Spring 2026 Releases

Just ahead of btv’s 30th Anniversary, which happens this summer, we have 3 important new vinyl releases.

Jetenderpaul’s The Woolen Spires has always been one of the favorite releases in the label’s history. This was originally a co-release with our good friends in Southern California, Velvet Blue Music. Now, so many years later, The Woolen Spires joins The Modal Lines on vinyl. Post-graduate indie pop, with influences ranging from Guided By Voices, The Apples In Stereo, Kleenex Girl Wonder, to Magnetic Fields. This was bedroom pop at its finest, recorded in bedrooms to a digital 8-track, beautifully lo-fi. On coke bottle green vinyl.

“Weird and wired without withholding the jams at the expense of some aloof artiness, The Woolen Spires is a mix-and-match, cut-and-paste affair of home recorded oddities and lo-fi rockers, the latter certain to get the toes tappin’ and the former serving to get the head a-scratchin’.  These are perfect pop songs forever gone astray once they leave the boys’ heads and become ensconced on the recorder.  Gems, all.”– Steve Brydges, The Copper Press

In the Summer of 2024, I went with Soporus to San Jose, Costa Rica. Soporus played two shows, the first with the excellent A su ladera and Carla Alforo. The second was the co-album release show for Adios Cometa (who have an excellent new record out from our friends at Steadfast Records) and Dylan Thomas. and Lentamente. I couldn’t get the songs out of my head and decided that these excellent shoegaze records should be pressed on vinyl.

Lentamente: Bienvenida. This album was originally released in October 2023, influenced by dream pop, post-punk, and shoegaze. The vinyl release has a single, “Sacré Coeur,” from 2024 added. I think you can hear some Cocteau Twins/ Robin Guthrie guitars and the catchy energy of The Radio Department. On strawberry milkshake vinyl in a first edition of 300 copies.

Dylan Thomas. : Todo se desvanece. This album was released in the summer of 2024 and was influenced by Sonic Youth, Niños del Cerro, Whirr, Television, Smog, Women, King Krule, Rocketship, and Sparklehorse; as well as Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory and detective novels by Paco Ignacio Taibo II and Leonardo Padura. There was mayhem in the 500+ crowd when Dylan Thomas. took to the stage. I think this has a jangle pop feel similar to The Pains of Being Pure At Heart or Ducks Ltd. On transparent green vinyl in a first edition of 300 copies.

This is new territory for btv with two albums in Spanish, but the music is universal. There are a couple of package deals if you buy both Jetenderpaul albums or buy all three Spring 2026 releases. We’re awaiting the Blue Rider to help us through some special releases later this year to celebrate our anniversary and these three are essential to the celebration.

:::scott:::