'Metalhorse' is Billy Nomates’ third studio release, following 2023’s critically acclaimed 'CACTI' and her self-titled 2020 debut. A concept album revolving around the image of a dilapidated funfair, representing the tumultuousness of life—risk and pleasure, danger and exhilaration.

The 11 new songs here explore blues, folk, and piano-driven arrangements that take Billy Nomates’ stark punk sound in a more pastoral direction. 'Metalhorse' is the first Billy Nomates album to be made in a studio and with a full band, the lineup including bass player Mandy Clarke (KT Tunstall, The Go! Team) and drummer Liam Chapman (Rozi Plain, BMX Bandits), plus a special feature from The Stranglers frontman Hugh Cornwell on 'Dark Horse Friend'.

'Metalhorse' is a balancing of extremes. Reckoning with loss, material insecurity, and trying to stay true to yourself against an increasingly unpredictable backdrop of global chaos, the scales could easily have tipped towards darkness. But the more Maries has had to weather, the more precious those smaller moments of happiness have become.

'Metalhorse' begs the listener to find their own funfair; there will always be things that feel perilous. At the same time, you have to marvel at the lights while they’re still on. Dancing with those feelings of uncertainty and joy, Metalhorse is awash with both pain and perseverance.

TRACK LISTING

1. Metalhorse
2. Nothin Worth
Winnin
3. The Test
4. Override
5. Dark Horse Friend
6.Life’s Unfair
7. Plans
8. Gas
9. Comedic Timing
10. Strange Gift
11. Moon Explodes

Drum'n'gaze duo 100% WET release their eponymous debut album on Crunchy Frog. Who are they? Rebooting the harddrive of indie rock programming, 100% WET is an experimental duo consisting of the two producers and guitarists Jakob Birch (The Lost Weekend, Lovespeed) and Casper Munns (Himmelrum, Drop, Splitscreen), featuring different vocalists including Eir (SE), Polly (DK) and Hockeysmith (UK).

Blurring the boundaries between rock, electronica, and breakbeat-driven club music, the album is a genre-blend of shoegaze's vast soundscapes, the kinetic energy of drum'n'bass and the hard-hitting detail of hyperpop. "When we met, we both needed to approach music-making from a fresh perspective. We'd been exploring electronic production styles, and this album became our mutual attempt to create drum'n'gaze - a term Casper had coined to describe the missing fusion of shoegaze and drum and bass." say Casper and Jakob.

The album is an exploration of contrasts - melancholy wrapped in euphoria, introspection communicated as explosion. Sonically, the band has worked with negative space in a loud-quiet-loud sense, mirrored thematically and emotionally: The album deals with stark contrasts. On hypergaze single Ether they describe the juxtaposed feelings of being in an altered state of mind - the perception of momentary bliss, while also experiencing everything at a dissociate remove. It is bitter-sweetness experienced in high contrast; golden euphoria tinged with an absolute monochromatic melancholy.

Elsewhere, on Over Me, the duo mix a deep longing for life itself with utter heartbreak, both outerpoints sounding like they're soaring above the clouds, anchored by a roar of a chorus and deep subs. Whether on ballads or bangers, so to speak, the album is cohesive but utterly fresh-sounding.

STAFF COMMENTS

Liam says: Mega, mega, MEGA!! Spaced out shoegaze meets DnB. Sounds like it shouldn't work but it totally does. Channelling the bagginess of Chapterhouse's 'Pearl' but with a more polished sheen at points, then elsewhere there's moments of utter shoegaze pop perfection - massively impressed!

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1.Lost Myself
2.Ether
3.Looking In From The Outside
4.Re-Emerging

Side B
5.Over Me
6.Two Packs Of Red Apples
7.Leave It
8.Carat
9.Warmblooded

AAA Gripper have seemingly dropped out of nowhere but the story goes back. The idea was conjured in the summer of 2023 at the first Wrong Speed Records festival in the town of Glastonbury. Inspired by a weekend of radical sounds and fine company a decision was made - 'let's try something'.

Recording hours and hours of bass and drums in deep Somerset then editing it down to a sharp and concise 32 minutes. From Can's Lost Tapes boxset to No Means No's 0+2=1 via a thousand song structure decisions. Wild guitar strafe and precise hyper vocal added. Nine tight tunes magically appeared. The band raised a glass of tea. The band was born. The 'something' had worked.

We Invented Work For The Common Good is a deep dive into the world of the working person. How we end up. Why we climb onto the conveyer belt and never get off. The front cover is one of many of the same photo taken every day, on the walk to work, the dark mills looming - KEEP THEM BUSY, THEY WON'T RISE UP.

Music is therapy. They think it's part of the bread and circuses. We know it's armour. We know it's weaponry.

TRACK LISTING

1. Lower Demons
2. Wasp Women
3. The Arcade Claw King
4. The Saucer Makers Boy
5. Let Me See Your Hands
6. Angel Washes
7. Young Paunchy
8. Hair Vampire
9. The Gold Sells Out

‘(Listen for) The Rag and Bone Man’ - Reissued and available on vinyl for the first time, was the album that marked the renaissance of the band in 2007, bringing them out of the quietest and most hermetic period of their existence and setting them back on course to establishing themselves as the global, underground phenomenon that they are today.

This new, remastered, edition includes six previously unreleased pieces, written during the same period but not included on the original album.

A work that takes us on a dreamlike journey through dark landscapes coloured by a guitar that brings to mind the trademark sound of their formative years and populated by characters as diverse as the nursery rhyme like ‘A man with a drum’ to William Faulkners ‘Candace’.

TRACK LISTING

1. Domed
2 .The Beautiful Silence
3. Rive Droite
4. Mary Of The Woods
5. The Way The Land Lies
6. The Legend Of Mucklow
7. Untitled
8. Candace
9. Stay Away From The Accordion Girl
10. The Saracen’s Head
11. On This Day
12. A Man With A Drum
13. Under The Stars
14. Fellows (demo)
15. Autumn Girl (demo)
16. Fold & Fold Again (demo)
17. Burn (demo)
18. Keep The Flame (demo)
19. This Way (demo)

Punk pioneers Crass continue their vinyl reissue series, re-pressing their limited releases by adjacent artists through Crass Records, in association with One Little Independent. The series, including over twenty bands and solo artists recorded at the legendary Southern Studios and produced by Penny Rimbaud, continues with two more historic pieces from the Crass Records catalogue; Anthrax’s ‘Capitalism Is Cannibalism’ and Andy T ‘Weary of the Flesh’.

‘Weary of the Flesh’, by anarcho-poet Andy T, was originally released in 1982 via Crass Records. Lead single ‘Tomorrow’ is a poem expressing hope for peace. Embracing punk’s ‘anyone can do it’ ethos, he blended his passion for music and poetry into his unique approach.

“Away from the world of more-or-less conventional punk music, Andy T was that rare thing, a punk solo artist. A bit like an angrier, more political John Cooper Clarke” - Spectrum Culture

Penny continues: “When Crass were compiling the first ‘Bullshit Detector’ out of the plethora of tapes sent to us by young hopefuls looking for a break, Andy T’s offering stood out in its innocent rawness. It was all too easy to imagine this very young lad chanting his mournful chant from a messy bedroom, bed unmade, looking out across the Northern moors shrouded by mournful mists. In its lack of pretension, it was as if it were a nerve-end looking to be cauterized; the pain was tangible. Andy’s track got selected for inclusion on ‘Bullshit’, but I wanted to hear more, so I got in touch with him with the idea of producing a 7” single, ‘Weary of the Flesh’. We recorded the tracks in Crass’ rehearsal room, juggling between two trashy ghetto blasters and a whole lot of chutzpah. To this day, the result remains a vibrant celebration of brazen non-conformity tinged with distinct odours of bohemianism. Andy’s poetry showed the rough’n’tough edge of how it really was and, regrettably, still is. So yes, nothing’s new, and it’s all a matter of learning the hard way. Give it your ears, you won’t regret it.”

