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Morcheeba

Escape The Chaos

    Trip-hop royalty Morcheeba make a blistering return with a stunning 11th studio album 'Escape The Chaos'.

    “This whole record is a process of trying to reconnect with what really matters. whether it’s what in your heart or with the world, putting your feet on grass and feeling the earth beneath you” says Ross Godfrey.

    “For me, ‘We Live and Die’ is about my duration in the band and the music world and life in general,” Skye says of the lead single. “The lines become blurred after all this time. In a way, it’s a homage to the thirty years of being in Morcheeba which is 60% of my existence.”

    Formed in London in 1995 the legendary band have extensively toured the globe, sold over 10 million albums worldwide and left their mark as one of the most influential acts of recent times. Releasing their acclaimed debut album 'Who Can You Trust?' in 1996, the band have gone on to release a string of successful studio albums, including 1998’s platinum selling 'Big Calm', produced an album for Talking Heads’ David Byrne and produced soundtracks for Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh.

    In their 30th year Morcheeba are as relevant as ever and are set to mark the celebration in style.

    TRACK LISTING

    1. Call For Love
    2. Elephant Clouds
    3. Peace Of Me (feat. Oscar #Worldpeace)
    4. We Live And Die
    5. Far We Come
    6. Molten
    7. Bleeding Out
    8. Cooler Heads
    9. Hold It Down
    10. Dead To Me
    11. Pareidolia (feat. Amanda Zamolo)
    12. Escape The Chaos

    Escape Artist

    Forgot Who I Was / Remembering

    After recent excursions on X-Kalay and Craigie Knowes, Melbourne's Escape Artist follows on from his excellent 'Energy Breakthrough EP' on Phonica's main label with another special release, the 'Forgot Who I Was / Remembering' 12".

    As ever, euphoria and energy are his production calling cards, with A-side 'Forgot Who I Was' gradually building and releasing its intensity, all delicately programmed melodies underpinned by a potent shapeshifting bassline.

    B-side 'Remembering' is almost a flipside of the same coin, maintaining aspects of the previous track's two-step-esque drum pattern yet slowing and gliding along in a more uplifting direction, touching on ambient techno with flourishes of acidic breaks.

    RIYL: Overmono, Daniel Avery, Bicep. 

    STAFF COMMENTS

    Matt says: Soaring, stadium slaying bass-techno from a rising star of the Melbourne underground.

    TRACK LISTING

    A. Forgot Who I Was
    B. Remembering

    Negativland

    Escape From Noise - 2025 Repress

      Escape from Noise is the fourth studio album by Negativland. It marked the band's first release on an established independent record label, SST Records. The album continued to develop the band's experimental style, though it also featured shorter, more melodic songs than their previous material.

      TRACK LISTING

      Announcements (1:51)
      Quiet Place (2:17)
      Michael Jackson (2:08)
      Escape From The Noise (2:36)
      The Playboy Channel (1:32)
      Stress In Marriage (1:35)
      Nesbitt's Lime Soda Song (3:08)
      Over The Hiccups (1:28)
      Sycamore (2:29)
      Car Bomb (2:03)
      Methods Of Torture(1:23)
      Yellow, Black, And Rectangular (2:14)
      Backstage Pass (1:15)
      Christianity Is Stupid (3:55)
      Time Zones (5:28)
      You Don't Even Live Here (2:30)
      The Way Of It (1:12)
      Endscape (0:37)

      Desire

      Escape

        Desire shares Escape, their new album written & recorded in Los Angeles & Palm Springs, California. Inspired by the ultra-vivid world of 1970's giallo films, they wrote the soundtrack of their dreams using their favorite musical instruments: Minikorg, Jupiter 8, 909, Mellotron, Simmons Rhythm Modules, String Machine, a D-50 & Fender Rhodes.

        House music rhythms provide the canvas for girl group narratives & a children's choir to paint the picture. Throbbing synthwave & daytime drama soap operas all play into the color pallet of the album. The lyrics are sung in English, French, & Korean, adding even more drama to the mix. Through it all, there is the optimism of true love's compass navigating us through all the chaos life has to offer.

