Iron & Wine's Sam Beam and the members of Calexico convened in December 2004 at Calexico's home base of Wavelab Studios in Tucson, Arizona. The idea of working together had been tossed around for over three years, though neither bands' schedule loaned itself into making it a reality until then. The resulting session "In the Reins", is a mini-album that is a truly harmonious affair sure to satisfy fans of both bands. The seven tracks are Sam Beam originals and were fleshed out by the full Calexico band. The record also features newcomer Natalie Wyants on vocals, Salvador Duran, a local fixture of the Tucson Flamenco scene, on vocals and Botas. Of course no Wavelab experience would be complete without the appearance of Nick Luca (NL Trio/John Doe Band) and Craig Schumacher, both of whom contributed to the record in the form of engineering and performance.

TRACK LISTING

He Lays In The Reins
Prison On Route 41
History Of Lovers
Red Dust
16, Maybe Less
Burn That Broken Bed
Dead Mans Will

Debut of the "Hit + Run Presents Road Kill" compilation series. Volume 1 includes 29 exclusive and unreleased tracks by the Los Angeles underground and beyond, available on a limited-edition digipak CD. We're talking beat builders, wonky-hoppers, hip hopers, down-beaters, electronica lovers and just, in the case of the Gaslamp Killer, bonkers mentalists.

Previously only available digitally and on CD, the compilation features some of LA’s best and brightest, along with a whole host of artists from around the world - including J Rocc, the Gaslamp Killer, Ras G, Daedelus, Knxwledge, Mndsgn, Jeremiah Jae, Kutmah and many more - all contributing tracks unavailable anywhere else.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Gaslamp Killer - Bullet Shells In My Sneakers
2. Mono/Poly - Crew
3. Shash’U - Akira
4. Matthewdavid - Funky Yelling
5. Jeremiah Jae (feat. Isreal And Oliver The 2nd) - ShamWow
6. Mestizo - Love Me Hard
7. Mndsgn - Golf Shirt
8. Computer Jay - The Opposing Turf
9. N8No Face (feat. Zackey Force Funk) - Fame
10. The Gaslamp Killer - Road Kill Interlude
11. Ras G - Coto Loco
12. Daedelus - If I Fail
13. J.Rocc - Red Wing
14. Knxwledge - Need Wun
15. Seven Davis Jr. - Samurai
16. Sweatson Klank - Little Time To Fly
17. Kutmah + Tehbis - Griots
18. Mr. Feeds - Ride To The Moon
19. Bei Ru - Bekaa Valley Hash
20. Zackey Force Funk - Birdz
21. Kevin D. Mize - Better Late Than
22. Thavius Beck – Noble Roble
23. Alter - Calle Primera
24. Eras - Bangoria
25. Bobby Evans - Le Witt
26. Subtitle - 555 + 333
27. Biff Chitlins - Dulce
28. Adventure Time - Kick It
29. Zackey Force Funk (feat. Reggie Blount) - Where Buffalo Roam.

Look, there isn’t any way to write this without commenting on the name Bed Wettin’ Bad Boys. We’re not gonna bring ourselves to it, but with all measures of certainty, you are. You’re casting aspersions on their name, maybe formulating in your mind what they might sound like, and wondering why Agitated / RIP Society is bringing them to your attention. Have they no shame, you thought. Do they want to sell records and attract fans, you ponder. Thing is, they’ve heard it already. They own it, and they’ve done so since 2009. Save your opinions. It’s time to get that sentiment stricken from the slate, because we’re here to talk about their music, which is bold, passionate, ear-splitting rock & roll, performed with tremendous heart and determination. It’s a barrier of entry for those unable or unwilling to look past the surface.

Rot is the name of the second full-length from Sydney’s Bed Wettin’ Bad Boys. Hang it on regional slang (“My mum used to say, ‘what a load of rot’ instead of ‘what a load of shit,’” mentions guitarist Joe Sukit), or pin it to the way they perceive themselves as veritable dinosaurs of their local scene, set adrift to crumble on their love for classic rock and lack of fashionable ideas. Maybe even put it in the novelty canon of “Rock, Rot & Rule.” Or why not add a fourth R, because this thing rips. Those guitars are hoisted in defiance of cool, and are loud enough to break your concentration and enforce an active listening experience.

Musically, Bed Wettin’ Bad Boys haven’t budged an inch from their debut full length (2013’s Ready for Boredom, released on bassist Nic Warnock’s R.I.P Society label). Nor should they have; they are in the (sporadic) business of writing durable, sentiment-stirring riffs, the kind that lifted the first stirrings of punk in England (see Eddie and the Hot Rods, maybe), or of the direction of power-pop that was more focused on writing worldbeaters than fixing its hair (look at the Replacements, perhaps, or Mission of Burma). Not one drop of power is wasted or lost here; raw emotions push through these tracks in songs about love, about watching the world turn, about casting off distractions and focusing on the need for human connection.

We may not have much time left to say these things, before we begin to rot. This is their chance. Might be your chance as well.

TRACK LISTING

Away
Stunned
Plastic Tears
Expanding Horizons
Work Again
Victoria
Thing Called Love
Device
Company
Rot
Turn The Page

After an epic licensing odyssey that's taken us almost 20 years, we're finally able to announce the 5LP boxset release of the first ever official re-issue of all five of the iconic Lansdowne recording sessions by the legendary UK jazz combo, the Don Rendell/Ian Carr Quintet.
The five albums; Shades Of Blues (1965), Dusk Fire (1966), Phase III (1968), Change Is (1969) and Live (1969), have reached almost mythical status in the collector's world. Regarded as holy grail artefacts for even the seasoned aficionado, the collective second hand market value comes to an astonishing £6000.
Many have tried - and failed - to reissue these albums by legitimate means. However, two decades since our initial approach, Universal Music has gone to great lengths to research their vast archives, and we have finally managed to succeed.
The complete Don Rendell & Ian Carr Lansdowne recording sessions have now undergone a full and unprecedented boxset reissue. We located and acquired the original analogue master tapes from the Universal vaults and created masters at Abbey Road Studios to produce audiophile quality 180g pressings replete with replica artwork - shape, design, and even paper stock. No stone has been left unturned to deliver this absolute labour of love to the highest possible standard! The enclosed booklet contains never before seen photographs, interviews with the remaining living band members and liner notes from BBC Radio 3 presenter and award-winning jazz writer Alyn Shipton.
The band played together for seven years and during this fruitful time they made a plethora of deeply melodic, post-bop British jazz compositions that later on took influences from Indo and more spiritually guided jazz. Produced by the influential Denis Preston and recorded at his Lansdowne Studios in London, the band was primarily made up of saxophonist Don Rendell, trumpeter/composer Ian Carr, and pianist/composer Michael Garrick. This is UK jazz at its absolute finest, and the quality of our box set pays testament to that.

TRACK LISTING

1 Blue Mosque
2 Latin Blue
3 Just Blue
4 Sailin'
5 Garrison '64
6 Blue Doom
7 Shades Of Blue
8 Big City Strut
9 Ruth
10 Tan Samfu
11 Jubal
12 Spooks
13 Prayer
14 Hot Rod
15 Dusk Fire
16 Crazy Jane
17 On! [clip]
18 Les Neiges D'Antan (Snows Of Yesteryear)
19 Bath Sheba
20 Black Marigolds
21 Elastic Dream
22 One Green Eye
23 Boy, Dog And Carrot
24 Cold Mountain
25 Black Hair
26 Mirage
27 On Track
28 Vignette
29 Pavanne
30 Nimjam
31 Voices
32 You've Said It 

Skip James was a Delta blues enigma, whose mesmerizing guitar playing and haunting voice produced bluer than blue masterpieces. This beautifully re-mastered collection of his seminal 1931 recordings shows why his otherworldly blues cast its spell on many blues greats from Robert Johnson to Eric Clapton.
Arguably the greatest of the original Delta blues guitarists with his mesmerizing and truly unique style. 'The Rough Guide To Skip James' highlights his diverse repertoire of songs ranging from deep, dark Delta blues to upbeat barrelhouse piano tunes and spirituals.

TRACK LISTING

Hard Time Killin’ Floor Blues
I’m So Glad
Drunken Spree
If You Haven’t Any Hay Get On Down The Road
Cherry Ball Blues
Be Ready When He Comes
Little Cow And Calf Is Gonna Die Blues
Devil Got My Woman
How Long “Buck”
Jesus Is A Mighty Good Leader
Cypress Grove Blues
Illinois Blues
22-20 Blues

Wewantsounds are pleased to announce the release of Hiroshi Sato's ultra rare synth masterpiece, originally released in 1979 on Kitty Records in Japan only. Digitally remastered from the original tapes it features the cream of Japanese musicians including Shigeru Suzuki on guitar, Haruomi Hosono on bass, Pecker on Percussion and Sato himself on keyboards and synthesizers. This highly sought-after album on the Balearic scene, changing hands for high prices, is a superb breezy mix of Japanese synth-pop and exotica with subtle touches of mid 70s Herbie Hancock-style funk and AOR.

TRACK LISTING

1. Kalimba Night
2. Son Go Kuw
3. Tsuki No Ko No Namae Wa Leo
4. Doncama
5. Jo-Do
6. Sora Tobu Jutan
7. Picnic
8. Hikaru Kaze

Originally released in 1983, What Makes A Man Start Fires? is the second studio album and fifth release by the Minutemen. At almost twice the length of their previous album, "The Punch Line," the Minutemen's songs began surpassing the two-minute mark. For what would be the only time on a Minutemen release, all of the lead vocals were sung exclusively by guitarist/vocalist D. Boon, although bassist Mike Watt does contribute backing vocals.

TRACK LISTING

Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs (1:27)
One Chapter In The Book (1:00)
Beacon Sighted Through Fog (1:00)
Fake Contest (1:44)
Mutiny In Jonestown (1:06)
East Wind / Faith (2:10)
Pure Joy (1:30)
99 (1:00)
The Anchor (2:30)
Sell Or Be Sold (1:45)
The Only Minority (1:00)
Split Red (0:52)
Colors (2:05)
Plight (1:37)
The Tin Roof (1:08)
Life As A Rehearsal (1:35)
This Road (1:26)
Polarity (1:44)

Before they became Black Sabbath, the band were known as Earth - a blues-driven powerhouse already making a name for themselves in the mid-60s. This new release presents rare early recordings from that era, remastered from long-lost tapes and acetates. Featuring previously unheard tracks, demos, and alternative takes, the collection captures Earth’s evolution as they pushed toward the heavy metal sound that would soon change rock music forever.

TRACK LISTING

1. Blue Suede Shoes
2. Evenin’
3. Wee Wee Baby
4. “Untitled”
5. Free Man
6. Song For Jim (Guitar Version)
7. Song For Jim (Flute Version)
8. Wicked World
9. Warning

In 2022, Daniele “Shield” Contrini of Rebirth Records proposed Paraíso to the great man himself, a compilation honouring Alfredo’s legacy. After Alfredo’s passing in December 2024, the project was final; with artists rallying to honour his vision and memory.

Before becoming a global clubbing hotspot, Ibiza embodied freedom—a place where sunrises blurred into sunsets and music became a way of life. In the 1950s and '60s, the island drew artists, hippies, and outsiders seeking escape and creative liberty.

In 1976, Alfredo Fiorito, fleeing political repression in Argentina, arrived in Ibiza and stayed. A former music journalist, he soon began DJing at Amnesia, a farmhouse-turned-club where time bent and boundaries dissolved. With eclectic, genre-defying sets, Alfredo blended reggae, flamenco, soul, rock, and early house, crafting a hypnotic energy that captivated a generation.

British DJs like Trevor Fung, Paul Oakenfold and Danny Rampling brought this “Balearic Beat” back home. But Balearic wasn’t a style it was a mindset. As DJ Leo Mas said, it was “a state of mind,” where rhythm, spirit, and psychedelia merged.

Other clubs like KU, Es Paradis, Pacha, and Lola’s amplified the movement. Visual artists such as Yves Uro gave it a striking identity, and DJs like César de Melero, DJ Pippi, and Jon Sa Trinxa carried the sound into a new era. José Padilla’s sunset sessions at Café del Mar birthed chill-out music as breath, not just beat.

But the 1990s brought change. Laws requiring roofs on clubs altered the open-air magic. Commercialisation followed; freedom became luxury, and many pioneers left.

Still, the Balearic spirit lives—raw and untamed. It pulses in hidden parties, intimate venues like Pikes and Hostal La Torre, and sacred places like Benirrás and Las Dalias.

Featuring 16 tracks of classic and true Balearic sound; alongside House & proto-House tracks that Mr Fiorito spun, the album also includes an unreleased Alfredo track and stands as a tribute to the man, the music, and the enduring spirit of true Ibiza.

TRACK LISTING

A1. It’s Immaterial – Driving Away From Home
A2. The Woodentops – Why Why Why (Leo Mas & Fabrice Balearic Militant Dub Edit)
A3. Nitzer Ebb – Join In The Chant (Lies! Instrumental)
A4. Georgie Red – Help The Man (Help Yourself Alternative Mix)
B1. Elkin & Nelson – Jibaro (enrolle)
B2. Willie Colon - Set Fire To Me (Inferno Dub Edit)
B3. Funkapolitan – As The Time Goes By
B4. DJ Alfredo, Cathy Battistessa & Arian 911 – Moral Of The Story (UNRELEASED)
C1. Mandy Smith – I Just Can't Wait 'The Cool & Breezy Jazz Version
C2. Mr Fingers – Mystery Of Love
C3. Jose Padilla – Still Waters (A Man Called Adam Mix)
C4. Alfredo – Inspiration
D1. Atlas – Compassion
D2. 808 State - Pacific State
D3. 51 Days - Paper Moon (Edit)
D4. The Sabres Of Paradise – Smokebelch II (Beatless Mix)

Nintendo and Laced Records are linking up to bring the sweeping music of The Legend of Zelda™️: Breath of the Wild to vinyl records. This collaboration marks the first time a Nintendo soundtrack has been commercially released on vinyl outside of Japan. 

The unforgettable music of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild introduced bold new musical textures to the series, while embracing classic themes. From the first spine-tingling piano notes of 'Main Theme' to the final choral-orchestral stirrings of 'Epilogue', the soundtrack follows the ups and the downs of Link’s epic adventure. Each element of the game enjoys a distinct musical palette, including the iconic minimalist piano of the open world, the alien sounds of Sheikah technology, the tension-filled rhythms of enemy encounters, and the orchestral grandeur of the Divine Beast battles. The composition team comprised Manaka Kataoka, Yasuaki Iwata, and Hajime Wakai. 

TRACK LISTING

8LP Tracklisting:
LP1:
1. Main Theme
2. A Sheikah Tower Emerges
3. Sheikah Tower
4. The Shrine's Trial Begins
5. The Shrine's Trial
6. The Temple Of Time
7. The Old Man's Secret
8. One Hundred Years Ago
9. Impa Speaks
10. A Legendary Tale
11. The Stables
12. Kass's Theme
13. Kass: Song Of Shrines
14. Kakariko Village
15. Hateno Village
16. Kass: Legendary Verse

LP2:
1. The Great Plateau
2. Overworld (Day)
3. Galloping (Day)
4. Galloping (Night)
5. By The Water
6. Ruins
7. Overworld (Freezing)
8. Overworld (Fiery Heat)
9. Overworld (Scorching Desert)
10. Overworld (Battle) - Original Soundtrack Ver.
11. Battle (Shrine) - Original Soundtrack Ver.
12. Stone Talus Battle
13. Hinox Battle
14. Guardian Battle
15. Battle Inside The Divine Beast
16. Molduga Battle
17. The Lord Of The Mountain
18. Omen Of The Blood Moon
19. The Blood Moon
20. Game Over

LP3:
1. Sidon's Theme
2. Zora's Domain
3. Vah Ruta, Divine Beast Of Water
4. Recovered Memory: Mipha's Touch
5. Battle With Divine Beast Vah Ruta
6. An Accord With Sidon
7. Exploring Divine Beast Vah Ruta
8. A Blight Ganon Appears
9. Battle With Waterblight Ganon
10. A Heart Container Appears
11. Reuniting With Mipha
12. A Champion's Divine Gift
14. A Divine Beast's Majesty
15. Mipha And The Divine Beast
16. Naydra, Possessed
17. Attendants To The Sacred Springs
18. Restoring Malanya's Power
19. Malanya's Spring
20. Lurelin Village

LP4:
1. Cave
2. Vah Medoh, Divine Beast Of Wind
3. Rito Village
4. Recovered Memory: Revali's Flap
5. The Flight Range
6. Minigame: Flight Range
7. Battle With Divine Beast Vah Medoh
8. Teba's Encouragement
9. Warbler's Nest Melody
10. Kass's Theme (Song Of The Hero Ver.)
11. Exploring Divine Beast Vah Medoh
12. Battle With Windblight Ganon
13. Reuniting With Revali
14. Revali And The Divine Beast
15. Pondo's Lodge
16. Minigame: Bird-Man Research Study
17. Restoring A Great Fairy's Power
18. Great Fairy Fountain

LP5:
1. Lava Landscape
2. Vah Rudania, Divine Beast Of Fire
3. Goron City
4. The Abandoned North Mine
5. Recovered Memory: Daruk's Mettle
6. Battle With Divine Beast Vah Rudania
7. Exploring Divine Beast Vah Rudania
8. Battle With Fireblight Ganon
9. Reuniting With Daruk
10. Daruk And The Divine Beast
11. Minigame: Contest Of Endurance
12. The Lost Woods
13. Korok Forest
14. Meeting The Deku Tree
15. Master Sword Obtained
16. Memories Of The Sword
17. Tree And Sword: Words Of Wisdom
18. Hestu's Dance

LP6:
1. Vah Naboris, Divine Beast Of Thunder
2. Kara Kara Bazaar
3. Gerudo Town
4. The Yiga Clan Hideout
5. Proud Master Kohga
6. Battle With Master Kohga
7. Recovered Memory: Urbosa's Hand
8. Vah Naboris Lookout Post
9. Battle With Divine Beast Vah Naboris
10. Exploring Divine Beast Vah Naboris
11. Battle With Thunderblight Ganon
12. Reuniting With Urbosa
13. Urbosa And The Divine Beast
14. Minigame: Sand-Seal Race
15. Sand-Seal Race: Win

LP7:
1. Recovered Memory: Zelda's Awakening
2. Zelda's Behest
3. Hyrule Castle Town Ruins
4. Hyrule Castle
5. Calamity Ganon Appears
6. The Champions' Power Mobilized
7. Battle With Calamity Ganon (First Form)
8. Battle With Calamity Ganon (Second Form)
9. Dark Beast Ganon Appears
10. Battle With Dark Beast Ganon
11. Do You Really Remember Me?
12. Staff Credits
13. Epilogue

LP8:
1. Tarrey Town
2. Trothed In Tarrey Town
3. Hateno Ancient Tech Lab
4. Akkala Ancient Tech Lab
5. 2017 Nintendo Switch Presentation Trailer
6. Shrine Of A Champion
7. The Final Trial
8. The Monk Maz Koshia
9. The Princess And The Champions
10. The Champions' Ballad: Finale
11. The Champions' Ballad

2LP Tracklisting:
1. Main Theme
2. Overworld (Day)
3. The Shrine's Trial
4. The Stables
5. Galloping (Day)
6. Hateno Village (Day)
7. Kakariko Village (Day)
8. The Temple Of Time
9. Overworld (Battle) - Original Soundtrack Ver.
10. Battle (Shrine) - Original Soundtrack Ver.
11. Stone Talus Battle
12. Hinox Battle
13. Guardian Battle
14. Kass's Theme
15. Great Fairy Fountain
16. Attendants To The Sacred Springs
17. The Lost Woods
18. Korok Forest (Day)
19. Zora's Domain (Day)
20. Battle With Divine Beast Vah Ruta
21. Reuniting With Mipha
22. Rito Village (Day)
23. Battle With Divine Beast Vah Medoh
24. Reuniting With Revali
25. Gerudo Town (Day)
26. Battle With Thunderblight Ganon
27. Reuniting With Urbosa
28. Goron City (Day)
29. Reuniting With Daruk
30. Hyrule Castle
31. Battle With Calamity Ganon (Second Form)
32. Battle With Dark Beast Ganon
33. Do You Really Remember Me?
34. Epilogue

Classic italo house EP produced in 1991 by Ivan Iacobucci under the moniker of KGB, now out on vinyl including a new unreleased remix.

