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The album’s first offering as a single is the title track which serves as a nod both to Andy McCluskey’s love of the Bauhaus era & the power of protest art. “I am a huge lover of visual arts especially mid 20th century movements” Andy comments. “The song is a metaphor for strength and artist passion in the face of criticism and adversity. When times are hard there is a tendency for Governments to look at cutting funding for creativity just at the moment when the arts are most needed to nourish our souls. It seems appropriate that the song and its eponymous album were created during Covid Lockdown.”
Ranging further from the beautiful film noir ballad of ‘Veruschka’ and the dance stylings of ‘Anthropocene’ - a term for the current epoch in Earth’s evolution to the sinister ‘Evolution Of Species’ and the hectic ‘Kleptocracy’ - OMD’s greatest straight-up protest song - the new album is a broad electronic sonic masterpiece that lyrically tackles the topics of the future. The record closes on ‘Healing’ - a moment of reflective calm.
By rights OMD should be in semi-retirement performing classics like Enola Gay and Maid Of Orleans on the nostalgia festival circuit like so many peers. Instead they’ve created a landmark album worthy of their finest work. Bauhaus Staircase remains unmistakably the work of a duo who are still perfectly in sync 45 years after their first gig at legendary Liverpool club Eric’s.
“I’m very happy with what we’ve done on this record" McCluskey summarises. “I’m comfortable if this is OMD’s last statement.”
TRACK LISTING
TRACKLIST: CD / LP / LPC
1. Bauhaus Staircase
2. Anthropocene
3. Look At You Now
4. G.E.M.
5. Where We Started
6. Veruschka
7. Slow Train
8. Don't Go
9. Kleptocracy
10. Aphrodite's Favourite Child
11. Evolution Of Species
12. Healing
2CD
1. Bauhaus Staircase 2.7 Demo. Andy 30th Aug 2020
2. Anthropocene Demo (A Haven For Lost Souls 1.1 Paul’s Track April 2020)
3. Look At You Now Demo (Zimmer Frame For Andy) Paul 28th Feb 2021
4. G.E.M. Demo (Culture War. Andy 6th March 2021)
5. Where We Started Demo (Stadium 6.0) Andy 26th May 2020
6. Veruschka 2 Demo 2nd December 2020
7. Slow Train Demo 1.3 Dec 2020
8. Don’t Go Demo 14th Nov 2018
9. Kleptocracy Demo (When I Was Young) Andy 14th March 2021
10. Aphrodite’s Favourite Child Demo (B Side Choir) Fotonovela 2011
11. Evolution Of Species 2.5 Ruff
12. Healing Demo (Water April 9th 2020)
13. Bauhaus Staircase Demo. Andy 20th July 2020
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- Signed LP
- u/avbl
- Cat Number
- 100LP133PSIGNED
- Release date
- 28 Jul '23
- Format Info
Kevin very kindly signed a few extra copies when he came in the shop for the signing session. Grab one while you can!
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- Coloured LP
- £26.99
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- 100LP133P
- Release date
- 28 Jul '23
- Format Info
Purple vinyl.
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- LP
- £25.99
- Cat Number
- 100LP133
- Release date
- 28 Jul '23
- Format Info
Black vinyl.
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- CD
- £10.99
- Cat Number
- 100CD133
- Release date
- 28 Jul '23
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- Cassette
- £10.99
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- 100CASS133
- Release date
- 28 Jul '23
STAFF COMMENTS
Andy says: There are some enormous pop songs on this new Dexys record, which when coupled with Kevin Rowland's deeply personal, sometimes confessional but ultimately redemptive lyrics make this one of the most arresting albums of his whole career.TRACK LISTING
1. The One That Loves You
2. It's Alright Kevin (Manhood 2023)
3. I'm Going To Get Free
4. Coming Home
5. The Feminine Divine
6. My Goddess Is
7. Goddess Rules
8. My Submission
9. Dance With Me
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- 2xSigned LP
- £26.99
- Cat Number
- 100LP131C-SIGNED
- Release date
- 7 Jul '23
- Format Info
Double clear vinyl - signed copies.
