For the listener who has followed Matador Records across decades of independent music, this page collects more than 200 titles from the label in vinyl, CD, and cassette formats.
The range here is wide. Horsegirl's Phonetics On And On arrives on LP. Snail Mail's Lush is pressed on red and blue vinyl. Belle and Sebastian are represented by both The Boy With The Arab Strap on blue LP and the double LP Life Pursuit. Yo La Tengo appears across multiple formats, including the double LP I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One, the double LP Electr-O-Pura, and And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out on CD. Bardo Pond's Melt Away is here as a double LP. Queens of the Stone Age's Perfecth is available on both LP and CD. Interpol's Turn on the Bright Lights, Mdou Moctar's Ilana (The Creator), Spoon's Transference, and David Byrne's Who Is The Sky round out the CD side. The boygenius EP is here on LP, and Desert Sessions' Vols. 11 and 12 rounds out the vinyl selection.
Why buy from Relix
Relix has covered the wider world of independent and adventurous music since 1974. That history informs what ends up in the store. Alongside catalog titles and new releases, the shop carries the Relix Sessions series, live recordings produced by Relix and pressed to vinyl on the Relix Vinyl label. The Matador titles here are stocked because they fit the same standard: records worth owning in a physical format, from a label that has consistently released them.
All titles are new and sealed. Pre-order listings show a street date and ship when the label releases them. Vinyl ships in protective packaging designed for LPs.
If Matador is your entry point, there is more to explore. Alternative Rock Vinyl and CDs and Indie Rock and Pop Vinyl and CDs pull from across the store's catalog, and CDs Straight from the Vault covers the full CD section for anyone who has kept the disc player running.