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John Williams - Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens // IAMSHARK

IAMSHARK have announced the release of four limited edition colored vinyl variants of John Williams’ score to Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens!

I Am Shark is beyond ecstatic to announce the 2xLP collector’s edition release of Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack). Music composed by the legendary John Williams and his return to the series, whose iconic sounds and themes create an entire world to themselves in the Star Wars Universe. An array of stunning artwork accompanies this record from the UK’s Dan Mumford, presented in four different collectible covers that share an inner gatefold piece!

I Am Shark’s collector’s edition of The Force Awakens goes on sale Friday, February 3rd as an exclusive pre-order. 4 collectable covers (Rey, Poe, Phasma, Finn & Kylo) and cohesive colored vinyl pressed on 180 gram discs. You can visit the I Am Shark official website and social media platforms for more news, releases, and information. Records will be shipping around March 24th, any other items ordered with a pre-order will be held and shipped together.

– Rey (Yellow / Orange / Brown Marble) – 500 Copies SOLD OUT – Poe (Yellow / Green Half & Half) – 500 Copies – Phasma (Clear w/ Red, Yellow, and Orange Splatter) – 500 Copies – Finn & Kylo (Blue & Black Smoke) – 500 Copies SOLD OUT

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Mac DeMarco - This Old Dog // Captured Tracks [Colored Vinyl]

Mac DeMarco will release his new album, This Old Dog, via Captured Tracks on May 5th.

Mac DeMarco has announced the release of his new album, This Old Dog. The new LP will be released by Captured Tracks on May 5th.

This Old Dog will be available on standard and a special edition LP. The Special Edition version is limited to 4,000 copies and has an alternate Gatefold Jacket. Due to the ombre vinyl pressing, you will receive your LP on yellow vinyl, yellow / blue vinyl, green vinyl, green / blue vinyl OR blue vinyl. You cannot pick the color of the vinyl you will receive.

Pre-order This Old Dog via Captured Tracks here.

Listen to the title track below!

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Father John Misty - Pure Comedy // Sub Pop [Colored Vinyl]

Father John Misty will release his new album, Pure Comedy, via Sub Pop on April 7th.

Pure Comedy, Father John Misty’s third album, is a complex, often-sardonic, and, equally often, touching meditation on the confounding folly of modern humanity. Father John Misty is the brainchild of singer-songwriter Josh Tillman. Tillman has released two widely acclaimed albums – Fear Fun (2012) and I Love You, Honeybear (2015) – and the recent “Real Love Baby” single as Father John Misty, and recently contributed to songs by Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, and Kid Cudi.

Pure Comedy will be released on both standard and deluxe LP’s. The Deluxe LP will be pressed on Aluminum & Copper colored vinyl. Deluxe 2xLPs are also housed in a die-cut customizable jacket with 4 interactive “background” dust sleeves (four different sky color schemes to choose from!) housed in an outer plastic slipcase. Also included are a tri-fold poster & holographic HA card.

Bonus 7″ (While Supplies Last)

Pre-order Pure Comedy via the Sub Pop store here.

Watch the video for the title track below!

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Real Estate - In Mind // Domino [Colored Vinyl]

Real Estate will release their new album, In Mind, on March 17th via Domino Records.

On In Mind, the fourth full-length record from Real Estate, the band fine-tunes the winsome songwriting and profound earnestness that made previous albums—2009’s Real Estate, 2011’s Days, and 2014’s Atlas—so beloved. Recorded in Los Angeles with producer Cole M. Greif-Neill (Julia Holter, Beck), In Mind delivers the same kind of warmth and soft-focus narratives that one has come to expect from the band—pastoral guitars, elegantly deployed arrangements, a sort of mindful melancholy—but there is also a newly adventurous sonic edge to the proceedings.

In Mind will be available on deluxe colored vinyl, featuring the following:

Real Estate & Domino Mart exclusive:

Limited edition 180 gram heavyweight color vinyl LP

Housed in a gatefold LP jacket with gold foil imprint

Includes mp3 download card

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Eric Buchholz - Hero of Time 2xLP (Music from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time) // iam8bit

iam8bit will release the orchestral tribute to Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on limited edition vinyl in 2017!

If you’re a music and gamer nerd like myself…get excited because this release is for you. iam8bit & Materia Collective have announced the release of Hero of Time, an officially licensed, one-hour arrangement album based on Koji Kondo’s dynamic, epic and absolutely gorgeous score to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

Freshly – and exclusively – recorded by the 64-player Slovak National Symphony Orchestra for this very album, Hero of Time breaths new life into classic Ocarina of Time score, previously only available from its Nintendo 64 sound chip origins.

The album is arranged and composed by Eric Buchholz and features album artwork by Ryan Brinkerhoff that includes a die-cut Ocarina window on the jacket’s front.

