Upon first listen, two things about Honey are immediately clear: First, it is an entirely new kind of Caribou record. Second, in being an entirely new kind of Caribou record, it is in keeping with... more
Jade Hairpins waste no time fulfilling their second album's titular demand. From it's harmony-drenched opening note to it's baroque-anthemic conclusion, Get Me the Good Stuff is positively loaded... more
Named Best Album of the 1990s by Magnet Magazine, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea gives us Jeff Mangum's powerful solo acoustic work, full horn-section marches, history, religion, and sex-everything... more
Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn share a common collaborative ethos, a genuine sense of musical curiosity, and a cosmopolitan eagerness to escape the conventions of genre. That shared vision first... more
Oyster Cuts, the Merge Records debut of Quivers, finds the Melbourne, Australia-based outfit awash in the kind of emotions people tend to fear losing themselves in. Finding love after grief, the... more
Out In The Storm, Katie Crutchfield's fourth album as Waxahatchee and her second release with Merge, is the blazing result of a woman reawakened. Her most autobiographical and honest album to date,... more
Written immediately in the period following her decision to get sober, the album is an unflinching self-examination. This raw, exposed narrative terrain is aided by a shift in sonic arrangements as... more
The story ass it that Stephin Merrit came up with the idea for 69 Love Songs while siting in an elegant midtown Manhattan gay piano bar. Go figure. This box set includes volumes 1,2 & 3, that... more
Katie Crutchfield's southern roots are undeniable. The name of her solo musical project Waxahatchee comes from a creek not far from her childhood home in Alabama and seems to represent both where she... more
On December 7, Merge Records will reissue Hot Issue, a dozen turn-of-the-century new digs and old finds recorded by Redd Kross in Hollywood between 1980 and 2007. Available on limited-edition... more
A heavenly set of dub versions to pair with Hollie Cook's critically acclaimed 2022 album Happy Hour. Her first full dub record since 2012, Happy Hour in Dub was coaxed into being by close listening... more
This record starts with "Don't Make Me a Target", a song that builds on Spoon's familiar minimal rhythmic piano/guitar vamp popularized on earlier hits like "Small Stakes" or "The Way We Get By". The... more
Next in the series of Superchunk reissues, Merge Records offers 1994's FOOLISH on September 13. Originally recorded with Brian Paulson (Wilco, Slint), FOOLISH is the fourth album by Superchunk (and... more
Copper Blue / Beaster 3-CD is a remastered deluxe edition of Sugar's quintessential debut album & companion EP. Also included are B-sides, a complete 1992 live show and a 40-page booklet with band... more
A VERY SHE & HIM CHRISTMAS is a wonderful collection of holiday tunes from two of musics most impressive artists Zooey Deschanel (She) & M. Ward (Him). Inspired by seminal holiday albums by the likes... more
Merge Records is thrilled to release the 35th anniversary edition of Neurotica, the 1987 power pop and alternative rock opus by Redd Kross. This remastered reissue is available on a single CD or... more
Ove the last 24 years, New Zealand's The Clean have influenced countless band with their unique blend of homemade garage rock, hook-filled melodies and psychedelic experimentalism. This double CD... more
Redd Kross invite you to explore Beyond the Door, an album inspired by the band's "total commitment to having the best f*cking time we can have while we're all still here" (what they like to call... more
You reach a point in life where the question of how to stay at the top of your game looms; the only real solution being, you change the game. Our Love, the new album from Caribou, is the sound of Dan... more
Produced by Ewan Pearson, TINSEL & LIGHTS features Tracey's rich vocals and contributions on guitar and piano. Three tracks include orchestral arrangements by Nick Ingman.
Dan Bejar started Destroyer as a solo home-recording project in the early to mid-nineties. Destroyer's two recent limited edition 12-inches, BAY OF PIGS and ARCHER ON THE BEACH, were lauded by... more
1994 release, the fourth album from this Indie/Electropop outfit led by singer/songwriter Stephin Merritt. It's title, lyrics and musical styling are a nod to Country music, though the songs of... more
Two-fer containing the first two albums from the Indie/Electropop band led by Stephin Merritt: Distant Plastic Trees (1991) and the Wayward Bus (1992). on these two albums, Merritt is responsible for... more
This EP features a collection of songs written with Katie Crutchfield's now-dormant experimental recording group Great Thunder while she was also writing the Waxahatchee albums Cerulean Salt and Ivy... more
