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Eduardo De La Calle Aka FLEXOL, Acoustic Trauma & Dexual
Lobotomies And Other Psychosocial Arithmerical Issues EP
Konsysttenzia
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- Ltd 12"
- £10.99
- Cat Number
- KON009
- Release date
- 20 May '22
Big tip if you're into Bitstream, Gosub and Silicon; Eduardo De La Calle is himself a bit of a sorceror at the controls; at ease both churning out both skeletal braindance and full frequency audio trips. These four sketches find him in masterful control of his machines, achieving a bilatteral conversion between hardware and human interaction few knob twiddlers achieve in the present day. Recommended!
STAFF COMMENTS
Matt says: Unsurpassable braindance flavoured EP from Eduardo De La Calle that shows off the producer's highly skilled technical abilities whilst conjuring up some intricate machine language. Big one for the circuit benders!TRACK LISTING
A1. Arithmetical 1
A2. Arithmetical 2
B1. Arithmetical 3
B2. Arithmetical 4
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- 7"
- £10.49
- Cat Number
- CORD7014
- Release date
- 7 Dec '18
TRACK LISTING
A I Like Your Style
B The Love I Found In You
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- Coloured LP
- £25.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- SH283LPAM
- Release date
- 29 Sep '23
- Format Info
Indies only amber vinyl.- Includes MP3 Download Code.
Indies only amber vinyl. -
- LP
- u/avbl
- Cat Number
- SH283LP
- Release date
- 29 Sep '23
- Format Info
Black vinyl edition.- Includes MP3 Download Code.
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- CD
- £12.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- SH282CD
- Release date
- 13 Oct '23
- Format Info
CD digipak with lyric insert.
CD digipak with lyric... [ + ]
On his first-ever solo album under his own name, Hyacinth, David Eugene Edwards delivers a sound uniquely his own, with a vulnerability and introspection unheard from him before. Stripping back the heavy rock of his recent work with Wovenhand, Hyacinth puts the man’s voice, and sparing instrumentation into the main focus. There’s a somber beauty and world-weary tone throughout these songs. The album could’ve been considered a slight return to the more melodic sounds of 16 Horsepower’s Secret South (2000) and the first, self-titled Wovenhand album (2002). But there’s more going on here: a rhythmic, pulsating undercurrent reminiscent of the tape loops and rudimentary rhythms of 80s Industrial post-punk as well as 808 Drill Style beats. The overall effect is often as if we’re hearing the clock ticking away our own mortality.
“Hyacinth was a sort of vision,“ Edwards says. “A dream. I sought out of my old wooden banjo and nylon string guitar a hidden path. Secrets they had kept from me within themselves all these years and created a new Mythos to myself of philosophical and spiritual ideas or concepts.” Once he’d harnessed the music within, he enlisted multi-instrumentalist and producer Ben Chisholm (The Armed, Chelsea Wolfe, Converge) to help him realize the album’s recording and mix.
“Overall, the album is a weaving of narratives ancient and modern, of humankind’s search for understanding of this world we find ourselves in and of each other. In all its simplicity and complexity,” Edwards continues. “Hyacinth is a reference to the Greek myth of Apollo. And, the word meaning a precious stone and blue larkspur flower of purple and pall.”
TRACK LISTING
Seraph
Howling Flower
Celeste
Through The Lattice
Apparition
Bright Boy
Hyacinth
Lionisis
Weavers Beam
Hall Of Mirrors
The Cuckoo
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- LP
- £13.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- KSLP065
- Release date
- 10 Mar '17
STAFF COMMENTS
Patrick says: Killer collection of tunes from the 'original cool ruler' here! Plucked from throughout Jackie's long career the set covers R&B, rocksteady, soul and ska, but it's the righteous roots grooves of "Wad-Ada" and "So Jah Say" that are turning me out!-
- Coloured LP
- £20.99
- Cat Number
- JNR258LPC1
- Release date
- 1 Jun '18
- Format Info
Limited red vinyl.- Includes MP3 Download Code.
Limited red vinyl.
“The making of it was kind of my recovery from all the stuff,” says Edwards, who worked again with producer Rob Schnapf (Elliott Smith, Beck) in L.A. “I went back and wasn’t as sick, so making the second one, and finishing it, was a much, much more joyous event.” Verdugo features 10 new songs that showcase Edwards’ considerable and longstanding talent as a writer, and also a new way of singing: Edwards’ chronic pain meant finding a vocal approach that didn’t make him feel like throwing up. “I sing in a half-falsetto high range that came out of not being able to belt stuff out for a year,” Edwards says. His new vocal style deepens the air of melancholy on the atmospheric “Strange,” takes on a wistful cast on “Beekeeper” over subtle drums and a distinctive guitar part, and is lifted aloft on a soaring blend of guitars, drums and backing vocals on “Minefield.” “They kind of disappear in this weird sky sonically now, because of this range,” he says.
“They don’t feel rooted anymore, they fly all over, and that falsetto — if you’re looking at it as a picture, it goes higher up in the room than it used to.” This is Edwards’ second solo album after more than a decade leading the Indianapolis band Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s, which he founded in 2004. When health problems made touring with Margot impossible, Edwards turned inward and began writing songs “loosely inspired by all one learns, and fails to learn, while dealing with one’s own mortality,” as he wrote in a piece for Talkhouse. Verdugo is completely Edwards, the result of an agonizing stretch of dissolution and, over time, regeneration. Best of all, it’s not an end point, but merely the next station on a continuing journey. “It’s somewhere between that last record and what will happen after that, and what was going to happen before,” he says. “It comes from three years of having to get really quiet, and figure out what grows out of that.”
TRACK LISTING
Gene
Beekeeper
Minefield
A Woman Who Can’t Say No
Howlin’ Heart
Olive Oyl
Something Wicked
Tornado Dreams
Strange
Pornographic Teens
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- CD
- £8.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- SNDWCD035
- Release date
- 27 Feb '12
The majority of their songs were based around a 6/8 rhythm influenced by the music of the Ewe people from the South East of Ghana and Western Togo. With themes that draw heavily on traditional folklore and deep philosophy the album has a heavy feel that sets itself well apart from the much of the lighter happier highlife of the previous decade. Alongside Fela’s first few albums, Blo’s "Chapter One" and Mono Mono’s "Give The Beggar A Chance" this was one of the very earliest Afro-rock LPs released in West Africa and has remained out of print for nearly forty years. "Projection One" never got a release in the band’s home country of Ghana and apparently sailed way over most peoples heads at the time. Very much like the debut Hedzoleh Soundz album that Soundway re-issued in 2010 (another Ghanaian band that were recorded in Lagos, produced by Iruoje on the recommendation of Fela Kuti) the only copies that made it back to Ghana were the few that the band took back themselves.
Soundway will release "Projection One" here in it’s full original format on gatefold vinyl as well as on CD for the first time: remastered and accompanied by liner notes that contain the reminiscences of band leader Nana Danso (who subsequently founded and now runs the Accra-based Pan African Orchestra).
STAFF COMMENTS
Matt says: Here's the cheeky ass EEE crew back with another naaawty refix. You'll recognize that clarinet riff off a plethora of 90s furniture adverts; now watch the club-ready jet set get all gurny to it!-
- LP
- £19.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- GREL41
- Release date
- 21 Jan '22
TRACK LISTING
1. Sensee Party
2. Looking Sexy
3. Modelling Queen
4. You Na Love Reggae Music
5. Always On My Mind Side Two
6. Do You Remember
7. Skidip!
8. Na Make Mi Girl Go Away
9. Fat And Slim
10. Where Is My Baby
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- LP
- £19.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- GREL31
- Release date
- 8 Oct '21
Now repressed - or is that a warehouse find?! - either way we're SUPER STOKED or should that be we're totally blouse and skirt about it!
Featuring the full extended versions (oooohh yes!) of some of Mouse's best hits including (but not limited to): "Ganja Smuggling", "Wa Do Dem" and "Noah's Ark" - icons of roots reggae / dub music and sounding really, really special on this pressing.
You might have bagged the shorter, 7" versions as part of RSD, but these extended versions blow them out the water!
Look out for more tasty Greensleeves reissues forthcoming ;)
TRACK LISTING
1.Ganja Smuggling
2.Long Time Ago
3.Operation Eradication
4.There's A Girl In My Life
5.Slowly But Surely
6.Wa Do Dem
7.Lonesome Journey
8.I Will Never Leave My Love
9.Noah's Ark
10.Too Young To Understand
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- 3xColoured LP
- £49.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- EWORKS124
- Release date
- 19 May '23
- Format Info
Crystal violet colour vinyl.
Triple vinyl.
140g standard weight vinyl.
Gatefold sleeve.
Crystal violet colour... [ + ]
TRACK LISTING
1 Theme From Blinking Lights (Remastered For Vinyl)
2 From Which I Came / A Magic World (Remastered For Vinyl)
3 Son Of A Bitch (Remastered For Vinyl)
4 Blinking Lights (For Me) (Remastered For Vinyl)
5 Trouble With Dreams (Remastered For Vinyl)
6 Marie Floating Over The Backyard (Remastered For Vinyl)
1 Suicide Life (Remastered For Vinyl)
2 In The Yard, Behind The Church (Remastered For Vinyl)
3 Railroad Man (Remastered For Vinyl)
4 The Other Shoe (Remastered For Vinyl)
5 Last Time We Spoke (Remastered For Vinyl)
1 Mother Mary (Remastered For Vinyl)
2 Going Fetal (Remastered For Vinyl)
3 Understanding Salesman (Remastered For Vinyl)
4 Theme For A Pretty Girl That Makes You Believe God Exists (Remastered For Vinyl)
5 Checkout Blues (Remastered For Vinyl)
6 Blinking Lights (For You) (Remastered For Vinyl)
1 Dust Of Ages (Remastered For Vinyl, Explicit)
2 Old Shit / New Shit (Remastered For Vinyl, Explicit)
3 Bride Of Theme From Blinking Lights (Remastered For Vinyl)
4 Hey Man (Now You're Really Living) (Remastered For Vinyl)
5 I'm Going To Stop Pretending That I Didn't Break Your Heart (Remastered For Vinyl)
1 To Lick Your Boots (Remastered For Vinyl)
2 If You See Natalie (Remastered For Vinyl)
3 Sweet Li'l Thing (Remastered For Vinyl)
4 Dusk: A Peach In The Orchard (Remastered For Vinyl)
5 Whatever Happened To Soy Bomb (Remastered For Vinyl)
6 Ugly Love (Remastered For Vinyl)
1 God's Silence (Remastered For Vinyl)
2 Losing Streak (Remastered For Vinyl)
3 Last Days Of My Bitter Heart (Remastered For Vinyl)
4 The Stars Shine In The Sky Tonight (Remastered For Vinyl)
5 Things The Grandchildren Should Know (Remastered For Vinyl)
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- LP
- £21.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- EWORKS116LP
- Release date
- 30 Oct '20
- Format Info
180 gram black vinyl.
180 gram black vinyl. -
- LP Box Set
- u/avbl
- Cat Number
- EWORKS116LPX
- Release date
- 30 Oct '20
- Format Info
2xLP 180g coloured vinyl.
Litho print.
Digipak CD w/ booklet.
A5 Sticker sheet w/ 4 stickers - artist & title + 2 x baby design cut-outs - 2 x Fridge Magnets - baby design cut-outs.
Fridge magnets - letters for artist & title in album font.
12" slipmat - zoetrope design.
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- CD
- £9.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- EWORKS116CD
- Release date
- 30 Oct '20
Speaking about the new record, E says: “These songs came about just before the pandemic hit and changed everything. I’m hoping they can be, maybe kind of soothing or something. To hear songs dealing with things we are dreaming about getting back to. Or maybe people are dealing with some of the topics right now as well. Just one song was done in the thick of the early pandemic days, ‘Are We Alright Again’, which is kind of a quarantine daydream I desperately needed to have.”
‘Earth to Dora’ marks the 13th full length EELS album, and first since 2018’s ‘The Deconstruction’, their first in four years, the album was released to widespread acclaim and described as “another EELS album to treasure” by MOJO, “overwhelming” by Uncut, and “a career-straddling greatest hits collection, in which all the ‘hits’ are brand new,” by CLASH.
EELS have had one of the most consistently acclaimed careers in music. The ever-changing project of principal singer/songwriter E (Mark Oliver Everett), EELS have released 12 studio albums since their 1996 debut, Beautiful Freak. In 2008, E published his highly-acclaimed book Things the Grandchildren Should Know and starred in the award-winning Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives documentary about the search to understand his quantum physicist father, Hugh Everett III.
2015 saw the release of the band’s extraordinary Royal Albert Hall live album and concert film. In the same year, the band’s “Fresh Blood” served as the theme song to HBO’s “The Jinx” and from 2016 to 2018 E appeared in Judd Apatow’s Netflix original series “Love.” EELS released their 12th studio album, and first in four years, ‘The Deconstruction’ in April 2018 and toured America and Europe in 2018 and 2019.
STAFF COMMENTS
Barry says: 13 ALBUMS!! There's something to be said for a band that manage to keep bringing the goods year after year, and Eels are one of the best examples. 'Earth To Dora' has all of the melodicism and hidden melancholy that we expect from the LA stalwarts.TRACK LISTING
1. Anything For Boo
2. Are We Alright Again
3. Who You Say You Are
4. Earth To Dora
5. Dark And Dramatic
6. Are You Fucking Your Ex
7. The Gentle Souls
8. Of Unsent Letters
9. I Got Hurt
10. OK
11. Baby Let's Make It Real
12. Waking Up
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- Coloured LP
- £22.99
- Cat Number
- EWORKS126
- Release date
- Expected 7 Jun '24
- Format Info
Translucent neon pink vinyl.