TRACK LISTING

A1: Detroit 909
A2: Scream (Wake Up!)
B1: Bondage (Mysterious Remix)
B2: Detroit 909 (2021 Remix)

New Music New Dance from Sa Pa! 

TRACK LISTING

A1. Wet Weather Way
A2. New Music New Dance
B1. Cultural North
B2. States Of Mind: The Farewells

New Bad Manners from a legend! Tough, uncompromising techno that'll level bunkers.

Pre-orders advised!

TRACK LISTING

A1. Trooper
A2. Male Function
B1. Eighty Four
B2. Com

The next instalment from Soulfuric Recordings is the first edition of “The Sound Of Soulfuric Volume 1” taken from the vaults are four unearthed gems spanning two classics, two exclusives, and long-awaited vinyl debuts from house music specialists such as Hardsoul feat Ron Carroll, Urban Blues Project, The Thompson Project & Crackazat and Art Of Tones.

Stepping up first is Hardsoul featuring the legendary Ron Carroll with “Back Together” (Main Classic Mix) a track that should be found in every soulful house DJ’s set, with Ron’s alluring vocals this one is definitely made to keep the dancers moving and in case of dancefloor emergencies reach for this record.

Up next is Urban Blues Project featuring Bobby Pruitt “We Are One” (Art of Tones Extended Remix) which is being brought out for the first time on vinyl, the original mix was first released in 2001 and the now the Art Of Tones Remix has breathed new life into it making it a must have for anyone who is a fan of the original.

Flipping over to the B side, Urban Blues Project return once again with Love Don’t Live (The U.B.P. Classic Club Mix) with Michael Procter. A Soulfuric classic that has been championed time and time again, first released in 1996 and now being revived almost 20 years later on fresh wax.

Rounding off Volume 1 The Thompson Project & Crackazat featuring Gary L with “Messin’ With My Mind” (Crackazat Extended Remix) this has also never been on vinyl before, released earlier this year this soulful house banger got the touch-up from Bristol’s finest Crackazat who adds his touch to the Florida duo’s offering.

House heads can come together once again and seize the opportunity to get their hands on this outstanding EP.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Hardsoul Featuring Ron Carroll ‘Back Together’ (Main Classic Mix)
A2. Urban Blues Project Featuring Bobby Pruitt ‘We Are One’ (Art Of Tones Extended Remix)
B1. Urban Blues Project Present Michael Procter ‘Love Don’t Live’ (The U.B.P. Classic Club Mix)
B2. The Thompson Project & Crackazat Featuring Gary L ‘Messin’ With My Mind’ (Crackazat Extended Remix)

Ron Basejam is, of course, a project from Crazy P co-founder James Baron where he focuses on deep and heavy house. He lands on Leeds label 20/20 Vision here with 'Maynard', which is a trudging rhythm brought to life with bluesy vocals and big horns. 'Bighorn' then works the filters to cook up an emotionally charged and loopy sound and 'Is It Daylight?' cuts more loose with a soulful, dusty sound that Moodymann would love. Last but not least is the cosmically charged 'The 8 Bit Slowdown' with its jazzy reed work and raw, broken, driving beats. A smart and varied four tracker from a real G.

TRACK LISTING

Maynard
Bighorn
Is It Daylight?
The 8 Bit Slowdown

Timothy J Fairplay is back on the label with a 7” single containing two tracks cut from a rock of uranium. “Pathfinder Theme” and “UFO’s Over China” might differ in sound and tempo but are connected by a radiant feeling. The two tracks bathes in a greenish/yellow bright toxic aura.

This plutonium charged music carries with it some quality elements known from his earlier repertoire like for example a primitive yet crisp beat working as foundation to a few but very exquisite synth sounds.

Timothy J. Fairplay stands on the shoulders of past Italian masters and the works of John Carpenter but with an accentuated alien feel. Something otherworldly, maybe good, maybe harmful, is hidden in the vibe on both sides of this 7”. The balance between good and evil is very even - yin/yang from outer space!

TRACK LISTING

A. Pathfinder Theme
B. UFOs Over China

Having discovered a shared affinity for the sounds of 1972 - particularly glam and progressive rock - they started getting together to work on music at Canty’s warehouse studio space. Two years later, hoping to graduate the band from its studio-shut-in phase to its live ensemble phase, they recruited Devin Ocampo (Faraquet, Medications) and Mark Cisneros (Medications) to hold down the rhythm section. Both talented multi-instrumentalists and producers in their own right, Cisneros and Ocampo quickly started contributing their own riffs and arrangement ideas.

The band’s self-titled debut includes seven songs that were recorded throughout 2012 at Canty’s studio. During that time, Morel and Canty’s demos were torn up and expanded through extensive improv sessions alongside Ocampo and Cisneros. Tracks that started out small and introspective were blown up to a size and volume more befitting of the group’s cavernous practice space.

The tone is dark, but the lyrics – which cover themes covers themes like sickness, breakups, corruption, drugs, fame, and losing ones mind – shouldn’t be read as straight biography. They’re works of fiction; character studies that just happen to touch on topics that are close to home.

TRACK LISTING

1) Better Than Bad
2) Low Lying Dreams
3) Hospital
4) Dali’s House
5) Playboy
6) Mind Control
7) Transmission

Compiled with guitarist PJ Court, this 2-CD compilation boasts re-mastered music as well as a beautifully annotated booklet boasting rare photos and personal memories from the band.

Back in the mid-80s, The Primitives combined the fuzz guitars of The Jesus & Mary Chain with the pop sensibilities of Blondie and a nod to cult heroes The Velvet Underground. They swiftly rose from being a popular Indie guitar outfit to charting worldwide with “Crash”, kickstarting a craze in bands fronted by blonde female singers (Transvision Vamp, The Darling Buds et al).

Between 1985 and 1987, the band issued five singles/EP’s on independent label Lazy Records (also home to My Bloody Valentine and later Birdland) before signing with RCA.

This 2-CD set also boasts their promo-only live album at the ICA; as such, it offers their entire Lazy output from that period.

TRACK LISTING

Disc 1
1. Thru The Flowers
2. Across My Shoulder
3. She Don't Need You
4. Lazy
5. Really Stupid
6. We Found A Way To The Sun
7. Where The Wind Blows
8. Stop Killing Me
9. Buzz Buzz Buzz
10. Laughing Up My Sleeve
11. Ocean Blue
12. Shadow (Guitar Version)
13. Thru The Flowers (New Version)
14. Everything Shining Bright
15. Nothing Left
16. Across My Shoulder
17. Crash
18. Spacehead
19. Nothing Left (Sounds Version)

Disc 2
1.I'll Stick With You
2. Dreamwalk Baby
3. Buzz Buzz Buzz
4. Nothing Left
5. Out Of Reach
6. Carry Me Home
7. Don't Want Anything To Change
8. Think I'll Stick With You
9. Dreamwalk Baby
10. Run Baby Run
11. Thru The Flowers
12. Nothing Left
13. Where The Wind Blows
14. Out Of Reach
15. We Found A Way To The Sun
16. Don't Want Anything To Change
17. Across My Shoulder
18.Everything's Shining Bright
19. Buzz Buzz Buzz
20. Stop Killing Me
21. I Wanna Be Your Dog

New Heavy Sounds are always on the lookout for new bands that are looking to push the boundaries of what is considered as inhabiting the ‘heavy’ or ‘metal’ spectrum’. Stuff that pricks up the ears, a bold new voice within a maelstrom of genres and sub-genres. We believe we have found such a band. New York-based GUHTS (pronounced ‘guts’) declare themselves to be an ‘avant-garde post-metal project, delivering larger than life sounds through, deeply emotional music’. We are thrilled to be able to deliver that statement in the form of their debut album ‘Regeneration’. By their own admission, GUHTS' musical style is influenced not only by iconic metal bands like Gojira, Cult of Luna, YOB and Deftones, but more unconventional acts like Bjork, Subrosa, Isis, Julie Christmas, and even PJ Harvey. It’s undoubtedly heavy, with a strong feminist streak, it’s cathartic and weighty, a formidable debut for such a new band.

Founded in 2020 as a passion project by Scott Prater (Witchkiss), and Amber Burns (Witchkiss) and then Dan Shaneyfelt (Black Mountain Hunger), GUHTS became its members’ main focus following the release of their first EP 'Blood Feather' which itself received rave reviews from the likes of Decibel Magazine, Invisible Oranges, The Obelisk, Cvlt Nation, and more. Brian Clemens Sleaping Dreaming) & Daniel Martinez (Nefariant) joined GUHTS in 2022 and the band swiftly started booking tours and making plans to record 'Regeneration'. Since then GUHTS have been steadily making a name for themselves with their powerful live performances., sharing stages with the likes of Yob, Cave in, Marissa Nadler, plus appearances at the Maryland Doom Fest, Crucial Fest and Ohio Doomed and Stoned Fest. ‘Regeneration’ is set to cement their status as one of the coolest and most interesting bands on the scene.

Of the album, vocalist Amber says. "Regeneration" symbolizes the power of self-renewal, often overlooked. Embracing it means shedding old layers and welcoming new beginnings. Without this, life stagnates and is “sustaining”. Through regeneration, change becomes empowering, allowing new facets to emerge. It's a courageous, transformative process, inspiring others to overcome fear and embrace change. The album embodies the human spirit's resilience and capacity for growth. Musically ‘Regeneration’ is a powerful and intense series of songs, topped off by some seriously powerhouse and expressive vocal performances. It’s slow-moving chords, moving like sheets through sludge. High guitar lines above, ranging from piercing and shimmering to nasty. Drums pound but not without groove. There are strings, pianos and synths widening the palette. Atmospheric sludge, Metalgaze, maybe, but there’s also that link to the New York Noise lineage from The Velvets and Sonic Youth, becoming a type of post-hardcore in the process, while gaining a connection to metal partly due to the sheer heaviness. A raft of creative experimentation that pushes beyond the realm of post-metal. And then of course, the very first thing that hits you is Amber Gardner's unbelievable, hypnotising vocals - as scary as a banshee while also intimate and persuasive. Amber means it for sure and almost dominates the proceedings. Her lyrics are eclectic, thoughtful. Immersed in women's narratives frombooks like "Women Who Run With the Wolves" or works like "On Our Best Behavior" by Elise Loehnen. Amber advocates stepping beyond comfort zones, believing it's transformative for individuals and vital for Earth's future. Hokey occult rock it is not. In short ‘Regeneration’ is a bold and startling debut, that will reward and enthral listeners the deeper they delve into its many layers.

TRACK LISTING

White Noise
Til Death
The Mirror
Handless Maiden
Eyes Open
Generate
The Wounded Healer
Burn My Body

Originally released in 1985, this remastered deluxe edition of ‘Crashing Dream’, the second album from Los Angeles-based Paisley Underground band Rain Parade.

Includes a second disc of unreleased bonus material / alternate versions.

For fans of The Three O’clock, Dream Syndicate.

TRACK LISTING

CD1
Depending On You
My Secret Country
Don't Feel Bad
Mystic Green
Sad Eyes Kill
Crashing Dream
Shoot Down The Railroad
Man
Fertile Crescent
Invisible People
Gone West
Night Shade (Live At
Shibuya Hall)

CD2
Only Business
My Dog's Last Dream
Invisible People
Tranquility Base
The Sniper
Novocaine
Only Business
Ain't That Nothin'
Mystic Green
Don't Feel Bad
Home
Depending On You
Every Morning Does

For its second anniversary, Samba Jean-Baptiste’s 2023 LP, ‘Cardinal' arrives on vinyl and CD. Two years on from its original release on Samba’s own AM Radio imprint, this physical release via Scenic Route Records celebrates an album that’s quietly built a devoted following for its intimate songwriting, cinematic arrangements, and deeply human detail.

This edition features alternative artwork by Rafi Goudy and, for CD buyers, a 32-page lyric booklet featuring images captured by Samba himself.

An intimate, richly textured record that’s grown into a modern cult classic, ‘Cardinal’ stands as a deeply personal snapshot of a singular artist - now a tactile home experience.

TRACK LISTING

1.Running To The Nearest Body Of Water
2. Perfect & Learning
3. I Could’ve Cried
4. Umlaut
5. Windows
6. Seven Less Functions (feat. Chloë LeStage)
7. Song 6
8. Luca’s Song
9. Signs
10. A Wish Slanted
11. Storytime
12. The Primate
13. Texas Sundial V1
14. Quick Before Something Drastic Happens
15. Better Now
16. Uptown Lovebug
17. Talk / Pleasure
18. Cardinal
19. Window Seat
20. +ad 

THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2015 EXCLUSIVE AND WILL BE AVAILABLE INSTORE ON SATURDAY APRIL 18TH 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 12.01AM SATURDAY APRIL 25th.

The Book of Taliesyn is the second studio album by English rock band Deep Purple, recorded only three months after Shades of Deep Purple and originally released in October 1968, just before their first US tour. The structure of the album is similar to that of their debut, with four original songs and three rearranged covers; including a unique version of River Deep Mountain High. The music style is a mix of psychedelic rock, progressive rock and hard rock, with several inserts of classical music arranged by the band's keyboard player Jon Lord.
This super rare mono mix on white vinyl will be on the Harvest label, audio is cut from the high resolution transfer of the original analogue master tape that has been used in the Hard Road Mark 1 CD box set.

Format: 12” – white vinyl – mono mix

Limited edition Record Store Day exclusive, available to independent retailers only, 5000 units worldwide.

TRACK LISTING

1. Listen, Learn, Read On
2. Wring That Neck
3. Kentucky Woman
4. Exposition/We Can Work It Out
5. Shield
6. Anthem
7. River Deep, Mountain High

**Import item!! {DETROIT}

- Strictly pre-orders only!

- Limited copies!

TRACK LISTING

A1. Marcellus Pittman - Everybody Party
A2. Javontte - Late Night Love
A3. Rick Wilhite And Delano Smith Ft Jon Dixon - Neo Solaris
B1. Rick Wilhite And Delano Smith - 11 Minutes Of Funk
B2. Jon Dixon - Belle Isle Bounce
C1. Norm Talley - Dreaming In Detroit
C2. Gerald Mitchell AKA Soul Saver - KAORI
D1. Kenny Dixon Jnr - I'm Goin Black
D2. Delano Smith - Hot Lovely Relations
E1. Omar S. - VAT 69 (Godson Mix)
F1. Rick Wilhite And Delano Smith - Pipe Putta 

O.Genesis present a super Limited 12" Pressing, exclusive to Piccadilly Records, of remixes from Tim Burgess' recent, critically acclaimed, album "Oh No, I Love You".

Seahawks delivers a stunning 11 minute remix of "A Gain//Stoned Alone Again Or (Seahawks Remix)", exclusive to 12", whilst on the flip Tandy Love aka Andy Votel brings his remix skills to "Hours".

TRACK LISTING

A – A Gain // Stone Alone Again Or (Seahawks Remix)
B – Hours // Tandy Love (Andy Votel Remix)

New Moodymann!!!

Shipping soon - pre-order ESSENTIAL!

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TRACK LISTING

A. Pitch Black City Reunion (recorded Live Somewhere In Detroit)
B. Got Me Coming Back Rite Now

Formed in Blackpool (UK) by brothers Larry and Vin Cassidy in 1978, the band were initially mentored by Joy Division, and went on to record four albums with Factory Records. The first of these, "Always Now", offered Krautrock and psychedelia produced by Martin 'Zero' Hannett. Their third, "From The Hip", produced in 1984 by Bernard Sumner of New Order, explored techno and electronica, and spawned the oft-sampled club hit "Looking From A Hilltop". Now recognized as a leading genre band, three Section 25 tracks were included in the recent Warners box set "Factory Records: Communications 1978-1992", with "From The Hip" lauded as one of '1000 albums to hear before you die' by The Guardian newspaper.

After a decade apart, Section 25 released "Part-Primitiv" in 2007 and "Nature + Degree" in 2009, as well as playing a string of powerful live shows across Europe and America. "Retrofit" was recorded before the untimely death of Larry Cassidy in February 2010, and sees the group revisit 10 key tracks from their estimable back catalogue, remade and remodelled using new technology, and closing with a compelling remix of "Looking From A Hilltop" by New Order member Stephen Morris. "Retrofit" also includes an exclusive brand new track, "Uberhymn".

TRACK LISTING

Vinyl Tracklist:
A1. The Process
A2. Looking From A Hilltop
A3. Beating Heart
A4. Reflection (Young Image)
B1. Dirty Disco
B2. Girls Don’t Count
B3. New Horizon
B4. Wretch

CD Tracklist:
1. The Process
2. Looking From A Hilltop
3. Beating Heart
4. Desert
5. Uberhymn
6. Garageland
7. Dirty Disco
8. Girls Don’t Count
9. New Horizon
10. Wretch
11. Another Hilltop (Stephen Morris Mix)

Charting a course between electronic experimentation and the dark echoes of 1980s post-rock, ishi vu’s music transports the young artist’s philosophical meditations in Gothenburg to imagined dancefloors worldwide. Created in response to a deep transformational experience, his debut album 'La Luz' is truly unique: channelling all genres and none into a depiction of some of the most fundamental human feelings. La Luz is a vivid and poignant distillation of club culture into something familiar, temporarily distant, but fresh. With the precision of someone who has thought carefully about an exact psychological, physical - and perhaps even spiritual - effect they want to provoke.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
La Luz BLue18
This Is Your Life - Vinyl Version
Isolated Incidents

Side B
Poison Dart
Bell-Tower Trip

Side C
Neverending Elation
Brightly Burning, Yet Alone
A.S.I.S.O.A. 1000

Side D
The Wasp
SANCTUAry, It MUST HappeN AGain!
10 Tolls: A Threnody For The Luz
Persuaded To Embrace In Saving Faith
[A CURIOUS END]

Single-LP Edit Of Piñata Lacquered At Half Speed Master By Metropolis Mastering In London For The Highest Fidelity. Featuring Danny Brown, Mac Miller, Earl Sweatshirt, Raekwon, Scarface, Domo Genesis, Ab-Soul, Polyester the Saint, BJ The Chicago Kid, Big Time Watts, G-Wiz, Casey Veggies, Sulaiman, Meechy Darko & Freddie Kane. “Piñata is a gangster Blaxploitation ­lm on wax,” says Gibbs. As a producer, Madlib, quite simply, is music. 

TRACK LISTING

A1. Supplier
A2. Scarface
A3. Deeper
A4. High (ft. Danny Brown)
A5. Harold’s
A6. Bomb (ft. Raekwon)
A7. Shitsville
A8. Thuggin’
A9. Real
A10. Uno
B1. Robes (ft. Domo Genesis & Earl Sweatshirt)
B2. Broken (ft. Scarface)
B3. Lakers (ft. Ab-Soul & Polyester The Saint)
B4. Knicks
B5. Shame (ft. BJ The Chicago Kid)
B6. Watts (ft. Big Time Watts)
B7. Piñata (ft. Domo Genesis, G-Wiz, Casey Veggies, Sulaiman, Meechy Darko, & Mac Miller).

