Crafting classic yet conversational hooks with genre-fluid tinges, she’s honed a way of exploring universal themes of love, loss and everything in between with razor-sharp but open-hearted storytelling. Of her debut album, Olivia shares, “Going into making the record, I'd just done this ‘Growth’ project. And for ages, I was like, well, my debut album needs to be what I've grown into, I need to have the answer. And that really confused me for a while. Then I realised, I'm always going to be growing. So this doesn't have to be a destination, it's just where I’m at now.”
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Crafting classic yet conversational hooks with genre-fluid tinges, she’s honed a way of exploring universal themes of love, loss and everything in between with razor-sharp but open-hearted storytelling. Of her debut album, Olivia shares, “Going into making the record, I'd just done this ‘Growth’ project. And for ages, I was like, well, my debut album needs to be what I've grown into, I need to have the answer. And that really confused me for a while. Then I realised, I'm always going to be growing. So this doesn't have to be a destination, it's just where I’m at now.”
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- Ltd LP
- £25.99
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- HR6818-1
- Release date
- 23 Jun '23
Floreani’s willingness to dive so deeply into the most personal parts of his life is matched by the band’s desire to explore the very boundaries of the hardcore genre. Alongside Floreani’s impassioned vocals, drummer Blake Caruso’s insistent rhythms, Jeremy Winchester’s unflinching bass and the powerful guitars – handled by Floreani, producer Shane Edwards and former guitarist Andrew Hallett – the album is rich with anthemic hooks, dark modern pop (“My Inheritance”), electronic flourishes courtesy of co-producer Fletcher Matthews, and atmospheric, swirling synths (“Runaway Come Home” and “Sydney”).
"When we did Chemical Miracle, our second full length, the logo for the album was a palm tree and a noose. That’s literally suicide and sunshine. It’s always been there on my mind. And I think I finally just phonetically set it out. That encompasses everything I’ve been trying to do my entire career.”
TRACK LISTING
1. Sydney
2. Life In Slow Motion
3. People Like You
4. My Inheritance
5. Blue Eyed Boy
6. Runaway, Come
7. Home
8. Burden
9. Sean
10. What Hurts The Most
11. OMW
12. Kill
13. Sweet Soft Sound
14. Stay Here
15. Epilogue
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- Coloured LP
- £23.99
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- NUM303LP-C3
- Release date
- 23 Jun '23
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- LP
- £22.29
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- NUM303LP
- Release date
- 23 Jun '23
TRACK LISTING
Side A
1. Bunny
2. No More Like That
3. Birds
4. The Voice Of Music
5. Bees
6. The Coffin Was So Light I Thought It Might Float Away
Side B
7. Good God Y’all
8. Secret Gypsy Language
9. On A Peoplemover
10. Two Thousand Twelve
11. The Drunk Pilot And The Romantic Passenger
12. Modulator Hustle
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- LP
- £22.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- TSQ5937
- Release date
- 23 Jun '23
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- 2xColoured LP
- £30.99
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- TRANS666X
- Release date
- 23 Jun '23
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- CD
- £10.99
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- TRANS666CD
- Release date
- 23 Jun '23
Rosa and Jenny said the following of their experience of composing their first ever score for a series: “Working on the OST for ‘The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself’ has certainly been a very informative process and a wonderful new experience which has shaped and broadened the way we write and think about music. We’re always looking for ways to move forward musically, and we think being part of a bigger project with lots of other people all working creatively in different ways has been so valuable and inspiring.”
Colm McCarthy (‘Black Mirror: Black Museum’, ‘The Girl with all the Gifts’), an executive producer and the director of the first four episodes, added: “Let’s Eat Grandma were the first track on the mood playlist that I put together for the show. Joe Barton was a big fan too and we reached out to them while still in the early stages of casting. Even though they had never done a score before it just felt like they would do something original and authentic. Something about the score coming from such young voices feels really cool in this story about the transition from childhood to adulthood. Rosa and Jenny collaborated brilliantly, giving us an amazing score. Emotional, scary, heart-pounding, epic and personal, it is strange and evocative and a huge part of the unique identity of our show. They sculpted with organic, acoustic elements and grungy electronica to make something really magical. It has the DNA of the band running through it but also feels so intrinsic to our world.”
STAFF COMMENTS
Barry says: I'm a big fan of Let's Eat Grandma, and while this soundtrack has all of the beautiful pop charm of their most recent LP (still a near-constant play on my home stereo), it's interesting to hear their meticulously crafted sound pulled apart into more expansive, cinematic numbers.TRACK LISTING
1. Half Bad
2. Mouse Feet
3. Money Spiders
4. Don't Pull The Knife Out It Will
5. Only Bleed Quicker
6. Blood Nails
7. Half Bad 2
8. Nathan's Training Theme
9. Trapped In The Washing
10. Machine
11. Annalise & Nathan
12. Romance
13. Half Bad 3
14. Rhythmic Creatures
15. Rhythmic Creatures 2
16. Wanted You To Share It
17. Funeral
18. Kicking Up Dust
19. Jessica's Gift Giving
20. Mercury's Theme
21. Mouse Feet In Paris
22. Nathan & Marcus
23. Kiss & Push
24. Speech Is Silver, Silence Is
25. Golden
26. Magical Recreations Of
27. Murders In The Kitchen
28. Skin Shimmers
29. End Credits
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- LP
- £22.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- TRLP12012
- Release date
- 23 Jun '23
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Black vinyl edition.
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- CD
- £10.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- TRCD12012
- Release date
- 1 Sep '23
Hailing from San Diego (via El Paso, TX), Jonny’s desire to sing was influenced by his grandfather, John Lorenzo Guzman, who as a teen in the early sixties spent some time harmonising with groups in El Paso, most notably Sonny Powell and the Night Dreamers. When he was 13, Johnny was given a record player and a box filled with R&B, Doo-Wop, and Soul 45s that he studied obsessively, employing the harmonies and melodies therein to cultivatehis own unique voice. After a chance encounter with the legendary Dimas Garza, Jonny’s career began to blossom and soon he would find himself singing alongside stars like Eugene Pitt and Archie Bell, garnering the interest of Timmion Records..
Backed by the incomparable Cold Diamond & Mink (Bobby Oroza, Pratt & Moody) two incredibly successful singles were cut and plans for a full length were struck, culminating in 11 original songs penned by Benavidez. From the uplifting bounce of the title track, the doo-wop dinged "Dedicated to You", the Latin flare of “Uncle Sam,” to the Sweet Soul masterpiece "Somebody Cares" (licensed and released on a Penrose Records 45), My Echo, Shadow and Me is not only an aweinspiring display of Jonny's versatility as an artist but also serves as a window into the eclectic array of soulful sounds that inspired him to fall in love with music and become a singer. A must have for fans of Daptone, Timmion, Penrose, et al.
TRACK LISTING
1. MY ECHO, SHADOW AND ME
2. PLAYING THE FOOL
3. UNCLE SAM
4. TELL ME THAT YOU LOVE ME
5. SLOW DOWN GIRL
6. DEDICATED TO YOU
7. SOMEBODY CARES
8. DO WHAT YOU WANNA DO
9. YOUR LAST SONG
10. LET'S GET TOGETHER
11. DEAR MOTHER AND FATHER
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- Ltd 7"
- £8.99
- Cat Number
- BRS73LP
- Release date
- 16 Jun '23
TRACK LISTING
1.One Of These Things First - Emeli Sandé
2. Day Is Done - John Grant
Various Artists
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Because Music
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- Ltd LP
- £21.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- BEC5611761
- Release date
- 16 Jun '23
- Format Info
Black vinyl
Black vinyl -
- CD
- £12.99
- Cat Number
- BEC5611760
- Release date
- 16 Jun '23
TRACK LISTING
1. Justice “D.A.N.Ce”
2. Breakbot “Baby I’m Yours”
3. Busy P “Genie”
4. Uffie “Pop The Glock”
5. Cassius “I<3 U So”
6. Justice X Simiian “We Are Your Friends”
7. Myd “The Sun”
8. Sebastian “Embody”
9. Mr Oizo “Positif”
10. Dj Mehdi “Signatune (Thomas Bangalter Edit)
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- Coloured LP
- £20.99
- Cat Number
- ATO0642
- Release date
- 16 Jun '23
- Format Info
Red vinyl edition.- Includes MP3 Download Code.
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- CD
- £10.99
- Cat Number
- ATO0642CD
- Release date
- 16 Jun '23
TRACK LISTING
1. If I Try To Leave
2. Forgiving Ties
3. Grey Matter
4. If She Could Only See Me Now
5. Running From Love
6. Once In A Lifetime
7. Disgrace
8. My Ship
9. A Light Can Go Out In The Heart
10. The Real Thing
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- Coloured LP
- £31.99
- Cat Number
- 0093624867678
- Release date
- 16 Jun '23
- Format Info
Pink vinyl.
Pink vinyl.
The 4 tracks on this LP are on the 6 CD Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots 20th Anniversary Box Set but are not included on the 5 LP version of the box set.
The centrepiece of the LP is the 24-minute epic “Psychedelic Hypnotist Daydream (demo)”. Three other tracks from the CD box set are included, also receiving their first release on LP – notably the instrumental version of “Do You Realize??”. Over 32 minutes of music, pressed on Limited Edition Pink Vinyl.
TRACK LISTING
Side A
1. Psychedelic Hypnotist Daydream (Demo)
Side B
1. Duck Dodgers Theme (Duck Dodgers Demo: With Wayne Scratch Vocal.
2. I Know I’ve Got To Make That Dream The Real Thing (Demo)
3. Do You Realise?? (Instrumental)
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- Coloured LP
- £25.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- DOC298LP-C1
- Release date
- 16 Jun '23
- Format Info
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- CD
- £10.99
- Cat Number
- DOC298CD
- Release date
- 16 Jun '23
TRACK LISTING
1. Firewall
2. Shell Games
3. Jejune Stars
4. Approximate Sunlight
5. Haile Sellassie
6. A Machine Spiritual (In The People’s Key)
7. Triple Spiral
8. Beginner’s Mind
9. Ladder Song
10. One For You, One For Me
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- 2xColoured LP
- £39.99
- Cat Number
- DOC296LP-C1
- Release date
- 16 Jun '23
- Format Info
Yellow vinyl.- Includes MP3 Download Code.
Yellow vinyl. -
- CD
- £10.99
- Cat Number
- DOC296CD
- Release date
- 16 Jun '23
TRACK LISTING
1. Clairaudients (Kill Or Be Killed)
2. Four Winds
3. If The Brakeman Turns My Way
4. Hot Knives
5. Make A Plan To Love Me
6. Soul Singer In A Session Band
7. Classic Cars
8. Middleman
9. Cleanse Song
10. No One Would Riot For Less
11. Coat Check Dream Song
12. I Must Belong Somewhere
13. Lime Tree
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- LP
- £26.99
- Cat Number
- BSR041
- Release date
- 16 Jun '23
Having released 4 EPs of mind-altering club tackle since 2019's 'Rebel Force', the duo overcome second album syndrome, boiling down their chaos with a more developed sense of songwriting. Never banging one drum, 'Electronic Arts' mirrors the anything goes mania of their DJ sets, tactfully shifting through different sounds and styles. Tempos intensify and decelerate, at times pushing the threshold to 150 bpm from docile canine dreamscapes to full tilt Space Invaders in AR mind games.
Largely built on road tested material from their live performances, the album is a tangible Butter Sessions gathering, busting out the gate with Martian rave initiation Planet Waves, Outdoor System's polyrhythmic beatdown and the Orb-like hero dose affirmations of Sunrise In The Crater (I Exist). While 'Electronic Arts' is otherwise a self-dependent effort, Punch Drunk is brewed ever more potent by the hypnagogic vocals and lucid trumpet cycles of former futsal team member YL Hooi. Their unified energy incidentally manifests a profound matrix of ambient techno, motorik, Don Cherry and Everything But the Girl.
Also touching on apocalyptic doof and minimal, the album is not exclusively peak time with Maryos Syawish and Corey Kikos' specialty curveballs also playing their part. From Village To Empire finds the duo rooting down in Syawish's heritage with a tapestry of purposefully deployed Iraqi and Syrian ethnographic samples and field recordings, dubbed within range of Muslimgauze and On-U Sound. As minimal techno finale Textile trails off into footsteps wandering back to base camp with a satisfied exhale, one wonders where Sleep D's existential pathfinding could possibly take us next?
TRACK LISTING
1. Planet Waves
2. Outdoor System
3. Sunrise In The Crater (I Exist)
4. Strange Sounds
5. From Village To Empire
6. Punch Drunk (feat. YL Hooi)
7. Textile
8. Happiness
9. Hector (Dreaming)
10. Hockey
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- LP
- £19.99
- Cat Number
- EVM29
- Release date
- 16 Jun '23
Since his early days on Sound Systems with Influence Sound and Blackwarell Sound, Tiwony, also known as Le Lion Indomptable, has built a solid discography reflecting his Reggae, Dancehall, Hip-Hop and Afro influences and has positioned himself as a pillar of the Caribbean Reggae-Dancehall scene.
He has had many successes during his career, including the soundtrack of the film "Ma 6-T va craquer" which earned him a Golden single, as well as the SACEM Guadeloupe awards in 2002 and 2005 for the titles Beni Yo and Jamais le Mal. Tiwony also collaborated with the famous artist Typical Féfé for the albums "Double Trouble" and "Revolution", which were nominated for the Trophées Afro-Caribéens in 2009 and won the Reggae Awards in 2012 and 2013.
In 2018, he won the trophy for Best Reggae Artist at the Hit Lokal Awards and opened for the group NTM during their triumphant tour in 2008. Tiwony is a conscious and universal lyricist, addressing all the themes of his time. His passion for the studio has allowed him to create a multitude of singles and various collaborations, demonstrating his versatility as an artist.
In 2023, he will celebrate 25 years of career with the release of his 9th album, Frequency. This album is the one of maturity, at the crossroads between Reggae, Hip-Hop and Afrobeat, the urban music that has guided Tiwony since the beginning of his career. The album includes the hits: Ayen Pas Changé in collaboration with Taïro, Lord Kossity, Daddy Mory, Pompis and Cali P, the title that became the anthem of the yellow vest movement Bla Bla Bla, the title Vwèy with Keros'n.
The album also includes powerful novelties such as the track A Quel Prix in collaboration with Balik of Danakil and Manu Digital, or Frequency, returning to the roots reggae of the artist. Frequency is eclectic and powerful and represents the musical universe and influences of one of the pillars of the French reggae scene Tiwony.
TRACK LISTING
A1. Alkebulan
A2. Frequency
A3. Vieux Sage Fi. Meta Dia
A4. Long Road
A5. Quel Prix Ft. Balik (Danakil) & Manu Digital
A6. Blablabla
B1. Many Are Called Ft. Johnny Osbourne
B2. Rumours Of War
B3. Ayen Pa Chanjé Ft. Daddy Mory, Cali P, Pompis, Lord Kossity, Tairo
B4. Crescendo
B5. I Find You
B6. Paradise
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- 2xLP
- £35.99
- Cat Number
- 5507716
- Release date
- 16 Jun '23
This 2-LP Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition was mastered by Kevin Gray and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal.
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- Coloured LP
- £19.99
- Cat Number
- EDN2LP1175
- Release date
- 16 Jun '23
- Format Info
Indies exclusive purple vinyl.
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- LP
- £19.99
- Cat Number
- EDNLP1175
- Release date
- 16 Jun '23
- Format Info
Standard black vinyl.
Standard black vinyl.
STAFF COMMENTS
Barry says: Pummelling percussive drums and skittering dubby rhythms punctuate the jazzy disco breaks and soulful vocal shards, ending up as a startlingly coherent and wonderfully varied journey, rich with organic instrumentation but undeniably electronic.TRACK LISTING
1. Tell Me A Bedtime Story Version
2. One Finger Snap Version
3. Watermelon Man Version
4. Butterfly Version
5. Driftin' Version
6. Hang Up Your Hang Ups Version
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- Coloured LP
- £19.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- EDNLP1219
- Release date
- 16 Jun '23
- Format Info
Yellow vinyl.
