Torn Light

Torn Light Used & new vinyl records, cassettes and books! Buy - Sell - Trade We are an independent brick & mortar record store in Cincinnati, OH.

Books, Books, Books Continually putting more and more out all weekend long! If you are in town for Sound & Gravity stop ...
09/05/2026

Books, Books, Books
Continually putting more and more out all weekend long!

If you are in town for Sound & Gravity stop by the shop and say hey! We are opened every day 11-7pm!

Please don’t be mad if we are listening to this on repeat all day. Open 10-7pm
09/05/2026

Please don’t be mad if we are listening to this on repeat all day.

Open 10-7pm

Dozens of saved LPs hitting the bins tomorrow. From Teddy Pendergrass to Exciter. Chet Baker & Nico. Nina Simone & Engli...
09/05/2026

Dozens of saved LPs hitting the bins tomorrow. From Teddy Pendergrass to Exciter. Chet Baker & Nico. Nina Simone & English Dogs. Celtic Frost & Van Morrison.

Loren Connors / Michael Vallera / Elliott Sharp - new LP in the shop from Feeding Tube. Remarkable crew and the record i...
09/04/2026

Loren Connors / Michael Vallera / Elliott Sharp - new LP in the shop from Feeding Tube. Remarkable crew and the record is much more fu**ed up than I would’ve expected. Guitar trio 🧠🔨

Old Saw - Country Tropics - repress in the shop via Lobby Arts. Henry Birdsey’s genius 1st LP as OS back in stock - 3rd pressing.

Glyn Maier - After The Deluge - beautiful & complex minimal music.

Farewell Phoenix - The Language Of Landscapes / Muses - A feat of visual & sonic art. New age for the new age.

Sky Chariot - New Universe Dawning - You could convince me that this tape is 50 years old. Psychedelic organ music more than “dungeon synth”. Wonderful release & my favorite tape I have heard in quite awhile.

Used new arrivals LPs out today. ➡️➡️➡️🎶🎶🎶
09/01/2026

Used new arrivals LPs out today. ➡️➡️➡️🎶🎶🎶

Some rarer 12s from The Smiths & The Cure in the shop ❣️🎶
09/01/2026

Some rarer 12s from The Smiths & The Cure in the shop ❣️🎶

More books in the shop & on the way onto our site soon.
08/31/2026

More books in the shop & on the way onto our site soon.

Alex York - Bd Tapes 2MPC, synthesizers, guitars and tape music. Vinyl loops folding in on themselves. Bass heavy record...
08/31/2026

Alex York - Bd Tapes 2

MPC, synthesizers, guitars and tape music. Vinyl loops folding in on themselves. Bass heavy recordings ➡️➡️➡️ directly to tape.

Sound clips on the site.

Low edition made for Torn Light.

Lobby Art Editions gives us another reason to carry on. Two gorgeous LPs of poetry, language, emote-music from Johnny Co...
08/30/2026

Lobby Art Editions gives us another reason to carry on. Two gorgeous LPs of poetry, language, emote-music from Johnny Coley.

Two notes below from Lobby Arts:

“We are honored to present the final two LPs from the late Birmingham, AL-based q***r poet and artist Johnny Coley, who passed away in 2025 at the age of 76. Tender, lucid, and slippery poems unspool in Johnny’s signature drawl, charting oblique journeys through the sidereal and mundane. He composes painterly landscapes of his beloved Alabama and imagines waking up in the crowded streets of London. This is Southern Surreal story-telling where each new word opens a door to the familiar unexpected. Both albums feature intimate collaborations with his small cohort of Birmingham-affiliated composers and improvisers that have helped usher Johnny’s work to wider audiences with past releases on Sweet Wreath, Mississippi Records, and Astral Editions. On Where the Smoke Goes, Turner Williams Jr. assembles dilating tapestries of fractured Americana with assists from Old Saw’s Henry Birdsey while on As I Slip Into the Sky, Joel Nelson boldly illuminates Johnny’s final improvisations with shimmering analog electronics. All told, these two LPs work in tandem, highlighting the unique terrain Johnny occupied, and capturing the magical twilight peak of a true poetic voice of our strange late American era.“

“Taking cues from late era Coil and the operas of Robert Ashley, Turner approached these recordings both as language and pure sound, arranging accompanying mosaics that emerge as much from Johnny’s unseen text as his mercurial drawl.”

Lice And Flies, 3 songs“It’s a three song seven inch” is the most exciting thing I’ve heard someone say to me about a re...
08/30/2026

Lice And Flies, 3 songs

“It’s a three song seven inch” is the most exciting thing I’ve heard someone say to me about a record in awhile. An old friend reached out and sent us a couple copies of what we can only hope will be the resurgence of punk buried under noise.

Released by two hundred cans of ace body spray records

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Bucktown, IL
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