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- 2xColoured LP
- £26.99
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- 100LP131C
- Release date
- 30 Jun '23
- Format Info
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- 2xCD
- £13.99
- Cat Number
- 100CD131
- Release date
- 30 Jun '23
TRACK LISTING
2LP / 2CD Tracklisting
A1 The Limit Of A Man
A2 The Light In Us (Feat. Laville)
A3 Now That You Want Me Back (Feat. Melba Moore)
A4 Deeper Love (Feat. Paul Weller)
A5 Next Time Around
B1 Beverley
B2 Carry The News
B3 Season Of Change (Feat. Bettye LaVette)
B4 Hold On To Love (Feat. Durand Jones)
B5 Your Balloon Is Rising (Feat. Paul Weller)
C1 Summer Feeling
C2 Standing On The Top
C3 Echoes Of Joy
C4 Let The Light
C5 To Find The Spirit
C6 The Night Teller (Feat. Graham Parker)
D1 Strange People (Feat. William Bell)
D2 B What U R (Feat. Shirley Jones)
D3 Pushing Your Love
D4 Tracing Paper (Feat. Nolan Porter)
D5 Outside Looking In (Edit)
D6 Back In The Game (Feat. Paul Weller)
5CD Box Set Tracklisting
CD1
1 The Limit Of A Man
2 The Light In Us Feat. Laville
3 Now That You Want Me Back Feat. Melba Moore
4 Deeper Love Feat. Paul Weller
5 Next Time Around
6 Beverley
7 Carry The News
8 Season Of Change Feat. Bettye Lavette
9 Hold On To Love Feat. Durand Jones
10 Your Balloon Is Rising Feat. Paul Weller
11 Summer Feeling
12 Standing On The Top
13 Echoes Of Joy
14 Let The Light
15 To Find The Spirit
16 The Night Teller Feat. Graham Parker
17 Strange People Feat. William Bell
CD2
1 B What U R Feat. Shirley Jones
2 Pushing Your Love
3 Tracing Paper Feat. Nolan Porter
4 Outside Looking In (Edit)
5 Back In The Game Feat. Paul Weller
6 Changes
7 Only You Can Feat. Hamish Stuart
8 Don't Walk Away Feat. Kathryn Williams
9 Hold On
10 A Love Uprising Feat. Dr Robert
11 When You're In My World Feat. Carleen Anderson
12 Heaven Knows Why Feat. Laville, Sheree Dubois
13 Sweet Forgiveness
14 Bring Back The Happiness
15 Don't Let The Rain
16 Love's Outro Feat. Peter Capaldi
CD3
1 Riches
2 Care Of Heather
3 Brain
4 From The Birth Of Time
5 Deep In The Water
6 The Waiting Game
7 Picked Up The Phone
8 Maybe In A Lifetime
9 Once In A While I Need Some Peace
10 5th October
11 My Love Will Never Be Enough
12 Not Around
13 Are You Really Happy?
14 To Love Somebody
15 Don't Give In Tonight
CD4
1 So Begins The Conversation
2 We'll Be Flying
3 Seven Days
4 Autumn's Child
5 Did My Baby Call Feat. Steve Calloway
6 Our Love Is In The Pocket
7 Eyes Of June
8 No More The Fool
9 Please Tell Me Feat. Joe Harris
10 Can You Keep A Secret (Part 1)
11 Uncomplicated
12 Dogtooth
13 Right Track Feat. Nolan Porter
14 The Last Goodbye
15 Wondrous Place Feat. Pete Williams
16 Crazy Love Feat. Nolan Porter
17 Don't Let The Rain (Dub) Feat. Dennis Bovell
CD5
1 That's The Way I Want To Live My Life
2 These Life Stories (Live)
3 Something In The Light
4 Learning The Hard Way
5 Life Goes On
6 It's Always Been There
7 Simplify The Situation (Live)
8 I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down Feat. Graham Parker
9 Rise Above It
10 Picture A Life
11 Stylin' Feat. Sulene Fleming
12 Deeper Love (Opolopo Remix) Feat. Paul Weller
13 The Light In Us (Soul Weekender Remix) Feat. Laville
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- Coloured LP
- £19.99
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- 100LP125B
- Release date
- 20 Jan '23
- Format Info
Indies exclusive cathode blue vinyl.
