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BIG STIR RECORDS CDs and Vinyl

CD and vinyl releases can be found here. Digital downloads can be found on individual Artist Pages and at the BSR Bandcamp Page. T-shirts and copies of Big Stir Magazine can be purchased at the Magazine & Apparel page. Thank you, friends!

Radio Transient: CD
  • Radio Transient: CD

Radio Transient: CD

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The new 2023 album from CHRIS CHURCH as a DigiPak CD.

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Off To A Bad Start: Vinyl LP and Book
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Off To A Bad Start: Vinyl LP and Book

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Popsicko's "Off To A Bad Start" on Vinyl LP for the first time ever, with a 48 page Official Oral History book.

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The Power Of And: CD
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The Power Of And: CD

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The CD edition of "The Power Of And", the long-awaited solo debut album for Steve Stoeckel of The Spongetones!

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All Of This Will End In Tears: CD
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All Of This Will End In Tears: CD

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Sounds In English: CD
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Sounds In English: CD

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Handclaps & Tambourines: CD
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Handclaps & Tambourines: CD

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The new album from Librarians With Hickeys on CD in a Digipak.

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Pressed & Ironed: Vinyl LP
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Pressed & Ironed: Vinyl LP

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The debut album from CROSSWORD SMILES (Tom Curless and Chip Saam) on a vinyl LP with picture sleeve.

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Pressed & Ironed: CD
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Pressed & Ironed: CD

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The debut album from CROSSWORD SMILES (Tom Curless and Chip Saam) on CD in a gatefold package.

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We All Shine On: Celebrating The Music Of 1970: CD
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We All Shine On: Celebrating The Music Of 1970: CD

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SpyderPop Records' all-star tribute to the songs of 1970 on CD in a deluxe album gatefold replica sleeve.

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Aerodrome Motel: CD
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Aerodrome Motel: CD

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The new Nick Frater album for 2022, on CD in a gatefold album replica sleeve.

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Flavor Of The Month: Vinyl LP plus Bonus CD
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Flavor Of The Month: Vinyl LP plus Bonus CD

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The full "Flavor Of The Month" album on vinyl LP in a deluxe gatefold package plus an exclusive CD, "The Original March To Home Singles Collection" featuring alternate versions unavailable elsewhere!

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Someone's Got To Listen: Vinyl LP in Gatefold Sleeve
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Someone's Got To Listen: Vinyl LP in Gatefold Sleeve

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The new album from Maple Mars on a vinyl LP in a deluxe gatefold sleeve.

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Someone's Got To Listen: CD
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Someone's Got To Listen: CD

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The new album from Maple Mars on CD in a gatefold album replica package.

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Jobbernowl: CD
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Jobbernowl: CD

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The new album from Canterbury, England's SPYGENIUS features 11 all new originals on CD in a gatefold album replica package.

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If Only: CD
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If Only: CD

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Amoeba Teen: CD
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Amoeba Teen: CD

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The new self-titled album from Stourbridge, England's AMOEBA TEEN in an album replica sleeve with a fold-out mini-poster.

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Power Pop!!!: CD
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Power Pop!!!: CD

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The new album from ANTON BARBEAU on CD in a gatefold eco-wallet.

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Flavor Of The Month: CD
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The new 2022 album from Texas guitar pop legend LANNIE FLOWERS on CD!

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Singing In My Heart: CD
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Singing In My Heart: CD

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Limited edition CD featuring Michael Simmons performing 23 of his personal favorite tunes.

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Darling Please: CD
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Darling Please: CD

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Big Stir Records is proud to announce our first major album release of 2022: DARLING PLEASE from celebrated North Carolina singer-songwriter CHRIS CHURCH. Recorded eleven years ago and seeing full-scale release for the first time in a newly remastered version (courtesy of audio maestro NICK BERTLING and adorned with newly tracked backing vocals from LINDSAY MURRAY of GRETCHEN'S WHEEL), the album is out on CD and digital January 21 and features the lead single “Bad Summer”. It's up for preorder at www.bigstirrecords.com, www.bigstirrecords.bandcamp.com, and on sale everywhere music is sold or streamed on the release date.

The new record sees the genre-hopping CHURCH in a raw rock mode, with dominant Crazy Horse-style guitars topped with some of the most immediate and aching vocal performances in Chris's catalog. The emotionally direct and often elegiac tone of DARLING PLEASE derived in large part from its origins: “I made the album in my basement studio,” says Church. “It was and is dedicated with love to my late great brother Mike Church, who'd passed not long prior to my decision to start this project. It was actually the first time I'd played all instruments on an entire album.” The self-produced ethic makes the album a forerunner to last year's acclaimed, home-recorded GAME DIRT, but DARLING is if anything even more visceral.

Opening with the rough, ready and stately “History” and diving directly into the “Satisfaction”-beat rocker “We're Going Downtown,” the album pays overt and indirect tribute to Mike Church (who'd played drums on most of Chris's earlier music) on a number of tracks. The Sugar-inflected “Pillar To Post” finds the singer feeling "like a guest and a host, like taking a walk with my own ghost" while Church describes the loping “Never So Far Away” as “my legit attempt to bridge loss and love, the big struggles, mortality, how the same old stuff still surprises us no matter how repetitive.” “We Could Pretend” channels “all of what it takes to cope... The hugeness is empty, and vice versa” over a “Cinnamon Girl” groove, and closing track “Triple Crown” sees Church on the drums, recreating Mike's restrained approach from live performances of the song.

Elsewhere, the empathetic backing vocals of Lindsay Murray (who also designed the sleeve art) illuminate the choruses of the single “Bad Summer” and the whole of “Atlantic”. Both tunes are sharp and heartfelt character studies derived from Church's circle of friends at the time. “I Wish I Could Say I Was Sorry” opens with a guitar and piano workout that sets the stage for one of the album's most indelible choruses, again spotlighting Murray. And “Nepenthean” dives into psychedelic sludge to immersive effect.

Gripping and emotive, DARLING PLEASE is a belated but essential addition to the CHRIS CHURCH catalog, following on the heels of the 2021 relaunches of his SpyderPop Records albums Backwards Compatible and Limitations of Source Tape. More than a relic, it's a rewardingly rough-hewn gem deserving of inspection and a sincere tribute to a musical and familial brother, and it stands among Church's very best.

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