The new album from Arthur Alexander on Limited Edition Red Vinyl.

The new album from Arthur Alexander on black vinyl LP in a picture sleeve.

The solo debut of Arthur Alexander (Sorrows, The Poppees) on vinyl. Please note: The CD version contains five bonus tracks not available on this vinyl edition!

Arthur Alexander's solo debut on red vinyl. Please note: The CD version contains five bonus tracks not available on this vinyl edition!

Original Blue Vinyl pressing of the debut album from THE BROTHERS STEVE!

1. Angeline
2. We Got The Hits
3. She
4. Carolanne
5. C'mon Pappy
6. Songwriter
7. Carry Me
8. Good Deal Of Love
9. Beat Generation Poet Turned Assassin
10. Sunlight

The new 2021 album from NICK FRATER on black vinyl in a picture sleeve.

Extremely limited vinyl edition of Richard Öhrn's solo debut album, pressed in Sweden.

Popsicko's "Off To A Bad Start" on Vinyl LP for the first time ever, with a 48 page Official Oral History book.

The 2010 collection of Sorrows rarities on red vinyl.

While supplies last, Big Stir is happy to offer the 2010 Sorrows compilation "Bad Times Good Times" on vinyl courtesy of our friends at Bomp! Records, summing up the band's "Teenage Heartbreak" era and

The new album "Best Of Friends" on a double LP in a deluxe gatefold sleeve with bonus material.

Deluxe vinyl edition of the bold new album from the UK's legendary THE SPEED OF SOUND, packaged with an unbelievable assortment of themed bonus items! Track list: A1. Tomorrow's World A2. Opium Eyes A3. Smokescreen A4. Zombie Century A5. Wired And Tired A6. Virtual Reality (Part 2) A7. Shadow Factory B1. Impossible Past B2. Leaf Blower B3. Blood Sweat And Tears B4. Charlotte B5. The Day The Earth Caught Fire B6. Last Orders

Extremely limited edition vinyl version in one of several mystery colors! Includes a grab bag of extras from the Museum Souvenir Store!

The new album from Tony Valentino of The Standells on black vinyl in a picture sleeve.

Big Stir Records is thrilled to announce the addition of Orange County, CA pop legends SPARKLE*JETS U.K. to our roster with their first new release in 18 years: a limited edition colored 7” vinyl single that's of unique significance to both the band and the label. It's a pair of covers related to BSR's namesake Big Star – the band's classic “The Ballad of El Goodo” and the beloved Chris Bell solo cut “You and Your Sister” – recorded at Ardent Studios in Memphis with Jody Stephens on drums. Both the A and B sides will be available digitally ONLY with the physical 45 (until they're collected on the fourth Big Stir Singles CD in late 2019). The single is officially out Friday, July 26 and can be pre-ordered here:

www.bigstirrecords.com/sparkle-jets-u-k

It's a welcome return for sparkle*jets u.k., remembered as one of the most adored bands in the power pop movement of the late '90s and early 2000s and mainstays of the early International Pop Overthrow Festival years. Their adorably geekly sensibility and their sound – a distinctive marriage of '60s and '70s rock and whimsical guitar pop -- set then apart. Founding members Michael Simmons, Susan West, and Jamie Knight first met in 1995 at a gig for Simmons' band at the time, Virgin 7. Within a year the trio's separate acts had merged into a single entity, which included the first writing contributions from Simmons as well as material from West and Knight.

The group, which was initially dubbed Happy Birthday!, was renamed sparklekets u.k., including the "U.K." tag because the name wasn't nearly wacky enough. The three bandmembers also shared a lot of musical common ground, starting at The Beatles and running through Electric Light Orchestra, Brian Wilson, Teenage Fanclub, Pixies, The Jackson 5. SJUK recorded their 1998 debut In, Through and Beyond and pressed just 1,000 copies. Copies of the disc made it into a single store, where rock journalist John Borack (Goldmine Magazine and the Shake Some Action power pop guidebooks) bought a copy, his decision based only on the cover art and 3.99 dollar price. After passing word onto pop fanatic and International Pop Overthrow organizer David Bash, sparkle*jets u.k. were soon inducted into the close-knit family of Los Angeles-based power pop acts and their fans, then in its fondly remembered heyday.

The delightfully absurd I Love SparkleJets U.K. multi-artist tribute album and the excellent 2001 sophomore album Bamboo Lounge would follow before the group went dormant on the recording front. Simmons would go on play a major role in Popdudes (with Borack, Knight, Robbie Rist, BSR's own Addison Love and many more) and form another multigenerational in the form of Yorktown Lads (also with Love and Cameron Lew). His own solo album First Days of Summer, recently reissued in expanded form on Big Stir, adorned many a Best of 2018 lists. The album, along with occasional and warmly received SJUK reunion gigs, paved the way for the Memphis sessions which yielded the new single.

