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Youth Sector

Pop Couture

    Hailing from Brighton, indie rock quintet Youth Sector expertly balance astute political observations with campy indie romps. Inspired by the art school greats DEVO and Talking Heads, their music is a coiled spring of urgency and unpredictable energy that offers a sense of catharsis for the confusion of modern adult life.

    Across their critically acclaimed EPs, the Brighton quintet have never revelled in bleakness, managing to twist everyday narratives into music that is quite the opposite being upbeat, full of energy and with irresistible choruses you can’t help but sing along with.

    Evidently Youth Sector are no strangers to weaving prescient issues of culture and politics into the warm embrace of strong grooves and sing-along choruses, but debut album ‘Pop Couture’ raises the bar considerably, marking their strongest statement to date. From grift culture to political corruption to the devolution of living standards, Youth Sector prove they can transform the weightiest subject matter into the most irresistible of choruses.

    “'Pop Couture', our debut album, is a body of work which for a long time seemed out of our reach; it's the culmination of several years of development and is the vehicle for which we have been saving the best material we've ever written. The album explores prescient issues in our culture and politics such as grift culture, corruption and the devolution of standards in public life, but wraps these ideas in the warm embrace of strong grooves and sing-along choruses.”

    “We've been more ambitious than ever on these recordings in terms of the scale of the songs we're writing, with the help of Richard Wilkinson (Bombay Bicycle Club, Spector, Kaiser Chiefs), this album includes our most expansive recordings to date. Woven throughout the record is a self-awareness and introspection from five individuals who have worked through the financial and personal burdens that come with being a small artist the modern music industry; the record is bookended by 'God's Work' and 'Not Coming Down' that explore the journey through different lenses.”

    “Although the road to 'Pop Couture' has been long and arduous, Youth Sector can confidently confirm for any apprehensive listeners that it is certifiably all killer and no filler.”

    TRACK LISTING

    1. God's Work
    2. Crime
    3. Fit For Purpose
    4. Buy For Less
    5. Spitting Image
    6. The Ball
    7. House Proud And Bed Bound
    8. Primetime
    9. Here Comes The Fear
    10. Break Something
    11. Not Coming Down

    The Pigeon Detectives

    Still Not Sorry

      20 years into a career of indie bangers and amazing live shows The Pigeon Detectives bring the definitive tracks from across their catalogue onto one album...'Still Not Sorry'

      This marble designed record comes as a double vinyl featuring the best of on one disc, and 3 re-works of classic tracks on the second disc. Side D features signatures from the band ETCHED into the record.

      The album comes in a gatefold sleeve with previously unseen pictures from the band's history by long-time photographer Justin Slee. 

      TRACK LISTING

      1. This Is An Emergency
      2. I Found Out
      3. Wolves
      4. Lovers Come And Lovers Go
      5. I Don't Mind
      6. Take Her Back
      7. Everybody Wants Me
      8. Romantic Type
      9. What Can I Say?
      10. Say It Like You Mean It
      11. Falling To Pieces
      12. Enemy Lines
      13. Done In Secret
      14. I'm Not Sorry

      Pigeon Detectives

      TV Show

        With platinum and gold selling accolades across their catalogue of 5 albums The Pigeon Detectives return with album 6, an album influenced by their biggest hits but matured beyond them.

        Feeling like a band reborn The Pigeon Detectives have never really gone away, having quietly built a resurgent following at headline gigs and festivals across the UK with their high octane live show, the set is peppered with sing-a-long hits that have passed the test of time with flying colours attracting a younger audience to shows alongside a contingent of Pigeon ‘die hards’.

        Produced by Rich Turvey (Blossoms / The Courteeners / The Coral / Vistas / Oscar Lang / Jamie Webster) the album holds onto the infectious energy that drove the band to huge audiences on their early records, but has a contemporary feel to the production, arrangements and lyrics reflecting a band that have honed their craft and grown as a band and people.

        TRACK LISTING

        SIDE A

        1. Falling To Pieces
        2. Summer Girl
        3. Lovers Come And Lovers Go
        4. The Warning

        SIDE B

        1. Dreaming Of A Song
        2. I Can't Stop
        3. TV Show
        4. Would It Be So Bad?
        5. Purple Skies

        Tommy Ashby

        Lamplighter

          Named after a line taken from the great Edinburgh poet Norman MacCaig’s Praise of a Man, Tommy Ashby’s stunning debut album ‘Lamplighter’ distills the idea that after someone significant enters your life, the light they pass on will spread and illuminate others. Once that light is lit, it never really goes out. The album is a sincere and touching meditation on relationships; familial and friendships, the romantic and the unspoken. Capturing snapshots of people, places and moments in time, the work beautifully illustrates the effect that a person can have on your life and reflects on how the important relationships in our lives shape us; “It depicts all the people who were lamplighters in my life”.

