Daughn Gibson / Daughn Cross Shirt - 2101099

Look here! What you see before you is the new and perfectly fashionable t-shirt related to the forthcoming Sub Pop debut full-length album from Daughn Gibson, Me Moan. You can be the first in your neighborhood to wear this handsome heather black American Apparel cotton t-shirt by ordering now. Also available in a bundle with a Me Moan CD or LP.

Released: July 9, 2013

His Electro Blue Voice / Ruthless Black - 2105499

A brand new His Electro Blue Voice shirt can be seen here, available for sale in conjunction with their forthcoming debut Ruthless Sperm. Printed on American Apparel. Also available in a bundle with a Ruthless Sperm CD or LP.

Released: August 20, 2013

Beachwood Sparks / Beachwood Sparks (Reissue) - 4050398

Newly-reissued by Bomp! Records, this BLUE-vinyl edition of Beachwood Sparks’ self-titled Sub Pop debut is a beauty to behold!

Released: June 13, 2013

No Age / An Object - SP1041

An Object is the new album from No Age.

Released: August 20, 2013

Washed Out / Paracosm Navy - 2094596

Navy blue-colored Washed Out t-shirt featuring artwork from the 2013 Washed Out album, Paracosm. Printed on American Apparel t-shirts.

Released: August 13, 2013

Washed Out / Paracosm Cream - 2094597

Cream-colored Washed Out t-shirt featuring artwork from the 2013 Washed Out album, Paracosm. Printed on American Apparel t-shirts.

Released: August 13, 2013

Washed Out / Paracosm - SP1055

The music recorded by Ernest Greene as Washed Out has been nothing if not dreamy, and on his second full-length, Paracosm, he takes the dreamlike, otherworldly atmospheres of his music a huge leap further.

The title refers to a phenomenon in which people create detailed imaginary worlds, and the idea of escaping is all over Paracosm’s music and lyrics. Paracosm finds Greene reaching beyond the computers and synths that filled Washed Out’s previous recordings, expanding his sonic palette to include over 50 different instruments, the most significant of which turned out to be old keyboards like the Mellotron, Chamberlin, Novatron, and Optigan.

“I’ve grown as a songwriter to the point where I want to have more involved arrangements, and that’s really hard to do with sampling,” says Greene. “These machines were kind of a happy medium: The sounds have a very worn, distressed quality about them, much like an old sample. But they also offer much more flexibility because they’re playable.”

Following two years on the road in support of the critically-acclaimed Within And Without, and the lauded Life Of Leisure EP (which can still be heard during “Portlandia’s” opening credits), he and his wife, Blair (who plays in the Washed Out live band), relocated from the big-city hubbub of Atlanta to a house outside Athens, where Greene could shut out the real world in favor of an alternate universe of his own making. Listeners will be immediately struck by Paracosm’s seamless melding of organic and synthetic sounds, and its lighter tone. Greene says: “I knew from the beginning I wanted this record to be optimistic, very much a daytime-sounding album. I think the last record felt more nocturnal in some ways. This one I just imagined being outside, surrounded by a beautiful, natural environment.”

With its gorgeous execution and uplifting attitude, Paracosm is primed to be this year’s summer record. And it promises to do what its name suggests: take listeners to a better world.

Paracosm was recorded at in Atlanta with Ben H. Allen (Animal Collective, Deerhunter, Gnarls Barkley, Washed Out – Within and Without) at Maze Studios.

If you pre-order Paracosm on CD or LP, you’ll receive the very limited-edition Washed Out 7" single, featuring “Pull You Down” b/w “Exit” (both exclusive tracks not featured on the album), at no charge. Speaking of limited edition vinyl, if you pre-order the record on the larger, fidelity-maximizing LP format (by which we mean, the LP is physically bigger and sounds richer than a CD, duh), you’ll receive the limited, colored-vinyl Loser Edition of Paracosm. But, as is the nature of limited things, the sooner you order, the better your chances are of receiving them.

