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Sunday Morning Comin' Up

Let Numero take the wheel and drive this lazy day.

Whispers

The Numero Guide to Lounge Music

In/Visible Persons Distributed In Space

The Numero Guide to Sci-Fi Soul

Successful experiments in otherworldly interpretations of soul

Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers

The Numero Guide to Southern Rock

A Sears-Roebuck style trip through the glades and gullies of the Southern experiment.

Wayfaring Strangers

The Numero Guide to Private Press Folk

One private press folk album to rule them all.

Numero Group 2019

The Numero Guide to Numero Hits

Numero hits from the last little while.

E$CAPE FROM $YNTH CITY

The Numero Guide to Four-Track Fantasia

A hero’s quest worth of staccato synths, crack house Casios, off-brand drum machines, minimal Morricone, four-track fantasia, and a variety of other speculations on what the 1980s thought the future would sound like.

P L A N I S P H E R E

The Numero Guide to Drum Machine Manifestos

Planisphere will provide you with a fairly discernible chart for discovering both deep-sky objects or shallow emotional pulses of the cerebral cortex.

L80s

The Numero Guide to Ladies of the 80s

Channeling Kim Wilde grooves and Carly Simon moods.

You're Not From 'Round Here

The Numero Guide to Country Noir

The soundtrack to your spaghetti western dreams and backcountry schemes.

Teen Expo

The Numero Guide to Underground Teen Beat

Drag strip dolls and drive-in dudes.

Technicolor Paradise

The Numero Guide to Exotica

Slip into a mental shangri-la so soothing you won't realize this paradise is just a living room luau. Go wild, you tiki freaks.

Funk Rock Rides Again

The Numero Guide to Funk Rock

For our next trick... watch us pull a funk break out of a rock song.

D for Effort

The Numero Guide to Slowcore

Now that we have Duster, Bedhead, and Codeine in the catalog, we thought it might be interesting to gather up some other loose ends into one convenient place.

You Are Cordially Invited to Attend the Numero Dinner Party

The Numero Guide to Elegant Hosting

We're serving up the smoothest, creamiest sounds. Featuring cocktail jazz hors d'oeuvres, a main course marinated in reverb and a sweet, salty yacht rock dessert. You're invited! (BYOB).

Private Beach

The Numero Guide to Surf

Waves of reverb crashing on your private beach, you can ride these bad boys for miles.

Cloudbusting

The Numero Guide to Ecto

Happy Rhodes' sound is tough to pin down, so her fan club coined the term Ecto to describe it. Use our Spotify playlist as a primer.

Don't Stop

The Numero Guide to Disco Rap

Rap over disco breaks. The original b-boy boullaibase, born in the Bronx.

Bliss Out For Days

Meditation & Relaxation

We get it, you just got into these new age joints and have no idea where to go next. We’ve got a playlist for that.

Pleading Tears

The Numero Guide to Deep Soul

Tears and Fears: Begging and pleading from the deepest soul.

Garage Punk Kids

The Numero Guide to '60s Garage

Raw, three-chord fuzzbox boogie straight outta the garage (as long as you're done by dinnertime).

Broken Arrows

The Numero Guide to Black Vietnam

Black Americans served and died in disporportionate numbers in Vietnam. These are their songs: longings, protestings, homecomings.

From the Stacks

A Journey Through the Numero Vault

Every Friday we upload a new digital-only record from our vault. Follow along with our progress here.

Cosmic American Music

The Numero Guide to Country Rock

Our guide to the electric country Gram Parsons embroidered into the deserts and plains of 1970's America.

Cult Cargo

The Numero Guide to International Soul

Our finest soul imports served up duty free.

A Place Called Bad

The Numero Guide to Aussie Punk

Here's your chance to get acquainted with The Scientists, don't blow it kid.

Seafaring Strangers

The Numero Guide to Yacht Rock

"I've got your life vest right here: it's called the 80's, and it's gonna be around forever!"

It Came From NYC

The Numero Guide to Scuzz Rock

Like all good things sleazy and sordid, scuzz rock came from NYC - look no further for the grimiest of guitar music.

Afterschool Special

The Numero Guide to Kid Soul

Pre-pubescent falsettos belting out nothing but sweet sincerity with a side of sass.

Dream Songs and Healing Sounds

The Numero Guide to Ethnographic Recordings

Conduct your own ethnographic research in a place and time far from your reality. Hear the sounds and songs of indigenous cultures and remote civilizations you may never see with your own eyes.

Adults Only

The Numero Guide to Strip Club Shakers

Back in the day there were no jazz players worth their salt who never moonlit a strip joint. To celebrate these nighthawks, here are our favorite brass-backed burlesque bump-and-grinders.

On the One

The Numero Guide to Deep Funk

Take a dive into the deep end of the funk pool.

American Primitive

The Numero Guide to Fingerstyle Guitar

Numero's picks of America's fingerpicking virtuosos.

1990s Punk & Indie

The Numero Guide to Punk & Indie

Anyone can do it, so do it yourself.

Good Men, Clean Up Women

The Numero Guide to the Miami Sound

Melding the tight tunes from marching band heydays with Caribbean reverberations, this is the guide to the neon-lit Miami Sound. From Deep City, Florida's first Black-owned label, onward.

Backing Tracks

The Numero Guide to Instrumental Soul

Some of our favorite soul tracks - vocals not included.

Acid Nightmares

The Numero Guide to Proto-Metal

Satanic strains from the severely stoned, post-hippie pre-metal.

Out There

The Numero Guide to Outsider Music

Outerspace ethnographers and your local neighborhood hermits. These are the stars of outsider music.

Blank Generation

The Numero Guide to New York Punk

Experience the Bowery scene before it turned into a John Varvatos boutique.

Who Knows Where the Time Goes

The Numero Guide to UK Folk

Lonesome, meditative folk from the Great Isle, for passing time in the hermitage or while gearing up to watch The Wicker Man again.

It's My Thing

The Numero Guide to Sister Funk

They say she was too Black for rock and too hard for soul. These are the powerful ladies who pioneered funk.

Shanghai'd Soul

The Numero Guide to Sampling

You heard here first - samples from the depths of Numero's catalog.

Chains& Black Exhaust

The Numero Guide to Black Rock

Hard churning and feedback fueled, these are the artists who reclaimed rock as Black.

Entonces Que Somos

The Numero Guide to Latin Music

A little Latin salsa, bossa, funk, soul, and psych stew for you, from Numero.

Basement Beehive

The Numero Guide to the Girl Group Sound

Ponytail pop from the ’60s. Girls in groups, in pairs, solo, or on the moon.

I Need That Record

The Numero Guide to Power Pop

A guitar pop soundtrack for shopping for buttons to wear on your jacket lapels.

Keep the Faith

The Numero Guide to Northern Soul

American soul sounds that graced the dance floors of Northern England, with that beat guaranteed to keep you up all night every night.

Purple Reign

The Numero Guide to the Minneapolis Sound

You know the Purple One. Get familiar with his Minneapolis neighbors on the corner of funk rock and synth pop.

Ladies From the Canyon

The Numero Guide to Femme Folk

Mother Earth's sirens singing moonlit songs carved from the canyon.

Million Dollar Modern Soul

The Numero Guide to Modern Soul

Northern Soul's funkier, disco-er, younger sister. She's more modern than Northern.

Color One Tear Black

The Numero Guide to Lowrider Soul

Lowrider car culture isn't at all about speed or technology, but about aesthetics and cruising leisurely. With that in mind it makes sense that the sound of the lowrider scene is sophisticated falsetto soul ballads.