Yellow vinyl. -
- CD
- £11.99
- Cat Number
- EDN1219
- Release date
- 16 Jun '23
Bursting with an unequivocal energy, drive and intent, Donny, who shot to attention as the bandleader behind David Bowie’s album ‘Blackstar’, is an Artist who wants to explore the unknown and to do so in his own way. A modernist thinker who will always put the Art over reward, always searching for something new to say.
TRACK LISTING
1. Stria
2. Fly My Space Ship
3. Hold Me Tight
4. Body Blow
5. Big Screen
6. Turbo
7. Landsdown
8. I Want More
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- 12"
- £13.99
- Cat Number
- A7E006
- Release date
- 16 Jun '23
Opening up the EP, John Talabot & Pional take on Cameroon’s Ekambi Brillant giving a deep electronic twist to ‘Afrika Afrika’ before Ghana’s Gyedu Blay Ambolley gets his disco funk heater ‘Highlife’ re-edited by Alan Dixon.
On the B, another double dose of Cameroonian cuts, as Jacques Renault breathes new life into the jazz funk joint from Michael Amara - New Bell and Pasteur Lappe’s standout hit ‘Na Real Sekele Fo Ya’ gets a housed up edit from Escapade.
TRACK LISTING
A1. Ekambi Brillant - Afrika Afrika (John Talabot & Pional 'Lost Scripts')
A2. Gyedu Blay Ambolley - Highlife (Alan Dixon Edit)
B1. Michael Amara - New Bell (Jacques Renault Edit)
B2. Pasteur Lappe - Na Real Sekele Fo Ya (Escapade Edit)
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- 7"
- £13.99
- Cat Number
- SSS701
- Release date
- 16 Jun '23
Although the RAMP acronym Roy Ayers Music Productions bared Ayers’ name, he did not perform with the Ohio band instead writing, arranging and producing the tracks alongside Edwin Birdsong and also William Allen. Drafting in some of the best session musicians in the game, from vocalists Sibel Thrasher and Sharon Matthews, The Spinners drummer John Manuel, guitarist Landy Shores and Cincinnati bass maestro Nate White, the result was pure ethereal excellence.
Rare groove at its finest ‘Daylight’ is one of the standout cuts from RAMP’s only album - soulful, sumptuous and laced with a celestial touch that takes this track to another realm of conscious. A track that was famously sampled by A Tribe Called Quest for their hit ‘Bonita Applebum’ and J Dilla’s remix of Common – Come Close.
On the B side, a Roy Ayer’s masterpiece given the RAMP revamp, an end of the night masterpiece, a hazed-out dreamer - just downright blissful grooves from start to finish. Ready-made to ride out into the sunset with.
TRACK LISTING
A1. Daylight
B1. Everybody Loves The Sunshine
Gunther Buskies & Jonas Engelmann
Thank For The Lovely Day: 11 The Go-Betweens Songcomics
Ventil Verlag
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- Hardback Book
- £23.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- ZB243260
- Release date
- 16 Jun '23
- Format Info
Hardcover, coloured, 128 pages.
Hardcover, coloured, 128... [ + ]
In 1977, friends Robert Forster and Grant McLennan founded The Go-Betweens in Brisbane, Australia and within a few years their folky indie rock, songs such as 'Right Here', 'Love Goes On' and 'Streets of Your Town' helped make them an international force in the indie world. In 1989, the band disbanded after six successful albums, only to return in 2000 with a new album 'The Friends of Rachel Worth’ - recorded together with the members of Sleater-Kinney - followed by 'Bright Yellow Bright Orange’ in 2003 and ‘Oceans Apart’ in 2005 after which the sudden death of Grant McLennan in May 2006 put an end to recording activity.
Since then, Robert Forster has been nurturing the band's legacy; helping re-release and present their early works in the form of two box sets by Domino Records, telling the story of the Go- Betweens, as a story of true friendship, in his autobiography "Grant and I” as well as releasing numerous solo albums and touring them around the world.
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- LP
- £22.99
Usually ships within: 3-10 days - Cat Number
- 5054197525247
- Release date
- 16 Jun '23
- Format Info
Pressed on 140gm, black recycled vinyl, housed in a 4-colour outer sleeve and printed inner sleeve, featuring a matt dispersion varnish.
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Featuring a selection of new (at the time) tracks, a re-work of Lost: Lost+ with Jay-Z and a remix of album track Lovers In Japan.
TRACK LISTING
1. Life In Technicolor II
2. Postcards From Far Away
3. Glass Of Water
4. Rainy Day
5. Prospekt's March / Poppyfields
6. Lost+ (with Jay-Z)
7. Lovers In Japan (Osaka Sun Mix)
8. Now My Feet Won't Touch The Ground
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- 2xColoured LP
- £36.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- DOC294LP-C1
- Release date
- 16 Jun '23
- Format Info
Champagne wave coloured vinyl.- Includes MP3 Download Code.
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- CD
- £10.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- DOC294CD
- Release date
- 16 Jun '23
TRACK LISTING
1. Mirrors And Fevers
2. I Will Be Grateful For This Day
3. Trees Get Wheeled Away
4. Drunk Kid Catholic
5. Spent On Rainy Days
6. The Vanishing Act
7. Soon You Will Be Leaving Your Man
8. Blue Angels Air Show
9. Weather Reports
10. Seashell Tale
11. Bad Blood
12. Amy In The White Coat
13. Devil Town
14. I’ve Been Eating (For You)
15. Happy Birthday To Me (February 15)
16. Motion Sickness
17. Act Of Contrition
18. Hungry For A Holiday
19. When The Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under Glass Again
20. Entry Way Song
21. It’s Cool, We Can Still Be Friends
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- 12"
- £22.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- DOC312LP-C1
- Release date
- 16 Jun '23
- Format Info
Opaque gold coloured vinyl.
Opaque gold coloured... [ + ]
TRACK LISTING
1. Jejune Stars (Companion Version)
2. Firewall (Companion Version)
3. When You Were Mine
4. Approximate Sunlight (Companion Version)
5. A Machine Spiritual (The People’s Key) (Companion Version)
6. Beginner’s Mind (Companion Version)
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- 12"
- £22.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- DOC313LP-C1
- Release date
- 16 Jun '23
- Format Info
Opaque gold coloured vinyl.
Opaque gold coloured... [ + ]
TRACK LISTING
1. Nunca Seré Feliz Otra Vez (Companion Version)
2. The Vanishing Act (Companion Version)
3. Soon You Will Be Leaving Your Man (Companion Version)
4. Blue Angels Air Show (Companion Version)
5. I Will Be Grateful For This Day (Companion Version)
6. Motion Sickness (Companion Version)
7. I Won’t Ever Be Happy Again (Companion Version)
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- 12"
- £22.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- DOC311LP-C1
- Release date
- 16 Jun '23
- Format Info
Opaque gold coloured vinyl.
Opaque gold coloured... [ + ]
TRACK LISTING
1. Clairaudients (Kill Or Be Killed) (Companion Version)
2. Middleman (Companion Version)
3. Coat Check Dream Song (Companion Version)
4. (Companion Version)
5. I Must Belong Somewhere (Companion Version)
6. Napoleon’s Hat (Companion Version)
7. Wrecking Bal
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- 12"
- £14.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- FRO006
- Release date
- 16 Jun '23
A full-bodied cut of driving, digitised techno, ‘Electric Drive’ thrives on intensity from the outset. Pairing a hypnotic yet truly dynamic synth centrepiece with a hard-hitting, no nonsense percussive line, the track strips Dettmann’s signature sound to its raw elements - presenting an incendiary DJ tool that can ignite the potency of any set by force.
After spanning a host of genres within ‘Fear Of Programming’, Marcel Dettmann’s ‘Electric Drive’ finds one of techno’s most revered names returning to pure dancefloor ferocity. A glimpse of things to come, the project’s title track ensures that those tuned in to the more dynamic sounds of Berlin techno are satiated with a new soundtrack for late nights and early mornings from one of the sound’s most inventive artists.
The four track EP promises to build on the foundations of a classic sound of techno, taking a no holds barred approach to powerful, explosive electronic music.
TRACK LISTING
Electric Drive
Mission
No Return
Relink
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- 12" EP
- £15.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- SNDW12052
- Release date
- 16 Jun '23
As Pigeon develop and hone their sound further, Afro-disco remains at the core while jazz and no-wave make way for new elements of electro, rock and synth pop. The introduction of sequencers and drum machines sprinkles a little more structure into the mix, however the recording process still very much embodies the DIY spirit of band members that enjoy jamming together.
With previous support from Gilles Peterson, Elton John, Iggy Pop, Bandcamp, NPR, Uncut and many more, the new Pigeon EP will undoubtedly fly off the shelves.
TRACK LISTING
1. Mama Yo Mama Yo
2. Ikanabore
3. Trust
4. Backslider
5. Infinity (Radio Edit)
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- Coloured LP
- £21.99
- Cat Number
- BOOSTR7LP
- Release date
- 9 Jun '23
- Format Info
Transparent red vinyl.
Transparent red vinyl. -
- 2xDeluxe CD
- £12.99
- Cat Number
- BOOSTR7CDX
- Release date
- 9 Jun '23
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- CD
- £10.99
- Cat Number
- BOOSTR7CD
- Release date
- 9 Jun '23
Reflecting on Seeker, the new album’s opening track, written about leaning on those we trust to share life’s highs and lows, bassist and co-songwriter, Tim Brown says: “This song started out as a three-chord synth pop tune and mutated into a brassy bop courtesy of trumpeter, Nick Etwell. The electric guitar flourishes were added by Louis Smith before Sice added layers of backing vocals which help drive the song along and bring it to its joyful conclusion.”
TRACK LISTING
CD & LP
1. Seeker
2. The Unconscious
3. Hollow
4. Skeleton Woman
5. Sorrow (I Just Want To Be Free)
6. Sometimes I Sleep
7. Swift’s Requiem
8. The Way I Am
9. A Shadow Darker Than The Rest
10. Wash Away That Feeling
11. When I Find It Hard
12. Now That’s What I Call Obscene
13. How Was I To Know
2CD
1. Seeker (Full Version)
2. Skeleton Woman (Extended Version)
3. Sometimes I Sleep (Alternative Version)
4. A Shadow Darker Thank The Rest (Piano Version)
5. The Hollow (Alternative Version)
6. I Won't Be There With You
7. That Ain't A Way Of Life
8. Now I Know
9. All Thing Must Pass - Live At The Cavern 2022
10. Spaniard - Live At The Cavern 2022
11. Find The Answer Within - Live At The Cavern 2022
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- Coloured LP
- £40.99
- Cat Number
- 0093624858898
- Release date
- 9 Jun '23
- Format Info
Yellow coloured LP plus a 7” single-sided black Flexi disc. Single pocket jacket with 12page booklet and sticker.
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- LP
- £37.99
Usually ships within: 3-10 days - Cat Number
- 0093624870708
- Release date
- 9 Jun '23
- Format Info
Black vinyl version plus a 7” single-sided black Flexi disc. Single pocket jacket with 12page booklet and sticker.
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‘Too Much (feat Moneybagg Yo)’ is the first track to be released from the upcoming album and the next track to follow will be ‘Dark Hearted’ which was written in collaboration with British Singer/Songwriter James Blake.
There is a whole thematic world around this album which features Freddie as the head of the $$$ Hotel and Casino which is heard on the album via interludes.
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- Deluxe LP
- £30.99
- Cat Number
- ARHSLP011
- Release date
- 9 Jun '23
This half speed was engineered by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios using a half-speed mastering technique which produces a superior vinyl cut.
TRACK LISTING
Side A
The Hurting
Mad World
Pale Shelter
Ideas As Opiates
Memories Fade
Side B
Suffer The Children
Watch Me Bleed
Change
The Prisoner
Start Of The Breakdown
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- LP
- £23.99
- Cat Number
- BEC5611220
- Release date
- 9 Jun '23
- Format Info
Heavyweight black Vinyl edition, 9 new songs.
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- CD
- £12.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- BEC5611219
- Release date
- 9 Jun '23
- Format Info
1CD edition, 9 new songs.
1CD edition, 9 new songs.
The record’s first single, ‘To be honest’ is an ethereal, synth-driven first glimpse into the French phenomenon’s most personal and ambitious album to date. PARANOÏA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE is written, performed and produced by Christine and the Queens, with co-production by Mike Dean (Lana Del Rey, Beyonce) and guest appearances from 070 Shake and Madonna.
TRACK LISTING
180 GRAMS VINYL EDITION
A1 Tears Can Be So Soft
A2 Marvin Descending
A3 A Day In The Water
A4 Angels Crying In My Bed (Feat. Madonna)
A5 Flowery Days
B1 True Love (Feat. 070 Shake)
B2 Aimer, Puis Vivre
B3 Lick The Light Out (Feat. Madonna)
B4 To Be Honest
1CD EDITION
1 Tears Can Be So Soft
2 Marvin Descending
3 A Day In The Water
4 Angels Crying In My Bed (Feat. Madonna)
5 Flowery Days
6 True Love (Feat. 070 Shake)
7 Aimer, Puis Vivre
8 Lick The Light Out (Feat. Madonna)
9 To Be Honest
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- 12"
- £13.99
- Cat Number
- FSR125
- Release date
- 9 Jun '23
Meeting each other at The Factory community centre in Paddington (now known as the Yaa Asantewa centre and in the last few years, The Yaa Centre) Steve & Kevin began a partnership writing and directing their own theatre productions as part of The Black Theatre Co-Op, which called the centre home at the time. When a song they had written together for one of their productions received praise and plaudits, the path toward writing and producing records began, bringing in more seasoned hand Peter Hinds - formerly a member of key brit funk groups Light of the World and Beggar & Co, and player with Incognito, Imagination & Loose Ends - to complete the circle.
Following on from Freestyle's reissue of the group's first single around this time last year, in the form of 1983's Tonight's the Night, we decided to drop another killer 12" from the Take Three vaults - this time it's their last single released as Take Three in 1985. Can't Get Enough (of Your Love) was originally licensed out to, and released by Andy Sojka's seminal Elite label. It features two super extended mixes - the A side's "Soul mix" showcases the girls's harmonies pinned down by a big & heavy synth bass groove before moving into boogie-dub territory, while the B side "Reggae mix" introduces an ofbeat skank heightening the vocal stylings' lovers-esque tendancies.
TRACK LISTING
1. Can't Get Enough (Of Your Love) [Soul Mix]
2. Can't Get Enough (Of Your Love) [Reggae Mix]
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- Deluxe CD
- £16.99
- Cat Number
- EBL!!!-011CD
- Release date
- 9 Jun '23
- Format Info
Deluxe 8-sided Digipak CD.
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Remastered by Martin Bowes at Cage Studios (UK). Gabor Szabo was one of the most original guitarists to emerge in the 1960s, mixing his Hungarian folk music heritage with a deep love of jazz and crafting a distinctive, largely self-taught sound. Born in Budapest, on March 8, 1936, Szabo was inspired by a Roy Rogers cowboy movie to begin playing guitar when he was 14 and often played in dinner clubs and covert jam sessions while still living in his hometown. He escaped from his country at age 20 on the eve of the Communist uprising and eventually made his way to America, settling with his family in California. He attended Berklee College (1958-1960) and in 1961 joined Chico Hamilton’s innovative quintet featuring Charles Lloyd. Urged by Hamilton, Szabo crafted a most distinctive sound; as agile on intricate, nearly-free runs as he was able to sound inspired during melodic passages. Szabo left the Hamilton group in 1965 to leave his mark on the pop-jazz of the Gary McFarland quintet and the energy music of Charles Lloyd’s fiery and underrated quartet featuring Ron Carter and Tony Williams.
Szabo initiated a solo career in 1966, recording the exceptional album, Spellbinder, which yielded many inspired moments and “Gypsy Queen,” the song Santana turned into a huge hit in 1970. Szabo formed an innovative quintet (1967-1969) featuring the brilliant, classically trained guitarist Jimmy Stewart and recorded many notable albums during the late ’60s. The emergence of rock music (especially George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Jimi Hendrix) found Szabo experimenting with feedback and more commercially oriented forms of jazz. During the ’70s, Szabo regularly performed along the West Coast, hypnotizing audiences with his enchanting, spellbinding style. From 1970, he locked into a commercial groove, even though records like Mizrab occasionally revealed his seamless jazz, pop, Gypsy, Indian, and Asian fusions. Szabo had revisited his homeland several times during the ’70s, finding opportunities to perform brilliantly with native talents. He was hospitalized during his final visit and died in 1982, just short of his 46th birthday.
