An obscure late 80s double sided killer brought to light! Originally released as a 12 inch, this was dug out of a white label box by Planets head honcho on a North London digging mission. 1989 fusion of Lovers, Street Soul & Soundsystem music from T-Dynamix & Lisa Ellis. Originally based up North near Manchester!

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Matt says: As the months turn brighter and the clouds clear we look towards carnival season and this record in particular could cause more than a casual rukus at your local Mancunian sounds soundsystem. A huge single that traverses that golden boundry between reggae, street soul and lovers rock. Essential!

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A1. Alone
B1. Your Love

All royalties go to The Light of Love Foundation (These recordings and many more were amongst the tapes stolen from Marc & Gloria’s home in 1977, some of this material was returned to The Light of Love Foundation last year). This year sees T. Rex inducted into the U.S Rock n Roll Hall of Fame in May and has already seen the profile of T.Rex heightened.

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A: Hot Love (Alternative Early Version) 4:57
B: Hot Love (U.S Single Edit Version) 3:19

A compilation of carefully chosen tracks which are all alternate versions to the original 1970s released versions as well as some unheard material, to show a cohesive ‘Group’ vibe that was the classic line-up T.Rex.

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LP Tracklist:
1. Chariot Choogle
2. Rock On
3. Mystic Lady
4. Rabbit Fighter
5. Buick Mackane (Denmark)
6. Buick Mackane And The Babe Shadow (Part 1-2 France)
7. Get It On
8. Mambo Sun
9. Life’s A Gas
10. Lean Love ( Lean Woman Blues)
11. Planet Queen 6.Rip Off (Instrumental)
12. The Electric Warrior Poem
13. Thunderwing
14. Easy Action (Solid Gold)
15. Left Hand Luke And The Beggar Boys
16. 20th Century Boy (Full Unedited Version )
17. Midnight
18. Electric Boogie Take 1
19. Electric Boogie Take 2
20. Jam
21. Raw Ramp Take 1
22. Raw Ramp Take 2
23. Electric Boogie ( Mix)
 
CD Tracklist:
1. Get It On
2. Mambo Sun
3. Life’s A Gas
4. Lean Love ( Lean Woman Blues)
5. Planet Queen
6. Rip Off (Instrumental)
7. The Electric Warrior Poem
8. Electric Boogie Take 1
9. Electric Boogie Take 2
10. Jam
11. Raw Ramp Take 1
12. Raw Ramp Take 2
13. Electric Boogie (mix)
14. Thunderwing
15. Easy Action ( Fast Blues )
16. Mystic Lady
17. Rabbit Fighter
18. Chariot Choogle
19. Rock On
20. Buick Mackane (Denmark)
21. Buick Mackane & The Babe Shadow (Part 1 France)
22. Easy Action (Solid Gold)
23. Left Hand Luke And The Beggar Boys
24. 20th Century Boy (Full Unedited Version )
25. Midnight
26. All My Love
27. Superbad
28. Carsmile Smith
29. Explosive Mouth
30. Look To Your Soul (Painless Persuasion)

Demon Music Group are delighted to announce the recent discovery and forthcoming release of ‘I’m Dazed’- a previously unreleased song by Marc Bolan and T. Rex!

Recorded in Munich between the ‘Bolan’s Zip Gun’ and ‘Futuristic Dragon’ sessions, the yearning ‘I’m Dazed’ comes from yet another phase of creative transition for the restless Bolan muse. With its feet planted in the rocky roots of ‘Bolan’s Zip Gun’, ‘I’m Dazed’ also looks ahead to the soulful stylings of ‘Futuristic Dragon’, with a fantastically R&B influenced vocal from Marc.

The unearthing of ‘I’m Dazed’ has proved a mystery for Bolanphiles - apparently, nobody was aware of its existence. From newly discovered studio tapes from the period, we learn that the track was first laid down at the famed Château d'Hérouville studios near Paris in early 1975. Moving on from France to Germany, T.Rex recorded this second version on 22ndApril at Musicland Studios in Munich. With Marc producing and ‘Zinc Alloy’s Reinhold Mack (Sparks, Queen, AC/DC, The Rolling Stones) in the engineer’s chair, the track features the classic mid-‘70s T. Rex lineup of Marc, Steve Currie, Gloria Jones, Davey Lutton and Dino Dines.

For this release the original studio track has been mixed from master tapes by acclaimed musician and sound wizard (and T. Rex superfan!) Steven Wilson and comes backed with a previously unreleased, also recently unearthed studio take (Take 2) of Bolan rarity ‘Billy Super Duper’.

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1. I'm Dazed
2. Billy Super Duper (Take 2)

Having recorded as Tyrannosaurus Rex since the mid-1960s, frontman, lyricist, poet and guitarist Marc Bolan entered the new decade with a new sound, a new band and a new, foreshortened name – ‘T. Rex’. In the process, he became Britain’s first new superstar of the seventies, embarking upon a breathtaking run of hit singles and studio albums that demonstrated his restless muse and showcased constant genre-defying creativity.

1970’s ‘T. Rex’ came in the wake of the chart success of ‘Ride A White Swan’ and formed a sonic bridge between the Tyrannosaurus Rex sound and a new electric glam that would bring him superstardom. The follow up, 1971’s all-time classic ‘Electric Warrior’ followed, a classics-packed collection of songs that included ‘Life’s A Gas’, ‘Jeepster’, ‘Get It On’ and ‘Cosmic Dancer’.

1972’s ‘The Slider’ was released at the peak of T. Rex mania (“T.Rexstasy”!) and delivered two UK No. 1 singles in the form of ‘Telegram Sam’ and ‘Metal Guru’, while 1973’s ‘Tanx’ pushed all the glam faders into the red on one of the most exciting rock albums of the decade.

1974’s ‘Zinc Alloy’ saw Bolan’s interest on the move, into a frenetic, more electric-soul glam sound with the introduction of R&B influences including funky keyboards and the gospel-sounding ‘Cosmic Choir’. Moving on again, 1975’s ‘Bolan’s Zip Gun’ caught the prevailing zeitgeist, channelling Bolan’s sound at times with a proto=Punk back-to-basics approach.

1976’s gorgeous ‘Futuristic Dragon’ was a late T. Rex classic, a mature and confident collection of timeless hooks and effortless melodies (including the hit single ‘New York City’). Finally, on further chart singles like ‘I Love To Boogie’ and ‘Light Of Love’ the last studio album before Bolan’s untimely death, 1977’s ‘Dandy In The Underworld’ still stands as a reminder of a huge talent the music world lost way too soon.

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LP/CD1 - T. REX
LP/CD2 - ELECTRIC WARRIOR
LP/CD3 - THE SLIDER
LP/CD4 - TANX
LP/CD5 - ZINC ALLOY
LP/CD6 - BOLAN’S ZIP GUN
LP/CD7 - FUTURISTIC DRAGON
LP/CD8 - DANDY IN THE UNDERWORLD 

Latest of the alternative T.Rex singles has a slightly different twist as this was rumoured to be scheduled but never ended up being released as a single. In red house bag. 500 copies on red vinyl & 500 picture discs. The last recordings of the classic line up of T. Rex {Marc Bolan, Steve Currie, Mickey Finn, Bill Legend) and with Tony Visconti producing. Recorded whilst on tour in the U.S. The released version of ‘Til Dawn’ (which was left off the forthcoming Zinc Alloy LP and included in the following ‘Bolan’s Zip Gun’ Lp in 1975) had new drummer Davey Lutton’s drums dubbed over the top. These recordings are from Marc’s own tapes (part of the material stolen from his & Gloria s house and now repatriated with the estate).

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A: Venus Loon 3:02 (Bolan) (Aug 1973 Electric Ladyland NYC Early Version) Published By Spirit Holdings Inc

B: Til Dawn 4:53(Bolan)

In 2002 t.A.T.u. made pop history with 'All The Things She Said'. Julia Volkova and Lena Katina landed a worldwide number one hit with the song and became one of the most polarizing duos of their time overnight. With its dark synth-pop, maximum catchiness, and emotionally charged hook, the track struck a chord, both musically and culturally. The provocative performance, iconic video, and deliberate staging of outsider status, intimacy, and rebellion made the song much more than just a chart success. More than 20 years later, 'All The Things She Said' is now experiencing a strong revival by being featured in the newly released HBO Max Series “Heated Rivalry” and the Oscar winning Sean Baker film Anora.

To mark this comeback, a 12" picture vinyl is now being released at 45 rpm. The record combines a reinterpreted remix, an extended version and a remix. High-quality sound, iconic artwork, and a track that connects generations.

This vinyl is a tribute to a song that never really disappeared and is now being heard louder than ever.

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1. All The Things She Said (Martin’s Extended Heated Radio Remix)
2. All The Things She Said (Martin’s Heated Radio Remix) 
3. All The Things She Said (Extension 119 Club Edit 

Albarika Store is home to many rare recordings, from more traditional folkloric and Sato styles, to the funk, blues and psych inspired workouts of the All Mighty Orchestre Poly Rythmo de Cotonou, as they referred to themselves. Many of the original records are sought after by DJs and collectors as prime examples of Afro-funk, Afro-Latin and Afropsych sounds.

The next in the series of reissues by Acid Jazz presents a straight reproduction of the incredibly hard to find Poly-Rythmo ‘Vol. 4’ album, originally from 1978.

For DJs and dancers this album has long been about the killer track ‘Aiha Ni Kpe We’, an incendiary Afrobeat recording which will activate any dancefloor anywhere. “Every time I listen to the Orchestre Poly Rythmo… Wow, I just discover something new in the music” - Gilles Peterson

This is the first exhaustive trawl of the archive and will see the label presented in a way that ensures its historical importance is recognized. Trips to West Africa have secured original master tapes and the process of transferring is ongoing. Over the next few years a comprehensive reissue campaign is planned.

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Davi Djinto Super No2
Homin Si Tche
Aiha Ni Kpe We

Two monumental full-side tracks from a pair of late 70s Orchestre Poly-Rythmo albums, Unité Africane isn’t exactly a compilation, more a combination of the standouts at a time when the band was at the peak of its powers. 

Originally released in 1977, the title track is an infectious Afro-Latin workout that is interwoven with driving horn stabs by master trumpet player Tidiani Kone. Unité Africaine was recorded over the Nigerian border at the state-of-the-art EMI Studios in Lagos, yielding majestic sonic results. 

Mede Ma Gnin Messe is taken from the 1978 Special 30 Novembre, and this time Poly-Rythmo wore their Afro-funk hat to deliver almost sixteen minutes of dancefloor fire. Propelled by Poly-Rythmo’s super-tight beats and underpinned by a relentless keyboard refrain, the magic is the stellar horn parts that take this track to another level. 

As with much of the Albarika catalogue, copies of the original LPs are incredibly tough to locate in anything approaching reasonable condition, so this should be a gift.

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1. Unite Africaine
2. Mede Ma Gnin Messe

The latest LP installment from the legendary Albarika Store archive, presented by Acid Jazz Records: a compilation of Afro-Funk from the supreme T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo. Includes the underground classic ‘It’s A Vanity’, among tracks from throughout their career from the late ‘60s to the early ‘80s. A prime example of some of the finest original Afro-Funk and an ideal introduction to T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo.

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Gbeto Viv
It’s A Vanity
Minkou E So Non Moin
Kou Tche Kpo So O
Houe Djein Nada
Gbeti Ma Djro
Segla
Medida
Gan Tche Kpo
Mi Si Ba To
Mi Ve Wa Se
Aihe Ni Kpe We 

Acid Jazz Records are proud to announce an exclusive licensing agreement with Albarika Store, the legendary record label that defined the sound of Benin and influenced the entire region of West Africa and beyond.

This is the first exhaustive trawl of the archive and will see the label presented in a way that ensures its historical importance is recognized.

‘Segla’ is a hens’ teeth-rare Poly Rythmo album from 1978 that was originally released without a sleeve as ALS059. Recorded at EMI Lagos, Nigeria, as per most of the Poly Rythmo recordings for Albarika, the sound quality is from the tapes is dynamic and fresh.

Transferred from the original tapes and remastered by Grammy award-winning engineer Frank Merritt at The Carvery, the album is presented with beautiful artwork and packaging to match the sonics. This is the music as it should be heard.

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Mi Kple Mi De
Dodji Lo
Segla

For the last few years Acid Jazz has been the proud custodian of the Albarika Store legacy. Hailing from the small but culturally-significant state of Benin, the label was operational from the late-‘60s until the early ‘80s, and was home to some of the finest, deepest, rawest West African cuts ever.

A font of local and regional music, infused with contemporary Western influences, the beating heart of the Albarika sound was the mighty T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo, who in various guises released dozens of recordings for the label, under the leadership of Mêlomé Clément.

The intoxicating originality of their sound stems from their combination of folkloric and sacred rhythms of the region, with the modernist sound of soukous, afrobeat, soul and funk. Recorded at EMI Studios in Lagos, these recordings have a unique high fidelity and have been a target for grail-hunting record collectors for decades. 

For this incredible 2LP collection, Dean Rudland and David Hill compile the Poly-Rythmo 45 releases; 7” single and EP sides lost to the seeds of time. Until now.

Brought together for the first time, presented in a beautiful wide spine layout, the 2 LPs present a snapshot of some of the group’s finest work from the ‘70s, their distinctive beat already honed. The printed inner sleeves include images of the rare and collectable original labels and sleeves, along with sleeve notes by Francis Gooding 

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1. E Wa Dagbe
2. Ma Dou Sou Nou Mi O
3. Agnon Dekpe
4. Wo-Deka Koe
5. Les Djos -D'Almeida
6. Salabogo
7. Hin Ayi Towe Do Ye Wou
8. Houegbe N'Dou Nou We
9. Nous Avons Gagne
10. Ati Sissin
11. Akon Kpin Kpan Ni Kpe We
12. Hontontché Man Kou Do Yon Nou Ou O
13. Tombola Tche Dou Nou
14. A Houe Nou Ko Yi
15. Hin Houide Glium
16. Mi Ma Da Mlon O

One of the best kept secrets of pop music: the only album by Jon Tabakin, recorded 1975, now re-released for the first time! Long a highly-coveted collector's album. There is probably no other record so packed with perfect pop and yet which sold so few copies. The songs sit together and mesh so perfectly despite each track having its own distinct personality. It's an ode to pop music, all-encompassing and intensely personal at the same time.

The frontman and creative lynchpin of Oklahoma’s finest, Other Lives, described by MOJO magazine as “the next must have American pastoral sensation,” Jesse and his chief collaborator Kim Tabish used their time during lockdown to fashion a glorious record, as epic as it is intimate, distinguished by the same sweeping, cinematic arrangements and haunting, wistful melodies that typify the band’s catalogue, but with a rawer edge that reflects its’ home made origins.