Includes signed postcard.
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- LP
- £17.99
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- 100LP125
- Release date
- 20 Jan '23
- Format Info
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- CD
- £10.99
- Cat Number
- 100CD125
- Release date
- 27 Jan '23
TRACK LISTING
1: Operator Error
2: Dispense With Sentiment
3: Human Resources
4: Lucky Just To Be Here
5: Turn It Up
6: Settled Accounts
7: Here Goes
8: Parachute
9: Less From You
10: Miracle Of '22
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- Ltd CD
- £9.99
- Cat Number
- 100CD112
- Release date
- 8 Oct '21
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- Cassette
- £8.99
- Cat Number
- 100CASS112
- Release date
- 8 Oct '21
- Format Info
Cassette is yellow.
Each of the physical formats will come with a nearly-blank cover and a pack of stickers for fans to design their own album cover.
Cassette is yellow.
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Huffy, follows 2018's Megaplex and the enormously successful "50th anniversary" reissue of With Love And Squalor. The anticipated album is already shaping up to be one of the band’s most hit-tastic albums to date with the inclusion of recently acclaimed bangers 'I Cut My Own Hair' and 'Fault Lines' alongside today's new single 'Contact High'.
Huffy’s fresh music is accompanied by an oh-so-fresh presentation: multi-panelled vinyl and CD packaging offer a blank wall on which listeners can unfold their own unreasonable vision for the Huffy universe. Each includes sticker sheets with over 20 full colour graffiti designed by Keith, Chris, and friends, deployable according to the user’s whim. Tilting reality even further into the hallucinatory gyre, this vinyl comes in a choice of different colours. (The cassette will be manufactured in yellow, and has exclusive content on Side B, giving hard plastic-enthusiasts something to crow about.)
On Huffy’s mosaic form, Chris says, “Usually people bring a vinyl record home, rip it to their iPods, and throw it straight into the fire. Well, not with Huffy. We’re giving our listeners a reason to keep this one around, and even to consider passing it down to future generations, if they’re super-happy with where they put all the stickers.”
TRACK LISTING
1. You’ve Lost Your Shit
2. Contact High
3. Handshake Agreement
4. I Cut My Own Hair
5. Just Education
6. Sentimental Education
7. Fault Lines
8. Pandemonium
9. Bought Myself A Grave
10. Behavior Unbecoming
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- Ltd 7"
- u/avbl
- Cat Number
- 100S103
- Release date
- 6 Nov '20
TRACK LISTING
A1. Deeper Love (feat. Paul Weller)
B1. Love’s Getting Deeper (Good Vibes Mix)
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- CD/DVD
- £12.49
- Cat Number
- 100CDX85
- Release date
- 24 Aug '18
The band, buoyed & encouraged by the reception to their last album Street Rituals (chart position: 25), have taken a slightly different direction and hit upon a creative formula that clearly works. After a long period of extensive touring, which included headline shows at Shepherds Bush Empire and a storming set at Glastonbury, the band were so stoked that they went straight back to the studio to start work on Everybody Anyone while the creative juices were still flowing.
Everybody, Anyone sees a harder, heavier funk vibe than it’s predecessor but with the great grooves comes great songs. Talking about the album, bassist Neil Sheasby says: “In recent years I’ve heard a lot of records with great grooves but there’s no song, the message & melodies were still key to the records creation. To me it sounds like a very cohesive collection of tunes, a body of work that hangs well as a complete album. The next natural step for Stone Foundation”
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- CD
- £9.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- 100CD77
- Release date
- 27 Apr '18
“In the past we’ve used our music to educate, to enlighten, to awaken people to the depth and complexity of moral concerns. This time, we really wanted to drop a fun-bomb. Something to dance or f*** to,” states Chris and ‘Megaplex’ achieves just that. Recorded at Tim Wheeler from Ash’s Atomic Heart Studios in NYC and once again produced by Max Hart (ex-Katy Perry), the duo set about honing down a sprawling burst of creativity to make the concise pop beast that is ‘Megaplex’.