TRACK LISTING
1. Galatea's Guitar (Gabor Szabo)
2. Half The Day Is Night (Gary McFarland)
3. Song Of Injured Love (Manuel De Falla)
4. The Fortune Teller (Gabor Szabo/Louis Kabok)
5. Fire Dance (Manuel De Falla)
6. The Lady In The Moon (Gabor Szabo, From Zoltan Kodaly)
7. Ferris Wheel (Donovan)
8. Fire Dance (single Edit) - From 7″
9. Ferris Wheel (single Edit) - From 7″
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- 2xLP
- £25.99
- Cat Number
- 19439935961
- Release date
- 9 Jun '23
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- Coloured LP
- £21.99
- Cat Number
- GHR001LP-C1
- Release date
- 9 Jun '23
- Format Info
LP pressed on bone white vinyl.
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- CD
- £10.99
- Cat Number
- GHR001CD
- Release date
- 9 Jun '23
Recently worked with Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith on the critically acclaimed album, ‘I Could Be Your Dog / I Could Be Your Moon’ (2022).
On ‘Heaven Hunters’, Emile Mosseri looks inwards, using his distinctive sound and gift for musical storytelling for his most personal work.
Produced by The Haxan Cloak, ‘Heaven Hunters’ explores the weight of choosing one path in life, putting to death every other possible future, and finding comfort in redefining happiness.
For Mosseri, the search for Heaven - a concept of perpetual happiness void of suffering - is a fruitless effort that blocks us from finding peace and balance in life as it really is.
Driven by Mosseri’s poignant lyrics and intimate singing, ‘Heaven Hunters’ is a celebration of the highs and lows that create that equilibrium, built around songs of longing, love, heartbreak, familial struggle, and domestic bliss. It is a vulnerable, heartfelt album that is both expansive and cinematic in its dynamic scope and deeply stripped down and exposed in its emotional core, ready to be experienced as intimately as possible.
TRACK LISTING
Heaven Hunters
Oklahoma Baby
My Greedy Heart
Home For The Summer
Some Kind Of Sting
All For The Bliss
Where The Waters Warm
Two Heaven Hunters
In The Shadows
Rosewater
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- Ltd LP
- £30.99
- Cat Number
- EXIT910
- Release date
- 9 Jun '23
The "Sick Soundtrack" multitrack no longer exists, it was lost many years ago: no multitrack no remixes. And, in fact, "Synth Soundtrack" is NOT a remix.
No possibility of removing or correcting sounds, synthesizers, rhythms, it was only possible to add. Basically today's Gaznevada played together with original Gaznevada. A time machine jam session. A kind of techno-musical psychoanalysis. "Synth Soundtrack" moves away from Sick Soundtrcak to take its own original path.
It's got a deep throb, robotic rhythms, dead pan vox strewn across the mix and a seriously x-rated coital energy throughout! Recommended!
TRACK LISTING
A01 - Nevada Gaz
A02 - Going Underground
A03 - Japanese Girl
A04 - Shock Antistatico
A05 - Pordenone Ufo Attack
B01 - Tij-u-wan
B02 - Oil Tubes
B03 - Nightmare Telegraph
B04 - Walkin Talkin
B05 - Now I Want To Kill
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- 3xCD
- £19.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- BEC5611215
- Release date
- 9 Jun '23
- Format Info
Triple CD edition, 20 new songs.
Includes FREE tea towel (whilst stocks last!)
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The record’s first single, ‘To be honest’ is an ethereal, synth-driven first glimpse into the French phenomenon’s most personal and ambitious album to date. PARANOÏA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE is written, performed and produced by Christine and the Queens, with co-production by Mike Dean (Lana Del Rey, Beyonce) and guest appearances from 070 Shake and Madonna.
STAFF COMMENTS
Barry says: The wonderful Christine And The Queens make a very welcome return for the spellbinding new LP, 'PARANOiA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE'. With hefty synths, gorgeous cinematic intensity and a flawless ear for melody, Chris has continues the legacy he laid out so perfectly in the previous slices of emotional synth-pop genius. It's rich, deep and infinitely rewarding.TRACK LISTING
TRIPLE 180 GRAMS VINYL EDITION
VINYL 1 :
A1 Overture
A2 Tears Can Be So Soft
A3 Marvin Descending
A4 A Day In The Water
B1 Full Of Life
B2 Angels Crying In My Bed (Feat. Madonna)
B3 Track 10
VINYL 2 :
C1 Overture (Feat.Mike Dean)
C2 He’s Been Shining For Ever, Your Son
C3 Flowery Days
C4 I Met An Angel (Feat. Madonna)
D1 True Love (Feat. 070 Shake)
D2 Let Me Touch You Once (Feat. 070 Shake)
D3 Aimer, Puis Vivre
VINYL 3
E1 Shine
E2 We Have To Be Friends
E3 Lick The Light Out (Feat. Madonna)
F1 To Be Honest
F2 I Feel Like An Angel
F3 Big Eye
TRIPLE CD EDITION
CD 1:
1 Overture
2 Tears Can Be So Soft
3 Marvin Descending
4 A Day In The Water
5 Full Of Life
6 Angels Crying In My Bed (Feat. Madonna)
7 Track 10
CD 2:
1 Overture (Feat.Mike Dean)
2 He’s Been Shining For Ever, Your Son
3 Flowery Days
4 I Met An Angel (Feat. Madonna)
5 True Love (Feat. 070 Shake)
6 Let Me Touch You Once (Feat. 070 Shake)
7 Aimer, Puis Vivre
CD3:
1 Shine
2 We Have To Be Friends
3 Lick The Light Out (Feat. Madonna)
4 To Be Honest
5 I Feel Like An Angel
6 Big Eye
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- CD
- £11.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- HAK012CD
- Release date
- 9 Jun '23
TRACK LISTING
1. World’s End FM
2. DOOLALLY
3. Windrush Baby
4. Collateral Cause
5. Bricks In The Wall
6. Full On
7. Babylon Must Fall (MC Grindah Skit)
8. I Don't Know
9. Run
10. Telephones 4 Eyes
11. Watford’s Burning (Connie Constance Skit)
12. Brotherhood
13. Luv U Bro (Big Zees Skit)
14. Dying To Live
15. Almost Lost London
16. The End Of The World
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- 2xLP
- £37.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- UMCLP025
- Release date
- 9 Jun '23
Signing to the ultra-cool Fierce Panda label, the group's debut single All You Good Good People was to become a UK Top 10 hit in October 1997, eight months after its first release, when it was reissued by Virgin offshoot Hut Records. As a result, their debut album, The Good Will Out was eagerly anticipated. Released in June 1998, over its hour, it showcased a range of styles and approaches. From the tender ballad Fireworks to the anthemic title track, the singles My Weakness Is None Of Your Business and Come Back To What You Know, the album's 14 tracks represent an accomplished, beautifully crafted body of work. It is easy to see why Chris Martin of Coldplay (who supported Embrace on tour in 2000) is such an admirer, among many others.
In many respects, Embrace form a trilogy with two other great northern groups of the time, Oasis and The Verve – yet they were no junior partners: The Good Will Out fully captures the scale of their ambition.
It is presented with scrupulous attention to the detail of the original UK first pressing and available in audiophile 180gm vinyl.
TRACK LISTING
1. Intro
2. All You Good Good People
3. My Weakness Is None Of Your Business
4. Come Back To What You Know
5. One Big Family
6. Higher Sights
7. Retread
8. I Want The World
9. You've Got To Say Yes
10. Fireworks
11. The Last Gas
12. That's All Changed Forever
13. Now You're Nobody
14. The Good Will Out
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- 2xColoured LP
- £28.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- AJX2LP327T
- Release date
- 9 Jun '23
- Format Info
The gatefold double LP features the original album on the first disc and all of the exclusive material on a specially compiled second disc. The vinyl itself mimics the original album’s blood-splatter appearance.
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- CD
- £10.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- AJXCD327T
- Release date
- 9 Jun '23
- Format Info
A unique CD will include all of the tracks from the original album, followed by selected bonus tracks.
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The original release plan saw a short run of a box set that included exclusive music and has inevitably become a sought after rarity since.
For the album’s tenth anniversary, special edition deluxe versions make these tracks availableagain, in some formats for the very first time.
TRACK LISTING
CD
Gather Up
Devil Inside Me
Fallen Angel
Medicine
Wolf Quartet
Solstice
October Sun
The Signs
Knock Knock
Bonfire
Village Dance
Farewell Summer Sun
The Dawn
You That I See
Fire Chant
Food Chain Blues
Early Knock
October
To The Floor
Sea Chant
Devil Inside Me (Walk With Samuel)
Honky Knock
Venison Sketch
Wolf Quartet (‘Original’ Mix)
2LP
Gather Up
Devil Inside Me
Fallen Angel
Medicine
Wolf Quartet
Solstice
October Sun
The Signs
Knock Knock
Bonfire
Village Dance
Farewell Summer Sun
The Dawn
Devil Inside Me (Walk With Samuel)
Fire Chant
You That I See
Early Knock
To The Floor
Wolf Quartet (‘original' Mix)
Ukenwhistle
Venison Sketch
On A High
October
Honky Knock
An Electric Hero
Food Chain Blues
Sea Chant
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- Paperback Book
- £18.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- 9781913172671
- Release date
- 9 Jun '23
Including stories about the key moments, musicians, and albums from grunge's beginnings to its come-down from the highs of global success and stardom, this is the first account of the musical phenomenon that took over the world from someone who was there for it all. Written by Steve Turner, lead guitarist of Mudhoney, a foundational grunge band that inspired musical icons from Kurt Cobain to Sonic Youth, Mud Ride features a foreword by Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard and never-before-seen photographs and grunge memorabilia throughout. Take a seat and ride through the messy and muddy grunge scene that grew from the basements of the Northwest and went on to circle the globe.
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- Hardback Book
- £22.00
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- 9781788705417
- Release date
- 9 Jun '23
This book will provide the perfect route in, pulling together every fascinating strand to tell the story of a group with the imagination of the Beatles, the pop craft of ABBA, the drama of Fleetwood Mac and the emotional heft of the Beach Boys. Uniquely, the Bee Gees' tale spans the entire modern pop era - they are the only group to have scored British top-ten singles in the '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s - and includes world-conquering disco successes like 'Stayin' Alive' and 'More Than a Woman', both from the soundtrack of hit film Saturday Night Fever. But the Bee Gees' extraordinary career was one of highs and lows.
From a vicious but temporary split in 1969 to several unreleased albums, disastrous TV and film appearances, and a demoralising cabaret season, the group weren't always revelling in the glow of million-selling albums, private jets and UNICEF concerts. Yet, even in the Gibbs' darkest times, their music was rarely out of the charts, as sung by the likes of Al Green, Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton, and Destiny's Child. Capturing the human story at the heart of the Bee Gees, this book will be a lyrical and stylish read, delighting hardcore fans with its details while engaging casual pop readers who simply want to know more about this important and enigmatic group.
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- LP
- £22.99
- Cat Number
- BEWITH006LP
- Release date
- 2 Jun '23 (originally released 25 Aug '17)
This release is officially licensed and has been lovingly mastered for vinyl by Simon Francis (Claremont 56 mastering engineer) It has been pressed on audiophile 180gram vinyl for the first time and features the original, rarely seen artwork.
South African singer Letta Mbulu possesses one of the most beautiful voices the world has ever known. Her immaculate voice emits a sweetness that radiates from deep within, brimming with a joy of life and inspiring a spirit of hope and happiness. On this album, her voice soars over a strident musical force that veers between disco, soul and pop music of the most incredible kind. The gleaming guitars recall disco's finest hours while the thump of the beats anticipate 80s British soul.
News of this limited reissue has already been causing a significant stir amongst those in the know so do not sleep on this - you have been warned!
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- Ltd 7"
- £15.99
- Cat Number
- STIX059
- Release date
- 2 Jun '23
After the recent success of his “Summer Madness / Maiden Voyage” single, quickly followed up by the release of “Jazz-Funk Dub Tribute” LP, Mato and Stix got keen to pursue their journey within the wide and miscellaneous American groove music repertoire. In September 2022, just after the release of this same LP, Pascal Rioux (A&R of Favorite and its sub-labels) submitted to Mato the idea of the Bobby Caldwell’s song and the start of a new “Mellow Reggae Series” focusing more specifically on the so-called AOR and blue-eyed-soul genre.
“What You Won’t Do For Love” by Bobby Caldwell, is one of those instant classics, known and heard at least once by almost everyone on the planet, although its performer still remains quite unknown for most. With this thrilling version, Mato strike opts for a full on cover version - with all new instrumentation which follows the original’s arrangement but adds its own charming reggae lilt. And while it was not an easy task to walk in the footsteps of Caldwell’s vocals, under-the-radar and upcoming singer and composer Ethel Lindsey is a perfect match for the song, giving relaxed and chill vibes, adding his own natural positivity and charisma to this globally adored anthem. Dubbed out to perfection by Mato on the flip!
Starting his reggae production career in 2006, Thomas Blanchot (aka Mato) has released music through various projects on EDR Records, Big Singles or Makasound... In the meantime, he developed a real trademark: taking over classic French, hip-hop, OST, classical or pop songs, into new, roots reggae-dub versions. His 15 years collaboration with Stix Records and label honcho Pascal Rioux gave life to many masterpieces and the story seems far from the end…
STAFF COMMENTS
Matt says: Another impeccable twist from the master of the reggae-dub-mash-up concept - Mato. Taking a piece of classic soul and adding a summery skank and a delicious dub.TRACK LISTING
What You Won’t Do For Love (Mato Mellow Reggae Mix)
What You Won’t Do For Love (Mato Dub Version)
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- 2xColoured LP
- £29.99
- Cat Number
- 279743
- Release date
- 2 Jun '23
- Format Info
180g clear vinyl in gatefold sleeve.
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TRACK LISTING
SIDE A
1. Ol’ 55
2. I Hope That I Don’t Fall In Love With You
3. Virginia Avenue
SIDE B
1. Old Shoes (& Picture Postcards)
2. Midnight Lullaby
3. Martha
SIDE C
1. Rosie
2. Lonely
3. Ice Cream Man
SIDE D
1. Little Trip To Heaven (On The Wings Of Your Love)
2. Grapefruit
3. Closing Time
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- Ltd LP
- £22.99
- Cat Number
- BEWITH090LP
- Release date
- 2 Jun '23
- Format Info
2023 reissue, 140g vinyl.
2023 reissue, 140g vinyl.
Cleveland Eaton was a revered bassist who played an active role in the backing of Count Basie, the Donald Byrd Quintet, The Ramsey Lewis Trio, Terry Callier and Minnie Riperton; amongst many, many others. Half And Half was the first album released under his own name, initially released as a private press record on his - awkwardly named - Cle An Thair Records. It was then picked up by Gamble & Huff for Gamble Records. Varied, string-adorned and with stupid funky grooves, it's just exceptionally good.
Whilst Half And Half is treasured for its famously brilliant interpretations of gold funk-soul standards, Eaton proves an imaginative composer in his own right. Indeed, the album opens with a striking original; the earthy, laconic jazz-guitar-funk fusion of "Keep It Funky". Cleveland and co. do exactly that. Up next is a properly moving cover of Aretha Franklin's eternal "Day Dreaming". The flute and guitar combo truly achieve celestial greatness here. "Here Comes Funky Lou" rides a bassline from the Gods and a driving soul-jazz groove allows the track to go off in all sorts of directions. Serene guitar soul of the breezy variety one moment, crazy hectic violin-driven wig outs the next, courtesy of Ed Green who played with Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane. His blistering two track salvo of Stylistics covers to close out this A-Side of A-Sides will leave your jaw dropped, and they're likely the reason you're here for this. And why not? "Betcha By Golly Wow", which uses a bed of acidy synths and harmonica to create a unique atmosphere, is on some next level business. Melancholic, wistful, beautiful. "People Make the World Go Round" is so good, dripping in wonderful horns and ace percussive breaks, it could even be regarded as the definitive version. Seriously!