“The album isn’t necessarily ‘western’ sounding; it’s more that, if I name something immediately, it sticks for me, so the album title stayed Cowboy Ballads.” The album’s ballads are represented by ‘New Love’, ‘Price In Full’, ‘Rituals II’ and the instrumentals ‘Italia Nite I’ and ‘Dread Harp Blues’, simmering episodes fit for a cowboy as he rides off into the sunset though few cowboys post the existential thoughts that Jesse does here.

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1. Cowboy Ballad
2. Da DA
3. Italia Nite I
4. Manchini
5. Bells And Whistles
6. Dread Harp Blues
7. New Love
8. Castro
9. Keep You Right
10. Price In Full
11. Fantastik
12. Halloween Day
13. Mystic I
14. Rituals I I

To turn away from a record deal with a large label in your teens takes guts - especially when the fight for opportunities of that kind are so far and few between for rising bands. But when you feel like you're being kept out of the loop of your own life and one two many false promises are made, something has to change. Drummer Poppy Twist of Poppy & The Jezebels (Mute) made her choice and hasn't glanced back since. Forming the Midlands three-piece, Table Scraps, was a natural antidote and as with anything that comes with a DIY-sense of raw honesty, has had huge levels of support. Joining forces with two souls in possession of similar stories, TJ on bass and Scott Vincent Abbott on guitar, the band have become a storming unit of energy and defiance.

Their gripping new album 'Autonomy' is set for release on February 23rd 2018. The new single 'Sick Of Me' taken from it premiered at DIY and has since been spun by the likes of Steve Lamacq, Lauren Laverne, Tom Robinson, Tom Ravenscroft, and more on BBC 6 Music. Previous support has been found at Radio 1, Radio X, and from Idles' Joe Talbot, who recently declared on stage at a Birmingham gig, "if you don’t know Table Scraps, you’re a fucking idiot!". Live, the trio have more than held their own alongside the likes of Fat White Family, Black Lips, and Yak, as well as being hand-picked to open for bands such as The Buzzcocks and The Gories. 

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1.Sick Of Me (2.17)
2. Always Right (2.14)
3. I’m A Failure (3.04)
4. Takin’ Out The Trash (3.20)
5. Lyin’ Thru Yer Teeth (1.55)
6. My Obsession (2.56)
7. Frankenstein (1.54)
8. Treat Me Like Shit (3.01)
9. More Than You Need Me (4.39)
10. Do It All Over Again (2.41)

Not only one of Britain’s pre-eminent and impeccable traditional voices, June Tabor is quiet simply one of Britain’s greatest interpreters of popular song. Tabor has always made consistently exquisite records all graced by a pitch perfect voice that can be dark, romantic, poignant and angry according to the requirements of the song. This elegant introductory selection is drawn from Tabor’s albums for Topic recorded between her 1976 debut, Airs And Graces and 2011’s Ragged Kingdom which found her reuniting on record with the Oysterband for the first time in almost 30 years.

The Warwick born and Oxford educated Tabor’s conversion to folk may have come in 1965 after seeing Martin Carthy on TV and hearing Anne Briggs’ inspiring Hazards of Love EP, but it was a further ten years before she sang professionally and even then, she still kept her job as a librarian, then restauranteur.

June Tabor effortlessly mixes traditional and contemporary material, the former exemplified here by her early traditional recording of ‘While Gamekeepers Lie Sleeping’ when she was still mastering the art of singing with accompaniment. The contemporary selections featured here include Eric Bogle’s classic antiwar piece ‘The Band Played Waltzing Matilda’ which Tabor had sung on her John Peel radio session debut in 1975 [Peel was a great fan and long-term supporter], Dan Penn and Chips Moman’s ‘The Dark End of the Street’ [with the Oysterband] and Maggie Holland’s anthemic ‘A Place Called England’. Significantly, this selection also focuses equally on June Tabor’s own compositions from her many Topic albums.

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CD Tracklisting
While Gamekeepers Lie Sleeping
The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
The Devil And Bailiff McGlynn
No Man’s Land
Flowers Of The Forest 
Unicorns
The Scarecrow
Aqaba
Hedger And Ditcher
Shallow Brown
A Place Called England
Maybe Then I’ll Be A Rose
Oh! Alas, I Am In Love
The Rigs Of Rye
Finisterre
The Dark End Of The Street

LP Tracklisting
LP1:
While The Gamekeepers Lie Sleeping
The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
No Man’s Land/Flowers Of The Forest
Unicorns
The Scarecrow
A Smiling Shore

LP2:
Aqaba
A Place Called England
Oh! Alas, I Am In Love
The Rigs Of Rye 
Finisterre
The Dark End Of The Street

With so many 'underground' rock bands signing away their souls to the major corporate labels it's good to find a band like Tabula Rasa. Their mix of post-punk, math rock and emo-core is for the discerning music lover. Ideal for fans of Jawbox, Thrice and Fugazi.

Tacocat’s third studio album, Lost Time (an X-Files reference, doy), is their first with producer Erik Blood. “I would describe him generally as a beautiful wizard,” Nokes said, “who, in our opinion, took the album to the next level. Wizard level.” Blood’s sounds are wide and expansive, bringing a fullness to the band’s familiar sparkling snarl. The Tacocat of Lost Time are triumphantly youthful but also plainspoken and wise, as catchy as they are substantive. “Men Explain Things to Me” eviscerates male condescension with sarcastic surf guitar. On “The Internet,” they swat away trolls with an imperiousness so satisfying you want to transmogrify it into a sheetcake and devour it: “Your place is so low/Human mosquito.”
Recorded with known wizard Erik Blood at two separate Seattle locations.

Personnel notables: Emily Nokes (vocals, tambourine), Eric Randall (guitar), Lelah Maupin (drums), and Bree McKenna (bass, also of Childbirth). Tacocat have performed the theme song for the Cartoon Network’s relaunch of the cartoon Powerpuff Girls, which premieres in April of 2016.

Like a fluorescent-lit snack-aisle oasis in some desolate interstate road stop, brimming with Skittles and limited-edition Sno Balls, Tacocat's Easter-egg-hued pop-punk-pop is bubblegum-sticky with hooks, bound to brighten up the most drab stretch of bummer backroad.

The foursome have quickly made a name for themselves with their simply energizing power pop, drawing on classic Northwest energy with an uncommonly upbeat, surfy swag that could only come from gray skies and hydroponic sunshine. Their sly and unabashed ‘90s revivalism has, in the past, found the band pondering Evan Dando and Waterworld—and Bree herself explains finding about riot grrrl via Napster and Julia Stiles in 10 Things I Hate About You. They've described themselves variously as "Feminist sci-fi" and "Equal parts Kurt and Courtney"; oh well, whatever…NVM. NVM—Tacocat's second full-length album and first for Hardly Art, opens up like some mystery shoebox, wistful, instantly nostalgic: snapshots of mortifying exes ("You Never Came Back") and sketchy party situations ("Party Trap"), maybe a postcard with an alien smoking a joint. Cigarette cellophane-wrapped weed nugs, pain pill crumbs and wrapped tampons ("all the girls are surfing the wave, surfing the crimson wave today”), all serve as a roadmap through Tacocat’s bong-ripped reminiscences, scenarios all-too familiar and hilariously improbable. There's the notoriously inconsistent #8 Metro line ("F.U. #8") and the accountability-allergic, black-clad brick-heavers of "This Is Anarchy." The protagonist of "Psychedelic Quinceañera"—based on Bree—just wants to dance with rainbows, mind-expansion style, instead of having to wear a frilly dress in front of her whole family. Emily daydreams of a "Bridge to Hawaii," where even the destitute could walk their asses to paradise—before being snapped out of it by cat-calls from construction workers, business dads, and drunk hobos ("Hey Girl"); sweaty jerks telling her that she should smile!

Recorded at Egg Studios in Seattle, NVM is the whippet-smart latest album from the world's favorite palindromic band. Text a friend.

When Seattle band Tacocat—vocalist Emily Nokes, bassist Bree McKenna, guitarist Eric Randall, and drummer Lelah Maupin—first started in 2007, the world they were responding to was vastly different from the current Seattle scene of diverse voices they’ve helped foster. It was a world of house shows, booking DIY tours on MySpace, and writing funny, deliriously catchy feminist pop-punk songs when feminism was the quickest way to alienate yourself from the then-en vogue garage-rock bros. Their lyrical honesty, humor, and hit-making sensibilities have built the band a fiercely devoted fanbase over the years, one that has followed them from basements to dive bars to sold-out shows at the Showbox. Every step along the way has been a seamless progression—from silly songs about Tonya Harding and psychic cats to calling out catcallers and poking fun at entitled weekend-warrior tech jerks on their last two records on Hardly Art, 2014’s NVM and 2016’s Lost Time.

This Mess is a Place, Tacocat’s fourth full-length and first on Sub Pop, finds the band waking up the morning after the 2016 election and figuring out how to respond to a new reality where evil isn’t hiding under the surface at all—it’s front and center, with new tragedies and civil rights assaults filling up the scroll of the newsfeed every day. “What a time to be barely alive,” laments “Crystal Ball,” a gem that examines the more intimate side of responding emotionally to the news cycle. How do you keep fighting when all you want to do is stay in bed all day? “Stupid computer stupor/Oh my kingdom for some better ads,” Nokes sings, throwing in some classic Tacocat snark, “Truth spread so thin/It stops existing.” Despite current realities being depressing enough to make anyone want to crawl under the covers and sleep for a thousand years, Tacocat are doing what they’ve always done so well: mingling brightness, energy, and hope with political critique.

This Mess is a Place is charged with a hopefulness that stands in stark contrast to music that celebrates apathy, despair, and numbness. Tacocat feels it all and cares, a lot, whether they’re singing odes to the magical connections we feel with our pets (“Little Friend”), imagining what a better earth might look like (“New World”), or trying to find humor in a wholly unfunny world (“The Joke of Life”). It’s a delightfully cathartic moment and the cornerstone of the record when they exclaim, in “Grains of Salt:” “Don’t forget to remember who the fuck you are!”

Producer Erik Blood (who also produced Lost Time) brings the band into their full pop potential but still preserves what makes Tacocat so special: they’re four friends who met as young punks and have grown together into a truly collaborative band. Says Nokes: “We can examine some hard stuff, make fun of some evil stuff, feel some soft feelings, feel some rage feelings, feel some bitter-ass feelings, sift through memories, feel wavy-existential, and still go get a banana daiquiri at the end.”

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Embodying the spirit of 90's grunge, but with more of an emphasis on melody than on fuzz, Tacocat craft a completely immersive and endearing suite of punky bangers. Wholly modern but with a comforting musical nod to the past.

TRACK LISTING

Hologram
New World
Grains Of Salt
The Joke Of Life
Little Friend
Rose-Colored Sky
The Problem
Crystal Ball
Meet Me At La Palma
Miles And Miles

Amid the early 2000s Scottish music scene that birthed Camera Obscura, Arab Strap and Belle and Sebastian, Tacoma Radar were the quiet achievers. Their sole album, 'No One Waved Goodbye' – a mesmerizing collection of hushed melancholy, is now hailed as a cult classic. Reissued for the first time, this deluxe double album features 'No One Waved Goodbye', both seven inch singles, and the previously unreleased 'Live From the 13th Note'.

TRACK LISTING

1. So Much Water
2. Take Your Time
3. Pilothouse
4. Who’s Gonna Hold The Line
5. Ghost Channels
6. Left Unsaid
7. Past Worn Out
8. Falling Dead Stars
9. Loneliness Comes Without A Sound
10. Tuckahoe
11. It’s Getting Dark
12. Radar Contact
13. Pilothouse
14. Some Things Last A Long Time
15. Who’s Gonna Hold The Line
16. Tuckahoe
17. It’s Getting Dark
18. Radar Contact
19. Pilothouse

Inspired by countless arguments with the other half about Playstations, football and expanding record collections "Girls Grow Up Faster Than Boys" deals with an undeniable fact in life. Uptempo acoustic guitar, maracas and a storytelling, tuneful vocal start things off. Catchy ear tickling guitar licks, sweet harmonies, glockenspiel and economic drumming create a vibe that underpins the message of the song. When the bright plucked bass opens the choruses you're most certainly hooked. Cheerful and breezy.

Brothers Joe Jr. and Ollie, the songwriting core of the band, have a soft spot for three minute pop songs drawing inspiration from their outsized record collections - old soul, ska, country, 60s pop. People have made comparisons to The Kinks mainly due to their tongue in cheek moments and the brother situation. They're not going to argue with that. That said, don't get confused and think retro, The Tacticians are London 2007.

Japanese indie-pop favourites taffy return with their sixth studio album.
'Lull' marks the first material from the band with new guitarist Rio Kato, who brings his own unique, inimitable style to the taffy sound.

Extremely unique, psychedelic up-tempo Brazilian jazz fusion. Flutes, piano and vocal harmonies drift in and out of the mix, creating a lush soundscape.

Taiguara was a prolific and hugely successful singer and songwriter - primarily within pop / MPB - whose career spanned nine albums in the late 60's and 70's. He is also thought to be one of the most censored Brazilian artists and was exiled to London in the 1970's by the Brazilian dictatorship.

'Aquarela' is taken from his most experimental album 'Imyra, Tayra, Ipy' originally released in 1976 on Odeon and is a killer up-tempo psychedelic funk/soul track, highly sought after, originally released on Copaconana 7" in 1970.

On side B Marisa Rossi's vocals, and also the backing track to 'Deixa Eu Te Amar', sound very much like the wonderful Swedish soul-jazz / funk singer Doris. This one's a real swinger.

TAKAAT (pronounced tuh-cot), meaning “noise” in the Tuareg language Tamashek, is the trio of Ahmoudou Madassane, Mikey Coltun, and Souleymane Ibrahim, also known as the rhythm section of Mdou Moctar. TAKAAT is sonic chaos, improvisation, freedom of exploration, and the punk styles of bands such as Fugazi and Unwound, all mixed together with the guitar music from the Sahel.

TAKAAT started during soundchecks while on the road with Mdou Moctar when the trio indulged their shared love for amps cranked to 11 and the sound of blown out speakers. Towards the end of 2023, the three started writing music together, inspired by their shared experiences with the sounds and energy of Hausa bar bands, gritty soukous, and 2000s post-punk. The music of TAKAAT is intense, dark, and energetic. Deeply inspired by the DIY ethos of punk, Ahmoudou, Mikey, and Souleymane capture that thrill of the new and the ecstasy of togetherness in these heavy rockers. TAKAAT follows in the spirit of the independent music culture that birthed hardcore basement shows, bedroom tape labels, and generator-powered pick-up wedding bands.