This album will be recorded LIVE in January 2017 at Studio 1 in Bratislava by the Slovak National Symphony Orchestra, immediately thereafter mastered and prepared for vinyl, ensuring a ship date of Q2, 2017.

Hero of Time will be pressed on 2xLP 180g Green & Purple Rupee vinyl and will also include a digital soundtrack of the album.

You’ll be able to pre-order Hero of Time on December 9th at 10:00am PST here.

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Grails - Chalice Hymnal // Temporary Residence [Colored Vinyl]

Grails will release their new album, Chalice Hymnal, on February 10th via Temporary Residence.

Grails will be releasing their first new album in six years, Chalice Hymnal, on February 10th via Temporary Residence.

Rather than pick up where they left off, Grails take the sky-high riff-based heaviness of their earlier albums and distill it into a nuanced, widescreen opus. The perennial influences of mid-20th century Western film scores, obscure library music, and psychedelic krautrock are indelibly imprinted, but Chalice Hymnal exudes an eerie patience in unfurling the many layers of its subtle details. Produced by the band over the past five years, Chalice Hymnal bears some of the European psych and experimental hip-hop production techniques of founding members Alex Hall and Emil Amos’ other group, Lilacs & Champagne. Amos’ meditative metal band, Om, and longtime singer-songwriter project, Holy Sons, also naturally find their way into the Chalice cauldron. Rounding out their line-up, cofounder Zak Riles (also of experimental kraut-psych trio, Watter) layers synths and programming into an electronic-prog hybrid that pushes Grails further into the deep end, displaying a profound resonance, both musically and emotionally. No one else sounds like Grails, and on Chalice Hymnal they sound more like themselves than ever before. -Temporary Residence

Chalice Hymnal will be available on standard black vinyl and a limited edition variant. The limited edition variant will be limited to 1,000 copies and comes with the following:

Pressed on 2xLP colored vinyl

Bonus colored vinyl 7″

Custom Grails guitar pick set

Pre-order Chalice Hymnal via Temporary Residence here.

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Foxygen - Hang // Jagjaguwar [Colored Vinyl]

Foxygen’s new album, Hang, is up for pre-order via Jagjaguwar and will be released on January 20th.

Foxygen have announced their new album, Hang. This is the follow-up to 2014’s …And Star Power and will be released on January 20th via Jagjaguwar.

Each new melody that threads forward from the fingertips of one of this generation’s finest piano men in Jonathan Rado. And you fall in line behind Sam France’s sprawling and reckless lyric. Witness his mastery. Feel them struggle against the walls of their own creations. Follow them there. To the perimeter. To the exit sign. And let your eyes fog up with thoughts like ‘For at least this moment I understand how cold blooded and beautiful I am.’ Notice that the two young guys aren’t there anymore. They’re outside looking for another joint to haunt. They’re already out of sight. -Jagjaguwar

Hang will be available on standard LP and as part of a limited edition bundle that includes the following:

1. ‘Hang’ on limited translucent green LP and CD 2. ‘Hang’ Demos two-sided flexi (“Follow The Leader (demo)” + “On Lankershim (demo)”) 3. Hang poster 11 x 17 4. Instant download of “America” + “Follow The Leader” 5. Digital download for the album (as a .zip file containing 320kbps mp3s) redeemable January 6, 2017

Pre-order Hang via Jagjaguwar here.

Watch the video for ‘Follow the Leader’ below!

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Nina Simone - Nina Simone Sings the Blues // Vinyl Me, Please [Colored Vinyl]

Vinyl Me, Please have announced Nina Simone’s Nina Simone Sings the Blues as their December Record of the Month!

Vinyl Me, Please have unveiled their December album of the month, Nina Simone Sings the Blues.

Nina Simone’s story is one of pain, and her work is the way she carried it. It might be surprising to read now that she felt unfulfilled as a jazz artist and would have rather been famous for her piano playing, but that’s only because as the audience it’s easy for us to say what someone should do with their talent and career. We have a damaging tendency to meddle in things that should never be ours. Nina was singular in both her ability and the music she made. She will always be one of the best to ever do it. Those things are obvious. What’s less obvious is who she was behind all of the things she was famous for. Who Eunice Kathleen Waymon was. And it isn’t ours to know. At least not completely. What’s ours is to honor her work as best we can, and lose ourselves in her sound. To be grateful for the light she gave us, and grieve for the things she never found. – Vinyl Me, Please

VMP Exclusive Edition Features:

Pressed on heavyweight, 180g blue vinyl

Expertly remastered from original analog tapes by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound

Gatefold jacket with an 8-page full-color booklet w/ archival photos + foreward by Salamishah Tillet

Sign up and score this limited edition record of the month via Vinyl, Me Please here!

