nigro, who also collaborated with her on SOUR, her chart-topping, 4x platinum debut album. "for me, this album is about growing pains and about trying to figure out who I am at this point in my life and exactly what I want to say in my songs."

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Raw, intimate, and unplugged, Noah Kahan’s ‘Cape Elizabeth’ EP is a deep breath of fresh, invigorating folk that finds the Vermont singer/songwriter doing what he does best: Capturing and recapitulating universal experience through relatable stories, heartfelt lyrics, and unfiltered emotion.

“My background in music is very much me on the acoustic guitar singing very folky songs, listening to Gregory Alan Isakov growing up, Paul Simon… Mumford and Sons are one of my favorite bands ever, and I used to make music like that all the time,” Kahan recently shared over a Zoom call. “It’s the kind of music that I grew up loving. Folk music, storytelling songwriting, raw acoustic guitar, vocals, simplicity, those are the things I really value in songwriting that I’ve always been focused on when I was listening to music or approaching artists that I really liked. In this record, I’m trying to do that.”

— Atwood Magazine

16 Tracks + Bonus Track “The Manuscript”

A collection of intimate stories about love, loneliness and redemption, The Lumineer's second full-length album has all the heart-on-sleeve hallmarks of their breakthrough debut.

But here, the character-driven vignette - about the lonely new girl in town, Ophelia, and the Egyptian queen of the title - feature thoughtful, luxurious production. The combination is powerful; with churning guitars and sweeping emotion, these are beautiful stores to tell.

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Apple Music

Midwest Princess was written and produced with Dan Nigro, the onetime indie frontman who has recently gained prominence via his creative partnership with Olivia Rodrigo.

As songwriters and performers, Rodrigo and Roan agree on a lot: Both are committedly theatrical and wickedly funny, even in the face of emotional indignity. “Casual,” Midwest Princess’s high point, lobs a cocktail of sorrow and scorn at a romantic partner who refuses to acknowledge the significance of their situationship. “Knee deep in the passenger seat and you’re eating me out/Is it casual now?” Roan deadpans in the chorus, cramming one of the record’s most vivid images into a single breath. 

— Pitchfork

Since its initial launch in 2018, Mt. Joy's self-titled debut album has become a timeless classic in the indie folk-rock genre. Mt. Joy earned platinum and gold certifications, selling over 600k records and amassing over 710M streams globally. 

We are thrilled to offer a brand new repressing of their debut album featuring three tracks never before available on vinyl, reimagined album art including photos and a letter from the band inside, and an etched picture disc on limited edition red marble wax.

EXTRA TRACKS - 

Jenny Jenkins (Acoustic)

Silver Lining (Acoustic)

Don't Let It Bring You Down

The follow-up to Renaissance is a powerful and ambitious country album cast in the singular mold of Beyoncé. She asserts her rightful place in the genre as only a pop star of her incredible talent and influence can do.

On Cowboy Carter, Club Renaissance is swapped out for KNTRY Radio Texas, an AM station hosted by an ever-hazy Willie Nelson. Here she re-contextualizes roots music—Americana, folk, country—for a contemporary moment, reminding listeners that Black artists were the genesis of these forms and never stopped playing them, despite what Hollywood or Nashville might have on offer. Even before the album dropped, the associated visuals reignited a dialogue about Black country’s legacy that started in 2018 with the success of Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” and Dallas culture critic Bri Malandro’s Yee Haw Agenda. With Beyoncé as conduit, she’s made these historical connections fun, though no one would accuse her of edutainment—she’s performed at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo more than once. Nor is Cowboy Carter an explicit fuck you to those who rejected her back in 2016, but it’s a show-and-prove that she knows better, that she belonged on that stage, and so do all the Black country and rock musicians she’s brought along to Carter Ranch. Well—the album’s “rodeo chitlin’ circuit” conceit, which refers to the venues that would allow Black musicians to perform in the segregated South, may be an explicit fuck you.

Ohio-native singer, songwriter, and storyteller Michael Marcagi’s debut EP American Romance heralds the arrival of an authentic new voice.  The five-song set is a sweeping showcase of Marcagi's signature blend of indie, folk, pop, and Americana. Stripped down and raw, the collection demonstrates his insightful songwriting, with an emphasis on sharing bruisingly honest anecdotes and unfiltered emotions. 

From start to finish, this is Mac Miller's most refined and well put-together project. He sounds like someone’s troubled little brother made good: from the album’s opening horns, you can sense that this is a victory lap of sorts, a homecoming.

The beats on GO:OD AM have a New York, boom-bap feel, with lots of jazz samples and harder drums, and it’s both more varied and more upbeat, from the trap-sounding beats of  "When in Rome" or the Chief Keef-featuring "Cut the Check" to love songs like "ROS" or the Miguel collaboration "The Weekend". Miller said he recorded 400 songs for Watching, and sometimes you couldn’t help but wonder about the selection process ("Objects in the Mirror"?) but on GO:OD AM, he’s learned to self-edit.

— Pitchfork

In September of 2022, with over 40,000 fans in attendance, The Lumineers took fans on an anthemic journey with the BRIGHTSIDE World tour, ending their largest worldwide tour to date at Chicago's historic Wrigley Field. Career favorite tracks like Ho Hey, Ophelia, and Stubborn Love along with modern favorites A.M RADIO, BRIGHTSIDE, and more, both their sophisticated songwriting and impressive instrumentation and performance chops were on full display. For the band's first live album ever, the performance has been pressed on a 3xLP vinyl set.