Rhythms' is the debut album by Goatman, a new solo project by one of the mysterious members from the Swedish collective GOAT.

Recorded in GOAT’s northern Swedish home town of Korpilombolo In late 2017 - the 6 tracks on Rhythms reveal a true collision of African Rock, Jazz, Reggae, Gospel and Psych, but all put through the famous GOAT filters.
Rhythms is a very apt title for the album as each track is an exploration of the ‘groove’. From the Fela Kuti‘esqe drums and horns jam of Jaam Ak Salam, to the frantic gospel-jazz of Carry the Load. From the fuzzed Can via the ‘Bristol sound’ track of Hum Bebass Nahin, to the cinematic, Spacemen 3‘esqe drones of the album closer Baaneexu. The end result is quite an astonishing and very unique album, like what you would expect from an album made by a member of GOAT – an album that is hard to put your finger on, but one that you will keep revisiting, the more it’s sounds reveals itself.

Goatman plays all the instruments on the album bar some additional drums by Hanna Östergren from fellow Swedish bands Hills and Träd, Gräs & Stenar, and an added horn section courtesy of Johan Asplund, David Byström. One of the standout highlights of the album though is the collection of great guest vocalists Goatman has enlisted. Tracks Jaam Ak Salam and Aduna feature the very special voice of Senegalese singer Seydi Mandoza. You will also hear the vocals of Swedish based singers Amanda Werne on Carry the Load and Amerykhan on Hum Bebass Nahin. Goatman’s passion for traditional and contemporary music from around the world can be clearly heard when listening to Rhythms.

The level of authenticity and willingness for exploration that Goatman has captured truly shows a fanatical respect for the music he is greatly influenced by. But at the end of the day, Rhythms is an album that has a sole purpose, and that is for to you to enjoy, dance and have fun too! 

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Who doesn't want more Goat related music? Everything they've put out has been gold, and this side project by the MAN from GOAT (get it?) is no exception. Snappy percussion, rolling horns and fuzzed-out psychedelic soloing, pulsing grooves and richly hypnotic bass. If you liked Goat, there's no way you won't like this.

TRACK LISTING

01 Jaam Ak Salam
02 Hum Bebass Nahin
03 Limelight
04 Carry The Load
05 Aduna
06 Baaneexu

The Gigi Galaxy (Gary Martin) classic returns via another timely reissue two years after the last and restores a cult Detroit techno classic to circulation, complete with its 2023 remix from Delano Smith. The original remains a sci-fi floor weapon: relentless four-to-the-floor drive meets a throbbing, neo-disco bassline that evokes a Giorgio Moroder fantasia reimagined through Jeff Mills' Purpose Maker lens. Smith's remix subtly reframes the track for the floor by looking further back and drawing on austere early-70s Kraftwerk synth tones and restrained electro swing. Classic and contemporary sit comfortably side by side here, which is why this is such an evergreen favourite.

TRACK LISTING

Interview With An Alien
Interview With An Alien (Delano Smith Remix)

Berlin's alternative rock / post-punk group Agatha is Dead! release their highly anticipated debut album 'Concrete' which features the singles 'Courtroom Drama', 'Kind Regards' and 'Cold-Hearted'.

Agatha Is Dead! began as a post-punk experiment between longtime friends Lilly and Noah, who first made music together during their school years. Drawing influence from Joy Division, The Cure, Molchat Doma and Fontaines D.C., their sound is defined by urgency, tension and atmosphere. The addition of drummer Joey Ramone Hansen — bringing a grunge and pop-punk bite — alongside Arthur on bass, completed the line-up.

TRACK LISTING

1. Intro
2. Referential Excess
3. Concrete
4. Kind Regards
5. Instincts
6. Cold-Hearted
7. Negative Space
8. Courtroom Drama
9. Strangers
10. Bedtime
11. You Wanna Be Loved
12. I Lost A Friend
13. Faster
14.Outro (Farewell)

‘The Clocks' was originally issued in 2007 as a CD-only limited edition of 110 for members of 'The Bevis Frond Online Community'. It comprised 19 previously unissued tracks. Most of these were home demos featuring just Frond frontman Nick Saloman on all instruments and vocals. Since then, it has never been re-issued in any format. It is therefore with great pleasure that Blue Matter are re-issuing it for the first time, and now as a vinyl double album and limited CD. Due to certain circumstances, three of the original tracks could not be used, so these have been replaced these with another three previously unheard tracks from Nick Saloman's extensive archives. These songs include the seven minute 'She's Taken It All', originally intended for 2004's 'Hit Squad' album but dropped at the last minute due to timing constraints. The beautiful 'You Better Make Do' and the edgy 'Devil Doll' have also been added. We are delighted to be able to make this 'long lost' album available once again and think it will be a welcome addition to the Bevis Frond canon.

TRACK LISTING

Side One.
1 Worlde Is Older
2 The Clocks
3 Home Is Where The Head Is
4 Cut To The Quick
Side Two.
5 Bless Him
6 Anything You Say
7 Devil Doll
8 God
9 When I’m Gone
10 I Need The Rush.
Side Three.
11 Watch The Sun
12 You Better Make Do
13 Little Ray
14 She’s Taken It All.
Side Four.
15 Things He Said
16 I’ll Save Myself
17 I Wasn’t There
18 I’m Better Now
19 Shades 

There is a kinetic energy that binds drummer and producer Karriem Riggins and singer-songwriter, rapper, and producer Liv.e, the spark that happens when instinct meets flow and spirit finds rhythm.

Their collaborative debut as GENA (short for “God Energy, Naturally Amazing,” and loosely inspired by Gina from Martin), 'The Pleasure Is Yours' feels like a playful, soulful conversation between two kindred improvisers: Liv.e’s smoky, unpolished vocals glide through Riggins’ warm, percussive universe. Rooted in jazz, soul, and hip-hop, Liv.e brings a raw, experimental approach to R&B, while Riggins known for his work with Common, Erykah Badu, The Roots, Madlib, and his close kinship with J Dilla, extends his lifelong dialogue between jazz improvisation and beat science.

Together they create a world that’s analog and ethereal, percussive and poetic, bridging eras without settling in one, the sound of two artists finding a new shared language rooted in rhythm, vulnerability, and exuberance.

TRACK LISTING

1. Who's Got A Problem With Gena
2. Theybetterbegladihavetherapy
3. Left The Club Like "Really Nigga!"
4. You've Outdone Yourself Today
5. Unspoken
6. TGD
7. Readymade
8. Douwannabwihtastar
9. This Is So Crazy
10. Lead It Up
11. Howwefl
12. Doobie Doo Wew
13. Circlez
14. Dream A Twinkle
15. Thatsmyluvr
16. Omo Iya Ati Baba

The most abstract, playful and confounding of reggae subgenres, dub is a vital component of sound system culture that has wielded disproportionate influence. Emerging as an underground phenomenon in Kingston during the early 1970s, dub was wrought by sonic alchemists such as King Tubby, Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Prince Jammy and Scientist, conjuring musical mutations at the mixing desk. Dub reached other lands through the Jamaican diaspora and as Lloyd 'Bullwackie' Barnes furthered the form in New York, Dennis Bovell, Mad Professor and Adrian Sherwood conjured their own dub masterworks in London, Jah Shaka and his acolytes subsequently helping dub to achieve global reach.

Widely adopted by post-punk producers and later a crucial influence on the underground dance music scenes of several continents, dub indelibly changed the techniques and aesthetics of music production with far-reaching effects; it's no exaggeration to say that without dub, there would be no hip-hop or house music. Dub is made from studio trickery, its auteurs fashioning something new by subtraction rather than addition, reversing standard recording techniques. It is a music of absence and deception, a ghostly sonic doppelganger with bass primacy and torpedoed song structures, full of holes and unexpected twists.

The evolution of dub marks the birth of the remix and the emergence of the studio as an instrument in itself, a place where songs can be pulled apart and given wild reshaping, rendering a disembodied new form that is often cosmic and typically jagged. Dub's progression is also inseparable from the troubled history of post-colonial Jamaica, blighted by caustic Cold War interventions, attendant gang culture and communal breakdowns. Through first-hand testimony with dub's most noteworthy creatives, David Katz's monumental forensic history of an astounding subgenre that sounds like the future five decades after its inception stands as the authoritative book on a musical art form that continues to fascinate, generation after generation.

Here’s an expanded edition of one of Nurse With Wound’s most intense, unique opuses, so unique that for long-time fans it was a strange, chaotic loundge bizzarie when it first came out. For the first time, all four audio sides are complete (originally, there were only three sides). And to crown it all, a magnificent new cover by the great and talented Babs Santini, who is none other than Steven Stapleton behind his pseudonym of plastic artist, still in the luxurious tradition of the “silver collection” at Rotorelief Records.

Nurse with Wound’s album Huffin’ Rag Blues is unique in NWW’s discography. Stapleton teams up with composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Andrew Liles, his co-creator of musical terrorism, to tackle the exotica and lounge genres, crushed into a cacophonous mess. Long-time NWW friends Colin Potter and Matt Waldron are also on board. Blues, jazz, crime films, bachelor pads and soap opera music are processed and discarded, then chopped up and recycled in a mix that contains a ton of space, but also overflows with dynamic tension, hilarious asides, sexually suggestive poetry and a certain rock & roll abandon. This is a very surprising opus for long-time fans, is like a soundtrack that could illustrate a David Lynch film It’s brilliant, maddening, hilarious and sinister enough to earn a place in any collection with a little quirkiness and eccentricity. Huffin’ Rag Blues incorporates more familiar musical elements – including instruments (played live, even), rhythm and vocals – than almost any other Nurse With Wound album to date. The album’s main concern is, as always, to create environments for lucid dreaming rather than to create music as such.

TRACK LISTING

Side 1
1. Willy The Weeper
2. Groove Grease (Hot Catz)
3. The Funktion Of The Hairy Egg

Side 2
1. Black Teeth
2. Thrill Of Romance
3. Livin’ With The Night
4. Ketamineaphonia

Side 3
1. Juice Head Crazy Lady
2. Wash The Dust From My Heart
3. Cruisin’ For A Bruisin’
4. All Of Me

Side 4
1. Bei Mir Bist Du Scnon (Maa Maa)
2. The Bottom Feeder (Alternative Mix)
3. Thrill Of Romance (Burgo Partridge Mix)

Temples’ name has become synonymous with a band with an adventurous spirit; constantly exploring new ideas.

On their fifth album, 'BLISS', they shake up the perception of the Kettering-formed four-piece with a record that ventures into electronic territory while staying true to their core DNA. Euphoric and melancholic melodies of late ‘90s dance music blend with psych-tinged riffs and loops to create something fresh.

Though the band missed the late ‘90s rave culture firsthand, 'BLISS' channels that era’s bittersweet euphoria, drawing inspiration from Faithless, Underworld, Prodigy, Air, Röyksopp, Moby, Massive Attack, Orbital, Portishead, and more. Psych and dance share a natural lineage, with repetition, loops, and trance-like states forming the album’s foundation.

TRACK LISTING

1. Jet Stream Heart
2. Revelations 
3. Megalith 
4. Glimmer 
5. Blue Flame 
6. Vendetta 
7. Jaguar 
8. Horizon 
9. Waiting On The Echoes 
10. Fantasy Realm

Recorded in the aftermath of Strawberry Switchblade's break up, the original "Sunflower Demos" included songs intended for the unrealised 2nd album. These songs posit an alternative future where McDowall pursued a Pop career instead of becoming an underground icon.

"In McDowall’s world, cake and chaos go hand in hand. She’s the witch at the door of the gingerbread house, beckoning you inside."
- Pitchfork

"One wonders what would have happened had these delirious songs made it to mainstream radio airplay. The exquisite nature of this slices of dappled pop genius is a joy to behold."
-The Quietus

Rose McDowall's Cut With The Cake Knife was originally reissued in 2015 by Night School Records and Sacred Bones. Since then, Rose McDowall and her previous band Strawberry Switchblade have only grown in cult status. Following a discovery by a generation of young, disaffected kids on social media of Strawberry Switchblade and McDowall's succeeding band Sorrow, Night School Records has remastered Cut With The Cake Knife and presents the album with a reimagined artwork that more closely recreates the original hand-made CD produced by McDowall.

Cut The With The Cake Knife was recorded by Rose McDowall in 1988/89 following the break up of her group Strawberry Switchblade. Produced with the aid of several musicians in several studios, the album features songs written for the fabled second Strawberry Switchblade album. More importantly perhaps it showcases the honest, direct and life-affirming songs of one of the greatest unsung songwriters of the modern pop era at a tumultuous time in her career.

Tibet opens the set and could be one of the best pop songs you’ve never heard. The innate sadness of the songs’ content – the loss of a friendship, impending sorrow – is heightened to heart-melting level by McDowall’s pop nous and melodic sensibility. Choruses and hooks are everywhere on Cake Knife, from the outsider take on stadium 80s pop in Wings Of Heaven to the spiraling, ecstatic So Vicious, a glorious anthem that highlights the human fragility in McDowall’s vocal performance, an instrument that has never lost the naïve purity it first exemplified in Strawberry Switchblade’s early 80s recordings. The centerpiece of the album, the title-track, is the greatest Switchblade pop chart hit that never was. Like the veiled melancholy of her former group’s hits, Cut With The Cake Knife hints at a darkness beneath the gloss, a darkness that saw McDowall delve into more esoteric territory with her subsequent recordings and collaborations. Cut With The Cake Knife serves as the bridge between the pop music McDowall had been making with her friends Jill Bryson, Lawrence from Felt and Primal Scream to what became a more extreme, deep sound informed by neo-folk and post industrial music.

Rose McDowall’s role in the canon has always been one of an outsider. Beginning in Glasgow’s East End in the avant proto-noise group The Poems, achieving fame briefly in the 80s and then disappearing into counter-cultural folklore, the emphasis in the internet-age has been skewed towards her image and cultural significance. Unseen to many, her solo work, her groups Sorrow and Spell and her collaborations with a whole host of underground luminaries have still touched lives. As McDowall elucidates: “They're real sad songs, about real life. I've had people come up to me to say I'd connected with them and helped them. I remember a gig in America when we made a whole room cry. It was bizarre. A couple at the front of the stage started crying and then these two boys beside and suddenly everyone was crying. And I thought, "that's power."

Night School’s issue of Cut With The Cake Knife includes unpublished photographs, extensive sleeve notes from Rose McDowall and 2 bonus tracks culled from the bootleg 7” “Don’t Fear The Reaper.” 

TRACK LISTING

Side A
A1 Tibet
A2 Sunboy
A3 Wings Of Heaven
A4 Sixty Cowboys
A5 On The Sun
A6 Cut With The Cake Knife

Side B
B1 Crystal Nights
B2 Soldier
B3 So Vicious
Don't Fear The Reaper 7" EP (Rio Digital 7RDS3)
B4 Crystal Days
B5 Don't Fear The Reaper (Written-By [Uncredited] – Blue Öyster Cult)

Released in 1984, this was the second album released by Polydor and the first and only to be billed to Ian Dury & The Music Students. Songwriting duties were shared between Ian Dury, Russell Hardy, Rod Melvin and a young American songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Michael McEvoy.

Whilst performed by effectively a new line up there were many familiar names who worked on ‘4000 Weeks’ Holiday’. Though Chas Jankel did not write any of the songs, he did play lead guitar as a guest whilst Ed Speight and Geoff Castle, who had played on Dury's seminal New Boots and Panties!! LP in 1977, guested on guitar and Moog synthesizer. The sessions also featured celebrated reggae/ska trombone player Rico Rodriguez MBE, whilst most of the recordings were performed by the 'Music Students', made up of McEvoy, Rhys-Jones, drummer Tag Lamche and saxophonist Jamie Talbot.

The single 'Really Glad You Came' was released and the band performed on National TV inc The Tube. The album also contains 'Peter the Painter' written on request from British Pop artist Peter Blake, Dury’s former teacher at London's Royal College of Art. Blake was having an exhibition at The Tate Gallery, London and asked Dury to compose a theme tune for it. 'Peter the Painter' was that theme tune.

The cover art, one of the last ever designed by Barney Bubbles featured Ian Dury with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) logo (the peace sign) into his hair – in 1984 Ian was an official face for the campaign group in Britain.

TRACK LISTING

1. You're My Inspiration
2. Friends
3. Tell Your Daddy
4. Peter The Painter
5. Ban The Bomb
6. Percy The Poet
7. Very Personal
8. Take Me To The Cleaners
9. The Man With No Face
10. Really Glad You Came

Released in 1981, the album followed his final album on Stiff ‘Laughter’ (with The Blockheads) and was Ian’s first album with Polydor Records. At a suggestion of Island Records founder Chris Blackwell, Ian Dury flew to the Bahamas to record ‘Lord Upminster at Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas, newly reunited with his long-time collaborator Chaz Jankel. There they were to work with reggae rhythm duo Sly Dunbar (drums) and Robbie Shakespeare (bass guitar) and keyboardist Tyrone Downie, while backing vocals came from amongst others no less than Tina Weymouth of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club fame, along with her sister Laura Weymouth.

The album covers a diverse range of musical styles reflecting Dury's influences and background in pub rock, early rock and roll and British music hall whilst also taking in funk and post disco rhythms and is notable for featuring a Sly Dunbar composition in ‘Girls (Watching)’.

There was also not least the single which was deemed controversial enough to be banned from the airwaves ‘Spasticus (Autisticus)’ which was Ian’s protest against the International Year of Disabled Persons, which he considered to be patronising and insensitive. Years later the now critically lauded song was broadcast live worldwide during the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Paralympics, performed by Orbital and members of the Graeae Theatre Company.

TRACK LISTING

1. Funky Disco (Pops)
2. Red (Letter)
3. Girls (Watching)
4. Wait (For Me)
5. The (Body Song)
6. Lonely (Town)
7. Trust (Is A Must)
8. Spasticus (Autisticus)

Light in the Attic is honored to announce the long-awaited reissue of Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat, the revolutionary 1982 album from composer and musician Charanjit Singh. Pairing Indian classical ragas with then-state-of-the-art Roland synthesizers and drum machines, Singh created an electronic masterpiece that was far ahead of its time.

Recording live at Mumbai’s HMV studios, Singh married the past to the future—blending the ancient Indian tradition of ragas (a melodic framework, similar to a scale, from which musicians can improvise or compose) with pulsating, electronic dance beats. Released without fanfare, it faded into obscurity and Singh retired from recording to focus on private concerts, but that’s where the story begins…

Released in cooperation with Singh’s estate, Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat arrives on June 26th. The 10-track album was remastered by Johanz Westerman at Ballyhoo Studio Mastering and stretched across 2-LPs for the highest quality listening experience. The vinyl was pressed at Optimal Media and housed in a gatefold jacket that replicates the original artwork.
An accompanying 16-page LP booklet features previously-unreleased photos and two new essays: the first from Arshia Fatima Haq and Jeremy Loudenback of Discostan—a multimedia collective and record label focusing on music from South West Asia and North Africa—while the other comes from filmmaker and writer Rana Ghose of event and film production entity REProduce Artists, who managed Singh in his final years and documented his triumphant return to the stage. Additionally, fans can find a limited-edition pressing of Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat on ‘Pearlescent Transcendent Future’ Color Wax, while the album will also be reissued on CD with a 32-page booklet containing all of the above.

