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Limited 180gm orange colored vinyl LP pressing. Funkadelic’s first album, eponymously released in 1970, gets the HIQLP treatment to celebrate it’s 50th anniversary. In a thick card sleeve.  Also, LSD.  Not literally in the record but you know, it is IN the music.  I’m high just writing this. 

Vinyl LP pressing. 2020 release. Releasing brand new material episodically – as and when it happens – and has continued throughout the year. The ongoing and ever-evolving process has seen our favorite characters joined by an expanding roster of collaborators captured live in Kong Studios and beyond. The result is an expansive collection of 17 tracks embracing a myriad of sounds, styles, genres and attitudes from a breathtaking line-up of guest artists including Beck, Elton John, Fatoumata Diawara, Georgia, Kano, Leee John, Octavian, Peter Hook, Robert Smith, Roxani Arias, ScHoolboy Q, Slaves, Slowthai, St Vincent and 6LACK, as well as CHAI, EARTHGANG, Goldlink, Joan As Police Woman, JPEGMAFIA, Moonchild Sanelly, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Skepta and Tony Allen.

Vinyl LP pressing. In a time of polarized politics and murky waters; Idles and bands like them are needed to remind people that it’s ok to dance and laugh and sing in the face of adversity. Bristol’s finest post-punk polemics Idles have been promising to do great things for some time now, and with their 2017 debut album Brutalism they absolutely fulfilled that promise, and a furious promise at that. Politically charged, refreshingly confrontational and infectiously volatile, Idles are a band like no other. Bringing the unsettling reality of the world we live in into their frantic assault on the senses, Brutalism perfectly encapsulates the intensity of their live sound.

GRACE is a masterpiece. The critically acclaimed breakthrough is filled with sweeping choruses, bombastic arrangements, searching lyrics, and above all, the richly textured voice of Buckley himself.  This is a record everyone should have in their collection.  Gone too soon…

Simply put, this is one of the greatest albums ever recorded. He recorded it in one session on Dec 9, 1964.  Imagine that.  Creating a masterpiece on one cold December day in New Jersey.  If you’ve thought to yourself that you need more jazz in your collection…can’t think of a better place to start than right here.

Limited 40th anniversary edition of Joy Division’s sophomore album Closer, pressed on crystal clear vinyl. Closer is the second and final studio album by English rock band Joy Division, originally released on 18 July 1980. Produced by Martin Hannett, it was released two months after the suicide of the band’s lead singer and lyricist Ian Curtis.  It is perfection.

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is the debut solo album studio by Lauryn Hill. Released August 25, 1998, the album swept the Grammy Awards in 1999, being nominated for 10 and winning five. As of 2009, the album has sold over 19 million copies worldwide and over 10 million copies in the US alone, with the RIAA giving it Diamond status.  Its a must own record.