Opening Side B, War's gigantic "Slipping Into Darkness" is tightly tailored to Eaton's funky flute fusion arrangement whilst the insistent "Missing You" is a swaggering horn-heavy version of Luther Ingram's track from the Dilla/Ghostface-linked LP, I've Been Here All The Time. The creeping, screeching guitar-drenched original "John's Groove" features more fantastic horn lines and neck-snapping percussion whilst "The Love Gangster", written by Bill Wyman and Stephen Stills for his seminal Manassas LP, contains a heavy break with slick drums high in the mix and fuzzy guitars.
The album closes with two more Eaton originals. Written with Johnny Guitar Watson, "Lie" is one hell of a funky string and guitar-driven gem whilst the wild, celebratory "Ah Movin' On" cleverly quotes "Wade In The Water" (which he'd recorded with Ramsey Lewis in 1966) folding it into his new free-jazz composition. A message to his old boss, perhaps, as a sign-off?
We've worked on this reissue for 3.5 years, spending the whole time making it sound super sharp and looking as perfect as it possibly can. An absolute must-have for fans of soulful jazz-funk, Half And Half was mastered for vinyl by Simon Francis and cut by Pete Norman at Final Tweak. The bizarre artwork, mutant beast and all, was restored at Be With HQ over many painstaking months! Hopefully, this new edition, a real labour of love, should bring Cleveland Eaton into the homes and record boxes of many more people.
TRACK LISTING
A1 Keep It Funky 5:20
A2 Day Dreaming 3:36
A3 Here Comes Funky Lou 4:00
A4 Betcha By Golly Wow 4:15
A5 People Make The World Go Round 5:34
B1 Slipping Into Darkness 7:15
B2 Missing You 3:1
B3 John's Groove 2:55
B4 The Love Gangster 3:20
B5 Lie 2:15 B6 Ah Movin' On 4:00
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- Coloured LP
- £20.99
- Cat Number
- FIRELP695
- Release date
- 2 Jun '23
- Format Info
Limited pink vinyl, insert with new liner notes, DL card.
Limited pink vinyl,... [ + ]
After Come's seminal 1994 release ‘Don't Ask Don't Tell’, bassist Sean O'Brien and drummer Arthur Johnson left the band to pursue other careers. Remaining members Chris Brokaw and Thalia Zedek recorded Near Life Experience with two different rhythm sections: one half of the album was recorded with drummer Mac McNeilly of the Jesus Lizard and Bundy K. Brown of Tortoise and Gastr Del Sol, the other half recorded with Kevin Coultas and Tara Jane O'Neil of Rodan and The Sonora Pine. Other contributors to the album included Edward Yazijian from Kustomized and Jeff Goddard from Karate, both rock bands hailing from Boston, MA.
The title of the album resulted from "a slip of the tongue, as Zedek states, she "was telling someone [she had] had a 'near life experience,' but meant to say near death experience. Chris [Brokaw] was cracking up at the imagery of that. Thus, the phrase was chosen as the album's title.
"Near-Life Experience is heavier, and at the same time prettier, than Come has ever sounded." CMJ New Music Monthly.
“Come is a re-energized, even more powerful band than they used to be, and Near Life Experience is their most concise and affecting release yet.” All Music.
Zedek and Brokaw might have compensated the loss of band members by recruiting new blood but the reward was huge, ‘Near Life Experience’ is Come’s most cinematic, diverse and accessible album.
TRACK LISTING
Side One
A1 Hurricane
A2 Weak As The Moon
A3 Secret Number
A4 Bitten
A5 Shoot Me First
Side Two
B1 Walk On's
B2 Half Life
B3 Sloe-Eyed
B4 Prize
B5 Strike
B6 Hurricane II
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- Coloured LP
- £25.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- 277737
- Release date
- 2 Jun '23
- Format Info
Eco mix coloured vinyl.
Eco mix coloured vinyl. -
- LP
- £22.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- 277731
- Release date
- 2 Jun '23
- Format Info
Standard black vinyl.
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- CD
- £10.99
- Cat Number
- 277732
- Release date
- 2 Jun '23
Emerging from the blue- collar swamps of Berkeley, California, Rancid has now been a living, breathing punk rock band for over a quarter century.
Back in 1991, after the demise of their much beloved and still influential first band, Operation Ivy, founding members Tim Armstrong (vocals, guitar) and Matt Freeman (bass, vocals) decided to do the impossible -- start an even better band. Thus, Rancid. Signing with Epitaph Records, the band released their first album, "Rancid," in 1993. Shortly thereafter, Lars Frederiksen (vocals, guitar) joined the band and they went on to release incredible records from "Let's Go." (1994) to their classic - platinum selling "...And Out Come The Wolves." (1995). Drummer Branden Steineckert joined the band in 2003, cementing the line-up that rocks out till this day.
Seeing Rancid live is a life changing experience and steady touring is in the plan for 2023. The band will tour Europe in June and the rest of the world soon after.
Through it all, Rancid has remained fiercely independent, never losing their loyalty to community or each other. Their music confronts political and social issues, while balancing personal tales of love, loss, and heartbreak with attitude. Rancid gives their listeners a community where everyone can belong. By carrying on the traditions and spirit of the original punk rock bands that came before, Rancid has become a legend and inspiration to punk bands that have come after. They are the living embodiment of East Bay punk. And if you don't know all this by now -- you're not playing their music loud enough!
TRACK LISTING
Tomorrow Never Comes
Mud Blood & Gold
Devil In Disguise
New American
Tomorrow Never Comes
Don't Make Me Do It
It's A Road To Righteousness
Live Forever
Drop Dead Inn
Prisoners Song
Magnificent Rouge
One Way Ticket
Hellbound Train
Eddie The Butcher
Hear Us Out
When The Smoke Clears
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- 2xLP
- £37.99
- Cat Number
- PXC034GD
- Release date
- 2 Jun '23
In 2014, while EDM is wreaking havoc in the United States and around the world, Etienne De Crecy decided to return to Super Discount, to produce the third part of the series (released in 2015).
If the synthesizers remain in the forefront, faithful to Super Discount 2's techno energy, samples and production give the record a house and funky sound that was the trademark of the first release. This time around Etienne De Crecy also collaborated with singers rather than producers. Dave & Pos (De La Soul), Baxter Dury, Tom Burke (Citizens!), Madeline Follin (Cults) and Kilo Kish, but also Alex Gopher and Julien Delfaud all appear on the album.
TRACK LISTING
1. Smile (feat. Alex Gopher)
2. Family
3. Night (Cut The Crap)
4. Amazing
5. You
6. Sunset
7. Love
8. Follow
9. Smile (Vocal Mix) (feat. Alex Gopher & Asher Roth)
10. WTF
11. Hashtag My Ass
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- Ltd 7"
- £12.99
- Cat Number
- SJR511-7
- Release date
- 2 Jun '23
Exact reproduction of this excellent two-sider (double B-side) ‘The Only Sound’ / ‘New Musical Express’, the debut punk single by Dansette Damage from Birmingham, originally released on the tiny Shoestring Records in early 1978.
The tracks were produced incognito by Robert Plant from Led Zeppelin. “Robert put all needles in the red which is why it sounds so raw! Also, we couldn’t sing and you can hear Robert’s high falsetto at the top end, trying to keep us lot in tune!” said the band.
Original copies of this record sell for over £100, so here is a chance to see and hear what all the fuss is about.
Dansette Damage’s ‘NME’ features on Soul Jazz Records’ ‘Punk 45: I’m A Mess’.
TRACK LISTING
The Only Sound
New Musical Express
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- 2xColoured LP
- £31.99
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- 4050538861587
- Release date
- 2 Jun '23
- Format Info
Violet transparent vinyl gatefold sleeve.
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- 2xCD
- £12.99
- Cat Number
- 4050538869309
- Release date
- 2 Jun '23
- Format Info
Digipack.
Digipack.
This incredible run of hits included, ‘007’, ‘It Mek’, ‘Pickney Gal’, ‘You Can Get It If You Really Want’, ‘Sing A Little Song’ and the first Jamaican-produced recording to top the British 7” singles listings, ‘Israelites’.
All of these essential recordings feature on the ‘The ‘Essential Artist Collection’, which also includes the very best of his remaining work, with almost every track a major Jamaican best-seller.
Available as both a double vinyl LP and a 50-track 2CD set, the collection is the latest in Trojan Records’ new stylishly designed series showcasing the most popular and influential recordings of some of Jamaican music’s most celebrated performers.
And, as expertly demonstrated by this superb compilation, few reggae artists were more influential and celebrated than the legendary Desmond Dekker.
TRACK LISTING
Vinyl Tracklisting:
SIDE 1
1. Israelites (with The Aces)
2. It Mek (with The Aces)
3. Fu Man Chu (with The Aces)
4. (Where Did It Go) The Song We Used To
5. Beautiful And Dangerous (with The Aces)
6. King Of Ska (with The Cherry Pies)
7. Intensified ’68 (with The Aces)
SIDE 2
1. You Can Get It If You Really Want
2. Unity (with The Aces)
3. Live And Learn
4. Rudy Got Soul (with The Aces)
5. Get Up Adina (with The Four Aces)
6. Generosity
7. Pretty Africa (with The Aces)
SIDE 3
1. 007 (with The Aces)
2. The First For A Long Time
3. Rude Boy Train (with The Aces)
4. Honour Your Mother And Father
5. It Pays (with The Aces)
6. Problem (with The Aces)
7. Wise Man (with The Aces)
SIDE 4
1. Sing A Little Song
2. Mother Pepper (with The Aces)
3. Mount Zion (with The Four Aces)
4. Licking Stick (with The Aces)
5. Young Generation (with The Aces)
6. Pickney Gal (with The Aces)
7. Jamaica Ska (with The Specials)
CD Tracklisting:
CD 1:
1. Israelites (with The Aces)
2. It Mek (with The Aces)
3. Fu Man Chu (with The Aces)
4. (Where Did It Go) The Song We Used To
5. Beautiful And Dangerous (with The Aces)
6. King Of Ska (with The Cherry Pies)
7. Intensified ’68 (with The Aces)
8. Sabotage (with The Aces)
9. Sugar Dumpling (with The Aces)
10. Don’t Blame Me (with The Aces)
11. Perseverance
12. It’s A Shame (with The Aces)
13. Jeserine (with The Cherry Pies)
14. Bongo Gal (with The Aces)
15. Pick Up The Phone
16. Mother’s Young Gal (with The Aces)
17. This Woman (with The Four Aces)
18. Shing A Ling (with The Aces)
19. You Can Get It If You Really Want
20. Unity (with The Aces)
21. Live And Learn
22. Rudy Got Soul (with The Aces)
23. Get Up Adina (with The Four Aces)
24. Generosity
25. Pretty Africa (with The Aces)
CD 2:
1. 007 (with The Aces)
2. The First For A Long Time
3. Rude Boy Train (with The Aces)
4. Honour Your Mother And Father
5. It Pays (with The Aces)
6. Problems (with The Aces)
7. Wise Man (with The Aces)
8. Mother Nature
9. It Gotta Be So
10. Beware
11. Coconut Water (with The Aces)
12. Soldering (with The Four Aces)
13. Busted Lad
14. Sweet Music (with The Aces)
15. Labour For Learning
16. No Place Like Home
17. Writing On The Wall (with The Aces)
18. Parents
19. Sing A Little Song
20. Mother Pepper (with The Aces)
21. Mount Zion (with The Four Aces)
22. Licking Stick (with The Aces)
23. Young Generation (with The Aces)
24. Pickney Gal (with The Aces)
25. Jamaica Ska (with The Specials)
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- Ltd 12"
- £13.99
- Cat Number
- TOYT148
- Release date
- 2 Jun '23
The results are quite spectacular, existing in a timeless bubble of dreamy house music which take in the tropes of early Italian dance records, add some UK rave attitude and cover the whole thing in a modern polish which gives extra sparkle and shine. Its an addictive formula which has seen her invited to perform at Dekmantel Selectors, Time Warp, Nuits Sonores, Lente Kabinet, Cocktail D'Amore, Flow Festival and many - the future’s bright for this rising star!
STAFF COMMENTS
Matt says: Toytonics have one of the strongest roster's going. And if they keep adding talent like Bárbara Boeing then I can see them being at the top of the game for quite some time to come.TRACK LISTING
A1) Brigada (feat. Phil Mill)
A2) Brasiliana
B1) Brigada (Esa Williams Remix)
B2) Baile Do Silêncio
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- LP
- £20.99
- Cat Number
- HYR7256
- Release date
- 2 Jun '23
- Includes MP3 Download Code.
The cult M'lumbo collective has been a legendary and groundbreaking act since first forming in the mid-80s. They cross genre boundaries as they draw on jazz, world, electronic, rock and experimental music that escapes the commercial world and take you into another realm entirely. There is no limit to their sound; each member brings their own cultural background to the mix, making the band all the more unique.
As the coronavirus pandemic struck, three members of the band Rob Ray Flatow, Paul-Alexandre Meurens and Brian O'Neill under-took a regimen of shamanic traveling in New York City. The experiences led them to spontaneously compose and perform a suite of pieces, informed and inspired by Jean Hans Arp's works but also by the feelings of isolation and indefinite exile yet to come in their urban environment.
Compared to the works they have done as part of the larger M'lumbo band, this album is a more modest and naive affair that is "a vehicle for the renewal of feeling using only a few instruments - acoustic and electric guitar, keyboard, flute, small percussion, kalimba and clarinet - and locating a sense of both the deep sadness and uplifting powers of reverie."
'There Are No Words' kicks off with heavenly chords and organic percussion that recalls the jungle jazz of Don Cherry, then 'Shoreline' is a five-minute dub with percolating rhythms and new age melodies before the soul-soothing acoustic guitar of 'The Afternoon Levitation' blisses you out on a sunny day. The perfectly entitled 'Swoon' is another gloriously uplifting piece of musical spirituality that fuses the electronic and synthetic with the ancient and ritualistic. There is more jungle jazz, big-band horn work and cosmic synth modulations of 'Open The Heavens' while 'Quanta' is a shuffling, jumbled mix of radiant chords, wigged-out electronic lines and celestial charm. 'Planetfall' goes from free-form jazz to double-time techno and back to cathartic ambient. The final trio of tracks conjures up everything from the transcendental jazz of Alice Coltrane to the cinematic downtempo of Calm.
TRACK LISTING
A1. There Are No Words
A2. Shoreline
A3. The Afternoon Levitation
A4. Swoon
B1. Open The Heavens
B2. Quanta
B3. Planetfall
B4. The Great Clock
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- Ltd LP
- £26.99
- Cat Number
- EZRDR138
- Release date
- 2 Jun '23
In 1973, Detroit was clearly “Rock City”, featuring such local icons as Bob Seger, Alice Cooper, Grand Funk Railroad, Ted Nugent, and Mitch Ryder, and the high energy punch of Master Danse reflected this proud heritage. Unfortunately, this union would only last one year, and by the end of 1974 the power rock trio known as Master Danse had disbanded. What was left for posterity were only two live reel to reel recordings and one promo 45 single. Some forty-seven years later, the 45 found its way onto the internet and a small cult following of audiophiles was born, people who appreciate the raw power and high energy of early ‘70s rock. Bands like Master Danse and others from this era were riding the wave of transition from the pop rock sound of the ‘60s to an edgier sound that would eventually lead to metal and punk music.
With the help of modern-day tape restoration techniques, the two live recordings were restored, and together with the 45, the best versions of the eight songs that have survived the decades are featured on this album. Although recorded live forty-eight years ago on a two-track stereo tape recorder, you can still feel the power of Giaier’s Marshall stack, Fletcher’s twin Acoustic 360 amps, and the relentless attack of Riss’ Ludwig drums. So, sit back and enjoy. Rock on!