TRACK LISTING

Raga: Bhairavi
Raga: Lalit
Raga: Bhupali
Raga: Todi
Raga: Madhuvanti
Raga: Meghmalhar
Raga: Yaman
Raga: Kalavati
Raga: Malkauns
Raga: Bairagi 

Riding the recent global Japanese fusion boom, Masayoshi Takanaka continues to enjoy surging popularity not only in Japan but also across Europe and the United States. Using high-resolution audio sourced from the original master tapes, this release was remastered and cut at Abbey Road Studios in London by Alex Wharton, one of Abbey Road’s leading engineers.

Opening with the line “It’s so hot! I want to go somewhere!”, the album immediately transports listeners to a tropical paradise with a reggae-driven opening track. From start to finish, Takanaka’s glossy, soaring guitar work creates an endless summer atmosphere. Packed with summer killer tunes such as the fully Latin-flavored 'CUBAN HEELS' featuring Orquesta Del Sol, and the electric, funk-driven 'DANCING TO CAT GUITAR'.

TRACK LISTING

1. YOUKOSO, NATSU NO OUKOKU E
2. PARADIZZY
3. EYELANDS
4. CUBAN HEELS
5. DAIKOUKAI JIDAI
6. DANCING TO CAT GUITAR
7. SUMMERTIME BLUES
8. RETURN ACE
9. NEPTUNE
10. OYASUMI

A mini album released in 1980 where Funky Takanaka fully explodes. As the title suggests, it’s a joyful 45 RPM record where Takanaka’s fingers dance across the guitar frets. Featuring all four tracks including the softly romantic 'PLASTIC TEARS' and the heart-shaking disco tune 'FINGER DANCIN’.

TRACK LISTING

1. SPACE WAGON
2. PLASTIC TEARS
3. FINGER DANCIN’
4. HEART ACE

BACCO is a super session unit led by "Masayoshi Takanaka". The album is filled with tight, groovy West Coast rock tunes, combining high-level performances that could be described as funky fusion with explosive, emotional vocals by Jim Diamond.

TRACK LISTING

1. HIGH ACE
2. TOKYO LADY
3. CHA CHA ME
4. SEVENTEEN AND BLUE
5. GETTING’ LOST DOWN ON 8TH STREET
6. JUST ANOTHER BOY IN THE BAND
7. KID KIND
8. STAND BY ME

Mia Zapata was the greatest rock singer of her time. She may have likely been the greatest blues singer in punk rock history, the woman who married the 78 and the ’78. Tragedy did not make this true. Mia Zapata made this true, and the ferocious, spring-loaded shrapnel frame that was built around her by Andy Kessler (guitar: metronomic and furious), Matt Dresdner (bass: fluid, punching, beat-addicted and melodic), and Steve Moriarty (drums: martial and explosive) - who, with Mia, combined to form The Gits - made it true.

The Gits were formed at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio in mid-1986, grabbing and swapping pieces of art, thrash, noise, punk rock, classic rock, and all the sorts of magical silly and bookish jingle bells that an old-school liberal arts education handed you; for the next few years they worked on turning it all into something tough, sensitive, both brutal and kind. Andy, Matt, Mia, and Steve moved to Seattle in middish 1989, landing in a house on Capitol Hill where they (and fellow travelers) wood-shedded and rehearsed for the next few years. The Gits put out three EPs in 1990 and ’91 before signing with C/Z Records and releasing their first full-length album,' Frenching the Bully'. Seattle quickly claimed the quartet as their own and embraced the Gits blend of ferocious fangs and soft heart, the slug/slap of the guitars, and the gorgeous, soft underbelly of the poetic emotions. These qualities not only fit in with the doe-eyed/sharp-clawed grunge ethos but earned the Gits the respect of their peers, including Nirvana, who tapped them to open a major local show in 1990. Then other stuff happened, and their frantic, confessional barbed-heart snowball began rolling up hill very, very fast; the Gits “quickly” (hah! After half a decade learning to implode and explode hearts and stomping their boots on manifold beer-softened, Marlboro-weeded wood stages!) inspired rapture, awe, and the levitation that happened when peak emotion meets peak grindage in front of amps spitting out something that sounded like the mad marriage of Bolan swagger and Dischord tension… all fronted by a genuinely incomparable woman who held her heart in her mouth and shared it, in all its celebration and fear, without hesitation. The Gits were an angry, inflamed slinky fully in tune with and tuned by the Bessie Patti Smith of her time, truly the only singer who could summon Joplin, Poly Styrene, Sam Cooke, Iggy Pop and Ian MacKaye all in the same goddamn song.


In 1993, less than four weeks after accepting an offer from Atlantic Records, Mia died. I leave it at that, because this is not about death; it’s about an extraordinary life. I do not say, “You should have been there,” I say, “We are lucky so many of us were, and I am so glad we have this extraordinary evidence of the power and gifts of Mia and the Gits that you now can hold in your hands.” And I note that Frenching the Bully, this extraordinary testament to the soul, shock, fury and feeling of the Gits, has been long out of print on vinyl and CD, and this new edition - remastered by legendary Seattle engineer Jack Endino - joyfully rectifies that.

TRACK LISTING

1. Absynthe
2. Another Shot Of Whiskey
3. Insecurities
4. Slaughter Of Bruce
5. Kings And Queens
6. It All Dies Anyway
7. While You’re Twisting I’m Still Breathing
8. A
9. Wingo Lamo
10. Spear And Magic Helmet
11. Cut My Skin It Makes Me Human
12. Here's To Your Fuck
13. Second Skin

Conscience was originally released in 1993, reaching No. 2 in the UK album chart hitting 100,000 selling BPI Gold status. It contains their biggest hit to date, the BPI Silver disc awarded Sweet Harmony, a top 10 in the UK and across Europe. Other singles include double A- side of Celebrate Your Life and You've Got Me Thinking, Outerspace Girl, which both hit the UK top 40 and Rock To The Rhythm Of Love, which was released in the United States only.

Conscience has been remastered from the original analogue studio masters (by John Davis at Metropolis Studios) boasting louder and clearer audio than the original release. It's being manufactured on 180g heavyweight black vinyl release with extra artwork + liner notes (compared to the limited white vinyl released in 2024).

Conscience is a timelessly classic album, still sounding fresh over 30 years after it's original release.

TRACK LISTING

Spirit
Sweet Harmony 
Outerspace Girl
Lose Yourself In Me 
Paradise
Found 
You've Got Me Thinking 
Celebrate Your Life 
Rock To The Rhythm Of Love
Let The Music Take You
1000 Years From Today
Dream On

Following the critically acclaimed release of 'Asphodels' in 2025, The Veils return with a bold and invigorated new album, 'Fragile World'.

Arriving just over a year after their last release, 'Fragile World' marks a striking shift in tone and energy for the band.

Recorded live to tape in New Zealand by Paddy Hill, with production by Tom Healy (Tiny Ruins, The Chills, Folk Bitch Trio), Fragile World captures The Veils in an urgent and instinctive mode.

The album's title is both a reflection of the present moment - a time in which many institutions appear to be crumbling before our eyes - and a metaphor for the act of creation itself. The process of making music, Andrews notes, is a delicate and fragile undertaking where thousands of small decisions gradually coalesce into a finished whole.

"We went into the studio with a lot of songs, but very little idea of the arrangements or instrumentation. It was truly exciting having no idea what this record would sound like and only a few weeks to figure it out. It's mostly Tom and I playing everything, with Joseph McCallum coming in at times. It was all very instinctual, quite full-on, and scary at times - but a good kind of scary, not scary like the real world out there."

With its immediacy, intensity, and emotional clarity, 'Fragile World' stands as one of The Veils' most compelling releases to date.

TRACK LISTING

1. Aurora 
2. High Hopes 
3. Lungs 
4. Are You Awake Tonight? 
5. New Day 
6. Little White Bird (Fragile World)
7. The Widening Dark
8. My Foolish Heart
9. These Are The Days
10. In This Heart

Recharged and looking sharply at a world gone sideways, Staines' finest Hard-Fi make their long-awaited return with brand new studio album 'Sweating Somebody Else's Fever', their first in 15 years.

Written and recorded throughout 2025 in their longtime ex-taxi-office-turned studio Cherry Lips, and produced by frontman Richard Archer alongside longtime collaborator Wolsey White, the album looks outside the window to the fractured present, and paints it in bold musical strokes, with the same sharp-eyed social commentary that powered their classic debut 'Stars of CCTV', but with fresh perspective, new sounds and hard-earned freedom.

TRACK LISTING

1. They Ain't Your Friends
2. Digo Nada (feat.Mike Kalle)
3. You Rule My Heart
4. When The Summer's Gone
5. Humpback Whale
6. Looking For Fun
7. A Rose Electric (feat. Krysten Cummings)
8. Always And Forever
9. Arise
10. Ain't Going Out Tonight (feat. Krysten Cummings)
11. Now And Then
12. Don't Go Making Plans

The definitive story of the slackers and shoegazers who reinvented rock.

Twenty years after his acclaimed postpunk best-seller, Rip It Up and Start Again, Simon Reynolds tells the tale of what happened next: the underground explosion of noisepop, shoegaze, slacker rock and grunge that reverberated through the late Eighties into the early Nineties.

Capturing the musical exhilaration of the era along with the alienation of youth during a period of ascendant conservative politics and glitzy mainstream pop, Still in a Dream celebrates a golden age of guitar reinvention, a second psychedelia of mind-blowing sounds pioneered by bands like My Bloody Valentine and Sonic Youth. In Britain, groups like Cocteau Twins and Slowdive escaped into shimmering dreamworlds while American underground rockers like Dinosaur Jr. and Pavement blended apathy and urgency into thrilling noise.

A propulsive and personal account from a journalist who covered this music in real time from the frontlines, Still in a Dream vividly recreates a period that was the last blast for the analogue culture of vinyl records and music papers, before the Internet changed everything.

'Mia Wilson' is the debut album from Southern California singer-songwriter Mia Wilson. Produced by Tim Ramsey (Vetiver, Little Wings, Kacey Johansing), the album blends piano and guitar based compositions with lush orchestral arrangements to create a backdrop for Wilson’s introspective lyrics and captivating mezzo-soprano vocals.

TRACK LISTING

1. Face To Face
2. It Must Be So Easy
3. I Want It All
4. What Can I Do?
5. The Dream In Everything
6. Time Is An Arrow
7. Going Back
8. Still Pretending
9. When You Go

The work of BIG|BRAVE is ever-expanding. The trio’s singular masterful sculpting of sonics into songcraft tucks layers of vulnerability into frenetic storms. 'In Grief Or iI Hope' is an innovative vision of electro-acoustic sound and emotive storytelling, an endless bounty of overwhelming distortions and devastating beauty. in grief or in hope marks a shift for BIG|BRAVE towards denser guitar-oriented compositions. With longtime touring bassist Liam Andrews (MY DISCO, Aicher) joining guitarist/vocalist Robin Wattie and guitarist Mathieu Ball in the studio for the first time, the pieces are keenly layered with a rich tapestry of harmonics and tonal intricacies. The trio’s instinctual progressions made more vivid through live recording, harnessing the gargantuan and storied sound of their performances. Wattie writes: " All that I could reflect on was grief and hope; death and life; cause and effect; shared experiences of being a human person.” The tenth album for the ensemble, 'In Grief Or In Hope' pays homage to their past while looking into their future. Standout 'The Ineptitude for Mutual Discernment' expands on lyrical themes first explored on 2015’s 'Au De La' where 'Verdure' echoes melodies from the title track of 2014’s 'Feral Verdure'. These references to their past serve as potent reflections on BIG|BRAVE’s evolution as artists. A sonic whirlpool of string instruments surround Wattie’s commanding vocals as she shifts from spectral undulations on pieces like 'What May Be The Kindest Way To Leave' to the direct, spare declarations of the title track. The ambiguity of mountainous chords on 'An Uttering of Antipathy' are coupled with autotuned phrases emphasizing the protagonists’ isolation inside the fray. Together the trio shift deliver emotional momentum that vividly describes the complex and deep feelings of struggle, pain, and transcendence. 'In Grief Or In Hope' transmits that sense of humanity with every gesture.

TRACK LISTING

1. What May Be The Kindest Way To Leave
2. A Shape Of Shame
3. The Ineptitude For Mutual Discernment
4. Holding Tongue
5. Verdure
6. Skin Ripper
7. An Uttering Of Antipathy
8. In Grief Or In Hope

I am sure that what I remember is not necessarily what actually happened, but I can only write what I remember. Wildly inventive and magnificently surreal, The Smiths: A Novella recounts the impact of an unconventional pop group from Manchester on one man's life. Taking the form of a flâneuring journey through the landscape of memory, our anonymous protagonist is accompanied by the iconic French actress Carole Bouquet, who becomes his guide and interlocutor, asking about his life during the years The Smiths were together and the profound effect of their music upon him.

As the unlikely couple perambulate from the old Selfridge Hotel to West Hollywood by way of a park bench in Cavendish Square, their conversation interrogates and celebrates the joys of outlandish pop genius, the zealous dedication of fans and the cult of outsider disaffection given uproarious voice. As such, this is not a book about The Smiths but one that emerges from their music, their emotional register and their literary resonance. Michael Bracewell's novella cum-fairy tale is at once deeply romantic and laced with comedy - not unlike the band themselves - and perhaps (in fictional form) the most astute and celebratory portrait of The Smiths to date.

The scene that bulldozed the path from prog and glam to punk and new wave, pub rock was a short-lived phenomenon in the U.K., emerging amidst the bloated landscape of prog rock and an increasingly oppressive economic outlook. In the U.K. in the early ‘70s, in response to the glitz of glam and the excess of prog there emerged a DIY, back to basics scene known as pub rock: No-fuss, grass roots rock’n’roll bands playing in tight, sweaty rooms to packed throngs in the Victorian pubs of north London.

Pub rock was a relative flash in the pan, lasting only a handful of years, but it produced a seismic shift, bridging the gap between rock’s Baroque period and the ensuing punk and new wave scene, and crucially, restoring the visceral connection between artist and audience. Pub rock set the standard and, through artists like Brinsley Schwarz, Ducks Deluxe and Dr. Feelgood, paved the way for countless acts including The Clash, the Sex Pistols and The Pretenders.

Pub Rock explores the history of the genre’s evolution, and examines its significant and enduring legacy.

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of beloved classic Bloodborne, Sony Interactive Entertainment and Laced Records have heeded the Beckoning Bell and joined forces to offer fans the original soundtrack for Bloodborne on vinyl.

First released in 2019, this Laced-exclusive variant features Standard Edition black vinyl, housed in a deluxe gatefold sleeve, with a 12” insert.

Bloodborne was released in 2015 as a new PlayStation IP from director Hidetaka Miyazaki and FromSoftware, with The Old Hunters DLC dropping later that year. Its taut action gameplay, Gothic horror, and Lovecraftian themes saw Bloodborne become one of the most revered video games of all time.

The Bloodborne soundtrack is a masterclass in choral-orchestral writing and horror textures. Sadness, fury, creeping dread, and faded grandiosity are all conveyed through boss music cues that are all the more impactful given that a significant amount of a player’s playtime is spent without underscore. Multiple composers from America and Japan collaborated to score the darkest corners of Yharnam and the nightmares beyond, including Ryan Amon, Yuka Kitamura, Tsukasa Saitoh, Nobuyoshi Suzuki and Michael Wandmacher.

TRACK LISTING

1. Omen
2. The Night Unfurls
3. Hunter's Dream
4. The Hunter
5. Cleric Beast
6. Blood-Starved Beast
7. Watchers
8. Hail The Nightmare
9. Darkbeast
10. The Witch Of Hemwick
11. Rom, The Vacuous Spider
12. Moonlit Melody
13. The One Reborn
14. Micolash, Nightmare Host
15. Queen Of The Vilebloods
16. Soothing Hymn
17. Celestial Emissary
18. Ebrietas, Daughter Of The Cosmos
19. The First Hunter
20. Moon Presence
21. Bloodborne

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of beloved classic Bloodborne, Sony Interactive Entertainment and Laced Records have heeded the Beckoning Bell and joined forces to offer fans the expanded soundtrack for Bloodborne on vinyl.

A companion piece to the original Bloodborne double LP released 2019, this additional album comprises nine remastered tracks: four from the base soundtrack not previously on vinyl; and five boss cues from The Old Hunters DLC, including “Ludwig, The Holy Blade” by Nobuyoshi Suzuki and “Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower” by Yuka Kitamura. The single LP features a gatefold Sleeve with gold foiling and 12” insert.

Bloodborne was released in 2015 as a new PlayStation IP from director Hidetaka Miyazaki and FromSoftware, with The Old Hunters DLC dropping later that year. Its taut action gameplay, Gothic horror, and Lovecraftian themes saw Bloodborne become one of the most revered video games of all time.

The Bloodborne soundtrack is a masterclass in choral-orchestral writing and horror textures. Sadness, fury, creeping dread, and faded grandiosity are all conveyed through boss music cues that are all the more impactful given that a significant amount of a player’s playtime is spent without underscore. Multiple composers from America and Japan collaborated to score the darkest corners of Yharnam and the nightmares beyond, including Ryan Amon, Yuka Kitamura, Tsukasa Saitoh, Nobuyoshi Suzuki, Cris Velasco, and Michael Wandmacher.

TRACK LISTING

1. Terror
2. Amygdala
3. Of The Pthumerian Line
4. Lullaby For Mergo
5. Ludwig, The Holy Blade
6. Laurence, The First Vicar
7. Living Failures
8. Lady Maria Of The Astral Clocktower
9. Orphan Of Kos

'Lithic' is Laura Misch’s immersive new album, a sonic journey through stone, water, wind, and lightning. Building on the ethereal heights of 'Sample of Sky' and the earthy intimacy of 'Sample of Earth', Misch conjures music from caves, quarries, rock pools, and coastal edges, merging field recordings with saxophone, voice, electronics, strings, and percussion. Struck slate, ancient lithophones, hydrophones, and geophones create rhythms and textures that feel both primordial and contemporary. Across London, Cornwall, Hydra, and Dungeness, Misch captures the dialogue between human and more-than-human, crafting a record that resonates like deep time itself. 'Lithic' is a meditation on nature, aging, and connection, offering listeners a profound, elemental listening experience that is at once visceral, meditative, and electrifying.

The album’s conceptual foundations are inspired by deep listening practices, eco- acoustics and geology. Inspired by artists and thinkers such as Barbara Hepworth, Pauline Oliveros, Annea Lockwood, eco-psychotherapist and author of Weathering Ruth Allen and David Haskell’s writing on the origins and evolution of sound, 'Lithic' considers sound as an ancient material itself; something that can shape and transform over time. It is a deeply feminine record, tracing the rough and soft edges of aging, the weathered lines etched upon a face, the worn fractures in a rockface.

TRACK LISTING

1. Breathing
2. Kairos
3. Echoes
4. Siren
5. Scrolls
6. Soften
7. Circle
8. Fo[r]est
9. Jealousea (ft. Alfa Mist)
10. Mythic
11. Shell
12. Spiral 

Acclaimed composer and pianist Poppy Ackroyd returns with ‘Liminal’. Written and recorded during a period of profound upheaval and transition, it marks a return to the core of Ackroyd’s practice, bringing piano and violin back together. 

For the first time since 2019’s ‘Feathers’, Ackroyd reunites these two instruments exclusively, with every sound on the album drawn from piano and violin alone. Melody, harmony, rhythm and texture are all extracted from the physical bodies of the instruments themselves, from bowed and plucked strings to percussive elements. Working within these limitations remains central to her creative process.

