1. Fade, Yo La Tengo
2. The Lumineers, The Lumineers
3. Down IV: The Purple EP, Down
4. Supermegafantastic, Iamdynamite
5. Information Retrieved, Pinback
6. Boys & Girls, Alabama Shakes
7. Allen Stone, Allen Stone
8. Babel, Mumford & Sons
9. The Virginia EP, The National
10. Cold Fact, Rodriguez
11. The Heist, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
12. Searching for Sugar Man, Rodriguez
13. My Head is An Animal, Of Monsters and Men
14. Visions, Grimes
15. Coexist, The xx
16. If You’re Never Gonna Move, Jessie Ware
17. Live in Holland, Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three
18. Unorthodox Jukebox, Bruno Mars
19. Night Visions, Imagine Dragons
20. Bloom, Beach House
A$AP ROCKY DELIVERS ON HIS PROMISE AND OTHER RX CD RECOMMENDATIONS
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LongLiveA$AP delivers on and even exceeds the promise of LiveLoveA$AP. Like that mixtape, the album is a triumph of craft and curation, preserving A$AP Rocky‘s immaculate taste while smartly upgrading his sound. A third of the record remains close in style to LiveLoveA$AP while most of the collaborations follow in the steps of last spring’s “Goldie”, which stamped producer Hit-Boy’s signature Mini-Boss Musik with a screwed-up hook and gumball-spitting flow that marked it as unmistakably Rocky’s. Plenty of rap-industry heavies appear on LongLiveA$AP, and they mix well with Rocky’s younger comrades. More importantly, the French-braid gold-teeth kid named after Rakim never cedes the center. For someone often criticized for his lack of depth, A$AP Rocky keeps delivering in the face of skepticism. — Pitchfork
INDEPENDENT ALMANAC SALE AND 43-SONG DOUBLE CD SAMPLER!
It’s a new year, but that doesn’t mean we’ve closed the books entirely on 2012, as it was a good year for music and we’re still digging a lot of releases that hit our shelves in the past 12 months.
If you’re playing catch-up, start with our Independent Almanac Best of 2012 sale, which includes dozens of sale-priced titles from our friends at Alternative Distribution Alliance, who have provided us with a killer 43-song double CD sampler to give you with purchase of any two sale titles. There’s also a contest you can enter to win a Record Exchange Gift Card!
Independent Almanac sale titles include:
Aesop Rock – Skelethon $12.99
Animal Collective – Centipede Hz $12.99
Beach House – Bloom $12.99
Bob Mould – Silver Age $12.99
Bobby Womack – The Bravest Man in the Universe $12.99
Brother Ali – Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color $12.99
Calexico – Algiers $12.99
Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind $12.99
Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan $13.99
Divine Fits – A Thing Called Divine Fits $12.99
Father John Misty – Fear Fun $12.99
Glen Hansard – Rhythm and Repose $11.99
Grimes – Visions $11.99
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – The Heist $10.99
P.O.S. – We Don’t Even Live Here $12.99
Purity Ring – Shrines $11.99
Shovels & Rope – O’ Be Joyful $11.99
Sigur Ros – Valtari $11.99
The Coup – Sorry to Bother You $12.99
The Lumineers – The Lumineers $10.99
The Tallest Man on Earth – There’s No Leaving Now $12.99
The xx – Coexist $11.99
Title Fight – Floral Green $10.99
Twin Shadow – Confess $11.99
JESSIE WARE INDIE EXCLUSIVE CD ONLY $1.99 (WITH $2 COUPON FOR NEW ALBUM)
Jessie Ware‘s 2012 debut album Devotion wasn’t released in the States, but it still managed to get mad love from Pitchfork, RX staffers and several others. The good news is, Devotion will get a proper U.S. release in April, and right now you can score an indie exclusive CD for only $1.99 at The Record Exchange!
The EP, titled If You’re Never Gonna Move, comes with a $2 coupon that you can bring back and cash in on the new album courtesy of our friends at Record Store Day!
NEW YO LA TENGO ALBUM 'FADE' NOW AVAILABLE, INCLUDING EXCLUSIVE LP!
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PREVIEW/BUY THE EXCLUSIVE VINYL HERE
Yo La Tengo‘s long-awaited new album Fade is now available at The Record Exchange!
We’re happy to have new music from this old favorite, and you can listen to it with us tonight during our New Release Tuesday Listening Party (6 p.m.) with free Pie Hole pizza!
Even more exciting is this: The Record Exchange is one of a handful of indie record shops in the country to get our hands on an exclusive vinyl version of the album with a bonus 7-inch featuring an additional two tracks. The digital download card also has an extra exclusive track, the 11-minute “Oriole.”