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ordering information

interested in downloads only? most three lobed titles are available for download through bandcamp (the best source if you want lossless files or want to the stream the entire album prior to purchase) as well as most of the other traditional sites (Apple Music, Amazon Prime Music, etc.).

interested in streaming? most all three lobed titles can be found on all of the main streaming services.

all prices listed are in US dollars. shipping is via the USPS (first class for CDs, media mail for LPs).

all vinyl albums are shipped in oversized new LP mailers with padding. unless requested otherwise, all vinyl ships sealed.

when ordering by mail, please send a check or money order made payable to "three lobed recordings" in US funds or well-concealed cash (at sender's risk) to:

three lobed recordings
p.o. box 2345
jamestown, nc 27282

you can also order on-line with a credit card using square (email for invoice), venmo (user @three_lobed_recordings) or paypal. paypal funds should be directed towards "info@threelobed.com". email info@threelobed.com if you have any questions.

are you retail? well, three lobed recordings are distributed exclusively worldwide by redeye. if you are outside of the US and having problems figuring out who the distributor in your territory is, please get in touch.

recent & upcoming releases

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  TLR 160: tropical fuck storm - inflatable graveyard 2xLP, digital

  to be released 27 september 2024. a slice-of-life blaster representing a top-flight live act in mid-flight, inflatable graveyard takes you to where eagles dare, to the edge of the stage and back. rock and roll, friends, no quarter given and no prisoners taken. inflatable graveyard will be pressed to 160g 2x vinyl by smashed plastic and is available for pre-order.
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  TLR 151: silver scrolls - mind lines LP, digital

  to be released 6 september 2024. wherein dave brylawski (polvo, idyll swords, black taj) and brian "bq" quast (vanilla trainwreck, cherry valence, BQs) once again join forces to make an album that plants you firmly in your most rock feelings. all the rocks: classic rock, psych-rock, indie rock, folk-rock, post rock, pre-rock. rock and roll high school all through post-graduate. tighten your helmet and get ready to ride. mind lines will be pressed to 160g vinyl by smashed plastic and is available for pre-order.
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  TLR 148: danny paul grody duo - arc of night LP, digital

  to be released 28 june 2024. a sister album to 2023's arc of day, arc of night is a electric affair where danny paul grody (guitar) and rich douthit (drums, percussion) express the opportunities and ominous tones that exist within the evening. gorgeous and contemplative, this is seriously moving material. click through on this link to read more about this album. arc of night will be pressed to 160g vinyl by smashed plastic, includes a bandcamp coupon and is available for pre-order.
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  TLR 150: sunburned hand of the man - nimbus LP, CD, digital

  to be released 12 april 2024. sunburned hand of the man is an ever rolling enigma, a machine fine-tuned and prepared at all times to astound, amaze and surprise. nimbus, is the band's latest high-impact studio release and it features a huge cast from the extended historic and present sunburned orbits. ALWAYS DIFFERENT, ALWAYS THE SAME. click through on this link to read an extensive essay on this album. nimbus will be pressed to 160g vinyl by smashed plastic, includes a bandcamp coupon and is available for pre-order.
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  TLR 146: gunn truscinski nace - glass band LP with 7", digital

  to be released 28 july 2023. steve gunn. john truscinski. bill nace. three names that need no introduction to denizens of the underground or those to follow the output of this label. glass band is a studio album presenting these three gentlemen working in tandem to, hyperbole aside, create a new sound. all of the players are completely sympatico and the output is like nothing else going. click through on this link to read a great essay on this album by matt krefting which does an amazing job of describing how this LP works. this one is something else. glass band will be pressed to 160g vinyl by smashed plastic along with a 7" pressed by third man, includes a bandcamp coupon and is available for order for immediate delivery.
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  TLR 145: danny paul grody - arc of day LP, digital

  to be released 16 june 2023. danny paul grody has a way with guitar that is singular. his circling, looping phrases hypnotize and pull you the listener into a deep, satisfying spell. arc of day is danny's first album for three lobed since 2013's between two worlds and his first completely studio-based solo album. but it is also more than that - it is less of a solo album per se as the album is full of collaborations and explorations will collaborators like rich douthit, chuck johnson, trevor montgomery and jonathan sielaff. it is a one of a kind album that will end up being in heavy rotation for you, believe us. arc of day will be pressed to 180g vinyl by gold rush, includes a bandcamp coupon and is available for pre-order.
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  TLR 142: bardo pond - no hashish, no change money, no saki saki 2xLP, digital

