Madvillainy Vinyl 2LP Stones Throw
I don't know how Stones Throw are going to top this. Without exaggeration, this is one of the greatest meeting of the minds of this whole SP1200-ab...
View full detailsI don't know how Stones Throw are going to top this. Without exaggeration, this is one of the greatest meeting of the minds of this whole SP1200-ab...
View full detailsThere's a lot of hubbub in the rap cognoscenti around this new release from Daniel Dumile, man of a thousand (well, at least 5) names. He's hardly ...
View full detailsNow on deluxe colored vinyl! For me, buying MF Doom records is one of the few activities that captures that feeling of refuge found in thrift store...
View full detailsAphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works 85-92 was released in 1992 by R&S offshoot Apollo Records after Richard D. James had just two singles to hi...
View full detailsHigh quality 180 gram repress of the British new wave rockers' biggest album. Depeche Mode's first album of the 90s saw the group taking a new appr...
View full detailsWhen Donuts first rolled into the Lab, I gave it a cursory listen, and, wanting to get home to the new episode of Lost as quickly as possible, toss...
View full detailsSuper deluxe double LP pressing of Check Your Head. Best Beasties' album ever? I guess you can debate it, but there's no arguing that this one is d...
View full detailsI really lost my shit when I first heard this. Heads in the know tell you that this their best, most complete album. No weaklings, just solid beats...
View full detailsCapacity is the second album by Big Thief, recorded in snowbound upstate New York with now-frequent collaborator Andrew Sarlo. The tracks on Capaci...
View full detailsDreampop essential! By the time Cocteau Twins released Heaven Or Las Vegas, they had been perfecting their singular sound for nearly 10 years, reco...
View full detailsIt can be argued that Bjork hit her artistic peak on The Sugarcubes' debut album. Yeah, Debut, Post, Homogenic, all pretty incredible... however, c...
View full detailsOfficial import pressing of MBV's Loveless! This reissue was overseen by Kevin Shields and is fully analog cut, resulting in the truest representat...
View full detailsBy special request, Stones Throw has pressed up copies of Dilla's beat sketch masterpiece Donuts with the "smile" cover, originally used for the CD...
View full detailsWe 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...
View full details"Bitches ain't shit but hos and tricks, lick on the nuts and suck the dick..." Ahhh, quality ish. My earliest memory of this record was when Dr. Dr...
View full detailsI'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...
View full detailsInterpol's infamous debut LP for Matador, back in print! Here's what we said back when: Once I got over my Joy Division loyalties, I finally discov...
View full detailsTribe's masterful debut jazz thing album. Surprise favorites like "After Hours" and "Footprints" continually grow on you between the hits "Bonita A...
View full detailsFinally repressed! In the grand scheme of things, 10 years isn't really THAT long for a record to be out of print... but for an album as seminal as...
View full detailsOperation Doomsday never sounded better! For the Silver Age Set, the classic Doom album gets a fresh remaster. The records themselves are housed in...
View full detailsIn 1988, Robert Smith was 29 years old, panicking that he had yet to deliver a masterpiece before the curtain fell on his 20s. He began writing son...
View full detailsFirst reissue of Stereolab's fifth studio album 1997! Their sound here had tightened up even more (read: less rock-ish) since Emperor Tomato Ketch...
View full detailsThis is one of the most respected dub albums of all time, featuring Augustus Pablo's finest instrumentals run through the King Tubby version machin...
View full detailsIt’s hard to imagine a world today without Kid A. In October of 2000, the incorporation of sampling, synthesizers and computers in rock music was a...
View full detailsFinally reissued! Boards Of Canada's highly anticipated follow up to their Warp debut gets a long overdue repress. Geogaddi arrived four years afte...
View full detailsThis is it, the big one. The Rolling Stone five star all time great Smiths album. I don't really believe in this kind of stuff, especially with thi...
View full detailsGreen Mind was the major label debut (Sire) of Dinosaur Jr., in addition to their first without Lou Barlow (who founded Sebadoh shortly after.) Th...
View full detailsIt’s hard to think of any other rapper with as many classic records under their belt at the age of 24 as The Notorious BIG. The epic and eerie trip...
View full detailsOriginally released in 1995 by Aphex Twin, I Care Because You Do was his third full length effort. It was the first of his albums to break away fro...
View full detailsPulling a page from Del's notebook, Madlib created Quasimoto in the studio laboratory. Part of the whole invasion schema, the Madlib production is ...