Is Noise Vol. 1 (10”) EP was recorded on a cold winter day in Washington, D.C by engineer, bass player, and producer Mikey Coltun direct to ½” tape. The band set up, took a short tea break, and banged out the four tunes in one take. Very little editing was done. The record is as raw as the way the EP was recorded. All songs written by Alhassane Gajil and Ahmoudou Madassane except Ishumar written by Hasso Akotey. All songs arranged by TAKAAT. 

TAKAAT (pronounced tuh-cot), meaning “noise” in the Tuareg language Tamashek, is the trio of Ahmoudou Madassane, Mikey Coltun, and Souleymane Ibrahim, also known as the rhythm section of Mdou Moctar. TAKAAT is sonic chaos, improvisation, freedom of exploration, and the punk styles of bands such as Fugazi and Unwound, all mixed together with the guitar music from the Sahel.

Tinariwen are the grandfathers of what we know today as Taureg guitar music. Started in refugee camps in Algeria and Libya in 1979, Tinariwen created a new sound of Taureg music that pushed the tradition into a new direction. Ahmoudou, Souleymane, and I all came to Tinariwen in different ways throughout our life and there is no doubt the importance the music has on all three of us. Just as much as Tinariwen pushed what Tuareg music is, that was the idea with TAKAAT is, to push the tradition even further, create something new, create something fresh that blends our love for bands like Tinariwen but also our love of heavier more chaotic bands. Is Noise Vol. 2 includes the TAKAAT versions of a couple of our favorite Tinariwen tunes. Unlike the original Tinariwen versions, these songs are unedited shredding jams recorded live to tape in Washington D.C. This is raw, this is noisy, this is TAKAAT.

TRACK LISTING

1. (Untitled 1)
2. Asuf D Alwa
3. Tiwayyen

With bass drones cranked way past 11, frantic guitar shredding passages, and blown out drum machines, TAKAAT’s ‘Is Noise Vol. 3’ poses the question, ‘what if the Tuareg songwriting legends Tinariwen started a band with drone-lords Sunn O)))? Well, that might be what ‘Is Noise Vol. 3’ kinda sounds like.

Drawing from sonic inspiration of blown out Takamba recordings of the Sahel, slinky drum machines of Hausa pop mp3s, and manipulated field recordings collected in Agadez, Niger, ‘Is Noise Vol. 3’ is yet another exciting musical departure from its prior volume.

TAKAAT was birthed from the idea of always evolving concepts and taking risks, seeing each volume as an opportunity to explore noisy futures steeped in a shared language of DIY. Through chronological limited 10” EPs you too can take the noise home. Play it loud.

TRACK LISTING

1. Ijit N’elwan 1
2. Ijit N’elwan 2
3. Ijit N’elwan 3
4. Ijit N’elwan 4

Recorded in a fully equipped studio in Brooklyn, New York, this project was born from the idea of gathering musicians who deeply admire Kuniyuki’s work and inviting them to contribute to the composition. The line-up features: Lekan Babalola – master percussionist and composer on African drums and percussion, James Bergeau – lead guitar, Joe Claussell – main voice and additional percussion, and Kuniyuki Takahashi – acoustic piano, keyboards, and drum programming.

The release represents a rare convergence of visionary artists, heartfelt collaboration, and world-class musicianship.

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STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Deep, slowly whirling synth riffs wrap around a beautifully organic series of rhythmic paddling and echoic skittering. Elsewhere, jazzy keys and unfolding grooves float about the stereo field, deeply rooted in the rhythm and momentum of hand-played percussion. Incredibly emotive, exciting ambient music.

TRACK LISTING

A. From Then Until Now (The Cosmic Arts Epic Version) [17:20]
B. From Then Until Now (Drum Dub Two) [6:17]

On his sixth LP 'In Another', Toronto-based, Japanese-born, musician and composer Masahiro Takahashi (髙橋 政宏) continues the collaborative expansion of his sonic universe that listeners witness on his 2023 release, 'Humid Sun'. Here he enlists a rotating ensemble of ten guest artists from Toronto’s vibrant music community, including his labelmate Joseph Shabason, who also serves as the album’s co-producer and engineer. Spurred by his longtime admiration for chamber pop spanning the High Llamas and Free Design to the Beach Boys, Takahashi deviates from the underlying processes of his past two outings, trading Ableton sequences for lead sheets, focusing on creating robust melodic and harmonic foundations first. This difference is audible straight away; the album opens with a dialog between upright piano and plucked double bass that’s so gentle and transparent you can hear the breath of the players.

TRACK LISTING

1. I'm Your Mirror
2. Queen West Butterfly
3. Dreamies
4. No Kings
5. Humans
6. Useless Tree
7. A Forgotten Hill
8. Sky, Ocean & Creatures
9. Soundwalker
10. Cat Only Knows

Wewantsounds is delighted to announce the release of Yukihiro Takahashi's debut solo album 'Saravah!'. One of the key Japanese albums of the 70s, it was released in 1978 at a key time when, following his tenure with Sadistic Mika Band, Yukihiro Takahashi had just joined the nascent line up of Yellow Magic Orchestra. A sophisticated mix of Disco Funk, synth Pop, Ambient, French Exotica and Bossa Nova, the album has the stylish feel of a night out clubbing in Paris circa 1978. It is the missing link between the City Pop scene of the late 70s and the synth sound of YMO which was about to revolutionise the world. Newly remastered by renowned engineer Mitsuo Koike, the LP features original artwork with photos by Masayoshi Sukita (David Bowie's Heroes), a 4-page insert and a new Introduction by Benjamin Barouh (Saravah Records).

TRACK LISTING

1. Volare (Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu
2. Saravah!
3. C'est Si Bon
4. La Rosa
5. Mood Indigo
6. Elastic Dummy
7. Sunset
8. Back Street Midnight Queen
9. Present

A mini album released in 1980 where Funky Takanaka fully explodes. As the title suggests, it’s a joyful 45 RPM record where Takanaka’s fingers dance across the guitar frets. Featuring all four tracks including the softly romantic 'PLASTIC TEARS' and the heart-shaking disco tune 'FINGER DANCIN’.

TRACK LISTING

1. SPACE WAGON
2. PLASTIC TEARS
3. FINGER DANCIN’
4. HEART ACE

Riding the recent global Japanese fusion boom, Masayoshi Takanaka continues to enjoy surging popularity not only in Japan but also across Europe and the United States. Using high-resolution audio sourced from the original master tapes, this release was remastered and cut at Abbey Road Studios in London by Alex Wharton, one of Abbey Road’s leading engineers.

Opening with the line “It’s so hot! I want to go somewhere!”, the album immediately transports listeners to a tropical paradise with a reggae-driven opening track. From start to finish, Takanaka’s glossy, soaring guitar work creates an endless summer atmosphere. Packed with summer killer tunes such as the fully Latin-flavored 'CUBAN HEELS' featuring Orquesta Del Sol, and the electric, funk-driven 'DANCING TO CAT GUITAR'.

TRACK LISTING

1. YOUKOSO, NATSU NO OUKOKU E
2. PARADIZZY
3. EYELANDS
4. CUBAN HEELS
5. DAIKOUKAI JIDAI
6. DANCING TO CAT GUITAR
7. SUMMERTIME BLUES
8. RETURN ACE
9. NEPTUNE
10. OYASUMI

BBE Music welcomes pianist Aki Takase to the J Jazz Masterclass reissue series, with her 1982 live album ‘Song for Hope’. A musician of poise and precision who has been a noted composer, performer and recording artist for over 40 years, Takase’s ‘Song for Hope’ continues BBE Music’s exploration of Japanese modern jazz from a golden period spanning the late 1960s to the mid-1980s. 

The ‘Song for Hope’ album is taken from a recording of Takase’s debut European performance taped in November 1981 at the Berlin Jazz Festival and was originally issued in 1982 by Enja Records, a key European jazz label founded in Munich 1971 by Matthias Winckelmann and Horst Weber. On Enja, Takase found herself labelmates with some of the world’s leading jazz pianists like Mal Waldron, Dollar Brand and Randy Weston, and she followed in the footsteps of other leading Japanese artists on the label such as Terumasa Hino and Yosuke Yamashita. The hypnotic title track was included on J Jazz vol. 3, and it features J Jazz stalwart Takeo Moriyama on drums, joined by Nobuyoshi Ino on bass. Moriyama’s career has been well documented on J Jazz vol. 1, and his sublime ‘East Plants’ album was reissued as part of the J Jazz Masterclass Series. Bassist Ino has been an active member of the Japanese jazz scene since the mid-1970s and has performed and recorded with many leading artists and groups including Fumio Itabashi, Masahiko Togashi, Hiromasa Suzuki, Masaru Imada and Masayuki Takayanagi.

Aki Takase was born in Osaka in 1948 and began playing piano aged 3. Raised in Tokyo, she studied classical music at the Toho Gakuen Academy, and her musical interests developed from a starting point in classical, before going on to encompass contemporary music and jazz. Among the first jazz compositions she explored were works by Charles Mingus and Ornette Coleman and, in 1972, she moved to New York, working with, among others, Lester Bowie, John Zorn and Dave Liebman. 

She recorded her debut album for Seven Seas/King Records in 1978 and appeared on some key J Jazz album such as Yoshio Ikeda’s ‘Sketches of my Life’ and Seiichi Nakamura’s ‘Wolf’s Theme’. Takase has lived in Berlin since 1987 and is married to German pianist and composer Alexander von Schlippenbach, with whom she records and performs, sometimes as part of the Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra. She has also performed and recorded extensively with many other leading figures in contemporary jazz and improvised music including David Murray, Fred Frith, Evan Parker, and Maria João. The J Jazz Masterclass Series is curated by Tony Higgins and Mike Peden for BBE Music.

TRACK LISTING

1. Monologue
2. Song For Hope
3. Minerva's Owl
4. Mountain Forest

The three albums from Take Care, one of the many projects of Irish musician, songwriter, and producer, Liam McCay, a.k.a. Sign Crushes Motorist. 'Agony', 'Reject', and 'Alive' together in a box set, all on black vinyl.

TRACK LISTING

Agony Tracklist:
1. Everything Reminds Me Of You
2. Please Don’t Leave
3. Destroy Me From The Inside Out
4. Fall For You
5. All I Need Is To Feel Like Someone Could Love Me
6. It’s All My Fault
7. One Day
8. I Feel Like I’ve Been Shot In The Stomach
9. Think Of Me Once In A While, Take Care

Reject Tracklist:
1. Out In This Desert
2. You’re Perfect
3. This Feeling Will Pass
4. Nothing Happened At All
5. Ribs
6. I Don’t Want To Feel This Way Anymore
7. Feel Like Dyin (Acoustic Cover)
8. Make It Stop
9. You Have No Idea What You’re Doing To Me

Alive Tracklist:
1. You Are So Pretty
2. While
3. Now
4. I’ve Never Felt This Way
5. Heaven
6. Kevin’s Interlude
7. World
8. I Feel Like Someone Could Love Me
9. Starry Eyed
10. Regrets
11. I’m Glad I’m Alive
12. Goodnight, I Love You

This is the debut album by South Wales' band The Take. "Propeller", is an amalgam of noise and melody. A rush of surging guitars, driving rhythms and impassioned vocals. Echoes of early Nirvana and Mudhoney with a touch of Jawbreaker thrown in.

It's been FIVE years since Jazz Room Records first released this Magnum Opus. So to celebrate we're releasing a Limited Edition (500) take me back to the old school Black Vinyl Picture Sleeve Five Year 45.

TRACK LISTING

1. Golden Brown (feat. Take Vibe)
2. Walking On The Moon (feat. Take Vibe)

Nobukazu Takemura’s music is singular in its ability to create a musical sense of childlike wonder and curiosity, with gracefully executed yet complex compositions. His pieces embody an innocence and the intricacies of self discovery that every human is faced with as their worlds become more complex. An acclaimed producer and composer, Takemura is known for his idiosyncratic music and video artistry as well as his prolific collaborations including those with Tortoise, Yo La Tengo, DJ Spooky and Steve Reich. 'Knot Of Meanings', Takemura’s first proper album in a decade, finds the Japanese artist wrestling with the rise of technological influence on art and culture in the modern era, in tandem with his own relationship to religion, and where those struggles meet. Like the colorful, irregularly shaped glasses on the cover, the album is a mosaic of technicolor elements that come together to form a complete picture, a dense portrait of interconnected struggles and triumphs.

Throughout the album, Takemura exudes an unpredictability that builds surprise from unlikely combinations of instruments, tonalities and harmonic motions that embody bewildering knots to untangle, held together with a youthful sense of wonder. “I attended a Catholic kindergarten as a child and cherished those early years, which laid the foundations for my future. This is in part why I have always used the keyword ‘child’ in my work as an adult,” notes Takemura. 'Knot Of Meanings' culminates his use of that child’s perspective, or as Takemura has used extensively, that “Child’s View” to explore deeper life philosophies to ecstatic ends. The meanings and mysteries contained within make for an enchanting excavation for those attuned to deep listening, a journey that rewards the kind of inquiring open-mindedness of the listener.

TRACK LISTING

1. An Ephemeral Radiant
2. Savonarola's Insight
3. Ocular Creature
4. Neri
5. Afterglow Apprehension
6. The Gulf
7. Veiled Grammar
8. Evade The Swirling Mimicry
9. The Elusive Beings
10. Ladder Of Meaning
11. Iron Staircase
12. Luminous Seeping Through The Crevices
13. Inscape
14. A Subdued Longing And Gentle Ache
15. In Bethulia
16. Deep Sea's Rainbow Part 1
17. Deep Sea's Rainbow Part 2
18. Deep Sea's Rainbow Part 3

After a four year pause, Taken By Trees return to take you on a musical journey – and after a little wait, this one is as magical ever. The first step down an enchanted sonic path with Victoria Bergsman is Say You Don't Mind, a deceptively simple lullaby-like cover of the track first recorded by The Moody Blues' Denny Laine. Simultaneously both haunting and soothing with its gently euphoric atmospherics and Bergsman's own distinctly affecting vocals, which demonstrate why off the back of her own releases the former Concretes singer has been sought out by everyone from John Lewis (who had her cover Guns N Roses) to Peter Bjorn & John, who made her singing the centrepiece of their whistled classic, Young Folks. Say You Don't Mind, of course, was also a solo hit in 1972 for Colin Blunstone, and Bergsman's new version heralds a whole EP's worth of songs written or recorded by The Zombies frontman which she has been inspired to make her own.

TRACK LISTING

Time’s Running Out
Say You Don’t Mind
I Don’t Believe In Miracles
Caroline Good Bye
She Loves The Way They Love Her

‘Dreams’ is just one of the highlights from Taken By Trees’ ‘Other Worlds’, the forthcoming album that was inspired by chanteuse Victoria Bergsman’s visit to the Hawaiian Islands.

