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Desde Cuándo Todo

Just two years ago, 'Un Año De Cambios' was released, an album that showed the effort of a band trying to rebuild itself after a lineup change; a moment that coincided with personal and creative growth. Yet, barely a year later, the house of cards collapsed again with Paula's departure. But Míriam is once again arming herself with ideas, surrounding herself with great musicians, and proving that she is a prolific artist. In just a few months, she has released a series of singles heralding the arrival of 'Desde Cuándo Todo', an album that confirms her status as a personal creator who focuses on the themes that fascinate her: change, loss, the city, regaining enthusiasm, and enjoying the present moment.

And although there is a certain melancholy in some of the songs on the album, they still hold that treasure that Míriam always gives us: she is delicate and sweet, yes, but also strong and full of energy. Because she now has three albums under her belt, and creative maturity suits her wonderfully well. She also continues to produce those urgent and well-rounded hits such as 'Decidí Desaparecer', 'Si Me Pierdo' and 'No Quiero Envejecer'.

Her most well-rounded album to date is marked by doubts, accidents, and obstacles along the way. Borrowing its title from "(h)amor 9 amigas" (a collective book by several female authors celebrating friendship in its many forms) and a cover inspired by John Everett Millais' "Ophelia", this album reflects Míriam's special relationship with music: one of total devotion and simultaneous exhaustion.

TRACK LISTING

1. Salgo A La Calle
2. Lanzarote
3. Deberi´amos Vernos Ma´s
4. Quiero Que Perdamos La Cabeza (Otra Vez)
5. Desde Cuándo
6. Te Vienes O Te Quedas
7. Me Acostumbré
8. Decidí Desaparecer
9. Estuve En València Y Me Acordé De Ti
10. No Quiero Envejecer
11. Si Me Pierdo
12. Si Todo Se Tuerce
13. Quiero Que Perdamos La Cabeza (Otra Vez) (David Van Bylen Remix)
14. Deberíamos Vernos Más (David Van Bylen Remix) (Feat. La Casa Azul)

Lightning In A Twilight Hour

Colours Yet To Be Named

'Colours Yet To Be Named' marks the third album release by Lightning In A Twilight Hour, the latest project of Bobby Wratten (The Field Mice, Northern Picture Library, Trembling Blue Stars), one of the most brilliant and prolific songwriters in recent British pop history.

This is the follow up to 2022's 'Overwintering', which was chosen by BBC 6 Music's Mark Radcliffe, as his album of the year. A soundworld of alternate tunings, experimental guitar, clicks, crackles, strange atmospherics and mournful synths, 'Colours Yet To Be Named' seeks to communicate feelings, long before any lyrical content hits home; knowing that the beating heart of a record is first and foremost the sound palette on display. The album undertakes a journey beginning with American poetry in England and ends with English poetry in Switzerland. Between these two points are visits to mid-sixties Paris and mid-eighties London. A trip to a Nico-inspired subterranean cocoon and a place of authoritarian atrocities and dehumanisation. The latter, drawing parallels between the past and present. In other songs, Brian Eno meets a simple Yoko Ono inspired lyric where the vocal line must continually adjust to the five circling chords underneath and a storm at sea encroaches on an initially tranquil song of friendship that becomes ever more uncertain and adrift.

Written, recorded and mixed between autumn 2024 and spring 2025, the album features Anne Mari Davies taking lead vocals on four tracks and contributing an array of additional vocals ranging from spoken word to unison, to the highly processed and experimental. Beth Arzy sings lead and harmony on the closing song and contributes backing vocals to three others. Michael Hiscock is featured playing bass on seven tracks, and Ian Catt resumes his role as producer and engineer, continuing to push the envelope of what pop can be. Building on techniques developed in the making of 'Overwintering', digital technology was employed to turn improvised landscapes into song shapes which continued to be adjusted as lyrics and vocal parts were written. The sessions were a process of discovery; a road towards a complete self-contained statement of songs of introspection and observation, that slowly revealed itself as each came to fruition, adding another piece to the picture. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Red Comet
2. Fortress
3. Inner Heat
4. Addicere
5. Opaque Retreat
6. Every Flame A Sunset
7. The Quiet And The Confusion
8. The No-sound Of Falling Snow
9. Graph Paper
10. Blue Traces
11. Folk Radio

