Lutalo - The AcademyLutalos highly visceral folk goes electric on The Academy, the Vermont multi instrumentalist, songwriter and producers debut LP. Recorded in January 2024 at the storied Sonic Ranch and self produced along with Jake Aron (Snail Mail, Protomartyr, LRain), The Academy feels like watching the best underground film youve seen in years; establishing Lutalo as a singular voice of this generation of indie rock. Lutalo describes The Academy as their first

even while knowing the tragedy that often awaits those who dare to dream

Designed as a new starting point to the Joe Strummer’s catalog it includes 13 tracks from Strummer’s solo career

one of songwriter and visual artist Terry Allen’s great foils and friends was the sometimes cantankerous but always brilliant art critic and writer Dave Hickey

In contrast to blissed-out instrumentation

Design by Jason Evans and Matthew Cooper

Kramer revived Shimmy-Disc for his 2020 tenure as Joyful Noise Recordings’ Artist in Residence

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His stretches with Fantômas

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trumpet and arrangements) doing some of their finest work yet

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Rachel Goswell (vocals