Andy adds: “Penny had always liked my poetry and my approach to getting things done, thus they had chosen five of my recordings to go on the first edition of ‘Bullshit Detector’. We agreed to do a single together for the label and spent a weekend up at Dial House, recording everything onto a fourtrack portable machine. I did have backing tapes on cassette that I used for live performance, though we decided to record everything fresh, using mainly the sound of our voices. We managed to get nearly 15 minutes onto a 7”. If we had been able to harness the power of a 12”, in those days, we would have probably managed to get an hour’s worth on there. I worked with Bronwen on the cover and that was another fun weekend in a shed with animal masks and printer’s ink. We did plan to record an album for the Corpus Christi label, though sadly we didn’t get around to it, at the time, as life invariably gets in the way of such things. Though I have done lots of other things for other labels since then, I still have some fond memories for those times.”

TRACK LISTING

Tomorrow?
What About The Old?
Dirty Squatters
Tiny Revolutions
Wasted Life
Big Boys
Death Is Big Business
Man’s Life
Techno Cock-Up
Morbid Fascination
Exploitation
Family Joy
Weary Of The Flesh
Blood-Stained Glass

Punk pioneers Crass continue their vinyl reissue series, re-pressing their limited releases by adjacent artists through Crass Records, in association with One Little Independent. The series, including over twenty bands and solo artists recorded at the legendary Southern Studios and produced by Penny Rimbaud, continues with two more historic pieces from the Crass Records catalogue; Anthrax’s ‘Capitalism Is Cannibalism’ and Andy T ‘Weary of the Flesh’.

Anthrax were an English anarcho-punk band formed in Gravesend, Kent, in 1980. They recorded their first demo in 1981 and went on to release two 7” EPs on Crass Records and Small Wonder Records. They appeared on compilations released by Crass Records, Mortarhate Records and Fightback Records. They toured outside the UK twice in the Netherlands with Dutch band The Ex.

In 2007, the band issued a compilation album, ‘One Last Drop’, which included demos, both EPs, the Mortarhate compilation track and two live tracks. The band reformed in 2010, releasing new (and debut) album ‘All for the Cause’ in 2012. Two split singles followed in 2015.

“Of the many bands who Crass provided with an outlet to the world, something marked Anthrax out as a bit special. A combination of fine tunes, intelligent lyrics, angry yet audible delivery and vivid imagery” - Louder Than War

Penny Rimbaud said: “Anthrax were a ‘south of the river’ band, hailing from what was then the industrial wastelands that fringed the Thames prior to gentrification. In a world that put profit before people, Anthrax chose to challenge that conceit with fast, raw outcries of indignation. Yeah, well who said so? Anthrax did, and they did it loud and proud against the horrific complacency of the mainstream. Capitalism Is Cannibalism? Yup, and the pots are on the boil; make mine rare. It was happening then, and it’s happening now, but beware, capitalism’s avid persistence is the very nature of our resistance. Wealth is a ghetto. Babylon will fall. The future is ours if we only dare take it.”

Penny finally notes that “Our [Crass’] interest was never in personalities, profits or power, and neither did we have time for reformist liberals. Our position was solidly revolutionary; we took no prisoners. Ours wasn’t a show, it was a battle, not a living, but a lifestyle, a lifestyle with a difference - rather than looking only to ourselves, we sought to share our gains. I feel that this willingness added great strength to the form of anarchism that we practiced both on stage and out on the street.”

In giving a platform to an impressive array of other bands, Crass Records broadened the front of what popularly became known as anarcho-punk. Not, it must be said, a moniker that Crass themselves much favoured. In this respect, Crass’ classic line, ‘There is no authority but yourself’, makes its point.

TRACK LISTING

Capitalism Is Cannibalism
Violence Is Violence
Prime To Pension
All Things Bright And Beautiful

A double LP package from Bardo Pond, combining two of their super rare jam volumes on vinyl for the first time. A further edition in this celebrated series, ‘Volume 4’ and ‘Volume 5’ feature more freeform improvisational pieces from the hypnotic Philadelphia outfit.

Capturing the raw essence of the band, whose fearless exploration blurs the lines between structure, chaos, melody and noise. Bardo Pond's music traverses space rock, acid rock, post-rock, shoegaze, noise, Krautrock and psychedelia.

‘Volume 4’ hails from self-released sessions recorded in January 2002, its five tracks include the supremely tripped out heaviness of ‘K2’ and the balance-shifting ‘New Drunks (Revisited)’ with Isobel Sollenberger’s exquisite and, frankly, quite disturbing vocal. They’re shorter interrogations of sound by Bardo terms, almost succinct in their mesmerising riffage and off-kilter arrangements.

By contrast, ‘Volume 5’ consists of two lengthy mantras recorded between 2000 and 2004 and released as the tape spool spiralled out. ‘FUFO’ sounds like Cluster unravelling with Merzbow mixing, a post-industrial slew of hypnotic proportions, while ‘Monarch’ begins as a Current 93-like neo-folk mood piece before evolving into a wailing slice of drone-drenched Americana by way of a Velvets’ jam.

“We were pushing improvisations as far as we could. It was glorious having the studio. The more that our heads were spinning after a session, the better we knew that session would sound when we listened back. We were getting together two nights a week, usually three or four hours working on material and songs and the other half the time letting loose. Volumes 4 and 5 gather together some of these improvisations, and one early song that we felt like doing.” Adds Michael Gibbons of Bardo Pond.

TRACK LISTING

1. Take What You Need
2. K2
3. New Drunks (Revisited)
4. Pangolin Dance
5. Narmada
6. Fufo
7. Monarch

60’s pop, 70’s junkshop glam and the best of catchy punk from Ramones to Jay Reatard come together in one irresistible power pop package. “Hangin’ Out” and “Sticker Song” both deal with some of the most basic aspects of the rockers' everyday life: standing around on corners, listening to Sheena on the radio, playing pinball and crate digging while avoiding local enemies. Hooks for days and absolutely relentless playing make sure this lands firmly in the thrilling-rather-than-tired camp for anyone who has ever loved catchy fast music.

In this light “Terry” is an obvious choice for a more DIY-oriented makeover that fully retains the originals sense of up-yours fun while upping the tempo and infusing it with vocal harmonies that are more New York Dolls than high gloss and giving the guitar solo a punked-up Thin Lizzy treatment.

TRACK LISTING

1. Terry
2. Hanging Out
3. Sticker Song

Badly kept main-stage-leaping, aspirational indie-rock secrets don’t come much bigger than BIIG TIME, the tune machine side-project cranked by DMA’s guitarist, Johnny Took and his brother, PLANET’s singer, Matthew Took, and yet the wait for album news has lasted… until now. The duo has finally, officially announced the release date for their long-awaited debut by releasing its first shoegazey, emphatic, big-chorused single, 'Bigger Than Nothing'.

Adding poignancy to the release, 'Bigger Than Nothing’s video features never-before-seen, deeply personal, fly-on-the-wall home video footage of the brothers’ childhoods in Sydney, opening a window into a “life-long friendship that shines through their songs and harmonies.” A year after Johnny Took enjoyed the most recent run of long-distance flights and late nights associated with the release of DMA’s Official UK Album Chart Top 3 album, 'How Many Dreams?' the Sydneysiders break temporarily from their motherships to confirm their own 11- track collection.

Given the title '200K', BIIG Time’s official announcement follows high-profile live warm-ups on the Australian dates of Courteeners and Jamie Webster. Hiding in plain sight, following the release of their 2020, standalone debut single, 'It’s You', their intriguing West Coast-by-garage rock counterpoint to DMA’s emotive, arena-filling indie left onlookers wondering what might come next.