The touches of dub are gently layered with synths and Victoria's voice, floating along with the bassline.

The music reflects the natural beauty of the Hawaiian Islands; floating in a perfectly blue pond, a kind breeze coasting off the waves, abundant deep green foliage, sweet slices of pineapple and milky coconut, and the delicate pink of a seashell curled like a baby's ear.

The ‘Dreams’ 12” also features an extended instrumental and a dubbed out remix by Henning Fürst of The Tough Alliance.

Victoria Bergsman wanted to travel to record in a mysterious, relatively uncharted area, avoiding the usual clinical studio experience which she has always disliked and found to be an uncreative environment. She chose Pakistan. The rhythm, drums and flutes of Pakistani music had long captivated Victoria and this, coupled with a deep admiration for singers Abida Parveen and the legendary Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, helped her choose Pakistan as the place to record her new album. Another attractive factor was her interest in Sufi musicians who play in order to enter a trance like state, using music to transport themselves to another time and place. Victoria is one of very few Western women, if not the only one, to record in this region, and the bureaucracy, cultural differences and prejudices she had to overcome to see this project through almost beggar belief. It's therefore little short of a miracle that this album turned out the way it did. Victoria, previously best known for her work with The Concretes and Peter Bjorn & John's worldwide smash hit single "Young Folks", now works under the nom de plume Taken By Trees. This new offering follows in the footsteps of Taken By Tree's debut album "Open Field" (2007). The album also includes a cover of Animal Collective's "My Girls", which Victoria has re-interpreted as "My Boys". She has been a long standing fan of band member Noah Lennox' voice and upon hearing their new album "Merriweather Post Pavilion" was so struck by the song she felt compelled to record a version for her album. Consequently, Noah was also invited to sing vocals on another track on the album, "Anna".

This is not perhaps as immediate as "Tell All Your Friends", it's genre defining predecessor, but it more than compensates for that with a maturity and cleverness that will reel you in with just a little persistence. The trademark blazing guitars are still there anyway, Adam Lazarra doesn't sound any different and the background vocals, provided by Fred Mascherino, if anything, are better than ever.

Back in 2019, Leng Records offered a debut to a previously unheralded producer, Takovoi. Three years on, the Russian nu-disco specialist returns to the label with a five-track EP that displays the depth and quality of his rapidly evolving trademark sound.

The Perfect Match EP delivers a range of grooves and stylistic approaches while showcasing the producer’s love of dreamy Balearic chords, soft-touch synth sounds and colourful melodies.

He sets the tone with the EP-opening title track, ‘Perfect Match’ where sustained, sun-down chords, yearning lead lines, cascading piano motifs and twinkling electronics ride a shuffling, post-electro beat and a warm, undulating bassline. ‘Homesickness’ sees Takovoi wrap waves of rising and falling synth sounds and melancholic melodies around a deep, hypnotic nu-disco groove, while the slow-motion sensation that is ‘Dreams’ brings throbbing analogue bass, sustained piano chords, sparkling electronics and the gentlest of beats.

Takovoi’s dancefloor credentials come to the fore with ‘Bubbles’, a slowly building Balearic nu-disco gem that layers up echo-laden percussion hits, eyes-closed melodies, and drowsy synth sounds over a bustling beat that sits somewhere between deep house and TR-808-driven broken beat.

This off-kilter approach to beat programming continues on the EP’s inspired closing cut, ‘Another The Same’, where hazy female vocal samples, immersive chords and reverb-heavy musical motifs gingerly dance on a bouncy and densely layered 4/4 beat. When the main melody makes its presence felt midway through, the track is elevated to a whole new level altogether. It’s a fittingly impressive end to Takovoi’s new EP for Leng.

TRACK LISTING

1. Perfect Match
2. Homesickness
3. Dreams
4. Bubbles
5. Another The Same

Tala Vala combine experimental recording methods bridging marginalised genres, synths, brass and strings, jagged guitars and primal percussion.
John Roffe-Ridgard is a producer and former touring musician and Ben Locket is a composer for TV and Film.

The pair began making music in 2017 and self-released their first EP on a limited vinyl run. Mixed by Jake Jackson at Masterchord studios, the records were sold exclusively through Sounds of the Universe and Bandcamp.
Enthused by the interest in the record and selling out the run, the pair set about recording a full-length album expanding on the ideas of the fist ep. The album was again performed and produced by Ben and John using mainly analogue processes, where possible utilising 24 track tape and mixed by Jake. The self-titled record was self-released on vinyl and made it into the Stranger Than Paradise top 10 albums of the year.

Album number two began as a soundtrack project in early 2019, it was abandoned as they became disillusioned with the boundaries the film was imposing. The only remaining music from the soundtrack session is the opening cue which can be heard as the last track of what became Modern Hysteric, album two.

The new album was worked on throughout 2019 and mixed in early 2020 again sticking to mainly analogue processes, avoiding any audio plugins and computer editing. Jim White (Dirty Three, Xylouris White) guest drums on two of the tracks ( Reoccurring Weather & Haxen ) bringing his instantly recognisable style to the Tala Vala sound. In addition to the string quartet and brass sections, a kora player and the manipulated voice of soprano singer, Grace Davidson can also be heard throughout the album. 

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1 Angel Organ
2 Modern Hysteric
3 Beach Tranquiliser
4 Reoccurring Weather

Side B
5 Exit Strategies
6 Hexen
7 Orbits
8 See The Moon Shine

On her long-awaited debut album, West-London artist, producer and songstress Hope Tala crafts an intimate musical language that feels equal parts romantic and philosophical – cementing her growing reputation as one of the most exciting voices in the R&B/neo-soul space.

The album features the recent singles ‘I Can’t Even Cry’, ‘Thank Goodness’, ‘Shiver’ and ‘Bad Love God’, that have already gained her firm praise from the likes of Hunger, who describe her as “an intriguing and unique talent, melding styles with confidence and ease”, and cemented fans including Barack Obama who added one of her tracks for the third time to his annual summer playlist.

Hope Handwritten sees Hope seamlessly weaving together organic, live musical textures and musings on heartbreak, newfound love, ancestry, introspection, humanity and community.

TRACK LISTING

Full Tracklisting TBA

On the white island, between Ibiza Town and the infamous fish shack high up on a rock next to a bird sanctuary, you will find the beach of Talamanca. Plagued by too much seaweed, anchored middle-class yachts and joggers, it is also surprisingly the spiritual home of a correspondent post-Balearic group. As luck would have it, a remix request by Mark Barrott bedded the International Feel boss in a trio with Philipp Lauer and Gerd Janson, alias Tuff City Kids.

A highly sought-after 12-inch later (“Balanzat”), as well as fantasies of getting together to work on more material, led to a fruitful and effortless studio session on the non-Balearic outskirts of Frankfurt am Main. The outcome of that meeting forms the homonymous debut album of Talamanca System. A documented vision, or a sunburned imagination of a day and night spent on said island, during a moment in time that probably never was or will be. Still summed up best by dungarees, long hair, yellow sunglasses, espadrilles or that famous picture of people grouped around roofless Amnesia's pyramid well, it is the food of the Balearic gods. But, dear nostalgia, stop right here!

Even though Talamanca's debut flies the Balearic flag, it is not about turning back the clock, but rather about a past that could be the future. Dusted, danceable, driving, dreamy and dapper at the same time, this is an album for the club, the car, the beach, the (coke)float and the fountain. Coined by the colourful and respective talents of the three individuals behind Talamanca, you will hear nine tracks ranging from up to downtempo, piano house smashers that would have deserved the prefix Italo-, percussion rituals captured by a group of Zoo animals on the loose, soundtracks for dusk and dawn, hushed vocals, rites of ambient passages, powerful synth ballads and vamp choirs. If this album were a car, it would be a Citroen 2CV remade by Tesla.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Balearic rhythms meet headfirst with sweaty dancefloor neon numbers, beautifully effervescent but inexplicably laid-back, close your eyes and get lost in the vibes.

TRACK LISTING

1. Talamanca System - Transatlantique
2. Talamanca System - 104
3. Talamanca System - Ancona Ancona
4. Talamanca System - Ocean Grill
5. Talamanca System - Tres Secadas
6. Talamanca System - Conga Cage
7. Talamanca System - Distant Shore
8. Talamanca System - Experc
9. Talamanca System – Aurorca

A striking and thought-provoking collaboration between IDLES frontman Joe Talbot and artist Magda Archer, containing all the lyrics from IDLES' first album Brutalism alongside provocative artwork by Archer. Toxic masculinity. Class divisions.

Mental health. Bristol-formed band IDLES started recording their first album, Brutalism, in 2015. In the two years that followed, frontman Joe Talbot’s mother passed away, resulting in a turbulent state of grief that would come to shape the verbally blazon and emotionally raw album that then appeared in 2017.

In the seven years since the release of Brutalism, Talbot’s words, in the context of the band’s music, have grown to represent a liberated show of vulnerability and an aggressive response to the societal ‘masculine’ ideal of silencing and withholding emotion. IDLES’ first ever book marks a new and exciting form of creative collaboration for the band. Breathing a different kind of life into Talbot’s fiery lyricism – with expressive typography, hot-pink ink and Magda Archer’s unique artworks – it shows that a book can be a work of art in itself.

In this celebration and reinterpretation of the band’s first album, Magda Archer’s artwork enters a joyful and liberating shouting match with Talbot’s lyrics – an unexpected and bold conversation between two like-minded artists.

Crazy Horse has always been a band that was meant to be. Formed in the late 1960s as rock & roll was beginning to take a turn into the '70s, the band (Ralph Molina, Billy Talbot and Danny Whitten) had started playing with Neil Young, and, though they didn't know it then, were going to make history for 50-plus years. And while it is no surprise that Crazy Horse has continued on that quest, it is an exciting continuation of their storied career that the group is releasing ALL ROADS LEAD HOME on March 31, 2023. It is a statement of power and purpose on what rock & roll bands can accomplish as the decades pass and musical growth continues. In so many ways, Crazy Horse exists as a party of one in the way they have created something so uniquely original and completely within their own world.

ALL ROADS LEAD HOME is an album born out of pure inspiration as well as social necessity. Molina, Talbot and Lofgren kept recording their original songs, each with other musicians and in various locations during the pandemic years. They were forced to change from working as a trio with Neil Young, and used that opportunity to see what their new individual configurations would lead to. And, of course they led home. The three Crazy Horse members each recorded three songs apart and with different musicians, and by challenging themselves to see what they could do, all arrived at a wondrous consensus of unforgettable music. Crazy Horse has never made an album like this before.

Neil Young also includes "Song Of the Seasons,” a live solo version of the song from the album BARN with Crazy Horse, as a sign of solidarity with the band of brothers he has shared the stage and studio with since 1969.

In a world that is constantly changing and can swing from deep challenges to glorious creations in a way that feels never-ending, the songs of ALL ROADS LEAD HOME are a map of both where we've all been and where we might be going. In the end, the songs are a reminder of not only the gift of music, but just as important, the gift of friendship. Long may they run.

TRACK LISTING

1. Rain (Billy Talbot)
2. You Will Never Know (Nils Lofgren)
3. It’s Magical (Ralph Molina)
4. Song Of The Seasons (Neil Young)
5. Cherish (Billy Talbot)
6. Fill My Cup (Nils Lofgren)
7. Look Through The Eyes Of Your Heart (Ralph Molina)
8. The Hunter (Billy Talbot)
9. Go With Me (Nils Lofgren)
10. Just For You (Ralph Molina)

Critical Heights release the new full-length from Brooklyn's duo Talibam! Previously known for their avant-jazz, experimental rock leanings, 'Puff Up the Volume' sees Talibam! turning their considerable talents towards an album of synth-pop-infused, comedy-soaked "No School Rap".

Having collectively been in bands with members of Battles, TV on the Radio and Grizzly Bear, the pair of Matt Mottel and Kevin Shea have joined 'Brooklyn's Finest' and made an album of hook riddled pop star bombast. Puff Up the Volume', is Talibam!'s 'NO SCHOOL' Rap debut. They like to say ' if you went to rap school' you wasted your money. This epic record is chock-full of party anthems and raw emotional verse, solidifying the duo as a skilled production team.

Talibam!'s “Puff Up the Volume” represents the outcome of poetic circumstance. Drummer Kevin Shea's big toe was crushed during a gong accident in 2009 forcing him to play bass drum with his left foot for the rest of a tour and the subsequent recording session engineered by Dirty Projector's touring sound engineer Etienne Foyer in Paris. The circumstance 'liberated' Talibam! from their previous ethos with drummer Kevin Shea bumping a BIG BEAT flavour along side Matt Mottel's spicy Mini Moog mastery.

"Puff Up the Volume' will enter your head and stay there. The craft in songwriting, the focus on synth tone, the forceful funk of the drums and the verbal 'epuffianies' spit by Kevin Shea and Matt Mottel make this album a contender for 'album of the year.' Each song is a gold nugget ready for mass appeal. Get ready to breathe DEEP AND 'PUFF UP THE VOLUME'.

TRACK LISTING

1. Jimmys From The 49th
2. Zombie From Albequrque
3. I Want All Your Money
4. Step In The Marina
5. From Nasa To Boeing
6. Occupy My Jimmy
7. Puff Up The Volume
8. Hard Day Tough Day
9. Poor Little Jimmys
10. Wack Wack Chippy Wimp
11. Jimmys Confused
12. Dr Giggles
13. You're A Creep
14. Sweet Leader
15. Jimmys Angry
16. Jack Is In A Hotdog
17. Jimmys & Condoleeza
18. Mottel In The Hotel
19. Jimmys Try A Turn

If Talk Show’s exhilarating full-length debut, Effigy, feels more like a film than an album, that’s no coincidence. The band crafted the collection to soundtrack a fictional nightclub. “One of the biggest influences on this record was the intro to the movie Blade, where this character’s being dragged through a meatpacking plant and into the vampire rave,” says frontman Harrison Swann. “There’s so much tension and anticipation and intimidation in that scene. We wanted to create the kind of music we’d play if we were performing in that club, to put ourselves into that scene and see how far we could push it.” With Effigy, Talk Show do more than just push their sound; they completely reinvent it. Produced by Remi Kabaka Jr., of Gorillaz, the record offers up a bold and exhilarating showcase for the band’s dramatic evolution, drawing on everything from The Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy to Nine Inch Nails and The KLF as it taps into a raw, primal sound at the intersection of techno, electronic, industrial, and rock music. The songs are dark and gritty, fueled by blistering guitars and explosive drums, and Swann’s vocals are nothing short of hypnotic, leaning on repetition and restraint to reach for transcendence in the midst of swirling sonic chaos. The result is an immersive, multi-sensory experience, one that conjures up a dark, sweaty warehouse packed with moving bodies all radiating heat and desire, anxiety and release, ecstasy and desperation

TRACK LISTING

1. Got Sold
2. Gold
3. Panic
4. Oh! You're! All! Mine!
5. Small Blue World
6. Red/White
7. Closer
8. Catalonia
9. Oil At The Bottom Of A Drum

Talk Show is a new duo collaboration featuring Steph Richards on trumpets and resonating surfaces and Qasim Naqvi on drums, almglocken bells and modular synthesizer. Having worked together on other projects for almost two decades, 'Miss America' marks their first, pure duo collaboration – a space to engage with a sonic language they’ve been cultivating together for years.