TRACK LISTING
Side One
1. Detroit City
2. Givin' In
3. I. O.U.
4. Sunday Morning
Side Two
1. Train To Love
2. We're Not Alone
3. Feelin' Dead
4. En Route To Fame
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- Ltd LP
- £32.99
- Cat Number
- EZRDR142
- Release date
- 2 Jun '23
Maximillian combined elements of beat poetry, a little bit of The Fugs, a hit of Funkadelic, a lick of Cream and a vibe of Hendrix worship with an ambition that seems to have jumbled these influences. The Maximillian album is a rare artifact of late-60s psychedelic rock whose appeal is not the skill of their musicianship, but the downright strangeness of it. While at times it sounds like the trio is playing entirely different songs at the same time, it’s said that producer Teddy Vann had a hand in the album’s sometimes confusing production.
The group credited on the album consists of singer Buzzy Bowzer (aka Maximillian), lead guitarist Mojack Maximillian, and bassist Moby Medina (aka Moby Maximillian) with drummer Jerry Nolan later of the New York Dolls oddly uncredited on the LP. However, according to Nolan’s official biography, the band was actually co-founded by Buzzy and Nolan in 1968. The drummer was reported to have feuded with Vann, who disliked his Mitch Mitchell influenced style, and was subsequently mixed very quietly and not credited on the album.
The album’s eye-catching artwork features the sharp dressed band crucified on flower-covered crosses, with a cryptic and self-aggrandizing manifesto describing them as “new prophets of love and truth.” Be that as it may, their prophecy was short-lived, though it may have foretold the chaotic, rudimentary sounds to come in punk, and even, the grunge era.
The album opens with what sounds like an alternate reality version of Procol Harum’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale” here re-tripping the light fandango under the guise of “Naked Ape.” A short 4-second sputtering of a violin tuning starts and abruptly ends as funereal fuzz bass and drums set up the melody and shimmering organ, violin squall and Bowzer’s howling voice wails of the failures of human evolution. “Kickin’ 9 to 5” starts like an early Hendrix groove before turning on a dime into a Bo Diddley-esque dirge, replete with the drums hard panned to the left channel and a persistent maraca on the right. Bowzer’s diction on “Scar On My Memory” predates Mark E. Smith of The Fall’s signature added vowels at the end of most words, while the music sounds like a more acid damaged take on fellow NYC freak-folkers Exuma. Elsewhere, “The Name of The Game” echoes “Manic Depression” with churning, rolling drums and a chiming guitar following Bowzer’s growling blues until the song suddenly shifts into a lurching rave-up, then a blues rumble for a few bars before mutating back to the original riff. Album closer “Moby’s House” is by far the most unusual track, sounding like a pastiche of the album’s songs cut and spliced together in random fashion, perhaps in homage to The Beatles’ “Revolution No. 9.” Throughout the album, random percussion and other instruments pop up as though the producer were assuring he could take credit for song arrangements.
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- Ltd 12"
- £17.99
- Cat Number
- DUDI06
- Release date
- 2 Jun '23
Onto side B and Polyplay deploys a swung, 3/4 future dubber, complete with soulful beatdown vocals on "Durch die Nacht". Craftsmen concludes this head turning set with "Desperado" which pairs pitched up female vox to a rigid breakbeat and gentle subs; a curveball end of night track that completes this odd ball but infectious set beautifully.
STAFF COMMENTS
Matt says: Another well sourced and re-jigged smattering of oddball dance music from the Dub Disco cartel. Certain to cause head turns, beard twiddles and forceful track ID requests.TRACK LISTING
A1 Georg Wedel - König Dub
A2 Aussteiger - Yusuf Dub
B1 Polyplay - Durch Die Nacht
B2 Craftsman - Desperado
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- Ltd 12"
- £9.99
- Cat Number
- BJ36
- Release date
- 2 Jun '23
‘Along With You’ bounces along with plenty of feel-good energy, channeling ‘90s spirit with its thicl bassline pump and an earworm of a sugar-sweet vocal. Well-chosen vox cuts create an infectious rhythm in between the full vocal sections while soft synth arps tickle the surface of the track and epic snare rolls inject more energy in the breakdown and at key moments. Guaranteed to get massive reactions. Kresy’s ‘Continuum Mix’ takes things into a lighter direction with gorgeous, sunny piano chords chiming in unison with a driving, uplifting bassline and pretty synth flourishes.
‘Her Dream Road’ pushes the EP into almost ambient house territory with its swirling pads and deep atmospheres, but the energetic percussion and warm bassline throb and melody give it plenty of dancefloor energy. Kresy’s ‘Mellonized Remix’ pumps it up with plump organ bass, dreamy acid licks, soaring arpeggios, continual automation and epic pad progressions that make for an absolutely huge rework that’s full of life, atmosphere and colour.
STAFF COMMENTS
Matt says: Shir Khan rides again! Nearly 15 years old and still providing the holiday house hits for the terraces, beach bars and nightclubs across the globe. Seriously strong offering from this well established firm.TRACK LISTING
A1. Paul Rudder & Kresy - Along With You
A2. Paul Rudder & Kresy - Along With You (Kresy Continuum Mix)
B1. Paul Rudder - Her Dream Road
B2. Paul Rudder - Her Dream Road (Kresy Mellonized Mix)
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- 2xLP
- £28.99
- Cat Number
- C56LP 023
- Release date
- 2 Jun '23
The set introduces us to a handful of label debutants. German collective Neumayer Station, a group who emerged from the same musical and social circle as existing Claremont 56 artists Fürstattl, contribute two cuts: ‘Unterführung’, an evocative, low-slung, reverb-laden fusion of krautrock and horizontal psychedelic dream-pop featuring Fürstattl’s Frank Mollena and Patrick Göbel, and the subtly jazz-flecked krautrock hypnotism of ‘Crossings’, a cut whose atmospheric intent and well-placed dub delays make it undeniably Balearic.
Speaking of Balearic, experienced musical daydreamer Mike Salta finally makes his Claremont 56 bow, joining forces with regular collaborator Marty Mortale on the deliciously tactile, warming, electric piano-sporting sunset shuffle of ‘Seashore Redemption’. The final new addition to the C56 family is Taichi Arakawa, the DJ/producer behind Japan’s Café Goofy. His track, ‘Ocean Sunrise’, is a gorgeously dreamy and kaleidoscopic shuffle through drifting synth-sax, slow-motion beats, immersive pads and layered synthesizer melodies.
As with its predecessors, Claremont Editions Volume Three also boasts fresh, unreleased material from label stalwarts. Jpye, whose Samba With You album was one of the label’s highlights of 2021, once again joins forces with regular collaborator Renato – and newcomer Michael T – to deliver a dose of club-ready Balearic samba smothered in glistening jazz guitar licks, lazy synth solos and languid electric piano licks (‘Va Là-Bas).
Ferdi Schuster, who released his sole album to date on the label back in 2019, offers up the pastoral, folksy and hand percussion-heavy brilliance of ‘The Fuzz Version’, while C56’s own in-house trio, Hillside (AKA Paul Murphy, Alex Searle and Patrick Dawes) deliver the utterly gorgeous and cinematic ‘Pole Vault’ – a delightful hat-tip to classic library music featuring brilliant brass and string arrangements from Michele Chiavarini.
Rounding off another excellent package are two remixes from the vaults: Bosq’s pitched-up, Latin-tinged Balearic jazz-funk interpretation of Hillside’s deeply personal and emotive ‘For Daniel’ (a revision previously only available digitally) and a previously unheard revision of Paqua’s ‘The Visitor’ from Idjut Boys’ Conrad McDonnell, a long-time friend of the label. His take is predictably magical and dubbed-out to the max, with Quinn Luke’s evocative vocals seemingly drifting above sparse, stripped-back beats, echoing guitars, hissing cymbals and hazy bass.
To complete the package, Claremont Editions Three features a specially commissioned cover painting from Andy Kehoe, an illustrator whose distinctively colourful, detailed and fantastical images are a perfect match for the vividly evocative music contained on the LP.
TRACK LISTING
A1. Hillside - Pole Vault
A2. Hillside - For Daniel (Bosq Remix)
B1. Mike Salta & Mortale - Seashore Redemption
B2. Jpye & Renato - Va La-Bas (feat Michael T)
B3. Taichi Arakawa - Ocean Sunrise
C1. Neumayer Station - Crossings
C2. Paqua - The Visitor (Conrad's Love Shark Mix)
D1. Neumayer Station - Unterfuhrung
D2. Ferdi Schuster - The Fuzz Version
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- Ltd 7"
- £13.99
- Cat Number
- SC7059
- Release date
- 2 Jun '23
Both tracks casually resting in what Full Beam FM! refers to as crawlers & moochers. These are slower, soulful cuts, full of pitch bent b-lines, tickling synth licks and syncopated drum machines - the very essence of bedroom boogie. The French vocals only add to the overtly sensual nature while the synth work throughout is absolutely top drawer. Can't fault this one! Another essential from the now long-running stable.
STAFF COMMENTS
Matt says: Crawlers from the Star Creature camp as they mellow out the moods for the hotter months. Perfect for winding down the windows when your stuck in traffic on you're way to the beach.TRACK LISTING
Side 1
1. En Transit
Side 2
1. Colibri
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- 2xLtd LP
- £27.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- RCM101120LP
- Release date
- 2 Jun '23
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- Coloured LP
- £26.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- TRR406LPC2
- Release date
- 2 Jun '23
- Format Info
Forest moss coloured vinyl for indies only.
Forest moss coloured... [ + ]
The first Eluvium album to feature a full live orchestra.
(Whirring Marvels In) Consensus Reality is the new album by Eluvium – the renowned moniker of prolific modern composer, Matthew Robert Cooper. Taking initial inspirations from T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land and Richard Brautigan’s All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace, (Whirring Marvels) inherently deals both with humankind’s need for meaning, and the emergence of algorithms reflecting the feedback loops of humankind’s interactions with machines themselves. This complicated relationship that we have with technology, automations, and algorithms – and the influence they in turn have on shaping our image of the world – is the mechanized heart and soul of an album that almost instantly establishes itself as a peak in Eluvium’s inimitable catalog.
During the writing process for (Whirring Marvels In) Consensus Reality, Cooper began experiencing shoulder and arm pain that rendered his left arm increasingly debilitated. This inspired new compositional methods that blended varying degrees of electronic automations with traditional songwriting. Lyrical themes were built using algorithms to cull content from a notebook filled with years of scribbled thoughts, poems, considerations, conspiracies, scientific notions, and notes on the spirit of existence. Employing musicians from all around the world – including members of the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME), Golden Retriever, and the entire Budapest Scoring Orchestra – much of the music was conducted and recorded remotely via teleconference during the global COVID lockdowns of 2020 and 2021. This approach to composing served as an unintended but serendipitous challenge for an album inspired by the complicated convenience of technology.
(Whirring Marvels In) Consensus Reality blends an ornate combination of ingredients to construct a narrative of our dynamic invention; technological advancement; loneliness and isolationism; and unchecked idealism in a world of never-ending growth. The resulting hope that somehow emerges is itself a marvel of innovation and inspiration.
STAFF COMMENTS
Barry says: Matthew Robert Cooper produces some of the most beautiful modern-classical music around today, from the brittle solo piano of 'Pianoworks' to the more grand, expansive outings like 'Copia' or this, his most orchestrated outing yet. 'Whirring Marvels...' is playful in parts, but deeply heartfelt throughout. Rich and fun, just how I like my albums.TRACK LISTING
1. Escapement (1:37)
2. Swift Automatons (2:37)
3. Vibration Consensus Reality (for Spectral Multiband Resonator) (8:01)
4. Scatterbrains (3:34)
5. Phantasia Telephonics (5:55)
6. The Violet Light (2:30)
7. Void Manifest (4:11)
8. Clockwork Fables (2:16)
9. Mass Lossless Interbeing (3:43)
10. A Floating World Of Demons (3:04)
11. Endless Flower (3:46)
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- 2xColoured LP
- £25.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- OTIH001LPC
- Release date
- 2 Jun '23
- Format Info
Limited double clear vinyl edition.
Limited double clear... [ + ]
The quartet is Biscuit on flute, Kwake Bass on drums & percussion, Raven Bush on violin, and Peter Bennie on bass - with a whole bunch of synths and unique toys to boot. Further Out Than The Edge features an extensive list of friends and family, most of who happen to be some of the most exciting names in independent music: Tirzah, Kelsey Lu, Shabaka Hutchings, Coby Sey, Sampha, Kae Tempest, Mica Levi, Joe Armon-Jones, Lawfawndah, Léa Sen, and more.
TRACK LISTING
A1 On Grounds (feat. Coby Sey)
A2 Acute Truth (feat. Kelsey Lu)
A3 Fix (feat. Tirzah)
A4 Wavelet (feat. Confucius MC & Joe Armon-Jones)
B1 Dreaded ! (feat. Léa Sen)
B2 Geronimo Blues (feat. Kae Tempest)
B3 Can We Do This? (feat. Sampha)
C1 Soapbox Soliloquy (feat. LEILAH)
C2 Hither Green (feat. James Massiah)
C3 Round Again (feat. Tawiah)
D1 Behind The Sun (feat. Lafawndah & Trustfall)
D2 Shabz Needs Sun (feat. Shabaka Hutchings)
D3 Karainagar (feat. Mica Levi)
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- 12"
- £17.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- NSWN075
- Release date
- 2 Jun '23
A slew of lauded singles and an extended play in their formative period has laid the foundation for their latest EP, ‘My Eyes, Brother!’, which sees the group exploring yet harsher and more multi-faceted ground.
Available to independent retailers on 12” vinyl.
TRACK LISTING
Chains
Dust
Children
Tin Of Piss
Malarky
Piping Angels
1 : 18
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- CD
- £11.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- EBGBSCD009
- Release date
- 2 Jun '23
TRACK LISTING
1. A Thousand Orchids
2. Breaking The Circle
3. Until The Wheels Fall Off
4. Everything Is Sweet
5. Lost In The Sunshine
6. Tokyo
7. Beyond The Universe
8. He's A Dreamer
9. Reflections
10. Hearing In Colour
11. Broken Toy
12. We've Been Watching You
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- 12"
- £15.99
- Cat Number
- CAL016
- Release date
- 26 May '23 (originally released 4 Jun '21)
STAFF COMMENTS
Patrick says: Clone's Aqualung Series plunge deeper into the Drexciyan waters here, bringing us a much needed reissue of Gerald Donald's first album under the Japanese Telecom alias. Though perhaps not as polished as 2001's 'Virtual Geisha', it's still a vital piece of electro history with a dope Castlevanian aesthetic.TRACK LISTING
01 Rising Sun
02 Japanese Animation
03 Asian Amazons
04 Character Maps
05 Game Player
06 Nipponese Robots
07 Kubi
08 Bullet Train
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- CD
- £12.99
- Cat Number
- EZRDR141CD
- Release date
- 26 May '23
Late in 2021, Slow Season announced they’d become Westing, and that Ben McLeod (also of Nashville’s All Them Witches) was now in the four-piece on lead guitar alongside guitarist, vocalist and keyboardist Daniel Story Rice, bassist Hayden Doyel and drummer/recording engineer Cody Tarbell. Their new LP (fourth overall for RidingEasy), Future, is not coincidentally titled.
Says Rice, “We wanted to hit the reset button on some things and so we included a new band name to that list. Fresh start, for the psychological effect of it. We first met Ben in 2014 opening for All Them Witches in San Diego, and we did that again in 2016 and he and Cody corresponded about tape machines, music production, and other similar nerd stuff. We started swapping a few ideas early in 2021 and then flew him out for four days in August 2021. We got Future mostly down in that short span and did some remote stuff for overdubs, but nothing major. Obviously, our creative processes jelled pretty well to allow for such an efficiently productive session.”
So the story of Westing, and of Future, is about change, but the music makes itself so immediately familiar, it’s so welcoming, that it hardly matters. For about 10 years, the Visalia, California, outfit wandered the earth representing a new generational interpretation of classic heavy rock. The tones, warm. The melodies, sweet. The boogie, infectious. They went to ground after supporting their 2016 self-titled third album, and clearly it was time for something different.
Listening to Future opener “Back in the Twenties,” the message comes through clear (and loud) that however much Westing’s foundations might be in ‘70s styles, the moment that matters is now. It’s the future we’re living in, not the future that was. The big Zeppelin vibes at the outset and on “Big Trouble (In the City of Love)” and the local-bartender remembrance “Stanley Wu,” the dare-to-sound-like-Rocka-Rolla “Lost Riders” and the softshoe-ready shuffle of “Coming Back to Me” that leads into the payoff solo for the entire record, on and on; these pieces feed into an entirety that’s somehow loyal to homage while embodying a vitality that can only live up to the title they’ve given it.
