Exploding In Sound Records

27/02/2026

people of facebook, the new Landowner album "Assumption" is out everywhere today! it's a masterpiece but you don't have to take our word for it. check it out yourself. play it on repeat for your loved ones. www.landowner.bandcamp.com/album/assumption

Catch the band on tour:

02/27 - Medford, MA @ Deep Cuts w/ Rong, Balaclava, & Dust Witch
04/18 - Washington, DC @ Rhizome
04/19 - Richmond, VA @ TBA
04/20 - Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506
04/21 - Atlanta, GA @ TBA
04/22 - Louisville, KY @ Mag Bar
04/23 - St Louis, MO @ Kerr Foundation
04/24 - Chicago, IL @ Sleeping Village w/ Stuck
04/25 - Minneapolis, MN @ Soft Cult Studio
04/26 - Milwaukee, WI @ Cactus Club
04/27 - Cleveland, OH @ Little Rose Tavern
04/28 - Buffalo, NY @ TBA

12 track album

03/02/2026

New Landowner single! "Normal Returns to Normal"! Off the upcoming LP "Assumption," out February 27. You can hear it on Bandcamp or wherever you stream music. If you've been to a Landowner show over the past year or two, there's a good chance you know this song. We're very excited to finally share its recorded version with you!

Head to Bandcamp to pre-order "Assumption"! You can also get it Feb 27 at the record release show at Deep Cuts in Medford MA, with Rong, Balaclava and Dust Witch.

12 track album

27/01/2026

we're overjoyed to announce the release of Stuck's third album, Optimizer, due out March 27th via Exploding In Sound Records. we were truly blown away the first time we heard this and can't wait for you all to check it out. first single (and it's amazing video) "Instakill" is out today everywhere. pick up a pre-order with a limited edition long sleeve shirt or grab the blue vinyl (pressed at Smashed Plastic in Chicago)!

https://stuckchi.bandcamp.com/album/optimizer

Tour Dates:

04/03 - Detroit, MI @ Outer Limits
04/04 - Toronto, ON @ The Garrison
04/05 - Montreal, QC @ L'Esco
04/07 - Kingston, NY @ Tubby's
04/08 - Brooklyn, NY @ Baby's All Right
04/09 - Boston, MA @ Deep Cuts
04/11 - Philadelphia, PA @ Warehouse on Watts - Cambridge Hall
04/12 - Washington, DC @ Comet Ping Pong
04/24 - Chicago, IL @ Sleeping Village

10 track album

14/01/2026

we are beyond thrilled to announce Landowner’s new album “Assumption” will be released on February 27th via Exploding In Sound Records. it’s a real honor to get to work with one of punk’s most exciting and forward thinking bands, and we can truly say that they’ve never sounded better than they do throughout “Assumption”. Distortion free punk elegance and dread.

Check out the video for lead single “Rival Males” today, directed by Piper Preston and be sure to pre-order a copy of the record on Bandcamp or at the EIS store. Available on both “Electric Smoke” colored vinyl and classic black. Links in comments.

Upcoming Shows (tour dates to come):

02/07 - Amherst, MA @ The Drake w/ Slant of Light & Outro
02/27 - Medford MA @ Deep Cuts (album release show) w/ Rong, Balaclava, & Dust Witch

07/01/2026

EIS WEEKEND POSTERS ARE NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE!

www.explodinginsoundrecords.bandcamp.com/merch

Beautifully designed by the one and only and printed by

four color screen prints on 100 # cardstock (they are stunning)

available as...

* full weekend poster (36x24) !!
* friday poster (12x24)
* saturday poster (12x24)
* sunday poster (12x24)

quantities are limited.

www.explodinginsoundrecords.bandcamp.com/merch

05/12/2025

we're having a big sale over at www.explodinginsoundrecords.bandcamp.com. take 30% of your order using code "eis30"

thanks for all your support

21/11/2025

Two very important announcements.

1. Magic Fig's immaculate new album, Valerian Tea, is out today. It's a dream come true to get to release this record with the band. A masterpiece of dreamy and kaleidoscopic prog, psych pop, and art rock. Gets better with every listen. Get lost in this record. Seriously, check this one out. Truly unbelievable songs/musicianship.

2. Tonight is the first night of the EIS weekend. Come see Ovlov, Prewn, Washer, and Rick Rude at Baby's All Right. Doors are at 7, show starts at 8. Don't be late. Everyone loves Rick Rude. Advance tickets are sold out but there will be a *limited* amount available at the door.

18/11/2025

check out the new MAGIC FIG single and video. it's too damn good. we're so damn excited for this record to be out this week. we hope you are too.

“Goblin” is the third single from Magic Fig's upcoming album, "Valerian Tea," due out November 21st via Exploding in Sound Records. Video by Elyse Schrock at...

17/10/2025

Cusp's new album "What I Want Doesn't Want Me Back" is out everywhere today!! we couldn't love this record more. each song is a compliment to the last, building and shifting with textures that come and go in service to the songs' enormous hooks. a genuine gem.

10 track album

14/10/2025

YOU ARE INVITED TO THE EIS BDAY WEEKEND - 11/21 to 11/23. Tickets are on sale now and we'd love to see you there. Performances by Ovlov, Prewn, Washer, Rick Rude, Speedy Ortiz, Two Inch Astronaut, Grass Is Green, Bimbo, Krill 2, Baked, Smile Machine, Landowner, and Beck Zegans (fka Goo).

03/10/2025

Prewn's new album, System, is out everywhere today! Written, performed, and recorded entirely by Izzy Hagerup, System is equal part stunning and unnerving, in the best of ways. There's a magic to the songs that moves in all directions, described by some as "itchy" and by others as "jagged,"and yet there's no denying the beauty in the fragile uncertainties of it all. A masterpiece of layered experimentation and anxious energy. But don't take our word for it...

"Izzy Hagerup makes the type of music as Prewn that almost feels like you shouldn’t be hearing it: confessional, raw, and entirely unguarded. The Los Angeles-based musician bares her soul once again on System, although this time she beckons you to join her in the practice." - Pitchfork

"An album that feels raw, immediate, and emotionally charged. It shifts from haunting moments to these really big explosive bursts of energy." - NPR Music's "All Songs Considered"

"We’ve come to associate “most personal album yet” with something a little more quiet or stripped back, but Izzy Hagerup’s second Prewn album System defies that stereotype entirely. Izzy refers to it as a “private journal made public,” but it’s just as noisy, jagged, and multi-layered as her remarkable 2023 debut album Through The Window." - Brooklyn Vegan

"System feels nearly psychedelic in its construction, with a sound (played entirely by Hagerup once again) that feels both cavernous and uncomfortably up-close. Hagerup is pleading, nearly desperate in opening track “Easy”, a PJ Harvey-esque collision of strings, dread, and little else, but not even this scorcher prepares us for just how “widescreen” System is capable of getting." - Rosy Overdrive

9 track album

30/09/2025

we are unbelievably excited to welcome San Francisco’s MAGIC FIG to the EIS family with their upcoming album, “Valerian Tea” (out November 21st).

Following the release of their incredible debut last year (on Silver Current Records), the band didn’t waste any time crafting an immaculate follow-up, a kaleidoscopic blend of prog, psych, and dream pop with an emphasis on visionary expansion and stunning songwriting.

Check out the band’s new single “Valerian Tea” everywhere you listen to music and be sure to pre-order the record over at Bandcamp or the EIS webstore!!

photo credit: Kittie Krivacic
album art by the band’s own Muzzy Moskowitz

https://magicfig.bandcamp.com/album/valerian-tea