The album was recorded live, with Qasim crafting real-time electronics and drum set work, and Steph using trumpets and resonating percussion to summon sympathetic vibrations and otherworldly sounds through timpani, snare and water. The trumpet sounds electronically processed, though every sound is acoustic. Both artists wanted to retain the live nature of their process, so what you hear is virtually untouched.

Sharing an appetite for experimentalism, theatricality and irreverent collisions of sound and image, Qasim and Steph met in 2008 at CalArts- which was a breeding ground for open creative thought and cross disciplinary collaboration. Often working with directors in the theater program, choreographers, or experimental and character animators, Steph and Qasim’s musical language has a rooting in visual performance art. From their first premiere, costumed together inside a giant two-person dress sculpture that consumed a drum set, to their most recent 2025 audio visual nightmare which explores the horrors of 80s daytime reality talk shows, this duo presents a voice the grimy and the grotesque: a new beauty of questionable acts and character flaws in sound.

TRACK LISTING

1. Royalties
2. Mom’s Night Out
3. Miss America
4. Soft As A Rock
5. Death Bed

Touch The Ground, the new EP by rising UK post-punk band Talk Show was produced by Joe Goddard (Hot Chip) and Al Doyle (Hot Chip/LCD Soundsystem).

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
1. Track 1
2. Underworld
3. Cold House
SIDE B
1. Dirt In The Keyboard
2. Leather
3. 6

In celebration of the 40th anniversary of Talk Talk’s iconic ‘It’s My Life’ album, it has been cut at Half-Speed by Matt Colton at Metropolis Studios, overseen by Talk Talk drummer Lee Harris and Charlie Hollis, son of Mark Hollis, giving the album a greater depth. Originally released in February 1984, ‘It’s My Life’ is the band's second album and followed the 1982 release of their debut ‘The Party’s Over’ which initially received moderate success in the UK reaching number 21 in the UK chart and finding some global success.

By the time they came to writing and recording ‘It’s My Life’ the band had gone from the four piece to a three with Simon Brenner leaving the band. The album initially found considerable international success. ‘Such A Shame', the album's first single was a top 10 hit across Europe and the album’s title track entered global Top 40’s including in the US. 

STAFF COMMENTS

Mine says: An absolute classic and a desert islands disc for Andy and me - but then so is most of Talk Talk's discography...

TRACK LISTING

Side 1
1. Dum Dum Girl
2. Such A Shame
3. Renee
4. It’s My Life

Side 2
1. Tomorrow Started
2. The Last Time
3. Call In The Night Boy
4. Does Caroline Know?
5. It’s You

Talk Talk’s Laughing Stock, the group’s 1991 final album, took a year to make, and yet it has required decades to fully appreciate. Following up on the abstract 'Spirit of Eden', which sufficiently alienated pop fans of the band’s earlier material, 'Laughing Stock' took spaces in recorded music to new extremes, with layers of silence breathing through strings, woodwinds, percussion and Mark Hollis’s delicate vocals.

The record exists as one complete thought, albeit with jagged diversions and tangents. Hollis’s and producer Tim Friese-Greene’s goal from the beginning was to create an album that completely enveloped the listener. During recording, microphones were placed at distances as far as 30 feet from the instruments they were recording, and passages were captured with no clear intention as to where they would finally be placed. Before ProTools made the cut-and-paste, drag-and-drop process standard in songwriting, Hollis and Friese-Greene were in the studio with flugelhorn and viola players, capturing notes and phrases they collected and combined into the six tracks that became 'Laughing Stock'. Everything was recorded straight from the original instruments, as Hollis continued reacting against the synth artificiality of his past. It was released on jazz label Verve, further declaring that 'In A Silent Way' was a greater influence than any pop group to which Talk Talk had been compared in the past. 'Laughing Stock' grows like vines in a garden out of any speakers. The full power of the music is as engrossing as it is oblique, like wrapping oneself in a blanket of thoughts. Talk Talk’s music is unapologetic in its obscureness, caressed in the gentle beauty of subtlety and warmth.

TRACK LISTING

1 Myrrhman 5:33
2 Ascension Day 6:01
3 After The Flood 9:27
4 Taphead 7:01
5 New Grass 9:46
6 Runeii 4:59

Talk Talk’s classic albums ‘Spirit of Eden’ and ‘The Colour of Spring’ get re-issued on 180g heavyweight vinyl cut from the original analogue master, together with a DVD featuring the album delivered as a 96kHz/24 bit LPCM stereo mix. The DVDs both feature one extra track … ‘Spirit of Eden’ has the ‘b’ side ‘John Cope’ while ‘The Colour of Spring’ includes the ‘b’ side ‘It’s Getting Late In The Evening’.

Also released on CD with updated artwork - art directed by Mark Hollis - 'Spirit of Eden', 'The Colour of Spring', 'It's My Life' and 'The Party's Over'.

STAFF COMMENTS

Andy says: One of Elbow-man, Guy Garvey's favourite ever albums, this has a drifting but heavy, otherworldly vibe.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Rainbow (1997 - Remaster)
2. Eden (1997 - Remaster)
3. Desire (1997 - Remaster)
4. Inheritance (1997 - Remaster)
5. I Believe In You (1997 - Remaster)
6. Wealth (1997 - Remaster)

Bonus DVD With Vinyl:
1. The Rainbow
2. Eden
3. Desire
4. Inheritance
5. I Believe In You
6. Wealth
7. John Cope

The band’s breakthrough record It’s My Life saw the arrival of producer and multi-instrumentalist Tim Friese-Greene, who became a significant creative force in the band and an unofficial fourth member for the remainder of its existence.

It’s My Life saw the band seek a less synthesized sound and less New Romantic image, which included keyboardist Simon Brenner leaving the band. The new sound gave the band commercial success, with the title track becoming a hit on both sides of the Atlantic. It went on to be covered by No Doubt in 2003 reaching number 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and remaining on the chart for 28 weeks.

The album also contained the single "Such a Shame" (a song inspired by the book The Dice Man) which became a Top 10 hit across Europe. A third single, "Dum Dum Girl", was also a success in Europe and NZ in particular.

TRACK LISTING

Side 1:
1) Dum Dum Girl
2) Such A Shame
3) Renée
4) It’s My Life

Side 2:
1) Tomorrow Started
2) The Last Time
3) Call In The Night Boys
4) Does Caroline Know
5) It’s You

Often cited for "anticipating post-rock" and influencing artists like Radiohead, this 1988 masterpiece was conceived through hours of improvised performances edited down and arranged using digital equipment. The end result has elements of rock, jazz, classical, ambient.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Rainbow
2. Eden
3. Desire
4. Inheritance
5. I Believe In You
6. Wealth

Often lauded a masterpiece, 'Spirit Of Eden' marked a radical change from Talk Talk’s synth-pop beginnings - moulding into an album that would go onto pioneer post-rock. The album was produced over the course of almost a year, compiling improvised, experimental performances which culminated in a mixture of jazz, ambient, and rock into one of the most experimental albums. Released in 1988, the album has somewhat grown in cult status to frequently appear on a number of greatest albums of all time lists. The album will be cut at half-speed for the first time at Metropolis Studios, following up from the half-speed master of 'It’s My Life' at the end of 2024.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Rainbow
2. Eden
3. Desire
4. Inheritance
5. I Believe In You
6. Wealth

The 1986 Talk Talk album that showed Hollis and co in the process of turning their backs on chart pop sounds for a more pastoral, experimental prog-flecked gem and setting the path for their 'Spirit of Eden' masterpiece.

TRACK LISTING

1. Happiness Is Easy
2. I Don't Believe In You
3. Life's What You Make It
4. April 5th
5. Living In Another World
6. Give It Up
7. Chameleon Day
8. Time It's Time

Talk Talk's musical journey took them from early 80s synth-pop to early 90s post-rock resulting in a diverse and stimulating legacy. This 1982 release showcases the synth-pop/new wave side to the band. After supporting Duran Duran on their 1981 tour, they released the single Mirror Man, as well as their two UK Top 40 hits Today and Talk Talk – all of which are included amongst other great songs on the album.

Their debut album, The Party's Over was released in 1982 and produced by Colin Thurston, who was a former engineer for David Bowie but was better known for producing Duran Duran's first two albums.

A product of its time, the album is classic synth-pop teamed with lyrical depth that went on to be synonymous with lead singer, Mark Hollis.

TRACK LISTING

1. Talk Talk
2. It’s So Serious
3. Today
4. The Party’s Over
5. Hate
6. Have You Heard The News
7. Mirror Man
8. Another Word
9. Candy

Talk Talk's musical journey took them from early 80s synth-pop to early 90s post-rock resulting in a diverse and stimulating legacy. This 1982 release showcases the synth-pop/new wave side to the band. After supporting Duran Duran on their 1981 tour, they released the single 'Mirror Man', as well as their two UK Top 40 hits 'Today' and 'Talk Talk' – all of which are included amongst other great songs on the album.

Their debut album, 'The Party's Over' was released in 1982 and produced by Colin Thurston, who was a former engineer for David Bowie but was better known for producing Duran Duran's first two albums.

A product of its time, the album is classic synth-pop teamed with lyrical depth that went on to be synonymous with lead singer, Mark Hollis.

TRACK LISTING

1. Talk Talk
2. It's So Serious
3. Today
4. The Party's Over
5. Hate
6. Have You Heard The News?
7. Mirror Man
8. Another Word
9. Candy

Talk Talk’s 'Very Best Of' reissue is a newly re-ordered and now career-spanning compilation. Changes to the original 1997 release puts Talk Talk’s greatest hits in chronological order and with a new inclusion from the band’s final album, 'Laughing Stock'.

TRACK LISTING

1. Talk Talk
2 Today (Single Version)
3. Have You Heard The News?
4. It’s My Life
5. Such A Shame (Original Version)
6. Dum Dum Girl
7. Life’s What You Make It
8. Living In Another World
9. Give It Up
10. April 5th
11. Time It’s Time
12. I Believe In You (Single Version)
13. Eden (Edit)
14. Wealth
15. New Grass

2022 marks the 40th anniversary of the debut album of one of the most critically-acclaimed and pioneering bands to come out of the UK. Talk Talk’s The Party’s Over was a start of a journey for Mark Hollis (vocals), Simon Brenner (keyboards), Lee Harris (drums), and Paul Webb (bass) who constantly evolved throughout their career from synth-pop beginnings into pioneering avant-garde post-rock in the latter stages of the band, being a large influence on artists such as Radiohead, St. Vincent and many more.

Talk Talk launched with the release of the single Mirror Man in February 1982, followed by Today and the eponymous single Talk Talk, with the latter two charting #14 and #23 in the UK respectively. The Party’s Over was produced by Colin Thurston, the former engineer for David Bowie but was better known for producing Duran Duran's first two albums. Charting in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and USA, The Party’s Over is classic synth-pop teamed with lyrical depth that went on to be synonymous with lead singer, Mark Hollis. Earlier this year to celebrate the 40th anniversary of these singles, many of the B-sides were made available digitally for the first time such as Strike Up The Band and ? (aka Question Mark).

TRACK LISTING

Side A:
Talk Talk
It’s So Serious
Today
The Party’s Over
Side B:
Hate
Have You Heard The News
Mirror Man
Another Word
Candy

Team TD take a break from re-scoring Colin McCrae Rally to pay their own oddball homage to some of their DJ deities in the form of "Talking Drums Volume 8".
Keeping things diverse-yet-disco, this little mover grooves through Muzic Box pump, Lofty symphonics and a Ku-curveball with a smile on its face and a pep in its step.

The A-side erupts in a flash of sexy Euro-NRG, twisted and lifted to give any sweatbox a massive Hardy-on. Sequencers throb, swell and burst, horns wail and not one, but two, killer basslines blast the floor with erogenous urgency. Chuck in a coquettish vocal, delay madness and a fist pumping breakdown and you've got pure peak-time play folks.

The B1 belongs to the sumptuous strings, loose funk and live disco strut of "Too Hot". Low slung, low tempo but plenty punchy, this classy cut builds and builds through Merc-y repetition before blooming a fully fledged groover. Taut funk breaks sit beneath a floor-filling vocal and twinkling Rhodes, the wah guitar works overtime, and it all adds up to take the dance floor temperature sky high. Enjoy on a hi-fi sound system with plenty of spiked punch.

The curtain call comes via the alfresco flamenco-frenzy of Ronseal-approved "Maximum Balearic Dancer", which does exactly what it says on the tin. The TD troupe takes a tiny snippet of Swiss fusion and fleshes it out into the fully fledged floor-filler it always deserved to be. Blessed with a buoyant bassline and balmy mood, this beauty sways along through some weird but wonderful synth riffs, holding you close for that soul-soaring piano solo.
Sometimes you gotta wake up on a beach naked.

Limited Press - Numbered Insert - Drum Fun Guaranteed. .

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Those crate digging crazies are back doing what they do best - mining the sickest seams of oddball disco, new wave debonair and Balearic pomp. Volume 8 keeps the dream(ers) alive and shuffling.

TRACK LISTING

A. Fever Dreams
B1. Too Hot
B2. Maximum Balearic Dancer

Talking Heads first LP "77" introduced the New York band perfectly. A mish mash of art-punk-funk, with heavy doses of bubblegum and a splash of the Caribbean. 11 tracks which show off the bands varying influences, David Byrne's weird vocal delivery, and the constant tempo changes and twists in their style. You can hear hints of the moody side of their sound on tracks such as "New Feeling" and "Who Is It?", contrasting with the jolly funk of "Pulled Up" and "Uh Oh Love Has Come To Town" all of this is augmented by the albums standout "Psycho Killer", a brooding slice of paranoid punk that still sounds fresh today.

TRACK LISTING

Uh-Oh, Love Comes To Town 2:48
New Feeling 3:09
Tentative Decisions 3:04
Happy Day 3:55
Who Is It ? 1:41
No Compassion 4:47
The Book I Read 4:06
Don't Worry About The Government 3:00
First Week / Last Week...Carefree 3:19
Psycho Killer 4:19
Pulled Up 4:29

The innovative New Wave band Talking Heads formed in 1975 comprised of David Byrne (lead vocals and guitar), Chris Frantz (drums and backing vocals), Tina Weymouth (bass and backing vocals) and Jerry Harrison (keyboards, guitar, and backing vocals). Between their first album in 1977 and their last in 1988, Talking Heads became one of the most critically acclaimed bands of the '80s, while managing to earn several pop hits.