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- CD
- £10.99
- Cat Number
- EWORKS126CD
- Release date
- Expected 7 Jun '24
Release date: Expected 7 Jun '24
TRACK LISTING
1 Time
2 We Won’t See Her Like Again
3 Goldy
4 Sweet Smile
5 Haunted Hero
6 If I’m Gonna Go Anywhere
7 And You Run
8 Lay With The Lambs
9 Song For You Know Who
10 I Can’t Believe It’s True
11 On The Bridge
12 Let’s Be Lucky
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- 2xColoured LP
- £35.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- EWORKS125
- Release date
- 15 Dec '23
- Format Info
Transparent green coloured vinyl.
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- CD
- £12.99
- Cat Number
- EWORKS125CD
- Release date
- 15 Dec '23
TRACK LISTING
1. Fresh Blood
2. That Look You Give That Guy
3. A Line In The Dirt
4. Little Bird
5. Spectacular Girl
6. I Like The Way This Is Going
7. Peach Blossom
8. Wonderful, Glorious
9. Where I'm From
10. Mistakes Of My Youth
11. The Deconstruction
12. Today Is The Day
13. You Are The Shining Light
14. Are We Alright Again
15. Earth To Dora
16. Royal Pain
17. Man Up
18. Man I Keep Trying
19. JAZZ HANDS Part I
20. Christmas, Why You Gotta Do Me Like This
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- LP
- £22.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- EWORKS120
- Release date
- 17 Mar '23
- Format Info
Single LP on standard weight black vinyl in a gatefold sleeve with matt machine varnish.
Single LP on standard... [ + ]
EELS have had one of the most consistently acclaimed careers in music. The ever-changing project of principal singer / songwriter E (Mark Oliver Everett), EELS have released 14 studio albums since their 1996 debut, ‘Beautiful Freak’. In 2008, E published his highly acclaimed book, ‘Things the Grandchildren Should Know’, and starred in the award-winning ‘Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives’ documentary about the search to understand his quantum physicist father, Hugh Everett III.
TRACK LISTING
1 The Beginning
2 Gone Man
3 In My Younger Days
4 Mansions Of Los Feliz
5 A Line In The Dirt
6 End Times
1 Apple Trees
2 Paradise Blues
3 Nowadays
4 Unhinged
5 High And Lonesome
6 I Need A Mother
7 Little Bird
8 On My Feet
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- LP
- £19.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- EWORKS123LP
- Release date
- 28 Jan '22
- Format Info
Limited edition screen printed poster - two colour print on 270g card stock approximately 8"x11.5".
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- 2xLP Box Set
- £49.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- EWORKS123X
- Release date
- 28 Jan '22
- Format Info
Deluxe 2xLP 12” 45rpm 180 gram translucent yellow coloured vinyl.
Lenticular print of album artwork.
Extreme Witchcraft Ouija Board with custom EELS planchette.
Digipak CD w/ booklet.
A5 Sticker sheet w/ 4 stickers - Artist & title plus extreme witchcraft designs.
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- CD
- £10.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- EWORKS123CD
- Release date
- 28 Jan '22
TRACK LISTING
1. Amateur Hour
2. Good Night On Earth
3. Strawberries & Popcorn
4. Steam Engine
5. Grandfather Clock Strikes Twelve
6. Stumbling Bee
7. The Magic
8. Better Living Through Desperation
9. So Anyway
10. What It Isn’t
11. Learning While I Lose
12. I Know You’re Right
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- LP
- £22.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- EWORKS119
- Release date
- 17 Mar '23
- Format Info
Single LP on standard weight black vinyl in a gatefold sleeve with matt machine varnish.
Single LP on standard... [ + ]
EELS have had one of the most consistently acclaimed careers in music. The ever-changing project of principal singer / songwriter E (Mark Oliver Everett), EELS have released 14 studio albums since their 1996 debut, ‘Beautiful Freak’. In 2008, E published his highly acclaimed book, ‘Things the Grandchildren Should Know’, and starred in the award-winning ‘Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives’ documentary about the search to understand his quantum physicist father, Hugh Everett III.
TRACK LISTING
1 Prizefighter
2 That Look You Give That Guy
3 Lilac Breeze
4 In My Dreams
5 Tremendous Dynamite
6 The Longing
1 Fresh Blood
2 What's A Fella Gotta Do
3 My Timing Is Off
4 All The Beautiful Things
5 Beginner's Luck
6 Ordinary Man
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- 2xColoured LP
- £25.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- EWORKS1150LP
- Release date
- 6 Apr '18
- Format Info
2 x 10” Translucent Yellow Vinyl.
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- CD
- £10.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- EWORKS1150CD
- Release date
- 6 Apr '18
“Here are 15 new EELS tracks that may or may not inspire, rock, or not rock you. The world is going nuts. But if you look for it, there is still great beauty to be found. Sometimes you don’t even have to look for it. Other times you have to try to make it yourself. And then there are times you have to tear something apart to find something beautiful inside.”
EELS singer-songwriter E (Mark Oliver Everett).
STAFF COMMENTS
Barry says: From the bubblegum sweetness (and reticent unease) of Eels' early works to todays melancholic and refined productions, Mark Oliver everett has maintained his impeccable ear for melody and unrivalled attention to detail. 'The Deconstruction' is in many ways the pinnacle of their works to date, instantly recognisable but undeniably boundary-pushing.TRACK LISTING
The Deconstruction
Bone Dry
The Quandary
Premonition
Rusty Pipes
The Epiphany
Today Is The Day
Sweet Scorched Earth
Coming Back
Be Hurt
You Are The Shining Light
There I Said It
Archie Goodnight
The Unanswerable
In Our Cathedral
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- 2xColoured LP
- £25.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- EWORKS1150LP
- Release date
- 6 Apr '18
- Format Info
2 x 10” Translucent Yellow Vinyl.
2 x 10” Translucent... [ + ] -
- CD
- £10.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- EWORKS1150CD
- Release date
- 6 Apr '18
“Here are 15 new EELS tracks that may or may not inspire, rock, or not rock you. The world is going nuts. But if you look for it, there is still great beauty to be found. Sometimes you don’t even have to look for it. Other times you have to try to make it yourself. And then there are times you have to tear something apart to find something beautiful inside.”
EELS singer-songwriter E (Mark Oliver Everett).
STAFF COMMENTS
Barry says: From the bubblegum sweetness (and reticent unease) of Eels' early works to todays melancholic and refined productions, Mark Oliver everett has maintained his impeccable ear for melody and unrivalled attention to detail. 'The Deconstruction' is in many ways the pinnacle of their works to date, instantly recognisable but undeniably boundary-pushing.TRACK LISTING
The Deconstruction
Bone Dry
The Quandary
Premonition
Rusty Pipes
The Epiphany
Today Is The Day
Sweet Scorched Earth
Coming Back
Be Hurt
You Are The Shining Light
There I Said It
Archie Goodnight
The Unanswerable
In Our Cathedral
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- LP
- £22.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- EWORKS121
- Release date
- 17 Mar '23
- Format Info
Single LP on standard weight black vinyl in a gatefold sleeve with matt machine varnish.
Single LP on standard... [ + ]
EELS have had one of the most consistently acclaimed careers in music. The ever-changing project of principal singer / songwriter E (Mark Oliver Everett), EELS have released 14 studio albums since their 1996 debut, ‘Beautiful Freak’. In 2008, E published his highly acclaimed book, ‘Things the Grandchildren Should Know’, and starred in the award-winning ‘Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives’ documentary about the search to understand his quantum physicist father, Hugh Everett III.
TRACK LISTING
In Gratitude For This Magnificent Day
I'm A Hummingbird
The Morning
Baby Loves Me
Spectacular Girl
What I Have To Offer
This Is Where It Gets Good
After The Earthquake
Oh So Lovely
The Man
Looking Up
That's Not Her Way
I Like The Way This Is Going
Mystery Of Life
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- CD
- £9.99
- Cat Number
- BDCD286
- Release date
- 3 Nov '17
For Anna Lena, the album is a document of a tumultuous chapter in her life. It’s very much about living through your twenties, which in Norwegian society are “the years when you’re supposed to figure everything out.”
On Reflection Of Youth, EERA’s sound has already evolved into something rawer, rockier and noticeably angrier. "It was a really odd experience to listen back to the record and realise what I'd made," says Anna Lena. "I was surprised by how different, how much more powerful it felt from the EP. Those songs sounded like I was quietly knocking on the door, trying to get in, whereas the album feels like I'm stepping through it." If Anna Lena set out to achieve anything, she says, “it was to make an incredibly honest record that would give people a real sense of who I am. I think it’s important to be vulnerable, to not be afraid of showing emotion and be open about it with the people around you. We all face problems in our lives, so why not meet them head-on?”
TRACK LISTING
Living
Beast
Christine
I Wanna Dance
Survived
10 000 Voices
Watching You
Trust
Wise Man
Reflection Of Youth
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- CD
- £12.49
- Cat Number
- BBIBR026CD
- Release date
- 18 Mar '16
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- Coloured LP
- £22.99
- Cat Number
- JNR415LPC1
- Release date
- 25 Nov '22
- Format Info
Lavender coloured vinyl
Lavender coloured vinyl -
- CD
- £11.99
- Cat Number
- JNR415CD
- Release date
- 23 Sep '22
The result is the most realized Eerie Wanda album yet, building on the project's guitar pop past for a more experimental, other worldly, serious grown-up affair that ventures into sensitive, motional territory.
"Pet Town is delightfully airy; a set of songs that have drifted in on a breeze from some strange and foreign landscape you won't find on any map.” Gold Flake Paint.
“Tadic’s melody here is part of that Brian Wilson lineage … she sets those notes adrift with a casually graceful minimalism… It evokes a pleasant stroll through a city at the moment when night begins to fall on a daydream.” Stereogum.
TRACK LISTING
1. Sail To The Silver Sun
2. NOWx1000
3. Long Time
4. On Heaven
5. Confess
6. Nightwalk
7. Someone's In My House
8. Sister Take My Hand
9. Birds Aren't Real
10. Puzzled
11. Bon Voyage
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- CD
- £11.99
- Cat Number
- JNR291CD
- Release date
- 25 Jan '19
Echoing the sonorous gleam of West Coast pop, opening song "Pet Town" initially sounds like a love letter to one’s hometown, as both a tangible and emotional sanctuary. Between the lines, Tadic grapples with the sudden absence of shiny beacons that once enriched her life. "Hands Of The Devil" casts spells of attraction with its hypnotic flamenco cadence, whereas the humdrum amble of "Sleepy Eyes" evokes a rude awakening from those very spells. Tadic is still left guessing how Pet Town came to be, exactly. “I wrote the songs over a period of time spent inside my shell, and I needed that time. Not escaping it brought me a lot of growth.” Like some mysterious shamanic voice from the future, Eerie Wanda hushes turbulent peaks and valleys into a comforting, deft equilibrium. “I love to think I'm connected with some other dimension which sends me the songs and I can catch them if I'm in the right zone.”
STAFF COMMENTS
Barry says: Warm and intimate, Eerie Wanda is the counterfoil to the loud and chaotic musical world of today. Easily drifting between stripped-back psychedelic folk, worldly rhythms and rich, anthemic indie. It really is a beautiful mix of sounds, and one put together with Tadic's trademark skill.TRACK LISTING
1. Pet Town
2. Big Blue Bird
4. Rockabiller
5. Magnetic Woman
6. Moon
7. Sleepy Eyes
8. The Intruder
9. Couldn't Tell
10. Hands Of The Devil
11. Truly.
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- CD
- £8.99
- Cat Number
- AM082
- Release date
- 22 Jul '02
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- Ltd LP
- £12.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- SBR033
- Release date
- 31 May '10
"Rhizomes" is the debut full length from the all-female outfit, Effi Briest. The nine-song opus, "Rhizomes", unleashes a propulsive beat that drives angular guitars and bone chilling vocals over dark bass, dense drones and clattering, dance-like percussion. The atmospheric psychedelia owes as much to Arthur Russell as to Amon Duul. "Rhizomes" includes two of the band’s UK singles on Loog Records, and seven more previously-unreleased original songs.
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- 2xLtd CD/DVD
- £12.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- BAY69CDVD
- Release date
- 19 Oct '09
- Format Info
CD with DVD.
CD with DVD.
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- 2xLtd LP
- £21.49
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- CAD3316
- Release date
- 10 Jun '13
Early on in the gestation process of ‘Piramida’, Efterklang enlisted the talents of renowned composers Missy Mazzoli and Karsten Fundal to provide orchestral arrangements for the Sydney performance. Their invaluable contributions brought the orchestra into sharp focus, becoming the catalyst for the performance rather than an embellishment.
Since their appearance at the Sydney Opera House, the band have played fifteen other such concerts - dubbed The Piramida Concerts - around the globe, including sold out performances at London’s Barbican with the Northern Sinfonia and New York’s Metropolitan Museum concert hall with The Wordless Music Orchestra.
The album ‘Piramida’ was released in September 2012. It is named after a forgotten mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Spitsbergen, located just south of the North Pole, abandoned since 1998 and slowly decaying. The trio of Casper Clausen, Mads Brauer and Rasmus Stolberg spent nine days exploring this ghost town, collecting field recordings that would help form the backbone of their fourth studio record. Although cut from the same cloth, The Piramida Concerts differ from Piramida and, keen to present this other side, Efterklang decided to commit one of the performances to tape. Fittingly, they chose the concert they played in their native Denmark, and this will be released as a deluxe double vinyl package (with a copy of the album on CD).