TRACK LISTING

1. In The Mist
2. Shimmer
3. Continuum
4. For Those Who Wait
5. The Unknown
6. Drift
7. Weightless
8. Between Two Worlds

Haylie Davis channels the spirit of the early ’70s, when Carole King and Joni Mitchell redefined songwriting. That time-travelling sensibility is celebrated on 'Wandering Star', the album’s title track and new single, out today. A piano-led meditation steeped in longing, the song carries the eerie shadow of Karen Carpenter, buoyed by a luminous, aching sub-melody.

The blissful ballad ‘Horns of Time’ taps into a plaintive cosmic country palette reminiscent of Emmylou Harris. ‘Give Me a Rainbow’ follows, a lo-fi folk reverie recalling Clairo, as if filtered through a back-porch-reclining, wide-eyed Dolly Parton in awe of her own roots. Rolling Stone has hailed Davis’ earlier recordings as “gently hued Laurel Canyon folk-pop songs”, and on Wandering Star her compass swings wider still. Her maturing worldview and distinctive vocal at times evoke Lana Del Rey and Weyes Blood crafting an ode to Gram Parsons - a hybrid on full display in the self-examining passion of ‘I Was Wrong’.

A fresh take on modern pop, 'Wandering Star' is infectious, brimming with hooks, soaring choruses and storylines that tug at the heartstrings.

TRACK LISTING

1. Country Boy
2. Golden Age
3. I Was Wrong
4. Born To Be Blue
5. Lily Of The Valley
6. Give Me A Rainbow
7. Young Man
8. Horns Of Time
9. Lonely Too
10. Wandering Star
11. Mourning Dove

"The story began with the contemplation of lines drawn in the white gravel of a Zen garden: that of the Tokaian temple in Kyoto, which was off-limits to visitors, a few years ago. From that stolen moment, suspended in time, came the inspiration for my new album, 'The Complexity of the Simple'.

"I worked on these instrumental pieces with meticulous craftsmanship, over a period of nearly ten years (2016-2025), continuing on my path towards minimalism. An aesthetic nourished by the visual arts — in particular the sculptor Pierre Labat, who also took the photograph for the cover.

"With this new opus, I want to draw attention to an issue that I believe will be crucial in the forthcoming years and decades. The music industry was born thanks to fossil fuels (oil, coal, gas) - which are responsible for the excess CO² we emit every day - and it is dependent on them at every single stage.

"But the use of these energies is set to decline sharply in the future: either because of the need to decarbonise our societies in order to limit climate change, or simply because they are non-renewable and their peak and decline are inevitable. This transition, in our time of ecological backlash, is a colossal and long-term undertaking. It will take many years, probably decades. And we know that in any case, the sooner the better.

"In this context, when do we get to work? When do we start preparing for a future world without hydrocarbons, and probably more sober? What new ways of producing, playing and listening to music will emerge?"

Sylvain 

TRACK LISTING

1. Le Zen Dans L'art Du Tir À L'arc
2. The Guitar Piece I Wrote For Masumi
3. Wabi Sabi For Beginners
4. Sen No Rikyu
5. Lignes Tranquilles Dans Le Gravier Blanc

HEADS UP! We knew we were onto a good thing with our Dinked pressing of the debut album from the incredible overpass...but we didn't know quite how good a thing this was going to be.

Many many super keen fans missed out on the launch copies of our lush DInked Edition last night which broke our hearts. So we've liaised with the label, management and band to increase the pressing to look after some of you who missed out.

This is now a 1,000 pressing.
Still super limited.
Still likely nowhere near enough for demand.
You still need to act fast.

EXTRAS ON SALE AT 5pm TODAY!

Hotly anticipated debut album from the fast-rising Birmingham four-piece whose heart-on-sleeve, emotional indie rock and powerful live shows have earned them a devoted young following across the UK and Europe.

Produced by Rich Turvey (Blossoms, Rachel Chinouriri) and mixed by Cenzo Townshend, the debut follows large sold-out headline shows across the UK and Europe, support slots including with Wunderhorse and Inhaler, and appearances at Reading & Leeds, Boardmasters and Isle of Wight Festival.

TRACK LISTING

1. Union Station
2. Sandman
3. Is This Real?
4. Fall In Love
5. Bonnie & Clyde Pt. 2
6. Forever. You
7. Spinning
8. I Will
9. Get Up!
10. Heaven

The second release in Mute’s extensive reissue campaign of the full Clock DVA catalogue, 'Thirst' has been expanded and remastered from the original tapes with input from all surviving members.

Following on from the experimental jazz infused debut album 'White Souls in Black Suits', 1981’s 'Thirst' is when Clock DVA explored the more commercial song based avenue of what would become the darkwave industrial scene. The album includes fan favourite and Industrial Goth dancefloor classics '4 Hours' and 'Sensorium', including a brand new version of each as bonus tracks, recorded by Clock DVA as they are in 2026.

TRACK LISTING

1. Uncertain
2. Sensorium
3. White Cell
4. Piano Pain
5. Blue Tone
6. North Loop
7. 4 Hours
8. Moments
9. Impressions Of African Winter
10. The Opening
11. Remain Remain
12. 4 Hours (Single Mix)
13. Sensorium (Single Mix)
14. 4 Hours (DVATION 2026 Version)
15. Sensorium (DVATION 2026 Version)

Hailed as a masterpiece of it’s genre, and considered by many as ground zero for Deathrock, 'Only Theatre of Pain' is a seminal work of unholy power and pitch black emotion. Whilst this record may have it’s roots in punk - the origins of this true original version of Christian Death took place in Southern California during the early 80’s hardcore explosion - it cannot be overstated how important this record was in shaping the subsequent landscape. Emerging like an adrenaline shot into the heart of darkness, this unrestrained and mysterious recording still remains unclassifiable.

Featuring the late visionary Rozz Williams (then only in his teens) alongside punk luminary Rikk Agnew (guiding light in the Adolescents), James McGearty and George Belanger, Only Theatre of Pain’s musical exploration is adorned with psychosexual lyricism and an innate struggle with faith. Rozz’s vocals creep and possess, demonic and haunting, against the captivating, unmistakable guitar work of trailblazer Agnew. It’s a performance, but also a truth, perhaps 'Only Theatre of Pain' is an art show, as much as it is an era defining record.

Aside from their spellbinding sound, it may have also been the lore of Christian Death that set them apart from other LA goth bands of the time. A near-nude Rozz Williams nailed to a cross at the Whiskey a Go Go may have played a part, but what it is apparent when you listen to the unhallowed musical stages on 'Only Theatre Of Pain' is a depth of vision and orchestration that goes beyond the simple stance of brooding many of their contemporaries emulated, delving into the realms of pure unadulterated catharsis. The result is an eradefining statement that remains as unsettling, innovative, and resonant today as it was over four decades ago.

'Only Theatre Of Pain' is presented here newly remastered with early demo’s and rare material, further demonstrating why Christian Death stood alone in their sound and approach. This journey of religious depravity, recorded by the legendary producer Thom Wilson in a matter of days, harnesses the huge concepts of band projecting older than their years. Ahead of the curve in sonic artistry and visual aesthetics, this slab of sacrilegious American punk is nothing short of essential listening for the gothic inclined. A must for fans of The Misfits, Bauhaus and The Cramps.

TRACK LISTING

1. Cavity- First Communion
2. Figurative Theatre
3. Burnt Offerings
4. Mysterium Iniquitatis
5. Dream For Mother
6. Stairs - Uncertain Journey
7. Spiritual Cramp
8. Romeo’s Distress
9. Resurrection - Sixth Communion
10. Prayer
11. Dogs
12. Romeo’s Distress
13. Deathwish
14. Desperate Hell
15. Spiritual Cramp
16. Cavity - First Communion
17. Sleepwalk (1982 Demo)
18. Invocation (1982 Demo)
19. Cavity-First Communion (Alternate Version)
20. Lord’s Prayer (Alternate Version)

'Horrorble' is a full-length dub reinterpretation of Mekons’ acclaimed 2025 album 'Horror', created in collaboration with Tony Maimone (Pere Ubu). Songs from 'Horror' are pulled apart and reshaped into a drifting dub landscape. Basslines stretch and dissolve, rhythms echo into open space and tracks are dismantled and reassembled into versions that drift, jar and unravel. Working with Maimone, the album treats dub as subtraction, space and echo rather than simple revision, revealing hidden textures and new emotional weight within the original recordings.

The partnership has deep roots. Mekons first toured with Pere Ubu in 1988 and later worked closely with Maimone in the early 1990s. That shared history informs the exploratory spirit of Horrorble, reframing the urgency of 'Horror' through atmosphere, rhythm and sonic deconstruction.

Featuring a guest appearance from Benji Webbe of Skindred on 'Mudcrawlers', the album transforms familiar material into immersive, echo-laden soundscapes that emphasise tension and depth.

The original 'Horror' confronted climate catastrophe, economic violence and political decay through rock and roll, punk and melody. 'Horrorble' reveals its shadow counterpart. Formed in Leeds in the late 1970s, Mekons have always operated as a collective, working outside trends and expectations. Guided by the belief that the political and personal remain inseparable, they continue to create on their own terms, combining experimentation with a call to organise and resist.

TRACK LISTING

1. Before The Ice Age (Version)
2. Sad And Sad And Sad (Version)
3. War Economy (Version)
4. A Horse Has Escaped (Version)
5. The Western Design (Version)
6. Glasgow (Version)
7. You're Not Singing Anymore (Version)
8. Private Defense Contractor (Version)
9. Sanctuary (Version)
10. Surrender (Version)
11. Mudcrawlers Ft. Benji Webbe (Version)
12. Fallen Leaves (Version)

'Tell Me It's A Dream' is both the title of Rosa Walton's bright, brilliant, skyreaching debut solo album, but also, says the 26-year-old musician best known as one half of Let's Eat Grandma, "kind of like the title of my life."

"It's about being really ambitious, and seeing enhanced beauty in the world, and knowing that seeing things in that way isn't unrealistic," she continues. "It's about striving for that ultimate freedom."

Recorded in a joyful stay at Wales' residential StudiOwz, 'Tell Me It's A Dream' rings with the audible fizz of friends hanging out and having fun. Though many of its lyrics began during a complicated time for Walton, the record itself is a testament to choosing life and pleasure and the people that make it all worthwhile. "A lot of the record is about stretching outwards and acknowledging how far love can take you; about expressing how I feel about the people I love through music in ways that words can't," she says. "It was important to capture that lightness from the recording, because that spirit is in a lot of the songs."

Frequently euphoric and brightly emotional, the songs themselves aim heavenwards. 'Heart To Heartbreak' cracks through the clouds of a break up, taking influence from emotionally-rich bands like The Cure and Prefab Sprout to translate the feeling at its core. "This is a song about feeling like everything in your life has shattered but realising that relationship was holding you back and the world is opening up," she says. "I wanted this song to feel really visual, like things are starting to sparkle and look colourful again."

An album full of light and magic, born from the purist, most uncalculated of intentions, 'Tell Me It's A Dream' is an inspiring clarion call to listen to your own. As Walton says: "I think a lot of the attitude in the songs is about being ambitious in life and following your dreams. And so that's what I intend to do."

TRACK LISTING

1. Heart To Heartbreak
2. Sorry Anyway
3. Taking The Roof Down
4. Wave Machine
5. When Will It All Reveal
6. Halfway Round The World
7. Prettier Things
8. July
9. Romance Is Dead On

Originally released in 1998, 'South Central Thynk Taynk' by Abstract Tribe Unique (Abstract Rude, Fat Jack, Zulu Butterfly Priest, Irie Lion King, and DJ Drez.) captured a pivotal moment in Los Angeles’ underground scene—when young Black artists were reimagining hip-hop from the ground up. Blending jazz-inflected beats, spiritual insight, and fiercely independent production, the
album became an anthem for self-reliance and creative rebellion.

At the cultural core of the record is Project Blowed, a legendary L.A. crew founded by Abstract Rude and Aceyalone, which birthed a lineage of rap innovators whose fingerprints are still felt in global hip-hop. While mainstream rap embraced the West Coast’s G-funk boom, the Blowed crew forged an alternate path—steeped in jazz, radical politics, and Afrocentric futurism. 'South Central Thynk Taynk' stands as a richly layered time capsule from this revolutionary moment, pairing Ab Rude’s deep lyricism with Fat Jack’s genre-melding approach to production, creating a poetic reflection on family, struggle, and artistic purpose.

This new edition includes the 'L.A. Styles Back (Project Blowed Remix)' featuring a cross-generational lineup of heavyweights— Aceyalone, Myka 9, Medusa, Pigeon John, Blu, 2Mex, Ellay Khule, Riddlore, and NGAFSH—underscoring how L.A.’s underground has remained a creative epicenter for decades. 'South Central Thynk Taynk' is more than a cult artifact; it’s a living document of transformation, community, and artistic power.

TRACK LISTING

1. Explanation
2. Hits Like Hank
3. Renaissance (While We)
4. Them That’s Got
5. Through These Streets
6. A.T.U. Is In The House Tonight
7. L.A. Styles Back
8. Mass Men Baby
9. No Regrets
10. Front Row
11. Just Like Akira
12. They Ryde
13. Showgun
14. Why Oh Why
15. L.A. Styles Back (Project Blowed Remix) [feat. Aceyalone, Myka 9, Medusa, Pigeon John, Blu, 2Mex, Ellay Khule, Riddlore, NGAFSH]

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of beloved classic Bloodborne, Sony Interactive Entertainment and Laced Records have heeded the Beckoning Bell and joined forces to offer fans the expanded soundtrack for Bloodborne on vinyl.

The Laced Exclusive Edition Vol. I & II collection includes the original Bloodborne double LP set first released in 2019, alongside a new Vol. 2 LP that comprises nine remastered tracks: four from the base soundtrack not previously on vinyl; and five boss cues from The Old Hunters DLC, including “Ludwig, The Holy Blade” by Nobuyoshi Suzuki and “Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower” by Yuka Kitamura.

The full set is housed in a deluxe lift-off lid collector’s box with gold foiling and obi strip, and also includes a Caryll Runes slipmat. The collector’s box with slipmat will also be available separately.

Bloodborne was released in 2015 as a new PlayStation IP from director Hidetaka Miyazaki and FromSoftware, with The Old Hunters DLC dropping later that year. Its taut action gameplay, Gothic horror, and Lovecraftian themes saw Bloodborne become one of the most revered video games of all time.

The Bloodborne soundtrack is a masterclass in choral-orchestral writing and horror textures. Sadness, fury, creeping dread, and faded grandiosity are all conveyed through boss music cues that are all the more impactful given that a significant amount of a player’s playtime is spent without underscore. Multiple composers from America and Japan collaborated to score the darkest corners of Yharnam and the nightmares beyond, including Ryan Amon, Yuka Kitamura, Tsukasa Saitoh, Nobuyoshi Suzuki, Cris Velasco, and Michael Wandmacher.

TRACK LISTING

1. Omen
2. The Night Unfurls
3. Hunter's Dream
4. The Hunter
5. Cleric Beast
6. Blood-Starved Beast
7. Watchers
8. Hail The Nightmare
9. Darkbeast
10. The Witch Of Hemwick
11. Rom, The Vacuous Spider
12. Moonlit Melody
13. The One Reborn
14. Micolash, Nightmare Host
15. Queen Of The Vilebloods
16. Soothing Hymn
17. Celestial Emissary
18. Ebrietas, Daughter Of The Cosmos
19. The First Hunter
20. Moon Presence
21. Bloodborne
22. Terror
23. Amygdala
24. Of The Pthumerian Line
25. Lullaby For Mergo
26. Ludwig, The Holy Blade
27. Laurence, The First Vicar
28. Living Failures
29. Lady Maria Of The Astral Clocktower
30. Orphan Of Kos

'Viola Beach' is the only studio album by English indie rock group Viola Beach. It was released in the United Kingdom on 29 July 2016, by Fuller Beans Records. The album includes the singles 'Swings & Waterslides' and 'Boys That Sing'. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Swings And Waterslides
2. Like A Fool
3. Go Outside
4. Cherry Vimto
5. Drunk
6. Really Wanna Call
7. Call You Up
8. Get To Dancing
9. Boys That Sing 

If you were to ask Joey Quiñones where he found inspiration for his music, you wouldn't have to look far from where the East LA son grew up. Listen to his work, and you're transported to a two-block radius of his neighborhood— from the liquor store to Sign of Music record store on Whittier Boulevard and back to a homie's house. In those two blocks, you hear cumbia blaring from the stores, punk rehearsals from a garage, oldies drifting from a neighbor's yard—a sensory overload that follows you home, all those genres singing in your head at once.

This isn't a revelation to longtime fans of Quiñones' music. He has established himself as a premier interpreter of his generation, dedicating his career to offering his unique perspective on the Chicano soul songbook. But before Thee Sinseers, before the lush orchestrations and pitch-perfect harmonies that became his signature, Quiñones cut his teeth leading various backing bands for visiting Jamaican ska and dancehall acts touring Southern California. He describes those years as reggae college, getting yelled at by every Jamaican artist who had a record out. Those years of apprenticeship in rock steady and roots reggae would inform everything that followed—and on his new solo record 'Inna Soul Steady Situation', Quiñones finally showcases those influences front and center.

TRACK LISTING

1. Soul Steady Situation
2. Guess That’s Just Loving You
3. There Must Be Something
4. Don’t Let Go
5. In My Arms
6. For You
7. Driftin’
8. Don’t Be Late
9. Bolsita
10. One More Night
11. Situation 2

The epitome of a modern artist, Jana Bahrich does most things herself, no matter how painstaking - writing, producing, directing, often hand painting t-shirts the day of shows when the band have run out of merch. This has helped give her band Francis of Delirium a unique identity, with her rock confessionals breathing a new life in to the genre and her paintings creating a striking design aesthetic.

Released as she was finishing high school, 2020’s single 'Quit Fucking Around’ was a great introduction and it remains one of her most enduring songs. Shortly after it’s release, she signed to artist-first indie Dalliance Recordings (Gia Margaret, HighSchool, lilo) and three EPs - 'All Change' (2020), 'Wading' (2021), 'The Funhouse' (2022) and a striking debut album - 'Lighthouse' (2024) - on and Jana has Francis of Delirium flying.

While the EP’s fizzed with promise, her debut album 'Lighthouse' landed its punches. Seeking a more vulnerable and open sonic palette, she wove in pop elements to create anthems that celebrated heartbreak and love. Lead singles ‘Real Love’ and ‘First Touch’ were the first tracks she made with an outsider - working with GRAMMY winning producer Catherine Marks (boygenius, The Killers, Wolf Alice) - while the rest of the album was produced by Jana herself and day one collaborator Chris Hewett. 

Live, Francis of Delirium are Jana (guitar and vocals), Jeff Hennico (bass) and Denis Schumacher (drums). Together, their brilliant quiet-loud dynamic and tight interplay only elevate her songs and over the last 5 years, they’ve toured across Europe and North America, playing headline shows, festivals and tours with the likes of Blondshell, Briston Maroney, The Districts, Horsegirl and Soccer Mommy. They’ve also supported The 1975, Alanis Morissette, DIIV and Wolf Alice.

Last summer saw a memorable UK tour with Bôa, the 90s band resurrected by a huge TikTok moment for their track ‘Duvet’. There was a real sense of excitement for these shows with young crowds snaking outside every venue hours before doors and bringing the sort of energy Jana thrives on, she road tested new material to an overwhelmingly positive response, giving her the impetus to go and finish album two.

