* PREORDER * KELLEY STOLTZ - Writing The Thread LP (colour vinyl)

* PREORDER * expected to arrive for 23rd Oct release

Highly recommended. We've heard an advance and it RULES.

Limited edition turquoise colour vinyl. Black wax and CD also available.

San Francisco songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Kelley Stoltz returns with Writing the Thread, his 21st album and his second full-length release of 2026. We'll have If You Don't Know Me Buy Know back in stock next week.

For more than two decades, Stoltz has quietly built one of the most distinctive and prolific catalogs in American independent music. A songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer and inveterate home-recording enthusiast, he has followed his own path—moving easily between psychedelic pop, post-punk, garage rock, glam, folk and the melodic pull of classic songwriting, while somehow always sounding unmistakably like himself.

Raised in Michigan and based in San Francisco since the late 1990s, Stoltz first attracted attention with his early home recordings, particularly 2001’s Antique Glow, originally self-released in a tiny run of hand-painted LPs. His growing reputation eventually led to a long association with Sub Pop Records. Later releases appeared on Jack White’s Third Man Records, John Dwyer’s Castle Face Records and a succession of independent labels around the world.

Throughout it all, Stoltz has continued to operate his own peculiar musical workshop—writing, playing, recording and following ideas wherever they happen to wander. His work has been lauded by MOJO, Uncut, BBC 6 Music, Triple J Australia and The New York Times, while his home studio has become a place to produce and record a long list of fellow travelers. Stoltz also spent several years playing rhythm guitar with his longtime heroes Echo and the Bunnymen and serves as West Coast drummer for Robyn Hitchcock.

Writing the Thread finds the melodic immediacy of Stoltz’s earliest recordings meeting the sharper edges, strange textures and restless experimentation that have increasingly colored his work.