"At this point in our career, we’ve written so many songs,” explains Keith. “The pool for this record alone was something like 90 songs deep — that we know exactly what we want out of a We Are Scientists record. We want it to be taut, to bang hard, to have a big hook every four seconds or so. We don’t have to be precious about which songs make it onto a record; we can listen to the ones that didn’t make it at home, on our own time. ‘Megaplex’ is just the ten most delicious songs that we have — a stacked-up compound of entertainment."
"It takes a lot of hard work, a lot of honing of craft to make it to six records,” continues Keith. “ I mean, the Velvet Underground never made six albums. The Smiths didn’t. Pavement, Guns N’ Roses, The Stooges — none of them could do it. So, I guess we’re just objectively better than those bands now? It’s just a mathematical fact, right? Van Halen made six with David Lee Roth but only four with Sammy Hagar, so I guess we’re better than Hagar-era Van Halen but only just as good as Roth-era? Which, saying it out loud, makes total sense, yeah."
These are stark facts that cannot be argued when faced with the ten melodious molten nuggets that are simply blinding in their brightness. Yes folks, We Are Scientists are very much back.
“Our brilliant work in pop song writing is unsurpassed,” summarises Keith. “And will probably make the We Are Scientists Name live beyond eternity.”
STAFF COMMENTS
Barry says: Bright, soaring melodies and bolshy, neon synths thump around the stereo image while the vocals soar over the top. Unashamedly retro but brilliantly modern, and great fun throughout.TRACK LISTING
CD
1. One In, One Out
2. Notes In A Bottle
3. Heart Is A Weapon
4. Your Light Has Changed
5. KIT
6. No Wait At Five Leaves
7. Not Another Word
8. Now Or Never
9. You Failed
10. Properties Of Perception
LP
A1. One In, One Out
A2. Notes In A Bottle
A3. Heart Is A Weapon
A4. Your Light Has Changed
A5. KIT
B1. No Wait At Five Leaves
B2. Not Another Word
B3. Now Or Never
B4. You Failed
B5. Properties Of Perception
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- CD
- £9.99
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- 100CD58
- Release date
- 31 Mar '17
Stone Foundation’s Neil Jones commented: "Paul contacted us at the start of 2016 after hearing our last record. He wanted to know if we'd like to get involved with a demo he'd been working on and we obviously grasped the opportunity with both hands. ‘The Limit of a Man’ was born out of those early exchanges and from that point onwards we never looked back". Neil Sheasby added “Paul pretty much joined the band for the recording sessions, playing guitar, piano and adding vocals to several songs as well as overseeing the production of the record.”
Elsewhere on the album there are stunning contributions from legendary soul singers William Bell, who lends his voice to ‘Strange People’, and the unmistakable tones of Bettye Lavette, providing the lead on ‘Season of Change’. The collaboration between Stone Foundation and these internationally celebrated artists cements the bands incredible reputation as one of the finest British Soul bands in existence.
With an extraordinary history of constant surprises and success against the odds, ‘Street Rituals’ feels like the culmination of years of hard work paying off for Stone Foundation as they continue to develop their unique style of soul on a much broader scale. Subtle horn & string arrangements add glorious swathes of colour and light to a new collection of songs that are unquestionably the groups strongest to date. Co-writers and founding members Neil Jones and Neil Sheasby have consciously delivered thought provoking lyrics that reflect current issues of uncertainty and division, but smartly balance that with a prevailing sense of hope and optimism within their musical delivery.