Along with “El Goodo”, Big Stir Records is making expanded versions of the two proper sparkle*jets u.k. albums available for download, and also offering the 2017 vinyl reissue of Bamboo Lounge in our store. There are rumblings that the much-rumored third LP may see completion and release in the year ahead... stay tuned for further developments, and grab your 45 while they last!

The enigmatic Agony Aunts return with their second full-length album.

1.Twenty-four Mergansers 03:14
2. Family Drugs 03:00
3. Big Cinnamon 02:47
4. Back To Back Bill 03:40
5. Undecimber 03:38 6. We Got The Jekyll 04:11
7. Mother Make Sleep 03:19
8. Uranium My Love 03:19
9. You're So Vague 02:54
10. Laughing At The World 03:25 11. Cool Fresh Nights 04:13 12. Trouble Was Born 03:15

The new album from Arthur Alexander on CD on a DigiPak.

The solo debut of Arthur Alexander (Sorrows, The Poppees) on CD... including five bonus tracks not available on the Vinyl edition!

The new self-titled album from Stourbridge, England's AMOEBA TEEN in an album replica sleeve with a fold-out mini-poster.

The new album from ANTON BARBEAU on CD in a gatefold eco-wallet.

The new album from legendary psychedelic troubadour ANTON BARBEAU! Track list: 1. Oh The Joys We Live For 2. Cowbell Camembert 3. One Of Her Super Powers 4. Filmik 5. Crystals 6. When Life Brings You Beer 7. I Love It When She Does The Dishes 8. It's Alright Rosie 9. Three Days The Death Enigma 10. Die Smiling 11. Salt Lick 12. I Been Thinking 'Bout You

TRACK LIST: 1. Wire From The Wall 2. Land of Economy 3. Beautiful Bacon Dream 4. Jingle Jangle 5. Clean Clothes In A Dirty Bag 6. Haunted In Fenland 7. Back to Balmain 8. Popsong 99 9. Tidy Up Yourself 10. Mahjong Dijon 11. Burning Burning

No one label could ever hope to claim the musical force of nature that is ANTON BARBEAU. For that reason among many others, BIG STIR RECORDS is simply and humbly grateful to bring you ANTON BARBEAU PRÉSENTE: KENNY VS. THRUST, available on CD and download on Friday, January 24 and is available for pre-order at www.BigStirRecords.com/store now.

Anton Barbeau is said to play "pre-apocalyptic psychedelic pop", but that tag doesn't even begin to touch on the scope of his work. His oeuvre ranges from surreal acoustic balladry to experimental electronica to the mutant neo-cabaret of his most recent album Berliner Grotesk. On KvT, though, Anton rocks. The record takes its name from Ant's current backing bands in the US and UK – Sacramento-based KENNY and Oxford, England's THRUST, known in their own right as CHARMS AGAINST THE EVIL EYE – and is possessed of a loose and live energy that sets it apart from the man's 2019 releases, including Berliner Grotesk, the critically-adored Natural Causes, and Ant's work fronting the French-American supergroup SALT.

The songs are drawn from Barbeau's songbook spanning from his teen years to the present day, but the all-new performances are fresh and immediate, and the bi-continental production is a cohesive and bracing dive into the essence of Antmusik across time. And just who is Anton? He's a Taurus, born in Sacramento and now living by a canal in Berlin. He's made something like 30 albums and has worked with members of XTC, The Soft Boys, The Bevis Frond, Cake, and The Corner Laughers (his label-mates first on Mystery Lawn and now on BSR). He draws frequent comparisons to the likes of Syd Barrett, Julian Cope, and Robyn Hitchcock (whose erstwhile Egyptians bandmates Morris Windsor and Andy Metcalfe constituted the other two thirds of Ant's band Three Minute Tease). He split the singing and songwriter duties with the legendary Scott Miller on The Loud Family's What If It Works? LP. Anton breathes rarefied air indeed.

