For the listener who still thinks about record labels, who knows the difference between a Matador pressing and a Rough Trade one, and who wants to shop a collection that was assembled with the same attention the magazine has brought to this music since 1974.
This page pulls together 100 titles across vinyl and CD, spanning the full range of indie rock and pop. On the vinyl side you will find Wilco's Sky Blue Sky on a double LP from Nonesuch, St. Vincent's Strange Mercy and Actor both on 4AD, The xx's XX on XL Recordings, The War on Drugs' Slave Ambient as a double LP on Secretly Canadian, Warpaint's The Fool as a double LP on Rough Trade, Pavement's Wowee Zowee as a double LP on Matador, Cat Power's Moon Pix on Matador, and My Morning Jacket's Chocolate and Ice on Badman Records. On the CD side you will find Yo La Tengo's And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out and Painful on Matador, Wilco's A Ghost Is Born on Nonesuch, Pavement's Slanted and Enchanted and Brighten the Corners on Matador, Cat Power's Moon Pix on Matador, and Grimes' Visions on 4AD.
Why buy from Relix
Relix has covered the intersection of adventurous rock, improvisation, and roots music since 1974. That history informs how the store is stocked: not by algorithm, but by people who read the magazine, follow the labels, and care about which version of a record you actually take home. The store also carries the Relix Sessions series, live recordings produced by Relix and pressed to vinyl on the Relix Vinyl label, alongside titles from the independent labels that have defined the sounds on this page for decades. When we add something to the collection, there is a reason it is here.
Every title in this collection is new and sealed. Pre-order titles display a street date and ship when the label releases them. Vinyl ships in protective packaging designed for LPs. CDs ship in protective packaging.
If this collection is a starting point, there is more to explore. The Alternative Rock Vinyl & CDs collection goes deeper into that specific corner of the catalog. The broader Rock Vinyl & CDs collection covers a wider range of rock titles. And if you are shopping primarily by format, the CDs collection pulls together disc-only titles from across the store.