Essential Indie Rock Albums on Vinyl

It's kind of freaky how James Murphy gets better with every album. With every song and every release, he manages to outdo whatever preceded it. Thi...

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...

I've always liked James Murphy. He's a charming character, rattling the cages of his very own audience with stuff like "Losing My Edge" while givin...

The Pixies' Doolittle is a tantalizing pop masterpiece that wasn't just the best record in the Pixies catalog, but also one of the best rock record...

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...

Mac DeMarco recorded Salad Days alone in his Bed-Stuy apartment after coming back from months out on the road. It was a time in which he nearly tri...

Where have all the cowboys gone? Be The Cowboy finds Mitski Miyawaki examining the expectations we have for artists to be beaming and strong but st...

“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...

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

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...

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...

20th anniversary edition! This limited 2LP on pink and green colored wax features brand new album art as well as 5 new remixes from Dan the Automat...

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...

In my opinion, this is the best starting point in Beach House’s discography (i.e. - the first vinyl record I gave to my sister). Sonically, it’s a ...

15th anniversary reissue of Animal Collective's acclaimed 2009 album Merriweather Post Pavilion, pressed on colored vinyl for the first time ever! ...

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

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...

Posthumous compilation from the late singer-songwriter. New Moon was originally released in 2007 and contains previously unreleased songs, the majo...

"47 minutes. Two sides. A single spine jacket. Confident and deliberate. Lightning in a bottle. The Rapture’s Echoes was and is a clear-eyed kick i...

Teens Of Style is Car Seat Headrest's first project for Matador, and it consists of re-recorded songs that Will Toledo worked on, some dating as fa...

Now that all the big "New York Rock" dudes are on their second LPs, it's time to put up or shut up. Sophomore slumps are bound to happen, but not f...

Just let the tone take you. Explosions In The Sky’s sixth studio album is business as usual for this cinematic minded, guitar-driven band from the...

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...

1998 effort from Glasgow's indie darlings Belle & Sebastian. The Boy With The Arab Strap was their 3rd album, widely considered an indie classi...

Third studio album from Death Cab For Cutie. The Photo Album saw the band really getting into the pocket and featured much more refined qualities a...

"Brand new digital transfers from the original 1/4” tape mixes by Rob Schnapf & Joanna Bolme. Remastered by the official Elliott Smith archival...