Three years after the release of their debut album, Do Nothing return with their much anticipated sophomore, 'Friend World'. The Nottingham four piece consisting of Chris Bailey, Kasper Sandstrøm, Charlie Howarth, Andrew Harrison, emerge bolder, self-assured and more energetic than ever.

Lead single 'Stars' is a synth-laden track with hypnotic riffs, meandering vocals and bouncing basslines. The single, already a fan favourite, paves the way for listeners to enter the 'Friend World' that Do Nothing have created. At first glance, the album is overflowing with hard hitting guitars, infectious rhythms and frontman Bailey's signature razor-sharp witted lyricism, but dive deeper into tracks such as 'These People Want Blood' and standout track 'Loner', to find an alternative take on the album, representing a softer and more pensive side of the band's writing.

TRACK LISTING

1. Misery
2. The Nail
3. Act Natural
4. These People Want Blood
5. Stars
6. Smile
7. Dog 2
8. Loner
9. Yes
10. Paris Jesus
11. Incommunicado

Nothing But Thieves return with their fifth studio album, 'Stray Dogs'. Recorded at Angelic Studios — where the band made their debut album — 'Stray Dogs' reconnects the Southend five-piece with their DIY roots. The album was written in unison over a dedicated 5-month period, resulting in the band creating their most liberating and cohesive work to date. Featuring the euphoric new single ‘Evolution’, the 12 track album explores themes of community, belonging and shared experience.

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Calibre's new album - "Double Bend". Nine tracks pressed over three pieces of 180 gram vinyl with artwork by Craig Richards.

Dominick Martin has become a rightly celebrated legend of electronic music. Fabio coined the ‘liquid funk’ sub-genre of drum & bass solely to describe Calibre’s style. He’s was a major collaborator with Marcus Intallex. But then he could also turn his deft hand to house, techno and everything in between; yet still retaining a sense of identity and purpose which makes most other artists blush. Released on Richard’s The Nothing Special in 2022, “Double Bend” is regarded as a high watermark of the producer’s more recent catalogue. Back in stock for a limited time and sounding as good as ever. You know what to do! 

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Wrapped in a neon-hued & futuristic luxe patina, and exploring unconventional rhythms, "Double Bend" finds Calibre in comfortable stride.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Double Bend
B1. Hostage
B2. Savoury Skank
C1. Grinch
D1. Turtle Duv
D2. Going To Ground
E1. Frinzingly
F1. Rare Groove
F2. Im Ent

Do Nothing's newest offering, 'Summer Of Hate' on a 7-inch etched vinyl, limited to 500. The release, a follow up to the critically acclaimed debut album 'Snake Sideways' originated from studio sessions for their upcoming second album, due for release in 2025

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1. Summer Of Hate

Nottingham post-punks Do Nothing blend jerky, spidery rhythms with surreal, half-spoken vocals that recall the Fall 's Mark E. Smith . Do Nothing was formed in 2017 by four long-time school friends: frontman Chris Bailey, guitarist Kasper Sandstrøm, drummer Andy Harrison, and bassist Charlie Howarth. All had played in various acts around the city; the band got their start at the popular Maze Club. Bailey, whose father was a singer in an a cappella folk group, grew up listening to the sounds of Simon & Garfunkel , and his own biggest influence was Tom Waits . Initially attempting to copy big names like LCD Soundsystem (as heard on their first 7" single, "Gangs," released in 2019), they eventually became more confident about doing their own thing, and Bailey gave his stream-of-consciousness lyrics and outsider stage persona free rein. Associated with, but wary of, the then-popular post-punk revival, they made clear it was their intention to follow their own path. Their debut EP, Zero Dollar Bill, was released in 2020; another, Glueland, arrived the following year, with an album in the works.

STAFF COMMENTS

Liam says: Born amongst the sea of post-punk revivalists, Nottingham quartet Do Nothing have decided to follow their own path with their debut LP 'Snake Sideways'. In turn, this results in a collection of wonderful wonky and infectious indie bops that serve as a refreshing alternative in today's guitar scene.

