Matador Revisionist History celebrates the 25th anniversary of Solex’s Low Kick and Hard Bop. The album returns to us newly expanded with long-lost cut ‘Mr. Crockpot’. First released in 2001, this was the third album by Amsterdam-based songwriter and one-time record shop owner, Elisabeth Esselink. Here, her sampler-driven found-sound retro-futurist style came into full stride with hooks sourced from dusty vinyl, TV, radio, and street noise. A generation later, Low Kick remains an ebullient...
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This year marks the 30th anniversary of Railroad Jerk’s highly lauded album One Track Mind, first released on March 21, 1995 via Matador. Watch the newly digitised official music videos for ‘Rollerkoaster’ and ‘Bang the Drum’ below. Railroad Jerk’s own Marcellus Hall and Dave Varenka join host (and personal friend) Matt Sweeney in conversation for the latest episode of the Matador Revisionist History Podcast. They look back on some fond...
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In 2023, Kurt Vile is making numbers count. We’d like to draw your attention to a significant KV digit: The 10th anniversary of his fifth full-length and first 2xLP, Wakin on a Pretty Daze (2013), out August 25th. To celebrate this milestone, we’ve brought the record back as a yellow vinyl. Where previous albums alternated between gorgeous fingerpicking and heavy guitar workouts, Wakin blended the two into dreamy and expansive songs that frequently stretched well out beyond the five-minute mark. Pre-order...
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