        TRACK LISTING

        Side 1
        1. Black Latex
        2. Telling Me Lies
        3. Liquid Dreams
        4. Love Is A Crime

        Side 2
        5. Zeros
        6. Dark Age
        7. Haenim (ft. Ether)

        Side 3
        8. Ghosts
        9. Escape
        10. The Young And The Restless

        Side 4
        11. Days & Nights
        12. Broken Windows
        13. Friends & Enemies

        Misogi

        Escape Artist

          MISOGI is a multi-genre artist and producer who has produced for, and collaborated with, the likes of AJ Tracey, Lil Yachty, Yeat, Dylan Brady (100 gecs), Master Peace and more.

          As part of Gen Z - the first generation to grow up totally in a digital world - technology and the internet opened up countless new fantasy worlds for MISOGI from an early age. “It’s almost a coping mechanism for living the same day over and over - the suburban lifestyle,” he reasons. It’s a process that ‘ESCAPE ARTIST’’s lyrics - which frequently reference dreaming and sleep - encapsulate brilliantly.

          TRACK LISTING

          DREAMPUNK
          GOSSIP
          WAKEUPJUNYA!
          IMAGINE TECHNICOLOUR
          PINK NOISE (feat. Dream, Ivory)
          ECHO (feat. Ginseng & Cedric Madden)
          SLEEPWALKER
          ULTRABLAST
          BLONDE, TOWARDS ETERNITY & THE END OF ME
          SHOEGAZING (feat. No Rome)
          APPLE
          VOID FALLEN
          AFTERLIGHTDARKBLUE
          FEEL THE MUSIC CRYING
          DREAMER BOY (feat. Odunsi (The Engine))
          END OF THE WORLD
          WE'RE GONNA MAKE IT AFTER ALL

          Various Artists

          Escape To The Red Mountains / Who The Fuck Is Cup Of Tea? Inc. Lockwood

          After teasing our pleasure centres with that excellent sampler and the Studio58 album, Lemonade serve up their newest press of fruits: Lockwood's 'Escape to the Red Mountains' EP. Picking up right where they left off with "Blue Heron" on the sampler, Lockwood's debut EP on Lemonade is a perfect slice of musical escapism. With influences from jazz, house, garage & ambient, Lockwood tell their story about a boy's adventure of becoming a man. Packed with bleeps, bloops, cats in space and broken rhythms, these are  some astral travellin', speakers not handlin', dance floor tremblin' vibrations. Take the trip folks!

          STAFF COMMENTS

          Millie says: This really does have it all, mainly jazz instrumentals but it incorporates different genres seamlessly such as house elements, spoken word, merging an electronic jazz-funk groove and broken beats thrown into the mix too for some good measure. The outcome is brilliant, you’ve got to hear this one.

          TRACK LISTING

          A. Lockwood - Jane's News
          A. Lockwood - What Time Is It ?
          A. Lockwood_Escape To The Red Mountain
          B. Numen Feat Sadu - Chptr 1
          B. Fungku - Nospce/Rip
          B. Yarno & Vicking - Elevator
          B. Title - Froove
          B. Pippin - Tsu
          B. Mambelle & Fungku - Calm Before The Storm

          The Beat Escape

          Life Is Short The Answer's Long

            Long before they were a band, Montreal duo The Beat Escape took a small first step towards a longer journey at a university video class. “We made a short oddball work; a video piece that followed two characters through a psychedelic waking dream,” say Beat Escapists Addy Weitzman and Patrick A Boivin of their founding collaboration. Many other projects and outside collaborations later, the duo have crafted a debut album their younger selves would be proud of: Released through Bella Union, the sublimely immersive ‘Life Is Short The Answer’s Long’ plays like a waking dream of near-psychedelic electronic pop, moving to its own beat in the push-pull of forward motion and submerged reflection.

            That sense of propulsion ushers opener ‘Sign Of Age’ into rising view, its sparse drums, hypnotic sequence and melancholic chords resembling house music as reimagined by Angelo Badalamenti. The enveloping mood holds as ‘Moon In Aquarius’ unfurls like a nighttime road ahead, ghosted by narcotic harmonies. ‘Limestone Alps’ lingers meditatively, hymnal vocals reverberating. ‘Where Water Ends’ and ‘More Dreams’, meanwhile, navigate the porous boundary lines between Krautrock, Factory Records and obscure minimal wave records of the 80s.