“To me, ‘future’ is a word that embodies both hope and dread,” explains Rice, “and the future seems to be coming at us pretty quick these days. In some ways, it really feels like I am living in “the future,” as if I time traveled here and don't really belong. That feeling pervades this band's ethos in some ways. I thought Instagram was a steep climb until I met TikTok.”
Is Future the future? Hell, we should be so lucky. What Westing manifest in these songs is schooled in the rock of yore and theirs purely, and in that, Future looks forward with the benefit of the lessons learned across three prior full-lengths (and the accompanying tours) while offering the kind of freshness that comes with a debut. No, they’re not the same kids who released Mountains in 2014, and the tradeoff is being able to convey maturity, evolving creativity and stage-born dynamic on Future without sacrificing the spirit and passion that has underscored their work all along. – Words by JJ Koczan
TRACK LISTING
1. Back In The Twenties
2. Nothing New
3. Lost Riders Intro
4. Lost Riders
5. Big Trouble
6. Artemisia Coming Down
7. Silent Shout
8. Stanley Wu
9. Coming Back To Me
Bombay Bicycle Club & The Staves / Karine Polwart & Kris Drever
The Endless Coloured Ways: The Songs Of Nick Drake
Chrysalis Records
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- Ltd 7"
- £8.99
- Cat Number
- BRS72LP
- Release date
- 26 May '23
TRACK LISTING
1. Road - Bombay Bicycle Club And The Staves
2. Northern Sky - Karine Polwart And Kris Drever
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- LP
- £27.99
- Cat Number
- 4533252
- Release date
- 26 May '23
TRACK LISTING
Side A
Bodhisattva
Razor Boy
The Boston Rag
Your Gold Teeth
Side B
Show Biz Kids
My Old School
Pearl Of The Quarter
King Of The World
The Exploding Hearts
Guitar Romantic - 20th Anniversary Expanded & Remastered Edition
Third Man Records
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- LP
- £20.99
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- TMR894V
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- 26 May '23
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- £11.99
- Cat Number
- TMR894C
- Release date
- 26 May '23
TRACK LISTING
1. Modern Kicks
2. I'm A Pretender
3. Thorns In Roses
4. You're Black And Blue
5. Sleeping Aides And Razorblades
6. Rumors In Town
7. Throwaway Style
8. Boulevard Trash
9. Jailbird
10. Still Crazy
11. Busy Signals
12. I'm A Pretender (King Louie Mix)
13. So Bored
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- LP
- £22.99
- Cat Number
- CST173LP
- Release date
- 26 May '23
- Includes MP3 Download Code.
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- CD
- £12.99
- Cat Number
- CST173CD
- Release date
- 26 May '23
As Sasha Geffen writes in their glowing 8.0 Pitchfork review of Joni Void’s last album Mise En Abyme (2019): "There is still experience that can't be atomized and analyzed, however slippery it may be even to those feeling it; [Void] hunts that sensation of flux and liminality, unearthing warmth in a landscape of paranoia." Everyday Is The Song continues in this ineffable vein, but on an explicit mission to substitute psychosis with the ephemera of fleeting delight in observation, documentation, participation, the daily small acts of sharing, caring, enthusiasm and kindness of creative being in-the-world. The album’s sonic travelogue through local audio geography and community conveys a sort of urban pastoralism and charming softness. Less kinetic and beat-driven than previous work, a field recording and audio art sensibility prevails, with a tempered intimacy that sends this new song cycle sailing along mostly dulcet but detailed waves of materiality. The result is an electro-acoustic tape collage album of beautifully drifting melody, occasional voice, wide-ranging ‘instrumentation’ and enchanting texture. Void’s deeply personal and keenly original aesthetic of assemblage and experimentation is on fine display, less burdened by forceful statement-making, but scrupulous, generous, and full of feeling.
Musician friends whose instruments, sounds and voices appear on the album include Owen Pallett, N NAO, YlangYlang, Sarah Pagé, Shota Yokose, Mojeanne Behzadi, Maya Kuroki, Moshi Moshi and Thoughts On Air to name just a few. The album’s title comes from Strawberry723, a Twitter bot that posted “Everyday Is The Song” on May 5th 2018 (the anniversary of Void’s 2017 Constellation debut Selfless) and serendipitously invokes Void’s own long-running local event and micro-label platform Everyday Ago, itself taken from the Japanese-to-English auto-translate of a sentence about depression that yielded the phrase “I am being sad, everyday ago.” Everyday Is The Song remains perhaps broadly melancholic in temperature, but marks a turn away from angst, agitation, despondency or despair for Joni Void. Instead, its subjectivity imbues the quotidian with affecting narrative, understated wonder, and a wholly engaging serenity.
TRACK LISTING
1. Tape
2. Still Life
3. Disposable
4. Non Locality
5. Event Horizon
6. Negative Loop
7. In-Between Moments
8. Parallax Error (+ N NAO)
9. World Is Spinning At 33 RPM
10. Vortex Any% Speedrun
11. Present Day Montage
12. Post-Credits Scene
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- LP
- £34.99
- Cat Number
- V200150LP
- Release date
- 26 May '23
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- £12.99
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- V200150CD
- Release date
- 26 May '23
Receiving its first outing on vinyl is Tubular X, that Mike recorded in 1998 for an X-Files album*; Mike’s remix collaboration with York, the original Mike Oldfield’s Single (Theme From Tubular Bells)* and, for the first time since a very limited run in 2012, Mike’s stunning Tubular Bells/In Dulci Jubilo (Music for the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games).Of particular interest brand new eight-minute track Tubular Bells 4 Intro, which may well be the last thing ever recorded by Oldfield.
TRACK LISTING
Vinyl Tracklist
LP1
1. Tubular Bells - Part One (2023 Half Speed Master By Miles Showell)
2. Tubular Bells - Part Two (2023 Half Speed Master By Miles Showell)
LP2 - SIDE A
1. Tubular Bells 4 Intro (previously Unreleased Demo)
2. Tubular Bells/In Dulci Jubilo (Music For The Opening Ceremony Of The London 2012 Olympic Games)
LP2 - SIDE B
1. Tubular X
2. Tubular Bells (Mike Oldfield & YORK Remix)
3. Mike Oldfield's Single (Theme From Tubular Bells)
CD Tracklist
1. Tubular Bells - Part One
2. Tubular Bells - Part Two
3. Tubular Bells 4 Intro (previously Unreleased Demo)
4. Tubular Bells/In Dulci Jubilo
5. (Music For The Opening Ceremony Of The London 2012 Olympic Games)
6. Tubular Bells (Mike Oldfield & YORK Remix)
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- 2xDeluxe LP
- £33.99
- Cat Number
- TRR043LP
- Release date
- 26 May '23
- Format Info
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£36.99£19.99- Cat Number
- TRR043LPC1 (JAN24SALE)
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- 26 May '23
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- CD
- £12.99
- Cat Number
- TRR043CD
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- 26 May '23
Originally released in 2001, Happiness was a sprawling, pastoral masterpiece – an innovative mix of acoustic clatter, electronic exploration, hip-hop production techniques, and experimental rock arrangements. Along with Hebden’s blossoming solo project, Four Tet, Happiness dragged the most compelling elements of the typically self-serious electronic, indie, and avant-rock of the 1990s and married them to eclectic folk and spiritual jazz for the new century. More remarkably, they did it without an ounce of pretense, imbued with an earnest and intimate execution that stood in stark contrast to virtually every comparable album of its time.
Happiness – Anniversary Edition is the 20th anniversary reissue of Fridge’s career-defining gem. Meticulously restored, reconstructed, and remastered from the original master tapes by Kieran Hebden, the album’s sound quality honors the original recordings like never before. The vinyl was cut by award-winning archival mastering engineer, Kevin Gray, and pressed onto 125-gram audiophile-quality vinyl by Record Technology Inc. (RTI). The exquisite heavyweight old-style tip-on gatefold jacket was printed and assembled by hand at Stoughton Printing Company, to complete this masterful reissue of this momentous album.
TRACK LISTING
1. Melodica & Trombone (6:02)
2. Drum Machines & Glockenspiel (13:18)
3. Cut Up Piano & Xylophone (2:35)
4. Tone Guitar & Drum Noise (4:46)
5. Five Four Child Voice (9:22)
6. Sample & Clicks (2:56)
7. Drums Bass Sonics & Edits (7:27)
8. Harmonics (4:00)
9. Long Singing (9:13)
10. Five Combs (Bonus Track) (9:45)
TRACK LISTING
A1. Oval Emerald Vertigo
A2. The Death Of A Trapeze Artist
A3. Carosello Ellitico
B1. Six String Marenghi
B2. Polycoulrophon
B3. Segee And The Indian
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- Coloured 7"
- £8.99
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- ES084LP-C1
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- 26 May '23
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- £7.99
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- ES084LP
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- 26 May '23
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- Coloured 7"
- £8.99
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- ES083LP-C1
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- 26 May '23
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- 7"
- £7.99
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- ES083LP
- Release date
- 26 May '23
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Standard black vinyl.
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- Coloured 7"
- £8.99
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- ES080LP-C1
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- 26 May '23
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- 7"
- £8.99
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- ES080LP
- Release date
- 26 May '23
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- Coloured 7"
- £8.99
- Cat Number
- ES082LP-C1
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- 26 May '23
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- 7"
- £7.99
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- ES082LP
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- 26 May '23
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Standard black vinyl.
Standard black vinyl.
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- 2xLtd LP
- £29.99
- Cat Number
- RGIRL2LPRE
- Release date
- 26 May '23
First repress since its original release in May 1998.
Widely acclaimed at the time of its release (garnering rave reviews in the UK, US, Canadian and European music weeklies and monthlies), the collection sounds as fresh and inventive as it did three decades ago. Launched at a time when tribute albums were prevalent, A Tribute to Spacemen 3 stands apart from other covers albums in that it not only redecorates S3’s songs in a bold new palette of colours, but also acts as a time capsule documenting a very specific wave of 90s US and UK bands that shared many sensibilities – ‘postrock’ might be the catch-all genre, but their music also encompassed psych, slowcore, analogue electronica, dream pop and space rock to varying degrees – and many of whom (Mogwai, Low, Arab Strap, Bardo Pond) have gone on to reap major critical and commercial success, and are still thriving today. In 1998 the LP was a gateway for fans of Spacemen 3 to discover these relatively unknown experimental artists operating on small independent labels either side of the Atlantic – today it is a celebration of the timeless innovation and longevity of that scene.
As author Richard Milward states in Rocket Girl 20, the 2019 book illuminating the history of the label: ‘In no way is [the LP] a collection of imitators simply regurgitating Spacemen 3’s songs sound-for-sound – rather, the compilation celebrates the purity and bravery of Pierce’s and Kember’s song writing (themselves never averse to a transformative cover version) while showcasing the originality and diversity of those bands they have inspired.’ It is the simultaneous simplicity and otherworldliness of S3’s songs that make them perfect fodder for reinterpretation, the band’s ‘three chords good, two chords better, one chord best’ mantra providing a solid, tantalising foundation for these bands to experiment with freely. Throbbing and humming with equal parts euphoria and melancholia, over the course of the album’s 69 minutes the tracks slide from slithering stoner psych (Asteroid #4’s ‘Losing Touch With My Mind’) to hymnal delicacy (Amp’s ‘So Hot (Wash Away All of My Tears)’ and Mogwai’s crisp, glockenspiel-chiming ‘Honey’) to zero-gravity lounge jazz (Transient Waves’ closer, ‘Billy Whizz’). There are radical reworkings: the oozing fuzztone lava of Bardo Pond’s ‘Call the Doctor’, and not least Arab Strap’s startling take on S3 live mainstay ‘Revolution’, replete with aggressive, crunching drum machine and the lyrics delivered down the telephone in Aidan Moffatt’s laconic Falkirk drawl – ‘a change, a solution, a wee… a wee revolution’ – before its explosive climax.
A bonus addition to the original tracklisting, Füxa’s ‘Amen’ nestles seamlessly between Flowchart’s off-kilter lullaby-like ‘Ode to Street Hassle’ and Accelera Deck’s uplifting ‘I Believe It’. Purely instrumental through the 1990s, Rocket Girl stalwarts Füxa have employed various vocalists and experimented with cover versions in recent years, and founding member Randall Nieman provides his own voice for this transcendent take on ‘Amen’, the pulsating synths and defiant refrain (‘I don’t mind dying Lord… Amen, Amen, Amen…’) exemplifying what made Spacemen 3’s music so special: the blissful purity of repetition, and the ever sincere, everlasting call to take themselves – and the listener – higher.
Since its release, A Tribute to Spacemen 3 has not only opened the ears of S3 fans to these kindred artists, but also caught the attention of the Spacemen themselves. After hearing Low’s elegantly faithful rendition of ‘Lord, Can You Hear Me?’ – a track that feels all the more heart-rending today, after Low vocalist and drummer Mimi Parker’s passing in 2022 – Jason Pierce was inspired to rerecord the song himself for Spiritualized’s 2001 LP Let it Come Down, and reached out to Parker to provide backing vocals. As he told Electric Sound: ‘Her voice was astonishing. It was so pure it was like a soundwave.’
A Tribute to Spacemen 3 remains Rocket Girl’s fastest seller, the original 1000 glittery vinyl and 1000 CD box sets (the first 50 with bonus keyring and incense sticks, the ever-present scent at Rocket Girl HQ) having sold out rapidly upon release. While the 1998 artwork depicted the iconic S3 transmitter logo in silver foil on a sleek black background, the 2023 reissue recasts the sleeve in an aluminium-effect sheen, suggestive of a space rocket: the symbol that links both the Rugby band and this label. It is a special pairing. In reissuing the record, Rocket Girl once again invites fans of Spacemen 3 to discover these like-minded artists that have since become seminal in their own right – and today, the reverse is equally likely: fans may well pick up this LP on account of its inclusion of bands like Mogwai, Low or Bardo Pond and, through it, initiate themselves into the intoxicating world of Spacemen 3, a group whose bold legacy and influence shows no sign of fading
TRACK LISTING
A1) Bowery Electric ‘Things Will Never Be The Same
A2) The Asteroid No.4 ‘Losing Touch With My Mind'
A3) Mogwai ‘Honey’
B1) Flowchart ‘Ode To Street Hassle’
B2) Fuxa ‘Amen’
B3) Accelera Deck ‘I Believe It’
B4) Arab Strap ‘Revolution’
C1) Bardo Pond ‘Call The Doctor’
C2) Frontier ‘Hey Man’
C3) Low ‘Lord, Can You Hear Me?’
D1) Amp ‘So Hot (Wash Away All Of My Tears)'
D2) Piano Magic ‘How Does It Feel’
D3) Transient Waves ‘Billy Whizz’
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- Coloured LP
- £21.99
- Cat Number
- ERATP157LE
- Release date
- 26 May '23
- Format Info
Limited edition clear vinyl.
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Who Designs Nature's How” features remixes of select songs from Bell Orchestre's second full-length album “As Seen Through Windows” and has been pressed on vinyl for the first time ever - originally only released on CD and exclusively sold on tour. Besides being pressed on vinyl for the very first time, the record features brand-new cover artwork by Munich-based graphic designer Bernd Kuchenbeiser. The album includes the spellbinding reinterpretation of Water / Light / Shifts courtesy of fellow Canadian electronic producer Tim Hecker.
“Listening to this, 14 years later and having totally forgotten making this one afternoon, was a reminder that things do change. I can hear the old markers of granular synthesis, Nord Modular synth and fake mellotron samples. These are tools left on a past workbench. It has the rough style of probably 5 layers of improvisation stacked against each other, in a way that feels both like home and yet also some distant foreign self.” — Tim Hecker In addition to Tim Hecker's lead single Water / Light / Shifts, The album also features contributions from the late Japanese prodigious composer Susuma Yokota, dub legend Mad Professor, Canadian DJ and producer Kid Koala, as well as long-time friend and collaborator Colin Stetson amongst others. I have some incredible memories from my brief stint as occasionally joining these lovely friends on stages around the world, and I am excited to see this music flitting about once again.