          After swapping a one-bed flat in London for the big skies, reed beds and sunsets of rural Suffolk, Tommy found himself writing about relationships with family and friends, along with a sense of place and its significance. Recorded in a series of secluded retreats tucked away in the hidden corners of the UK, an affinity for location and nature permeates the record. You can hear the trickle of streams in the woods of the Scottish Borders, birds spinning off the sea-cliffs of Zennor in Cornwall and the misty autumn chill of days spent recording in Suffolk and Pembrokeshire. Throughout ‘Lamplighter’, Tommy reminisces over many fond childhood memories of wandering wild Scottish woodlands with his parents, his grandma’s enthusiasm for naturalist poetry and folk music or nights spent sneaking into pubs and bars to play the blues with his dad. As the album unfolds the songs muse over these memories. You get a sense that Tommy is trying to come to terms with how these personal connections have changed over the years and how they’ve come to shape him as an individual.

          TRACK LISTING

          1. Running
          2. My Old Man
          3. Moonflower (Best Friend)
          4. Closer
          5. When Love Goes Dark
          6. Floorboards
          7. Not That Far To Go
          8. A Beautiful Day
          9. Safe And Sound
          10. Lifeline
          11. Which Way The Wind Blows
          12. Weigh Me Down
          13. Comeback Kid

          Jake Whiskin

          Jake Whiskin

            The debut album from Leeds singer-songwriter Jake Whiskin.

            From Jake:
            This album is a process of healing and reflection on a crazy time a few years ago where I lost my Dad, my relationship at the time ended and my band I’d grown up with broke up - all within a few months of each other. I stopped making music for years after that, I worked at Starbucks by day and stayed at home by night. It took years before I picked up the guitar again and when I did everything started to come out in the songs I wrote. The pain of losing my Dad, my past relationship and my struggles with depression and bigger questions about spirituality and life. The album has been my therapy and crux, in part helping me heal and equally throwing me into some of the hardest times of my life.

            Musically I was inspired by Tom Petty, Neil Young, Bob Dylan as well as more 90’s rock like Nirvana and The Smashing Pumpkins, to name a few. It’s both what I grew up listening to and what I discovered on my own. Some of the songs are brand new, others are years old. It’s eclectic and that’s what I wanted it to be, both intimate Americana and more hard hitting rock songs too. The album is more of a look over your shoulder into past than it is based in the present, and in that I can see multitudes of snapshots from my life in it, I hope you can see something in it too.

            TRACK LISTING

            1. Slow Motion
            2. Absence
            3. The Trail Went Cold
            4. Halfway Down The Street
            5. Jake Germain-Whiskin
            6. Headfirst Dive
            7. Satanic Panic Love Song
            8. Long Way Home
            9. Heatwave
            10. Half Asleep
            11. Cold Morning

            Low Hummer

            Modern Tricks For Living

              Low Hummer are a fast-rising six piece from Hull that write about their life in deepest darkest East Yorkshire and their place in a world of consumerism and bad news stories sold as gospel. Daniel, Aimee, Steph, Jack, John and Joe came together from the far corners of the city’s tight knit DIY community, established a regular rehearsal home in iconic DIY venue The New Adelphi Club and set about honing their righteous, danceable garage rock before announcing themselves in late 2019 and introducing the world to Low Hummer - this band of misfits from a town left behind.

              “Scuzzed out indie with lashings of synths, their post-punk leaning songwriting has a surreal pop instinct running through it” – Clash.

              “Brilliant new garage rock… classic garage rock sounds that join with post-punk fury.” – Gigwise.

              “Its really charming. Great.” Laura Snapes (The Guardian / Pitchfork - For 6 Music Roundtable).

              TRACK LISTING

              Side A
              Take Arms
              Don’t You Ever Sleep
              I Choose Live News
              Never Enough
              Sometimes I Wish (I Was A Different Person)

              Side B
              The Real Thing
              Human Behaviour
              I Tell You What
              Commercials
              The People, This Place

              The fifth album from British indie-rock band, The Pigeon Detectives. The band has returned to their old label 'Dance To The Radio' and have worked with producer Richard Formby. We've got some high hopes for this album and we definitely think it'll be their most reflective and personal one yet.

              “On this album we felt we owed it to [our fans] to deliver something real that documents the journey we’ve all been on together. If you listen hard enough and take some time over the record, you’ll realise it’s an ode to everyone that’s ever bought an album or turned up to a show.” - Matt Bowman

              TRACK LISTING

              1. Wolves
              2. Lose Control
              3. Munro
              4. Enemy Lines
              5. Sounding The Alarm
              6. Falling In Love
              7. A Little Bit Alone
              8. Stay With Me
              9. Postcards
              10. Change My World

              ¡Forward, Russia!

              Don't Be A Doctor

                Fresh from conquering all sides of the globe, ¡Forward, Russia! return with an epic song that seems to completely distill their output so far and also push them into new directions all in the space of a sprawling seven minute plus song. Distributed to us directly from the band, this is going to be ebay gold in a few months time.


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