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Bandcamp Friday Sale — 24% off

Records will always keep you warm, right? Spreading the holiday cheer into this chilly weekend as we extend the RVNG winter sale to Bandcamp Friday (!)

Today, December 6, take 24% off all items in the RVNG, Freedom To Spend, and Beats in Space Bandcamp stores using the code WINTER24.

To sweeten the pot, our winter sale now extends through Monday, December 9 on the RVNG web store. Discount applied automatically at checkout.

All orders are still poised to ship next week and arrive before the holidays, so spread the love to someone special. <*excluding fall 2024 releases and pre-orders>

RVNG Friends & Fiends - End of Year Selections 2024

If only there were more hours in a day to listen to all of the amazing new music released this year.

For today’s edition of Friends & Fiends on NTS Radio, we compiled a few selections and reflections from another unsurprisingly inspiring year of music. Nowhere near comprehensive, but (hopefully) a cohesive assortment.

Always much respect and many thanks to our fellow independent record labels / self-published artists for holding it all down; we’ve love every chance and intentional encounter, and the exchange of sound and ideas.

Listen live at 4 pm EST / 9 pm GMT today, Wed. 12/4, or scope the archives from tomorrow until the end o’ time.

Winter Sale — 24% Off — 11/29 - 12/6

Friends of RVNG, Freedom To Spend, Beats In Space, and Commend!

We hope this message resonate with you and at a frequency above the din of emails hitting your inbox today. Starting today, Friday, November 29, we’re offering 24% off our entire online store, excluding pre-orders and fall 2024 releases, through next Friday, December 6. The discount is automatically applied at check out; so, fill your cart to the brim with RVNG, Freedom To Spend, Beats In Space, and Commend ware, and you’ll be good to glow.

Orders will ship in plenty of time to reach you, or your loved ones, for the holidays. Our packages are always handled with care, straight from our Brooklyn HQ. Pro tip: we also often include some extra goodies as they surface on our shelves; one of the many joys of managing our own mail-order

Keep an eye on RVNG socials this week for highlights from the sale, and drop us a line if you have any questions. We’re here to help ~

RVNG Intl.

Dialect on Atlas of Green

“I wanted to make it feel quite handmade. To try and make something beautiful out of these sort of discarded fragments.”

Andrew PM Hunt, aka Dialect, gives us a look inside the process of making his new album, atlas of green. the full mini-doc is streaming now on the RVNG YouTube page.

Atlas of Green marks another ambitious step forward for the Liverpool based musician and composer’s long standing solo effort. As concerned with memory as it is with what lies ahead, the album arc follows the story of a young musician named green, toiling in the dawn of an unspecified future where signals and blips from the technologies of times past arrive in vibrant, musical fragmentations .

Atlas of Green is available now in a special artist vinyl edition with screen-printed covers, “standard” vinyl, and Japanese import CD.

Dylan Moon's Only the Blues Turns Five

A knell from Dylan Moon’s “Death Warmed,” in light of the recent five-year anniversary of Only the Blues.

At this juncture in his trajectory, Moon’s music, at its core, followed a folk tradition being extracted and explored by Alex G, Courtney Barnett , and others at the time. While the confessional application of those traditions are apparent Moon’s debut album, the songs here come as if through a fog, charting winding roads wherein lucidity and meaning become clear through feeling rather than precise detail. To Moon, obfuscation becomes its own kind of confession.

Recorded in bedrooms across Los Angeles and Boston, an intimate anxiety colors the album. Songs arrive ornately fashioned and bursting with ideas, feeling uniquely unwieldy and alive. This sense of motion and unplaceable time is mirrored in the video for “Death Warmed,” directed by Dylan himself.

Colin Self Announces respite ∞ levity for the nameless ghost in crisis

Put on respite ∞ levity for the nameless ghost in crisis in darkness and prepare to find yourself amongst unfamiliar companions. Colin Self travels to and from one realm to another on r∞L4nGc, the Berlin and New York-based artist’s third album, conjuring uncanny voices through their own singular singing style. Material and immaterial, fixities and fluidities, bodies and souls: such distinctions matter little in the looping, ever-crossing world of r∞L4nGc, where radiant, limitless beauty and boundless, inescapable terror are one and the same.

Incorporating Self’s long standing practice of dollmaking, and drawing upon a conscious exile that allowed the artist to settle into conversation with lost souls on other planes of existence, r∞L4nGc is an integrated vision of the artist’s eclectic practice. Singing in Polari, a forgotten form of slantwise English used by queer subcultures for centuries to evade detection, Self performs for our departed teachers and friends, and for the rest of us, ready to commune with uncanny spirits. There’s a beauty to Self’s voice that is inescapable, a shining sun cutting across uncertain emotions.

Yet on “respite for the tulpamancer,” Self is unafraid to let a ghostly chill pass through the familiar magic they conjure vocally, aware that true insight often occurs in the shadows, where doubt finds a body. Invoking the idea of the tulpamancer, a Buddhist notion of someone capable of giving form to a spectral, sentient force with a will of its own, Self sets the tone for r∞L4nGc: be prepared to hear from plenty of others finding their own way into this world, with Self serving as a collaborator to myriad ghostly figures.

Self and collaborator Bobbi Salvör Menuez created a video for “respite for the tulpamancer,” filmed in Vevey and the mountain of Le Moléson, Switzerland. Find that just below, alongside everything else you need to know about r∞L4nGc.