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Evil Blizzard

Death Songs And Lullabies

With multiple bass players (at one point eight of them) and an array of rubber masks that give both children and adults sleepless nights, somehow, against all the odds, Evil Blizzard are set to release their fifth studio album of nightmare inducing noise and visuals. Titled, the new album sees Evil Blizzard pushing the boundaries further afield from their early sound of 'multiple bass psych', seeing elements of dub, krautrock and goth to provide a much more Post Punk vibe than previous work. Reference points were 'Metal Box', 'Ritual De Lo Habitual', Can and Discharge (whose singer JJ joins the band on the track 'Wake The Dead In Bedlam') as well as the omnipresent Hawkwind, Stooges and Sabbath vibes. By far the band's most stylistically varied and challenging album and yet their most cohesive body of work since their critically acclaimed second album 'Everybody Come To Church'. As well as their trademark 'multi bass onslaught', this album sees sequencing, sampling and even the use of string instruments made from bone. Recorded between September and November 2025 at Rock Hard Studios, Blackpool, improvised sessions were edited down into more 'song' structures, then reworked into the final pieces. "Recording this was the hardest work we've done," claims Filthydirty. "Previously, we'd just turn up, turn up louder, press record and sieve through the debris and call it 'an album'. On this album we only had two, maybe three tracks that were finished when we went in, and the rest were worked out in reverse; ploughing through improvisations and jams and seeing what actually had any bones or gristle to work with. “Consequently, we had the time and focus to reappraise what we'd done in the past, highlight what we'd done right and realise where perhaps self-indulgence or lack of focus were overlooked instead of time or budget restraints, he continues. “The result is an album that reflects all our record collections. Lyrically it's been impossible to not absorb the chaos and anger transmitting on every news channel recently, and while we'd never write specifically about a certain issue or matter, the shitshow that is the 2020's definitely made its mark or our thinking.

TRACK LISTING

1.Off With Their Heads
2.Down Down Down
3.Black Square
4.Wake The Dead In Bedlam
5.Questions // Answers
6.Four Letter Words
7.Hater Creator
8.Warpaint

Polypores

Wrigglers

CrackedanklesRecords are proud to present Polypores “Wrigglers” - the latest emergence from Stephen James Buckley’s strange and overgrown brainforest, an artist who has seen recent albums crack the national top 40 charts. From the opening bars of lead single ‘Memespawn’, it is clear that this incendiary release is going to defy all precedent Polypores releases. Kicking off with a heady mix of woozy, slewed melody lines and a relentless Motorik beat, it soon breaks down into a gritty instrumental redux and a frenetic syncopated woodwind jazzathon before bursting out again into spine-tingling melody that resembles some deformed cousin of synth-pop. It’s beautifully melodic, whilst still maintaining Buckley’s trademark sense of the chaotic and the downright wonky. Endlessly listenable electronic music that breathes and moves like a physical organism, and always refuses to stand still. A restless misfit of an artist who inhabits the fringes of whatever scenes he inhabits, Buckley maintains a certain crackling unease throughout the whole thing, but it results in jubilant outbursts and freewheeling joy, tethered only by the mechanical constraints of the machines it’s wrought from, like some broken robots have cobbled together an orchestra and they’re writing a soundtrack for a film they haven’t seen.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: I'm a massive Polypores fan. I love the music, love the vibe and the trajectory, and I love the musician, so i'm probably not best placed to comment. That being said, i'm contractually obliged to so i'll tell you without haste, this is the most beautifully strange and wonderfully wonky brain-melting electronic music that has ever been. It's majestic, beautiful and terrifying. Absolute dynamite.

TRACK LISTING

1.Memespawn
2.Wrigglers
3.Troublebath
4.Naut
5.Alice Drums
6.Puzzles
7.A Thinking Thing
8.Cranial Escape
9.Primordia

Evil Blizzard

Everybody Come To Church - 2026 Reissue

To celebrate the tenth anniversary of their critically acclaimed second album, Preston's unholiest sons Evil Blizzard are please to announce a brand new re press of 'Everybody Come To Church' on limited edition (300) purple vinyl, with hand numbered full colour insert and DL code, and also on CD.