  to be released 3 february 2023. bardo pond was still a new matter in 1993 when the band assembled the material present on no hashish, no change money, no saki saki partially as a document of what the nascent band was up to but also for them to use in booking shows in/around philadelphia. the band would go on to chart a lifer career with a unique brand of psych rock but in 1993 they were a quartet trying to find their way through the world. no hashish, no change money, no saki saki presents us with a sort of time machine to live with the band as they existed three decades ago but shows us how they have always had the "bardo sound". this material has never been widely released in physical or digital formats and has been remastered from the original source by carl saff for this gatefold LP edition. no hashish, no change money, no saki saki is pressed to 140g 2x vinyl by furnace manufacturing, includes a bandcamp coupon and will ship in january 2023 and is available for pre-order now.
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  TLR 141: sunburned hand of the man - headdress (20th anniversary remaster) LP, digital

  released 28 october 2022. headdress has long held a special place in the (incredibly deep) sunburned hand of the man story. part-album, part-fable, part-party, the album promises good times and delivers in excess. it was an essential part of the entire underground in the early aughts and it has been unavailable from shelves for far too long. TLR is here now to pay it forward to current and future generations who don't know what they're missing and need to get with the program. the time is now, get it? this 20th anniversary edition was remastered from the original source tapes carl saff. it is housed within a gatefold jacket recreated from all of the original LP art elements and including new archival photography. it is pressed to 160g vinyl by smashed plastic in chicago and also includes a bandcamp-enabled download coupon. this special edition of headdress is available for pre-order now for delivery in advance of the album's release date.
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  TLR 140: eli winter - eli winter LP, digital

  to be released 19 august 2022. eli winter lives up to the promise inherent within the mere concept of an eponymous album - a statement, a reinvention. playing older than his years, winter has long demonstrated mastery over solo guitar composition and performance. eli winter takes those prior demonstrations and kicks the aspect ratio to full widescreen with a full vistavision palette. say hello to winter as composer and bandleader. over the course of six well assembled tracks winter is joined by the steady anchor of tyler damon (drums), cameron knowler (electric and acoustic guitars) and sam wagster (pedal steel) as well as guest turns from ryley walker, yasmin williams, jaimie branch, david grubbs, jordan reyes and many more. this record is pretty special. eli winter was mastered by carl saff, is housed within a full color jacket and including a bandcamp-enabled download coupon. eli winter is available for pre-order now for delivery in advance of the album's release date.
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  TLR 138: mary lattimore & paul sukeena - west kensington LP, digital

  to be released 20 may 2022. west kensington is the debut album from mary lattimore and paul sukeena (spacin', steve gunn's band, angel olsen's band). equal parts contemplative and transporting, lattimore's harp and synths operate in tandem with the guitars and mellotron of sukeena to create miniature universes. of its own kind, to be filed alongside eno and alice. west kensington was mastered by carl saff, is housed within a full color jacket bearing mysterious, mystical photography and including a bandcamp-enabled download coupon. west kensington is available for pre-order now for delivery in advance of the album's release date.
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  TLR 139: wet tuna - warping all by yourself LP, digital

  to be released 8 april 2022. warping all by yourself is wet tuna's latest reconceptualization of the notion of a "jam band" while staying effectively genreless, homegrown, dubwise psychedelia pivoting on the edge of chaos and funk. essential stuff here, so plan on getting wet. warping all by yourself was mastered by carl saff, is housed within a full color jacket bearing new artwork by dawn aquarius and including a bandcamp-enabled download coupon. warping all by yourself is available for pre-order now for delivery in advance of the album's release date.
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  TLR 134: sonic youth - in/out/in LP, CD, cassette, digital

  to be released 18 march 2022. in/out/in is a collection of tracks recorded between 2000 and 2010 and it offers something for every flavor of sonic youth head out there - the closet mix choogle of "basement contender," the rhythmic gordon/shelley showcase of "in & out," the spiraling guitar grind of "machine," the expansively exploratory "social static" or the gloriously ascendant white-hot rocket ride of "out & in." think of it as a sort of cousin to both "the destroyed room" and the SYR series in that it consists of primarily instrumental tracks that were cosmically meant to live together. need we say essential? in/out/in was mastered by carl saff, is housed within a full color jacket bearing new artwork by d. norsen and including a bandcamp-enabled download coupon. in/out/in is available for pre-order now for delivery in advance of the album's release date.
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  TLR 135: body/dilloway/head - self-titled LP, digital