‘The Piramida Concert’ by Efterklang & Copenhagen Phil was recorded live at Copenhagen’s Royal Academy Of Music Concert Hall in October 2012. Over the course of two sold-out nights Efterklang - plus special guests Peter Broderick, Katinka Fogh Vindelev and Budgie (Siouxsie and The Banshees, The Creatures) - teamed up with the 33-strong Copenhagen Phil orchestra and German conductor André de Ridder to perform ‘Piramida’ in its entirety.
The concert also features ‘So’, a song written during recording sessions for ‘Piramida’, and ‘Vælv’, a classical piece commissioned by Efterklang and composed by Karsten Fundal.
Mixed to tape by Francesco Donadello at the Vox-Ton studio in Berlin, the deluxe gatefold double vinyl will consist of one black disc and one white, designed by Danish artists and long-time Efterklang collaborators Hvass&Hannibal.
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Efterklang’s last release, Piramida, centred around a ghost town in the Arctic, was a grand and all-encompassing project that spawned a movie, live album and a series of unforgettable shows (including a live debut at the Sydney Opera House). Their final performance in Sønderborg – the southern Danish town where the band grew up – marked a closing of a chapter, for Piramida and for Efterklang.
“We needed a break from the album and touring routine, and we needed a break from Efterklang,” says Clausen. “After the Sønderborg show, things felt very exciting – and a bit scary too. We could think freely, and move in new directions again, just focusing on the things that excited the 3 of us.”
That break saw the trio explore projects outside of the group’s confines. Together they co-wrote and performed an opera with friend and composer Karsten Fundal (LEAVES, The Colour Of Falling) as part of the Copenhagen Opera Festival. Meanwhile, Clausen, Brauer and Stolberg reunited with Efterklang’s touring drummer Tatu Rönkkö for a new band, Liima. In sharp contrast to Efterklang, they scaled down the music process, creating songs in a day, and released two records of icy, grand electronic pop, ii (2016) and 1982 (2017).
What lured them back as Efterklang was another off-kilter collaboration, this time with B.O.X, a Belgian ensemble founded by lute player Pieter Theuns that performs new music with baroque orchestration. Initially invited by Theuns to compose music for a joint performance, the experience inspired and invigorated the trio to return to the studio for a new Efterklang album proper. For perhaps the first time in the band’s history, they took a less-is-more approach to Altid Sammen, engaging on a more primal and emotional level. The album also sees the trio break from tradition with Clausen singing in his mother tongue some of his most personal lyrics thus far.
“Altid Sammen’s songs are about belief and togetherness,” Clausen says. “Not in a religious way – none of us are believers of a defined religion. The words are searching for meaning in intimate relationships, in nature, in death and eternity. The bonds we create; to gather, hold hands, sing or share a moment together. We’re all connected, across nations, age, sex and gender. We come together with all of our backgrounds, and we move apart in all sorts of directions, always together.”
STAFF COMMENTS
Barry says: I've loved Efterklang for some time now, and it really has been fascinating to see the trajectory of the core band and their former members (Peter Broderick being one of them!). Their newest outing takes the morose poppy melodies of Piramida with some of the electronic scree of their earlier work, and it's a perfectly measured and completely brilliant electronic pop LP. Superb as ever from Clausen & co.TRACK LISTING
Vi Er Uendelig
Supertanker
Uden Ansigt
I Dine øjne
Hænder Der åbner Sig
Verden Forsvinder
Under Broen Der Ligger Du
Havet Løfter Sig
Hold Mine Hænder
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- 22 Feb '10
The result is an intimate and immediate record that exudes warmth. The grandiose classical structures heard so prominently and admired so highly in previous albums "Tripper" and "Parades" have been replaced by something far more streamlined, deconstructed and altogether melodious. Opening track "Modern Drift" is a statement of intent with its intricate and looping arpeggios whilst "I Was Playing Drums" is arguably their most accessible pop song to date, the echoes of its refrain linger irresistibly in the ear. ‘Magic Chairs’ still bears the occasional signature moment (an electronic buzz here, a choral flair there) but, all told, it is an album that is an even bolder step forward.
STAFF COMMENTS
Darryl says: Featuring a host of guest musicians including Peter Broderick, "Magic Chairs" is an immense melodic strewn avant epic, that snuggles nicely in your collection between the latest Animal Collective and Grizzly Bear albums.-
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Watershed second album "Parades" is now joined by the long-deleted "Under Giant Trees" mini-album. This also features two live recordings of tracks from the album.
TRACK LISTING
CD1:
1. Polygyne
2. Mirador
3. Him Poe Poe
4. Horseback Tenors
5. Mimeo
6. Frida Found A Friend
7. Maison De Réflexion
8. Blowing Lungs Like Bubbles
9. Caravan
10. Illuminant
11. Cutting Ice To Snow
CD2:
1. Falling Horses
2. Himmelbjerget
3. Hands Playing Butterfly
4. Towards The Bare Hill
5. Jojo
6. Mirador (Live)
7. Cutting Ice To Snow (Live)
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- 24 Sep '12
‘Piramida’s roots were laid in 2010, when the band first saw photographs of a forgotten settlement lying, slowly dying, on Spitsbergen, an island of the Svalbard archipelago midway between the Norwegian mainland and the North Pole. This ghost town, which the trio eventually visited in August 2011 (drummer Thomas Husmer left before ‘Piramida’s commencement), would give their fourth album its title, and comprise the conceptual catalyst for its contents.
Once an outpost for some 1,000 Russians, the former mining facility was abandoned in January 1998. Between the empty oil drums and fuel tanks, glass bottles, lampshades, sea birds and polar bears, the band discovered the world’s northernmost grand piano, standing proudly in a concert hall that once held 400 people. Its notes can be heard on ‘Piramida’, perhaps for the first time anywhere in over a decade.
When the band returned home, nine days later, they’d accumulated just over 1000 field recordings from the many and varied environments they explored in Piramida. The beginnings of this approach can be seen on the band’s 2010 film collaboration with Vincent Moon, ‘An Island’. Then the time came to transform these audio snapshots of abandonment, of isolation touched by unique beauty, into songs.
Every added element - including contributions from Peter Broderick (violin), Earl Harvin (drums), Nils Frahm (piano), brass from the Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra, and a 70- piece girls choir - owes its presence to the trio’s Piramida visit. “Everything that has gone onto this record is connected with that trip,” says Clausen. Adds Stolberg: “We didn’t really know where we were going to end the record - but the starting point was something we could control. That was an amazing framework for us, and we could constantly put what we were working on in the context of that trip.”
Lyrically, Clausen isn’t telling of empty houses and dusty grand pianos - but his heartfelt performance, more prominent in the mix here than on past albums and all the more affecting for it, is carried by a different kind of isolation, of abandonment. In his words there are glimpses of a relationship splintered, a community of two lost to the winds. It’s thousands of geographical miles away from Piramida, yet becomes the heart of Piramida.
A less-densely layered collection than the electronic-hued ‘Parades’, and more direct than ‘Magic Chairs’, ‘Piramida’ is a rare example of a conceptually strong project that never forgets to let the concept serve the song, rather than the other way around. It’s a streamlined sound, but distinct and absorbing too. It showcases a band superbly capable of transitioning experiences shared by a select few into music that can be enjoyed by a wide, open-minded audience.
STAFF COMMENTS
Ryan says: Piramida stands tall above their previous releases, gritty synth lines, punchy percussion and oh yes, trumpets add to the atmosphere to create a true masterpiece.-
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An album about friendship, belonging, faith and understanding, themes which are palpable in the music, which is gentle and uplifting, healing and rousing.
Efterklang has become an open community with three permanent members: Mads Brauer, Casper Clausen and Rasmus Stolberg. On this album the core trio re-connected with their old friend and founding Efterklang member Rune Mølgaard who left the band in 2007 to join the mormon church, and ultimately withdrew from the church in 2022. His profound spiritual journey significantly influences the album's content and tone, on which he has co-written seven of the nine songs.
'Things We Have In Common' coincides with the 20th anniversary of the band’s debut album, and presents 2 decades of collaboration, exploration, evolution and reconnection.
The album features contributions from a variety of international musicians. Zach Condon of Beirut, Finnish drummer Tatu Rönkkö, Venezuelan guitarist Hector Tosta and Guatemalan cellist and singer Mabe Fratti all became key collaborators. Italian award- winning mixer Francesco Donadello and South Denmark Girls’ Choir both left their indelible mark on the record, as their did with the band’s 2012 album ‘Piramida’.
TRACK LISTING
1. Balancing Stones (feat. Mabe Fratti)
2. Plant (feat. Mabe Fratti)
3. Getting Reminders (feat. Beirut)
4. Ambulance
5. Leave It All Behind
6. Animated Heart (feat. Sønderjysk Pigekor)
7. Shelf Break
8. Sentiment
9. To A New Day (feat. Sønderjysk Pigekor)
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- 8 Oct '21
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Clear vinyl.- Includes MP3 Download Code.
Clear vinyl.
For over twenty years, Efterklang have been pushing the barriers of experimental, electronic, emotional chamber-pop. Announcing their sixth studio album Windflowers, their first for City Slang, the Danish trio of Mads Brauer, Rasmus Stolberg and Casper Clausen continue a creative journey that’s brought them closer together, even as their lives grow apart. Channelling the motifs of hope and change its namesake flora represents, the album sees their many years of collaboration and experimentation distilled into some of their finest and most direct melodic moments to date.
With their ability to bring in guests and session musicians restricted, Efterklang had to challenge their usual creative process and accept their own limitations. Recorded over the course of five trips to residential studio Real Farm on the island of Møn, south of Copenhagen, the genesis of Windflowers was back to basics and became an exercise in putting their vast and dynamic experience to play. The album finds Casper singing in English again, for the most part. It’s rich and intimate, the sound of three friends finding each other at a time when the world around them felt unstable. The record is about existing, alone, together and in nature. It’s about reconnecting, and letting each other grow.
Efterklang’s constant innovation and openness for collaborating extends past the band’s core members and into the world of the listener. Now sharing new music through their Developed platform, fans are invited to collaborate and respond as they listen to the new tracks for the first time. Collaboration and community has always been the compass of Efterklang, and the group keeps looking for new ways to build a meaningful correspondence with their audience, to be inventive and inclusive. “We don’t want to play to people, we want to perform and make music with people,” Rasmus explains.
After all their years together, Mads, Casper and Rasmus share the real intimacy of family. Windflowers is proof that connection and community can triumph over adversity, and the result is something truly beautiful.
STAFF COMMENTS
Barry says: Having been one of my all time favourites, Efterklang have moved from swimming, electronic melodies and blipping Múm-esque percussives to this widescreen pop distillation. Their latest continues the line of synthy pop offerings, but with a renewed confidence and easy-going swing. Another stunner from the 'Klang.TRACK LISTING
A1. Alien Arms
A2. Beautiful Eclipse
A3. Hold Me Close When You Can
A4. Lady Of The Rocks
A5. Dragonfly
B1. Living Other Lives
B2. Mindless Center
B3. House On A Feather
B4. Åbent Sår (feat. The Field)
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By recording there the album captures not just his performances, but also the vibe of the place; it often felt as though there were artists lurking in the aether listening along. His visitors over the years were no small change: Lee Friedlander, Carl Sagan, Dennis Hopper , Paul McCartney and many others came to see him and listen to his hypnotic “Musik”. You can hear local traffic, a dog barking, weather; reality, in other words. But there was another space layered on top, a kind of surreality echoing his music, as you can imagine a gathering of musicians listening in, eager to join him. Thus came along 512 which features the legendary Brian Eno on bells and production from Leo Abrahams (Regina Spektor, Paul Simon, Jon Hopkins).”
TRACK LISTING
1. Improvisation
2. Ol’ Man River
3. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
4. Over The Rainbow
5. That’s Some Robert Burn
6. Onward Christian Soldiers
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In the 1980’s, Eggleston, who disdained digital cameras and modernity in general, became surprisingly fascinated with a synthesizer, the Korg O1/W FD, which had 88 piano-like keys and in addition to being able to emulate the sound of any instrument, also contained a four-track sequencer that allowed him to expand the palette of his music, letting him create improvised symphonic pieces, stored on 49 floppy discs, encompassing some 60 hours of music from which this 13 track recording was assembled.
The music, which he refers to as ‘Musik’, adopting the German spelling of his hero, JS Bach, is highly emotional, whether he’s improvising a Bach-like organ fanfare out of whole cloth, using a Korg patch titled ‘Guitar Feedback’ to create a dirge, or playing Lerner and Lowe’s ‘On The Street Where You Live’ as a dramatic overture.
Release available in a beautiful gatefold double LP with photography by Alex Soth.
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The album harks back to the heavy influence of 80s prog rock on the cosmic disco scene. Tracks like ‘Landscape’ utilise strong synth motifs and experimental melodic touches, brought into the 21st century with crisp production. Imagine Rustie vs. Vangelis and you’re somewhere close.
‘Typhoon’ is an all-out synth bonanza with chugging basslines and steady disco beats. ‘Volcano’, written and produced with Francesco Boscolo, is a prime slice of Italo glamour that’ll have the nu-disco pups reaching for the stars. ‘Cave’ builds on the glacial sci-fi atmospheres whilst ‘Wind (Stella Vocal)’ drives hard with its mesmerizing groove. ‘Open Air’ provides meditative, crystalline relief before ‘Rare Earth’ propels the album forward with hollowed-out tom patterns and rapid synth switch-ups.