Featuring the live favourites 'Are You Evil?', 'Sacrifice' and 'Stupid People', the album has long ince been out of print.

TRACK LISTING

1.Are You Evil?
2.Stupid People
3.Bow Down And Pray
4.Spread The Fear
5.Sacrifice
6.Laughing Gas
7.Watching
8.Balloon (CD Format Only)

Pyncher

Every Town Needs A Stranger

Manchester quartet Pyncher crash onto vinyl with Every Town Needs A Stranger - a raw, unflinching debut that captures the chaos of small-town lives and the energy of their sweaty basement shows. Produced by Morton Kong, it’s a record built on snarling riffs, sharp wit and a chemistry that makes the four members sound like one whirring machine. Lead single “Steely Dan” returns, recharged and uncompromising, after being torn from streaming, and the band make their stance clear: if you want the full experience, you’ll need the record in your hands. Defiant, inventive and impossible to ignore, Pyncher are already carving out their own strange and brilliant space - young, urgent, and primed for big things.

TRACK LISTING

1.Get Along
2.Back To The Country
3.Hippopotamus Boy
4.Steely Dan (single)
5.At The Seaside
6.Space Rocket Simulator
7.Shapeshifter
8.Tired Eyes
9.Every Town Needs A Stranger
10.Dirty Feet
11.Goodbye, Old Friend

Polypores

Cosmically A Shambles

Stephen James Buckley, aka Polypores, releases his brand new studio album on June 6th.‘Cosmically A Shambles’ sees a slight shift in direction from his signature sound, with stronger elements of rhythm and melody than his more abstract back catalogue though still remaining unmistakably Polypores.

Highly textural, intricately woven modular synth tapestries, through to whirling psychedelic freak-outs with hypnotic polyrhythms and fuzzed-up drum machines. Still creating in the same method, using modular synths and ‘playing’, rather than the use of samples or studio or synthesiser pre sets, this album features more beats and textures, seeing a shift towards almost psyc or krautrock. Preceded by his first ever 7” lathe cut single ‘Whorl’, the album is released by Cracked Ankles Records from Stephen’s homewtown of Preston.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Wildly energetic, fluid dance music that's forged through Buckley's love of ambient, jazz and electronica and honed through bracing live performances and hypnotic improvisational jams. One of the greatest electronic musicians on the scene. Video for the stunning lead single, 'Whorl' by Yin Wrong is a particular delight, and all beautifully presented on Preston's Cracked Ankles Records. Brilliant all round.

TRACK LISTING

1 Lungs & Limbs
2 Whorl
3 Timeless Spirals Of The Motherfungus
4 Spoonbender
5 Mystery Energy
6 Score
7 Untethered (Ascend Now)
8 Interdimensional Hopscotch
9 Lossy
10 Hazy Dazy

Preston’s 4 bassed behemoth Evil Blizzard follow up the tremendous success of last year’s ‘The Worst Show On Earth’ album with the release of a double live album. Recorded live at their headline slot at Sonic Rock Solstice festival in 2018, the album features a frenzied, furious and frantic hour long set released as a limited edition of 500 white premium grade vinyl in full gatefold sleeve, complete with DL code. Due to public demand, the album is also being released on CD, again strictly limited to 500 copies. 

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Evil Blizzard are one of the most dynamic and heavy-hitting live bands on the circuit at the moments, and this live set from last year shows us why. Hammering percussion and heavy AF guitars perfectly bracket the snarling vox and off-kilter progressive psychedelic weirdness.

TRACK LISTING

1 .Sacrifice
2. Hello
3. Unleash The Misery
4. Sleep
5. Like A God
6. Fast Forward Rewind
7. Tell Me
8. Slimy Creatures
9. Are You Evil?
10. Knock Knock Knock


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