  to be released 17 november 2021. body/dilloway/head is what happens when body/head, the consistently entrancing project of bill nace and kim gordon, hands over studio tapes to aaron dilloway for manipulation. the finished product is the perfect amalgam - the sounds of body/head emerge from and dissolve into dilloway's manipulations and the same phenomenon occurs in reverse. as matt krefting says in his wondrous essay on this title, "one of this music's many pleasures is the inability to identify specific emotions within it, despite the undeniable emotional responses it elicts. these are memories of moods, nascent feelings we haven't grown into yet." join us as the boundaries blur. body/dilloway/head was mastered by carl saff, housed within a tip-on jacket bearing new artwork by bill nace and including a bandcamp-enabled download coupon. body/dilloway/head is available for pre-order now for delivery in advance of the album's release date.
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  TLR 137: pelt - reticence / resistance LP, digital

  to be released 29 october 2021. pelt is one of those acts that will emerge from the shadows when you need their services the most. they are always watching, always ready to spring to the rescue with their acoustic improvisations that live at the intersection of folk, drone and experimental traditions. our chaotic present offers a situation that is almost tailor-made for the pelt intervention titled reticence / resistance. recorded live by the band's current quartet configuration (best, bowles, dimmick, gangloff) over two nights at london's cafe oto in 2017, reticence / resistance is the band at their most revelatory, their most magickal. please, come drone with us. mastered by james plotkin, housed within a gatefold jacket bearing new artwork by the band's patrick best and including a bandcamp-enabled download coupon. reticence / resistance is available for pre-order now for delivery in advance of the album's release date.
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  TLR 132: six organs of admittance - the veiled sea LP, digital

  to be released 25 june 2021. the veiled sea is a six organs album that contains no acoustic guitar, features multiple tracks with searing/soaring electric guitar solos in excess of five minutes in continuous duration, a track with an out and out dance beat *and* a faust cover. yes, you read all of that correctly. taken as a whole the veiled sea is like nothing else in ben chasny's - or any other - discography. concepts of american guitar heroics, galactic postpunk, popol vuh-ish pastoralism and heavy psych are all thrown in the blender. "as always, chasny finds the invisible threads between incongruous sound worlds" writes brent sirota in a wonderfully insightful essay on the album that we urge you to click through to read. "it is an improbable universe, but somehow it all connects." let the veiled sea transport you far, far away. mastered by carl saff, housed within a gatefold jacket bearing new photography by rob fisk and including a bandcamp-enabled download coupon. the veiled sea is available for immediate delivery.
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  TLR 133: sunburned hand of the man - pick a day to die LP, digital

  released 12 march 2021. we here at TLR learned early on the complete and freeing truth of the sunburned mantra "NO WAY OUT". that ethos, much like pick a day to die, is exhilarating and wild - always unpredictable, rhythmic, visionary, irascible and truly unlike anything else out there. space disco? yes. desert rock? yes, it's here too. out and out pysch workouts? you've got it. pick a day to die is like the sunburned catalog distilled down into a single LP, meaning it is essential for long-timers and for the new blood out there. mastered by patrick klem, housed within a haunting jacket bearing the one of a kind art of jacy webster and including a bandcamp-enabled download coupon. pick a day to die is available for order now for immediate delivery.
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  TLR 131: gunn-truscinski duo - soundkeeper 2xLP, CD, digital

  released 9 october 2020. the duo of steve gunn and john truscinski hold a special place within the three lobed catalog. to crib from jesse jarnow's essay, "with a decade-long partnership that is far more like a real band than their discography might imply, soundkeeper is the duo's fourth proper album. no one-off blowing session carved into tracks, soundkeeper is a focused realization of the pair's full dynamic sweep. it's music that goes straight for it, ecstasy and flotation and otherness, neither songs nor jams. perhaps more like windows. or events. it's music that immediately goes out, gets out, stays out, has always been out, a glowing radius around the amp and drum kit, intimate even at volume." soundkeeper is here to provide you with the care that you need. mastered by patrick klem, housed within a ghostly gatefold LP jacket with spectral photography from john truscinski and steve gunn and including a bandcamp-enabled download coupon. soundkeeper is available for order now.
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  TLR 136: silver scrolls - music for walks LP, digital

  released 10 july 2020. do you like rock? i mean, *rock*? psych, out, prog, classic, 'n' roll? you know, rock? if so, get ready for the music of silver scrolls, the new duo from dave brylawski (polvo, idyll swords, black taj) and brian quast (polvo 2.0, the cherry valence, vanilla trainwreck, etc.). music for walks presents you with two sidelong multi-movement suites built to provide you, the listener, with an ample supply of rock fuel to take a walk. talking a walk to clear your head, allow you to focus, allow to drift - the silver scrolls are there to join you on your journey and provide you with the rock you need. mastered by carl saff, housed within a vivid LP jacket with wraparound artwork by darryl norsen and including a bandcamp-enabled download coupon. from a vinyl edition of 497 copies.
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  TLR 130: bardo pond - adrop / circuit VIII 2xLP, digital