Five years on, 'Bigger Than Nothing' finds the pair confident that, for every note of introspection the single holds, there’s ample confidence in the joy '200K' will spread. “‘Bigger Than Nothing’ is our first release since our first and only single ‘It’s You’ back in 2020! It’s quintessential BIIG TIME,” says the band. “Harmonies the whole way through and distorted guitars. Lyrically it’s full of tongue in cheek self-deprecation and floating in and out of the feeling of not being good enough for people and situations around you. “It’s the first single from the album, which is a collection of gems that we have written over the years. We couldn’t be prouder to share this first taste.” Chalking up four DMA’s albums and a worldwide fanbase, not least in the UK, a story that started with their 2016 debut album, 'Hills End', Took is no stranger to arenas and main stage festival appearances. Meanwhile, Matthew’s PLANET’s band, catapulted by the release of their 2022 debut album,

TRACK LISTING

1. Chugging Pills
2. Bigger Than Nothing
3. Get Better With You
4. Signing Out
5. No Way
6. Cattle In The Market
7. Easy
8. Loves Wealth
9. I'm Feeling Alive
10. Parades
11. Stole The Show

Causa Sui return with the perfect companion to last year's tour de force, ”From The Source”. Whereas that record was a tightly structured piece of work, that condensed many aspects of the band's sound into a concise 45 minute LP, ”In Flux” presents the more loose and impulsive side of Causa Sui. After an introductory suite in classic Causa Sui territory, with deep fuzz riffs and syncopated grooves, things gradually become more outlandish. The following three vinyl sides see the band channeling Hot Rats-style jazz fusion, the oceanic post-rock of late-period Talk Talk, and the impulsive, anarchic experimentalism of Can's ”Tago Mago” into their own beatific brew. On “Spree”, the band abandons guitar entirely, relying on a dual synthesizer on top of drums and bass instead, yet maintains that uniquely Sui-an vibe.The centerpiece in this set, ”Astral Shores”, unfolds over 16 minutes – from gently hypnotic, ritualistic folk, through motoric psychedelia and back again. It's been many years since Causa Sui have sounded this unmoored on a studio record. ”In Flux” is an essential chapter in the band's ever-changing oeuvre. The double 10” format might seem like an odd choice, but splitting the album into four short, distinctive parts makes perfect sense stylistically. Each side has a character all off its own, taking the listener somewhere different.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Circus Is Back
2. Milkweed's Pod
3. Silver In The Gathering Light
4. Moledo
5. Boogie Lord's Revenge
6. Spree
7. Astral Shores
(diff Running Order On CD)

His first solo album in nine years, 'Felt Better Alive' is Peter Doherty’s most confident solo collection yet - sprinkled with radiant playfulness, almost innocence at times, shot through with Peter Doherty’s signature melodic nous, quirky poetic realism and visual story-telling gifts.

TRACK LISTING

1. Calvados
2. Pot Of Gold
3. The Day The Baron Died
4. Stade Océan
5. Out Of Tune Ballon
6. Felt Better Alive
7. Ed Belly
8. Poca Mahoney’s
9. Fingee
10. Prêtre De La Mer
11. Empty Room

An album for sleeping and waking, walking and driving, hunting and fishing, for loitering outside a roadhouse on the haunted tundra. Okay in elevators, not great for dinner. On 'Caveman Wakes Up', Friendship’s new album and second for Merge Records, the band’s historically capacious definition of country music grows wider still. Shambolic guitars are offset by flute pads, bleary poetry is set against a Motown rhythm section, a song about Jerry Garcia and First Lady Betty Ford fades out with a drum solo, like if Talk Talk came from a dingy Philadelphia basement and was fronted by James Tate.

Songwriter Dan Wriggins’ ragged baritone cuts through eleven murky, swirling country-rock songs with profound lyrical substance and sincerity. Like an alarm clock incorporated into the edge of a dream, 'Caveman Wakes Up' belongs equally to the conscious and subconscious mind, fraught with background, steeped in reference and experimentation, delivered casually and as a dire warning, dedicated, above all, to music’s creative soul. Over the years, dedication has paid off. Friendship has become a kind of reverse supergroup, wherein the band itself and each individual member are located centrally in an increasingly prominent scene of young folk and country musicians and songwriters. Drummer Michael Cormier O’Leary leads the instrumental collective Hour and, along with bassist Jon Samuels, runs Dear Life Records, home to friends and peers who count Friendship as a major influence including MJ Lenderman, Florry, and Fust. (Samuels also plays lead guitar in MJ Lenderman and the Wind).

TRACK LISTING

1. Salvage Title
2. Tree Of Heaven
3. Betty Ford
4. Free Association
5. Hollow Skulls
6. Artex
7. Love Vape
8. Wildwood In January
9. Resident Evil
10. All Over The World
11. Fantasia

'Goodbye Small Head' is Furman's tenth album and the follow-up to 'All Of Us Flames' which was released to universal acclaim in August 2022. Written during a maelstrom of overwhelm, the album title is a nuanced homage to the 1999 Sleater-Kinney single 'Get Up'.

Ezra Furman is a boundary- breaking artist whose fearless creativity and emotional honesty have made her one of the most compelling voices in modern music. Blending punk energy, heartfelt lyricism and genre-defying innovation, Furman's work is both deeply personal and universally resonant. The albums she's released over the past decade demonstrate both her extraordinary talent and artistic evolution. 'Perpetual Motion People' (2015) is a vibrant, genre-hopping explosion of wit and melody, while 'Transangelic Exodus' (2018) pushed boundaries with its dystopian storytelling and atmospheric soundscapes, exploring themes of love, defance, and identity.

'Twelve Nudes' (2019) delivered raw, punk-fueled catharsis, channeling anger and resilience into fery anthems, whilst her last album, 'All of Us Flames' (2022), is a cinematic and deeply moving exploration of queer liberation, weaving intimate storytelling with grand, sweeping arrangements. She also found time to record the soundtrack for the Netfix smash hit TV series Sex Education.

Ezra Furman's music is a testament to the power of individuality and authenticity, marking her as a truly unique voice in modern music.

TRACK LISTING

1. Grand Mal
2. Sudden Storm
3. Jump Out
4. Power Of The Moon
5. You Mustn't Show Weakness
6. Submission
7. Veil Song
8. Slow Burn
9. You Hurt Me I Hate You
10. Strange Girl
11. A World Of Love And Care
12. I Need The Ange

After four albums of extra-dimensional exploration, Hooveriii delivered “Manhunter” with the controls set directly for the heart of the cosmic groove. Expertly synthesizing their influences and still managing to bring even more to the party, from spiky post punk to beautiful new age excursions and mammoth 70’s arena rock hooks, “Manhunter” delivers not only their best album yet but an instant classic for all the psych-heads, stoners and dimensionauts.

TRACK LISTING

1. Melody
2. Manhunter
3. Tin Lips
4. Tarantula Eye
5. Question
6. In The Rain
7. Westside Pavillion Of Dreams
8. Me King
9. Heaven At The Gates
10. Awful Planet
11. Stage
12. Cul-De-Sac
13. The Fly
14. Night Walks In Montreaux
15. Isolation

Live at the Acropolis captures the band's unforgettable live performance at the historic Odeon of Herodes Atticus, an open-air amphitheater beneath the Acropolis in Athens

Recorded on the 10th of July, 2023, this album transports listeners to that magical night, where James along with along with a 22 piece orchestra conducted by Joe Duddell and an 8 piece choir, delivered a powerful set against the backdrop of ancient history.