The album comes to a close with the motoric ‘Underwater’, a manic, soaring piece of music paired with the trickling sounds and long modulated synth bows of ‘Water Games’ to finish.
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- 27 Oct '23
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Following on from their incendiary debut E. P’s; 2019’s ‘Collateral Damage’ & 2020’s ‘Body Of Itch’, the band garnered a fervent following and had support from key tastemakers across the media including Steve Lamacq, Jack Saunders, Tom Ravenscroft, NME and Fader.
In the intervening time they have been heralded by their peers as one of the best new bands in the country; IDLES frontman Joe Talbot describing them as “fucking sick’’ and picking them as his act of choice for the BBC Introducing stage at Glastonbury 2022. Yannis Philippakis is another avowed super-fan, personally choosing Egyptian Blue as support for Foals’ run of arena shows in the UK & Europe during their Life Is Yours tour run.
With a new clarity of vision fully formed during the extended hiatus of 2-years of pandemic enforced delays, ‘’A Living Commodity’’ represents a dynamic artistic shift from Egyptian Blue and showcases in full the scale and ambition of their songwriting.
The first teaser of new music came in the form of ‘Geisha’; a psyche-tinged punk attack driven by Luke Phelps propulsive bass combined with Isaac Ide’s tight percussion, underpinned by dual frontmen Andy Buss & Leith Ambrose jagged guitar playing adding to the angsty and foreboding lyrics with Buss professing ‘’I live for only you’’ making a magnetising collage of sounds.
TRACK LISTING
1. Matador
2. Nylon Wire
3. Belgrade Shade
4. Skin
5. In My Condition
6. A Living Commodity
7. Apparent Cause
8. Suit Of Lights
9. To Be Felt
10. Contain It
11. Geisha
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- MRB7185
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- 11 Dec '20
First up is a track from The Egyptian Lover, AKA Greg J. Broussard, the cult Los Angeles-based producer, vocalist and DJ, who is a true hip-hop / electrofusion pioneer. ‘Computer Love (Sweet Dreams)’ is a seminal electro-fusion / machine-funk classic that saw a release on the iconic label Freak Beat Records (owned by Greg himself). The original 7” release is now very sought-after by collectors. On the flip we have another electro jam from The Egyptian Lover disciple, Jamie Jupitor. ‘Computer Power’ was additionally produced and arranged by The Egyptian Lover, and was released on Egyptian Empire Records (the label that evolved from Freak Beat Records). For this release we have opted for a special 7” unreleased radio edit, that has Greg kindly provided us with, which differs slightly in composition from the previously released versions. One for fans of D m Funk, electro and 80s funk
STAFF COMMENTS
Matt says: No it's not a cover of Kraftwerk! But LA's veteran electro-funk / freestyle legend Egyptian Lover reissuing some highly treasured HEAT from his early catalogue.TRACK LISTING
Computer Love (Sweet Dreams) - The Egyptian Lover
Computer Power - Jamie Jupitor
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- 12"
- £19.99
- Cat Number
- DMSR 87011
- Release date
- 19 Apr '24
TRACK LISTING
Emotions
Emotional (Instrumental)
Dirty Passionate Yell
Dirty Music (Instrumental)
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- 23 Jun '23
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- 23 Jun '23
TRACK LISTING
Side A
1. Bunny
2. No More Like That
3. Birds
4. The Voice Of Music
5. Bees
6. The Coffin Was So Light I Thought It Might Float Away
Side B
7. Good God Y’all
8. Secret Gypsy Language
9. On A Peoplemover
10. Two Thousand Twelve
11. The Drunk Pilot And The Romantic Passenger
12. Modulator Hustle
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- 30 Mar '15
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- ACPCD1501
- Release date
- 17 Jul '15 (originally released 30 Mar '15)
After a very successful reunion in 2008 that included sell out tours, headline appearances at festivals around the world, special guest Matt Smith as Doctor Who at Glastonbury, the Paralympics opening ceremony with Professor Stephen Hawking, and not forgetting the highly- acclaimed album ‘Wonky’, brothers Paul and Phil Hartnoll have decided to bring down the curtain on Orbital’s remarkable 25 year career.
The title of the album ‘8:58’ comes from Paul’s fascination with the theme of time. ‘I’ve always had a thing for clocks and for time as a powerful force - but also the way it oppresses you,’ explains Paul. ‘It’s one of those things I keep coming back to. For me, 8:58 is a moment of choice. It’s almost 9 o’clock. Are you going to school? Are you going to this job you hate? Everybody faces that decision now and again. 8:58 am is when you’ve got to make up your mind.’As Cillian Murphy says at the very beginning of ‘8:58’: brace yourself for freedom. Now.
TRACK LISTING
1. 8:58
2. Please
3. The Past Now
4. Villain
5. The Clock
6. A Forest
7. Broken Up
8. Nearly There
9. Cemetery
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After a very successful reunion in 2008 that included sell out tours, headline appearances at festivals around the world, special guest Matt Smith as Doctor Who at Glastonbury, the Paralympics opening ceremony with Professor Stephen Hawking, and not forgetting the highly- acclaimed album ‘Wonky’, brothers Paul and Phil Hartnoll have decided to bring down the curtain on Orbital’s remarkable 25 year career.
The title of the album ‘8:58’ comes from Paul’s fascination with the theme of time. ‘I’ve always had a thing for clocks and for time as a powerful force - but also the way it oppresses you,’ explains Paul. ‘It’s one of those things I keep coming back to. For me, 8:58 is a moment of choice. It’s almost 9 o’clock. Are you going to school? Are you going to this job you hate? Everybody faces that decision now and again. 8:58 am is when you’ve got to make up your mind.’As Cillian Murphy says at the very beginning of ‘8:58’: brace yourself for freedom. Now.
TRACK LISTING
1. 8:58
2. Please
3. The Past Now
4. Villain
5. The Clock
6. A Forest
7. Broken Up
8. Nearly There
9. Cemetery
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- 2xLtd CD
- £12.99
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- ACPCD1502
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- 30 Mar '15
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Double CD with 10 additional tracks. Comes in hardback book style packaging.
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After a very successful reunion in 2008 that included sell out tours, headline appearances at festivals around the world, special guest Matt Smith as Doctor Who at Glastonbury, the Paralympics opening ceremony with Professor Stephen Hawking, and not forgetting the highly- acclaimed album ‘Wonky’, brothers Paul and Phil Hartnoll have decided to bring down the curtain on Orbital’s remarkable 25 year career.
The title of the album ‘8:58’ comes from Paul’s fascination with the theme of time. ‘I’ve always had a thing for clocks and for time as a powerful force - but also the way it oppresses you,’ explains Paul. ‘It’s one of those things I keep coming back to. For me, 8:58 is a moment of choice. It’s almost 9 o’clock. Are you going to school? Are you going to this job you hate? Everybody faces that decision now and again. 8:58 am is when you’ve got to make up your mind.’As Cillian Murphy says at the very beginning of ‘8:58’: brace yourself for freedom. Now.
TRACK LISTING
CD 1
1. 8:58
2. Please
3. The Past Now
4. Villain
5. The Clock
6. A Forest
7. Broken Up
8. Nearly There
9. Cemetery
CD2
1. 8:58 (Instrumental)
2. Please (Instrumental)
3. The Past Now (Instrumental)
4. Villain (Instrumental)
5. The Clock (Instrumental)
6. A Forest (Instrumental)
7. Broken Up
8. Nearly There
9. Cemetery (Instrumental)
10. Risky
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- 21 Aug '20
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- TR467
- Release date
- 21 Aug '20
The band's debut album gained excellent reviews from the likes of Uncut, who said, "Edgy, drugged-up thug punk. 'Loss Leader' is Thames Estuary crude given a vital contemporary twist. Invest now". Mojo gave the band a 4-star review and Classic Rock summed the band up: "Thrashing the moody cut-and-shut Mk1 Capri of Essex geezer rock like they stole it. A welcome blast of no-frills, bullshit-free excitement that can only be deadly live". Eight Rounds Rapid supported Wilko Johnson on two major UK Tours, and have had airplay from BBC DJs Mark Radcliffe, Gary Crowley, Gideon Coe and Steve Lamacq.
Second album 'Objet D'Art' also received critical acclaim. Mojo praised its "high octane rebelliousness and cheeky wit" and guitarist Simon Johnson's "trashy, thrashy guitar, a cacophonous hybrid of his dad Wilko, Johnny Thunders and early Pete Townsend". Vive Le Rock hailed the band as "One of the most exciting new bands I've heard since Sleaford Mods […] the rhythm section of Jules Cooper and Lee Watkins power it like a V8 cadillac"
The band's songs are rooted in traditional rhythm and blues, but impulsive guitar from Simon Johnson (Wilko's son) and acerbic delivery from singer David Alexander make the act sound like John Cooper Clarke and Mark E Smith fighting in a Southend bus depot. The line-up also features Jules Cooper [bass] and Lee Watkins [drums]. Everett True said, "This is great. Art Brut meets ATV, with a touch of the old Wilkos. With a smattering of all those (rather scary) old ruffians: The Inmates, Nine Below Zero, Dr Feelgood. All that crowd".
Recorded under the spectre of a global pandemic, 'Love Your Work' reflects feelings of confusion, angst and isolation - all delivered with singer David Alexander's trademark sneering dry wit. The customary low life and underground subjects are still the only language they know, but this album is as much a commentary on contemporary music confronting modernity as it is a collection of musical compositions. The new album grapples with the folly of nostalgia while singles 'Love Don't', 'Tricks' and 'Eating' ramp up the energy levels. Violent lowlives and losers populate the songs as usual, but David Alexander now draws himself closer into view, with 'Aging Athlete', a metaphor for a musician searching for legitimacy in a dull landscape.
Music as duty. Love your work.
TRACK LISTING
1. You Wait
2. Passive Aggressive
3. Love Don't
4. Letter
5. Future Estates
6. Black Tide
7. Tricks
8. Retro Band
9. Eating
10. Onesie
11. Mirror
12. Ageing Athlete
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- 2xCD
- £14.99
- Cat Number
- SONY924CD
- Release date
- 26 Jul '04
- Format Info
Limited quantites include a bonus documentary DVD about the making of the album.
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- Cat Number
- CR003
- Release date
- 6 Oct '08
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- 13 Mar '20
TRACK LISTING
1. Ladies Of The Eighties
2. I Knew That Love
3. Tell Him
4. It's Easy To Move
5. Sing Me
6. He Is Mine Forever
7. Turned On To You
8. Ladies OF The Eighties (Instrumental)
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One of the band’s biggest fans is the film director Edgar Wright, who directed the music video for their song ‘Psychosis Safari’ as he was working on his own cult classic, ‘Shaun of the Dead’. The film even featured ‘Mister Mental’ (from ‘The Royal Society’) on its soundtrack. Still a fan to this day, Wright has penned the accompanying liner notes that will feature in all physical versions of the reissue. He writes:
“The aural assault of ‘Celebrate Your Mother’, ‘Chicken’, ‘Giant Bones’, ‘Fishfingers’ and, frankly, the whole fucking album, represents the uniquely combustive togetherness of this band who in 2002 existed paradoxically both within and outside the music scene of the day… Behold an album too fast to live, but too young to ever die. The finest 25 minutes of freak energy one can handle.”
Formed in Brighton on January 1st 2000, The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster went on to release one final record, 2010’s ‘Blood & Fire’, before disbanding. They experienced a rediscovery in 2012 when ‘Chicken’ featured in a Nike campaign, which led to the band reuniting for sold-out shows in London, Brighton and Manchester.
TRACK LISTING
Vinyl Tracklisting:
Side A
1. Celebrate Your Mother 2:33
2. Chicken 2:47
3. Whack Of Shit 2:18
4. Psychosis Safari 2:52
5. Giant Bones 1:46
Side B
6. Fishfingers 2:07
7. Charge The Guns 1:25
8. Morning Has Broken 2:33
9. Team Meat 2:45
10. Presidential Wave 4:06
"B-Side" Bonus Tracks:
Side A
Alex
Torrential Abuse
Return December
Briefcases For Girls
Sacred Metal
Side B
Turkish Delights Of The Devil
Ho Ha
Palomino's Dream
Lazy Bones
Flag Party
CD Tracklist:
1. Celebrate Your Mother
2. Chicken
3. Whack Of Shit
4. Psychosis Safari
5. Giant Bones
6. Fishfingers
7. Charge The Guns
8. Morning Has Broken
9. Team Meat
10. Presidential Wave
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- DVD single
- £4.99
- Cat Number
- MCSVD40368
- Release date
- 28 Jun '04
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The DVD features the video for "I Could Be An Angle", 4 x 30 second video clips plus "Royal Society" and "Mr Fearful (Demo Version Mister Mental)".
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The CD single includes a brand new track, "Ice Cream" and "Grrr".
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Card Digi Sleeve.
Card Digi Sleeve.
TRACK LISTING
1. Getting Older
2. I Didn’t Change My Number
3. Billie Bossa Nova
4. My Future
5. Oxytocin
6. GOLDWING
7. Lost Cause
8. Halley’s Comet
9. Not My Responsibility
10. OverHeated
11. Everybody Dies
12. Your Power
13. NDA
14. Therefore I Am
15. Happier Than Ever
16. Male Fantasy
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- 17 May '24
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- 17 May '24
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- £27.99
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- 29 Mar '19
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'When we made "Bury A Friend," the whole album clicked in my head,” Billie explains. 'I immediately knew what it was going to be about, what the visuals were going to be, and everything in terms of how I wanted it to be perceived. It inspired what the album is about. "Bury A Friend" is literally from the perspective of the monster under my bed. If you put yourself in that mindset, what is this creature doing or feeling?' She continues. 'I also confess that I’m this monster, because I’m my own worst enemy. I might be the monster under your bed too.'
