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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Classic debut from Postal Service reissued! This 2014 pressing features the same remastered audio from the 10th anniversary release, and is release...

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

Mac is back! This Old Dog marks Demarco's 4th full length, and from the sounds of the lead singles "This Old Dog" and "Your Old Man," it promises ...

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

"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...

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...

Yeah Yeah Yeah's debut album reissued on 180 gram audiophile vinyl for the first time! Originally released in 2003, Fever To Tell heavily shaped th...

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

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

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...

It'll make you feel young again. Before the Grammys and the sold out stadium shows, Arcade Fire was just a rag tag crew of merry pranksters that cr...

“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...

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...

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...

"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...

  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 ...

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

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 ...

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...

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...

Animal Collective's 7th studio album, and arguably their most popular (excluding Merriweather, cause it's maybe too soon to tell). Features the sin...

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...

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 fifth. Figure 8 was released in 2000 and was the final album released from the celebrated singer-songwriter before his untimely p...

1997 marked a turning point in Elliott Smith's career, his music was featured prominently in Gus Van Sant's Good Will Hunting soundtrack, which led...

MGMT's sophomore full-length from 2010 gets a fancy 180 gram vinyl repress with a fresh remaster from the original tapes for tip top sound quality....

Remastered reissue of Elliott Smith's 1994 debut LP. Roman Candle was recorded on a 4 track recorder in the basement of Smith's girlfriend, and was...

"High Violet, the fifth studio album by The National, is a nervy, melodic, explosive and beautiful set of songs that find the band at the height of...

The progress Elliott Smith makes from album to album is astounding. Although I like the simplicity and rawness of Roman Candle, the added instrumen...