Barsuk Records is an independent record label based in Seattle, Washington. It was established in 1998 by members of the band This Busy Monster, originally to publish their own material. Since that time they have published between 3 and 15 titles each year, from a number of different artists. Titles are released primarily in vinyl, CD, cassette, and digital formats.
Release No. | Artist | Titel | Formats | Release Year |
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krang001 | This Busy Monster | Belated | 7" | 1994 |
krang002 | This Busy Monster | Swing Dream | 7" | 1995 |
krang003 | Pea Soup | Enigma | 7" | 1995 |
krang004 | This Busy Monster | Like Icicles | CD | 1998 |
krang005 | Death Cab for Cutie | Something About Airplanes | CD | 1998 |
krang006 | Jessamine | Houdini | 7" | 1999 |
krang007 | Little Champions | Pillow | CD | 1999 |
krang008 | Abigail Grush | The Phantom Beat | CD | 1999 |
bark009 | Death Cab for Cutie / Fiver | Death Cab for Fiver | 7" | 2000 |
bark010 | This Busy Monster | The Curious Sofa (EP) | CD | 2000 |
bark011 | Death Cab for Cutie | We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes | CD, LP | 2000 |
bark012 | The Revolutionary Hydra | Queen of the Gravity Urge | 7" | 2000 |
bark013 | This Busy Monster | Fireworks | CD | 2001 |
bark014 | John Vanderslice | Mass Suicide Occult Figurines | CD | 2000 |
bark015 | Death Cab for Cutie | The Forbidden Love EP | CD | 2000 |
grrr01 | Various Artists | Treats | CD | 2000 |
bark016 | Little Champions | Transactions & Replications | CD | 2001 |
bark017 | John Vanderslice | Time Travel Is Lonely | CD | 2001 |
bark018 | The Prom | Saloon Song + 2 (single) | CDS | 2001 |
bark019 | Rilo Kiley | Take Offs and Landings | CD, LP | 2001 |
bark019dx | Rilo Kiley | Take Offs and Landings (Deluxe Edition) | LP | 2022 |
bark020 | Sunset Valley | Icepond | CD | 2001 |
bark021 | Death Cab for Cutie | The Photo Album | CD, LP, Cassette | 2001 |
bark021dx | Death Cab for Cutie | The Photo Album (Deluxe Edition) | LP | 2022 |
grrr02 | Various Artists | Treats | CD | 2001 |
bark022 | The Long Winters | The Worst You Can Do Is Harm | CD | 2002 |
bark023 | Death Cab for Cutie | The Stability EP | CD | 2002 |
bark024 | John Vanderslice | Life and Death of an American Fourtracker | CD | 2002 |
bark025 | The Prom | Under the Same Stars | CD | 2002 |
bark026 | All-Time Quarterback | All-Time Quarterback | CD | 2002 |
bark027 | Kind of Like Spitting | Bridges Worth Burning | CD | 2002 |
bark028 | Death Cab for Cutie | You Can Play These Songs With Chords | CD | 2002 |
bark029 | Nada Surf | Let Go | CD, LP, Cassette | 2003 |
bark029.3 | Nada Surf | Inside of Love / Blonde on Blonde / Hi-Speed Soul | 3" CD | 2003 |
bark029.5 | Nada Surf | Inside of Love (Album Version) / Inside of Love (Radio Edit) | CD | 2003 |
bark030 | Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter | Reckless Burning | CD | 2003 |
bark031 | The Long Winters | When I Pretend to Fall | CD | 2003 |
bark032 | Death Cab for Cutie | Transatlanticism | CD, SACD | 2003 |
bark032.5 | Death Cab for Cutie | Sound of Settling | CDS | 2003 |
bark032.75 | Death Cab for Cutie | Title and Registration | CD | 2003 |
bark032demo | Death Cab for Cutie | Transatlanticism Demos | Digital only | 2013 |
bark032lp10 | Death Cab for Cutie | Transatlanticism (10th Anniversary Edition) | LP | 2013 |
grrr03 | Various Artists | Treats | CD | 2003 |
bark033 | John Vanderslice | Cellar Door | CD | 2004 |