"When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go" was written, produced and recorded entirely by 17-year-old Billie Eilish and brother Finneas in their childhood home of Highland Park, Los Angeles. Recorded in Finneas’ bedroom opposite Billie’s, the pair spent most of 2018 writing songs on the road, then spending many days and nights when off the road, at home, recording the album. The first to be revealed since the album announcement is "Bury A Friend," a driving tour-de-force of a song, trailblazing its way into the world and sounding quite unlike anything else that’s out right now. Reaffirming Billie Eilish’s place, always ahead of the curve, never compromising her sound or vision.
TRACK LISTING
1. !!!!!!!
2. Bad Guy
3. Xanny
4. You Should See Me In A Crown
5. All The Good Girls Go To Hell
6. Wish You Were Gay
7. When The Party's Over
8. 8
9. My Strange Addiction
10. Bury A Friend
11. Ilomilo
12. Listen Before I Go
13. I Love You
14. Goodbye
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- TPLP1546
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- 21 May '21
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- 21 May '21
TRACK LISTING
Kick The Ladder
Ocean’s Heart
Hypnotized
No Runaway
Daydream Echo
Gone To Bed
My Driver
45rpm
Story Of Charms
One Of Those
Space Soul
Chimes
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- Release date
- 12 Nov '07
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- 22 Oct '07
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The CD comes in elaborate Digipak packaging with a full colour booklet with lyrics in both German and English.
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- 25 Nov '16
Hardly another German band has characterized the music landscape as lastingly as EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN. Their influence on the music world was and is as great as their timeless character. "We didn't die", sings Blixa, "we're just singing a different song"."The difference", he goes on to clarify, "is in the song". The song in question, "How Did I Die?", comes from Lament, Einstürzende Neubauten's 2014 soundtrack to a specially commissioned live performance by the Belgian Flemish town of Diksmuide to mark the centenary of its fall to German troops at the outbreak of the First World War. It might be steeped in the history of catastrophe but it's also the newest track on Greatest Hits, the compilation album named after the special shows they've been touring the world with these past few years, initially while they were researching and preparing Lament for its Belgian premiere performance.
The music for those Greatest Hits shows was largely drawn from the last 27 years, and then most all of it created by their current longest lasting line-up. The earliest track here, however, is a newly mixed version of "Haus Der Lüge", the title track of their 1989 album Haus Der Lüge; except it's now adorned with freshly recorded trombone and string parts, which the group wanted on the original but couldn't afford, so had to use synth simulations instead. 1993's Tabula Rasa is represented by two tracks, "Die Interimsliebenden" and "Salamandrina". It's the last album to feature bass player Mark Chung, who joined in 1981 shortly after FM Einheit, aka Mufti, while they were both members of the Hamburg punk group Abwärts. Mufti himself left during the recording of 1996's Ende Neu, and he doesn't actually feature on Greatest Hits' opening track"The Garden", the first line of which was inspired by an English woman overheard by Blixa: "If you want me you will find me in the garden/Unless it's pouring down with rain". Here begins proper the phantasmagoric journeys documented on Greatest Hits, taking Einstürzende Neubauten - so the song goes - to the banks of all four rivers and the spring of consciousness, through all four seasons while waiting for the apple to fall. And the music they've made on those journeys has reflected those changing seasons, responding to the changing times, refracting those hard knocks.
Five tracks are taken from their 2000 album Silence Is Sexy: "Sabrina", "Sonnenbarke", "Total Eclipse Of The Sun", "Redukt" and "Die Befindlichkeit Des Landes". , Translating as "The Lay Of The Land", "Die Befindlichkeit Des Landes" also featured in Einstürzende Neubauten's melancholic soundtrack to Hubertus Siegert's Berlin Babylon, a 2001 documentary about the changing face of the purportedly unified city since the November 1989 fall of the Cold War-built Wall dividing it since 1961. The ten minute piece "Redukt", meanwhile, has become a live favourite, long ago replacing the early Einstürzende Neubauten staple "Sehnsucht", both as a showcase for the group's extraordinary capacity for invention, and as a vent for the emotions accumulated over the course of a concert. Two Greatest Hits tracks, "Dead Friends (Around The Corner)" and "Ein Leichtes Leises Säuseln", originated on their Supporters Album #1, which in publicly modified form became Perpetuum Mobile (Mute, 2004). Something like 2000 supporters financially pledged their faith in Einstürzende Neubauten two more times, for which they received Grundstück (2005) as their first dividend, followed by a special supporters' version of the self-released Alles Wieder Offen (Potomak, 2007). The latter provides the following three tracks to Greatest Hits: Einstürzende Neubauten's playful homage to early 20th century's dada pranksters "Let's Do It A Da Da", "Susej" and "Nagorny Karabach". The last named is a simultaneously haunting and heartbreakingly beautiful psychogeographical piece that stands as one of Einstürzende Neubauten's greatest album hits. As the song indicates, they have taken more than a few hard knocks, bumps and glitches on the way, but there's no stopping them now. Now as then as always, declares Greatest Hits' aforementioned newest track "How Did I Die?", "The difference makes the song".
TRACK LISTING
The Garden
Let`s Do It A Da DA
Die Interimsliebenden
Haus Der Lüge (New Mix / Rec)
Sabrina
Sonnenbarke
Susej
Total Eclipse Of The Sun
Dead Friends (Around The Corner)
Die Befindlichkeit Des Landes
Redukt
Nagorny Karabach
Salamandrina
How Did I Die?
Ein Leichtes Leises Säuseln
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- 5 Oct '18
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180 gram vinyl plus DVD.
180 gram vinyl plus DVD.
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- 2xColoured Deluxe LP
- £59.99
- Cat Number
- 5256091
- Release date
- 12 Apr '24
- Format Info
2LP 180g yellow vinyl limited to 5000 numbered copies worldwide, cover with embossing and numbering, printed inner sleeves, poster and 5 photo cards of the band members.
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2CD Digisleeve.
2CD Digisleeve.
They search for new forms - pursuing undiscovered sounds and unspoken words.
Since the band was founded on April 1, 1980, Einstürzende Neubauten have been shifting the parameters of mainstream and subculture to make the inaudible audible - perhaps the unheard as well. This experimental field research, spanning more than four decades, is now entering the next stage.
In its 44th year of existence, the band is going back to its roots while redefining itself. It’s a change in self- image, for which the Berlin quintet plus one has created its own genre in 2024: apm – alien pop music.
Constant evolution – that’s how Einstürzende Neubauten’s body of work can best be summarized. A musical evolution, which began with the debut album Kollaps in 1981 and is now being manifested with the release of the album Rampen – apm: alien pop music in April 24, on which Blixa Bargeld, N. U. Unruh, Alexander Hacke, Jochen Arbeit, Rudolph Moser and Felix Gebhard present themselves from their most unpredictable and unconventional sides. On their new album, the Neubauten now put an – albeit belated – end to all sound speculations.
Since the mid-1980s, Einstürzende Neubauten have been experimenting on stage with what they call “ramps”: public improvisations with open developments and outcomes; launchpads into the still unexplored that the band performed in 2022 during the encore on its last Alles in Allem tour and those recordings served as the basis for the new album.
Rampen – apm: alien pop music is pop music for parallel universes and in-between worlds - for hyperspaces and interzones. It is microcosmic and intergalactic at the same time. It’s a demi-sophisticated claim outside of all physical laws, with which the Einstürzende Neubauten enter a stylistic no man’s land between the past and future. There’s a return to the roots on one side, while a new art form emerges on the other from powerful eruptions of noise encountering cryptic, often fragmentary lyrics: Popular music for aliens and outcasts. Anti- pop has become alien pop. Outlandish. Spun like a cocoon. Unheard. Sonus inauditus. Not unintentionally, the reduced artwork on the cover is reminiscent of the iconic layout on the Beatles’ White Album. “It’s based on the idea that the Einstürzende Neubauten are just as famous in another solar system as the Beatles are in our world,” Blixa Bargeld said, remarking on the balancing act between avant-garde and tongue-in-cheek, provocation and pop-cultural discontinuity.
This approach also directly defines the central theme running like a common thread through all the songs: change, utopian mind games and transience.
“On the album, I found a few solutions and formulated things in ways I haven’t formulated them before, because they were never so clear to me. I’m somebody who believes you can attain knowledge through music. It’s always been that way. I follow the conviction I’ll find something in the music that I didn’t know before. And sing some- thing that I didn’t know. Something that turns out to be true. Or, to take this down a notch, something that at least has meaning.” This album represents the next step in the evolution, where the familiar language is finally left behind, opening further, infinite possibilities: alien pop music.
TRACK LISTING
DISC #1
01. WIE LANGE NOCH?
02. IST IST
03. PESTALOZZI
04. ES KÖNNTE SEIN
05. BEFORE I GO
06. ISSO ISSO
07. BESSER ISSES
08. EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE
DISC #2:
01. THE PIT OF LANGUAGE
02. PLANET UMBRA
03. TAR & FEATHERS
04. AUS DEN ZEITEN
05. ICK WEES NICH (NOCH NICH)
06. TRILOBITEN
07. GESUNDBRUNNEN
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- £21.99
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- BING163
- Release date
- 23 Oct '20
Auto has multiple meanings. First, automobile: “A lot of these songs were written about and mentally take place when I’m in the car on my way to gigs,“ says Eisenberg. Immediate melodies came to them on these trips, to which they’d later add complex guitar parts. And automata: “I make myself into a machine, which is why everything that’s played is precise.” Finally, they frame their work in the literary technique of auto-fiction, “the semi-fictionalized presentation of the self in a narrative form of growth,” as Eisenberg sees it.
The album served as a means toward working through emotional conflicts from adolescent trauma and PTSD, and dissects the dissolution and conflict that led towards the breakup of their former band. With much of it written while its events played out, Auto faces the grief of losing what one thinks is their future while experiencing a dramatic reshaping of their past; it delves openly into the limited nature of one person’s narrative.
After making a few efforts to record Auto, Eisenberg ultimately chose to collaborate with childhood friend Nick Zanca, who contributes electronic elements and production. Mirroring the personal and organic offered by Eisenberg, synthetic sounds form a kind of boundary or context for everything. They “sound like commentary on songs that were written from an organic or subjective perspective,” says Eisenberg. Their place on the album is integral for Eisenberg’s goal “to outweigh the subjectivity of normal singer-songwriter guitar songs with the objectivity of electronic sound.”
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- 27 Jan '17
STAFF COMMENTS
Barry says: Eitzel goes from the serene to the triumphant between one song to the next, the brilliant balladry of 'In My Role As Professional Singer And Ham' and the easy listening morose indie charms of 'An Answer' providing a soaring and stripped-back counterfoil to the more rocking pieces like the brilliant 'Mr Humphries'. A brilliantly balanced, and eminently listenable delight. Brilliant.-
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- BTR79
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Featuring the tracks “That Rainy Down” and “Coral Sex,” the EP showcases Eje Eje’s unique blend of Middle Eastern melodies, soulful grooves, and psychedelic sounds.
On the A-side “That Rainy Down,” The electro baglama player takes the lead, building and building as if, “he is pushing himself to his limit”, says Itamar, “seeking catharsis as he walks to the edge of the cliff with confidence”, whilst a baladi rhythm plays like an immense march of drummers. On the B-side we find the funkier “Coral Sex”, which according to Itamar tells a story of a drunk tramp bothering the refined and self-important occupants of an exclusive hotel lobby. Reflecting this friction, the track juxtaposes a silky and sophisticated R&B sound, with loosely, or even drunkenly, played take on rebetiko, a traditional Greek music associated with the poorest of city dwellers, played on a long-necked Greek lute known as a bouzouki.
As each track develops, new layers are revealed, inviting the listener to delve deeper. The effect is intentional. As Itamar says, “there is this kind of music that hooks you in a different way every time you hear it, different places in the songs lighting up in different colors, like slowly revealed layers. In our (Eje Eje) case, it is just such a hazed blend. It could make a very specific atmosphere, color a very specific movie scene that is lost in time or yet to be directed, or a very specific moment with your headphones on a long bus to the desert.”
Itamar Kluger is best known for his work with the Şatellites, a six-piece band whose blend of Turkish folk and psych with funk and disco won them champions and listeners across the globe, from KEXP in Seattle to BBC Radio 6 Music, and FIP in France.
TRACK LISTING
A. That Rainy Dawn
B. Coral Sex
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- 2 Dec '13
Ejecta are Leanne Macomber - of Neon Indian fame - and Joel Ford - formally known as GAMES with Daniel Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never).
Produced by Ford, whose credits include Autre Ne Veux, Oneohtrix Point Never and Ford + Lopatin.
Macomber describes Ejecta as a character, one which conceptually represents her inner struggles and also as a way to deflect them.
Unrequited love, failed attempts at adulthood and the death of a close friend are the key themes explored lyrically.
Ejecta’s electronic pop sound hints of quintessential early 4AD releases like Cocteau Twins and This Mortal Coil, but feels fresh in a Kavinsky and Chromatics kind of way.