TRACK LISTING

Magic Bus
We're Going To Miss You
The Shining
Dust Motes
The Lake
Beautiful Beaches
Say Something
Space
Ten Below
Moving On
Nothing but Love
Born Of Frustration
Sit Down
Love Make A Fool
Medieval
Someone's Got It In For Me
Alaskan Pipeline
She's A Star
Hello
Riders
Laid
All The Colours of You
Many Faces
Tomorrow
Sometimes
Top Of The World

For the second time on the bands 2024 USA tour, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard played a very special acoustic set, this time at The Rady Shell in San Diego, CA, USA. This bootleg captures the second acoustic set of the tour in all its glory, pressed up on some sick spatter vinyl, each different over 3 LPs. Limited to 1000 Vinyl 3xLP Tri-Gatefolds featuring 17 acoustic tracks over THREE 12" LP's!
Each 12" in a custom photo inner-sleeve
Exclusive Photos by Jeremy Dreier
A unique op art inner label for each 12"
Mixed from multi-track stems and mastered for vinyl by Craig Lawrence
LP 1 - Sea Blue Vinyl w/ Black Splatter
LP 2 - Coke Bottle Vinyl w/ Black Splatter
LP 3 - Orange Vinyl w/ Black Splatter Recorded live at Live at The Rady Shell, San Diego, CA, USA on November 2, 2024

TRACK LISTING

Disc: 1
1. Witchcraft
2. Sense
3. Raw Feel
4. Chang'e
5. Inner Cell
6. Dirt
7. Loyalty
8. Horology

Disc: 2
1. Muddy Water
2. Flight B741
3. The Bitter Boogie
4. Iron Lung
5. God Is Calling Me Back Home

Disc: 3
1. Theia
2. Magma
3. The Silver Cord
4. The River

Reissued to coincide with the vinyl – "Twelves" 3LP; the complete 3CD World In Your Eyes set, originally released in 2009, and out of print for over 12-13 years.

3 CDS containing all the all the band's 12-inches and compilation tracks in chronological order, with some demo tracks along the way, featuring tracks from the very first Loop demo, "16 Dreams" single, "Spinning", "Collision", "Black Sun" and "Arclite" as well as the Nick Drake tribute on Imaginary, the Neil Young tribute Comp on No. 6 Records, the "promo" Live 12", and even the Godflesh cover version from their split on Clawfist.

All remastered from Original tapes in 2008 by Kevin Metcalf and Robert Hampson.

TRACK LISTING

CD 1
16 Dreams
Head On
Burning World
Spinning (Parts 1&2)
Brittle Head Girl
Deep Hit
I'll Take You There

1st Loop Demo - House In The Woods:
Brittle Head Girl
Burning World

Spinning (Spun Out) Good Feeling Compilation

CD 2
Collision
Crawling Heart
Thief Of Fire
Thief (Motherfucker)
Black Sun
Circle Grave
Mother Sky

Nick Drake / Neil Young Covers Compilation Tracks
Pink Moon
Cinnamon Girl

CD 3
Arc-Lite (Sonar)
Arc-Lite (Radar) Daniel Miller Remix
Sunburst
Arc-Lite (Radiated) Daniel Miller Remix

Prisma Uber Europa Promo Live 12":
Afterglow
Got To Get It Over
Burning World

(Loop / Godflesh Split Single Comp)
Like Rats (Loopflesh)

Formed in South London in the mid-1980s by Robert Hampson, Loop blazed a trail with their potent mix of motorik beats and heavy guitar riffs, recording a trio of brilliant albums that set the indie charts alight before imploding in 1990 after the release of album number three, A Gilded Eternity. As critics enthused at the time, Loop were the sound of Suicide jamming with the Stooges aboard a spaceship built by Hawkwind and piloted by CAN. They were post-psychedelic, pre-shoegaze figureheads in a world of anodyne pop jangle and baggy rhythms, and even their closest contemporaries like Spacemen 3 and My Bloody Valentine didn’t plough such a distinctive furrow as theirs.

First time vinyl pressing of these remastered 12”/EP tracks. Originally released in the 80s / 1990, on the Chapter 22 / Head / Situation 2 labels.

16 Dreams 12” (Head) released 1986
Spinning 7” /12” (Head) released 1987
Collision 7”/12” (Chapter 22) released 1988
Black Sun 12” (Chapter 22) released 1988
Arc-Lite 7”/12”/CD5 (Situation 2) released 1989
Primsma Uber Europa 12” (Beggars) released 1991 (Live Promo only)

Remastered from the original tapes by Kevin Metcalf and then reissued for the first time in 2009 as part of the WORLD IN YOUR EYES 3CD set on Reactor. Now re-mastered for vinyl and re-cut to lacquers by Shawn Joseph /Optimum Mastering and issued as TWELVES. (ref: the 3 x 7” set SEVENS released 2020)

Each side of this 3LP set has one of the 12”s in full, 16 Dreams / Spinning / Collision / Black Sun / Arc-Lite..as well as the promo only LIVE 12” Prisma Uber Europa. The 12” cover of each LP has the relevant sleeve on each side to recreate the original sleeve image, and each 12” side will have labels as close to the original designs as possible.

Hear Loop expand their sound from the Stooges / Velvets / garage pyschout of “16 Dreams”, into the “Spinning” era and then develop their motorik fuzzed-out nihilistic pummel through the “Collision” and “Black Sun” EPs to finish this set with the “Arc-Lite” side, possibly Loop at their most visceral. Unable to be pigeon holed like most bands of this time, their live shows also wiped the floor with everyone as evidenced on the “Prisma Uber Europa” 12”. Not reissued on vinyl when first remastered, now its time. PLAY LOUD

TRACK LISTING

Side A - 16 Dreams
16 Dreams
Head On
Burning World

Side B - Spinning
Spinning (Parts 1&2)
Brittle Head Girl
Deep Hit

Side C - Collision
Collision
Crawling Heart
Thief Of Fire (Written-By – The Pop Group)
Thief (Motherfucker) (Written-By – The Pop Group)

Side D - Black Sun
Black Sun
Circle Grave
Mother Sky (Written-By – Can)

Side E - Arc-Lite
Arc-Lite (Sonar)
Arc-Lite (Radar)
Sunburst
Arc-Lite (Radiated)

Side F - Prisma Uber Europa
Afterglow (Live)
Got To Get It Over (Live)
Burning World (Live)

Something Soft, the second full-length album by Irish post-punk firebrands M(h)aol, is anything but. From the first note of its propulsive opening track to the distorted cries of its last, Something Soft feels antagonistic to the very concept of softness—sonically and thematically—taking an unapologetic approach to intersectional feminism, animal welfare, consumerism, and the struggle to find a place in a world lacking empathy. What M(h)aol offers is catharsis in two forms: the kind you get from being open with others and the kind you get from righteously smashing some shit up.

Effectively channeling rage and empathy is an act of resilience, and to make Something Soft, M(h)aol had to become especially resilient. Following their acclaimed debut Attachment Styles, M(h)aol’s lineup changed, settling on the core trio of Constance Keane (drums/vocals, she/her), Jamie Hyland (bass/vocals, she/her), and Sean Nolan (guitar, he/him). That process changed the band’s approach to songwriting and performing, resulting in an unexpected breakthrough where many groups have folded.

Something Soft features a more urgent sound, wound tightly around Hyland and Keane’s rhythm. On songs like “Pursuit” and “Snare,” Keane’s vocals lock in on her drums, as if her words were stirred to life by her playing, issued directly from her body. Set against those respectively anxious and swaggering tracks, her voice occupies the space of an inner monologue—narrating a tense walk home and green room misogyny from a place of droll observance—a universal experience rendered in specific detail.

Like its predecessors Attachment Styles and the Gender Studies EP, Something Soft was recorded by Jamie Hyland. It is the most technically nimble of M(h)aol’s recordings to date, with the band—joined by Pixie Cut Rhythm Orchestra’s Sarah Deegan on bass—decamping to Dublin’s Ailfionn Studio, where they took advantage of the space and studio equipment to bring more nuance to their sound. The additional sessions and prowess behind the boards were a boon, but for a band used to operating under extreme time constraints, this presented an unexpected challenge: Could M(h)aol keep the sense of immediacy that had marked their music up to that point?

Songs like “DM:AM” quickly dispelled that worry, blooming into life in 20 minutes from a drone Nolan was playing while Hyland set up her recording equipment, racing to capture the song once Keane and Deegan joined in. One of Something Soft’s ghosting anthems, “1800-Call-Me-Back,” began as a joke that the band should write a football chant, but it became far more complex—the delicious balance of chaos and clarity they struck would have been impossible without time. “I Miss My Dog” is less off-the-cuff, but its meditation on grief builds up at a breakneck pace, from feedback to Keane’s drumming and singing to a spectacular conclusion that smothers that grief in bass and guitar—one of M(h)aol’s greatest technical achievements to date.