The Primitives

Echoes And Rhymes - 2025 Reissue

A brilliant collection of covers of 60s female gems that The Primitives made their own with jangle-pop spark, punk energy, and Tracy Tracy's unmistakable voice. All of the songs selected for the album were versions of songs by obscure, female-fronted groups from the sixties. Curiously, the album is a long way from suffering from disparateness; The Primitives knew how to make each and every one of the songs reflect and mesh with their electric personality. The result is a tremendously addictive album, seasoned with a sixties-halo that functions as a vindication and takes us directly to research every one of the (in some cases) little-known names that make up the details of its track-list. From garage to psychedelia, with touches of soul and sunshine pop, multiple styles come together, all revisited with love, affection and energy. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Panic
2. Turn Off The Moon
3. Move It On Over
4. Sunshine In My Rainy Day Mind
5. Till You Say You'll Be Mine
6. I'm Not Sayin'
7. The Witch
8. I Surrender
9. Amoureux D'une Affiche
10. Where Will You Be?
11. Single Girl
12. Who Are You Trying To Fool?
13. Time Slips Away
14. Wild Flower. 

The Primitives

40th Anniversary Single

On November 14, 1985, The Primitives performed their first concert at The Hope & Anchor pub in Coventry. Tracy Tracy had only been in the band for a month, but even then, they played unforgettable songs like 'Thru The Flowers', 'Crash' and 'Spacehead'.

On November 14 this year, to mark their 40th anniversary, The Primitives will kick off an eleven-date UK tour in Milton Keynes, bringing with them a setlist full of some of the most important songs from the different stages of their career. On October 30, 1985, two weeks before that concert, Paul Court and company recorded some demo tracks including 'Thru The Flowers', which was considered striking enough to release as their debut single, and is one of the songs that has always been at the top of Elefant Records' hit parade. This November we will release a 7" single which includes two tracks: a new mix of 'Thru The Flowers' with overdubs and guitars added to what was, according to Paul, just a bare-bones live demo recorded by a band trying to find its sound - plus the original unreleased version of 'Sweet Sister Sorrow' - their first song in an updated version and their last composition in its original form. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Thru The Flowers (85/25)
2. Sweet Sister Sorrow (First Version)

Soleá Morente

Sirio B

Each new album by Soleá Morente is a marvelous mystery. Where will she go this time? The big news is that Guille Milkyway and Soleá have come together at a moment of special inspiration in their careers, and the chemistry between the two couldn't be more amazing. Yes, Guille has always shown a taste for rumba. And yes, Soleá has more than once made clear her love for disco and electronic music. The common ground is endless. What music brings together, let no genre separate.

'Sirio B', an album named after the brightest star in the universe, is characterized as a boundless, limitless musical endeavor. It enters our ears as a perfect fusion of the musical identities of two of the most important figures in the Spanish music scene. An album where the musical palette is inexhaustible. Sit down and listen. Or stand up and dance. Or do it all at once.

TRACK LISTING

1. Ensoñación Nº 9
2. Ahora O Nunca (Feat. La Casa Azul)
3. Con Los Nudillos
4. Gitana María
5. Solea´ Del Mar
6. El Lenguaje De Las Estrellas
7. Mercurio Y Seda (Feat. Enrique Morente)
8. Vamos A Olvidar (Feat. La Casa Azul & Las Negris)
9. Azalea
10. NO LIKES ??
11. Mírame (tengo WOAAA)
12. Mi Cura
13. Mi Vida Es Para Mi´
14. Amor Mío (Siento Si No Estuve Aquí)

Lightning In A Twilight Hour

There's More To Life Than Crooks

"This really is gorgeous. One of those rare songs which, irrespective of time considerations, demands to be something more than just a 7" or whatever the post-vinyl equivalent is - a "Blue Monday", "Primitive Painters", "Revolutionary Spirit" or, yes, "Missing The Moon!" Something that just sounds Big and Important". Matt Haynes, Sarah Records

Elefant Records presents the first two tracks to be released from the sessions for the third Lightning In A Twilight Hour album. "There's More to Life Than Crooks" and "Haar" form a stand-alone 12" single reflecting two contrasting approaches; a pop song and a dark tone poem.