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- 12"
- £8.99
- Cat Number
- QN1802
- Release date
- 21 Dec '18
TRACK LISTING
A1. Area 10k Boys Riddim
B1. Area 10k Boys Riddim (Flightmode Remix)
B2. Area 10K Boys Riddim (Radio Edit)
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- 12"
- £8.49
- Cat Number
- BH006
- Release date
- 10 Mar '14
Proper warehouse bangers, with a vengeance.
TRACK LISTING
A. Acid7
B. Acid7 (Vereker Rmx)
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- Hardback Book
- £20.00
- Cat Number
- 9780571363254
- Release date
- 19 Jan '24
Ekpoudom's prose is rhythmic and deft but also crackles with joy. I know I'll be reading it for years to come.'CALEB AZUMAH NELSON, author of Small Worlds'A rousing, inspiring, often breathtaking history that reads with the flow of a magnificent novel. Ekpoudom is one of the very finest chroniclers of black British culture.'MUSA OKWONGA, author of One Of Them***I met people who never quite fit in where they were supposed to, who found solace, salvation and meaning in these sounds, these words.
Something is happening in Britain, trembling the tracks as it unfolds. Recent years have borne witness to underground genres leaking out from the inner cities, going on to become some of the most popular music in the nation. In this groundbreaking social history, journalist Aniefiok Ekpoudom travels the country to paint a compelling portrait of the dawn, boom and subsequent blossoming of UK rap and grime.
Taking us from the heart of south London to the West Midlands and South Wales, he explores how a history of migration and an enduring spirit of resistance have shaped the current realities of these linked communities and the music they produce. These sounds have become vessels for the marginalised, carrying Black and working-class stories into the light. Vividly depicted and compassionately told, Where We Come From weaves together intimate stories of resilience, courage and loss, as well as a shared music culture that gave refuge and purpose to those in search of belonging.
Ekpoudom offers a rich chronicle of rap, identity, place and, above all, the social and human condition in modern Britain. ***'A landmark work that will undoubtedly shape conversations about not just UK rap and grime, but British music for years to come.'YOMI ADEGOKE, author of The List'Phenomenal - this is the book we've all been waiting for. Like the heroes he chronicles, Ekpoudom acts as torchbearer, his book a beacon, for the story that follows..'GUY GUNARATNE'Essential .
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- 3 Nov '23
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- 3 Nov '23
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Black vinyl.
Black vinyl.
This is an album heavy with intimate and personal music that moves between personal joy and the anguish of our modern world. Timini is dedicated to Robin's second son Oscar who earned the nickname Petit Mini (Little Mini) which became 'Timini'. The track was inspired by the rustling wind and shaking leaves as Robin walked home from the hospital the evening after Oscar's birth, writing the whole track in one exhausted and emotional sitting. Gentle Breeze was inspired by the feeling of a warm early summer's afternoon with the family at home. Beautiful simplicity.
On the other hand, Alarma de Emergencia is a cumbia for the endless alarm that has been ringing, unheard across our planet for decades. Fuel Fandango singer Nita's beautiful lyrics to its sister track Cenizas de Agua reference the need to "open our hearts, look for our own reflection and break the silence" While on Brujería Bomba Estereo frontwoman Li Saument implores us to sanar (heal) and limpiar clean above Robin's trademark floating flutes and an organic dem-bow beat.
Meanwhile tracks like Piañuco show a new direction, blending the deep bass and unique rhythms of amapiano music with huayno folk melodies, featuring a whole host of musicians, including over 50 saxophone lines, meticulously recorded by argentine saxophonist Leandro Guffanti and his students in Barcelona. The album ends with Ley de Origen where we see El Búho reunited with his long-time collaborators Minük (Corazon de Rubi, Mirando El Fuego) for another moving and delicate song this time mixing Alumnis and Marcus' beautiful vocals with a deep, warm sub bass and percussion and marimbas from Colombia's pacific coast.
TRACK LISTING
1. Floating Islands
2. Cenizas De Agua (feat. Nita) [feat. Nita]
3. Gentle Breeze
4. Brujería (feat. Li Saumet) [feat. Bomba Estéreo]
5 .Piañuco
6. Timini
7. Alarma De Emergencia
8. Llanto De Los Cerezos
9. Ley De Origen (feat. Minük) [feat. Minük]
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- Ltd CDS
- £2.99
- Cat Number
- EC001
- Release date
- 7 Jul '08
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- CD
- £10.99
- Cat Number
- STR035CD
- Release date
- 8 Sep '17
Comprised of brothers Elliott (drums, percussion) and Jason Jones (guitar, vocals), Pixy Jones (guitar, vocals, keyboards), Lewie Sewers (guitar), Matthew Young (keyboards) and Andrew Cann (bass), El Goodo (named after a Big Star song) are a band enthralled by the past. They recorded the album on a 16-track with a small collection of faulty equipment, creating a collection of melodic pop songs, embellished with strings, brass, sitars, harmonicas, xylophones and vocal harmonies (and then seemingly covered it all with dust), that you’d expect to find on some forgotten 60s record that someone has stumbled upon in their attic.
Elliott saw the words “Loyal Order Of Moose” carved into stone on the side of a building in Neath and they all liked the sound of it for the album title. They changed it slightly to By Order Of The Moose. As Pixy explains; “I’ve always thought of it as "The Moose" is some evil guy who wears a moose head hat and controls people’s minds, making them do evil things. In reality though it means nothing, we just liked the way it sounded.” Jason, who made the intricate cover illustration, seems to have interpreted the title to be more of a circus, depicting a Wild West ringmaster, wild animals and acrobats.
From the first recording in November 2008 with the track “When”, the album took eight years to complete. Initially thinking it would only take them a few months, they set out to record at The Music Box in Cardiff. Two years later they decamped back to their village, to the Resolven Miners’ Welfare Hall.
The first single “It Makes Me Wonder” is their interpretation of a 60s girl group song. Pixy describes bringing the song to the band; “On the demo I sampled the drums intro of “Be My Baby” by the Ronettes. Matty commented that the drums sounded good, how did I get that sound? I told him that I played it in the kitchen on various saucepans and he believed me.”
The similarly titled opening track “Sit & Wonder” was an attempt to do something like Zager & Evans’ “In The Year 2525”, but it didn’t turn out like that. The lyrics were based on war films like Come And See, Ivan’s Childhood and Red Dawn. “So It Goes” was meant to be like a Marty Robbins cowboy song but ended up being more like a Nuggets track. “Susan and Bill” is a touching tribute to his parents.
TRACK LISTING
1) I Sit And Wonder
2) It Makes Me Wonder
3) September
4) Sail The Ocean
5) So It Goes
6) 5 In The Morning
7) Heavy On My Mind
8) Susan & Bill
9) When
10) It's All Over
11) Lay It On My Honey
12) As You Said Your So Longs
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- STR052LP
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- 7 Jan '22
As The Sunday Times wrote back when – This album mixed by the Super Furries' Cian Ciaran has an incredibly sure touch in romping through 1960s (and occasionally later) pop sounds, whether early Beatles, Joe Meek meets Morricone, the Monkees or The Velvet Undeground. As the album progresses, El Goodo calmly assimilate these influences and make the sounds their own on a superb set of songs"
SFA’s young-buck buddies El Goodo are here to prove you know of at least two Welsh bands who can kick ass, and in the hearts of some of our worlds, save rock-n-roll. - Children of the Coal.
The Welsh five piece release an album filled with summery psychedelic harmonies and spaghetti western rhythms: a match made in vintage heaven – PopMatters.
TRACK LISTING
1) Feel So Fine
2) Aren’t You Grand
3) Don’t Worry Marie
4) I Saw Her Today
5) Information Overload
6) Talking To The Birds
7) Pete
8) I Can’t Make It
9) Be My Girl
10) Oh, To Sleep
11) I Only Dream
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- CD
- £4.99
- Cat Number
- RACD107
- Release date
- 30 Jan '12
Jono El Grande is a self-taught composer, musician, conductor and prankster and remains an outsider on the far margin of the Norwegian experimental music scene. He released his debut mini album ”Utopian Dances” in 1999, a collection of absurdist instrumentals recorded at home using not much more than a workstation synth. 2003 saw the release of ”Fevergreens”, an album that drew upon classic progressive rock, film music, easy listening and a variety of pop idioms and featured a nine piece orchestra. The Wire noted that ”the vitality of his writing keeps just the right uplifting balance between sweetness and acidity” and called it ”a pleasant surprise”. Next up was ”Neo Dada” (2009), an album brimming with musical adventure, odd turns, weird combinations of sounds and instruments, complex signatures and a good portion of pure joy, all mysteriously sugared with infectious melodic hooks. ”Neo Dada” represented something of an artistic breakthrough and received great reviews everywhere. This was followed by ”Phantom Stimulance” in late 2010. The sleeve paintings are by acknowledged Norwegian artist Christer Karlstad and shows the Choko King, intentionally misspelt to point to the megalomaniac´s hybris: to choke on what you desire the most.
”The Choko King” also comes as a limited, numbered vinyl edition of only 300 copies with ”insanely nerdy details” on each track by Jono himself.
The CD edition has a 14 minute bonus track.
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- CD
- £12.49
- Cat Number
- RCD2106
- Release date
- 24 Jan '11
TRACK LISTING
Borrelia Boogie
Utopian Semi-Waltz
La Dolce Vidda
Phantom Stimulance
Rise Of The Baseless Press-bay Toy
Pongery In Evention
Beggar To Beggar
Moon-stricktly In Love With A Figment Foetus
Negation / Penetration
Double-edged Triplets
The Goat
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- DIS128V
- Release date
- 15 Apr '02
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The immediate impression on the listener to Hiperasia is its abrupt, almost violent, enhanced, futuristic sound. ¨I thought of making music that pushes itself. I like music that seems to move inwards, from its sides towards its own centre. As if it were actively trying to become mono but some force, which is usually something prominent like a 808 or a voice, expands to push those sounds sideways¨. Thus from a simple song based around one or two ideas, you will find intrusions - "Tutti frutti", as Pablo explains: "We can throw bombs in, firecrackers - sounds, other songs which poke through for a moment.... whatever you want".
TRACK LISTING
1. Rotu Seco
2. Comix
3. Pizza
4. Sega
5. De Bugas
6. Parte Virtual
7. Stena Drillmax
8. Abdi
9. Muchos Boys
10. Hiperasia
11. Pelo Rapado
12. Mis Hits
13. Zona Wi Fi
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The immediate impression on the listener to Hiperasia is its abrupt, almost violent, enhanced, futuristic sound. ¨I thought of making music that pushes itself. I like music that seems to move inwards, from its sides towards its own centre. As if it were actively trying to become mono but some force, which is usually something prominent like a 808 or a voice, expands to push those sounds sideways¨. Thus from a simple song based around one or two ideas, you will find intrusions - "Tutti frutti", as Pablo explains: "We can throw bombs in, firecrackers - sounds, other songs which poke through for a moment.... whatever you want".
TRACK LISTING
1. Rotu Seco
2. Comix
3. Pizza
4. Sega
5. De Bugas
6. Parte Virtual
7. Stena Drillmax
8. Abdi
9. Muchos Boys
10. Hiperasia
11. Pelo Rapado
12. Mis Hits
13. Zona Wi Fi
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- IL2011
- Release date
- 2 Sep '13
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- IL2025V
- Release date
- 19 Jan '15
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- Release date
- 19 Jan '15
But after Head In The Dirt’s release and almost a year of relentless touring, Hanni knew he needed to go past ‘unpredictable’ all the way to ‘unprecedented.’ He needed isolation, time and the chance to experiment. So after 30 days locked in hand-picked L.A. studio The Lair, the result is the album Moonlight—the rarest and most welcome kind of album, made at that perfect point in life where confidence, experience, and technique unite to help an artist do anything they want.
That’s why it starts with a song that sounds like a Mobb Deep beat under a Suicide-style synth drone and ends with an ESG-meets-LCD Soundsystem gone italo-disco song about life and death. That’s why it collides crushing crate-digger drumbeats that’d be right at home on a Can LP or an Eddie Bo 45 with bleeding distorto guitar, bent and broken barroom piano and hallucinatory analog flourishes.
"Engine-revving dose of filthy, leather-clad blues." - NME
"A shit-kicking garage greaser with badass hooks." - SPIN
"Stripped- down garage rock with crunching guitars and kiss-off cockiness." - GQ
"This is desert-burned blues rock boosted by punk, soul and hip-hop" - ROLLING STONE
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- CD
- £12.99
- Cat Number
- IL2065CD
- Release date
- 15 May '20
From 2010 until 2017, when he released his previous albums, there was the usual cycle that consumes most working musicians: make an album, tour it, return home, rinse and repeat. And with it came the predictable pitfalls that ensnare too many artists - It is a dream until that one night when it isn’t any longer, and despite his gratitude for his fans, El Khatib found himself wracked by depression and anxiety. It became readily apparent that if he didn’t make drastic changes to his lifestyle, there might not be a life to speak of. So he quit drinking, stopped touring, and took an indefinite hiatus from the studio. But eventually, the desire to create songs slowly returned.
What would eventually become El Khatib’s fifth studio album, the virtuosic but characteristically raw FLIGHT, began as spontaneous experimentation. The finished result is a rollicking sampledelic opus that recalls the beautiful chaos that the Dust Brothers created on Paul’s Boutique and Odelay. It’s the type of thing that Dilla and Madlib would’ve created if they had come up on The Cramps.
