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...

Debut studio album from Houston's Khruangbin. The trio takes elements of 60s and 70s Thai funk, soul, psych, R&B, surf, and jazz and turns out...

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...

Capacity is the second album by Big Thief, recorded in snowbound upstate New York with now-frequent collaborator Andrew Sarlo. The tracks on Capaci...

"Like the mountain laurels for this new album is named, public perception, like the intoxicating prism of the internet, can offer an alluring façad...

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

Oh – now he’s got a Grammy.  Justin Vernon, aka Bon Iver, emerged from the woods of Wisconsin a new man. His sophomore album would take on a more r...

Classic debut from The Postal Service reissued! This 20th anniversary limited color pressing features the same remastered audio from the 10th anniv...

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 th...

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...

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...

When I listen to Crumb, I’m picturing cows and barns and shit swirling around inside a tornado like that scene in Wizard Of Oz. They deal in the bu...

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

Anticipated third LP from the Wisconsin indie folk gang is here! This is Bon Iver's first full length since 2011's Grammy-winning Bon Iver, Bon Iv...

Deluxe 20th anniversary pressing of Death Cab's critically-acclaimed 4th studio album. Transatlanticism was originally released back in 2003 and fo...

Critical praise is rightfully due when you are as young as Tame Impala frontman Kevin Parker making the incredibly dense, beautiful psychedelic fre...

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...

Deerhunter won over even more fans and critics with 2010's Halcyon Digest. The follow up album to the sprawling Microcastle / Weird Era Continued f...

Double 180 gram vinyl pressing! Isaac Brock and his revolving cast of mice have spent the better part of a decade honing a skewed brand of Pixies-i...

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

Doin' the cockroach, yeah! Modest Mouse's sophomore effort finally reissued on deluxe 180 gram double vinyl. Originally released in 1997, The Lones...

Sophomore studio album from Blacksburg, Virginia's Wild Nothing. Nocturne was originally released in August of 2012 and was the first time that Wil...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

Debut full length from American indie pop duo Phantogram. Eyelid Movies was originally released back in 2009 and found Sarah Barthel and Josh Carte...

"The debut Arctic Monkeys album is, as we all know, one of the finest debut statements in rock history. It marries the youthful exuberance of a ban...

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

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...

“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...

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...

After making a splash with their first two 12-inches, “Hand In Glove” and “This Charming Man”, The Smiths quickly retreated to the studio to record...

Elliott Smith's fourth full length reissued! XO was originally released in 1998 and was Smith's first solo album for a major label (Dreamworks Rec...

Swirling solo album from Animal Collective's Panda Bear. The first thing that strikes you here is the wild psychedelic artwork, followed by the Nur...

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...