The polish serves to highlight M(h)aol’s roguish charms, making the intimate feel anthemic, using personal experience to detail the broader systems we live under. For those who’ve come to recognize themselves in M(h)aol’s songs, listening to Something Soft is like jumping into a long-running chat thread, full of fury and humor. For those who haven’t, the door is open—Something Soft’s thrills often turn on a dime towards introspection, as in “Snare” where Keane’s response to the question, “Why not play something soft like piano or violin?” resolves itself to one of her own: “Did you ask him too?” It’s not a lecture or a snide rebuke but something much more deft—an invitation to see the world for what it really is, starting with the listener.

TRACK LISTING

Side A:
1. Pursuit
2. I Miss My Dog
3. You Are Temporary, But The Internet Is Forever
4. DM:AM
5. E8/N16
6. Vin Diesel

Side B:
7. Clementine
8. Snare
9. IBS
10. 1800-Call-Me-Back
11. Coda

Makeshift Art Bar, the rising sonic powerhouse hailing from Belfast, released their highly anticipated debut EP, Lackluster Writing Makes Fundamental Reading, on the 3rd of January 2025. This EP solidifies their place as one of the most innovative voices in the underground music scene.

The four-track record captures the raw intensity and unapologetic experimentalism that have made Makeshift Art Bar a must-see act on stages across Europe. Each track on Lackluster Writing Makes Fundamental Reading takes listeners on a journey through jagged guitar riffs, pulsating rhythms, and lyrics that oscillate between the poetic and the provocative.

Their unique sound hurled them into the spotlight achieving a Radio 6 live session and playlisting, multiple festival slots including Borderline, Ypsingrock and All Together Now and sold out support slots with Chalk across the UK.

Press Quotes:
“The band unleash chaos with an instrumental so sick and evil that it’s massively enjoyable.” - Peter Martin, So Young Magazine.

“Each plectrum pluck shivers the ribcage and mangles the guts like a queue of ghosts drifting through your body, beat by tremulous beat.” - Elvis Thirwell, So Young Magazine.

“The noise rock quartet pitch into and lurch through this lively song, a Frankenstein’s monster of post-punk, grunge and––low-key––sludge metal. All sung with an unmistakable Belfast accent.” - Cyrus Larcombe Morre, Clunk Magazine.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
A1. Birthday Party
A2. Notice Me

Side B
B1. Sonic Shelf
B2. Bedwetter

Matt Maltese's sixth studio album is his most insular and intimate to date, and his first fully self produced effort since second album 'Krystal'. 'Hers' exists in a twilight world, pairing heartfelt songwriting and dry witticism with the gentle quiver of strings, a flourish of woodwind or the sound of a creaking old piano.

Though its wounds may still feel tender to the touch, Maltese made 'Hers' with several years’ perspective on the events that inspired it, processing the complexities of a serious romantic relationship and its ending through the rearview.

TRACK LISTING

1. Arthouse Cinema
2. Buses Replace Trains
3. Happy Birthday
4. Anytime, Anyplace, Anyhow
5. Always Some MF
6. Cure For Emptiness
7. Holiday From Yourself
8. Pined For You My Whole Life
9. Eternal Darkness Of The Spotted Mind
10. Tangled
11. Everybody's Just As Crazy As Me

A sweeping, cinematic, emotional change is in the air. Molly Nilsson’s sixth studio album 'Zenith' begins with clear, wide eyes open to Earth as we would love it to be but seldom is. Recorded in her home of Berlin and whilst touring and, as ever, conceived, produced, written and recorded in solitude, Zenith is Nilsson’s big statement and consequently her most affecting work to date. It sees her reveling in big arrangements, sweeping synth strings, bigger choruses and emotions. Like the rest of us she looks within and to endless sunsets in wonder and puzzlement.

That Molly Nilsson is a DIY cult figure is beyond question; she has always written directly and with wit straight down the line between the universal and the personal. The difference with 'Zenith', and you can hear it in the opening chords of opener 'The Only Planet', is that her scope is now much wider and her heart heavier than ever before: over a post-ecstatic dusk, Nilsson serenades the globe in a loving embrace. Following on, '1995' is, arguably, one of Nilsson’s finest songs to date. It’s one of those songs to learn the lyrics to, to listen to on repeat, a reason to wear the grooves down to the bone, it’s why pop music can be one of the greatest art forms we have. It’s an example of how, on this album, Molly draws the listener closer to her heart than ever before. There’s simply no escape from the line “The plans that you made / when you still had the time / I’ve saved all the things that you left behind but by now I guess I’d consider them all mine /Windows 95, is only a metaphor for what I feel inside / Although I’m older now / there’s still an emptiness that’s never letting go somehow.” Show-stopper 'Mountain Time' is the soundtrack to being on the run, from societal conventions, from normative ideas of happiness, from your surroundings. It’s the intoxicating call of the renegade. That’s not to say that Nilsson’s light touch has been forsaken for grandiose statements. 'Bunny Club' begins as a demo-sketch before breaking into a fast-paced tale of doomed romance with big rave synths and 'Bus 194 (All There Is)' sees Molly joyride through a city on a happy hardcore bus. But it’s tracks like 'Tomorrow' and another contender for best-ever-Molly moment, Happyness that the true scale of what she’s accomplished reveals itself. We’re locked in a spiraling orbit, strings and bass whirling, gazing at the spinning planet below us as we contemplate both the ultimate freedom in loneliness and the glimmer of hope in the Other. Can we ever be truly with someone? Are we ever truly alone?

Over the 13 tracks here we get the impression that Nilsson may always be restless; like anyone else she has conflicting feelings of love and hate. It’s just not many other people can tell you exactly how you feel before you know it yourself.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Only Planet
2. 1995
3. H.O.P.E.
4. Mountain Time
5. Bunny Club
6. Intermezzo: Palimpsest Galore
7. Happyness
8. Lovers And Losers
9. Clearblue
10. My Body
11. Titanic
12. Bus 194 (All There Is)
13. Tomorrow

The Oh Sees wasted no time in racing headlong into nightmarish battle with the mighty 'Orc', clawing even farther up the ghastly peak stormed so satisfyingly by their previous 'A Weird Exits'. The band is in tour-greased, anvil-on-a-balance beam, gut-pleasingly heavy form, nimbly braining—with equal dashes of abandon and menace—on this fresh batch of bruisers and brooders, hypnotically stirred into to the cauldron of chaos you’ve come to expect.

On 'Orc', fresh blood Paul Quattrone joins Dan Rincon to form a phalanx of interlocking double drums, alternately propelling and fleet-footing shifting ground to pinion John Dwyer’s cliff-face guitars to the boogie. Tim Hellman keeps it swinging like a battle-axe to the eyebrows. The tunes veer toward the violence of their live shows, with a few tasty swerves into other lanes: heavy to lush, groovy to stately. Throughout, it remains sinister in its swaggering skulk, manic in its fuzz-fried fugues. They hit all the sweet spots the heads foggily remember, and there’s plenty to sweat over if you just hopped into the sauna.

More evil…more complex…more narcotic…more screech… more blare…more whisper…there’s even more Brigid. Less “Thee,” but more of everything else.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Static God
2. Nite Expo
3. Animated Violence
4. Keys To The Castle
5. Jettisoned
6. Cadaver Dog
7. Paranoise
8. Cooling Tower
9. Drowned Beast
10. Raw Optics

This is the northeast calling, with songs of stillness, reflection, renewal, defiance, hope, classic melodies and, at certain perfectly judged moments, furniture-shifting riffs. With a powerful album shaped by pandemic-era loss (of momentum, and of a band member), and by the wins brought by what singer/songwriter/guitarist Adam Hope describes as a “weight lifted off my shoulders”. With a fresh, front-footed, fired-up approach that owes everything to a band returning to their roots in Wallsend and Newcastle – and, for the first time, making their music entirely on their own independent terms: self-produced and self-confident.