Released in 1979 ‘Fear Of Music’ is the band’s third album. Produced by the quartet and Brian Eno it includes singles ‘Life During Wartime’, ‘I Zimbra’ and ‘Cities’.

180GM LP. Cut From Analogue Masters. Original Artwork. Embossed sleeve.

TRACK LISTING

I Zimbra 3:06
Mind 4:12
Paper 2:36
Cities 4:05
Life During Wartime 3:41
Memories Can't Wait 3:30
Air 3:33
Heaven 4:01
Animals 3:29
Electric Guitar 2:59
Drugs 5:13

Formed in 1975, Talking Heads created some of the most adventurous, original, and danceable music to emerge from New Wave. Combining elements of punk rock, pop, funk, art rock, avant-garde and world music ensured the band created an individual signature sound allowing them to become one of the most critically acclaimed bands of the '80s.

Released in 1978 ‘More Songs About Buildings and Food’ was Talking Heads’ second studio album and the first of three consecutive albums to be co-produced by Brian Eno. In 2003 it was ranked in Rolling Stone magazine’s list of greatest albums of all time. The photomosaic front cover of the album comprises of 529 close-up Polaroid photographs of the band created by artist Jimmy De Sana.

Naked is the eighth studio album by Talking Heads and was originally released in 1988. The album peaked at number three in the UK Albums Char and includes the singles “(Nothing But) Flowers” and “Blind”. Reissued for the first time since the original release.

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the celebrated Talking Heads and Jonathan Demme’s concert film Stop Making Sense, the set will be re-released as a 2LP and 2CD/Blu-ray set this summer.

When it arrived in September 1984, Stop Making Sense was an artistic and commercial triumph. The film had people dancing in theatre aisles, and the soundtrack sold over two million copies. Just last year, the Library of Congress added Stop Making Sense to the National Film Registry in recognition of its cultural, historical, and aesthetic significance. The inspiration for Stop Making Sense came when director Jonathan Demme saw Talking Heads perform during the band’s 1983 tour for Speaking in Tongues. Afterward, he approached them with the idea of making the show into a concert film. They agreed and worked together over the next few months to finalize the details. Ultimately, Demme filmed three shows at Hollywood’s Pantages Theater in December 1983 to create Stop Making Sense.

TRACK LISTING

Vinyl Tracklisting:
A1 Psycho Killer
A2 Heaven
A3 Thank You For Sending Me An Angel
A4 Found A Job
A5 Slippery People
A6 Cities
B1 Burning Down The House
B2 Life During Wartime
B3 Making Flippy Floppy
B4 Swamp
C1 What A Day That Was
C2 This Must Be The Place (Naïve Melody)
C3 Once In A Lifetime
C4 Big Business / I Zimbra
D1 Genius Of Love
D2 Girlfriend Is Better
D3 Take Me To The River
D4 Crosseyed And Painless

CD Tracklisting:
CD1
1 Psycho Killer
2 Heaven
3 Thank You For Sending Me An Angel
4 Found A Job
5 Slippery People
6 Cities
7 Burning Down The House
8 Life During Wartime
9 Making Flippy Floppy
10 Swamp
CD2
1 What A Day That Was
2 This Must Be The Place (Naïve Melody)
3 Once In A Lifetime
4 Big Business / I Zimbra
5 Genius Of Love
6 Girlfriend Is Better
7 Take Me To The River
8 Crosseyed And Painless

Blu-Ray - As Above

Talking Heads’ groundbreaking second album, 'More Songs About Buildings and Food'. The collection captures a pivotal moment in their evolution and marks the first of three albums produced with Brian Eno and includes a nice selection of rarities!

TRACK LISTING

More Songs About Buildings & Food Tracklisting:
1. THANK YOU FOR SENDING ME AN ANGEL
2. WITH OUR LOVE
3. THE GOOD THING
4. WARNING SIGN
5. THE GIRLS WANT TO BE WITH THE GIRLS
6. FOUND A JOB
7. ARTISTS ONLY 
8. I’M NOT IN LOVE
9. STAY HUNGRY
10. TAKE ME TO THE RIVER
11. THE BIG COUNTRY

Rarities:
1. THANK YOU FOR SENDING ME AN ANGEL (ALTERNATE VERSION)
2. WITH OUR LOVE (ALTERNATE VERSION)
3. FOUND A JOB (ALTERNATE VERSION)
4. THE GOOD THING (ALTERNATE VERSION)
5. WARNING SIGN (ALTERNATE VERSION)
6. ELECTRICITY (INSTRUMENTAL) 
7. THE GIRLS WANT TO BE WITH THE GIRLS (ALTERNATE VERSION) 
8. I’M NOT IN LOVE (ALTERNATE VERSION)
9. ARTISTS ONLY (ALTERNATE VERSION)
10. THE BIG COUNTRY (ALTERNATE VERSION)
11. THANK YOU FOR SENDING ME AN ANGEL (“COUNTRY ANGEL” VERSION)

Live (3CD & 4LP Box Set Only):
1. NO COMPASSION (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
2. WARNING SIGN (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
3. THE BOOK I READ (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
4. STAY HUNGRY (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
5. ARTISTS ONLY (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
6. THE GIRLS WANT TO BE WITH THE GIRLS (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
7. UH-OH, LOVES COMES TO TOWN (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
8. WITH OUR LOVE (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
9. LOVE GOES TO A BUILDING ON FIRE (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
10. DON’T WORRY ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
11. THE GOOD THING (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
12. ELECTRICITY (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
13. THE BIG COUNTRY (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
14. NEW FEELING (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
15. PULLED UP (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
16. PSYCHO KILLER (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
17. TAKE ME TO THE RIVER (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
18. FOUND A JOB (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
19. THANK YOU FOR SENDING ME AN ANGEL (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)

Blu-Ray:

1. Original Album: Dolby Atmos Mix, 5.1 Mix, Hi-Res Stereo
2. Video: Live At Entermedia Theater, 1978 (25 Minute Promotional Film)
3. Video: Live At Sproul Plaza, Berkeley, CA, September 18th, 1978 (47 Minute Single-Camera Video)

Talking Heads members Chris Frantz and David Byrne met as students at Rhode Island School of Design, and made music in their college band called The Artistics. In the spring semester of 1974, the band gathered in Frantz’s Benefit Street apartment to record a demo tape. The cassette featured tracks soon to be classics in the Talking Heads discography: 'Warning Sign' and 'Psycho Killer'.

TRACK LISTING

LP Tracklisting:
1. Psycho Killer (September 1975 Demo) 
2. Tentative Decisions (September 1975 Demo) 
3. No Compassion (September 1975 Demo) 
4. Warning Sign (September 1975 Demo) 
5. I'm Not In Love (1976 Demo) 
6. Thank You For Sending Me An Angel (1976 Demo) 
7. The Book I Read (1976 Demo) (
8. I Wish You Wouldn't Say That (1976 Demo) 
9. Love Goes To A Building On Fire (1976 Demo) 
10. Happy Day (1976 Demo)
11. Artists Only (Live At The Lower Manhattan Ocean Club, New York, NY, 8/17/76) 
7" Vinyl:
1. Psycho Killer
2. Warning Sign 

CD Tracklisting:
1. Psycho Killer (September 1975 Demo)
2. Tentative Decisions (September 1975 Demo)
3. No Compassion (September 1975 Demo)
4. Warning Sign (September 1975 Demo)
5. I'm Not In Love (1976 Demo)
6. Thank You For Sending Me An Angel (1976 Demo)
7. The Book I Read (1976 Demo)
8. I Wish You Wouldn't Say That (1976 Demo)
9. Love Goes To A Building On Fire (1976 Demo)
10. Happy Day (1976 Demo)
11. Artists Only (Live At The Lower Manhattan Ocean Club, New York, NY, 8/17/76)
12. Psycho Killer
13. Warning Sign
14. Psycho Killer (CBS/Columbia Demo)
15. Sugar On My Tongue (CBS/Columbia Demo)
16. Thank You For Sending Me An Angel (CBS/Columbia Demo)
17. I Want To Live (CBS/Columbia Demo)
18. I Wish You Wouldn't Say That (CBS/Columbia Demo)
19. The Girls Want To Be With The Girls (CBS/Columbia Demo)
20. Who Is It? (CBS/Columbia Demo)
21. With Our Love (CBS/Columbia Demo)
22. Stay Hungry (CBS/Columbia Demo)
23. Tentative Decisions (CBS/Columbia Demo)
24. Warning Sign (CBS/Columbia Demo)
25. I'm Not In Love (CBS/Columbia Demo)
26. The Book I Read (CBS/Columbia Demo)
27. Love Goes To A Building On Fire (CBS/Columbia Demo)
28. No Compassion (CBS/Columbia Demo)
29. Artists Only (Live At Max's Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)
30. 1, 2, 3 Red Light (Live At Max's Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)
31. Happy Day (Live At Max's Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)
32. Don't Worry About The Government (Live At Max's Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)
33. Psycho Killer (Live At Max's Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)
34. Love Goes To A Building On Fire (Live At Max's Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)
35. Thank You For Sending Me An Angel (Live At Max's Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)
36. With Our Love (Live At Max's Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)
37. Pablo Picasso (Live At Max's Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)
38. I'm Not In Love (Live At Max's Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)
39. No Compassion (Live At The Jabberwocky Club, Syracuse, NY, 1/26/77)
40. New Feeling (Live At The Jabberwocky Club, Syracuse, NY, 1/26/77)
41. Psycho Killer (Live At The Jabberwocky Club, Syracuse, NY, 1/26/77)
42. A Clean Break (Let's Work) [Live At The Jabberwocky Club, Syracuse, NY, 1/26/77]
43. Sugar On My Tongue (Live At The Jabberwocky Club, Syracuse, NY, 1/26/77)
44. I Wish You Wouldn't Say That (Live At The Lower Manhattan Ocean Club, New York, NY, 8/17/76)
45. Take Me To The River (Live At The Lower Manhattan Ocean Club, New York, NY, 8/17/76)

Originating in New York City, Talking Heads drew inspiration from funk, rock, classical minimalism, and African rock to create one of the most individual and stimulating bands to emerge from New Wave. Lead by Byrne’s whimsical, esoteric lyrics and the bands intricately layered polyrhythmic textures, Talking Heads found international fame and went on to become ranked in Rolling Stone’s ‘100 Greatest Artists of All Time’ (2011).

Originally released in 1982, the double live LP ‘The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads’ features the original quartet in recordings from 1977 and 1979, with the second album consisting of their expanded 10 piece line up that toured with the band throughout 1980-81. The release includes the cult hits ‘Psycho Killer’, ‘Life During Wartime’ and ‘Take Me To The River’.

Talking Therapy Ensemble is the latest project from composer, bandleader, multi-instrumentalist and producer, Emma-Jean Thackray, following 2021’s acclaimed debut album Yellow. Talking Therapy Ensemble are something between free-jazz madness and groove, somehow between composition and improvisation, and exist somewhere between the public and the private. Through the cathartic process of improvisation they find a release of stress and suffering - their talking therapy - inspired by the blues, crusty punk, the confessional poets of the 50s and 60s, and artists such as Art Ensemble of Chicago, Sun Ra Arkestra, Albert Ayler, and Irreversible Entanglements.

TRACK LISTING

A1 I Didn't Want To Wake Up Today
B1 Too Much / Too Little
B2 Panic
B3 Shh

The Talks Ska/Reggae band with Punk attitude from Yorkshire in the UK.

In a short space of time the band have been building themselves a live reputation around the UK and Europe for delivering a bouncing, sweaty shows supporting the likes of The Specials, Rancid, The Beat, The King Blues, The Toasters and many more.

The new single from the band "Can stand the rain" features the legendary Neville Staple of The Specials released 26th November 2012. The song hit over 55 thousand views in it's first week on Youtube and has been featured on Channel 4 and Channel 5 shows including UK's popular show ‘Hollyoaks’.

New EP 'WestSinister' is out now and The Talks are touring throught the UK and Europe throughout the summer of 2013

TRACK LISTING

1. Life In Colour
2. Modern SUB-Uban Life
3. Can Stand The Rain - Ft Neville Staple
4. Friday Night
5. Politicks - Ft Hekima
Bonus Track
Bring It Up

Unravelled: 1981–2002 shines a loving light on lo-fi pioneers Tall Dwarfs, the prized New Zealand duo of Chris Knox and Alec Bathgate. The collection, available as a 4-LP or 2-CD box set, compiles songs from Tall Dwarfs' two decades of recordings. The vinyl edition includes a 20-page collector's booklet of photos, comics, posters, and other ephemera. The songs on Unravelled: 1981–2002 were curated by Alec Bathgate, who also designed the box set packaging; Chris Knox suffered a debilitating stroke in 2009 just as they had started work on a new album. The collection captures the different sides of the Tall Dwarfs in 55 songs. Though the band was an excuse for two good friends who lived in different cities to get together, drink beer, watch shitty old movies, and do some recording and drawing, Tall Dwarfs created music unlike anyone else.

Capturing the initial excitement of creation and taking pride in what they did, Knox and Bathgate showed a whole generation of musicians what could be done at home on a 4-track and what magic could be made if you mixed pop melodies and hooks galore with homemade sounds. After a failed flirtation with success in their previous band Toy Love, Knox and Bathgate formed Tall Dwarfs in 1981, opting to record themselves on a 4-track reel-to-reel. New Zealand’s AudioCulture wrote of the duo’s project: “Early live performances were a ramshackle work in progress. Knox described them in an interview with American magazine Forced Exposure as ‘two minutes of song followed by five minutes of fucking around,’ and they dismayed many Toy Love fans—but the pair had no interest in a career spent in pubs cranking out ‘Pull Down the Shades.’”