An artist who seeks to connect with her listener on a deeper level, it’s no surprise then that she’s made hope and inner strength central themes on her new album, 'Run, Run Pure Beauty'. Jana says the title track is “an imagining of the world after it has been destroyed by humans and technology. Thrashing against what humans have left behind, ultimately the pure beauty of nature wins out.” Wanting to bring different perspectives into her songwriting with this record - informed by both her travels and the tumultuous times we find ourselves in - she’s also brought about a progression in her sound with these new songs somehow sounding larger, with undeniable harmonies and more orchestration.

Featuring the singles ‘Little Black Dress’ and ‘It’s a Beautiful Life’, 'Run, Run Pure Beauty' serves as an excavation of hope in bleak times. Produced by Jana and Chris, and mixed by Nicolas Vernhes (Deerhunter, Dirty Projectors, Silver Jews, Wild Nothing), its eleven songs of discovery, despair and perseverance ultimately serve as a mirror on its creator and is a brilliant next installment in the Francis of Delirium arc.

TRACK LISTING

1. Aliens
2. Out Tonight
3. Run, Run Pure Beauty
4. Higher
5. Damned
6. Little Black Dress
7. Sucker Punch
8. Open Up Your Mouth To Love
9. Requiem For A Dying Day
10. Modern Madonna
11. It’s A Beautiful Life

'Transformation' is the brand new album by The Alarm which was written and recorded by lead singer Mike Peters during the final few months of his life while bravely battling a rare and aggressive cancer known as Richter's Syndrome.

Diagnosed on April 22nd 2024, devastatingly, Mike finally succumbed to this dreadful disease on the 29th April 2025.

Mike faced cancer head on with an unswerving, positive attitude until the last... despite suffering the extreme rigours of the disease and whilst enduring a brutal treatment regime that unfortunately proved to be unsuccessful.

'Transformation' by The Alarm is regrettably Mike Peters’ final recorded work.... but it also constitutes Mike's finest output. Positivity, optimism, and an unparalleled determination to fight for life simply explode from this album, whilst the ever-present themes of Love, Hope and Strength - with which Mike Peters and The Alarm have become so synonymous - continue to permeate these remarkable new compositions, providing a fitting testimony to these enduring tenets.

TRACK LISTING

1. New Life
2. Chimera
3. Outler
4. Saviour
5. Metaverse
6. Wired
7. One In A Million
8. Live Today
9. Soul Town
10. In Unity
11. To Be Alive
12. Love Makes Love

Demon Records are thrilled to present a black-vinyl repress of ‘Sci-Fi Lullabies: Volume 2’, a sequel to the classic 1997 B-Sides compilation by Suede.

Previously a sell-out Record Store Day 2024 exclusive on clear vinyl, the new collection, curated by Suede frontman Brett Anderson, features 19 selected cuts spanning the band’s trajectory from 1999 to 2023. Where ‘Sci-Fi Lullabies’ left off after ‘Coming Up’, ‘Volume 2’ collects the crop of bonus tracks released from ‘Head Music’, in 1999 to 2022’s ‘Autofiction’.

With a reputation for consistently delivering B-sides as enduring and vital as their A’s and album tracks, ‘Volume 2’ serves up another diverse selection of sonic delights, including fan favourites like ‘Crackhead’, ‘Simon’, ‘The Sadness In You, The Sadness In Me’, ‘Days Like Dead Moths’ and ‘There Is No Me If There Is No You’.

This collection also debuts a previously unreleased track, ‘Blinded’, making its first-ever appearance here. Pressed on double 140g vinyl, with complete lyrics, if you missed it last time, ‘Sci-Fi Lullabies: Volume 2’ is a must-have for Suede fans and collectors.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Sadness In You, The Sadness In Me
2. Dawn Chorus
3. Let Go
4. Crackhead
5. Cheap
6. Simon
7. What Violet Says
8. Still Waiting
9. Manipulation
10. You Don’t Know Me
11. Days Like Dead Moths
12. Since You Went Away
13. Heroin
14. Leaving
15. God’s Gift
16. There Is No Me If There Is No You
17. Darkest Days
18. The Prey
19. Blinded

Hailed as "the epitome of Southern Soul" (VIBE) and a "bluesy stroke of brilliance" (Okayplayer), with "a voice molded by the gospel church and a near preternatural handling of the deep-down intensity of the blues" (KCRW), 'Miss Black America' further expands KIRBY’s mission to reclaim her roots, and bring Mississippi music and culture to the masses. As Elton John recently proclaimed, KIRBY is "destined for great things," and with this album, she turns the page on a profound and personal next chapter, daring listeners to hear the foot stomping, humming and yearning, and transform those sounds into purpose and power.

While KIRBY has co-written and collaborated with everyone from Rihanna, Kanye West and Paul McCartney to Beyoncé, Black Thought, Ariana Grande, Demi Lovato, Donald Glover and more, cultivating millions of fans including Hayley Williams and countless others, 'Miss Black America' is entirely her own. Choosing hymns over hits, stories over samples, and truth over trends, this project marks the most inspired work of her career, taking you from the Saturday cookout to the Sunday church service, while getting you through working for 'The Man' on Monday. It is blues and soul music for the future, and made for those who came before her: the ancestors who danced, cried and sang on the land of the Dockery Plantation where she descends from, and where many credit as the birthplace of the Delta blues.

TRACK LISTING

1. When You Coming Home
2. Bettadaze
3. Miss Black America
4. The Man
5. Thick N Country
6. Na$ty
7. Under Pressure
8. Mama Don’t Worry
9. Reparations
10. Jump The Broom
11. My People
12. Afromations

Back in 1987, Clive Barker's supernatural body-horror classic Hellraiser hitted cinemas worldwide and introduced audiences to the demonic Cenobites. Barker was a devoted Coil fan, and he famously said they were the only band he'd ever heard on record whose music he'd had to take off because, in his words, "they made his bowels churn.". He initially invited them to compose the film's music, and the group began recording cues. But the producers at New World Pictures ultimately rejected the material in favor of a more traditional approach, bringing in Christopher Young, whose final score remains excellent, if less experimental. What remains from Coil is an unfinished soundtrack with surviving fragments and rough ideas, abruptly left behind mid-process, a glimpse into an alternate Hellraiser movie, one we can only fantasize into existence.

Nearly 40 years later, key long-term collaborators and Coil's "secret third member" Danny Hyde located the original Hellraiser studio session tapes, and the bonus material recovered from them is presented here as an "expanded ritual" edition, reassembled into a standalone, possibly definitive and strangely beautiful nightmare suite. Play it in the dark and experience the consequences of raising hell…

TRACK LISTING

1. Attack Of The Senmapods
2. The Box Theme (Mix 2)
3. The Main Title
4. Zither Theme
5. The Hellbound Heart (Mix 1)
6. No New World
7. The Box Theme (Mix 1)
8. Arcade Sound
9. Cardinal Points
10. Atmospheric Stuff
11. Hellraiser Theme (Mix 2)
12. Flutey Theme
13. Unearthly Hell

Belfast quartet Wynona Bleach's sophomore album, 'Animal Style'. The band's second full-length release showcases some of their most complete and expansive work to date. The band has rapidly established itself as one of the most compelling bands to emerge from Northern Ireland in recent years. Formed in 2018, the band built momentum, performing at Reading & Leeds Festivals and a 12-date headline tour of Russia spanning 6,500 miles.

Since then, they signed to the influential Fierce Panda Records - home to early releases from Coldplay and Placebo, marking a major milestone in their ascent. Their debut album 'Moonsoake' (February 2022), recorded in an abandoned factory in Portugal, was met with critical acclaim and followed the band being personally selected to support Alice in Chains on the Irish leg of their world tour. That same year, Wynona Bleach were nominated for the Northern Ireland Music Prize for both Album and Live Act, while touring extensively, including appearances at Other Voices Festival.

TRACK LISTING

1. Be Positive
2. Religion
3. I Deserve That
4. Not Cool With It
5. Binx Tangerine (Animal Style Version)
6. Shrink
7. Swim In The Bay
8. Gonk
9. Weakling
10. Scrab
11. One In A Million

Forever Records presents an extensive reissue edition of the first fully released Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia album, originally released in 1992 and now pressed on vinyl for the first time in its full version, with original LP and CD artwork combined and audio remastered with the band’s full approval, alongside a uniquely numbered limited gatefold edition with a bonus 10” featuring previously unreleased tracks.

Dancing on the wildest edge of the 90s outsider techno zeitgeist while proudly independent of any so-called scene, Ov Biospheres And Sacred Grooves: A Document Ov New Edge Folk Classics is both of its time and out of time, rooted in the experiments of electronic music pioneers, industrial culture and ethnic music from around the globe while responding to the house and techno explosion.

Available formats

2x12" + 10" (Limited)
2x12"
CD
Forever Records is a reissue series dedicated to rediscovering lost musical treasures from across the spectrum of head-feeding, heart-rending electronic music.. Established by Rush Hour co-founder Christiaan Macdonald and Delsin founder Marsel van der Wielen,

Forever Records

Music springs eternal. Recognising the enduring power of timeless albums to guide us through life, Forever Records is a reissue series dedicated to rediscovering lost musical treasures from across the spectrum of head-feeding, heart-rending electronic music.

Established by Rush Hour co-founder Christiaan Macdonald and Delsin founder Marsel van der Wielen, Forever Records places heartfelt faith in a carefully curated sequence of seminal, largely forgotten records from disparate eras, scenes and spaces within electronic music history. Tipped towards the mellow and introspective, these are albums that stop time when the needle hits the groove, stirring only when it's time to flip over before you sink back into the experience. That's what albums were always meant to be about, back then, right now, always and forever.


The Release:
Dancing on the wildest edge of the 90s outsider techno zeitgeist while proudly independent of any so-called scene, Ov Biospheres And Sacred Grooves: A Document Ov New Edge Folk Classics is both of its time and out of time. Rooted in the experiments of electronic music pioneers, industrial culture and ethnic music from around the globe while responding to the house and techno explosion, Robbert Heynen, Reinier Brekelmans, Reinoud van den Broek and Tim Freeman's freewheeling masterpiece takes in lush electronica and murky abstraction on its singular voyage through parts unknown.

Forever Records presents an extensive reissue edition of the first 'fully released' Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia album. Originally released in 1992, this is the first time the full, previously CD-only, version of Ov Biospheres and Sacred Grooves will be pressed on vinyl. The original LP and CD artwork from the various editions released in the early 90s has been combined and designed by the band, and the audio has been remastered with their full approval. As well as a new LP edition of the album, there will also be a uniquely numbered, limited edition available housed in a gatefold sleeve that comes with a bonus 10" featuring two previously unreleased tracks.

Press response to Ov Biospheres and Sacred Grooves - A Document Ov New Edge Folk Classics:

“That’s Magick! The Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia are Holland’s best kept secret.”
Sherman, NME, UK 1992

“PWOG’s debut LP is an organic invocation rite — the soundtrack to a new world coming to life, an odyssey. Cross-cultural rhythms, ambiences and environmental samples segue into one another like a fluid relay, and unlike the majority of dance records, it never settles into a routine. It’s always evolving, always unpredictable, an indefinitely religious experience.”
John Selzer, Melody Maker, UK 1992.

"Grown men, who snorted their first ecstasy to this record, stammered with tears in their eyes about divine experiences and the cosmos, man."
Peter Erik Hillenbach, Marabo Magazine, Germany 1992.

Sacred Grooves’ introduces tribal dance music for the mind, body music leaning on the avant garde. Its ripples of sound drift through tranced out ritualistic beats into ambience and serenity resembling something akin to The Orb meeting Klaus Schulze at a brain tuning session.
Sherman, NME, UK 1992

"There's still dance for a moment, in the opening track "The Challenge," then Psychick Warriors roam the earth, where African drummers, tropical sounds, and science-fiction chords have found their place in a spiralling interplay of rhythms and sounds. A captivating, almost magical ritual." Corné Evers, Oor Magazine, Netherlands 1992.

"It's truly astonishing what these Dutchmen have come up with for their first LP. Their roots might explain the enigma, for Psychick Warriors are more in the tradition of Psychic TV than in the desolate temples of techno-house fetishists, to which they are wrongly relegated. Here, chromosomes dance, not instincts." CMK, Tip, Germany 1992.

"The transcendental essence of this album is spread throughout, with musical gravitations emerging unexpectedly from sonic experiments that are sometimes primitive, sometimes
futuristic in intention… But there is always an aura of cosmic magic that constantly puts all the parts involved in conflict and which, upon closer analysis, ends up being the main reason for the final result." Blitz Magazine, Portugal 1992.

TRACK LISTING

LP / CD Tracklisting:
1. The Challenge (Part One)
2. Linkage
3. The Tides (They Turn)b
4. Obsidian
5. Anathema Ov Jean Jacques Derrillard
6. The Challenge (Part Two)
7. The Key (Version)
8. New Edge Mantra

Bonus 10" (Deluxe Edition)
9. Connection
10. Reach Out

First legitimate re-issue of DJ Shadow's 'Mo’Wax' singles in decades. Eight piece vinyl set containing several hours of music and Half-Speed Remastered at Abbey Road by Miles Showell. Numerous previously unreleased mixes & edits and contains extra bonus disc containing original demos of 4 songs. Featuring all-new photography by long-time Shadow collaborator Brian Cross (B+).

"This box wasn’t made for the casual listener, it was made with the hardcore fan in mind. I’ve always felt, if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing right, and every step of the process was made with this philosophy firmly in mind. I had fun locating and resurrecting these songs, some of which still feel close to my consciousness as though they were made yesterday.”
- DJ Shadow

TRACK LISTING

In/Flux:
1.  In/Flux
2. Hindsight

Lost And Found (S.F.L.):
1. Lost And Found (S.F.L.)
2. Hardcore (Instrumental) Hip-Hop
3. Last Stop

What Does Your Soul Look Like:
1. What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 2- Original Standalone Version)
2. What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 3- Original Standalone Version)
3. What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4- Original Standalone Version)
4. What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1-Original Standalone Version)

Midnight In A Perfect World (U.K. Version):
1. Midnight In A Perfect World (Radio Vision)
2. Midnight In A Perfect World (Gab Mix)
3.  Midnight In A Perfect World (Extended Vision)
4.  Mutual Slump (Album Version)

Stem:
1. Stem (Cops 'N' Robbers)
2. Red Bus Needs To Leave!
3. Stem/Long Stem (Earlier Version)
4. Soup

High Noon:
1. Hypnotist Intro
2. High Noon (Alternative Mix)
3. Devil's Advocate (Alternative Version)
4. Organ Donor (Extended Overhaul- Original Version)

Camel Bobsled Race:
1. Camel Bobsled Race (Original Unedited Version) (Part 1)
2. Camel Bobsled Race (Original Unedited Version) (Part 2)

Bonus Disc For This Box Set:
1. In/Flux (First Ever MPC Version)
2. Lost And Found (S.F.L.) (First Ever MPC Version)
3. What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 2- First Ever MPC Version)
4. What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4- First Ever MPC Version)

Five years ago, Curren$y proved once again that while the rest of the world might hit the brakes, the Jet Life never stalls. Released in the early months of 2021, 'Collection Agency' arrived as a masterclass in "work-from-home" luxury—a smooth, ten-track victory lap that solidified Curren$y’s status as the most consistent architect in underground hip-hop.

Clocking in at just under 24 minutes, 'Collection Agency' is the sonic equivalent of a pristine, low-mileage 911 Turbo. It’s lean, expensive-sounding, and devoid of filler. While the world was still grappling with a sense of stagnation, Spitta was in the garage, documenting the rewards of a decade-plus grind.

The 10-track release marks his 11th solo studio album, and 90th overall project. Even more impressively, the quality has remained consistent throughout his prolific career. The Louisiana rapper links up with several notable producers on the project including DJ.Fresh, Harry Fraud, Rsonist of The Heatmakerz, Trauma Tone, Purps, & Black Metaphor. We also see an appearance by longtime friend and collaborator, Larry June. Once again, Curren$y delivers another unforgettable round of smooth joints and cruising music.

TRACK LISTING

1. Kush Through The Sunroof
2. Smiled On Me
3. Arrival
4. I Don’t Call
5. Jermaine Dupri
6. Closing Date
7. Shout Out (feat. Larry June)
8. Ferrari Engine
9. Above The Law
10. Misty

'Goodbye Lavender' is the debut EP from Brighton based artist Opal Mag. Recorded over several days at Bam Bam Studios in Norfolk with producer Harry Jordan (The Big Moon, Sam Thomkins, Keo), the resulting six songs blend hazy, atmospheric soundscapes with confessional, unfiltered lyricism.

With influences including Mazzy Star, The Sundays, The Breeders, and The Smashing Pumpkins, it's no wonder Stereogum considers Opal Mag "a promising new voice of the '90s indie rock revival". Writing for the dreamers and the bedroom dwellers, her songs feel like secrets whispered late at night; raw, intimate, and achingly real.

TRACK LISTING

1. World End
2. Try Not To Hate Everything
3. Kiss Me
4. Wasting
5. Young Forever
6. Goodbye Lavender

Recorded between the iconic Abbey Road and Polish Radio studios, Hania Rani’s original music for Joachim Trier’s Cannes and Golden Globe winning, Oscar and Bafta nominated ‘Sentimental Value’ is a deeply intuitive collaboration, composed before a single frame was edited.

For Hania Rani composing for the most recent film by Joachim Trier was nothing less than a true joy and a real artistic adventure. As she explains: “It doesn’t happen often that I’m asked to work on a film by a director whose work I know so well and which resonates with me so naturally. What I understood while working with such an intriguing mind and intelligent artist as Joachim is that the role of a film composer is to wander along with the director, hand in hand, rather than follow one another. The collaboration should be a partnership - evenly balanced and able to invigorate people on both ends - otherwise it will always feel superficial, imposed, and timid”

Intriguingly Hania worked on the score for Sentimental Value without an edit in hand; instead, she was given a carefully written script and the freedom of her own substantial imagination. “This way of composing suits me perfectly, as I’m not the type of composer who works comfortably with particular scenes, slightly immune to functionality in music in general. I prefer to ponder sound in separation from the image. It enables me to fabricate more abstract sequences that are not yet expressed in the film and to bring a new context to the existing narrative. Music as an inherent counterpoint - this sounds more intriguing to me”.

For Hania the biggest challenge of the score was its gravity - or rather its visibly elusive nature. The story told in the film oscillates around three characters and the motionless presence of the house, yet the relationships between all these personalities are not fixed, but in progress. Those subtle qualities were at the center of her attention and became the core topic of numerous discussions with Joachim about the music, the film, and the philosophy behind Sentimental Value. “I wondered how to express such translucent virtues in this score; that’s why a great deal of the process was embedded in exercises of mediation and translation. In order to avoid directness, I decided to impure the sound with a succession of small sonic gestures - whether re-arranging, re-orchestrating, revisiting, stretching the duration, or simply recording in a new acoustic environment. The mediated sound and expression allowed me to model a soundscape that inhabits both the old and the new, much like the house, which holds within itself the past, present, and future”.

In September 2024, Hania went to Oslo and spent a couple of days in the main film (the family home in Oslo) with her sound engineer, Agata Dankowska. The film crew was away in France to shoot another scene for the project, so they were allowed to freely explore the space - both visually and sonically. They made field recordings in the building, capturing the sounds of objects and furniture found in the apartment, and they also managed to record a couple of piano pieces. The house plays a significant role in the story, silently witnessing the tangled trajectories of its residents. “To explore its interiors so closely inevitably reminded me of getting to know a real person, with all their vulnerable parts and secrets. And although most of the recordings were not supposed to become part of the final soundtrack, I felt that this visit gave me access to another, far more intimate layer of the film, which immensely informed my composing process afterwards and reshaped my relationship with the project. There was a real sense of immediacy that felt exciting, instinctive, and simply incredibly special.