bark034 | Aveo | Battery | CD | 2004 |
bark035 | They Might Be Giants | Indestructible Object (EP) | CD | 2004 |
bark036 | Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter | Oh, My Girl | CD | 2004 |
bark037 | Various Artists | Future Soundtrack for America | CD | 2004 |
bark038 | Travis Morrison | Travistan | CD | 2004 |
bark039 | Death Cab for Cutie | Studio X Sessions (EP) | Digital only | 2004 |
bark040 | Aqueduct | Pistols at Dawn (EP) | CD | 2004 |
bark041 | Rilo Kiley | More Adventurous | LP | 2004 |
bark042 | Aqueduct | I Sold Gold | CD | 2005 |
bark043 | Death Cab for Cutie | The John Byrd EP | CD | 2005 |
bark044 | John Vanderslice | Pixel Revolt | CD | 2005 |
bark045 | John Vanderslice | Five Years | CD | 2005 |
bark046 | Nada Surf | The Weight Is a Gift | CD | 2005 |
bark046.5 | Nada Surf | Always Love (LP Version) | CD | 2005 |
bark047 | Death Cab for Cutie | Plans | LP | 2005 |
bark048 | The Long Winters | Ultimatum (EP) | CD | 2005 |
grrr04 | Various Artists | Treats | CD | 2005 |
bark049 | Rocky Votolato | Makers | CD, LP | 2006 |
bark050 | Mates of State | Bring It Back | CD | 2006 |
bark051 | Starlight Mints | Drowaton | CD | 2006 |
bark052 | John Vanderslice | Trance Manual (EP) | Digital only | 2006 |
bark053 | Smoosh | Free to Stay | CD | 2006 |
bark054 | The Long Winters | Putting the Days to Bed | CD | 2006 |
bark055 | Nada Surf | KEXP Acoustic Session Live at the Triple Door | Digital only | 2006 |
bark056 | Jim Noir | Tower of Love | CD | 2006 |
bark057 | What Made Milwaukee Famous | Trying to Never Catch Up | CD | 2006 |
bark058 | Viva Voce | Get Yr Blood Sucked Out | CD | 2006 |
bark059 | Jim Noir | Eanie Meany (EP) | Digital only | 2006 |
grrr05 | Various Artists | Treats | CD | 2006 |
grrr06 | Various Artists | Songwriters Show, April 2005 | CD | 2006 |
bark060 | Menomena | Friend and Foe | CD, LP | 2007 |
bark061 | Harvey Danger | Little Round Mirrors (single) | CDS | 2006 |
bark062 | Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter | Like, Love, Lust & the Open Halls of the Soul | CD | 2007 |
bark063 | Aqueduct | Or Give Me Death | CD | 2007 |
bark064 | Rocky Votolato | The Brag and Cuss | CD | 2007 |
bark065 | David Bazan | Fewer Moving Parts (EP) | CD, LP | 2007 |
bark066 | John Vanderslice | Emerald City | CD, LP | 2007 |
bark067 | Travis Morrison Hellfighters | All Y'all | CD | 2007 |
bark068 | Various Artists | Kurt Cobain About a Son: Music from the Motion Picture | CD | 2007 |
bark069 | Chris Walla | Field Manual | CD | 2008 |
bark070 | Nada Surf | Lucky | CD, LP | 2008 |
bark070rs | Nada Surf | Whose Authority | CDS | 2008 |
bark070.5 | Nada Surf | Myspace Transmissions | CD | 2008 |
bark071 | What Made Milwaukee Famous | What Doesn't Kill Us | CD | 2008 |
bark072 | Steve Fisk and Benjamin Gibbard | Kurt Cobain About a Son: Original Score | LP | 2008 |
bark073 | Jim Noir | Jim Noir | CD | 2008 |
bark074 | Mates of State | Re-Arrange Us | CD, LP | 2008 |
bark075 | Death Cab for Cutie | Narrow Stairs | LP | 2008 |
bark075.7 | Death Cab for Cutie | No Sunlight (Demo) / Ice Is Getting Thinner (Demo) | 7" | 2008 |
bark076 | Lackthereof | Your Anchor | CD, LP | 2008 |
bark077 | Ra Ra Riot | The Rhumb Line | CD, LP | 2008 |
bark077.7 | Ra Ra Riot | Ghost Under Rocks (Single edit) / Can You Tell (Epochs remix) | 7" | 2008 |
bark078 | Nada Surf | Vinyl Box Set 1994-2008 | Vinyl box set | 2008 |
bark079 | Death Cab For Cutie | Something About Airplanes Deluxe Edition | Double CD | 2008 |
