Following the success of their recent album 'I wonder when they're going to destroy your face', Prolapse return with a new single A place for Lyres. Released on September 18th, 2026 and as a vinyl single in Greece to celebrate 30 years of the legendary music magazine Lung.

Prolapse’s new single is a song made by idiots for idiots. No one is innocent, idiocy inhabits all our lives permeating even the music we listen to. Prolapse have honed their skills maturing their songs in oak vats, producing a distilled essence of pure aural idiocy.

With Stadt der blauen Eier – Selected Recordings and Rarities 1980–1981, Tapete Records presents a retrospective of Korpus Kristi, one of the lesser-known—and quite undeservedly so—bands of the early West German punk scene.

Together with The Wirtschaftswunder  and Die Radierer, Korpus Kristi were part of the so-called “Limburger Pest,” a loose scene emerging from the West German town of Limburg. The Limburg Pest groups produced some of the most distinctive releases to emerge from the West German underground in the early 1980s.

Across 12 tracks, the compilation brings together single releases, rarities, and selected tracks from the band’s 1981 album, finally making their brief but remarkable body of work accessible once again. We have a limited blue vinyl in our shop. 

Following her album Lucky Now  (January 2026) and a summer packed with live shows, English jangle-pop musician Lande Hekt returns: Threadbare, a four-song EP, will be released in September and covers an extraordinary thematic and musical range in just 12 minutes. 

The EP comes with a proper DIY (sticker) artwork, is limited to 300 copies and will be available in our shop, on Lande's Bandcamp and on tour. 

Hamburg, 1996. Die Sterne veröffentlichen Posen – und die deutsche Musikpresse überschlägt sich. Der Musikexpress gibt fünf Sterne, die FAZ verirrt sich ins Textheft, und ein gewisser Song namens „Was hat dich bloß so ruiniert“ wird zum Klassiker.

Jetzt ist das Album zum 30-jährigen Jubiläum zurück – auf Vinyl. Bei uns im Shop gibt es die schwarze LP, bei HHV  eine limitierte braune Version. 

 

Paul Hiraga, aka Downpilot, has been part of the Tapete roster for a while. Some of us wonder whether he may have been the first US artist to join us on our quest for thoughtful, delicate guitar pop - way back when! Either way, we're delighted that his eighth album is out in the world today. Even better for the Germany-based ones among us: Paul is coming to play live in Sep/Oct, see all dates below! 

Gästeliste.de has good things to say about the album:

“Somewhere between widescreen, timeless guitar pop, nuanced indie folk, and the yearning intimacy of Americana. […] wraps itself around listeners like a warm blanket, while Hiraga lyrically explores the challenges of living in times of rapid and enigmatic change. […] timelessly beautiful and brimming with deeply felt emotion."

Order the album here.

Since 2024, Starter Car have been moving fast: from their formation via “Bandmades Wanted”-Posters on to live shows on to studio recordings: today, it all comes together in “Afterlight”, the group's debut album. 

Starter Car have established themselves as darlings of the South London music scene with their unique brand of country-influenced indie. Afterlight is a hooky collection reflecting on life’s beauty and struggles. 

Recorded and produced by Joe Futák (lilo, Piglet, Baggio), the album’s sound grew organically through the core band plus collaboration with fellow scenesters, including vocals from Christie Gardner (lilo), fiddle from Sophia Bartlett (Tugboat Captain) and banjo from Michael Rhea (Symbol Soup). 

The first 25 LP orders in our webshop are gifted a zine!

To mark 50 years of punk, our friends at Ventil Verlag are publishing a song comic that illustrates outstanding tracks from the early German punk scene. Tapete Records is accompanying this release with a compilation of early German-language punk, focusing on the years between 1979 and 1986 – the years when the world, as you might say, was still coming to an end. With a total of 14 tracks, the compilation showcases just how exciting and diverse early German punk sounded.

The accompanying comic book is available here, the LP/CD version here. 

Altered states of consciousness have long influenced The Telescopes as they've shifted over the decades from noise rock, psychedelia and shoe gaze… and so it continues on this their 19th studio album (Classic Rock)

The Telescopes' new album, “Static Charge”, meanders along intoxicating guitar riffs and percussive loops, tracing the expansive repertoire of psychedelia, space rock and dream pop that the sometimes one-man, sometimes twenty-people constellation is associated with. We're hypnotised by it and happy to see  it out there. 

Londoners are lucky to catch the band on July 11th at Rough Trade Denmark Street for a live gig. 

The first singles that were later categorized as punk appeared in 1976. This makes for a fitting 50-year anniversary, which Tapete Records celebrates with a compilation of German punk from 1979-2024.

Does punk still have anything to say to our present? And German-language punk in particular—Deutschpunk, the so-called German special path? However one may answer these questions personally, punk in Germany has simply kept going for five decades despite all the “old farts” rhetoric. 

This compilation cares little about neat definitions of Deutschpunk. Instead, it opens itself up to different styles and voices of punk with German lyrics. What unites the songs is that, on the one hand, they are rooted in punk, and on the other, in the German language— yet they create something of their own.

Album Order here

After releasing their first studio album last year, more than 40 years after disbanding, The Loft return with their second record and a UK Tour starting this week. Badges, featuring ten tracks, captures what defined The Loft then and what continues to define them today. As Creation Records` legends and pioneers of an entire genre, they have nothing to prove – neither to themselves nor to anyone else – and that ease and quiet confidence resonates through every song on the album.

There is also a limited Deluxe Vinyl containing a Flexi 7", so be quick!

Album Order here