Released: August 13, 2013

His Electro Blue Voice / Ruthless Sperm - SP1054

Ruthless Sperm. What’s in a name? A whole hell of a lot, actually. Sperm can ruin everything. Persistent little shits that fight their way to the prize. If just one soldier gets ahold of its egg of choice, things will break apart, bubble and mutate. A microscopic violence that leads to thirty plus pounds of sludge and flesh. Still, beauty tends to be the outcome after all this splashy mess and most parties find a happy, rewarding ending. Most parties. To the unfortunate others, the outcome can be more terrifying than anything dreamed up in a Polanski flick.
Italy’s His Electro Blue Voice follows a similar path to creation. Once the choice is made, it’s guaranteed the trip will be violent and unrelenting. Only the band doesn’t tell you up front which crooked path is gonna lead you to the finish line (at first, they may not even know). But whether it’s slathered in a thick glaze of neo-gothic guitar, an unexpected electronic pulse or leveled under a death trip full of panic inducing terror shrieks, His Electro Blue Voice have become masters at building soundscapes that leave brave listeners spent, soiled and with nothing positive on their mind.
On Ruthless Sperm – His Electro Blue Voice’s debut full-length, after a string of collectible singles/EPs and an appearance on the Sub Pop 1000 compilation – they set their trajectories on a Kraut-driven rhythm; a haunting, cinematic wash or a mechanically-sound industrial thump. Thirty-plus minutes of shock-horror blasts, blaring cyber-synth attacks and that gloriously-repetitive Stoogeoid-meets-Killing Joke throb. The end result is a platter that’s as direct as it is deadly. Yet for all the bombast and bummer, His Electro Blue Voice still bring forth euphoric hooks and shards of shoegaze, if only to leave them strewn about within the mechanical wreckage. You can almost hear the sounds of the early 4AD roster in the grooves, left teetering between warped indie sensibility and creepy-crawl madness. Crazy sounding, but damned if it doesn’t stick in your head.
Ruthless Sperm by His Electro Blue Voice: subtle as a construction site and precise like a leather gloved killer. This is the apocalypse. This is end times. Thankfully we get a decent soundtrack to go with it.

If you pre-order Ruthless Sperm on CD or LP from SubPop.com, you’ll receive a digital download of an exclusive 13+ minute long song titled Mad Seen not available on the record or anywhere else! Also worth noting, pre-orders of the LP will receive the limited, RED colored-vinyl Loser Edition of the record. These things are governed by a while supplies last type of law, so order soon to ensure your obtainment of such wonderful things.

NOTE: If you pre-order this record, your order will not ship until August 20th. This applies to everything in your order – none of it will ship until August 20th. So, if you’d like to order more than just this His Electro Blue Voice CD/LP, it would be good to place separate orders if you’re the type who wants what you ordered, and you want it NOW! Thanks! 

• MP3 download included with all vinyl releases

Released: August 20, 2013

Goat / Run To Your Mama Remixes - Vol 1 - 4105698

Record Store Day 2013 release! Having released one of the most exciting records of 2012 (World Music), the Swedish collective’s voodoo grooves are given new twists & turns on these exclusive remixes by the likes of Thought Forms, High Wolf, Redg Weeks, Tom Furse (The Horrors), and Teeth Of The Sea. Seriously tasty stuff!

Released: April 20, 2013

Various Artists / Terminal Sales Vol. 6: The Silver Ticket - SP1048

On the occasion of Record Store Day 2013, we are releasing Terminal Sales Vol. 6: The Silver Ticket, the Sub Pop Records 2013 wholly overwrought and expensive-to-manufacture label sampler. It is a collection of some of the very best music in the entire world that we have the rights to give away for free.

The Silver Ticket because 2013 marks Sub Pop’s 25th anniversary and on July 13th, 2013 we are hosting a FREE event in the Georgetown neighborhood here in Seattle that we’re calling the"Sub Pop Records Silver Jubilee.":http://silverjubilee.subpop.com/info Do what you can to attend, we’d love to see you.

Goat / Run To Your Mama Remixes - Vol 2 - 4105697

Record Store Day 2013 release! Having released one of the most exciting records of 2012 (World Music), the Swedish collective’s voodoo grooves are given new twists & turns on these exclusive remixes by the likes of Gnod & Raikes Parade, Cherrystones, Hookworms, and Cage & Aviary. Seriously tasty stuff!

Released: April 20, 2013

Jacuzzi Boys / Double Vision - SBL-73072

The conquerors of the Johns and the Janes! The rulers of the rock! The cool fools that you make you drool! Straight out of Miami, FL, Jacuzzi Boys are back with a double scoop of electric rock ‘n’ roll to keep you buzzin’. The new single, “Double Vision” is a jammer for the mind, a feel-good freak out full of lasers and lipstick. It’s hot. It’s July. Slurp this song up with a straw.