Tall Dwarfs was meant to be a one-off, but after the founding of their New Zealand label Flying Nun, they continued to record music for the next 21 years, releasing seven EPs and six albums. Their process was spontaneous, with songs being recorded as they were written. Typically, Bathgate would work up something on guitar while Knox provided vocals, lyrics, and tape loops. Then they added any sounds that seemed necessary to finish a song, using whatever was lying around: pans, chairs, baby rattles. Though Tall Dwarfs could be weird, they were never too experimental; Knox and Bathgate both loved melody too much

TRACK LISTING

CD 1:

1 Nothing’s Going To Happen
2 Luck Or Loveliness
3 All My Hollowness To You
4 Maybe
5 Pictures On The Floor
6 Clover
7 Paul’s Place
8 The Brain That Wouldn’t Die
9 Walking Home
10 Beauty
11 Turning Brown And Torn In Two
12 Crush
13 Shade For Today
14 Pretty Poison
15 Carpetgrabber
16 Sleet
17 Burning Blue
18 Woman (Live)
19 Road And Hedgehog
20 Attack Of The Munchies
21 The Slide
22 Waltz Of The Good Husband
23 Cant
24 Dog
25 The Winner
26 Bodies
27 Sign The Dotted Line
28 Rorschach
29 Pirouette

CD 2

1 Wings
2 Lowlands
3 Oatmeal
4 Think Small
5 Life Is Strange
6 We Bleed Love
7 More 54
8 Entropy
9 Bee To Honey
10 Self-Deluded Dreamboy (In A Mess)
11 The Green, Green Grass Of Someone Else’s Home
12 The Severed Head Of Julio
13 Two Minds
14 Jesus The Beast
15 Albumen
16 Cruising With Cochran
17 Fatty Fowl In Gravy Stew
18 The Ugly Mire Of Deep Held Feelings
19 Gluey, Gluey
20 Round These Walls
21 Room To Breathe
22 Time To Wait
23 Baby It’s Over
24 We Are The Chosen Few
25 The Fatal Flaw Of The New
26 Over The Hill

Tall Tall Trees is the pseudonym of songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mike Savino. Moving to New York in the early aughts with aspirations of being a bassist in the city's vibrant jazz and experimental music scene, Savino soon switched his focus to banjo and writing songs, resulting in the eponymous 2009 debut, Tall Tall Trees. In the decade since, Savino has toured non-stop, pioneering a world of psychedelic electric banjo music, captivating audiences with his loop-based one man shows, as well as alongside frequent collaborator, Kishi Bashi. 'A Wave of Golden Things', his fourth studio album, opens with the distant crow of a rooster and takes off in a dust cloud of swirling banjo, drums and bass. The lead off track, "The Wind, She Whispers," quickly evolves from a droning mountain melody into full-blown banjo funk, setting the precedent for an album of unexpected turns. Though the banjo is heavily featured, the influence of Pink Floyd and Cat Stevens can be felt as much as banjo mavericks Earl Scruggs and Bela Fleck. Savino, who self-records and produces his music, abandoned the heavily-layered textures of 2017's 'Freedays' for a more organic, stripped-down approach, leaving his distinct voice and thoughtful lyrics as the centerpiece.

Despite the sparse arrangements, Savino still manages to evoke the sonic imagery and pastoral landscapes that have often been hallmarks of Tall Tall Trees albums. Each of the eight songs that make up 'A Wave of Golden Things' suggest a world unto itself, from the cosmic country-tinged, "Ask Me Again," to the sprawling underwater lullaby "Deep Feels." Opting for an immersive experience over a traditional studio, Savino set up residence and a mobile recording rig on a hemp farm in the Appalachian mountains outside of Asheville, North Carolina, where he now resides. Recorded in just under three weeks, with much of it arranged on the spot, the album maintains a sense of immediacy, celebrating raw performance over perfection. "I'm giving up on my expectations, let them go and see where it takes us," Savino sings on "Expectations," almost seeming to revel in this experimental process. Savino's voice, left unadorned, can be simultaneously gentle and strong, at times sage-like in delivery. On the album's closing title track "A Wave of Golden Things," his soft spoken meditations on mental health reflect a new maturity in his song craft and singing. As the song develops, Savino's voice gains confidence and his whisper becomes a fragile cry, neither full-throated nor fully secure, but at home in a warm bed of upright piano and echoing tape delay. "We all need a little peace and love right now," he sings as if he's at the end of his breath.

Recommended if you like: Sturgill Simpson, Grateful Dead, Tallest Man On Earth, Kishi Bashi, Paul Simon, Vampire Weekend. 

TRACK LISTING

1 The Wind, She Whispers
2 Expectations
3 Happy Birthday In Jail
4 Ask Me Again
5 A Number Of Signs
6 Deep Feels
7 Seven Shades Of Blues
8 A Wave Of Golden Things

Freedays is almost in a way a debut album. Mike Savino's previous two albums, still having the songwriting stamina to welcome any music lover in, were birthed in a collaborative band setting. In 2015, Savino took a much-needed respite from New York City, where he had spent a decade and a half honing his craft, and assumed the role of sole caretaker at an abandoned health retreat nestled in the green mountains of North Georgia. The Bird's Nest, as it was called, completely surrounded by national forest, provided the freedom and space to work without time constraints or interruption.

Composed and recorded over a period of eight months, Freedays tells the story of a man in transition and documents an artist alone at the crossroads of the life he has and the one he wants. The album begins with "Backroads", which drops the listener into a darkened forest amidst a chorus of wailing coyotes and quickly takes off on a midnight drive. Tracks like "Being There", "A Place to Call Yo ur Own", and "CLC" provide an honest look into the author's thought process and decision making. Although it's often hard to imagine, most of the sounds on the album are experiments with the banjo, and they all reflect the innovative musings of one of the freshest sounds to come out of the Appalachians in decades

TRACK LISTING

1. Backroads
2. A Place To Call Your Own
3. Being There
4. CLC
5. Lost In Time
6. SeagullxEagle
7. The Riverbend
8. So Predictable
9. Freedays

For their third album 'Primeval: Obsession // Detachment', Tallah seized the chance to embrace their inner weirdness. The group were determined to be louder, stranger, more experimental, unshackled from the constraints of genre or any other form of categorization.

TRACK LISTING

1. 05:01
2. What We Know
3. Augmented
4. As Fate Undoes
5. My Primeval Obsession
6. _la|cuna_
7. A Primeval Detachment
8. Undone By Fate
9. Depleted
10. What We Want
11. 07:09

Dark Bird Is Home, the fourth album from The Tallest Man On Earth, doesn’t feel like it came from one time, one place, or one tape machine. The songs and sounds were captured in various countries, studios, and barns, and they carry a weather-worn quality, some dirt and some grit.

Early in Dark Bird, toward the end of the opening track, we hear other voices and sounds backing Kristian Matsson’s own. One of them, later credited in the liner notes with Angel Vocals, shows up several times throughout the record, adding new color to the familiar palette. And so the story grows and expands. That first song has horns and a piano, keyboards, synthesizers, and other modern noisemakers . . . and by track two you’ve got The Tallest Man on Earth as full-throttle rock and roll.

While Dark Bird is The Tallest Man at his most personal and direct, deeper and darker than ever at times, it’s also an album with strokes of whimsy and the scent of new beginnings — which feels fresh for The Tallest Man on Earth, and well timed. Reliably, the melodies and arrangements are sturdy and classic, like old cars and tightly wound clocks. The lyrics and their delivery are both comforting and alarming, like tall trees and wide hills.

The other musicians and layers on this recording put a wide lens on familiar themes. Fear and darkness, sleep or lack of it, dreams in the dark and in the light. Moving, leaving, going. Distance and short stops, long straight lines, temporal places. More hopefully, a grateful nod to a traveling partner, a healing mind. Maybe a little forgiveness needed. Definitely some things to forget.

TRACK LISTING

01. Fields Of Our Home
02. Darkness Of The Dream
03. Singers
04. Slow Dance
05. Little Nowhere Towns
06. Sagres
07. Timothy
08. Beginners
09. Seventeen
10. Dark Bird Is Home

The Tallest Man On Earth released "The Wild Hunt" this year to widespread acclaim. The live reaction that the Tallest Man On Earth (aka songwriter Kristian Matsson) generates from his fans is a sight to behold. He has performed around the world, headlining Euro festivals and selling out prestigious club venues.

Matsson is the rarest of performers, charismatic and captivating. At many of the Tallest Man on Earth shows this year, Matsson closed his set with a new song titled ‘Like The Wheel’. It quickly became a fan favourite, with YouTube videos spreading virally, and the sets closing on a high note night after night.

STAFF COMMENTS

Darryl says: A five track mini-album and another example of his superb widescreen late night Americana songwriting skills.

TRACK LISTING

1. Little River
2. The Dreamer
3. Like The Wheel
4. Tangle This
5. Trampled Wheat
6. Thrown Right At Me

It’s impossible to discuss The Tallest Man On Earth’s music without acknowledging Bob Dylan. The seemingly effortlessness, the melodic sensibility and the deft lyricism all recall Dylan’s early years. But when you witness the Tallest Man on Earth perform live, you are watching a man possessed. The energy pours out with every word. Full of intensity and raw emotion, he paces the stage, bringing the audience into the palm of his hand, completely lost in his songs.

This is a reissue of his debut EP.

Hugely anticipated, The Tallest Man On Earth returns with ‘There’s No Leaving Now’.

The sense of urgency that fuelled his previous work remains, and the results are paralyzing – drums, piano, baritone guitar, woodwinds and pedal steel combine with songwriting so detailed and captivating.

Since his last album, ‘The Wild Hunt’, The Tallest Man On Earth has sold out Shepherds Bush Empire two months in advance of the show, performed on ‘Later With Jools Holland’ and now lands at the start of this campaign with a sold out London Hackney Empire show, with fans desperate to hear his new material.

Kristian Matsson has never remained in one place for very long. Having spent much of the last decade touring around the world as The Tallest Man on Earth, Matsson has captivated audiences using, as The New York Times describes, every inch of his long guitar cord to roam the stage: darting around, crouching, stretching, hip-twitching, perching briefly and jittering away. Mr. Matsson is a guitar-slinger rooted in folk, and his songs are troubadour ballads at heart.

Now, Matsson returns as The Tallest Man on Earth with Henry St., his sixth studio album following 2012's There's No Leaving Now, full of vivid imagery, clever turns-of-phrase, and devastating, world-weary observations (Under The Radar) and 2015's Dark Bird Is A Home, his most personal record surreal and dreamlike (Pitchfork). Henry St. notably marks the first time he recorded an album in a band setting. My entire career Ive been a DIY person mostly fuelled by the feeling that I didn't know what I was doing, so Id just do everything myself. But now, longing for the energy that's only released when creating together with others, Matsson invited his friends to come and play.

Nick Sanborn (of Sylvan Esso) produced Henry St., which includes contributions from Ryan Gustafson (of The Dead Tongues) on guitar, lap steel and ukulele, TJ Maiani on drums, CJ Camerieri (of Bon Iver) on trumpet and French horn, Phil Cook on piano and organ, Rob Moose (of Bon Iver, yMusic) on strings and Adam Schatz on saxophone.

TRACK LISTING

Bless You
Looking For Love
Every Little Heart
Slowly Rivers Turn
Major League
Henry St.
In Your Garden Still
Goodbye
Italy
New Religion
Foothills

TAMAN SHUD Made their debut on a split 10” EP with The Fat White Family and are now set to release their first LP of, as they describe it, Blackened psychedelic motorcycle punk from hell. Taman Shud are a young band whose primary interests include paraphilia, vivisepulture, scaphism, Crom Cruach, Mokèlé-mbèmbé, cannibalism and the Marianas Trench.

“Taman Shud's heavy, gothic riff monsters are a wild, orgiastic release from day job existence, an inverted productivity chart over a blazing pyre as blunted melodies are swiftly pitchforked off the nearest cliff by the twin bass guitar assault of Tasha and deadpan Liverpudlian Derry. It's an unholy fusion of post-punk, no wave and psychedelic metal, like the Butthole Surfers of 'Sweat Loaf', the Sonic Youth of 'Death Valley 69' and the Chrome of 'TV As Eyes' being mugged by Les Rallizes Dénudés and bundled off to a Walpurgisnacht convention of satanic biker gangs. Or as the band themselves put it, somewhat more succinctly: "DNA meets Mainliner. Meets Red Stripe."

TRACK LISTING

1. The Hissing Priest’s Remains
2. The Ziggurat, A Mirage
3. The Hex Inverted
4. I Tego Arcana Dei
5. Viper Smoke
6.Summon The Cursed, Curse The Summoner
7. Book Of Lies
8. Crime Cycle
9. Moonstruck Psychic Violence
10. By The Smoke From Below The Lamp Is Kindled Above

Tamati's Notte in Riviera EP on the ever-stronger young label Saint Wax is a perfect bit of Balearic house escapism. The title track, which translates as 'night on the Riviera', is just that - a humid late-night house cut with some erect female vocals. 'Tutto Un Deja Vu' cuts loose with freewheeling melodies and blissed-out pads, and 'Magica' then goes deep. Italian producer Franz Scala blends 80s vibes with modern sensibilities like few others as he shows on his remix of the title cut, then Sparkling Attitude and Gledd add their own fresh versions.

STAFF COMMENTS

Mine says: Tamati treats us to an EP full of playful disco and house with catchy female vocals, topped off with 3 remixes catering for all sorts of moods and occasions. I personally really dig Franz Scala's moody italo tinged version of one of the tracks... If you're into Peggy Gou, or you enjoyed Aili & Transistorcake's EP 'Dansu' from a few years back this record is definitely one to check out!

TRACK LISTING

Side 1
Notte In Riviera
Tutto Un Deja Vu
Magica

Side 2
Notte In Riviera (Franz Scala Remix)
Tutto Un Deja Vu (Sparkling Attitude Italo Rave Remix)
Magica (Gledd Remix)

West London-based Brazilian/British four-piece The Tamborines formed around the nucleus of Henrz (guitar/vocals) and Lulu (keyboards), and completed their line-up with the addition of second guitarist Aaron and drummer Thur. This CD single features the two tracks that appeared on their Sonic Cathedral debut 7": "Sally O'Gannon" - The Warlocks gone pop; an infectious garage rock rave-up combining 'Raw Power'-volume guitars with swooping Korg keyboards and a chorus the size of California, and "Be Around" - darkens the West Coast psychedelia with some black-clad East Coast sleaze, ending up something like Roger McGuinn and his 12-string Rickenbacker jamming with Lou Reed and John Cale on "Sunday Morning". It also includes "Come Together" from their second 7" - like The Jesus And Mary Chain if they'd ever learned how to lighten up. And the EP draws to a close with a demo version of "Sally O'Gannon".

Currents was written, recorded, produced and mixed by Kevin Parker in Fremantle, West Australia. Lyrically the record finds Parker in a very different place in 2015 to where he was seven years ago. Transitions in life, relationships, perspectives, mindsets – Currents maps Parker’s evolution through these and finds him a brand new person.

Musically, Currents sounds like the work of a player on top of his game and having a blast, Parker indulging his whims and unafraid to dive down the rabbit hole after an idea. Again operating as a one man studio band, Parker’s resultant record calls to mind contemporary hip hop production, Thriller, fried 70s funk, the irreverent playground Daft Punk presented on Discovery, swathes of future pop and emotional 80s balladry, all filtered through a thoroughly modern psychedelic third eye. A genre-bending soundscape fuelled equally by curiosity as it is consciousness; it’s an exhilarating new territory for Tame Impala. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Let It Happen
2. Nangs
3. The Moment
4. Yes I’m Changing
5. Eventually
6. Gossip
7. The Less I Know The Better
8. Past Life
9. Disciples
10. ‘Cause I’m A Man
11. Reality In Motion
12. Love/Paranoia
13. New Person, Same Old Mistakes

Tame Impala’s fifth full-length album, Deadbeat. On it, Parker sculpts a collection of wickedly potent club-psych explorations as a vehicle for some of his most direct, brain-wormy songwriting to date, recasting Tame Impala as a kind of future primitive rave act in the process.

