Vinyl Records - The Latest

When I got the advance promo of this, it arrived in a throwback brown Warp sleeve. I put it on, and it was bursting with those dubby downtempo beats

Nightmares On Wax's follow up their stellar Smokers Delight. George Evelyn continues on the downtempo journey with Carboot Soul . Definitely an album

Reissue 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 wi

A much welcomed reissue of the first single from Kenny Dope and Louie Vega 's Nuyorican Soul project. This was originally released in 1993 and starte

Deluxe vinyl reissue of THE album to own from Oasis . While this was their sophomore album, it was the album that put them on the map and broke them

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 refi

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 lo

Another essential cassette release from Stones Throw with a limited edition pressing of Madvillainy on tape! You already know what it is. Easily one

It's the new! Stones Throw hooking it up in a major way with a limited edition cassette version of Donuts . J Dilla 's final release and a certified

All you haters better watch the F out! Finally it has arrived, the Vampire Weekend record that is going to set all the naysayers straight. Rostam Bat

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

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 craf

Vespertine was a departure from the sultry downtempo and chic IDM of Bjork ’s previous albums, trading big room extravagance for reticent experimenta

Bjork's fantastically diverse debut solo album from 1993. Those of us who were around back then probably remember seeing the "Human Behaviour" video

James Gunn's sci-fi epic, Guardians Of The Galaxy, turned out to be a surprise hit. There's no doubt that it owes at least some of that success to th

Black Star still shinin'. This album was arguably the apex of the nineties indy rap scene. In 1998 Rawkus was threatening to change the hip-hop struc

Revered by the most finicky of critics as the only arena rock band that matters, this 14 track record is full of Thom Yorke's now familiar paranoia a

I'm trying really hard not to shed a tear (or pop wood) as I write this review. Master Of Puppets (one of several recent Metallica reissues ) was suc

Simply put, this is one of the most important records of all-time and a damn good listen to boot. If you don’t already own it, you should pick up thi

Sometimes a record can just take over your life, especially when you're young. That was the case with 11 year old me and Mother's Milk . I'm not quit

The culmination of Nick Drake's emotional outpouring. Pink Moon is Drake’s deepest and most emotional record, originally released in 1972, following

Debut LP from London’s funky-electro-pop-soul conglomerate Jungle. Centered around childhood friends known simply as T and J, Jungle is a 7-piece liv

The myths abound around Siamese Dream. The Smashing Pumpkins' 1993 sophomore release cemented the band's reputation as one of the standouts of the al

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-songwriter

Ready or not here I come! You know what this is, if you don't it's time to get familiar. The Fugees ' sophomore album, The Score , made the group wor

Tonight, I'm a rock 'n' roll star! Oasis' 1994 debut, Definitely Maybe , introduced the band that would define the Britpop sound of the mid 90s to th

Depeche Mode's first album of the 90s saw the group taking a new approach to song writing. Where previous efforts were completely planned out, the gr

N.E.R.D.'s now classic full length debut officially repressed on white vinyl! You know what it is, Pharrell , Chad , and Shay absolutely nailed it on

Cult of Q comin' through. The much anticipated major label debut from Schoolboy Q is here, and this ish bangs hard! Q brings the new school West Coas

'Lib and Gibbs full length collab debut! Freddie Gibbs describes Pinata best - "a gangster Blaxploitation film on wax" (or in this case, magnetic tap

"2014 release, the second album from the Electronic Rock duo from Saratoga Springs, New York. Formed in 2007, Phantogram is Josh Carter (vocals, guit

So damn good. The sophomore album from Devonte Hynes aka Blood Orange is here, and it's something of a revelation. With pop music becoming more and m

In my hardcore diggin days, I scoffed at reissues and best of compilations, but how times have changed. Give me this best of compilation on pristine

Norcal stand up! For some reason Death Grips makes sense, especially with No Love Deep Web . The trio of MC Ride and production team Zach Hill & Andy

Originally released back in 2004, Four Tet's contribution to the Late Night Tales compilation series has been in high demand for a repress. The compi

Special mono reissue of Miles' most iconic record . Kind Of Blue is the most popular straight-jazz album of all time, the one that even those people

Official 2013 repress! This is easily one of the most beautiful looking and sounding Boards Of Canada EPs. In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country is

Finally reissued! Boards Of Canada's highly anticipated follow up to their Warp debut gets a long overdue repress. Geogaddi arrived four years after

Now on clear red vinyl! The original comic that spawned the awesome Scott Pilgrim vs. The World movie also inspired this amazing soundtrack. Those th

Certified West Coast classic right here! Straight Outta Compton introduced the world to Easy-E, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, MC Ren and DJ Yella, and ushered i

Aphex 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 his nam

Washed Out returns with his heady blend of shoegaze, Balearic sounds, and R&B leanings. Ernest Greene has teamed up again with producer Ben H. Allen

The special sauce to some of SBTRKT and Jessie Ware 's top tracks , Sampha drops his first solo release. Beyond the vocals and keyboard play he's bec

The much anticipated debut full length from Disclosure is here! Rarely does an album live up the amount of hype that Settle has already amassed, but

Now on deluxe, double 180g vinyl with gatefold sleeve! For me, buying MF Doom records is one of the few activities that captures that feeling of refu

First Daft Punk, now Boards Of Canada. The first half of 2013 has been all about the masterfully orchestrated, slow-reveal album drop. It can be argu