Strange Things Happening Every Day
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Recorded 1944, sounds like 1955 rock and roll · 2:49
gospel, electric guitar, deliberate distortion, proto-rock
Weak for Your Love
Thee Sacred Souls
Recorded 2022, sounds like 1965 Chicano sweet soul · 4:21
Daptone soul, falsetto, analog tape, San Diego
Demolición
Los Saicos
Recorded 1965, sounds like 1977 Ramones · 2:58
Lima punk, “demoler!”, teenage, first punk record
Complication
The Monks
Recorded 1966, sounds like 1978 UK post-punk · 2:22
American GIs in Germany, tonsures, electric banjo, dissonance
Jack the Ripper
Link Wray
Recorded 1961, sounds like 1977 punk, 1991 grunge · 2:23
power chords, punched speakers, gutbucket, Townshend’s spark
I Walk Like Jayne Mansfield
The 5.6.7.8’s
Recorded 1996, sounds like 1964 garage / girl group · 3:49
Tokyo trio, Kill Bill, fuzz, beehive glamour
Rock Awhile
Goree Carter
Recorded 1949, sounds like 1955 rock and roll · 2:44
Houston, eighteen years old, overdriven guitar, “ahead of himself”
Scratching Circles
JD McPherson
Recorded 2012, sounds like 1958 Sun Records R&B · 2:10
quarter-inch tape, Tiny Bradshaw, wild R&B, analog
I Hear a New World
Joe Meek
Recorded 1960, sounds like 1980s synth-pop, 1990s ambient · 2:44
clavioline, moon concept album, 99 copies, household instruments
Go Outside
Cults
Recorded 2010, sounds like 1963 Wall of Sound · 3:23
Brooklyn, Jonestown sample, xylophone, AM radio 1963
Strychnine
The Sonics
Recorded 1965, sounds like 1977 punk · 2:13
Tacoma, “no future”, blood-curdling scream, lo-fi
The Moon Is in the Wrong Place
Shannon & The Clams
Recorded 2024, sounds like 1964 garage-soul · 3:00
Oakland, beehive, retro soul, John Waters
Rock and Roll
The Boswell Sisters
Recorded 1934, sounds like 1955 vocal jazz-rock · 2:42
close harmony, tempo shifts, Connee Boswell, prophetic
La La Blues
Pokey LaFarge
Recorded 2010, sounds like 1928 jug band / ragtime · 3:42
jug band, banjo, American Epic, no modern licks
The Train Kept A-Rollin’
Johnny Burnette Trio
Recorded 1956, sounds like 1968 proto-metal · 2:19
accidental fuzz, Burlison, Plant-ish shrieks, Zeppelin blueprint
Is It Any Wonder?
Durand Jones & The Indications
Recorded 2016, sounds like 1966 deep soul · 4:37
Indianapolis basement, analog, Aaron Frazer falsetto, Motown vault
Computer Game
Yellow Magic Orchestra
Recorded 1978, sounds like 1988 Detroit techno · 1:48
Space Invaders samples, “techno” coined, Sakamoto, pre-Detroit
River
Leon Bridges
Recorded 2015, sounds like 1960 Memphis gospel · 3:59
straight to tape, Niles City Sound, gospel, Memphis
Crawdaddy Simone
The Syndicats
Recorded 1965, sounds like 1977 punk, 1987 noise-rock · 3:17
Joe Meek production, machine-gun drums, comb-on-strings noise, freakbeat
Watching Cartoons
La Luz
Recorded 2021, sounds like 1966 psychedelic surf-pop · 3:29
electric sitar, Mellotron, theremin, Gold Star 1966
Le Twist
Sylvaine Éternelle
Recorded 2026, sounds like 1962 yéyé · 4:05
yéyé, time-shifted, analog synths, the label’s own
Lick the Stamp with Silence
The Moss Twins
Recorded 2026, sounds like 1962 Brill Building · 3:21
Brill Building, girl group, doo-wop, the label’s own