Deadbeat sounds like the work of an artist with a leveled up mastery and bristles with a revitalized energy for experimentation. 12 songs crafted with a newfound embrace of spontaneity for the renowned perfectionist. How that manifests is a distinct minimalism and crunch to many of the tracks, with a clutch of crucial details, timbres and textures that add an ineffably new dimension to the sound, as well as a richer, more playful vocal range than ever.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: I don't think anyone quite expected *this* much electronic influence in something from Kevin Parker's Tame Impala, but here we are with an end result that has all of the beautiful melodies and soaring hooks from his best work, but with a focus firmly rooted in a neon-lit dancefloor.

With previous sought-after single releases on Hole In The Sky and Modular, hotly regarded Australian psych-rock outfit Tame Impala finally deliver their debut long player, "Innerspeaker". The album delivers a heady swirling mix of 60s psych influences such as Love, Cream and a general West Coast stoner rock vibe, mixed in with contemporary acts like Animal Collective and Dungen, all underpinned with an infectious melodic and at times quite poppy groove. The guitars are fuzzy and the vocals washed to the back of the mix, giving an overall feeling of being lifted from a "Nuggets" outakes LP.

TRACK LISTING

1. It Is Not Meant To Be
2. Desire Be Desire Go
3. Alter Ego
4. Lucidity
5. Why Won't You Make Up Your Mind?
6. Solitude Is Bliss
7. Jeremy's Storm
8. Expectation
9. The Bold Arrow Of Time
10. Runway, Houses, City, Clouds
11. I Don't Really Mind

Modular is proud to announce that West Australia’s psych warriors Tame Impala will return with their new album 'Lonerism'.

Again recorded and produced almost entirely by Kevin Parker in studios, planes, hotels and homes around the world, and mixed by the trailblazing Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips / MGMT), 'Lonerism'’s sound is not so much Tame Impala's sound reinvented as completely redrafted and stretched way, way out. It’s a quantum leap forward for the band, the seeds of which were sown shortly after their debut album ‘Innerspeaker’ was mixed.

Featuring twelve new songs, 'Lonerism'’s most apparent advance is in its synthesizers - there’s swathes of them cutting melancosmic shapes across almost every track. There’s still the searing guitar lines, bouldering drums, free bass and of course Parker’s voice, but now there’s heavily mournful pads and sunshine lead lines from an army of analogue explorers in the mix. This is 60s / 70s psychedelic rock reborn and reinvented for 2012. A future classic!

TRACK LISTING

1. Be Above It
2. Endors Toi
3. Apocalypse Dreams
4. Mind Mischief
5. Music To Walk Home By
6. Why Won't They Talk To Me?
7. Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
8. Keep On Lying
9. Elephant
10. She Just Won't Believe Me
11. Nothing That Has Happened So Far Has Been Anything We Could Control
12. Sun's Coming Up

2022 marked the 10th anniversary of Lonerism. To celebrate, Tame Impala present fans with a deluxe 3LP reissue of the album that features previously unreleased demos from the era.

Recorded in both Western Australia and Paris between 2010 and 2012, Lonerism was Tame Impala’s breakout record. It received critical acclaim from the likes of Pitchfork and NME and is regarded as one of the best albums of 2012.

This expanded deluxe edition of the album features the singles ‘Feels Like We Only Go Backwards’ and ‘Elephant’ amongst the original album track list, plus:
• 2 previously unreleased demos
• A full side of album demos
• Deluxe 24-page booklet

Lonerism’s artwork is by Leif Podhajsky and Kevin Parker, and the album was mixed by Dave Fridmann. Anniversary edition artwork designed by Erin Knutson and Immanuel Yang, with additional photography by Matt Sav and Kevin Parker. 

TRACK LISTING

Side A:
Be Above It
Endors Toi
Apocalypse Dreams
Side B:
Mind Mischief
Music To Walk Home By
Why Won’t They Talk To Me?
Side C:
Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
Keep On Lying
Elephant
Side D:
She Just Won’t Believe Me
Nothing That Has Happened So Far Has Been Anything We Could Control
Sun’s Coming Up
Side E:
Retina Show (Unreleased Demo)
Sidetracked Soundtrack (Unreleased Demo)
Side F:
Assorted Sketches, 2010-2012

Tame Impala (Kevin Parker) has officially announced his fourth studio album, The Slow Rush out via Fiction Records. The Slow Rush was recorded between Los Angeles and Parker’s studio in his hometown of Fremantle, Australia. The twelve tracks were recorded, produced and mixed by Parker. The Slow Rush is Parker’s deep dive into the oceans of time, conjuring the feeling of a lifetime in a lightning bolt, of major milestones whizzing by while you’re looking at your phone, it’s a paean to creation and destruction and the unending cycle of life. Parker told the New York Times earlier this year, “A lot of the songs carry this idea of time passing, of seeing your life flash before your eyes, being able to see clearly your life from this point onwards. I’m being swept by this notion of time passing. There’s something really intoxicating about it.” The album cover was created in collaboration with photographer Neil Krug and features a symbol of humanity all but swallowed whole by the surrounding environment, as though in the blink of an eye.

Tame Impala is Kevin Parker. His last album Currents was released in 2015 earning him a BRIT Award for Best International Group, a second GRAMMY nomination and went platinum in Australia, Gold in the USA, Canada, UK, France, Netherlands and Belgium, and enjoyed word-wide critical acclaim. The New York Times labeled it a "a tour de force" and Pitchfork said, "nearly every proper song on 'Currents' is a revelatory statement of Parker's range and increasing expertise as a producer, arranger, songwriter, and vocalist while maintaining the essence of Tame Impala." NPR noted, "[Parker] advocates for constant reinvention... That commitment to evolution helps make Tame Impala an unlikely but worthy candidate for major stardom."

TRACK LISTING

CD:
1. One More Year
2. Instant Destiny
3. Borderline
4. Posthumous Forgiveness
5. Breathe Deeper
6. Tomorrow's Dust
7. On Track
8. Lost In Yesterday
9. Is It True
10. It Might Be Time
11. Glimmer
12. One More Hour

Vinyl:
LP 1
Side A
1. One More Year
2. Instant Destiny
3. Borderline
Side B
4. Posthumous Forgiveness
5. Breathe Deeper
6. Tomorrow's Dust
LP 2
Side C
7. On Track
8. Lost In Yesterday
9. Is It True
Side D
10. It Might Be Time
11. Glimmer
12. One More Hour

• Lift Off Artwork Box (like Currents Collector’s Edition)
• Regular Album 2LP w/ new colour (transparent red) & different artwork elements to original press
• Remix 12" #1 – ‘One More Year (NTS Extended Version)’ // ‘Patience (Maurice Fulton Remix)’ & ‘Patience’ (Original Version)
• Remix 12" #2 – ‘Is It True (Four Tet Remix’) // ‘Breathe Deeper (Lil Yachty Remix)’ & Borderline (Blood Orange Remix)’
• 7" – 2 x B-sides
• Deluxe Booklet
• The Slow Rush 2050 Calendar`

TRACK LISTING

1. The Boat I Row
2. No Choice
3. Breathe Deeper (Lil Yachty Remix)
4. One More Year (NTS Version)
5. Patience (Maurice Fulton Remix)
6. Is It True (Four Tet Remix)
7. Borderline (Blood Orange Remix)
8. Patience

Tamikrest in Tamasheq language means junction, connection, knot, coalition. The group members come from different horizons (Mali, Niger, Algeria). Wanting to assume fully their Touareg identity, they found in the rebel music Ishumar the means to express it.
'A desert hosts us, a language unites us, a culture binds us.'
The story begins at Kidal, capital of the 8th Region of Mali, while making tea of course. Pino, Cheikh and Mossa had just finished a guitar workshop with Juhan Ecaré (guitarist for Meiway) when they decided to form a group with only two old 'home made' guitars. And they got to work… After one year and a half of hard work, the group is complete and their repertory has grown to contain more than twenty-five original compositions. Though their music takes root in Ishumar Rock or Tuareg Blues, it borrows from various international influences as well as from neighbouring cultures. Through the message of their songs, Tamikrest want to make Tamasheq poetry and culture accessible to inhabitants of a world larger than the immensity of the Saharian desert.
Tamikrest´s debut is an hypnotic and intense affair rooted in the desert while taking the tradition of both Tamasheq blues and rock music to the next level. These young Tamashek rebel rockers have rightfully been called the 'spiritual sons' of Tinariwen.

TRACK LISTING

1. Outamachek
2. Aicha
3. Amindi
4. Tamiditin
5. Aratane N' Adagh
6. Tidite Tille
7. Tahoult
8. Alhoriya
9. Adagh
10. Adounia Mahegagh
11. Toumastin

With the release of "I Live Here Now", Bloomington, Indiana’s Tammar gets the Peel Session that, in another place and time, would have surely been due. Captured over three live performances at Bloomington’s Russian Recording in July/August of 2009 and mixed by Zero Boys’ Paul Mahern at Echo Park Studios, this collection of post-punk anthem variations is a testament to why Tammar is one of the midwest’s most exciting bands, be it in the live setting or when laid to tape.

Like a less austere, more exuberant Section 25, the Factory Records sound is maybe the lowest hanging, most easily plucked fruit on the Tammar tree. But for the eager ear, there are a variety of flavours at play: Dave Walter’s triumphant vocal explorations serve as a welcome renovation of Yoko Ono’s most melodic moments or James’ early 90s work with Brian Eno, always finding that golden hook through his phrasing and rephrasing. The subtle layers of Sarah Wyatt Swanson’s drums and Josephine McRobbie’s percussion as they build and build through each song are at once tribal and deft. Evan Whikehart’s triumphant guitar progressions take The Edge to the art spaces and basements where that true“edge” really exists. And the elastic low-end of Ben Swanson’s analog keyboard serves as the strange, dark foundation for all these songs.

Engineered byMikeBridavsky & DaveVettraino, Bloomington’s Erin Tobey also appears as guest vocalist.

TRACK LISTING

1. Arrows Underwater
2. Weddle O N II
3. Yung Jun
4. Frost Meter

On ‘Visits’, Tammar pulls off a pretty incredible trick with each and every one of its post-punk anthems. They mine the classic sounds of paranoia, malaise and misanthropy (Joy Division, The Velvet Underground, The Fall and early 90s alt-rock) and fill it all with so much exuberance and joy of playing that each song becomes a triumph over anxiety and ennui.

TRACK LISTING

1. Heavy Tonight
2. Summer Fun
3. The Last Line
4. Deep Witness
5. Arrows Underwater
6. Yung Jun
7. Frost Meter

This marks Alien8's third release with American singer songwriter Jesse Poe's project Tanakh, currently based in Florence Italy. Unlike the first two recordings this latest offering strays from structured songs and resides much more in the regions of the avant-garde. These recordings include revolving members of Tanakh, including Pat Best (Pelt), Via Noun (Bevel), Peter Neff (Tulsa Drone), Phil Murphey (Broken Hips), Tom Brickman (Rattlemouth). Comparisons can be drawn to Double Leopards, Taj Mahal Travelers, Molasses, Paul Panhuysen, Pelt, and Set Fire To Flames.

Tangents formed in Sydney in 2010 and released their debut album “I” in 2013, a recording of their first ever meeting and live show. Follow-up albums Stateless (2016) and New Bodies (2018), and linked singles and EPs, explored a style of post-produced live improvisation that marked the group’s distinct blend of electronic, jazz, rock and new music-inspired styles. Amidst other international recognition, New Bodies was nominated for the Australian Music Prize in 2018. Their latest release, Timeslips & Chimeras, continues their studio recording journey after a detour into intensive live performance (idiosyncratically captured in a cramped radio studio on the Risk Reaps Reward EP) and a major digital art installation, Spiral, at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. The record continues their relationship with New York label Temporary Residence through the challenges of music production in the Covid-19 era. Tangents are Ollie Bown, Evan Dorrian, Peter Hollo and Adrian Lim-Klumpes. Sia Ahmad is a former member whose work continues through the Timeslips & Chimeras production period.

TRACK LISTING

1. Exaptation (6:49)
2. Vessel (5:59)
3. Old Organs (6:35)
4. Survival (5:38)
5. Debris (6:19)
6. Bylong (8:01)
7. Lilliputian (7:11)
8. Ossicles (6:24)
9. Lost Track (5:14)
10. Timeslip (5:11)

Esoteric recordings are pleased to announce the release of a newly remastered and expanded edition of Tangerine Dream’s classic 1971 album "Alpha Centauri”. Recorded at the Dierks Studio in Stommeln, the album featured a line up of Edgar Froese, Chris Franke and Steve Schroyder with guests Udo Dennebourg (flute) and Roland Pualyck (synthesiser). Released in Germany on the OHR label, the influence of the album was immense, with the band creating imaginative sound-scapes previously unheard on record.

This Esoteric Reactive edition is newly re-mastered and includes three bonus tracks: ‘Ozillator Planet Concert’ has never been released on CD and was issued as part of the 1971 double album "Ossiach Live”. Also included are both sides of the classic ‘Ultima Thule’ single issued in Germany in 1971. The release fully restores the original album artwork and includes a lavishly illustrated booklet .

TRACK LISTING

Sunrise In The Third System
Fly And Collision Of Comas Sola
Alpha Centauri

Bonus Tracks:
Ozillator Planet Concert (Live)
Ultima Thule Part One
Ultima Thule Part Two

Esoteric Recordings are pleased to announce the release of a newly re-mastered edition of the classic album 'Atem' by Tangerine Dream. Released in 1973, the album was the band’s last release on the Berlin based OHR label and heralded the beginning of Tangerine Dream’s wider international acclaim. Championed by DJ John Peel, 'Atem' enjoyed success outside of Germany and eventually led to the group signing to the newly formed Virgin label.

This Esoteric reactive edition is expanded to include a bonus CD of a previously unreleased forty minute live performance given by Tangerine Dream at the Deutschlandhalle in Berlin on November 29th 1973 and features a lavishly illustrated deluxe booklet with new essay.

TRACK LISTING

Disc One Atem: The Original Album Remastered
Atem
Fauni Gena
Circulation Of Event
Wahn

Disc Two: The Deutschlandhalle Performance Recorded On The 29th November 1973 At The Deutschlandhalle In Berlin
Deutschlandhalle Performance 1973