TRACK LISTING
1. CARRY
2. GLASSY
3. ALIVE
4. COLORS
5. STRESSY
6. ROOM
7. LEADER
8. GEM
9. HARLOW
10. DUMB
11. HOW
12. DETROIT
13. PEACE
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- 3x10" LP
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- IL2040V
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- 17 Feb '17
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- IL2040
- Release date
- 17 Feb '17
Originally, he’d hoped to explode the lingering idea that he was simply a blues-rock guitar player, but that’s why Savage Times touches on everything from garage rock to punk to disco, hip-hop and even some unexpected solo-guitar self-portraiture. But on the way, he also exploded his own idea of what he could do—even maybe who he was, or would be. Savage Times was an experiment as well as an experience, that touched on some of the most personal, social & political elements to date.
TRACK LISTING
1. Baby's OK
2. Gonna Die Alone
3. Born Brown
4. Paralyzed
5. Miracle
6. Mangos & Rice
7. Come Down
8. No Way
9. Mondo And His Makeup
10. Gun Clap Hero
11. Black Constellation
12. So Dusty
13. Till Your Rose Comes Home
14. Hold Me Back
15. Savage Times
16. 1AM
17. Peep Show
18. This I Know
19. Freak Freely
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- 14 Apr '23
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- BCR122CD
- Release date
- 14 Apr '23
Releasing on Big Crown Records, the LP is called Glorious Game and it is a remarkable debut partnership in more ways than one. Michels provides his bottom-heavy, soul-tinged production for Black Thought who gives us some of the more personal and transparent verses we've ever heard from him. Michels and Black Thought have been in each other's orbit for a while now. The two first met in the 2000s when Thought was first getting familiar with the contemporary soul scene. "Out of that whole world, Menahan Street Band was probably my favorite," recalling the funk and soul group Michels was a founding member of back in 2007. Fast forward a few years and musicians from that collective Dave Guy on trumpet and Ian Hendrickson-Smith on sax are now full time players with The Roots. This connection eventually led Leon and Thought to doing a few fundraising events around NYC and Philly together. "Before long, Black Thought was coming around the studio and would jam with us from time to time," Michels explains. "Then, fast forward to 2020 and COVID lockdowns, he just hit me up out of the blue, wanting me to send him stuff to write to. We both were looking to stay busy."
Being that Black Thought is the co-founder and emcee for, hands down, the best live-band group in hip-hop. Michels took a decidedly different approach to this project and instead of sending recorded tracks of live compositions, he pulled out the sampler and sampled himself and some records from his collection. "I'm a big fan of soul music," as if Michels has to remind us. "And part of hip-hop's appeal to me has always been the sample-based production".
For Glorious Game, Michels would make wholly composed and recorded soul songs in his studio, sample himself, then chop and/or loop up his sounds and create instrumentals for Black Thought. On some tracks he took a more traditional hip-hop approach, starting from samples of other people’s music but then adding live instrumentation on top. But for the most part, it's him reinterpreting his own compositions into something new.
The result is an organic feel of loop-based tracks that breathe and fluctuate enough for Black Thought to ‑ex on. "What I write about is determined by the equation of the producer's energy and my energy," Black Thought says. "It's about where we meet." So armed with Michels sampled and re-sampled soul cinematics, Black Thought rhymes through personal memories and distinctive.
STAFF COMMENTS
Barry says: With Michels laying down scattered soul-infused hip-hop beats, and the legendary Black Thought on vocal duties, this was always going to be a superb outing, but it's the ease with which these talented producers work together that is really refreshing. Forging an entirely new sound through their respective, distinctive voices, 'Glorous Game' is even more of a triumph than expected. Brilliant.TRACK LISTING
Side A
1. Grateful
2. Glorious Game Feat Kirby
3. I’m Still Somehow
4. Hollow Way
5. Protocol (feat. Son Little)
6. The Weather
Side B
7. That Girl
8. I Would Never
9. Alone
10. Miracle
11. Glorious Game (Reprise)
12. Alter Ego (feat. Brainstory)
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- BCR119CD
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- 13 Aug '21
Traditional dub came out of reggae in the late 60s and early 70s when pioneers like King Tubby and Lee Perry started taking the multi track recordings of songs and running them back through the board adding effects and additional instrumentation. These recordings are called “dubs” or “versions” and are typically instrumentals with ourishes of vocals from the original tracks.
El Michels decided to use the blueprints left behind and make something using the inuences of today. He wound up straying so far from the traditional format that it didn’t seem right to use the word ‘Dub’, hence Ekundayo Inversions. All the songs are tied together by WhatsApp messages between Leon and Liam that perfectly narrate the story of this record and their working relationship.
One of the highlights on Ekundayo Inversions is a guest appearance from the legendary Lee “Scratch” Perry on the “Ugly Truth” version. L$P switches between singing and talking, proclaiming his powers one minute and playing with the track’s title the next. On “Awkward take. 2” Leon takes one of the most experimental songs from Ekundayo and actually straightens it out. A track that once seemed to be oating in space has now been anchored by the addition of drums and bass. “Faded”, a version of “Paper Tiger”, is given the full EMA treatment with the addition of emotive horns over an uncomfortably sparse rhythm track peppered with Liam’s voice drenched in delay and echo.
“Champions” features a verse from Black Thought of The Roots and halfway through, El Michels sends the rhythm section 50 years back. At the end of the day, Ekundayo Inversions is a testament to how strong the original songs are. Whether they’re in a R&B style, reggae style, stripped down to their bare bones, or loaded with production, the songs will move you.
STAFF COMMENTS
Barry says: What a truly stunning set of songs this is, swimming in dubby atmospherics while still retaining the groove and soul of the originals. Some of the pieces are a little bit more in the downbeat realm, before we get the smooth as silk R&B and dubby cuts that bring things back to the (decidedly relaxed) dancefloor. A superb selection of versions, perfectly at home with the orignals, while remaining resolutely distinct from them.TRACK LISTING
SIDE A:
1. Conquer & Divide
Feat. Black Thought
2. Amazing Woman
3. Angel Face
4. Walk With Me
5. No One Else
6. King
SIDE B:
1. Ugly Truths Feat. Lee Scratch Perry
2. I Love NY
3. Superstar
4. Awkward (Take 2)
5. Lucky Man
6. Faded
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- BCR090CD
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- 5 Jun '20
In 2017 in between producing, playing, and recording on other artists’ records Leon Michels began creating compilations of short interludes intended to be sampled by hip hop producers. Some of these wound up becoming songs by Jay Z & Beyonce, Travis Scott, and Don Toliver. These minute-long snippets were inspired by the dense moody work of ‘60s composers like David Axelrod, and Francois de Roubaix, as well as Moondog’s brand of classical jazz. Michels was having so much fun creating these instrumental / orchestral nuggets that he decided to expand on some of the ideas and create what would become the soundtrack for a movie that has yet to be made, an imaginary film entitled “Adult Themes.” The album plays like the colors on an artists pallet. Songs like “Rubix” and “Villa” are densely orchestrated with the hard-hitting drums that El Michels Affair is known for. On “Life of Pablo”, Leon’s son makes his first appearance on record and intros a song with an epic arrangement and a moving mood. “Hipps” is a drum heavy ballad that could’ve easily fit on EMA’s debut record, Sounding Out the City. Other compositions like “The Difference” and “Kill The Lights” are bare, melodic mood pieces with sparse drums and sophisticated chord movement. All of these tunes come together to make perfect backgrounds for dialogue and action. One of the beautiful things about instrumental music is that the listener can decide what the narrative is. With Adult Themes El Michels Affair has created a “choose your own adventure” in musical form.
TRACK LISTING
1. Enfant
2. Adult Theme No. 1
3. Kill The Lights
4. Villa
5. Adult Theme No. 2
6. Life Of Pablo
7. Adult Theme No. 3
SIDE B:
1. Rubix
2. A Swift Nap
3. Hipps
4. Munecas
5. Adult Theme No. 4
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- FB7014
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- 30 Aug '19
TRACK LISTING
A. Shimmy Shimmy Ya
B. Incarcerated Scarfaces
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- BCR060CD
- Release date
- 26 Mar '21
The first single off of Yeti Season showed their hand back in 2018. A double-sided banger, that release brought the musical textures to the fore that dominate this record. The first song, titled "Unathi," is fully realized with the beautifully haunting-yet-hopeful vocals of Piya Malik, formally of 79.5 another Big Crown artist. Singing in Hindi, Piya's ethereal voice is telling us to work and strive together toward progress.
Even if you don't understand her language, you can still hear the urgency of purpose, creating a lasting vibe that sits on top of it all. Leon Michels explains that Piya had a vital influence on this record: "When Piya started singing in Hindi, she had a different voice, a different tone. I knew we had to do something together." And so Piya appears on three other songs on Yeti Season: "Zaharila," "Murkit Gem," and "Dhuaan." Each providing particular signatures to the album. "Zaharila" is a building and changing love song punctuated by blaring trumpets, driving drums, and Piya's pleading lyrics. While the more upbeat "Murkit Gem" opens with a fuzzed out, Wu-Tang-esque baseline that buoys Piya's stylings. The psychedelic guitar and Piya's changing tones and textures singing about an all-consuming love are what pushed "Dhuaan" on to the second single from Yeti Season.
There is also a vocal appearance from Shannon Wise of The Shacks, yet another Big Crown artist. Her song called "Sha Na Na," lies more in the familiar EMA vein: melodic, hypnotic, soulfully visual. But between Shannon's airy singing, the jumpy baseline, moody vibes, the active drum lines, it sounds like a pensive walk home after a strangely dramatic night. So what is Yeti Season? It could be more of a feeling than an actual place or time of year. It's a heavy album as evidenced by the signature musicianship and dramatic vocal expressions. But it's also a hopeful record, with phrasings, textures, and chord changes that hint at something better or fuller coming our way. You hear it in songs like "Ala Vida," with its stabby, pulsing chords laying a bedrock for EMA's bright, atmospheric horn lines. Or even in "Fazed Out," which leaves you with a feeling of determination, a striving for resolution even though the driving, march-like song structure should accompany some conquering army.
This persistence has to come from the fact that Leon Michels and company finished this record during the lockdown. It was a tough and troublesome time. But look at what has come of it: Yeti Season a record of high and heavy drama, but also one of hope and promise. It may take a year like 2020 behind us to find hope in a winter big footed creature like a Yeti, but that's where we are.
STAFF COMMENTS
Barry says: Another brilliantly rich and beautifully soulful suite from El Michels Affair here, flitting between eastern psychedelia and filmic grooves into more beat-driven downbeat territory. It's all wonderfully produced (as is the way with EMA) and presents a hypnotic and alluring repeat listen.TRACK LISTING
A1. Unathi
A2. Sha Na Na
A3. Ala Vida
A4. Fazed Out
A5. Murkit Gem
B1. Lesson Learned
B2. Dhuaan
B3. Perfect Harmony
B4. Silver Lining
B5. Zaharila
B6. Last Blast
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STAFF COMMENTS
Barry says: 'Big Anonymous' is a journey to be undertaken in one fell swoop, moving cohesively between grand gothic ambience, choral majesty and imposing fractured glitch. Though there are pieces that sound undeniably impactful alone (In Silence for example is a life-alteringly affecting piece regardless of context), within the album as a whole, every impeccable part has its place and comes together flawlessly.TRACK LISTING
1. Underworld
2. Suburban Dreams
3. Cold Dark Pond
4. In Silence
5. The Truth The Dead Know
6. Between You And Me Nothing
7. Please Stay
8. One More Time
9. Wipe Me Off This Earth
10. Kiss Of Death
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- Mini LP
- £16.99
- Cat Number
- MI0661T
- Release date
- 5 Feb '21
TRACK LISTING
1. Enter
2. Life Is Full Of Rewards
3. White On White
4. Free Land
5. Alone In Halls (feat. Blood Orange)
6. Dreamers Change The World
7. EXIT
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- Release date
- 19 May '08
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- Release date
- 16 Sep '16
With soundscapes that echo of Thailand, Sumatra, India, Ethiopia, and China, the orchestration of ‘KoKoro’ is unlike any of El Perro Del Mar’s previous releases, a direction only hinted briefly on the ‘Pale Fire’ LP highlight “I Was A Boy.” It features the Chinese string instrument Guzheng, the Japanese Shakuhachi flute, various other Asian flutes, Arabic strings, Dulcimer, and rhythms influenced by Ethiopian music. Assbring explained, “One of my absolute clearest aims was to distance myself from the kind of common Western sound of today” in an effort to “find a new way to write relevant pop music with references and influences that feel fresh.” ‘KoKoro’ was inspired by legendary singers like Pakistan’s great Sufi exponent Abida Parveen and Nahid Akhtar, India’s Asha Bhosle, Ethiopia’s Yeshimebet Dubale, Cambodia’s Sinn Sisamouth, and South Korea’s Kim Jung Mi, as well as Ethiopian musician Enimut Kindie, Javanese gamelan music, and Chinese guzheng music. The album was recorded with multi-instrumentalist Andreas Söderström, bassist Johan Berthling, drummer Mattias Bergqvist, who has collaborated with First Aid Kit, and wind multi-instrumentalist Per “Ruskträsk” Johansson, who has collaborated with Robyn, José González, among many others.
The first single “Breadandbutter” is about finding a means to communicate and find solidarity among people, while other songs on ‘KoKoro’ implore for self-reflection and self-improvement across friendships, relationships, and life at large in an effort to reach enlightenment. Capitalism’s arguably toxic effect on the human spirit is addressed on “Ding Sum,” where El Perro Del Mar sings, “Pics of girls and ads of boys / Hit you, hit you as you go / There's a notice for your heart / To want a bit of what they got (Gimme it, gimme all!) / Listen, you got robbed / But it’s not your fault.”
