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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

When you were young... If the opening guitar strums of "The King Of Carrot Flowers, Pt. One" are not immediately familiar to you, you've been missi...

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

Snack keeps asking me, "What's the deal with Elliot Smith." And I keep giving him the short answer. So for his sake and the few of you that are rea...

"Honour our roots, honour our dead: This mindset found perfect expression in The Mars Volta’s 2003 debut full-length, De-Loused In The Comatorium, ...

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...

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

"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...

“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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

"2010 release, the first Broken Social Scene record following the acclaimed Broken Social Scene Presents series. As a core six-piece who had spent ...

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...