            STAFF COMMENTS

            Barry says: Superb throbbing pseudo-synthery from The Beat Escape, Bella Union's answer to Pye corner Audio mix swooning pads and soaring vocal abstractions around a dynamic core of weighted percussion, flickering arpeggios and spine-tingling euphoric leads.

            TRACK LISTING

            Sign Of Age
            Moon In Aquarius
            Limestone Alps
            Where Water Ends
            More Dreams
            Then I Drift Away
            Seeing Is Forgetting
            Thousand Pound Shoes
            Nemo Propheta

            Tapper Zukie

            Escape From Hell

              One of Jamaica's most talented artists, Tappa Zukie has had an equal impact on both sides of the recording deck, as both a hitmaking toaster and as a producer who has worked with the cream of Jamaica's vocalists. In addition, his early ties to the punk community in both London and New York was instrumental in the crossover of roots reggae into the mainstream. The album 'Escape From Hell' saw its initial release in 1977 as a ten track album. It has been somewhat overlooked due to the small numbers of its original pressings. Tappa was at the height of his peak period as a roots producer with Sly & Robbie and the Revolutionaries house band and then up-and-coming engineer Prince Jammy, who would replace Philip Smart as right hand man at King Tubby's legendary Waterhouse facility. The opening cut, Sidewalk Dub, sets the tone as a totally dubwise reading of Tappa's devotional 'My God Is Real', followed by the instantly recognizable "Massacra Dub", an enthralling cut of Prince Allah's wonderful anthem, 'Burial'. Population Dub takes the 'Take Five' riddim, itself being an adaption of Dave Brubeck's jazz favourite. Then there is Weather Umbrella a well known riddim originally made popular by Ray-I as 'Weatherman Skank', who used the Treasure Isle classic 'It's Raining'. Next up comes King Alpha In School, a spirited re-cut of the Ebony Sisters' 'Let Me Tell You Boy' that Tappa used earlier for Horace Andy's 'Stop Your Brutality', followed by the outstanding Experience Dub, a subtle counterpart to Horace's 'Natty Dread Weh She Want' (which borrowed lyrics and structure from an earlier Soul Syndicate hit whilst also making use of the melody of Alton Ellis' Studio One classic, 'Hurting Me'). 

              Lower Dens

              Escape From Evil

                Lower Dens are Jana Hunter (vocals, guitar), Will Adams (guitar), Geoff Graham (bass, vocals) and Nate Nelson (drums). On ‘Escape From Evil’, Lower Dens’ Jana Hunter emerges, cerebral and hot-blooded, rash and incorruptible and, crucially, possessing of a loud, clear voice. The album sees Hunter stepping up and taking centre stage and emboldening every aspect of the band.

                ‘Escape From Evil’ is a cinematic, tonally rich work. The sounds are clean and warm. The pulse of the album is strong. Melodies are potent and songs are physical. Lyrics are direct, frank confrontations with life’s common crises. The album title is brazen and, along with the grimly funny title of lead single, ‘To Die In L.A.’, almost theatrical.

                The album was produced by Hunter and co-produced and mixed by Chris Coady (Beach House, Cass McCombs). Other production elements came from Ariel Rechtshaid (Sky Ferreira, Vampire Weekend) and Lower Dens’ Walker Teret. Additional recording and production was done in Dallas, TX with John Congleton (St. Vincent, The Walkmen).

                Released on inimitable label Visionquest, Footprintz debut album ‘Escape Yourself’ delivers on a level that many dance LPs aspire to reach but few attain; a ‘proper’ album with each song taking you deeper and deeper into what is an accomplished and well-rounded body of work.

                Every journey has its beginning, and as the opening chords of ‘The Things That Last Forever’ give way to a hypnotic bassline, you know you’re on your way. Basslines form a key part of the Footprintz sound, acting as an anchor from which vocal melodies, synth lines and warm chords weave around in an often psychedelic style. Debut single, ‘Utopia’, exemplifies this ethic with its synth flirtations and optimistic vocal musings adding layers upon a solid core.

