Essential Indie Rock Albums on Vinyl

“Phoebe Bridgers doesn’t write love songs as much as songs about the impact love can have on our lives, personalities, and priorities. Punisher, he...

Emma the dog…right?  Here at Lab HQ we have a dog by the name of Emma. A while back (around 2007), Justin Vernon was visiting the HQ and he fell in...

"Khruangbin has always been multilingual, weaving far-flung musical languages like East Asian surf-rock, Persian funk, and Jamaican dub into mellif...

We all go through changes throughout our life. Most of us not quite as publicly as the artists and super stars that grace magazine covers and onli...

If Mac DeMarco isn't soundtracking your summer then you need to listen up right now. The gap toothed Brooklynite by way of Montreal singer-songwrit...

  Sufjan's breakthrough fifth album from 2005. Illinois is the second in a proposed series of concept albums from the indie folk singer, based on t...

This is the debut, breakout album for The xx (no caps allowed!), whose mellow, introspective indie pop captured the hearts of both critics and hips...

It's rare that an album gets universal praise from the critics, but that's exactly what's happening with Carrie & Lowell. The seventh studio a...

Fifth studio album from Baltimore's Beach House. Depression Cherry was recorded between November 2014 and January 2015 at Studio in the Country in ...

Elliott Smith, Joni Mitchell, Tom Waits, and Leonard Cohen are some of Phoebe Bridgers's favorite singer-songwriters. The LA-based singer's debut ...

Heavy duty 180g vinyl version. Good lookin' out, Domino Records, and double good looks on Animal Collective, whose much drooled-over LP does not di...

Beach House seeming keen on metaphor, have titled their latest as a description of their sound's progression, refinement, and maturing. Bloom, the ...

Isaac Brock and his revolving cast of mice have spent the better part of a decade honing a skewed brand of Pixies-influenced indie rock, beloved by...

The impressive follow up to the mega successful Transatlanticism. Drummer Jason McGerr noted the continuity between this album and their previous o...

"AM is the stunning fifth album from Sheffield's finest. This time round, Arctic Monkeys progress from the traditional rock'n'roll of 2011's Suck I...

Built To Spill took it back with their second album for Warner Brothers. Perhaps they thought that their time on a major label would be short lived...

“Happiness fucks you. Once it's in your hands, you try to hold onto it, but the nature of happiness is that it passes through and eventually leaves...

BOB SEGER MEETS ENYA AND JONI MITCHELL PRODUCED BY BRIAN ENO are just two of the recipes I have found for Titanic Rising, the fourth full length b...

Official reissue of Ratatat's breakthrough sophomore effort. Mike Stroud and Evan "E*Vax" Mast nailed it on 2006's Classics with a potent combinati...

My vinyl dreams have been answered. One of my all-time favorite albums gets reissued on heavy double black crack. Elliott Smith is definitely an a...

black vinyl pressing printed insert music label: Interscope 2006

Critically acclaimed, listener approved, another beautiful album from Yo La Tengo. Ranked as of the best of albums of the 1990s by Pitchfork, Spin...

Second studio album from the Bay Area's Joanna Newsom. Ys was originally released in 2006 and features full orchestra arrangements by Van Dyke Park...

10th anniversary edition! The xx and Young celebrate a decade of Coexist with this limited edition clear vinyl pressing. Original Lab review: The h...

"Perfect From Now On was widely regarded as an indie rock masterpiece as well as Built to Spill's magnum opus. This is their third album and it's m...

Debut album from Columbia alumni royalty. Though nothing like The Stokes musically, the band did seem to appear out of nowhere and made a MAJOR imp...

Celebrating a quarter century of feels since the release of Elliott Smith's sophomore album. The progress Elliott Smith makes from album to album ...

20th anniversary pressing of Elliott Smith's landmark Either/Or expanded with extras! Widely regarded as the singer-songwriter's best album, Either...

Late aughts EP from Wisconsin's Bon Iver. Blood Bank was released as a follow up to Bon Iver's award winning debut album For Emma, Forever Ago. The...

Emo masterpiece finally complete! Sunny Day Real Estate's Diary is one of those albums that will be played in record shops until the end of the tim...

Celebrating a quarter century of feels since the release of Elliott Smith's sophomore album. The progress Elliott Smith makes from album to album i...

Elliott Smith's landmark Either/Or expanded with extras! Widely regarded as the singer-songwriter's best album, Either/Or continues to be his most ...

Mamma's in the kitchen cooking up something good! 2, Canadian singer-songwriter Mac DeMarco's debut full length helped to put the deft lyricist and...

"2009 release from the New York trio, the follow-up to 2006's Show Your Bones. It's Blitz! Was recorded with Nick Launay (producer of Yeah Yeah Yea...