TRACK LISTING

1. Nerve
2. Happy Feet
3. Snake Sideways
4. Fine
5. Ivy
6. Hollywood Learn
7. The Needle
8. Amoeba
9. Moving Target
10. Sunshine State

RIYL: Sleater-Kinney, Bartees Strange,Liars, Shellac, Blonde Redhead, Protomartyr, Iceage, A Place To Bury Strangers, Throwing Muses, Omni, Shopping, Bikini Kill.

In the era of Ganser’s Just Look At That Sky delightfully descended on the world in July of 2020, I do admit that I mostly did find myself looking skyward, though that looking was often colored by an ever-present anxiety. My city was coming apart and maybe your city was coming apart too. Maybe atop the buildings of your downtowns there were guns, and men in fatigues. Maybe in front of the libraries, there were tanks, maybe in front of the food banks, there were army patrols. And yet, maybe you found an album or some tunes that reflected the times, which means both everything and nothing at all now, as time fractures into small, elastic shapes, some jagged, some joyful. An album of a moment must require malleability – songs that hold several songs within them.

Ganser is back with a couple of tunes that will anchor spring through fall, a project called Nothing You Do Matters (produced by Liars' Angus Andrew) and the songs are full, biting, sweet and relentlessly tongue-in-cheek. What propels Ganser as a band, for me, is what shines here: their performance of joyful apathy so often has many other moving parts underneath that suggest that they are a band of deep caring, simply unsatisfied

with the hands they’ve been dealt by the world. The dark humor seeped into the apathy is the central and most visual part of the magic trick, but it isn’t the trick itself. It is the disappearing bird or rabbit, that which returns safely to the open palm in order to distract an audience from everything else unfolding during its

disappearance. “People Watching” is almost a mini-suite of a jam, which first kicks in your door and then lulls you with what feels like comfort, before tearing your place apart on the way out. It’s a thrasher of a tune that is more deliberate than breathless, picking its spots to twist the lyrical knife of talk until the words lose meaning, which circle the drain of the song repeatedly, until it has evicted you, or you have evicted it.

“What Me Worry?” fills the space of breathlessness, a sneering romp where each line of lyric feels engaged in a mighty tug-ofwar for what comes before and after, simmering with the kind of tension that Ganser has gotten great at – a tension that pushes a listener to the edge before dragging them back to firm ground.

Survival is hard-won. For many folks, it has always been, for many more folks it feels especially hard-won now. Ganser has adjusted to the times. Yes, the lyrics are darker, seem more exhausted with the realities of having to make it to whatever is next. But there’s also real bursts of playfulness and gratitude wrestling underneath these songs. Gratitude for what winning another inch of survival, perhaps. I needed these songs, and you might, too. It’s good to feel, for a moment, that all is not lost. And even if it is, at least we can laugh our way to somemeaningless demise. - written by Hanif Abdurraqib

TRACK LISTING

01. People Watching
02. What Me Worry
03. People Watching (Liars Remix)

THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2021 EXCLUSIVE AND WILL BE AVAILABLE INSTORE ON SATURDAY JULY 17TH ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

IF THERE ARE ANY REMAINING COPIES THEY WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE ONLINE AT 6PM ON THE SAME DAY (SATURDAY JULY 17TH).

Originally released in 1982, "Nothing Can Stop Us" compiles the first four singles Robert Wyatt issued for Rough Trade. The A-sides were all cover versions, ranging from Chic's "At Last I'm Free" to his version of the unofficial Cuban anthem "Caimanera" ("Guantanamera") and a haunting version of "Strange Fruit" depicting the lynching of three young black men in the US in the 1930s and made famous by Billie Holiday. The other tracks include Wyatt's most political recordings including the spine-tingling "Born Again Cretin" or "The Red Flag" and shows him at his uncompromising best.

Tribute To Nothing have been an institution on the European punk scene for over a decade now and have gained much respect on their travels. "How Many Times Do We Live?" captures their intense, unique, powerfully melodic yet aggressive sound, and gives an insight into where the band has been for the last few years and where they are headed in future days.

Nebula release a collection of remixed EPs, and three brand new songs. Moving away from the stoner rock tag a little, and delving further into psychedelia, 70s rock and punk.