bark080 | Say Hi | Oohs & Aahs | CD, LP | 2009 |
bark081 | David Bazan | American Flag | 7" | 2009 |
bark082 | What Made Milwaukee Famous | The Sugarhill Sessions EP | Digital only | 2008 |
bark083 | David Bazan | Curse Your Branches | CD, LP | 2009 |
bark083.7 | David Bazan | The Man In Me / Hallelujah | 7" | 2009 |
bark084 | Ra Ra Riot | Can You Tell | CDS | 2009 |
bark085 | Wooden Birds | Magnolia | CD, LP | 2009 |
bark085.5 | Wooden Birds | Montague Street | Digital only | 2010 |
bark086 | Mates of State | Re-arranged: Remixes Volume 1 | 12" | 2009 |
bark087 | Viva Voce | Rose City | CD | 2009 |
bark088 | Viva Voce | Octavio | Digital only | 2009 |
bark089 | Starlight Mints | Change Remains | CD | 2009 |
bark090 | Ramona Falls | Intuit | CD | 2009 |
grrr07 | Various Artists | Treats 2010 | CD | 2010 |
bark091 | Rocky Votolato | True Devotion | CD | 2010 |
bark091.7 | Rocky Votolato | Rushing To The Ending / Connections | 7" | 2010 |
bark092 | Blunt Mechanic | World Record | CD | 2010 |
bark093 | Phantogram | Mouthfull of Diamonds | Digital only | 2010 |
bark094 | Phantogram | Eyelid Movies | CD, LP, Cassette | 2010 |
bark095 | Pearly Gate Music | Pearly Gate Music | CD, LP | 2010 |
bark096 | Death Cab For Cutie | Open Door EP | 12" | 2010 |
bark097 | Pearly Gate Music | Big Escape | 7" | 2010 |
bark098 | The Helio Sequence, Menomena | Converter / Pilgrim's Progress | Split 7" | 2010 |
bark101 | Menomena | Mines | CD, LP | 2010 |
bark102 | Maps & Atlases | Perch Patchwork | CD, LP | 2010 |
bark103 | The Dismemberment Plan | Emergency & I | LP | 2011 |
bark104 | Maps & Atlases | Solid Ground | CDS | 2010 |
bark105 | Menomena | Double Seven Inch | 7" | 2010 |
bark106 | Ra Ra Riot | The Orchard | CD, CD+DVD, LP | 2010 |
bark107 | Ra Ra Riot | Boy | Digital only | 2010 |
bark108 | Say Hi | Um, Uh Oh | CD, LP | 2011 |
bark109 | Say Hi | Devils | Digital only | 2010 |
bark110 | The Globes | Future Self | CD, LP | 2011 |
bark111 | The Wooden Birds | Two Matchsticks | CD, LP | 2011 |
bark112 | Nada Surf | The Moon Is Calling | 7" | 2011 |
bark113 | David Bazan | Strange Negotiations | CD, LP | 2011 |
bark114 | Maps & Atlases | Living Decorations | Digital only | 2011 |
bark115 | Ra Ra Riot | Too Dramatic | Digital only | 2011 |
bark116 | Death Cab For Cutie | Codes And Keys | LP | 2011 |
bark117 | Mathieu Santos | Massachusetts 2010 | LP | 2011 |
bark118 | Cymbals Eat Guitars | Lenses Alien | CD, LP, Cassette | 2011 |
bark119 | Mates of State | Mountaintops | CD, LP | 2011 |
bark120 | Yellow Ostrich | The Mistress | CD | 2011 |
bark121 | Laura Gibson | La Grande | CD | 2012 |
bark122 | Nada Surf | The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy | CD, LP | 2012 |
bark122.5 | Nada Surf | The Dulcitone Files | CD | 2012 |
bark123 | Phantogram | Nightlife | CD, LP | 2011 |
bark124 | Yellow Ostrich | Strange Land | CD, LP | 2012 |
bark125 | Maps & Atlases | Beware And Be Grateful | CD, LP | 2012 |
bark126 | Death Cab For Cutie | Keys And Codes Remix EP | 12" | 2012 |
bark127 | Ramona Falls | Prophet | CD | 2012 |
bark128 | Ra Ra Riot / Delicate Steve | Valerie / Big Ship | Split 7" | 2012 |
bark129 | Laura Gibson | Lil' Red Riding Hood | Digital only | 2012 |
bark130.1 | Benjamin Gibbard | Ichiro's Theme | Digital only | 2012 |
bark130 | Benjamin Gibbard | Former Lives | CD, LP | 2012 |
bark131 | Menomena | Moms | CD, LP | 2012 |
bark132 | Pacific Air | Float | 7" | 2012 |