View full detailsDeluxe 20th anniversary reissue of Nas' classic debut! Columbia has pulled out all the stops to commemorate this landmark in hip hop's history. Fro...
View full detailsReissue of NOW's most popular album from 1995, Smoker's Delight, from the good folks at Warp. I always thought the cover and title had a lot to do ...
View full detailsThere's so much to the Breeders' Last Splash. The sophomore album, from what was originally Kim Deal's side project from the Pixies, packs in a be...
View full detailsDebut full-length from Birmingham, England’s Broadcast. The Noise Made By People came after the band signed to Warp Records and spent nearly three ...
View full details20th anniversary pressing of Portishead's classic 1994 debut, now on 180 gram vinyl. I don't care what kind of music you listen to, production-wise...
View full detailsIt's impossible to overstate how important this debut LP was when it was originally released in October 1990. Nowhere was the pinnacle of a year in...
View full detailsFinally repressed! Here's our original review circa early 2000 (sku: hh-009!) When this came out everybody I know was feelin' exactly the same way ...
View full detailsI’m genuinely surprised we’ve never had Bob James' One in the lab before. “Nautilus" is sampled in more songs than I can count—”Children’s Story” b...
View full detailsWhat can you say about Minor Threat that hasn't already been said? The DC punk band, fronted by Ian MacKaye, launched the straight edge hardcore mo...
View full detailsLA's Flying Lotus is being setup as the next Madlib-Diplo-DJ Shadow-type producer cash cow. The hype is well-warranted in my opinion, as Flying Lot...
View full detailsFinally repressed! In the grand scheme of things, 10 years isn't really THAT long for a record to be out of print... but for an album as seminal as...
View full detailsSo tough! Metallica's debut set the stage for the ground they would cover over the course of their career. Kill 'Em All is Metallica at their most ...
View full detailsProduced by Junjo Lawes, backed by the Roots Radics, engineered by Scientist, mixed at King Tubby's 1981: a rhythm lovers dream combination. One of...
View full detailsCommon's first album (Can I Borrow A Dollar?) had some promise, but he really solidified himself with Resurrection, one of the best full lengths of...
View full detailsBlackboard Jungle Dub is one of the benchmark dub albums - an all-time great for reggae music, one of Lee Perry's most highly regarded and widely k...
View full detailsInstrument is a 1999 film by Jem Cohen about Fugazi, and Instrumental Soundtrack collects 18 mostly instrumental tracks that were used as audio bac...
View full detailsThere's something about classic albums that take you back to a certain time and place. I think that it was my older brother that initially introduc...
View full detailsMy favorite jazz record of all time. Anytime a record can both drive you mad and ease your soul at different times is classic in my eyes. This Impu...
View full detailsI have a folder with every Lab review written for the site. There's definite themes that emerge when you read the older ones. Let me set this one u...
View full detailsOriginally released in 1987, Sign 'O' The Times is the 9th album from Prince. Recorded between 1986 and 1987 during sessions for three full-lengths...
View full details20th anniversary edition! To celebrate 2 decades with one of MF DOOM's most beloved projects, Big Dada have made the album available in it's origin...
View full detailsA flawless compilation of Gil Scott-Heron’s early years. Originally released in 1974 on the Flying Dutchman label, this LP compiles Gil's best and ...
View full detailsDeluxe 2LP edition includes the original album plus 3 remixes of the title cut, pressed on blue and butter cream colored wax with gatefold jacket f...
View full detailsThis is one of 'em. One of those amazing rock records made by Europeans dabbling in jazz, funk, experimental rock and lots of acid laced frosty fl...
View full detailsTrans-Europe Express, originally released in 1977, is a good starting point for any serious b-boy (Afrika Bambaataa sampled the title track for Pla...
View full detailsWow, official 2LP vinyl reissue of this seminal 1992 rave album. I'm not gonna lie, this was my shit back then and it still kinda is (even though s...
View full detailsBad Brains' first LP from 1982. Considered by many as one of the best hardcore LPs ever, the Bad Brains self titled debut brought a new dynamic to ...
View full detailsIt's IRONMAN! If you don't know this one, here's a little Wu lesson for ya. First came the 36 Chambers, which then brought forth Raekwon's Only Bui...
View full detailsThis was the first LP released on Greensleeves, and it couldn't get much more classic than this. It's basically a showcase for Dr. Alimantado, comp...
View full detailsSo tough! Metallica's debut set the stage for the ground they would cover over the course of their career. Kill 'Em All is Metallica at their most ...
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