"These are dark, dark times so I was glad to hear a positive voice and vibrations in the words and a joy in the music...what a pleasure and a privilege it was to work with these fellas". “It’s their best songwriting to date, and I just hope people get to hear it because there are some great tunes and I like the message on the record. I like the social comment, because you have so little of that these days.” - Paul Weller on the band and record
TRACK LISTING
CD
1) Back In The Game (feat. Paul Weller)
2) Open Your Heart To The World
3) Love Rediscovered
4) The Limit Of A Man
5) The Colour Of...
6) Street Rituals (feat. Paul Weller)
7) Strange People (feat. William Bell)
8) Your Balloon Is Rising (feat. Paul Weller)
9) Season Of Change (feat. Bettye LaVette)
10) Simplify The Situation
CD+DVD
CD Same As Above
DVD
1) The Making Of Street Rituals
2) Back In The Game [In-studio Performance]
3) Your Balloon Is Rising [in-studio Performance]
4) Strange People [In-studio Performance]
LP
Side A
1) Back In The Game (feat. Paul Weller)
2) Open Your Heart To The World
3) Love Rediscovered
4) The Limit Of A Man
5) The Colour Of...
Side B
6) Street Rituals (feat. Paul Weller)
7) Strange People (feat. William Bell)
8) Your Balloon Is Rising (feat. Paul Weller)
9) Season Of Change (feat. Bettye LaVette)
10) Simplify The Situation
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- CD
- £9.99
- Cat Number
- 100CD52
- Release date
- 22 Apr '16
For this album We Are Scientists asked their ex-keyboard player Max Hart to produce. Max had just finished a three-year stint as the keyboardist for international super-mega-person Katy Perry, choosing as his final gig Ms. Perry’s performance at the 2015 Super Bowl. After a number of small producing projects squeezed in between tours, he was ready to roll up his sleeves and dive in.
Max rented a studio space in Brooklyn’s DUMBO neighbourhood, outfitting it with gear he had accumulated over a decade of obsessive internet shopping. In early March, the team got to work. At their disposal was a trove of new We Are Scientists demos as well as Max’s inside-out familiarity with hits like ‘Teenage Dream’ and ‘Firework’ and ‘Dark Horse.’ Sifting through the options, a direction emerged: they would use the tones and trickery of radio pop to add a sweet sheen to the new crop of distinctively We Are Scientists songs. Months of toil and trial and error finally brought the right balance, and the finished recordings were shipped to mixer Chris Coady at Sunset Sound in L.A. Coady has quietly emerged in recent years as one of the finest mixers of glossy indie pop, with credits that include Future Islands, Beach House, and !!!.
In ‘Helter Seltzer’ he knew he had an album that should shimmer but also bang, and he applied all of the magic and sauce at his disposal to insure it did exactly that. Finally, the music was passed through the deluxe mastering machine that are the ears of Greg Calbi (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Noel Gallagher, Perfume Genius) to add a coat of heft and sparkle, and in January of 2016, nearly a year after construction began, the album was pronounced complete.
"We've always made overtures toward being a pop band, but we've generally had the inclination to obscure those pop leanings in grit and chaos — to screw them up with fuzzed-out tones and raucous performances," says guitarist and vocalist Keith Murray. "It's made us really think about what our musical genre is. We're not punk — we're too interested in making our songs as pretty as possible. We're not straight-up rock — our tastes our too left-of-centre. We're not indie-rock — our heads aren't far enough up our own butts. So finally, after putting as much time into thinking about it as we're apt to — about ten minutes, over beers — we decided that our genre is 'Helter Seltzer.'"
"Declaring a new genre is obviously douchey as hell, though, and impossible to deliver with a straight face," adds bassist Chris Cain, "so we did the noble thing and just made ‘Helter Seltzer’ the album title. It's especially apt for us these days, though. The songs here are more effervescent than we've ever managed to deliver, but they've still maintained a measure of that ‘Helter Skelter’ element — no matter how fizzy and refreshing the tunes are, they've always got a bit of that seamy, scuzzy, 'cult on Spahn Ranch' vibe."