bark133 | Yellow Ostrich | Ghost EP | 12" | 2012 |
bark134 | Ra Ra Riot | Beta Love | CD, LP | 2013 |
bark134.7 | Ra Ra Riot | Dance With Me / Boy (live at the Moog sound lab) | 7" | 2013 |
bark135 | Ra Ra Riot | Dance With Me | Digital only | 2013 |
bark136 | Ra Ra Riot | Binary Mind | 10" | 2013 |
bark137 | Say Hi | Free Samples (Music From The Film) | Digital only | 2013 |
bark138 | Big Scary | Not Art | CD, LP | 2014 |
bark139 | Minor Alps | Get There | CD, LP | 2013 |
bark140 | Nada Surf / David Bazan | Wild Strawberries / The Commander Thinks Aloud | 6 5/8" Lathe Cut Single | 2013 |
grrr08 | Various Artists | 15th Anniversary In-Store Sampler | CD | 2013 |
bark141 | American Analog Set | Know By Heart | LP | 2014 |
bark142 | Big Scary | Twin Rivers EP | Digital only | 2013 |
bark143 | Yellow Ostrich | Cosmos | CD, LP | 2014 |
bark143.5 | Yellow Ostrich | How Do You Do It (Keith Sweaty Remix) | Digital only | 2018 |
bark144 | Death Cab For Cutie featuring the Magik*Magik Orchestra | Live 2012 | LP | 2014 |
bark145 | Sunset Valley | Tropic of Candycorn | Digital only | 2014 |
bark146 | Say Hi | Endless Wonder | CD, LP | 2014 |
bark147 | Cymbals Eat Guitars | LOSE | CD, LP, Cassette | 2014 |
bark148 | Chris Staples | American Soft | CD, LP | 2014 |
bark149 | Cymbals Eat Guitars | Why There Are Mountains | LP | 2014 |
bark150 | Ra Ra Riot | Two Hearts Beat As One / Wilderness (Alt) | 7" | 2014 |
bark151 | Nada Surf | B-Sides | Digital only | 2014 |
bark28cs | Death Cab For Cutie | You Can Play These Songs With Chords | Cassette | 2014 |
bark152 | Death Cab For Cutie | Kintsugi | LP | 2015 |
bark153.1 | Small Feet | Rivers | Digital only | 2015 |
bark153 | Small Feet | From Far Enough Away Everything Sounds Like The Ocean | CD, LP | 2015 |
bark154 | Trails And Ways | Pathology | CD, LP | 2015 |
bark155 | Mates of State | You're Going To Make It EP | CD, 12" | 2015 |
bark156 | Say Hi | Bleeders Digest | CD, LP | 2015 |
bark157 | Hibou | Hibou | CD, LP, Cassette | 2015 |
bark158 | Babes | Untitled (Five Tears) | CD, LP | 2015 |
bark159 | Chris Staples | Cheap Shades EP | Digital only | 2015 |
grrr09 | Various Artists | Treats 2015 | CD | 2015 |
bark160 | Ra Ra Riot | Need Your Light | CD, LP | 2016 |
bark161 | Nada Surf | You Know Who You Are | CD, LP | 2016 |
bark162 | Laura Gibson | Empire Builder | CD, LP | 2016 |
bark163 | David Bazan | Blanco | CD, LP, Cassette | 2016 |
bark164 | Chris Staples | Golden Age | CD, LP | 2016 |
bark164.1 | Chris Staples | Room Full Of Strangers | Digital only | 2018 |
bark165 | Nada Surf | Peaceful Ghosts Live With Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg | CD, LP | 2016 |
bark166 | Small Feet | Dreaming The Dream EP | Digital only | 2016 |
grrr10 | Various Artists | SAD! | Digital only | 2017 |
bark167 | Lo Tom | Lo Tom | CD, LP | 2017 |
bark168 | Ra Ra Riot | Need Your Light Remix EP | Digital only | 2017 |
bark169 | Charly Bliss | Guppy | CD, LP, Cassette | 2017 |
bark169.1 | Charly Bliss | Heaven | Digital only | 2018 |
bark170 | Hibou | Something Familiar | CD, LP | 2018 |
bark171 | Charly Bliss | Guppy: Issue One | Comic book/Flexi disc | 2017 |
bark172 | Ruler | Winning Star Champion | CD, LP | 2018 |
bark172.1 | Ruler | Keep Moving | Digital only | 2017 |
bark172.2 | Ruler | Complicated Mind | Digital only | 2017 |
bark172.3 | Ruler | Easy Life | Digital only | 2017 |
bark172.4 | Ruler | Not Your Friend | Digital only | 2018 |