The A side combines ideas such as touching the grass in a world of noise and the Albert Camus inspired "existence is an act of rebellion". Written as an immediate reaction to world events, it explores the need to formulate some kind of response when presented with the very worst of times. Musically it takes its cues from Factory Records 12" singles, and pioneering experimental English rock band, Disco Inferno. Using a sound pallete of drum machine, sequencer, abrasive electric rhythm guitar and an outstanding Michael Hiscock (The Gentle Spring, The Field Mice) bassline, the music unfolds patiently over six minutes. Anne Mari Davies (The Field Mice) provides additional vocals which lift the chorus to where it shimmers and sparkles, releasing the tension.
"Illuminate what's tender. Illuminate what's wise".

"Haar", on the B side, is another world altogether. An ominous landscape featuring feedback loops, shortwave radio and autumn waves recorded at dusk in Dungeness, Kent. Anne Mari Davies this time provides layered, wordless vocals as the track's intensity increases. Recommended if you like Main, Labradford, Coil & Northern Picture Library.

TRACK LISTING

01 There's More To Life Than Crooks
02 Haar

Papa Topo

Presto Y Con Toda La Fuerza

Papa Topo is back with their long-awaited second album, and by far their most ambitious and complex work to date. Despite staying true to their exaggerated, melodic, catchy pop, the group is releasing an existentialist album, full of loneliness, unease, and a rage that comes from contemporary society.

Adrià Arbona has spent the last three years writing and arranging and producing this collection of songs, and he did it with passion and attention to detail. He decided that, considering what is takes to produce an album, he shouldn't be shy about it. If art is capable of transmitting messages, you need to use that platform to talk about what you're really feeling, take a stand and leave the pleasantries behind. So without letting go of the more fantastical qualities that have always characterized Papa Topo, the political and social activist qualities have become more prominent.

The album title is a quote from one of Joseph Haydn's annotations of his piece "The Seven Last Words of Christ", which was commissioned to be played in the Oratorio de la Santa Cueva church in Cadiz. The movement called "The Earthquake", describes in sound how the earth shook and trembled after Christ's passing, an image that represents this apocalyptic, end-of-days theme so well that it runs through a large part of PAPA TOPO's new album. "Presto y con Toda la Fuerza" is an album made to shout with rage against a consumerist society, and to hit our oppressors hard with music, with all of the strength and force possible. And in terms of sound, it is full of thunderous and dizzying tempos.

Musically, the album stands out for the profusion of orchestral arrangements and omnipresence of electronic music. Since the release of 'Ópalo Negro' in 2016, Adrià has finished studying composition at the Taller de Músics in Barcelona, where he acquired the technical knowledge to write the elegant and complex string and wind arrangements that he had been dreaming of since Papa Topo first started. He also started getting into nightclub electro music, expanding the band's soundscape and creating a personalized ambiance where different influences like classic impressionism, dance music, pop, punk, folklore, cuplé, and atonality all coexist. In between songs, there are interludes with names of baroque dances that give a sense of unity and continuity to the collection of songs and gives the album an air of an old instrumental suite.