'The Big Sad': an album born from the ashes of dark times, but representing a beacon of light for the future. An album of honesty and purity, one that our current fanbase sonically may not be expecting. The sound of a band that got tired of slamming on the fuzz pedal to tick the ‘rock’ box and dares to try something new, dares to shock, dares to be great.

TRACK LISTING

1. Lost In The Moment
2. The Big Sad
3. Woolly Thunder
4. I’m Sorry (This Time)
5. January, Please
6. Preparing For The Big Sad
7. There’s An Echo
8. Real Again
9. Trapped In The Vacuum
10. Interlude
11. Nostradamus
12. My Abacus
13. The Big Sad

A band who not only defined the Nu-Metal scene of the 2000s but are now leading the charge in the 2020s’ Nu-Metal resurgence, Papa Roach are a band who have not only stood the test of time but have found a way to adeptly turn back time to the days where they first found their glory.

Their ninth studio album, ‘Crooked Teeth’, was a flag in the soil of this immortality, marking an exploration between their Nu-Metal roots and the new era of Modern Rock. The album was produced by and co-written with Colin Brittain (Linkin Park, 5 Seconds Of Summer) and Nicholas Furlong (All Time Low, Sabrina Carpenter), and saw collaborations with Machine Gun Kelly and Skylar Grey (who became acclaimed for her work with Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda in 2006), underlining this mash-up of generationspanning inspirations for the album.

‘Crooked Teeth’ holds a special place in the heart of fans, with fans given the opportunity to support the creation of the album in an astonishing crowdfunding bid that offered unique prizes, such as the opportunity of buying the band’s studio (and all of the equipment in it). In a career first for Papa Roach, the album saw two singles, ‘Help’ and ‘Born For Greatness’, reach #1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock chart, whilst ‘Crooked Teeth’ itself debuted at #20 on both the Billboard 200 chart and UK Top 40 Album chart. It’s since been certified Silver in the UK, with sales fast approaching Gold certification.

TRACK LISTING

Crooked Teeth’ (2CD / LP)
Break The Fall
Crooked Teeth
My Medication
Born For Greatness
American Dreams
Periscope
Help
Sunrise Trailer Park
Traumatic
None Of The Above
Ricochet
Nothing
Bleeding Through

Bonus Disc (MOSH711CD Only)
Intro
Face Everything And Rise
Getting Away With Murder
Between Angels And
Insects
Where Did The Angels Go?
Broken Home
Burn
Forever
Scars
Lifeline

The 11th release on Random Vinyl finds Pax Romax featuring Brian Ice paying respect to an original masterpiece while also serving it up for a new generation of ears. First up is the extended remix of 'Fade To Grey' which is a deep and cosmic disco workout with libidinous vocals. '2067' is a second production by Pax Romax that layers up jittery arps and twirling pads with a low-slung disco groove. The "Steve's Strange Mix" is a codeine paced retro-future disco trip with standout synths and the Master Mix is more airy with lush pads up top. It was made by the late great Marc Hartman who passed away in August 2024 at only 58 years of age and serves as "Marc's epic swan song as we say, in Dutch," explains his label partner.

STAFF COMMENTS

Mine says: Pax Romax has done it again. After delivering their take on Gino Soccio's italo disco classic 'Remember' in collaboration with Fred Ventura earlier in the year, they now enlist the help of Brian Ice for work on another uber hit, Visage's 'Fade To Grey'. Not one to be missed!!

TRACK LISTING

Side 1
1. "Fade To Grey" (Extended Mix)
2. "Fade To Grey" (Steve's Strange Mix)

Side 2
1. "Fade To Grey" (MasterMix)
2. "2067"

Louis Philippe and The Night Mail return with a new captivating record where the songs are once again faultless. Carrying on the journey away from the classic towards the unexpected with new synths and hand claps adding a sense of the abrupt and, with voices calling from the wings, a sense of play and a lack of fear.

Beyond the regular tales routinely retold, there's a secret, parallel narrative of pop history. One written by the true enthusiasts and eclectics, in which a perennial favourite like Pet Sounds didn't just inspire endless claims of exceptionality but a long trail of harmonic riches leading all the way to the 21st century. In this alternative universe Philippe Auclair aka Louis Philippe, Anglo-French singer-songwriter extraordinaire, has been an admired fixture for the past four decades, from his beginnings as protagonist and house producer at Mike Alway's fabled él Records label through his forays into the Shibuya sound and collaborations with the likes of Bertrand Burgalat, XTC's Dave Gregory, High Llamas' Sean O'Hagan and Young Marble Giants' Stuart Moxham right up to his more recent adventures with The Night Mail.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Road To Somewhere
2. Pictures Of Anna
3. Where Did We Go Wrong
4. La Maison Sans Toit
5. Those Days Of Summer
6. All At Sea
7. Le Baiser
8. Wine And Roses
9. Watching Your Sun Go Down
10. A Friend
11. Song For Paddy (Wings Of Desire)
12. To The Sea
13. Always
14. Ville Lumière

In 2012 Gruff Rhys embarked on a solo 'investigative concert tour' through the heart of America following the route taken by his distant relative John Evans. Every night he presented songs augmented by a power point presentation that detailed his relative's unbelievable history, along with any new piece of information that had come his way during the day. He was ultimately looking for Evans's lost unmarked grave. Along with many major cities, the tour took him to play shows at the Mandan and Omaha tribe reservations, a Missouri vineyard, villages that no longer exist and lay at the bottom the Mississippi river and a New Orleans bordello.

What transpired from that ‘investigative concert tour’ was a 2014 album, 'American Interior', plus a book, film and exhaustive tour of the same name. With the aid of the dusted-off power point presentation, Gruff Rhys and a full band revisits the project in 2025 to perform the songs that formed both the album, and the soundtrack to the film.

TRACK LISTING

1. American Exterior
2. American Interior
3-The Whether (Or Not)
4-The Last Conquistador
5-Lost Tribes
6-Liberty (Is Where We'll Be)
7. Allweddellau Allweddol
8. Walk Into The Wilderness
9. Sugar Insides
10. 100 Unread Messages
11. That's Why
12. The Swamp
13. Media Quake
14. Cylchdro Amser
15. Iolo
16. Y Gwenan Gorn
17. Year Of The Dog
18. Tiger's Tale
19. I Grombil Cyfandir Pell (3LP Deluxe Only)
20. Ar Goll (3LP Deluxe Only)
21. Y Madogwys Neu Angau (3LP Deluxe Only)
22. Power Point Presentation (3LP Deluxe Only)
23.  American Exterior (Extended Version For Two Synthesizers) (3LP Deluxe Only)

20th anniversary album edition with bonus live disc . 6 panel digifile with booklet. Deluxe edition CD with bonus unreleased live disc - limited to 1000 copies.

Combining elements of punk, country and folk music, the members of Richmond Fontaine provide a compelling backdrop for the heart wrenching tales of lead singer Willy Valutin. His Carver-esque lyrics bring a vision of the West which is both vital and compelling.

Sex Mask is a 3 piece post-punk/alternative rock band based in Melbourne, Australia, drawing members who hail from various parts of the globe.

The self-contained writing/production unit comprises Vicente Moncada on drums/production, Ry Gray on vocals and lyrics, and Kaya Martin on guitars and synths.

Their music is described as "vague pop instilled with the ancient genius of your own blood," suggesting a blend of introspective lyrics, innovative soundscapes, in a context of absurdist punk.

Sex Mask has released several tracks, including "Tv Movie," "How To Be Cool At Parties," and "Birds." They have a growing organic base of listeners on streaming platforms.

Their captivating live show in 2024-25 has seen them support Fcukers, Big Special, Fat White Family and festival stages around Australia.
Following an exciting Bigsound Brisbane and SXSW Sydney in late 2024, the chaotic trio will embark on their first UK tour this spring, covering stages at Dot To Dot, Great Escape, Get Together as well as their debut headline show in London.