But that’s not all! Featured on the flip is “Sunsets,”—the beach drifter, the tear shifter. Everyone from sun bums to horn honkers will be going bonkers to this tune. You’ve been cruising for the new Jacuzzi Boys’s LP (out this September on Hardly Art), and now you’ve got your sneak peek.

Written and performed by Jacuzzi Boys, captured by Key Club Recording Co., mastered by Kramer, and brought to you by Hardly Art. Act now! The rest of your life can wait.

Released: July 9, 2013

Kinski / Cosy Moments - 4062096

It’s been a few years since Kinski’s last album came out. They know that. Kinski also knows they could have stopped making music a long time ago, but they still have a lot to say. “We could have easily stopped,” said guitarist Chris Martin, speaking about the five-year gap between albums he made with Lucy Atkinson, Matthew Reid-Schwartz and Barrett Wilke. “But it felt wrong to quit. We wanted to keep doing it somehow. To keep going and keep making vital, great music.” Their upcoming release Cosy Moments due out in April 2013 on Kill Rock Stars is just that: Vital and great.

The album is filled with the glistening, graceful chords and heavy proto-punk rhythms that have become Kinski’s hallmarks over the last 14 years of playing music together. Not that the band is walking in their own musical footprints on the new album. Instead, Cosy Moments is the result of Martin, the band’s songwriter, spending the last few years figuring out where to go next musically. “We wanted to make something poppier and more direct,” Martin said. “That was the kind of music I wanted to hear then and that’s what we tried to do. I was really sick of hearing people step on wah wah pedals and solo over psych rock. There were so many people doing that. Including us. We’ve always had more poppy, songish elements But we just took it further this time.”

To build the complex layers of sound on the album, Martin changed up the way he wrote the songs, leaving behind the pedals, amps and tones he would play around with while drafting songs and instead sticking to more traditional songwriting techniques. The result of his efforts are songs crafted on a solid framework, with each song reaching higher and higher through complex layers of crisp guitar arpeggios, pounding percussion and fleeting ethereal moments that are a far cry from Kinski’s earlier fuzzed out psych-metal work. The addition of a pop element is not the only evolution of the band’s sound. This album also features vocals, which is a dramatic shift for a band that is known primarily as an instrumental group. “We always had songs with vocals on past albums, but it took me a long time to remember how to sing again,” Martin said. “I wrote a bunch of vocal songs. We eventoured with Acid Mothers Temple with some of that stuff, but we ended up throwing most all of it out. And I just kept writing.” Martin wrote for three years before having enough material to record an album and heading back into the studio with producer Randall Dunn, who also recorded their last three records. Cosy Moments, the group’s sixth full length, is filled with Kinski’s dense, intricate and occasionally nearly deafening noise, a musical style that is almost completely contradictory to their album title. But even the band isn’t quite sure why they named the album Cosy Moments — a reference to a P.G. Wodehouse book “Psmith, Journalist” about a guy who is an editor of a leftist magazine called Cosy Moments. “I don’t know,” Martin said, “It just seemed to fit. The history of this record was anything but cozy. But we came back together and are playing as well as we ever have.”

Released: April 2, 2013

The Thermals / Personal Life - 4062295

Personal Life is the fifth album from the Portland-based indie rock band The Thermals.

Released: May 31, 2013

The Thermals / Now We Can See - 4062296

Now We Can See is the 4th studio album by Portland, Or. band The Thermals.

Released: May 31, 2013

Digable Planets / Blowout Comb - 4090097

Following the gold-selling commercial success of their debut album, Digable Planets set out to prove their artistic prowess with 1994’s Blowout Comb. An album as diverse and vibrant as their home borough of Brooklyn, the music is a blend of jazz and hip hop and effortlessly mixes live instruments with samples. Digable Planets’ most important and lasting document is offered here in a package more beautiful than ever before. It’s the perfect excuse to reconnect with Blowout Comb – or to discover it for the first time.

Released: May 31, 2013

King Tuff / Was Dead - 4097697

180 GRAM VINYL w/ TIP-ON LAMINATE JACKETS AND FULL COLOR POSTER!!

From the Desk of King Tuff…

“It’s always seemed as though Was Dead kinda came outta nowhere. Even for me, I don’t remember writing the songs and I barely remember recording them. I do know that they came from the purest part of my heart and they were made with a mischievous little smile on my face.

