light in the attic

If it wasn't already abundantly clear, we love Light in the Attic. And as if the new Pacific Breeze compilation (and accompanying beach towel) wasn't enough, today the label dropped the first ever vinyl reissue of Japanese actress and teen idol Momoko Kikuchi's twinkling, sweetly dreamy 1986 City Pop classic Adventure, fully remastered and pressed on purple wax (the OG version goes for $50 and up

The sequel to our favorite comp of last year is coming in May on Light in the Attic, and they already have the vibiest cover art of the year on lock...

Light in the Attic continues their recent run of brilliance (sup, Lizzy Mercier Descloux reissue) with this: the label will reissue the five albums that iconic French singer Françoise Hardy released from 1962-1966: Tous Le Garçons Et Les Filles, Le Premier Bonheur Du Jour, Mon Amie La Rose, L'Amitie + La Maison Ou J'Ai Grandi...

"IT SOUNDS THE SAME WITH THE SYNTH FLOWING OVER TOP OF HIS INCOHERENT VOICE. BRILLIANT!" Thanks to Hipinion for somehow brokering the liberation of this painfully short (alleged) preview of Lewis' unheard, only recently discovered second album, Romantic Times, released just two years after L'Amour to zero fanfare...

"Perhaps you know Lewis. Perhaps Lewis is you"The heroes at Light In The Attic come through yet again, this time with the re-issue of L'Amour, a little-known 1983 private press obscurity from a long-lost enigma named Lewis. L'amour, a record that we were first made aware of a couple years back and that has haunted us on occasion since, and which the label accurately calls "a spine-t

To celebrate the vinyl reissue of Digable Planets' incendiary, ahead-of-its-time classic Blowout Comb, we're extremely honored to hand over the keys to one of our favorite artists of all time, DPs (and now Shabazz Palaces) visionary Ishmael Butler...

Brace yourself for our second gushing Light in the Attic post of the week: the label has announced the first vinyl reissue of our favorite hip-hop record ever, Digable Planets' still somewhat under-appreciated, ahead-of-its-time 1994 classic, Blowout Comb...

The world's greatest reissue label continues to unearth unreal lost gems, this time in the form of the first ever reissue of the amazing complete recordings from Lee Hazlewood's '60s girl group, Detroit's Honey Ltd., remastered from the original mono tapes...

The newly mastered reissued version of Donnie & Joe Emerson's lost 1979 classic LP Dreamin' Wild -- a record that was once about as obscure as things like this can get these days, at least until blogs like Soul Sides caught on, and then Ariel Pink officially blew up their spot -- is out next week on Light in the Attic...

Light in the Attic Records continues their flawless '09 reissue game (see the Monks, Serge Gainsbourg, Rodriguez) with the 180g vinyl-only reissue of the late Karen Dalton's 1969 Capitol Records debut, It's So Hard To Tell Who's Going To Love You The Best... Read More ...