TRACK LISTING

1. Fanfarria
2. Frágil
3. Dime Mentiras
4. Ven A Mis Brazos
5. Me Voy A Desenamorar De Ti (Feat. Juliana Gattas)
6. Como El Mar
7. Zarabanda
8. Nunca Digo No
9. Ricercare
10. Dinero Rosa
11. Pavana
12. Crist De La Sang
13. Jácara
14. Emasculación, La Solución
15. Cadencia

The Primitives

Let's Go Round Again: Second Wave Singles & Rarities 2011-2015

There are two different periods in the history of The Primitives. The first is the era of Lazy Records and RCA, the era of 'Crash', of the breakup in 1992. But 2011 saw the special release of a new single from the band formed by Tracy Tracy, Paul Court and Tig Williams on the prestigious indie label Fortuna Pop! That becomes the starting shot of the second period, which is marked by their signing with Elefant Records and the release of two albums, 'Echoes And Rhymes' and 'Spin-O-Rama'. One of the group's defining qualities, in honor of their indie spirit, is the number of collaborations, participations, singles and lost songs that have been released in this second period. For those of you who are desperate to get their hands on some of them, we are releasing 'Let's Go Round Again o Second Wave Singles & Rarities 2011-2025', a double vinyl album with twenty-eight songs including previously unreleased tracks, rarities and A and B sides of vinyl singles, the majority of which are out of print.

There have been so many releases these last 14 years. From the four songs that made up that now legendary EP in 2011, 'Never Kill A Secret', to 'Sweet Sister Sorrow'. From the song that came out on the Girlsville compilation cassette to the singles released on the Georgia-based Happy Happy Birthday To Me (HHBTM) label, to the Part Time Punks radio session that they released themselves on an EP (and which also came out as a commemorative vinyl single for the 30th anniversary tour in Japan for their album 'Lovely'). And of course, there are countless singles, maxis, vinyls and other songs (like that gem for the Christmas album we put out in 2012) released on Elefant Records.

TRACK LISTING

1. Rattle My Cage
2. Never Kill A Secret
3. Turn Off The Moon
4. Lose The Reason
5. Spin-O-Rama
6. Purifying Tone (Reworked By Modular)
7. I'll Trust The Wind
8. Oh Honey Sweet
9. Stop Killing Me (Live Part Time Punks Radio Session)
10. Don't Know Where To Start
11. I Won't Care
12. Sweet Sister Sorrow
13. Need All The Help I Can Get
14. Breakaway
15. Can't Stop The Want
16. Always Coming Back
17. Up So High
18. You Trashed My Christmas
19. Lose The Reason (Reworked By Modular)
20. Squeak 'N' Squawk
21. Same Stuff
22. Been Hiding
23. Rattle My Cage (Paul Vocal Version)
24. Till I'm Alive
25. Don't Know Where To Start (Acoustic Fuzzed Version)
26. Panic (Live Part Time Punks Radio Session)
27. Everybody Needs Somebody To Hate
28. Sweet Sister Sorrow (Symphonic Dream Pop Version)

Alpaca Sports

Another Day

So much has happened since Alpaca Sports released "From Paris With Love" in 2018. There have been new cities to live in, new chapters in their lives, health problems and loved ones lost. All of these circumstances have led, almost unintentionally, to "Another Day", their conceptual new album about what change brings. The group formed by Andreas Jonsson, Amanda Åkerman and Lisle Mitnik (Tiny Fireflies, Fireflies, Very Truly Yours...) create a fragile and heartbreaking beauty.

The Primitives

Spin-O-Rama - 10th Anniversary Edition

10th anniversary reissue with three extra tracks - the two B-sides of the two singles that came out before the album was released (the cover version of 'Up So High' from The What's New and 'Always Coming Back') and an acoustic, previously unreleased version of the title track, 'Spin-O-Rama'.