I think it was 2006. I recorded mostly late at night, in a giant dirty ballroom called Vegetable Street, in my hometown of Brattleboro, Vermont. My days were filled with endless cups of Mocha Joe’s coffee, black, sitting on the stoop with my friends, and spazzing out on my guitar. Looking down at the streets of Brattleboro below and out at Mount Wantastiquet and beyond. I didn’t have a cell phone or a computer and the only way to find me was either to call my mom, Lil’ Smashy, who was probably already too busy cooking me something really delicious, or spot me in the corner of the coffee shop spying on people and drawing them in my sketchbook. They were very chill times.

I wanted Was Dead to be a pure Vermont Rock and Roll record, fueled by extra sharp Cabot cheddar cheese and hot, grade-A fancy maple syrup poured over crisp white snow and served with a pickle and a cider donut. You sit down on the shitty concrete in the parking lot and you slurp it all up. I had already made a few King Tuff albums in the early 2000’s and had laid the project to rest around 2003. But something told me to resurrect King Tuff, hence the title Was Dead.

This album changed my life in so many ways, as it slowly trickled out into the world. I never expected anyone to hear it, let alone connect with it. I never would have left Vermont, never met the boys at Burger Records or any of the other insane, beautiful, cartoonish characters that now populate my life in the best way. It’s an expression of my infinitely teenage heart and soul, and I’m really proud of it. So here it is again, thanks to Burger Records. These songs belong to the Strutters and the Stutterers, the Headbangers and the Stoop Hangers, the Ruthies and the Gold Toothies, and of course, the A-N-I-M-A-L-S…"

Released: May 30, 2013

Peter Jeffries / The Last Great Challenge in a Dull World - 4000369

Peter Jefferies’s extraordinary debut solo album, The Last Great Challenge in a Dull World, first saw life as a cassette via the Xpressway label of Port Chalmers, New Zealand, in 1990. As a result of some international underground acclaim in fanzines and mailorder catalogs – for both the album and a striking 7-inch, “The Fate of the Human Carbine,” released around the same time – it soon appeared on LP and CD as well, through the Ajax label of Chicago. Within a handful of years it slipped out of print and out of sight. Roughly 20 years later that situation is being amended by De Stijl with a vinyl reissue that includes the songs from the attendant single and no amount of remastering whatsoever.

Though no one’s gotten around to writing a book on it yet, The Last Great Challenge in a Dull World nonetheless stands as one of the singular singer-songwriter albums of all time, existing on a sparsely populated plane with Pink Moon, I Often Dream of Trains, Blues Run the Game, Our Mother the Mountain and not many others. In a sandy voice that soothes and slashes, Jefferies offers a compassionate, piercingly lucid view of the endeavor of life, all our pain and small glories rendered in tones both harrowing and tender. On piano, drums and percussion, he pounds out melodies that roar, sweep and lilt, accompanied on many songs by the serrated guitars of a variety of players. Featuring a small team of South Island heavy-hitters – all three members of the Dead C as well as David Mitchell (3Ds), Alastair Galbraith, Kathy Bull (Look Blue Go Purple, Cyclops), Nigel Taylor and Robbie Muir (who’s cobilled on the single) – Last Great Challenge provides a pivot point in Jefferies’s formidable recording career, which included two bands he shared with his brother Graeme in the ’80s, Nocturnal Projections and This Kind of Punishment, and four further solo albums, as well as stints in bands here (Mecca Normal, Two Foot Flame) and there (Plagal Grind, Cyclops, and collaborations with Shayne Carter, Jono Lonie and Chris Smith).

This immediate and affecting album has been a comfort and a guide for me since it came out. Sit a spell and see if it doesn’t speak to you as well.

~ Mike Wolf, NYC, 2013

Released: May 23, 2013

Rose Windows / Rose Windows Landscape Shirt - 2105399

There is an inherent majesty that this Rose Windows t-shirt design imbues that is immediately apparent upon first glance. In fact, this shirt is so picturesque that wearing it would be like personally mailing every single person you come across that day a postcard from the land of mountains and sea that is the beautiful and lush Washington State. What a nice gesture that would be. Lovingly hand-printed on American Apparel t-shirts.

Released: June 25, 2013

Mudhoney / New World Charm - SP1025

The long-running and unrivaled Seattle-based underground rock band Mudhoney released their ninth studio album on April 2nd, 2013. It’s called Vanishing Point and it’s excellent. Exactly none of the songs on this single are from that album. The a-side here, “New World Charm,” was recorded during the same sessions that yielded Vanishing Point, and, though of equally high caliber, impressed itself upon all concerned parties as less of a team player and more of a rugged individualist. The two b-sides are two different versions of the theme song Mudhoney wrote and recorded for the short-lived Discovery Channel TV series Brew Masters. Arguably not for the casual Mudhoney fan, this single will appeal to the Mudhoney completist we should all aspire to become.