"Incidentally, the album title represents a secondary bonus of proselytizing to the world about seltzer, which is woefully under-recognized outside the United States. We've polled foreign friends and associates about their awareness of seltzer, and found out that most of them thought it related either to a hangover cure or to that fusty comedic "squirt in the face" gag from classic cinema. Almost none recognized the fine pleasure of sipping on a nice, refreshing seltzer water, available everywhere in bottles and cans throughout the U.S. We therefore consider this album, as a vessel of both sweet pop tunes and seltzer outreach, to be a work of undisguised philanthropy on our part."
TRACK LISTING
1. Buckle
2. In My Head
3. Too Late
4. Hold On
5. We Need A Word
6. Want For Nothing
7. Classic Love
8. Waiting For You
9. Headlights
10. Forgiveness
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- CD
- £3.99
- Cat Number
- SILK060CD
- Release date
- 31 Mar '14
Sustained heavy touring often grizzles musicians into cynical survivalists but it seems to have had the opposite effect on Palermo - these are his most generous, playful and sensual tracks to date. Let go, lighten up, join the Gang.
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- CD
- £9.99
- Cat Number
- 100CD35
- Release date
- 3 Mar '14
Asked to comment on the unusual title, bassist Chris Cain explains, “It’s in French, I think. At least some of the words.”
Singer and guitarist Keith Murray elaborates: “We wanted to get at the seemingly inevitable parallax that happens between two people in a relationship, that sense that you get the gist of what the other person needs and wants and how they feel about you, but only the gist — you’re relying on these broad cues a lot of the time to tell you what the hell’s going on.”
We Are Scientists exploded onto the U.K. scene with one of 2005’s iconic indie dance rock records, ‘With Love & Squalor’. Years of touring followed, as did a second album, ‘Brain Thrust Mastery’, that spawned now-classic nightlife anthem ‘After Hours’ (a #11 charting single). Main stage slots at Reading & Leeds, Glastonbury, T In The Park, and festivals all over Europe, as well as appearances on Later with Jools Holland, and their own series of comedic MTV shorts (‘Steve Wants His Money’), followed by third album ‘Barbara’… all served to cement and increase their legacy.
Now, after releasing a 7-inch and a 5-song EP in 2013, the band prepare to share their finest collection of songs to date.
According to Cain, “The guy who was producing everything looked different from the one who did those other three records.”
Murray further enthuses, “Yeah, working for the first time with Chris Coady as producer had a huge effect — he has such a distinct and well-developed sense of what’s cool and what sounds good, but he’s also emphatic about keeping the rawness of the performances in there.”
Drummer Andy Burrows, who also recorded ‘Barbara’ with W.A.S., relocated to New York for a year to work on the new album, and lends his world-class efforts behind the kit and elsewhere.
TRACK LISTING
1: What You Do Best
2: Dumb Luck
3: Make It Easy
4: Sprinkles
5: Courage
6: Overreacting
7: Return The Favor
8: Slow Down
9: Don't Blow It
10: Take An Arrow
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- 12"
- £12.99
- Cat Number
- SILK055
- Release date
- 25 Nov '13
TRACK LISTING
1. The Loin King
2. Pneus
3. French Kissing In The House Of Love
4. Incroyablement Prop
TRACK LISTING
A1. Milky Way
A2. Loose Jaw
B1. Polo Sport
B2. Roland's Beats
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- 12"
- £12.99
- Cat Number
- SILK031
- Release date
- 4 Jun '12
TRACK LISTING
A1. His Love
A2. Wherever, Boy
A3. Found You
B1. Freedom 2K
B2. Unity
B3. Freedom 2K (Malvoeaux Mix)
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- 12"
- £8.99
- Cat Number
- SILK007
- Release date
- 25 Jul '11
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- CDS
- £4.99
- Cat Number
- 1000 WATCD0014
- Release date
- 3 Oct '05
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- CDS
- £3.99
- Cat Number
- CD0013
- Release date
- 21 Mar '05