As with many of those influences and peers, there's a special magic when a musical polymath like Anton steps in front of a sympatico live band and lets the chemistry take over. On Kenny Vs. Thrust, Barbeau has two such bands: the titular Kenny (Kevin Allison: guitar, Tom Monson: drums, and Jeff Simons: bass) and Thrust (Matt Sewell: guitar, Jules Moss: bass, and Richard Nash: drums). Anton adroitly mixes and matches his tunes to each combo's considerable strength.: Thus it's Thrust powering through the two-guitar sludge attack of the opener “Wire From The Wall” (sounding not unlike, well, Wire), the rhythmically trippy pysch of “Popsong 99” and the delightfully titled “Beautiful Bacon Dream”, and the Hitchcock-indebted and -referencing “Haunted in Fenland”. “Mahjong Dijon” with its acoustic-and-electric-12-string swagger rounds out the contributions from the moonlighting Charms Against The Evil Eye lads (from whom we hope to hear more under their own name this year).

Across the pond in California, it's Kenny backing Ant on the bracing meta-metal of “Land of Economy” (replete with serpentine fuzz-guitar lines from Barbeau himself), the stately “Burning Burning”, and the country-tinged “Clean Clothes In A Dirty Bag” (on which Corner Laugher Karla Kane gets “the last word”) – all of which Anton classes as his most political of tunes and are adorned with the requisite intensity any good protest deserves. Amazingly, they also sound imminently at home on the sweetly synth-laden “Back To Balmain” and the dub workout “Tidy Up Yourself”. And there's room along the way for the Ant-only “Jingle Jangle”, which serves as both a takedown and prime example of the genre its title would lead one to expect.

“There’s something beautifully balanced between the style and sound of each band. Of course, there’s me gluing it all together with too many synths,” says Anton. And it hangs together wonderfully, united by the singular lyrical whimsy for which Barbeau is known. Ever chasing one quixotic muse or another, Anton's busily preparing his next record, a concept piece known as Manbird that promises another journey across his own musical astral plane. Meanwhile, Kenny Vs. Thrust is destined to be the most car-stereo-crankable disc of Anton's – or perhaps anyone's – year, and we are thrilled to bring it to you.

The fourth release from The Condors is an EP tribute to frontman Patrick "Pooch" DiPuccio's former band Blow Up.

1. Matter of Fact
2. Girl Trouble
3. High Chaparral
4. When You Call Out My Name
5. Tell It To The Judge
6. Joie De Vivre

KC Bowman's 2018 release as Fireproof Sam And The Network Stars features the extended Corner Laughers/Agony Aunts family.

1. C'mon, Get Passive
2. Screwed over by Stylish Introverts
3. Old Trope Academy
4. Tryna Be Bolth
5. Rev Nine
6. Coat of Arms
7. Vatical Trance
8. Probably Twigs
9. Hide Behind My Heart
10. I Need You
11. Touch of a Clone
12. Obvious Scarecrow
13. Idiot Rock
14. Ripple up the Creek
15. Poisonous Peach
16. The Fountainhead
17. God Stopped Listening
18. Goodbye Minced Oaths
19. Wonderful Birthday
20. She Is Gonna Love You the Way She Loved Me

KAI DANZBERG's acclaimed 2018 album POP-UP RADIO has been hailed as "Album of the Year" and a masterpiece, with the accolades still flowing in. In advance of our release of his followup NOT ONLY SUNSHINE, BIG STIR RECORDS is proud to offer CDs of POP-UP RADIO signed by the artist himself! Tracklist:

1. Overture
2. Welcome to the Show
3. Yes We Can
4. Just Listen to Me
5. You're the One
6. Puppet on a String
7. Stranger
8. How Can You
9. Too Late
10. What the F (Radio Version)
11. Sophie
12. I Should Try
13. Sleep (Tell Me)

Kai Danzberg's "Euphoria" EP on CD

The 2020 album from KAI DANZBERG,on CD.

Presented in a deluxe album gatefold replica sleeve on CD, Lannie Flowers' 2012 album features all-new recordings expanding on the blueprints from his celebrated debut "Same Old Story" to create a fan-favorite album of front-to-back Lannie classics.

The new album from garage rock legends THE FORTY NINETEENS! Track list: 1. It’s For Fun (That’s All We’re Living For) 2. Tell Me 3. Late Night Radio (feat. Tony Valentino) 4. We’re Going To Las Vegas 5. Go Little GTO 6. Time Marches On 7. You’ve Got Stardust Eyes 8. I’m Always Questioning Days 9. It’s The Worst Thing I Could Do 10. You’re The Kind Of Girl 11. We Can’t Change

The new Nick Frater album for 2022, on CD in a gatefold album replica sleeve.

The new 2021 album from NICK FRATER on CD in a jewel case.