bark173 | Charly Bliss | Soft Serve | 7" | 2017 |
bark174 | Maps & Atlases | Lightlessness Is Nothing New | CD, LP | 2018 |
bark176 | Active Bird Community | Amends | CD, LP, Cassette | 2018 |
bark176.1 | Active Bird Community | Spend The Night | Digital only | 2018 |
bark176.2 | Active Bird Community | Somewhere ft. Samia | Digital only | 2019 |
bark177 | Ra Ra Riot | The Rhumb Line (Deluxe Edition) | LP | 2018 |
bark178 | Laura Gibson | Goners | CD, LP | 2018 |
bark179 | Steady Holiday | Nobody's Watching | CD, LP | 2018 |
bark179.1 | Steady Holiday | Temporary Secretary | Digital only | 2018 |
bark179.2 | Steady Holiday | Christmas Time Is Here | Digital only | 2018 |
bark179.3 | Steady Holiday | Holiday | Digital only | 2019 |
bark179.4 | Steady Holiday | Always Christmas | Digital only | 2019 |
bark180 | Death Cab For Cutie | Thank You For Today | LP | 2018 |
bark181 | Small Feet | With Psychic Powers | Digital only | 2019 |
bark181.1 | Small Feet | Ice Storm | Digital only | 2018 |
bark181.2 | Small Feet | More Dead In The Nerves | Digital only | 2018 |
bark181.3 | Small Feet | Saying Nothing On The Phone | Digital only | 2018 |
bark181.4 | Small Feet | May It Always Be | Digital only | 2018 |
bark182 | Peter Caws + Parkington Sisters | The Book Of Hylas | 10" + Book | 2019 |
bark183 | Charly Bliss | Young Enough | CD, LP, Cassette | 2019 |
bark183.1 | Charly Bliss | All I Want For Christmas Is You | Digital only | 2019 |
bark184 | Benjamin Gibbard | The Swift Sessions | 7" | 2019 |
bark185 | Nada Surf | Song For Congress | Digital only | 2019 |
bark186 | Chris Staples | Holy Moly | CD, LP | 2019 |
bark187 | Hibou | Halve | LP | 2019 |
bark187.1 | Hibou | Inside Illumination (Slow Magic Remix) | Digital only | 2019 |
bark188 | Death Cab For Cutie | The Blue EP | 12" | 2019 |
bark189 | The Prom | Demos 2003 | Digital only | 2019 |
bark190 | Common Holly | When I say to you Black Lightning | CD, LP, Cassette | 2019 |
bark191 | Nada Surf | Never Not Together | CD, LP | 2020 |
bark191ltd | Nada Surf | Never Not Together Deluxe Edition | Digital only | 2020 |
bark192 | Charly Bliss | Supermoon | 12" | 2019 |
bark193 | Various Artists | I'll Send You The Stars: Songs Of James Mendenhall | Digital only | 2020 |
bark194 | Benjamin Gibbard | Life In Quarantine | Digital only | 2020 |
bark195 | Benjamin Gibbard | Proxima B / Filler | Digital only | 2020 |
bark196 | Ra Ra Riot | The Orchard 10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition | Digital only | 2020 |
bark197 | Nada Surf | Cycle Through | LP | 2021 |
bark198 | Death Cab For Cutie | The Georgia E.P. | 12" | 2021 |
bark199 | Hibou | Désir | Digital only | 2021 |
bark120ltd | Yellow Ostrich | The Mistress 10th Anniversary Edition | LP | 2021 |
bark200 | Yellow Ostrich | Like A Bird: An Alex Schaaf Anthology 2010-2021 | Digital only | 2021 |
bark201 | Matthew Caws | When History Comes | Digital only | 2020 |
bark202 | Yellow Ostrich | Soft | Digital only | 2021 |
bark203 | Sunset Valley | Amped | Digital only | 2021 |
bark204 | Common Holly | "Preoccupy / the Moon" | Digital-only single | 2021 |
bark205 | Pearly Gate Music | Mainly Gestalt Pornography | Digital only | 2021 |
Note
editSome of the recording artists mentioned in this list are no longer signed by Barsuk, including Death Cab For Cutie, Rilo Kiley and Smoosh. Death Cab For Cutie have signed to the major label Atlantic Records, but continue to release vinyl versions of their records through Barsuk.