                As Clarian and Addy say, “We wanted to work around a concept of escaping the confused years of growing up. 16-25, those are the years where you’re figuring yourself out, going through the motions of meeting different people and finding new things”. Tracks like ‘Uncertain Change’ and recent single ‘Dangers of The Mouth’ tackle this subject head on, focusing on the insecurities that arise from growing up. ‘Zanzibar’ takes a lighter approach, touching on the innocence of youth that brings with it, its own simple pleasures.

                What becomes apparent throughout ‘Escape Yourself’ is a real craftsmanship to Footprintz’s songwriting. Each track reveals a little more on each listen, aided by the slick production work, done predominantly by the guys themselves in their Montreal bunker studio full of analogue equipment, odd instruments and a fridge laden with ‘special brownies’; which goes some way to explain a noirish-haze that permeates through the album.

                Having met at an afterparty aged 15, Clarian North & Adam Hunter have experienced most of their adult life together. ‘Escape Yourself’ distills their experiences, wraps them in a warm analogue fuzz and shares them with the listener. You join them on their journey, and deep down they hope it helps you shape your own.


                TRACK LISTING


                CD Tracklisting
                1. The Things That Last Forever
                2. Heaven Felt Like Night
                3. Utopia
                4. The Favourite Game
                5. Private Enemy
                6. The Invisible
                7. Uncertain Change
                8. Zanzibar
                9. Dangers Of The Mouth
                10. The Fear Of Numbers
                11. The Nightingale
                12. Keys To The Sky

                LP Tracklisting
                A1. The Things That Last Forever
                A2. Heaven Felt Like Night
                A3. Utopia
                B1. The Favourite Game
                B2. Private Enemy
                B3. The Invisible
                C1. Uncertain Change
                C2. Zanzibar
                C3. Dangers Of The Mouth
                D1. The Fear Of Numbers
                D2. The Nightingale
                D3. Keys To The Sky

                Blur

                The Great Escape - 2012 Reissue

                  To celebrate the 21st anniversary of their debut release, Blur’s fourth album The Great Escape has now been remastered from the original tapes by Frank Arkwright (The Smiths, Arcade Fire, New Order, Joy Division), with the remastering overseen by legendary original producer, Stephen Street.

                  Expanded across two discs, the LP format of The Great Escape remaster is cut on heavyweight 180 gram, audiophile vinyl and housed in a replica of the original sleeve artwork.


                  Radio Moscow

                  The Great Escape Of Leslie Magnafuzz

                  Radio Moscow’s popularity is growing rapidly, as more and more fans tune in to their unique brand of American psychedelic blues rock. Radio Moscow’s music is rooted in the power trio sound of the late sixties and early seventies, and they have been compared to Blue Cheer, Hendrix, Cream, Ten Years After, and similar bands from the golden age of rock’n’roll. The band is the brain child of guitarist/drummer/singer/songwriter Parker Griggs, with Zach Anderson on bass, and Cory Berry handling the drums on stage. They released their first “self-titled” album on Alive Naturalsound records in 2007, produced by Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys. The record received rave reviews and praise worldwide, and in 2009 their second album, the hard-grooving stoner rock album “Brain Cycles” was released, also on Alive Naturalsound.

                  This, their 3rd album, is their most psychedelic and powerful work to date. It was recorded, mixed, and mastered analog at the legendary Prairie Sun recording in Northern California. In order to achieve the true natural sound they were looking for, the band used vintage Supro, Gibson, and Alamo amps, as well as other off-beat gems, while Parker Griggs sometimes ran his vocals through a tape echo, a Leslie cabinet or an old Gibson reverb tank. The Great Escape of Leslie Magnafuzz is an amazing album that updates an old-school style with craft, passion and plenty of psychedelics.


                  TRACK LISTING

                  1. Little Eyes
                  2. No Time
                  3. Speed Freak
                  4. Creepin'
                  5. Turtle Back Rider
                  6. Densaflorativa
                  7. I Don't Need Nobody
                  8. Misleading Me
                  9. Summer Of 1942
                  10. Insideout
                  11. Deep Down Below
                  12. Open Your Eyes

                  Dillinger Escape Plan

                  Dillinger Escape Plan

                    The Dillinger Escape Plan seamlessly fuse extreme metal and punk hardcore into a most extreme package. This is their classic first mini album with brand new digipack artwork and as well as the original 6 track mini album there's three previously unreleased bonus live cuts.


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