Last year, El Perro Del Mar reissued her self-titled, critically acclaimed debut album in celebration of its 10 year anniversary, earning praise from Pitchfork for “the way it stripped girl-group pop songs down to their barest essentials and used them to express immense inner sadness.” HBO’s ‘Girls’ featured its single “God Only Knows (You Gotta Give To Get)” in the closing credits of an episode in Season 4. More recently, El Perro Del Mar released covers of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Breaking The Girl,” which was recorded for her 2012 album ‘Pale Fire’ but not included, and Prince’s “I Would Die 4 U” in honor of what would have been the late legend’s 58th birthday. For the former, she partnered with Fred Armisen to direct its music video, who praised her “romantic and dreamy music” in an interview with Rolling Stone.
TRACK LISTING
1. Endless Ways
2. KoKoro
3. Breadandbutter
4. Clean Your Window
5. Ging Ging
6. Kouign-Amman
7. A-Bun-Dance
8. Hard Soft Hard
9. Ding Sum
10. Nougat Mind
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- MI0244CD
- Release date
- 12 Nov '12
The chiming cymbals, bewitching vocals and downtempo disco vibe of ‘Walk On By’ promise an album of spellbinding intro- and extrospection. Airy, translucent synths meld with languid, otherworldly sounds, making this album soft and hazy, but never forgettable.
From her early DIY releases on the Gothenburg scene - including collaborations with Jens Lekman - through to 2009’s ‘Love Is Not Pop’ album, and recent work with Lykke Li, Gruff Rhys and Chad Valley, El Perro Del Mar aka Sarah Assbring has woven sophisticated late night tales of love and loss. With Assbring returning to the producer’s chair, ‘Pale Fire’ is her most seductive work yet.
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Afro-soul collector / DJ Frank Gossner had spent years combing West Africa tracking down 45s by Theophile Do Rego (aka El Rego) before finally meeting him face to face in his home in Benin. From that relationship came this album. The music of El Rego varies astoundingly in style and rhythm: traditional rhythms of Benin played with modern instruments, John Lee Hooker-esque blues, Fela Kuti inspired afro-beat, afro-cuban claves, and straight-up James Brown style funk. However, there is a common musical thread that runs throughout. The music has a raw soulfulness and a unique flavor that can be attributed beyond the sound of Benin, to the sound of El Rego himself. There is a timelessness to the recordings that ties all of the traditions that inspire them directly to the grooves that were dominating the radios and jukeboxes of the early 70s. The record is teeming with breaking drums and twanging guitars, twisting basslines and undulating percussion. But most importantly. the rhythms are all crafted by a man that not only performed, but also owned nightclubs and had an intimate understanding of the importance of dancing.
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- 13 May '22
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Defying expectations is standard operating procedure for El Ten Eleven. Seriously, who would expect two instrumentalists to create such a large and complex sound? But thanks to inventive arrangements and a masterful use of looping, Kristian Dunn (bass/guitar) and Tim Fogarty (drums) developed a pulsating sound full of atmospheric intensity. They’ve also crafted an incredibly durable career, and the duo credit the ongoing interest in their debut album as the foundation for that success. The music of El Ten Eleven has been embraced by fans of many genres - from math rock, to jazz, to lo-fi hip-hop. The duo's sound is sharply evocative in mood and feeling, yet simultaneously abstract and meditative.
The combination of these qualities has stimulated the imagination of the group's fans, and gives space for listeners to assign their own value and meaning to the sounds. "I'm aiming for emotional impact when I come up with songs," Dunn explained. "Does it move me? Does it make me feel something? Sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it's technically interesting but it doesn't make me feel anything. But I don't want music that's interesting. I want music that's emotionally resonate."
TRACK LISTING
1. New Year’s Eve
2. Meta Metta
3. The Time Knife
4. Isn’t Everything Enough?
5. Sixteen Circles
6. A Reflection Of A Reflection
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- 18 Sep '20
Experiencing an unexpected tragedy or loss often provokes a period of self-reflection, a time to contemplate one’s own place and purpose in the world. That was true for El Ten Eleven’s Kristian Dunn. When a beloved family member passed, Dunn found his own reflections on life emerging in the music he composed. Those expressions led to the creation of Tautology a sonic meditation on the arc of human life, composed in three parts.
Over the course of three discs, Tautology is, in Dunn’s words, “a representation of life from the teenage years, through middle-age, until the end of life.” The sounds on the album echo Dunn’s own experiences, veering from aggressive metallic riffs to blissful ambient soundscapes. And while there are shared melodies and harmonies through all three records, each one has its own distinct qualities: Tautology I, which represents adolescence, is angsty, aggressive and occasionally depressive; Tautology II is head-noddy and mid-tempo, and represents middle age; while Tautology III, quiet and ambient, represents one’s golden years.
Tautology is not a typical rock album, and El Ten Eleven are not a typical rock band. For seventeen years the instrumental duo of Dunn (bass/guitar) and Tim Fogarty (drums) have flourished outside the accepted norms of rock orthodoxy, releasing eight full length albums and four EPs, and performing over 750 live shows. Utilizing inventive arrangements and a masterful use of looping, El Ten Eleven create a sound much bigger than the sum of its parts. Joyful Noise Recordings will digitally release each of Tautology’s three discs, individually and in sequential order, beginning May 1st, with a physical 3LP release on September 18, 2020.
Dunn explains there’s no right or wrong way to listen to Tautology, suggesting that a deep dive into the full project will yield rewards. “I think someone could listen to any one of the discs by themselves and have a really great experience—even if they didn't know about the others. But if they do want to go deeper, I think there will be a lot of interesting stuff to discover. It works symbolically and it all connects. I think this is the best record we've ever done.”
STAFF COMMENTS
Barry says: Having been at the forefront of two-man post-rocking for some time now (their self titled debut was, and still is one of my favourite albums), it was a delight to see this triple LP covering all the ground they've touched on in the past 10 years or so. Starting off a lot more driven and gradually rolling towards tender, shimmering post-rock,this is a true impression of just how varied El Ten Eleven can be. Lovely.TRACK LISTING
1 Entropy
2 With Report
3 Jejune
4 Moral Dynamite
5 Division
6 Lassitude
7 Besotted
8 Shimmer
9 Nocturne
10 The Silent Bell That Rings
11 Half Mast
12 Queen’s Gambit
13 Growing Shorter
14 Farrago
15 Caducity
16 You Are A Piece Of Me, You Are A Piece Of Her
17 Aubade
18 Shimmered
19 Let's All Go Out Like Francis
20 Senescent
21 All Of This Bliss Doesn’t Come Without A Price
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- CD
- £11.99
- Cat Number
- JNR411CD
- Release date
- 10 Feb '23
Valley of Fire is El Ten Eleven's most thematically committed record, merging personal anecdotes with the larger ecosystem of the sound. While the album was inspired by organic beauty, its seven songs are still rife with El Ten Eleven's trademark technical flair. This is their 13th record, and it's clear El Ten Eleven have evolved with a cadence similar to the changes time has made to The Valley of Fire itself. The trials of age and experience have ushered in something altogether new. “El Ten Eleven is proof that live looping and programming can rock; and that instrumental tracks can captivate and hold a room’s attention as well as any vocal-led group.”
STAFF COMMENTS
Barry says: It's always a pleasure to hear an El Ten Eleven LP, I've been a big fan since the starting notes of 'My Only Swerving' from their 2004 debut and 'Valley Of Fire' is probably the closest in post-rock grandeur and melodic beauty to the early days of ETE. Stunner.TRACK LISTING
1. New Year’s Day
2. Not Even Almost
3. Volsens
4. Two Views Of A Secret
5. White Domes
6. Days Of Our Lives
7. Valley Of Fire
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- Ltd LP
- £21.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- VAMPI249
- Release date
- 3 Dec '21
Includes the irresistible fast-paced funk rock track 'Se Acabó el Recreo' and the ethereal 'Todo en Su Medida y Armoniosamente' and 'Haceme Shaft', featuring Patricia Clark on vocals and unexpected moog arrangements.
First time reissue, with remastered sound and original artwork.
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- LP
- £15.49
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- CAD3530
- Release date
- 30 Oct '15
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- CD
- £9.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- CAD3530CD
- Release date
- 30 Oct '15
Their debut album, Return To The Moon, is a project Berninger and Knopf have been thinking about for years. Their friendship spans nearly a decade, starting back when The National and Menomena played small half-empty clubs along America’s west coast. Feeling an immediate musical kinship, the pair kept in touch, Brent sending Matt occasional rough sketches of music and Matt responding with ideas and lyrics. Finally, in the winter and spring of 2014-115, they got together to make an album.
Return to the Moon sounds exactly like you'd hope a collaboration between these artists would: Berninger's darkly funny, lyrical storytelling and his immediately identifiable sense of melody offset by Knopf's playful, architectural arrangements and inventive production.
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- CD
- £9.99
- Cat Number
- FP12702
- Release date
- 28 May '12
The album features Interpol’s Paul Banks, Outkast associate and Atlanta native Killer Mike, Nick Diamond of Canadian indie band Islands, and eccentric rappers Mr Muthaf*ckin’ eXquire and Danny Brown.
Musically, the record takes another leap forward from El-P’s 2010 instrumental workout ‘Weareallgoingtoburninhellmeggamixxx3’, deploying menacing synths, fist-pumping beats, bottomless bass, live instrumentation and earworming melody, and generally setting the standard for hip hop production higher than ever.
TRACK LISTING
1. Request Denied
2. The Full Retard
3. Works Every Time (w/ Paul Banks Of Interpol)
4. Drones Over Brooklyn
5. Oh Hail No (with Mr. Muthafuckin EXquire And Danny Brown)
6. Tougher Colder (w. Killer Mike And Despot)
7. True Story
8. The Jig Is Up
9. Sign Here
10. For My Upstairs Neighbor
11. Stay Down (With Nick Diamonds Of Islands)
12. $ Vic/FTL (You And Me)
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- CD
- £10.49
- Cat Number
- GDM031CD
- Release date
- 16 Aug '10
It's another unique release in the artist's catalog. In the tradition of Company Flow's Little Johnny From The Hospitul (1998), El's own Collecting The Kid (2005), and more recently "Weareallgoingtoburninhellmeggamixx2" (2007), Hell3 is a fully realized suite of instrumentals that continues to exemplify the producer's versatile, otherworldly, futuristic and wholly original sonic worldview.
Given this format, Hell3 both sounds similar to and nothing like anything you've heard before. "Drunk With a Loaded Pistol" starts off woozy and deranged before evolving into a warning alarm/drum attack. "Time Won't Tell" opens as a soundtrack for the apocalypse followed by the layering of guitar-driven pop over boom-bap drums. As the album title implies, El-P creates a dark, dystopian sonic universe filled with ominous basslines and thumping, punishing drums.
TRACK LISTING
01. Take You Out At The Ball Game
02. Whores:The Movie
03. Meanstreak (In 3 Parts)
04. DMSC
05. Drunk With A Loaded Pistol
06. Time Won’t Tell
07. Secret Police Man’s Ball
08. I Got This (El-P Remix) Redux
09. Jump Fence, Run, Live
10. He Hit Her So She Left
11. Driving Down The Block (El-P Remix) Redux
12. Honda Redux
13. How To Serve Man (Stripped)
14. Contagious Snippet (Wilder Zoby Feat. El-P)
15. Eat My Garbage 2
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- 10"
- £10.99
- Cat Number
- BB12
- Release date
- 6 Aug '21
Elado kicks things off with a highly infectious sing-a-long boogie affair that is guaranteed to get those hands in the air. Mouth watering and head spinning, this Brazilian cocktail is packed to the gills with monkey drums, sumptuous string arrangements and plenty of mid tempo disco brilliance.
While on the flip, Pinheiro's more wonky, heads down disco beast is perfect for when you really want to feel the heat. Filters set to stun, chopped vocals chucked into the rhythm section and plenty of additional electronic weirdness, this one is a proper disco bumper.
Tudo magia.
TRACK LISTING
A. Elado - Tudo Magia
B. Bernardo Pinheiro - Pitangamanguearaca
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- 2xCD
- £11.99
- Cat Number
- MTR017CD
- Release date
- 24 Oct '11
TRACK LISTING
CD1:
1. I Can't Breathe
2. Benson Bridges
3. Bleep Bloop Brrrrmmp
4. Dry Lemons
5. Good High
6. Alligator Snaps
7. Hunting Season
8. Saccharin On Top
9. Shoot The Beam
10. Blackout
11. Next 2 Last
12. Brandy
13. 2in5four
CD2:
1. Next 2 Last - Mindesign Remix
2. Benson Bridges – HeRobust Remix
3. Hunting Season - Mike Gao Remix
4. Bleep Bloop Brrrrmmp – Byetone Remix
5. Bleep Bloop Brrrrmmp – Lazer Sword Remix
6. Good High - Devonwho Remix
7. Alligator Snaps – Cosmin TRG Remix
8. Saccharin On Top - DJ Pound Remix
9. Hunting Season - Nasty Nasty Remix
10. Bleep Bloop Brrrrmmp – Modeselektor Remix
11. Shoot The Beam - Fitz Ambrose Remix
12. Saccharin On Top – Anstam Remix
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- CD
- £11.49
- Cat Number
- URBNET1237CD
- Release date
- 27 Apr '18
TRACK LISTING
1. Celebrate Life!
2. Cocoa
3. Black (feat. K, Le Maestro)
4. No. 540
5. Something Classic (feat. Dibiase)
6. São Paulo
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