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- LP
- £24.99
- Cat Number
- JMANLP134
- Release date
- 26 May '23
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- CD
- £9.99
- Cat Number
- JMANCD134
- Release date
- 26 May '23
"I was a music teacher. I wasn't trying to make a record to compete, I was trying to make a record so the students would have something to remember the experience that we had... I was doing it for the kids."
It was 1973 that Prof. James Benson had self-funded his private press LP for the benefit of the teenage musicians he tutored at Cal Poly, California. The album was a momentous achievement for him and his young protegees, something they were all proud of, and rightly so. Taking inspiration from their recent trip to Africa and blended with the radical jazz associated with the young minds of early '70s black America, the Gow-Dow Experience is a unique foray into the enthusiastic mindset of up-and-coming jazz musicians, as encouraged by their mentor Prof. Benson.
We present the album as it was released in 1973 with a heavyweight tip-on jacket and 180g vinyl or on CD. We also include an insert with liner notes and photos provided courtesy of Prof Benson. The LP and CD come with 4 additional tracks taken from the recording session. Until now these tracks have never been heard since the day they were recorded - believe me, they're worth the wait!
Made with love from Jazzman - because we love to dig deeper!
TRACK LISTING
1. Nigeria, West Africa
2. Song For My Black Mother
3. Barry Rae
4. Compared To What
5. Malcolm IX
6. Spring 2000
7. Brother Don
8. Psychedelic Sally
9. Compared To What (Alternate Take)
10. You Are Arrogant
11. Brother Don (Alternate Mix)
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- Paperback Book
- £10.99
- Cat Number
- 9781788705608
- Release date
- 26 May '23
But what happened next to all those musical dreamers? Some of the bands, like Primal Scream, went on to achieve global stardom; others, such as Half Man Half Biscuit and the Wedding Present, cultivated lifelong fanbases that still sustain their careers thirty-five years later. Then there were the rest, who ultimately imploded in a riot of paisley shirts, bad drugs and general indifference from the record-buying public. Now, for the first time, music journalist Nige Tassell tracks down the class of C86 and recounts their stories, both tragic and uplifting.
Yet, while the pursuit of long-lost musicians can often manifest as earnest hagiography, Tassell's unique, light-hearted approach makes this a very human story of ambition, hope, varying degrees of talent and what happens after you give up on pop - or, more precisely, after pop gives up on you. It's a world populated by bike-shop owners, architecture professors, dance-music producers, record-store proprietors, birdwatchers, solicitors, caricaturists and even a possible Olympic sailor - and let's not forget the musician-turned-actor gainfully employed as Jeremy Irons' body double... More than simply the tale of the tape, Whatever Happened to the C86 Kids? is an exploration of C86's wide-reaching and often surprising legacy.
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- LP
- £20.99
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- CAK163LP
- Release date
- 26 May '23
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- CD
- £10.99
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- CAK163CD
- Release date
- 19 May '23
Drawing on the music era of her teenage years growing up in Jakarta – Javanese radio Dangdut, gamelan cassettes, Moving Shadow-era liquid jungle, Japanese chill-out, etc. – as well as her current work in progressive percussion trio Asa Tone, Malay’s solo debut is boldly borderless, bridging worlds and wavelengths into a richly imagined hybrid synthetic utopia.
hipernatural is momentous linguistically, too, as Malay’s first foray into singing in Indonesian, the language of her youth. She characterizes her lyrical mode as “abstract, and a bit broken,” an intuitive collage of diaristic emotion and oblique poetry (“plant me in fleeting twilight / missing home, where is home? / I am another you”). Her voice serves as its own versatile instrument, alternately intimate and alien, sensual and sacred, shaded with the haze of hidden heavens.
Co-produced with long-time collaborator Kaazi (100% Silk, Asa Tone), the album’s 12 tracks are cohesive but eclectic, threading through temple bass music, cyber siren techno, Stereolab drum n bass, new age downtempo, and dial-up rave reveries, flecked with tactile fragments of offworld dialogue, computer hum, bubbling water, and beyond.
Malay’s technique of sampling and processing her voice into an electronic palette which she then performs on generative instruments gives the songs a bewitching artificial intelligence elegance, exquisite but uncanny. Hers is a hybridity both organic and hypermodern, deeply personal yet globally sourced – YouTube rips, nature tapes, cheap sample packs, club bootlegs. hipernatural champions a dynamic new language at the axis of then and now, of east and west.
TRACK LISTING
1. Tepi Memori
2. Bahasa Baru
3. E.m.z.
4. Spesimen Sempurna
5. Intuisi
6. Kupu Kupu Elektronik
7. Di Atas
8. Itu Cukup!
9. Anda Katakan
10. Kita Vs Mereka
11. Wanita
12. Energi
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- 3xLP Box Set
- £49.99
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- 244549392
- Release date
- 26 May '23
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
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- Signed LP
- u/avbl
- Cat Number
- OLE1930LP-SIGNED
- Release date
- 18 Aug '23
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- £22.99
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- OLE1930LPE
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- 26 May '23
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- OLE1930LP
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- 26 May '23
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- OLE1930CD
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- 26 May '23
That’s the sentiment that animates Water From Your Eyes on their new album, and first for Matador, ‘Everyone’s Crushed’. On the follow-up to the Brooklyn duo’s 2021 breakthrough, ‘Structure’, Rachel Brown (they/them) and Nate Amos (he/him) find silliness and fatalism dancing in a frantic lockstep, using heart palpitating rhythms and absurdist, deadpan lyrics to convey stories of personal and societal unease. Described by Brown as Water From Your Eyes’ most collaborative record ever, it’s a swollen contusion of an album: experimental pop music that’s pretty and violent, raw and indelible.
‘Everyone’s Crushed’ is shot through with unresolved tension, its nine tracks skittishly refusing to seek out resolute endings or stick to traditional structures. Many songs were written using serialism and microtonalism, and at times evoke the futurist-pop moves of Japanese composer Haruomi Hosono and the brutalism of Glenn Branca. “Barley” is a dance-rock track sequenced in alien tonality, with Brown speaking garbled transmissions (“One two three/Counter/You’re a cool thing count mountains”) over a bed of hallucinatory guitars. “14” leans into contemporary classical, with curtains of overlapping de-tuned strings underscoring lyrics that Nate describes as something out of a “gross-out horror movie”: “I’m ready to throw you up.”
Water From Your Eyes still possess an off kilter, shitposty quality. ‘Everyone’s Crushed’ manages to reference classic rock twice – first, on “Barley,” when Brown accidentally invokes Sting with the lyric “walk in fields of gold,” and again on “True Life”, when they sing: “Neil let me sing your song/It’s been this way for so long/Give me another chance.” Those weren’t the song’s original lyrics – Brown and Amos initially wanted to interpolate the bridge to “Cinnamon Girl” – but this is a typically meta compromise for the pair, a way to turn “True Life” into a song about writing the song “True Life”.
‘Everyone’s Crushed’ maps the liminal space between humor and darkness, between cracking up and freaking out. In the album’s closing moments Brown speaks in direct terms, “Clap those hands/Buy my product/There are no happy endings/I’m spending/I’m spending.” It’s playful and totally serious, punky bordering on anarchic, and a resolution to the record’s opening sentiment - “I just wanted to pray for the rain/Wishful thinking for sunny days.”
STAFF COMMENTS
Ashley says: A wonderfully bold, jagged juxtaposition of gritty electronics and swooning guitar riffs, all topped with perfectly measured vocals and soaring harmonies. It's steeped in post-punk and electronic history, but lightened with a melodic sensibility that could only have bloomed from the past 20 years of pop history.TRACK LISTING
1. Structure
2. Barley
3. Out There
4. Open
5. Everyone’s Crushed
6. True Life
7. Remember Not My Name
8. 14
9. Buy My Product
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- Coloured LP
- £20.99
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- ALT73COL
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- 26 May '23
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- ALT73
- Release date
- 26 May '23
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- ALT73CD
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Musically, Never Ending Space skews notably more maximal than the group’s previous work, fleshed out with trumpets, saxophone, synth, percussion boxes, and spoken word. (Smith jokingly calls them The Chain Of Flowers Orchestra). Yet the songs still swing and soar with a charged heart, ripe with hooks, drama and ragged melody. Opener “Fire (In The Heart Of Hearts)” stirs to life on a tide of wiry guitar and defiant horns, facing down the embers of love that still glow in the wake of pain: “Peace came tumbling like a shower of bricks / The mind twists slowly till everything fits.” A tense energy ripples throughout – from the nocturnal rush of “Serving Purpose” and “Amphetamine Luck” to the bruised battle cries of “Torcalon” and “Old Human Material.” Outliers like “Praying Hands, Turtle Doves” hint at proggy possible futures, while instrumental vignette “Anomia” offers an intriguing glimpse at a lesser heard facet of the band: swaying, shadowy, subdued.
The album’s title track is also its closing cut, a stomping, sparkling ode to “the wrong side of the night, where time goes to die.” Smith describes the scene: “Everyone’s talking, screaming, trauma bonding, but no one’s listening. Broken dialogue. Shouting over each other. You want to switch off, but everyone’s too fucked.” The guitars spiral and slide towards the oblivion of dawn, the chance to crash and do it all again. The song’s refrain captures the elision of time, spilling through the haze of days, from chaos to acceptance: “I can’t see the clock through the shrouds of smoke / Does it matter? / Common ground / In a never ending space.”
TRACK LISTING
1. Fire (In The Heart Of Hearts)
2. Cosmic Whip
3. Serving Purpose
4. Praying Hands, Turtle Doves
5. Amphetamine Luck
6. Torcalon
7. The Wall
8. Old Human Material
9. Anomia
10. Never Ending Space
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- 3xLP
- £39.99
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- SLANG50523X
- Release date
- 26 May '23
- Format Info
Hand numbered.
Triple 180 gram vinyl.
Limited to 4000 copies worldwide.
Hand numbered.
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- 2xCD
- £13.99
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- SLANG50523
- Release date
- 26 May '23
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Double cd edition.
Double cd edition.
TRACK LISTING
Feast Of Wire - LP1 (45 RPM):
A01 Sunken Waltz
A02 Quattro (World Drifts In)
A03 Stucco
A04 Black Heart
B05 Pepita
B06 Not Even Stevie Nicks...
B07 Close Behind
B08 Woven Birds
LP2 (45 Rpm):
C09 The Book And The Canal
C10 Attack! El Robot! Attack!
C11 Across The Wire
C12 Dub Latina
C13 Güero Canelo
D14 Alone Again Or (Bonus Track)
D15 Whipping The Horse's Eye
D16 Crumble
D17 No Doze
More Cowboys In Sweden - Live At China Theatre Stockholm, 25.04.2003 - LP3 (33 RPM):
E18 Pepita
E19 Across The Wire
E20 Quattro
E21 Dub Latina
E22 Sunken Waltz
E23 Not Even Stevie Nicks
E24 Woven Birds
E25 Güero Canelo
E26 Black Heart
E27 Alone Again Or
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- LP
- £23.99
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- EVGLP151
- Release date
- 26 May '23
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- CD
- £13.99
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- EVGCD151
- Release date
- 26 May '23
Guadalupe Plata hail from Úbeda in Jaén, Spain, and are comprised of Pedro de Dios Barceló and Carlos Jimena. As with their previous works, this new album does not have a title, but it does overflow with good music. Carlos explains the process, “The record was recorded in two different locations with the same sound studio project, based on a 4-track Tascam 246 recorder with type II chrome cassettes, using 18 Tudor brand cassettes. All the recordings were made by the band in Úbeda, looking for new sounds with the freedom of having unlimited time to do it.” They call this process the Estudio Ataúd (Coffin Studio). The digitization, mixing and recording of the extra tracks was carried out in La Mina (Seville) in a joint production between Guadalupe Plata and Raúl Pérez where they finished adding both “dark saxes and 8-bit keyboards”.
The cinematographic representation of the desert is an influence on the instrumental passages of Guadalupe Plata. In these times when reality is stranger than fiction, the apocalyptic chromatic effects and crepuscular tones left in the Andalusian sky by the cloud of dust from the Sahara were the inspiration for ‘Calima’. The song took on a new life with the contribution of the sinuous winds of Matías Cordero, which also appear on ‘Maleficio’ and ‘Y.N.T.M.A’ (the latter an acronym for "Ya no tengo mi ataúd" (I don't have my coffin anymore), a title that was sinisterly suggested by the young son of an old friend).
‘La cigüeña’ is a cover of a song by Agapito Marazuela, guitarist and compiler of Spanish folklore from the last century, and tells the tale of a battle between a stork and a snake. The images and mysterious Andalusian details brought by the melody fit perfectly inside the universe of Guadalupe Plata, who display here their most characteristic drums, a percussion played with a bottle of anise that breathes fire, a guitar following one of the rumba rhythms created by Peret and, may Agapito forgive them, a voice with a vocoder effect.
Another resource on this record worth drawing attention to: Carlos uses a kerosene drum on "Zapateado" to pay tribute to Robert Belfour, one of the last great bluesmen whose footsteps the band literally tried to follow, unsuccessfully, during days spent playing in Clarksdale and Memphis invited by the Deep Blues Festival.
‘La Tía Tragantía’ is a tale from Andalusian oral tradition. A legend about the daughter of a king of Cazorla who ends up becoming a half-serpent, half-woman being that was told from generation to generation to scare children. In the context of this generational transmission we also have to understand ‘El Cóndor Pasa’, with a very strong traditional bond in their homes, it was the song with which Pedro's father taught him to play the guitar. After the introduction, the speed of the tape was slowed down, giving rise to a chaotic effect created by chance -the second guitar was recorded with an amplifier whose batteries were about to run out-. Yet another last nod to the roots of Guadalupe Plata is ‘Stabat Mater’, the hymn of the Cofradía de la Soledad, one of their favourites of Úbeda's Holy Week.
‘Ruina’ tells the emotional ups and downs of a long night round between the Granada neighborhoods of Realejo and Sacromonte, in which a heart broken by mourning began to find relief.
In ‘Al Infierno Que Vayas’ we find ourselves at a crossroad: the starting point is the lyrics of a flamenco falseta by Rafael Farina to which T-Model Ford style guitars are added as well as deconstructed drums and percussions which reminiscent of Captain Beefheart. All passed through the blender of the Úbeda musicians, for whom there is a clear parallel between the lyrics of flamenco and blues, "with a point of broken or crazy love stories, of not turning your back on pain, but facing it".
The album cover, designed by Pedro, is a game board that unfolds on the back of a coiled snake with the added difficulty that all the squares lead to ruin. The photographs that come with the release, taken by Carlos, are inspired by The Duellists by Ridley Scott and serve to remind us that since their birth, 15 years ago, Guadalupe Plata had never entered a studio in their original duo format.
TRACK LISTING
Calima
La Cigüeña
Tia Tragantía
Al Infierno Que Vayas
En Mi Tumba
Ruina
Zapateado
El Cóndor Pasa
No Hay Dónde Ir
Y.N.T.M.A.
Nunca Llueve Como Truena
Malefico
Stabat Master
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- LP
- £19.99
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- BING192
- Release date
- 26 May '23
Guest appearance on "Garden" by guitarist Eli Winter.
Asher White’s music is a complex and heartfelt reaction to the churn of our modern world. With tender intimacy and resounding anxiety, White takes a wide view through the lens of her own queer sexual politics and transgender identity; what does it mean to renew, to progress, to transform? What is lost, gained, or irreversibly altered?
At 22 years old, White has developed a massive self-released discography: over a dozen albums since 2015, each one started the moment the last one was finished. New Excellent Woman is a distillation of these experiments and discoveries, a new achievement in songwriting that stands astride the cracks in the earth and lopsided ground. Songs jump between styles like a pubescent sex drive, all locked together by White’s ability to pull melody out of chaos.
New Excellent Woman wanders a meticulous cut-and-pasted path paved by forebears like The Books and Animal Collective. It sounds like a live band, bursting with kinetic energy, but the album was constructed alone in her Providence, RI studio, where she arranged, performed, recorded, and mixed the record herself. The ingenuity of Dirty Projectors is laced with the catchiness and warmth of The Kinks, and maybe a dash of Elephant 6. It’s like an ADHD party and you’re the first to arrive.