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The Books - The Lemon of Pink // Vinyl Me, Please [Colored Vinyl]

Vinyl Me, Please have announced The Books’ The Lemon of Pink as their November Record of the Month!

Vinyl Me, Please have unveiled their November album of the month, The Books – The Lemon of Pink.

Maybe that’s why this Books record feels so cloistered away and disconnected from the world.  There are these distractions now, a part of life I suppose, always something begging for your attention. This record begs for nothing. It is inviting without being prickly. It entreats with no tricks. It guides you and your practice of solitude to a world that isn’t jammed with your own thoughts, but instead, if you donate to it a kind of rigorous attention worthy of the patience that Zammuto, de Jong, and Doerner put into it, it transforms this world into something grander and golden. The Lemon of Pink is magical Wunderkammer, one of the last messages sent before we came to realize we need other people. The Books knew better: What may look small on the outside goes on forever within. – Jeremy D. Larson

VMP Edition Features:

Lemon-colored vinyl w/ hot pink splatter

Full-color gatefold, die-cut jacket featuring all new album art with metallic inks and foil stamping

16-page full-color, full-sized booklet featuring all new artwork, extensive liner notes written by Nick Zammuto, including track-by-track commentary

Full album digital download card

The only way to score this limited release is to sign up and be a member of Vinyl Me, Please. You can sign up here!

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Mae - The Everglow // Spartan Records [LTD To 2500]

Mae’s The Everglow is coming back to vinyl via Spartan Records on November 25th.

Mae’s The Everglow is finally returning to vinyl on November 25th. Featuring two LPs, three stunning variants, and a 28 page foil-stamped storybook with an epilogue by the band, this pressing is destined to be as classic as the album itself.

The Everglow will be available in the following variants/quantities:

“Anything” (LP1: Rainbow Starburst | LP2: Purple/Yellow/White Starburst) (1000)

 “Suspension” (Yellow/Pink/Green Starburst) (1000)

“Breakdown” (LP1: Purple Marble | LP2: Yellow Marble) (500)

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Pray For Sound - Everything is Beautiful // IAMSHARK [Colored Vinyl]

Pray For Sounds new album, Everything is Beautiful, is now available on limited edition colored vinyl via IAMSHARK.

The third release from Pray for Sound, Everything Is Beautiful, communicates the dichotic concept of light vs. dark without a single spoken word. As the follow-up to the band’s 2014 album Dreamer, Everything Is Beautiful marks an all in decision to dedicate their energies towards the band.

“We discovered a newfound excitement for the music we were making,” says Malley of the time spent writing and recording Everything Is Beautiful. “We took our time to finish our ideas, and the end result is something we’re all incredibly proud of.”

Everything is Beautiful is pressed on 2xLP housed in a 200 GSM Gatefold Jacket and pressed on Coke Bottle Green / Cream vinyl. The album will also be available in two additional colored variants from AM/FM Records and Dunk! Records. All 3 variants are pictured below.

Pick up the IAMSHARK colored variant here.

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Beck - Odelay // Vinyl Me, Please [Colored Vinyl]

Vinyl Me, Please have announced Beck’s Odelay as their October Record of the Month!

Vinyl Me, Please have unveiled their October album of the month, Beck’s Odelay. 

Our Album of the Month is Beck’s landmark Odelay, an album that found him shedding his Gen-X slacker persona for something more like the Beck we’ve known these last 20 years; a genre-bending iconoclast who’s one of this generation’s most enduring icons. -Eric Sundermann

VMP Edition Features:

180G BOURBON-COLORED VINYL WITH BLACK MARBLING

12″ X 12″ POSTER FROM ORIGINAL PRESSING

5″ X 5″ HIGH-GLOSS STICKER

12” X 12” ORIGINAL ARTWORK BY SCOTT ALLEN HILL OF OCD, THE ORIGINAL CHAMPIONS OF DESIGN

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Our top 5 Amazing Colored Vinyl Records

Check out the list of our top 5 Amazing Colored Vinyl Records

1. Dopesmoker, by Sleep

  The “Indica” Edition of Sleep’s 2003 album “Dopesmoker” came pressed in a fitting green and purple swirl to represent the color of the band’s drug of choice. To celebrate its 2012 re-issue, the band’s new controlling label, Southern Lord, pressed a “Sativa” Edition to complement the original. The album is considered a seminal work in the genre of “stoner metal,” which emphasizes a groovy and distorted sound to go with the groovy and distorted lifestyle. Instead of tracks, the entire album is one 63-minute song that is sometimes awesome and sometimes extremely boring.

