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Hailing from our back-yard, Manchester's very own Rude Films are one of our big tips of 2025. Massive tracks, lots of noise and plenty of reverb, Rude Films' mix of post-punk shoegazey post-rock is absolutely mega and we couldn't wait to get our hands on it. Now it's here and it's class - check it!!

STAFF COMMENTS

Liam says: Well we might not all care to openly admit, one of the greatest buzzes of working at Piccadilly is putting an LP on the shop speakers and have one of you asking what is playing. And for 2025, or indeed recent memory, we can't think of a record that this has happened to as often and frequently as it has for Rude Films' debut.

And who can blame them? From the opening brooding moments of "Where Have You Been Lately?", the Manchester quartet explode into a cacophony of shoegaze infused noise-rock on "Mort Subite". From there, things don't even begin to slightly let up as Rude Films then slam into the monster that is "Death Hex". Pummelling walls of sound that act as the perfect statement of what this band is capable of. A statement of which carries on with the fuzzed out and driving "Religion" and the sprawling and frenetic "Serenity". Elsewhere, tracks like "Blood On The Tracks", "Wide-Eyed Boy" and "A Lonely Moon" take a more atmospheric and textually rich route, whilst the jangly and anthemic "You're The Image I Can't Forget" sets its sights on your heart. Closing up on "Black Snow", the entirety of the record comes to a cataclysmic crescendo with frontman Aaron Hill-Southern spitting his guts out over the Deafheaven-esque finale.

Immediate, massive and with plenty of noise to back them up, we've not been this excited about a new band from Manchester in a while. And we're sure you'll think the same too.

TRACK LISTING

1. Where Have You Been Lately?
2. Mort Subite
3. Death Hex
4. Serenity
5. Blood On The Tracks
6. Religion
7. Wide-Eyed Boy
8. You're The Image I Can't Forget
9. A Lonely Moon
10. Black Snow