  released 21 february 2020. originally released as installments within two of three lobed CD subscription series in 2006 and 2008, "adrop" and "circuit VIII" each serve as unique high water marks within the greater bardo pond catalog. both are long-form suites consisting of multiple movements. both have long been considered by true bardo heads as two of the deeper cuts within their vast catalog. the collected adrop / circuit VIII 2xLP collects two essential, game-changing bardo suites on vinyl for the first time. remastered for this vinyl release, housed within a gatefold jacket and including an essay by gerard cosloy as well as a bandcamp-enabled download coupon. from a vinyl edition of approximately 800 copies split between approximately 400 copies on silver 140g vinyl and 400 copies on black 140g vinyl.
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  TLR 128: wet tuna - water weird LP, digital

  released 12 october 2019. matt "MV" valentine and pat "pg six" gubler have a familiar working relationship as friends and players that dates back to the 90s - memphis luxure and the legendary tower recordings. over these decades they have developed a language, a patter, that helps them communicate as players and composers. wet tuna is the current iteration - and apex - of that mind meld. first uncorked in venues aroudn the pioneer valley and elsewhere in the green mountains, wet tuna provides musical and spriritual sustenance. their first recorded output erupted in 2017 in the form of the powerful livin' the die on feeding tube. water weird represents a new height to their craft. put the stylus down and float. from a LP edition of approximately 920 copies on black 140g vinyl. available for order now here for immediate delivery.
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  TLR 127: mary lattimore & mac mccaughan - new rain duets LP, digital

  released 22 march 2019. in 2017 mary lattimore and mac mccaughan teamed together for a couple of live shows in NC that displayed their ability to work in synch, mary's harp and mac's synths playing a delicate and dedicated dance. new rain duets is the result of that synthesis, a demonstration of artists collaboratively and sympathetically playing off of the other's work in real time. reminiscent at points of the otherworldly nature of bowie and eno's berlin albums or the soundtrack to some film not yet in existance, lattimore & mccaughan demonstrate exactly what tuned-in collaboration sounds like. essential. from a LP edition of approximately 1000 copies split roughly equally between clear and black 140g vinyl. available for pre-order now here for delivery shortly before street date.

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  TLR 125: meg baird & mary lattimore - ghost forests LP, CD, digital

  released 9 november 2018. while meg baird and mary lattimore have known each other for years and worked together in various capacities, they have never relased a ground up collaborative album - until now. haunting and ethereal, this album captures what makes each of these artists so special on their own and amplifies it substantially as they work as a pair. totally magical and essential. from a 2021 LP gatefold edition on coke bottle clear vinyl. also on CD. available for order now here for immediate delivery.

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  TLR 126: daniel bachman - the morning star 2xLP, CD, digital

  released 27 july 2018. breaking a two year gap, daniel bachman returns with a new masterful set of composition, performance, and grace. over his absence, bachman has added more freedom into his compositions as well as field recordings and drones. big dan is still the man. from a 2xLP gatefold edition of approximately 1000 copies. also on CD. available for order now here for immediate delivery.

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  TLR 124: gunn-truscinski duo - bay head LP, digital

  released 3 november 2017. equal parts ecstacy and pyrotechnic display, the gunn-truscinski duo miraculously return just when all of us true believers need them the most. transporting instrumental jaunts from steve gunn (guitars) and john truscinski (drums, synth) that get you just where you need to go. long live the new/old bosses. from a LP edition of approximately 1000 copies. available for pre-order now here for delivery shortly before street date.

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  TLR 123: wooden wand - clipper ship LP, CD, digital

  released 5 may 2017. spooky spooked tracks about life - real and imagined. james "wooden wand" toth, one of our best living lyricists and songwriters, hand down - we'll fight you in the street if you disagree - returns with his first full length album in multiple years. well worth the wait / weight. from a LP edition of approximately 1000 copies. available for order now here for immediate delivery.

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  TLR 111x: kurt vile | steve gunn - collaborative LP LP, digital

  released 14 july 2017. due to popular demand, a standard edition of the vile / gunn collaborative LP from the "parallelogram" series. two of our / your favorite singers / guitar slingers get together and we all win. available order now here for immediate delivery.

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