The Meters - The MetersThe Meters is the debut studio album by the band of the same name. It's an essential album in the funk scene and one that contains a lot of energy and soul. Organist Art Neville led the quartet which consisted of guitarist Leo Nocentelli, the rhythm section of bassist George Porter and drummer Joseph "Zigaboo" Modeliste. New Orleans funk in their beauty of simplicity, it's what makes this album so remarkable. Each and every songs is brimming with

they are gentle and restrained on the folk mysticism of 'Going To California' and the Sandy Denny co-sung 'The Battle Of Evermore

Monophonics have built a reputation over the past decade as one of the most impactful bands in the country

unadorned sounds indelibly to plastic

In addition

relationships

Slow Club's Rebecca Taylor and Charles Watson release an exclusive vinyl for Record Store Day

Less of a mystery is the quality contained therein… after 12 self-titled releases and a several more under pseudonyms

and a harpsichord

Beggars Arkive is excited to announce the upcoming reissue of The Fall’s 10th studio album

Under the Bloom and Obscene

The beautifully sparse

gift or employ / Fair is far too small a word we’d enjoy / In another life / So hold a promise no bigger than two hands / Hope scaled and re-read in human / And not reduced to a list of demands / In another life