Released: May 7, 2013

Shabazz Palaces / Black w/ blue and pink 3D - 2090096

New Shabazz Palaces design printed in blue and pink on a black 50/50 American Apparel tee.

Released: April 23, 2013

Shabazz Palaces / Black w/ tri-color - 2090097

New Shabazz Palaces design printed in red, green, and golden yellow on Black 50/50 American Apparel tees.

Released: April 23, 2013

The Thermals / Desperate Ground - 4062297

The Thermals’ Desperate Ground LP.

Released: April 22, 2013

Father John Misty / Singing Ax - 4097096

J. Tillman’s (AKA Father John Misty) full length, Singing Ax LP.

Released: April 22, 2013

Goat / World Music - 4105699

Debut album from the mysterious collective, Goat. Tribal, occult/voodoo, African-inspired psych-scapes from the deepest, most remote part of Sweden.

Released: April 22, 2013

Daughn Gibson / Daughn Cross Shirt - 2101099

Look here! What you see before you is the new and perfectly fashionable t-shirt related to the forthcoming Sub Pop debut full-length album from Daughn Gibson, Me Moan. You can be the first in your neighborhood to wear this handsome heather black American Apparel cotton t-shirt by ordering now. Also available in a bundle with a Me Moan CD or LP.

Released: July 9, 2013

Daughn Gibson / Me Moan - SP1010

Me Moan is Daughn Gibson’s second full-length record, and his first with Sub Pop.

If you pre-order Me Moan from your good friends here at Sub Pop, you’ll receive at no extra charge, a limited-edition Daughn Gibson seven inch featuring the songs “Every Night I Fall in Love” b/w “Brandy and Daughn”. Daughn himself describes the single this way: “Way back in the year 2002, I produced two R&B singles for a teenage sister group caled “No Option” out of a small recording booth located in a ballerina studio. As payment I received a Korg D1600, and these two songs were among the first solo things I ever recorded on it." As you can surmise, this is likely going to be a rare piece in future record collections. We’re also going to be giving people who pre-order Me Moan on LP the limited, colored-vinyl Loser Edition. Such is the nature of limited-edition things, when they’re gone, they’re gone, so get your order in quickly!

Note: If you pre-order Me Moan with other releases, your entire order won’t arrive until July 9th, so plan accordingly, please!

Released: July 9, 2013

Condominium / Carl - SP1051

On “Carl”, St. Paul’s Condominium churn out three tracks of their trademark blend of hardcore punk and mutated, art-damaged heaviness. This is Condominium’s sixth vinyl release, after four long-sold out 7"s and the Warm Home LP, all of which made the underground rock cognoscenti drool all over their Flipper shirts. All three tracks are new and exclusive to this release.

Released: May 21, 2013

Goat / Dreambuilding - SP1056

Goat are a collective who hail from a small and very remote village in deepest darkest Sweden.
Legend has it that, for centuries, the inhabitants of the village were dedicated to the worship and practices of Voodoo. This strange and seemingly-unlikely activity was apparently introduced into the area after a travelling witch doctor and a handful of her disciples were led to the village by following an unknown Sami traveller from this area of Sweden.

The reason he led them there is unknown, but their Voodoo influence quickly took hold over the whole village, and so they made it their home. There they were able to practice their craft unnoticed and unbothered for several centuries.

This was until their non-Christian ways were discovered by the Church and they were burned out by the crusaders. But the survivors returned to the village, rebuilt it, and to this day the now-picturesque village is still influenced by the power of Voodoo; this power can be felt throughout the grooves of the Goat records.

Sub Pop is proud to spread the mystical power of Goat all over North America with the double-A-sided “Dreambuilding”/“Stonegoat” 7". This is Goat’s first North American release, and it comes hot on the heels of 2012’s critically-acclaimed, import-only psychedelic opus, World Music.

Released: June 4, 2013

The Baptist Generals / Heart Shirt - 2061599

This shirt from The Baptist Generals features an anatomically correct illustration of what one can assume is a human heart and goes nicely when bundled with their forthcoming new record, Jackleg Devotional to the Heart, which comes out May 21st.

Printed on American Apparel 50/50 t-shirts.

Released: May 21, 2013