New Excellent Woman is built from detritus, often quite literally: from the thrift store amplifiers and scavenged keyboards she uses to her penchant for discovering and sampling obscure YouTube videos into her songs. The thick fog of “Bedsong” is made up of little more than a Hammond organ found on craigslist and a few muffled drums piled with rags; opener “Ptolemy” uses a seemingly random video of teenage boredom as its textural and rhythmic backdrop.
The ceaseless march of our modern world can feel both awe-inspiring and abysmal. New highways and condominiums are erected in a matter of weeks as historic burial grounds are demolished. Even short TikToks seem to expire in real time. Asher White won’t change things, but New Excellent Woman gives us a fresh and poignant perspective of the shifting world around us through her eyes—and maybe a connection is the best we can hope for.
TRACK LISTING
1. Ptolemy
2. Skate Park Anthem
3. Saturday Morning
4. Mare
5. Tresemme Instrumental
6. Modern Guilt
7. Garden
8. Bedsong
9. New Excellent World
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- LP
- £21.99
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- DISC20
- Release date
- 26 May '23
TRACK LISTING
1. Car Wash Two W/Short Hands
2. Radio Box (excerpt)
3. Plus Warning
4. Engaged Withdrawal
5. Exploding Time
6. My Whole Life
7. The Museums We Carry
8. Pointerstare
9. Comforts Of The Mind
10. In Society
11. Find You (Vocal)
12. Days Decay
13. Dreams In Shattered Time
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- LP
- £22.99
- Cat Number
- HVNLP210
- Release date
- 19 May '23
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- CD
- £10.99
- Cat Number
- HVNLP210CD
- Release date
- 19 May '23
Having announced their signing to Heavenly Recordings last November with the release of a 10” vinyl-only 6-track EP, Bewitched By The Flames, which sold out immediately through independent shops and mail order, Eyes Of Others is now set to present their debut, self-titled album.
Marrying the anything-goes, freestyle magpie tendencies of Beck and The Beta Band to the electronic stylings of primetime 80s New Order by way of the spacious moods conjured by King Tubby, Eyes of Others debut’s whimsical demeanour is the perfect sonic balm to the utter confusion of the outside world. As is its sense of almost Balearic musical freedom. Such a mindset is fundamental to the music according to Bryden.
“I was thinking where’s my spot?” Bryden reflects about the pick & mix quality of the album. “The music is later than a gig but it’s not full-on early morning club fare. It’s the in-between space where I was imagining where my music works.”
But his beguiling tunes are perfect for the music soundtracking the afters too. As the dawn breaks and the sun begins to rise. “Maybe there aren’t enough venues opening at 7am!” he laughs, before quickly adding: “I don’t think it will catch on unfortunately.”
STAFF COMMENTS
Andy says: Eyes of Others is, basically, the musical alias for Edinburgh based artist, John Bryden. Even though it’s on the mighty Heavenly Records, this summer release has remained pretty much under the radar. But, not in our shop it hasn’t! This is a dreamy whimsical, electronic pop record that floats around and drifts all over the musical landscape. Heavenly describe it themselves as “Pure musical freedom” and if you could imagine a sound palette which includes dub, synth, techno and folk then you’d be halfway there. It’s delightfully elusive but Bryden depicts his sound as kind of “later than a gig, but not full-on early morning club fare. It’s the inbetween space.” I’m gonna say, it sounds like the Beta Band jamming with Peaking Lights over The Stone Roses’ “Something’s Burning” around at Arthur Russell’s flat. Have some of that!TRACK LISTING
Once, Twice, Thrice
Safehouse
Escalation
At Home I Am A Leader
New Hair New Me
Ego Hit
Mother Father
Jargon Jones And Jones
Come Inside
Big Companies, Large Tentacles
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- Coloured LP
- £20.99
- Cat Number
- RRR003LP-C1
- Release date
- 19 May '23
- Format Info
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- CD
- £10.99
- Cat Number
- RRR003CD
- Release date
- 19 May '23
Wilson and Beggins got together to practice for a series of online performances for devout fans, and within 30 minutes they wrote the first single for what would accidentally become Wild Child's fifth album, End of the World. Mixed by Matt Pence (Jason Isbell, Elle King) and including contributions from guitarist Charlie Wiles (Paul Cauthen, John Moreland, Orville Peck), End of The World sees the pair find catharsis in art amid compound disasters.
As Wilson describes it, “I just started signing about things that were freaking me out. Wearing a mask for a year. Global warming. There's no heat, no water. It was like a dirge to begin with. But by the end we were all screaming and laughing that, yes, this might be the end of the world, but we're all together right now, making music in my living room by candlelight. It's all OK."
TRACK LISTING
SIDE A
1. Bottom Line
2. Cheap Champagne
3. Could’ve Fooled Me
4. Dear John
5. End Of The World
6. Good Luck
SIDE B
1. Love On A Bad Day
2. Photographs
3. Ride With Me
4. Sleeping In
5. Underwhelmed
6. Wearing Blue
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- Ltd LP
- £19.99
- Cat Number
- EEASY004
- Release date
- 19 May '23
The first album by new band Predeceased, new Post hardcore with jammer parts. Also abit kraut abit PNW indie abit 80s hardcore. It’s loud, different + has riffs. 'What Do You Do?' A Question that's as broad and confusing as it is simple and direct, a question used to find out if you're gonna have something to talk about, something in common, something attractive, something you're against, something you detest, something you don't give two shits about, something you also do... 'What Do You Do?' is 30.23 minutes of big riffs, lighting fast drumming and slamming bass with yelled out but tuneful lyrics about doing this after your 30, learning the perks of meditation & counselling, MF DOOM, Self-care, social status and the pandemic amongst other things. In a couple ways there's a little leftover garage worship from Charlie's MVPs but overall this is a lean and mean post hardcore record cut from the band could be your life cloth.
TRACK LISTING
Fancy Prison
Scene Parole
Fake Laugh
A Song For Doom
Consolation Prides
What Do You Do?
Can't' In The Real C Word
Sunday Scaries
Timing
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- 2xDeluxe LP
- £59.99
- Cat Number
- FIRELP494X
- Release date
- 19 May '23
- Format Info
2LP Ltd edition Bookback LP double black vinyl, DL card.
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- 2xLP
- £26.99
- Cat Number
- FIRELP494
- Release date
- 19 May '23
- Format Info
Double black vinyl, gatefold sleeve, DL card.
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- 2xDeluxe CD
- £22.99
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- FIRECD494X
- Release date
- 19 May '23
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Ltd edition, bookback CD.
Ltd edition, bookback CD. -
- 2xCD
- £13.99
- Cat Number
- FIRECD494
- Release date
- 19 May '23
- Format Info
Gatefold wallet.
Gatefold wallet.
In the 90’s Evan’s Lemonheads produced hit after a hit, a string of super cool singles: ‘Big Gay Heart’, ‘Into Your Arms’, ‘It’s About Time’, and ‘The Great Big NO’. Pure genius filling the radio waves and taking the stage... Some 30 years on; Evan is still knocking that song writing thing out of the park and ‘Come On Feel The Lemonheads’ sounds as fresh and perky as it ever did. Amid the hits on the original record are stencils and outlines for yet more magical music and now this deluxe edition adds a second disc of demos and acoustic versions, plus a host of one-offs from sessions and compilations that add further colour to the myth and how it was created.
There’s the in-demand combo lovingly covering Victoria Williams’ ‘Frying Pan’ from her ‘Sweet Relief’ album, which is joined by an eclectic set of flipsides and out-takes, like their version of original garage punk nugget ‘Little Black Egg’ by The Nightcrawlers, Evan’s homage to Gram Parsons on the winsome ‘Streets Of Baltimore’ and Buddy Holly’s melancholy ‘Learning The Game’. Evan knows a good song when he hears it, as ‘Come On Feel The Lemonheads’ certainly proved.
TRACK LISTING
Disc One
Side A
A1 The Great Big No
A2 Into Your Arms
A3 It's About Time
A4 Down About It
A5 Paid To Smile
A6 Big Gay Heart
A7 Style
A8 Rest Assured
Side B
B1 Dawn Can't Decide
B2 I'll Do It Anyway
B3 Rick James Style
B4 Being Around
B5 Favorite T
B6 You Can Take It With You
B7 The Jello Fund ( + Lenny - Hidden Track)
Disc Two
Side C – Alternative & Acoustic
C1 Big Gay Heart (Demo)
C2 Being Around (Alternative)
C3 Into Your Arms (Acoustic)
C4 Down About It (Acoustic)
C5 Deep Bottom Cove
C6 Acoustic Rick James Style
C7 It's About Time (Acoustic)
Side D – Covers & Curiosities
D1 Miss Otis Regrets
D2 Learning The Game
D3 Little Black Egg
D4 Streets Of Baltimore (Acoustic)
D5 Frying Pan
D6 He's On The Beach
D7 Favorite T (Live In Session)
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- CD
- £14.99
- Cat Number
- STAGO204
- Release date
- 19 May '23
Various Artists
Yo! Boombox - Early Independent Hip Hop, Electro And Disco Rap 1979-83
Soul Jazz Records
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- 3xDeluxe LP
- £34.99
- Cat Number
- SJRLP530
- Release date
- 19 May '23
- Format Info
Deluxe triple LP with 3x full inner sleeves of extensive sleeve notes, exclusive photography and original label artwork
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- 3xSuper Deluxe LP
- £36.99
- Cat Number
- SJRLP530-7
- Release date
- 19 May '23
- Format Info
Super deluxe triple LP with 3x full inner sleeves of extensive sleeve notes, exclusive photography and original label artwork plus a bonus super-rare 7” single of ‘Magic’s Rap’ by Magic’s Trick.
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- 2xDeluxe CD
- £12.99
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- SJRCD530
- Release date
- 19 May '23
- Format Info
Deluxe double CD pack with 30-page booklet and slipcase.
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The album includes the first releases of seminal groups such as Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five and The Funky Four Plus One More through to a host of rarities and little-known obscurities such as the Carver Area High School band’s ‘Get Live 83’, an awesome record made at a Chicago high school.
The album is released as a deluxe triple LP complete with 3x full inner sleeves of extensive sleeve notes, exclusive photography and original label artwork. There is also a very-limited one-pressing only special deluxe version that comes with an extra bonus super-rare 7” single of ‘Magic’s Rap’ by Magic’s Trick, aka ex-marine Magic Fraga, a record that was only ever available on US military bases! The album also comes as a deluxe double CD pack with 30-page booklet and slipcase.
Yo! Boombox also features the stunning photography of Sophie Bramly, one of a very select group of photographers (alongside Henry Chalfant, Martha Cooper, and Joe Conzo) who were allowed full access to document the exciting early days of hip-hop in New York.
These first exuberant wave of innocent, upbeat, party-on-the-block rap records were the first to try and create the sounds heard in community centres, block parties and street jams that first took place in the Bronx in the mid-1970s. Where the first DJs – Flash, Kool Herc and Bambaataa – were back-spinning, mixing and scratching together now classic breakbeat records like The Incredible Bongo Band’s Apache or Babe Ruth’s The Mexican, these first pre-sampling rap records were all made using live bands, often replaying then current disco tunes. As Chic’s ‘Good Times’ was to ‘Rappers’ Delight’, the songs here feature then-current dancefloor hits such as the Tom Tom Club’s ‘Genius of Love’, Cheryl Lynn’s ‘To Be Real’, MFSB’s ‘Love Is the Message’ while MCs rapped over the top, creating a unique new sound. In fact, the links between disco and rap date back earlier to the ‘party style’ MCing of figures such as the legendary DJ Hollywood or radio DJs like Frankie Crocker.
This new Soul Jazz Records collection celebrates these first old-school rap records, bringing together rare, classic and obscure tracks released in the early days of rap.
TRACK LISTING
Vinyl Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. The Carver Area High School Seniors - Get Live '83 (7.43)
2. Mike T - Do It Any Way You Wanna (6.53)
Side B:
1. Chapter III - Real Rocking Groove (Rap & Breaks) (6.34)
2. Sinister Two - Rock It, Don't Stop It (7.59)
Side C:
1. Sangria - To The Beat Y'all (5.18)
2. Funky Four Plus One More - Rappin' And Rocking The House (6.54)
3. The Just Four - Girls Of The World (Genius Rap & Breaks) (7.07)
Side D:
1. Eye Beta Rock - Super Rock Body Shock (8.42)
2. Funky Constellation - Street Talk (Madam Rapper) (9.49)
Side E:
1. Kool Kyle The Starchild - Do You Like That Funky Beat (Ahh Beat, Beat) (8.38)
2. The Just Four - Jam To Remember (6.56)
Side F:
1. Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five - Super Rappin' No. 2 (7.18)
2. Silver Star - Eei Eei O (7.16)
7" Single (comes With LP Format SJRLP530-7 Only)
A. Magic's Trick - Magic's Rap (4.19) MONO VERSION
AA. Magic's Trick - Magic's Rap (4.19) STEREO VERSION
CD Tracklisting:
CD1
1. The Carver Area High School Seniors - Get Live '83 (The Senior Rap) (7.43)
2. Mike T - Do It Any Way You Wanna (6.53) Click At 0.43
3. Chapter III - Real Rocking Groove (Rap & Breaks) (6.34)
4. Sinister Two - Rock It, Don't Stop It (7.59)
5. Sangria - To The Beat Y'all (5.18)
6. Funky Four Plus One More - Rappin' And Rocking The House (6.54)
7. The Just Four - Girls Of The World (Genius Rap & Breaks) (7.07)
CD2
1. Eye Beta Rock - Super Rock Body Shock (8.42)
2. Funky Constellation - Street Talk (Madam Rapper) (9.49)
3. Kool Kyle The Starchild - Do You Like That Funky Beat (Ahh Beat, Beat) (8.38)
4. The Just Four - Jam To Remember (6.56)
5. Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five - Super Rappin' No. 2 (7.18)
6. Silver Star - Eei Eei O (7.16)
7. Magic's Trick - Magic's Rap (4.19)
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- Ltd LP
- £21.99
- Cat Number
- 5371837
- Release date
- 19 May '23
TRACK LISTING
Melody
Ballade De Melody Nelson
Valse De Melody
Ah Melody
L'hotel Particulier
En Melody
Cargo Culte
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- 12"
- £11.99
- Cat Number
- KALITA12022
- Release date
- 19 May '23
TRACK LISTING
A1. Prisoner Of My Weakness
B1. Prisoner Of My Weakness (Dub Mix)
B2. Prisoner Of My Weakness (Waxist Mix)
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- Ltd LP
- £19.99
- Cat Number
- SUNLANG4
- Release date
- 19 May '23
In the 1970s, Ellen Zweig was a young poet experimenting with poetry as performance. Her presence in New York’s Downtown scene, even during a period of such creative and artistic fertility, represented an astute and profoundly expressive voice. By 1980, and her two pieces “Network of Letters” and “Sensitive Bones” (both collected here on Fiction of the Physical), Zweig had introduced and perfected a technique she named the “human loop”, directing multiple performers to repeat a single poetic phrase over and over as they recorded to tape. Inevitably, the loops phase in and out of synchronisation over time, creating a sonic collage of drifting, rippling syllabic waves that rise and fall with natural tides. The text becomes performance, and in turn it becomes dreamily and hypnotically abstracted from the written word.
An astonishingly singular collection, created from a unique creative vision, Fiction of the Physical offers few reference points. Zweig intentionally disrupts of fourth wall convention and applies of spoken word as a musical device, a pioneering early female voice in underground avant garde scenes. Even her veil of “ambient music” is made porous enough to allow challenging and atonal sonics into the tapestry.
TRACK LISTING
1. Sensitive Bones
2. Act Of Watching
3. Network Of Letters
4. If Archimedes
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- 12"
- £12.99
- Cat Number
- 2055BLACK
- Release date
- 19 May '23
TRACK LISTING
1. Uniquely Fresh
2. Earth Is Not For Humans
3. Seeing Is Believing
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- LP
- £31.99
- Cat Number
- SOUL0192LP
- Release date
- 19 May '23
For Fans of: Jesu, A Place To Bury Strangers, The Telescopes.
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