TRACK LISTING

1. Sentimental Value
2. The House
3. Childlike
4. Lighter And Lighter
5. Riksarkivet
6. Agnes
7. Rachel
8. Speaking To The Past
9. Gustav
10. Nor

'Paradessence', Visible Cloaks’ third full length, is a work of emergence and illusion. The album’s fourteen songs shift, heave, and shimmer against a faintly luminous backdrop of night, a cavernous space shaped by sparse hyperreal representations of the natural world. The arrangements are simultaneously grandiose and fragile, both an inversion and culmination of what came before and as adventurous as anything they’ve produced so far.

Since transforming from Cloaks to Visible Cloaks in 2014, Spencer Doran and Ryan Carlile have mapped a complex matrix of oppositional concepts: organic and artificial, chance and deliberate, authentic and replicated. The album title itself, drawn from author Alex Shakar’s satirical portmanteau of “paradoxical” and “essence,” reflects these tensions directly: the paradessence of consumer product is the “schismatic core” that gives rise to its desirability (in Shakar’s example, coffee is desired because it is both relaxing and stimulating simultaneously). The balancing act of 'Paradessence' brings these strains into greater urgency as life in the 21st century is reordered by these same tensions.

Silence is an important character in 'Paradessence', felt not only in the sculpting of sound but in the pressure it exerts on everything and what emerges. The group took influence from architectural theorist Christopher Alexander’s concept of “positive space,” an idea that the same degree of care can be given to the shape of the void around an object as the construction of the object itself. We hear how sounds carry their own silence, oscillating in and out of existence, running through life cycles like a microorganism.

There is a collectivity to the instruments that underpin 'Paradessence'. They move like a herd, as when wind drifts over a field of leaves and the air becomes visible in the absence of motion; multiple species cohabit the same song, protruding, receding, and transforming over the course of several minutes. “Instead of creating pieces that function horizontally as environments,” says Doran, “we wanted to conceptualize them as living material changing in space, continually in flux.” Song-forms steer away from ambience towards pure abstraction. Utopianism hovers at the edges; a relationship to imagined futures which is neither naïve, cynical, nor nostalgic.

The world Visible Cloaks have built over time is often rendered physical by collaborators, a familiar cast of whom return for 'Paradessence'. Motion Graphics (Joe Williams) makes an appearance on “synthetic woodwinds” and also co-mixed the album, contouring its shapes with his signature sheen. Interlinked pieces 'Shapes' and 'Thinking' were developed with environmental music innovators Yoshio Ojima and Satsuki Shibano, who also worked with the duo on the intergenerational FRKWYS collaboration serenitatem. The latter piece features a spoken text written by Ojima, read in Japanese by Shibano and in French by composer and longtime friend Félicia Atkinson.

Componium Ensemble, Doran’s “indeterminate chamber music” project of self-playing software instruments, provides the infrastructure for 'System' in a moment of Pessoa-ian heteronymity. The album also features Ioana Șelaru, a Romanian composer and violinist who lends her voice and string playing to 'Intarsia'. Doran describes their collaboration as “an exercise in illusionary presence” which they jointly developed from “the idea of juxtaposing her real instrument playing with virtual instruments to blur the boundaries between synthetic string instruments and those existing in reality.”

Șelaru’s charged performance on 'Intarsia' is a clear demonstration of the dramatic core of 'Paradessence': an urgent sculptural undertaking, an instrument and a human voice modulated by a sea of synthetic growth. Doran describes how for him “this slippage between the real and the virtual captures something else entirely, something strange and ineffable that is an inherent aspect of life in digital modernity, both online and in real life.” It is electronic music which not only conjures an abstract representation of our current dream reality through its shifting forms but builds imagined spaces which are emotionally nuanced and rise to moments of grace.

TRACK LISTING

1. Apsis
2. Skylight
3. Disque (ft. Motion Graphics)
4. Balloon
5. Slippage
6. Zinna
7. Telescoping (Lockgroove Version)
8. Shapes (ft. Yoshio Ojima And Satsuki Shibano)
9. Thinking (ft. Félicia Atkinson, Yoshio Ojima And Satsuki Shibano)
10. Swirl
11. Steel
12. Intarsia (ft. Ioana Șelaru)
13. System (ft. Componium Ensemble)

Magic Tuber Stringband act in communion with the natural world around them. Highly skilled players and writers, the trio are leaders within the burgeoning Avant-Folk world. Growing up in Appalachia studying the folk traditions of the region in tandem scientific and observational work in nature, their music appears to weave in and out of the fabric of the landscape. The ensemble continues to stretch the parameters of acoustic instrumental expression with masterful flourishes of dense, textural arrangements, subtle minimalist gestures and deft improvisation.

'Heavy Water' addresses the impact of nuclear production on the environment and the communities within, a musical evocation of destruction and resilience, an embrace of dissonance and tension within moments of transcendence. The inspiration for Heavy Water is rooted in fiddler Courtney Werner’s work as an ecologist in rural South Carolina. Werner explains: “The town of Ellenton, South Carolina was the largest of the towns displaced in 1952 by the U.S. federal government to build the Savannah River Plant, which produced radioactive materials for U.S. nuclear weapons during the Cold War. The former site of Ellenton was dedicated to the extraction of ‘heavy water,’ whereas other areas of the plant focused on manufacturing weapons-grade plutonium and tritium within nuclear reactors. Heavy water is chemically altered to be denser than normal water and is incredibly expensive and time-consuming to synthesize, requiring 52 gallons of river water to produce one fluid ounce. Its denser properties made it valuable for use within the nuclear reactors on the site.”

'Heavy Water' is more than a collection of songs. It is a work whose compositions are entirely modern. Played on traditionally folk acoustic instruments, it defies expectations and emotionally addresses the pain of lives human, flora or fauna irrevocably changed by dominant forces and defiantly persevering.

TRACK LISTING

1. Death Of Ellenton
2. Marker Of A Drowning
3. Sound Of A Million Stars
4. Woodpeckers
5. Scintillation
6. Blooms In The Rapids
7. Tribute To The Angels
8. Where The Place Becomes Forgetting
9. Wintering Grounds
10. Soft And Pliable
11. Dog-Headed Man

Glass Modern is very proud to present the debut album by Radhika Meera Dade. 'Cine-Pop' is a collection of songs that flow gently and easily in and out of each other - a suite, a short film, everything an album should be. Coming in at 33.3 minutes, it’s the perfect length for an album, it doesn’t short change you, it doesn’t stay too long - it’s designed to be played in one sitting. It’s like being in a friend’s house and noticing the things that are most important in their life - objects, family portraits, records, musical equipment, their curated accumulation. It reflects so many things - culture, community, fandom and the incredible bond between Radhika and her father, Sushil, the Future Pilot AKA. The record spans generations and continents but its home is always Radhika and the family jams she made with Sushil in various garages, bedrooms and garden dens - her soaring voice and love of all kinds of music from Bollywood to Goth Pop to The Glasgow School. The songs are collected from memory and the immediacy of time - one goes all the way back to her 10 year old self penning 'Future Me', an eco anthem. In different moments other musicians appear - most notably key collaborator, Eric MacDonald, on hazy synth and keys, and Radhika’s mother Vinita, who has a gorgeous voice too. The Glasgow School is very present - Mitch Mitchell (The Pastels) , Gerard Love (Lightships/ ex-Teenage Fanclub) and Tracyanne Campbell (Camera Obscura) all bring their casual magic to the table. 'Cine-Pop', mostly made in Glasgow at La Chunky Studio with the excellent Colin McGeogh (who also contributes flute, keys and electronics) is a one-off. It’s unrepeatable - there, gone. It’s the world through the eyes of a dazzling young Indo-Scottish woman. Everything she is has gone into it, is part of it and is there for a reason. Following on from the first single, 'Starry Eyes', which was played multiple times on BBC 6Music and other stations, other singles to be released from the album include 'Feline Bandits' plus a version of the Strawberry Switchblade classic 'Since Yesterday'. Radhika will also be collaborating with Glasgow-based film maker, Laura Meek, on promos and the plan is to play live throughout the year.

TRACK LISTING

1. Theme From R.A.D.H.I.K.A (For David Lynch) Ft Mitch Mitchell
2. Feline Bandits Ft Mitch Mitchell
3. Starry Eyes Ft Gerry Love & Mitch Mitchell
4. Sleep W/ Tracyanne Campbell (Camera Obscura)
5. Tum Hi Ho Ft Vinita Dade
6. Intermission Theme (Slight Return)
7. Since Yesterday W/Mitch Mitchell/Tracyanne Campbell
8. Cocoa Butter Eyes
9. Future Me
10. Theme From R.A.D.H.I.K.A (For Lalo & Laeticia)
11. Nowhere Near Ft Gerry Love & Tracyanne Campbell
12. (Secret Track)

Forged from the fire of internal struggles, Loraine James was wrestling with confidence and a desire for change when she embarked on 'Detached From The Rest Of You'. A guiding hand came through producing 2025's 'Clandestine' EP with singer Anysia Kym, which gave her the experience of a more 'pop' setting and the tools and insight to work her instrumentals into more conventional shapes; a shift from club driven sounds and winding instrumentals into more precise song forms.

Loraine’s production is stripped to the bone, soundscapes of clicks and glitches inspired by Aoki Takamasa, Ryoji Ikeda, and the early-00s Clicks & Cuts school. Here, often with not much more than sparse keyboard chords to fill in with subtle colouring, she uses the space around the sounds and vocals to draw the listener in to a succinct and direct album, her most confident yet.

Guest contributors include vocalist Sydney Spann on 'In a Rut', Alan Sparkhawk (Low) on downcast anthem 'Peak Again', Miho Hatori (Cibo Matto) on 'Flatline', Anysia Kim on 'Score', and Tirzah on 'Habits and Patterns'. Finally her old spar, the rapper Le3 bLACK returns to spit fire with the jazz-indebted track 'Ending Us All' with Fyn Dobson backing on tumbling drums.

TRACK LISTING

1. A Long Distance Call
2. The Book Of Self Doubt
3. In A Rut Ft Sydney Spann
4. Score Ft Anysia Kym
5. Seems Like I A6. Flatline Ft Miho Hatori
6. Peak Again Ft Alan Sparhawk
7. Habits And Patterns Ft Tirzah
8. Wish I Was Like U
9. Ending Us All Ft Le3 BLACK X Fyn Dobson
10. Forever Still (Steel)
11. See Through

Big Crown is proud to present the Thee Marloes’ sophomore album, 'Di Hotel Malibu'. It arrives as a widening of the frame — a confident step away from the lines that once neatly held their sound, and toward something more porous, conversational, and deeply Indonesian. It’s been two years since 'Perak', the Surabaya trio’s debut for Big Crown Records, introduced their unique sound. This new record doesn’t abandon that lineage so much as stretch it, showing how much they have grown as a band since the release of their debut and all the experiences that came with it. Composed of vocalist and keyboardist Natassya Sianturi, guitarist and producer Sinatrya Dharaka and drummer Tommy Satwick, Thee Marloes have always worked as a unit, their songs shaped by shared reference points and a lived-in sense of groove. On this album, that collective language expands. The arrangements move across a broader spectrum, with new instrumental colors, unexpected rhythmic turns, and a looser approach to structure. The band describes it as a response to the last two years of living: social realities, love lives in flux, and all that success has brought into their lives.

The album opener 'Under the Silver Moon' is a stone cold two-stepper that addresses the bitter and the sweet of long distance love affairs over a breezy musical backdrop. 'Six Years' is a page from singer Natassya Sianturi’s life and her struggle to take the step of leaving a comfortable and stable daytime job to follow her dreams of a full time career in music. 'Harap Dan Ragu' explores life, death, and the emotions that orbit them, opening with an earworm guitar riff that ushers in Sianturi’s honeyed vocals, this time in her native language of Indonesian. The album continues to switch vibes and tones track to track with the darker, more introspective 'The More'. The gorgeous musicianship and pulsing drums are met with the deeply poetic lyrics that walk the line between futility and an unbreakable resilience. Thee Marloes dip into their drop dead gorgeous ballad bag with 'Through The Changes' with a powerful yet delicate song about how we imagine and deal with what comes after death. 'Boru' sung entirely in Batak, a traditional language from North Sumatera, goes further into asserting heritage as a foundation and mission statement for the group while 'I’d Be Lost' takes us back to the dancefloor with a light and lovely profession of love.

In the end, 'Di Hotel Malibu' is the result of the best type of inspiration: the global attention Thee Marloes have earned, and the chance to play their homegrown music for fans around the world has put wind in their sails. Enjoy the record, then catch them as they tour the globe. Soul Music from Surabaya, another Big Crown Sureshot.

TRACK LISTING

1. Under The Silver Moon
2. 6 Years
3. Harap Dan Ragu
4. The More
5. Through The Changes
6. Di Hotel Malibu
7. What’s On Your Mind
8. I’m Just A Girl
9. Selatan
10. I’d Be Lost
11. Di Dalam
12. Crazy Eyes
13. Boru
14. Rahasia

The realest-deal storyteller in indie-rock today is the Tampa-born, New Orleans-based singer/songwriter Thomas Dollbaum, and 'Birds of Paradise' is his most powerful and dynamic work yet. Following up his critically acclaimed 'Wellswood' (Big Legal Mess, 2022) and 'Drive All Night' EP (Dear Life Records, 2025), 'Birds of Paradise' is a goodbye letter to lost loved ones and former selves. These songs find Dollbaum searching for acceptance in the transient in-between places: Florida's pine flatwoods, backroads leading to I-95, where birds fly across the water. And even though the ghosts of his alt-country predecessors Townes and Molina are definitely present, on 'Birds of Paradise', Dollbaum emerges from their shadows—waving to the past, sounding all the more like himself.

This moment—this album—is long overdue. Both of Dollbaum’s previous releases had taken way too long to record, due to circumstances out of his control, leaving him frustrated. And after having been away from his home for eight years, the place he had left was no longer the place he remembered, and the unchanging of the natural world felt like a constant he wanted to write about. With a sense of immediacy, he wrote 'Birds of Paradise' in three months. Called up the musicians he trusted and admired the most—Nick Corson, Josh Halper, and Jake Lenderman—and asked them to meet him at Dial Back Sound in Water Valley, Mississippi with producer/engineer Clay Jones. They learned and tracked the album in four days, capturing lightning in a bottle, a sonic revelation Dollbaum’s writing has always been waiting for.

With the help of Lenderman, Halper, Corson, and Jones, 'Birds of Paradise' is Dollbaum’s hard-won breakthrough. Alive and echoing like the poems and short stories you can’t shake: coyotes howl, birds fly south, kids chase rabbits through the sugar cane, and cigarettes are four dollars a pack. 'Birds of Paradise' reminds us where we come from—the things inside ourselves we’ve forgotten—we just needed Dollbaum to show us. Here’s how to look back without fear or shame. Here’s authenticity.

TRACK LISTING

1. Visitation
2. Dozen Roses
3. Rabbits
4. Coyote
5. Waterbird
6. Big Boi
7. Pulverize
8. King’s Landing
9. Scrub Jay
10. Blue Meets Blue

'The Endless Dance' is the first collaborative album from Northern Irish producer and composer Hannah Peel and Chinese percussionist Beibei Wang. The record is grounded in the strength of ancient concepts, but comes alive with the joy and freedom of play as together, Peel and Wang travel through the 24 solar terms of the Chinese calendar with a cornucopia of sound in tow – synths and prepared piano alongside traditional and unconventional percussion.

The album is collaged together from recordings made over five days at legendary rural studio Real World, a setting which aligned with the duo’s inspiration from the natural world creating a permanent record of their shared musical landscape, informed by the flora and fauna that emerge and retreat through the seasons. 

Both genre-defying, storied artists in their own right, Peel and Wang met while working on Manchester Collective’s 2023 album NEON and 'The Endless Dance' certainly represents a step-change from the duo’s shared classical backgrounds – but their knowledge and training is also the foundation of its freewheeling audacity, giving them the confidence to trust their instincts.

The album is produced by Mike Lindsay [LUMP, Tunng, Guy Garvey, Jon Hopkins] who, with free rein, brings added energy and creativity to the album, whilst Peel & Wang are also joined by Hyelim Kim on Daegeum, a Korean flute with “colourful overtones on every note”. 

Track to track, 'The Endless Dance' is unpredictable and unexpected, which is in part due to the genuine curiosity and outside perspectives that each player brought to the sessions. “I am so familiar with Chinese heritage, but I don't see how it can present in electronics, for instance,” says Wang. “Hannah comes in with that direction, to imagine what the sounds could be together.” The characterful richness of the album stems from the commonalities they found in the sessions. “We both come from cultures where story is really important,” explains Peel. “The attention to detail comes from telling a story, and one note can set that off in a different direction.” 

'The Endless Dance' is a major work from two accomplished, singular artists - but it’s also the sound of mutual curiosity and shared fun, or as Wang puts it: “Two women talking in totally different language that had a wonderful chat.”

TRACK LISTING

1. Wild Geese Arrive
2. Awaken The Insects
3. Mantis Vs Horse
4. Grain Rain
5. Tiger Sex
6. Feed The Fireflies
7. Offerings To The Beast
8. Limit Of Heat
9. Thunder Begins To Soften

Brown Spirits are a super-heavy psychedelic three-piece band from the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, home to an ever-growing local music scene that includes Amyl and the Sniffers, King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard, Tropical Fuck Storm and more.

Brown Spirits play raw energetic super-charged psychedelic rock heavily influenced by krautrock, free-jazz and deep funk music from the 1970s that gives them a truly unique and highly-addictive sound. The group record and mix their own music to ¼-inch analogue tape at home maintaining a strictly DIY-ethic. Brown Spirits are Tim Wold, Agostino Soldati and Ash Bushcombe.

TRACK LISTING

1. Lysergic Library
2. Kaiser-Panorama
3. Flying And Falling 
4. That River Ain't For Swimming 
5. Xan With Red 
6. Back To Atoms 
7. Another Vintage Phase 
8. Precursor 
9. Optokinetic Response

Brown Spirits are a super-heavy psychedelic three-piece band from the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, home to an ever-growing local music scene that includes Amyl and the Sniffers, King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard, Tropical Fuck Storm and more.

Brown Spirits play raw energetic super-charged psychedelic rock heavily influenced by krautrock, free-jazz and deep funk music from the 1970s that gives them a truly unique and highly-addictive sound. The group record and mix their own music to ¼-inch analogue tape at home maintaining a strictly DIY-ethic. Brown Spirits are Tim Wold, Agostino Soldati and Ash Bushcombe.

TRACK LISTING

1. Honorable Discharge
2. Parallels 
3. Finite Universe 
4. Mutations 
5. Suite: East Meets West 
6. Can Eater
7. First Sign Of Light

Brown Spirits are a super-heavy psychedelic three-piece band from the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, home to an ever-growing local music scene that includes Amyl and the Sniffers, King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard, Tropical Fuck Storm and more.

Brown Spirits play raw energetic super-charged psychedelic rock heavily influenced by krautrock, free-jazz and deep funk music from the 1970s that gives them a truly unique and highly-addictive sound. The group record and mix their own music to ¼-inch analogue tape at home maintaining a strictly DIY-ethic. Brown Spirits are Tim Wold, Agostino Soldati and Ash Bushcombe.

