Exploding In Sound Records

05/02/2025

BABE REPORT are heading out on tour this Spring!!

03/15 - Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge w/ Ovlov, Krill 2, & Bursting
03/28 - Dekalb, IL @ 7th Street Space
03/29 - St Louis, MO @ Platypus w/ Hennen
03/30 - Lexington, KY @ Al's Bar
03/31 - Cincinnati, OH @ The Comet Bar
04/02 - Pittsburgh, PA @ The Government Center
04/03 - Reading, PA @ Cloud 10 w/ The Squonks
04/04 - Philadelphia, PA @ TBD w/ Maneka, Snoozer, & Special World
04/05 - Brooklyn, NY @ Purgatory w/ Maneka
04/06 - Boston, MA @ The Rockwell w/ Lady Pills
04/08 - Portsmouth, NH @ WSCA
04/09 - Burlington, VT @ Radio Bean w/ Prewn
04/10 - Montreal, QC @ L'Escogriffe Bar Spectacle
04/11 - Toronto, ON @ The Baby G
04/12 - Michigan

"Did You Get Better" is out now and available on vinyl/digital.

03/02/2025

We’re going to raffle off four test pressings of Ovlov’s debut LP “Am” to benefit Mutual Aid Los Angeles Network. One raffle ticket costs $5 and you can buy as many tickets as you want. More tickets means more chances to win! We’re going to limit the winners to one test pressing though, we want to avoid a situation where one person wins multiple times. Spread the love!

To get your raffle tickets, just send money to on Venmo in multiples of $5. We’ll accept raffle ticket payments from Monday 2/3 to Monday 2/10, midnight to midnight EST. Then, on Tuesday, 2/11 we will livestream the drawing. Stand by for details of the livestream!

All proceeds will go to Mutual Aid Los Angeles Network.

06/12/2024

it's a very big day over here at exploding in sound records.

we're unbelievably thrilled to announce the reissue of Grass Is Green's seminal debut album "Yeddo," on vinyl for the first time ever. pick one up for Bandcamp Friday (or get one when you catch them live in January). it is a very limited pressing and will not be around forever.

this is one of the most important albums in the world to us over here at EIS and we know everyone is going to love it (if you don't already).

we also brought back some classic EIS tee shirt and hoodie designs! also over at bandcamp for this fine bandcamp friday.

lastly but also very exciting, it's time for the EIS 2024 sampler. Nine solid gold hits. We're so incredibly proud of our bands and the music we have the privilege to release. check it out.

thanks everyone. "Yeddo" on vinyl, what a glorious time.

22/11/2024

Today we celebrate five years of Mister Goblin's second record, "Is Path Warm?," a brilliant album that began pushing the shape of Mister Goblin in new directions while retaining Sam's incredible songwriting and massive hooks.

The tapes and CDs are currently 30% off on both Bandcamp and over at the EIS webstore until the end of the weekend. Go pick one up or stream this one for all your friends and family (then go stream the *new* Two Inch Astronaut singles).

Art by the one and only Nicole Rifkin

https://mistergoblin.bandcamp.com/album/is-path-warm-2

13/11/2024

they said it would never happen but Ovlov and Washer are going tour on the West Coast in March!!

03/21 - Anaheim, CA @ Chain Reaction
03/22 - Los Angeles, CA @ Zebulon
03/23 - San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel
03/25 - Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
03/26 - Boise, ID @ Treefort Music Fest
03/28 - Vancouver, BC @ The Pearl
03/29 - Seattle, WA @ Clock Out Lounge

Tickets on sale Friday

12/11/2024

we are unbelievably excited to share “Check Please” and “Humorist,” two brand new singles from one of our favorite bands in the world, TWO INCH ASTRONAUT. Out everywhere today.

https://li.sten.to/twoinchastronaut

With the upcoming ten year anniversary of “Foulbrood” fast approaching, the band thought they’d celebrate by getting back together to record two new songs, once again with J. Robbins!

Incredible cover by Hideyuki Katsumata

Two Inch Astronaut - "Check Please / Humorist" Links. Available on all popular platforms.

28/10/2024

There's an amazing new thirdface single out today called "Sour". Their album "Ministerial Cafeteria" comes out on Friday and we're beyond excited for everyone to hear. Thirdface really did their thing and it sounds absolutely incredible. Some of the heaviest and most inventive music we've heard in a long time and it's beyond our wildest expectations. WHAT A BAND!! Grab a pre-order and pick up some of the album specific merch while it lasts.

We recommend listening all together, in order (as they are on the album). An amazing experience that rattles from unglued to super tight and back again. Thirdface forever. It's a real honor to work together with them on this. Don't miss out. Check out "Sour" today.

12 track album

18/09/2024

the incredible thirdface are back with their second album MINISTERIAL CAFETERIA, out November 1st via Exploding In Sound Records on vinyl and cassette. The first single "Meander" is out now on all streaming platforms.

Hit up the preorder for physical music and merch. There's an incredible sweat suit. Be the best dressed on your block.

https://thirdface.bandcamp.com/album/ministerial-cafeteria

The album is unreal. Thirdface are an inspiration to us all. An incredible band making brutally resonant music as heavy and as fast as possible.

12 track album

24/07/2024

With 's incredible debut album “Through The Window” coming up on its first anniversary next month, we’re thrilled to announce the album is now available on colored vinyl for the very first time!!

An astounding album from start to finish, we’re incredibly excited to bring this release to vinyl as we await more new music!

Pre-order today. https://prewnmusic.bandcamp.com/album/through-the-window

28/06/2024

Sour Widows' beautiful new album "Revival Of A Friend" is out today!! Pick up a record. Stream it everywhere.

https://sourwidows.bandcamp.com/album/revival-of-a-friend

"Sour Widows cite Big Thief’s 2019 double feature U.F.O.F. and Two Hands and Nirvana’s Nevermind as major influences on their long-anticipated debut album Revival of a Friend, and if you can picture the exact middle ground between those two things, it might actually sound something like this album. Sour Widows tap into the spacious, pastoral indie folk of the former, and even their most delicate moments often build to clamorous climaxes that echo the latter. (This is also to say that Revival of a Friend is also sort of like if Big Thief made an entire album like “Not.”) Multiple songs hover around the six-minute mark, and the epic closer “Staring Into Heaven/Shining” is over eight minutes; this is an album that likes to take you on a journey time and time again and the payoff is always worth it. As the title suggests, death is a core theme on this album, and co-leaders Maia Sinaiko and Susanna Thomson explore loss and grief in ways that hit as hard as those grungy climaxes." - BrooklynVegan

10 track album

03/06/2024

we're happy to once again have copies of Thank's incredible "Thoughtless Cruelty" available on vinyl for North America (from Crackedankles). the last batch went fast, so we highly recommend picking up a copy. forward thinking noise rock at it's best.

9 track album

31/05/2024

today is the day!! BABE REPORT's new album "DID YOU GET BETTER" is out everywhere!! bandcamp, DSPs, good record stores, everywhere!! we're unbelievably thrilled to release the record with the band, an album chock full of hits from start to finish.

we love nothing more than an album that's full of rippers, the sound of a band having a great time making music together. it's the type of record where your favorite song could change with each listen, and we hope you'll spend some time with it.

pick up a record today on bandcamp. give it a stream. however you like to do.

if you're in Chicago, catch the band live:

06/06 - Chicago, IL @ The Fallen Log w/ &
07/01 - Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle w/ Brief Candles & Plum

https://li.sten.to/babereport