Vinyl Records - The Latest

Aphex Twin ’s Selected Ambient Works 85-92 was released in 1992 by R&S offshoot Apollo Records after Richard D. James had just two singles to his nam

Washed Out returns with his heady blend of shoegaze, Balearic sounds, and R&B leanings. Ernest Greene has teamed up again with producer Ben H. Allen

The special sauce to some of SBTRKT and Jessie Ware 's top tracks , Sampha drops his first solo release. Beyond the vocals and keyboard play he's bec

First Daft Punk, now Boards Of Canada. The first half of 2013 has been all about the masterfully orchestrated, slow-reveal album drop. It can be argu

Deluxe 180g pressing of the classic Beach Boys album. You guy's should already know about this one, but we're gonna give you the original Lab review

Deadstock find! Here's what we wrote when it first came out in 2007: Money Studies kicks off its new "Lost Masters" reissue series by resurrecting th

Absolutely no Harlem Shaking was done while recording this record. A$AP Rocky caused waves of commotion via the interwebz in 2011/12 with the release

Debut album from the Staten Island instrumental soul group. The Budos Band sound is definitely leaning towards West African funk, but they do it with

Third studio full length from NY's Budos Band . These guys absolutely rip it on the vintage sounding instrumental funk tip, and prove that once again

As if that scorpion on the cover didn't say it all - The Budos Band are back, and they mean business. 10 more tracks of unfadeable Staten Island inst

Critical praise is rightfully due when you are as young as Tame Impala frontman Kevin Parker making the incredibly dense, beautiful psychedelic freak

The mind behind the madness of Tame Impala belongs to Australian Kevin Parker. A man who paints himself as a beleaguered stoner, but is able to pull

Man oh man oh man, Over 2 decades later and this still sounds so ridiculously fresh . Double vinyl version of this '91 hip-hop classic, featuring a y

What can I say about this album? Easily in the top 10 of all time, there is no way to pick favorites on this album. Not even one okay track on here.

Yeah this is the one all the Flying Lotus fans have been waiting for to be reissued . This EP could be Flylo's finest moments, a excellent time stamp

Can't believe we've never had this one up in the Lab before . K Lim said it best on his review of the Black Nostaljack 12" - "If any of you think tha

Let's forgo all the philosophizing and speculating , and instead just say that Kala is another monster album from M.I.A. Sorry, haters - with Switch,

OK, I hope to god that everyone reading this is familiar with "Let's Stay Together," perhaps Al Green's most-played track and simply one of the great

There are a few records that are just are so universally good that you can't consider yourself a music lover if you don't have em in the racks somewh

It's been 30 years since Paul's Boutique came out , and to celebrate this landmark release, Capitol has pressed it up onto double vinyl for the first

"Bitches ain't shit but hos and tricks, lick on the nuts and suck the dick..." Ahhh, quality ish. My earliest memory of this record was when Dr. Dre

17 year old Archy Marshall makes startlingly haunting music as King Krule. From his lyrics - which sound like they were written by someone with many

This is the debut, breakout album for The xx (no caps allowed!), whose mellow, introspective indie pop captured the hearts of both critics and hipste

By special request, Stones Throw has pressed up copies of Dilla's beat sketch masterpiece Donuts with the "smile" cover, originally used for the CD v

30 years old and still potent as ever... Cypress Hill's self-titled debut. The album, available on colored vinyl, features audio remastered from the

Now with pic sleeve! Madlib steeze. Complete instrumentals from the Madvillainy album pressed on double vinyl. Let the music do the talking. Check: "

In 1988, Robert Smith was 29 years old, panicking that he had yet to deliver a masterpiece before the curtain fell on his 20s . He began writing song

My style is the best. When those first Wu-Tang covers 7"s dropped, it was definitely a lightbulb moment for El Michels Affair . The response was rabi

Three years after the striking Saturdays = Youth , M83 returns with a grandiose double album, Hurry Up, We're Dreaming. The lead single, "Midnight Ci

Flying Lotus finally drops his much anticipated and heavily hyped third album on Warp! Cosmogramma raises the bar to outerspace heights and goes abov

LA's Flying Lotus is being setup as the next Madlib-Diplo-DJ Shadow -type producer cash cow. The hype is well-warranted in my opinion, as Flying Lotu

After whetting our appetites with "New York Is Killing Me," Jamie xx releases We're New Here , a thirteen-track full-length featuring The xx producer

SBTRKT, the mysterious (masked) purveyor of cutting-edge dance sounds, drops his self-titled debut album on Young Turks. The London-based producer's

In one of the biggest stealth moves ever , Jay Dee spent the last decade rising from underground prodigy to deified musical martyr, quietly redefinin

When Donuts first rolled into the Lab, I gave it a cursory listen, and, wanting to get home to the new episode of Lost as quickly as possible, tossed

Finally available on vinyl! Didn't think much of this album when we first saw it advertised - now it's heading for instant classic status. Retro soun

We're living in the 21st century , and Kanye West is definitely doing something to it. From media frenzies to Twitter rants, the Chicagoan has perman

This sentiment pops up often enough in my reviews that it's bordering on self-parody, but seriously, do y'all REALLY need me to sell this record? Rea

Everybody knew 6 months ago that Kanye 's album was gonna be serious. Ever since the buzz on his solo stuff started, he's been producing bigger and m

You know that really impressionable period in your life where you don't really know anything about anything, and you meet a bunch of cool people and

I really lost my shit when I first heard this . Heads in the know tell you that this is their best, most complete album. No weaklings, just solid bea

Finally, the highly anticipicated mix from the Lab's dirty beat digger Gaslamp Killer! This is his third official mix and I'll have to say, it's a mi

I don't know how Stones Throw are going to top this. Without exaggeration, this is one of the greatest meeting of the minds of this whole SP1200-abus