TRACK LISTING

1. Spin-O-Rama
2. Hidden In The Shadows
3. Wednesday World
4. Follow The Sun Down
5. Purifying Tone
6. Lose The Reason
7. Petals
8. Working Isn't Working
9. Velvet Valley
10. Dandelion Seed
11. Let's Go 'Round Again
12. Always Coming Back
13. Up So High
14. Spin-O-Rama (Acoustic Version)

Pipiolas

El Verano Que Me Debes

Pipiolas is a duo of two radically charismatic people. Paula had her heart broken, which was the motivation she needed to start writing songs. She thought of Adriana. She remembered that people used to say they looked alike. That their voices had similar textures. That they fit together well. And so, she proposed an adventure to her. Vau Boy provides the instrumentation and the production, giving life to their songs. The A-side opens with "Club de los 27". Like a less bizarre, more punk version of "Bohemian Rhapsody". While "Domingo raro" is an anthem that explodes with euphoria. The B-side has the techno-pop of of Narciso" and the bedroom soul-pop, melancholy of "Un poco triste"

The Yearning

Only When I'm Dancing

Joe Moore is full of surprises. Every new release his name is on, whether they are his own projects (The Yearning, The Perfect Kiss, Julie Et Joe) or other people's (Lia Pamina, Cristina Quesada and Maddie Mae), gives us incredible results. Lounge music, soul, girl groups, chamber pop, French pop from the 60s... Diverse styles pass through his hands like an unstoppable song-making machine.

What will the journey be this time? "Only When I'm Dancing", transports us to the golden age of disco music, when the dance floor was full of excitement, melancholy, elegance and majestic arrangements (something that Moore notably excels at).

This time, the change of sound comes with a change in singer. The angelic voice of Maddie Dobie makes way for the elegance of Luci Ashbourne. Her mature, velvety voice is perfect for these sensual songs, many of which are aimed directly at the dance floor. When Joe began working on this new album, he imagined Karen Carpenter singing along with the music of Benny and Björn.

"Never Gonna Let You Go" begins like a tribute to Barry White. "Love Has Taken Hold Of My Heart" has echoes of ABBA. Elsewhere we hear Pet Shop Boys, Bee Gees, Tina Charles and Isaac Hayes. A new album, a new surprise, a new pleasure.

TRACK LISTING

1.Never Gonna Let You Go
2.Don't Take Me To Heart
3.Only When I'm Dancing
4.Love Has Taken Hold Of My Heart
5.Lend Me Your Love
6.Come To Me
7.Take A Little Look
8.Song Or A Dance
9.Keep Me In Mind
10.Yearning For You

The Yearning

Take Me All Over The World

The untiring Joe Moore in his endless search for beauty in music, is back with a new mini-album from THE YEARNING, and addressing his usual inclinations: the chanson, chamber pop, bossa, and above all, the perfect song. And once again, he is handling all the production work, the recording, and the songwriting, and is playing almost all the instruments.

Compilation of The Yearning's first two sold-out mini-LPs, "Jukebox Romance" and "Still In Love", plus singles and three unreleased tracks: - "Dawn", "Love Is Like A Rollercoaster" and "Dusk".

Taking their influences from late 50s/early 60s girl-groups and Phil Spector, Joe Moore's productions are becoming more and more well-known all over the world. Their signature effusive, romantic, and elegant sixties-style pop is already a trademark.

For fans of Dionne Warwick, Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood, Dusty Springfield, Francoise Hardy and Jane Birkin.

TRACK LISTING

1. Dawn (Instrumental) 00:48
2. If You Were My Boyfriend 02:17
3. Baby Be Mine 03:04
4. The Way You Love Me 03:11
5. Everybody Knows (I'm Still In Love With You) 03:15
6. Don't Call Me Baby 03:36
7. Gotta Pull Myself Together 03:18
8. Jeremy 02:39
9. Eyes Of A Movie Star 03:29
10. I Just Wanna Hold Your Hand (On Christmas Day) 03:43
11. See You Again 03:20
12. Boy Racer 04:08
13. Love Is Like A Rollercoaster 02:14
14. Kiss You In The Summertime 04:03
15. Too Young 03:22
16. Why's She Making Those Eyes At You? 03:00
17. Too Shy 03:00
18. Heart Beats A Little Bit Faster 03:12
19. All Hung Up On You 02:58
20. Pretty Lies 04:01
21. You Make Lovin' You Easy 04:05
22. Dusk 01:36

Second album from Joe Moore's project, The Yearning. Made and managed in his own studio, this is a personal universe that is exciting, independent, separate from any other kind of precepts in the music industry; his very own. The delicious arrangements, that romantic halo, and Maddie Dobie's fascinating voice are still heard on almost the entire album. But while the last album 'Dreamboats & Lemonade' looked to sixties pop from the most cheerful girl-group perspective, 'Evening Souvenirs' is a slow, deliberate, nocturnal album, with echoes of lounge music and "chanson", of bossa and chamber pop, with touches of Sarah and l Records melancholy, and Burt Bacharach soundtracks.