The brand new album from NICK FRATER on CD! Track list:

1) Fast & Loose 2) Let's Hear It For Love 3) Luna 4) That Ship Has Sailed 5) Moonstruck 6) Cocaine Gurls 7) So Now We're Here 8) California Waits 9) Would You Like To Go? 10) Buy You Time 11) Endless Summertime Blues

BIG STIR RECORDS is thrilled to announce the September 19 release of FAST & LOOSE, the new album from Croydon, England-based musical Renaissance man NICK FRATER! The new record (his fifth “proper” album) will be issued worldwide on CD and digital formats, and is available for pre-0rder at www.bigstirrecords.com/store now. Apropos to its title, it's a full throttle collection brimming with the hooks, harmonies and sophisticated arrangements his fans have come to expect, and bubbling with a freshness and energy that'll captivate new listeners immediately as one of the UK's best-kept secrets steps onto a wider international stage.

The follow up to 2019’s critically acclaimed Full Fathom Freight-Train, Nick Frater’s latest album Fast & Loose was written and recorded in a burst of creativity in the weeks leading up to and following becoming a dad. “It might sound unexpected, but spending many hours each day rocking and singing to a baby is actually a great way to write songs!” says Frater. The result is a collection of 11 hook-filled power-pop songs. Fans of Jellyfish, Cheap Trick, and The Beach Boys will find much to love here, but it's Frater's own personality and mastery of melody and arrangement that'll hook them for good.

The new record leaves the gate with the title track, a rollicking retro-flavored instrumental showcasing Frater's period-perfect mastery of '60s and '70s sounds, and then barrels straight into a pair of rockers that set the tone. Lead single “Let's Hear It For Love” shows off Frater's love of Todd Rundgren to great effect, and “Luna” keeps the energy up with a delirious stew of organ, guitar and harmonies over a stomping beat. Both would be perfectly at home atop the radio charts half a century ago but also bear the distinctive stamp of Frater's best work. From there it's into the lovely Pet Sounds-inflected “That Ship Has Sailed” and the pitch-perfect ballad “Moonstruck”, both showcasing an attention to production and arrangement detail that does nothing to dull their immediacy.

And things kick back up to an appropriately jittery level of energy with “Cocaine Gurls” (with its also-appropriate namedrops of Steely Dan, Talking Heads and Stevie Nicks) and “So Now We're Here”, evoking the garage-leaning sides of The Zombies or The Cyrkle with its fierce keyboards and rich harmonies. “California Waits” pairs a giddy textbook power pop vibe with the surprise of an insistent accordion (oh, it works!) but it's the next tune, “Would You Like To Go?” that nails the LA sound, seemingly rolling all eras of The Beach Boys into one rocking instant classic. The stately, lushly-orchestrated 6/8 yearning of “Buy You Time” brings FAST & LOOSE to an impassioned crescendo and the lovely “Endless Summertime Blues” serves as its tender conclusion.

Recorded very ‘fast & loose’ in Frater’s home studio, FAST & LOOSE features guest appearances from many of his friends in the pop rock scene including Spygenius, The Stan Laurels, Whelligan, Emperor Penguin, Super 8, Do Me Bad Things and a blistering solo from ex-Tokyo Dragons guitarist Steve Lowe. The guest roster will come as no surprise to followers of Nick's reciprocal work as a producer, live sideman (including recent UK gigs with the current edition of Love) and the impresario behind his own Great Sheiks Music imprint... he's the kind of team player we love here at BSR, our Nick!

Unknown to Frater at the time, the striking cover image was taken at a photoshoot where everyone was exposed to Covid 19 and had to self-isolate; a few days later the U.K. locked down completely. “There’s probably a metaphor to be found in wrapping your head in cling film and play-doh on the last day of the old world” says Frater, “but God only knows what it might be!” We can say that having Nick in the crazy world that followed has made it better: he would go on to complete and release the unique and fascinating 59 Vignettes project, a pandemic-era daily collection of just what the title implies in the form of one-minute mini-compositions that enlightened those early quarantine days, before putting the finishing touches on FAST & LOOSE. And naturally... he's already working ahead toward another collection for 2021. We're all in for all of it, and we're certain you will be, too.

For more on NICK FRATER, see:

www.nickfrater.com www.bigstirrecords.com/nick-frater

The new album from Detroit's masters of garage rock The Incurables on CD in a Digipak.

The new EP from BLAKE JONES of Blake Jones & The Trike Shop featuring six brand new tracks recorded during the 2020 pandemic lockdown. Track list:

1. The Last Song of Summer
2. Do The Lockdown Bossa Nova
3. Three Jerks In A Jeep
4. Homebound
5. The First Order
6. Make Peace