  2. Ghostbusters Soundtrack, by Ray Parker Jr.

  The 30th Anniversary Edition of the Ghostbusters Soundtrack was released in limited pressing for Record Store Day 2014. The understated off-green record is interesting looking enough as it is, and features the famous film logo over the center, but it gets better: the album glows in the dark. Not only is the original hit song featured in “Ghostbusters” on the record, but several remixes including a dubstep version have been added on for the sake of modernity. The original remains an instantly recognizable classic to this day.

  3. Calculating Infinity, by The Dillinger Escape Plan

  The first album by The Dillinger Escape Plan, released in 1999, was designed to look like a safe on its vinyl pressing, featuring a combination lock over the center and sepia orange interspersed with the usual black, aiding in the aged look of the album overall. The band’s namesake, famous bank robber John Dillinger, probably had more than a little to do with the lock and vault theme that the aesthetics of the metal band’s debut obviously carries. The band’s music is aggressive and eclectic, and they continue to be popular to this day within their sub genre of “mathcore.”

4. Mess, by Liars

  Another Record Store Day Exclusive, “Mess” by Liars had a colorful 1000-run vinyl, but not in the usual way. The band pressed strings into the clear vinyl of the album, creating an eclectic and unique look to go with the album’s ideas of meaningful mess. The process created some interesting results. In case that wasn’t enough string from you, the album also came packaged with vacuum-packed string from the art piece on the regular album cover. The band’s music can best be described as avant-garde techno-pop.

  5. Plastic Infinite, by Scultpure

  Most albums with unique vinyl have interesting colors, or an interesting pattern, or sometimes even holographic patterns. But it’s rare to see a vinyl with an entire animation on it. Sculpture’s “Plastic Infinite” features a zoetrope on its body, a pre-film type of animation relying on a spinning pattern and a flashing light. Spinning the album normally,it’s easy to appreciate the beautiful artwork in its own right. But when you apply a strobe flashing 25 times per minute, you end up with something much more amazing that simply must be seen in motion to truly appreciate. The psychedelic and experimental music of the band perfectly compliments their beautiful, unique and very colorful vinyl.

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GIVEAWAY // Enter To Win A Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith Vinyl!

We’re giving away a limited edition Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith OST vinyl courtesy of IAMSHARK!

We’re stoked to partner with IAMSHARK to give away a copy of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith OST on limited edition colored vinyl! This limited edition release was pressed on “General Griveous” (Kelly Green / Process Cyan) vinyl and limited to 1000 copies.

Enter via the Rafflecopter widget below!

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Glass Animals - How To Be A Human Being // Vinyl Me, Please [Colored Vinyl]

Vinyl Me, Please have announced Glass Animals’ How To Be A Human Being as their September Record of the Month.

Vinyl Me, Please have unveiled their September album of the month, Glass Animals’ How To Be A Human Being. 

While Glass Animals hail from Oxford, there’s something uniquely global about their sound ­­ a liquid amalgamation that blends Bollywood, American R&B and cerebral British rock. We were all impressed by the maturity we heard in their debut album, but the leap forward with How To Be A Human Being caught us all by surprise in the best possible way – Cameron Schaefer, Head of Music, Vinyl Me, Please.

VMP Edition Features:

1LP coral blue vinyl

Alternate album art, die-cut gatefold jacket

12” x 24″ fold out poster

12” x 12” original art print by Whoopi + Myk

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Phantom Planet - The Guest // Enjoy The Ride Records [LTD To 500]

Enjoy The Ride Records will release Phantom Planet’s The Guest on limited edition vinyl!

Enjoy The Ride Records is proud to bring to you the very first domestic vinyl pressing of Phantom Planet The Guest. This marks the first time that this album will be available in North America on vinyl.

The Guest will be pressed on ETR webstore exclusive variant Orange/White Swirl vinyl and limited to 500 copies.

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My Morning Jacket - Z // Vinyl Me, Please [Colored Vinyl]

Vinyl Me, Please have announced My Morning Jacket’s Z as their August Record of the Month.

Vinyl Me, Please have unveiled their August album of the month, My Morning Jacket’s Z. MMJ transcends many different genres with their unique combination of sounds and lyrics,  making their music rich in meaning, yet still accessible.  Equally appreciated by your best friend, your boss or your parents, Z, is timeless.

Featuring an album cover with new colors selected by Jim James, this special package contains a beautifully pressed record on clear vinyl with blue, white, and black splatters.  Every aspect of this exclusive release is meant to celebrate the gregarious and personable aspects of each song on the album.

The special edition Z  package distributed by Vinyl Me, Please includes:

2LP clear with multi-color splatter

Gatefold jacket with VMP Exclusive color scheme

Lyric booklet & download card

12” x 12” original art print by Kathleen Lolley

Customized cocktail recipe

The beautifully packaged special edition is available exclusively to pre-existing Vinyl Me, Please members and those who sign up for the service by August 15th.