TRACK LISTING

A. How To Be Cool At Parties
AA. Circe

Over recent years The Sherlocks have become one of the most exciting live bands in the UK. Selling out tours across UK & Europe, the band have also achieved chart success with x3 Top #20 albums. Yorkshire brothers Kiaran & Brandon Crook joined up with band members Alex Proctor & Trent Jackson. With an incredibly passionate, loyal fan base, their fans have followed the band's journey from pubs/clubs to selling out venues out all across the world, as well being asked to tour in arenas/stadiums with the likes ofLiam Gallagher, Kings Of Leon, Kaiser Chief, The Libertines and many more.

TRACK LISTING

Everything Must Make Sense
Man On The Loose
How Are You Feeling?
Death Of Me
Bones
28
Bedlam Town
Tough Times Don't Last
Better Alone
Here Comes The Rain

Folk-punk rabble - SKINNY LISTER - are back with their seventh studio album – written and recorded by the band, mastered at Abbey Road Studios by Frank Arkwright. The album is produced and mixed by Dan Heptinstall, with the core tracks recorded live, and left unedited, in an attempt to capture some of the energy the band are known for in their live performances. Features the instantly catchy, sing-a-long ‘Set Us Straight’ (released at the end of 2024) which sets the scene of an album that is a glorious, riotous mix of chest-thumping anthems, shanty sing-a-longs and folk/punk classics, balanced out by a couple of tender and reflective songs.

TRACK LISTING

1. Yorkshire Belle
2. Drinking Song
3. Set Us Straight
4. Everything
5. Song From The Yonder
6. Back Into The Battle
7. Plough On
8. Brave The Waves
9. Tumbling Into Something
10. Glass To Our Days
11. Bristol Bound

Building on the panoramic dynamism of Snow Patrol’s 8th studio album 'The Forest Is The Path', the band headed back into the studio with producer Fraser T Smith in final weeks of 2024. The result was a number of brand new songs that the band didn’t want to sit on any longer than necessary. Led by the anthemic new single 'But I’ll Keep Trying', the new songs will be released on 12” Coke Bottle Clear vinyl as ‘The Forest Is The Path: Onwards To The Endless’

TRACK LISTING

1. But I'll Keep Trying
2. This Is The Silence
3. What's Left In The Light
4. Waking Up Now
5. Falling Through All Of This Time
6. This Is The Sound Of Your Voice (Will Reynolds Remix)

This release, previously featured in the TG Berlin box set and available on vinyl for the first time, captures Throbbing Gristle's unforgettable New Year’s Eve performance, part of a specially curated series of live events held at the Volksbühne, Berlin in 2005 and 2006. The setlist included a preview of five tracks from their first album in 27 years, Part Two: The Endless Not—which was released several years later. Fans were also treated to TG’s first encore in 25/26 years, which included iconic songs like ‘Convincing People’, ‘Slug Bait’, and ‘Hamburger Lady—what an encore! Additionally, the performance featured the released track ‘Splitting Sky’ and more.

Formed in 1975, Throbbing Gristle - Chris Carter, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (1950-2020) and Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson (1955-2010), fully delivered on punk’s failed promise to explore extreme culture as a way of sabotaging systems of control. Their impact on music, culture and the arts has been immeasurable, and still felt today across music, film, theatre, and fine art.

TRACK LISTING

1. Trumpet Herald (Live At The Volksbühne, Berlin, New Year's Eve, 2005)
2. Convincing People (Live At The Volksbühne, Berlin, New Year's Eve, 2005)
3. Splitting Sky (Live At The Volksbühne, Berlin, New Year's Eve, 2005)
4. Slug Bait (Live At The Volksbühne, Berlin, New Year's Eve, 2005)
5. Rabbit Snare (Live At The Volksbühne, Berlin, New Year's Eve, 2005)
6. Almost A Kiss (Live At The Volksbühne, Berlin, New Year's Eve, 2005)
7. Greasy Poo (Live At The Volksbühne, Berlin, New Year's Eve, 2005)
8. The Endless Not (Live At The Volksbühne, Berlin, New Year's Eve, 2005)
9. Vow Of Silence (Live At The Volksbühne, Berlin, New Year's Eve, 2005)
10. PA Destroyer (Live At The Volksbühne, Berlin, New Year's Eve, 2005)
11. Hamburger Lady (Live At The Volksbühne, Berlin, New Year's Eve, 2005)

'Funeral Music', Triathalon’s fifth album, began taking shape when the band imagined what they’d like played during their memorials. Continuously referencing “play this at my funeral” throughout writing and recording, the album became a realization of this concept. Lead single 'RIP' is a 90s-influenced rock track inspired by artists like Pixies, Deftones, and Nirvana. Adam Intrator says, “The aim for ‘RIP’ was to kickstart feelings on what it felt like to listen to a late 90s rock song for the first time as a kid in your parents car in the backseat and asking to hear it louder. ‘RIP’ has a double meaning; it’s about both dying and being reborn.”

Born out of a period of heartbreak, growing pains, and self discovery, 'Funeral Music' showcases a darker, more vulnerable side of the band. With a more minimal approach, every element within the album is highlighted, from cleaner guitar tones, to live-tracked drums, to first-take vocals mixed with singular piano playing and experimental production. 'Funeral Music' not only reflects the band’s sonic shift but also reinvents the overall dynamics between their sound, energy and workflow. These songs were written, demoed, recorded and mixed in various places, bedrooms, studios and houses over the course of two years and is the band’s strongest and most cohesive work to date. workflow. These songs were written, demoed, recorded and mixed in various places, bedrooms, studios and houses over the course of two years and is the band’s strongest and most cohesive work to date.

TRACK LISTING

1. My Love
2. Chevy
3. Down
4. RIP
5. Clover
6. Funeral Music
7. Last Night
8. See You Smile
9. Melt
10. Way Out
11. Salt
12. Jordan
13. Wall
14. Your Eyes
15. Eulogy

Distraction, depression, and heartbreak reign supreme in 2025. “Making art in this day and age for me is a battle for focus; we’re in an age of interruption,” says Garbus of Tune-Yards’ sixth album 'Better Dreaming'. Proudly waving an anti-fascist, liberation, freak flag, Better Dreaming contains some of Tune-Yards smoothest, funkiest, and most direct pop music to date, and yes, you can dance to it. And when you do dance to it, be prepared to sweat out something that’s been long stuck inside, and pretty deep down.

The songs of 'Better Dreaming' came to Garbus and Brenner with unusual ease. They asked themselves what would happen if they simply let the songs come out, following any trail they wished - first thought, best thought style. There was a strong desire to move, to make music that would enter the ear and immediately loosen up the joints, get the whole body wiggling. After covid-isolation, and time away from touring and live shows, the desire to be moved by music was undeniable. The insane experience of growing an actual human being influenced this as well.

The rhythms throughout the record carry a certain freshness, with deep pockets full of subtle idiosyncrasies that stem from Tune-Yards’ return to making an album primarily as a duo. All but one of these songs are built around Garbus’ drum looping and rhythm building, as they were on some of the early albums like 'Bird-Brains' and 'W H O K I L L' – no full kit drummer here, and the songs love it.

'Better Dreaming' is ferocious in its invocation of self-love, of collective action, of dance floor liberation, ego-death deliverance, and a future we could all thrive in. When diving into the present darkness of the world, Tune-Yards asks themselves how much literal energy and joy can be conjured and pumped through the music. In its life-affirming art-pop of the apocalypse, 'Better Dreaming' comes true

TRACK LISTING

1. Heartbreak
2. Swarm
3. Never Look Back
4. Suspended
5. Limelight
6. Get Through
7. Better Dreaming
8. How Big Is The Rainbow
9. See You There
10. Perpetual Motion
11. Sanctuary

Water Damage is ten people from one town and one sound from twelve people. For 'Instruments', the plus two are guitarist David Grubbs and saxophonist Patrick Shiroishi, neither of whom blunt the angle or confound the aim. The tempo? Slow and low. Four tracks, averaging twenty minutes each, the pace never above a comfortable walk. The damage creeps, a forest becomes a mountain, and the faithful move forward. The album is named after Fugazi, in a manner, and 'Reel 25' takes after the Shocklee Brothers, in a cry. Stop asking the lord how many drummers this band has and and ask him how much of your mind, babe. Some people say drone and same people say trance and some people say invocation through patterned unity. Some people just say rock and we let them set their clocks back. Lie down and let these holy treads flatten you. Just because Water Damage know what they are doing doesn't mean you have to. Fix your hearts or die!