Playing with a considerable number of instruments, and the participation of the Cotsworld Voices choir on many of the songs, we find ourselves with one of those albums that needs to be listened to in semi-darkness, where the notes are bursting to the surface, giving you goose bumps hair by hair.

For fans of Dionne Warwick, Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood, Dusty Springfield, Francoise Hardy and Jane Birkin. Vinyl is Limited edition of 500 copies on grey vinyl, with MP3 download.

The Primitives

Spin-o-rama

The Primitives have a new album, and this time, it's completely new material, which they've been letting us in on bit by bit. Time hasn't passed for this group, whose sound is just as fresh as ever and whose contagious melodies take us back to the end of the eighties, beginning of the nineties.It is an urgent album, and it goes by in a heartbeat, putting us in "the-album-you-want-to-listen-to-again-as-soon-as-it-ends" situation, and getting the songs stuck in our head for months.

It's almost 6 years since Helen Love's their last album & "Day-Glo Dreams" makes their unmistakable style more and more their own, mixing punk attitude (Joey Ramone will always be in their hearts), bubblegum melodies, and disco-dance rhythms.

The album opens the accelerated techno-pop of "We Are All The Lo-Fi Kids"; the girls themselves admit that "Together In Electric Dreams" was a huge influence for this album and they show it openly on the album's title track. "Shy Girl" (could have been a hit from Bananarama), while "My Imagination" is in the spirit of The Buggles, Silicon Teens, and Yazoo. Other tracks nod towards The Human League, Dolly Mixture and The Go-Go's. The album radiates excitement and a have-fun, feel-good mood. It's impossible to resist its electricity, its marvelous melodies, its punk attitude, and unforgettable choruses. We Love You!!!

TRACK LISTING

01. We Are All The Lo-Fi Kids
02. Day-Glo Dreams
03. Shy Girl
04. My Imagination
05. Spin Those Records
06. Our Mum And Dad
07. Atomic
08. Don't Forget About This Town
09. J.Pop
10. You And Stacy
11. Teenage Soap Opera

Speedmarket Avenue

Way Better Now

This single gives advance warning of a stunning new album from Sweden's Speedmarket Avenue (a pop music collective led by a little guy who looks like a cross between Charles Manson and Marc Bolan) "Way better Now" shows a more electric facet of the band, reminiscent of the best of The Essex Green. For fans of Ladybug Transistor, Slowdive, The Cure and Trembling Blue Stars.

Camera Obscura

Let's Get Out Of This Country

"Let's Get Out Of This Country" is a master class in intelligent, melodic 'retro-modern pop'. Producer Jari Happalainen (The Concretes, Ed Harcourt) has shaped a cohesive collection of classic songs which are, at turns upbeat ("If Looks Could Kill"), downbeat ("Country Mile"), hooky ("I Need All The Friends I Can Get") and epic ("Razzle Dazzle Rose").

Camera Obscura

Under Achievers Please Try Harder

Camera Obscura are a seven piece from Glasgow, who started releasing records in the late 90s on the Andmoresound label. Afer a year of touring and recording, they've now released the follow-up to their Geoff Allen (Arab Strap, Mogwai, Teenage Fanclub, Belle & Sebastian) produced debut album, and the single "Eighties Fan" which was produced by Stuart Murdoch of Belle & Sebastian. On "Underachievers, Please Try Harder" they've broadened their sound by bringing in new organs and a Fender Rhodes piano, and trying out 12-string acoustic, banjo and autoharp on some tracks, even utilising a Stylophone.


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