Among alt-music’s more intrepid listeners, “Pelagic Records” is a seal of quality on par with “Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino”. The progressively minded label, founded by The Ocean guitarist Robin Staps 15 years ago, signs acts of almost any subgenre and never misses.
It’s produced cult masterpieces from post-metal bands, synth solo artists and everybody in between, with the catalogue being so good that it has a following all its own: subscribers pay monthly to blindly receive each new release, safe in the knowledge it’ll bang.