TRACK LISTING

1. Reel 28
2. Reel 25
3. Reel 32
4. Reel 27 India (Slight Return)

Yuno’s full-length debut 'Blest' finds the enigmatic indie-pop visionary transforming the emo-tinged suburban malaise of his 2018 'Moodie' EP into more expansive, widescreen pop drama — suited for big moves and bigger stages. The kaleidoscopic sound he devised as a millennial hermit in his childhood bedroom in Florida has since broadened his horizons, taking him on tour with Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Superorganism, and soundtracking various series for Netflix and HBO. Imbued with elements of dream-pop, rock, trap, and psychedelia, his eclectic songs serve as bids for love and connection, which especially in the fractured era of social media, have resonated with many listeners who find solace in his vulnerability.

Yuno's superpower lies in the way he mines a multitude of genres for their pop potential and surfaces with a tapestry that feels novel and fresh. Take, for instance, 'Blest', the immediate, blissful, and bright title track, which is inspired by Rich Harrison-breakbeats and Neptunes-esque jangle. Or the breezy single, 'True', in which Yuno moderates a lover's quarrel with slick, trap percussion. Amid the breakbeated dream-rock of 'Gimme Ocean', he introduces his guitar solo with a searing emo scream, run through an EarthQuaker Devices pedal. Don't let his sanguine aura or his sherbet pink wardrobe fool you; he can shred as hard as he wants to when he wants to.

All songs on 'Blest' were written and performed by Yuno, co-produced by Yuno and Frank Corr (Morning Silk), who also contributed keyboards, drums, and guitar throughout the record, with additional production and instrumentation by Patrick Wimberly (Chairlift) at The CRC in Brooklyn, and Nick Sanborn (Sylvan Esso) at Betty’s in Durham, NC. 'Blest' was mixed by Steve Vealey and mastered by Joe La Porta.

TRACK LISTING

1. Blest
2. We Belong
3. Massive
4. Unfair
5. Perfect Pear
6. Fall Apart
7. Worst Of Times
8. True
9. Gimme Ocean
10. Blitz!

Acid Jazz presents a very special compilation marking the 40th Anniversary of group label Countdown Records. Countdown was originally founded by Eddie Piller, Maxine Conroy and Terry Rawlings and distributed by legendary UK independent Stiff Records. The label reflected the burgeoning Mod revival scene of the mid ‘80s, alongside a vibrant New Wave sound, as Ed began to find his way as a label executive. It was a fresh and unique take on Mod that attempted to place the scene’s main acts in the mainstream world. It almost worked too. But despite the brilliance of the signings, it was tripped up by the demise of Stiff, and the corporate domination of the mid-80s charts. Lessons would be learned and applied with Piller’s next label Acid Jazz, where Countdown refugees such as James Taylor, and Mother Earth’s Chris White went on to greater success. This collection tells the label’s story through the best of its musical output, from mainstays such as Makin’ Time, The Prisoners and The Kick, alongside classics and and rarities from their groundbreaking compilations, from which this release in turn takes inspiration.

TRACK LISTING

1. Pump It Up – Makin’ Time
2. Whenever I’m Gone – The Prisoners
3. I Can’t Let Go – The Kick
4. Falling For You – Long Tall Shorty
5. I Don’t Need No Doctor – Fast Eddie
6. Guilty – The All Jacks
7. The More That I Teach You – The Prisoners
8. Here’s My Number Baby – Makin’ Time
9. Dreams Come True – The Combine
10. Don’t Ever Change – The Ambassadors
11. Stuck On The Edge Of A Blade
12. Ivor The Engine Driver – The Daggermen

Pavilion are proud to announce a new compilation 'Break the Glass, Burn the Cage (The Sound of Indie Punk Rock)'. This compilation celebrates all that is Indie and Punk. Immerse yourself in cramped and sweaty grassroots venues with these bands’ electrifying guitar riffs, infectious basslines and voices that require being heard. Featuring standout tracks from Lime Garden, SPRINTS, Lambrini Girls, Sunflower Bean, English Teacher, Dream Wife, Panic Shack, Big Joanie and more, this compilation channels the raw energy and rebellious spirit that can only be acquired through caring deeply about the injustices and hatred seen in this world. It is a sonic journey through the angst, passion, fun and freedom found through “sticking it to the Man”.

'Break the Glass, Burn the Cage (The Sound of Indie Punk Rock)' is announced coinciding with International Women’s Day 2025 as a charity record, and all the tracks on this record have kindly been donated by the bands for free. This means that for every sale, the entirety of the profits will go to our two chosen charities that do their utmost to help women and girls from all backgrounds and ages, covering everything from domestic abuse, bereavement, homelessness and war - Brighton Women's Centre & War Child.

TRACK LISTING

1. SPRINTS – Up And Comer
2. English Teacher – R&B (Theo Verney Version)
3. Lime Garden – Clockwork
4. ĠENN – Reprise (That Girl)
5. Panic Shack – I Don’t Really Like It
6. Big Joanie – Taut
7. Kynsy – Stereo Games
8. Du Blonde - TV Star
9. Prima Queen – Ugly
10. Housewife – I Lied
11. Pom Pom Squad – Street Fighter
12. Jopy – Graveyard Romance
13. Lambrini Girls – Company Culture
14. Dream Wife – Room 341
15. Queen Cult – Be Better
16. Sunflower Bean – Teach Me To Be Bad

Don’t call it a sequel, it isn’t a Part Deux, ‘Pop Psychédélque: Les Extras’ is simply another slice of fine French Psychedelic Pop from Two-Piers, the label that brought you the groundbreaking compilation ‘Pop Psychédélique’ in 2021. L’es Extras’ is the perfect partner for the original and brings you a whole new bunch of quite simply brilliant pieces of French Pop and Psychedelic flavours from the 1960’s right up into the 2000s.

Pressed on Limited Edition Coloured vinyl for Record Store Day 2025 this is an essential purchase for anyone with a love of French Psychedelic Pop, or anyone who just loves great music for that matter.

‘Pop Psychédélique: Les Extras’ features some of the finest French pop divas of the 1960’s & 1970’s such as Jacqueline Taieb, Brigitte Bardot, Christe Laume, Brigitte Fontaine, alongside artists like Marie Laforêt’s wonderful take on the Rolling Stones ‘Paint it Black’, and the brilliant ‘Les Cactus’ by Jacques Dutronc. Fast forward to the 2010’s and we have tracks from the French Psych scene and lush curiousities from Brigitte, Étienne Daho, The Limiñanas and Ricky Hollywood added into the mix. This Record Store Day Vinyl release includes hard to find tracks on vinyl for the first time.

French Pychedelic Pop, a scene so joyous you can’t help but fall in love…. Les Extras anyone?

TRACK LISTING

Jacquelne Taieb – Le Coeur Au Bout Des Doigts
Jacques Dutronc – Les Cactus
Dani – La Machine
Brigitte Bardot & Serge Gainsbourg – Bonnie And Clyde
Christie Laume – Rouge, Rouge
Brigitte Fontaine – Je Suis Inadaptée
Leonie – Lennon
Marie Laforêt – Marie Douceur – Marie Colère
Stella – Le Silence
Brigitte Bardot – Je Danse Donc Je Suis
Fabienne Delsol – Vilaines Filles Mauvais Garcons
Bernard Chabert – Helga Selzer
Brigitte – Battez-Vous
Étienne Daho – Voodoo Voodoo
The Limiñanas – Je Ne Suis Pas Très Drogue
Ricky Hollywood – Je T’èclate La Gueule