TRACK LISTING

1. Converge Collide
2. Bakelite Dashboard
3. Montage Homage
4. Express Train To Jupiter 
5. Vanishing Exits 
6. Tumultuous Clouds 
7. Flawed Optimist 
8. Hats Off To Pojama 
9. Chemical Miscalculation

Celebrating 20 years of 'Show Your Bones', the album has been selected as a RSD Essentials title and is newly pressed on magenta, yellow & purple vinyl in similar effect as the cover art.

TRACK LISTING

1. Gold Lion
2. Way Out
3. Fancy
4. Phenomena
5. Honeybear
6. Cheated Hearts
7. Dudley
8. Mysteries
9. The Sweets
10. Warrior
11. Turn Into

Released on 7th November 2025 - Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party was a standout album last year and puts Hayley Williams’ full range on display. “Mirtazapine” is a late-’90s alt-rock love letter to antidepressants, while on “Glum,” she subverts her own voice - using vocal presets to striking effect as the track meditates on loneliness. Other standouts include “Whim,” an easy Americana earworm with a songwriting backbone that nods to her Nashville roots, and “Ice in My OJ,” a thoroughly modern track that pairs sharp production with some of Williams’ most biting and humorous lyrics to date.

Long-time Paramore fans may quickly recognize the “Ice In My OJ” chorus, as it was first sung by Williams in 2004 on “Jumping Inside” by the Mammoth City Messengers. But perhaps all of her talents converge most impactfully on the album’s only previously unreleased track, “Parachute.” It’s a reminder of Williams ability to strike right at the heart, with not only her confessional lyrics, but her unmatched delivery. The album captures all the dynamism Williams has shown throughout her career and collaborations. At its core, these songs are the work of a supremely gifted artist with a voracious, genre-defying appetite for music and creative exploration.

These songs come as the third batch of work released from Williams as a solo artist. The COVID-era saw her release two extraordinary albums – 2020’s Petals For Armor and 2021’s Flowers for Vases. Both albums were gorgeous and stark meditations on loss and offered up a contrast to the high-energy and up-tempo muscle she displays in Paramore. “The record—epitomizing vulnerability and transformative growth—reveals a more mature and introspective side of Williams,” said Pitchfork of Petals, and went on to say of Flowers “her voice is undoubtedly the standout feature… husky and gentle, dangerous yet warm,” and explained that the minimal production “makes this a purposeful reset.”

Hayley Williams is a 3x GRAMMY winning singer, songwriter and musician best known for her role as the frontperson of legendary rock band Paramore. With her incredible range and delivery, Billboard ranked her at #13 on their list of 50 Greatest Rock Singers of All Times saying, “when it comes to singers in contemporary rock, Hayley Williams reigns supreme.” Frequently listed as a source of inspiration from contemporary performers as varied as Chappell Roan, Doechii and Billie Eilish – she’s also appeared on a wide variety of albums and singles as a collaborator and guest vocalist including Turnstile’s latest “Seein’ Stars”, Moses Sumney’s “I Like It I Like It,” and Taylor Swift’s “Castles Crumbling.” Swift went on to have Paramore open the first ever The Eras Tour show that debuted in Arizona and later they went on to open all dates on the European leg of her world tour.

At just 16 she brought the band to the masses with the release of their album All We Know Is Falling which was certified Gold and just celebrated its 20 year anniversary last week. The band’s breakthrough came with 2007’s Riot!, powered by the success of the 6X certified platinum single “Misery Business.” In 2009, Brand New Eyes solidified their place in the rock landscape. Paramore’s self-titled 2013 album marked a commercial and critical peak, with the platinum single “Ain’t It Fun” earning Paramore their first Grammy win for ‘Best Rock Song’ in 2015 and further nominations for ‘Best Rock Album.’ 2017’s After Laughter introduced a polished, ‘pop-influenced sound that continued to attract acclaim with the breakout single “Hard Times.” After a long hiatus, in 2023, they returned with This Is Why, a full grown, alternative-leaning record that earned the band two Grammy wins for ‘Best Alternative Song’ and ‘Best Rock Album’ making Paramore the first female-fronted rock band to ever win the category in its 31-year history. 

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Ice In My OJ
2. Glum
3. Kill Me
4. Whim
5. Mirtazapine

Side B
6. Disappearing Man
7. Love Me Different
8. Brotherly Hate
9. Negative Self Talk
10. Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party

Side C
11. Hard
12. Discovery Channel
13. True Believer
14. Zissou
15. Dream Girl In Shibuya

Side D
16. Blood Bros
17. I Won’t Quit On You
18. Parachute
19. Good Ol’ Days
20. Showbiz

The International Pop Underground is alive and well and living at Precious Recordings of London! The newest additions to the label fold are Coup Dur, a yé-yé-flavoured Belgian-French trio born after the internet.

Formed in late 2024 and based between Brussels, Strasbourg and Antwerp, the group features Avril De Broucker (Lavomatic) on guitar, Clémence D’Hulst (Fake Empire) on bass and César Laloux (Ada Oda) on drums.

With their sparkling, tender French songs tinged with acid romanticism and garage rock accents, the band invites us to do the twist amid an era of doomscrolling, bad dates with egotists, Basic-Fit centres and online masterclasses on how to become a serial entrepreneur. France Gall would be delighted by their indie take on a beloved 60s genre.

‘Mon Amie’, which focuses on the fantasy of a friendly break-up, offers an accurate representation of the group’s playful pop stylings. Expect more of the same on their fantastic eight-song EP, written between February and April 2025, then recorded and mixed in just two days by Rafael ‘Tuff Guac’ Valles Hilario in Antwerp.

A founding gesture, concise and carried out with urgency, reflecting the music it produces: direct, spontaneous, without detours or superfluity. The title of the EP echoes the band’s amusement – and astonishment – at seeing this first record released on an English label, Precious Recordings of London.

We really do want Coup Dur!

TRACK LISTING

1. Mon Amie
2. J’avais Pas Pensé À Ça
3. Bigger Fish In The Sea
4. J’attendrai
5. Ça Me Vexe
6. Tu Dis Des Choses
7. Encore Un Mythe
8. De La Lumière

With the minimum of fuss, one of the UK's (perhaps the World's) foremost electronic musicians releases his tenth LP. No press agency, no media campaign, just a casual tweet and it's here. This immediacy is carried through into the music on offer. The track lengths are shorter than we've become used to, with Hebden getting straight down to the nitty gritty and distilling his complex melodies and rhythms into their most potent form; no ambient preamble or sprawling kosmiche on this one. Instead, Four Tet continues the journey through club music he began on "There Is Love In You" and "Pink", now taking the fire escape out the main room into a strip lit car park. "Beautiful Rewind" acts as part pirate radio jungle assault and part post club come down bliss. Hebden feeds the jungle chatter, polyrhythms and bass wobble through his own experimental and dense production to create an immersive yet raw experience like listening to Rooms 1 and 2 at the same time from the depths of a K-Hole. Album opener "Gong" and recent single "Kool FM" and the murderous "Aerial" and "Buchla" are bold and aggresive, while "Unicorn", "Your Body Feels" and "Ba Teaches Yoga" could sit comfortably with the fragility and beauty found on "There Is Love In You". Always wishing to push forward, Hebden has delivered some of the old, alongside a generous helping of new, casting his net wider and pulling varied influences together to form a complete and unique LP.

TRACK LISTING

01. Gong
02. Parallel Jalebi
03. Our Navigation
04. Ba Teaches Yoga
05. Kool FM
06. Crush
07. Buchla
08. Aerial
09. Ever Never
10. Unicorn
11. Your Body Feels

'Pure Comedy', Father John Misty’s third album, is a complex, often-sardonic, and, equally often, touching meditation on the confounding folly of modern humanity. Father John Misty is the brainchild of singer-songwriter Josh Tillman. While we could say a lot about 'Pure Comedy' – including that it is a bold, important album in the tradition of American songwriting greats like Harry Nilsson, Randy Newman, and Leonard Cohen – we think it’s best to let its creator describe it himself. Take it away, Mr. Tillman: 'Pure Comedy' is the story of a species born with a half-formed brain. The species’ only hope for survival, finding itself on a cruel, unpredictable rock surrounded by other species who seem far more adept at this whole thing (and to whom they are delicious), is the reliance on other, slightly older, half-formed brains. This reliance takes on a few different names as their story unfolds, like “love,” “culture,” “family,” etc. Over time, and as their brains prove to be remarkably good at inventing meaning where there is none, the species becomes the purveyor of increasingly bizarre and sophisticated ironies. These ironies are designed to help cope with the species’ loathsome vulnerability and to try and reconcile how disproportionate their imagination is to the monotony of their existence.Something like that. 'Pure Comedy' was recorded in 2016 at the legendary United Studios (Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Beck) in Hollywood, CA. It was produced by Father John Misty and Jonathan Wilson, with engineering by Misty’s longtime sound-person Trevor Spencer and orchestral arrangements by renowned composer/double-bassist Gavin Bryars (known for extensive solo work, and work with Brian Eno, Tom Waits, Derek Bailey).

TRACK LISTING

1. Pure Comedy
2. Total Entertainment Forever
3. Things It Would Have Been Helpful To Know Before The Revolution
4. Ballad Of The Dying Man
5. Birdie
6. Leaving LA
7. A Bigger Paper Bag
8. When The God Of Love Returns There'll Be Hell To Pay
9. Smoochie
10. Two Wildly Different Perspectives
11. The Memo
12. So I'm Growing Old On Magic Mountain
13. In Twenty Years Or So

Austin’s Touch Girl Apple Blossom are no strangers to wearing their hearts on their sleeve. And it may be something in the name we really feel they found their rightful place at K. 10 Tracks. 33RPM. With a Tour with Good Flying Birds they are setting this new wave of indie pop on fire!

TRACK LISTING

1. Tell
2. Springtime Reminds Me Of...
3. Vacation
4. You Made Me Do It
5. Moon Was Gone
6. Heart-Go
7. Dustin’s Song
8. Back ‘N’ Forth
9. I’m Lucky I Found You
10. Big Star Shinin’

Critically-acclaimed North Carolina rapper MAVI's new mixtape 'The Pilot' reveals his duality as both an interior philosopher and exterior showman, as he steps out, takes flight and proves that endurance is the truest art form.

Includes guest spots from Earl Sweatshirt, MIKE, Smino and Kenny Mason.

Consistently hailed for his poetic lyricism and virtuosic technical abilities as a rapper, 'The Pilot' was written amidst sobriety and signals a looser, lighter body of work that embraces spontaneity, creative freedom and collaboration. 

With appearances from Earl Sweatshirt, Kenny Mason, Smino and MIKE, 'The Pilot' finds MAVI expanding his once- insular process into one defined by community and creative exchange. Conceptually, it's less a continuation of 2025's successes than a reframing of them, a project that looks forward rather than back.

TRACK LISTING

1. Heavy Hand
2. Triple Nickel
3. Silent Film
4. G-ANNIS FREESTYLE
5. Typewriter
6. 31 Days
7. Denise Murrell
8. Mender
9. Landgrab
10. Potluck

Sixteen killer 70s reggae funk and soul cuts from the likes of John Holt, Lee Perry, Cornel Campbell, The Cimarons, The Chosen Few and more featuring superb reggae takes on songs by artists including The Jackson 5, William DeVaughn, Diana Ross and The Supremes, War, The Temptations, Roberta Flack, The Stylistics and others!

Well-documented is the influence of American black music on Jamaican styles of the 1960s – from the birth of ska music, when The Skatalites ska-ified the jump-up southern USA rhythm and blues music of Rosco Gordon, Louis Jordan and Fats Domino, through to the creation of rocksteady when Jamaican artists like The Techniques, The Paragons, Alton Ellis and The Melodians turned to the slower rhythms and soulful harmonies of groups such as The Impressions and The Drifters for inspiration.

Less-well established is that in the 1970s Jamaicans didn’t (shock!) stop listening to American black music styles, with many 70s reggae artists as invested in soul, funk and the proto-disco sounds of Philadelphia, as was the case with rhythm and blues in the previous decade. In the 1970s, while Jamaica promoted its own roots reggae styles around the world, powerhouse USA soul labels such as Motown, Philadelphia International and Stax Records were at the same time all popular on the island.

This interaction between American and Jamaican music was not limited to Jamaica. In Britain, first-generation Caribbean-émigré children in the 1960s and early 70s grew up with an equal love of both soul and reggae, which manifested itself in the home-grown arrival of lovers rock in the mid-1970s.

Soul Jazz Records’ new ‘Reggae Island Soul’ tells this story of how soul and funk-infused reggae in the 1970s united the sounds of Jamaica, USA and the UK into a highly-addictive cultural hybrid of styles.

Featuring 36 tracks in total, with 5 brand new original recordings, spanning newly commissioned songs and an expansive original score. Long-time Peaky Blinders collaborators Antony Genn and Martin Slattery return to compose the film’s original score, while Grian Chatten from Fontaines D.C. and Amy Taylor of Amyl & the Sniffers contribute powerful new recordings that bring new voices to the Peaky Blinders soundscape.

Alongside the original material, the soundtrack features a curated selection of needle-drops from artists who have shaped the Peaky Blinders sound, including Nick Cave, Lankum, and McLusky. Highlights include a newly recorded version of Nick Cave’s ‘Red Right Hand,’ Grian Chatten’s collaboration with Lankum on ‘Hunting The Wren (The Immortal Man version),’ and two transformative Massive Attack covers—one by Grian Chatten, the other by Girl In The Year Above. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Opening Scene/ The Currency - Antony Genn, Carlos O’Connell And Martin Slattery
2. The Immortal Man - Antony Genn, Carlos O’Connell And Martin Slattery
3. Ruby’s Scarf - Antony Genn, Martin Slattery And Grian Chatten
4. Nobody’s Son - Amy Taylor,Tom Coll, Antony Genn And Martin Slattery
5. No Heaven No Hell For Duke Shelby - Antony Genn And Martin Slattery
6. People Person - Andrew Falkous, Jack Egglestone, Damien Sayell
7. Duke And Beckett Strike A Deal - Antony Genn And Martin Slattery
8. An Intruder In The House - Antony Genn And Martin Slattery
9. Ada And Duke - Antony Genn And Martin Slattery
10. Opium Dreams - Antony Genn, Martin Slattery And Grian Chatten
11. Tommy, Kaulo And Zelda - Antony Genn And Martin Slattery
12. Black Dahlia - Grian Chatten, Antony Genn And Martin Slattery
13. Beckett Tests Duke - Antony Genn And Martin Slattery
14. Close The Door - Antony Genn And Martin Slattery
15. Dukes Descent - Antony Genn And Martin Slattery
16. A Hero’s Death - Grian Chatten, Carlos O’Connell, Conor Curley, Conor Deegan III, Tom Coll
17. Pig Pen - Antony Genn And Martin Slattery
18. Puppet - Grian Chatten, Antony Genn And Martin Slattery
19. A Gun Is No Good - Antony Genn And Martin Slattery
20. Tommy Vs Duke - Antony Genn And Martin Slattery
21. St Elizabeth’s Mortuary - Antony Genn And Martin Slattery
22. Confession - Carlos O’Connell, Antony Genn And Martin Slattery
23. Stable Shootout - Antony Genn And Martin Slattery
24. Red Right Hand (Immortal) - Nick Cave, Mick Harvey And Thomas Wydler
25. The Bullet - Antony Genn And Martin Slattery
26. The Coin - Antony Genn And Martin Slattery
27. Teardrop - Girl In The Year Above
28. Romance - Grian Chatten, Carlos O’Connell, Tom Coll, Conor Curley, Conor Deegan (III)
29. The Map - Antony Genn And Martin Slattery
30. Angel - Grian Chatten, Antony Genn And Martin Slattery
31. The Tunnel - Antony Genn, Martin Slattery And Grian Chatten
32. Medusa - Grian Chatten, Antony Genn And Martin Slattery
33. Tommy Vs Beckett - Carlos O’Connell, Antony Genn And Martin Slattery
34. Father And Son - Antony Genn And Martin Slattery
35. Hunting The Wren (The Immortal Man Version) - Lankum With Grian Chatten
36. Ellipsis - Grian Chatten, Antony Genn And Martin Slattery

Incorporating a range of influences and genres, the album is an astonishing blend of strident bluesy funk, mid-tempo piano ballads, revolutionary soul and acoustic gospel hymns, all held together by Pena's deep, rich vocals and high- class songwriting. Opener, 'Woke Up This Morning' flips the well-worn blues expression into an uplifting, country soul anthem and it's immediately followed by the dirty funk of 'I'm Gonna Make It Alright' which comes on like a prime-time Meters. 'The River' shifts down a gear, locking down a mid tempo piano ballad in the vein of 'Exile'-era Stones. Throw in the politicised soul of 'Something To Make You Happy' and the gorgeous, string laden gospel of 'Lullaby' and you have a record that truly and authentically lives and breathes a variety of genres to stunning effect.

Born in Massachusetts in 1950 and blind due to congenital glaucoma by the age of 20, Pena moved to San Francisco in 1971 having become an established performer, guitarist and songwriter. Later in the decade his song 'Jet Airliner' became a huge hit for Steve Miller Band and he regularly played live with legends such as John Lee Hooker, and B.B King. He also taught himself Tuvan throat singing to such as degree he was invited to the country to perform at an international symposium and contest; a pilgrimage that was brought to life in the Oscar nominated documentary, 'Genghis Blues' in 1999. It was then, shortly after his move West Coast, that he recorded this, his debut and self-titled record.

Reissued for the first ever time on vinyl, Different Strokes For Different Folks is delighted to release another highly sought after classic. For fans of Curtis Mayfield, Terry Callier and Bill Withers, 'Paul Pena' is a true classic album neglected for decades.

TRACK LISTING

1. Woke Up This Morning
2. I'm Gonna Make It Alright
3. The River
4. One For The Lonely
5. Something To Make You Happy
6. My Adorable One
7. When I'm Gone
8. Lullaby

Somewhere in the hills of Cincinnati, there’s a transmitter sending radio waves in every direction. The electricity flows through the air and hits your receiver with a charge that, when amplified, emits an organic sound that could only be… Doctor Bionic.

They’re back with a brand new album—the fourth installment in the Terrestrial Radio series, titled 'Electric Pollen'. Like its predecessors, the album was recorded, produced, and mixed by Cincinnati based producer Grimez. He calls on a rotating cast of talented musicians to record instrumentals that are best described as Organic Groove. “We get together in the studio, hit record, and start jamming,” Grimez explained. “I’d say 90% of our music is improvised.” Fans of the project will notice plenty of familiar names in the liner notes.

Although the recording sessions are casual and spontaneous, each finished D.B. album always follows a conceptual theme. The subject is often determined by artwork that speaks to Grimez. “I’ll buy or license a piece of art that catches my eye, and then put music to it,” he explained. “I have plenty of pieces that are ready to be album art, but I don’t have the right music for it yet.” This process is part of what makes Doctor Bionic’s music different from other instrumental producers.

“You are now tuned in to Terrestrial Radio… Coming to you live with
Doctor Bionic.”

TRACK LISTING

1. Intro
2. Eyes Of Chavez
3. Moment Of Clarity
4. Chopping Block
5. See The Future
6. Cactus Snake - Part 2
7. Fools Errand
8. In The Water
9. Interlude
10. Over The Mountain
11. Tried & True
12. Be Your Own Man
13. Never Enough
14.10,000 Immortals
15. Gold Coin
16. Electric Pollen